Episode 306 · The Ben Avery Era
Breaking Point | The Tim Dillon Show #306
Jul 10, 2022 · 1:02:11 · 565,000 views · 22 segments, 114 moments indexed
Tim discusses Governor Newsom's new commercial for California airing in Florida, Shawn Mendes recent struggles with mental health, reaching the mountain top in a career, and a bizarre ceremony in the Swiss Alps.
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- 11 min
Shawn Mendes 'Breaking Point' and Celebrity Ennui
#Tim reacts to Shawn Mendes canceling his tour due to mental health, mocking the singer's statement while riffing on his $40 million net worth, his looks, and the emptiness of achieving everything at 23. He compares Mendes to himself and riffs on the idea of having 'lapped' regular people in every metric of life.
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- Shawn Mendes cancels three weeks of shows, citing breaking point and mental health struggles.
- Tim agrees touring since age 15 is difficult but notes the benefit of being away from friends and family contradicts the complaint.
- Tim compares his own show scheduling frustrations to Mendes' cancellation, noting fans threaten him when he moves a show thirty minutes.
- Shawn Mendes has a net worth of 40 million dollars at age 23 and could simply quit if he wanted to.
- People hate celebrities because they use coded language about mental health instead of just admitting they don't want to work.
- Mendes was one of the only successful artists from the Vine era; most other Vine kids are now homeless on skid row.
- Tim discusses his own breaking point doing home renovations and the absurd cost of construction labor.
- Contractors quote such expensive prices for simple repairs that homeowners decide to live with walls full of holes instead.
- Tim theorizes that Mendes feels empty because he's already achieved everything most people strive for at age 23: looks, talent, money, and fame.
- Mendes is at a breaking point because there's nothing left for him to accomplish on Earth; interplanetary travel hasn't been invented yet.
- Tim claims he and Mendes have achieved so much success at a young age that they view ordinary people as flesh-eating bacteria or pointless life forms.
- Tim reveals he advised Mendes to cancel the tour and they have become close friends who spend time together discussing meaning and fulfillment.
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- 1 min
Home Renovation Hell and Roe v. Wade Extensions
#Tim vents about the outrageous costs of home renovation and contractors, comparing it to HGTV flipping shows, then jokes about families needing home extensions because of Roe v. Wade forcing more births.
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- Within four or five years, Shawn Mendes will either become a musical legend, become an actor, or join a cult.
- Tim suggests the alternative path: dropping out quietly, moving to a suburb, and opening a restaurant franchise.
- Tim asks what you'd actually tell Shawn Mendes if he came to you at a breaking point with nowhere left to go.
- Mental health professionals advised Mendes to take time off to heal, comparing him to an overworked Elvis.
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- 1 min
Sean Mendes' Agent and the Ukraine Bread Crisis
#Tim imagines his own agent's reaction if he claimed a mental breakdown, tying it to a riff about his agent's bread addiction amid the Ukraine grain crisis.
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- Tim describes being at a breaking point mentally but claims his agent tells him to just lie about it and perform anyway.
- His agent is terrified because Ukraine, the bread basket of Europe, is struggling as a grain producer.
- Tim says he's had COVID and tried to tell his agent, but was told to just lie about it and perform regardless.
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Shawn Mendes' Team and Merch Numbers
#Tim imagines a cynical member of Mendes' team explaining that what people really want isn't peace but merch sales and fan hysteria.
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- A member of Shawn Mendes's team pitches him that what people really want isn't peace and quiet, but screaming fans and merchandise numbers.
- Tim explains that what people truly crave is hearing merch numbers at the end of the night—how many hoodies the fans bought.
- Tim notes that Mendes has an actual team of people advising him, whereas Tim himself only has one agent who weighs as much as a team.
- 1 min
Tim reads a sponsored ad for Raycon wireless earbuds, touting battery life, price, and durability, and gives a discount code.
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- Tim endorses Raycon earbuds as comfortable, cheaper than name brands, and claims they stay in place.
- People have reported their Raycons surviving falls from three stories and rain or snowstorms without failing.
- 2 min
Tim reads a sponsored ad for BetterHelp online therapy, mentioning affordability and his own use of it, and gives a discount code.
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- Tim explains that everyone is dealing with stress and BetterHelp online therapy is a great way to support a healthy brain.
- BetterHelp offers video, phone, and live chat therapy sessions without requiring you to be on camera, and it's more affordable than in-person therapy.
- Tim claims he used BetterHelp himself and got matched with a therapist, admitting he told them his boss is horrible.
- You won't regret investing in your mental health, and therapy prepares you for the world like luck—preparation matters.
- 5 min
Tim breaks down a Gavin Newsom presidential campaign ad, joking about an alleged original cut featuring drag queens and children, then riffs at length on California mandating drag queens at kids' birthday parties, inventing bizarre themed party scenarios (bathhouse, Rent-themed, Parkland).
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- Gavin Newsom is running for president of the United States despite being from the most hated state in the union.
- The original campaign ad featured drag queens twerking with children making it rain on them at Universal Studios.
- Newsom defended the ad as just a normal California drag queen birthday party and didn't understand the backlash.
- The campaign tested a slogan: 'We're gonna save the planet for child drag queens.'
- That slogan tested horribly in focus groups, so they've revised the campaign ad approach.
- Tim describes Newsom as an effete wine merchant who wanders around his Northern California estate in a robe drinking Barolo.
- Newsom told his wife that Latinos are confusing—not good or bad, but he doesn't know who's who.
- Newsom was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is now married to Donald Trump Jr., despite claiming to want authentic connections.
- California now requires at least one drag queen to be present at children's birthday parties.
- This drag queen requirement is law in California.
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- 3 min
Kids, Drag Queens, and Where the Line Should Be
#Tim argues kids should be kept out of adult spaces like drag shows and bars, drawing on a personal memory of watching his father play music in bars as a kid, while criticizing both the right's overreaction and the left's normalization.
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- Kids should be kept out of bars where drag queens and strippers perform, and children shouldn't be stripping themselves.
- California kids are advanced enough that some want 70s bathhouse-themed birthday parties with glory holes for the cupcakes.
- Tim watched his father play music in bars as a young kid instead of being raised properly, which was bad for him.
- If you want freedom, abortion access, and marriage equality, you can't simultaneously have children doing these things without abandoning morality.
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Dykes on Bikes and the Rent-Themed Birthday Party
#Tim continues riffing on inappropriate kids' party themes, including a lesbian motorcycle ride for children and a friend's four-year-old wanting a Rent-themed birthday party where kids act out having AIDS.
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- Tim describes a 'Dykes on Bikes' event where kids ride motorcycles with lesbians into the desert, then argues lesbians are asexual creatures like chupacabras so it's fine.
- A friend's four-year-old wants a Rent-themed birthday party where the kids each play a character from the musical.
- Tim lists the characters: a heroin addict, a transgender person with AIDS, Mark with AIDS, Adam with AIDS, and Collins, who sings 'Santa Fe,' which Tim calls a great song.
- The four-year-old asked his parents if they could do a Rent-themed party where everyone pretends to have AIDS.
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In Defense of Drag as Adult Entertainment
#Tim argues drag is fundamentally adult, acerbic entertainment and mocks the sanitized version of 'PC drag queens' reading books to kids at libraries.
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- Tim argues drag queens for adults is fine entertainment, and kids knowing they don't have AIDS is worthwhile.
- The appeal of drag is acerbic, witty performers saying inappropriate things late at night, sometimes sexual.
- Tim dismisses PC drag queens reading books at libraries as a hellish nightmare compared to lowbrow racial and ethnic humor he's seen in drag.
- Gavin Newsom is going to be president now.
- 1 min
Florida's Parkland-Themed Birthday Party Joke
#Continuing the Newsom ad reaction, Tim tells a bit about a friend in Florida throwing a 'Parkland but the kids win this time' themed birthday party with kids using toy guns.
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- Florida birthday parties are doing a theme called 'Parkland but the kids win this time.'
- Tim describes the party game: kids get unloaded guns, run around, and shoot at someone designated as 'anti-social communist' before that person gets them.
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Reacting to more of the Newsom ad's rhetoric about freedom and criminalization, Tim jokes about wanting to find a way to criminalize women while remaining pro-choice.
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- Tim is pro-choice but fascinated by the idea of criminalizing women simultaneously.
- He wonders if there's a way to criminalize women while still letting them have abortions.
- The combination of remaining libertarian-minded while criminalizing women hits his political sweet spot.
- Tim likes the idea of women starting as criminals and having to prove they're not.
- 3 min
The Hamptons vs. California Hollywood Trick
#Tim describes the pill-addled crowd of the Hamptons, then pivots to arguing California is a visual con job, using aerial shots versus street-level footage of Santa Monica homelessness to make his point.
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- Tim just returned from New York, which he calls the greatest state God ever gave man.
- His friend managing his Hamptons home is overweight, and the young mothers there are cruel to bigger women.
- A fat, rotund man in the Hamptons gets treated like a god because he might have money, but big ladies get no respect.
- New York City holds up to its reputation when you visit, actually matching what you've seen in films.
- The vast majority of California does not look like what people think it will, aside from Big Sur and Beverly Hills.
- Tim describes the feeling of sitting across from someone at a table and hoping it isn't what you know it actually is.
- 1 min
Tim briefly discusses news that Peter Schiff is in trouble over his bank's capital requirements, joking about supporting Schiff against federal regulators.
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- Tim discusses Peter Schiff getting in trouble over his Puerto Rican bank and why he's running one in the first place.
- Peter Schiff owns a bank with Jake Paul, which Tim treats as unremarkable.
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Tim resumes mocking the Newsom ad's 'freedom' messaging, arguing California doesn't practice what it preaches on freedom, and proposes what 'honest' political ads would actually look like.
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- Tim notes the aerial shot of Santa Monica is taken from so far away that California still looks desirable from the air.
- Santa Monica is one of the scariest places you'll ever go, with people walking around screaming at the sun and cursing God.
- The ad uses a trick of Hollywood, making California seem like an idyllic paradise when it's actually not.
- California at least has the benefit that the rest of the country is also a dump, with only about ten places worth living in.
- Tim argues California isn't actually free—the state took all your money, went nuts with vaccines, and had strict lockdowns.
- Real political ads would be honest: a candidate asking what you care about and which people you want to see killed.
- Actual political advertising should come down to which natural disasters you like and whether you'd celebrate someone's suffering based on disagreements.
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Tim mocks the ad's staged mixed-race family and unaffordable mortgage messaging, then broadens out to argue homelessness will worsen everywhere due to drugs, not just in California.
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- Tim breaks down the Newsom ad's messaging about freedom from hate and freedom to love.
- The mixed race family in the ad would have to work 19 hours a day to afford a $19,000 mortgage in California.
- Newsom's campaign doesn't want to talk about how unaffordable California actually is.
- Homelessness is becoming a nationwide problem, not just a California issue.
- Drugs are becoming the only thing that works to alleviate the hellscape we've created.
- Drugs have unintended consequences that knock people down and make it hard to climb back out.
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- 1 min
Tim reads an ad for DoorDash's DashPass summer promotion, touting no delivery fees and member-only offers.
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- Tim observes traffic everywhere during summer and notes that kids, dogs, and militias are all out.
- Using DashPass lets your dasher deal with the traffic instead of you, and zero delivery fees make it worth the time saved.
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Tim continues the DoorDash read, repeating the promo code and discount details in a mock jingle style.
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- Tim notes DoorDash is now paying him extra to emphasize "shine bright" during the ad read.
- The promo breaks down to half off a fifteen-dollar order, meaning seven-fifty comes free from the company.
- 2 min
Tim reads an ad for SimpliSafe home security systems, describing monitoring features and a discount code, and mentions installing it at his own house.
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- Tim installed SimpliSafe at his house and his mother was happy he finally got a security system.
- 10 min
The Gotthard Tunnel Illuminati Ceremony Video
#Tim and a guest watch and react in real time to a bizarre Swiss tunnel opening ceremony video featuring goat-headed dancers, a fake pope, nudity, and a goat-woman finale, joking that it looks like an Illuminati ritual or an A24 horror movie.
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- Someone sent Tim a six-year-old video of the Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony in Switzerland that RT covered.
- Tim finds this particular Illuminati ritual genuinely disturbing and hilarious, unlike most of the stretches people send him.
- Instead of a simple ribbon-cutting ceremony, they conducted an unnecessary hour-long production with Baphomet, dancers, and goat-headed figures.
- Tim jokes that Klaus Schwab decided to go all the way with it this time, saying "we don't give a fuck."
- Tim compares the ceremony's extreme nature to the torture scenes in the movie Hostel, suggesting this is what those villains would watch for entertainment.
- The yodeling figure in the ceremony is presented as a character from Swiss mythology, which Tim identifies as the yodeling pedophile.
- The Pope makes a cameo appearance at the tunnel opening ceremony, though Tim determines it's not the real Pope.
- In the outdoor portion, performers pretend to climb a rock wall, fall, and then appear completely naked in the dust.
- Creepy nuns appear in the ceremony, and Tim compares it to an A24 horror film, claiming it's actually better than most of their movies.
- Tim imagines Illuminati members themselves going too far, noting they wanted to touch on themes of enslaving humanity lightly, not this heavily.
- The climactic goat figure returns, described as resembling a mural from the Denver Airport come to life and looking like a trans goat.
- Tim presents two possibilities: either this is a genuine Illuminati production, or Switzerland just has genuinely terrible taste in art and music—which would be even more disturbing.
- The ceremony's finale symbolizes that time is god, shown through a clock countdown, justifying the tunnel's existence by saving travel time.
- The finale features a train emerging from the tunnel carrying what Tim describes as children being sacrificed, with one performing a Fortnite dance.
- Tim notes that Fortnite culture has infiltrated even the Illuminati ritual, saying "we just can't keep us out of anything."
- A mysterious source who frequently sends Tim things provided this Gotthard Tunnel video six years after it was recorded.
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- 5 min
Steve Will Do It's Man Cave and Cancer Kid Videos
#Tim and a guest watch clips of YouTuber Steve Will Do It giving away a car, taking a kid with cancer on an epic day out, and promoting Happy Dad, riffing on whether Steve is a genuinely good guy or exploiting sick kids for content.
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- Steve Will Do It is the poet laureate of the country but barely talks on the podcast, just sheepishly grins.
- Steve bought a Ford Ranger for Father's Day and is giving it away to someone who subscribes to his channel.
- Tim explains why you should support Steve: his videos are insane, he gives away cars, and he's become one of the biggest internet celebrities.
- With great power comes great responsibility, and Steve is now helping people by encouraging degenerate gamblers to subscribe to offshore gambling websites.
- Steve finds kids with cancer all over the place, though Tim wonders if there's a booker specifically identifying bald kids about to die to make him look good.
- Steve's channel features videos like giving a kid with cancer the most epic day, which involves getting him drunk and taking him in a helicopter.
- After the kids die, all the clothes Steve bought them go right back—but Tim concedes Steve is actually a good guy doing what wealthy internet people should do.
- Steve Will Do It has almost five million subscribers and is legitimately a good person, though Tim notes his previous charity work attempts failed when people's family members started smoking crack.
- 3 min
Tim runs through upcoming tour dates in San Jose, Long Island, and Salt Lake City, mentions an upcoming Netflix special, teases a book called 'The Boomer Guide to Parenting,' and thanks Gas Digital Network before signing off.
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- Tim announces tour dates at San Jose Improv July 28-30 with five shows selling out.
- West Hampton Beach show August 7-13 with Ben Avery and Ray Comp doing a live podcast.
- Salt Lake City shows coming to Wise Guys Comedy Club in Utah.
- New merch coming eventually, including fake business items fans have been requesting.
- Netflix special dropping in August; Netflix paid him very little but won't add content notes.
- Working on a book tentatively titled "The Boomer Guide to Parenting" with stories about his parents before they die.
- Louis C.K. suggested the subtitle should be "Settling Scores with Dead People."
- Tim thanks Gas Digital Network and its hosts for studio access and podcast support.
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