rant · moment 7 of 19
Scabbing for Netflix and the Taylor Swift 'Welcome Home' Tour
from A Victimless Crime with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show #359 · #359
3 min
Tim jokes about being willing to scab and appear in every Netflix show, then pivots to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour as a 'white' cultural backlash and reset after years of diversity-driven content.
- Nobody talks about actors like Mark Ruffalo making $20 million per movie and keeping it, only about CEO compensation.
- Tim would scab and work every Netflix show, every HBO reboot, even play Lena Dunham in a Girls reboot if he had to.
- Construction workers have no idea the strikes are even happening—they don't care about Cole bear or any of it.
- Networks are struggling because shows don't make money anymore; the illusion is over and people don't really care.
- Taylor Swift's popularity is partly a backlash where people are tired of unfamiliar names and just want to see a blonde girl.
- The Eras Tour should be called the Welcome Home Tour because it's become a reclamation of whiteness.
- The last leg of Taylor's tour will feature 12-year-old kids attending instead, a result of overcorrecting too far one way.
- People got tired of crazy names like Zimbabwe and Ututu; the pendulum swung back to wanting simple white American names.
- Audiences now want to see white people from small towns with high school problems—boys and girls at the soda fountain.
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