rant · moment 12 of 20
Awkward Covid Interviews and Cousin Jenna's Death
from #214 - Meatball's Mayhem | The Tim Dillon Show · #214
4 min
He describes recent reunions feeling like stilted job interviews, including a dark joke about being told his 'cousin Jenna' died of covid while having lupus and being overweight.
- Post-Covid social interactions feel like awkward job interviews nobody wants.
- Tim describes the absurdity of pandemic-era small talk: asking if anyone you know has died, while standing across the room.
- His cousin Jenna is dead—she had lupus, was overweight, sang at a wedding, and they think Covid killed her.
- Tim's father has never worked a high-pressure job but acts like he works on Wall Street.
- The father sells wine—a relaxing job—but carries himself like an ER doctor.
- Father constantly stressed about Napa Valley fires despite retiring in a year and not caring.
- Tim's father acts like a Secret Service agent about to take a bullet for someone.
- Long Island residents all have homes and paid bills but act like they're barely surviving multiple wars.
- Father complains the city is fucked up and they're killing everyone there, which Tim agrees with.
- Lunch with his father was probably the only thing on the father's calendar, yet he acts like he has a presidential campaign to run afterward.
- Tim notes the father's constant performance of being overwhelmed despite having virtually nothing scheduled.
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