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Americans vs Finns Nature00:14:17
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dylan Show.
We apologize.
We're a little late, not crazy late, a couple of days.
You know, during the next two months, when we're on tour heavily before we get off for months and months and months, you know, the episode is going to be Friday, Saturday, or maybe Sunday, but we usually maybe keep it Friday or Saturday.
I tried to get David Hogg on the show.
I messaged David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting.
I messaged him on Instagram and Twitter.
And basically saying, hey, come on the show.
Like, I want to talk because he's very political and he has the march for our lives.
Save kids, not guns.
This is his stuff.
And I'm like, I'm not trying to fight with you or debate with you.
There's a few things I might bring up if you come on, but like I've taken flack for saying there should be more restrictions.
I don't believe in banning guns, but I'm like, there should maybe be a couple of more sensible restrictions.
But I invited him on.
I don't think he's responded.
I don't think he's responded to come on the show, but I thought that would be an interesting conversation between me and David Hogg about schools and guns and, you know, all the craziness that just happened in Nashville with the shooting that just happened in Nashville where they killed three children.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's nuts.
It's crazy.
They're saying Finland is the happiest country in the world.
Can you believe this?
Finland, where children don't get shot, is the happiest country.
Or maybe they do.
I don't think they do.
But the Finnish are the happiest people in the world, happier than the United States of America.
This is what they're saying.
This is their, this is the New York Times.
It has been ranked the happiest nation on earth for six consecutive years.
But in this article, they talk to the individual Finns who are, I don't know, they're not exuberant.
They're satisfied.
They're like relaxed.
They go, yeah, we're cool.
And I read this article.
We're going to bring up some interesting parts of it.
I don't know.
Again, I'm not shocked that America doesn't rank because again, I've, you know, talked about, you know, the idea that very few people seem happy in America.
Even happiness in America seems to be a frenetic, kind of manic behavior.
It's not like a Nordic, satisfied, and relaxed person.
It's like a manic junkie whose dealer has just called them back.
That is happiness in America.
It's like somebody very, very excited to tell you how good something's going for them.
But it's not like that calm, cool, collected, deep satisfaction that maybe the Finnish have.
So here in the article, on March 20th, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network released its annual world happiness report.
What an interesting thing, which rates well-being in countries around the world for the sixth year in a row, Finland was ranked at the very top.
They keep winning.
They always win.
But when they interview them individually, they go, I wouldn't say that I consider us very happy, said Nina Hansen, 58, a high school English teacher from a mid-sized city on Finland's west coast.
I'm a little suspicious of that word, actually, which I am too, Nina.
They spoke to about a dozen Finns, a Zimbabwean immigrant, a folk metal violinist, a former Olympian, and a retired dairy farmer about what supposedly makes Finland so happy.
Our subjects raged in age from 13 to 88 and represented a variety of genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, and professions to get a full picture of how happy Finnish people are.
They came from Cola Cola, as well as the capital Helsinki, Turku, a city on the southwestern coast, and three villages in southern, eastern, and western Finland.
And I read the article, and what it comes down to is they like nature, they like welfare, and they're satisfied with very little, which is good.
But that's how you get happy, right?
They enjoy nature.
They actually enjoy it.
Like Americans don't really enjoy nature unless we're destroying it or we're using it for our own gain.
Nature in America, for the most part, has kind of been ruined.
Like we do have Yellowstone.
We have some beautiful national parks, but most nature is just, you know, it's hanging on by a thread.
It's the fires are always burning down.
There's droughts everywhere.
The lakes aren't at a high level.
So nature in America takes a back seat.
You know, there are people that go out and do things in nature, but a lot of times that's murder or rape.
I mean, it's not always, you know, there's regular, there's people that go out and don't kill in the natural environment, but it's not our main thing.
Like our main thing is not the nature.
Like we have some pretty nature, but our main thing is like the cities, the vibe, the clubs, the drugs, the money, the cars, you know.
And in Finland, they like a tree.
Like they like seeing green grass.
We take nature and put it on the outside.
Like we take fake moss and put it on the outside of buildings, or we take trees and rip them out of the ground and put them inside of a hotel lobby.
We dominate nature, which I think is good.
Like we don't let nature, we're not going to be nature's bitch, you know?
Like there's a lake in Austin called Lake Travis, which is heinous.
It's a heinous lake.
It's a man-made lake and it looks like it's in a crater, like an asteroid hit the earth and there's a crater.
And it's blue because it's limestone on the bottom.
It gives it that nice color.
And they buy water from Lake Mead and they buy water from Colorado and they direct it via the dam into this Lake Travis, which is a heinous lake, kind of.
I mean, when you look at it and the drought has made the lake so that the lake is not even full.
It's kind of like, you know, it's like the levels of the lake aren't good.
So people go out and they go on boats and they get hammered and they drink and there's a place called Hippie Hollow where they get naked and everybody's like screaming and yelling.
And, you know, I'm not, this is a fun summer activity, but it's not really about the lake, right?
Like it's not about, it's just about like we've created this big slip and slide for adults to just, you know, to take part in.
Like it's about us.
It's not about the lake.
We don't really give a shit about the lake.
We care about our ability to use the lake to get drunk, to use drugs, to drive fast on boats and have fun water sports.
But that's what America views nature.
It's like it's like an impediment to our having a good time.
It's like we, you know, the lake last year, the lake levels were low.
People didn't care.
They're like, fuck it.
It's just, hey, this is the lake's our bitch.
And it's a heinous lake.
Not a nice lake.
It's not a naturally occurring lake.
It's a man-made lake.
We make lakes and we put some fish in them and we go, go out there and do it.
Go out there and get drunk, get on the boat, do the, and there's nothing wrong with it.
You know, get on the fucking jet skis, have fun.
But we make nature to please us.
Whereas the Finnish people, the Finns go to nature and their depression is lifted because they're in nature.
And I don't know what they do out there in it, but apparently they like it.
They also have a very strong social safety net.
Well, they're saying there are psychological benefits of nature in Finland, that these people, there's psychological benefits of nature, like they go to nature and they feel better about themselves.
They also have a nice welfare state.
So nobody's cast out of society for not performing.
So rather than happy, they were more likely to characterize Finns as quite gloomy, a little moody, and not given to unnecessary smiling.
So they're just, they're just, these are different types of people.
They're Nordic.
They're not, they don't have that kind of manic highs and lows that Americans have, but they have sustainable lives.
Like their idea of success is being able to meet basic needs.
That's the big difference between those Nordic countries and America.
They want like basic needs, a little house, a little fish, and a few potatoes, a little family, and they have art for art's sake.
No one gives a shit about what the Finnish do.
They don't have a Finnish ice spice.
They have just this for the sake of it.
They have it for the sake of it.
Like nothing in America is for the sake of it.
Nothing.
If you ain't trying to get big, it's not worth it in America.
Nobody's enjoying anything.
Everybody in the back of their head is thinking that whatever the hell they're doing is going to lead to something else.
The Finnish don't believe that.
So the Finnish enjoy music and entertainment, but they enjoy it for the sake of it, as opposed to Americans who are like trying to get their kids on the line for American Idols so the kids can get famous and they can retire.
Like Americans just are chasing fame and chasing money.
This is part of our culture.
We want fame and we want money.
We don't really care about nature.
That does not do anything for us.
We want fame and we want money.
And if we're not famous and rich, we want our kids to be famous and rich.
You know, the Finns don't feel like that.
They want their kids to have a little house, a little fish and little potatoes.
And that's fine with them.
That's a nice way to live.
America, we want our kids to be famous first and rich.
We want our kids to be big time, big time.
We want to tell people like, that's my kid.
We don't care if they have face tattoos, if they're on drugs.
We don't care if their lives are ruined.
We don't care if they're in debt to record companies.
We don't care if Hollywood is molesting them.
We don't care if they're being exploited by everyone in their lives.
We don't care if they're, if literally their manager and agent are stopping them from killing themselves and throwing them back out on stage.
None of that matters to us.
As long as they are famous and rich, that is fine.
That is fine.
And then the next step, if they're not famous and rich, is like good job that you can tell people about a decent house, big house, nice wife, nice kids.
Like, look at that.
But first and foremost, we'd like them to be famous and rich.
And the Finns aren't doing this.
Their lives are not built on this unsustainable rat race that Americans are in.
Americans are constantly in this rat race of being the best at everything, the most successful, putting in the most time, getting the big job, getting the corner office, getting the big house and the pool and the cars.
But the Finnish people...
But again, I don't know what's better.
I don't know what's better.
I don't know what's better.
Is it better to have a little house with a little fish and a little potatoes?
And it's a tiny little house and no one really speaks.
They speak occasionally.
Or is it better to live in a McMansion where everybody in their rooms is plotting against everybody else and they're plotting to try to get their lives where they want them to be?
I don't know.
I don't know.
What's better?
Do you want to live in a place where you get excited by something as stupid and gay as nature?
Is that like something that you want to be a part of?
I mean, it's easy to say that, yes, Americans are sick and our value system is wrong.
It is.
And, you know, everything and our country's rotted.
It has.
But the flip side of it is like the Finns have never had any impact culturally on the world.
And you could say, well, America's impact is now negative.
Well, maybe I'd agree with you, but we've certainly done some good things.
I mean, name me a Finnish movie, you know, or something in terms of music.
I mean, I don't know.
It's not as easy to just say like, hey, the Finnish are the happiest people in the world and we should all take a page out of their book.
I don't know.
I don't know if that's just easy to say as people believe.
Like if people really want to do that.
So here's, listen to this.
This is interesting.
And this goes right to my point.
Public funding for education in the arts, including individual artist grants, gives people like his wife, Herta, a mixed media artist, the freedom to pursue their creative passions.
It also affects the kind of work that we make because we don't have to think of the commercial value of art, said Mr. Kieske.
So a lot of what these artists make here is very experimental.
Public Funding for Art00:04:06
Listen, Herta sucks and she's making a lot of crap.
And the reality is the government's funding that crap and there's nothing wrong with that on its face.
But the reality is it's not good.
Mixed media art is rarely good.
And there's no way that this bitch is doing anything good.
There's no way.
There's no way that, first of all, I know some of the biggest losers in the world.
If you were to give them grants from the government to make so that they didn't have to work and they could just make art, it would not make the art good.
It wouldn't.
It would relieve the financial burdens on them, but that wouldn't necessarily make them valuable as artists.
So I mean, can we get some of her to, is there anything that we can see here from Herta, the Finnish mixed media artist?
Because I want to be proven wrong, but I have a sneaky suspicion that it's a waste of everybody's time.
It could be, yeah, Herta.
Here it is.
Herta Kieski.
Haltake.
Now, I could be wrong here, but this is what you get in a country with a social safety net where people, you know, are, you know, satisfied.
And I'm not, what is this?
What am I even looking at?
What is it?
I kind of like that.
This is called after the end.
I kind of like that.
That's not bad.
After the end.
What do you even see here?
Well, it's like a picture of, I don't know, but it's not horrible.
Now go up there.
What is this with the two?
What is that?
Two eggs?
Oh, boy.
This is what you do when you don't have to think of the commercial value of art.
And everybody's satisfied to just loaf around and eat a little fish and a little potatoes.
What else?
What other masterpieces?
What is that, a torture chamber?
I think it's like a...
Yeah, I mean, again, you know, are you trading this?
Are you trading Tina Turner or Elvis or Biggie for this, for Herta?
Let's be honest.
These are the questions we have to ask ourselves.
Is that what we want?
Do we want a society where we don't have run DMC, but we have this, where this bitch took scrunchies and put them on a metal pipe and is calling this art.
And that's what the government pays for.
The government pays for this bitch to put scrunchies on a metal pipe and call it art.
And that's what they pay for.
You know what I think would make her better?
Working at Taco Bell for minimum wage and then fighting her way out of that.
Sorry, Herta.
So I don't know.
It's not as simple.
But another thing I wanted to talk about to deviate from this point a little bit.
And this is, we're staying in the realm of art because I do, I'm getting more into art now because it's, by the way, you know, I've been lucky enough to do well enough to own a few homes, but I don't really have art.
So if you wanted to send me something on Instagram in DM, if you're an artist that does cool shit, I will pay you, maybe potentially, to do some work for something.
Like I have a house on Long Island and I want like a, I'm trying to think what I want as like a painting for that house.
I don't know yet, but maybe we'll correspond if you're a good painter.
Not if you're not good.
Don't don't contact me if you're not good.
I want to see your work that you've done, like maybe in a gallery setting.
News Coverage of Hunter Biden00:14:50
I mean, what's funny about that?
I want to, I don't want somebody, you're not going to try this out for the first time, but if you're an established painter, maybe we can work together on like a nice piece of art.
Now, I want to talk about something because, you know, when you have successful parents, often your passions are subordinated because the reality of their lives are so big that you are relegated to the background, especially as an artist.
What's nice about the Biden family is that is not the case.
What's positive about the Biden family is there's an artist in the family and they allow him to stand on his own and present his work.
Now, this is from the post.
Hunter Biden works featured alongside art world heavy hitters.
Hunter Biden is back in the big apple as his newest work will be featured in a New York show alongside some of the art world's renowned abstract painters.
Bridging the abstract, a group exhibition that opens April 6th at the George Berger Gallery in Soho, includes some of the first son's latest works alongside paintings by Elaine de Kooning and Helen Franken Thailer, Thaler, Frankenthaler.
I mean, listen, so Biden 53 will be on hand for the opening.
He's coming in for the open.
You would think that they would stash him somewhere.
You would think they'd go, you turned in a laptop of you fucking whores and smoking crack and waving guns around.
Your father is the president.
You have to go away now and we basically have to start telling people you're dead.
No, They are supporting him as he has an art exhibition in Manhattan.
That's a good family.
That is an understanding and encouraging family that after everything he's done, the crack, the whores, the guns, dating his brother's wife, all of that, dead brother's wife, all of that, they're still like, hey, he's an artist.
Hunter's an artist.
No matter what, he's got a show.
And it's coming into election season and they don't care.
They do not care.
Over the last several months, investigators have demanded details on collections, on collectors who paid for Hunter's art, which has been valued between $75,000 and $500,000.
What will he do with the money?
Now, such a great idea, by the way, to give him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Where will that end up?
Now, among the other painters featured in Bridging the, oh, who cares?
I will say this.
It's nice to see a family supporting a guy.
Can we get into this?
I would love to go to this thing because I will support.
How great would it be to own a Hunter Biden original?
Is anything any good?
Do we have any?
Can we see some of the work that might be displayed?
Is that one?
Yeah, this one's called Haiku.
That's not bad.
It's better than that bitch in Finland.
This is my point about America.
This is the point.
What makes you a good artist is a crack addiction and having your father be the president.
You don't get that in Finland.
But this is actually good.
Go off to Haiku again.
I like this.
I like haiku.
Make that big.
This is good.
This is much better than that bitch in Finland.
I'll tell you this.
I'm fully on board.
Is there anything else?
Can we look at anything else from him?
Because this is not bad.
But this is what I mean about the struggle making the art.
The struggle makes the art.
If you give everybody everything and, you know, they have a simple life.
Now, you might say to me, well, Hunter is a very privileged kid.
Well, of course he is.
But his life was so insane that he got, he became a demon from hell, which is what made the art good.
He wasn't walking around going, oh, the nature is so pretty.
He was smoking crack in the Ukraine and running scams that got us into a war.
That is, that's why we have good art.
Take a look at that.
This is nice.
I actually like this.
Can I get in?
Is there a way to get in?
Can I just get in?
I will bid on these maybe, kind of, not really, but I might.
Is there a way to get in this gallery?
Look this up, please, because I don't want to miss this.
I actually enjoy the work.
I was a junkie myself.
I didn't do great work when I was on Crizle, but I was on Coke, not crack.
Maybe that's why.
But I'll tell you right now, I support the guy and I like that his family is pushing him more front and center, even with a laptop of crime or what looks to me, well, what is definitely crime, but could be even much worse than we know, a scandal potentially.
It's great that the family is just kind of pushing him front and center and going, hey, no matter what, he's an artist.
Hunter's an artist, and we're going to treat him like that.
I'm, hey, man, you talk about a supportive family.
You talk about a mom and a dad that give a shit.
Well, the dad and the, I mean, the mother is not.
I don't think Chill's the mom.
She might be.
I can't keep track.
That family's had so many fucking problems.
We're indicting President Trump, by the way.
I mean, he looks so happy.
I'm going in this galaxy.
By the way, when is this?
April 6th.
So there's a chance it'll be going on when you're in New York, too.
Fuck.
I'm in Minnesota, I think, or Grand Rapids.
I forgot.
Can we call the gallery right now?
Call the gallery right now.
They're probably closed.
Call the gallery right now.
I want a hunter.
I want a Hunter Biden original.
I want a Hunter Biden original right now.
I need to get invited to that gallery because I want one of this guy's paintings.
He's much better than this bitch, Herta, in Finland, who was not impressive at all.
I'm glad you're happy because the rest of your shit sucks over there.
They're probably not going to answer.
It's after hours.
But this is a big event.
I don't know that it'll matter.
Maybe I'll leave a message.
Nobody works.
You'd think for the Hunter Biden show, they'd stay open late.
He likes late night stuff, late night activities.
He should have just painted a laptop, to be honest.
That would have been kind of cool.
All right, fuck it.
They're not going to answer.
If they're not going to answer, then fuck them.
But I do want to, I do want to go and see what he's got going on.
Donald Trump being indicted for paying off Stormy Daniels, the porn star.
This is kind of a nothing burger in my estimation.
Obviously, no president should be above the law, but they all are.
And presidents have done so many different things from, you know, legalizing and authorizing torture in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
And I know they ran legal cover from that by having their lawyers write whatever the hell they wanted to.
And we've had Obama with, you know, the warrantless wiretaps and the drone strikes and killing an American citizen and all this stuff.
Now, of course, we can always say that like, well, they didn't really break any laws because they just brought a bunch of lawyers in the White House and said, make up a rationale for us to do this.
And they do.
But this is amazing.
This is the only thing they've got Trump on.
He's a real estate developer.
And these shady fucks, the real estate people, they pay off everybody.
This is what they do.
They just pay people to shut up.
They pay people to do what they want.
This is also what wealthy people do, right?
Former President Donald Trump's indictment by New York grand jury has thrust the nation into uncharted political, legal, and historical waters because this is the first time that a president has paid off a porn star and we've known about it.
I guess Bill Clinton has done it and we knew about it.
But Paula Jones, I think who he paid off, is not a porn star, although she may be a dun porn.
This is the first time a president has been indicted after leaving office.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has been investigating Trump in connection with his alleged role in a hush money payment scheme and cover-up involving adult film star Stormy Daniels.
So my thought on this and my entire belief system here is that this feels like a stunt.
And I think it'll backfire.
And I think it could only help Trump.
And I think this is what people have done since Trump has emerged onto the scene.
Every attempt to take out Trump has only served to help him.
Because what Trump's really good at is fighting.
And what he's really not that great at is governing.
He's got too many things that get in the way.
His own ego, his petty behavior, his inability to be loyal to certain people, throws people under the bus.
Like he's got a lot of personal issues that prevent him from carrying out a governing strategy.
But what he's really, really good, what he's amazing at is fighting.
When he's up against the ropes, he's good.
So I don't see this doing anything but helping him.
This is something that he'll probably coast, you know, and win the nomination.
Ron DeSantis is boring.
He's fucking boring.
Whatever you say about him.
And I certainly don't believe he's Hitler.
I don't believe any of the things people are saying.
Some of the stuff he's doing down there is probably an overreaction.
But, you know, I mean, you know, I do understand where it comes from.
We'll talk about that in a minute.
But Ron DeSantis is a boring bully.
Looks like a cop.
None of it's, it's not coming together.
I mean, I watched this guy and I was incredibly immediately after Trump.
I'm so bored by Ron DeSantis.
I'm like, oh, my God.
It's like a cop who comes into school talking about drugs with the intended purpose of getting you to rat on your friends.
Like, that's the type of energy Ron DeSantis has.
Like a cop who's trying to get you to narc on your boys because he's like, now listen, we found this bag of weed and we called the police, you know, and then the cop shows up and he's like, this is a serious matter.
And the only way to handle this is for someone to come forward.
Or if you know whose weed this is, like that's the energy Ron DeSantis has, like a school cop rat energy, not what Trump has, which is a crazy riverboat captain casino gambling tycoon psychopathic energy, which we're all used to.
We're all used to that energy because it's more fun.
So Ron DeSantis, like play any clip of Ron DeSantis talking about anything.
I mean anything about anything.
We're bored.
I mean, I'm like, can someone, I mean, I'd rather watch season six, a house of cards.
That's the bad one without Kevin Spacey.
Today, Trump supporters rallied on Long Island at an event held by France.
That's right, Long Island.
His potential rival for the Republican presidential nomination and his CBS2's Jennifer Bissram.
Stop that for a minute.
I love that DeSantis is doing rallies in Long Island because he knows like he's like, I got to win.
If I can win over these psychopaths, you know, people just show up with a bacon, egg, and shot.
I'm so excited.
I'm going to be there for a few months coming up soon.
By the way, third show, The Paramount is on sale.
We sold out to the third show.
We're about a little less than half sold, but it's coming up.
So if you want to get tickets, you can.
And listen, and here's the reality.
I know many of you are budgeting.
There's still enough for the Percocet.
There's still enough for the booze.
Long for DeSantis to address Trump's indictment.
He wants to downgrade felonies to misdemeanors, really, really dangerous stuff.
And then what does he do?
He turns around, does a flimsy indictment against a former president of the United States.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Wait, sitting in a short time.
Get a speech up of just him talking.
This is the news covering him.
But if you just get him speaking, you will see how truly boring he is.
It's just the tone.
You know, Trump had this musicality to when he talked.
It was interesting.
It was like listening to a jazz band.
And then Ron DeSantis is just very, it's like a dull, go to his victory speech.
Even that was dull.
He's just dull.
Thank you very much.
Well, thank you so much.
You know, over these past four years, this isn't going to do it.
We've seen major challenges for the people of our state.
Nope.
For the citizens of the United States.
Not going to happen.
And above all, for the cause of freedom.
We saw freedom in our very way of life in so many other jurisdictions in this country wither on the vine.
Florida held.
Yeah, see, I even agree with what he's saying, but it's like, he's just not, it's not going to do it.
I mean, Trump, as my friend Ray said, will beat this guy from a prison cell.
I mean, Trump will win the election like Nelson Mandela in a jail.
I don't know if Nelson won an election in a jail, but I know he was jailed.
But my point is that I just don't see Ron catching Donald here.
DeSantis Vaccine Stance Critique00:03:10
You know, listen, again, if you let them just have a campaign where Trump had to answer for certain things, like, again, you know, more and more is coming out about the vaccine every day.
I think the World Health Organization is like, now it's not recommended for healthy teens.
I believe that and children, which is big if that's the case.
Trump authorized it.
Trump was like, this is the vaccine is the big success story of my presidency.
This is, you know, of my administration, right?
So Trump also shut things down.
DeSantis kept them open.
The World Health Organization's vaccine experts have revised their global COVID-19 vaccine vaccination recommendations.
And healthy kids and teenagers considered low priority may not need to get a shot.
That's big.
This is big.
This is actually massive.
This is literally a massive thing.
The World Health Organization is like, yeah, I guess not.
This was the thing that they were firing people for.
This is the thing that Trump said was the biggest achievement of his administration.
If DeSantis was kind of hitting him on that without being so fucking boring, and if Trump, and if the story wasn't Trump's bullshit indictment, the story might literally be like, oh, DeSantis kept shit open.
Trump actually kind of folded a little bit and hyped all of this stuff, the vaccine, that it was a big achievement.
And the reality is it's just not, it hasn't done what anybody wanted it to do.
And now the WHO is coming out and going, listen, we don't know if kids and young adults need it.
And that's because of the myocarditis, all that crazy shit.
I'd be thrown off YouTube if I said any of this a year ago or two years ago.
But now this is all common.
Like the news has to now use like phrases like, he's a 19-year-old.
It was a routine heart attack.
Like that's happening now.
So there's this major.
So there's things that you could hit Trump on that you wouldn't even think you could.
But now the whole narrative is going to be dominated by the fact that he paid off or maybe paid off a porn star, maybe a campaign finance violation, which no one really gives a fuck about.
So this just does nothing but helps him.
He's probably going to be back.
I don't see anyone beating him.
DeSantis has a record that Republicans will embrace, but the actual guy is just not as electric as the Don.
It's just, I'm sorry.
And I thought Trump was done a few months ago.
I thought he was finished.
And I was talking to people at dinner and it was like, he's done.
And now he's indicted.
I think he's got a better chance than ever.
Now I'm like, I think he's in again.
I think he's in again.
He's been indicted.
But that's Trump world rules.
You don't understand.
Trump, without the indictment, you know, just fading away.
That announcement he had at Mar-a-Lago, his passion wasn't there, you know, but he's gotten better.
He's gotten more, he's gotten a little sharper in this campaign.
And he was indicted.
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So now he's digging in and fighting, which is right now.
He could be wrong.
He could still crumble.
It might not work.
But I give him a better chance now than a lot of things, a lot of people.
The Nashville shooter, let's talk about this as a sticky situation because the Nashville shooter was a trans shooter.
And a lot of people are going back and forth about that and what that means.
Now, there's been a few people, a few shooters that have been trans recently.
Now, the vast majority of shooters obviously have not been trans, but there's been a few shooters recently that have been trans.
And I wanted to talk about this because I was sitting there on the plane in first class and I was thinking, and by the way, what's good about United First Class is it's first class, but is it, you know, I mean, it's like, what are we, what are we doing here?
I was sitting there, I was thinking about the trans issue because it's so, I was listening to this podcast that Megan Phelps Roper did with J.K. Rowling about, you know, the trials of the witch trials of J.K. Rowling about, you know, the author of Harry Potter and how much flack she got for just wading into that issue, right?
And saying men are men and women are women and trans men are trans men and trans women are trans women.
But there's a difference between biological women and trans women.
And this is what J.K. Rowling said.
And then everybody went nuts and got angry.
She's still a billionaire and she's still fine.
But I was listening to this.
I was thinking about this.
I was thinking about it.
I'm like, how did this invade our politics to the level that it has?
How does this suck the energy out?
I mean, we don't talk about anything anymore.
The banks almost collapsed two weeks ago.
We don't even talk about it anymore.
No one speaks of it.
The border is a mess.
No one speaks of it.
No one speaks of it.
It's trans, trans every day, every minute.
And it's weird.
Seems a bit a little designed, to be honest.
Listen, the trans community in America has existed forever.
There's always been people that have felt like they are in the wrong body.
They have a condition called gender dysphoria.
And they've gone to certain lengths to fix that.
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Obviously, hormones and surgery and things like that have gotten better.
Technology has gotten better.
People have been able to physically transition in ways they couldn't if they had those feelings years ago.
But the trans community has been around in America for a pretty long time.
And it hasn't been this like contentious thing where everybody is fighting over it, right?
Women that were born biological men that then transitioned to women, a lot of them would use a woman's bathroom.
And maybe there'd be some people making comments.
And I know that trans people have dealt with bigotry and they've dealt with violence and they've dealt with all that shit.
And gay people have, black people, any minority really has dealt with that, right?
100%.
I'm not saying they haven't.
But for the most part, this wasn't the issue it is now.
And you'd imagine.
See, this is what I would think.
If the medication was getting better, the hormones, whatever they're taking, testosterone, estrogen, whatever it is, the surgeries were getting better.
People were getting more, this was easier and maybe even cheaper to do.
This would be being diminished as an issue and not like blowing up.
It seems like the medical advancements would make these things easier for people to do if they felt like they really needed to do them.
And this wouldn't be such a big deal.
It would be a very personal thing.
People would go, hi, I'm Jack and now I'm Jill.
And your friends and family would go, hello, Jill, you know, or whatever.
Or they'd go, you're going to hell, whatever it is.
There would be, it would be a personal thing between you and the people that you know, your close friends and family.
But now, now this leaves out kids, right?
Because this is why this has become such a controversial issue.
It is specifically about what ideas should children be confronted with and at what age.
What age do children need to learn certain things?
And once those children have learned those things, what age is it appropriate for those children to make medical decisions about their future and their life?
And that's really the point that has become incredibly divisive, right?
Let's leave out for a second the Dragon Queen story hour, which we've talked about before on the show.
And that seems to be the, you know, the cultural battleground of the day, the Dragon Queen's reading in the library.
But the deeper issue, the more important issue is can a seven-year-old make a decision about who they are at that age?
I say no.
Most people I know say no.
The most gay people I know say no to that.
Most reasonable, rational, sane people say that when you're under 18, you're going to go through all kinds of weird feelings and you're going to have hormones are raging and you're not going to know exactly what direction you want to go.
Many of the people that don't end up transitioning that have feelings like this end up being gay or lesbian.
And it's strange.
It's an odd fixation with bringing these issues to children and letting children make decisions about who they are.
Doesn't make any sense.
If you've ever met children, this makes zero sense that teachers in schools are telling children you could be any gender that you want to be today.
That is not a conversation for math class.
This is most people that now I have friends that are more liberal on this issue.
They're more progressive and they say, well, there are such a thing as trans kids.
And I say, well, I believe that to be true.
Of course.
But I still think I don't know if they should be blocking puberty.
They should be taking pharmaceutical drugs.
They should be denying themselves the opportunity to go through puberty and see if any of that changes or alters the way they feel about their gender.
There's always a way to correct things later in life.
I know people that have transitioned in their early 20s and they're living lives and they're happy.
So I think that's what it comes down to.
It comes down to kids and children.
You know, for most people, listen, there's people that hate trans people.
There's people that don't want trans people around.
There's people that are going to hate everybody.
People that hate everybody no matter what.
You can fixate on those people, but the vast majority of people don't care.
They don't.
They just don't want children being introduced to certain ideas before those children are ready for it.
That's what most people, most people do not care.
They're not sitting around hating you if you're gay.
They're not sitting around hating you if you're trans.
They don't really have the time.
This is not a country that like, you know, people don't have the time to be as hateful as maybe they'd want to be.
They don't have the time.
They're running around.
They just don't want children being exposed to certain things because children are very confused by their nature.
They're kids.
They're easily, it's easy for, and some of these parents with the trans kids, I have a real, I have a soft spot for, but then some of them, and I'll get in a little bit of trouble for saying this, but most people will understand what I'm saying.
Some of the parents, it's a little like a Munchausen's by proxy where it's like they are taking a lot of interest in this thing that their kids are feeling.
And it almost feels like the parent is somehow deriving some type of, and Munchausen's is where you make your kids sick.
And I'm not saying being trans is being sick, but I'm saying a lot of these parents are being very encouraging to their children and maybe steering them, knowingly or unknowingly, into being, into being trans, perhaps, because parents are sometimes, you know, I had friends that their parents were very encouraging and tried to help them a lot.
And what it did was the opposite of what they wanted it to do.
And I don't mean that you should, if your kid has these feelings, you shouldn't shut them down.
But I don't know if you should parade your kid around like a political statement.
And I see some parents doing that.
And I wonder about the health, the mental health of those parents that are parading their children around like a political statement instead of a human being.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
That's a little weird.
And as far as the sports thing goes, it's so hard for me to come up with an opinion here that is anti-hitting women because sometimes they do need a tap.
But it seems in combat sports, specifically, biological men have a little bit of an advantage even after they've transitioned.
So watching them beat women, although there may be reasons not to ever beat a woman, but to give her like a 1920 style tap, just a light one, it's a comedy show.
But the point is, what I'm saying is that it's very difficult for me to just have to say we really shouldn't just hit, we should just not hit women, but I'm going to do it.
I'm going to say it.
We shouldn't hit women.
So I don't, again, if you want to compete in those things, but the reality of the situation is also if you're like a female athlete and every female sport is now dominated by a trans female athlete, there is a conversation to be had.
The good news is all of these things can be solved by common sense and rationality.
And then we can go back to talking about the banks failing, the nuclear war, and things that I consider to be more important.
Because I think there is a rational, reasonable, I don't want to say middle ground because the word middle ground implies that like there has to be some great compromise made.
I don't think there has to be any compromise made.
I think that people should, listen, if you bring your children to Drag Queen Story Hour, that they're your children.
They're your children.
If you bring your children to get hormones, they're your children.
I don't, I think you're doing them a great disservice.
And there are certain states that are going to ban that.
And there are certain states that won't.
But, you know, there are families and there are people that are going to have kids and they're going to raise them in whichever way they see fit.
I just think the whole thing, because I was thinking about this sitting on a plane, literally trans, everything is trans.
And then you look around and you're like, where are all the trans?
And there's a few of them for sure, but they're not everywhere.
This is a small group.
This is a minority of people that should be protected with rights.
Like they should have rights.
And obviously people that fuck with them should go to jail.
Like people that fuck with any group or anyone in general should go to jail.
But it's such a big issue and it so dominates everything.
And I'm like, this bitch, J.K. Rowling, wrote a book called Harry Potter, which Christian people were saying was a devil book.
And, you know, George W. Bush was like, she's promoting witchcraft and all these crazy things, right?
And so she got like that fucking feedback when Harry Potter came out.
And then she made a billion dollars and she's got theme parks all over the world and then just basically said, listen, women, you know, have the right to have spaces that are their own.
And then people just went fucking nuts.
They went nuts.
And I'm not saying it on the other side, that the people don't overdo it, right?
Because the people that are obsessed with it on the other side, who think that it's all about people trying to fuck their kids or it's all about this and that.
And it's, we need to go back to a Christian theocracy.
That's not going to win a lot of people over either.
But because I don't think it's, I don't think it's all these teachers or pedophiles.
I think these teachers are completely untethered from reality.
And when people are untethered from reality, as many of them are, they push all of these ideological agendas that are not that are not practical in any way.
And that's what happens to people that get really into any ideology.
They forget that there's an actual world out there with actual human beings that tend to behave in ways that aren't necessarily the ways that this ideology that you believe in would prescribe them to behave.
And you forget that kids are fucking kids and they're going to be confused and they're going to take back things they say and they're going to go, I don't feel that way anymore.
And this and that and the other thing but they're so wrapped up in the idea that there's a political thing here that these kids have to be themselves and stop trans genocide.
It's like every discussion about trans rights cannot cannot devolve into people screaming, stop trans genocide.
That's like crazy.
It's like anybody that told me to eat better, I'd be like, stop fat genocide.
It's like, I just suggested you eat a salad.
Like there needs to be, we got to rein it in.
We are a country of like people that are constantly on the verge of an emotional breakdown.
Everyone you speak to is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
And every grifter in the world is out right now trying to make this into the biggest issue.
And we've let them.
I mean, it's every day.
It's every day there is this issue and only this issue at the expense of so many other issues.
So that's my piece on it.
Leave kids alone.
Let them grow up.
When they're 18, they can do what they want to do.
Some will do the wrong thing then, but you can't stop them.
You know, listen, I had friends that joined the military and their parents were like, we don't want you to join the military.
You know, and for whatever reason, they're like, we're worried about you.
We're in a war.
This feels like Vietnam.
This was during Iraq.
This was doing 2003.
And I had friends that were joining the military and their parents were like, listen, this feels like Vietnam.
This feels like not a great war.
You know, I understand that you want to join the military, but can't you just, you know, do a Long Island, you know, have a Long Island life, like live in our basement, sell drugs at home, like whatever.
Just wait it out.
And some of my friends, I don't think nobody I knew died in Iraq.
I knew friends of friends that died in the military there, but they joined the military because their parents didn't really have any control over them at that point.
They graduated high school.
They were adults and they were going to go and do what they felt like they had to do.
But anybody who's fucking 13 or 14 years old, who has no idea what's going on, that may be being influenced by their friends or whatever, you know, this is not somebody who should be making permanent medical decisions about the rest of their life.
This is not a, to me, this isn't like a controversial point of view.
I know there's a gray area.
I know there's kids that have legitimate real deal gender dysphoria.
There are a few of them.
Absolutely.
It's not as many as you would think.
And that can be dealt with with doctors and therapists.
And I still don't think even those kids should be making medical decisions, but that could maybe be a lot of like, you could be dressing a certain way.
You could be doing some cognitive behavioral therapy.
There's all kinds of ways to handle it where it's not like, hey, let's get fucking big pharma involved in giving everybody the solution to everything.
And a lot of people that take these drugs, I mean, if you watch this, think about the Tavistock clinic in the UK, a lot of people that take these drugs aren't happier on the other side of that because maybe there is a certain amount of people that are experiencing mental issues that are on the autism spectrum that are not, they don't genuinely have gender dysphoria.
They're having weird feelings and they're looking around on the internet and going, I wonder what this is.
And they're matching up some of those feelings with some of the things that people have that have gender dysphoria and they're putting them together.
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And now they're going, okay, if I transition medically, it's going to help me.
And then they do that and then they don't feel the way they wanted to feel, you know?
So again, this is just, it always amazes me how much this has dominated the discourse.
And now the answer to me is just so easy.
And it is, it is less is more.
Helicopter parenting, I don't think is a good idea.
I believe in the less is more system.
The boomers were in this regard and this and the only regard.
Great parents in this, and I talk about this on stage.
I'm not going to do it here, timdillcomedy.com, but the boomer parenting style, which was basically you're talking, but I'm not hearing you.
If you were a boomer and your kids were talking, you were not listening unless they were bleeding and then you were yelling at them for being hurt.
Boomers didn't give a shit.
This is the one thing that I'm going to say.
Can we have an applause sound effect for the boomers?
Because this is the one thing that the boomers get credit for.
They did not listen to their children all the time.
This is a huge thing for the boomers.
And I think the boomers should be, yes, give them their due.
They did not care what their children were feeling ever.
They didn't care who their kids thought they were.
The boomers were like, figure it out and get out of my house.
Get out of my house.
You eat my food.
Boomers treated you like a roommate.
They met off Craigslist.
My friend's mother would go, you eat the food, you use the shower, the water bell.
I mean, but it's the one thing I will say about the boomers is that they didn't care.
I think maybe we should return to letting kids be kids and letting them go through some shit and not taking everything they do seriously, not bringing them to a doctor, not doing anything permanent to their body, letting them figure this shit out on their own.
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I truly believe it is the one area where the boomers were far superior to the parents we have now that it feels like they're just hanging on every word their 12 or 13 year old says.