Places/place
London
2018-05-30, 2 mentions2022-02-06, 1 mention2022-02-27, 1 mention2024-03-30, 1 mention2024-07-06, 1 mention2024-07-13, 1 mention2024-08-24, 1 mention2024-10-26, 2 mentions2024-12-21, 1 mention2025-02-08, 1 mention2025-06-14, 1 mention2025-11-08, 1 mention2026-05-16, 1 mention2026-05-23, 1 mention2026-06-06, 2 mentions
Tim’s take
He describes London as a city that has been sold to oligarchs and foreign money, a "vertical money laundering scheme" where billionaires park cash and the native culture gets hollowed out 1:16:54 24:56 12:50 1:20:16. He treats the Russian-gangster-in-London stuff as darkly glamorous rather than alarming, joking about people getting thrown out windows or killed by weaponized typhoons as the price of the city being interesting 26:48 1:06:36 1:16:54.
Despite the cynicism about who owns it, he keeps saying he loves the place, calling his 21-day trip there great and even joking about moving to Knightsbridge to become "a goddamn gentleman" 34:18 21:22 37:31. He ranks it as the only real rival to New York and prefers its tension and history to what he calls the boring, meaningless comfort of France or Italy 7:15 37:31.
Every Reference (18)
"London really is becoming this city of the future in terms of very wealthy people, whether they're oligarchs or people from the United Arab Emirates."
"If that happens, it's going to be disastrous for the British economy. And therefore, my fear is that London will be so desperate for any kind of business that if anything, it will actually be more willing to turn a blind eye to dodgy money coming in"
London as a Money-Laundering Capital, and Russian Stand-Up Comedy — Russia's Super Mafia+115s into the segment"dates that have just been rescheduled where we're going to ireland london and glasgow scotland and we're doing those dates that we're done"
Tour Date Rundown: Phoenix, Tampa, San Antonio, and Portland Maine Struggles — #286 - Tim Moves To Spotify | The Tim Dillon Show+9s into the segment"to glasgow on march 30th glasgow get tickets dublin get tickets london get tickets and then that's it that's the first week of april"
"Glasgow, the Royal Theatre uh in Amsterdam, Royal Albert Hall in London, uh I don't know in Copenhagen, whatever that pronunciation is."
UK/Europe Tour Dates and a Chateau in France — P. Diddy & The Loneliness Plague | The Tim Dillon Show #386+25s into the segment"be Russian old great there's such a seedy Shady underworld in London it's so sexy and cool and there's something about it that I've"
AP's 'Sharp But Confused' Biden Headline and Family Prison Optimism — Joe Biden & Something Different | The Tim Dillon Show #398+236s into the segment"they should be attacked uh who throws the acid on the faces in uh London it's the is it the Arabs is it the muzzies it's the muzzies so"
Owning Manhattan Trailer and Wishing Violence on Realtors — Biden's Mumbles & Dance Moms | The Tim Dillon Show #399+132s into the segment"it's not fun anymore it's just Chick-fil-A doing nugget battle London's fun it's International gangsters killing people with [ __ ]"
RIP Mike Lynch and the Typhoon Assassination Theory — The DNC Chick & Sunken Superyachts | The Tim Dillon Show #406+63s into the segment"London has also just become a vertical moneya laundering scheme everyone from all over the world and and New York and this is happening to all these great cities is that people that live there are being driven out"
NATO Freeloaders and Germany's Nonexistent Military — Sen. JD Vance | The Tim Dillon Show #414+104s into the segment"does right is is and this is what I really worry about is like London doesn't feel fully English to me anymore no right um New York"
London and New York as Oligarch Money-Laundering Cities — Sen. JD Vance | The Tim Dillon Show #414+5s into the segment"private plane going to Luton which is an airport near London not in London but near it and the pilot said it's a little windy in London 30"
Comedy Meritocracy vs. Manufactured Diversity Quotas — The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422+102s into the segment"I'm going to do some of your chat shows and whatnot and I love London I love going there I love nightsbridge and I love harrry is and"
Tour Dates and Sign-Off, Plus Final Thoughts on Fundamentalism — Emilia Pérez & The New Gaza | The Tim Dillon Show #430+40s into the segment"from all over the world have bought real estate in cities like London, similar to New York. I'm not saying we're above this at all."
Kemi Badenoch: 'Israel Is Fighting a Proxy War on Behalf of the UK' — ICE, Iran, & The American Summer | The Tim Dillon Show #448+46s into the segment"in in measured in the impact it's had. The only competitor is London. The only one. LA's never been a competitor. Miami is not a competitor."
The Boring Brunch People Coalition — Zohran’s Victory, Air Traffic Chaos, & Government Shutdown | The Tim Dillon Show #469+421s into the segment"And I'm not getting the vibe for the moment. For the moment. Let's We'll We're going to We're going to be here a little bit. So, let's you know. But for the moment immigration's big here as an issue. I know that."
London's Wealth, Immigration, and Global Money Laundering — USA vs. China, Spencer Pratt, & A Heist | The Tim Dillon Show #496+37s into the segment"I'm moving to London. I'm going TO BE A GODDAMN gentleman before I die and it's going to be in London. Going to live in Knightsbridge like a person"
Index Funds for a Robot Apocalypse and Moving to London — Thomas Massie, Kevin O'Leary, & The American Psyop | The Tim Dillon Show #497+110s into the segment"and blah blah blah blah blah blah. But it was lovely being in London. They are having a little bit of their 2020 moment now, meaning"
London's 2020 Moment and the Henry Noak Stabbing — Backrooms, Spencer Pratt, & The D’Amelio Family Disaster | The Tim Dillon Show #498+15s into the segment"basically where our predicament is right now. I loved my time in London. I was there 21 days. We missed last week. Um and we we I appreciate"
London's 2020 Dam Breaking and Why Britain Still Matters — Backrooms, Spencer Pratt, & The D’Amelio Family Disaster | The Tim Dillon Show #498+24s into the segment