Episode 333 · Post-Ben
Mike Recine | The Tim Dillon Show #333
with Mike Recine
Jan 29, 2023 · 1:03:06 · 366,000 views · 13 segments, 101 moments indexed
In this episode Tim sits down with good friend and comedian, Mike Recine. The two watch and react to bizarre TLC shows.
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- 4 min
Shawna Rae: TLC's 'My 8 Year Old Bride'
#Tim and Mike Recine discuss a news article about a 23-year-old woman, Shawna Rae, who looks like an eight-year-old due to a medical condition, and the TLC show made about her dating life. They riff on To Catch a Predator, the ethics of dating her, and TLC's willingness to exploit her condition for entertainment.
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- Tim introduces the article: a man is dating a 23-year-old woman who looks like an eight-year-old, and he's defensive about not being a creep.
- To Catch a Predator clips come up on TikTok, and Tim notes how wild the show was—the predators thought they were getting a warning, not arrested.
- TLC made a show called 'My 8 Year Old Bride' about Shawna Ray, a woman with a condition that makes her look like a child.
- Tim: the show is basically To Catch a Predator with better production value.
- Shawna Ray insists she doesn't look like a child and argues people should look at her face, hands, maturity, and body to understand she's actually twenty-something.
- Tim suggests being a pedophile this way—finding an adult who looks like a child—is actually the best version of it, then marvels at how happy the boyfriend looks in photos.
- Tim jokes that the boyfriend went to chat rooms saying he found a 23-year-old who looks eight, while other predators bragged about molesting kids in their neighborhoods.
- Tim mentions doing a bit about the day you realize you're not a pedophile being a great day in your life.
- Shawna Ray probably gets carded constantly and rejected by bouncers despite having a government-issued ID.
- Tim concludes that despite everything, she probably deserves love, but she definitely has some kind of medical condition.
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- 11 min
Watching the Shawna Rae Dating Show Clips
#They watch and react to actual clips from the TLC show, including Shawna's blind date with a firefighter/traveler named Dan, meeting her parents, and making sushi. Tim and Mike riff extensively on the absurdity, the parents' vetting questions, the guy's suspicious world travels, and general disturbed commentary on the concept of the show.
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- Tim describes meeting Shawna in Thailand by asking a hotel if there were eight-year-olds available for sex.
- The fundamental problem: any man dating a 23-year-old with dwarfism will be inherently suspect and monitored constantly in public.
- Tim watches a blind date between two people with the same dwarfism condition and immediately questions what TLC is doing.
- Tim asks if the executives at TLC can be arrested for the show.
- Shawna Rae claims her mouth isn't eight years old and can do things only a 47-year-old woman knows how to do.
- Tim notes that people who watch this show are sick, and compares what women watch on social media to beheading videos.
- Tim observes the boyfriend meeting the parents and questions what the audience is supposed to feel.
- Tim recounts explicit details from the show's season finale about Shawna needing lube and crying, then jokes this is the new Nathan for You.
- Tim asks what the boyfriend will do in 30 years when Shawna looks like she's 12.
- Tim suggests the boyfriend makes sushi at home instead of going to a restaurant because he doesn't want the embarrassment of sitting down with her in public.
- The boyfriend mentions traveling to Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar frequently, and Tim jokes he's running from the police and visiting warlords in Afghanistan.
- The boyfriend says he wants to gift Shawna the ability to see the world, but notes planes and hotel rooms are very small and those countries have rules about who you can travel with.
- Tim escalates and calls the boyfriend a pedophile who wants to fuck children.
- Tim fantasizes about walking into a TLC development meeting and pitching increasingly absurd concepts to see what they won't air.
- Tim pitches down syndrome twins in love, then conjoined twins, suggesting nothing makes TLC say no.
- Tim notes Shawna has brain cancer, dwarfism, and tattoos trying to look older, and suggests she should shop at Ann Taylor or Loft instead.
- End of clip: the show ends with a scene of someone paddleboarding.
- 3 min
TLC's Roster of Freaks and Pitching Worse Shows
#Continuing to riff on the TLC lineup of shows about people with unusual conditions, comparing it to Nathan For You, and joking about pitching increasingly outrageous and depraved show concepts to TLC executives who have no limits.
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- Splash Mountain closed down because Song of the South is considered Disney's most racist film.
- Disney+ puts racism warnings on virtually every classic film, but Song of the South has been completely wiped from existence.
- Tim sings the Splash Mountain song and quips about missing being a slave.
- Bob Iger's name is two letters away from a slur, which Tim suggests might be a real problem Disney should address.
- Splash Mountain was the best ride at Disney World, just a log flume through a Song of the South village with the theme song playing.
- The replacement ride will probably explain Robert Moses and how the overpass was built to prevent Black Americans from reaching Long Island beaches.
- 4 min
Splash Mountain, Song of the South, and Disney Racism
#Tim and Mike discuss Disney closing Splash Mountain due to its ties to the racist 1946 film Song of the South, watch and react to clips from the film, and joke about Bob Iger's name and Disney's history of dark or outdated content in classic movies.
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- Tim acknowledges Song of the South has racist elements but notes the animated sequences themselves seem charming.
- The fact that Disney erased the film entirely suggests it must be seriously problematic.
- Tim imagines a 1946 actor trying to explain his role as a literate rabbit in Song of the South on a first date.
- Song of the South is impossible to access, unavailable even on Disney Plus.
- The film is criticized for romanticizing plantation life and presenting an African-American character as content with that existence.
- Uncle Remus appearing happy on the plantation is exactly what audiences find objectionable about the movie.
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- 4 min
Dark Disney Movies and the New Splash Mountain Theme
#They continue riffing on dark elements in classic Disney films like Sleeping Beauty and Pinocchio, then discuss the replacement of Splash Mountain with a Princess and the Frog themed ride, joking about how Disney will inevitably find a way to make even that racist.
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- Old Disney movies like Pinocchio are genuinely dark and disturbing when you rewatch them—kids getting turned into donkeys and marooned on an island.
- Tim reacts to a confused family visiting Magic Kingdom for the last ride of Splash Mountain before Disney rebuilds it with a different, less racist theme.
- People buying water from Splash Mountain are sick, and Disney is changing the entire ride—probably to LGBT-themed, Tim suggests.
- Tim describes an absurdist vision of what the new ride could be: an AIDS crisis-themed attraction where visitors go through an ass in a penis boat.
- Ben Shapiro seems like a Disney adult, the type who gets a little too into it and becomes obsessive about theme parks.
- Taking a Disney cruise for your honeymoon without kids is odd and suggests something is wrong with the couple.
- Speculation on whether Disney will destroy Splash Mountain entirely or just retheme it, and what water-related Disney movies could replace it.
- Disney will probably find a way to make the new Bayou Adventure theme racist, Tim concludes, before acknowledging he went a little far.
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- 6 min
Drag Queen Story Hour, Libraries, and TV Recommendations
#A wandering discussion covering drag queen story hour controversies, whether libraries are pointless, plugging Israel/Ukraine funding jokes, and reviewing recent TV shows including Velma, Tulsa King, Euphoria, and Wednesday.
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- Tim pitches a Bayou-themed attraction narrated by Katt Williams, replacing the old Splash Mountain with Paul Mooney clips.
- Mindy Kaling's Velma HBO series is mentally ill and bad, using Scooby-Doo characters nobody cares about.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power made a billion dollars centering a character who was never supposed to be the focal point.
- Tim recommends Tulsa King on Paramount Plus, praising creator Taylor Sheridan's ability to make straightforward entertainment.
- Andor on Disney Plus tries to say something about colonialism and gets dense, whereas Tulsa King lets you know exactly what's happening.
- Euphoria features hot teenagers playing hot teenagers, all fucked up and on junk, representing American teenage life.
- Wednesday on Netflix is silly and copied Harry Potter, but as a silly show goes, it's not bad because Jenna Ortega is insanely good.
- The Trump years were bad for TV because nobody knew what to say or do, everyone trying to use their platform to fight fascism.
- Get Out came out in 2017 and was good; Uncut Gems was fucking amazing during the Trump administration.
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- 1 min
Tim reads a sponsor segment for Bespoke Post, describing the mystery items in his monthly subscription box and giving the promo code for 20% off.
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- Tim's Bespoke Post box includes a lighter, a coffee cradle, a cactus every month, and a mysterious key he doesn't know the purpose of.
- Every item in Bespoke Post is hand-curated from small businesses you wouldn't otherwise discover.
- 2 min
House of Cards Return, Kevin Spacey, and Bad Scorsese Movies
#They joke about Kevin Spacey returning for a new House of Cards season despite allegations, then trash The Many Saints of Newark and The Irishman, with a detour into a comedian's contrarian take that Uncut Gems is better than Goodfellas.
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- Tim argues Kevin Spacey should be let back to work since he already killed two of his accusers, so no one will come forward again.
- The last season of House of Cards was terrible, but if Netflix just brings it back everyone will watch anyway.
- Tim hated Many Saints of Newark.
- Someone claimed The Irishman is better than Goodfellas, which Tim identifies as a crazy take.
- When you have a take that no one else shares, it's not a contrarian position—it's just a bad take.
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- 9 min
Israel-Palestine Discourse and Barry Weiss
#A long rant/riff about doing interviews with Barry Weiss and Abby Martin about Israel-Palestine, the reaction from both sides, and Tim's cynical take that podcasts talking about the conflict change nothing while TLC's exploitative shows get real engagement.
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- Tim brings up Barry Weiss appearing on his podcast to discuss Israel and Palestine.
- Tim notes that Weiss is smart but relentlessly pro-Israel in her arguments.
- Tim explains having both Abby Martin and Barry Weiss on his show led to complaints from both sides.
- The fundamental problem: having opposing guests on creates no resolution, just opposing backlash.
- People want the conflict to seem complicated so listeners stay out of it and avoid accusations of antisemitism.
- Tim's main observation is that building settlements and pushing borders seems antagonistic.
- At the end of the day, Tim has no control over Israeli policy regardless of podcast discussions.
- Entertainment networks like TLC don't bother with serious documentaries because audience ratings prove people want to watch spectacle instead.
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- 4 min
TLC Review Comparisons and the Sex Shop Episode
#They read mixed reviews of the Shawna Rae show, note the formulaic setups placing her in situations where her age is questioned, and cue up the sex shop episode where she needs ID to buy a dildo.
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- Israel enthusiasts are like Disney adults — people completely obsessed with something they love.
- Tim jokes that some Jewish people care most about Israel because that's where they got fingered on birthright trips.
- The crew watches a scene from a TLC show where a sex shop employee helps a family pick out products.
- A reference to Jesse Smollett appears during the episode.
- Tim notices the sex shop employee has hickeys all over his neck while working there.
- Tim compares the show to The OC, noting how right-wing critics claim America is collapsing into degeneracy while this kind of content is what's actually on the network.
- The scene involves an eight-year-old girl in the sex shop.
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- 4 min
Shawna Rae's Sex Shop Trip
#They watch and react to Shawna Rae being carded at a sex shop while buying a vibrator and penis pinata, joking about right-wing 'moral collapse' rhetoric actually being validated by this show, and riffing on Shawna not acting like a real 23-year-old.
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- Tim performs the pitch for Shawna's sex shop visit: "one penis pinata please, for me 23 year old shauna."
- The parents' strategy for getting a reality show: claim their daughter is 23 because she had brain cancer, then film her being rejected at bars and sex shops to attract pedophiles.
- Tim mocks the TLC pitch meeting where executives approve a show about an eight-year-old-looking 23-year-old dating adult men.
- Shawna insists she has something to prove because she's an adult and can talk about this stuff.
- The group buys party games, confetti, and a vibrator for Tara, joking about how angry she'll be when she finds out.
- Tim speculates that Tara might demand they stop making the show if she's in a bad mood, warning them they're going to hell.
- The fake Indian doctor performs an inspection to verify Shawna's age: "You're 23, let me see your pussy."
- Tim riffs on the doctor character being exhausted from lies: tired of 600-pound people claiming they weigh 550.
- Doctor demands honesty: "Don't fuck with me anymore. All you do is eat all day."
- The bit concludes with the doctor's assessment: "This is an eight-year-old pussy."
- 11 min
My 600-lb Life and Dr. Now's Legendary Rants
#Extended reaction to clips from My 600-lb Life featuring Dr. Now (Dr. Nowzaradan) berating patients for lying about their eating, including a memorable rant about a stolen hot dog cart and canola oil drinking, followed by comparisons to Real Housewives, Kitchen Nightmares, Intervention, and American Idol judging.
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- Tim watches Dr. Now confront a patient who lost almost 50 pounds while her boyfriend gained weight after his bypass surgery.
- Dr. Now accuses the patient of choosing to overeat and thinking it's okay.
- Dr. Now declares his show the only moral program on TLC because everyone else there goes to hell.
- Dr. Now accuses the patient of stealing a Mexican man's hot dog cart and calling it a wheelchair.
- Dr. Now claims the patient stole cotton candy that feeds a man's eight children.
- Dr. Now asks if the patient is drinking canola oil from her Big Gulp cup and why she's lying about it.
- Dr. Now explains that the gastric bypass removed the physical drive to eat, so the patient must deal with what's psychologically driving her consumption.
- Tim says Dr. Now should appear on every reality TV show, from To Catch a Predator to Real Housewives, delivering the same brutal honesty.
- Tim imagines Dr. Now confronting a gym teacher about a stolen parachute and refusing to work on a child bride show because he wants to get to heaven.
- Tim pitches Dr. Now judging an open mic night, dismissing comedians' identities and asking if they have a single joke.
- Mike Racine wraps the episode and announces upcoming comedy dates including a special taping in New York at the end of February.
- Racine jokingly says he's bringing a gun to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel later that week.
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- 1 min
Mike Recine plugs his podcast Out for Smokes, upcoming tour dates, and his special taping in New York; Tim plugs TimDillonComedy.com and thanks Mike for coming on before closing the show.
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- Mike Christine, one of Tim's oldest friends in comedy, appears on the show.
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