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Real Estate Porn and Blood Money Buyers
from #185 - Stunning Estate | The Tim Dillon Show · #185
6 min
Tim riffs on watching Bravo real estate shows like Million Dollar Listing and Selling Sunset, arguing the genre is really about laundering money for dictators, war criminals, and mining magnates who buy LA and NYC property, pitching a fake show called "Blood Money."
- Tim has been watching real estate shows for 72 hours straight, including Million Dollar Listing and Selling Sunset.
- The only reason people watch these shows is real estate porn—the houses are shot beautifully, but many are just concrete boxes in the Hollywood Hills.
- These real estate shows are vapid and fake; the negotiations shown aren't genuine because the money involved is blood money from dictators and political exiles.
- Tim describes a buyer accused of genocide who wants a Beverly Hills property and needs time to launder money out of the country.
- The realtor pitch: this buyer will get 3,000 square feet of outdoor living space in the hills, which is rare at this price point.
- Real estate shows should be called 'Blood Money' and focus on dictators and regime-fleeing oligarchs buying high-end LA properties.
- Tim imagines a realtor on Sunset Boulevard admitting that the only people who can afford these properties are murderers guilty of crimes on a biblical scale.
- Tim brings up Michael Bloomberg as an example of delusional thinking, noting that wealthy people support him because of course they do.