Tim Dillon Show ranked #12 on Spotify
Tim Dillon mentioned the Tim Dillon Show is ranked approximately number 12 on Spotify globally, which he used to argue for a platform deal.
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497 - Thomas Massie, Kevin O'Leary, & The American Psyop
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May 23, 2026
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They're Coming For Everything — The Full AI Control Agenda
At 57:00 · chapter starts 53:30
Tim shifts into a sustained polemic about what the AI agenda actually entails. He argues this is not fringe conspiracy thinking — the architects say it openly. The plan is to digitize the money supply so authorities can control what citizens spend and where; to use predictive behavioral models to identify potential criminals before they act; to monitor travel and residence. These are documented ambitions, not paranoid inventions [1] — Tim Dillon "This isn't a conspiracy theory. They openly say they will digitize the money supply, control where you travel, and use predictive behaviora…" 53:10 . He draws a sharp irony around COVID vaccine skeptics: the same people who believed Bill Gates was using the vaccine to implant a tracking chip will eagerly sign up for Elon Musk's Neuralink brain-computer interface if it means they can say slurs. Tim then turns to what he frames as one of the bravest protests of the AI era: a woman in Midtown Manhattan who exited her car and threw herself into an open manhole in what he characterizes as a deliberate act of protest against artificial intelligence. He eulogizes her with escalating absurdity, eventually noting that she was also protesting the costume designer lawsuit against Tim, Spotify's failure to give Tim a deal, and various other Tim-specific grievances. The riff is a vehicle for making a real point: the people booing at graduations and the woman in the manhole share a legitimate impulse — they are refusing to silently accept a future being designed without them.
Woman threw herself down a Midtown manhole to protest AI
Tim Dillon referenced a woman in New York City who climbed out of her car and threw herself into a manhole in Midtown Manhattan, which he frames as a protest against artificial intelligence.
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