Episode 257 · The Ben Avery Era
Classic tier — a personal pick, not a popularity ranking#257 - Bomb Energy | The Tim Dillon Show
Jun 20, 2021 · 1:01:13 · 432,000 views · 20 segments, 122 moments indexed
Tim calls his father after not speaking for awhile to wish him a Happy Father's Day, talks The Book of Mormon's woke corrections, Hunter Biden's new life as a painter, and the new batch of Victoria's Secret Angels.
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- 1 min
Cold Open: Calling Dad for Father's Day
#Tim opens the show by announcing he's calling his father for the first time in months, live on the program, for Father's Day.
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- Tim announces he's calling his father on the show for the first time, mentioning they haven't spoken in a few months because both are busy.
- Tim asks the audience if they call their father on Father's Day.
- 4 min
Tim reads a New York Post article about Hunter Biden using racial language while apparently arranging an escort via texts with his cousin Caroline Biden, speculating whether it's an escort situation or human trafficking, and riffs on the mysterious laptop's contents.
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- Hunter Biden is the Roger Clinton of the Biden family—the wild brother, the black sheep, like Neil Bush.
- Tim reads New York Post article about Hunter calling Asian women 'yellow' in a text exchange with his cousin Caroline Biden.
- The text exchange itself: someone pitches women to Hunter, asking if he wants 'foreign or domestic.'
- Hunter refuses an Asian woman, then later texts 'no yellow' when another is suggested.
- The texts come from Hunter's abandoned laptop, recovered after he dropped it off for repair in Delaware while using drugs.
- Tim jokes the laptop supposedly contains everything—UFO footage, human trafficking records, nuclear codes—though he's being facetious.
- His cousin is attractive; Hunter would probably sleep with her, Tim suggests.
- Hunter's use of racial slurs is attributed to him being a crack addict.
- Tim lists what actually happened under Trump: the Q movement failed, border immigration worsened, and online censorship increased.
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- 3 min
Conservatives Cancel a Crackhead Over Slurs
#Tim mocks conservatives for trying to cancel Hunter Biden over racial slurs sent while smoking crack instead of addressing bigger political failures like immigration and censorship.
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- Republicans claim cancel culture is worse under Biden despite Trump controlling Congress, yet their strategy is just pointing out Hunter Biden used racial slurs.
- Hunter Biden called his white attorney the N-word, which is what conservatives are using as evidence to regain power.
- Tim examines Hunter Biden's text messages about escorts, noting the cryptic line 'you want foreign or domestic.'
- Tim speculates Hunter Biden may have been requesting an escort without kids, possibly to avoid complicated situations involving her ex-NBA husband.
- The real issue Hunter's contact was raising: his father is president, so setting him up with someone with an ex-NBA player ex-husband would be too messy.
- Tim concludes nobody actually cares about any of this scandal, including himself.
- 3 min
Hunter's Escort Logistics and the Widow of Beau
#Tim dives deeper into the bizarre escort texts, joking about 'foreign or domestic' and Isabella's NBA ex-husband, then connects it to Joe Biden's own history of racist remarks and Hunter's relationship with his late brother's widow.
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- Tim wouldn't be shocked by any story about Hunter Biden at this point, even if he caused the Malaysian plane disappearance.
- He's a crack addict, so of course he'd be involved in hijinks and tomfoolery like getting escorts.
- Tim finds it weird that Hunter demanded the guy pitch the escort directly instead of picking one himself.
- Hunter asked someone "how much do I owe you" before adding "you better not be charging me Hennessy rates."
- Tim wonders why Hunter's cousin is the one getting him escorts.
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- 3 min
Sexual Predators Running the Country
#Tim expands into a riff about how many powerful political families (Bidens, Clintons, Bushes) are surrounded by scandal and sexual predators, referencing Dave Smith's point about Epstein, Weiner, and Bill Clinton.
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- Tim notes Joe Biden has been a racist for years, from his 2006 7-Eleven/Dunkin' Donuts accent joke to calling inner cities 'jungles' and describing Obama as 'the first clean, articulate' Black candidate.
- Hunter Biden started sleeping with his dead brother Beau's widow immediately after their relationship ended, which Tim identifies as the behavior of 'a special guy.'
- Dave Smith made a point on Rogan about the density of sexual predators connected to recent political figures: Epstein, Hillary Clinton, her aide Huma Abedin married to Anthony Weiner, and Bill Clinton.
- Tim catalogs Hunter Biden's behavior after the widow affair ended: smoking crack, hiring escorts, becoming 'a wild man' while his father runs the country.
- Political families—the Bushes, Clintons, Bidens—all operate with manufactured narratives spun by PR and media that hide their true dynamics until it's too late.
- By the time voters unearth the information they should have had to make decisions about whether these people deserve power, you're already 'in deep shit.'
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- 1 min
You Never Know Who's Really Running Things
#Tim reflects on how the public only learns the truth about powerful families and politicians (like George W. Bush) long after the damage is done.
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- By the time you figure out who George W. Bush really is, you're in two wars and you've lost all your civil liberties.
- Hunter Biden's artwork is actually good and will be worth a lot of money—drugs help.
- Tim gets more Marxist every day on the show while making more money, realizing that if you have half a million dollars to spend on Hunter Biden crackhead art for your mansion, you shouldn't have that money.
- 4 min
Hunter Biden's Half-Million Dollar Art and Corporate Cowardice
#Tim mocks people who'd pay half a million for Hunter Biden's paintings, then launches into the story of his satirical Instagram post as 'Osama Bin Laden' promoting 'Bomb Energy' drink, which got taken down, and rants about corporate cowardice to Twitter mobs.
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- Tim posts a satirical fake pitch email to Instagram as a joke from Osama bin Laden launching an energy drink called Bomb Energy.
- Instagram removes the clearly satirical post, which frustrates Tim about how capitalism supposedly works.
- Tim contrasts old-school pressure campaigns by evangelical soccer moms to modern corporate capitulation to thousands of angry Twitter users.
- Tim questions why billion-dollar corporations and hundred-million-dollar CEOs roll over in fear to social media pressure.
- The full satirical email reads as a business pitch from Osama bin Laden to a VC named Frederick about Bomb Energy, with a planned 9/11 launch date.
- The email's slogan is 'Bomb Energy: The Jews Run the World,' with focus group testing in the Arab world and plans to soften messaging for mainstream.
- Tim addresses the VC as a "squishy bagel face" and "little zionist doughboy" in the email's closing pitch.
- Instagram removed the post citing an algorithm detecting words, though Tim suspects it flagged the bin Laden reference or criticism of Zionism.
- Instagram's removal reason was listed as "association with dangerous groups."
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- 3 min
Defending the Weinsteins and Getting the Vaccine to Get Head in London
#Tim defends Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's right to speak on YouTube about the lab leak theory, then tangents into why he personally got the vaccine (to travel to London for oral sex reasons).
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- Tim complains that the new problem with capitalism is CEOs being too sensitive instead of just telling people to shut up.
- The Weinsteins are being kicked off platforms, and Tim defends their right to discuss vaccines and science on YouTube.
- Tim got vaccinated because he wanted to go to London and have sex with an uncut man, not for any other reason.
- He didn't obsess over the vaccine or change his identity around it like some mentally unhinged people did.
- The lab leak hypothesis went from conspiracy theory to mainstream media, validating what the Weinsteins said months earlier.
- Tim argues the Weinsteins should be allowed to discuss their area of expertise without getting removed from YouTube.
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- 4 min
Demanding $20 Million from Spotify
#Tim jokingly tries to call Spotify demanding $20 million for his show, comparing his deal to Call Her Daddy and Joe Rogan's massive payouts, and fantasizes about starting a podcast with Hunter Biden called 'The Laptop.'
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- There needs to be an alternative to YouTube and social media sites, and it's got to cost $20 million.
- Tim demands Spotify call him because he's heated about their payment disparity: Call Her Daddy gets $60 million, Joe Rogan gets $100 million, and The Tim Dillon Show has been offered zero dollars.
- He formally requests $20 million from Spotify, claiming the show's metrics justify the price.
- Spotify doesn't have people who work—just an email that responds years later—so Tim considers calling them in Sweden or Switzerland where the CEO lives.
- Someone without disposable income shouldn't want Hunter Biden's artwork, which he's apparently creating in LA after moving there as a junkie.
- Tim admits it's hard not to like Hunter Biden, and he's trying very difficult to dislike him.
- Tim threatens to take the show off Spotify, thinking it might prompt them to offer a big deal, which they won't.
- Tim pitches a podcast with Hunter Biden called 'The Laptop,' where they'd review his computer and the disturbing content on it between blue chew ads.
- Hunter Biden is an interesting guy and should have a podcast, Tim argues, describing the horrific content they'd discuss.
- Tim tries calling Mike, a former Spotify contact now at another company, to pitch the demand live on air, but no one answers.
- 1 min
Tim reads an ad for Keeps, the hair loss prevention service, touting virtual doctor consultations and delivered medication.
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- Tim mentions a good friend experiencing hair loss and recommends Keeps as the solution.
- A comic who doesn't like Tim allegedly got hair plugs instead of using a prevention method.
- 3 min
Tim reads the Sheath Underwear ad, riffing extensively on founder Robert Patron's alleged black-ops torture history including Chelsea Manning and fictional 'operations' like burning orphanages.
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- Tim pitches Keeps hair loss medication with statistics on male pattern baldness affecting millions.
- Sheath underwear founder Robert Patron tortured Chelsea Manning after the civilian massacre leaks.
- Patron ran secret military missions including Operation Burn an Orphanage, where soldiers lit buildings on fire then shot fleeing civilians.
- Operation Withhold Medicine from Sick Children involved Patron threatening doctors at gunpoint to deny medication until parents cooperated.
- America refuses to recognize the International Criminal Court's legitimacy because of Patron's war crimes.
- Patron earned nicknames like the Butcher of Baghdad and the Rapist of Riyadh for atrocities in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
- 8 min
Tim discusses Victoria's Secret replacing its traditional models with Megan Rapinoe and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, then goes on a long extended riff about beauty standards, arguing attractiveness is real and desirable even as he absurdly lists every possible disfigurement that 'can still be beautiful.'
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- Victoria's Secret drops the Angels, replacing them with Megan Rapinoe and Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
- Tim says Victoria's Secret is struggling and decided to get rid of attractive women in favor of different body shapes.
- With unlimited online pornography available, straight men don't care much about Victoria's Secret Angels anymore.
- Tim argues against the war on beauty standards, saying unrealistic ideals exist everywhere from real estate to physical appearance.
- A skinny body with certain physical traits is objectively nice to have, even if unrealistic for most people.
- Good-looking people often aren't better in bed than decent-looking people because attractive people tend to be self-absorbed.
- Tim explains he always appreciated models for their aesthetic beauty rather than sexual appeal.
- Tim's extended riff on beauty standards spirals into absurdist examples of increasingly unlikely beings being beautiful.
- Victoria's Secret fashion show will eventually just roll out people in wheelchairs and with flesh-eating diseases, which is fine.
- 1 min
Tim reads a ShipStation ad about managing online shipping orders and offers a 60-day free trial code.
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- Tim opens with Hunter Biden and says the economy is about to crash, online commerce is the way forward.
- ShipStation consolidates all orders from Amazon, Etsy, and your own website into one interface manageable from a phone.
- They work with all major carriers and let small businesses access Fortune 500 shipping rates without contracts.
- Use code TIMDILLON for a 60-day free trial at ShipStation.com.
- 2 min
Tim promotes Bespoke Post's subscription gift boxes, describing them as a great recurring gift idea with curated items.
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- Tim explains why he loves the Bespoke Post Box of Awesome and recommends sending it as a gift instead of one-time presents.
- The appeal of monthly gifts: recipients keep thanking you every month instead of just once, and you develop a grudge if they skip a month.
- Tim pitches the subscription as ideal for kids going to college, people moving away, or anyone getting a new place.
- 7 min
Book of Mormon, Cancel Culture, and Diversity in Art
#Tim discusses his distant cousin's connection to Book of Mormon composer Robert Lopez, then debates whether the musical's satire of Mormons and depiction of Africans needs to be 'adapted,' leading into a broader rant about diversity, representation, and not letting 'the perfect become the enemy of the good' in art.
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- Tim's second cousin Robert Lopez co-created Book of Mormon and wrote music for Frozen and Avenue Q.
- Book of Mormon's depiction of Africans has faced scrutiny since Black Lives Matter protests renewed discussion of Broadway racism.
- The musical is a satire of Mormons and their absurd beliefs, not of African people.
- Fear that audiences might take the satire literally and agree with the offensive characterization rather than seeing the absurdity.
- Book of Mormon was one of the most successful Broadway shows ever and nobody was upset about it at the time.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone are among the most brilliant satirists and social commentators, yet people want to change their work.
- In the Heights faced criticism over colorism and the lack of Afro-Latino representation.
- Tim's principle: don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good when it comes to representation based on talent.
- Art can't function when every element must check every box; loss of art happens when things become too rigid.
- The goal should be including talented people because they enrich the work, not for box-checking purposes.
- Taken to its logical extreme, diversity demands mean the only truly marginalized people are the dead, making everyone else complicit in privilege.
- If the standard requires accounting for every possible marginalized identity—ableism, neurodiversity, sexual orientation—the list becomes endless and absurd.
- This endless expansion of what makes someone privileged seems a little ridiculous.
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- 2 min
Ableism, Necrophilia Logic, and the Online/TV Media Split
#Tim takes the diversity-checklist argument to its absurd extreme (calling for corpses to represent the most marginalized), then pivots to how online media is decentralizing power away from legacy TV networks.
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- Tim identifies a major split happening between TV personalities and online creators, with traditional media figures having far fewer social media followers.
- Eyeballs are leaving television and moving to the internet, creating a fundamental shift in where audiences consume content.
- People on the TV side of the split are in a fit of rage over the decentralization of media and the rise of online creators with money and followings.
- Corporate media workers are angry that independent writers on Substack and other platforms are building followings without needing traditional gatekeepers.
- Tim notes that established interests keep trying to do something about the decentralization, but the momentum and money are currently with online creators.
- Online content works because creators have freedom and can make what resonates with audiences, unlike the constraints of corporate television.
- If the landscape changes, Tim jokes he'll start a podcast with Hunter Biden and it will be great.
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Bill Maher and Giving Shane Gillis and Nick Mullen a Late Night Show
#Tim praises Bill Maher's takes despite his 'get off my lawn' energy, and argues legacy late-night hosts like Kimmel and Fallon should step aside for comedians like Shane Gillis and Nick Mullen.
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- Bill Maher has good takes but they're wrapped in too much 'get off my lawn' energy.
- Networks are terrified of replacing Kimmel, Fallon, and Colbert because they don't know what new late-night hosts would look like.
- Tim argues Shane Gillis and Nick Mullen should be given late-night shows instead.
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- 7 min
Tim runs through tour dates in Denver, Raleigh, NYC, Boston, Foxwoods, Irvine, San Diego, Chicago, Baltimore, and Milwaukee, plus merch sales updates and the Joe Rogan comedy club lineup joke.
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- Caroline sold out five shows within a few hours; tour dates and merch update.
- Notebook is sold out; Tim pushes hats and hoodies for the approaching fall season.
- Fall is coming and Hunter Biden will pick up that rock again to make great art.
- Katie's parents said Ben worked very hard; Texas families stay out of your business unlike Long Island people.
- Long Island people are loud, obnoxious, and nosy; Texas families are stoic ranch people who let their kids live independent lives.
- Tim admits he also calls people to tell them how to live, but claims he's correct.
- Denver Comedy Works trying to open at full capacity August 23-27; Caroline's sold out in New York City.
- Agent is at Torrey Pines golf course right now watching them open, eating potato chips on the green.
- Tim will be at Joe Rogan's Comedy Hut in Austin with Brody Stevens, Gary Shandling, Joan Rivers, and Robert Schimmel.
- Haven't spoken to his father in almost three months; planning to call him on the show for Father's Day.
- 1 min
Tim reiterates he hasn't spoken to his father in nearly three months and sets up the live call.
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- Tim hasn't spoken to his dad in nearly three months
- 4 min
Tim calls his father live on air, who describes a chaotic scene involving his 'slave' and a dominatrix flipping the power dynamic, all while Tim tries to have a sincere Father's Day conversation amid the absurdity.
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- Tim's slave has flipped the script and is now acting as his dominatrix during the Father's Day call.
- The dominatrix is demanding Tim sit on a Nutribullet during the conversation with his dad.
- Tim complains the blender smells like Alyssa Milano's genitals.
- The dominatrix hits Tim in the butt with a pan while he's trying to talk to his father.
- Tim's dad suggests he give Austin a chance, but Tim says he's thinking about moving back to LA.
- The dominatrix wants to sit on Tim's high school soccer trophy while his dad is still on the phone.
- Tim's dad thanks him for calling and expresses hope that the power dynamic with the dominatrix works itself out.
- Tim reflects on his father seeming well and doing the right thing during the chaotic call.