Episode 325 · Post-Ben
Christmas in Nantucket | The Tim Dillon Show #325
Dec 4, 2022 · 1:01:36 · 390,000 views · 18 segments, 110 moments indexed
In this episode Tim rants about Hunter Biden's laptop scandal and the information being made public on Twitter, Joe Biden's holiday vacation in Nantucket, how easy it is to find jobs on craigslist, and Disney's new flop of a movie "Strange…
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- 4 min
Twitter Files Cold Open: Hunter Biden's Laptop, His Dick, and Joe Biden's Cursed Family
#Tim opens with the Twitter Files story about suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop, riffing on Hunter's crack use, the laptop's contents, and the tragic, gypsy-cursed history of the Biden family.
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- Twitter gate and the Hunter Biden laptop story: Elon Musk gave internal documents to Matt Taibi revealing Twitter's suppression of the story before the election.
- Hunter Biden is the president's son, a crackhead who somehow documented his entire life—every hookup, crack pipe, everything—on a laptop.
- Tim's drug use never compelled him to photograph himself, unlike Hunter Biden who meticulously archived his destructive behavior.
- The laptop ended up in a repair shop after Hunter Biden abandoned it, containing evidence of his Burisma job in Ukraine.
- Hunter Biden's position at Burisma—an energy company—appears to be a sweetheart deal, possibly connected to his father's influence.
- The Biden family carries a gypsy curse: Joe Biden's first wife died in a car crash with their daughter, his sons were critically injured, and now Hunter is a crackhead who married his dead brother's widow.
- Tim theorizes Biden sold his soul to the devil for the presidency, and the devil is collecting payment through his family's suffering.
- Despite Biden's questionable history—putting black people in jail, potentially doing horrible things—his tragic family circumstances inspire sympathy.
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- 5 min
Twitter's Trust and Safety Moms and the Russia Panic
#Tim describes the Twitter safety team's Stanford-educated, utopian mindset, comparing them to a drunk wine mom, and revisits the post-2016 hysteria about Russian bots controlling social media.
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- Post-2016 election, the narrative shifted to Russia interfering with American elections and turning aunts and uncles into unwitting Russian assets spreading disinformation
- Tim assesses the intelligence community's two-year campaign claiming Trump was a Russian asset as an overreaction they couldn't actually prove
- Twitter's Trust and Safety staff—Stanford-educated elites—believe they're ushering in a utopia by controlling which words people can use and what information they receive
- Tech culture differs from finance: it's colder, more manipulative, run by people who genuinely believe they're saving you from your own inadequate brain
- Tech leaders want to remove people from decision-making processes entirely—voting, vaccines, everything—because they're the guardians of information
- These executives operate with a 'drunk wine mom' energy: convinced they're martyrs dealing with Nazis and trolls, deciding what their unruly children can watch and eat
- The core problem nobody admits: social media sites are just bad, easily gamed, and destructive to humanity—but admitting that kills the ad revenue
- Trying to convince social media companies to moderate themselves is like asking a crack addict to just smoke a little bit after work
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- 3 min
The FBI's 'Hack and Leak' Warnings and Hunter's Hog
#Tim imagines the weekly FBI-Twitter meetings warning of a coming hack-and-leak operation, then riffs on the decision to suppress laptop photos specifically to protect Hunter's dignity.
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- FBI held weekly meetings with Twitter during the election warning of incoming 'hack and leak' campaigns that would expose embarrassing government information.
- When the Hunter Biden laptop story emerged, Twitter executives faced a decision about how to handle the New York Post article.
- The Biden team's stated reason for pressuring Twitter: not wanting pictures of Hunter's genitalia published online out of decency for a grieving family.
- Tim speculates Hunter must be well-endowed given he slept with his dead brother's wife, and the effort involved in pursuing that relationship.
- Joe Biden's core concern boils down to preventing his son's explicit images from circulating on the internet.
- 4 min
Biden Explains the Hog Situation to Staff
#Tim imagines Joe Biden's staff having to explain to him why Hunter's nude photos couldn't circulate given Biden's old-TV-era mentality, riffing on Hunter's anatomy.
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- Tim imagines Biden having to explain Hunter's explicit photos to his staff.
- Tim depicts Biden sitting Hunter down to explain that his hog photos are going to be all over the internet.
- Twitter's former head of trusted safety claimed the laptop story set off alarm bells and might be a Russian hack.
- Twitter executives clearly didn't want Trump to win, though that became irrelevant once Trump eventually dies.
- Trump's dominance as a figure prevents principled debate about whether platforms should control election-relevant information.
- Deep fakes will eventually make it impossible to know what Hunter Biden actually did versus what's fabricated.
- The Biden family had to sit Joe down at Thanksgiving in Nantucket to explain he's the president and ask if he wants to run again.
- Biden looked happy walking through Nantucket's Christmas shops because he wasn't thinking about being president.
- Hunter wasn't included in the family's public walks around town, raising questions about what he did during those moments alone.
- 4 min
Twitter Suppression Overview and the Nantucket Tree Lighting Photos
#Tim contextualizes the suppression as anti-Trump bias, then dives into photos of the Biden family's Nantucket Thanksgiving, spotting a surprisingly present Hunter Biden next to a priest and speculating about his sobriety.
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- Trump has no relationship to the truth and uses things like QAnon to boost himself despite knowing they're fake.
- The Hunter Biden laptop story broke as very salacious news and then disappeared overnight.
- Hunter Biden showed up at the Nantucket tree lighting ceremony, which surprised Tim since he thought Hunter was being kept away.
- Tim compares Hunter's situation to his own experience as a junkie teenager, when his parents wouldn't take him anywhere until he cleaned up.
- Tim questions whether Hunter's face in the photo shows he's actually turned over a new leaf.
- The Biden family photo looks artificially composed, with no one appearing to have any relation to each other or what's going on around them.
- Tim realizes Hunter has a child and appears to be living as a family man in Nantucket rather than locked away.
- Tim speculates that the whole situation is connected to Hunter leaving the laptop behind.
- 3 min
Second Chances for Hunter and the Holiday Spirit
#Tim delivers an extended, mock-sincere riff about giving Hunter Biden a second chance in the spirit of the holidays, juxtaposing family togetherness with his scandals.
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- Hunter got a job at an energy company in Ukraine because of his dad, whose country's president has billions exposed in the Panama Papers and was installed in a CIA coup.
- Tim argues it's the holiday season, a time for second chances and family, even when that family involves a crackhead, corruption, and a laptop with government secrets.
- Yes, it's about the collapse of democracy and technocracy, but it's still the holidays and we're having a tree lighting.
- Twitter criticizes discussing Hunter's addiction as exposing someone with a disease, but Tim points out Hunter documented everything himself on video and photos.
- Tim suggests Hunter seems to be turning the page and looking good now.
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- 2 min
Vijaya Gadde and Caitlyn Jenner's Treason Tweet
#Tim returns to Twitter-gate, discussing whether Vijaya Gadde will defend her decisions, and reads Caitlyn Jenner's tweet calling for her to be indicted for treason.
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- Twitter gate is the big news.
- Caitlyn Jenner's father sold his soul to the devil to become president and is now leering through a window.
- People believe Hunter Biden's laptop contains videos of Nancy Pelosi cooking children in a pot.
- Q Anon people are impressive for their ability to never admit defeat, just claiming the plan has shifted.
- The economy is back and doing well now, everyone has a job even if some aren't great.
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- 5 min
The Economy Is Great, Actually: Craigslist Job Hunt
#Tim sarcastically declares the economy strong by reading absurd Craigslist job listings (deli person, tennis coach, dental hygienist) to prove anyone can get a job.
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- Tim argues the economy is turning around and people are happy, even railroad workers
- Workers should be given rights, though Tim admits uncertainty about where to land on railroad conductor issues
- U.S. labor market is historically tight with 263,000 jobs added in November and jobless rate at 3.7 percent
- York Bagel and Deli offering health benefits and bonuses for deli and counter staff
- Tim finds a Craigslist ad for someone to play tennis weekly, offering $50 an hour
- Answering the tennis coach ad is how you get stabbed or put in the back of a car, according to Tim
- Ad specifically notes opportunity for college students or those who won't be missed, raising red flags
- Dental hygienist opening requires being energetic, knowledgeable, and a team player
- Tim predicts things will turn around quicker than expected and expresses optimism about the economy
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- 4 min
Ro Khanna and Vijaya Gadde's Role in Laptop Suppression
#Tim discusses the two Indian-American figures central to the story, Congressman Ro Khanna and Twitter's Vijaya Gadde, and how the decision to suppress the story seemingly aimed to help Biden win.
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- Vijaya Gadde's defense would require her to publicly state she reviewed Hunter Biden's explicit material and decided it warranted suppression.
- Caitlyn Jenner tweeted that Vijaya Gadde should be investigated, subpoenaed, indicted, and criminally charged for treason.
- Elon Musk is now filling Donald Trump's role as the person making sweeping claims about what's wrong with the country.
- Two Indian Americans—congressman Ro Khanna and Vijaya Gadde—are at the center of the Hunter Biden laptop story, framed as a First Amendment issue.
- Ro Khanna is a Democratic congressman representing Silicon Valley who was pushing for the Twitter Files to be released.
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Silicon Valley Paternalism and the Hack-and-Leak Rationale
#Tim theorizes about the mindset of Twitter's California-based trust and safety staff, comparing their paternalistic censorship instincts to a parent covering a kid's eyes from porn ads.
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- Twitter and Silicon Valley figures suppressed the laptop story because they didn't want Trump to win, according to people Tim spoke with in Northern California.
- Tech workers are eggheads who've lived their entire lives online, formed all their relationships there, and believe everything has a justification in their own minds.
- Tim argues the real rationale was that releasing the laptop story could prevent Biden from winning the presidency, not concern about foreign hack-and-leak operations.
- Everyone blames Russia for WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Snowden, treating all leakers as part of a foreign intelligence campaign.
- The Twitter decision had paternalistic, student council president energy—like a parent covering a child's eyes from strip club ads in 1990s New York City.
- Tim struggles with Vijaya Gadde's name because it sounds like Sanjaya and vagina combined.
- These Silicon Valley figures don't want people making their own choices, treating users like children who need protection.
- Elon Musk had to remove Kanye from Twitter after his Hitler remarks.
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- 1 min
Tim recounts Kanye West tweeting a swastika intermixed with a Star of David, his 'Hitler brings good things' comments on Alex Jones's show, and Biden's response tweet.
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- Alex Jones struggled with Kanye going on Infowars and promoting Nazi imagery because Jones isn't really a Hitler fan.
- Tim notes that Kanye making Alex uncomfortable on his own show is an accomplishment, though it correlates with him becoming a Nazi.
- The fact that Kanye became a Nazi comes up naturally at dinner as a talking point, even if it's not right that he did.
- Biden had to tweet clarifications that the Holocaust happened, Hitler was demonic, and political leaders should call out anti-Semitism instead of platforming it.
- 4 min
The Right's Kanye Apologists
#Tim criticizes right-wing figures who frame Kanye's Hitler comments as 'a conversation worth having' rather than condemning them outright.
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- Tim identifies the problem with the right's response to Kanye: they hedge with asterisks instead of directly condemning him.
- Right-wing apologists frame Hitler praise as an important conversation to have, equating it with policy debates about water and workers' rights.
- A small group on the right is receptive to Kanye's language and uses the 'we should talk about this' defense rather than rejecting it outright.
- Tim questions whether a narcissist having a mental episode and saying he loves Hitler is actually making a political point about Israel.
- Many people saw where Kanye's rhetoric was headed, but some dismissed it as frustration until he explicitly praised Hitler.
- Tim riffs on free speech versus platform responsibility, imagining Twitter's feed becoming entirely swastikas within six months.
- Even as a free speech advocate, Tim argues adults should understand that brands like Chobani won't advertise alongside Nazi imagery.
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Tim reads a sponsor spot for Babbel, describing the app's quick lessons, native-speaker content, and discount code, while tying it back to swastika-adjacent ad revenue jokes.
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- Tim admits he's always been embarrassed about not knowing another language, noting that people from other countries all speak multiple languages.
- Learning a little of the local language impresses people you travel with, whether that's a girlfriend, boyfriend, or just locals you want to talk to.
- Tim pivots to discussing how companies like Chobani and Nestle don't want to advertise on platforms where people are tweeting swastikas, even if they need the ad revenue.
- He's unsure whether subscription-based models will work as an alternative to ad revenue on platforms.
- 3 min
Advertisers Never Cared About Free Speech
#Tim argues corporations like Chili's and Nescafe never actually cared about free speech, using the Iraq War and Patriot Act as examples, before pivoting to Disney's 'Strange World' controversy.
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- Advertisers never cared about free speech—McDonald's didn't care what you said about the Iraq War, and Chili's wasn't standing with you when you criticized American foreign policy.
- The new idea that corporations are against the people misses the point: they only care about selling potato salad, not your freedoms.
- Disney's 'Strange World' supposedly has gay themes, but if Hollywood were actually sneaking them in effectively, they wouldn't name a movie 'Strange World.'
- The controversy is over one mildly suggested gay character, not explicit scenes—there aren't two sloths sucking each other off for the whole film.
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- 4 min
Strange World's Gay Character and Disney's Ugly New Animation
#Tim breaks down the plot of Disney's flop 'Strange World,' mocks the outrage over its minor gay character, and complains that new Disney character designs are just ugly regardless of race.
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- Tim questions how gay the plot of Strange World actually gets, noting the inclusion feels minimal and questioning why it even matters.
- The gay character aspect doesn't center the plot, but Tim acknowledges some people don't want their kids seeing gay characters in anything.
- Tim distinguishes between one background gay character and what he'd consider actually over-the-line representation in animated films.
- Disney and Pixar movies have included coded gay characters for years, Tim notes, listing previous examples.
- Tim jokes that Kanye should voice a character in the next animated film to sneak himself back into that world.
- Shifting focus: Tim argues the real problem isn't representation but that all new Disney animated characters are just ugly, regardless of race.
- Tim would object to his kids watching new Disney movies because everyone in them is ugly, not because of the content.
- 7 min
Casey Anthony Stan Talk and the Holiday Redemption Arc
#Tim declares himself a devoted 'Casey Anthony stan,' hoping the new Peacock documentary revives her acting prospects, and closes by listing Trump, Kanye, and Casey Anthony as flawed 'great Americans' worth celebrating during the holidays.
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- Tim hopes the Biden scandal doesn't ruin their Christmas and expresses belief in family redemption.
- Tim declares himself a Stan of Casey Anthony and hasn't watched the documentary yet.
- He believes the documentary could open casting doors for Casey Anthony and showcase her underutilized talent.
- Tim positions Casey Anthony as an "innocent star" worthy of respect, alongside comparisons to Kanye and Trump.
- A Jake Gyllenhaal and Casey Anthony movie would prove cancel culture is over and people can bounce back.
- Tim argues family is what matters during the holidays, and that nothing can't be overcome with family support.
- Kanye, Casey Anthony, and Trump are the types of people Tim wants children to learn about as great Americans.
- Tim defends Casey Anthony against accusations of killing a child, asking how much punishment she owes society.
- He rejects a "draconian, puritanical" society that punishes people for liking Hitler or drowning their child.
- Tim pitches Casey Anthony replacing Christina Ricci in a Wednesday cameo and jokes about killing the role.
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- 1 min
Tim plugs the Patreon bonus episode about Casey Anthony's innocence, announces his New Year's Eve show at Irvine Improv, and thanks sponsors before signing off.
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- Patreon has full episodes where Tim explains why Casey Anthony is innocent
- Tim will be performing at Irvine Improv on New Year's Eve and might get Botox live on stage
- Tour dates and tickets available at timberlandcomedy.com