Places/place
Guantanamo Bay
Tim’s take
He treats Guantanamo as a serious indictment of post-9/11 American conduct, a recurring example of torture and black sites that he lines up alongside Bagram, the Salt Pit, and the abuses exposed by Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange 22:47 4:19 34:19. Reading a NYT feature on former detainees, he complains there isn't a single success story after a decade of torture, just men still locked up or radicalized by it 1:00:10. He reaches for it again as the logical endpoint of state cruelty when talking about ICE raids on immigrant families 39:32.
Just as often it's pure shorthand for institutional cruelty dropped into unrelated bits, like the invented Sheath Underwear founder backstory that keeps looping through Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib 48:07 37:38. He jokes his Airbnb cleanup crew will resemble the guys who mopped up after Gitmo torture sessions 10:00, compares building an online audience to breaking down detainees 4:22, and fantasizes about booking an actual former detainee for a surreal SNL sketch about pronouns 1:11:37.
Every Reference (15)
"bombs last year. Yeah, you know, he reversed his position on Guantanamo Bay you know what that tells me that tells me that there's two"
"is going to put Obama and Clinton and all these people in Guantanamo Bay because they're all in a human trap. I swear to God. I swear"
"agency, to basically stop this line of inquiry, to not close Guantanamo Bay. How does all this happen? Because I know that Obama campaigned"
Hollywood, Brennan, and Obama's CIA Capture — Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou)+408s into the segment"you know 20 years of the black thank you for your service at Guantanamo Bay now tell us about he was I was reading saying he was in the"
"prison and then i think he went to work at a restaurant called guantanamo bay which was probably a seafood restaurant and he was in charge"
Robert Patron's "Inspiring" Abu Ghraib Backstory — #228 - Candace Owens | The Tim Dillon Show+53s into the segment"article they were going to tell us that a few of the people at guantanamo bay who we waterboarded uh were now running a taco truck in austin"
Where Are They Now: Guantanamo's First Detainees — #245 - It's Saturday Night! | The Tim Dillon Show+32s into the segment"something i want to say i want to see somebody that was on guantanamo bay going to snl and do a funny bit and have conjurers sit there"
Closing Fantasy: Booking a Guantanamo Guest and the Pronoun Bit — #245 - It's Saturday Night! | The Tim Dillon Show+85s into the segment"learned about underwear uh when a lot of it was so hot in guantanamo bay they used to put people in like a hot box and it would be"
Sheath Underwear and the Invented Murderer Founder Story — #246 - I Love The CIA (with Whitney Webb) | The Tim Dillon Show+154s into the segment"terrorists some of them not and sending them to places like guantanamo bay sending them to bagram which i believe is in afghanistan it"
The Salt Pit and Bagram: CIA Torture Sites in Afghanistan — #265 - Austin Taliban | The Tim Dillon Show+9s into the segment"that the cleaning crew that i'm gonna have to employ is gonna be like the same people who cleaned up gitmo after the torture you know"
The Trough and the Cleaning Crew from Gitmo — #295 - A Serene Retreat | The Tim Dillon Show+30s into the segment"to the wrong place and hurt our credibility worldwide sure Guantanamo Bay these underground torture prisons uh you know not following"
"some of this information that this guy leaked was not only American abuses it was Guantanamo Bay how many people had been abused tortured and killed the Guantanamo Bay"
Alexei Navalny vs. Julian Assange: America's Selective Outrage — Leave It Online | The Tim Dillon Show #382+484s into the segment"clintons and the Obamas and the bushes every they're all going to Guantanamo Bay they're going to jail and they're there now they're actually"
QAnon as a Cure for Loneliness, and the Atlantic's 'Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out' — Leave It Online | The Tim Dillon Show #382+177s into the segment"to be famous go read a book about how the the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were tortured they would break them down they broke them down"
"I don't think people are going to be able to look at six-year-olds being put in handcuffs and put in police cars and said to Guantanamo Bay."
The Koch Brothers, Cheap Labor, and Corporate Exploitation — ICE, Iran, & The American Summer | The Tim Dillon Show #448+212s into the segment