Episode 14 · The GaS Digital / Ray Kump Era
The October Surprise
Oct 11, 2016 · 1:05:59 · 19 segments, 131 moments indexed
- 1 min
GaS Digital Network branding bumper about looking critically at billionaires, dictators, and CEOs, with applause and intro music before Tim starts talking.
2moments
- 0:09Tim introduces the premise: he's going to hell and will take a hard critical look at people society has decided to hate.
- 0:21There are bad things and bad people in the world, and thank God for them — what's good without evil?
- 3 min
Fall Cigarettes, Ham Sandwiches, and an Alleged Infection
#Tim riffs on the pleasure of smoking a Marlboro Red in the fall, welcomes Ray, and rambles about refrigerated school ham sandwiches, his mystery seasonal infection/allergies, and getting into snus tobacco packets.
8moments
- 0:39Tim asks if there's anything better than a fall cigarette.
- 1:02Tim mentions carrying around an inhaler from three years ago when he had health insurance.
- 1:19He bought a pack of Marlboro Reds and smoked one by Central Park in the fall.
- 1:56Fall reminds him of school and the ham sandwiches on toast from the cafeteria.
- 2:07Tim loves a refrigerated sandwich packed tightly with other foods.
- 2:30He thinks fall allergies are preventing him from enjoying his cigarettes.
- 2:41Allergies only started hitting him in recent years, so he mistakes them for being sick.
- 2:56Guest mentions snus, Swedish tobacco packets you put in your mouth as an alternative.
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- 1 min
Snus, Skoal Flavor Bans, and Long Island Lip-Packers
#Extended riff on chewing tobacco culture on Long Island, Bloomberg-era flavor bans on snus/Skoal, and the twisted logic of marketing dip flavors to kids versus 'broken people.'
4moments
- 3:31New York outlawed flavored snus and skoal, so you can't get citrus skull or apple skull anymore.
- 3:44Tim wonders why they banned the flavors but not the product itself—probably because they think flavors appeal to kids.
- 4:06Their strategy is basically to market skoal only to broken people while keeping it unpalatable to children.
- 4:20Skoal's alleged corporate position: we want to aim toward children and get kids starting to pack a lip.
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- 1 min
Announcing the Stand Debate Show and Riffing on Trump/Epstein Party Jokes
#Tim and Ray announce they're hosting a live debate-night comedy show at the Stand on October 19th, then spiral into dark jokes about mutilated children, goat heads, and Billy Bush's suspension as if it's a CIA reassignment.
5moments
- 4:45Tim and Ray Clark are hosting a presidential debate event at The Stand Comedy Club in Manhattan on October 19th.
- 4:58Tim thought they were moderating the actual presidential debate, but they're not — they're just hosting a comedy show debate.
- 5:19Tim does bits riffing on a hypothetical debate with Hillary and Trump, asking 'Where's Johnny?' as if someone is missing from the Epstein party scene.
- 5:35Tim notes this discussion of child mutilation may shock listeners unfamiliar with the show's previous episodes and themes.
- 5:51Dark, evil stuff allegedly happening in some corners of the country, including references to goat heads and objectionable content.
- 6 min
Trump's Grab-Them-By-the-Pussy Tape and Hillary's Hypocrisy
#Long rant riffing on Trump's hot mic tape, imagining him groping women at pageants, then pivoting into Hillary Clinton's decades of standing by Bill Clinton's accusers and liberal hypocrisy about 'believing women' while excusing her.
11moments
- 6:27Trump caught on hot mic saying he's going to grab women by the pussy, and Tim skeptically interprets this as figurative.
- 7:06Trump treats women like cattle and owns beauty pageants for the purpose of exploiting them.
- 7:41Bill Clinton has been credibly accused of rape by Juanita Broderick and accused of sexual assault and harassment.
- 7:59Hillary Clinton hired a private investigator to go after Bill's accusers and harassed people seeking to undermine him politically.
- 8:49Educated liberals claim to believe women while defending Hillary Clinton and attacking Trump on the same allegations.
- 9:22Tim argues people should admit Trump's a piece of shit while voting for Hillary without pretending she's great.
- 9:39Bernie Sanders supporters who correctly identified Hillary as a corporate war hawk are now defending her positions.
- 10:14Liberals celebrate Hillary standing up to Trump in debates as an achievement for women, presupposing women can't stand up for themselves.
- 10:40People share memes comparing Hillary's email practices to George W. Bush while ignoring they once called Bush Hitler.
- 11:15Powerful people aren't bound by the same rules and morality that constrain ordinary people—they view the poor as chattel and numbers.
- 11:37The Third Man quote from Orson Welles: "How much would it take to make one of those dots stop moving?" about how elites view humanity.
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- 1 min
Taco Bell Made With Care and the Orson Welles 'Dots' Speech
#Tim tells a story about nearly losing it over a badly made Taco Bell order, which leads into Ray's callback to Orson Welles' Third Man speech about looking down at people as dots from a Ferris wheel.
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- 11:56Tim praises the quality of food when it's made with care versus when it's lazy and looks like slop in the box.
- 12:28Ray quotes Orson Welles from The Third Man to calm Tim down after he'd threatened someone's life.
- 12:50Orson Welles's monologue: looking down at people from a Ferris wheel in Vienna, asking how much money it would take to stop one of those dots from moving.
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- 6 min
Clintons as Mob Family, Bimbos, and Presidential Sexual Predators Through History
#Tim and Ray compare Hillary to a mob wife who liked the power that came with looking the other way, then survey a history of presidential sexual behavior from JFK to LBJ, and mock the Clinton campaign's spin on the accusers versus Trump's brazen lying.
10moments
- 13:14Hillary Clinton presented as inspiring to young women who are also sociopaths, claiming she stayed with her cheating husband when really the situation is more like Cosby's wife.
- 13:40Comparison of Hillary to a mob wife who knew where the money was coming from and liked the power it gave her family.
- 14:27Tim argues the real obstacle to Clinton power was her husband's behavior with women, using his word 'bimbos' for them.
- 14:42Presidents from JFK to Johnson used sexual behavior as a major tool, with Johnson literally exposing himself to staffers on Air Force One.
- 15:32America presents itself as puritanical but is actually sexually depraved due to repression, a dynamic that plays out in political systems where sexual assault and blackmail happen without consequence.
- 16:26Trump bringing Clinton accusers to sit next to him at a debate is funny because these same women were called ugly by Trump in the 90s when he faced his own accusations.
- 17:11The system rewards narcissists and sociopaths because they don't care what comes next, making them the most successful people.
- 17:36Trump is a far more substantial liar than anyone else, with unprecedented brazenness that even stupid Americans recognize as false.
- 18:20Fact-checking is irrelevant because the same fact-checkers apply different standards to different politicians, cherry-picking statistics to reach predetermined conclusions.
- 19:03Past journalists like Murrow and Cronkite at least strived toward the appearance of objectivity, unlike modern media figures who openly engage in psychological warfare.
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- 2 min
Martha Raddatz's Psyops Meltdown and Anderson Cooper Jokes
#Riff on debate moderator Martha Raddatz shouting about military psychological warfare, veering into a gay-slur joke about Anderson Cooper and a National Coming Out Day bit.
5moments
- 19:19Tim rants about the military's approach: they're torturing people in caves trying to make a couple of dollars, kidnapping and leaking information.
- 19:38Referring to Martha Raddatz as shrill—then catching himself on using code language and pivoting to Anderson Cooper jokes.
- 19:49Tim's National Coming Out Day bit where he jokes about going in, then abandons it after it didn't land on Twitter.
- 20:18Tim breaks down Martha Raddatz yelling at Trump over the military announcing operations before executing them.
- 20:35When Trump questions the military telegraphing its moves, Raddatz defends the strategy by calling it psychological warfare instead of addressing his point.
- 4 min
Drone Wars, Debate Time Limits, and Obama Birther Photo Origins
#Rant about the absurdity of debating war and drone strikes in two-minute answer limits, comparing it to The West Wing, then discussing the origins of the Obama-in-Kenya birther photo and Sidney Blumenthal.
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- 21:25Tim finds it funny that a debate moderator discusses psychological warfare while discussing Syria drone strikes.
- 21:40Nobody knows who the rebels are that the U.S. armed in Libya or why the country was invaded in the first place.
- 21:51Hillary's strategy: avoid ground troops in Syria, just drone strikes and accept collateral damage like wedding casualties.
- 22:19Tim mocks the pitch to voters: 'We're not killing your kids, we're just going to drone them for 20 years.'
- 22:49Presidential debates limit answers to two minutes or less on matters of life and death, reducing foreign policy to a Twitter game.
- 23:07The West Wing finale actually tried removing time limits on debate answers, creating a fantasy-land version of how it should work.
- 23:33Trump took the birther conspiracy and ran with it after Hillary's campaign mirrored the Obama campaign's West Wing aesthetic.
- 23:53The controversial photo of Obama in traditional Muslim garb originated with Hillary's people, not Trump.
- 24:04Obama's mother allegedly did work for the CIA, positioning Hillary's claim of moral superiority on race-based attacks as false.
- 24:16When Tim says 'the company,' he means CIA or Comedy Central, though the only listeners are probably the actual CIA.
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- 3 min
CIA Studying Scam Artists and Real Spy Craft vs. Mission Impossible
#Riff on the theory that Hillary's mother or associates were CIA assets, leading into a genuine tangent about the CIA studying door-to-door salesmen and scam artists' persuasion techniques in the 70s, and how little the public really knows about espionage.
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- 25:25Tim describes the CIA studying scam artists and door-to-door salesmen in the 1970s to understand persuasion tactics.
- 25:58He notes that Americans don't know much about actual espionage, mostly what they see in movies like Mission Impossible.
- 26:26The real spy work, Tim explains, is extracting blackmail material on foreign leaders to manipulate geopolitical arrangements, not saving countries with crypto codes.
- 26:51Tim brings up the Philippines getting a new leader who recently told the CIA to come after him, suggesting they will.
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- 7 min
Tim and Ray watch and mock Trump's pre-debate press conference seated with Paula Jones, Kathy Shelton, and other Bill Clinton accusers, riffing on the awkward staging, Trump's odd affect, and the political theater of it as an 'October surprise.'
9moments
- 28:08Paula Jones wearing a bedazzled sweatshirt, looks like a shift manager at Dick's Sporting Goods.
- 28:30The press conference setup looks like wood paneling, an off-centered flag, and Trump with four Clinton accusers—like his cabinet.
- 29:25Tim mocks how the victim statement shoehorns Trump slogans like "Make America Great Again" into her testimony for empathy.
- 30:07The actual victim statement was bizarre and incoherent, with nobody understanding what she was actually saying.
- 31:02Hillary Clinton allegedly laughed about getting a rapist off in court and denied the laughing part, unlike Trump.
- 31:55One accuser claimed she cried when Trump said he loves the country and wants to make America great again.
- 32:43All four Clinton accusers supposedly moved by Trump's patriotic message—the spectacle of it all is remarkable.
- 33:25October surprises typically make people suspect the candidate orchestrated the accusers, but here Trump directly corralled them.
- 33:49This press conference is an effective October surprise, whether people believe it or think it's a setup.
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- 3 min
Vindicating a Corrupt System: Why Nobody Should Celebrate Either Candidate
#Tim argues that celebrating a Hillary win means celebrating the corrupt establishment system itself, riffing on Nixon's 'they see what they are' line and comparing Trump and Hillary's roles as performers versus backroom operators.
7moments
- 34:15Celebrating a Clinton victory means celebrating a vindication of the corrupt system itself.
- 34:43Non-wealthy people celebrating Clinton victory should look at their own lives and ask if this actually helps them.
- 34:58People aren't really afraid of Trump—they're shaken that half the country doesn't share their ideals and values.
- 35:23The Nixon movie scene: Kennedy shows people what they want to be; Nixon shows them what they actually are.
- 35:46Trump mirrors both the simple, ugly parts of America and the good parts—the freedom to earn money and tell the system to fuck off.
- 36:33Hillary Clinton is visibly squirming in the debates because unlike Trump, she's an operator who prefers working behind closed doors.
- 37:04Bill Clinton was great at public politics, but Hillary would rather be in the Senate backroom as a negotiator and operator.
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- 5 min
They play and react to debate clips (Trump on Bill Clinton's abuse of women, depreciation tax jokes, the 'positive things about each other' question), then Tim explains cuckolding at length after riffing on Ray's viral tweet about the undecided-voter 'cuckold' questioner.
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- 37:33Tim riffs on the debate highlight where Trump invokes Captain Khan and blames Lincoln for Hillary's lies.
- 38:25The moderator asks Trump about Syria and Aleppo, citing Pence's hawkish position on military strikes against Assad.
- 39:10Moderator asks both candidates to name one positive thing they respect in each other.
- 39:23Trump says he respects Hillary's children, then pivots to saying he respects that she doesn't quit—which Tim notes is sociopathic given her treatment of rape accusers.
- 40:15Tim describes feeling the debate's rhythm shift, the tension changing as things turned personal.
- 41:12Tim reads his tweet about the undecided voter asking candidates to say something nice while inviting them to a key party to determine who gets the cuckold.
- 41:32Tim explains cuckolding: a husband and wife invite a third party, usually a large Black man, to have sex with the woman while the husband watches, sometimes jerks off, sometimes licks the other man's penis, getting off on the shame and power dynamic.
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- 5 min
Continued playback of Trump's locker-room-talk defense and Clinton rebuttal clip, followed by riffing on Bill Clinton's flights on Epstein's jet and jokes about elite sex-slave islands and vanilla snus.
7moments
- 42:51Trump's promises to help inner cities and African Americans are just words he's repeated for years without results.
- 44:33Tim reacts to Trump calling the Access Hollywood tape locker room talk and comparing it to Bill Clinton's actions.
- 46:16The debate audience applauded Trump's attack on Hillary, and Tim notes they were clapping for less elsewhere.
- 46:37Neither candidate mentioned Epstein during the debate, which Tim finds funny given Trump's pending rape case.
- 46:51Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's private jet 26 times, once without Secret Service protection.
- 47:06Tim speculates about the nature of Epstein Island, assuming children are being abused there.
- 47:21Clinton goes to islands for the Eyes Wide Shut experience—consensual or not, he's there fucking whores.
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- 3 min
Planning the Live Debate Show and a Wishlist for Trump's Final Debate
#Tim jokes about ticket sales for their upcoming live debate-reaction show, floats getting Russ Baker on, and fantasizes about Trump using his last debate to 'open the books' on JFK and 9/11.
5moments
- 47:57Tim asks what their debate show is going to be like, admitting they don't have a plan but insisting it will be great.
- 48:20His dream scenario: bringing Russ Baker on stage to declare that all the candidates are lying and it doesn't matter.
- 48:51Tim considers how many people want live commentary versus just watching the debate uninterrupted.
- 49:16Plugging the show: he asks listeners to review it on iTunes and lists the bizarre content they've covered—MKUltra, Bonnie McFarland stories, Pokemon Go debates.
- 49:59Tim's fantasy for Trump's final debate: he goes on stage and announces they're going to reveal who killed JFK, the truth about 9-11, and open all the books.
- 5 min
Uber Drivers, Working-Class Trump Support, and the Ugliness of Populism
#Tim discusses conversations with Uber drivers who like Trump, arguing that working-class people feel abandoned by elites, while acknowledging the populism is often ugly and under-educated, tying it to NAFTA and economic decline.
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- 51:28Tim describes meeting an Uber driver who liked Trump and explains how working-class people outside major institutions respond to him differently.
- 52:21Working-class Trump supporters tell racist jokes that they find funny, which Tim distinguishes from structural oppression.
- 52:52A significant part of the electorate feels ignored and disenfranchised by political and entertainment elites, and they're not all Klan members.
- 53:14Tim notes people blame immigrants for economic decline over 40 years but rarely ask the real questions about structural forces.
- 53:36NAFTA is a predatory agreement that benefits first-world countries at the expense of third-world markets and American workers.
- 53:51Politicians exploit economically frustrated people through populism, preying on those who lack what their parents had.
- 54:13Tim argues politicians have always used these tactics, citing Hillary Clinton's use of imagery designed to evoke specific responses.
- 54:36Trump differs by attacking opponents directly on Twitter at two in the morning instead of using traditional paid-for TV ads.
- 55:06Both Trump and Hillary Clinton use empty platitudes, but Trump is unique as a reality star proficient in how media and social media work.
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- 4 min
Media Collusion With Hillary and the System That Never Changes
#Rant about NBC and mainstream media coordinating with the Clinton campaign, corporate ownership of networks, and Tim's conclusion that no president really changes the underlying system that keeps regular people struggling.
10moments
- 55:29The entire American establishment—media, Fortune 500 CEOs, elites—didn't want Trump, but ended up giving him free coverage because he was good for ratings.
- 55:57Trump didn't have to pay for media up until the convention; he was calling morning shows from his toilet and getting blanket coverage.
- 56:44Hillary Clinton plays the system's game and needs the media; Trump bypasses them entirely by speaking directly to people on social media.
- 57:16The collusion between Clinton and media outlets is overt: they're emailing articles to the New York Times, NBC lets her pick pull quotes.
- 57:31Media companies are owned by defense contractors and globalists who don't want Trump and prefer open borders—the system preserves itself.
- 57:57Celebrating a Hillary Clinton win just vindicates a corrupt, predatory system that keeps young people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses.
- 58:17The system has improved socially for gay and trans people, but hasn't made it easier for anyone to make money, feed their family, or get shelter in 40 years.
- 58:51No president really impacts your life that much; the system preserves itself regardless of who's in charge, even with policies like Obamacare.
- 59:08Tim reflects on why both Trump and Sanders emerged in 2016 despite the system's design to prevent outsiders from threatening it.
- 59:23The outsider narrative never actually materialized—the system blocked true outsiders from participating.
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- 2 min
Quick aside about Ron Paul being shut out of debates, then Tim starts plugging live shows including a tour-bus gig for the New York Comedy Festival and a Bonnie McFarland childhood cream-spinach vomiting story.
5moments
- 59:30Tim requests vanilla snus, will settle for citrus in New York City
- 59:48Tim performs at Snippets from Sparkleberry on Thursdays and the Walrus theater
- 1:00:15Tim plugs a debate show happening next Wednesday, mentions possibly grabbing someone like Russ
- 1:00:31Tim mocks insulting the person you want to do business with as poor strategy
- 1:00:51November 1st and 2nd shows announced as part of New York Comedy Festival, November 1st sold out
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- 5 min
Tim runs through remaining tour dates (Governor's with Dan Soder, the Stand debate show, Columbia University, Red Eye on Halloween), plugs subscribing via GaS Digital promo code, thanks listeners, and jokingly solicits a Camel snus sponsorship before signing off.
10moments
- 1:01:12Tour theme: explaining why you're poor, broke, and a pig, delivered from the top of a double-decker bus in New York.
- 1:01:25Tim featuring for Dan Soder on November 21st and 22nd at McGuire's and Governor's on Long Island.
- 1:01:44Stand show tickets available for October 18th at thestand.laughs.club.
- 1:02:21Tim vomited cream spinach as a kid after his parents forced him to try it at age eight or nine.
- 1:02:44He now loves cream spinach as an adult despite the childhood trauma.
- 1:03:34October 28th show at Columbia University described as a culture shock for everyone involved.
- 1:03:46Halloween show on red-eye at 3 a.m. on October 31st.
- 1:04:10Subscribe at GasDIGITAL.com with promo code HELL for 15% off the whole network and access to archives.
- 1:04:45Upcoming shows feature attempts to book guests discussing simulation theory.
- 1:05:03Tim references a line from a Woody Allen movie about track record being the only thing that stands against you.