Episode 354 · The Studio Revamp
I'm On Strike | The Tim Dillon Show #354
Jul 18, 2023 · 1:18:21 · 585,000 views · 23 segments, 141 moments indexed
Tim dissects Disney’s latest shortcomings, the SAG-AFTRA strike, Hunter Biden’s White House antics, a pole dancing convention leaving Florida and how he may finally have revenge on Airbnb.
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- 1 min
New Studio Setup and the Missing Background
#Tim explains the new NYC studio is still under construction so they're using a black curtain, joking about the shadowy 'people from the netherworld' who deliver it.
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- Tim explains they're in a new New York studio and have two locations so they never miss a video episode.
- The New York City background is on its way but hasn't arrived yet, held up by various characters and dark people.
- Tim describes using "people of the earth" who burrow into things to help get the background delivered.
- The current setup is temporary—just a black curtain, not the permanent background.
- 1 min
Being Gay on YouTube and Supporting Ukraine
#Tim riffs absurdly on being a 'gay man on YouTube' and ties it into a mock obligation to support Ukraine because of his sexuality.
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- Tim announces he's gay on YouTube, a homosexual gay man in a heterosexual patriarchal world.
- Being gay held him back in life and he stole a lot trying to buy drugs as a result.
- Tim says half his income should go to Ukraine because he's gay and wants to be able to be gay there if they win.
- 1 min
The New Little Mermaid Isn't Black Enough
#Tim jokes that the live-action Little Mermaid should have gone even further with race-swapping, praising the singer's voice while mocking the discourse.
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- Tim says the new Little Mermaid isn't black enough and wants it to be even blacker.
- The actress has a beautiful voice, but Tim thinks the film could have gone further in an almost uncomfortable direction.
- Tim expresses support for Fran Drescher and the writers' strike because she leads the Screen Actors Guild union he belongs to.
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- 2 min
Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA, and the Actors Strike
#Tim discusses Fran Drescher leading the SAG strike, sympathizing with pay concerns but mocking Hollywood's threatened content like Marvel movies and talking-animal films.
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- Fran Drescher is now president of the Screen Actors Guild, and Tim calls the strike situation a great injustice.
- Americans don't care about actors and writers not making money, dismissing their work as crap.
- Tim warns that popular entertainment people actually like—Marvel movies, Fast and Furious—could disappear if the strike isn't resolved.
- The strike threatens real action films with actual explosions, not just prestige content.
- Tim says he sees everyone's point about the strike and that people should get paid fairly.
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- 5 min
Tim rants about Disney replacing the seven dwarfs with 'magical creatures of all sizes' in the Snow White remake, mocking the casting and going after Peter Dinklage's objections to the original dwarf characters.
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- Disney's live-action Snow White remake should be an easy hit but risks failure if they mess it up.
- Snow White was the perfect opportunity to employ little people actors as the seven dwarfs.
- Disney replaced the seven dwarfs with magical creatures of all sizes and genders instead of casting little actors.
- Tim criticizes the cast of magical creatures as unkempt and diseased-looking, comparing them to heroin addicts under a bridge.
- Dwarfs should be tiny, somewhat chubby, hearty, hard-working people, not the ragged characters Disney cast.
- Little people actors of all races could have worked, but Disney's choice to cast someone with long hair in the middle makes no sense.
- Disney modernizing these movies by destroying them is why people don't care about supporting the entertainment industry.
- Peter Dinklage criticized the casting, saying Disney was being progressive about the Latina actress while still telling the backwards story of seven dwarfs in a cave.
- Dinklage questions what impact his advocacy has had if Disney still makes the same regressive content.
- Disney claimed it was taking a different approach to avoid reinforcing stereotypes about dwarfs.
- 4 min
Dwarf Actors, the Cheshire Cat Role, and Snow White Casting Rant Continued
#Continuing the Snow White bit, Tim imagines himself pitching to play the Cheshire Cat and mocks the 'freak show' casting choices for the dwarfs.
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- Tim questions what negative stereotypes about dwarfs are actually being reinforced by Snow White, noting the original dwarfs had distinct individual personalities and jobs.
- Tim proposes a hypothetical: if Disney made a film with seven loud, vicious fat men instead, why would he complain, and what exactly is Peter Dinklage upset about?
- Peter Dinklage doesn't want dwarf culture to become a Disney character, Tim guesses—but then tells him to either not make the movie or accept that Disney will do it anyway.
- Tim accuses Dinklage of taking opportunities away from other little people actors who could be working, describing it as closing the bridge for everyone else now that he's rich.
- Tim reveals he would love to play the Cheshire Cat in a Disney adaptation—a nasty, cognizant character that appeals to him as a role.
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- 4 min
Ron Perlman's Fake Tough Guy Threats and Fran Drescher's Speech
#Tim mocks Ron Perlman's tough-guy threats toward studios during the strike and criticizes Fran Drescher's erratic, disorganized public speaking style.
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- Snow White and the seven homeless people — Tim describes the Little Mermaid remake cast as a crew that would destroy the company.
- Fran Drescher is on strike and showing up to picket lines with her own demands outside the union's contract.
- Tim plays a clip of Fran Drescher giving a speech about the strike and agrees with some demands but calls others unrealistic.
- The writers' strike is the most insufferable in the world because everyone involved is acting all the time.
- Ron Perlman made veiled threats after studios allegedly said they'd let writers lose their houses, delivering lines like 'There's a lot of ways to lose your house, brother.'
- Tim dismisses Perlman's threats as fake tough guy posturing — he's an actor, not actually burning down Bob Iger's house.
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- 3 min
Fran Drescher Clip Reaction and the 90% Strike Platform Joke
#Tim reacts to a Fran Drescher speech clip, mocking her delivery, then jokes about his own 'controversial' strike platform of giving studios 90% of what they want.
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- Tim asks someone to write Fran Drescher's speech down for her because she sounds erratic and disorganized.
- Tim reveals his controversial strike platform: give the studios 90% of what they want and take 10%.
- He proposes putting the lowest-earning SAG members into an indentured-servant-style mentorship program with the studios.
- Tim argues Hollywood's machine will shrink because there are 600 shows nobody watches and the business model isn't sustainable.
- The studios won't take a moral stand against AI adoption because Hollywood raped children and threw women in fire pits without consequence.
- Tim claims the studios want to accelerate AI so they never have to see another actor or writer again.
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- 3 min
Dylan Mulvaney as the New Snow White
#Tim continues riffing on studios remaking classics as morality tales, joking that Dylan Mulvaney is effectively the new Snow White with 'magical gender creatures.'
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- Tim argues that hiring based on race, sexuality, and gender rather than talent ruins everything, and that remaking movies as morality tales won't work because people won't watch them.
- Dylan Mulvaney is cast as the new Snow White, coming with the seven magical gender creatures.
- Tim directs Fran to tone down her angry expression and get a hairbrush for the bit.
- Eighty-seven percent of SAG actors make less than $26,000 a year and cannot qualify for health insurance.
- 3 min
SAG Pay Inequality and a Violent Hollywood Strike Fantasy
#Tim discusses SAG members' low wages and health insurance thresholds, then fantasizes about a chaotic, violent version of the Hollywood strike with egg-throwing and confrontations.
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- Hollywood is a progressive business with insane inequality, but it's not a regular job creation industry.
- Tim supports SAG, the WGA, and all the studio CEOs equally because everyone bleeds red blood.
- The writers are right in theory, but Tim doesn't want to see them because they're all trying to do stand-up now.
- Tim fantasizes about a long, violent Hollywood strike with egg-throwing, pies, and blood in the streets.
- He's not advocating for violence, just imagining the strike as entertainment that would actually be fun and watchable.
- Tim envisions Fran Drescher physically attacking studio executives like David Zaslav and Bob Iger on camera.
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- 5 min
Tim reads a news story about the pole dancing convention PoleCon relocating from Florida due to drag and anti-LGBTQ laws, riffing absurdly about kids attending pole dancing conventions with their families.
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- Tim says the LGBT community is losing their minds and inviting too many people into an increasingly broad tent.
- PoleCon, a pole dancing convention, moves its 2024 event out of Florida over drag bans and anti-LGBTQ laws.
- Florida's apparent attempt to prevent minors from pole dancing is insane and disgusting, since it's a legitimate sport and art form.
- Tim asked his cousin's children visiting the Hamptons if they pole dance, because it's great exercise and many kids are overweight.
- Florida law bans children from attending adult live performances including drag shows and some pole dancing acts.
- Tim describes a hypothetical scenario of a 10-year-old drag queen pole dancer wanting to attend PoleCon with their parents.
- Parents should look at their child and say yes, buying PoleCon tickets as a Christmas gift the same day they come home from church.
- 2 min
Tim wraps the PoleCon bit, criticizing DeSantis while also finding the whole premise of taking children to a pole dancing convention insane.
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- PoleCon might become more popular than Disney World in America.
- Tim invokes the 'first they came for' argument about laws targeting kids who pole dance.
- DeSantis wants to turn the country into a Christian theocracy, and those who support it tend to abuse children at higher rates.
- Tim questions who would actually take their children to a pole dancing convention in Florida, calling it insane.
- The pole dancing controversy doesn't help the case against DeSantis' laws—it makes his side look reasonable by comparison.
- Banning kids from starting puberty treatments is a good idea, even if the overall laws are poorly targeted.
- 4 min
Tim discusses the death of Robert De Niro's grandson Leonardo from fentanyl-laced pills sold by a dealer nicknamed the 'Percocet Princess,' reflecting on his own past drug use and how casually deadly street drugs have become.
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- Tim finds it funny that pole dancing conventions in Florida are the example used in debates about banning certain activities, with parents bringing children.
- The 20-year-old dealer, called the Percocet Princess, has no findable photos online, leading Tim to theorize she might be the daughter of somebody wealthy.
- The Percocet Princess explicitly warned the victim, 'I don't want to kill you,' then sold him the fentanyl-laced pills anyway.
- Tim used to take Percocet and never thought it was dangerous—he viewed it as a fun way to start the morning and help get through the workday.
- Oxycodone laced with fentanyl is a different story entirely from casual prescription painkillers like Percocet or Vicodin.
- Tim doesn't know what will happen to the dealer, but suspects she might be released back onto the street despite serious charges.
- In Singapore, they would hang someone for dealing fentanyl-laced drugs, though Tim clarifies he's not advocating for that outcome.
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- 6 min
Hunter Biden's Cocaine at the White House
#Tim analyzes video of Hunter Biden at a White House event, insisting he's visibly high on cocaine, and riffs on his own history as an addict and the family dynamics around Hunter's behavior.
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- Cocaine was found in the White House, and Tim insists it's definitely Hunter Biden's.
- Tim analyzes White House video of Hunter Biden, pointing out nervous tics and hand-through-hair behavior as signs of active cocaine use.
- Tim declares Hunter Biden is high on cocaine in the footage and notes that Jill knows it too.
- Hunter leaves the balcony party where his family is gathered, raising the question of where he's actually going.
- Tim says he'd also be on drugs if forced to present his dementia-afflicted father as a functioning presidential candidate.
- The censorship required to maintain Biden's image is North Korean-level authoritarian, reaching down to demonetizing random comedians.
- From personal experience as a former addict, Tim describes how family members switched to gift cards once they realize you're a junkie.
- Tim's generation used gift cards to cut cocaine, but the point is addiction carries permanent social consequences.
- Hunter Biden documented every bad act on his laptop—every crime, every offense—and will never regain trust in his lifetime or ten lifetimes.
- Hunter has no motivation to stop using because he knows Burisma scams and corruption are now exposed and can never be run again.
- 4 min
Tim discusses the US sending cluster bombs to Ukraine and Russia's matching response, arguing that neither side wants the war to end and comparing it to a frozen conflict nobody actually wins.
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- Tim on the U.S. sending cluster bombs to Ukraine as a policy decision.
- Putin warned Russia has sufficient reserves of its own cluster munitions.
- The Defense Department doesn't want the Russia-Ukraine war to end—they benefit as long as people die and weapons are built.
- Ukraine is running low on conventional shells and increasingly relying on cluster bombs.
- The outcome will likely be a frozen conflict with no decisive victory, leaving Ukraine a perpetually dysfunctional state.
- Tim compares the Ukraine strategy to COVID—started with "two weeks," now escalating to jets and cluster bombs with no exit plan.
- He's stopped focusing on Ukraine coverage because the goal is for Americans to ignore it while weapons and money flow over.
- Americans distracted by culture war issues like Snow White casting while cluster bombs get sent to Ukraine.
- 3 min
Record Heat, Death Valley Tourism, and Climate Gawking
#Tim talks about extreme heat waves hitting Vegas and Death Valley, riffing on tourists flocking to see 128-degree temperatures as a form of disaster tourism.
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- Tim notes Vegas will hit 115° during his Encore Theater show on Saturday
- Death Valley temperatures peaked at 128°, one of the hottest summers ever
- Tourists are still flocking to Death Valley despite it being an arid hellscape where only tarantulas and lizards survive
- People go to Death Valley because it's cheap, willing to risk death for inexpensive tourism
- Tim predicted this disaster tourism trend where people find fun in watching the decaying planet
- Tourists at Death Valley are smiling and happy while experiencing record heat, treating catastrophe as entertainment
- Shift to litigious society complaint: people must sue others who have hurt or maimed them
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- 2 min
A loud, escalating ad read for the personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan, encouraging listeners to sue over any injury.
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- Tim's morning routine: wake up and call a lawyer to sue someone as the truest way to feel American.
- Morgan & Morgan is the biggest personal injury law firm in the world, and they handle all your suing needs.
- If you fall, you were tripped; if you slip, it was done to you; every accident is someone else's fault and they owe you.
- If somebody hits you with their car, treat it as intentional and go after them with Morgan & Morgan.
- This time they're not getting away with it—no more prayers, no more accepting it could have been worse, sue them now.
- Tim's escalating instructions: call the lawyers, light them on fire, drag their ass to court, sue the hell out of them every day.
- 3 min
An ad for ShipStation shipping software, framed around a bizarre bit about a widow running an online pine cone craft business.
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- Tim establishes the premise: your dead husband won't run the back office for your pine cone business.
- You should focus on dipping pine cones in glitter and selling them to people with artistic children, not on shipping logistics.
- Your husband is dead and left you with a lot of debt, so you need ShipStation to handle the back office while you build your pine cone empire.
- 5 min
Tim plays and reacts to a bizarre, manic speech by NEA president Becky Pringle, comparing it to Fran Drescher's erratic rhetoric and arguing society now celebrates mental breakdowns as visionary behavior.
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- Tim introduces Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, describing her as unwell.
- His prediction that people having mental breakdowns in public would be rewarded and celebrated as visionary geniuses.
- Becky Pringle's motivational speech invoking Chief Seattle and rhetoric about inner fire, purpose, and refusing to bend.
- Tim notes she appeared to do a Hitler salute at the end of her speech.
- Specifics have been driven out of national conversations—people speak in vague, deep-sounding platitudes instead of concrete plans.
- When you ask what anyone actually means or what they're trying to accomplish, there's no real answer.
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- 6 min
Airbnb's Collapse and Tim's Banning Backstory
#Tim explains why Airbnb usage and revenue are collapsing post-pandemic, revisiting his own Airbnb ban dispute over a cleaning fee and accusing hosts of being creepy, controlling voyeurs.
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- Tim calls Airbnb's collapse, noting it boomed during the pandemic as people sought to experience living in other locales.
- Revenues are plummeting nearly 50% in cities like Phoenix and Austin as the world reopened.
- Tim's Airbnb ban stemmed from hosts expecting him to clean after he paid over $400 in cleaning fees.
- Airbnb went from funky and cool to imposing strict rules: no guests after 10 p.m., no visitors, constant surveillance.
- Tim and his companions suspected hosts were entering the house when they weren't there and watched them on hidden cameras.
- Airbnb hosts are often voyeurs and potentially dangerous—rapists, pedophiles, murderers trying to ensnare families in their homes.
- No one will admit to Airbnb-ing their house; everyone Tim has spoken to who rents out their home is disturbed.
- Someone checked into an Airbnb with satanic imagery throughout, exemplifying the sick freaks who run these properties.
- 5 min
Reacting to a Joshua Tree Airbnb Host Vlog
#Tim plays and mocks a vlog from an Airbnb host couple in Joshua Tree obsessing over deep cleaning, cleaner management, and guest reviews, portraying them as controlling and unhinged.
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- Tim identifies Airbnb as an aberration, unholy, satanic, and demonic—unlike the legitimate achievements of tech.
- The couple Tim had issues with on their Airbnb rental were lesbians.
- Airbnb owners complain that guests don't respect the house, but they rented it out knowing people would use it.
- These hosts claim to self-manage but employ cleaners—they're obsessive clean freaks with something sick in their eyes.
- Finding and managing good cleaners is supposedly the most important piece of running an Airbnb successfully.
- Tim mocks the hosts for constant, anxious communication with cleaners about minor issues like spills in the sink.
- A specific type of person gives their life meaning through buying and renovating a house, then becomes perpetually unhappy.
- The get-rich-quick scheme causes these people to create beautiful homes only to open them to guests and become enraged at them.
- Airbnb hosts write passive-aggressive rules and essentially tell guests: thanks for checking in, now fuck you.
- 6 min
Fake Emotional Support Animals and the Death of Airbnb
#Continuing the Airbnb host vlog reaction, Tim rants about fake ESA animal scams in California and declares Airbnb collapsing as a societal good, urging people back to hotels.
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- Airbnb hosts are terrified of bad reviews in their first months and have learned to "speak their truth" about guests who break rules.
- Tim attacks the Airbnb checkout policy requiring guests to clean the entire house, throw out half-drunk water bottles, and wash towels despite paying a cleaning fee.
- Hosts like these are being driven out of the market because they have a sick obsession with curating a perfect experience and bossing around other adults.
- Tim mocks the host's complaint about finding cleaners in the high desert by pointing out she's really looking for slaves.
- California Airbnb hosts explain they allow certified service animals and ESA animals but clarify there's confusion about how people abuse the ESA loophole.
- Emotional support animals are fake and don't actually exist except for severely autistic nonverbal people or blind people, according to Tim.
- Tim celebrates that Airbnb is collapsing because the American public is getting smarter and won't tolerate the insane passive-aggressive treatment from hosts obsessed with rules.
- Anyone still booking Airbnbs now is a loser and a killer, since hotels are back and nobody should be walking into somebody else's house.
- 1 min
Tim promotes the American Royalty Tour dates, the Carnegie Hall show with Ray Kump, and thanks viewers for bearing with the studio background issues before signing off.
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- Tim calls for making Airbnb illegal as a place where violent white people do horrible things.
- The American Royalty Tour is on sale; promo code is 'fakebiz' for all shows except Carnegie Hall.
- Carnegie Hall tickets are available through NYC New York Comedy Festival artist presale, with an hour of stand-up followed by a mini podcast with Ray Kump.
- Tim notes that Ray Kump performing at Carnegie Hall is something few people will experience, and certainly not what Andrew Carnegie intended.