Episode 472 · The Studio Revamp
Wicked?, A Terrible Life, & The Golden Age Of Travel | The Tim Dillon Show #472
Nov 29, 2025 · 1:15:21 · 742,000 views · 24 segments, 146 moments indexed
Tim discusses Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo’s disturbing physical appearance for the Wicked movies, what Thanksgiving in a divorced family is like, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy telling air travelers to 'dress nice', Kash Patel…
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- 1 min
News montage announcing Trump's Wisconsin win and presidency, followed by a chaotic clip of people screaming about communism, billionaires, and calling each other fascists.
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- Tim asks if anyone can name one country that did communism the right way.
- 1 min
God Doing a Podcast in Heaven
#Tim opens the show imagining that heaven is just God hosting an endless podcast, doing ad reads and having 'takes' with you forever.
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- Tim imagines arriving in heaven to find God running a podcast operation, sitting on a couch with a mic and an ad deal.
- God starts reading sponsorship ads for calry.com during the eternal podcast interview.
- 4 min
Ariana Grande Needs a Feeding Tube
#Tim riffs at length on Ariana Grande looking dangerously thin, escalating into an elaborate bit about forcing a feeding tube into her at Thanksgiving and offering to take her to Smith and Wollensky's to blend prime rib and cream spinach for her.
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- God and Tim exchange takes about how thin Ariana Grande has become.
- Tim imagines a Thanksgiving intervention where family confronts Grande about eating actual food.
- If Grande won't eat a meal in front of her family, they should call an ambulance and force-feed her.
- Tim's verdict: Ariana Grande needs a feeding tube immediately, or it's game over.
- Food doesn't have to be pretty to go down a feeding tube, Tim explains to Grande.
- Starting her recovery with baby formula, then working up to a gravy-and-mashed-potato smoothie for Thanksgiving.
- Tim wants Grande to thrive, though she doesn't need to eat as much as he does.
- 2 min
Ariana Grande Bit Continues / Thanksgiving Timing Note
#He continues the Ariana Grande feeding tube riff before noting the episode is being recorded Wednesday for Saturday release and that he's celebrating Thanksgiving at a restaurant with his cousin's family.
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- Tim tells fans to find a photo of Ariana Grande and write the word 'thin' underneath it as a warning.
- The Tim Dillon Show is officially offering to take Ariana Grande to Smith and Wollensky's steakhouse and feed her cream spinach through a feeding tube.
- Tim proposes blending prime rib in a high-velocity food processor and running it through a tube along with cream spinach and coconut cake to get nutrients into her.
- 4 min
Advice on Blended/Divorced Family Thanksgivings
#Tim advises people without a real nuclear family to stop pretending and just go to a restaurant for a quick, low-pressure holiday instead of hosting at home.
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- Tim proposes solving family dinner conflicts with feeding tubes, comparing it to CPAP machines for sleep apnea.
- He's having Thanksgiving at a restaurant with his cousin, aunt, and cousin's wife rather than hosting at home.
- Going to a restaurant takes pressure off families by removing the pretense of having a traditional family gathering.
- Many families, including his own, are older childless ex-addicts who meet more like AA meetings than traditional holidays.
- Tim argues holidays are really for children and shouldn't be forced if you don't have a big happy family.
- His advice: grab a few people you enjoy and go to a restaurant with a clear start and end time instead of cooking at someone's house.
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Growing Up in a Divorced Family at Thanksgiving
#He describes the experience of being a child of divorce sitting at a blended family Thanksgiving table full of strangers, and how kids should understand they're living in the aftermath of their parents' failed relationships.
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- Tim addresses divorced people at Thanksgiving, saying blended families have a ceiling on love because most people end up being strangers.
- At a divorced family Thanksgiving, someone will literally ask "who are you?" because you'll be introducing yourself to people you just met through your parent's new partner.
- Tim recommends hitting multiple Thanksgiving dinners instead of committing to one—dessert with other people, don't get in too deep.
- Young listeners sitting at a divorced parent's Thanksgiving will be cornered by complete strangers—some woman their dad is dating, or her relatives—and won't know who they are.
- Tim tells kids not to be rude to these strangers even if they make a nice dinner, but to understand the real situation: your family has failed and you're living in the ruins of it.
- Even if the mashed potatoes are good, know that you're in the wreckage of two people's lives.
- 3 min
Thanksgiving Eve Nostalgia and Being Drunk in the Suburbs
#Tim reminisces about Thanksgiving Eve drinking culture when coming home from college, reconnecting with old friends, and the vanishing feeling of being young and drunk in American suburbia.
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- Children of divorce and blended families are part of an experiment in figuring out life; they should do the best they can in the ruins.
- Thanksgiving Eve nostalgia: people from college would get drunk and drunk and realize they couldn't be friends with high school people anymore because time had changed them.
- That experience of seeing someone and saying you'd visit but nobody visits anybody is the beginning of growing up, something people don't do now.
- Being drunk in the suburbs in America at a friend's house in the backyard smoking weed is one of the greatest feelings in life, though the weed might make some people schizophrenic.
- 2 min
Getting Older and Angrier at Suburb Parties
#He contrasts the fun of young suburban partying with how scary and sad it becomes as people age, and laments that internet life has replaced real formative experiences.
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- Tim on getting drunk in the suburbs becoming less fun and scarier as you age
- Coming back from college for the first time and being the interesting one with stories to tell
- Friend went to Cornell while Tim went to community college, felt insecure about it at the time
- Now Tim considers himself the most important person in the world, so the joke's on his Cornell friend
- Internet is the reason people are losing their minds—wins and losses feel hollow online
- Lives created on the internet are deeply unfulfilling compared to real experiences with friends
- People don't do simple, important life things anymore because algorithms manipulate them into insanity
- 3 min
Looksmaxxing, Crypto Obsession, and Wasted Youth
#Tim criticizes young people smashing their faces with hammers to looksmax, chasing crypto riches, and being radicalized instead of just having fun and enjoying being young.
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- Being drunk in the suburbs with friends as a young person is one of the best things you can do, given the finite time you have to live without responsibilities.
- Young people are looksmaxxing by literally smashing the bones in their jaws with hammers, and many of them are already attractive.
- People are consuming their lives trying to get rich or obsessing over politics instead of laughing with friends or meeting someone.
- People radicalized from either direction are angry all the time with purpose, but none of it is actually to have fun.
- Tim observes that everybody's trying to get rich and change the world, but nobody's having any fun, while he tries to have fun despite his phone being tapped and people trying to kill him.
- Tim texts Candace that he's insulted by how little they must have paid to have him killed.
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- 1 min
Getting Killed for Cheap and Candace's Tip
#A quick aside about texting Candace Owens about a supposed money transfer tied to a plot against him, joking that assassins would only get paid a pittance to hurt him.
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- Tim jokes that whoever's transferring money will Venmo someone $60 to hit him in the head.
- Despite the danger, Tim says he still tries to have fun.
- 2 min
Tim reads an ad for Dupe, a service for finding cheaper alternative products online, working in a bit about a nagging wife and a judgmental sister-in-law.
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- Tim declares his love for Dupe and questions why anyone wouldn't use it.
- The Dupe pitch: type the URL into their site to find cheaper alternatives to products you've found online.
- Most mass-produced items come from the same factories with different brand labels slapped on them.
- He extends the bit to complaining about his sister overspending her husband's money on designer items.
- First 10,000 people get 500 Dupe points redeemable for gift cards at dupe.com/tim.
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The Fat Guy Who Slept Through the Strip Club
#Tim tells a story about a friend's drunk uncle and a very obese friend who fell asleep in the limo before ever making it into a strip club, framing both as cautionary examples from youth.
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- Tim on the value of having friends and going out in real life: you meet people you don't want to be like.
- Really fat guy in a limo promised he'd tear up the strip club, but fell asleep before they even arrived.
- Tim's point: the guy's body was working so hard just to stay alive that he slept through the entire limo ride and never made it inside.
- 5 min
Miami Lamborghini Life Is Fake Happiness
#Tim tears into the aspirational online lifestyle of Lamborghinis, Miami apartments, and Only Fans girlfriends, arguing it's a hollow, unhappy existence chased by young people who don't know better.
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- Tim recalls his drunk uncle's chaotic relationship with constant screaming fights and police calls, but acknowledges the appeal despite the chaos.
- Real-world formative experiences aren't coming back—young people's experiences are now entirely digital and online.
- Tim describes the young person's obsession: looksmaxxing, Bitcoin accumulation, dropshipping, and dreaming of Lamborghinis in Dubai.
- Statistically, you'll get involved in a scam at some point in your life, so you don't need to start one at age 12 or 14.
- All the money coaches do is have other people film them driving around in Lamborghinis, which is their entire business model.
- Young people want to make millions of dollars just so someone can film them driving a Lamborghini—Tim doesn't understand the point.
- Living in Miami with a Lamborghini is a horrible life that only appeals to 15-year-olds who don't know any better.
- Tim claims he doesn't know a single genuinely happy person in Miami with a $300,000 car.
- The Miami Lamborghini lifestyle involves making money to attract OnlyFans women, do coke, and wonder if they're stealing your watch—there's more to life than that.
- You'll genuinely be happier doing other things with your one life than chasing the Miami Lamborghini fantasy.
- 4 min
Stop Going to Coachella, UFC, and Concerts
#He rants against the culture of concerts, DJs, UFC fights, and bottle service as meaningless status experiences that don't add up to an actual life.
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- Tim condemns Coachella as not a life—standing in 98-degree heat dressed up, on drugs, with no meaning.
- Stop going to concerts; paying $120 to watch ex-convicts and junkies perform isn't a life.
- Nobody has money because they spend it all on concerts and live music instead of building anything.
- Tim tells people to stop attending UFC fights—they can't afford it and should get street-jumped for free instead.
- The cycle of Miami apartments, UFC, concerts, and seeing criminals is just meaningless horseshit strung together.
- What will your photos show when you're old—just yourself at day parties with nothing behind it?
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- 3 min
Tim reads an ad for Incogni about removing personal information from data brokers, including a bit about someone allegedly trying to open credit accounts in his name and knowing his (nonexistent) dog's name.
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- Photo dumps of brunch and Asian pancakes aren't actually a life.
- Tim argues that random activities only done because others do them don't constitute a real life.
- The world is designed to steal from you through data brokers selling your credit score and family photos.
- We are all walking targets; every digital move leaves a trail that never disappears.
- Criminals can file tax returns or commit crimes in your name just by purchasing spreadsheets of personal information.
- Incogni removes your information from the internet and the digital grid before identity theft happens.
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A DraftKings Sportsbook ad tying Thanksgiving football touchdowns to betting promotions and bonus bets for new customers.
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- Tim reads a DraftKings Sportsbook ad with the "three T's of Thanksgiving": turkey, table, and touchdowns.
- New customers can bet $5 and receive $200 in bonus bets if their bet wins.
- 9 min
Tim reacts furiously to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's clip urging travelers to dress nicely and be courteous, ranting about airline dysfunction, real reasons people fly (including grim ones), and playing news clips of airline brawls and mid-flight emergencies.
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- Tim criticizes Sean Duffy for lecturing Americans about flying when the travel infrastructure is falling apart—staffing shortages, delays, old airports and planes, underpaid workers.
- Response to data showing 400% increase in in-flight passenger outbursts since 2019: Tim says there should be more, that flights should be nonstop fighting.
- Duffy claims the golden age of transportation begins with the traveler; Tim argues he has no control over operations and shouldn't be blamed for a system he just passes through.
- Passengers berate gate agents because airlines hire incompetent staff—Tim defends the travelers' right to be angry while acknowledging he dislikes insulting employees.
- Duffy criticizes passengers dressing like they're going to bed on planes; Tim points out people aren't there voluntarily and their lives are terrible.
- Tim imagines the actual reasons people fly: identifying bodies of deceased family members, fleeing town to escape debt, moving to take low-wage jobs in different cities.
- People don't have money to dress up and don't feel like it anyway—Tim rejects the government's framing that individual behavior can fix systemic travel failures.
- Video of Spirit Airlines brawl plays; Tim notes this is what life actually is and the year doesn't matter because the chaos is constant.
- Tim responds to footage of a Delta flight filling with haze: "Don't you want to dress up for the plane to go on fire?"
- Every day Tim receives news of some aviation crisis—forced turnarounds, pilot suicide attempts, engine failures, hydraulic issues, smoke—and Duffy's advice to dress nicely is absurd in this context.
- One valid point to Duffy: people should dress nicely on flights because it might be the last time they ever put on clothes if the plane crashes.
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- 5 min
Find a Little Lesbian Donut Shop: Living Small and Local
#Tim advocates for a simple local life—finding a coffee shop, an Italian restaurant, a bar, a gym—instead of chasing crypto riches, Dubai kidnapping fears, or empty jet-setting.
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- Tim on excessive travel in America being motivated by the false belief that meaning exists elsewhere.
- Find a little lesbian donut shop, get coffee, walk your dog—stop overcomplicating life.
- The donuts must be made fresh on-site by a lesbian, not shipped in or bought pre-made.
- Build a local life: visit an Italian restaurant called Mama, a Chinese restaurant, a bar with a bartender you know.
- Tim questions the purpose of traveling to Vegas in 20 minutes to see a DJ and risk dying at a club.
- Find a nice small town with good restaurants and a pub—there aren't many left but they still exist.
- Story about a crypto-rich guy at lunch who constantly thinks he'll be kidnapped despite his wealth.
- Tim advocates eating shepherd's pie at your local pub instead of living in Dubai paranoid about kidnapping.
- Leave LA—nobody cares about your screenplay; go be a teacher in Vermont instead.
- Teachers are lazy, do almost nothing, make a hundred grand, and get summers off to do whatever they want.
- Collecting experiences that don't lead anywhere just telegraphs status; have local fun with people you're comfortable around.
- Everyone has overcomplicating their lives to an unimaginable degree; high-profile friends aren't happier than anyone else.
- Tim's not going to stop being friends with successful people just to be friends with regular folks.
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- 3 min
Back to back ad reads: Aura Frames digital photo frames as a holiday gift, and Cars for Kids car donation program with its jingle.
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- Tim tells people to stop overcomplicating life: find a good scam, get a townhouse, get a dog, go on date night.
- He doesn't like the Shiba Inu or Australian Shepherd—dislikes how they look.
- Tim riffs on the paranoia of going to restaurants in Dubai, worried about being kidnapped for crypto.
- People in Miami fantasize about getting kidnapped and tortured for their crypto wallet passwords, often by OnlyFans followers who have their address.
- Ad read for Aura Frames: digital photo frames with unlimited free photos, shareable, comes in gift box, promo code TIM.
- Ad read for Cars for Kids: donate unused vehicles at carsforkids.org/tim, get tax deduction, vacation voucher, supports children.
- Tim closes with the pitch to clear the driveway and start the new year with a tax deduction.
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Back to back ad reads: Aura Frames digital photo frames as a holiday gift, and Cars for Kids car donation program with its jingle.
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- Tim tells people to stop overcomplicating life: find a good scam, get a townhouse, get a dog, go on date night.
- He doesn't like the Shiba Inu or Australian Shepherd—dislikes how they look.
- Tim riffs on the paranoia of going to restaurants in Dubai, worried about being kidnapped for crypto.
- People in Miami fantasize about getting kidnapped and tortured for their crypto wallet passwords, often by OnlyFans followers who have their address.
- Ad read for Aura Frames: digital photo frames with unlimited free photos, shareable, comes in gift box, promo code TIM.
- Ad read for Cars for Kids: donate unused vehicles at carsforkids.org/tim, get tax deduction, vacation voucher, supports children.
- Tim closes with the pitch to clear the driveway and start the new year with a tax deduction.
- 4 min
Cash Patel, Pete Hegseth Rumors, and Being Thankful for Simplicity
#Tim briefly mentions rumors about cabinet officials leaving and disinterest in the Russia-Ukraine deal, pivoting into a call to appreciate simple local life over global chaos and status chasing.
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- Be thankful for simplicity and small things like reconnecting with people or getting a job at Panera after rehab.
- Local is the answer, not global—focus on your own community and schools instead of worrying about Ukraine.
- The happiest people Tim knows have learned they don't need everything dialed up to crazy levels of richness and excess.
- Develop faith, engage with religion and hobbies, get a partner—you don't need to be the richest person or chase crypto money.
- You don't need a crazy social media presence making people feel guilty; you can have fun without posting it on Instagram.
- Tim's fed up with the half of what people are doing—enough with trying to look cool by knowing Chapel Ron or Marjorie Taylor Greene.
- There's nothing cool about posting photos with famous people or claiming to know politicians.
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Chappell Roan Name-Dropping and Looksmaxxing Jaw Smashing
#He mocks people bragging about knowing Chappell Roan or Marjorie Taylor Greene, and returns to mocking men smashing their jaws for looksmaxxing, urging people to just learn to be a person.
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- Tim criticizes men smashing their jaws with hammers for looksmaxxing, questioning what kind of woman would demand that of someone.
- Tim did a Jay Crew commercial as a ski coach yelling at kids on set.
- A nine-year-old started a rumor that Tim was wearing a wig during filming.
- Kids on set called Tim "Tim Cheese" and tried to roast him, so he fired back at one by calling him "young Sheldon" and hurt his feelings.
- Tim expected the kids to know who he was and show respect, but they insulted him instead, which he found hurtful.
- Tim told the child actors that AI would take all their jobs and they'd never work again.
- His experience with younger kids has been really negative—he describes them as sociopaths.
- Tim has limited interaction with younger people, but from what he's seen, he doesn't like them or their lack of respect for authority.
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Bullied by Nine-Year-Olds on a J.Crew Commercial Shoot
#Tim recounts filming a J.Crew commercial as a ski coach and getting mercilessly mocked by child actors on set, including a wig rumor and 'Tim Cheese' jokes, and rants that this generation lacks respect and hopes AI takes their jobs.
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- Tim argues that modern trends and value systems are rotted, with young people now aspiring to be quasi-criminals with Only Fans accounts and crypto instead of living in nice suburban homes like the Home Alone dream.
- You're supposed to be in the suburbs of America—Tim insists you don't need to go to Coachella every year or chase constant excitement.
- When someone mentions going to a concert, just tell them you're a dentist—Tim's punchline for rejecting constant festival culture.
- All people do now is take drugs and go to concerts—Tim laments the repetitive cycle of young people's entertainment choices.
- For a tough Thanksgiving this year, do half the dinner or have everybody bring one thing, because who cares if it's scaled back.
- If Tim hosted Thanksgiving, he'd tell everybody: if you want to eat it, bring it, because he doesn't have anything.
- Tim's Thanksgiving plan: sit in the driveway with a big whiteboard and solve the Charlie Kirk murder with Candace Owens instead of eating dinner.
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Thankfulness Closer: Middle East Peace, Chicago Shootings, and End of Humanity
#In a extended closing riff, Tim runs through things to be thankful for—sponsors, a Middle East peace agreement, not being shot in Chicago, not being kidnapped for crypto—building to a dark joke that everyone should appreciate their 'shitty little life' before robots and chaos take over.
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- Tim expresses thankfulness for the Middle East peace agreement and urges people there to stop being knuckleheads.
- Seven people were shot in Chicago blocks away from Tim's hotel; he's thankful he wasn't one of them.
- Tim argues that shooting someone in Chicago actually makes you look cool and legitimizes you as a serious person.
- There are other ways to earn respect and attract women besides shooting people, they just take longer.
- Every day in America that you're not randomly shot is something worth being thankful for.
- Tim catalogs threats to be grateful for avoiding: tick-borne illness, MK Ultra assassins, mysterious deaths in national parks.
- Be thankful your child hasn't called to say a friend got shot at school, because in America these are real possibilities.
- Tim's friend woke up with a gun in her mouth during a home invasion robbery for designer bags.
- Soon robots will drag you out of your house and rape you on the lawn, so be thankful you can have a shitty little life now while humanity still exists.
- Tim closes by thanking the audience and clarifying he was joking about Israel blackmailing people.