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Good News Hunt: Lemonade Stands and the Chocolate Vat Accident

from #304 - What America Means To Me | The Tim Dillon Show · #304

5 min

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Searching for uplifting 4th of July news, they cover a Detroit kid's lemonade stand for animal shelters (which Tim insists on stripping of sentiment) and two exhausted Mars Wrigley plant workers who fell into a vat of chocolate and had to be cut out.

In this bit10 moments
  • Tim introduces a story about a kid with a lemonade stand in Detroit.
  • Tim questions why bikers are known for defending kids and killing pedophiles, calling it suspicious.
  • Tim wants to simplify the lemonade stand story, skipping the part about raising money for shelter dogs and focusing on pure capitalism.
  • Tim fantasizes about the child eventually dethroning Dole and having the CIA prop up governments in Latin America.
  • Two workers at a Mars Wrigley plant in Pennsylvania fell into a vat of chocolate.
  • Tim notes the dark irony: unlike Willy Wonka, the worker actually had to go to the hospital and required rescue.
  • Tim describes the workers as worthless while making Mars bars outside Hershey, digressing into a complaint that American chocolate tastes like soap.
  • Emergency responders freed the pair by cutting a hole in the bottom of the chocolate tank.
  • Tim insists the contaminated chocolate from the workers' swim is definitely making it to store shelves.
  • Tim frames the chocolate vat accident as the good news story: overworked, lightheaded workers nearly dying for consumer entertainment.
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Mars WrigleyAmerican chocolateDoleCIABabbelDetroitHersheyPennsylvania

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