rant · moment 4 of 34
Aunt Donna's Weird Christmas Gifts
from #231 - Giuliani And The River of Gold | The Tim Dillon Show · #231
3 min
Tim describes his Aunt Donna sending him a Greyhound bus ornament and a conspiracy board game, riffing on the passive-aggressive implications of the gifts.
- Tim needs $70 commission from an $8,000 camera sale or he'll get his head busted in by people he owes money to.
- Real estate and talent agents are usually rich kids because nobody who actually needed money would get into those businesses.
- Agent jobs are where the black sheep of wealthy families end up—the ones whose siblings are at Johns Hopkins, Goldman Sachs, or major ad agencies.
- Aunt Donna sent Tim a Greyhound tour bus ornament for his Christmas tree.
- The gift felt like a dig—a reminder that no matter what he achieves, she thinks of him as a dirty bus instead of a Range Rover.
- Tim compares the bus ornament to giving a recovering heroin addict a syringe ornament for the tree.
- Aunt Donna still remembers when Tim was a drug addict and carries that salt with her, even though he's trying to move past it.
- Aunt Donna also sent Tim a conspiracy board game, which he found baffling and didn't even bother examining.
- Tim questions what Aunt Donna is trying to say by sending him a conspiracy board game as a present.