Interview · moment 4 of 26
Small Talk: Colin's New Show About Surveillance Culture and Snitching
from Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343 · #343
3 min
Guest
Colin describes his new show 'Small Talk,' about how everyone is watched and rats on each other now, riffing on his old Mafia-controlled hometown on Long Island (Island Park) where minding your business was valued, contrasted with today's snitch culture and mafia guys doing podcasts.
- Colin's new show is called Small Talk, about the minutia of how people relate to each other.
- The big theme is how language works today when everyone speaks as though they're being watched and under surveillance by each other.
- Tim says everybody's a rat and it's a culture of rats, nobody hates free speech more than we do.
- Those guys loved to stand around the boats in flip-flops and brown socks with slippers, smoking cigars and looking miserable over the water as a sign they'd made it from the city.
- The value in that town was minding your business, keeping your opinions about people private because you didn't know who was listening.
- Those mob guys now rat on everybody, no one kills them anymore, and they all get reality shows and podcasts.
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