Episode 94 · The GaS Digital / Ray Kump Era
Philosophy King
May 2, 2018 · 59:47 · 14 segments, 113 moments indexed
- 1 min
Show open with music and intro of Tim Dillon and Ray Kump.
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- 0:30Tim welcomes listeners and declares the first day of summer, despite the date.
- 4 min
Michelle Wolf Crushes the White House Correspondents Dinner
#Tim praises Michelle Wolf's performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner, arguing that people who criticize her don't understand comedy, contrasting her bravery with his own people-pleasing tendencies, and mocking the outrage over her jokes about Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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- 0:47Michelle Wolf did a phenomenal job at the White House Correspondents Dinner, working a room full of the worst people on the planet.
- 1:08Tim argues comedians who kill all the time everywhere are generic replaceable hacks.
- 1:44Michelle went in and talked shit to the most privileged and powerful people to their face, deserving respect for it.
- 2:05She didn't give a shit because she's not a fraud and people pleaser like most comedians.
- 2:18Tim admits he would have backtracked and apologized instead, calling himself a bitch who needs to stop wanting to please everyone.
- 2:43Some of Michelle's jokes murdered and some didn't, and that's how comedy works—people getting mad over jokes about Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the real issue.
- 3:01Being a woman, wife, and mother doesn't insulate you from criticism when you sit on the dais at a roast.
- 3:34The world stops on a dime to discuss a cocktail party joke while Syria was in the news last week and nobody cared.
- 3:58Discussing this requires very little research—anyone can spout off about it without knowing anything about Michelle Wolf.
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- 3 min
Nobody Knows Anybody, and Michelle's Work Ethic
#Tim riffs on people acting insulted when they haven't heard of someone, mocks failed open mic comedians criticizing Wolf on Facebook, and praises her insane work ethic, including writing jokes in an Uber, contrasting it with his own laziness.
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- 4:11Tim questions who the guest comic is, launching into a rant about people thinking they're superior for not recognizing someone.
- 4:42Some of the richest, most influential people in the world Tim couldn't identify in a lineup, yet anonymous Facebook comedians feel entitled to insult someone they don't know.
- 5:28Open mic comedians bombing at New Jersey festivals spend their time criticizing someone with an HBO special and Netflix deal in the works.
- 6:17Michelle Wolf wrote for Seth Meyers and The Daily Show, and Tim insists she wrote most of her own jokes because he knows her work ethic.
- 6:40Tim called his manager asking why Michelle Wolf is doing better than him, and got told it's because she has more talent and better work ethic.
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Bombing at Villaroma in the Catskills
#Tim tells a long story about bombing for 30 minutes at a bizarre gig called Villaroma in the Catskills in front of an audience largely made up of developmentally disabled and elderly people, contrasting his nightmare gig with Michelle Wolf's high-stakes triumph at the Correspondents Dinner.
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- 7:05Tim recalls doing a gig with Michelle Wolf a couple months ago and catching her writing ten new minutes in an Uber in traffic.
- 7:23She didn't get lucky—she's performing at the White House Correspondents Dinner because of her fanatical work ethic and amazing ability.
- 7:59Tim had to perform recently at Villaroma in the Catskills and was nervous about the crowd.
- 8:17Tim bombed for 30 minutes straight with flop sweat and was heckled by a guy with Down syndrome.
- 8:32The show opened with a magician playing trumpet and talking about the flag and the troops while Tim waited in the green room, anxious about his set.
- 8:51Tim questions whether haters could even handle performing at the White House Correspondents Dinner without forgetting jokes or tripping on stage.
- 9:18Tim expresses genuine awe at people like Michelle Wolf who succeed at a level he hasn't reached, refusing to diminish her accomplishments with excuses.
- 9:56Anyone sitting in a bar waiting to heckle someone doing karaoke should get off social media and stop criticizing someone who performed in front of the world.
- 10:20Tim was in the Catskills at Villaroma bombing while Michelle Wolf performed at the White House Correspondents' Dinner—but he's earned both venues in their own way.
- 11:22There are people mad at Tim for getting the Villaroma gig and would do anything to perform for that room full of people with apparent health issues.
- 11:44Something about the audience at Villaroma was clearly wrong—whether environmental or otherwise, Tim couldn't put his finger on it, but something was awry.
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- 4 min
Frozen Yogurt with Michelle Wolf, and Fake Free Speech Conservatives
#Tim recalls having frozen yogurt with Michelle Wolf years before her success, then pivots into blasting conservative "free speech" advocates as hypocrites and frauds for turning on Wolf despite claiming to hate outrage culture.
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- 12:00Tim had frozen yogurt with Michelle Wolf five years ago when she was deciding whether to pursue comedy.
- 12:12He didn't see her for four years, but she got a job within months while he still broadcasts from the frozen yogurt shop.
- 12:37Tim has sided with free speech conservatives because he believes in the right to say whatever you want and that outrage culture is ridiculous.
- 13:04All those free speech advocates turned into snowflakes and exposed themselves as frauds with no concern for free speech or outrage culture—only scoring political points.
- 13:43Comedy jokes about the Trump administration should be accepted by adults, but conservatives chastise the left for losing their minds while doing the same thing.
- 14:22conservatives elected Trump, who roasts everybody 24 hours a day, but then lose their minds when Michelle Wolf makes a joke about Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
- 14:57Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a White House press secretary, not a soccer mom, and should take a roast from a comedian like an adult.
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Ray's New Drop and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Riff
#Ray's new "Killer of Women" audio drop plays, leading into a riff about the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book series, Stieg Larsson, and joking about the macabre lives of thriller novelists.
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- 15:38Tim introduces Ray's new drop: the word "killer of women" repeated over and over.
- 16:01The drop is from Daniel Craig in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
- 16:15Tim riffs on the Swedish thriller series having ridiculous titles like "The Girl with the Lollipop in Her Ass."
- 16:34Author Stieg Larsson wrote five books in the series—a great life if you can churn out dark novels.
- 16:48Tim notes the macabre pattern: "This is how we fucked a girl. This is how we killed a girl."
- 17:02Tim wonders if writers who obsess over serial killers are sublimating their own urges—guys who wish they had the balls to eat somebody but don't.
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Tim and Ray discuss how the Golden State Killer was caught using DNA from old rape kits matched against genealogy websites like FamilyTreeDNA, and joke about people unknowingly creating a searchable DNA database.
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- 17:46Tim explains how police caught the Golden State Killer using DNA from genealogy websites.
- 17:57Michelle McNamara, Patton Oswalt's late wife, wrote a book about the Golden State Killer.
- 18:16A pathologist from the original cases had preserved pristine DNA samples from rape kits as standard procedure.
- 18:36Investigators uploaded the DNA to genealogy websites like Family Tree DNA to identify the killer's relatives.
- 18:59David Angeles jokes about DNA genealogy sites: there are clones of you somewhere now.
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They debate whether DNA and data collection is a genuine slippery slope toward surveillance and thought-policing, discussing Cambridge Analytica, targeted advertising getting eerily specific, and how information might someday be used against people.
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- 19:15Tim compares DNA collection to Holocaust-era surveillance, arguing it could make future genocides more efficient.
- 19:42Insurance companies could use genetic data to raise premiums based on predicted health risks.
- 20:17The real concern isn't today's privacy violations but what governments might justify tomorrow under the guise of societal benefit.
- 20:53Tim extrapolates: future judicial nominees could be disqualified based on DNA sequencing and social media posts reviewed by the Senate.
- 21:31Current data collection primarily serves advertising and marketing, which Tim finds grotesque but somewhat benign compared to potential future abuses.
- 21:48Tim's surveillance paranoia story: someone gave him a Stella Artois glass, and an hour and a half later he saw an ad for it on Facebook.
- 22:52A woman gave Tim a dollar and said "God bless you, sir," and then he went home and saw a TD Bank ad—something suspicious is definitely happening.
- 23:11The next step beyond marketing is using data to group people as potential problems and justify surveillance on those designated as risks.
- 23:27Authorities will justify mass surveillance by claiming it fights crime, however they choose to define the term.
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- 8 min
Tim and Ray discuss how social media has made people's opinions feel pre-programmed and ideologically rigid, reminisce about being unreachable and alone as teenagers before cell phones, and lament that radical individualism is now viewed as threatening.
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- 23:57Police using DNA evidence and digital tools to wrongly incarcerate people, compounded by cops not being well-trained
- 24:32Surveillance apparatus collecting everything — genetics, location, searches, preferences — currently used to sell products but heading somewhere darker
- 25:19Surrendering critical thought to devices and websites, existing entirely within their digital sphere
- 26:03Modern conversations feel scripted and pre-planned, with people parroting ideology rather than thinking independently
- 26:41Topics are served to us like a platter; people adopt positions out of virtue by association rather than genuine belief
- 26:55Being an individual now makes you almost a freak; radical individualism is viewed with suspicion
- 27:28Not participating in social media is treated as deviant, especially outside rural areas like Montana or Alabama
- 29:02Social media creates the illusion of community and connection without any meaningful ties — it's a phonebook on steroids
- 29:54Younger generations have never experienced being truly alone; they grew up under constant parental surveillance and connectivity
- 30:48When we were young, you'd spend hours alone, walk home alone, and miss people meant actually missing them with no way to reconnect
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They discuss how people no longer form genuine opinions but instead collect information as ammunition for arguments, and how modern virtue signaling comes from reactively labeling things as problematic rather than doing anything constructive.
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- 31:19Tim on how rare it is to meet someone with an opinion not based on a YouTube documentary
- 32:06Mark Norman's joke: hearing someone is racist means they really trust you
- 32:39People didn't care about voicing opinions when they had no public venues for them
- 33:08Uneducated people now comment on steel tariffs and other topics they know nothing about
- 33:24People feel a certain way but are afraid to admit they have no actual information
- 33:46Tim argues the internet doesn't make people smarter, just lets them feel smarter
- 34:22Information now moves too fast and is too ephemeral to retain or truly commit to studying anything
- 34:56All the information people consume feels weaponized—meant to win arguments, not grow as humans
- 35:45People treat nuance and individualism as a cancer because it threatens them immediately
- 36:38Nobody affords anybody the benefit of the doubt anymore, despite being more connected than ever
- 37:12People's sense of worth is now tied entirely to identifying and isolating things they disagree with
- 37:51They feel virtuous pointing out problems without actually doing anything to help anyone's life
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Visiting a Friend in a Sober House on Long Island
#Tim tells a long, sad story about visiting his friend's mother while the friend is in a sober house in Mastic Beach, describing the family smoking in a beautiful home, feral dogs and gang violence in the neighborhood, and the general decay surrounding Long Island's suburban rot.
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- 38:42Tim had a sad dinner on Long Island and reflects on how living hard catches up with you on the back nine of your life.
- 39:28His friend's father passed away a year ago; the son ended up in a sober house at Mastic Beach.
- 40:04The sober house manager wouldn't allow Tim to visit because one bad actor could cause chaos with eleven residents in 24 hours.
- 41:00Tim visited the friend's mom and they sat smoking cigarettes in the living room of a beautiful home, which felt dirty and sad.
- 41:33The friend mentioned people walk around Mastic Beach with sticks to defend against feral pit bulls and rottweilers, not gangs.
- 42:37The friend's brother is a good dude who dates a pretty girl and they run marathons, but the friend himself dates wild strippers.
- 43:03Cops came to the door asking where someone named Isabelle was because she was on Indiana's Most Wanted, and the friend casually said she was in the kitchen.
- 43:47Tim drove to Chicago with a stripper whose mom ran a trucking company and screamed at truckers on the two-way radio all day.
- 44:38The friend's last girlfriend is doing heroin, and Tim questions why life got so hard that people need to resort to drugs.
- 45:21People on Long Island are living without purpose, and without some infrastructure like religion or hobbies, they end up floating and turning to heroin.
- 45:54Tim argues that instead of heroin, people should try bowling leagues and other hobbies like stamp collecting or building model trains.
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Degenerate Friends, Heroin, and Long Island Excess
#Tim continues describing his wild, self-destructive friend group on Long Island, including a woman wanted by police, a mother who screamed at truckers over a two-way radio, and riffs on how overstimulation and lack of purpose have led people straight to heroin instead of hobbies.
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- 46:21Rehab owner shooting up in the back after a comedian's speech triggers a massive relapse.
- 46:38Tim argues people are overstimulated from birth and don't expect to feel happy anymore.
- 46:51When you're young, you believe in impossible things; as an adult, you can't tell anyone they can do anything.
- 47:51"You gotta work on yourself" replaced "you can do whatever you want"—an endless spiritual dive with no destination.
- 48:29We've lost the vocabulary to call people losers; nobody will say a friend's life is shit anymore.
- 49:06Tim describes his Long Island friends as corrupted by early money, leading them to fraud and dishonesty.
- 50:02These people have no spiritual core and justify lifestyle choices through drugs, alcohol, and pretending.
- 50:52Working hard feels better than being a bum, but too many people are never forced to push themselves.
- 51:34Tim scrolls Facebook looking for friends with wholesome lives so he can call and learn how to feel happy.
- 52:08Wildness at 24 is exciting; at 34 it's terrifying—desperation without the belief you can turn it around.
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You Gotta Work on Yourself, and Losing Touch With Old Friends
#Tim reflects on how "you can do anything you want" has been replaced by the empty mantra "you gotta work on yourself," mourns losing touch with his wilder friends, and recalls a friend's girlfriend being arrested by federal agents.
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- 53:45Tim's old friends are a breed going extinct because everyone has to be on the grid now.
- 54:07You have to forgo immediate gratification for future gratification—that's how life works.
- 54:54The glory days that were never glorious are just gone.
- 55:26You can't check up on old friends anymore because everyone's living in different worlds.
- 55:43When he tries to visit old friends and they don't understand what he's accomplished, it's depressing.
- 56:03It would be nice if they could all look back and say they were wild but look at them now—that's not the case.
- 56:24Tim would still do it all over again because they had great laughs together.
- 56:37Friend's girlfriend got taken away by federal agents at 2 a.m. and they just looked at each other and laughed.
- 57:00Real laughter is so rare—laughing with someone when there's nothing to do but get breakfast and start over.
- 57:13No honor amongst thieves: you fucked up, I'll visit you, but first we need a bacon egg and cheese.
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Tim runs through upcoming tour dates including Albany, Rock on the Range in Ohio, Cincinnati, Clusterfest in San Francisco, Chicago, Lexington, Mohegan Sun, Providence, and Dublin, then wraps up with Ray plugging his social media and the closing banter about Ray's "killer of women" drop.
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- 57:24Tour dates at TimDillonComedy.com with recent updates.
- 57:35May 19th at Rock on the Range Music Festival in Ohio.
- 57:46May 26th at Gold Bananas in Cincinnati, Ohio for the first time.
- 58:00Summer tour includes Chicago, Lexington Kentucky, Mohegan-Sun Connecticut, Providence Rhode Island, and Dublin Ireland.
- 58:28Ray Komp's drop: "Help me catch a killer of women."
- 59:00Ray Komp insists he doesn't hurt women, just looks like he does.
- 59:24Discussion about the aesthetic of appearances and pie eating content.