The Tim Dillon Show - 338 - Please Behave

Episode Date: March 18, 2023

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show. We have, coming up later in the broadcast, an insider from SVB, Silicon Valley Bank, who calls into the show and discusses the chaos that's happening. They have been taken over by the federal government. He said there's ads now for SVB saying Silicon Valley Bank is the safest place to put your money. But we're looking at potentially, you know, they're trying to find a buyer for SVB. They're trying to find a buyer. It's a very woke bank and, you know, it's diverse and inclusive and fun and sexy and, you know, gender is a construct and everything. It's a fun kind of Silicon Valley Bank. That's what they do. And I'm not, that's not the reason it collapsed. I'm not, I'm not going on some

reactionary thing here. I'm just saying it's part of the vibe. It's a vibe. Silicon Valley Bank was a vibe. And they tried to get the Saudis to buy it. And the Saudis have a little, decidedly different vibe than that. But I think nothing would make more sense than having the Saudis come in and whip Silicon Valley Bank into shape. Watching an analyst at Silicon Valley Bank explain the concept of non-binary to Mohammed bin Salman is something I would like to see. That's something I would like to see. Members of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund sitting there with Silicon Valley Bank and going through just the office policies, you know, the human resources policies at the bank, who can say what to whom? I think that's a great idea. In fact, if this,

if this whole bank collapse, which people are debating whether it's going to be a massive collapse, I'm reading things that say this is Lehman Brothers, credit Swiss is going down, even though they got a $52 billion loan from the central bank of Switzerland, they're still done. They're looking at scenarios for the bank over the weekend. People are going, this is the similar thing that happened to Lehman. Monday is going to be Black Monday, credit Swiss is going to go, first national is going to go, credit Swiss is a trillion, first national with all the regional banks it'll take down with it is a trillion. We're looking at massive runs on the bank. I believe, I believe a crazy amount of money was

taken out of JP Morgan because these are bank runs. People are going, we want our money. And maybe Peter Thiel caused this run at SVB. We don't know it's possible, but the bank's been in solvent for a while and Peter Thiel goes, I got to get my fucking money out of there. And people start going, well, you know what, Peter Thiel took his money out, maybe I'll take my money out. But these are kind of these old fashioned bank runs. And people don't really know how bad they're going to get if this is going to be systemic and spread. But what excites me potentially about this is seeing Middle Eastern dictatorships take over progressive Bay Area lenders in America just that because it's a fun sitcom. It's an actual fun sitcom

to see Saudi nationals going into Silicon Valley bank and dealing with the people that work there. It's an actual, if that's what comes out of this, where the Middle Eastern, you know, ultra-conservative Saudi people have to go in and run this woke American Northern Cal, Northern California company, is this not going to be a hoot? That to me could be a lot of fun. Now, obviously, people are saying that's best case because nobody wants to buy SVB. The Saudis don't want to buy it because it's just, you know, it's got a bunch of shitty startup ideas and a bunch of people walking around with blue hair and the Saudis go, we're not into that. We want live nation. That makes the money. We get it. We understand it. Put Billie Eilish on the stage. She cuts yourself.

The kids pay the money. Not this fucking game of like, no, you have no idea how many great ideas we have. Tell them about your idea. Tell them about your idea. It's that's what it is. Silicon Van gave every fucking guy at Stanford with a hoodie, $400,000 to come up with anything they wanted. And where are, where is the new Uber? Where are these things? They don't exist because tech like everything else is fake. There's a few good ideas like movies or music. There's a few good ideas. Many of them happen by accident. Most of the good ideas in tech are people that are like, I would like to fuck women. I mean, this is what happened with Facebook, Zuckerberg, the entire Facebook, all of meta, which is now a nightmare because people are leaving this

horrible world he created on the, on the metaverse. I don't know who's left in the metaverse. It's like pedophiles that are like, what is this? Let's go back to the dark web. This is horrible. But all meta was was Mark Zuckerberg trying to get laid. You know, all, a lot of these advancements in tech come because you have people that are brilliant, but maybe they're on the spectrum. Maybe they're not the most socially capable people. And they actually have these, you know, brilliant ideas. And some of those ideas end up enriching our quality of life. And many of them don't, right? Many of them have made our quality of life kind of worse, more lonely, more isolating. And, you know, but Silicon Valley Bank, they're the big

startup bank. They're the bank that hands money to all these motherfuckers and goes, just run with it. Do what you, you know, do what you want to do. And nobody's buying that right now. Like nobody, they haven't found a buyer. It's not to say that they won't, but they haven't found a buyer because, you know, it's not, it's, it's like, you know, people are going, that's not a sure thing. It's the opposite of a sure thing. You have all this entrepreneurial talent. Supposedly you have all these great ideas for companies, maybe, but what you don't have is a sure fire thing. It's where the Saudis come in by live nation, no problem. In the middle of the pandemic, they're like, yeah, we know it. Hey, as soon as the pandemic's over, people are going to go out.

They're going to go to concerts. They're going to go to comedy shows like the ones I'm doing at the Chicago Theater on June 9th and the Masonic in San Francisco on June 21st, timdilloncomedy.com, get all your tickets to everything. I'm at Milwaukee at the Pap's Theater, second show we edited at the Pantages Theater in Tacoma, whatever. It's not a commercial for myself. What I'm saying is that timdilloncomedy.com, what I'm saying is that live nation probably is a better, it was a better, it's a more, you can understand it. The Saudis understand it. They go, we like live things. Usually it's, we get the hand, but we understand what a live thing is. We understand live events. Usually we're beheading women. We're burning gay people at the stake, but it's live. They like

live, they get it. This shit is like, you know, they don't know what the fuck's going on. So they understand, yes, we put a bunch of people in a room and we go and get the thieves and we cut the hand off the thieves and everybody cheers and we go, oh, it's not quite like that. It's more like Drake and Ice Spice and a big field. But the Saudis understand that they understand what live is. I wouldn't buy Silicon Valley Bank. I don't know what it, I don't know what's happened. I don't know who you got. Do you have the next Mark Zuckerberg? Do you have the next Elizabeth Holmes? We don't know. But what we're excited about is tech now becoming the new manufacturing where it's taken over. Other people do it in other countries and the tech people,

we force them to live the same way that we have forced generations of people in manufacturing to live. They live in Rust Belt states. They live in the middle of the country. We ship their jobs overseas and they get addicted to opioids. We watch their lives hollow out. We watch their faces hollow out like Osempic. Well, you know, you know, it gets, because the Osempic gets really, you start to see it now in California, it's really hard. It's like a fish and they get really hard, kind of like that scream painting. But we watch their faces because if you go to some of these, you know, read Methland, which is a great book, all of these people, their faces hollow out and they have blue under their eyes and they live in these horrific conditions in these towns

with water that's not good and food deserts where they can't get to salad, right? We are, we are optimistic that many of the, that hopefully the tech people will meet that same fate that it's only fair, right? It's only fair that eventually tech people have to live in a, I don't, I don't want to say a place because people are going to get offended by whatever I say, right? If I'm going to use a town as an example or something that is grotesque and, you know, but let's just say, let's just say a town somewhere where it's not nice out, huh? It's not nice and maybe it's hot and sticky and there's, you know, there's just, it's a town that has seen better days. You know, will Austin one day look like Flint, Michigan? I mean, will Austin

one day look, you know, because we go when I go on the road, I go, we drive through these things, we drive through Flint, Michigan, we drive through these old, you know, Rust Belt or, you know, all of these different states that at one time were centers of manufacturing, you know, up in, I believe I did a theater up in Rochester, New York and, you know, there was a guy standing next to me. I believe it was Rochester. It might have been Schenectady, but I believe it was Rochester and I was staying, the theater was by the Kodak, what used to be the Kodak factory. People used to take photos and then the Kodak obviously was the film and this was big up until digital cameras and phones and now the Kodak factory tests people's blood. They do blood tests. I think they test for

drugs or maybe they test for cancers. I don't know, but that's what it is. Now the Kodak factory has become a blood testing facility. I believe up there in upstate New York. So I'd go to places like this to perform and they were a great audience and we, you know, we were grateful to everyone that comes out to see comedy, but it is just my sincere hope. It's a little thing that I, I like, I love hope and to me one day if Austin, Texas is instead of a tech hub, just a thing where like people walk around and the only thing that's left is the mothership comedy club, the Joe Rogan comedy club and I somehow survived despite, you know, my smoking and the weight and everything. I somehow survived and I'm in my 70s or 60s and I'm there and I'm like, we have the busts of

Ron White and Roseanne that are long gone, but we just, we've stuffed them. You know, we've done, we've done like, what do they call that taxidermy? We've taxidermy our favorite comedians and I'm up there being like, Austin used to be a real tech hub. Look at it now and it's just the tech people meet the same fate as the manufacturing sector. There's something so great about because it's, it's, it's great now in Austin. Everybody's excited and everybody's in new glass buildings and they're buying houses in the Westlake Hills that look just like LA except, you know, it's, there's a disgusting vomit colored river, whatever it's fine. I've, I've, I've, I've, I've done that well repeatedly and you know, whatever. I actually like Austin a little more now than I did, but

just, it's a perfect example in San Francisco. See, San Francisco, it's not even fun. San Francisco is already a hellscape. It's already where, what it's going to be. There's something about this. If the tech thing is so good for humanity, why is everywhere that the tech things going on looks like the apocalypse? Why is that? Why if this tech thing is just such a universal good is San Francisco, the area that tech has been concentrated in for years, literally an insane hellscape. It's very interesting. I was passing, I was in Austin for South by for the opening of Joe's club, which is a lot of fun. If you're down there, go grab tickets. When I saw there's a little homeless encampment in Austin and then there's something right next to it. There

was a poster that says the rise of virtual communities and there was a poster and there's this guy sitting there on a mattress in the middle of the sidewalk and on the chain link fence next to him, there was a poster that says the rise of virtual communities. It's very interesting that this seems to go hand in hand. The tech seems to go hand in hand with the decay of these urban centers because tech people usually set up shop on the outside. They get all the real estate on the outside of these cities. They prop it up. It becomes very expensive, but the cities themselves and maybe some of the poor suburbs on the outside of the cities don't do well. So I'm not saying that I want to see all of these tech people living like the old manufacturing

people oxy cotton addicts sitting at a table eating store brand ketchup on white bread while their children run around in the yard and play with the gun. I'm not saying I want that. I'm saying it might be fun. It might be fun to see people who used to work in tech wearing flannel shirts, not ironically because they have nothing else. That might be good seeing people that used to work in a fun tech environment where everybody's in hoodies and nobody had to wear suits and it was so comfortable to ruin the world. It might be fun to see those people deal with crippling generational poverty and addiction. It may not be. I don't know. I'm just saying it might be fun to see that. Be smart. Don't start. Kick the habit. Pull it out before it puts you

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because they have, how many programs do they have on Netflix? It's unending. How many programs they have on Netflix? You will get food. We will give you food. Calm down. You're gonna get food. It'll be bugs but bugs are good. They're crunchy like cookies. What's on Netflix? There are 36,000 hours to go through. Sit and watch Netflix. Don't take to the streets. Please behave, behave. Please. God, it's perfect weather for this too. I wish this was the dead of summer. I wish this was the dead of summer. This is perfect spring time weather for a fight. This is like the Arab spring we could have in America. Please behave. Just relax. Don't kill me. Kill the others. They have more. They have more. I'm telling you they have more. I'll show you where they live.

Behave. Watch the Netflix. Eat the can of pasta you get. We will give you a can of pasta. Eat it. Share it with the children. And pray. Get God again. Time for God. Can of pasta plus God equals good life. Killing me? Not nice. That's not right. I'm in this blend. But we're over this, right? We know they're rapists but they make 3x. Get someone else to make 3x. I'll throw it out. I'm telling you right now. Just please behave. Don't go nuts out there. I know they're going to go nuts. I can feel it. This is what's going to happen. They're going to Monday. They're going to go to the ATM and this money is not going to come out. And they are going to. It's going to be bad. But I would like you at that moment when the money doesn't come out of the ATM. I want you to go. Ha!

Ha! Go back to your home because we are sending care packages. They will be sent to you. The government will provide for you. You will get a can of pasta. You will get a bag of cake. A bag of sugar cake for the kids. Now, this could be my last plea. It might be my last break. I didn't know I'd be rich. I'm 38 years old. I had no money my whole life. I was a fat failure my whole life from when I was fucking 9 till now. I only have a little bit of money now. A little bit of money now. And it's not even enough money. It's enough money to take a 22-year-old out to dinner and go, here's salmon. Oh, there's your penis. That's not even a lot of money. It's a little bit of money. Please don't kill me when you see me in Beverly Hills. Stay out of Beverly

Hills, please. Please stay out of Beverly Hills. It's not right. I made money in a few years. Years and years of nothing and no money. And now I'm the enemy and I know you will hate me. It's not my fault. It's not my fault. These glasses are, these are worth maybe $800,000. I'm kidding. They were 1100. I know it's disgusting. I know it's your rent. I know it's your rent. I don't know what to do for you. I'm sorry. I believe you should have healthcare. I've always said that in a clinic that's separate from me. I don't like overcrowding. I don't want to smell you and see your problems. I'm just saying when this happens on Monday and can you please relax a little bit and behave. That's all I'm asking. I'm just asking because I just have money for the last couple of

years. That's it. I've been so long. I was one of you at one point waiting for the can of pasta in my hovel thinking of eating my phim. I understand that. But I don't listen. I just, you know, I got a little money on the internet. It's not a big deal. So I just want everyone to behave and relax because I, God, I think it's coming. And I just don't, it's not fair. Now, give me a couple of years please. Christ almighty enough. Bring up some articles. Is this, is this even going to happen? Maybe I'm overstating it. God, I hope I am. Why don't we come up with people to kill so, but so that it's not me. We can get people that really just are people that have so much more money than me and I will help you. How many, how many people took their money out of

Chase? How many people took their money out of Chase? That's always a good indicator because Chase is the, you know, Jamie Diamond says it's a vault. And what he means by that is it's a vault of all the Epstein tapes, but it's still a vault. And, but people are saying, go to that guy, Guantanamo Bay on Twitter. He's, he's great. He just tweets about Marxism and 9 11 all day. But it's fun. You know, I like someone that commits. I like a theme. And he really does. He just does deep dives on CIA figures that were involved in, in 9 11. But he's, he's posting these really interesting articles about the bank. And Peter Schiff, I mean, God is Peter Schiff. He's probably got a 24 hour erection. He's been predicting this collapse for years. And it's finally here.

The banks are going to evaporate. It's a liquidity crisis. The Fed cannot lower the interest rates to zero. It, you know, it's all over now. And all I'm asking on behalf of people that have made money in the last three years is that you remember that there are people that have had money for a very, very, very, very, very, very long time. Kill them. That's all I'm asking. If you, I will help you. I will help you. Do you want to start a podcast? This is a good time to start a podcast. You can do it. I will help you. So I'm just saying, don't kill me. I know that it feels like the right thing to do. And I in your shoes might kill me too. But there's a lot of good things coming your way if you behave. Can of pasta. Open it. Mmm. Yummy time. A bag of cake. It won't

be a cake. It'll be cake, cake bits. We'll call them cake combs. It's just easier to deliver. And you could put your hand in it and it'll be like coffee crumbs from a crumb cake, but with Funfetti sprinkles. And you could just, you'd throw it at the kids. And the kids are going nuts with the Funfetti. It's going to be fine. It's going to be okay. We're going to give you a smoothie. You're going to get a smoothie for your bones. Strong. And you're going to be allowed out of the house for a good amount of time to get the exercise. But what we can't have is violent mobs in the street asking for my Bentley from 2018. It's not going to help you. It's from 2018. It's not even that good. So that's my whole thing. My whole thing is like, you know, I just want

everyone to behave. That's all, that's all I'm asking for. You can get mad at me. You can get offended. I'm just saying I've only had money for a couple of years. I used to hang out in these really poor places where I would do drugs when I was a child and people would do crazy heinous things. And I, you know, that was the majority of my life. I was a junkie from when I was 12 or 13 years old till 25, just drugs, alcohol, you know, and then from 25 to 35, it was basically just stand up comedy and working. And then from, you know, 35 to 38, which is what I am now, we've made a little bit of money, but that's certainly, I am certainly not the person to kill in this situation. There are like Chelsea Handler. Chelsea Handler has more money than me. She has a lot more money

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that, of course, but this looks a little similar to when people have been tweeting and writing about this, that this is what happened to Lehman Brothers as well. Now, we have, as a country, and I want you to think about this over the last year because this has been the policy of the United States of America. The policy of this country, as I've talked about, has been basically a national suicide with regard to the unwavering support of the Ukraine, billions and billions, hundreds of billions of dollars to the Ukraine, doing nothing but increasing the resolve in terms of Russia, with their willing to do to win the war, pushing Russia and China closer together, trying to sanction Russia, Russia then going, fuck you, we're just going to sell natural gas

to other places like India, ending up being kind of financially okay with regard to how Russia operates. Russia's economy is obviously much smaller than the United States, but they were able to be, they were pretty, pretty quickly were able to shore up their economy even after these sanctions, which did not have the devastating blow and impact that we thought. We are now in a position where Poland is sending fighter jets to the Ukraine. We have a much wider war potentially going to happen right now that the United States is not only engineering, it is supporting, and this is probably something we either want to happen or God or the people running this country stupid not thinking it would happen. I'm voting for the former that this is something we actually

want to see happen. You also now have what looks pretty much like an economic collapse or the best case of Fed correction, but really what's an economic collapse at home because we are not, you know, minding the store. We had artificially low interest rates for well over a decade for the longest period really in American history. We enabled bubbles everywhere in real estate and tech and everything, and now those chickens are coming home to roost. There's bank runs, 550 million people have withdrawn money out of banks. These bubbles are bursting. The tech bubble which, you know, has been the bubble that is probably the most obvious, the most reported on is now bursting in front of your eyes, which is why, you know, Silicon Valley Bank, which is the

startup bank, is collapsed. It's now in, you know, custody of the Feds, and now we have other problems, Credit Suisse, First National Bank. This could be very, very ugly. All the while we are continuing to write checks to support a war in the Ukraine between a regional conflict between the, you know, Russia and the Ukraine, which started out over a few regions in the Dumbass area. I think it's northern Ukraine, I don't know. And now with the rhetoric of the Ukrainian leader has become a all out fight, who's going to win Russia or Ukraine, which regime will get toppled first in the United States of America is participating in that. We could not be in a worse position globally right now. We have Russia and China kind of working together. We have our economic power,

the thing that we pride ourselves on, we are going to be seeing a massive reduction right now in our economy, a huge contraction, best case, obviously. And it's not like 2008, the Fed can't do what it did then. It cannot infuse capital the way it did. It cannot go save the banks. It cannot save the entire financial system. We have spent years and years and years creating this problem. Everybody, people that are a lot smarter than me, people who understand this in depth in the way that I do not have been warning that this day will come and it feels like this day is coming. And I hope that's not the case. I only ask you to not kill me if you see me in the street. I'll give you the glasses. Don't kill me. They're, you know, they're nice. You got

to keep cleaning them over and over and over again to spray with the whole thing. But I'm just saying that we have a president who has dementia. He's in the cognitive decline. He's not running the show. The show is big. This is to anyone who says, it's not political, but it's not a political idea. I'm not like, well, it's obvious to anyone that Joe Biden is barely cognizant. Like, you know, Joe Biden's family, you know, we talked about this on the Patreon, but Joe Biden's family had some meeting in Nantucket deciding whether he was going to run again. And they all came to the conclusion that it was a good idea that he ran again. It's like, what questions were asked at the meeting, at the family meeting? Like, what topics of discussion were there to ascertain

that Biden was good to run again? Like that's a little wild to me. The idea that they're like, well, pop seems good. He seems good. I mean, he's falling. He's drooling. He doesn't really know where he is or what he's doing. But I think it seems like we could, so he's kind of, you know, they're stuffing him. They're bringing him out. They're giving him the best drugs, I guess, to just get him through these things. But, you know, because he is the, he's the system, right? He's the face of, of, of the way that we've been running this system forever for hundreds of years. Joe Biden is on the face of it. And what an appropriate face. Could there be more of an appropriate face that hollowed out gargoyle face of someone who knows where the bodies are buried, which is

why he was elected and is basically trying to put a face on American military policy, militarism, American empire building and financial, you know, the dominance of large corporations in America. As the arbiters of national policy, that is what Joe Biden was elected to do and then give you a little, you know, dangle little things like, oh, here's a year off community college and all these things it may, and oh, we have, look, it's a trans Batman, all these things that make you think there's actual progress happening. But what he really is elected to do, he's doing what he does, right? He's a symbol of national death. And then it's not that he's horrible either. I mean, there could have been a lot worse, right? They could have elected, you know, worse people.

Maybe at this stage of our empire's decline, having a dead president is better than having a live one. I don't know. That's a fair debate. But what you're seeing now is you are seeing, you know, the real rubber meets the road reality of that our lifestyles, and this is, you know, was said by Russ Baker on the show. He goes, they've been artificially subsidized for a very long time. The things that we take for granted, the way that we live, the homes that we live in, the gas we put in our cars, the credit that we charge, all of the things that we need, all of these things, we never really think about them. We always know that someone somewhere bails us out. There's always somebody that bails the system out. There is always somebody that

comes from up above, some Illuminati meeting, some fucking a group of people chanting in the woods, figures it out. There's always somebody above us. There's an adult, there's mommy and daddy, and yes, they're the Luciferian elite, but they kind of always come through at the end and they keep the Chick-fil-A pumping. And that's all we really think about. We think about at the end of the day, somebody always comes from some dark crevice or corner, from some smoke filled room, from some dark, I don't know, basement cellar of a mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. Some, you know, humanoid figure comes out and saves the day. There's always some backroom deal made that bails us out. And it's really, it's a prayer that that happens now. If it doesn't happen now,

I don't know what will happen. I don't know what will happen. The thing that we have going for us is a massive military. That's what the dollar is backed up by, right? The power of the gun. So we do have a massive military. There's that, but there's not too much else going for us. And that's a little scary. And I don't know how many backroom deals are going to save us right now. It is, it is something where even the menial understanding that I have of these things is that they are very bad and they are not good. That's the, you know, that's the Kamala Harris explanation. Russia is a bigger country than invaded Ukraine, which is a smaller country. So I'll do the Kamala Harris explanation. Banks when they have money are good. Banks without

money are bad. But that's why they explain things to you like three year olds because they think you are a three year old. I mean, that's really what we've, we've seen. I mean, this is idiocracy in real time. We have seen the things you're supposed to swallow and accept get increasingly ridiculous over time, increasingly ridiculous over time. So we're at a point now where the reason that you've been able to get people to accept all this gobbledygook is because you can still put food in their faces and they can still turn on their air conditioner and things haven't completely collapsed. They haven't other parts of the country that we ignore, but now it might be coming for all of us. So the hope is that somewhere some reptile figures something out.

This is, you know, this is time to basically hope that this is not a massive failure of all the banks. This is not going to look good because it doesn't turn into a glorious Marxist revolution. What it just turns into is a lot of fat people in the street sitting down. There's going to be a lot of fat people sitting in the street. It's not going to look good. There's going to be a lot of large overweight people sitting in the street and you're going to have to walk around them and walk over them and it's going to be very, very difficult. You know, it's basically, it's like a line at a ride for Disney World, but everybody's giving up because they're like, we don't even know what's happening. Is it broken? The fat people yell as they sit on the line.

Is it broken? It is. It is broken. Sam Hyde tweeted something or retweeted something. It was really funny about that America was a carnival. People are in America are now becoming aware that they're on a carnival ride or on a carnival that is closing down and it was just these people like throwing things in like a Walmart or something, but that is kind of analogous to what it, you know, does feel like a little bit. It's like we've gone on all the rides, but now it is kind of, it is closing down. You know, and listen, I'm only asking for, I am only asking for your patience because whatever happens, there's going to be, there's going to be, we can, here's the good thing about our food supply. It's chemicals. This is the good thing. The good thing about our food

supply is its chemicals. It's not going anywhere. Those same chemicals that spilled all over those people's yards in a Palestine, Ohio. Where's that in the news, by the way? And I'm still trying to do the fucking benefit show. It's hard to get avails from theaters around there. Relax. I'm going to do it with Matt Reif who's used the hot comedian with the six pack. It's going to be weird. It's going to be like two guys on stage and the same person and half of the audience will be his fans, which is like hot chicks and half the audience will be my fans, Jan six. But the point is what we're doing is we're trying to figure that out. But the same chemicals that are in those spills are used at the Olive Garden. The good, it's the Olive Garden. It's the same chemicals. There's no

difference. The good news is you've been eating chemicals for your entire life. In Europe, people will die. If they, if someone from Europe ate at the Olive Garden, they would drop dead in the parking lot. They would go because your body wouldn't be able to handle it. But you have been acclimated to chemicals your entire life. So when we have to eat chemical sludge, because that's the only thing left, your system will go tastes like a tour of Italy to me. So that's a good thing. Here's another great thing. We have a lot of space in America. Nobody talks about this. We have acres and acres and acres and acres of land. There's a lot of fucking land. There's more than enough land for everybody to set up their own tiny house, live out of a van, whatever. There's

a lot of land. It's a lot of land. Not great land because the rich have taken all of that, you know, the coast and the waters and the rivers. There's not a lot of that, but there's a lot of flat, hot, dusty land that is land that you can live on. This isn't panic time by any stretch. If you don't mind living in a car, living by your wits, you know, getting a weapon, learning how to skin a deer, watch Rogan. They'll tell you about the backstrap, how to do it. This is not a bad time. This is an invigorating time. I think it's an exciting time for people. This is a time where I think people are going to actually start to connect with who they really are as people. They go, well, I don't want to walk into that office. Don't like your job. Good news.

You don't have one anymore. Don't like to commute to work. Great news. There's no work to commute to. Get a tiny house or a van. Live on the side of the highway. There's a lot of land. This is why this crazy bitch, Marianne Williamson, who was just, by the way, who I love, and I'm going to support, I don't know if she'll ever be my new Laurie. There'll never be another Laurie, June 9th, Chicago Theater, Tim Dillon Comedy.com, who will celebrate the life and legacy of the great Laurie Lightfoot. The life and legacy of Laurie Lightfoot celebrated June 9th, Chicago Theater, but Marianne Williamson is now being accused. She's now being accused of abusive behavior to staff or something like that, which makes the maybe-all supporter,

it's turning into a definite. And I don't know what people don't understand about these crystal bitches. I'm going to call them. Have you ever met these crystal bitches? The crystal bitch will fly off the handle like no one else. People that are zen and go, it's all just, and Marianne Williamson's got that twang, and she goes, the healthcare system in America, and it is now, there is a difference between health insurance and healthcare and healthcare, you know, and, and when she is, you know, she has that nice soft voice and she's just trying to tell you about life because life is about energy and energy is, is, is all around us at all times. And it's a choice. It's making a choice. And I'm a narcissist. I think only myself every minute

of the day, but I actually talk about others. But when I'm talking about other people, I'm thinking only myself and my energy and how I'm feeling and what I need to do. And other people are actually just ideas to me. That's me. I'm Marianne Williamson. And, and the, and by the way, that doesn't mean she can't do some good shit if she gets in there because a lot of people do good stuff by accident, most of them. But Marianne Williamson is a crystal bitch. And these crystal bitches fly off the fucking handle. You know, people say it would be foaming, spitting uncontrollable rage, said a former staffer who, like most people that spoke with Politico, was granted anonymity because of their concerns about being sued for breaking non-disclosure agreements. It was traumatic and

the experience in the end was terrifying because here's what makes Marianne Williamson terrifying. The rage is unexpected. When you work for, you know, if you work for Chris Christie, a big fat guy, you know, he's going to blow up. He's going to blow up blood sugar is low. But when you work for Marianne Williams, it all starts like this. It starts like this. We can do real good things together. We can do real good things. Now, did you get, did you get me my coffee? You did? Okay. It's a little, it's a little cold now. It's a little, this coffee's a little cold. No, it's a little cold. That's all. No, it's not a big deal. You know, the real problem in this country is, you know, people are living in food deserts and

they don't have access to, you know, high quality vegan meals. You know what? I got to be honest, this coffee is kind of bothering me a little more than I thought it would be. But it's, it's, it's fine. I'm not going to, I'm not, I'm not going to make a, are you Mexican by any chance? I love that. I spent time in Santa Fe. There was a writer's retreat. I was a writer. I am a writer. I am a writer. I wrote all of my, I don't do ghost writers that people will tell you. I actually wrote all of my books. And I was in Santa Fe. We do the writer's retreat. And the Mexicans were actually too, because so much of what we eat here, that's Mexican food is very unhealthy, but that's not what they eat Mexico. They eat a lot of braises and meats and stews. And there's

actually a lot of vegetables. And I learned that it's like I'm drinking iced coffee actually. It's really, it feels like I'm drinking ice here, which is not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to warm my soul. But anyway, in Santa Fe at the writer's retreat, I'm a writer. I was sitting there and these lovely abuelas, is that what you call them? These abuelas, these Mexican grandmothers. Oh man, they might have been 80, 90, 150 years old. I don't know. But these abuelas would come in every day with these blankets. Now, I swear they'd knit these blankets overnight. And they'd knit them with the spirit of their people. It was beautiful. And they would come in and you know, every now and then they would swaddle me like a child and put me to sleep. And the thing about when the coffee's

cold, the thing about it is it hurts my throat. And my throat gets cold. That's the thing. That's the only problem. That's the only problem, honey. So what I'm saying is, and do you have an abuela? Oh, she's, she's passed on into the other realm. Well, I mean, peace to her. But these abuelas would, they would, they would, they would, they would swaddle me and they would just, they would tell me the tales of the, that they would tell the Mexican children. And I just, and from that was just such a beautiful moment of transference of energy from one abuela to a young writer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, editor. Did I, did I ask for a lemon bar? I think I did. Am I losing my mind? Am I losing my mind? Or did I ask for a lemon bar? Okay, because we're trying to change the world

here. We're trying to change the fucking world. Okay. And I'm telling you right now for the love of God, if you fuck with me here, and I'm just trying to put it, I'm a little late on the line. I'm just going to lay it online. My goal is to help other people. But if you fuck with me here, I swear to God, I swear to God, I'll come back and I'll kill you from every life. I'll kill you from every fucking lifetime that I've ever lived. I'm drinking icy fucking coffee. I'm the only person in America that went to the writer's retreat in Santa Fe and was swallowed by old Mexican abuelas so that I could come here and communicate the truths from their ancient people. And I'm telling you right now, I shouldn't be drinking cold coffee

without a fucking lemon bar. I'm just saying, honey, I'm not trying to fly off the handle. I'm not trying to fly. Are you gay? My first husband was gay. And that was fine. I knew that when I married him. It didn't matter because I believe in energy and energy is the purest form of love. And it didn't matter to me that he had sex with man. That didn't really bother me. What bothered me was the lying. Isn't it always lying that bothers you? That's what bothered me. I would tell him, I would say, listen to me, Christopher, kind of a gay name, Christopher. I'd say, Christopher, I know everything you're doing and with everybody. And that's fine with me. I just don't need you lying about it. I don't need you lying about it. And it's just like, you know,

it's one of those things in life. And, you know, we're great friends to this day. I mean, we, we of course have the restraining order. He has one on me. So I cannot see him in the physical person, but we are always communicating through our dreams. And I'm just telling you this, I'm just telling you this right now. If there's ever cold coffee on this fucking desk again, I'm going to fucking murder you. You understand? I'm going to kill you. And then I will kill you as many times as I can. I will chase you through these lives because we get many lifetimes. But here's the thing in every lifetime, I've been a self important con and I will always be a self important white woman and a con always you understand that fucking dummy. You understand

that you dumb fuck. You're poor as fuck. That's why you can't eat good food like I do. You poor fat fuck. America is a bunch of poor fat fucks because they can't eat stars like I do. I eat the fucking Milky Way and the galaxy, not the fucking bar. I eat raw energy, bitch. I eat agave syrup and I put it in my pussy. That's what I do. I own a farm of agave cactuses and I rub my clit with them. The spiky ones. That's what I do. And then I offer the blood as a sacrifice to Odin. If you ever fuck with my coffee again, I'll rip your fucking throat out. I'll rip your fucking throat out. You dirty cunt. Do you understand me? You dirty, dirty, dirty wetback cunt. Get my fucking coffee right or I'll kill you. But that's what happens to people like Marianne Williamson because

again, they are on a different vibrational plane. They don't need a lot of the things that we need. They're fed by energy and but she's our favorite. I hope she sticks with this. I hope she doesn't leave. I want to see her flip out more because you gotta remember when you're a crystal bitch, everything's about you. Everything's about you. Everything's about you, right? So whenever that apple cart is upset, even the slightest bit, it's a real nightmare. But as always, we thank everybody for listening. TimDillonComedy.com. We have live shows on sale in really cool places, Chicago and San Francisco, two of my favorite markets to do comedy. We're also in Portland, Tacoma, North Charleston, Hershey, PA, Chicago, Illinois, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ending it in San Francisco,

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They actually disappointed their own CEO the other day from, I forgot his last name, Papadopoulos or something like that. But the old company that used to be SBB, I think it's called SBB Financial, had just filed for bankruptcy today. So they're a different entity than we are right now. I think at the moment we're called Silicon Valley Bridge, something or the other. But yeah, we're being run by the Fed at the moment. So I think that makes me a government employee. Well, congrats. And there, people are saying, and I know this is maybe outside of your range of expertise, people are positing that, you know, you had signature bank collapse, Silicon Valley Bank. People are now saying credit Swiss, obviously, gaining an infusion,

I believe $52 billion from a central bank in maybe Switzerland, if I recall. That's correct. Right. People are still saying they're bringing up the Lehman brothers situation where they also had kind of this restructuring going on over the weekend, looking at different scenarios for the bank. And then it still collapsed. You know, Noriel Rubini has said like a, you know, a rate hike, a European central bank, I believe rate hike could collapse, but even half a basis point might collapse the bank. And then you might also see, you know, just kind of this like Black Monday, like you had in 2008 with Lehman brothers, you know, but obviously being credit Swiss. And then a first national bank taking a bunch of other small retail banks with a credit Swiss,

being about a trillion, but of course, you know, untold, more money as well. And then, you know, I believe it's, is it signature bank that's all, I'm sorry, it's first national, right? That's also I think there's a first Republic Bank. First Republic. Yeah. So first Republic. And they have, you know, maybe 10 or 12 smaller regional banks. Is it your estimation? It could get that bad Monday, or you don't know? I mean, I'm not here to, you know, like doom and gloom, but it definitely seems like, you know, everything that the Fed is trying to do at the moment seems to not be working the way that they intended it. And, you know, banks are now banks that were, you know, like first Republic Bank is a bank that is run well at the great

institution. And they're failing passive a bank run, you know, it's nothing, you know, fault of their own. So it definitely seems like they just don't want to, it seems like they're trying to like just avoid bailing out the entire system altogether. But it seems that it's leading that way. Like, you know, like you said, this isn't exactly my area of expertise. But, you know, the feeling that I get is that everyone is just on edge. Things are changing hour by hour. So, you know, I've just been constantly on standby this entire week, just waiting to see, you know, what next little bit of news that we get. So how did Silicon Valley Bank is a bank run as well? Right? This is why Silicon Valley Bank failed. Is this something that initially,

yeah, I, you know, I forgot the exact wording is for it. But yeah, it was, you know, the initial problem caused by a bank run, you know, all these Silicon Valley type companies keep like large amounts of cash with us. And, you know, our financial dealings spook them and they all just started taking their money out of the banks. So yeah, that's what, you know, started all this back on, you know, last Thursday. And is this the people are blaming kind of Peter Teal for this? Is this something that you do put any credence in that? Like the idea that he was kind of running around telling people they're insolvent and taking all his money out? Yeah. From what I've been told, you know, Silicon Valley Bank was insolvent back in September. And it just seems like

they were just avoiding offloading all, you know, that debt capital that they had. And, you know, when they, you know, when they finally did that, you know, that's when the bank run started to happen. But it's, you know, it's all, you know, this, it was unfortunate situation just because, you know, the senior management at Silicon Valley Bank made some really horrible risky decisions and kind of ran their entire company into the ground and, you know, sold off all their stock, you know, in the process of it. Tell me what risky decisions you think they made that ran, as you said, the company into the ground? Well, I mean, for as small of a bank, you know, SAD isn't exactly like a, you know, it's not a small financial institution, but it's not a large

one either. And during the pandemic, things were going great for us. We were expanding at a rate that seemed, you know, unsustainable, honestly, for a bank of our size. And, you know, as soon as the economy started going south a little bit, then we were making layoffs. And it just, it seemed like the decisions that were being made by our executives, they thought things were going to be, you know, great forever, interest rates are going to be low forever. And then as soon as they started to increase, we were put in a very bad situation almost immediately. What kind of place was it like to work? Um, it was, you know, it was a very, you know, inclusive like work environment, you know,

it was, it's a very hard place to get fired from, you know what I mean? Well, that's gonna change. That's about to change. Yeah, that's, but no, it was, you know, they compensate their employees very well, you know, that was the whole big thing, our new story as well. Everyone in the company was getting their bonuses exactly at the time that the company needs to exist more or less. So they treat their employees really well. You know, we have very nice offices and they definitely make you feel it's like, you know, diversity and inclusion and all that kind of stuff. So, um, well, that's lovely, but that clearly didn't stop the nightmarish collapse. No, yeah, exactly. It's, um, all the,

did they focus too much on that with the diversity and inclusion stuff? Yeah, I wouldn't say that that's clearly not the reason that the bank, of course, it's not the reason they fell, but like, but you know, it was, I would definitely say it was more progressive than your average bank is, but, um, you know, not overly so. No, I didn't feel like it was. Okay. Okay. Um, and, and right now it's in the custody of the feds. They're running the bank and they, they went to look for a buyer and they couldn't find one. Yeah, I, you know, there are a bunch of names floating out like, um, the Saudi Arabian sovereign fund. They love diversity and inclusion, the Saudi Arabian sovereign fund. That's what I feel. Yeah. That's really, I'm sure they got really

excited when they go, Hey, we have a woke failing bank of non-binary people. You want to come and get involved with this. And the Saudis were like, of course, why wouldn't we? By the way, the Saudis might be what's needed at Silicon Valley bank. They might whip it in the shape. They might come in Muhammad MBS. So wait a minute. Why is nobody buying this bank in your estimation? Why do you think it's so unattractive to people? Is it, is it like the balance sheet? Is it just a mess in there? If I'm buying this thing, is it like buying a house that's been foreclosed on and not taking care of? It seems like this new CEO that the Fed appointed is trying to unwind all that mess at the moment. So I think they're just trying to put the company in a position where it would be a more attractive

entity to buy. Um, you know, and I also think they're looking for the right buyer as well with, you know, Silicon Valley bank has, you know, 50% market share with anything with any capitalists and they don't want that to be something that some foreign conglomerate, you know, can control or, you know, get their hands on. So I think they want to make sure that whoever buys this company in the future has, you know, you know, their best interest at heart too, I guess. Because we don't want to give control over, I guess, a lot of potential new American companies to a sovereign wealth fund. Yeah, it's, I mean, it's really the only thing America's got going before it is the innovation part. So yeah, we don't really want to outsource that to the highest bidder, I guess.

Right, right. Well, I mean, it certainly seems like the golden era of tech is over. That's in every article that you read now, people are saying, uh, that's done. And that, you know, you're, you're, this is kind of maybe the new normal of, you know, is that something that you are getting used to as a person? I don't know if you work more in the banking sector or if you're, you know, in, in, you know, FinTech or whatever you're in, but like, what are you preparing for a life, you know, kind of very much like the, when the manufacturing jobs went overseas, and many of those people had to live horrible lives in the middle of the country and became addicted to opioids. Do you, are you preparing, are you and your friends preparing for that?

Oh, but, you know, it definitely seems like, you know, things can't be, you know, it can't be the golden age forever. So it definitely had to unlock eventually. I think it's happening a little bit faster than most people expected it to. And, you know, these are all, you know, like Silvergate and SCV, these are all companies that were doing business with FDX and in the cryptocurrency as well. Do you, do you think crypto hastened this collapse, the financial system getting in bed with crypto? Did that hasten this? It didn't help. I'll say that for sure. It definitely didn't help. Why did financial institutions get so involved with such a speculative asset? Now, obviously,

we can ask this question with subprime mortgages, but in crypto, when you like, if you explain cryptocurrency, right, to a, you know, McDonald's employee that got to the country a month ago on a raft, they would maybe tell you they didn't feel safe investing in it. Why did the CEOs of these banks who went to Ivy League institutions get in bed with this stuff? Oh, but you know, it's, it's tough to tell if they were, you know, they fell for the same bit that everybody else fell for, or if they knew and just felt like they can make some money in the short term off of it. So it was probably money. It was greed. It was the idea that it was, I think it always comes out in a green with, especially when you get up to those like people that work in like the higher

actual on the industry, they definitely see, you know, an opportunity to make, you know, maybe they don't, you know, you, you figure they are smart people. So they might not have fallen for the whole like FTX like grift, but they definitely saw an opportunity to, you know, increase their personal wealth. I mean, no, that's a little, I'm not an expert on cryptocurrency by any means. What do you, can you talk about what you did at the bank? I'm the security. I was a security. I just did it. What can you talk a little bit about what you did? Yeah, I work in like the payments department doing like operations as an analyst. Okay. So it's more on, you know, we're all the people that do what people were talking about, you know,

on Thursday and Friday when people were trying to take all their money out of the bank. You have a horrible connection. Is there any where you can go to get a little bit of a better connection on your phone? Is, is Silicon Valley bank shutting off the phones? I don't know. I got, yeah. I mean, can you hear me better now? Yes. Okay. Sorry, I forgot what we were talking about. The failure of your bank destroying the economy. Um, no, uh, we were talking about what you did for the bank. You said you worked in operations. Yeah. So yeah, right now it's a difficult time in operations just because as we get back online, we're trying to sort out what clients still need the money that they sent requests for

last week. Um, you know, who took their business elsewhere, what needs to be redone and what, you know, it's in operations, it involves like foreign currency as well. So we need to like reestablish connections with all the foreign banks that we used to work with that refused to work with us last week. So, um, it's been a whole process trying to like get that system back online. And, you know, based on what I've been told, it should be better next week, but, um, you know, like I said, things change hour by hour. So I really don't know what to expect. What do you think the future is of Silicon Valley banks? Does it have any shot? Um, you know, from what I've been told by our new CEO, the plan at the moment is to run

SCV as a company, like it normally was until they, you know, find a potential buyer. I think that's the direction they would like the head, you know, run it, get it back on its feet, make it look like, you know, something you would actually want to buy and then just, you know, try to. So now has it explained the bailout? It has been bailed out? It, it has. Yeah. I mean, it has been bailed out at this point. It's being run by the government and all the, you know, all the deposits are fully a hundred percent back. Actually, I saw an advertiser for SCV the other day saying it's the safest place to deposit your money. Yeah. Not on my show.

The safest place to keep your money is Athletic Greens, not SVB. Listen, we appreciate taking the time to fill us in. I think that like, um, this is obviously something that's changing hour by hour. As you said, and, you know, people are really thinking about Monday as like a real, you know, like Black Monday situation, but maybe that's not true. Hopefully, it's not true. Um, yeah, I'd still like to have a job. I mean, nice. What do you live up in the Bay area? Oh, no, I live in, uh, like Paradise Valley in, uh, Phoenix. Okay. And you, what would you work for SVB from Phoenix? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So we have, uh, yeah, one of the biggest offices is located in Tempe. Actually, I think the biggest SVB office is located in Tempe.

Okay. Well, listen, we wish you well. We hope that you, you know, figure out, you know, a new career for yourself when this comes down. Do you have any other skills? Um, no, I don't, but, you know, they, financial institutions love hiring like none of us, like under, you know, that really don't have any skills besides like Microsoft, you know, proficiency. So I think I'll be fine. Did you go to a good school? Um, yeah, I, yeah, I think I, I can't really say too much. It's a, it was a really small, uh, school, uh, like a small business school. So I think I, yeah, I'd rather not say. Like Wharton? No, no, it wasn't that nice. I'm not like an actor. Right. Okay. I'm not, I'm no genius.

We, we believe you. Um, well, thank you so much for calling in and, and we, we really appreciate it. We'll keep your identity secret and, um, we hope everything works out at SVB, but let me tell you what will, I believe happen to many of you people. You will move to the middle of the country. You will become addicted to drugs. Uh, there will be generations of your families that will be destroyed. You will be met with a complete and other, um, contempt, uh, from the public, but really apathy. Apathy is the main thing that you will deal with because people will not care about your communities. We will dump, um, uh, chemical spills, uh, there, and we will not care. Um, you will end up 10 to 15 years from now smoking cigarettes out of a

narcotics anonymous meeting before a relapse, uh, at a small biker bar on the outskirts of town. This is what will happen. Uh, and it deservedly so to everybody in tech or that has aided or abetted that in any way that I'm not saying this is good or bad, or I'm not calling for this to happen. I'm telling you what will happen. This is, uh, from history. This will, will happen. You will eat at a grocery stores where the meat isn't good and there will be mold on even the frozen chicken that you will try to serve to your family. Um, it will be very difficult for you to hold on. This is a hellscape that you will inherit, but until that time, um, and even during that time, you know, the Tim Dillon show does nothing but wish you well.

Well, I appreciate it. Thank you.