rant · moment 6 of 29
Celebrities Need a Product or They're Nothing
from Kevin Spacey's Soup & AI Saints | The Tim Dillon Show #393 · #393
5 min
He expands the thesis that fame is meaningless without a consumer product, imagining his own scandal-plagued pancake mix, and insists Logan Paul can't be blamed for kids' reactions to his drink.
- Tim notes that Prime energy drink's warning label tells people to call Poison Control if it makes them sick.
- KSI and Logan Paul's Prime energy drink has sent kids to the hospital with dangerously high blood pressure.
- Tim responds to a father's complaint about his 8-year-old nearly dying from Prime: don't let an 8-year-old drink it.
- Logan Paul almost killed one of those children from the UK by selling them Prime.
- Australia has banned Prime energy drink, which is significant given how many lethal things already exist there.
- Tim describes what happens when a kid drinks Prime and starts pulling at his own face trying to breathe.
- Celebrities now just want to have products; if you're not a mogul selling something, your status is meaningless.
- Tim promises he'll launch a pancake mix and respond to death reports by saying he's offended by the implication.
- Tim argues that Logan Paul will feel bad if kids die from his drink, and that's all anyone can ask of celebrities.
- You can only ask celebrities to be upset after their products have killed someone; you can't ask them to be omniscient.
- Everybody else is selling products, so celebrities have to do it too regardless of the consequences.
Logan PaulPrimeKate BlanchettThe Honest CompanyJessica AlbaKSIGeorge ClooneyRyan Reynolds