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The Long Island Mall Military Recruiter
from Knuckleheads & Dodo Birds | The Tim Dillon Show #366 · #366
4 min
Tim tells the story of a military recruiter at a Long Island mall telling a Black teen his family would 'get something' if he died overseas, and the guests recall being pranked into getting recruiter phone calls.
- Tim recounts a military recruiter at the Long Island Mall pitching enlistment to a Black man by saying his family would get something if he died overseas.
- Tim's friends signed him up for the Marines as a prank, and recruiters called him repeatedly until his mother got on the phone and screamed at them.
- Watching Band of Brothers and Full Metal Jacket makes war seem appealing because of the camaraderie, but Tim argues that's because the viewer didn't play team sports.
- Paragliding looks fun as an activity, but Tim wouldn't want to do it if the purpose is to kill people rather than at a resort.
- Tim felt briefly cool about being a CIA agent after 9/11 in eleventh grade, thinking he wanted to do something that mattered, but the feeling wore off within months.
- Tim's college roommate, a tall GI Joe-looking guy, was excited about going to Afghanistan and would talk about the excitement of killing people.
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