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Small Town Vibes and the Post-9/11 Feast
from The Presidential Debate & Eating Cats | The Tim Dillon Show #409 · #409
3 min
Tim wistfully describes the outpouring of community warmth after 9/11 — strangers hugging in delis, big Thanksgiving feasts, going into the city defiantly for fake IDs — and his mother's story about a Middle Eastern family who mysteriously vanished before 9/11.
- Tim recalls the feasting and outpouring of love after 9/11, eating for people who passed at Thanksgiving gatherings.
- His father used to frequent Windows on the World as a wine salesman but wasn't there the day of the attacks.
- Tim's favorite post-9/11 story involves a Saudi family in Oceanside and another in Florida who disappeared the day before or after, leaving their houses untouched.
- He tells the story to his stoned friend and mother about Middle Eastern people vanishing with all their belongings still in the house.
- While there were some hate crimes against Arabs post-9/11, Tim argues there weren't as many as commonly believed.
- The country came out and said it wasn't a religious war, though hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims did rise.
- Tim questions the scale of the rise in hate crimes, doubting it was as significant as the narrative suggests.
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