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The Q Anon Dad Who Thinks His Son Faked Parkland
from #262 - We're Back | The Tim Dillon Show · #262
19 min
Tim reads and riffs extensively on a viral Reddit story about a Parkland shooting survivor whose father became a QAnon believer and accuses his son of being a paid crisis actor; he imagines dinner-table confrontations, jokes about the son leaning into the conspiracy to torment his dad, and riffs on other 'red-pilled' family members and Jenny Slate's Big Mouth apology.
- Parkland survivor's father became Q anon believer and thinks the shooting was a hoax.
- Tim pitches the argument between survivor and father as a reality TV show nobody would miss.
- Tim reasons that for a father to choose Alex Jones over his child, the kid must be terrible.
- Imagined dinner scene: father insists at the table that his son is still pushing the Parkland story.
- Survivor's Reddit post goes viral on r/QanonCasualties, claiming media didn't contact him and he never sought attention.
- Survivor criticizes shooter's interrogation footage, calling him brain-dead but also a literal demon.
- Anti-vax nurses whispering conspiracy theories is funny if you've already accepted things won't get better.
- Father claims to have done body language analysis proving the shooter was a paid communist actor.
- Tim suggests the survivor might be a bad person—it's weird the father went down a rabbit hole without cause.
- Father drunk, directly accuses his son of being part of the conspiracy and demands he move out.
- Tim advises the kid to actually move out; living with an accusing parent is unreasonable.
- Q anon is capable of destroying people's relationships with their own family members.
- Tim sympathizes but remains firm: the situation is funny, horrible, and the kid should leave.
- Tim's own family members got caught in conspiracy theories—some liberals obsessed with Trump and Russia causing COVID variants.
- Q anon has attracted unstable people, which is unfortunate.
- The Parkland survivor needs to move out of the house immediately.
- Tim reflects on the survivor's text to family during the shooting—at least the father and son had closeness once.
- Tim imagines texting his own father during a shooting: the father would read it half-asleep and respond with indifference.
- Tim and his wife would have gotten excited about a school shooting alert, yanked tubes from him at the hospital.
- Tim advises not to be greedy expecting family relationships to stay perfect forever.
- The father is going through a rough patch being red-pilled; he'll eventually turn on the mother and someone will leave.
- Brain tumor or lead poisoning could explain boomer conspiracy rabbit holes.
- Tim applies pop psychology: the survivor shows signs of survivors guilt compounded by thinking he participated in a false flag.
- The kid feels guilty he participated in a false flag, but Tim argues historically it should be an honor.
- Tim's advice: move out until the kid can admit to his father what he's done.
- Tim suggests the survivor lean into the conspiracy: 'You don't even know what doors you're knocking on, Dad.'
- Tell the father you did 9/11 when you were eight—lean harder into the crazy than he does.
- Tim references Jenny Slate's apology for voicing a mixed-race character as excessive performative guilt.
- Go crazier than the father: tell him you're an alien with alien DNA, recruited for operations.
- Alternative approach: bond with father by hunting down the real Parkland killer together.
- Tim imagines O.J. Simpson and his son going out to find the real killer instead of confronting their issues.
- Accept that the father is imperfect and spend Sundays hunting for the real killer together.
QAnonParkland shootingNicholas CruzMarjorie Taylor GreeneGeorge SorosJenny SlateO.J. Simpson