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Trolling People Over the Joel Osteen Church Controversy
from Joel Osteen's Ark · #60
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minTim explains his love of trolling and describes going on Facebook to bait people over Joel Osteen not opening his mega church to Hurricane Harvey flood victims, riffing on Barbara Bush's Katrina comments and Antifa dividing the poor.
- 1:20Tim announces he's back to trolling after taking time off.
- 1:34He describes the appeal of trolling: whipping people up because they're so easy.
- 2:13Tim jokingly compares it to the Superdome during Katrina and pivots to Barbara Bush's infamous quote about underprivileged people.
- 2:49Chris Hedges's take: the ruling class divides poor people so they beat each other.
- 3:26Tim describes getting bored at a restaurant and deciding to troll on Twitter about Joel Osteen.
- 4:03He drafted a deliberately provocative post starting with 'fuck tard' to bait responses from his audience.
- 4:14Most people on his page, including many comics, don't realize he's trolling and take him seriously.
- 4:32Tim notes that since Trump, few people do active trolling anymore; most just express genuine anger about politics.
- 4:54His troll strategy: start with the tax-exempt church angle to predictably enrage people, then escalate with crude language about 'water rats.'
- 5:07Nick Mullen is the king of trolling; Tim just dabbles on weekends like a casual fisherman.