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Designer Slinkies and Jets Flying Over NFL Games

from The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363 · #363

2 min

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They mock the New York trust-fund grift of fake ethical brands like 'designer slinkies,' then connect it to why Americans cheer military flyovers at football games and the entertainment industry's inflated self-importance during the WGA/SAG strikes.

In this bit6 moments
  • Tim explains why Americans cheer when jets fly over NFL games: because they're not bombing us.
  • We love the military because they do things we don't want to know about, but it keeps us safe and makes us rich.
  • The entertainment business inflates its own importance, especially regarding strikes most people outside the industry don't even know happened.
  • Tina Fey's Sarah Palin sketch on SNL marked the moment Hollywood made Americans see her as incompetent.
  • Adam McKay said he doesn't want to make certain comedies anymore because the empty guys in suits are the same ones who started the Iraq War.
  • Tim argues that you can't give movies meaning beyond what they actually have, citing Don't Look Up as an example of a film that sucked its own dick.
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Sarah PalinAdam McKayTina FeyDon't Look Up

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