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His Father's Love of the Year-End News Montage
from Epstein Docs & A Culture Of Slop | The Tim Dillon Show #476 · #476
7 min
Tim recalls his father's obsession with year-end news montages growing up on Long Island, plays an actual 1998 local news year-in-review clip, and riffs on how people used to calmly absorb even horrific news stories.
- Tim's father used to love watching year-end news montages, getting misty-eyed over them.
- Tim wonders what goes into a year-end montage when the year has been nothing but killings, wildfires, and documents about the president.
- Tim jokes that he lost his house, wife, and children in the LA fires, then drove his Rolls-Royce to the desert to start a new life.
- Watching a 1998 year-end news montage to show what his father loved about the format.
- Even though the stories in 1998 montages were negative, people were more chill about them than today.
- Tim's father would nod along thoughtfully while watching the montage unfold.
- The key difference: in the past, people believed whatever was shown in a montage and accepted it as real.
- Back then, people trusted that the stories in montages actually happened and could draw conclusions from them.
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