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Swingers Diner Closes and the Burka Restaurant Pitch

from #198 - I'm A Hero | The Tim Dillon Show · #198

6 min

Tim recounts his grudge against the LA diner Swingers over a "big booth" rule, celebrates its closing, and pitches his own restaurant concept featuring genderless staff in head-to-toe burkas and gay icon wall art.

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  • Tim recalled getting kicked out of Swingers Diner for wanting a bigger booth without six people, comparing the staff to a Nazi enforcer.
  • He pitched opening a restaurant in LA and claimed he could have saved Swingers if they'd asked for his advice.
  • Tim's restaurant concept: staff in full black burkas head-to-toe, no gendered language, halal food, and gay icons on the walls as an homage to Islam.
  • The key to restaurant success is an Instagram-worthy dish that white women will photograph and spread online, or you'll fail.
  • Boomers discovering TikTok during the pandemic now spend time figuring out how to express their racist and Catholic views through themed dances.
  • Life's final stage is the spectator phase, where work and family arrangements are locked in and you kill time until disease kills you first.
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SwingersRuPaulHarvey MilkJonathan Larson

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