Episode 298 · The Ben Avery Era
#298 - Puerto Rican Papi | The Tim Dillon Show
May 15, 2022 · 1:17:56 · 579,000 views · 35 segments, 181 moments indexed
Tim sits down with Luis Gomez to discuss family vacation destinations on a budget, the Gringo Papi, the collapse of the LA podcast scene, and why Tim bought a new car.
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- 1 min
Louis J. Gomez's Autograph Practice and the Origin of "J"
#Tim welcomes Louis J. Gomez and they riff on why Louis insists on the middle initial J, tracing it back to Louis practicing autographs as a kid, plus a bit about the letter J stopping words nicely like Donald J. Trump.
4moments
- Louis J. Gomez insists on the importance of the 'J' in his name, even though Tim keeps forgetting it.
- The 'J' comes from childhood autograph practice—Louis was rehearsing a famous signature he'd supposedly give to people one day.
- The 'J' just looked good between his first and last name, creating a satisfying visual stop in the signature.
- Tim notes the 'J' format works like Donald J. Trump—a middle initial that separates and elevates the full name.
- 3 min
Louis's Bentley and Ignoring Gas Prices
#Tim and Louis discuss ignoring economic pain like gas prices since they can't control it, then Tim tells the story of Louis giving him a financial responsibility lecture the night before buying a Bentley Flying Spur despite having just gotten a Jeep.
8moments
- Tim tries not to pay attention to gas prices because it would drive him crazy.
- He argues that worrying about gas prices doesn't make sense if you can't affect them anyway.
- Louis tells the story of Tim saying he'd buy a Jeep, then showing up two hours later in a Bentley.
- Tim explains he hadn't slept in 48 hours from Australia jet lag when he bought the car.
- He had given Louis a speech the night before about financial responsibility and saving money for the future.
- Tim bought a Bentley the day after that speech, losing thirty thousand immediately on depreciation.
- Tim argues the car has decent resale value because someone will always want it.
- Louis says Tim would need a driver for the Bentley rather than drive it himself.
- 2 min
Beverly Hills Hotel Living and Tony Hinchcliffe's Influence
#Louis explains he doesn't actually live at the Beverly Hills Hotel but was picked up there, then credits Tony Hinchcliffe's podcast reach for helping build his audience, and reflects on having no kids as freedom to misbehave financially.
6moments
- He pulls up to the Beverly Hills Hotel and Tim thinks it's his apartment.
- Tony Hinchcliffe's podcast gave him massive exposure and credibility.
- Tim has no kids and no family, which lets him misbehave and spend freely.
- Spending money on yourself is an investment in self-belief.
- Tim's definition of nice things includes an inflatable hot tub and Marlboro Miles catalog items.
- Those Marlboro Miles rewards—leather jackets, red tents—were genuinely beautiful things to aspire to.
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- 2 min
Marlboro Miles Catalog Nostalgia and Buying Stupid Things
#Tim riffs on how buying nice things is inherently dumb but brings joy, comparing his own taste to what you'd redeem with Marlboro Miles, and Louis explains the used but "certified pre-owned" nature of his Bentley.
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- Everything you buy is kind of stupid, but it makes you feel good and that's all it is.
- Worthwhile investments are your home and car — places where you spend time alone with your thoughts, which matters more than people realize.
- Driving a shitty car makes you feel like shit; Tim used to own an Oldsmobile 88 where pressing the brake too hard would shut off the engine.
- For years he would just buy the cheapest car at the used car lot — not a certified pre-owned Toyota, but a guy's beat-up trade-in.
- A 2018 Bentley is barely different from a 2022, and there's no point claiming otherwise to people.
- A Bentley isn't high-tech like a new BMW or Mercedes with their pink and purple lights designed by Puerto Ricans — it looks ethnic.
- It's an English gentleman's car with a normal horn, not some idiot beep.
- 1 min
Ethnic Car Lighting and the Bentley's Lack of Gimmicks
#They mock modern cars with flashy customizable interior lighting panels designed to appeal to people who want a carnival feeling, contrasting it with the old-school English gentleman simplicity of Louis's Bentley.
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- Some people want their car to feel like a carnival because that's where they work or have good family memories.
- Tim says manufacturers are treating people like morons with flashing lights, assuming everyone loves them.
- Tim compares his 2018 Bentley to the 2020 model, noting both have the same V8 engine and basic specs.
- He acknowledges this segment about luxury cars is not relatable to people watching while overdosing on heroin.
- 1 min
Tim's Old Advances and Hustling for 12 Years
#Louis recalls Tim asking for cash advances on his podcast payout and then posting steakhouse photos, framing it as proof Tim actually grinded for years rather than being handed success, unlike TikTok famous kids who peak at 18.
4moments
- Ben describes asking Tim for advances on his podcast payout every month around the 27th, getting $600 in cash.
- Tim would upload a steakhouse photo an hour after receiving the advance.
- Tim has been hustling and grinding for 12 years without being gifted anything.
- LA TikTokers living famous lives at 18 until 25 represents what's supposed to happen, then they die at 27 or 28.
- 1 min
Getting Laid Broke and Dirty in Your Twenties
#Tim marvels at how he got women while broke and dirty selling comedy club tickets and smoking blunts in stairwells, joking that unfunny comedians still manage to sleep with women and live well.
3moments
- Tim recounts being poor and dirty in his twenties while trying to get laid, selling comedy club tickets as a street kid.
- He wonders how any woman would sleep with an unfunny comedian, expressing confusion about his own romantic success back then.
- Many women end up in big houses with unfunny comedians and live very well, his guest notes.
- 1 min
The Staycation Family in the Providence Hotel Pool
#Tim tells a story about spotting a sad family staycationing 40 minutes from home at a Providence hotel pool, riffing on why anyone would visit Providence and imagining something's wrong at home.
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- Tim witnesses a family from Newport doing a staycation at a Providence hotel pool, 40 minutes from home.
- He considers it so depressing he jokingly wanted to kidnap the three-year-old and release him in a nicer parking lot.
- Seeing families trapped at shitty hotels with bad-smelling indoor pools during gigs is brutal and depressing.
- 3 min
Rocky's Trailer-Park Family Vacations and Pool Poverty
#Tim tells about his gay childhood friend Rocky whose "rich" family actually lived in a nice trailer and took him on cheap Atlantic City vacations, then defines poverty as having a pool too shallow to dive into, and recalls a humiliating memory of coveting a richer family's algae pool.
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- Tim's childhood friend Rocky tried to suck his dick in sixth grade, which confirmed Rocky was gay early on.
- Rocky now sells real estate and is very openly gay, though they stay in touch.
- Rocky's family lived in a nice trailer despite being extremely poor, which Tim thought meant they were rich.
- Rocky's dad would throw them bones at Bally's in Atlantic City for family vacations.
- Tim's in-ground pool was only six feet deep, so he had to dive out instead of straight down when his richer friends had eight to twelve foot pools.
- The thought of worrying about how deep your own pool is defines poverty to Tim, versus not having to think about it at all.
- Their landlord Mary Leone's grandkids had an in-ground pool with algae in it, representing trashed people with toys but no real wealth.
- Tim remembers standing in that algae pool staring at those kids, wanting them to invite him in—a moment of shame he wishes he could go back and tell his younger self to have pride.
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- 5 min
Tim's Mom the Prostitute and Heroin Addict
#Tim recounts realizing as a toddler that his mother was a prostitute after catching her with a client, discusses her drug addiction and low hourly rate, compares her to a friend's mom who invested her prostitution earnings in stocks, and describes their seaside heights "vacations" that were essentially rest-stop-style cabins.
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- Tim's mother was a heroin addict and prostitute; he figured it out as a toddler after catching her naked with an older man.
- As a child, Tim felt she was working and getting paid, framing it matter-of-factly rather than with shame.
- She wasn't a high-end prostitute—the family was very poor, and Tim clarifies she wasn't attractive enough for top-tier work.
- Tim shows a photo of his cleaned-up mother on Instagram, demonstrating she was actually a pretty woman.
- The interlocutor expresses respect that Tim's mother didn't abandon her children, saying he would have left them at a truck stop immediately.
- Tim knew another woman growing up—a friend's mother who was also a prostitute but invested her earnings in stocks and became financially literate.
- Tim's mother spent her prostitution earnings on heroin instead, and her rates would drop when she was desperate for a fix.
- Tim's mother eventually became a hairdresser, which Tim claims he respects less than prostitution.
- Tim jokes about the niche market required to purchase sex from both him and his sister as children—a pedophile with very specific aesthetic requirements.
- Family vacations meant going to Seaside Heights, New Jersey, where his mother could score heroin on the beach and they'd rent a shed-like structure for fifteen dollars a night.
- 1 min
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- 2 min
Ad read for SimplySafe home security, telling the story of a customer whose system alerted him before his forgotten pizza rolls could burn his kitchen down.
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- Joshua from Indiana fell asleep with pizza rolls in the oven and SimplySafe's smoke detector and alarm system woke him up before his house burned down.
- Tim notes he regularly puts things in the oven and goes to sleep, so SimplySafe prevents him from being cooked like a pizza roll.
- The value of SimplySafe's 24/7 professional monitoring is that actual people are watching and care when you're about to blow up your house with pizza rolls.
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- 4 min
WrestleMania 11 in Hartford and the Gringo Poppy Debate
#Tim recalls his mom's one great vacation splurge taking him to WrestleMania 11 in Hartford, which leads into discussing Skankfest's immersive fan experience versus Joe Rogan dismissing it, then a tangent mocking Brendan Schaub's Gringo Poppy special and Rogan telling him to start his own fest.
10moments
- Tim's best family vacation was WrestleMania 11 in Hartford, Connecticut.
- His mom spent significant money on tickets, around $75 each, for a good wrestling experience.
- WrestleMania fan festival featured interactive elements beyond autographs, similar to what Skankfest does.
- Stan Hope pitched Skankfest to Joe Rogan, who shut it down and told him to do his own festival instead.
- Rogan attributed Skankfest's success to Houston's comedy scene rather than the festival's actual concept.
- Tim points out the irony of Rogan suggesting Stan steal the idea after Rogan exposed Carlos Mencia.
- Skankfest is an immersive three-day experience with stand-up, podcasts, live wrestling, and interactive activities like mechanical bulls and beer pong.
- Tim describes Skankfest as a Woodstock for podcast and comedy fans, with consistently great audiences.
- For their Bastard Radio state of the industry address, Tim wants to cover the LA podcasting scene separately.
- Tim proposes calling his LA podcast segment 'The LA Podcasting Scene That Will Never Die' with photos of people currently in prison.
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- 6 min
LA Comic Scene Word Association and Brendan Schaub's Gay Stage Persona
#A word-association bit about LA comedy names (Bobby Lee, Ryan Cowan, Gringo Poppy) leads into an extended riff on Brendan Schaub's stage persona being weirdly effeminate despite being a tough ex-fighter, and a broader meditation on comedy's inherent neediness and validation-seeking.
8moments
- Whitney Cummings association: drugs.
- Gringo Poppy is brilliant and mysterious in ways no comedy special has been.
- Tim questions whether Brendan Schaub's special needed to exist at all.
- Schaub is charming and probably funny with friends, excels at podcasting for his specific MMA audience.
- Everyone stinks at comedy for five to thirty years; getting good in under five years is extremely rare.
- Stand-up is kind of gay and dumb when you really think about it.
- Comedy itself is cringe; if aliens watched humans do it, they'd see how pathetic it is to need strangers' validation.
- David Tell puts out a special every eight years and is one of the greatest comedians; Brendan keeps putting out multiple specials constantly.
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- 1 min
Ad read for ExpressVPN explaining how hackers can steal data on unencrypted networks and why an encrypted VPN tunnel protects users.
3moments
- Hackers and companies are trying to steal your information constantly.
- A smart 12-year-old with cheap hardware could hack someone; hackers sell stolen personal info on the dark web for a thousand per person.
- Tim explains what he likes most about ExpressVPN: it's easy and simple.
- 1 min
Ad read for ShipStation covering discounted shipping rates, carrier comparisons, and platform integrations for online sellers.
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- Tim introduces ShipStation as essential for online business owners who shouldn't waste time on shipping logistics.
- 3 min
The Enchanted Forest, Divorced-Dad Vacations, and Coheed and Cambria
#Tim describes a sketchy childhood water park called the Enchanted Forest, discusses how divorced dads take kids on nicer trips to spite the mom, plans a Rome trip with his son, and recalls his first-ever flight to Fort Lauderdale with his girlfriend and the lead singer of Coheed and Cambria.
8moments
- Tim's parents took him to the Enchanted Forest in upstate New York and he was convinced they were trying to sell him to human traffickers.
- The theme park's best characters were generic figures like Paul Bunyan because they couldn't afford anyone from bigger attractions like Sesame Place.
- Divorced dads take their kids to cool places as a way to avoid the mother and show superiority over the other parent.
- Tim lets his nine-year-old son spin a globe to decide their Father's Day trip destination, which backfired when the kid wanted to go to Sierra Leone to find blood diamonds.
- Tim wants his son to grow up and tell his mother about all the amazing places he visited without her, like Rome this summer.
- Tim's parents took him on a family trip to Europe when he was five while he was sick, despite a doctor's warning not to fly.
- Tim didn't fly until he was 19, on a graduation trip to Fort Lauderdale with his girlfriend.
- The lead singer of Coheed and Cambria was also on that trip because he was dating Tim's girlfriend's best friend.
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- 2 min
Port Aransas vs. South Padre and Fake Crab Vacations
#They discuss overhyped beach vacation spots being lit differently in photos than reality, contrasting cheap motel vacations eating imitation crab with Tim's own loveless, schizophrenic, closeted childhood.
5moments
- Port Aransas versus South Padre Island — Tim clarifies the confusion between the two Florida destinations.
- Vacation photography uses lighting tricks to make the water appear a certain shade of blue, but the actual location never matches the pictures.
- Ben took his family to a motel where they ate imitation crab during their vacation.
- Tim reflects on his own difficult upbringing: his mother was schizophrenic, his family members hated each other, and he had to hide being gay.
- When asked if anyone found out he was gay before he came out, Tim says a few people he slept with had suspicions but never had proof.
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- 2 min
Being Suspected Gay Before Coming Out and Leaning Into Identity
#Louis and Tim discuss people suspecting Louis was gay before he came out, then broaden into how people perform identity (Black vernacular online, gay stereotypes) once they lean into it, and how they themselves refuse identity politics performance.
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- People lean into their identity—some guys are effeminate, others take it further, not realizing there's a choice in how much to perform.
- Tim watches his Black friends deliberately write in Ebonics on social media despite having autocorrect, spending extra effort to signal identity.
- The guest calls Tim a Puerto Rican white supremacist; Tim responds he's a truth teller.
- Tim and the guest bond over finding identity politics gross—they don't hide who they are and aren't into the group thing.
- Social media trains people to present themselves in a certain calculated way rather than being real.
- In comedy and podcasting, Tim and his guest are less protected and more authentically themselves than many of their peers.
- 3 min
Gaming the Instagram Algorithm with Fake Engagement
#Tim explains how influencers manipulate Instagram's algorithm by responding to every comment to boost visibility, calling it sociopathic, and contrasts it with LA people who never struggled before becoming successful.
6moments
- Instagram influencers respond to every comment with fake engagement to manipulate the algorithm into showing their content to more people.
- Tim describes the practice as sociopathic—people blindly say 'love you' and 'thank you' to strangers to game the system rather than build genuine relationships.
- All famous Instagram models and TikTokers do this; it's part of their job, often handled by social media managers who respond to everything.
- Tim responds to some people on social media but not everyone, and doesn't play those algorithm-gaming games.
- One guy he responded to once has been sending him follow-up DMs with middle fingers because Tim didn't keep replying, treating one response as the start of a friendship.
- Instead of gaming the system and trying to manipulate algorithms, people should focus on being good, funny, or interesting.
- 1 min
Successful LA People as Dead-Eyed Husks
#Tim expands on how many materially successful LA people have become emotionally hollow, having lost touch with who they organically were, drifting into a bit about needing a lighter.
3moments
- Tim describes successful LA people as dead inside, cold husks of human beings whose material success doesn't matter because they've forgotten who they are.
- They're all on low doses of some type of drugs, Tim adds.
- Tim complains there are no lighters in the studio and questions why.
- 3 min
The Equinox Heartbeat Speech and Ben's Front Desk Job
#Tim recounts working at Equinox where every department, including maintenance, got the same inflated "you're the heartbeat of the club" pep talk, then jokingly compares Ben's podcast producer job to a hot front desk girl at Equinox.
5moments
- Tim's last job was selling gym memberships at Equinox.
- The old Mexican maintenance ladies hated the heartbeat speech but everyone needed that sense of pride to make the business work.
- Ben is a front desk person at Equinox, and Tim argues he should feel important about the role.
- Front desk staff at Equinox do a lot more than just check people in—they're liaisons between new members and sales.
- Tim warns Jamie Vernon not to go down the Red Band path by getting too cocky about producing the show.
- 1 min
Prank Calling Joe Rogan's Declining Numbers
#Tim and Louis joke about Joe Rogan's supposedly dropping listener numbers and attempt a bit where they "call" Joe on speakerphone with a mystery voice answering.
4moments
- Joe Rogan is now getting only 500 listeners per episode.
- Tim won't do the show anymore because Joe calls him all the time asking why Lewis won't respond to him.
- They attempt to call Joe right now on speaker to ask why his numbers have collapsed.
- Anthony Cumia was supposed to be sneaked back into SiriusXM during one of Joe's appearances with Jim and Sam.
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- 2 min
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- Tim jokes about moving to Austin and the subject still refusing to acknowledge him, imagining Instagram posts where Doug Stanhope and Sam help him buy a house while the person ignores him completely.
- The subject won't even make eye contact, with two Navy SEALs standing between him and Tim at all times.
- 2 min
New York vs LA Podcast Drama and Real Poverty
#Tim contrasts the gay high-school-level drama of LA podcasters with the genuine desperate poverty-driven drama of New York comics, joking about being 38 with no phone plan and rat-infested apartments in expensive Tribeca.
7moments
- LA podcast scene is dead and gay, high school level drama with people calling each other and threatening each other
- New York drama is actually real because everyone can't afford rent
- New York podcast drama: parents kicked someone off family plan at 38, roommate moved out, can't secure another one
- New York dramas involve people hanging themselves, trying to kill themselves, beds covered in rat feces
- Even people with money in New York like Big Jay have nothing nice—everything's expensive, dirty, garbage everywhere
- Tribeca, one of the most expensive neighborhoods, looks like heroin dead everywhere in tiny buildings
- Different life in New York makes you funnier
- 1 min
Funny People Come From Hot, Bored People
#Tim theorizes that the funniest people are good-looking surfers and bored hot people, and that most funny LA-based comics are actually East Coast transplants, name-checking Big Jay Oakerson and others.
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- The funniest people in the world are good-looking surfers and mixed martial artists.
- LA comedians struggle most when they actually have to do comedy instead of just posting photos.
- The funny people out here—Bill Burr, Annie, Sebastian—are all East Coast transplants.
- Nobody's really from LA; nobody funny comes from there originally.
- 1 min
Defending Dan Soder... Wait, Defending the 18-Year-Old Comment
#A quick riff acknowledging 18-year-olds are hot and defending someone (implied comedian) for being attracted to legal-age women, plus a joke about Tim's view overlooking Beverly Hills High School.
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- Tim argues that everyone pretends 18-year-olds aren't attractive, but they are.
- Tim is texting True Geordie and mentions having an Irish twink friend he hangs out with.
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- 2 min
Texting True Geordie and the Twink Mix-Up
#Tim reads out an awkward flirty text exchange he had, initially believing he was texting an Irish twink he flirts with, only to realize partway through he'd actually been texting the massive British YouTuber True Geordie.
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- Tim reads aloud a text exchange with True Geordie about a Brandis Child versus Bobby Lees comparison being a car crash
- True Geordie texts back asking if Tim is awake, and Tim describes what he looks like — a tank, not a twink
- True Geordie references Tim's podcast about Brendan allegedly raping him, and Tim responds 'you're allowed to rape me'
- Back-and-forth escalates with True Geordie saying Tim won't complain because he wants it to be about the work, and Tim claims he was masturbating during the exchange
- Tim invites True Geordie to London, then worries the guy has dementia when he doesn't remember, and eventually realizes he's been texting someone named Brian, not actually True Geordie
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- 2 min
Defending Chris D'Elia's Alleged Creepiness
#Tim and Louis discuss the Chris D'Elia allegations, arguing nothing was ever legally proven, framing his worst act as texting a girl after she turned 18, and generalizing that most guys are creepy underneath.
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- Tim argues nothing Chris D'Elia did was proven illegal and dismisses concerns about whether people find him creepy.
- Most people are creepy; you just don't know about their creepiness, and the worst thing D'Elia did was fund and produce his school play.
- The accusations were never proven—mostly involving girls who were 18 or 19, with one who was 17 when discovered.
- D'Elia found out a girl was 17, and a year later after she turned 18 he contacted her again, which Tim says is creepy but not grooming.
- Even if accusations were proven, it was just D'Elia being a douchey, creepy dude—which most guys are, and many are far worse.
- Tim jokes about these guys on his shows; LA comedy people think he and Legion of Skanks are trolling, but they're just addressing the elephant in the room.
- It's possible D'Elia had one idea of the night while the girl had another, and the situation isn't being portrayed accurately.
- 2 min
Meghan Markle, Pete Davidson, and Not Feeling Bad for Millionaires
#Tim compares Meghan Markle's racism claims against the royal family to trusting an actress, then pivots to feeling conflicted about joking on his show about Pete Davidson's fame, concluding he doesn't feel bad for millionaires who get mocked online.
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- Tim on Meghan Markle: she complains about racism but she's an actress, so he can't believe her over the British royal family—they're essentially the same person.
- He knows Pete Davidson from the comedy scene and used to like him, but once he became famous the relationship changed.
- Tim wouldn't feel bad if celebrity Pete Davidson heard him poking fun, because famous people don't have feelings anymore.
- He refuses to feel bad for millionaires who get made fun of online while actual people can't afford rent or insulin.
- His audience includes people like Jeremiah Watkins, who is flipping signs and selling water on the 405 freeway just to survive.
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- 3 min
Marvel's Tim Dillon and Getting a Thick Skin From Trolls
#Tim discusses developing thick skin from years of Opie and Anthony subreddit trolling, and the funny mix-up where a Marvel employee also named Tim Dillon gets hate meant for the comedian, plus a same-name mix-up with a non-fighter Jon Jones.
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- Tim explains how trolling from the Opie and Anthony subreddit years ago gave him thick skin.
- There's another Tim Dillon at Marvel whose Twitter handle says 'not the comedian' because he gets bombarded with tweets meant for the comedian.
- Similar situation with Jon Jones the fighter, who gets harassed with messages when the actual Jon Jones gets in trouble.
- Tim cites the South Park episode where a dad becomes an internet troll and explains his motivation as simply 'because it's funny.'
- People working boring jobs go online and troll because it's entertaining, and Tim admits he does it on flights when bored.
- The problem with trolling occurs when the criticism is actually valid and someone pulls on a thread that genuinely hurts.
- 2 min
The Fake Proud Boy Article and Doxxing Threats
#Louis explains how an old joke article calling him "Proud Boy of the Month" from fans of Legion of Skanks got weaponized years later by a comic trying to imply he's a real Proud Boy and expose his address.
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- A fabricated article claimed Tim was a Proud Boy; he clarifies the actual story involved Proud Boy fans of Legion of Skanks who named him to their newsletter.
- Proud Boys started as a gag on Anthony Cumia's network but became politicized when they began counter-protesting in riot gear instead of staying funny.
- After fighting at LSMania, Proud Boy fans named Tim 'Proud Boy of the Month' in their newsletter, which he immediately pushed back on.
- Tim contacted them demanding they remove the designation, explaining that being associated with the group carries a scarlet letter effect regardless of context.
- He clarifies he won't kick fans out of his show for wearing Proud Boy or antifa gear, but the political association itself becomes a liability they don't deserve.
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The Chaos Theory Tattoo
#Louis explains the meaning behind his arm tattoo, a double pendulum representing chaos theory and the improbability of any given life path, misidentified online as a Proud Boys "fourth degree" symbol.
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- Internet users dug up an old article and accused Tim of being a Proud Boy based on a tattoo on his arm.
- Tim explains the tattoo is actually a double pendulum design representing chaos theory, not a number four.
- 3 min
Doxxing Danger and Not Caring What Fans Believe Politically
#Louis discusses the real danger of doxxing amid heated political climates, and both agree they don't care what their politically divided fanbases believe since it's irrelevant to doing their jobs.
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- Someone wrote an article accusing Louis of being a Proud Boy, getting the town wrong but still doxxing him.
- A comedian started retweeting the doxxing article, which crossed the line in Tim's view.
- Tim addresses the intent behind doxxing: putting someone's address out so somebody might confront them and their family.
- The responsibility issue—the comic knew Louis wasn't actually a Proud Boy but spread it anyway.
- After Trump left office, the intensity of political attacks cooled down because the left feels less pressure to fight.
- Tim doesn't care what his fans believe politically—some think Trump is Hitler, others think he's the greatest president.
- His job is doing comedy; what his audience believes is inconsequential to him.
- Who the president is and gas prices are variables he can't control and barely affect his ability to move forward.
- Tim stays hyper-focused on playing his game rather than worrying about things outside his control.
- 3 min
Louis runs through where fans can find him: sold-out Skankfest, his special headed to YouTube and Gas Digital, upcoming tour dates with Aaron Berg, and his three podcasts on the Gas Digital Network.
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- Skankfest sells 2,500 tickets per day and is completely sold out.
- Gas Digital is producing six half-hour specials this summer, with extended cuts available on the platform.
- Specials will be released on YouTube with uncensored extended versions on Gas Digital.
- Rebecca Trent and Christine Evans are executive producing the specials alongside featured comics like Dave Attell and Mike Vecchione.
- Louis is touring heavily across California, Texas, and the Northeast; dates available at louisofskanks.com.
- He and Aaron Berger are going on tour together across the fall.
- Tim thanks Louis for representing New York comics and podcasters out in LA.
- Louis expresses respect for what Tim and the show are doing and takes influence from their work.
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