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Cold Open: Wrapping Up the Tour, Pandemic Life
from #221 - Epstein's Favorite Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show · #221
2 min
Tim opens from Arizona reflecting on the exhausting grind of touring, deciding to shut things down until spring and lean harder into digital content instead of endless comedy club dates.
- Tour is wrapping up soon and Tim is done with the constant travel grind.
- Standup is both what he loves and what's destroying his life.
- Airbnbs, rental cars, and planes—he's had enough of that lifestyle.
- Tim plans to lock himself inside for a pandemic regardless of vaccination status.
- He's rejecting a 40-week road schedule in favor of month-long intensive tours with months off.
- Month-long tours reach more people than grinding comedy club after comedy club.
- Club owners gift him regifted AirPods for selling out shows.
- The shows themselves are fun; everything else getting to the stage is the taxing part.
- The pandemic reprioritized his life toward digital content over touring.