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Ethos Life Insurance and the Tanner Torture Story
from The Palantir Manifesto & My Manifesto | The Tim Dillon Show #493 · #493
6 min
SponsorEthos
Under the guise of an Ethos life insurance ad, Tim tells an increasingly graphic and absurd story about a friend named Tanner who shoots a hardware store clerk, tortures him with his nurse wife, and is eventually killed by the captive, ending with the moral that life insurance would have at least helped the kids buy school supplies.
- Tim introduces Tanner, a friend with a wife and six children who didn't have life insurance.
- Tanner gets into an argument at a hardware store and feels taken advantage of.
- Tanner returns to the hardware store with a loaded gun, starts a shootout, and shoots the employee in the stomach.
- Rather than call the cops, Tanner takes the shot man hostage back to his house.
- Tanner's wife, a nurse, extracts the bullet and they keep the man tied up in their detached garage.
- Tanner and his wife begin torturing the hostage in brutal ways, bringing in homeless people to further abuse him.
- The hostage escapes his restraints and attacks Tanner, gouging out his eye and biting his neck before killing him.
- Tanner's wife walks in and the hostage chokes and tortures her to death as well.
- Tim concludes that if Tanner had life insurance, his children would at least have money for school supplies and art materials.