I was very confused by Tim Dillon's meteoric rise when it was happening because I didn't find him particularly funny or interesting but it all makes sense that they needed a loud gay man to fill out the character quotas for things like this.
I remember listening to Nick Mullen, Tim and Luis Gomez doing "Bastard Radio" and Tim bailing and saying it was because he had big things coming. I thought it was weird this relatively unknown was dipping on Cumtown adjacent fame. Little did I know he'd gotten the Thiel signal.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Somehow my wife doesn't know about the original version of "Let's Get it Started" that dropped in 2004 and, with its new lyrics probably makes a fortune in royalties from sports events alone.
I remember the r-slur one used to come on the radio and then it just switched. Feels like some Mandela effect stuff where people are convinced the OG version never existed.
In 1848 France abolished slavery and due to a need for labor they turned their previous slave based colony of French Guiana into a penal colony where they sent 57,000 prisoners, only 2,000 made it out alive.
In 1968 Rev Melvin Hodges of the Assembly of God headed down with his missionaries to continue to spread the good word to the southern hemisphere.
Less then a decade later Jim Jones would move his people's temple there and everyone knows how that played out.