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Tim Dillon

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“So podcasting was a way for comics and funny people to kind of get into that space, start earning money, and now because of the pandemic, it's really become essential. And it helps you, and even without the pandemic, it was where people were, it was how you were building a fan base. And that's like, you know, but comics were very reticent to embrace social media at all because they thought it was cheap and they didn't like it and they thought the people on it were idiots and were unfunny and it was just a blatant, you know, whatever it was, whether it was a money grab or it was just too commercial in a sense where they're like, hey, look at me. Like, it was just goofy, right? And then comics, I think, got displaced.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Comedians were late to social media. Comedians, comedies, it's a performance-based medium. So it's about getting up and doing it, getting up in a club, getting up in a theater, getting up in a bar, getting up wherever you can get up. And comedy for years was about performance. And then on the higher end, it was about movies and TV shows. But we were very slow to get on YouTube. We were very slow to adapt to technology. We were very slow to monetize anything we did on the internet.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Others. I think he was a little mean to other people, but he was very good to people that he liked, I guess. I think he was like not, I mean, he wasn't, and I've never met him. I have no inside info, but from what I've heard, he was like no nonsense guy, right? He just said what he wanted to say. But I think in terms of comedians, I don't know if anyone funnier than Patrice O'Neill who said in modern times that said more about our society than him. I mean, he was just a brilliantly funny guy. On the radio, he was funny, on his specials he was funny. everywhere he was funny.”
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“There's so many funny people, but Bill Hicks was kind of funny, and then Patrice O'Neill was like probably my favorite comedian who's made me laugh more than anybody else.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And to me, I love that joke. It was so funny to me. And I was like, oh, you can't get away with that anywhere other than standing on a stage. You couldn't ever say that at an office, really. And this was before, like, it was like PC and this. And the other thing, I always knew the comedians had to say shit and have it be funny enough that you couldn't get away with it in polite society. That was the whole point. That was why it was a dark theater or a dark nightclub. That's why people had a few drinks. That's what the art form was. And that's why So a guy like that was influential because I started watching him. And then of course, like, you know, I loved SNL when I was a kid and I would watch Chris Farley and I would watch people like even John Belushi going back in the day, but I'd watch Adam Sandler and Will Farrell and all these guys. I mean, the...”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hicks was influential because I'd watched Bill Hicks and I'd be like, this guy sang crazy shit on stage and this is the only way he can get away with it is because it's so funny. And he was calling out like, you know, the military industrial complex and he was talking about the first Gulf War. I remember he said a joke that I heard it made me sit up straight. He goes, he goes, he was in Canada. And he said, we ought to war in the States. He was talking about the First Gulf War. And he said, I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of Chris Rock, of course. It's so hard. You can't really pick one. You just got to, there's a class of people that throughout this history of this business, which is not that long of a history. It's pretty much within the last century that have been Really influential. Sometimes it styled the way they deliver things. Sometimes it's substance of how they, you know, what they're saying, or sometimes it's just a style of what they're saying. I mean, and we're only talking about stand-up comedians, right? So there's a million great comedians. I mean, if we're going to talk about Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler and Chris Farley, I mean, these are brilliant. And those guys are bigger influences on comedy, I think, than stand-ups, really, truly. So there's so many brilliant people in the business.”
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“Well, to an extent that you can watch it. He's got stuff. He talks about stuff. He talks about race brilliantly. He talks about America brilliantly. No, I think there's a lot of stuff there.”
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“Said something at the moment in a way found a way to communicate with people in the funniest possible way at that moment and illustrate larger truths about life in what they did. And I think that guys like Louis and Chappelle and Pryor and Kinison and Hicks and people like Joan Rivers have done that. And even modern people, people like Maria Bamford's an amazing comedian. It's just a different style of comedy per se, but she's an amazing comedian. Kat Williams is an amazing comedian. You know, he really is. Does he have?”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Carlin is great. Carlin is really hard to argue with. But Chappelle is also really great. Louis C.K. is really great. I don't know that there's what Joan Rivers is great. I don't know you smile at that. She's a beast of a comic.”
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“Norms of our discourse. I do too. I do think we need to put more value. I think entertainment, we do need to say that there are people that should be allowed to have a voice for entertainment purposes. And that's part of what Donald Trump, now that he's not the president, come on. Let the guy, let him talk.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Enemy of mainstream conservatism. Like he was not, and you considered a guy that wasn't a patriot, wasn't this, wasn't that. And he just like he whines and whines and ends up just being this confidant of a Republican president, a very divisive Republican president. And he becomes as populist and everything like that. It's really wild to watch that. But I mean, I do think he should retire eventually just so we could get, you know, some, I don't know, it seems like it's a lot to keep doing.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Alex is a uniquely American person, like a very interesting. I don't know how many countries, like, how many people make a living as a conspiracy theorist, a good living in other countries, right? It's very rare, right? I mean, it's very interesting. And he became like I know people that knew him when he was a kid because I go to Austin and perform a lot. And, you know, he was a guy that would take a bullhorn and yell at cops because he thought DeeWee checkpoints were unconstitutional. That's what he was doing in college. And he's just went through, he was hated by the right. He was hated by the Bush people. He was hated by the, and he went from being this guy that was considered like a leftist even. Like, even though he was never a leftist, he was considered this like.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know that these things are often inflated or not true, but know that sometimes they are true. Otherwise they wouldn't exist. If there was nothing to JFK, there was nothing to 9-11, if people felt like they were being dealt with honestly, this wouldn't exist. I mean, this exists because there are real questions that people have that don't get answered for whatever reason. And then the vacuum of the refusal to answer those questions, that information vacuum is filled with people like Alex Jones, who are curious and sometimes they're right, and sometimes they're horribly wrong. And sometimes they're all over the place”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can go to McDonald's three times a day. Just walk around the block. It's what my parents used to say. My mother would be like, just walk around the block. You're fine. Gonna have a cigarette, walk 20 steps, walk 20 steps back. It's exercise. So, no, there's too many conspiracies out there. A lot of them are true. A lot of them are bitter, angry people trying to justify their own impotence, not being able to do anything in life. And they're like, the people that have done something in life, they're all nefarious. The car just tacked against me. That's 100% true. 100%. It attracts usually people that have not figured out a way to succeed or haven't succeeded on the level that they want to. That also being true.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's a good diet for, I grew up in the 90s when nobody ever lost weight, sadly, because every diet was like, you can eat what you want, just be accountable. No one even knew what that meant. So it would be like my mother being like, if you have chalk that chip pancakes, have a glass of water. Just take a walk around the block.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And people accuse me all the time of being on performance enhancing drugs and steroids. And it is hard, but what I remind them is my appearance as a result of dedication. Hard work, diet, exercise, dedication.”
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“I believe you are backed by people that want people to be more comfortable with robot dogs. I believe that. I believe you're pushed to be the happy face of AI, which is why I will edit this part. You should have the happy face.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Decisions to affect the CIA just works for a lot of very wealthy people. That's what the CIA, how the CIA started, right? It was lawyers, bankers. They're protecting financial interest of multinational corporations all over the world, overthrowing democratically elected governments, going in and doing subterfuge campaigns, encouraging terror. They were doing all kinds of crazy stuff. I don't see why that would change. I think that's who they still represent. And I think those people want certain policies and certain people pushed forward. And I think those people are controlled. And I think one of the ways to control people is their sexual problems. And that's the way they did it.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Great question. I mean, I don't know what will happen to her, but I imagine she'll get some type of deal, closed door thing years from now when people don't really care about the case and she'll serve some time in a very lax thing or she'll be killed. I mean, again, it's like if she was doing what she was doing, which is, I believe, a fact that she was compromising powerful people so that they could be blackmailed by, you know, the intelligence services of the US and Israel probably I don't see how she wasn't doing that. Someone's black, someone's using the photos and the tapes, right? Someone's using that against these people. Someone wants to control these people. Well, who and why? That's the real question. And I think the real question is you want to exert control over Congressmen and senators and presidents because they have the power to make”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think it's human nature. I think they manipulated human nature, but I think they did it. I think Just Lane, I think Epstein was really just a functionary, and I think Just Lane was kind of a pimp. And Epstein was kind of a guy that, you know, made the money okay and, you know, hid money and things like that and worked for a lot of powerful people. I don't believe in lone pedophiles anymore.”
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“No, there's the facts of the case. You don't get handed a 65. Show me another evil guy who was handed a $65 million place by Les Wexner. Show me another evil guy that got that type of handshake deal where he was basically let off without anything after a judge had made a very sweetheart deal for him after he was accused of molesting a 14 year old. Show me another evil guy that doesn't have that kind of backing that has those type of friends, those connections, those type of properties. Show me multiple passports all over the world. So show me a guy without anyone backing him that's doing it. Why did they, you know, so you think he's just an evil guy? So he's doing this for whom it's his own just shits and giggles. He's just getting off on it.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Probably massage. I mean, it seems very clear that he was working inside of a honeypot intelligence operation, just Land Maxwell's father was an Israeli super spy, just Lane Maxwell's working for Israeli intelligence. It would be odd to think. And of course, the CIA knows about everything that Israeli intelligence is doing with Americans. So I would think that it's a very cozy relationship with those two intelligence agencies. And I think if you ran it by anyone, I think if you ran it by French intelligence, they'd go, yeah, no, get him. I don't think there was any intelligence service in the world whose job is to protect the powerful people that live in their countries that was against him getting whacked.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think he was killed by that guy, that guy that they put in his cell, that lunatic. Who's that big muscled guy? I think he was just, he did it for money, kept his mouth shut.”
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“I know, but the problem is a lot of like it's just, you know, Epstein was very smart at like just getting people at that house and taking photos of them. Nobody knew what they were doing, but it's like it was one of those things where it's like, Epstein's the most social guy ever. Like every photo, he's like, hey, it's like. Everyone that's ever done anything in the world has been at that fucking island. Every human being is like in a photo. It's just weird. Like, I'm in, it's funny, me and my friends get together. We don't ever take photos, right? Like last night, a few people, I was in my birthday yesterday. I'm 17. And my friends came over and were just eating dinner, right? And we had a fun night and just four people that are over. Nobody, right? Nobody ever thought like let's, hey, I want to remember Let's take photos. I'm 36.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My producer wants a cyber truck. I want a stagecoach. Old school stagecoach horse thief shit. It's going back to that. I lived in an area with a lot of horses. It's going back to like whipping a horse. I want an animal to shriek while I go by.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you look at the name of his child, you can clearly see listen, I do like him and I do think what he's done with Tesla, you know, my producer as a Tesla and he never shuts up about it. Most people that have Teslas never shut up about them and they taught they think they're part of the development team at SpaceX. And I like that he's created a world where people can get excited about a $37,000 car and never shut the fuck up about it to the point where I have to threaten people with physical violence to get them to stop telling me about that their car drives itself.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because Bill Gates has the money. I think once he wanted to shoot a missile of dust at the atmosphere to help global warming. And a lot of scientists were like, hey, man, that might not be the way to do it. But no one in history, like so few people in history have had the resources to even have that thought that if you have the resources to have that thought and you have designs on the way you want society to look, whether it's public health policy, vaccinations, whatever, you have to get a little better at dealing with legitimate critiques. And obviously you're not defending yourself against people that say you're the Antichrist, but like you need to get a little better. And I feel like Bill Gates and some of those people at that level are like, PR is kind of like, you know, they're terrible.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As well as some no. Here's my thing with Bill Gates he's a Batman villain billionaire, meaning that he's not a villain, but he's got oldest money, right? Here's the thing, and I love Mosque and all these guys. I know you love these guys. Listen, when you have the kind of money that these guys have and you have the vision that they have and they want society to look a certain way, and a lot of them are doing great things, people, they need to get better at the pushback. They need to get a little better when somebody says, hey, man, what's going on over there? Bill Gates needs to be a little better at going, here's what”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think part of it is that he's done some really good stuff, right? He's an innovative guy, he's on the vanguard of a lot of things, but he's also the Antichrist And I think that that is, you know, they're not mutually exclusive. He is the Prince of Darkness.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Life is categoric, but there's also like, you know, so I think QAnon's this way to make a lot of it seem like it's super exciting. And listen, I don't want to diminish the experiences of people who've been abused here because there is a lot of horror here, but the whole QAnon thing was like everybody in everything is doing, and that's not true.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a great movie. He said the two worst things in the world are not getting what you want and getting it. So, the undercurrents of sadness that run through Hollywood, there are two rivers that converge, and they are people that just never had it and people that haven't and go, now what? And so it's a sad place, a tragic place. And there's a lot of, it's boring. That's what people don't realize is like it's actually kind of boring”
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“It's from the movie. And I think he says the two worst things in the world are not good. Oh, you know what's not from Limitless? I think it's from the movie where Nicholas Cage sold weapons. It was called Lord of War. It's a little better than Limitless. Anyway, that's...”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, somebody said, and I forget who said it, it's a great quote. It's not mine. I think it's from a book, or it might be from a TV show. Sometimes I quote something and they're like, that's from like Charlotte's Webb. I'm like, oh. The two worst things are, oh, I think it's from the movie Limitless. I'm like an idiot. But anyway, thanks for having me on. Tomorrow he will never publish.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Separates you from other people. It's isolating. It can be traumatic depending on what's going on. Obviously, it's better than the alternative. If you're trying to be famous, it's better to be famous than not famous, right? I'll say that. But it's a mixed bag to a degree. There are things about it that aren't great. And Hollywood has a deep undercurrent of sadness of people that have not realized their dreams and people that have realized them. Both of those people”
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“If you want, what did we get? We got the $75,000 dog. And then we'll get one. But me, David Spade, we go out to sushi restaurants and you sit there and you listen to people complain. That's what a lot of it is. What a lot of Hollywood is, is deeply sad tragedy that... Deeply sad most people's lives are in Hollywood, and it ignores how sad fame is in general. Fame's a sad thing. Not always, but a lot of times it's a sad thing. It's fleeting, it's ephemeral, it doesn't last.”
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“You ignore it because it's hilarious. And I know David's like Hollywood's kind of boring. Yes, there are sex orgies. I'm not invited. I'm sure there's shit going on. Kids do get abused. Women get abused.”
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“Well, it was just this group of nights back in the day, you know, it's that, you know, supposedly secret meetings and like in every conspiracy, they talk about like, you know, if you go deep enough, it's like the ninth template, the Rosicrucians. All of these secret groups throughout history, the Illuminati, the”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's fair to say. Yeah, I mean, I just don't feel like we've gotten the full story. I don't know what the full story is. I can't know what it is, but I don't feel like we've gotten the full story. Yeah, there are groups of powerful pedophiles, right? Whether they're the Catholic Church or they're in the government or wherever they are, they are able to cover things up that they do. They're able to silence people that try to out them in terms of like, you know, disrupt their operations. That's true. QAnon has nuggets of truth. It just went crazy. Any conspiracy theory that involves the Knights Templar and also Chrissy Tegan is probably wrong.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, again, I want another investigation into 9 11, not because I think that George Bush pressed a button and made 9-11 happen, but because we invaded the country of Iraq and then we, you know, 15 out of 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. There was tons of stuff in the 9-11 report that didn't make sense to anybody. There's tons of stuff about that day that I feel like we just don't know.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Kennedy was not killed by a lone gunman with no connections to any other situation, government. I believe that JFK was removed from office by a group of people that had Very different interests, but.”
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“In certain aspects, I have optimism and then I have, I have short-term optimism and long-term pessimism. Meaning that I think in the short term things can get better. I think long term, because there's so many forces that are out of our control that are evolving in ways I barely understand that are carving up society, it's going to be very tough long term to be completely optimistic like, hey, it's going to be great. It's going to be good forever. But short term, I think, yeah, this quarantine will end. Things will get better. The economy will get a little better. The constant Trump craziness will die down a little bit. That's my hope. And people can go back to focusing on things that matter, which is, you know, the things that are near you and close to you. Yeah.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think everything's ending. My whole thing is that Trump's out, QAnon's over, quarantine's going to end. Everything's going to go back to something that's more recognizable. I think that.”
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“And they were good at it. And it was a lot of desperate people, but there were also rich idiots. There's also like dumb, rich people. And those are like the saddest people in queue because it's like they should. They have the resources to do other things. But they just love Q. They're like, I'm just into this. And I'm like, you're rich. Go do something. How incurious are you? Go to the Amazon. Birdwatch. I don't know, but It's sad, but they're like done now. I mean, they're, oh, it's over.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wow, that was because I mean, it's interesting. People have to do that after the 60s. They're like, yeah, I just did a bunch of acid and I lived in a ranch in Malibu and fucked everyone I ever saw. And they're like, I thought that was the way the world was going to go. And I followed some shaman guy, some guru who just wanted to fuck me and 10 other people that were living there. And we did that for three years. Apparently we never created the utopia we thought we were going to have. And now I'm back working here, you know, at All State Insurance. And we have great policies and we'd love you to come in the office so we can break them down for you. It all ends, folks. All the love, all the bullshit ends, but it's fun. They had so much fun. QAnon was hard to get mad at because they were, this was all they had.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then when the hunter bought laptop stuff started to happen, they were like, dancing, like it's time. And then Biden wins and they're like, wait, whoa. And it's just like, it's the day after the park. QAnon, if you ever went to a party in high school or college, QAnon right now is the day after the party. You wake up. It's 12 noon. The sun is hitting you in the face. You're hungover. There's a stanch of disgusting beer and cigarettes all over the house. You're like, what the fuck happened here? I got to get out of here and get a bacon, egg and cheese. That's what QAnon is. They got to sober up, get out of that house, get a bacon egg and cheese and go, man, we were fucking whacked. We were high, dude. I thought Nancy Pelosi was eating children for four years, and that Donald Trump was going to put her in Guantanamo Bay.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But they've literally gone as far as to saying that Biden and Trump switched faces. Trump's actually still the president except Biden's. You have to be a real moron now. You got to be real stupid now. It's at the end. It was cool when the Epstein stuff happened, QAnon was like, it was party at Q. Yeah.”
2021-01-29 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're improvising. Alex is like, hey man, I was on board a little bit, but at the end of the day, it's getting a little annoying because it can turn on you. Eventually you become part of the conspiracy. Alex is controlled opposition. That's what they'll say. Eventually you, because QAnon just eats things. So it's a conspiracy that just eats things. The minute you start to say, hey, man, maybe that's not, it just eats you and go, well, you're in on it. Everyone's in on it. Everyone's a satanic pedophile. Everybody, everyone that questions it is eating children. And you go, wait a minute, that seems illogical. There's not enough children. Now there's not enough. And I think QAnon's over.”
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“Well, and I got to make something up on the spot, right? I've been, you know, are you drinking again? No, I'm not. And then you got to have a, well, you were gone for two days. No one knows where you were. And somebody said you left your car. Well, I was, well, this is, I was at a sales conference and I left my car. I flew to Phoenix. I understand what that is. QAnon is an ever-evolving conspiracy theory where the events are happening in the past, in the present, and in the future. It's kind of hilarious. Every conspiracy theory is like Kennedy, something like that, that there's a lot of truth in that or all truth. But at the end of the day, it's like you're looking back from 30,000 feet, analyzing little things that have already happened. QAnon's like, so I think Alex is kind of like got a little tired of.”
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“He was staying at someone else's house. The car wasn't in the driveway. Yeah. Well, the thing about QAnon that makes it a lot of fun. Yeah. It's kind of a make it up as you go along. I'm a drug addict, right? So often my lies aren't planned. They're in the moment. A lot of what I do on the podcast, a lot, you know, it's all in the moment. I'll have an idea what I want to talk about and I rant and I go. And I've been like stoned and I show up at home and my parents are like, what's going on? There was $50 on the mantle. Now it's not there. And I'm like.”
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