Episode 93 · The GaS Digital / Ray Kump Era
Soak It Up
Apr 25, 2018 · 1:01:28 · 20 segments, 125 moments indexed
- 1 min
Ray Kump opens the show noting Tim is in transit, joking he's probably in a fistfight with a cab driver.
2moments
- 0:00Show intro: "Tim Dillon is going to hell!"
- 0:14Ray Kump notes Tim is in transit and probably in a fistfight with a cab driver
- 2 min
Shannon's Weed Gummy Weekend and Super Troopers 2
#Shannon recounts eating too many weed gummy worms and watching Super Troopers 2 while stoned, comparing the high to shameful alleyway sex; the group tears apart the sequel's quality versus the original film.
5moments
- 0:38Tim ate weed gummies over the weekend and went to see Super Troopers 2 while high.
- 1:00The high was unenjoyable — Tim describes it as lustful shame, like unwanted alleyway sex.
- 1:43Super Troopers 2 is awful, despite the first film being dumb comedy he loved.
- 2:08Crowdfunding a sequel shouldn't mean stuffing the cast with bad actors instead of using a proper script.
- 2:39Tim was too high to focus on the film and admits he doesn't react well to weed.
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- 3 min
Morgue Paintings, Drug Preferences, and Stoner Comedy Skepticism
#Shannon recalls painting pictures of dead bodies and crime scene clothes while high years ago, then the group compares weed versus uppers like Adderall and cocaine, and Tim mocks the idea of a whole genre built around drugs or sex talk.
9moments
- 2:56Tim painted pictures from the morgue while smoking weed in 2010 or 2012, depicting dead bodies, drains full of flesh, and organs like spleens.
- 3:17One painting featured clothes from a homicide spread out and hung in the morgue.
- 3:37Tim says that brief period was the only time he actually liked weed; every other time he gets too high and starts sweating and staring at people's skulls.
- 3:55He much prefers uppers like Adderall, which he finds fun and social, with racing heart and flowing ideas.
- 4:12Weed puts him in a turtle shell situation where he becomes body conscious and starts feeling his fat oozing out of his ears.
- 4:30When high on weed, Tim loses all inhibitions and all he wants to do is eat.
- 4:46Stoner comedy never appealed to Tim because he doesn't understand why smoking weed should be a whole entertainment genre, comparing it to making content about sex or lubes.
- 5:15Tim argues that liking something—whether weed or sex—shouldn't automatically become a vocation or require endless dialogue and podcasts about it.
- 5:42He questions whether stoner comedies like Super Troopers really need extensive dialogue when the subject is just about getting high.
- 2 min
Super Troopers Breakdown and More Edibles Talk
#They continue dissecting Super Troopers' Gaffigan 'meow' bit and the franchise's other films like Beerfest and Club Dread, while Shannon describes overeating Danish butter cookies after getting high, ending as Tim finally arrives in studio.
5moments
- 6:04Super Troopers is about highway patrol guys who run pranks on people they pull over.
- 6:29Tim notes the sequel brings Gaffigan back for a rehash of the meow scene that's terrible and awful.
- 6:54Broken Lizard made Beerfest, which was decent, but also Club Dread, which was bad.
- 7:14Tim eats so much when he's high that the next day he tries to ease off by eating more gummies.
- 7:26After pizza and other food, Tim ate an entire box of ten Danish royal dank cookies, which was a terrible experience.
- 2 min
Tim Weighs In on Edibles and Aging Out of Drugs
#Tim discusses his own limited edible experience, warns that you can't get into drugs in your 30s, and riffs on the danger of overdoing gummy bears.
5moments
- 7:51Tim ate edibles over the weekend after never getting into them when he was smoking weed.
- 8:04He likes edibles less than pot and isn't a big pot guy in general.
- 8:37At high enough doses, edibles become hallucinogenic like mushrooms, according to what people tell him.
- 8:52The main problem with edibles for Tim is they make you so tired it hurts to lift your arm.
- 9:15When you're young and get into drugs you develop tolerance, but starting late means getting wrecked immediately.
- 2 min
Long Island Traffic Complaints
#Tim and Ray trade notes on driving in from Long Island, rush hour timing, and bridge traffic, riffing on the old advice about driving against rush hour.
4moments
- 9:39Tim complains about afternoon traffic on Long Island being exhausting.
- 10:14He left the city at 1:30 PM and hit traffic heading back out to the island.
- 10:26The old advice about going against rush hour doesn't actually work anymore.
- 10:47The Williamsburg Bridge alone took 25 minutes just to cross during his drive.
- 2 min
Moon Tower Comedy Festival and the Crowd Mic Gig
#Tim recaps doing Moon Tower Comedy Festival, defends his short six-minute set against a critical tweet, and describes working the audience mic on Big Jay's crowd-work show alongside Bonnie McFarlane.
6moments
- 11:09Tim attended Moon Tower Comedy Festival and got complaints on Twitter about his set being too short.
- 11:20The festival format forced comics into tight six-minute slots with ten to fifteen performers per show.
- 11:34Tim riffed about food trucks for three minutes before getting the light and not caring about the cutoff.
- 11:51The best show was a crowdwork format where Tim worked the audience mic while a comic on stage directed him to different people.
- 12:13Tim dreaded the role because it felt like being a maitre d', managing the crowd instead of performing.
- 12:27The crowd mic position is crucial because the person has to banter with the comic and bail them out if they start flatlining.
- 2 min
The Pedophile Bit With Mark Normand
#A tangent about a possible stroke smell leads into Tim's story of a perfectly-synced crowd-work set with Mark Normand riffing on pedophile jokes at the festival.
5moments
- 12:53Tim and Mark smell burnt toast simultaneously and joke about having strokes together.
- 13:49Tim and Mark launched into an improvised bit about pedophiles on stage, starting with a question about whether Black pedophiles target fat kids.
- 14:04Tim asked the crowd if there were any dormant pedophiles in the audience and got a big laugh.
- 14:24The set evolved into really dark territory as they discussed why comedy requires pushing those boundaries, and it killed with the crowd.
- 14:47Tim explains the bit was a perfect unrepeatable moment that no one can prove happened because it wasn't recorded.
- 4 min
Tim breaks down Anthony (DePaulo/Cumia)'s tweet joking about future school shooters targeting faculty lounges, argues the joke was tame, criticizes his apology, and questions why anyone still tries to work out jokes on Twitter or why SiriusXM has a future.
8moments
- 15:42Anthony Cumia tweeted at school shooters to confine themselves to college campuses, specifically faculty lounges at Berkeley and Fresno State.
- 15:55Tim says it's a joke and Cumia was fired, calling it an overreaction when suspension might have been more appropriate.
- 16:12Giving corporations an inch on apologies means they'll take the mile and fire you anyway.
- 16:30The tweet is inherently taboo humor, not actual advocacy, and people's inability to parse that context is the real problem.
- 16:59Tim argues comedians shouldn't work out jokes on Twitter because unfinished material lacks the context needed for comedy.
- 17:29Working out jokes on Twitter is a mistake since you're not saying it on stage with proper framing.
- 17:58Sirius is terrified of losing advertisers, which is why they fired Cumia.
- 18:08Tim explains why podcasts are essential and questions why Sirius has a future at all.
- 2 min
SiriusXM's Trucker Audience and the Rise of Independent Podcasts
#Tim theorizes SiriusXM survives mainly on truckers and argues that censorship on legacy platforms will only empower independent, crowdfunded podcast networks free of standards and practices.
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- 18:34SiriusXM's audience is mostly truckers, unlike New York where it's a nice thing to have.
- 19:03The only benefit of podcasts in the age of Sirius is that they're passive entertainment in your truck.
- 19:18Tim predicts that corporate radio limitations will empower independent podcast networks instead.
- 19:41Direct-to-audience funding through Patreon lets creators skip advertisers, legal, sales, and content vetting entirely.
- 4 min
Comedians Not Defending Comedians, and Milo/Slippery Slope Argument
#Tim argues comedians are cowards who don't defend each other when someone gets fired, invokes the Milo Yiannopoulos precedent to warn about where cancellation logic ends, and insists offense doesn't equal a mandate to end someone's career.
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- 20:04Comedians are cowards and don't stand up for other comedians because they're desperate to get a meeting or a show.
- 20:30The lack of unity among comedians will kill mainstream comedy because they throw each other to the side based on politics.
- 21:13Tim argues the slippery slope: if you go after Milo, who's next? It never ends with just taking out the worst people.
- 21:44The endgame for the opposition isn't about stopping Nazis—it's about silencing anyone who disagrees or makes jokes about forbidden topics.
- 22:05People claiming offense aren't actually hurt; they're feeling empowered to take down someone else and de-platform them.
- 22:36There's no joke funny enough that someone somewhere won't feel some way about it and be unhappy.
- 23:01Tim jokes about shooting at his daughter several times but having bad aim, then points out bereaved parents don't need reminders their kid is dead.
- 23:29The argument that offensive comedy incites violence doesn't hold up—a joke is just redirecting, not creating violence.
- 5 min
Defending Dark Comedy: School Shootings, Rape Jokes, and Audience Safety Claims
#Tim lays out his core argument that a comedian's job is to be funny, not to psychologically anticipate every audience member's trauma, using rape jokes and school shooting jokes as test cases, and mocks the 'you're not safe' framing used by offended audiences.
8moments
- 23:56Tim, Lewis, and Mullen pitch themselves as a show for Sirius — Lewis would open with the n-word.
- 24:29Direct-to-audience podcasting sidesteps platform restrictions and forces services like Sirius to compete.
- 25:08A single tweet can destroy a comedian's career before material is even refined on stage.
- 25:48Tim spent eight years shocked by how few comics defend each other when one faces backlash.
- 26:23Taking an anti-PC stance attracts white nationalists as unintended allies, the way criticizing communism aligns you with fascists.
- 27:17Other comedians shrug when a peer gets fired, not realizing everyone has said offensive things at some point.
- 27:46Tim has always defended comics regardless of content — his self-worth isn't determined by what strangers say about him.
- 28:14A rape victim hearing "I raped that bitch" from a comic would be unpleasant, but is that really what pushes someone over the edge?
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- 5 min
The Autism Awareness Joke and the Angry Dad at the Open Mic
#Tim tells the story of bombing an old bit about the autism awareness ribbon/jigsaw puzzle pattern at a Long Island open mic and getting confronted afterward by an angry father whose kid has autism, complete with a Burger King crown bit.
8moments
- 28:52Tim describes how audiences demand safety warnings at comedy shows, claiming they feel unsafe when comedians make callous remarks.
- 29:41The comedian's job is to make people laugh, not to anticipate every audience member's psychological makeup and avoid offending everyone.
- 30:10Tim argues that genuinely offensive material doesn't actually get laughs, and comedians who rely on it are just bad comics.
- 31:06Tim tells the story of an angry father confronting him at an open mic after a joke about autism awareness stickers.
- 31:20The autism awareness ribbon uses a jigsaw puzzle pattern, so Tim joked that it was odd to make the one thing autistic kids can't solve the pattern itself.
- 32:35The father told Tim the joke was terrible because his wife has breast cancer and his son has autism, then complained about why Tim was even performing.
- 32:50Tim criticizes the man for bringing his autistic son to a rough open mic wearing a Burger King kids club crown, saying the father was already ruining the kid's chances.
- 33:13When the angry father kept complaining, Tim just responded "cool, thanks" as if taking it as a compliment and offering to put him on his mailing list.
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- 5 min
Austin Barbecue Trip and Meeting Travis the Beautiful Non-Sexual Man
#Tim recounts his Moon Tower Festival trip to Austin, a killer breakfast with comedians, driving to Lockhart for barbecue, and meeting his friend Ben's absurdly good-looking, personality-less friend Travis who seems almost mythically beautiful.
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- 33:34Tim just returned from Austin, Texas and tried to enjoy barbecue but it's not for him—the meat sweats are a dealbreaker.
- 34:08He drove 30 minutes outside Austin to Lockhart instead of waiting four hours at Franklin Barbecue, where people apparently stand around drunk like animals in the summer heat.
- 34:44Tim's podcast was called immature, borderline paranoid, and without content by critics, and he's struggling to defend it now given who the guests were.
- 35:30Breakfast at Cisco's in Austin with Joe List, Krista Stefano, Dan Soder and others featured migas, killer biscuits with honey butter, and chorizo.
- 36:01Tim's friend Ben introduced him to Travis, a 6'5" statuesque man who is so beautiful he's essentially asexual—impossible to imagine having sex with.
- 36:53When Tim said Travis is too good-looking to be sexual, he meant it in the way of a mythical fairy or elven queen, not a regular person.
- 37:33Travis has the personality of a river-smoothed stone—completely blank and devoid of any character, yet he claims everyone wants to fight him and women throw themselves at him.
- 38:18Travis doesn't even seem interested in sex; he claims he doesn't have one-night stands and doesn't care about it, which strikes Tim as deeply strange.
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- 7 min
The 'I Never Wanted to Be Famous' Guy Rant
#Using Travis as the springboard, Tim delivers an extended rant against people who claim they never wanted fame or success while describing celebrity life as miserable, arguing this is a cover for fear of failure rather than genuine humility.
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- 39:20Austin has people who dabble in art but never move to New York or LA, with a distaste for the commercial aspect.
- 39:54Tim mentions Sean Colvin, a Grammy winner who performs at Continental Club in Austin.
- 41:03The type of person Tim dislikes: someone who claims they never wanted to be famous.
- 41:22These people volunteer that they were never interested in being famous, then describe a celebrity's horrible life.
- 41:56Tim's rebuttal: if you don't want to be famous, don't worry—you'll toil in obscurity forever statistically.
- 42:25What they're actually afraid of: being exposed as a fraud and failing, not being famous.
- 43:27Tim mocks the fantasy: 'I want to be a guy who walks into Starbucks and someone buys him a coffee because he wrote a book.'
- 44:24The real argument: don't claim you didn't try because you feared the success of 0.001% of people.
- 44:47Tim's actual diagnosis: he's not afraid of being rich and famous—he's afraid of everything else.
- 45:06Tim respects the honesty of a Spokane Comedy Club host who just said his lifestyle sounds horrible.
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- 5 min
Ray's High School Hello Trauma and the Journeyman Defense
#Tim turns the fame-fear rant on Ray, mocking his claim to be a humble 'journeyman' who was once bothered by classmates saying hello to him in high school.
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- 45:36Ray claims strangers saying hello to him in high school upset him and he didn't like it.
- 46:17Ray describes himself as a journeyman who keeps his head down and likes to do the work.
- 46:28Tim attacks Ray's journeyman defense, pointing out he wouldn't take a journey to sentence number two after someone said hello.
- 47:12Tim tells Ray not to come claim he's terrified of attention and then exaggerate minor inconveniences.
- 47:31Tim argues Ray's problems—people stopping him at airports—are nothing compared to actual suffering like leprosy and necrotizing fasciitis.
- 47:58Ray tells Tim about a good-looking guy at a barbecue who interrogated him while he was trying to eat hog meat about his success.
- 48:42Tim suggests Ray should have asked the guy if he could eat his weed edible instead.
- 49:02Ray's friend Ben told him that a tall good-looking guy with no friends is always the guy's fault, not everyone else's.
- 49:14Tim wants to defend a podcast episode he loves, though he admits it's tougher now that he knows the guest Russ Baker better.
- 50:01Tim brings up James McMurtry's quote about Barbara Bush knowing how to hate and his song about William Jennings Bryan preaching every night.
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- 7 min
Roasting Travis and Defending the Russ Baker Bush Episode
#The group reads out Travis's harsh review of their Bush/Russ Baker podcast episode as 'juvenile, lacking content, borderline paranoid,' leading to an explicit, escalating comedic roast of Travis and Texans in general, tying in James McMurtry lyrics and Kennedy assassination jokes.
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- 50:43Travis's critique of the Russ Baker episode: juvenile, lacking content, borderline paranoid.
- 51:39Tim argues defending the episode's actual content is better than crude personal attacks.
- 52:13Travis is unemployed, so how can he judge their work on intelligence.
- 53:20Tim attacks the Texas power structure as a racist empire connected to Kennedy's assassination.
- 54:24Complaint about Texas barbecue culture being excessive and overdone.
- 55:13Everything in Texas has to be extreme—you can't just put a pig on a spit normally.
- 55:42Tim proposes opening a barbecue spot where customers wipe themselves with car sponges instead of paper towels.
- 57:07People without friends have only themselves to blame because they're dicks.
- 57:38Tim is fed up with people throwing criticism without putting in the work to understand what they're criticizing.
- 1 min
Fancy Barbecue Sponges and Final Texas Riffing
#Tim riffs on how real barbecue joints are unglamorous and pitches a fake premium barbecue concept involving car-wash sponges, closing out the Texas material.
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- 58:04Tim criticizes people who pretend to be educated about history, culture, or literature but just regurgitate what they're told without analyzing anything themselves.
- 58:21He's bothered by people claiming they didn't pursue something creative because they were afraid of being too successful, calling that excuse bullshit.
- 59:01Tim proposes doing a show where he teaches his co-host how to talk to men.
- 1 min
Is Travis Trying to Fuck Tim?
#Ray suggests Travis might have been hitting on Tim the whole time, and Tim admits he's bad at picking up on romantic vibes.
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- 59:11Tim claims he's had plenty of affairs.
- 59:29Tim redirects the conversation to promote his website and announce upcoming dates.
- 2 min
Tim runs down upcoming tour dates in Lexington, Cincinnati, Calicoon, and San Francisco, plugs the podcast, Ray's and Jay's social media, and closes out the show with parting jokes about Travis.
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- 59:35Tour dates announced: Lexington, Kentucky; Memorial Day shows with Goben; Cincinnati dates on website Saturday; Villa Roma in Caicune, New York; San Francisco in June.
- 1:00:01Tim plugs the podcast: visit TimcomComedy.com, leave iTunes ratings, subscribe to Gas Digital.
- 1:00:13Raymond promotes his social media presence across Twitter, Instagram, Vice Sports, and Facebook with new episodes coming.
- 1:00:27Lower subscription rates on Gas Digital expiring soon — listeners have only a day or two to lock in the price.
- 1:00:52Tim mentions texting Benny a random picture without context, questioning whether it was weird to send such a thing.
- 1:01:08Brief comment about being a charismatic talker before the segment wraps up.
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