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Childhood Cereal Deprivation and Sleepover Sugar Cereal Memories

from #197 - Essential Episode | The Tim Dillon Show · #197

3 min

Tim tells the story of his parents banning sugary cereal like Lucky Charms, connecting it jokingly to his path to addiction, then reminisces about getting sugary cereal at neglectful friends' houses during sleepovers.

In this bit6 moments
  • Tim's parents banned him from eating cereal with yellow dye number five and Lucky Charms as a child.
  • He claims he became a gay cocaine addict at 13 as revenge for cereal deprivation, when he could have been a married banker.
  • The best part of sleeping over at a friend's house as a kid was getting access to their cereal in the morning.
  • Josh's mother made terrible dry French toast for breakfast, representing the worst outcome of a sleepover meal.
  • Sleeping over at a white-trash kid's house with absent parents meant access to premium cereals like Cookie Krisp or Count Chocula.
  • Tim realized that kids whose parents let them eat Lucky Charms were the ones getting backhanded by their fathers.
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Lucky CharmsCookie CrispCount ChoculaWaffle CrispMagic Spoon

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