Interview · moment 20 of 30
Rock Bottom, Getting Sober, and Comedy as Salvation
from #174 - Brendan Schaub | The Tim Dillon Show · #174
5 min
Guest
Brendan details his 2009 rock bottom (an unaffordable house, the mortgage industry collapsing, heavy drinking) and how discovering stand-up in 2010 redirected his addictive energy, plus discussion of lingering food addiction and friends' sex addiction issues.
- Tim traces his compulsive eating and reward-seeking to childhood, relating it to his past drug use.
- El-P avoids all substances; Henry Rollins drinks only carrot juice and has never touched alcohol or drugs.
- People assume Tim is high all the time, but he performs sober; D'Elia is the same way—everyone thinks he's drugged out but he's never touched anything.
- Tim discusses sex addiction as something that destroys lives like drug addiction does, noting friends who can't stay faithful.
- Tim's ambition to become a successful stand-up comic matters more to him than any compulsion; comedy channels his destructive impulses into something productive.
- Comedy keeps comics and athletes on track; without a place to put their energy when things fall apart, people get into serious trouble.
- Blue Chew is a chewable erectile dysfunction pill that works twice as fast as Viagra and Cialis.
- Blue Chew isn't just for men who can't perform; it's for anyone wanting extra sexual function, including sex addicts who derive all pleasure from intercourse.
- Tim disagrees with the copy's claim that most guys talk a good game; the guys he knows can't say anything and just show people photos.
- Tim questions why he's selling dick pills, noting that you either need them or you don't, but Blue Chew is cheaper and easier than pharmacy Viagra or Cialis.