Places/place
Times Square
Tim’s take
His core position is nostalgia for the dangerous, pre-Giuliani version of it, the 1988 chaos he says he had to fake being crazy to survive 16:50. He blames Giuliani's "Disneyfy Times Square" push for turning New York into a city that isn't for New Yorkers anymore, treating the cleanup as the moment old New York ended 13:50. Even now he describes it as unnervingly empty and haunting at night rather than genuinely safe 35:43.
Beyond that he doesn't argue much, he just uses it as a backdrop for stories: jerking off on a tour bus driving through it 50:57, hosting a bad set at Junior's nearby 56:06, Ryan's 50-block walkabout looking for crack and trannies 3:21, mixtape sellers working the crowds 2:17, an old-school guy getting kicked out of a strip club there 17:43, the NYPD's K5 robot patrolling its subway station 29:17, and a passing claim that it's America's top tourist destination 38:16.
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"walk the streets because it was just well crazy people right times square in nineteen eighty eight was crazy yeah so i would have very"
"around. The bus driver didn't care. I drove off in the middle of Times Square, there was a cab and elbow. In a bus. It was interesting."
Rock Bottom, Recovery Meetings, and the Tour Bus Confession — Pizza Hut Buffet+163s into the segment"not. Cause that room man, sometimes a room in the middle of Times Square is just like, I just don't, I just, what, was Junior's too"
"And then I walked all the way to Times Square. All the way to Times Square. That's 50 blocks. And then I got there and I see two cops"
Ryan's 30-Mile NYC Walkabout Looking for Crack and Trannies — Tin Foil Hat and Tim at Skankfest+85s into the segment"office. You know, and he was like, what's fucking Disneyfy Times Square, that was it. Yeah. It was over then but a lot of people were"
Global Capital, Nationalism, and the Death of Old New York — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain+157s into the segment"like walking around getting asked to leave a strip club in Times Square. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? He looks like an extra in taxi"
Restraining Emotional Women and Media Personalities You'd Suck Off — Mike Recine+12s into the segment"a lot of white people slinging mixtapes in Central Park or Times Square there's just not it's fun you know what I mean yeah yeah and"
White Kids Selling Mixtapes and the Homeless Grandma Grift — 147 - Love Tim (with Kevin Tienken)+77s into the segment"two blocks from Times Square it was a wild place to live when these two would fight I would go walk around in the middle of the night and just talk to hot dog vendors and guys that were dressed like Tigger and Winnie the Pooh the dumb Time Square characters"
Melanie, His Grifter Roommates, and Dark Comedy — #169 - We're The Dirtbags | The Tim Dillon Show+28s into the segment"times square at first when i heard you say that i was like man tim he's going a little too much and i know and then i went to times square yeah and i was like oh this place is haunting"
Times Square at Night and New York Toughness — #261 - Please, Die Alone | The Tim Dillon Show+31s into the segment"Times Square subway station the K5 described as fully autonomous security robot as part of a push by the mayor for more law enforcement technology"
The NYPD's K5 Security Robot Debuts in the Subway — K5 & Digidog | The Tim Dillon Show #362+3s into the segment"then we can really let North Korea know how to do it Time Square is number one it's uh Central Park is number two Las Vegas is number"
North Korea Should Become a Tourist Destination — Dead-Eyed Monsters | The Tim Dillon Show #375+144s into the segment