NYC Gentrification, Cop Defunding, and the Death of Art

• 1:17:30Tim on the comedy of a 120-pound Vermont kid tweeting that we don't need cops while getting raped to death on the Williamsburg Bridge.
• 1:18:04You get all the violence and poverty of New York but none of the art.
• 1:18:17Tim's boss predicted Trump's election might spark an age of great art like punk, but nothing came true despite how amped up both sides have been.
• 1:18:55No one's made anything of substance on either side—it would be great to bring Duke Ellington back and ask what he does now for eight hours every day.
• 1:19:34The collapse of art is so total and absolute you can't imagine it coming back; nobody would even recognize a seminal work if someone made one now.
• 1:20:03An Amazon Prime original could be the next Godfather and we wouldn't know it because we'd all be saying this sucks, I want to watch Cobra Kai.
• 1:20:17Tim jokes about Cobra Kai needing a fourth dojo run by a morbidly obese Black woman named Shamika to satisfy diversity complaints.
• 1:20:50The problem isn't that there aren't enough fat people in Baywatch—you want to watch hot lifeguards, not representation lectures.
• 1:21:35Growing up seeing fat kids on Baywatch would have made us confident sociopaths, so the diversity push is actually helping society.
• 1:22:44Tim questions when mainstream culture decided that if corporations don't represent you in ads, you don't matter.
• 1:23:23Home Improvement taught us we'd be idiots caught by our wives every week—what inspiration was that supposed to provide.
• 1:24:04Roseanne's family was broke with no money and opened a loose meat restaurant; what did we learn except to work at a diner and eventually fall for QAnon.
• 1:24:52Mr. Belvedere featured a middle-aged British man just living in a house with a family that clearly wasn't rich enough to have a butler, implying something was off.
• 1:25:32Harry and the Hendersons had a Sasquatch living in the house—no amount of racial diversity casting would fix that premise.
• 1:25:57Step by Step was a blended family where everyone hated each other because of a messy divorce, the kind of thing you tell drug addicts trying to get clean.
• 1:26:29Friends sold the lie that you could live in New York City, be a failed actor, afford a huge apartment with no income, which doomed us all to failure.

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