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Due Process, Hebephilia, and Neal Brennan's Correction

from #205 - Well, LA Was Fun | The Tim Dillon Show · #205

5 min

Tim discusses withholding judgment on D'Elia pending facts, riffs on the definition of 'hebephile' versus 'pedophile,' and jokes about Neal Brennan correcting people's terminology on Twitter.

In this bit8 moments
  • Tim jokes about how funny it would be if the person came out and blamed Russia for manufacturing screenshots.
  • Tim says he deals with serious situations through humor but people get angry at him for laughing about it.
  • Entertainment news has become so bad that serious stories are now treated as light-hearted fluff.
  • Tim imagines what it would be like to take that Netflix role while all this is happening—how could you do that script.
  • Tim describes himself as someone in the courtroom eating potato chips who'll gossip after the trial rather than making a formal statement.
  • Why does Tim have to make a statement when producers like Jamie Vernon and others sit in every room but say nothing.
  • Tim's actual take: it's bad to be a pedophile, correcting himself that the person is a hebephile, not a pedophile.
  • Neal Brennan was apparently correcting people on Twitter in the middle of the night about the hebephile distinction.
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