Interview · moment 23 of 42
Comedy Clips, Mothership Etiquette, and When the Cool Kids Turn on Us
from An American Royal with Bert Kreischer | The Tim Dillon Show #341 · #341
3 min
Guest
They discuss the modern obsession with viral clips over craft, joke about an opener demanding his own 'mothership clip,' and speculate about the day the cultural tide turns against arena comics like Motley Crüe eventually did.
- Tim discusses how isolating oneself from interesting people like Logan Paul costs opportunities to meet them.
- Everyone now operates in the same space, makes content, and has an audience—no longer in isolated worlds.
- Tim offers business advice on scaling up from one or two employees to six or eight, including hiring a personal assistant for touring.
- If signing a movie deal, Tim would recommend taking control of everything the studio has.
- The problem with small overhead and big income is you don't have to worry about money, which creates complacency.
- Tim recommends hiring a manager and offers his own as an example of someone with golden insights.
- Tim initially backed out of a drive-in movie theater tour after booking twelve dates, but his manager convinced him to try six instead.
- His manager told him: even if it sucks, you'll create content out of it and be worth the effort.
- Tim scaled the tour down from twelve to six dates to test it, got out of the house during the pandemic, and fell in love with it on the first night.