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Vegas, Dallas, and Austin — Travel Nostalgia With Ben
from #193 - Fun Easter Foods | The Tim Dillon Show · #193
5 min
Tim and Ben (in conversation) reminisce about Vegas, Dallas, and Austin as favorite travel cities, discussing Vegas's dual nature of love/hate, a running joke about pointing out random people to homeless-looking strangers, and predicting how Vegas will recover from the pandemic.
- Tim lists his three favorite cities to travel to right now: Dallas, Austin, and Vegas.
- Vegas is a city Tim has love-hate feelings about, shaped by a bad relationship that went wrong there in high school.
- Tim describes Vegas as a place that brings you face to face with who you are and what you're willing to do.
- At a restaurant in Vegas with comic Ty Rivera, Tim felt simultaneously in love with and repulsed by the experience.
- Vegas offers endless options—money, pretense, threesomes, gambling, shows—that create a unique atmosphere.
- Tim appreciates the freaks and night people in Vegas, the kind of characters who used to inhabit cities like New York before becoming hedge fund managers.
- Ben's recurring joke involves pretending homeless people are comedians, which gets funnier the worse they look.
- Vegas will survive economic downturns because it's a tough city with tough, slightly crazy people who tolerate risk.
- Tim finds Vegas interesting because it recovered from being crushed in the 2008 financial crisis, though the road back ahead will be rough for many places.
- Tim expresses skepticism about warnings that the economy's crisis hasn't even started yet, asking when the problem will actually arrive.