Companies/company
Tesla
2018-05-09, 1 mention2020-04-12, 1 mention2021-01-17, 1 mention2021-02-07, 1 mention2021-04-11, 1 mention2021-05-09, 1 mention2021-05-23, 1 mention2021-06-06, 1 mention2021-10-10, 2 mentions2021-11-09, 1 mention2022-03-27, 1 mention2022-12-25, 1 mention2024-12-21, 1 mention2025-01-04, 1 mention2025-03-13, 1 mention
Tim’s take
His steadiest line is that Tesla owners are insufferable, treating car ownership as a personality and a membership card in Elon's cult of SpaceX and Mars talk 41:24 25:56. He mocks Musk's self-driving promises as years of empty hype that the stock rewards anyway 31:40, and elsewhere flatly calls the whole Musk operation "a big scam" while admitting he's told the cars themselves are fine 42:40.
He also just calls it a toy, "for a child," moving its headquarters to Austin along with Musk himself 41:01, and later notes the stock tanking and layoff chatter as Musk melts down on Twitter 25:56. Odd asides pile up around it too — jokes about Tesla batteries poisoning the Pacific 5:34, gas prices being no object if you drive one 27:31, and Tesla not accepting Bitcoin while El Salvador does 1:03.
Every Reference (16)
"I you know what do I know? I mean look this century began with Tesla. Yeah. And some remarkable shit. I think some of the whole wine"
"companies are gonna start to bring people back into early May Chrysler Tesla ball saying they begin production again on May 4th these are factories"
Reopening the Economy Requires Schools Reopening First — #195 - Take Me To The Moon | The Tim Dillon Show+68s into the segment"thing to talk about last night is uh teslas everyone that gets a tesla uh thinks they're part of the development team at spacex i've never"
Tesla Owners Who Won't Shut Up About Tesla — #235 - Covid Kai | The Tim Dillon Show+7s into the segment"think by the way about your boy elon musk because i know you love tesla so much saying they're going to be fully self-driving in like what"
Elon Musk's Self-Driving Promises — #238 - Keep Your Mouth Shut | The Tim Dillon Show+7s into the segment"home yeah so like people move in and they go hey okay this is fun tesla tesla's gonna take the homeless people in austin and just send"
Reasonable People Fleeing to Austin as Cities Die — #247 - Scream At The Sky (ft. Yannis Pappas) | The Tim Dillon Show+155s into the segment"like it's all like i don't like them i think it's a big scam i know you know they're good cars i'm told it's fine but like you know i don't know i don't think he even invented the cars"
Elon Musk vs Bill Gates: Branding of Billionaires — #251 - Dirty Little Animals (ft. Ray Kump) | The Tim Dillon Show+49s into the segment"go we don't think so but then she's turned out right like about tesla correct interesting you you've been on the cath wood train uh i"
Cathy Wood and ARK Invest Crush — #253 - Jenner's Joyride | The Tim Dillon Show+48s into the segment"yeah and tesla's not so what'd you say tesla's not right what tesla is not accepting tesla's not accepting it no no no we're we're bullish on el salvador here [ __ ] tesla"
El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin and Jake's Crypto Origin Story — #255 - Bitcoin Winklevoss Jake Paul | The Tim Dillon Show+50s into the segment"Austin Texas the greatest city in America Elon Musk is moving um Tesla which is makes a silly car it's silly um and it is it's kind of"
Vaccine Debates and Kids, Scandinavia's Stoicism — #272 - Night of The Beating | The Tim Dillon Show+216s into the segment"you can scale in the Bay Area so he's going to uh Austin takes Tesla less time to build a factory than to reach high volume production"
Tesla Moves to Austin, Texas vs. California vs. New York — #272 - Night of The Beating | The Tim Dillon Show+72s into the segment"this relates to what he's doing kids who look i'm assuming that tesla hires people sometimes i have mit right rit's also a good school"
Community College Professors and the Comm Class Weirdos — #276 - The Squish | The Tim Dillon Show+222s into the segment"four dollars a gallon hell i'll pay 15 a gallon because i drive a tesla"
Gas Prices and the Colbert Tesla Bit — #292 - Do It Quietly | The Tim Dillon Show+121s into the segment"it's disgusting and it's true um but what I always said about Tesla was that the people that bought Teslas were the most annoying people"
Snap Circuits, Renewable Energy Bias, and Tesla's Decline — The Christmas Episode | The Tim Dillon Show #328+36s into the segment"thing what's the what's the 2028 version like right what does the Tesla look like in 2030 you can download an app now at I think it's Hilton"
AI and Automation Coming for Gig Economy and Hospitality Jobs — The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422+76s into the segment"can there be one normal period of time when we're not talking about alien spores in the fog and and when somebody doesn't blow up a Tesla"
The Mysterious Nationwide Fog and Bioweapon Theories — Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog | The Tim Dillon Show #424+351s into the segment"there are islands of Tesla batteries floating in the Pacific poisoning I mean the things that are happening here the marine life that's dying"
Nobody Wants the LA Olympics — Little Moments With Meghan Markle | The Tim Dillon Show #435+28s into the segment