rant · moment 5 of 24
Funnel Cake Dad: Tim Walz's Great Lakes Origin Story
from Tim Walz The Funnel Cake Dad | The Tim Dillon Show #404 · #404
7 min
Tim builds out his "funnel cake dad" bit for Tim Walz, mocking Minnesota/Great Lakes culture, comparing Walz to Jed Bartlet, and diving into the 2020 Minneapolis riots and Walz's delayed National Guard response.
- Tim Walz is from Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
- Funnel cake dad is the folksy history teacher with no money that the Democratic party thinks should be president.
- Walz waited a day before calling in the National Guard during the 2020 Minneapolis riots, letting people get it out of their system first.
- Tim reveals that Walz and his wife have virtually no money—no stocks, bonds, nothing—which he finds deeply interesting.
- Gwen Walz recalls keeping her windows open to smell the burning tires during the riots because it felt like a touchstone of what was happening.
- Tim characterizes Minnesota people—especially pale standup comedians—as deeply sick and something being fundamentally wrong with all of them.
- Walz got out of the National Guard before they were sent to Iraq, unlike JD Vance who went as a military reporter.
- Walz dropped out of the Guard right before deployment to Iraq to run for Congress and become funnel cake dad telling people to play soccer with Somali immigrants.
Tim WalzJD VanceGwen WalzMinnesota2020 Minneapolis riotsGeorge Floyd