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Kevin O'Leary Calls $28 Lunch Buyers Crackheads

from Thomas Massie, Kevin O'Leary, & The American Psyop | The Tim Dillon Show #497 · #497

10 min

Tim plays and reacts to Kevin O'Leary's clip mocking young workers who spend $28 on lunch instead of investing it, riffing extensively on fast-casual ordering ('grain or green'), the lost era of three-martini lunches, and the bleak modern life O'Leary is pushing people toward.

In this bit8 moments
  • Tim criticizes the litigious culture of constantly suing over everything.
  • Kevin O'Leary is building a data center in Utah and pushing the Silicon Valley line that all tech advancement is inherently good.
  • O'Leary calls people making $70,000 a year who spend $28 on lunch financially irresponsible.
  • Tim characterizes O'Leary's position as equating lunch buyers to crackheads with no financial discipline.
  • The three-martini lunch era allowed people leisure and pleasure; now they're forced into joyless efficiency with bowls of slop.
  • Tim mocks the dehumanizing ritual of fast-casual ordering with single-word prompts and unpronounceable ingredient names.
  • Even as people got healthier after the three-martini lunch ended, nobody looks back wishing they'd eaten more grain bowls instead.
  • The wealthy won't allow working people to spend money on decent lunch while trapped in meaningless jobs, overpriced condos, and medicated despair.
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