rant · moment 18 of 26
Appalachian Moonshine Friend and American Masculinity via Guns
from #300 - A Unique Experience with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show · #300
4 min
Tim tells a story about a friend's gun-culture younger brother visiting, then compares American masculinity's obsession with guns to Australians' more relaxed, sex-positive culture.
- Tim on gun control: they need to be in the right hands, not the wrong hands, period.
- Friend from Appalachia visited—makes moonshine, different culture entirely, finds women at gas stations and brings them to cabins.
- The Appalachian friend ate dinner with David Spade and spent the whole time cutting into his plate like he was planning something.
- After school shootings, the friend's immediate reaction: they can't take his guns because the government abandoned rural communities.
- Australia has attractive people on beaches having sex—nobody's sitting around saying where are the AR-15s to make this better.
- Hollywood celebrities demand gun regulation but star in action movies glorifying guns, then applaud violence at awards shows.
- It's awful that mass shootings keep happening and show no signs of stopping.
- America is puritanical: you can show mass executions in films but a nipple is outrageous.
- American culture prefers murder to sex—we're basically a sexless nation that just wants to eat and kill each other.