Places/place

Montauk

Every mention, in time. Each mark is a day — taller means more that day — and links to the moment.

Tim’s take

Every time he actually goes to Montauk it goes badly — the town is cold and miserable, the Airbnb is a working-class dump dressed up as a luxury surf cottage, and he complains about it at length rather than enjoying himself 0:00 38:58 7:00. At the same time he uses it as shorthand for a certain kind of money, saying watching rich kids hop out of a Rolls with ice cream turned him into a "Stalinist," and later lists renting a Montauk weekend house alongside $125 ribeyes as a marker of the soon-to-be-hunted upwardly mobile 13:39 28:34.

He's also genuinely interested in Camp Hero and the Montauk Project lore, walking the base and talking to locals, and he treats the area's remoteness as the actual reason anything shady could plausibly have happened there 8:50 20:20. He's careful to separate real MKUltra/Operation Paperclip history from the time-travel-chair grifters, even while riffing darkly on what such a hidden base could have been used for 16:45 1:07:01.

References
11
Span
May 2, 2017 — Apr 18, 2026

Every Reference (11)

  • 14:30May 2, 2017neutral#
    "people that are messaging me, things like this. I went out to Montauk and I had steamers for the first time. I'm going, you need to"
  • 0:46May 9, 2018neutral#
    "maybe this is some hybrid thing that floated from Plum Island to Montauk. And you say it is a dog. It's a decomposed dog. It's a decomp"
    Decomposed Bodies, Morgue Work, and Viewing the Dead — The Montauk Project+19s into the segment
  • 7:32May 9, 2018critical#
    "anything else, it's gotta be, see I was walking around, I was at Montauk, My apartment was the floors were getting redone. So me and my"
    Freezing in Montauk During the Met Gala Exodus — The Montauk Project+32s into the segment
  • 8:56May 9, 2018neutral#
    "They're in New York City They're like let's do a night out in Montauk to see it or see the lighthouse, but it's freezing It's kind of"
    The Montauk Project, Camp Hero, and MKUltra Comparisons — The Montauk Project+7s into the segment
  • 19:49May 9, 2018neutral#
    "to break up to prayer? I mean, yeah, probably was happening in Montauk. I mean, the whole time travel experimentation thing. All right,"
    Fucking Kids Through Time and Fake Advertisers — The Montauk Project+184s into the segment
  • 24:39May 9, 2018neutral#
    "and I'm like, whatever, who cares? But what's interesting about Montauk is that it is an area that's so remote that whatever goes on out"
    Vice Videos, Pizzagate, and Real vs. Fake Conspiracy Journalism — The Montauk Project+259s into the segment
  • 15:09Aug 30, 2018favorable#
    "coming back lobster rolls. I Like him. Yeah, I like him. I was in Montauk recently and it was fun There's like I've become a Stalinist in"
    Free Government Breakfast Fantasy and Montauk Street Food — Stewed Reunion (with Mike Recine)+91s into the segment
  • Jul 14, 2019neutral#
    "removed probably you know I wanted to do one buy at Camp hero in Montauk buy the stranger things but also [ __ ] stranger things I've had"
    Stranger Things Should Have Been About AIDS and Crack, Not Nostalgia — 156 - Some Of Our Faves+24s into the segment
  • Aug 30, 2020critical#
    "episode for you pigs you want it you get it we're out here in montauk in an airbnb i was promised that this was going to be a luxury"
    Cold Open: Trashed by the Montauk Airbnb — #215 - Petty Little Pig | The Tim Dillon Show+11s into the segment
  • Aug 30, 2020critical#
    "world okay and i'll rent a nice airbnb i won't be here in this uh montauk surf [ __ ] i'm gonna burn this place down you got to be on ayahuasca"
    The Squealing Pig Fable About Unmet Luxury — #215 - Petty Little Pig | The Tim Dillon Show+17s into the segment
  • Apr 18, 2026neutral#
    "The people that think nothing of uh renting a weekend house in Montauk are in trouble now. They're in trouble now. The young professional"
    Nancy, Cliff, and the Mass Layoff Email — Eric Swalwell, The Great Layoff, & We Endorse Katie Porter | The Tim Dillon Show #492+123s into the segment