rant · moment 15 of 18
Choosing to Be a Bad Teenager: Drugs, Acid, and Learning Moderation
from A Time Gone By with H. Foley & Kevin Ryan | The Tim Dillon Show #364 · #364
3 min
Tim describes deliberately becoming a 'bad' teenager doing weed, coke, percocet, acid and mushrooms, and argues that today's kids skip straight to fentanyl and don't get the same gradual life lessons, worrying that people no longer grow up emotionally.
- Tim and his friend Shay stole vodka from his aunt Deb in Rockaway, refilling the bottle with water to avoid detection.
- Aunt Deb enjoyed driving her Firebird after a few sangrias, unbothered by anyone's judgment.
- Today's teenagers escalate to extremes — locking relatives in bathrooms, stealing cars, buying heroin — instead of the modest mischief of his generation.
- Tim argues that learning to be a little bit of a delinquent, then catching yourself, is how you develop restraint.
- The toughest guys he knew who never learned moderation are now dead.
- What's missing now is moderation; the appeal of doing wrong things in little doses with caution.
- Every high school class used to have five or ten genuinely nuts kids; now it's half the class, which explains holiday dysfunction.
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