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Tim Dillon (0:00)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show. Happy Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa. This is the time for Ramadan, and this is the winter solstice. This is the season of all the holiday. I think this is Ramadan. This is all of the holidays. And it is a season of giving, a season of really reflecting on the things we have. And I'm serious. I don't usually. I'm not usually serious on this, but often I am. Much of what you think is a joke is actually serious, and much of what you think is serious is actually a joke. It's the great irony of the program. You'll never know which is which. I'll be long gone before you can figure it out. Historians will devote lots of paper and pen, ink or cyber, you know, whatever clicks to what went on here in the studio the past seven years. But it is time during the holidays to reflect on family, right? And to reflect on how lucky we are. Even if we're not lucky. Even if we're not lucky, we are lucky. The United Healthcare CEO was. Is lucky. Was lucky. He died doing what he loved, standing outside a Manhattan hotel getting ready to speak to the troops. To rev up the troops. He died doing what he loved, standing outside of a Manhattan Hotel at 6am Getting ready to rev up the troops. He had a call, I believe he was at some investment call or something. He died doing what he loved. How lucky is he? No, seriously, how lucky is he? I think it's time to think about the holidays in a different way. It's too materialistic. I'm. It's disgusting. The stores and the toys and the crap. We got too much crap in the country. The United Healthcare CEO is lucky. He died doing what he loved. He died a soldier in the war of healthcare, which is a war. Healthcare is a war, but between sick people and insurance companies, it's a war. Sick people are very selfish. Have you met any of them? They never stop. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Chemo, chemo, chemo. I have no hair. And you have men like this man, Brian Thompson, who's the CEO of United Healthcare, a great company and their job, their job, and let's not get it twisted, is to decide which sick people are a good bet, who's a good bet, who's a bad bet. Some people win, some people lose. And Brian Thompson and United Healthcare and like Blue Cross Blue Shield or whatever, his job is to decide who's a good bet. Who we. Who's our money on, who we putting our money on in the Ward, who's the money going on? Okay. Can't put it all on black. Gotta figure out a strategy. I don't know why he was killed. I know that he died doing what he loved. And I know that that's not nothing. And there's something beautiful about working till the very end of your life. The last thought that went through his head was money and work. He was murdered by a gunman in a hoodie in front of a hotel during an investor conference. Deny, defend and depose were written on the shell casings found at the scene. The killer was smiling at Starbucks before the shooting. The killer was elated. He was happy. He very much wanted to kill this man. He knew the door outside of the hotel that he would be waiting. The killer shared a room in a hostel with a few men. See the killer getting a coffee, smiling. Do a close up on that. This is, whether you like it or not, an American holiday story. It is. It may not be the ones you grew up with. It may not be the ones, but in America, the Grinch doesn't necessarily have a change of heart. He gets shot outside of a hotel in Manhattan. It's a holiday story in America. There's something nice about the smell of a Starbucks in the holidays. I don't know what it is. I don't know. Why is it so nice? Why does Starbucks hit differently in December than it hits in July? I don't know. Close up on that man's face again. Look how happy he is. The smell of coffee in Starbucks. The hustle, the bustle of Manhattan. The gun in your pocket. A story unfolding. No one knows. A little smirk, a smile, happiness. It's the holidays. It's a special time in America, in New York City. Have you ever been. Have you ever gotten shot in the head in New York City during the holidays outside of a hotel where you're about to have an Investor conference at 6am still dark, still mysterious, still magical. Have you ever. The lights, the Christmas lights are still beautifully punctuating the blackness of the night as you take your last breath outside of the investor conference. A man in a hoodie and a backpack. I'm rewatching the Sopranos. What a great line. Bacalar, Tony. I bet you don't even see it coming. I bet you don't even see it coming. The Sopranos, that great episode when they're on the lake. I don't know anything about Brian Thompson. Can we play the shooting? Can we play it? And. But, but wait a minute. Before you do, before you do I want you to find. Okay, I want you to find non copyright because this is my theme. I will not pretend. I will be festive. I want you to find some non copy copyrighted Christmas music. I'm sorry if anyone's offended by that. I'm sorry to the Jews that listen. If you're offended to that, you've done well enough. I would like some Christmas music as we watch the execution of the CEO of the United Healthcare Company. And again, I'm not. I don't know much about the case. Is there anything to know? What is there to know? I read something on X about Nancy Pelosi in a congressional investigation and I don't know what happened or who did what or why. I'll read you that tweet in a minute. But more importantly, this is a fable. But it's real, people. It's a holiday story. It's a story about the unknown, about the unknowable. It's kind of magical. And I'm not, again, I'm not making light of this man's death. I don't know this man, but I know he died doing what he loved. And I know that he died participating in the world. Okay? And I'm sure maybe many of his family or friends are watching this or someone's sending it to them and they feel, they feel upset about. They don't like that I'm turning this into sort of a Christmas thing, but it is. So let's watch the news story about this. For the people that don't know about it, by the way, for the people that don't know about this, here it is. Let's just take a moment. It's Christmas in New York and everyone sits by the fire we're killing CEOs of healthcare companies. It's Christmas in New York It's Christmas in New York Men in hoodies are shooting their enemies It's Christmas in New York the kids are throwing snowballs People are throwing bullets People are ice skating in Central Park. People are getting shot at point blank range in the dark. It's Christmas in New York have a coffee and kill. Have a coffee and kill have a coffee and kill your enemies no one really cares. No one really cares. All right, enough of that. Let's watch the. I hope that's a classic. Who does that? Hallmark. I want to get on that. Now this is what we call music. And it's that. And it's the song I did about the. That Eden Golan, that Eurovision, Israel, Palestine song I did. But let's watch A news. Can we watch a little bit of the CBS News on this? Because a lot of people don't know about this. Remember that movie John Q. Where the guy, you know, Denzel Washington's like, you denied my son an operation, then he takes everybody hostage. People are thinking that's what this is, that for whatever reason someone has made a political stance to kill the CEO of a healthcare guy. And by the way, let me say this right now, I never support random acts of violence. I don't think they are a good way to change policy. That's not something that we support on the show. I was against it when during 2020 there were riots and people's businesses were getting burned down and people were losing their livelihoods. I believe that you cannot just lash out violently and kill people. But it is Christmas and people get emotional during the holidays. This is true. The holidays will bring it out of you. I was in the 911 store. What is that thing that, that horrific thing they opened downtown that looks like angel wings? It's a nightmare. It's whatever it is. That mall, the 911 mall. I was in that mall and I was trying to get my phone screens cracked and I was in the Apple Store. And you know those people and you know, they're like, it's going to take hours. And I'm like, well, fuck it then. And they go, well, there's an apple store on Fifth Avenue that's open 24 hours a day and what am I going to stand there at 2 o'clock in the morning while they, will they fix a cracked phone screen? Like it's, it's, it's insane. But I became emotional and I'm not technically, you know, I'm not a terribly emotional person. You know, I can't be. To do what I do. I, I must trudge on, you know, I have friends that fall apart all the time. I'm not saying that I don't get emotional. The last time I was really emotional, I was denied in midnight mass because I didn't have a ticket. And I saw everybody going in with their mink coats. I saw how wealthy they all were. And I kind of shed a tear just at how proud I was of this kind of, you know, experience that all these wealthy people were having in St. Patrick's and how beautiful it was and how sad it was that I wasn't involved, but how beautiful it was that it was happening. And I shed like a tear. But I was emotional in this 911 mall because I, you know, because of the holiday and you start thinking about the holidays and you start thinking about being on this planet and how wild it is that you're even here, no matter what you're doing. I'm looking at people scooping gelato. They're not happy that they're doing that. Maybe they are, but maybe the other parts of their life are phenomenal. But I'm looking at everybody and I go, we're all here. Yes, it's disgusting. The Angel Wing Mall is terrible. Yes, it's the mass grave, technically. Yes, I'm in an Apple store and they can't fix the phone screen. Yes, it's crowded. Yes, it's, you know, there's too much happening. Yes. That Venezuelan gang, I believe, is standing by the subway. I can't. I don't know particularly, I don't really know, but I think it is them and they are looking at me. I don't know if they know that I know that they know. You know what I mean? Yes, there's all these problems, but really we are all here together. How many of these do we get? No one knows. There's something beautiful and magical about the holidays and it makes you emotional. And I am against random acts of violence. I'm against people killing other people even if they feel they are justified. Even if they feel they are justified. But it's the holidays and people get in their feelings during the holidays and people are very mad at the healthcare companies in our country. They're not happy. And I'm not saying it's good to do this. I don't analyze things off the good and bad and good and evil are. I don't want to say they're above my pay grade, but they're certainly not helpful for the context that I put things in on this program. It doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't advance the discussion to just say this was a bad thing. It doesn't advance the discussion to just say it was not good to shoot someone at point blank range when they're outside of an investor conference. It's not, doesn't mean anything. It's already, it already happened. That's number one. And I'm not. There's no one listening to this show. I don't think that's on the fence about doing something like that. I'm trying to put this in the context of A Christmas Story, okay. Because it is. It is actually. It will come to define the holidays in New York in. In kind of an interesting way in, in. In maybe, dare I say, a beautiful way about how Precious life is how do we spend our time on this planet, really? And my friend texted me early in the morning, did you see this? Oh my God. New York is back. People are texting me. People were excited. People are going, what's going on? People in hoodies shooting people point blank range outside of the hotel at 6am I wouldn't have done it. I don't get up early. But I'm saying that it has come to define the holidays in New York more than any other story. Let's watch a little bit of it, please, on cbs.