511 - JD Vance, Drafted To Iran, & The End Times

The Tim Dillon Show

Tim Dillon critiques a viral moment featuring Rosie O'Donnell hosting Epstein survivors in a musical performance of 'I Am Woman,' questioning the

Key takeaways

• The use of music and performance by survivors can trivialize trauma, even when well-intentioned.
• J.D. Vance's public speaking is portrayed as ineffective and lacking charisma, despite political prominence.

Main topics

• Rosie O'Donnell's performance with Epstein survivors
• J.D. Vance's political image and leaked speech

Notable quotes

You were put in the trunk of a car and drugged? Right. Five, six, seven, eight.

We're in the end times. I guess I'll go to Chipotle and get a bowl.

Conclusion

Tim Dillon uses satire and absurdity to critique performative activism, political

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:00) Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show. Let's see this Rosie O'Donnell thing. She has these Epstein survivors come out and sing. And I get it. I like all of this. I'm all release the files. And I have no problem with Rosie doing this. But the singing isn't necessary. She has this. She brings these Epstein survivors together. And she's talking to them. Which, again, great. Then she goes, and does they sing I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar? It's just weird to bring in a bunch of people who are talking about getting, you know. Speaker 2 (0:40) R worded. And then go, all right. Yeah, no, that was in you were 14 and you would take right. Okay. Five, six, seven, eight. Like it's, you don't need, you don't need the theatrics. And I, I get it. Rosie's from the Broadway world. She likes everything to have a musical component, like a number. Let's do a number. These are victims of a prolific human trafficker. Can they even sing? Did they have to rehearse this? Did they have to bring them in and rehearse it? They probably did. Can you imagine being a victim of human trafficking and then having the producer go, you're going to come on, you're going to share your story, and then, of course, there will be a song. And you go, what? Yeah, we're going to do I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar. We think it's powerful to just kind of do a song. With everyone. You don't mind that, do you? I guess I'm not really a singer. It doesn't matter. Rosie's not a singer. No one's anything anymore. It doesn't really matter. So here, let's watch this because, again, it's. To me, it's a great example of like, you're almost doing it. It's almost good. This is a great example because in our society now, this has become a major theme of our society. And you'll be like, God, you're on the one yard line. Like, it's almost what it should be. And then it becomes immediately the opposite of what it should be. And you go, God, Zooks. And I get it. Because Rosie goes, let's get all these women to come in and talk about their experiences. And I'm all for that. And then it goes the other way. So let's just watch this, please. And I think you'll know what I mean here. Speaker 2 (2:30) Well, hold on. Let's start from the beginning. Let's start from the beginning, from the place where I thought it might be good. Because I went, yeah. I have a Speaker 8 (2:40) couple hours. And I was thinking instead of doing this, we would each hold hands, like we'll say what, and then lift our hands up together. Again, Speaker 2 (2:48) stop it immediately. Again, all we need to, all you need to do is interview these women about what happened and who did it. You don't need to do a theatrical production here. You don't need to sing memories from cats. You don't need it. I understand what Rosie's trying to do. She's like choreographing this. She's like, well, I thought you would, I'd put my hand up. You put your hand up. We hold hands. We do a box step. We're going to be in a formation. We're going to harmonize, you know. So let's just watch this. I won't interrupt it again, but let's go back to the beginning. We're going to watch this again, and it's almost correct. Rose, you almost had it. Here we go. Speaker 8 (3:33) Thank you all for coming. We have a couple hours. I was thinking instead of doing this, we would each hold hands, like we'll say what, and then lift our hands up together. Right? More than you like that, which is what I think. That was my first thought, right? But I know it's been very hard for you and with very little support, and I'm sorry that our country's so f***ed up. that this is what you have to live through because you are all heroes and you're going to change how the world deals with child sex abuse. Speaker 6 (4:15) Stop Speaker 2 (4:15) it for a minute. Here's how bad this is. I don't feel bad for them anymore. I'm not even kidding. Here's how bad. First of all, one of them's got Chanel sandals on. It's like, how about let's get the Chanel Crocs off the foot. We're trying to make people feel bad. This is so bad. I got to be honest with you. I hate to say it. I'm siding with Epstein. Is that the point? Is the point of this to side with Epstein? No, right? I imagine that's not the point. This is so weird and strange. I'm like, I don't know that I feel bad for these women anymore because they're victims of the most heinous crime imaginable, obviously. But then they're standing here and they're singing and they're trying and they're serious, of course. It's a serious topic. And it's just so odd. Let's watch the rest of it. Speaker 1 (5:19) Is Speaker 2 (5:38) this them or are they lip syncing? They're kind of good if it's them. Is it them? Is this like a human trafficking choir that she found? Is this like an Epstein victim choir that Rosie O'Donnell found? Because I imagine this has been edited or they've put some, they've dubbed this into a degree or are they just really talented? Speaker 2 (6:08) I, it's not terrible. It's pretty good in terms of the musical quality. I just, I'm trying to get the, I'm trying to get to the point here of like, why does this need a song? Like, I understand that she feels like it's necessary, but I'm like, I just don't get it why we need a song here. But she might know better than me. I'm just saying to myself, let's talk about what happened, the details, get everybody, you know? But let's carry on. Speaker 2 (7:08) And then there's all the headshots of them when they were younger. I am strong. I am invincible. I am woman. All right. Well, again, I don't, you know, sure. Sure. Women's liberation movement. And now for the brave Speaker 5 (7:32) and patient Epstein survivors. The phenomenal Rosie O'Donnell decided to invite some of the Epstein survivors to get together and sing the powerful Helen Reddy masterpiece, I Am Woman. Speaker 2 (7:42) which became a rallying cry for the women's liberation movement, which I understand that, and that's lovely. This is a little different than that. It's a case of human trafficking. I'm not saying that there's not some overlap, but I am saying that, I don't know, I just felt it was... Speaker 2 (8:00) missed the mark a little bit for me. It missed the mark a little bit for me because all of this stuff is supposedly, it's supposed to be deadly serious. And then you go, and five, six, seven, eight. So you were put in the trunk of a car and drugged? Right. Five, six, seven. So when I go like this, you go like that. We'll do like a wave. We'll do a wave. So we'll start the wave here. Yeah, you were tied up and, right, drugged. Okay, so the wave starts with me, and then by the time it gets to you, we're at the end of the song. So then there's the big thing, and you had a baby and they killed it? Because you were meant to have birth and they killed the baby? Right. So the formation is kind of like the Rockettes, where we'll be up front, and then you kind of come in under our shoulders. Speaker 2 (8:50) That's what J.D. Vance needs to do. He needs to start doing musical numbers. J.D. Vance, by the way, this guy cannot catch a break. The press office at J.D. Vance headquarters has to be like just overdrive all the time. What has befallen us now? That's got to be the attitude of his people over there. Like, what the hell? What's happening now? This guy goes to the Republican Jewish Coalition and gives a speech and it gets leaked. And, you know, I think we will pull up the speech. But he's basically like, you're on the team. We're on a team. We're on a team. Everybody's on the team. And he can't help. You know, but be J.D. Vance, which is like, it's the lack of charisma. Somehow you feel it through an audio recording. Somehow you feel this. This is a leaked recording and you feel, and you feel he's bombing in the room. There's no picture. There's no video. You can't, you're not, you don't need multiple senses to know how bad he's doing. Only the leaked audio you go, God, this guy just can't. He can't get the ball in the net. And of course it comes out and everybody's going, he's having these closed door, he's giving speeches to these lobbyists telling them, hey, it's all going to be, we love you guys, Vance says, speaking on behalf of Trump and the entire Trump administration. So this is 17 seconds of a leaked speech from J.D. Vance at the Republican Jewish Coalition and he's... Doing what he does best, which is he's pandering, but like poorly. Like he doesn't really know how to do it. And of course, it's like everything else he touches turns immediately into a disaster. Here he is, friend of the show, longtime friend of the show, J.D. Vance. And we're saddened to see him in such a state. Take it away. Speaker 1 (11:05) I hope that everybody here knows that from... the top of this administration to the vice president on down. We love you guys. We appreciate you guys. And you will very much always be on the team. So long as I have any say. Speaker 2 (11:19) He's the vice president and he sounds like he's like, uh, somebody who's, he sounds like, like, uh, uh, a member of a school board. Trying to get something done. Like, he just doesn't have the, he doesn't speak with the authority of the vice president. From the top of this administration to the bottom. You guys, you're always on a team. We love you. Come on. You're our guys. We love, we're it. We, come on. We love you. Like, it's a salesman who can't sell. Get up, Shelly Levine, Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross. Can we play this? I think we might be able to play a short section from Shelly Levine, Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross. And he shows up at this guy's door. It's a great, it's a David Mamet play. It's a great movie. Alec Baldwin's in it. It's about salesmen who cannot sell anything. And they constantly have this quivering voice and they're all desperate. No, that's not the one. It's Shelly Levine. He shows up in the rain. Speaker 2 (12:33) And he's just, he's trying to get into this guy's house. And the guy's like, listen, we don't have anything. We can't buy anything. And J.D. Vance just has that. It's in him. It's this fear of being, you know, like unwanted. And he's trying desperately to convince these people. He's like, God, we love you, God. You're our guys. You're on the team here. From the top of this administration to the bottom. And he's the vice president of the United States. He should be speaking with the authority of the vice president of the United States. But at no point, here he is. So this, by the way, this is J.D. Vance, okay? At the Republican Jewish Coalition. This is the second leaked audio we have here. Take it away. This is J.D. Vance. And I think you'll know what I mean. This is J.D. Vance at the Republican Jewish Coalition. Leaked audio. Speaker 3 (13:30) Mr. Spano? Sheldon Levine. I was speaking to your wife earlier. Come in. Cats and dogs. Speaker 3 (13:45) Oh, I see you're interested in fishing. Oh, I fished myself many years. Muskie, Wisconsin. Ooh, beauty. Where's the missus? Out at the PTA. What was this in reference? Well, I spoke to your wife earlier on the phone. I called. I'm in town with Rio Rancho. Yes, yes, I'm sorry. She said you had some sort of some award. I was speaking to the people in my sales organization, my representatives in this area. Now, Mr. Spaniel, the... Your name is Larry. Do you mind if I call you Larry? All right, Larry. We had a consultant, and he made me an offer. He made me an offer. He offered me $230,000 to promote a sales plan, you see. a plan to present our investment opportunities in Rio Rancho to the public. Well, I said, hell, let me save you the 230 and pass the savings along to the investors. Now, my people immediately said, whoa, how do you do that? How can you present investment opportunities without television, without magazine ads? I said, you take something this good, you go to a man who has invested in the past, you go to him direct and offer the money to him. Rebate! And don't give it to this expert. So you're here to sell me some land? No, I wouldn't try to sell you land. I leave that to the salesmen, you know, the people who want to own land. I think something has to be fed, watered, and painted. But don't invest in it. And that motto has stood me in good stead. Mr. Just call me Shelly. I have never been afraid of familiarity. I'm walking out the door. I've got to pick up my wife at the... Let's take my car. We'll pick her up together. Spoke to the little woman on the phone. Can't wait to meet her. No, we've got to... We're going over to our relative's. Oh, she didn't say anything. I'm sure she forgot. I'm on a plane to Florida. Well, I'm so sorry if we put you out. No, you didn't put me out. I'm just trying to think, Larry. You know, that's the only parcel that I've got. You know what I'm going to do? I'm gonna go back to the computer, I'm gonna pull another one, and we're gonna speak to your relatives, too. No, no, no. Now, come on, you're a busy man, Larry, and so am I. Listen, Speaker 1 (15:50) listen. Speaker 3 (15:50) My God, I'm in the act of giving a gift away. Look, I don't want to buy land, I don't want to invest in land, I have nothing. Yeah, I... She took the call without my knowledge. I have no business that I wish to transact. I don't Speaker 4 (16:02) want Speaker 3 (16:02) to tell you how to handle your wife. My wife filled in a form Speaker 1 (16:05) and Speaker 3 (16:05) we have been plagued for the last year by... That's the situation that I'm trying to alleviate, Larry. No. No. Do you understand? Thank you, no. Speaker 2 (16:16) That's J.D. Vance speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition. Again, but he has that, it's that energy. Play Vance again and let's see if you can hear it. Let's see if you can hear it in the voice. Speaker 1 (16:27) I hope that everybody here knows that from the top of this administration to the vice president on down, we love you guys, we appreciate you guys, and you will very much always be on the team so long as I have any say in it. Speaker 2 (16:40) Yeah. Speaker 2 (16:43) We love you guys. Everyone. You're always on a team here. What do you want to do? What do you want to do? What do you want to do? Libya? We'll do it. We did it, but we'll do it again. What are you doing? Lebanon? We're going to do it. You want Turkey too? We'll do it. You're on the team. We get it. Fuck it. It's a NATO country. Who gives a fuck? What do you want? We'll do it. You're on it from the top to the bottom here. You guys are on a team because I am. As long as I have a say in it, I have a property, and we will speak to your relatives too. I will get in my car. Let's take my car. Let's take my car to Lebanon and kill everybody. Let's do it. I have no problem with that. Everyone get in my car. We'll drive to Lebanon right now. We'll bomb it and flatten it, and that's fine. The Trump administration came to me and they said, we've got a sales plan. And I said, well, I'll go to the Republican Jewish coalition. I'll talk to them about it. And I'm here to tell you that you're on the team. You're our guys from the top to the bottom. You know what? We got you. As long as I have a say in it, we'll do anything you wanted. And it's just that level of desperation, that level of, you know, just it does reek of. This kind of cronyism, this kind of desperation where Speaker 4 (18:04) most Americans now feel that the interests of Israel are no longer aligning with the United States of America in a foreign policy sense. That is not specific to Speaker 2 (18:15) party. And it really is starting to become not specific to age. A lot of older people who Speaker 7 (18:22) for years had. Speaker 7 (18:25) thought of Israel and America as sharing Speaker 5 (18:27) common interests that overlap perfectly 100 % of the time, are now saying they have interests that do not make America safer or more prosperous, and Speaker 2 (18:37) in fact do the opposite. Speaker 5 (18:39) They Speaker 2 (18:39) make America more dangerous and less prosperous. Speaker 5 (18:46) I tell people all the time about underdog. I'm telling you right now, real sports fans were completely irrational. I'm not going to check my pick every five minutes. Sure. I'm not going to overreact to the first drive. Yeah, right. I'm not going to crash out in