rant · moment 5 of 17
Party Games, Mystery, and the Death of Family Small Talk
from #278 - A Thanksgiving Tale | The Tim Dillon Show · #278
5 min
Tim reminisces about board games like Pictionary and Trivial Pursuit as social lubricant from an era before social media made people mysteries to each other, then contrasts it with how holiday gatherings now devolve into ideological hatred, culminating in a bit about relatives screaming over Kyle Rittenhouse.
- Texas has some in-shape older men who jog for endorphin rushes, then go home to watch Tucker.
- Party games like Pictionary, Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit were designed to loosen people up at gatherings.
- There was a time when people didn't know how to talk to each other and didn't hate each other enough to fight, so they were just bored.
- Before social media, people were a mystery to each other—you didn't know what relatives had for breakfast or how big their kids were until they showed up.
- Holidays have become cauldrons of hatred; people won't even suggest party games now because everyone is anxious about the deep political divisions.
- Family disputes used to be small grudges, but now they're rooted in how people feel about the world and the country's direction.
- Tim thinks the new family hatred is actually better than playing Pictionary.
- It's more fun to watch relatives scream at each other about Kyle Rittenhouse, someone neither of them knew existed until six months ago.
- Neither the aunt nor grandfather knows anything about law enforcement, courts, criminal justice, or public policy, yet they screams about Rittenhouse with absolute certainty.