rant · moment 13 of 28
Dan's Cult Childhood vs. Real Horror
from #225 - Friendsgiving | The Tim Dillon Show · #225
3 min
Tim contrasts his opening act Dan's Christian cult upbringing in Texas with his own trauma, praising Dan for not understanding real horrors and thus being a relaxing presence.
- Tim values having Dan around because Dan doesn't understand he has problems, unlike Tim who catalogs his suffering constantly.
- Tim contrasts real horror with mundane complaints, asking why Dan's cult trauma means they can't just have chocolate mousse in a parking lot.
- Dan's biggest problem is that his mom was mean to him once, which Tim finds laughable compared to real suffering.
- Tim's mother collected Disney toy sets under her bed, and during Hurricane Sandy they all floated down the street in Long Island.
- When Tim starts screaming about horrors, Dan responds with irrelevant questions about girls in pools at frats, missing the point entirely.
- Tim goes to the gym and has to see skinny cancer-looking people on the way out, which depresses him every day.
- Tim keeps Dan around because he needs someone oblivious to balance out his own darkness and complaints.