Episode 470 · The Studio Revamp
Lame Duck Donald & The Immigration Nation | The Tim Dillon Show #470
Nov 15, 2025 · 1:07:51 · 734,000 views · 29 segments, 148 moments indexed
Tim discusses New York real estate, Donald Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham, yet another Sydney Sweeney controversy, the tech people’s plan to bring in Chinese students to create an AI demon, how the college system is over, and a…
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Cold Open: Broadcasting from The Move in Miami
#Tim introduces the temporary Miami studio, riffing on the kind of "creator" (OnlyFans models, struggling rappers) who would use a space like this.
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- Tim opens the show broadcasting live from The Move studio in Miami for one week.
- He pitches the studio to Miami creators, OnlyFans podcasters, and struggling rappers looking to build their brand.
- Tim argues that everyone needs to be heard from now and wonders where Miami is in the cultural moment.
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Is Everyone Really Fleeing to Florida? The Mamdani Effect
#Tim questions the narrative that everyone is leaving New York for Florida after Mamdani's win, noting real estate contracts are still strong in NYC, and jokes that people need to "get slashed" on the subway before they'll actually leave.
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- Tim has been thinking about the Mamdani effect in New York City and whether everyone is really fleeing to Florida.
- Contracts are actually up in New York City; realtors say they're going crazy in the Hamptons with people still buying real estate.
- The idea that people will abandon New York just to attend foam parties with Marco Rubio and plot a Venezuela invasion doesn't make sense.
- People won't actually leave New York for Florida unless serious crime makes them leave—they need to experience a few stabbings and slashings first.
- A good slashing in New York leaves a visible scar that becomes a status marker when you show up elsewhere.
- Tim turns to the question of why living in New York has become so absurdly expensive, especially compared to its historical cost.
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New York's $4,450 One-Bedroom and the Foreign Buyer Numbers
#He digs into New York City real estate affordability stats, average condo and rent prices, and how AI search downplays the percentage of property owned by foreign nationals.
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- Average one-bedroom rent in New York City is around $4,450 a month.
- Tim explains why a one-bedroom apartment isn't livable for guests or families.
- Tim wants to know what percentage of New York real estate is owned by foreign nationals.
- Foreign buyers account for about 7% of residential purchases but 27% of real estate value.
- Tim argues the numbers don't capture shell corporations hiding actual foreign ownership.
- New York City has become a vertical money laundering scheme, which explains unaffordability.
- Real estate in New York is used to launder money from drug smuggling, arms trafficking, and human trafficking.
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New York Real Estate as a Vertical Money Laundering Scheme
#Tim argues that shell corporations and empty luxury condos (like on Billionaires' Row) function as a money-laundering system for foreign wealth, citing the 37% LLC-ownership statistic and Bloomberg's "we want all the world's billionaires" quote.
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- New York's GDP makes it the world's top investment destination after Tokyo.
- Foreign owners aren't renting these condos—they're using them to hide money from taxation and bank oversight.
- 37% of Manhattan properties are owned by secretive LLC shell companies, though initial reports claimed only 7%.
- Tim uses shell corporations for privacy to avoid being tracked down, though he still advertises his public appearances.
- The vast majority of shell corp ownership isn't about privacy—it's about hiding ill-gotten gains, with most properties left empty.
- Billionaires' Row stays dark because foreign owners treat these properties as banks to store value, not homes to occupy.
- Michael Bloomberg encouraged billionaires worldwide to buy New York real estate, betting on occasional restaurant visits and university placements.
- New York City functions as a vertical money laundering scheme where global wealth purchases real estate and prices out actual residents.
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The Broken Promise of Globalization and H-1B Visas
#He connects globalization's failed promises of peace and prosperity to the current push for H-1B visas, arguing America stopped training its own people for skilled jobs like tech and medicine.
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- The magical promise of globalization: a flat world with no wars because everyone fights online instead.
- Tim points out Gaza as evidence the globalization promise failed to eliminate war.
- H-1B visas from China and India fill tech jobs Americans aren't trained to do—but who decided not to build those skills domestically?
- Tim argues with his aunt over legal immigration, specifically about importing doctors from Pakistan when America should train its own.
- The contradiction: American children want to stream on OnlyFans instead of becoming doctors, so the country imports physicians from a dysfunctional society.
- Pakistan harbored 9/11 fugitives, yet wine mom liberals champion importing doctors from there as enlightened policy.
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Arguing With His Aunt About Doctors From Pakistan
#Tim recounts a summer argument with his aunt over immigration, where she defended importing doctors from Pakistan instead of training Americans, and he mocks boomer liberal attitudes on this.
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- Tim's aunt, sitting on his couch, is excited about bringing in doctors from Pakistan while her own children struggle.
- Boomers would rather import doctors from Pakistan than help their own children dying on the street.
- To prove they're good people, they'd rather bring in doctors from war-torn countries than figure out how to make Americans into doctors.
- Chinese amusement park tycoons and Russian fertilizer magnates buy fake $20 million apartments, driving out $400,000-a-year lawyers, then wonder why Trump got elected.
- Tech jobs are the only jobs left, and everything eventually becomes a tech company with a digital component.
- Companies claim they need H-1B visa workers from China and India because there's no talent pool in America, but shouldn't they be building that pool if these are the only jobs?
- Trump administration is entering its lame-duck phase, obvious even to supporters like Laura Ingraham.
- The next three years will be consumed by talking about the ballroom while Trump gets older, and Epstein will suck the oxygen out of everything else.
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The Inevitable Pedophile AI Robot President
#A short riff asserting that once AI robots run the country, they will inevitably be pedophiles, culminating in the prediction of a pedophile robot president.
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- Tim predicts that AI robots running around the country will all inevitably be pedophiles, just like everyone else in power.
- The first robot president will be a pedophile — it's the only thing Tim is certain about regarding AI.
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Tim reacts to a Trump/Laura Ingraham clip about H-1B and Chinese student visas, mocking the claim that Chinese students are propping up historically black colleges, and framing the real motive as tech elites needing foreign talent for the AI race.
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- Laura Ingraham confronts Trump on allowing hundreds of thousands of Chinese students into U.S. universities while American kids can't get in.
- Tim breaks down Trump's claim that historically black colleges would close without Chinese students.
- The absurdity of Chinese parents sending their kids to HBCUs to keep them afloat.
- Trump argues it's good to have students from other countries to get along with the world.
- Tim identifies the real reason: tech billionaires who funded Trump are demanding cheap foreign labor for AI development.
- Trump ran on America First but now admits the tech industry doesn't care about American students or American interests.
- Tim's metaphor: tech elites are trying to birth a demon quickly and quietly, using Chinese and Indian students to accelerate the process before anyone notices.
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Birthing the AI Demon
#He expands on the idea that tech and government are rushing to "birth" an all-powerful AI as a demon/god, quietly and quickly, using foreign students to build it before anyone can object.
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- Tim says Americans don't want to be questioned, so they need Indians and Chinese people quietly creating an AI demon they can pledge loyalty to.
- Artificial life invested with insane amounts of power is what elites actually want, whether they call it a demon or a god.
- The push for AI exists because if the U.S. doesn't do it, China will, leaving no real alternative being entertained.
- Tim describes the current administration as birthing an AI demon, and chooses that word specifically based on who's creating it.
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A straightforward read for Ethos, an online life insurance platform offering fast quotes, no medical exam, and same-day coverage.
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- Tim promotes Ethos Life Insurance with the URL ethos.com/tim
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College Ended Around 2019
#Tim argues the university system has been dead since students graduating around 2019 realized their degrees led nowhere but debt and bartending, citing average student loan debt figures.
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- College's golden era ran from Animal House to around 2019, when the first wave of debt-burdened graduates discovered their degree meant tending bar.
- The side hustle students worked during school became their actual career after graduation.
- College no longer prepares people for the world—it does the opposite, burying them in debt, substance abuse problems, and ignorance.
- Average undergraduate debt is $30,000 to $40,000; graduate students carry around $100,000, and many graduates have no jobs to pay it back.
- Tim skipped college and regrets it in a way—he wouldn't have become a comedian if he'd gone, and his entire life would have diverged.
- Most people claim your choices don't matter and you end up in the same place either way, but Tim disagrees—there are actual paths, and you choose one.
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His College Regret and the Vice-Documentary Dilettante Class
#He reflects on not going to college himself, then rips into college grads who chase meaningless creative-adjacent media jobs (like Vice documentaries) while drowning in debt, calling it the setup for the "final indignity" of Chinese competition for jobs.
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- Tim regrets not attending college, feels he lacks authority to comment on that part of American experience.
- College graduates have nothing to do except move to New York City and attend protests.
- Without enough wars, angry college graduates are stuck at home, and the country keeps importing workers for jobs they should fill.
- The 'do what you love' advice is a lie; Tim tells someone asking about tech versus history to sacrifice themselves to Peter Thiel's AI demon instead.
- The president says America needs Chinese and Indian workers because the college system would collapse otherwise, despite college being a main reason people carry decades of debt.
- Society pushed people away from plumbing and trade work toward becoming dilettantes in meaningless creative media fields like Vice documentaries about animals near Chernobyl.
- Everyone who wanted to sit in an air-conditioned room at Vice having opinions is now loaded with student loan debt and in serious trouble.
- The final indignity for this class is Chinese workers arriving and stepping on their fingers as they fall from the building.
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Tim praises Bari Weiss for openly admitting she's dismantling CBS News' standards and practices and race/culture unit, comparing her honesty to a Bill Hicks joke, and frames her mission as delivering Israeli propaganda for Larry Ellison.
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- Bari Weiss, newly head of CBS News, wants to eliminate standards and practices for having too much power.
- Tim admires Bari Weiss for not pretending to be anything other than what she actually is.
- Bari Weiss is essentially telling people to accept that she's there to destroy the institution without bothering to hide it.
- She got to her level of success because she doesn't have time to entertain the fantasy that she's doing anything else.
- Tim says you can debate it and be confused about why it's happening, but she's 100% on board with her mission.
- Bari's job is to eliminate any independent voice at CBS and destroy the network to deliver state propaganda.
- Israeli propaganda specifically—she knows it, everyone knows it, and Larry Ellison hired her to do it.
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Larry Ellison Didn't Buy CBS for Diversity
#He questions whether Ellison actually bought CBS out of concern for merit-based hiring or minorities, sarcastically constructing the idea that the real motive is Israel coverage.
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- Movies don't make sense anymore because the fractured reality they're supposed to reflect is too broken for anyone to understand.
- The race and culture unit is probably nonsense, and Tim agrees some of the woke stuff shoehorned into companies is garbage that has to go.
- Does anyone actually think Larry Ellison bought CBS because he was concerned about diversity?
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Bari Weiss's Real Agenda: 'While We're There'
#Continuation of the Bari Weiss bit, imagining her internal monologue about quietly slipping in a review of Israel coverage under cover of anti-DEI reforms.
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- Elon's supposed rationale for buying Twitter: ensuring people get hired based on merit, not skin color, to avoid impostor syndrome
- Tim satirizes Elon's billions-dollar investment in installing Bari Weiss to eliminate DEI initiatives
- The real agenda emerges: 'While we're there,' the new management might just happen to look at Israel coverage
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A sponsor read for ShipStation, covering automated shipping, carrier rate comparisons, and scaling e-commerce businesses.
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- Tim pitches ShipStation as the answer to scaling an e-commerce business, emphasizing automated shipping tasks and a unified dashboard for order management.
- ShipStation's rate browser compares over 200 carriers to guarantee the best shipping rates, with savings up to 90% off.
- Customer case: businesses have scaled operations up to 40 times using ShipStation's workflow automation and error reduction.
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A read for Stash, an automated investing app offering personalized portfolios and financial guidance for a monthly fee.
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- Stash is a registered investment advisor combining automated investing with expert guidance so you don't have to pick individual stocks.
- Monthly subscription to Stash costs $3 and includes access to world-class financial advice and personalized guidance.
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El Reeve, the 'It' Clown of Gotcha Journalism
#Tim riffs on journalist El Reeve interviewing Candace Owens, comparing her interview style to the paper-boat clown scene from It, always ambushing subjects with race/privilege questions.
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- Tim mentions El Reeve, a gotcha journalist he interviewed months ago.
- Tim says he kind of respects El Reeve and compares her approach to the clown scene in It.
- Tim describes the setup: El Reeve as a clown waiting at a grating to ambush someone with a loaded question about boats and white men ownership.
- The punchline: El Reeve pivots from casual chat to absurd racial accusation mid-conversation.
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He discusses the backlash over Sydney Sweeney's jeans ad and her refusal to apologize, arguing that not engaging is the smart move because apologies only invite media to dig in further.
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- Sydney Sweeney probably isn't that MAGA; she likely just has a Republican family and is a normal person who isn't a psychopath.
- Tim breaks down the jeans ad controversy and the criticism that white people shouldn't joke about genetic superiority in the current political climate.
- Sydney Sweeney's response—refusing to apologize unless she chooses to speak on it—is strategic because an apology would become the week's biggest news.
- Critics don't actually want an apology; they want to destroy her career, which is why she's right to refuse engagement.
- Tim argues they're trying to draw her into a larger conversation about ethics and platform responsibility, but she correctly sees through it.
- Sydney Sweeney's position: she's an actress and actress is what she does—not a political figure or public intellectual bearing special responsibilities.
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Sydney Sweeney Should Have Said 'Heil Hitler'
#An extended bit imagining Sydney Sweeney ending the entire jeans-ad controversy by simply responding to the reporter's question with a Nazi salute, and a fantasy where Zendaya later reconciles with her over shared Nazi gum.
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- Tim says Sydney Sweeney should have responded to the interviewer's question about the jeans ad controversy by saying 'Heil Hitler.'
- The dead-eyed stare delivery—Sweeney in her leather coat, looking directly at the interviewer and saying it—would put the interviewer on her back immediately.
- Tim frames this as a missed opportunity for Sweeney to do something fun and bold.
- If she said it once, the next interview would ask about that response, and Sweeney should escalate by doing the Hitler salute instead of speaking.
- By saying 'I'm a Nazi,' Sweeney would actually end the controversy dead in its tracks—there would be nowhere for the conversation to go.
- This opens an opportunity for Zendaya to come in and say she doesn't want to be on set with a Nazi.
- Zendaya could then patch things up by revealing that she and Sweeney bonded over gum at the red carpet and realized it's all silly.
- Both actresses realize they're not even real—they're just playing roles—and the whole thing dissolves into absurdity about actors not knowing what they are.
- The tangent shifts to Americans no longer wearing jeans; instead they wear diapers and live in their own feces.
- People roll around on the hot earth waiting for Peter Thiel to summon the AI demon that Trump is bringing Chinese students in to make.
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Sydney Sweeney Nazi Bit Wrap-up
#He closes out the Sweeney riff concluding it doesn't really matter whether she's a Nazi or not, before pivoting to the next news story.
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- Tim dismisses the Sydney Sweeney Nazi controversy as not actually mattering
- He pivots to a story about an African TikTok star executed by jihadists on live stream while family watched
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Tim discusses the on-camera execution of a Malian TikTok star by a jihadist group, riffing on Timbuktu jokes before describing the actual killing.
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- Tim has never gotten big on TikTok, though people share his content sometimes.
- TikTok star from Mali—possibly Timbuktu—was executed by jihadists.
- Tim recalls his grandfather using Timbuktu as a joke for a far-off place, but he was told it's actually nice and calm.
- Mariam Cisse was shot dead by suspected members of Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin on November 7th.
- The video of her death was removed from TikTok, but Tim suggests it's probably her most viewed content anyway.
- She was a loyalist to the army; the jihadist group was angry at the military and snatched her because she was a popular TikToker.
- They executed her in the middle of the street on TikTok, and Tim questions why the country wouldn't want more of this.
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A read for Lucy nicotine pouches, covering flavor capsules and a subscription discount code.
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- Lucy nicotine pouches are 100% pure nicotine and tobacco-free
- Subscribe to Lucy and get it delivered to your door; use promo code TIM at lucy.co/tim for 20% off your first order
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A sponsor read for Factor, chef-prepared dietitian-approved meal delivery, including new Mediterranean/GLP-1 friendly options.
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- Tim reads fine print warning that Lucy products contain nicotine and are age-restricted
- Factor meal delivery ad: chef-prepared, dietitian-approved meals with Mediterranean diet option and GLP-1 friendly choices
- Tim endorses Factor as easy healthy food without hours of prep work, promotes discount code TIM50OFF
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He covers two wealthy New Jersey teens arrested for an alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot, sarcastically framing immigration's downsides as a 'win-win' since immigrants also take jobs.
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- Two Montclair teenagers arrested in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot in Michigan.
- Tim argues that immigration is a win-win because even if some commit terrorism, at least they're taking jobs.
- Being a good person now means giving up free speech, homeownership, employment, and safety from attack.
- After being killed by an attack you enabled, people will say great things about you at your funeral.
- The two 19-year-old former college athletes were charged with participating in an ISIS-inspired terror ring.
- Prosecutors presented texts showing plans to bomb company headquarters and kill hundreds of Jews.
- Support for foreign terrorist organizations has reaped bloodshed around the world and in the United States.
- Tim doesn't necessarily trust the FBI in these matters, but points to correlations between immigration surges and terrorist attacks in the UK and Europe.
- Turkish drug dealers are bombing cars in Sweden, yet opposing this makes you a Nazi.
- Questioning why Sweden became the rape capital of Europe is automatically labeled as Nazi rhetoric.
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Terrorism Trends in Europe and the FBI's Role
#Tim connects the Detroit/Newark terror arrests to rising immigration-linked terrorism in Europe, noting he doesn't fully trust FBI framing but sees a pattern, while joking about asking such questions makes you a 'Nazi'.
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- Tim observes that terrorist attacks in Europe are increasing, but notes they're not being committed by Anglicans, Episcopalians, or Presbyterians.
- A suspect arrested at Newark Airport faces the added indignity of dealing with flight delays before his terrorism arrest.
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Tim recounts the San Francisco uproar over a Waymo self-driving car killing a beloved neighborhood cat named Kit Kat, contrasting the outrage with the city's indifference to human overdose deaths nearby.
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- Tim predicts Waymos will eventually kill people, not just cats.
- San Francisco ignored fentanyl deaths and overdoses for a decade, but one cat killed by a Waymo sparks outrage.
- Tim compares the cat killing to the scene from Requiem for a Dream, noting people are dying blocks away and no one cares.
- Tech surveillance and Peter Thiel's projects don't bother people, but a cat getting hit by a Waymo gets everyone upset.
- Tim jokes about a homeless person jumping out and biting the activist as she walks during her speech.
- The cat crawled ten feet back to the sidewalk and suffered a long death after being run over by the Waymo.
- Tim says white guilt will kill everyone, dismissing the activist's concerns about harmful mining practices.
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White Guilt and the Fetishization of Homeless Junkies
#He goes off on wealthy white parents in LA/SF/Portland who treat homeless addicts as 'teachable moments' or beloved neighborhood fixtures for their kids, calling it a sick pathology.
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- White women make excuses for why someone is shooting fentanyl in a Panera.
- Certain white people get off on explaining to their kids that other people are on drugs, treating it like a teachable moment.
- Tim describes a specific type of person who believes homeless people are fun educational experiences for their children.
- This pathology of fetishizing sick people dying on the street is something Tim encountered on the West Coast—LA, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.
- Tech and finance people probably grab homeless people and murder them or light them on fire late at night to get off.
- Kids in Los Angeles have favorite homeless people, with families claiming their unhoused neighbor brings toys for their son.
- When the Echo Park homeless encampment was busted in LA—where a woman died of a fentanyl overdose—the community of people who fetishize dying homeless hated it.
- Families walk their kids around homeless encampments and show their children dying people, treating fentanyl addicts like animals in a zoo.
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Tim runs through upcoming tour dates in Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Schaumburg, San Jose, Salt Lake City, Brea, Denver, and Houston, mentions a break to work on an hour and a joke film reference, then signs off with a final jab about homeless-fetishizing parents.
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- Tim announces upcoming tour dates across Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, San Jose, Salt Lake City, Brea, Denver, and Houston.
- Plans to take time off the road to work on a new hour and a film project, specifically mentioning Joker 3.
- Tim's sign-off: tells listeners to take their kids to find a homeless person and give them a treat, calling the audience sick and world-destroyers.
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