rant · moment 13 of 19
Planning a Budget Vacation Special for the Poor
from #296 - Selling Moresby | The Tim Dillon Show · #296
4 min
Tim previews a planned segment on ten affordable vacation spots for struggling Americans, abandoning a Hamptons pricing joke in favor of real budget destinations, and reminisces about eating imitation crab meat on South Padre Island while watching Project Runway.
- Tim pitches a summer vacation special for poor people, featuring ten affordable spots they can actually visit.
- Even with horrible lives destroyed by forces you barely understand, poor people should still be able to enjoy summer—swim in a creek, eat a hot dog, watch TV.
- He considered doing a bit about the Hamptons and Nantucket being unaffordable, but decided it was cruel and obvious instead.
- The real plan: scout actual places poor people grew up going, like Port Aransas and South Padre Island, for family trips under twelve hundred dollars.
- South Padre Island has oil factories, needles, and gross brown water in the Gulf of Mexico, but there are tacos and cheap supermarkets.
- Tim describes the vacation hack: buy imitation crab meat at the supermarket, boil it with butter at your hotel, and dip it while watching Project Runway.
- His mother loved Tim Gunn on Project Runway in the mid-2000s, calling him a Nazi, and he was phenomenal.
- There are all kinds of areas for people who are struggling, but we don't remember them anymore.
Tim GunnHeidi KlumNikki GlaserProject Runway