rant · moment 4 of 30
Gawking at the Homeless Helps Them (and a Woman in a Wheelchair)
from How To Help | The Tim Dillon Show #350 · #350
4 min
Tim elaborates on his theory that tourists gawking at drug addicts in San Francisco is actually a form of aid, riffing on a specific woman on a motorized scooter he asks the producer to zoom in on, then reflects on his own past drug addiction in his early 20s.
- Adults should visit disaster areas like Flint, Michigan instead of doing escape rooms or haunted houses.
- Gawking at homeless people in their moment of need actually helps them because tourism money benefits the local economy.
- Tim describes reaching a point in his early twenties on drugs where he was no longer a human being—just a thing that wanted to feel better.
- During addiction, you exist in a binary state: either high or anxiety-ridden trying to get drugs; those are the only two options.
- Modern drugs like fentanyl and tranq dope have created people who may as well be animatronic at this point.
- The homeless are making shapes with their bodies that no one's ever seen before, bending and shifting in ways that are visually amazing.
- Tim wants the camera to close up on a person in a wheelchair wearing big hats and black capes in post-apocalyptic fashion.
- Going to gawk and giggle at people in crisis actually helps them, even though it doesn't seem like it does.