Places/place
Dubai
2021-05-09, 1 mention2021-10-24, 1 mention2021-11-23, 1 mention2022-01-18, 1 mention2023-01-08, 1 mention2025-03-29, 1 mention2025-04-12, 2 mentions2025-05-10, 2 mentions2025-05-17, 3 mentions2025-07-12, 1 mention2025-09-20, 1 mention2025-11-29, 1 mention2026-03-07, 2 mentions2026-03-14, 2 mentions2026-03-21, 2 mentions2026-04-25, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He returns to the same image of Dubai as a climate-controlled interior world built to escape its own heat, holding up the indoor ski slopes as the go-to example of engineered artificiality 58:47 9:15 1:41:58. He acknowledges the city runs on what he calls slave labor but then plays the "good guest" who praises the buildings and looks away from the workers 9:15 50:40.
More consistently he treats Dubai as the place where New York's old job of housing shady billionaires and crypto refugees has moved, complaining that the city now courts the same feudal money once drawn to Manhattan 55:09 47:47 13:15. When missiles start landing near it during the Iran conflict, he treats the panic of its tax-exile influencers and luxury brands as a kind of comeuppance rather than a tragedy 25:53 50:48 13:44.
Every Reference (23)
"dubai is preparing they're doing everything that you would do outside like the head people they're doing it inside now in a climate controlled environment"
Climate Change, Dubai's Indoor Ski Resorts, and Mars Colonization Doubts — #251 - Dirty Little Animals (ft. Ray Kump) | The Tim Dillon Show+6s into the segment"now dubai is this modern city that's kind of built on slave labor and it's you know a lot of people are pointing to this and saying this is uh no good"
The Oil Tanker Crew Abandoned at Sea for Years — #274 - Tourettes Gang | The Tim Dillon Show+83s into the segment"We are moving to Dubai to start a comedy scene in the United Arab Emirates in the capital of Dubai. Ben will live in Doa with his wife"
Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict and the Fake Dubai/Sears Tower Studio — #278 - A Thanksgiving Tale | The Tim Dillon Show+80s into the segment"ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Tim Dillon show live from Dubai our new home our new set we're very excited to be broadcast in"
Cold Open: Welcome to Dubai (the New Studio) — #284 - Prozac Play-Doh | The Tim Dillon Show+14s into the segment"really is casinos and like inside things that's why people like Dubai they build everything inside yeah it's like this nature [ __ ]"
Failed Comanche Gift and the Empire of the Summer Moon — The Joe Rogan Experience | #330+78s into the segment"I don't know why he doesn't go to Dubai I don't know what's he's getting into here this is not going to be good for him go to Dubai go to Dubai choke in Dubai"
Andrew Tate Choking Allegation at the Beverly Hills Hotel — Leaked Group Chats & Door Dash Debt | The Tim Dillon Show #437+62s into the segment"amazing. I wouldn't People in Dubai Oh, do you think I would go to Dubai and be like, "Everything's made by slaves." I wouldn't say that."
How to Be a Good Guest in Qatar, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia — Stay At Home Summer & Being A Good Guest | The Tim Dillon Show #439+215s into the segment"Can you imagine if I was in Dubai and somebody came up to me and they're like, "Do you know all these buildings were built by slaves?""
America's Traditions: Protest vs. Quietly Shopping — Stay At Home Summer & Being A Good Guest | The Tim Dillon Show #439+209s into the segment"I think the rich have decided that they need like an like some enclaves. And I think Dubai is like we're just going to be a crypto a feudalist society"
Dubai Is Stealing New York's Criminals — India vs. Pakistan, Portnoy, & Jennifer Aniston’s Stalker | The Tim Dillon Show #443+49s into the segment"people feel something again. The Big Apple. They're sitting in Dubai. It's 117 degrees. They're in some fake ski slope. They could be"
New York's Decline and a Message to Jennifer Aniston — India vs. Pakistan, Portnoy, & Jennifer Aniston’s Stalker | The Tim Dillon Show #443+43s into the segment"You know, Dubai, I talked about it on the last episode. They're they're spending a lot of time and effort trying to get people from all over the world to live in Dubai."
Finding Common Ground With Hamas Over Four Seasons Hotels — Qatar, Kanye, & The Gift Of Luxury | The Tim Dillon Show #444+192s into the segment"I look at Dubai and it just looks like a big [ __ ] I don't know, water park where billionaires are always on a a Splash Mountain at Disney World."
Wanting to Marry a Fatima and Leave America for Dubai — Qatar, Kanye, & The Gift Of Luxury | The Tim Dillon Show #444+50s into the segment"peninsula, places like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Doha, Muscat, the transformations have been unbelievably"
Trump's Middle East Speech and Room Service Priorities — Qatar, Kanye, & The Gift Of Luxury | The Tim Dillon Show #444+1s into the segment"__ ] but it's always a vast conspiracy with China's behind it. Dubai is funding everything and they're in the colleges. Dubai brought"
Creep vs. Evil Monster: Redefining Epstein — Wet Hot American Epstein | The Tim Dillon Show #452+93s into the segment"the whole thing. I was supposed to perform in Dubai. I mixed up Dubai and I said Abu Dhabi. Apparently, this is a big deal over there."
Cold Open: Fired From the Riyadh Comedy Festival — Cancelling Kimmel, Fired From Riyadh, & The Prison Housing Market | The Tim Dillon Show #462+87s into the segment"not need a billion dollars in crypto. You don't need to be in Dubai because you you're trying to not get kidnapped for your crypto."
Find a Little Lesbian Donut Shop: Living Small and Local — Wicked?, A Terrible Life, & The Golden Age Of Travel | The Tim Dillon Show #472+135s into the segment"citizens stranded in that part of the world and cannot get out. Dubai, which is either the busiest or one of the busiest international"
Gulf States' Embassies, Frozen Airports, and the AI Bubble Financed by Gulf Money — Emergency Podcast: Iran, Israel, & Imminent Destruction | The Tim Dillon Show #486+20s into the segment"there. So they can they can weather this. Final question, how do is Dubai cannot. Dubai cannot, right? Final question for you, how does this"
Gulf Money Pulling Out and Jared Kushner's Panic Calls — Emergency Podcast: Iran, Israel, & Imminent Destruction | The Tim Dillon Show #486+125s into the segment"You know, Dubai which we talked about on the show as you know, it's the fun kind of you know, tax haven for international criminals."
Dubai Influencers Panic as Missiles Fly — Iran, Looksmaxxing, & The Rapture | The Tim Dillon Show #487"not life, and you can see it on their face. These influencers in Dubai who are sitting there in a slave-built hotel watching missiles"
Clavicular the Looksmaxxing Influencer and the End of Civilization — Iran, Looksmaxxing, & The Rapture | The Tim Dillon Show #487+284s into the segment"Dubai is panicking. A lot of the luxury brands that that are in Dubai are pan panicking. And this is probably going to push a lot of"
Trump Wants "The Honor" of Taking Cuba — Bibi, Genghis Khan, & The Decency To Stay Home | The Tim Dillon Show #488+179s into the segment"ally, if you're going to go on a trip, you go to Qatar. You go to Dubai and get a lip filler. Go get your Botox done in Dubai. Go buy a"
How Empires Actually Fall: The Iran War as Strategic Blunder — Bibi, Genghis Khan, & The Decency To Stay Home | The Tim Dillon Show #488+468s into the segment"New York, whatever partially sometimes, not always here. I'm in Dubai tax- wise. Um, but there's no live, so that's all they TALK ABOUT."
The Dying Unipolar World and the New Feudal Tech Oligarchy — The Palantir Manifesto & My Manifesto | The Tim Dillon Show #493+820s into the segment