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Cold Open: The Ari Shaffir Kobe Bryant Tweet Fake-Out
from #185 - Stunning Estate | The Tim Dillon Show · #185
3 min
Tim pretends to discuss Ari Shaffir's controversial Aretha Franklin tweet before revealing he actually meant Ari's much more inflammatory tweet celebrating Kobe Bryant's death, playing the misdirection as a bit.
- Tim addresses the Ari Shaffir tweet that has people talking.
- Ari's tweet: Aretha Franklin showed generations of Black people that big can be beautiful, dooming them to a diabetes epidemic.
- Tim defends Aretha Franklin as an icon and one of the greatest singers and performers of all time.
- Tim explains why people were angry: Ari insinuated that Franklin's size somehow made diabetes prevalent in the Black community.
- Ari said Kobe died 28 years too late and is celebrating that Kobe died in the tweet.
- The actual Kobe tweet: Kobe Bryant died 23 years too late, got away with rape, and Ari celebrates a chopper malfunction.
- Tim reveals he thought people were mad about the Aretha Franklin tweet, not the Kobe tweet.
Ari ShaffirAretha FranklinKobe Bryant