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The Night Before Thanksgiving and Watching Your Friend Group Blur
from A Time Gone By with H. Foley & Kevin Ryan | The Tim Dillon Show #364 · #364
5 min
Tim describes the ritual of the bar the night before Thanksgiving, watching your high school friend group thin out year after year, and identifying 'Steve' who never left the pub, tying it to becoming a functioning adult.
- Tim describes the night before Thanksgiving as an important moment when friend groups start to blur and separate after high school.
- The first year back at the bar after going away, you're still connected; every year after, faces blur around the edges a little more.
- Coming back to the hometown bar, you notice the guy who went straight there versus the guy who went to Duke or Harvard, and you figure out who you want to be.
- The friend group diminishes over time from ten guys to eight to five to four, eventually just Steve and other Steves drinking beers from prior years.
- Tim realized he was an alcoholic when bar owners started talking to him like an adult about their problems instead of letting him just get drunk with friends.
- Tim argues that holidays and their surrounding activities are important for becoming a fully functioning adult and shouldn't be lost to the digital world.
- Local bars are important and can't be replaced by clubs with DJs or Vegas marathons and celebrity residencies.
- The Lake of Dreams show at SW Steakhouse in Vegas features a singing cigarette-smoking frog performing New York, New York.
- Marshmallow has a residency at the Wynn and they're serving a $40 marshmallow cake with his stupid X-eyes logo shaped like his head.
- Tim demands Marshmallow stop selling the cake because it's grotesque and tells him and meringue to kick rocks.
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