Episode 90 · The GaS Digital / Ray Kump Era
Get Off, Get Off, Get Off!
Apr 3, 2018 · 1:02:58 · 11 segments, 93 moments indexed
- 1 min
Musical cold open with quick joke fragments about cops, guns, and immigration setting up the Roseanne discussion.
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- 0:17Tim jokes that the baby had a gun, which is why cops shot him 70 times
- 5 min
The Roseanne Reboot and Political Tribalism
#Tim and Ray dig into the Roseanne reboot, debating whether a pro-Trump sitcom character is edgy or dangerous, why they hate all reboots, and how people now refuse to acknowledge the humanity of political opponents.
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- 0:43Tim on not speaking Spanish in grocery stores and loving to shoot.
- 0:58Rant about wanting the country back and blaming banks over Americans.
- 1:27Roseanne's character is pro-Trump while Jackie wears a pussy hat, setting up political conflict.
- 1:54Swimming in conspiracy waters is dangerous; you can end up retweeting Pizzagate and looking like an idiot.
- 2:21Tim emailed Nick Bryant, the preeminent expert on political sex trafficking, asking if there was anything to Roseanne conspiracy claims—he said no.
- 3:08Tim is against all TV reboots because they take jobs away from talented people who deserve original work.
- 3:46Shows like Will and Grace and Roseanne had good runs and should be left alone instead of rebooted.
- 4:16Having a pro-Trump character on network TV is edgy; the edgiest comedian in America is a 65-year-old woman on an ABC sitcom.
- 5:04The show captures reality by showing people from different political sides arguing daily, unlike most people who refuse to acknowledge their opponents' humanity.
- 5:21People won't accept that those who disagree with them are human—they want to compare everyone to Nazis and hold them accountable for every bad tweet.
- 2 min
Roseanne's Legacy vs. Ben Shapiro's Worldview
#They praise the original Roseanne for breaking ground on class, gay characters, and social issues, then pivot to mocking Ben Shapiro's rigid conservative positions on gay rights and abortion.
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- 5:37Roseanne tackled class inequality, lesbian characters, and gay representation from the show's early episodes.
- 6:11Roseanne's status as a vocal Trump supporter alone was enough to trigger her critics in Hollywood.
- 6:22The reboot pulled 25 million viewers across all metrics—more than the Academy Awards and a rebuke to the establishment.
- 6:46Tim contrasts the woke comedy boom with what Trump supporters actually want to see on television.
- 7:12Ben Shapiro and social conservatives are kind of insane, according to Tim.
- 7:26Tim questions the conservative worldview where overturning Roe v. Wade leads to gay people going back in the closet.
- 10 min
Trans Rights, Puberty Blockers, and the Intellectual Dark Web
#A long, wandering debate about Planned Parenthood funding, Jordan Peterson's cultural rise, the death of debate, and the murky ethics of childhood gender transition versus adult trans rights.
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- 7:50Tim explains the Senate passed a rule overturning Obama-era protection for Planned Parenthood funding.
- 8:14Ben Shapiro and other conservatives seem out of touch with modern culture, citing Roseanne as an example of how far the culture has shifted.
- 9:21Ari Shafir invited Tim to see Jordan Peterson speak in a theater.
- 9:59There's a cultural moment happening where figures like Peterson are filling theaters, representing a shift away from comedians as the primary voices pushing boundaries.
- 10:41Intellectuals pushing hot-button issues have replaced comedians as the ones challenging the establishment, partly because the mainstream has absorbed progressive values.
- 11:28Peterson's appeal isn't exceptional brilliance so much as his willingness to discuss subjects people are afraid to broach professionally without facing consequences.
- 11:56Limiting speech in the name of fighting hate speech actually pushes moderate or progressive people away when they see censorship happening.
- 12:43People claiming moral monopoly on progressive issues stop thinking and try to compel belief rather than debate.
- 13:40The question of whether four-year-olds should have puberty blockers is murkier than simple trans rights affirmation, and deserves open debate.
- 15:59Radical changes to the understanding of biology and gender require scientific debate and explanation, not compulsion—entire science curriculums would need rewriting.
- 16:45The issue with kids and puberty blockers is different from adult trans people: children don't fully understand the long-term consequences of blocking their development.
- 17:34The refusal of progressives to engage in debate on puberty blockers for children makes people deeply uncomfortable with this era of progressivism.
- 4 min
Going to the Jordan Peterson Show with Ari Shaffir
#Tim recounts going to see Jordan Peterson live with Ari Shaffir, getting bored, craving diner nachos, and observing the intense fan devotion in the crowd and backstage.
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- 17:45Tim agrees to go to Jordan Peterson's Beacon Theatre show with Ari Shaffir.
- 18:09Corinne Fisher from 'We Fucked' is in the green room discussing doing Molly with Peterson's daughter.
- 18:27Peterson has good things to say, but his messaging about miracles and parenting doesn't resonate with Tim.
- 18:59Peterson's self-help book for young people is good for some, but Tim at 33 chose comedy and doesn't need that message.
- 19:54Twenty minutes into the show Tim is already thinking about the diner next door's steak nacho appetizer.
- 20:18Tim's website designer Alex attended the event with his mom, which Tim finds culturally odd for a 19-year-old.
- 21:05Tim refuses to get a photo with Peterson because he doesn't think Peterson wants to meet him.
- 21:31People genuinely tell Peterson he changed their lives; Tim imagines how awkward it would be if he said the same thing.
- 21:51Tim's concluding take: people really into politics are losers.
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- 6 min
Backstage with Ben Shapiro's Sister and Peterson's Daughter
#Tim mocks people who are addicted to political arguing, then tells the story of meeting Ben Shapiro's sister and her fiancé backstage, mocking their conservative real estate small talk, plus a Corinne Fisher tangent.
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- 21:55Tim argues that most political activists are just chasing dopamine from Twitter fights, not actually trying to help anyone or push their ideas meaningfully.
- 22:20Politics attracts people whose lives are empty and who don't like their jobs—they're addicted to arguing, basically sports with more conflict.
- 22:54Tim says he might run for comptroller, claiming he has lots of proposals, solutions, and people who say they don't feel safe with him in their community.
- 23:27Meeting Ben Shapiro's sister backstage at an event—she immediately asks what got him back there, and he wanted to say something crude about Jordan Peterson but didn't.
- 24:14Tim doesn't connect with meet-and-greets or VIP ticket experiences; he finds them hollow regardless of how much time someone spends with an artist.
- 24:52Shapiro's sister and her fiancé just got their marriage certificate and are planning to live in a red state so he can keep his guns.
- 25:45The fiancé says they'll move to Texas or Florida to find conservative Jews, and Tim is tired of every sentence being political posturing instead of just normal conversation.
- 26:48Tim takes a picture with Peterson and "little Alex," describing Alex as looking like an inbred syphilitic boy king who would carve up chambermaids.
- 27:07Corinne Fisher was joking about a guy threatening to kill her during her set, and when she called security, Tim suggested she should just edit the bit and get better instead.
- 27:24Peterson's daughter was staring at them while Corinne Fisher was laughing, and Tim wonders if she hates fat people, unsure of her age.
- 12 min
Ray's Disastrous Cape May Winery Set
#Tim plays back audio clips and narrates blow-by-blow how Ray's stand-up set at a Cape May winery collapsed after jokes about Matt Lauer, heroin, and feminism turned the crowd hostile, ending in boos.
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- 27:54A young couple who are fans of the show invites Ray and Tim to perform at their Cape May, New Jersey winery.
- 28:22The audience is mostly elderly year-round Cape May residents who don't listen to podcasts and have no idea what they're walking into.
- 29:00Ray was supposed to do 10 to 15 minutes but estimates he only made it five or six minutes before the set collapsed.
- 30:35Ray opens with crowd work about Matt Lauer that lands well and gets a big laugh from the audience.
- 32:04A joke about someone shitting in the grapes gets decent laughs, building goodwill with the crowd.
- 32:56Ray pivots to a riff about not understanding the stigma against heroin, which doesn't land with an audience dealing with a severe opioid crisis in their town.
- 33:53A smaller joke about making new friends in your 30s gets a mild response but the momentum is already turning.
- 34:42Ray growls during his heroin bit in a way that comes across unhinged, and the audience grows increasingly uncomfortable.
- 35:38When someone tells him to move on, Ray doubles down by angrily repeating that he said he was going to move on, surrendering control of the crowd.
- 36:34A bit about being a baby thief on Tinder confuses the audience further as the crowd begins turning hostile and sharpening their figurative pitchforks.
- 37:29Ray delivers a bizarre joke about smelling like ham and asks what kind of homo watches his hands, deepening the audience's confusion.
- 38:35Ray explains that his tastes are rotten during a bit that the bewildered crowd no longer has the patience to follow.
- 38:50While attempting a feminism bit, the audience believes he's insulting women and begins shouting get off and booing as the set descends into complete chaos.
- 5 min
Cape May Aftermath and Trashing Connecticut
#They debrief on the awkward aftermath with the winery hosts, then rip apart Cape May's overrated reputation, comparing it unfavorably to the Hamptons and roasting Connecticut towns like Stamford and Greenwich.
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- 39:37Tim describes the awkward vibe with the Cape May event organizers after the show.
- 40:01They drove Tim and Ray three and a half hours home, and Ray joked about asking to headline instead.
- 40:22The organizers put them up in a cottage but failed to mention they'd be sharing it with two other comics.
- 40:59Tim trashes Cape May despite its reputation, calling it a shithole compared to the Hamptons and Martha's Vineyard.
- 41:20Connecticut is basically nothing unless you're in Greenwich or Stamford—the rest is white trash, Tim argues.
- 41:48Frank Pepe Pizza fucking sucks, and most of the seafood there is trash.
- 41:59Abbott's lobster roll was amazing, though—probably the best one Tim's ever had.
- 42:10Friends hyping Cape May need to have better standards; the Wawa was the best place there.
- 42:34Tim brags about running in elite Hamptons circles and plans to rent a house there for $150-200k a month.
- 43:17The Wawa cashier couldn't process a debit card and looked like he was mentally disabled handling the transaction.
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- 10 min
Ray's Potato Bread Warehouse Years
#Ray tells an extended story about working graveyard shifts at a potato bread warehouse, bartering with Entenmann's cakes, his boss Danny with the bad back, getting fired for the drug test dispute, and the running joke about fucking a big Marty roll.
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- 44:36Tim worked the graveyard shift at a potato bread warehouse where he was called manager despite being the only person there.
- 45:47Danny Garbarino, his coworker, had bad knees and could barely walk but worked the graveyard shift making bread.
- 46:42Trailers from Pennsylvania brought down Martin's potato bread products in different formats—slider rolls, dinner rolls, hot dog buns, sandwich rolls.
- 47:23One of the warehouse guys was a comedian who told jokes; Tim made him laugh, then returned to work at the warehouse.
- 48:06Tim and the caller debate whether warehouse workers would have had sex with soft potato rolls.
- 49:33Tim got a job at the morgue and eventually went back to the bread warehouse moonlighting for extra money.
- 50:25The bread warehouse demanded Tim take a drug test, but he refused because the morgue—where he worked with criminal evidence—never drug tested him.
- 51:16Tim got fired from the potato bread warehouse after calling his supervisor a slippery cunt over the phone.
- 52:13Danny Garbarino bribed the trailer delivery guys with Entenmann's cakes to place pallets efficiently, a practice Tim hadn't known existed.
- 52:59Tim broke a tooth eating Taco Bell and spent his entire warehouse shift with a sharp, jagged edge stabbing his tongue until he filed it down in Danny's truck.
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- 1 min
Roseanne Theme Callback Bit
#A quick comedic callback replaying the Roseanne theme with an absurd bit about DJ getting caught fucking bread and being replaced by immigrant labor.
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- 54:07Tim calls for the Roseanne theme to be played.
- 54:36Tim says he would perform oral sex on Alex Jones because he loves freedom.
- 8 min
Tim runs through upcoming tour dates, the Moontower festival, bus tour tickets, the Gas Digital subscription price increase and promo code, a potential raffle idea, studio construction update, and a callback to a memorable YKWD episode before signing off.
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- 54:58Tour dates: Moon Tower Comedy Festival in Austin in April, shows in LA, Cincinnati with Gold Bananas for Memorial Day.
- 55:35Summer tour includes Zany's in Chicago, Comedy Connection in Providence, Mohegan's Sun in Connecticut, and Dublin, Ireland.
- 56:04Bus tour returning in spring with early ticket access via email signup at timdylancomedy.com.
- 56:26Clusterfest appearance in San Francisco in June, plus other big TV show appearances coming soon.
- 57:03Gas Digital subscription price increasing to $8.50, but promo code HELL locks in $6/month rate through May 1st.
- 57:25Show now has 90 hours of original content with 10 episodes before reaching episode 100.
- 57:40Planning something special for 100th episode, possibly with big guest, and considering a bonus clip show.
- 58:39Asking listeners to rate and review on iTunes to boost show's visibility and traction.
- 1:00:13New studio expected to be operational by May 1st, currently still under construction.
- 1:00:34Rebecca Rush episode of YKWD with Lewis and Zach was one of the best, featuring moment where she compared herself to Casey Anthony.
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