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Fleeing Families, West Nile Virus Memories, and Eric Adams' Parking Tickets

from Through The Gate | The Tim Dillon Show #369 · #369

2 min

Tim compares Gaza's four-hour fleeing windows to a nostalgic memory of his mother fleeing Long Island's West Nile virus spraying, then complains about parking tickets from the Eric Adams administration.

In this bit6 moments
  • Families bond when they are fleeing — Tim's mother took him and a friend on a train to escape Long Island's West Nile virus spraying.
  • Tim's schizophrenic mother was paranoid about insect spraying on Long Island during the West Nile outbreak that killed a few old boomers.
  • The spraying was meant to kill bugs from Africa carrying West Nile virus coming to kill Americans.
  • Tim's mother grabbed him and his friend Shay, got on a train, and took them to a restaurant called Art of Pasta — a last-minute evacuation.
  • Israel allowing people to flee — Tim notes the choice of that word over 'relocate' and questions who's handling their press.
  • Families get a four-hour window to flee, and Tim says there's something nice about families being together during that process.
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West NileLong IslandIsraelPalestiniansArt of PastaEgypt

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