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The 500-Pound Weight Loss Podcast Obsession
from #243 - Best of Patreon Vol. 2 | The Tim Dillon Show · #243
12 min
Tim describes his bizarre fascination with an obscure, deadpan weight-loss podcast hosted by a 500-pound man from Long Island, detailing surreal moments like a guest's tragic health monologue met with "who doesn't" and an argument about "under-eating."
- Tim discovers a 500-pound Long Island comedian's weight loss podcast with almost no views on YouTube, becoming apparently its only regular listener.
- The host treats it entirely without humor, just dryly recounting his meals and Weight Watchers points in every episode.
- A natural food chef guest launches into a 10-minute monologue about his past health crisis—crohn's, rashes, friends dying—while the podcast host says nothing.
- When the chef mentions eating doughnuts and maple bars, the host's only response is 'who doesn't,' completely missing the weight of what was just disclosed.
- The host occasionally announces he's ranked number four in health and fitness podcasts in Cameroon, thanking listeners there while Tim is likely his only American audience.
- The host reports being too fat to babysit his nephew until now, and celebrates that he's 'turning the corner' by finally being allowed to watch him.
- There's never an attempt at humor—just solemn, serious accounting of his weekly weight loss progress, which paradoxically makes it funnier than most comedy.
- Tim describes the podcast as potentially Andy Kaufman-level performance art, uncertain whether the host understands he's creating something brilliant.
- His sister-in-law tells him he's eating too much food; he deadpan argues back that most days he's actually under his Weight Watchers points while visibly overweight and getting mad.
- Tim declares it his favorite podcast despite the host being admittedly a nasty guy, preferring its strange sincerity to mainstream comedy with punchlines.
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