rant · moment 3 of 26
Good Cop Bad Cop with Friends' Emotions
from #194 - We're Going Home | The Tim Dillon Show · #194
3 min
He elaborates on alternating between devastating and falsely uplifting friends on the phone, and riffs on a New Yorker friend who insists on suffering through the pandemic with fellow New Yorkers.
- Tim calls people and catches them with hope, then crushes it by listing catastrophes and unemployment.
- He tells hopeful people they're ignorant for thinking things will improve by summer.
- Tim's strategy is bringing people down, then lifting them up slightly to crush them again.
- He calls people every other day to play good cop bad cop with their emotions.
- Yesterday he told everyone quarantine would last forever, then called back with cherry-picked good news.
- His motivational speeches are different—he tells people everything will be okay because New York is like Italy right now.
- A friend said she's glad to experience the crisis with New Yorkers rather than LA narcissists.