rant · moment 3 of 30
San Francisco as Disaster Tourism
from How To Help | The Tim Dillon Show #350 · #350
4 min
Tim compares San Francisco's decline to Detroit's collapse and pitches the idea that visiting devastated cities to gawk at addicts and decay is the new frontier of American tourism, calling it more authentic than escape rooms or haunted houses.
- San Francisco is the next American city to fall, like Detroit did.
- The city has amazing food—Tim ate incredible Chinese food at a random restaurant after a show.
- San Francisco is as bad as it's going to get; Tim doesn't know how it could get worse.
- There's nothing to do in the city except engage in disaster tourism, which requires being sick to enjoy.
- Tim witnessed a fentanyl addict injecting himself in the street and acknowledges it's sad but you have to make the best of it.
- Future American tourism will shift from places like Yellowstone to visiting dying cities that everyone is fleeing.
- Sitting in a Chinese restaurant looking outside at homeless people on motorized chairs draped in capes becomes entertainment.
- San Francisco has become a ghoulish attraction, but the food is great and it's fun if you stay alert.
- Americans escape to manufactured danger in escape rooms instead of going to the cities their politics have destroyed.