515 - The Cornell 7, Bari Weiss, & A Botched Execution

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

The failed execution of death row inmate Christa Pike has left many questions up in the air. CBS News has now spoken with Pike from her hospital room in her first interview since the incident.

Nikki Batiste (0:10)

What is your take on the Cornell 7?

Tim Dillon (0:14)

Wait a minute, am I alive?

Bari Weiss (0:18)

Do you want to speak up against the Cornell 7? Silence is complacency.

Tim Dillon (0:23)

I'm really marginally familiar with the case. Again, they did inject me with a bunch of poison, and I did think I'd be dead right now. That being said, obviously, the conduct is deplorable.

There was an affidavit that she had signed two years earlier, where some of the events seem different, although when drugs or alcohol are involved, nothing's exactly goes by the letter of the law. Are they going to kill me again?

SPEAKER_1 (0:55)

Had the execution been successful, Pike would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

Tim Dillon (1:02)

I remember the chaplain saying, may God have mercy on her soul, and then everything went black, and I was all, ugh! You know, I requested an all-female execution group.

Well, egg on my face. I told them to shoot me in the head.

Nikki Batiste (1:22)

Now you haven't posted in support of Jane Doe.

SPEAKER_1 (1:26)

Do you want to comment on that?

Tim Dillon (1:28)

Well, I was being injected with poison in the death chamber of the Nashville Penitentiary, and I was dying, and I had a spiritual advisor kind of leading me in a song, and that was where my mind was at, you know?

But in hindsight, I do think it would have probably been a good idea to at least make a small post about this, to try to let people know that I was on the right side of history. And for that, I am sorry and I do regret it. When I am executed again, I promise to use my platform to condemn the actions of the Cornell 7

SPEAKER_1 (2:13)

Despite her initial silence on the Cornell 7, Pike did offer her thoughts on a number of other current events.

Tim Dillon (2:20)

I like Mom Donnie. I'm excited about what he's doing. I have certain reservations, but I'm cautiously optimistic for the youth. I really am. I just don't love that Timothy Chalamet is in everything.

SPEAKER_1 (2:33)

As of now, Pike's execution has been halted for the remainder of the year.

Tim Dillon (2:37)

The Charlie Kirk thing never made any sense to me. It seems like as soon as he turned on Israel, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Tim Dillon Show. A lot going on this week, a lot we need to address.

And it's not easy, because this is, this is, these are the weeks. That I walk in here and I go, my job is tough.

It's tough. And people don't understand that. I wish I was doing construction or in some mine. Like you lucky fucks. You're in a mine. You know how nice it is with a couple of my buddies in a mine? How nice that would be? But I'm here in front of millions of people going on the record about the issues of the day. You know how nice it would be to be a public school teacher?

Or it's a relatively unimportant job? Like that? You know how nice it would be to have a job that nobody cared about, like a firefighter or a pediatrician? Oh, put the bandaid on the knee. Enough.

I'm here going on record about the issues of the day. I didn't go to Cornell. My best friend did. We went to community college and we both said we were going to succeed. And I did drugs and dropped out and sold subprime mortgages. And he really tried hard and he went to Cornell. And I'm so much more successful than him right now. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. He said that to me recently. It's unbelievable. But he has an Ivy League education. What does it mean? So what? Nothing. If there's no heart, where's the heart? Where's the heart? Okay. I don't have group sex. It's tough enough to get one person on board. We're not getting on. Wait, wait. It doesn't take a village. Enough with this. College is done. You're done now. You're done. I'm sick of it. I'm telling you right now. And I'm dead serious. I've had enough with it. I've had enough with it with the hazing, with the whatever it is, the group activity, the gangland fuckfest. You're done now. You're going to be electricians, and you're going to be plumbers. You're done.