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Forgetting as Real Therapy and the Podcasting Money Boom
from 181- Low Cost, High Quality | The Tim Dillon Show · #181
4 min
He closes out the therapy topic by praising the value of simply forgetting problems, then shifts to marveling at how much money successful podcasters (like the 'Girls Gotta Eat' hosts) make compared to local newscasters.
- Tim argues that forgetting is a form of therapy nobody credits, superior to endlessly analyzing the past.
- Podcasting success stories like the Girls Got Any podcast are outearning local news anchors who dismiss the medium.
- Tim imagines newscasters' faces going blank if podcasters revealed their actual monthly earnings on air.
- Local news anchors would rather get traffic to Epstein's Island than acknowledge podcasters' financial success.
- Tim pitches a sitcom concept: a fifteen-year-old TikTok entrepreneur forcing his Rust Belt family to do increasingly demeaning content for money.
- The proposed show explores social media as the only economic escape route for struggling families trapped in the Rust Belt.
- Tim references a failed Comedy Central show about a young YouTube kid whose business disciplines outperformed actual entrepreneurs.
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