rant · moment 16 of 16
Delusion, Craziness, and Advice to Do the Batshit Crazy Thing
from #168 - The Funniest Guy I Ever Met | The Tim Dillon Show · #168
7 min
Tim ties his fondness for the office's crazy characters into a philosophy that creative success requires a healthy dose of delusion and craziness early on, advising listeners to take the batshit-crazy leap even though the odds of success are tiny, before closing with reflections on fun people ending up in rehab or jail and humor as the best way to waste time.
- Tim argues that a little craziness is necessary to create anything great and break from the path everyone else walks.
- He tells people they won't succeed if they're too sane and normal, because they won't take the necessary risks.
- Tim advises people messaging him for advice to do the batshit crazy thing—move to New York, upend their life—if it feels insane enough.
- The catch: if you do it, the odds of success are minuscule, worse than the lottery, and it will probably destroy you either way.
- Tim reflects fondly on his time with genuinely crazy people, though many were the bad kind of crazy or a mix of both.
- Sometimes facts don't matter and you just have to go try, but eventually you have to land on Earth and pay the price.
- The kind of fun people he knew were wild enough to push their elderly mothers down stairs for money.
- Really fun people—doing rails at a hundred miles an hour—go to rehab or jail; that's the only two places for them.
- True fun people are so committed to it that they abandon their families; the window for that kind of fun is very short.
- Humor is just a way to waste time in the best way possible, which is what Tim says he does by touring and performing.