Places/place
Venice
2019-05-12, 1 mention2019-08-18, 1 mention2019-11-17, 1 mention2023-09-30, 1 mention2025-07-06, 1 mention2025-11-15, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He mostly treats Venice Beach as shorthand for squalor — heroin needles, homeless addicts, a sick neighbor who treats junkies outside his kid's window as a teachable moment — while carving out real affection for Muscle Beach's aging, AIDS-beating bodybuilders and his own childhood summers there 14:46 20:45 1:03:41 21:55. Separately, "Venice" becomes shorthand for showy elite wealth, as with Bezos's Italian wedding and a rich acquaintance's benefit night 49:37 26:42.
Every Reference (6)
"homeless heroin addicts yeah so every beat Venice you go down to Venice it's like who would want to live in this I would rather live at"
Michael's Bad Marina del Rey Apartment Decision — 147 - Love Tim (with Kevin Tienken)+427s into the segment"wearing a bathing suit and you're wearing a sarong you bought on the Venice Boardwalk from somebody with a heroin needle hanging out of their"
The Redondo Beach Day That Got Him Banned From Your Mom's House — 161 - The Los Angeles Liars+233s into the segment"Venice is an interesting thing to me because I love Muscle Beach yeah because it's a bunch of gay guys who've cured themselves of AIDS by lifting weights"
Venice Beach's AIDS-Cured Muscle Men and Brendan's Fake Rolex Hustle — #174 - Brendan Schaub | The Tim Dillon Show+48s into the segment"friend was changing and uh I went did you save all the artwork in Venice or whatever I was kind of being yeah let's talk a little [ __"
Rich People Have No Feelings, and Why That's Necessary — The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363+27s into the segment"Do it in Aspen, you pigs. They do it in [ __ ] Italy. Do it in Venice. They got Leo and all these people standing there. I mean, people"
Britain's Speech Police, the Patriot Act Parallel, and Wealth Flaunting Backlash — Alligator Alcatraz, Free Diddy, & Life At Sea | The Tim Dillon Show #451+797s into the segment"I know a sick [ __ ] who lives in Venice and he goes, "My son has a window right by the alley and he sees the homeless people and it's cool. It's a good experience for him to have.""
White Guilt and the Fetishization of Homeless Junkies — Lame Duck Donald & The Immigration Nation | The Tim Dillon Show #470+30s into the segment