Aug 1, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 12 segments
Tim discusses how influencers have ruined the dining experience, why privacy is now a luxury, the teenage lifeguard who got invited to the White House by Donald Trump, Miriam Adelson paying tribute to…
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Now the summer there's a lot of rage bait, meaning like, uh, you know, th- the, uh, pe- places like Nantucket or out in the Hamptons.
People, the amount of money that it costs to be involved to any degree in those places is, um, offensive to people.
Like, everybody's obsessed with these food markets that have, like, a $400 melon or, you know, in California Erwan had a $19 strawberry.
These are stupid things that are designed to get publicity and elicit rage from people.
Y- you know, like, they are real, they exist, but they're kind of designed to get publicity, to make people mad, and, and then that, then these things go viral, and then people find out about these places.
[laughs]
And, and there's a backlash, an understandable backlash against this type of consumption.
People that, you know, people talking about the status of going to this grocery store and spending this amount of money on lobster salad and da da da da da.
And that's why I feel like the vibes in New York City are a lot better than the vibes out east on Long Island, um, because there's been a turn.
Uh, the young folks are going to the left, and they look at the Hamptons and they kinda go, "Ugh, yuck." And to their, to their credit and to, to give credit where credit is due, the, the silliness of people running around to all these high-end grocery stores trying to best each other on the, the lines that, you know, how long the line is to get something, and s- r- really overpriced, mediocre shit, which is what a lot of it is.
And the status of saying you did it and that influencer culture of showing people you did it, it is a direct contradiction to the way people behaved with money for many, many years in this country, which is they tried to chill.
Now the summer there's a lot of rage bait, meaning like, uh, you know, th- the, uh, pe- places like Nantucket or out in the Hamptons.
People, the amount of money that it costs to be involved to any degree in those places is, um, offensive to people.
Like, everybody's obsessed with these food markets that have, like, a $400 melon or, you know, in California Erwan had a $19 strawberry.
These are stupid things that are designed to get publicity and elicit rage from people.
Y- you know, like, they are real, they exist, but they're kind of designed to get publicity, to make people mad, and, and then that, then these things go viral, and then people find out about these places.
[laughs]
And, and there's a backlash, an understandable backlash against this type of consumption.
People that, you know, people talking about the status of going to this grocery store and spending this amount of money on lobster salad and da da da da da.
And that's why I feel like the vibes in New York City are a lot better than the vibes out east on Long Island, um, because there's been a turn.
Uh, the young folks are going to the left, and they look at the Hamptons and they kinda go, "Ugh, yuck." And to their, to their credit and to, to give credit where credit is due, the, the silliness of people running around to all these high-end grocery stores trying to best each other on the, the lines that, you know, how long the line is to get something, and s- r- really overpriced, mediocre shit, which is what a lot of it is.
And the status of saying you did it and that influencer culture of showing people you did it, it is a direct contradiction to the way people behaved with money for many, many years in this country, which is they tried to chill.
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