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Visiting Yale and Skull and Bones Fantasies
from #178 - Secret Society | The Tim Dillon Show · #178
9 min
Tim recounts walking around Yale, joking about being rejected from elite circles, riffing on Skull and Bones photos he found on Facebook, and fantasizing about him and Ray performing a comedy set inside the tomb.
- Tim explains how Facebook photos of Skull and Bones initiates became public around 2000, revealing inductees at their private Deer Island retreat.
- Skull and Bones is essentially a fraternity of the world's wealthiest kids who engage in mock sacrifice rituals and weird ceremonies.
- Tim compares mock rituals to looking at restaurant menus without ordering—they're metaphors, not literal commitments.
- Skull and Bones isn't the nexus of power; it's just a Facebook group and an entrance point into elite social networks for already-rich kids.
- Tim researched the inductees on LinkedIn and noticed many are SJW activists who genuinely believe they're making the world better.
- Wealthy Skull and Bones members convince themselves they need to modernize power structures and prevent chaos to stay in control.
- Tim pitches the idea of doing a comedy show inside Skull and Bones with top hats and a choreographed soft-shoe routine while they sit in the dark.
- The problem is these snowflakes at Skull and Bones lack a sense of humor and wouldn't book popular comedians like Kevin Hart because the act wouldn't serve their purpose.
- Tim and his agent would perform with Stalin and Genghis Khan on a projector, offering themselves as a fun romp for the elite secret society.
- Tim says he's always wanted to be elite but was fat and from Long Island, while his co-host presents as homeless and disturbed.
- Reference to Joe Pesci playing a homeless Harvard guy, though Tim admits he only saw The Irishman and wants to kill himself.
Skull and BonesBohemian GroveYaleKevin HartDeer IslandLong IslandMurray RothbardAmy SchumerGoldman SachsStalinGenghis KhanJackie Gleason