Interview · moment 19 of 26
You Don't Have to Win Everyone Over
from #261 - Please, Die Alone | The Tim Dillon Show · #261
4 min
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They discuss the lesson that you don't need everyone's approval — not family, not audience members who aren't your crowd — using the analogy of a subway singer some people loved and others wanted thrown off the train.
- You don't have to win everyone over — that's the lesson Tim keeps trying to drill down on, watching people obsess over universal approval from family, friends, community.
- Tim notes there are always people on his show who shouldn't be there, audience members it's not made for, and that's completely fine.
- He doesn't care who likes him outside the people who already think he's funny — he'll work his ass off for those people, but the rest can go watch something else.
- Tim admits that early in his career he desperately wanted people to understand his journey and validate his existence as a performer, which he now sees as a colossal waste of time.
- When he first started, Tim believed his job was to inflict himself on people relentlessly until they finally gave in and agreed with him.
- A subway singer doing an awful, off-key performance taught Tim the real lesson: some people enjoy it, some people hate it, and that's just how it goes.