Interview · moment 14 of 29
Long Island Parents Who Want You to Fail
from #276 - The Squish | The Tim Dillon Show · #276
4 min
Guest
Tim argues that Long Island parents create conditions that make their kids fail, using his own denied car insurance as an example, and describes wasting his freshman year at Hofstra watching anime instead of attending class.
- Long Island parents are deeply invested in creating an environment where their kids will fail.
- Tim's father wouldn't add him to the car insurance, charging $500 a month instead, because parents want you to die and fail.
- If Tim asked to take a car to the library, his dad would catastrophize about lawsuits and losing the house.
- Leaving home is essential because parents spend their entire lives trying to destroy their kids, knowingly or unknowingly.
- Tim spent his first year at Hofstra watching anime in a video library room with four 13-inch TVs instead of going to class.
- Tim and friends named Kenny and Buns smoked weed on the top level of the Roosevelt Field Mall parking structure.
- Instead of attending classes at Suffolk, Tim would go to Costco and eat from their food court.
- Costco became Tim's comfort zone—eating a chicken bake alone in the middle of the day without family or a grocery list made him feel at home.
- Tim would sneak past Costco employees straight to the food court without a membership by claiming he was just going there to eat.
- The college experience Tim and his friend had—smoking weed at a mall parking structure and eating Costco chicken bakes—wasn't actually the college experience.