rant · moment 9 of 23
How to Actually Respond to a Birthday Video Request
from #222 - Running Out The Clock | The Tim Dillon Show · #222
4 min
Continuing the birthday video bit, Tim suggests using the forced video message opportunity to guilt-trip or ask distant relatives for money instead, and reflects on the low bar for love in families and how people drift apart without seeing each other.
- Tim demonstrates how to actually do a birthday video request—opening with cheerful greeting, then pivoting to asking the birthday person for money because the kids are going hungry.
- It's rude to ask people for video messages; you should just assume people kind of love you, which is what a family is.
- The standard of love in most families is just that you don't want to see anyone die or get demolished in a car wreck.
- Tim says if a family member gets mangled in a wreck, he would call Benjamin and say that's not good, then move on to talking about sponsors.
- People are asking Tim to do birthday videos for folks he hasn't seen in six months—at that point you're already done with each other.
- If you skip seeing people for a full year during the holidays, you'll realize you can do holidays on your own and most people don't think they can.
- Tim's mother didn't like his father's family because they drank, so instead she'd take pills and go have Thanksgiving alone at 3 p.m. at a diner in Long Island.
- Whether you're sitting next to a drunk family member relitigating old grievances or sitting alone at a diner eating piled-up cranberry sauce, whichever way you cut it, it's a shit day.
- Make choices and live by the choices—you see what I'm getting at here, folks.