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India
2019-05-19, 1 mention2020-02-23, 1 mention2021-05-02, 1 mention2021-06-06, 1 mention2023-05-07, 1 mention2025-02-27, 1 mention2025-04-12, 2 mentions2025-05-10, 2 mentions2026-03-07, 1 mention2026-03-28, 1 mention2026-04-25, 1 mention2026-06-27, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He mostly places India inside a bigger story about American decline, listing it alongside China and Russia as evidence the unipolar moment is over 57:16 16:38. That framing shows up again when he covers Iran and Israel, where India gets mentioned as a country everyone is quietly courting once old alliances stop paying off 1:16:12 48:14. On Kashmir he tries to explain the India-Pakistan conflict in plain, self-aware terms and mostly just narrates the news rather than taking a side 29:25 36:04.
Elsewhere India is just material for a bit: an absurdist letter from a four-year-old fan in an Indian slum 1:07:01, a mocking aside about Bezos's Covid PR stunt "helping" India 1:37, and a "good guest" routine where he refuses to criticize the caste system because he's assimilating abroad 50:40. These aren't a position on India so much as a recurring prop for jokes about Western hypocrisy and detachment 50:40 1:37.
Every Reference (14)
"went yeah you know their companies went and [ __ ] who listen EC India come and look what happened to England now yeah you know in decline"
No Shared National Identity Left — Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas)+56s into the segment"world to really live I I got a message other day from a child in India who watches the show he's four and he said Tim Tim Tim I don't"
The Letter From a Kid in an Indian Slum — #188 - Best of Patreon Vol. 1 | The Tim Dillon Show+35s into the segment"this is jeff bezos who's getting involved to help the people of india right now and it's heartwarming all right here we go guys how exciting"
The New Shepard Video and the Masked Rivian Passenger — #250 - The New Shepard | The Tim Dillon Show+2s into the segment"see them outlawing bitcoin i know that there's talk of that in india i don't know if that's happened or not um do you think that becomes"
Government Crackdowns and Bitcoin as a Decentralizing Force — #255 - Bitcoin Winklevoss Jake Paul | The Tim Dillon Show+6s into the segment"the person's face caves in but they have a wife and they're in India. I think that's what this is talking about. I don't know. What"
Mini Rooms, AI Writers, and No Dutch People — The Negotiator | The Tim Dillon Show #345+154s into the segment"labor cost you either send it to China or you Outsource it to India that was the lazy way to do it it had a massive impact on on manufacturing"
AI's Two Paths: Innovation vs. Outsourcing Repeat, and DeepSeek as a Sputnik Moment — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+49s into the segment"economy's bigger. It looks It depends on what metrics you look at. India's coming up. Russia's has more nuclear weapons than any other country."
Neocons, Iran, and the Forever War Machine — Stay At Home Summer & Being A Good Guest | The Tim Dillon Show #439+604s into the segment"That's tall as [ __ ] I assimilate. I'm a good guest. I don't go to India and go, "Well, this caste system seems unfair. These untouchables.""
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+242s into the segment"to be a real tightroppe walk. uh because you have two countries India and Pakistan and they are fighting over a region called Kashmir."
Explaining India-Pakistan and Kashmir (Badly) — India vs. Pakistan, Portnoy, & Jennifer Aniston’s Stalker | The Tim Dillon Show #443+13s into the segment"that would see both sides back down and return. That's hilarious. India Pakistan fight in 48 hours like a ceasefire. The Israel Gaz thing"
India-Pakistan Ceasefire Talk and Comparing It to Gaza/Ukraine — India vs. Pakistan, Portnoy, & Jennifer Aniston’s Stalker | The Tim Dillon Show #443+33s into the segment"like how did they find the exact location? There's some In In India, they are speculating that the US exploited its kind of joint intelligence"
The Torpedoed Iranian Ship: A Naval War Crime Near Sri Lanka — Emergency Podcast: Iran, Israel, & Imminent Destruction | The Tim Dillon Show #486+116s into the segment"cozies up with China. Russia deepens trading relationships with India and places like Brazil. Russia turns her economy into a wartime"
Putin Profiting Off the Iran War — Melania’s Humanoid, Missing Scientists, & A Podcast Scam | The Tim Dillon Show #489+3s into the segment"now that we have countries like China, you have countries like India, the unipolar moment is over, um you have Russia has now built"
The Dying Unipolar World and the New Feudal Tech Oligarchy — The Palantir Manifesto & My Manifesto | The Tim Dillon Show #493+104s into the segment"evidence that they're trying to increase their relationship with India and understanding that they might need to start finding other friends"
The Fraying US-Israel Relationship's Future — Donald Trump’s Endgame | The Tim Dillon Show #501+260s into the segment