Interview · moment 13 of 19
LA Delusion, Celebrities Getting Real, and the State of the Culture
from The Morman and the Meth Head with Jessa Reed and Aaron Woodall · #120
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2 minGuest
Tim riffs on Los Angeles as a city of collective delusion, using Johnny Depp as an example of a celebrity finally 'getting real' after years of excess, before pivoting to ask Jessa where rising social media anger and political division are heading.
- 38:26Everyone in LA is nuts, including unemployed friends who talk about castles in Ireland like three-year-olds while having no money.
- 39:00If LA got real, it would stop existing — the delusion is structural to the place itself.
- 39:18Tim on aging celebrities like Johnny Depp: they spend decades in fake vapid emptiness, then crisis forces them to finally get real and end up broke in castles.
- 39:55America right now feels like we're all being forced to get real, though it's unclear if that's actually what's happening.