rant · moment 5 of 19
US Open Bleachers and the 9/11 Fantasy Rant
from Zohran’s Victory, Air Traffic Chaos, & Government Shutdown | The Tim Dillon Show #469 · #469
9 min
Tim escalates into a dark riff about resentful, comfortable New Yorkers stuck in the cheap seats at the US Open and the Hamptons, imagining them wanting to fly planes into buildings out of boredom and rage.
- New York has become the suburbs, bringing suburban mentality focused on convenience and entitlement.
- Young professionals in the city feel trapped doing meaningless work and wondering what the point of their lives is.
- People are angry about not sharing in the wealth they see around them, despite doing everything right.
- At the US Open bleachers, pissed-off people who did everything right sit far away while Tim sits courtside.
- A college-educated person goes to the US Open, takes a photo, and returns to their prison-like apartment for meaningless work.
- After being condescended to at their boss's Hamptons party, frustrated people fantasize about flying planes into buildings.
- 9/11 was nothing if it wasn't cinematic—everyone's the star of their own movie, and a lot of these people's movies suck.
- People on Hinge dates in Bushwick bars pretending to be smarter than they are, fantasizing about flying planes into buildings.
- Tim speculates the Pentagon might have been hit by a missile, not a plane, and people want the narrative of a plane.
- Tim had comedy as his singular focus, which protected him from evaluating his miserable life by any other metric.