Wanting Real Life Back and Chris Hedges as Secret Comedy

• 1:00:45Tim says he really enjoys doing lines, bars, and having unprotected sex with strangers, but can't do that anymore.
• 1:01:11He moved to New York and started the podcast ten years later specifically to avoid becoming a weird reclusive tin foil hat person like his mother.
• 1:01:35Dan, the opener, observed that women are leaning into being 26-year-old grandmas—wine-drunk cat moms baking bread, basically the female version of being incel.
• 1:02:11Tim wants to get out and see the ruins of the country, the desolate hellscapes and long stretches of highway where people hope to get trafficked.
• 1:02:45He wants to go back out on the road performing in towns with buffets where people smoke, get angry, discuss conspiracy theories after church, and come to his show because it's the only option.
• 1:02:58Chris Hedges is usually right about stuff, but he's been writing the same article for forty years.
• 1:03:56Their fantasy is that Chris Hedges is secretly a closet hypebeast with a sneaker fetish, unable to stop buying Bay hoodies and expensive shoes despite his speeches about corporate oligarchy and totalitarianism.
• 1:04:43Tim compares the current country to a closed store where everybody is just wandering around looking for the exit.
• 1:04:55There's nothing fun about the culture of the moment right now.

Chris HedgesAmerica the Farewell Tour