rant · moment 14 of 16
The Anne Arundel Maryland Gig and the Cereal Guy
from #286 - Tim Moves To Spotify | The Tim Dillon Show · #286
3 min
Tim tells a story about a disastrous comedy gig in Anne Arundel County Maryland with a broken mic, staying at a depressed scoreboard salesman's house, and the deadpan 'there's no milk, it's expired' line.
- Tim recalls reconnecting with a childhood friend from Long Island over lunch.
- Everything on Long Island is framed as tragic—he illustrates with the story of Frank's wife contracting a parasite in the Bahamas that required half her stomach removal.
- The friend casually mentions Sarah, who met a guy, married him two nights after he got sober, then watched him relapse and kill himself on a motorcycle.
- People in LA can't handle anything, but Long Island residents witness their friends and family dying in extreme, unlikely ways every day and just soldier through.
- Tim describes fighting through a Long Island lunch as a test of seeing reality for what it actually is, not what you'd want it to be.