Places/place
Las Vegas
2016-07-26, 1 mention2017-02-14, 1 mention2017-08-27, 1 mention2017-10-08, 1 mention2017-11-27, 1 mention2018-03-27, 1 mention2019-01-12, 1 mention2019-05-05, 4 mentions2019-06-16, 1 mention2020-02-23, 1 mention2020-03-29, 1 mention2021-01-10, 2 mentions2021-07-11, 1 mention2022-01-18, 1 mention2023-04-16, 1 mention2023-07-18, 1 mention2023-12-30, 1 mention2024-08-03, 3 mentions2025-01-04, 1 mention2025-10-04, 1 mention2025-11-29, 1 mention2026-03-28, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He keeps coming back to Vegas as an economic barometer more than a place he has a fixed opinion of — the Uber driver he meets treats it as the cheap escape for people priced out of everywhere else 35:31, the pandemic version is a city of grateful, desperate valets thanking you just for parking 13:05, and by 2025 he's reading it as a market that collapsed along with LA once nobody has a wedding or a job to celebrate anymore 42:20. He calls it a straightforward love/hate, a town that puts you "face to face with who you are and what you're willing to do" 50:59.
Beyond that it's mostly a stage for extremity rather than an argument: the Heart Attack Grill where people die eating 49:56, a Cybertruck bombing outside the Trump Hotel 6:46, 128-degree heat he brings up more than once as its own kind of spectacle 47:23 10:31, and OJ Simpson as the one man he'd most want to run into there 16:28. He's openly contemptuous of flying in for a weekend with no real reason, mocking the impulse to land there "for what" 47:47.
Every Reference (28)
"what skills you have. I don't know anything like that. I think Vegas, but not the strip, but I think there's always the opportunity"
"One of the reasons I love Las Vegas is that is the buffet capital of the world. They have buffets"
"of them in Flushing are great and then some of the buffets in Vegas are really good the King crab legs everybody's fucking lines up"
"website, so I'll let you in on a little secret. If you live in Las Vegas or Henderson, stay inside tomorrow. Don't go anywhere where there"
The 4chan Vegas Hoax Post and the Limits of the Elite Conspiracy Theory — Mandalay Ray+8s into the segment"doctor said to me The other day he's like good when you're in Vegas. You've made it. I'm like maybe they have like I know there's plenty"
Long Island's Warped View of Show Business and a Stolen Joke Riot — This Is No Way To Live+10s into the segment"Salt Lake City. He'll be in LA soon. So we have to like meet in Vegas to record podcasts. Oh, that's funny. So you meet in Vegas to record"
Facebook Creeps and the Mormon Getting Harassed — Alien School (with Jessa Reed)+266s into the segment"and I remember I had a girlfriend We went to Vegas in senior year and she wanted to see every hotel and I'm like, but they're all this"
Happiness, Poverty, and the Titanic Steerage Theory — Integrity Belongs In East Timor+221s into the segment"for whatever she needs she's like we think we're gonna move to Vegas you know you know because it's cheaper there and I'm like go where"
The Uber Ride Begins: Meeting the Driver From Perry, Florida — 146 - Small Town Girl+201s into the segment"do now thinking about you know she's talking about getting an apartment for nine hundred and hagas I'm like what things are percolating"
"victim refused to meet him it sounds like a threesome it's cheaper in Vegas you needed to leave a small town because you wanted to"
Googling the Uber Driver's Son and Finding Child Molestation Charges — 146 - Small Town Girl+29s into the segment"place yeah and work hard and save money and get an apartment of Vegas with a guy that she cares about in loves and she she's a good person"
"Vegas we got a lot of videos gonna shoot in Vegas to podcast in Vegas there was this guy I'm gonna have on the show that gret glider"
"sausage smother no more cheese pepperoni sausage me and Ben were in Vegas and we walked past a heart attack grill which is where people die"
America's Deadliest Restaurant Meals and the Obesity Epidemic — #188 - Best of Patreon Vol. 1 | The Tim Dillon Show+148s into the segment"I have a love/hate with fake it's because you know I've been to Vegas a bunch and I've had some of the best times in my life in Vegas but I've had some rough times too"
Vegas, Dallas, and Austin — Travel Nostalgia With Ben — #193 - Fun Easter Foods | The Tim Dillon Show+73s into the segment"in so the whole point of the country is fit in we were just in vegas we went to vegas for two days because nothing's open in l.a we"
Vegas Trip: Grateful Valets and a Desperate City — #234 - Stop Ratting | The Tim Dillon Show+19s into the segment"so you only got like 40 seats in there at the comedy clubs in las vegas so you're not really you know you're not you're not making money"
LA Shutdown, Comedy Material Drought, and Vegas Reopening Rules — #234 - Stop Ratting | The Tim Dillon Show+44s into the segment"theater there. August, San Diego, California I'm there. Uh, Las Vegas is a music festival if you want to go to that I'm performing"
Tour Dates: Boston, Foxwoods, Chicago and More — #260 - Prison Pen Pal | The Tim Dillon Show+38s into the segment"and I've always liked her is because she was she was born in Las Vegas now I imagine that that people who are born in Las Vegas just"
Why the Hype House Kids' Show Is Boring — #284 - Prozac Play-Doh | The Tim Dillon Show+4s into the segment"honest with you there's not a man I'd be more excited to see in Las Vegas there's no could you think of a person in Las Vegas you'd be"
OJ Simpson Photo Ops and the Just Say No Jay Sketch — Call OJ Daddy with Stavros Halkias | The Tim Dillon Show #342+208s into the segment"Right now, I mean, I think the temperature in Vegas when I'm going to be there on Saturday for the win the Encore Theater at the win, it's going to be 115°."
Record Heat, Death Valley Tourism, and Climate Gawking — I'm On Strike | The Tim Dillon Show #354+4s into the segment"going to guess I'm going to say Disney world's number one I say Las Vegas is in the top five I say New York City is maybe number two what"
North Korea Should Become a Tourist Destination — Dead-Eyed Monsters | The Tim Dillon Show #375+128s into the segment"the end of this all of these bags of human [ __ ] that visit Las Vegas are they stand up now by the way people are just watching because"
Watching the Film: Colors, Bugs, and Missing the Extinction Message — Twerk For Your Supper & The KHive | The Tim Dillon Show #403+212s into the segment"it's really depressing when you go to Vegas and you look at what they've done to the country and what they've done to the people and what excites the people"
High-End Asians Only, and Losing at Baccarat — Twerk For Your Supper & The KHive | The Tim Dillon Show #403+77s into the segment"turn this race back into Vegas but the way used to be not the sphere she'll win if you fight at the sphere she wins if it's just fat bags of [ __ ] watching bright colors on the [ __ ] LED screen she will win you got to make it old Vegas"
Trump Must Reward the Fraud: Twerking to the Electric Chair — Twerk For Your Supper & The KHive | The Tim Dillon Show #403+86s into the segment"a Tesla cyber truck that exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas was an active duty US Special Forces Soldier and shot himself"
The Las Vegas Cybertruck Bombing: Matthew Livelsberger — Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog | The Tim Dillon Show #424+44s into the segment"are out, especially in cities like LA and Vegas. LA follows Las Vegas footsteps as visitors to city plummet 50%. No one's going. What"
Why Nobody Visits LA and Vegas Anymore — They Got Greta, A.I. Hollywood, & The Battle For Tik Tok | The Tim Dillon Show #464+115s into the segment"going? Can you imagine? We're go We're landing in Vegas in 20 MINUTES. FOR WHAT? FOR WHAT? FOR WHAT? For what? To see a DJ and have your"
Find a Little Lesbian Donut Shop: Living Small and Local — Wicked?, A Terrible Life, & The Golden Age Of Travel | The Tim Dillon Show #472+101s into the segment"air that plane that Janna with Janice, whatever [ __ ] gray plane that leaves out of Vegas. And you're taking that plane to go to ["
No Sympathy for Kidnapped Secret Scientists — Melania’s Humanoid, Missing Scientists, & A Podcast Scam | The Tim Dillon Show #489+19s into the segment