rant · moment 6 of 22
The Nihilistic Rich Kid and the Dead-Eyed Hampton Husks
from Joe Biden & Something Different | The Tim Dillon Show #398 · #398
4 min
He describes a young, wealthy, dead-eyed producer friend who has seen everything and feels nothing, and generalizes this into a type of ageless, unshockable Hamptons trust-fund kid who recognizes everyone driving by without even looking.
- Tim brings a nihilistic rich kid producer from New York to the Hamptons—a blackeyed guy who's over everything and drifts passionlessly between experiences.
- The kid's Instagram shows him on elephants with poachers in Africa, and when he saw Tim's house, he called it cute with that patronizing cadence of someone who's stayed in houses with bowling alleys and sunken tennis courts.
- Tim used to want to be one of these rich people but no longer does—they're dead-eyed little monsters, husks who can't feel anything because they've been destroyed by money.
- Tim argues the kid's dead-eyed nihilism is actually a good thing because nothing impresses him, so he wanders from parties in townhouses to limestone mansions completely unexcited.
- These Hampton kids are so dead-eyed they can sense other scions of nothingness driving past—they'll recognize someone in a pickup truck without even looking at it, like they're reading vibrations.
- The rich kids in their early to mid-twenties are ageless, like little stone gargoyles perched on a building, with names like Grover Wellington that all seem to be around eighty years old.
- When Tim took the nihilistic kid around the Hamptons, he said "the country's a circus" and "we're really deeply fucked," which Tim recognized as the right reaction to reality.
- What's good about those rich kids is they don't follow up their grim assessment with emotional hand-wringing—they just accept it and plan to thrive in the ruins anyway.
- Everyone's having an awakening that they've been lied to on a level they can't even imagine about everything, all the time.