Tim Dillon (Comedian): "The Boomers Are A Selfish Generation!". "Gen Z Has Exposed Society's Scam!". "Bosses Are Being Threatened By Mental Illnesses!"

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Making a living by telling jokes, takes making it through a life that’s no joke. Tim Dillon is a comedian, actor, and host of the Tim Dillon Show podcast. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine named him as one of the top 10 comics you need to know, and in 2022, he released his first Netflix standup special, 'Tim Dillon: A Real Hero’. In this conversation Tim and Steven discuss topics such as, how his mother’s illness inspired him to become funny, his addiction, how Generation Z has exposed society’s scams, and the mental health struggles that pushed him into becoming a comedian. 00:00 Intro 02:01 I Was a Closeted Gay Addict 03:23 Which One of Your Parents Were Depressed? 07:03 The Impact of Your Parent's Mental Illnesses on You 09:05 Your Parents Divorce 12:32 Childhood Trauma & Taking Drugs 15:51 Hitting Rock Bottom 19:40 AA Meetings 23:15 Trying to Get Sober 24:27 Being a Juror on a Murder Crime 27:41 His First Open Mic Comedy Show 29:25 The Taboos in Comedy 33:20 Why You Don't Get Cancelled 36:09 The Podcasting World 39:42 What’s Up With The Different Generations? 48:09 What Are His Goals in Comedy 49:18 Have You Processed Your Trauma? 55:38 His Experience with Therapy 58:24 Coming Out as Gay & Dating 01:01:50 What Do You Love About Yourself? 01:05:00 Mental Health Coping Mechanisms 01:07:27 Elon Musk Buying Twitter 01:08:35 Social Media Criticism 01:09:46 Touring The World 01:15:03 What Happens in Hollywood? 01:17:40 Rising to the Top: The American Dream 01:20:51 New Generations Don't Work Hard 01:21:49 Remote Working 01:25:05 The Future of AI 01:30:26 Men's Mental Health 01:33:53 Andrew Tate's Influence 01:34:49 Who Should You Have Apologized to and You Didn't? You can purchase tickets to Tim’s new show, ‘American Royalty’, here: https://bit.ly/4aHE6JN You can watch ‘The Tim Dillon Show,’ here: https://bit.ly/3U1DOYp Follow Tim: Twitter - https://bit.ly/49oMOLV Instagram - https://bit.ly/3PPbRRb YouTube - https://bit.ly/3U1DOYp Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Conversations Cards: https://thediary.com/products/the-conversation-cards-1st-edition Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: Zoe: http://joinzoe.com with an exclusive code CEO10 for 10% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Zoomers, some of them have figured out that the country's a scam.
0:04.0	They invent mental health ailments they don't have.
0:06.2	They take days off on end, they terrify their superiors, they found the flaw in the system.
0:11.5	They go, why are you late? They go, I'm gay. You go, don't. the a master of improv.
0:23.0	One the best in the world.
0:24.0	I like making people laugh at stuff that is inherently maybe a little darker because
0:29.0	from 13 to 25, I was a closeted gay cocaine addict but some of our best qualities don't
0:36.1	come about because of the best reasons. There's no one better at those random
0:40.2	rants. There's a lot of topics I want to go through with you and the first is the future of AI.
0:46.0	We've bred some of the least interesting people on the planet, influencers, these generic bar codes with feet.
0:52.8	Those people don't need to exist.
0:54.8	They need to be replaced by an AI version of that.
0:57.6	What's your assessment of different generations?
1:00.0	Well, we've given up on the children.
1:01.3	They're being raised by algorithms.
1:02.8	The boomers, they are the funniest generation because to be funny, you kind of have to just not care,
1:07.8	and there's no generation of people that have cared less about the future of this planet,
1:12.3	about their children. And then the future of this planet, about their children.
1:13.6	And then the millennials were this very three generation of like want to constantly
1:17.4	be padded on the back and told how great they are.
1:20.3	I believe the right things.
1:21.4	I tweeted the right thing I am good I know that's
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