Interview · moment 18 of 29
What Happens When You Die, and Wanting to Live Like an Elf
from Ari Shaffir | The Tim Dillon Show #323 · #323
2 min
Guest
They speculate on the afterlife, whether political leaders secretly believe there's no God given their actions (including a jab at Obama), and Tim's fantasy of living for a thousand years like an elf, aging slowly while everyone else dies.
- Tim imagines God rejecting him at the gates like Dikembe Mutombo, questioning what he really did besides pushing kids and hitting cars.
- World leaders act like there's no God given the things they do—Obama attending church while bombing a wedding party.
- Tim claims he's beyond atheism or agnosticism and doesn't care about the afterlife because he has no control over it anyway.
- He'd prefer to live like an elf, aging one year every hundred, keeping his friends close while new technology emerges and new friendships form.
- Living a thousand-year elf life would give you the perspective to watch entire technological eras pass and meet completely new generations.
- The downside of extreme longevity: after seeing everything, you'd become lonely because nobody else lived long enough to relate to your experiences.
- Rich famous people end up just talking at everyone rather than having genuine back-and-forth conversation, which isolates them.
- Tim jokes that "lonely at the top" is true—but definitely not true at the top of rehab.
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