rant · moment 22 of 24
Family Drinking: His Family vs. Normal Families
from Matt Gaetz & The Non-Binary Capitalist | The Tim Dillon Show #418 · #418
10 min
Prompted by a story about parents day-drinking during college parents' weekend, Tim gives an extended riff contrasting healthy, surface-level family drinking with his own Irish family's tradition of using alcohol to air grievances and emotionally destroy each other.
- Tim argues that a certain amount of family drinking is probably necessary and can be positive.
- The difference between families that can handle drinking together versus families like his, where people get out of hand.
- Tim's family hates each other, and drinking removes the social pressure that keeps that hatred hidden when sober.
- When Tim's family drinks together, their goal is to hurt each other with words and make people feel less successful and less loved.
- In the places where Tim grew up, drinking was done to anesthetize feelings, but crossing the line would bring them back with a vengeance.
- Many people don't have an inner life or critical thoughts, which is why they have surface-level conversations at airports about where people went.
- Some families are happy and well-adjusted, they ski and get drunk without anything scary coming out because there's nothing inside them.
- Tim's Irish family will tell you that dead people you thought loved you actually hated you when drinking.
- His family's drinking goal is to litigate history, assign blame, and inflict existential crisis on each other—not to play game night.
- Matt Gaetz canceled a Cameo appearance, and Tim expresses shock that he would pass up the work.