rant · moment 19 of 19
Jury Duty on a Murder-Torture-Rape Trial
from #182 - Beware the Villas | The Tim Dillon Show · #182
12 min
A long story about getting selected for jury duty on a gruesome trial as a directionless 25-year-old with a suspended license, outsmarting the defense attorney's questioning, and how the experience became the catalyst for him quitting his job and starting comedy that fall.
- Tim receives jury summons and immediately senses it might be a pivotal event
- Directionless 25-year-old with his friend Ryan on Long Island, stealing from parents to eat at corporate steakhouses
- Tim bought a house at 22, stopped making mortgage payments when it dropped 50% in value
- News vans outside the courthouse signal this isn't a typical Wendy's slip-and-fall case
- The trial is for murder, torture, and rape—Tim is immediately excited by the gravity of it
- Defense team selected Tim as a juror, reading his face as someone who understands extenuating circumstances
- Tim's driver's license was suspended over 20 times; he couldn't legally drive to the courthouse
- Prosecutor asks if Tim hates police due to suspended license; he says he hates himself for being irresponsible
- Defense attorney in Miss Frizzle outfit asks if Tim can be impartial hearing murder, torture, rape—he answers words mean nothing
- The trial was an intense meditation on mortality that made Tim realize he couldn't sell mortgages anymore
- Tim started comedy in late August that year, after spending one more summer drinking and nearly dying in boating accidents
- Sometimes you have to get being a loser out of your system before you can stop being one
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