Interview · moment 9 of 29
John Carter Bombs and the Vaccine Trailer Comparison
from #276 - The Squish | The Tim Dillon Show · #276
3 min
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Tim compares the government's repeated vaccine push to Disney re-releasing the trailer for the flop movie John Carter, then debates breakthrough case narratives with Ray.
- Tim's prediction: winter will bring more cases, spring will bring improvement, then the cycle repeats — but that's already failed twice before.
- The vaccine push was a legitimate gamble, like a movie that failed — once you make your play and it doesn't work out, keep releasing the trailer doesn't help.
- John Carter bombed in 2010 as a massive Disney loss, though Disney later bought the Avengers and recovered.
- Tim's timeline: in six months he'll start pushing back hard, but he's not there yet because people are still yelling at each other and deserve some benefit of doubt.
- The CDC keeps doubling down on a narrative that doesn't work — the vaccine's protection fades away after a while.
- Breakthrough cases are not rare despite the official narrative shift away from claiming they are, and plenty of vaccinated people have gotten infected.
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