rant · moment 16 of 17
The Muffin Conversation and Cushing's Syndrome
from #215 - Petty Little Pig | The Tim Dillon Show · #215
4 min
Tim recounts a phone call with a friend who spent seven minutes discussing a favorite muffin before claiming she has Cushing's syndrome (cortisol-driven weight gain) rather than admitting she overeats.
- Tim describes 2020 as the moment Americans became the online bots and Russian disinformation agents everyone feared.
- The darkness of quarantine has made people want to burn things and topple systems because they can't figure out how to improve their own lives.
- Tim jokes he'd like a few years of selling tickets before society starts burning the planet down.
- Kyle and his mother Rittenhouse are going to the end of the world with guns, and everyone else is too—just experiencing it differently online versus in person.
- Tim's advice: take your foot off the gas, walk away, listen to Jerry Seinfeld and James Altucher debate New York City's future.
- The next few months will be bloody and horrible if people don't stop accelerating toward destruction.
- If you're going to confront what you think is evil, don't take a bike.