rant · moment 15 of 25
In Praise of the Dirt Bag Bar
from Names On Paper | The Tim Dillon Show #376 · #376
3 min
Tim reflects on the value of having a rough neighborhood bar in your life, citing his father's belief that every Dillon has had one, and argues such places teach you what giving up and losing looks like.
- Tim jokes about wishing everyone well and hoping their last night of drinking is behind them.
- Tim argues he doesn't trust anyone who hasn't spent time in a watering hole or dirt bag bar at some point in their life.
- His father told him every man has had a corner bar play a role in his life, citing Uncle Tommy's Buckley and his own place called The Bitter End.
- You learn about the world from dirt bag bars — there's a modern idea that you can only learn from the digital space or from successful people.
- Greatest literary characters like Don Quixote and Willy Loman have been failures, delusional, miscreants — but now culture only learns from successful people or those pretending to be.
- A good corner bar shows you how not to live — it's important to understand what giving up looks like and what happens when you let your battles win.
dirt bag barsLeisa's LoungeThe Bitter End