rant · moment 26 of 27
Fantasy: The Hedge Fund Guy Watching Society Burn From His Porch
from #216 - A Good Deal | The Tim Dillon Show · #216
4 min
Tim spins out an elaborate fantasy of a wealthy Southampton finance guy sipping cabernet, ignoring distant civil unrest as unimportant media hype, until a mob approaches his own property.
- Tim describes watching the news during civil unrest: a man climbing through windows with a blowtorch at Ruby Tuesday's.
- Tim anticipates Trump not accepting election results and imagines military signaling they won't support him.
- Tim's fantasy: a Wall Street guy watching civil unrest on TV, dismissing it as media exaggeration while sipping cabernet.
- The hedge fund guy hears distant chanting, assumes it's neighbors having a party, pours himself a Macallan.
- He sees an angry mob in black carrying weapons and chainsaws approaching his property.
- The mob sets his house on fire; he's disappointed but sees it as an opportunity for renovation and insurance money.
- He considers his marriage falling apart, fantasizes about scarring his wife and leaving her for a waitress at Bobby Vance.
- Watching his house burn down, he mentally catalogs the upside: scarring his wife, starting over, pursuing younger women.
- The mob approaches and starts pushing him; his physical safety finally enters his mind for the first time.