rant · moment 8 of 28
Summoning Aliens in the Dead Mall
from Eric Swalwell, The Great Layoff, & We Endorse Katie Porter | The Tim Dillon Show #492 · #492
3 min
Tim describes walking through a decaying, liminal-feeling mall in Redondo Beach with a friend, tying it to a quote about tech executives 'summoning aliens' through AI data center 'portals,' and riffing on the death of Hot Topic-era mall culture.
- Tim was at an old mall in Redondo Beach, California with a friend, a liminal space identical to the new Backrooms movie.
- Tech billionaires like Sam Altman will eventually biohack and hijack podcasters' bodies, including Tim and Rogan, forcing him to blame rare diseases for malfunctions.
- Walking around a dead mall is the definitive proof that the old world is finished—retail, gathering, film, everything associated with mall culture is gone forever.
- While reading about tech billionaires opening stargates and scientists disappearing over anti-gravity technology, Tim stares at a Hot Topic in a ghost town mall feeling like a time traveler in the past.
- Who shops at Hot Topic anymore? Tim questions whether fat goths, the store's target demographic, even exist in 2024.