Interview · moment 12 of 30

Das Boot on Mushrooms and the Post-9/11 Miso Jar Mushroom Smuggling Tease

from The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310 · #310

4 min

Guest

Curtis describes taking mushrooms with a coworker named Jimmy and watching the director's cut of Das Boot in a theater, and teases (but declines to tell) a story about smuggling mushrooms from Japan in a miso jar after 9/11.

In this bit6 moments
  • Tech utopians and Wall Street guys are motivated by the same thing: lust for gargantuan sums of money.
  • Tim lasted nine months at a Silicon Valley company and never quite clicked with them socially.
  • Tim teases a story about smuggling mushrooms back from Japan in a jar of miso after 9/11 but refuses to tell it.
  • Tim and a coworker named Jimmy decided to take mushrooms and see Das Boot at the UC Theater repertory cinema.
  • When asked what Das Boot was about, Tim joked it was about footwear or something.
  • Watching Das Boot on mushrooms means experiencing 500 feet under the Strait of Gibraltar with British destroyers dropping TNT for 45 minutes straight.
Mentioned here

Silicon ValleyDas BootGoogleMarin County

All 30 moments in this episode →