rant · moment 11 of 25
Falling in Love with My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding
from #209 - Don't Curse Me | The Tim Dillon Show · #209
10 min
Tim describes his new obsession with the TLC show about Romani gypsy weddings, joking about curses, cousin marriage, outrageous dresses, and inviting real gypsies to message him, while riffing on TLC's exploitative format.
- Tim started watching My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding and became fascinated with gypsies as his quarantine hobby.
- He chose studying the Romani people over losing weight or writing a novel, and asks listeners not to curse him.
- Gypsy brides wear gaudy, over-the-top dresses designed by Sandra Celli that look grotesque and heinous to Tim.
- Many gypsies marry their first cousins, which Tim says he's fine with despite potential inbreeding concerns.
- TLC finds groups of people whose lives have been destroyed—My 600 Pound Life, My Strange Addiction—and puts them on camera.
- These American gypsies seem happier than anyone Tim knows, despite not having much money.
- Tim wants to get Pat Baby on the show, whose daughter Priscilla is a professional wrestler.
- He's specifically looking for Romanichal gypsies, not Irish traveler varieties, to discuss their culture respectfully.
- He thinks of himself as a traveler and nomadic person like the gypsies he's studying.
- Tim identifies with gypsies as a nomadic person who's been persecuted throughout history for being correct about everything.
- Tim doesn't have a hot first cousin he can relate to, so he can't personally understand the appeal of cousin marriage.
- Gypsies beat each other at parties when someone marries a non-gypsy, called a gorger, and this is what makes the show compelling to Tim.
- Tim pitches a hypothetical: he'd fly to Florida to set up a call center with gypsies running contact tracing scams.
- Watching two women in brightly colored dresses beat each other in a field is currently the only thing making him happy.
- Watching My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding is how Tim learns about different people and their way of life.
- Tim calls out people who lie when he asks them to message him, claiming to be in secret societies like Skull and Bones.
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