rant · moment 8 of 25
Dad's Wife's Three Dogs: Fred, Maya, and Ruth
from #177 - Sober December | The Tim Dillon Show · #177
9 min
He details his father's wife's three dogs named after Frederick Douglass, Maya Angelou, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, his uncle Tommy's drunken rant about bringing dogs to grandma's house, and a wider riff on boomers loving pets more than they loved their kids.
- Tim criticizes people making their pets their entire identity, citing his dog Oscar's deplatforming for posting Nancy Pelosi's address.
- His father and stepmother have three dogs named after Frederick Douglass, Maya Angelou, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—all white people naming dogs after Black icons.
- Uncle Tommy, drunk at grandmother's birthday, calls out the family for bringing dogs to a house where the owner hates them—and he's right.
- Tim's father constantly texts photos of his dog saying things like 'Fred says hello,' which is what boomers do instead of showing genuine affection for their children.
- Boomers were never that into parenting their kids—they brought them to adult movies like Basic Instinct—so now they're pouring all their love into dogs.
- People in New York City push dogs in strollers like they're babies, which Tim considers completely insane.
- When visiting someone's house for the holidays, you have to brace yourself for the smell of wet dog or cat piss and animals that have completely taken over.
- Walking into homes where animals run everything—five dogs jump on you, drool on you, bite you—is a regular occurrence that destroys belongings.
- Arriving at someone's door, you're already bracing yourself for your clothes to be ruined with dog hair and cat hair that you'll be brushing off yourself in an Uber later.
- After leaving a pet-filled house covered in dog and cat hair, you walk into your next meeting looking like you've been manscaped, completely covered in fur.
pets as identityCynthia McKinneyUncle TommyKamala HarrisOscarNancy PelosiRuth Bader GinsburgMaya AngelouFrederick Douglass