506 - Influencer Poison, Trump’s Lifeguard & The Migrant Summer

**Tim Dillon** (0:00)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Tim Dillon Show. Hope all of you are enjoying your summer. We have one month left. And then it will be over, and then it ends. And then you are back into the hellish grind. Many of you are still there, right now, actually. I don't know why I'm even saying that. Many of you are still in that hellish grind. Really, truly, many of you are there, and this summer means nothing. This summer means nothing to most people. Unless, this summer meant nothing to me for many years until I had a little bit of money. And this summer means a lot when you're a kid, and then nothing again until you have a dollar. It's true. When you're young, it's like summer matters, great. I'm out of school, it's a beautiful day, I'm going to the beach, and then summer just becomes hellish and hot. And then, if you don't have the resources to enjoy it, and you don't live by a body of water, and the body of water you live by is, you know, it's like, it's not swimmable, because a lot of people live by a body of water, it's like a stagnant pond with brain-eating amoeba, and it's like the dumping ground of the key, you know, the local chemical company. You know, so summer then just, it just becomes hot. I remember for years, summer was just unbearably hot and miserable, and you would sit in your car, and you would stick to the leather. And I remember one summer many years ago, Burger King came out with a bacon sundae. Get that up, there was a bacon sundae, and it wasn't good.
And it came out and they had it one year during the summer, and it was a sundae with the bacon on it. Vanilla soft serve, hot fudge caramel, bacon crumbles, and a full strip of bacon. Released in June 2012 for $249. The 510 calorie treat was part of the summer barbecue promotional menu before being quickly discontinued. And it was 2012 and it was hot, and they gave you the bacon sundae. It was a sundae with a full strip of bacon on it. You'd eat it in your car. And that's, you know, now the summer is a lot of rage bait, meaning like, you know, places like Nantucket or out in the Hamptons, people, the amount of money that it costs to be involved to any degree in those places is offensive to people. And, you know, the new thing is the food markets, like everybody's obsessed with these food markets that have like a $400 melon or, you know, in California, Air One had a $19 strawberry. These are stupid things that are designed to get publicity and illicit rage from people. I get it. People are like, hey, I can't fill in the blank, feed my kid, and somebody's having one strawberry for $19.
And none of these things are real, you know, like they are real, they exist, but they're kind of designed to get publicity, to make people mad. And then these things go viral, and then people find out about these places. Yeah, melon, a musk melon, selling at the Hamptons Grocery Store for $400.
And I guess it's like some Japanese melon, and people, and my friend had it, actually, I had a bite of it. It's whatever, it's a fucking melon. Melons suck.
And there's a backlash, an understandable backlash against this type of consumption. They call it conspicuous consumption. People that, you know, people talking about the status of going to this grocery store and spending this amount of money on lobster salad and da-da-da-da-da. And that's why I feel like the vibes in New York City are a lot better than the vibes out east on Long Island because there's been a turn. Mom Donnie is the mayor. He's very popular. The young folks are going to the left and they look at the hampers and they kind of go, ugh, yuck. And to their credit and to give credit where credit is due, the silliness of people running around all these high end grocery stores trying to best each other, the lines that, you know, how long the line is to get something and really overpriced, mediocre shit, which is what a lot of it is. And the status of saying you did it and that influencer culture of showing people you did it. It is a direct contradiction to the way people behaved with money for many, many years in this country, which is they tried to chill.
They tried to be a little quiet about having some money. Now these people are, they're basically going cut off my head. They're tempting you. They're going cut off my head. I want my head cut off. I'm taking caviar and I'm putting it on a potato chip and then I'm eating it through my ass, not even my mouth. I have ass, there's food for my ass. And they're, they're tempting you. They're going come and lob my head off and watch it roll down the street like a bowling ball. Chill it out. Calm it down. People are angry out there. They're hot under the collar. Understandably so. Stop advertising how much you spend on bullshit and the influencer culture, which infects everything. It's like a disease with no, no treatment, really. The only way to treat it is to line them up and kill them. And I'm not for that, but the, you know, Nantucket just banned all these influencers because they go into the restaurant, they start tick tocking, they start doing all this. And the people go, hey man, you're ruining the experience of people. We don't want you in here. We don't want you behaving like this.