rant · moment 12 of 24
Freedom Fest as Burning Man for Bob's Big Boy People
from Gutsy | The Tim Dillon Show #315 · #315
2 min
Tim compares Freedom Fest to Burning Man for a different demographic, joking that its attendees don't even need drugs because they already believe in underground bases and a flat earth.
- Tim describes the QAnon-adjacent crowd as so delusional they don't need LSD—they're living in a reality where JFK Jr. is coming back
- If you sat a sober Freedom Fest person next to someone actively tripping at Burning Man and interviewed them, you wouldn't know who was on drugs
- These conspiracy believers claim everything started underground and will finish there, the moon doesn't exist, the earth is flat—they need no drugs for that level of delusion
- Tim argues he's had legitimate conspiracy discussions throughout his life, in the top group of podcasters entertaining alternative theories
- He's brought on alternative historians, documentary filmmakers, and former CIA agents like John Kiriakou who've reached radically different conclusions than mainstream media
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