Interview · moment 10 of 23
American Royalty and the 9/11 Bit
from The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363 · #363
5 min
Guest
Dan explains the meaning behind his 'American Royalty' tour name, and Tim does an extended bit imagining a rich husband casually telling his numbed wife 'we did 9/11 again' for money while she stares blankly into the Hamptons night.
- American royalty would be a guy in a DXL shirt, given that the brand only offers three sweatshirt options in bigger sizes.
- Tim's teacher friends on Long Island with their cute house and two kids are far happier than wealthy people will ever be.
- Writing emotional jokes about wealthy people made Tim realize he was too weak for that world.
- Tim reached out to apologize after writing a joke about an ex, discovering that wealthy people can't let human emotion seep in or it'll never end.
- Wealthy families fire the nanny every couple years so the kid cries and gets used to a new one, toughening them up young like Conan the Barbarian.
- Tim dated a wealthy woman who asked why he'd just do comedy the rest of his life instead of making more money.
- Tim describes a wealthy woman in the Hamptons taking Valium and chardonnay, unable to feel bad news about her husband's infidelities or business crimes because she's dissociated.
- The husband tells his sedated wife that they did 9/11 again for money, and she must accept it without feeling anything.
- Wealthy women achieve emotional numbness through white wine and Valium, similar to flashbang-deafened soldiers in war movies like Saving Private Ryan.
- Tim respects cold women and just learned his grandmother finessed him out of sixty thousand dollars in old-school fashion.
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