Episode 286 · The Ben Avery Era
Classic tier — a personal pick, not a popularity ranking#286 - Tim Moves To Spotify | The Tim Dillon Show
Feb 6, 2022 · 1:05:35 · 620,000 views · 17 segments, 106 moments indexed
Tim is moving exclusively to Spotify. He talks Rogan, his interview with the legendary Alec Baldwin, and a questionable SUNY professor put on leave.
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- 1 min
Opening music and welcome to the show from the Gas Digital studio.
- 3 min
Alec Baldwin Podcast Appearance and the Shooting Fallout
#Tim recaps appearing on Alec Baldwin's podcast and defends Baldwin as a charming, fun guy despite the fatal shooting incident on his film set, framing it as tragedy rather than intent.
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- Tim appeared on Alec Baldwin's podcast, which came out on Patreon.
- Tim describes Baldwin as a Long Island legend being attacked by cancel culture.
- An incident occurred: somebody put a bullet in a gun on set, Baldwin shot it, and a woman lost her life.
- Tim questions why Baldwin is back to podcasting so quickly after the shooting.
- Baldwin probably faces lawsuits but likely won't be charged criminally and may have to pay money.
- Tim doesn't always agree with what Baldwin does and seldom does, but finds him charming and engaging.
- In a world where fun has been lost, Baldwin is fun and a good time.
- Tim hopes Baldwin's situation gets straightened out so everyone can move on from the tragedy.
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- 11 min
Spotify vs. Joe Rogan and the Kill Tony/N-word Confusion
#Tim explains the real controversy is about Joe Rogan (not Tony Hinchcliffe/Kill Tony), covering musicians pulling music from Spotify, Jen Psaki pressuring the platform, and his jealousy that Rogan gets this level of attention while he doesn't.
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- Spotify is embroiled in a major controversy over hosting Kill Tony, with Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulling their music in protest.
- Tony Hinchcliffe had an incident with an Asian opener and has since apologized for past use of the N-word on Instagram.
- Tim thought the controversy was about Kill Tony but realizes it's actually about Joe Rogan and a compilation of him using racial slurs.
- Spotify paid $100 million to acquire the Joe Rogan Experience, raising the question of what Kill Tony was worth.
- Joe Rogan has powerful enemies who want him de-platformed, and Tim believes the effort to remove him is somewhat coordinated across government, Congress, the private sector, and celebrities.
- Tim argues it's not controversial to say the vaccine hasn't worked as well as planned for preventing transmission, even if it kept people out of hospitals.
- Musicians including Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Nils Lofgren, India Arie, David Crosby, Mary Trump, and Roxane Gay have pulled their music from Spotify to take a stand.
- White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Spotify needs to do more to censor and potentially remove Joe Rogan from their platform.
- Tim expresses intense jealousy over the level of attention and controversy Joe Rogan is receiving, saying he's chased this kind of publicity his entire career.
- Tim jokes about what extreme statements he'd need to make to get similar coverage, from denying cancer exists to opposing abortion, but even saying vaccines didn't work well seems to be the ticket.
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- 2 min
Tim reads a sponsor spot for Keeps, a hair loss treatment and virtual doctor consultation service, riffing on his own bald jokes.
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- Tim compares himself to someone in the background who "puts on a wig and says he's a dead senator's daughter."
- On the statistic that two out of three men experience hair loss: "whoever gives a fuck."
- Tim adds his own tagline to the Keeps ad: "Keeps is cheaps" — not from the script.
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Tim and Ben discuss Lucy nicotine gum/lozenges as a smoking alternative, with Tim noting he hasn't smoked in weeks because of it.
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- Tim announces Keeps gave him $700,000 to debut their new theme song
- Lucy nicotine lozenges let you enjoy nicotine anywhere without smelling like smoke
- Ben almost started smoking again when asked to direct Tim's special due to stress
- Tim hasn't smoked in almost three weeks using Lucy's cinnamon flavor lozenges
- Tim reads the disclaimer that nicotine is an addictive chemical but notes they're adults
- 3 min
Tim plays and mocks a Jen Psaki press clip calling for Spotify to do more against misinformation, riffing on her pale complexion and mocking the idea that adults need to be protected from podcasters.
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- Jen Psaki explains the White House wants tech companies to do more than just label COVID misinformation—they should actively combat it across all platforms.
- She cites statistics: unvaccinated people are 16 times more likely to be hospitalized and 68 times more likely to die than the boosted.
- Tim mocks "more that can be done" as vague bureaucratic speak while commenting on Psaki's extreme paleness.
- Tim questions what additional measures the White House actually wants—whether they mean child locks on Spotify to protect kids from listening to Robert Malone.
- Adults are no longer responsible for their own behavior; instead, blame falls on podcasters who speak for a few hours a week.
- Tim argues Americans shouldn't need protection from people wearing headphones talking into a microphone, especially if it's their only information source.
- The implication: podcasters will kill you—part of the broader government narrative that audio content is a public health threat.
- 5 min
Adults, Personal Responsibility, and Biden's Absence
#Tim argues adults make complex decisions for many reasons and can't blame a podcaster for their choices, taking shots at Joe Biden's health and the 1994 crime bill along the way.
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- Tim on podcasts being blamed for people's deaths and bad decisions, despite adults having complex motivations.
- Biden and Jen Psaki pushing Spotify to censor content while Biden himself makes few public appearances.
- Adults have many rationalizations for their decisions—vaccination, health, drug use, respect—not just one podcast.
- Trump released the vaccine, Democrats distrusted it; Biden took office and suddenly it became mandatory and 'great.'
- The vaccine debate is over; studies show natural immunity lasts 18 months and the UK has dropped all mandates.
- The real motivation behind attacking the podcaster isn't vaccines—it's that Democrats don't want him around for midterms.
- The podcaster used the N-word while quoting others, never directing it at anyone, but now there's a compilation of clips strung together.
- The word is context-dependent—some people can say it and it's fine, others say it and it's racist.
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The Nutella Word, Planet of the Apes, and Racial Humor
#Tim dissects Joe Rogan's compilation controversy using 'nutella' as a euphemism for the slur, defends racial humor as a working-class bonding tradition, and argues people online who get offended by words need to toughen up.
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- Tim describes a celebrity's Planet of the Apes joke made in an area with many Black people.
- People make racial jokes about virtually every group — Blacks, Jews, Puerto Ricans, Russians, Catholics, Irish, Italians, Finnish, Dutch, Mexicans, El Salvadorians, Armenians, white people, Koreans, Japanese, Chinese.
- The races are different, which is why people make jokes about different races.
- Tim's observation: racial humor depends on intent and is commonplace in low-wage jobs where people from different races make fun of each other daily as a way to bond.
- A Black coworker joked that a late employee's Muslim female supervisor was going to blow up the bus — it's funny and no one cares.
- Racial humor is somewhat antiquated; Tim doesn't do much of it in his act anymore as people have evolved.
- Making racial jokes doesn't make someone racist, just as joking about gay people doesn't mean you hate them.
- Society has become hyperliteral about everything; people have forgotten that humor's purpose is to make a difficult life lighter and more fun.
- If someone on the internet says something that deeply angers you and it's not a direct threat, Tim considers that a personal problem worth examining.
- Tim's advice: stop caring what strangers think or what words they say online — it's a miserable way to live a short life.
- People should ignore offensive online content rather than be affected by it, since consequences usually follow or the person will eventually evolve.
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Tim reads a sponsor spot for MeUndies underwear and loungewear, joking that even pets wear them.
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- Tim opens the MeUndies ad by declaring they're the best underwear.
- Membership includes monthly subscriptions with discounted pricing, free shipping, and early access to new launches.
- Promo code offers 15% off, which Tim calls more than awesome and a fun way to support the show.
- Tim emphasizes MeUndies' 45-day return promise, saying nobody actually returns them because they're the best.
- Dogs and cats wear MeUndies in New York because the underwear is so comfortable that even animals prefer it over their own fur.
- 5 min
Tim reacts to shocking quotes from a SUNY libertarian philosophy professor named Stephen Kershnar defending pedophilia and comparing child consent to kickball participation, sourced via a Twitter human trafficking advocate.
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- NYU professor comes out hard for pedophilia, with quotes that seem like a genuine attempt to normalize it.
- Tim introduces the source: a human trafficking advocate on Twitter who compiles news about missing kids and victims.
- The professor argues that it's not obvious to him why an adult having sex with a willing 12-year-old is wrong independent of criminalization.
- Tim wonders where the professor made these statements — whether in class or on a podcast.
- The professor suggests a threshold for child sexual abuse, arguing that "some adult sex is perfect" and questioning where the line should be drawn.
- The professor claims that the notion sex with a one-year-old is wrong is "not quite obvious" to him, citing cultural practices he's heard about.
- The professor compares children's capacity for consent to their willingness to participate in kickball and bar mitzvah lessons.
- Tim jokes about a professor who's otherwise cool but then starts talking about eight-year-olds and gets weird.
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Denver Special and Ben's Directing Debut
#Tim discusses shooting a comedy special in Denver on March 26th at the Paramount Theater, with Ben Avery directing for the first time, and jokes about the pressure on him.
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- Tim announces a special shooting in Denver on March 26th at the Paramount Theater.
- Ben admits he's never shot a comedy special before, only music videos.
- Ben reveals he didn't sleep the first day after being asked to direct, and didn't start smoking again out of nervousness.
- Tim compares his support for Ben to Daniel Ek, saying he stands by him regardless of what others say.
- Tim complains his skin is falling off his face from the cold in New York.
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Tour Date Rundown: Phoenix, Tampa, San Antonio, and Portland Maine Struggles
#Tim runs through upcoming tour dates riffing on each city's character (Tampa's sexual energy, San Antonio's size, Portland Maine's poor ticket sales and lack of culture, Providence's decay) while begging fans to buy tickets.
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- Tim explains what he loves about Arizona: that it's horrible, though he makes an exception for Scottsdale.
- Tampa has great sexual energy with strip clubs, sex shops, and a consensual sex dungeon feel that appeals to him.
- San Antonio is one of the fattest cities in America where people are four to eight hundred pounds and move like cattle.
- Every meal in San Antonio makes you fatter—you expand like a hot air balloon until you can't fit in your car, then you die.
- Portland Maine ticket sales are abysmal—only 533 of 1900 seats sold—because all the men there have vaginas.
- Portland Maine is very left-wing in an annoying way, devoid of culture, full of substitute teachers and socialist losers.
- Maine is populated by blue-lipped fentanyl addicts peeling potatoes and wanting to take pills and fall on the floor instead of seeing comedy.
- Portland Oregon is far superior to Portland Maine—a rainy Thai food antifa stronghold where if he dyed his hair pink he'd control three to five blocks by midnight.
- Providence Rhode Island appeals to him because he likes white people who struggle, and it has great Italian food and a dark, decrepit mob-town aesthetic.
- The Toronto show has been moved twice due to Canadian government capacity restrictions, but they finally got Meridian Hall and tickets remain available.
- After Toronto, Tim goes off the road to focus on the podcast and the new studio, then will take time to develop new material before potentially touring in the fall.
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More Tour Dates: Baltimore, Toronto, and Beyond
#Continuation of the tour list covering Baltimore, Concord NH, Toronto's Meridian Hall, and plans to go off the road after the tour wraps.
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- Tim announces Baltimore show on March 18th and shares his love for the city's food and comedy scene.
- Story: A show in Anne Arundel County, Maryland where the microphone kept cutting in and out during the performance.
- The host of the house where they stayed had just been broken up with and watched the entire bombing set catatonic.
- The only laughs came when the comedians were struggling with the malfunctioning microphone, not during the actual jokes.
- Tim sits down after bombing his set and tries to make conversation with the depressed guy about breakfast cereals.
- The guy sold scoreboards to local high schools and responds to Tim's cereal comment with only 'there's no milk, it's expired.'
- Tim reflects that this suburban Maryland bombing experience was representative of his life for years.
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The Anne Arundel Maryland Gig and the Cereal Guy
#Tim tells a story about a disastrous comedy gig in Anne Arundel County Maryland with a broken mic, staying at a depressed scoreboard salesman's house, and the deadpan 'there's no milk, it's expired' line.
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- Tim recalls reconnecting with a childhood friend from Long Island over lunch.
- Everything on Long Island is framed as tragic—he illustrates with the story of Frank's wife contracting a parasite in the Bahamas that required half her stomach removal.
- The friend casually mentions Sarah, who met a guy, married him two nights after he got sober, then watched him relapse and kill himself on a motorcycle.
- People in LA can't handle anything, but Long Island residents witness their friends and family dying in extreme, unlikely ways every day and just soldier through.
- Tim describes fighting through a Long Island lunch as a test of seeing reality for what it actually is, not what you'd want it to be.
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Long Island Lunch: Frank, Sarah, and Michelle's Tragedies
#Tim describes the surreal experience of catching up with old Long Island friends who nonchalantly report escalating tragedies (parasites, motorcycle deaths, stage four cancer) between bites of clams.
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- Michelle is stage four and a half cancer, meaning they do last rites every day expecting her to die but she survives the night.
- Tim reconnects with people but also needs to get out; his flight was delayed and he's staying another night to see Christos Stefano at the Beacon Theater.
- Tim pitches products and promo codes to support the show, but his co-host gets all the free stuff because he and his wife like freebies.
- On Are You Garbage, Tim revealed how much he gave for his co-host's wedding, which angered him because it's a private matter.
- The co-host argues money gifts should stay private, but Tim counters that they bleed on stage for people, so their private lives end up in tabloids and Reddit.
- Philadelphia shows at Parx Casino let you become a winner and leave a winner after the comedy show, gambling, and drugs in your room.
- Tim has said bad things about Nashville before but is genuinely excited for the Ryman Auditorium show because the audiences are great, despite the blonde Ugg-boots aesthetic.
- March 26th Denver shows have two performances with tickets flying; Ben Avery is directing the special, likely for YouTube since Netflix isn't buying.
- Tim is asked about the Spotify controversy and how it ends.
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Patreon Plugs, Are You Garbage Wedding Gift Story, and Sign Off
#Tim plugs Patreon bonus content, tells a story about revealing a wedding gift amount on the Are You Garbage podcast, runs the final tour stops (Philadelphia, Nashville, Denver special, UK dates), and signs off.
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- Plugging timdylandcomedy.com and Portland tickets in May
- Tim jokes about Hassan Piker maybe squeezing him into his Porsche on the way back to LA
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