Places/place
Vietnam
Tim’s take
Vietnam mostly shows up as backstory for other people rather than a subject on its own — it's where Dennis, his mother's tenant, served before ending up broke and living in a van with a wine-soaked catchphrase for every disaster, a story he tells almost the same way twice 57:15 24:27. He also uses it as the origin of the government experiment plot in Jacob's Ladder, again treating it as texture rather than something to argue about 29:40.
When he does take a position, it's political: Vietnam is his standing example of a war that was never about the country's people, was terrible on its own terms, and mainly generated profit for people like LBJ while it dragged on 1:09:15 47:44 1:06:13. He reaches for it as the precedent whenever he's arguing that Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine are repeating the same pattern of unwinnable wars that exist to be lucrative rather than to be won 47:44 1:32.
Every Reference (12)
"to die. Inside the house. Inside the house. Her husband is a Vietnam veteran. He's lit himself on fire. She goes, we have a problem."
Ray's Worst Mortgage Deals: Dying Fathers, Cat Hoarders, and Howie's Fake APR — Tim Dillon Is Going To Hell Premieres on GaS Digital+192s into the segment"the texture. But you were coming in the 70s and the 60s with Vietnam first and then Watergate and all these things, you were coming"
"then you just go, I should not have done that. Yeah, one time in Vietnam. So they're these oysters or like shelled something."
Thailand's Double Standard and Eating Dog Morality — Integrity Belongs In East Timor+189s into the segment"died Dennis was a great guy Dennis was an older guy served in Vietnam had a bad divorce with his wife instead of giving her any money"
Dennis, Vietnam Vet Who Lived in a Van, and 'Life in the Big City' — 154 - The 3 AM Episode+61s into the segment"interesting guy he was he's very spiteful he had a he went to Vietnam he served in Vietnam came back from Vietnam how did this thriving"
"there's a little bit of a backstory it was about a guy that went to vietnam and the government experimented very similar to agent orange they"
Favorite Halloween Movies: Hocus Pocus and Jacob's Ladder — #224 - American Chainsaw Massacre | The Tim Dillon Show+90s into the segment"like in vietnam we had all the spies in vietnam again we burned all those agents they they got killed by the what about if you make a complaint"
The Fake Billionaire Buyer and Suicide Prank Scheme — Tim Dillon vs The New York Post+68s into the segment"the luckiest generation other than the few of them who died in Vietnam enough uh we've heard about that the rest of them had Charmed"
Boomer Parenting Horror Stories: Smoking Compliments and Handcuffed Guests — Tom Segura & Christina P. | The Tim Dillon Show #348+41s into the segment"it was really really never about the people of Afghanistan or the people of Iraq or the people of Vietnam or the people of the Ukraine"
Ukraine Gets Thrown Off the Boat Next — Joe Biden & Something Different | The Tim Dillon Show #398+106s into the segment"it better there's not a lot of good ones not a lot of good one Vietnam is not a great Vietnam was terrible it was terrible no the things"
America's Track Record of Foreign Interventions — The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422+36s into the segment"collapsed financially, it wants this. And you've got just like Vietnam turned out with Magnamera. He later admitted this before he died"
Ukraine as a Money-Laundering War and Escalation Toward Nuclear Conflict — Emergency Podcast: The Epstein Cover-Up | The Tim Dillon Show #454+72s into the segment"and Afghanistan. And actually, we learned that before that with Vietnam, but no one really cares because there's a lot of money to be"
Why Wars Don't Work Anymore — Iran Forever, Belfast Riots, & College Commencement | The Tim Dillon Show #499+103s into the segment