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Ibotta and Game Time Ad Reads
from Matthew Perry & A Hamptons Tragedy | The Tim Dillon Show #405 · #405
7 min
SponsorIbotta
Tim reads sponsor copy for Ibotta cash-back app, mentioning his friend's dog vet bills paid for by savings, and then reads a Game Time ticket app ad, referencing buying Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets.
- Tim argues that Americans believed Subway was healthy for roughly 15 years, a remarkable feat of marketing that eventually gets exposed like any other scam.
- The lie that nobody had time to cook—Tim grew up hearing this while his parents had time to watch TV for hours, drive around collecting antiques, and jam with his father's band in a converted playroom.
- Fast food in the 90s marketed itself to Boomers by flattering their egos: you're too busy and important to cook, you're the hardest working person on Earth.
- Tim's grandparents, who lived into their late 80s and early 90s, refused to allow processed or fast food in their homes and thought it was disgusting.
- Subway was marketed as the healthy alternative to McDonald's: 12 inches of bread with the same plastic used to make yoga mats, baked in an oven that smells like Hell.
- Tim plays a vintage Subway commercial promising fresh-made sandwiches and two footlongs for $7.99.
- Subway was also where customers could torture minimum-wage employees for five minutes, yelling orders and feeling powerful before returning to their real lives.
- Lean Cuisine meals pull out of the microwave looking like scabs—another aged product that will become increasingly ridiculous in retrospect.
- Tim calls out David Dobrik's Dough Brick Pizza as grotesque: pizza that's 90% done gets shoved through a conveyor belt oven, emerging with cheese that looks like a scab on top.
- Middle Americans line up at Dough Brick Pizza because they recognize the owner from YouTube.
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