Tim spent 21 days in London
Tim Dillon spent 21 days in London before recording this episode, explaining why the show missed the previous week.
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498 - Backrooms, Spencer Pratt, & The D’Amelio Family Disaster
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Jun 6, 2026
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Ethos Life Insurance Sponsor Read
At 34:10 · chapter starts 32:32
The Ethos sponsor read is itself one of the episode's most memorable bits. Tim begins with standard life insurance talking points — 4.8 stars on Trustpilot, no medical exam, coverage up to $3 million, some policies as low as $30 a month — before launching into a fictional story about a healthy, careful man who navigates every possible workplace hazard without incident, then produces a gun in the middle of the office and blows his brains out while smiling at a nearby temp. Nobody knew why. The moral: you don't know what will happen, get life insurance. The structure subverts the genre entirely while still technically selling the product.
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Ethos life insurance has a 4.8 out of 5 stars rating on Trustpilot based on over 4,000 reviews.
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