rant · moment 4 of 27
Deli Counter Etiquette and Watching War on Your Phone
from Eurovision & Jerry Seinfeld's Pop-Tart Movie | The Tim Dillon Show #392 · #392
4 min
An extended riff on the awkwardness of watching war footage on your phone in public (like at a deli counter), the anxiety of being caught, and how much war coverage a person can consume.
- Tim describes the anxiety of ordering at the deli counter while the worker judges your speed.
- Watching live torture footage from Abu Ghraib on your phone while waiting for sliced meat in 2003–2005.
- Opening social media now and cycling between cooking videos and footage of people fleeing bombing raids.
- Someone catches you watching war footage in public; you have to look at them and silently acknowledge it's not good.
- Tim on the modern dilemma: how much war can you consume and how much can you consume publicly.
- The unreleased Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry and Café watch Gaza war on loud phones in public.
- Tim calls the current starvation and mass death terrible and worse than something he can't fully explain.
- Babies being made into soup with your money, complicity without consent, yet still worse than the Pop-Tart film.