Episode 190 · The Ben Avery Era
#190 - I Am Luxury | The Tim Dillon Show
Mar 8, 2020 · 1:20:10 · 398,000 views · 29 segments, 176 moments indexed
Hotel Tonight, please sponsor the program. Tim explains how to treat the working class, talks the Corona Virus and even free style raps once again.
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Strep Throat Mistaken for Coronavirus
#Tim opens by explaining he thought he had coronavirus but was actually diagnosed with strep throat, joking about the irony of predicting the first LA case on his own podcast.
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- Opening week two of the pandemic
- Tim imagines the irony of publicly saying he wants coronavirus on his podcast, then actually contracting it the next day
- 2 min
Being Sick as a Kid vs. as an Adult
#He riffs on how being sick as a kid was fun (French toast, Blockbuster movies, grandma's care) but as an adult nobody cares and every mild sickness feels like a rehearsal for a terminal diagnosis.
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- Tim hadn't had strep throat since age 10, when being sick as a kid was actually fun.
- He'd rent movies from Blockbuster and his grandmother would make him French toast and grilled cheese while sick.
- Getting sick as an adult is hell because nobody makes you anything and nobody cares, even in a relationship.
- When younger, grandparents would shut down their lives to care for you, but that doesn't happen anymore.
- Tim describes staring at the back of his throat with strep and immediately thinking it's esophageal cancer.
- Every sickness after 30 is just a rehearsal for the big one, and you never know which illness will be it.
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Every Illness Is a Rehearsal for the Big One
#Continuing the sickness theme, he talks about his uncle's throat cancer diagnosis and the general dread of aging, doctor visits, and 'dodging bullets,' plus how the causes of death get murkier and less surprising as decades pass.
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- Every sore throat is a rehearsal for the cancerous polyp you don't know when it's coming.
- Uncle got diagnosed with throat cancer despite barely smoking, just having a bud occasionally.
- Being sick as a kid is fun, getting out of school, but as an adult it's completely different.
- Every doctor visit over 30 is just you dodging a bullet because you know enough stories now.
- In your teens when people die the reason is very apparent—car accident, overdose, got shot.
- Tim says in your 30s people die and you just go 'that's something' with no clear explanation.
- The 40s: guy had a heart attack at Runyon Canyon, the heart attack didn't kill him but hitting his head on a rock did.
- Two people in Runyon Canyon die every week and nobody talks about it.
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- 2 min
Letting Out the Bile: Complain About Everything
#Tim argues life is too short not to be hateful and to air every grievance, using examples like complaining about hotel shower temperature or an undercooked club sandwich.
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- Life is too short not to be hateful and let out the bile coursing through your veins.
- Tim advises having a group of friends where you can let your anger out and directing it toward the right people and things.
- Spend your time on this planet airing out your grievances before it's too late.
- Tim's examples of productive complaining: tell the hotel front desk the shower isn't hot enough and make them send the engineer.
- Let the waiter know if the club sandwich bacon wasn't crispy enough—don't hold it in or it becomes cancer.
- 4 min
Urgent Care, Fake Coronavirus Testing, and the Vancouver Doctor Visit
#He describes preferring urgent care because it's fast and impersonal, mocks people demanding coronavirus tests with no symptoms, and recounts telling his doctor about a trip to Vancouver and blurting out an awkward comment about Asians there before getting his strep diagnosis confirmed.
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- Tim went to urgent care because it's quick and he's afraid real doctors will discover what's actually wrong with him.
- Urgent care doctors aren't real doctors, just UCB improv kids pretending.
- Ticket sales are slowing down because of coronavirus, so Tim and Ben decided either shows sell out or they cancel and stay in the bunker—no half-full theaters.
- The urgent care told everyone they can't test for coronavirus and need to go to the ER instead.
- People with no symptoms are still demanding coronavirus tests just to be sure.
- Tim's throat was so bad he could barely swallow with huge, painful tonsils on Monday morning.
- When the doctor asked if he'd traveled recently, Tim mentioned he went to Vancouver and then volunteered that there were a lot of Asians there for medical accuracy.
- The strep test came back positive and Tim was relieved because it meant he didn't have coronavirus.
- 2 min
Coughing at the Beverly Hills Hotel — Patient Zero Paranoia
#After his steroid shot, Tim describes coughing in public at the Beverly Hills Hotel and feeling like everyone thinks he's 'patient zero' bringing coronavirus to LA, plus a jab at nearby women judging him while discussing Elizabeth Warren.
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- Tim receives a steroid shot at urgent care, unsure what it actually does and skeptical they didn't just prick him with a pen.
- Coughing at the Beverly Hills Hotel during lunch with Ben, everyone stares thinking he's patient zero bringing illness to LA.
- Women at adjacent table discussing Elizabeth Warren while Tim coughs uncontrollably, judging him behind expensive sunglasses.
- Tim expresses support for Elizabeth Warren and calls out self-important people on Twitter flip-flopping between progressive candidates.
- 4 min
Warren-to-Trump Twitter Threads and Bernie's Appeal
#He mocks people who write self-important Twitter threads explaining their switch from Warren to Bernie, says a Warren-to-Trump thread would actually be interesting, and explains his own qualified support for Bernie Sanders as the anti-establishment candidate.
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- Warren-to-Trump Twitter threads would be worth reading, unlike the predictable Warren-to-Bernie switch.
- Tim clarifies he's not a Bernie bro despite accusations, but would vote for him as the anti-establishment candidate.
- People shouldn't have to sell their blood plasma to live in the country — that's Tim's one strong agreement with Bernie Sanders.
- Tim dismisses the accusation that he's a shill for Hollywood, noting that Bernie Sanders is exactly what Hollywood doesn't want.
- Bernie is the only candidate who genuinely scares people with money; Trump doesn't threaten rich people, only offends them aesthetically.
- Trump promised to eliminate the carried interest loophole and rein in Wall Street but did the opposite.
- 4 min
A Friend's Mother's Pancreatic Cancer and Healthcare Debt
#Using the story of a friend's mother who fought cancer for a decade and went bankrupt from medical debt, Tim argues the Republican 'the market will figure it out' response is morally bankrupt, and riffs darkly on Republicans professing to love aborted Black fetuses while defunding social support.
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- Friend's mother fought pancreatic cancer for 10 years while mortgaging her house repeatedly, declaring bankruptcy, and dodging creditors—then felt guilty for surviving and saddling her husband with the debt.
- Tim on the Republican answer to healthcare collapse: "Who cares." They don't care, period.
- Republicans track aborted black fetuses to argue they care about black babies, ignoring that they opposed the same communities when flooding them with cocaine to fund contra weapons sales.
- Tim doesn't understand how someone can be genuinely pro-life but hear that story and say "let the market figure it out" while a woman disconnects her phone dodging creditors during cancer treatment.
- The Republican response to systemic healthcare failure is a long explanation about why everything's broken, followed by insisting we need a trillion dollars for the Pentagon instead.
- Civilization dedicates all resources to building ways to deliver death to the poorest people in the world instead of addressing the healthcare collapse destroying families.
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Trillion-Dollar Pentagon Budgets vs. Healthcare
#He contrasts endless Pentagon spending on weapons systems with the lack of money for people like the cancer patient he just described.
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- Tim jokes about pancreatic cancer being a 'big bummer' when it comes to Pentagon budget priorities.
- Defending against accusations of going Hollywood, Tim lays out his actual positions: hates the left, not a Marxist, opposes identity politics and corporate leftism.
- A Patreon commenter insisted Tim can't quote both Bernie Sanders and Thomas Sowell; Tim argues you absolutely can, they likely have some overlap.
- Why nobody listens to you: you're someone who can't accept that you haven't figured everything out yet.
- 2 min
Patreon Complainers Who Want a 'Smarter' Guest
#Tim addresses critics who say he's a Hollywood shill and mocks listeners who complain about a guest they hated then ask for a 'smarter' version of the same viewpoint.
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- Tim says his listeners probably acquired their knowledge through podcasts and cable news.
- Patreon complainers tell Tim to book a smarter conservative when they disagree with a guest.
- Tim points out they're asking for a more effective version of the thing they hated.
- Tim mimics an angry listener demanding he find a smarter version of a guest they despised.
- The underlying complaint is that listeners want to be more enraged, not actually challenged.
- 3 min
Bernie Scares the Establishment; Klobuchar/Buttigieg Drop Out for Biden
#He explains why Bernie is the only candidate genuinely feared by the political and financial establishment, and discusses the suspiciously timed endorsements of Biden by Klobuchar and Buttigieg before Super Tuesday.
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- Tim holds simultaneous thoughts about giving a woman healthcare while also considering defacing her grave.
- Bernie's the only candidate the establishment is actually scared of, not just Republicans but his own party.
- Klobuchar and Buttigieg dropping out and endorsing Biden right before South Carolina was a manufactured maneuver to boost one candidate.
- Bernie didn't connect with Black voters and older demographics, but Biden's groundswell came partly because two candidates suddenly told people to vote for him.
- Tim thinks Sanders went too hard at Obama, which hurt him with African-American Democrats, a sizable part of the coalition.
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Biden's Cognitive Decline vs. Trump
#Tim argues that comparing Biden and Trump purely on cognitive sharpness, Trump wins easily, citing Biden's gaffes and mental state, and jokes about a hypothetical embarrassing debate causing national collapse.
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- Biden's brain is melted, he can barely string words together, and he's creepy with women and children.
- Running a corrupt guy with dementia—if he remembers what he says, it's going to be a lie.
- Trump is also a liar, and people say he's in mental decline, but he's doing much better than Biden.
- In terms of cognitive abilities, you go with Trump easily—he's at least entertaining.
- Biden was making gaffes in the primary, calling Obama the first nice clean black guy to run for president.
- The Trump versus Biden debate will be so embarrassing that America will call China begging them to take over the country.
- Tim goes on a rambling tangent about being upset with the wrong wallet and pivots into doing a Ridge wallet ad as Biden.
- He's performing the Ridge wallet advertisement impersonating Joe Biden.
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Tim performs the Ridge Wallet sponsor read in a Joe Biden impression, riffing on an old smelly leather wallet from childhood, then breaks character to genuinely praise the product's design, before closing with a freestyle rap plugging the wallet.
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- Tim does a Biden impression reminiscing about Chucky's old leather wallet that smelled like ass.
- Biden-Tim pitches the Ridge wallet as a minimal front-pocket design for people who work hard carrying babies, children, and chopsticks.
- Tim breaks character and admits he was doing a Biden impression, then genuinely endorses Ridge wallets.
- The Ridge wallet uses two metal plates bound by elastic band with options in titanium, carbon fiber, and aluminum.
- Tim urges listeners to buy Ridge wallets at ridge.com/tim, claiming they'll regret it if they don't.
- Tim observes that Biden's likability comes from being so out of it, citing confused statements like "Tommy come lately" from debates.
- A man in his late seventies running for president should instead be muttering at the edge of his property while his kids call him to dinner.
- Tim performs a comedic beat claiming people spouting various conspiracy theories should just stop and get a Ridge wallet instead.
- Not being funny is apparently a credential for comedic success, and Tim notes that unfunny comics are thriving in the space.
- 2 min
Why People Who Love Hotels Hate Their Lives
#Tim reflects on his mother's love of hotels as an escape from an unhappy marriage, tying childhood swim-meet hotel stays to the idea that loving hotels means hating your actual life.
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- People that really love hotels hate their lives.
- Tim's mother loved hotels because they were an escape from her loveless home during swim meets.
- Most marriages hit a wall where the couple just doesn't like each other anymore.
- Husband and wife realtor teams in the suburbs hate each other and use work as a way to avoid that hatred.
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Being a Nightmare Hotel Guest, Part 1: Third-Party Booking Theater
#Tim describes his elaborate hotel check-in performance — pretending an assistant booked the room, acting horrified regardless of quality, and demanding special treatment from staff.
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- Tim explains the psychological shift that happens when you become a hotel guest—you're in a different state of mind, someone's guest, which feels beautiful and special.
- The hotel guest experience mirrors childhood sick days when your grandmother took you to Blockbuster and let you pick whatever you wanted to eat—a rare treat earned through illness.
- Tim's strategy upon checking in is to immediately alert hotel staff that he's going to be a problem and that they will have to work today.
- When confronted about booking third-party, Tim refuses to accept responsibility and insists he's a proud American with unearned privileges he'll gladly invoke.
- Tim deflects blame for third-party bookings by claiming his assistant handled it, then expresses disappointment that the room isn't at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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- 4 min
Being a Nightmare Hotel Guest, Part 2: Room Service, Showers, and Coronavirus Threats
#He continues the hotel-tyrant bit, interrogating staff about room service menus, floor level, shower seating, and threatening (as a joke) to cough and yell 'Wuhan' in the lobby if things aren't fixed.
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- Tim describes his ritual of arriving at a hotel horrified, then immediately calling a nonexistent assistant to complain about the room.
- Demanding the front desk explain what the room actually is—whether it's a bed, a shelter, or Wuhan quarantine.
- Tim interrogates the hotel about room service hours and whether restaurant food can be delivered versus being limited to the in-house dining menu.
- Questioning whether low-floor rooms are actually guest rooms or just underground garbage facilities the hotel uses.
- Tim calls the front desk immediately upon entering and asks if he's in the wrong room, then feigns acceptance with 'I'll make do.'
- Calling back five minutes later to complain the shower water isn't hot enough and requesting a marble ledge seat for steaming, claiming he needs to open up his voice.
- Tim finds an orange under a shower seat and calls the front desk to ask if it was in someone's mouth and whether it had coronavirus as part of the welcome package.
- Threatening to come down to the lobby bare-ass, coughing and yelling 'Wuhan' if the orange issue isn't resolved.
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Room 911 at the Carlyle and a Failed Family Vacation to Disney World
#Tim praises the Carlyle Hotel for giving him room 911, then recalls the one family vacation to Disney World as a kid that ended in a fight and the family never vacationing again.
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- The Carlyle Hotel put Tim in room 911 without hesitation, showing they understand his sense of humor.
- Tim's family took one vacation to Disney World in Florida when he was 12, rented a van that smelled like stale cigarettes, and everyone fought the entire way.
- The family never went on vacation again after that trip; his mother kept asking and everyone refused until she cried.
- Tim starts to talk about another vacation he went on, then stops himself.
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- 2 min
Tim jokes about wanting Hotel Tonight to sponsor the show, claims unmatched knowledge of luxury as a broke Irishman, and proposes they launch a 'luxury division.'
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- Tim pitches Hotel Tonight as a sponsor while acknowledging the podcast says wild things.
- Tim contrasts himself unfavorably to young, attractive influencers, positioning himself as a fat Irish man from Long Island with actual class.
- The Irish have been called animals for good reason, and he's fought that stereotype by spending money he doesn't have on restaurants and hotels.
- He describes staying in hotels and eating room service macaroons, illustrating his commitment to luxury despite financial recklessness.
- He announces a new slogan for Hotel Tonight: "I like hotels."
- 2 min
He riffs further on Hotel Tonight, pitching an ad campaign built around the idea that people book last-minute hotels because they're miserable and want to be 'a person' for 24 hours.
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- Tim pitches Hotel Tonight's marketing angle: for 24 hours, escape your circumstances and exist where no one can legally tell you to leave.
- Core slogan: 'I like hotels because I hate my life.'
- Tim went to Disney World as a kid when his parents were trying to save their marriage—it was a disaster.
- He was a tap dancer in a dance troop at age 6 to 12, performing the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy while pursuing acting.
- He did some community theater and NYU student films but didn't book much work.
- Tim got to second and third callbacks for Grace Under Fire but Brett Butler chose Cole Sprouse instead.
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Childhood Tap Dancing at Disney World and the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
#Tim tells an extended story about being a child tap dancer performing 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' outside Disney World bathrooms, losing acting roles to the Sprouse twins, and reflects that this experience represents show business and life in general.
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- Tim blames fat white men losing dominance in dance to Black performers as the reason Trump got elected.
- At Disney World tap dance classes, Tim was the better dancer compared to another fat kid named George.
- Tim's father pushed him to beat George, telling him he'd get the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy role.
- Tim performed at Disney World with predominantly Jewish women dancers he considered talentless.
- The tap dance performance happened on a stage next to bathrooms where fat tourists waited in line.
- Tim reflects that show business is about watching your life get ground up like meat, not fair or glamorous.
- The same Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy song looped repeatedly, boring the bathroom-line audience so much they turned their backs.
- Disney World summarized: hell, heat, feces smell, one moment of weightlessness on Splash Mountain, then a photo to buy.
- Tim's father took him to the Blantyre castle in Massachusetts instead, where they enjoyed watching working-class people get abused by rich people.
- Tim describes the joy of watching an old woman with expensive jewelry dismiss and humiliate her staff members.
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The Blantyre Castle, All-Inclusive Vacations, and Election Endorsements
#He recalls a fancier family trip to the Blantyre estate, contrasts it with disdain for all-inclusive/cruise vacations where people are treated like cattle, and connects this to voters needing celebrity endorsements to decide who to vote for.
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- Tim describes visiting the Blantyre and other now-defunct restaurants during recent travels.
- All-inclusive vacations and cruises strike Tim as treating people like cattle who can't make their own decisions.
- Endorsements in presidential races still matter—grown adults need someone to tell them how to vote.
- Tim prefers vacations where unexpected things happen organically, like getting kidnapped, which changes how you process the world.
- Bernie Sanders probably won't win, but he still could—his supporters are less tough than an 80-year-old who had a heart attack.
- A Bernie versus Trump general election would be interesting, assuming Bernie doesn't push open borders policy.
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Fantasizing About Hazmat Suits and Coughing 'Wuhan' at Restaurants
#Continuing the coronavirus bit, Tim jokes about broadcasting in hazmat suits and imagines loudly coughing and referencing Wuhan in public before casually ordering a tomato slice.
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- Tim imagines wearing full hazmat suits in public.
- Tim claims he can still smell bodies burning, then orders tomato slices from the waitress.
- A slice of tomato is capable of changing your life and making you a better person.
- 2 min
Tim asks listeners to tweet at Hotel Tonight to get them to sponsor the show, joking that people should check their Twitter avatars aren't 'white genocide' related first.
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- Tim pitches HotelTonight as a potential sponsor for the show.
- Tim warns against tweeting at HotelTonight from accounts with extremist avatars.
- He plugs HotelTonight as a great app despite getting no free service from them.
- Tim ate a disappointing beef stroganoff at a quality restaurant group establishment.
- The stroganoff experience was so bad he calls it an affront to human decency.
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Quality Meats' Butter Service Disaster
#Tim complains about a bad meal at Quality Meats/Quality Italian restaurant group, describing an absurd 'butter service' presentation and comparing a poorly plated chocolate mousse to feces.
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- Quality Meats advertised butter service as a parody of bottle service.
- Despite loving Quality Meats normally, Tim demands they figure out their problems.
- The French onion soup was among the worst meals Tim has ever eaten.
- The chocolate mousse looked like human feces served on a slate.
- Tim plans to give Quality Meats another chance on his next visit to the city.
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His Mother's Restaurant Terrorism and Why Service Workers Need Healthcare (So You Can Abuse Them)
#Tim tells stories of his mother berating waitstaff over undercooked fries and cold pizza cheese, then pivots into an extended satirical argument that people deserve healthcare and living wages specifically so they can be worked harder and mistreated without guilt.
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- Tim's mother terrorized service workers in restaurants, demanding things and treating them harshly—a trait he respected.
- Dismisses LA liberals who talk about the working class while quoting Proust; the working class doesn't overlap with broke slam poets trying to pursue comedy.
- His mother would tell waiters the chef was in the wrong business if the french fries weren't cooked right, just to confuse and torture them.
- Father once watched Tim's mother walk into a diner kitchen and yell at Greek chefs because the fish wasn't done the way she wanted.
- She demanded pizza be returned if the cheese wasn't browned, calling over Giuseppe with racial insults until it met her standards.
- When you're spending money, it's okay to hit people, hurt them, smash them—even take phones from service workers' hands.
- Tim argues people have been too nice to service workers; he supports healthcare for everyone specifically so he can treat them worse without guilt.
- He won't rat people out, but will make their lives miserable by being himself—demanding excellence and letting institutions know when they fall short.
- Complains to hotel staff about room assignments and demands they open the ledger to check remaining inventory—that's the reality of working-class expectations.
- Can't yell at a kiosk or threaten a touchscreen; he needs real people in the workforce to verbally abuse, justifying his support for healthcare and childcare.
- People aren't equal and deserve to get the boot in the face, but they should still have healthcare and the ability to be beaten while working.
- Some of what he said is kidding, but most of it is not—he was beaten and is beaten now.
- 4 min
Bloomberg Voters Believe in Less Than Nothing
#Tim rants about people who vote for Mike Bloomberg purely because of TV ad saturation, calling it believing in 'less than nothing,' and mocks moderate voters who supported Buttigieg or Klobuchar for their vague appeals to civility.
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- Tim argues that working shitty jobs teaches you things, and dismisses Bernie Sanders supporters as clueless about real life.
- He oscillates weekly between alt-left and alt-right political positions, watching both sides take turns being angry.
- Voting for Bloomberg means believing in less than nothing—he's openly buying the election as his strategy.
- Mayor Pete and Amy voters believe in nothing but civility and holidays; Bloomberg voters believe in even less than that.
- Bloomberg's supporters represent a nihilism so complete Tim couldn't approach it on his darkest day.
- Tim questions voters in Tennessee who support Bloomberg just because of television commercials, suggesting they might as well vote for Hardee's.
- Millions of people across the country voted for Bloomberg simply because he bought all the airtime on their television.
- Between Practical Jokers reruns, Bloomberg's ads played while people ate Velveeta cheese salsa and decided to vote for him.
- Voters don't know an election is happening and just follow whatever the billionaire on TV tells them to do.
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Always Tip 20% (Even If You Hit Them With Your Car)
#Closing riff where Tim insists he always tips well even after a hypothetical absurd altercation with a rude diner waitress involving spitting and a car.
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- Tim explains he tips really well and believes everyone should tip well, despite only criticizing bad service workers.
- Tim recalls a rude diner waitress he was a dick to in return, but still tipped her well.
- After leaving the diner, Tim spit in the waitress's face and then he and his friends hit her with their car.
- Tim's closing principle: he tips 20% always, even given the circumstances.
- 3 min
Tim and Ben run through upcoming tour dates including Caroline's NYC, Helium Comedy Club Philadelphia, Funny Bone Des Moines, Mall of America Bloomington, Funny Bone Albany, Hyenas Dallas, and the LA live podcast at the Roosevelt Hotel.
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- Caroline's in New York City, March 12th through 14th, with Thursday sold out and Friday/Saturday tickets available.
- Funny Bone in Des Moines, Iowa, March 26th through 28th, in Johnny Gosh territory.
- Tim jokes about taking a photo at Johnny Gosh's kidnapper's house in Omaha and somehow getting arrested for a crime that happened before he was born.
- Bloomington, Minnesota at House of Comedy, April 9th through 11th at the Mall of America, which Tim describes as his literal nightmare and the physical manifestation of everything he talks about on the show.
- Albany's Funny Bone, April 17th through 18th, described by Tim as a nothing place defined by opioid addiction.
- Dallas at Hyenas, April 23rd through 25th; Tim loves Dallas and references his Corporate Steakhouse episode explaining why.
- Live podcast in Los Angeles at the Roosevelt Hotel, almost sold out, with consideration of adding a second show.
- Columbus Funny Bone and Auburn, Michigan among additional dates available at timdillacomedy.com.
- Netflix special tickets reportedly selling out, with Tim exploring options to add another show.
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Closing Bit: Lords, Street Urchins, and Oscar the Cat's Terrorist Career
#Tim closes with a bit about English lords ignoring street urchins as justification for making the poor 'earn it,' then jokes about Oscar the cat's fictional history joining nearly every extremist group in the world, before mentioning merch links.
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- Poor people deserve mistreatment because they lack health insurance and can be hit with fire pokers.
- A lord in a carriage encounters a soot-covered street urchin who should be cared for but must earn their way to the nice house.
- Tim becomes a monster with authoritarian views like Stalin after eating a nice lunch.
- Oscar's terrorist résumé includes Golden Dawn, violent communism, Ansar al-Islam, ISIS, and al-Qaeda.
- Oscar currently works for Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil as a culture minister.