
Tim discusses the revival of the Sideshow sale, the Great American State Fair, and various relationship dynamics in a comedic context.
Episode Summary The summer Sideshow sale gets revived after site issues blocked signups, so the annual “please support this stupidity before summer kills me” campaign is officially back on. Tim revisits the depressing majesty of the Great American State Fair , which still sounds less like a celebration and more like a heat-soaked recruitment expo with a single Ferris wheel and several kiddie-pool baptisms. An old DV bit called Freedom Fair turns out to have predicted this whole grotesque patriotic theme park almost two decades early, right down to the fascist carnival tone and nation-under-meatloaf energy. The comparison is uncomfortably close, which is either impressive satire or proof that America has been speedrunning stupidity for years. A relationship coach returns with a new polyamorous emergency: one man in a triad is a self-identified pit pig who loves sniffing armpits, just not his boyfriend’s armpits. The offended partner takes this exactly as hard as you’d expect, because if your boyfriend is happily huffing everyone else’s body funk except yours, that starts to feel a little personal. Another open-relationship weirdo explains that having sex with a friend is fine, but…
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