rant · moment 9 of 16
Rant Against Celebrity Podcasts (Aniston, Bateman, Friends Cast)
from #303 - Meeting In The Woods | The Tim Dillon Show · #303
6 min
Tim demands Spotify sign him instead of celebrities, then unloads a long rant about how Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, and other legacy stars entering podcasting will kill the medium because they have nothing real to say, fantasizing about what would make their shows interesting.
- Spotify hired a woman to do a project with the Friends cast instead of the guy who made the Rogan deal.
- Tim argues no one cares what Jason Bateman thinks about anything, despite him being a brilliant actor.
- He's uninterested in Jennifer Aniston's take on anything and questions who wants to know Courteney Cox's views on Russia.
- Tim dismisses the nostalgia surrounding these shows, noting they were big 30 years ago when he was 9.
- People good at podcasting are good at it because there's no other option for them, so they get good or die.
- Tim questions what motivation Jennifer Aniston has to be entertaining on a microphone or what drives Jason Bateman.
- Celebrities can't share their real thoughts because their deal was to stay silent and get paid whenever they open their mouths.
- Tim explains these actors spent 30 years becoming someone they aren't because their real selves weren't interesting or didn't matter.
- Podcasts from Jennifer Aniston could only be good if she spent 30 minutes complaining about her maid faking long COVID.
- Spotify and studios are killing podcasting by letting vapid celebrities do it and marketing it the same way they kill everything else.
- Tim tells these actors to get out of the cheap studio and questions why they want his life of sitting in hell with millions of dollars.