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Carl Ruiz's Humanity and the Long Island Rail Road Story
from #188 - Best of Patreon Vol. 1 | The Tim Dillon Show · #188
3 min
Tim continues eulogizing Carl Ruiz, describing his genuine friendliness, a story about him tweeting for cigarettes on a train and someone immediately showing up, and how Carl just wanted to eat, drink, and laugh with people.
- Carl loved working-class people and line cooks; he genuinely cared about them without advertising it the way people in the business do.
- Tim explains how Carl understood food's role in people's lives—as escape and indulgence for those without much money.
- Tim's own relationship with money centered on going out to eat, something Carl understood deeply about working-class people.
- Carl tweeted from the Long Island Rail Road asking for someone to meet him with cigarettes and white cloth at the train station.
- A stranger immediately showed up to meet Carl at the train station—demonstrating his ability to connect with people as friends he hadn't yet met.