rant · moment 3 of 29
Halloween Costumes, Kids' Movies, and Absent Parents
from Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas) · #148
3 min
Tim expands into a riff about giving Halloween back to children, then tells stories about his own parents never taking him to age-appropriate movies (Jagged Edge, Dead Man Walking) and being raised largely by a non-English-speaking Greek nanny.
- You can almost tell what conversations are going to make you want to kill yourself by looking at someone's face.
- People walking around Park Slope are at war with unseen systems of oppression.
- Tim gets heavy social media pushback when he suggests people shouldn't all be losers.
- A Halloween costume tweet caused major trouble: give the holiday back to children, buy property, start a family.
- A kindergarten teacher dressed as two burning twin towers got fired—adults shouldn't need costumes.
- Tim's parents never took him to children's movies; his father dragged him to adult films like Jagged Edge and Dead Man Walking when he was seven.
- Tim couldn't sleep for three years after seeing Jagged Edge—a home invasion murder film he was too young to watch.