rant · moment 22 of 24
Meghan Markle's Failing Jam Company
from The Mushroom Pilot & Jailed Billionaires | The Tim Dillon Show #407 · #407
9 min
Tim goes on an extended rant about Meghan and Harry moving back to the UK, dissecting the failure of her American Riviera Orchard jam company, the mass staff exodus, and framing her as the perfect symbol of hypocritical celebrity social justice performance.
- Tim describes Meghan and Harry's plan to return to Britain with conditions: a new house and palace security, despite claiming the country is unsafe for them.
- Meghan Markle came to America, failed on Spotify and Netflix, and realized she wouldn't be treated as a hero—just another LA person trying to get into parties.
- Her jam company American Orchard lost 18 staffers after sending out only 50 jars, and Tim suggests the suicidal airline pilot as a potential CEO.
- Tim reads the timeline: Markle teased the jam brand in March, set up Instagram, but nothing actually happened—now they're going back to the UK.
- Meghan Markle is the perfect symbol of that specific era in history—a moment that teaches a lesson about self-interest masquerading as racial consciousness and social justice.
- If there was one story to explain the hypocrisy of that time, it's her: actress on Suits, married a prince, went crazy, dragged him to Santa Barbara to sell jam.
- Her conditions for returning to Britain: no staying with Harry's family, a brand new house, and palace security.
- After dancing with people with cleft lips in Africa for photo ops, she came back to America and decided to sling jam to white people at Target instead of setting up a clinic.
- Markle claims one of her most powerful things is wearing an earring to support small designers—this is her activism.
- Reports say Harry and Meghan are demanding and difficult to work for; 20 staff members quit because the company is fake and there's nothing real to do.
- Tim imagines an interaction where Meghan demands an employee log five minutes of personal time spent grabbing a salad while running her errand, obsessing over transparency and good habits.
- This micromanagement probably happened constantly, driving people away from the fake jam company.
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