News · moment 18 of 30

The Dippin Dots CEO Strangling Scandal

from How To Help | The Tim Dillon Show #350 · #350

4 min

News

Tim explains the story of the Dippin Dots CEO Scott Fisher arrested for strangling his girlfriend while drunk and naked, riffing on the brand's rest-stop ice cream and the absurdity of the story being news.

In this bit8 moments
  • Tim explains Dippin Dots as frozen pellets of ice cream that look like rabbit droppings, usually found at rest stops.
  • Story: Tim and someone stole Dippin Dots from Wawa and never paid for them.
  • The Dippin Dots CEO Scott Fisher was arrested for public intoxication, domestic violence by strangulation, and running outside naked in a drunken rage.
  • Tim jokes the girlfriend probably insulted the ice cream, saying it had always sucked.
  • Fisher attacked the woman hours after she confronted him about his alcohol abuse, which had escalated over several weeks.
  • Tim shifts to mental health crisis: the country's untreated mental illness is so severe that many people are on the brink of breakdown or violence.
  • Tennessee man murdered his estranged wife, her daughter, and three kids after she took him to court; he owned 50 or 60 guns and she feared he would get drunk and shoot.
  • Tim: being pro-gun to a degree, but owning 50 or 60 guns might indicate something's wrong, though he expects to be attacked in comments for saying so.
Mentioned here

Scott Fishermental healthDippin Dots

All 30 moments in this episode →