rant · moment 28 of 29
Closing Riff: NYC Infrastructure Collapse and Future Cult of Personality
from Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas) · #148
2 min
A closing bit imagining Tim moving to Beverly Hills, becoming an empty wellness guru slinging green juice, while riffing on NYC's crumbling subway and Uber prices, and mocking comedy criticism in the New York Times.
- NYC subway doesn't work, Ubers cost $75 to cross bridges, infrastructure is collapsing into a tropical hellscape
- Tim's escape plan: Beverly Hills, eating Pokéballs, refusing to engage with anything real
- In Beverly Hills he'll validate people's pretend ideas about life and keep them compliant
- He and his followers will just sit in a room staring at each other because they have nothing to say and only 70-80 years left
- Comedy writers at the New York Times can't write about anything else because it would require actual research