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TikTok Kids, Josh Richards, and Ellen's Faux Fur Homeless Blankets
from #229 - Blankets and Bug Chasers | The Tim Dillon Show · #229
5 min
Tim mocks TikTok star Josh Richards for investing in a blanket company while handing out blankets to the homeless as a publicity/business play, then connects it to Ellen DeGeneres's faux fur brand and jokes it's made from her interns' hair.
- Josh Richards, a TikTok kid, is handing out blankets to the homeless—and he's an investor in the blanket company.
- Tim proposes the TikTok kids giving blankets to homeless people as LA's actual homelessness plan.
- Tim recalls joking months ago that homeless people would have to rely on influencers like David Dobrik and Jeffree Star instead of the government.
- If you're homeless in Los Angeles, your only hope is that your needs align with an influencer's publicity campaign.
- Josh Richards announces he's joining the blanket company as co-creative director, investor, and partner, claiming it will change the world and inspire Gen Z about animal efficacy.
- The blankets are made from faux fur with no animal products—not what homeless people are actually asking for.
- The blanket company is Ellen DeGeneres's faux fur brand, made from the hair of her interns that she plucks out when they're late.
- Ellen DeGeneres, who runs an Abu Ghraib-style torture prison at her show, is now making blankets from her interns' body hair for homeless people.
- If Tim were homeless and two kids in beanies gave him a blanket from Ellen, he'd thank them and accept the gift as part of how the system should work.
- Tim summarizes this as LA's homelessness solution—don't worry about it, everything is working as it should.
Ellen DeGeneresJosh RichardsJeffree StarDavid DobrikKevin Newsom