rant · moment 8 of 20
Seeing Old Long Island Friends Get Older
from #214 - Meatball's Mayhem | The Tim Dillon Show · #214
5 min
Tim reflects on visiting old friends and their parents in Long Island, describing the awkwardness of drifting apart, and riffs on how Long Islanders casually recount near-death medical experiences while chain smoking and drinking.
- Tim saw old friends and parents of old friends on Long Island and found it depressing because everyone is getting older.
- The golden age of those friendships is over, and now there's barely anything left.
- Reconnecting with people you used to be really close with shows how much time has passed when you realize you barely know each other anymore.
- Conversations that used to be effortless are now strained small talk as both people feel each other out about what's safe to discuss.
- Everyone on Long Island is still drinking heavily while Tim has gotten sober, which creates a disconnect.
- Long Island people casually describe surviving brain aneurysms, pulmonary embolisms, and near-death experiences while smoking and drinking like nothing happened.
- The nonchalant way people describe all their accumulated health problems—being clinically dead, seeing dark tunnels and beings pulling them to hell—before lighting a cigarette and drinking again is genuinely crazy.