Subjects/subject
Hurricane Sandy
2017-06-27, 1 mention2017-08-13, 1 mention2017-09-03, 1 mention2019-07-21, 1 mention2019-10-13, 3 mentions2020-05-17, 1 mention2020-08-16, 1 mention2020-11-08, 1 mention2021-08-22, 1 mention2023-10-28, 1 mention2024-09-28, 1 mention2024-10-12, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He treats Sandy as real damage to his own family — his grandmother's house flooded and took years to rebuild, and he tells the story of riding it out in Manhattan while Long Island got wrecked 10:15 52:09. That personal history keeps surfacing as an aside even when the story is about something else entirely 36:21 14:33 20:11.
Mostly though he uses the storm as his go-to example of a disaster curdling into a lifelong alibi, and he tells the same joke across years: Long Islanders blaming Sandy for failures that had nothing to do with it, then predicting covid, and later Hurricane Helene, would become the next version of the same excuse 27:51 16:50 6:34. He returns just as often to the insurance and FEMA call-center scammers who harassed elderly storm victims for money, which he treats as proof of how amoral his hometown is 23:14 39:54 23:51.
Every Reference (14)
"of the Eastern seaboard just going away I mean I looked at Hurricane Sandy. I mean hurricane say you were in mid max a week after Hurricane"
"This is not like, this is, they live through Sandy. Yeah, Hurricane Sandy. This is not, it's not in storage. It's not in a museum."
"lived I live it on a town which is on sea level Yeah, which hurricane sandy was the hurricane of my lifetime, right? Because it completely"
"getting the calls long island here's the thing about long after Hurricane sandy happened insurance companies who are the devil like let's"
"God decided in His infinite wisdom to destroy Long Island with Hurricane sandy now I appreciated that I appreciated that he waited till I left and then he destroyed my friends and family"
Hurricane Sandy and Life in Hell's Kitchen — #169 - We're The Dirtbags | The Tim Dillon Show+143s into the segment"had my I couldn't get my business off the ground because a hurricane sandy okay well yeah maybe hey Anthony maybe and maybe not maybe"
Melanie, His Grifter Roommates, and Dark Comedy — #169 - We're The Dirtbags | The Tim Dillon Show"helped me move into this apartment she saw it and during Hurricane sandy I was caught on the phone with her and talking to her and"
The Bathroom in the Hallway and Riding the Subway to a Telemarketing Job — #169 - We're The Dirtbags | The Tim Dillon Show+47s into the segment"hurricane sandy people right after everybody's house got destroyed everybody was like well here's my uh you know I was working as a medical biller before Hurricane sandy everything was coming together"
Hurricane Sandy Excuses and Coronavirus as the New Excuse — #200 - Knife Fights In Malibu | The Tim Dillon Show+27s into the segment"aren't there bottles of water because of covet this is this is hurricane sandy in long island my loser friends for five years the reason"
"I've Come Here to Die": The Ultimate Check-In Line — #213 - Who's Gonna Put You In Jail | The Tim Dillon Show+25s into the segment"cataloging them and putting them under her bed and during hurricane sandy they all floated down the street and princess diana bears"
Dan's Cult Childhood vs. Real Horror — #225 - Friendsgiving | The Tim Dillon Show+91s into the segment"hurricane sandy was the long island it was the first time in a very long time that long island had really gone through a natural uh disaster um it destroyed 650 000 homes or damaged it took years to get back on their feet these people"
Hurricane Sandy, Long Island's Racism Cured, and the COVID Excuse Economy — #265 - Austin Taliban | The Tim Dillon Show+63s into the segment"me your you have to pay for this stuff um I remember after Hurricane Sandy um there was a group there was a call center in Long Island"
The Real American War: Scamming Old People at the Call Center — The War At Home | The Tim Dillon Show #367+39s into the segment"thing is after a hurricane Because by the way I had we had Hurricane Sandy in Long Island and uh Long Island is um these are the worst"
Hurricane Sandy, Long Island, and the Great Excuse — Florida Hurricanes & Rich Nothings | The Tim Dillon Show #411+7s into the segment"got to figure it out. My grandmother lost her house during Hurricane Sandy and it took 2 years to rebuild it. It is terrible and horrible"
Doing Bari Weiss's Debate Show and Mayorkas Shopping During a Hurricane — The Joker 2 & Kamala Harris | The Tim Dillon Show #412+145s into the segment