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In Memoriam Montage and Behind the Mask on Hulu
from #267 - The D'Amelio Variant | The Tim Dillon Show · #267
4 min
After a fake memorial montage for Joe, Tim discusses watching the Hulu mascot documentary "Behind the Mask," comparing the hidden power of mascots to his own podcasting career.
- Tim notes the person in question was fat and smoked, wearing a corset during performances to hide his real size.
- He's been watching Behind the Mask on Hulu, a show about mascots with low confidence who become gods when they put on the suit.
- The premise: thousands cheer when they're in costume, but they're nothing when they take it off.
- Tim relates to feeling that power because few people experience what it's like to be loved while completely unknown.
- Hulu's algorithm chose the show for him, suggesting he'd like a program about people who only find happiness in hot, sweaty costumes.
- A Persian friend reached out on Instagram about Hurricane Ida knocking out power in New Orleans for days or weeks.
- The tail end of Hurricane Ida dumped torrential rain on New York City, killing people trapped in their basements and flooding subways.
- Tim scrolling Twitter saw images from the flooding and felt happy not to be there.
- The New York subway is going to flood repeatedly and there's nothing anyone will do about it—welcome to the climate change era.
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