Episode 68 · The GaS Digital / Ray Kump Era
Classic tier — a personal pick, not a popularity rankingMany Feathered Bird
Oct 30, 2017 · 1:01:40 · 19 segments, 131 moments indexed
- 1 min
Opening music and show introduction, no substantive talk yet.
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- 0:04Show intro: Tim Dillon Is Going To Hell with Tim Dillon and Ray Kump
- 2 min
Stranger Things vs. Who Took Johnny, and the Return of Halloween Nostalgia
#Tim and Ray riff on getting into Stranger Things, comparing it to the conspiracy documentary Who Took Johnny, joking that people confuse fiction with real missing-kid cases, then drift into nostalgia for Halloween and dated 80s horror movies, leading into cueing up The Gate trailer.
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- 0:38Tim just got into Stranger Things very late and finds it really fun.
- 0:51Ray called him about Who Took Johnny while Tim was watching Stranger Things, then made him watch the real documentary about it.
- 1:20People confuse the fictional Stranger Things with the real Johnny Gosh case because they're both on Netflix.
- 1:54Tim used to love Halloween and the dated horror movies from that era like The Gate.
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They play the 1987 horror movie trailer for The Gate.
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- 2:10Tim describes The Gate as a passageway to the most evil place imaginable, with a geek galloping in and weird openings.
- 3:02The plot involves little demons, tiny people that emerge from a gate opening in someone's backyard.
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A Deep Dive Through Horror Movie Favorites
#Tim and Ray run through a long list of horror and cult favorites—The Gate, The Ninth Gate, Jacob's Ladder, the Ring, Hostel, Cabin in the Woods, House of 1000 Corpses—riffing on gore, campiness, Giger's imagery, and joking about child actors being abused on old horror sets, before wandering into how long the old miniseries version of The Stand was.
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- 3:36Tim recalls watching Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate about a book written by the devil, with Johnny Depp as an antique book collector sent to find it.
- 3:55Horror movies in the 90s often sent characters to Eastern Europe because Eastern Europeans are scary—pale and speak another language.
- 4:18Tim loved Jacob's Ladder with Tim Robbins and considers it a legitimately good movie, especially the asylum section.
- 4:40Francis Bacon and Joel P. Orwick's dark imagery inspired horror films, though the movies themselves often end up being crap despite cool visuals.
- 5:12Tim thought The Ring was great and found it fun, even though it was adapted from a Japanese film.
- 5:30Horror is probably the movie genre with the highest percentage of absolute dogshit films, which is why Tim used to say he didn't like horror movies at all.
- 5:47There are maybe only five or ten good horror movies out there, but snobbery about enjoying something like House of a Thousand Corpses misses the point.
- 6:15Jump scares don't work well watching horror at home with the lights on, unless you have a home theater system.
- 6:37Full Metal Jacket and The Shining are among the scariest movies, with the Vietnam documentary burns being particularly terrifying.
- 6:51Tim loves older Stephen King movies like Dolores Claiborne and Misery, though some require going back to watch them as they're extremely long.
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Sid Haig, Karen Black, and Ripping Open Sternums
#Continued riffing on House of 1000 Corpses, praising Sid Haig and Karen Black, and a bit about not understanding why gore offends people.
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- 8:50Tim loves Sid Haig and Karen Black from House of 1000 Corpses.
- 9:02The helicopter shot during the cop execution stuck with him, though most of the rest didn't register.
- 9:28Tim pitches an underground laboratory idea where he kills people pretending to be doctors.
- 9:45He dismisses horror movies as played-out because he's seen it all.
- 10:00Admitting to being a film buff, he struggles to recall the word cinephile and worries it sounds like something else.
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Full Metal Jacket, Brando's Apocalypse Now Paycheck, and Growing Up Watching Melrose Place
#They discuss disturbing 'horror-adjacent' movies like Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now, then Tim tells a long story about being an only child of degenerate baby boomer parents who let him watch Melrose Place and Arsenio Hall as a little kid, including a bit about his dad blowing off a teacher conference.
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- 10:26Full Metal Jacket is one of the most psychologically horrible movies he's ever seen, especially the scene where the character shoots himself.
- 10:41Apocalypse Now scared him less than impressed him—Brando's presence dominates despite being in the film for only about ten minutes.
- 11:11The Shining is great, and Jacob's Ladder is another film that hit him hard.
- 11:45Nightmare on Elm Street felt less scary when watched on VHS or TV as a kid; RoboCop actually terrified him more at the time.
- 12:26Psychological thrillers get to him more than straight horror; Seven is amazing and his dad took him to see it at age ten or eleven.
- 12:43Being an only child with degenerate parents meant doing whatever they did—no babysitter needed, just take the kid to see Seven in theaters.
- 13:18His dad let him watch whatever he wanted, including Melrose Place, which had characters plotting to blow up each other's condos and having affairs.
- 13:44Kimberly blew up the entire apartment complex in Melrose Place, and his dad said 'beware of a woman scorned' as foreshadowing.
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His Parents' Boomer Backstory: Hippies Turned Yuppies
#Tim traces his parents' history from hippies who married young, toured with a band, and drove across the country, to becoming stressed-out yuppies in the 80s, and generalizes about the self-centered baby boomer generation and its relationship to Reagan-era optimism after Watergate and the oil crisis.
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- 14:06Tim's third-grade teacher tells his father he's watching Arsenic Hall at 11:30 p.m., and his dad responds that he's asleep and doesn't know what Tim does.
- 14:42His parents embodied the boomer self-centeredness where everything was about them.
- 15:10Tim's father is in his mid to late 50s; Tim didn't understand his parents until he realized they married at 23 and were actual hippies with artifacts like a powder-blue suit and seashell necklace.
- 15:34They got married at a yacht club in their hometown, then his mother followed his father's band around while they traveled to Hawaii and drove across Alaska before having Tim.
- 16:01When the 1980s arrived with bills and the preppy culture, his parents were suddenly thrust into responsibility without knowing how to balance a checkbook.
- 16:25Tim argues his generation rejected their parents' rigid roles, rebelling against the idea of mothers in kitchens and fathers constantly working.
- 17:06His mother had a teaching degree but never used it; instead she started teaching swimming because she wanted to be at the beach.
- 17:20His father got a sales job because he didn't finish school while playing in a band, then spent ten years making a living with music before having a child.
- 17:43Watergate, the oil crisis, inflation, the savings and loan crisis, and interest rate problems made that era feel as economically traumatic or worse than the current Trump chaos.
- 18:09Reagan's presidency washed away the generation's collective despair about America's direction, offering them a kind of psychological reset.
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The Limits of Activism and the Prison-Industrial Complex
#A more political turn: Tim argues social-issue activism succeeds relatively easily compared to structural economic issues like the prison-industrial complex and healthcare, calling for criminal justice reform as a top issue for any Democrat challenging Trump.
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- 18:28Tim notes activism has limits, especially on non-social issues like unwinding the war economy.
- 19:09The prison-industrial complex and private-for-profit prison model represent an insane system that has to be dismantled.
- 19:34Democratic candidates should make criminal justice reform a top priority when running against Trump.
- 20:04Unwinding the prison system would displace workers, yet Tim argues you should just get people out of cells regardless.
- 20:28Both healthcare and the criminal justice system reveal themselves as incredibly unfair systems built over decades.
- 20:40The permanent war economy, involving companies like Palantir, operates through complex strategies most people never read about.
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The Military-Industrial Complex, TARP, and the Pentagon's Missing $5 Trillion
#Tim goes deep on the permanent war economy, the revolving door between defense contractors and government, the 2008 TARP bailout figures, and the staggering unaccounted-for Pentagon spending, tying it back to how his parents' generation grew disillusioned watching this unfold.
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- 21:20The revolving door between defense contractors, the financial industry, government, and consulting firms shapes the military-industrial complex.
- 21:42TARP started at a trillion-dollar ask, dropped to 700 billion when that seemed impossible, and still barely passed on the first try.
- 22:01The Pentagon lost five trillion dollars in the five years before the financial crisis and can't account for it.
- 22:27Understanding the military-industrial complex requires looking past ideology to see how the State Department functions as a weapons sales operation.
- 22:41The U.S. arms countries, brokers deals between them, and advises them on profiteering strategies.
- 23:12American military training institutions like the School of the Americas taught foreign generals counterinsurgency and torture techniques.
- 23:34Tim's father came of age in the 1960s when people understood how corrupt the draft and military system were.
- 23:57Tim's father knew people with low draft numbers who were sent to war while he got a high number.
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The Draft, Vietnam, and Long Island's Post-War Bubble
#Tim recounts his father's draft lottery story and reflects on how Vietnam, Watergate and Iraq eroded trust in institutions, then pivots to how Long Island was built as an isolated postwar bubble that still carries a nostalgic, cheap-money, idyllic self-image.
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- 24:19Tim argues that modern soldiers enlist thinking they're doing the right thing, but they're not actually fighting for their country in these conflicts.
- 24:43A friend questioned his own culpability when asked to help beat up a guy who was sleeping with someone's wife.
- 25:15Tim's father lost friends in Vietnam and has been checked out ever since.
- 25:29During the Iraq War, people believed the government wouldn't just lie about weapons of mass destruction, but it did—which changed the texture of the times.
- 25:41The 1950s and 60s represented the most effective era of propaganda in American history, selling an idyllic version of the country that fell apart quickly.
- 26:05The post-war bubble offered cheap money and easy jobs to white people and the majority—you could work at a Ford plant without finishing high school and still own a house.
- 26:19Long Island is now desperate and haggard, showing its age, but residents still cling to that post-history feeling of the golden era.
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Robert Moses's Racist Parkways and Old-School Racism at Chaminade
#Discussion of Robert Moses deliberately designing Long Island parkways to exclude Black bus riders, followed by a story about shocking, old-school racist attitudes still present among wealthy Catholic school kids at Chaminade, and a story about overhearing racist comments during the Mayweather-McGregor fight.
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- 26:47Robert Moses built causeways on Long Island specifically designed so buses and trucks carrying Black kids couldn't access the beaches, effectively segregating them from white spaces.
- 27:17Tim talks to a kid at Chaminade and learns the racism there is still shocking—old-school, retro racism that feels almost impressive in its antiquation.
- 27:51Tim observes that working-class fathers who are racists pass it down, but wealthy doctors and brokers in Belmont do the same thing, making it a class-spanning disease.
- 28:25At the Mayweather-McGregor fight, rich guys in his group were constantly dropping racist slurs about Black people and Latinos, turning the whole night gross.
- 29:32Chaminade has only about six Black kids and Long Island remains incredibly segregated despite Tim's Catholic school having been genuinely diverse with half the class Black students.
- 30:07Tim's diverse Catholic school had Black kids, openly gay kids, and apparently teachers fucking students—everyone was having a good time with minimal bullying.
- 30:39There's a real sickness and anger out there evidenced by good-looking college-age alt-right kids with every opportunity talking about needing a homeland for themselves.
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Alt-Right Kids, White Grievance, and 'Average Is Over'
#Tim discusses well-off alt-right college kids demanding a 'homeland' despite having every advantage, framing it as anxiety over losing an easy path in life rather than any real threat to white hegemony, invoking Thomas Friedman's 'average is over.'
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- 31:19Tim argues that the real threat isn't to white hegemony but to the idea that you can fall into a nice life anymore.
- 31:31As Tom Friedman would say, average is over—the world went from interconnected to hyper-connected.
- 31:57Tim criticizes intellectuals and economists for having no accountability, using Thomas Friedman's vague metaphors as an example of a 'great fucking gimmick.'
- 32:10Reagan took the entire Chicago School of Economics and applied it in policy, but no one took away their teaching jobs when it failed.
- 32:25Tim recounts seeing Art Laffer at a Long Island dinner with Lou Ranier, the guy who invented mortgage-backed securities, alongside Giuliani and other figures.
- 32:48Tim decides to play a Tom Friedman clip from Intelligence Squared because nothing cheers you up more than his straightforward, clear ideas.
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Mocking Thomas Friedman's Globalization Sermon
#They play and mock a Thomas Friedman speech about globalization and the rise of India and China, riffing on his incoherent 'geopolitical ASMR' style and pushing back on his rosy framing of globalization's human costs, including Foxconn suicide nets.
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- 33:16Thomas Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and Tim calls him a pompous ass.
- 33:35Tim describes Friedman as incomprehensible and calls him a babbling brook of bullshit.
- 34:20Friedman's speaking style compared to ASMR—soothing but hollow while describing real suffering.
- 34:38Tim's counterargument: while people buried their children and dug graves, Starbucks expanded and sold lattes.
- 35:10The actual claim—Friedman argues the West complains about globalization while India and China surged economically.
- 35:49Tim rejects the framing by pointing out globalization enabled multinational corporations to exploit workers without restraint.
- 36:02Foxconn example: Chinese workers so desperate they needed nets outside Apple factories to prevent suicide.
- 36:18Tim reflects on generational disillusionment—older people have lived through multiple crises that never resolve.
- 36:549-11 was pitched as the end of the world, but the financial crisis threatened capitalism itself with demands for trillion-dollar bailouts.
- 37:11Pattern of corruption revealed every eight years—Iran-Contra, insider trading scandals—showing how bad things actually are beneath the surface.
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Louis C.K.'s 'I Love You, Daddy' Trailer and Uncomfortable Timing
#Tim plays and reacts to the trailer for Louis C.K.'s shelved film I Love You, Daddy, joking about its eerie thematic overlap with real allegations, before drifting into a joke about Who Took Johnny becoming a musical comedy.
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- 37:33Tim notes the timing is funny: Louis C.K.'s trailer for 'I Think I Love You Daddy' drops while emulating Woody Allen to an uncomfortable extent, with no actual accusations against Louis himself.
- 38:10The trailer plays, depicting a wealthy older man and a young woman in his apartment, with lines about her being his daughter and him dating young women.
- 40:28Tim concedes the movie is fine and funny in a vacuum, but adds that the vacuum is over—context matters.
- 40:41The timing is toned up just for this moment, he argues, meaning it feels deliberately provocative given current climate.
- 40:53Tim circles back: nothing's been addressed, but the image of a wealthy Hollywood producer with a young girl is just interesting given what's happening.
- 41:12He jokes about 'Who Took Johnny' becoming a romantic comedy next, describing it as a bashful delivery boy story—except he's a satanic general who did psyops for the military.
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Woody Allen's History with Soon-Yi and Dating Finn Wolfhard Bit
#A discussion of Woody Allen marrying his adopted daughter Soon-Yi and recurring young-women themes in his films, spiraling into a running bit where Tim claims to be dating Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard.
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- 42:06Tim loves Woody Allen movies more than any other director and watched them as a kid acting in New York.
- 42:34Woody Allen married a girl he cleaned diapers for as an adopted child and raised from infancy—weird but not technically a crime.
- 43:11The marriage to Soon-Yi could have been a way to cover up if something else was happening before he got caught.
- 44:03A lot of Woody Allen's movies have addressed his proclivities for young women until he finally put an older woman in the driver's seat when it got too weird.
- 44:22Tim announces he's dating Finn Wolfhard from Stranger Things and acknowledges people are upset about it.
- 44:44Confusion about who is fucking whom, with Tim unsure of the specifics of the relationship.
- 45:15The show survives because it's neither anarcho-communist nor Nazi propaganda, so nobody in power cares enough to target it.
- 45:27They've done a musical about child trafficking with zero consequences or think pieces written about it.
- 45:39The show is so irrelevant that it might as well just be recorded in a car and generates no media criticism whatsoever.
- 45:51Tim claims he was kidding about dating Finn Wolfhard and jokes they're now going to get lawyers involved over his photo being used.
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Corey Feldman's Barbara Walters Confrontation and Hollywood Pedophilia
#Tim and Ray discuss Corey Feldman's history of alleging he and Corey Haim were molested by powerful Hollywood figures, replaying and reacting to an old clip of Barbara Walters telling Feldman to shut his mouth, and joking about the absurdity of the coverage.
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- 46:14Tim explains why Hollywood agents representing children are a red flag.
- 46:35Tim wonders why he didn't get recruited by predators in Hollywood as a child actor, claiming he was attractive enough.
- 47:20Corey Feldman's tweet about being on tour while facing pedophilia allegations struck Tim as the best explanation of the entertainment industry.
- 47:55Tim describes Corey Feldman going on The View and claiming he was raped by Hollywood producers.
- 48:08Barbara Walters told Corey Feldman to shut his mouth about being sexually abused to protect the industry.
- 48:31Tim identifies Barbara Walters as old guard connected to Kissinger and calls her a monster.
- 50:01Nick Offerman is visibly uncomfortable watching Corey Feldman describe Hollywood pedophilia on The View.
- 50:46Barbara Walters accuses Corey Feldman of damaging an entire industry by speaking about his abuse.
- 50:59Corey Feldman claims Michael Jackson was the only Hollywood figure who didn't take advantage of him.
- 51:51Tim notes that abused people often become abusers themselves, describing it as a cycle that spreads like a disease.
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Elijah Wood, Corey Feldman's Angels, and Overdose Speculation
#They discuss Elijah Wood's similar comments about Hollywood pedophilia, Corey Feldman's 'Corey's Angels' backup dancers, and dark speculation about why an overdose from Feldman wouldn't be questioned the way one from Wood would be.
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- 52:32Corey Feldman will never actually name the pedophiles in Hollywood—the speculation itself is the only thing keeping him relevant.
- 52:59Tim argues that if Elijah Wood overdosed, people wouldn't believe it happened naturally.
- 53:11If Corey Feldman overdosed from a hot shot, no one would question it—he's acutely aware of this vulnerability.
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Corey Feldman's Bizarre Good Morning America Performance
#They watch and react in horror to Corey Feldman's real GMA musical performance with 'angel' backup dancers dressed like stripper-angels, riffing on monarch mind-control symbolism, Michael Jackson dedications, and the surreal disconnect with the wholesome morning show format.
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- 53:42Tim appreciates when people turn their pain into art, citing Corey Feldman as an example.
- 53:58Feldman's GMA performance features backup dancers in stripper angel outfits with apparent monarch symbolism.
- 54:30Tim explains how sick it is that a man who accused powerful Hollywood figures of abuse is now performing a ritual-looking number on morning television while hosts treat it as nostalgia.
- 55:12The show cuts from a segment on healthy cupcakes directly to Feldman's monarch cult-themed musical number.
- 55:42Even a Colonel watching the morning show would be bewildered by what's happening on screen.
- 56:01Feldman explains the album's good-versus-evil theme and his "Corey's Angels" initiative to help lost girls.
- 56:52Feldman dedicates albums to Michael Jackson and Corey Haim, and mentions MJ-style dance moves coming.
- 57:11The performance itself begins, described as a satanic dance number with backup dancers.
- 57:46Tim attributes the dark energy to MKUltra's effect on morning television, imagining military officials monitoring the broadcast in shock.
- 58:23Tim jokes the performance is so disturbing it could reform a pedophile into abandoning their ways.
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Tim runs through tour dates including the Impractical Jokers cruise and New York Comedy Festival bus tour, plugs Ray's Vice Sports show, teases new merch, jokes about a Chris Cheney impression bit, and closes with subscribe/rate-and-review housekeeping and the Gas Digital Network promo code.
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- 58:42Tim announces he'll be at the Impractical Jokers cruise and dining at Commander's Palace in New Orleans November 1st through 5th.
- 59:02Commander's Palace launched chefs like Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse, and Brennan's restaurant invented bananas foster—all gangsters.
- 59:21Bus tour tickets available at timbilliancomedy.com for the New York Comedy Festival in November.
- 59:41Several fun projects and announcements coming in the next couple of weeks.
- 1:00:05Buy the current shirts; new designs coming soon, including one with a list of Tim on it.
- 1:00:25Someone complained the devil shirt isn't representative of who Tim is.
- 1:01:04Tim doesn't like horror movies because stabbing and eating people isn't impressive—it's pretty commonplace where he's from.
- 1:01:16Subscribe on iTunes, rate and review the show, and join Gas Digital Network for $6 a month with promo code hell.
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