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The Cool Aunt and Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams'
from Iran, Israel & The Cool Aunt | The Tim Dillon Show #389 · #389
5 min
Riffing on an article about 'cool aunts' supporting LGBTQ youth, Tim builds an extended bit about the archetypal cool aunt—smoking, drinking, playing Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams,' living in quiet tragedy—using his own childhood aunts as examples.
- Research finds cool aunts play a critical support role to LGBTQ youth
- Tim describes his friend's cool aunt Deb: single, leather jacket, drank and smoked all day, listened to Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' in the hot tub
- What it really was: she was living in hell—the cool aunt mythology masks genuine suffering and loneliness
- Nobody checks on the cool aunt; she exists only to be cool and available for kids to confess to, never to receive care
- Every cool aunt listens to 'Dreams' by Fleetwood Mac while masturbating, shows up to weddings buzzed, carries trauma of dead friends
- The cool aunt always has a story about a best friend who killed herself or died, often involving drunk driving or Fleetwood Mac concerts
- Tim's Aunt Jen: the cool aunt who asked for drug money, had her children taken by the government, then told all of them they were trans
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