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Irvine, Orange County, and Subprime Mortgages
from #262 - We're Back | The Tim Dillon Show · #262
6 min
Tim opens from Irvine, California, riffing on the city being named after the Irvine Company, its ties to Countrywide and the subprime mortgage crisis, and comparing Orange County's culture (rock churches, tribal tattoos, boats) to Long Island.
- Orange County is the birthplace of subprime mortgages and the genre of reality TV that produced The Real Housewives of Orange County.
- Irvine is one of the only cities named after the company that developed it—the Irvine Company.
- Countrywide Home Loans, believed to be the largest subprime mortgage lender on the planet, started in Irvine.
- Irvine and Long Island were the two biggest areas for subprime mortgage banks and share identical demographics and culture.
- Orange County has rock churches where people worship and believe Jesus wants them to be rich and buy boats.
- TikTok kids eventually end up in Orange County looking for Jesus ten years later.
- The shows in Orange County have been bad—the venue is a massive room that feels like a Dave and Busters with screens, and he doesn't plan to return.
- An opener asked if Tim thinks he'll have a late career like Daniel Day-Lewis while they're both telling jokes in a mall in Irvine.
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