Becoming a Heretic and the Jussie Smollett Skepticism

• 1:49:13Tim explains he's drawn to heretics because his job is like being the town fool or public crier, shouting in the square.
• 1:49:55He describes the realization that almost nothing is as it appears, and the more you read, the less you trust institutions.
• 1:50:50Tim cites the Jussie Smollett case as an example of completely fake mainstream media coverage.
• 1:51:44The specifics that bothered him: Trump-supporting gang members committing a hate crime at 2 a.m. in a metropolitan city seemed implausible.
• 1:52:08Tim questions why a wealthy actor would be eating Subway at 2 a.m. instead of using GrubHub or making himself a meal.
• 1:52:24He made a video about this incident and was subsequently attacked by Elizabeth Warren supporters with feathers and a headdress.
• 1:52:46Coming out at 25 and immediately quitting drinking and starting comedy meant he transformed into essentially another person without typical gay party years.
• 1:53:30Tim expresses his hatred of groupthink, describing it as antithetical to humor and cultish.
• 1:54:03He learned to distrust people with no room for nuance because everything worth saying lives in nuanced space.
• 1:54:30He bought a house at 22 with a subprime mortgage while on cocaine, waking up in a $700,000 home asking how he got there.

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