rant · moment 15 of 25
December Was the Best Month to Get High
from #177 - Sober December | The Tim Dillon Show · #177
5 min
He reminisces about how December was his favorite month to drink and smoke growing up on Long Island, describing driving through Christmas lights and how the holiday season made bad behavior feel festive and excusable.
- Tim identifies December as his favorite month to get high since childhood, when he'd smoke weed walking around town with Christmas lights.
- Driving around wealthy Long Island neighborhoods to look at Christmas lights while high was part of the ritual as he got older.
- Most of his memorable times getting high with friends occurred around the holidays and Christmas break.
- Christmas lights make people feel their behavior is justified—you could do cocaine in front of someone's children and feel festive about it.
- December radio plays make unhealthy indulgences feel acceptable; drinking 1,200 calories of caramel hot chocolate is fine because Mariah Carey is playing.
- Mariah Carey's song is the unofficial anthem of curvy Long Island women driving to malls in houses worth millions, listening to whispers.
- Tim tells people getting high in December to own it, but advises the sober to lean into the absurdity rather than numb themselves to it.