Companies/company
Amazon
2016-08-30, 1 mention2016-10-04, 1 mention2018-03-20, 1 mention2018-08-09, 1 mention2018-11-09, 2 mentions2018-11-16, 10 mentions2020-03-01, 1 mention2020-04-19, 1 mention2020-06-14, 2 mentions2020-07-12, 1 mention2020-11-15, 2 mentions2020-12-13, 1 mention2021-03-29, 1 mention2021-07-04, 2 mentions2022-01-04, 1 mention2022-01-11, 2 mentions2022-11-20, 1 mention2023-05-07, 1 mention2023-08-27, 1 mention2025-01-14, 1 mention2025-02-27, 1 mention2025-04-05, 1 mention2025-07-22, 1 mention2026-04-18, 1 mention
Tim’s take
Most of the time Amazon comes up as one of the handful of companies he says have monopolized the economy, alongside Google and Facebook, destroying small business and consolidating power during COVID lockdowns 42:32 37:40 23:29. He links it to the same surveillance-state anxieties he has about Alexa devices tracking emotions and the broader "you'll own nothing" push toward renting and dependency 55:36 28:27 1:11:07. He undercuts that gloom once, holding Amazon's early stock price up as proof that a little hype occasionally pays off, unlike most NFT-style schemes 8:50. Otherwise it's shorthand: a punchline about drone deliveries during a pandemic collapse fantasy 0:00, a passing detail about gentrified Seattle workers 1:13, and just another name on the list of streamers in ad reads and strike talk 1:02:29 36:06 2:15 29:40 11:16.
Every Reference (38)
"say, it doesn't surprise me. You know, it's funny, if you look at Amazon, you look at the reader reviews on Family of Secrets, it's almost"
"You're better than me And it's great and people can get it on Amazon Amazon Okay, your independent books go to Barnes and Noble or"
"everything else pretty much everything I well all of those stores Amazon's the guy"
"you know, whatever. It's so, you know, it's a cheap as to go on Amazon. It was like 60 bucks to replace. I want to ask the guy for another"
Broken Bed, Childhood Sleeping Arrangements, and Boy Scout Latrine Story — Not A Fancy Man+64s into the segment"They have really made up for it, you know Um, speaking of you on Amazon is bringing the warehouse of Long Island City you read about that"
Texas's Republican History and the Southern Strategy — America's Election Headquarters+55s into the segment"I I would love to work with it would be great just to go with Amazon's that that's not their profit margins Don't suggest that they"
Amazon's Long Island City Warehouse and Automation — America's Election Headquarters+25s into the segment"everybody, welcome to Tim Dillon Is Going To Hell special episode, the Amazon Moving Into Long Island City episode. I'm joined here with Ray"
"what's happening folks. We woke up, we got the news officially that Amazon is splitting its second headquarters, known as HQ2 in two locations."
Amazon HQ2 Comes to Long Island City: The Basics — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain+2s into the segment"With the entire project a lot of it has to do with number one Amazon has promised to put a lot of money into infrastructure. Now whether"
Infrastructure Strain and Subway Costs — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain+8s into the segment"is when you start talking about handing trillions of dollars to Amazon, people start going, well, wait a minute, the infrastructure is"
Global Capital, Nationalism, and the Death of Old New York — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain+88s into the segment"Bezos sees that, Amazon's pulling out. They see Ray Kump getting shoved in a subway car."
Subway Shoving Jokes and Terrorism Threat Levels — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain"that there's gonna be some, and then we're kinda getting off the Amazon thing, so I don't know how far we're looking off it. But you don't"
John Kiriakou, the CIA, and the Loose Origins of Al-Qaeda — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain+10s into the segment"just mind-numbingly soft and boring listing off statistics about Amazon, none of us really taking a stance on anything. out of us for"
Cigarettes, Genetics, and Dying with Dignity — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain+164s into the segment"in regards to the Amazon headquarters is a persuasive argument in terms of people are now"
"works. He fucking messaged me like four hours ago when we put my Amazon thing on. Yeah, I'm talking fucking classing off. People like"
"All right, enjoy All right, Jeff Bezos, let's see what happens Amazon calm and a surprise statement pulls out of Long Island We can"
"home ordering rogue casters and microphones and headphones from Amazon have them being delivered by drone and live-streaming and deciding"
Coronavirus Should Wipe Out Society — #189 - Welcome To The Show, Hillary | The Tim Dillon Show+93s into the segment"of National Intelligence I mean it is just it's spooks and it's Amazon it's Microsoft Google it's Oracle Oracle by the way is involved"
The Leaked AI Commission Document: Copying China's Surveillance State — #196 - Whitney Webb | The Tim Dillon Show+324s into the segment"a lot of amazon workers live there so I'm I keep imagining what the like well-heeled upper-middle class Amazon workers think about their new overlords"
Inside Chaz: Gentrification, Amazon Workers, and Protest Cosplay — #204 - Katie Herzog | The Tim Dillon Show+73s into the segment"unconstitutional to have an income tax in the state which is exactly why Amazon and this is why they live here and George Jeff Bezos initially"
Global Elites, Real Estate Money Laundering, and Political Cash — #204 - Katie Herzog | The Tim Dillon Show+141s into the segment"no matter what you're selling Amazon Etsy your own website whatever shipstation brings all of your orders in a one simple interface"
ShipStation Ad and Scamming Rich People With Seashells — #208 - Let's Have A Party | The Tim Dillon Show+42s into the segment"tapped they're not someone up there is asleep um but the so the amazon alexa is just the beginning that's kind of preparing you for smart"
Silicon Valley Fuses With the State: Eric Schmidt, AI Arms Race, and Smart Cities — #226 - Whitney Webb #3 | The Tim Dillon Show+402s into the segment"majority of what was once their business to giant corporations like amazon for example and in furthering this push of buying everything online"
QAnon as a Cass Sunstein-Style Psyop — #226 - Whitney Webb #3 | The Tim Dillon Show+251s into the segment"it's a different kind of christmas this year we know that here at amazon we know it's a different kind of christmas which is why we're"
Imagining a Dystopian 'Different Kind of Christmas' Ad Campaign — #230 - The Pit | The Tim Dillon Show+41s into the segment"motivate your audience oh no matter what you're selling amazon etsy your own website shipstation funnels all your orders into"
"you had these corporate giants like Amazon and Google and you know Walmart that Consolidated their power so much more as small businesses just died everywhere"
COVID Lockdowns as the Most Transformative Event of Our Lives — #259 - Independence Day with Glenn Greenwald | The Tim Dillon Show+279s into the segment"you what do you make of like have you been in the the Amazon the Amazon's always fascinated me I've always wanted to go there I mean I"
Epstein, Blackmail, and Human Nature in Politics — #259 - Independence Day with Glenn Greenwald | The Tim Dillon Show+222s into the segment"capable people in tech. But all of these massive, whether it's Amazon or Facebook, there's really five companies that control everything"
Monopolies, Startup Urgency, and Parlor's Failure — #282 - Lex Fridman | The Tim Dillon Show+19s into the segment"because you have massive corporations, whether it's Target or Amazon or whatever, and they limit the amount of possible growth you"
Corporate Land Grabs and 'You'll Own Nothing' — #283 - Joe Rogan | The Tim Dillon Show+55s into the segment"That's why it's important but that's why Jeff Bezos recently with Amazon like he's taking the photos with the girl. Yeah. He's enjoying"
Becoming Like China, Bezos vs. Buffett, and Late Empire Silliness — #283 - Joe Rogan | The Tim Dillon Show+69s into the segment"because Amazon was sitting there in 1999 for four dollars share or whatever and that was a really good idea if you put a thousand into Amazon it's like a million today"
NFTs, the Snail With a Cigar Up Its Ass, and 99% Going to Zero — Two Greatest Minds of The Century (Gary Vaynerchuk) | The Tim Dillon Show #324+102s into the segment"making the money they want to make. and the streamers Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, Hulu, Disney, Fox and others. They have the money"
WGA Strike: Reading the Demands as a Billionaire's Rep — The Negotiator | The Tim Dillon Show #345+52s into the segment"get it it was a little nuts but but now we're back on streaming Amazon Netflix every single all of these people when they had assurances"
Trump Could Have Hosted a Fake Oval Office Show — Prigozhin Eras Tour | The Tim Dillon Show #358+38s into the segment"what you do that's what you do over there at Netflix and Hulu and Amazon"
Burn It All Down If LA Fakes Being Good — LA Fires Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #426+260s into the segment"no comp competition or Facebook there's no competition Amazon Amazon destroyed half the small business in this country flooding The"
Tech Oligarchs' Implicit Bargain and Losing to China on AI and TikTok — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+212s into the segment"Because people these factories Fox Con and they're not good at Amazon either. You're not allowed to use the bathroom. The whole thing"
Neutrifol Ad — Tariffs, China & The Chocolate Factory | The Tim Dillon Show #438+149s into the segment"Microsoft and Amazon. People think of Amazon as packages. No, Amazon runs more servers for the CIA, the NSA than anybody. Then that"
Palantir, Peter Thiel, and the Already-Existing Surveillance Grid — Emergency Podcast: The Epstein Cover-Up | The Tim Dillon Show #454+25s into the segment"its workforce. Oracle is shedding thousands of employees after Amazon cut about 30,000 in a matter of months. I think Oracle did that"
Businesses for Degenerates and Rich People (Edible Arrangements Sequel) — Eric Swalwell, The Great Layoff, & We Endorse Katie Porter | The Tim Dillon Show #492+180s into the segment