rant · moment 15 of 18
Grow Up and Quit Weed, Embrace Pills Instead
from #185 - Stunning Estate | The Tim Dillon Show · #185
9 min
Tim goes on an extended rant that smoking weed past your twenties is embarrassing and stunts people, that opiate/pill addiction is somehow more "adult" and classy, riffing on his coworker's tiny assistant Alex needing to gain weight, and mocking friends who work in the weed industry.
- Tim argues smoking pot should stop after your late teens and early twenties, calling it an activity for children.
- Adults should drink wine, take pills, develop addictions to painkillers, and lose their kids instead of smoking weed.
- LA's economy has collapsed into only TikTok and weed—edibles have become necessary for people to eat and sleep.
- Tim discusses a tiny crew member who needs to eat cannabis edibles to stretch his stomach and gain weight.
- Weed culture is grotesque; people who sell weed and talk about their weed business are uninteresting and should shut up.
- Tim's friendship requirements: his friends listen while he talks for 45 minutes, then they recite three scripted lines of encouragement.
- A friend complained about office politics and relying on other people, but Tim refuses to hear workplace complaints.
- It is more adult to be addicted to Percocet than to be high all the time; Tim respects corporate pharmaceutical addictions.
- Stop smoking weed constantly—it dims and dulls you, making you even less interesting than you already are.
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