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502 - Celebrating 250 Years: A Very Special Episode
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The Suburbs: Vape Shops, Ketamine Clinics, and the Howling Veteran
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Tim begins with a portrait of the suburban strip mall: vape shop, ketamine clinic, Carl's Jr., acupuncture studio, Pilates studio, Reiki healing place, psychic, Goodyear Tire, McDonald's, convenience store, church, Denny's, rehab, financial advisory firm. He loves it. He then pivots to the vacant American city — specifically, Cleveland, Ohio — and the sound that comes from the dark. Not a monster, not an interdimensional being: a veteran the country trained, used, and then spat back into the street without healthcare or support, howling in the dark behind a dumpster. Tim tells his listener exactly what to do: head for the car, get the kids in, drive away. That's America. [1] — Tim Dillon "The American suburb is a masterpiece of bleakness: a vape shop next to a ketamine clinic next to a Carl's Jr. next to a Reiki healing studi…" 50:50
Tim concludes with an extended dark satirical vignette about a family driving through Cleveland on July 4th who accelerate their car into a homeless veteran lurking in an alley, with the wife and children cheering them on.
A cheating suburban couple drives home through Cleveland after a mid Fourth of July celebration and encounters a homeless veteran lurching in an alley. Rather than stop, they accelerate — the kids cheer, the wife grips the armrest in solidarity. The family bonds over the murder and drives home in silence. Tim frames it as the most American ending possible.
