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The Scumbag Parent Analogy for Hollywood

from LA Fires Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #426 · #426

2 min

He compares Hollywood to a fun but philandering scumbag dad who let you party in his yard, arguing people resented Hollywood only once it started lecturing them about politics instead of just entertaining.

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  • Tim compares Hollywood to a philandering scumbag parent—fun at parties but who shouldn't lecture people about morality.
  • The ideal rich scumbag parent lets you throw parties in the yard, even if things occasionally go wrong.
  • Hollywood's problem: the scumbag stopped throwing parties and started imposing emissions standards instead.
  • People started hating LA when it began telling everyone how to live, abandoning its actual job of entertainment.
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