rant · moment 12 of 18
America's Rest Stop Documentaries and Bodily Decay
from #221 - Epstein's Favorite Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show · #221
3 min
He riffs on the visible physical decline of people in small-town America, comparing any rest stop or bowling alley to an instant prestige documentary like October Country or Darwin.
- Tim praises documentary filmmaking, citing Darwin and October Country as examples of artistic work.
- He criticizes the October Country director for never making anything else after that one film.
- Tim compares his own work—yelling about things with no preparation into a camera he can't operate—to what these documentarians do.
- Upstate New York is tragic; the contrast with downstate's thriving metropolis makes the decay even sadder.
- Factory towns upstate lost jobs to NAFTA and overseas outsourcing, leaving people to languish.
- Tim's aunt got heavily addicted to pills, prompting him and his cousins to write a song mocking her drug use called "Perk-a-Doodle."
- He dismisses the documentary Canard as unimpressive; he's been in nine documentaries in two weeks on the road.
October CountryUpstate New YorkNAFTADarwinBill de Blasio