Episode 111 · The GaS Digital / Ray Kump Era
Stewed Reunion (with Mike Recine)
with Mike Recine
Aug 30, 2018 · 59:23 · 20 segments, 145 moments indexed
- 1 min
Cold Open: Julia Child Bit and Stu Cancellation Chaos
#A chaotic sketch-style cold open featuring a fake Julia Child intro before dissolving into insults, followed by jokes about the previous version of the show being cancelled.
3moments
- 0:02Tim opens a Julia Child impression, a food podcast called Stewed.
- 0:18He notes this is no longer functioning as a food podcast.
- 0:29The segment collapses as he breaks character asking to wrap it up.
- 2 min
Stu Reboot: Comedy, Competition, and Matt's Salad Wrap
#Tim and Matt riff on relaunching the food podcast, joke about Roseanne's cancellation being about money not decency, and Tim rants about comedy becoming uncompetitive and mediocre with too many open mic comedians.
6moments
- 0:39Tim notes the show is back by popular demand, which is popular demand.
- 0:55The Stu reboot got canceled.
- 1:15Matt is putting salad in a wrap that keeps falling out.
- 1:29Tim criticizes Matt's wrap technique — he didn't even fold the burrito and has to keep putting the salad back in.
- 1:49The show bills itself as New York City's only food podcast.
- 2:01Tim dismisses a competitor's food podcast where the host looks suspiciously unstressed, wondering how much money he inherited.
- 4 min
Roseanne, Racism on TV, and Trashy Asian Desserts
#They debate whether Roseanne's racist character reflects a genuinely racist America and whether TV should depict that honestly, before pivoting into Tim ripping into rolled ice cream and other trendy Asian desserts as overpriced garbage.
10moments
- 2:44Tim and guest had an argument once but can't remember what it was about.
- 3:02Tim describes himself as a fat cunt, comparing his management style to a terrifying mother in a grocery store.
- 3:26Comedy should be competitive but has become mediocre because too many people are doing it.
- 3:47Tim proposes a screening process for open mics before he'll accept socialized medicine for comedians.
- 4:12Good people don't make good comedians—the funniest stories come from people who are pieces of shit.
- 4:51Acting like a piece of shit reveals something true about human nature that's in all of us.
- 5:09Tim argues comedians are mirrors reflecting society, which is why the Roseanne racism controversy happened.
- 5:38If America is racist, TV should show racist characters; you can't claim both the country is racist and complain about a racist protagonist.
- 6:14Either America isn't as racist as people claim, or racist characters belong on television—one of the two has to be true.
- 6:31Tim is sick of Asian desserts like rolled ice cream that are all just buckets of shaved ice.
- 3 min
Red Eye Memories, Sustainable Seafood, and Weird New Cuts of Meat
#Tim recalls fighting a Fox News pageant girl about Dippin' Dots on Red Eye, then the two mock 'sustainable seafood' trends and gimmicky new steak cuts like the Vegas strip and merlot cut being pushed by restaurants trying to avoid pricier meat.
8moments
- 6:47Tim questions why restaurants charge $8 for dishes that just add coconut milk.
- 7:00Rolled ice cream is pointless—why freeze and roll it instead of just scooping?
- 7:31Dippin Dots is gross, and Tim had a fight about it on Fox News with someone.
- 8:21Tim doesn't care whether seafood is sustainable—that's someone else's problem to figure out.
- 8:45Why can't they just breed salmon instead of killing random fish as bycatch?
- 9:05New cuts of meat like the Vegas strip steak are being rebranded shoulder cuts made trendy.
- 9:36Steakhouses now serve underutilized cuts and call them cool, charging $27 instead of $57.
- 9:50Tim made Deb a braised rabbit for Valentine's Day.
- 3 min
House-Made Condiments, Startup Culture, and the Rigged Game
#Riffing on trendy vegetable-centric dishes and artisanal mustard startups, they extend into a broader rant about the rigged nature of success, inherited wealth behind startups, and whether socialism (including a literal 'food socialism') could help.
11moments
- 10:13Comparison is the theft of joy.
- 10:25Tim on vegetable-centric dishes and men with vaginas becoming mainstream.
- 10:40Meat tastes better than vegetables, and that's not really about masculinity.
- 11:01House-made condiments are the new trend people get excited about.
- 11:17Everyone's making mustard or mayo because they couldn't be lawyers and the American dream is dead.
- 11:33Startup culture: three 24-year-olds claim they're disrupting mayonnaise, but mayonnaise was already fine.
- 11:50Tim on the chicken soup delivery startup—always someone with rich parents making it sound like a great idea.
- 12:10The game is rigged, and there really aren't that many great ideas anyway.
- 12:46Tim describes the diversity of human capability: some brilliant, some like them, some think they're hawking.
- 13:11Tim pitches food socialism—everyone gets a meal, everyone gets a breakfast.
- 13:32Tim's been shit on for pitching free breakfast, despite his history of criticizing everything.
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- 3 min
Free Government Breakfast Fantasy and Montauk Street Food
#Tim elaborates a bit about socialized government-delivered breakfasts inspiring people to do better, then they discuss street food trends, lobster rolls, and Montauk's rich-kid culture turning Tim into a 'Stalinist.'
7moments
- 13:40Tim outlines a fantasy government program: workers delivering free hot breakfast to homes every morning at 8 or 9 a.m.
- 14:35The pitch: hungover and miserable people receive a piping hot frittata, orange juice, and coffee at their door, restoring their sense of being human.
- 14:52Tim argues the free breakfast would inspire people to do great things, calling it evidence in favor of socialism.
- 15:13Montauk street food trends have made Tim a Stalinist after watching kids jump out of Rolls Royce Phantoms with ice cream.
- 15:39Best lobster roll Tim ever had was at Abbot's in Connecticut—just butter and fresh lobster on a roll.
- 15:54Debate over lobster roll styles: Tim prefers Connecticut butter style, though he acknowledges the mayonnaise route has merit.
- 16:13Tim proposes increasingly absurd scenarios about eating strawberries in intimate contexts.
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- 1 min
Daily Stormer, the Dark Web, and Fake Assassins-for-Hire
#Tim describes browsing the Daily Stormer on the dark web and riffs on hitman-for-hire scams being run by FBI agents or failed comedians.
2moments
- 16:40Tim describes the Daily Stormer as being on the dark web with really good cartoons.
- 17:03Tim notes that every assassin advertised on the dark web is just an FBI agent.
- 3 min
Trolling the Biker Facebook Group and Money vs. Art
#Tim tells the story of trolls overrunning a Harley Davidson Facebook group with gay memes and burning flags, which leads into a debate about whether profit motive ruins art and whether niche TV audiences versus mainstream shows like Last Man Standing matter.
9moments
- 17:39A Facebook group for Harley Davidson bikers gets overrun by trolls posting pictures of gay men on motorcycles and burning American flags.
- 18:08Tim posts a shout-out to Muslim bikers, infuriating members who don't know how to use computers.
- 18:25The question of whether it's more profitable to make TV for aging bikers or for the younger trolls who've taken over the group.
- 18:47Tim argues that making money can get in the way of making good content, citing shows like Last Man Standing and Pawn Stars.
- 19:05He doesn't believe his sensibility is the only one that matters and doesn't need everything to be a blockbuster.
- 19:40To the extent that profit motive interferes with good content, there are now alternative funding avenues like crowdfunding available.
- 20:07Tim questions whether a world without profit motive would make all art better, and points to uncommercial Brooklyn artists who aren't funny.
- 20:35Come Town and similar things prove that viable commercial comedy and genuine art aren't mutually exclusive.
- 20:49The best creative work can succeed both artistically and commercially given time and the right platform.
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- 3 min
Communist Ambush, Pegging Matt, and Fat Kid Summers
#Tim jokes that a communist friend fed Matt talking points before the show, teases Matt about being pegged by Shelby, then both share childhood summer memories including getting yelled at for eating chips as a fat kid.
8moments
- 21:03Communist activist's talking points included that money ruins art and UCB proves art thrives without profit motive.
- 21:28Tim derails conversations so effectively he makes people forget their own arguments mid-debate.
- 21:41Tim asks Matt if he lets his girlfriend Shelby peg him, revealing it already happened on the patreon.
- 22:10Tim defends the pegging conversation as making Matt feel wanted and respected, not uncomfortable.
- 22:51Tim's father yelled at him for eating potato chips as a fat kid and told him to stop.
- 23:06Young Tim sat alone in the car eating chips while his relatives went to his grandma's pool party.
- 23:23Sopranos scene where a character gets called "Puerto Rican" is one of Tim's favorite scenes in anything ever.
- 23:34Tim disputes being a fat kid, saying he was hot at age seven or eight.
- 3 min
Gabriel Iglesias, Fluffy Nostalgia, and NASCAR Class Politics
#Riffing on being a chubby kid nicknamed 'Fluffy,' Tim analyzes Gabriel Iglesias's broad appeal and pivots into a rant about liberal elites who claim to champion working-class people but secretly look down on their NASCAR/Gabriel Iglesias tastes.
8moments
- 23:40Tim recalls being a chubby kid whose mother bought him Hawaiian shirts and started calling him 'Fluffy' to make him funny, like Gabriel Iglesias.
- 24:18Gabriel Iglesias specials feature him describing food items like a cake shake at Portillo's, which audiences lose their minds over.
- 24:49Tim notes that Iglesias doesn't do super smart material, but people like it because there are a lot of simple people.
- 25:02Northeastern liberal elitists supposedly advocate for poor people but would hate them if they actually met them — especially if they find out they like monster truck rallies instead of Tegan and Sarah.
- 25:35The working poor love Gabriel Iglesias and NASCAR, and their tastes are wildly different from the people who supposedly care about them.
- 25:52Those same liberals will ridicule NASCAR-watching people as racist white trash in need of checkups while claiming to love them.
- 26:21Tim saw Kevin Janeway on the subway wearing a suit during the middle of the day.
- 26:33Tim asked Kevin Janeway if he was going to perform comedy at one o'clock in the afternoon.
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- 4 min
Kevin Janaway, Weinstein/Spacey Casting Couch Jokes, and OJ Simpson Take
#An extended riff imagining a gay acquaintance's degrading hookups for career favors escalates into graphic jokes about being abused by Weinstein or Spacey for career advancement, then a bit about being willing to work with OJ Simpson despite the murders.
10moments
- 27:00Tim jokes about doing a glory hole that's just his ass.
- 27:22He'd accept Harvey Weinstein's abuse in exchange for work, even offering increasingly grotesque scenarios.
- 27:50Tim argues OJ Simpson deserves a pass because he's a black guy who gets away with things.
- 28:03Nicole Brown Simpson is a gold-digging bitch and Tim's glad she's dead.
- 28:26Tim says he'd be cool working with OJ because of how good he was in The Naked Gun.
- 28:37You have to separate the art from the artist—OJ made some goddamn good movies.
- 29:00Tim argues modern culture rewards the appearance of being a good person on the right side of history rather than actual talent.
- 29:35Being unique and funny is kind of punished now; it's better to go along with what everyone else is saying.
- 29:53Laura Loomer is a real journalist, followed by Tim's riff about her pissing on dead Palestinians in Gaza.
- 30:23Closing bit imagining Laura Loomer squatting over a Palestinian child's corpse.
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- 4 min
Laura Loomer Piss Bit and Roseanne/Jordan Peterson Fallout
#An absurd riff imagining Laura Loomer urinating on Palestinians pivots into Tim explaining why he can defend Roseanne's right to a show without excusing the racist tweet, and analyzing Jordan Peterson's contradictions.
9moments
- 30:38Tim jokes that Matt's asshole is probably very taut.
- 30:58Tim recites Peterson's claim about hierarchies being natural and desirable, then immediately adds that Peterson says a man must discipline his wife if she leaves the house.
- 31:22You can't defend anyone because they immediately say something indefensible, like Peterson on enforced monogamy.
- 32:01Tim pitches Roseanne working at the Lanford Lunchbox and expresses enthusiasm for barbecue burgers and hot dogs.
- 32:36Tim says he doesn't own a grill, though he acknowledges he seems like the type who would.
- 33:10He proposes interviewing Laura Loomer just about food and ethnic cuisine, asking her about Bialys and lox while noting her Jewish heritage upsets some of her fans.
- 34:01Tim describes meeting a handsome young Brooklyn Italian guy at a wedding—incredibly good-looking, dumb but well-built, destined to marry an Italian woman and live in Brooklyn forever—and admits he felt sad knowing he'd never get to sleep with him.
- 34:42The wedding served chewy lobster, which he criticizes; he would've preferred simple penne alla vodka with shrimp instead of ambitious seafood.
- 34:53He reflects that seeing someone that good-looking can make you feel sad.
- 4 min
Brooklyn Wedding Guy, Pizza Joints, and Long Island Seafood Plans
#Tim describes being sadly attracted to a straight, good-looking Brooklyn Italian guy at a wedding, then the two talk about local pizza spots, a Bushwick restaurant, and plans to road-trip for Long Island clam bars and seafood.
9moments
- 35:07Brooklyn transplants act weirdly proud they stuck it out and still live there.
- 35:34Only pedophiles really appreciate youth in people.
- 35:55Tim went to Union Pizza Works in Bushwick last night for Neapolitan-style pizza.
- 36:13All the waiters at the restaurant were Italian and really tall, which Tim attributes to Northern Italian genetics.
- 36:41Tim looks forward to summer and eating seafood on Long Island—softshell crabs, clams, and other shellfish.
- 37:04A wedding guest Tim knows got sick after going to a clam place and won't go back.
- 37:18The restaurant served fried calamari with artichoke and pickle relish instead of the usual aioli or tomato sauce.
- 37:46Tim made a breakfast pizza yesterday with bechamel sauce, mozzarella, egg, manchego, and caramelized onions.
- 38:21Deb's sister broke up with a 24-year-old guy even though she's 32 and he wasn't into it.
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- 4 min
Jordan Peterson's Appeal and Brad the Superfan
#They discuss their complicated admiration for Jordan Peterson's family-first philosophy despite his lack of empathy, then introduce Brad, an unfiltered superfan/Facebook friend known for savage one-liners like his take on baked ziti.
7moments
- 38:47Tim says he loves Jordan Peterson but admits Peterson says things on Facebook he can't cosign the next day.
- 39:04Peterson is described as the ultimate troll who seems like a good father and intelligent guy, though maybe lacking empathy.
- 39:39Tim's argument: if everyone took care of their family like Peterson advocates, people wouldn't fall prey to scams from big business.
- 40:46Brad made a brutal ranking comment about baked ziti, saying it's what you eat at a shitty grandfather's retirement party or for faggot coworkers.
- 41:11Brad stopped listening to Tim and Matt's show after some falling out between him and Matt over co-host quality.
- 41:33Matt reveals Brad said he's not as good a co-host, and Matt admits Brad was right about that criticism.
- 42:02Tim predicts America will have divided and states will have seceded by the year 2040, but Matt will be great by then.
- 2 min
Matt's Falling Out With Brad and Matt's Chill Energy
#Tim reveals Brad quit listening to the show after criticizing Matt as a co-host, then reflects that Matt's laid-back, non-aspirational energy is a healthy contrast to Tim's own combative, unhealthy drive for laughs.
7moments
- 42:21Matt posted a picture of the unsubscribe button.
- 42:34Matt lacks aspirational energy—he's not driven to be the best at anything.
- 42:57Matt has a beautiful, chill energy that contrasts with the darker, combative frenetic energy of people like Tim.
- 43:12Tim and the guest thrive on conflict because their energy has nowhere else to go but toward funny, which is unhealthy.
- 43:39Tim asks if the guest would leave New York to live somewhere quieter with a partner, implying he'd do it himself.
- 43:54Tim suggests suburbs outside a city as quieter, less expensive alternatives to New York.
- 44:10The guest reveals he travels a lot doing comedy and has favorite places beyond New York or LA.
- 5 min
Where to Live: Texas, Corporal Punishment, and the Elephant Painting
#Tim muses about escaping New York for a boring suburb of Dallas or Texas generally, jokes about wanting more childhood corporal punishment, and shares a disturbing anecdote about elephants being beaten to train them to paint.
9moments
- 44:45Tim explains his preference for Texas, particularly Dallas suburbs, over high-frequency cities like New York.
- 45:23He argues Texas is appealing because it's lawful and everyone's armed, then pivots to saying he didn't receive enough corporal punishment as a child.
- 45:54Cincinnati fried chicken was disappointing; Tim wants to attend a real cookout like the ones at black communities.
- 46:28He jokes about white potato salad at cookouts and contrasts Southern food traditions with Connecticut, comparing them to Italian cooking.
- 47:14Tim mentions ice cream trucks fighting each other with bats over territory in the summer.
- 47:41An elephant painting its own portrait on Facebook turned out to be the result of beatings and torture.
- 48:02Tim observes that very few beaten things become artists, suggesting the elephant's artistic ability required abuse.
- 48:15He claims he would eat endangered species and human meat if prepared well, with no ethical objection.
- 49:00They propose interviewing a chef about eating practices and mention Mario Batali, who harassed restaurant staff as 'the red menace.'
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- 2 min
Eating Endangered Species and Human Meat, Mario Batali's Dark Side, Jacques Pepin's Sexism
#A wide-ranging food-world gossip stretch: whether they'd eat human flesh or endangered species, an insider claim that Mario Batali (the 'Red Menace') harassed staff, and old memories of sexist framing on Jacques Pepin and Lidia Bastianich's cooking shows.
6moments
- 49:23Tim senses something off about Mario Batali's personality despite his jolly appearance.
- 49:44Tim's dad watches PBS cooking shows and compares Mary Ann Esposito unfavorably to Lydia Bastianich.
- 50:01Lydia's father would criticize her son Joe as a fat pig who just stands there and eats everything.
- 50:31Jacques Pepin cooking with his daughter Claudette showed clear sexism—he believed women were suited for babies while men built the business.
- 50:53The Frugal Gourmet host allegedly molested boys; Tim questions whether he remembers the show correctly.
- 51:11Human meat described as the cheapest meat if you know how to hunt properly and apply pressure the right ways.
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- 4 min
Cancel Culture, Bill Maher, and Comedians Cheering Firings
#Tim delivers an extended rant about comedians hypocritically cheering the firing of people like Roseanne and Laura Ingraham while ignoring that they could be next, defending open conflict and debate (citing Amy Schumer's writers' room) against totalitarian-minded outrage culture.
9moments
- 52:30Roseanne Barr's tweet comparing Valerie Jarrett to the child of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes
- 52:49Tim argues comedians are now cheering when other comedians lose opportunities for ideological reasons
- 53:15Bill Maher has criticized the left's inability to criticize Islam, making him a target for those calling for his firing
- 53:33Tim warns comedians cheering firings don't believe they'll ever make a wrong joke and face the same treatment
- 53:59Tim refuses to call for other comedians to be fired because he's a comedian himself
- 54:25People lack faith that others should have space to be wrong without losing all their opportunities immediately
- 54:39Most people are comfortable with totalitarianism as long as they feel their side is in control
- 55:04Tim explains that silencing people and removing platforms from those you disagree with isn't how you build a functioning society
- 55:17The best creative work comes from conflict and disagreement in writers' rooms like Amy Schumer's, where people with opposing views collaborate
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- 3 min
Not Playing Industry Cop, and a Carjacking Joke
#Tim explains why he won't publicly call for anyone's firing since he's not an industry gatekeeper, then the two joke darkly about a supposed carjacking incident and about scoring free restaurant meals via listener plugs.
3moments
- 56:01Tim refuses to use social media to weigh in on whether other comedians should be fired, saying he doesn't want to act like an industry person.
- 56:37Matt takes on the personality of whoever he's working with, which works well for Tim.
- 56:59Carjacking joke: Tim describes a scenario where a Black man approaches their car and Matt worries about locking the door, leading to a riff about what's expected to happen next.
- 1 min
Tim runs through his upcoming stand-up tour dates including Cleveland, Mohegan Sun, the Vodafone Festival in Dublin, Lexington, and Chicago, plugs his social media and other podcast, and the two sign off.
4moments
- 58:27Tim plugs TimDulahComedy.com for tour dates throughout the summer.
- 58:43Vodafone Festival in Dublin, Ireland coming up later this year.
- 58:54Tim describes Kentucky as where he'll see his "backwards people" and "dog people."
- 59:05Full list of remaining dates and social media handles: Tim Dillon Comedy on Instagram and Twitter, Tim J Dhillon on the spelling.
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