Subjects/subject
private equity
2016-07-26, 1 mention2017-06-06, 1 mention2018-01-23, 1 mention2019-07-28, 1 mention2019-10-06, 1 mention2020-02-23, 1 mention2020-09-20, 1 mention2021-01-31, 1 mention2022-02-20, 1 mention2023-04-16, 1 mention2023-08-27, 1 mention2023-09-02, 1 mention2023-09-09, 1 mention2023-12-23, 1 mention2024-04-13, 1 mention2024-07-06, 1 mention2025-02-27, 3 mentions2025-04-05, 1 mention2025-04-12, 1 mention2025-05-03, 1 mention2025-06-07, 1 mention2025-06-14, 1 mention2025-08-02, 1 mention2025-09-20, 1 mention2025-11-22, 1 mention2026-01-10, 1 mention2026-02-14, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He treats private equity as the recurring villain behind ordinary things disappearing — Boston Market gutted by a private equity owner who said he'd make it better and then shut it down 36:42, DR Horton and other builders shrinking houses to protect margins 55:35, Blackstone buying up Sun Belt apartments and BlackRock and Vanguard buying single-family homes until ordinary buyers can't compete with cash offers 5:37 6:27. He folds this into a larger picture of offshore shell corporations and money laundering tied to real estate and to Epstein's financial dealings 26:34 9:51. When he floats the idea that a firm like Blackstone might be engineering San Francisco's retail collapse on purpose, he actually talks himself out of it, calling it "paralysis capitalism" instead of a deliberate plot 29:05. He also uses "I'm private equity now with Blackstone" as a punchline for describing implausible, sudden wealth 30:06.
Every Reference (29)
"in, they cease US operations. The Hedge Fund or Loan Star, private equity, whatever it was who bought them, because you're not doing"
"it. The great article about those guys in Vegas, all these hedge fund managers in Vegas. And then of course, John Brennan is there the"
The CIA-Corporate Nexus and John Brennan at the Vegas Hedge Fund Conference — Father Kump+147s into the segment"you travel abroad And obviously we're doing crazy things in this country with private prisons with everything else It's horrible and should"
Saudi Arabia, Halliburton, and the War Economy — Live From The NY Comedy Festival (with Russ Baker)+73s into the segment"and that whole group of people the Clintons were always servants right bushes and the Clintons are kind of servants of these other wealthier families right and who's doing it"
Michael Hastings, Whistleblowers, and Convenient Deaths — Episode 158 Part 2 - Tim and Ray on the 3 Evils: Epstein, Big Tech, and Long Island+156s into the segment"from a lot of different places came from a lot of private you know major players in the financial world and it also came from corporations"
Homework: 'How to Hide Four Hundred Million Dollars' and the Epstein Financial System — #168 - The Funniest Guy I Ever Met | The Tim Dillon Show+69s into the segment"name of a shell Corp which is a corporation that is set up really primarily to invest in real estate also private companies but a lot"
Foreign Money, Shell Corps, and Real Estate Laundering — #188 - Best of Patreon Vol. 1 | The Tim Dillon Show+135s into the segment"and this is really the thing with capitalism it's like you do have these real it is kind of an issue here where you just have these companies that are very efficient they come into a market they disrupt it which i hate that word but that is what's happening and then they realign the market so that they trim the fat and the fat is a lot of people's livelihoods"
Airbnb Long-Term Rentals Disrupting Real Estate — #218 - Fake Business | The Tim Dillon Show+130s into the segment"robinhood is owned really truly by these big money players the robin hood is a billionaire too but like the institutions are who he has that's where his loyalty is it is not to"
Robinhood's CEO is Ghislaine Maxwell's Son (a Joke) — #237 - Buy The Dip | The Tim Dillon Show+28s into the segment"BlackRock which is uh the the what's amazing to me now is the uh and we've been following this I spoke to Mullen about it when I was in New York and he made some great points about corporate landlords just owning everything in America individual landlords uh disappearing people not having to pay their rent so then a lot of these landlords have to sell their properties and then um you know who comes in and buys some BlackRock BlackRock or black stone same thing right"
Blackstone Buys Up Sun Belt Apartments and the Death of Home Ownership — #288 - The Real Housewives of Cotino | The Tim Dillon Show+23s into the segment"Arizona that's awesome um I started buying into all of these I'm private Equity now with Blackstone Steve Schwartzman BlackRock um I'm I work"
Raycon Ad: Financing Earbuds Into a Fake Business Empire — Call OJ Daddy with Stavros Halkias | The Tim Dillon Show #342+153s into the segment"massive uh companies that build these homes right they're private Equity companies own all these home builders right what's that big"
Shrinking American Homes and the 'Embracing' Spin — Prigozhin Eras Tour | The Tim Dillon Show #358+54s into the segment"is this Blackstone intentionally throwing these flash mobs in there so the prices dip down they get a going at of business sale they turn it into one big Costco"
San Francisco's Retail Exodus and Disaster Capitalism Theories — A Victimless Crime with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show #359+65s into the segment"these are all private Equity companies yeah the biggest companies in the world and they and they are they own I think they own uh 88 of the s p 500s"
BlackRock, Vanguard, and the Corporate Buyout of American Homes — Bobby & Cheryl | The Tim Dillon Show #360+213s into the segment"diffusion of responsibility and this is what big daddy zaz wants let's make it so big let's get Paramount Paramount plus get Yellowstone"
Big Daddy Zaslav and 'Too Big to Fail' Mergers — A Christmas K-Hole | The Tim Dillon Show #374+61s into the segment"owns this thing what [ __ ] vertical nightmare yeah hedge fun private Equity company owns Boston Market someone that's shutting it down"
The Private Equity Guy Who Killed Boston Market — Mike Recine & Lizzo Be Quitting | The Tim Dillon Show #388+14s into the segment"in the Hamptons you know these pink shirt sweaty uh whoever private Equity hedge fund people who also probably donated to Trump they"
DNC Fundraising Math and Whitmer's Fake Kidnapping — Joe Biden & Something Different | The Tim Dillon Show #398+70s into the segment"where they're we're talking largely about the financial industry that's very cozy with government you have Hank Paulson going in talking"
Tech Oligarchs' Implicit Bargain and Losing to China on AI and TikTok — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+11s into the segment"you have to watch out for private concentrations of power that would then partner with government if you wanted to get to a d a totalitarian government right you would have major concentrations of private power built around monopolistic ter that they often call the corporate State"
Neo-Brandeisian Antitrust vs. the Chicago School, and Techno-Feudalism — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+37s into the segment"Afghanistan and you're paying and not just your taxes your private Equity remember Zuckerberg and all these guys came out of graduate"
AI's Two Paths: Innovation vs. Outsourcing Repeat, and DeepSeek as a Sputnik Moment — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+210s into the segment"And then at the top of society, you will have finance, tech, and podcasters who will occupy the top spaces in our society. People like"
Podcasters as the New Elite and the Oompa Loompa Fentanyl Crisis — Tariffs, China & The Chocolate Factory | The Tim Dillon Show #438+73s into the segment"talking about the recession. CEOs of all these big banks and private equity companies are going we're going to we're going to have a recession."
Preparing Kids for a 'Public Pool Summer' — Stay At Home Summer & Being A Good Guest | The Tim Dillon Show #439+65s into the segment"equity and then hopefully get into comedy. I'm like the famous private equity to comedy pipeline, of course. Uh, but I get it. If my kid"
Getting Inducted Into the Harvard Lampoon — Tim Dillon & His A.I. Friends | The Tim Dillon Show #442+80s into the segment"these things. These people don't really care about America as an idea. One of the biggest startups during COVID was a I forget what"
The 2008 Bailout Playbook and Post-American Tech Utopias — Musk vs. Trump, Ukrainian Drones, & A Very Special List | The Tim Dillon Show #447+96s into the segment"and it's not trickling out really to the consumers except you can go, "Well, Walmart, you can get a cheap shirt now." then go door dash though cuz that's the only job left."
The Real Point of Protests, and LA's Income Inequality — ICE, Iran, & The American Summer | The Tim Dillon Show #448+183s into the segment"I'm against Blackstone buying the houses. I've talked about that. I'm against these institutional investors driving up the cost of home ownership."
Honoring the Shooting Victims Amid Twitter's Luigi Jokes — Auctioning America, Ghislaine’s Makeover & Sydney Sweeney’s White Naturals |The Tim Dillon Show #456+116s into the segment"It's malls and cupcake ATMs. It's [ __ ] you know, private equity companies that build, you know, mega structures that look like storage lockers."
Living in a Cell: Why They Don't Want You to Own a Home — Cancelling Kimmel, Fired From Riyadh, & The Prison Housing Market | The Tim Dillon Show #462+140s into the segment"runs a hedge fund. She's not married to somebody who runs a private equity company. She doesn't speak at the World Economic Forum."
The Rootless Global Elite and Their Contempt for Marjorie Taylor Greene — The Epstein Files & Thanksgiving In Syria | The Tim Dillon Show #471+118s into the segment"could have been as big as Starbucks, but it was bought by a private equity company and they focused on these weird Asian teas and these"
Cold Open: Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf's Ice Blended Mocha — ICE In Minnesota & Venezuela Without Maduro | The Tim Dillon Show #478+70s into the segment"All these business backgrounds are seeming kind of fake, aren't they? All these people that just lose money and go bankrupt and then get more money"
Jared Kushner's Suspiciously Convenient Business Bailouts — Bondi, Baal, and the Dow | The Tim Dillon Show #483+33s into the segment