495 - Hantavirus Cruise & iPad Babies

Tim Dillon recounts his recent live show at the Netflix is a Joke festival, where he interviewed the Selling Sunset cast dressed as John Wayne Gacy. The event featured theatrical elements like a choir of unhoused singers and a food delivery robot. He notes the cast's reluctance to engage, Jason Oppenheimer admitting real estate agents lie strategically, and an audience hostile toward the women, shouting them down. Dillon observes that shows like Selling Sunset thrived pre-pandemic when homeownership felt attainable, allowing escapism; now, with housing out of reach, viewers resent the glamour, predicting declining interest in such voyeuristic content.

Meta's Decline and Social Media's Grip on the Elderly

Dillon discusses Meta's reported $80 billion loss on the Metaverse, an NFT-era vision of virtual living with avatars and headsets that never materialized. He mocks Mark Zuckerberg's promo video as creepy and contrasts it with Jeff Bezos's overt villainy, preferring predictability. A New York Times article signals Facebook's irreversible decline amid lawsuits over algorithms fueling mental illness, suicides, and misinformation. Dillon argues Facebook traps older users—its core demographic now—in endless rage, radicalizing them late in life when minds dull. Boomers, owning homes but isolated, spend final lucid years fighting strangers online about politics, aliens, or trans