rant · moment 22 of 31
Not Voting and Trump as the South's Con Man
from Episode 149 - Ron Bennington (Live from Moontower) · #149
4 min
Ron admits he barely votes, they joke about voting being like Yelp reviews, then discuss how the South elected a rude con man like Trump, and riff on Austin being liberal until you hit Texas Christianity and BBQ culture.
- Tim didn't vote last election because he was flying, and he'd only vote in a restaurant at the end of a meal like Yelp.
- He voted for Bush once and Obama once, then gave up because he thought none of it mattered.
- Trump riffs without much prepared material, but Tim finds him funny.
- New Yorkers could never be president because people would think they're rude assholes, so the South picked a New York con man who failed at casinos and airlines.
- Austin's liberalism stops when it gets to Jesus—they've got Christ's barbecue stand in the middle of a field with a six-hour wait where you eat brisket from a coffee cup on the ground like a pig.
- America looks to Texas the way the rest of the world looks at America—wondering if they're cooler or just creeps.
- There's something cool about just saying things in Texas; Florida's version of cool is giving up at 32.
- Tim moved to Florida at 21 without working and started hosting wet t-shirt contests as the American dream.
- Parents would bring their sick kids with cancer to those contests as their dream before he got on the radio.