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Selling Sunset's Vibe Shift and the Death of the Mansion Fantasy
from Hantavirus Cruise & iPad Babies | The Tim Dillon Show #495 · #495
5 min
Tim reflects on how vapid and unresponsive the Selling Sunset cast were backstage, jokes about rich people never meeting poor people, and argues the show's fantasy of aspirational home-buying is dying now that owning a house feels impossible.
- One Selling Sunset cast member claimed she grew up in Paris when asked if she grew up in the UK.
- Tim asked a woman on the show if she knew any poor people and she said no.
- It's hard to meet poor people if you're rich, and nobody talks about that.
- The cast didn't even defend themselves when Tim suggested they don't actually sell houses.
- The audience was vicious to the Selling Sunset cast, screaming at them from the balcony to shut up.
- Selling Sunset debuted in 2019, before the pandemic, when people still believed they could own a house.
- Tim predicts the era of mansion-flipping shows will decline now that homeownership has become impossible for most people.
- People won't want to watch hot women walk around mansions pretending to sell them anymore because they're angry about being priced out.
- The Selling Sunset cast were lovely and nice backstage but wouldn't answer his questions.
- Tim asked one woman to simply name an area of Los Angeles she liked and she found it difficult.