Subjects/subject
homelessness
2020-01-26, 1 mention2020-08-16, 1 mention2021-08-15, 1 mention2021-09-05, 1 mention2022-01-18, 1 mention2022-02-14, 2 mentions2022-03-27, 2 mentions2022-04-03, 1 mention2022-06-12, 2 mentions2022-07-10, 1 mention2022-08-22, 1 mention2022-09-18, 2 mentions2024-06-22, 1 mention2024-11-30, 1 mention2025-01-14, 1 mention2025-07-06, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He treats LA's tent cities as evidence of collapse rather than a policy puzzle, saying the horror on the ground exceeded what he expected on his Skid Row tour 15:50. His recurring argument is that neither the left's harm-reduction, defund-adjacent approach nor the right's bootstraps line has done anything, and that homelessness is going to get worse everywhere, not just California, because drugs are "the only thing that work" to numb what he calls the hellscape 20:16 37:17 1:23:18. He also uses it as a stand-in for inequality generally, picturing homeless people with iPhones watching Selling Sunset from a tent as proof the rage at billionaires is understandable even if unproductive 1:06:11.
Beyond the argument, he mostly just tells stories: a machete attack in Malibu he refuses to snap-judge 36:50, a furniture-store stabbing he uses to needle the idea that homeless people are inherently good 2:57, a homeless-outreach volunteer stabbed to death by the man he was helping 24:25, and a Montreal mall blasting Baby Shark to drive people out 1:08:57. He also jokes that a homeless reality-TV star is a year away 1:11:15.
Every Reference (20)
"what's your there is a tremendous amount more horror than I anticipated I thought I thought really the horror would be that there's"
"last night there was a big window in l.a i was talking with several of the homeless people i was trying to rouse them up to have them come in the front and you know cause a little problem"
Trying to Get Cigarettes and a Balcony, and Recruiting Homeless People to Riot in the Lobby — #213 - Who's Gonna Put You In Jail | The Tim Dillon Show+38s into the segment"it's it's fine i mean there's a lot more uh homeless under the overpasses now but you know they gotta go somewhere so you have a camps"
The Society for the Preservation of White Men Paid for My Infusion — #264 - Time Is A Fat Circle | The Tim Dillon Show+31s into the segment"before we make a snap judgment on the on these two homeless people attacking a family with a machete los angeles county got an argument between"
Machete Attack in Malibu: A Father Loses an Eye — #267 - The D'Amelio Variant | The Tim Dillon Show+50s into the segment"homeless now this is weird because I I'm under the impression that all people without homes are inherently good that's the impression that"
Furniture Store Stabbing and Homeless Crime in LA — #284 - Prozac Play-Doh | The Tim Dillon Show+87s into the segment"Bay Area homeowners are uh being asked to help to house homeless residents in the Bay area of California in Northern California they are having problems with uh homelessness"
Teenage Ambulance Drivers in Rural New York — #287 - Drug Recognition Expert | The Tim Dillon Show+8s into the segment"the homeless and I'm not persuading anyone from working with the homeless by just telling you this factual story there was a guy in"
California Asks Homeowners to House the Homeless — #287 - Drug Recognition Expert | The Tim Dillon Show+185s into the segment"the other big issue is homelessness yep number one thing you're going to do that's going to be different than the people that have been in there so far day one declare a state of emergency"
Caruso Interview: Gascon, Homelessness, and His Fascist Father — #292 - Do It Quietly | The Tim Dillon Show+84s into the segment"i don't think that's you know you can in certain instances homelessness many uh on our streets suffer with untreated mental health"
Comparing Caruso vs. Hernandez on the Issues — #292 - Do It Quietly | The Tim Dillon Show+77s into the segment"the tents yeah i think it was we're we're we're maybe a year away from the first homeless celebrity like a homeless star you know what"
Celebrating Addiction and the Coming Homeless Celebrity — #293 - Fat Activism with Jessica Kirson | The Tim Dillon Show+44s into the segment"mayor of los angeles california and people are upset with the homeless they're angry with the homeless um and i get it i get it because"
Rick Caruso's Mayoral Runoff and the Homelessness Debate — #302 - Put Them In A Big Pot | The Tim Dillon Show+46s into the segment"thinks we should just have like burn pits where we just burn them alive and part of me thinks we have to build affordable housing it's"
The Homeless 'Pot' Solution and Dissolving People — #302 - Put Them In A Big Pot | The Tim Dillon Show+55s into the segment"homelessness is gonna get bad everywhere for the simple fact that um drugs are becoming the only thing that work uh to alleviate the uh hellscape we've created"
The Newsom Ad's Fake Family and Nationwide Homelessness — Breaking Point | The Tim Dillon Show #306+109s into the segment"there's something funny about los angeles the idea that it has the biggest homeless population in the world and all the hit shows about la are about real estate"
Selling Sunset Fantasy vs. LA's Homeless Reality — Private Prison Penthouse | The Tim Dillon Show #312+242s into the segment"good about it is that we're actually using the profit to help homelessness in Los"
Launching the Merch Line: Solving Homelessness Through Fashion — The Off Season | The Tim Dillon Show #316+170s into the segment"hands so that they can go solve fucking hom- We're solving homelessness with the money. It would be easy for me to take all the fucking"
Eating the CEOs of Junk Food Companies — The Off Season | The Tim Dillon Show #316+113s into the segment"play any instruments truly homeless is not going anywhere it's a huge part of every Urban experience in America the character of homeless"
Phoenix, America's Fastest Growing (and Most Dangerous) City — Rodent Men & Justin Timberlake | The Tim Dillon Show #396+282s into the segment"and unusual it is impossible to resolve the complexities of homelessness by using juvenile tactics that are conceived to ex well I did"
Montreal Mall Blasts Baby Shark to Deter Homeless People — Post-Thanksgiving Extravaganza | The Tim Dillon Show #419+69s into the segment"people because in La there are so many homeless people if you wanted to blend in in La you'd just be homeless so if I'm a foreign"
Homeless Terrorist Cells Theory — LA Fires Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #426+78s into the segment"I'm telling you, homeless people with iPhones watch this show. They certainly watch Owning Manhattan or Selling Suns or any of this other dumb [ __ ] There are people right now in a tent watching people negotiate high value real estate transactions while they live in a tent."
Billionaires as Super Villains and the Rage of the Dispossessed — Alligator Alcatraz, Free Diddy, & Life At Sea | The Tim Dillon Show #451+160s into the segment