Name: The Art Of Happiness | The Tim Dillon Show #340
Uploaded: 2023-04-03T07:39:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Art Of Happiness | The Tim Dillon Show #340' from The Tim Dillon Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Art Of Happiness | The Tim Dillon Show #340' from The Tim Dillon Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-03. Transcript available.

The Art Of Happiness | The Tim Dillon Show #340

ladies and gentlemen welcome to the tim dylan show we apologize we're a little
late not crazy
late a couple of days you know during the next two months when we're on tour
heavily before we
get off for months and months and months uh you know the episode is going to be
friday saturday
or maybe sunday but we we usually maybe keep it friday or saturday i tried to
get david hogg on
the show i messaged david hogg uh survivor of the parkland school shooting i
messaged him on
instagram and twitter and you know basically saying hey come on the show like i
want to talk
because he's very political and he has the march for our lives and save kids
not guns this is his
stuff and i'm like i'm not trying to fight with you or debate with you there's
a few things i might
bring up if you come on but like i've taken flack for saying there should be
more restrictions i don't
believe in banning guns but i'm like there should maybe be a couple of more
sensible restrictions but
i i invited him on i don't think he's he's responded i don't think he's
responded to come on the show but
i thought that would be an interesting conversation between me and david hogg
about schools and guns and
you know all the craziness that just happened in nashville um with the shooting
that just happened in
nashville where they killed three children yeah yeah i mean it's nuts it's
crazy um they're saying
finland is the happiest country in the world can you believe this finland where
children don't get shot
is the happiest con or maybe they do i don't think they do but the finnish are
the happiest people in the
the world happier than the united states of america this is what they're saying
this is their this is the
new york times it has been ranked the happiest nation on earth for six
consecutive years
but in this article they talk to the individual fins who are i don't know
they're not exuberant they're satisfied they're like relaxed they go yeah we're
cool and i read this
article we're going to bring up some interesting parts of it i don't know again
i've i'm not shocked
that america's doesn't rank because again i've you know talked about you know
the idea that i very few
people seem happy in america even happiness in america seems to be a frenetic
kind of manic behavior
that's not like a nordic satisfied and relaxed person it's like a manic junkie
whose dealer has
just called them back that is happiness in america it's like somebody very very
excited to tell you how
good something's going for them uh but it's not like that calm cool collected
deep satisfaction
that maybe the finnish have so here in the article on march 20th united nations
sustainable development
solutions network released its annual world happiness report what a interesting
thing which rates well-being
in countries around the world for the sixth year in a row finland was ranked at
the very top they keep
winning they always win but when they interview them individually they go i
wouldn't say that i
consider us very happy said nina hansen 58 a high school english teacher from a
mid-sized city on
finland's west coast i'm a little suspicious of that word actually which i i am
too nina
they spoke to about a dozen fins a zimbabwean immigrant a folk metal violinist
a former olympian
and a retired dairy farmer about what supposedly makes finland so happy our
subjects raged in a in age
from 13 to 88 and represented a variety of genders sexual orientations ethnic
backgrounds and professions
to get a full picture of how happy finnish people are um they came from a cola
cola as well as the
capital helsinki turku a city on the southwestern coast and three villages in
southern eastern and
western finland and i read the article and what it comes down to is they like
nature they like welfare
and they're satisfied with very little which is good but that's how you get
happy right they enjoy
nature they actually enjoy it like americans don't really enjoy nature unless
we're destroying it
or we're using it for our own gain um nature in america for the most part has
kind of been ruined
like we do have yellowstone we have some beautiful national parks but most
nature is just you know it's
hanging on by a thread it's the fires are always burning down there's droughts
everywhere the lakes
aren't at a high level so nature in america takes a back seat you know there
are people that go out
and do things in nature but a lot of times that's murder or rape i mean it's
not always you know
there's regular there's people that go out and don't kill in the natural
environment but it's not our main
thing like our main thing is not the nature like we have some pretty nature but
our main thing is like the
cities the vibe the clubs the drugs the money the cars that you know and in finland
they like a tree
like they like seeing green grass we take nature and and put it on the outside
like we take fake moss
and put it on the outside of buildings or we take trees and rip them out of the
ground and put them
inside of a hotel lobby we dominate nature which i think is good like we don't
let nature we're not
going to be nature's bitch you know like there's a lake in austin called lake
travis which is heinous
it's a heinous lake it's a man-made lake and it's uh it looks like it's in a
crater like an asteroid hit
the earth and there's a crater and it's blue because it's limestone on the
bottom it gives it that nice color
and they buy water from lake mead and they buy water from colorado and they
direct it via the dam
into this lake travis which is a heinous lake kind of i mean when you look at
it and and the drought
has made the lake so that the lake is not even full it's kind of like
you know it's like the levels of the lake aren't aren't good so people go out
and they go on boats and
they get hammered and they drink and there's a place called hippie hollow where
they get naked and
everybody's like screaming and yelling and you know i'm not this is a fun
summer activity but it's not
really about the lake right like it's not about it's just about like we've
created this big slip and slide
for adults to just you know to take part in like it's about us it's not about
the lake we don't really
give a shit about the lake we care about our ability to use the lake to get
drunk to use drugs
to drive fast on boats and have fun water sports but that's what america views
uh nature it's like
it's like an impediment to our having a good time it's like we you know the
lake uh last year the lake
levels were low people didn't care they're like fuck it it's just hey this is
the lake's our
bitch and it's a heinous lake not a nice lake it's not a naturally occurring
like it's a man-made lake
we make lakes and we put some fish in them and we go go out there and do it go
out there and get drunk
get on the boat do the and there's nothing wrong with it you know get on the
the jet skis
have fun but we make nature to please us whereas the finnish people the fins go
to nature and their
depression is lifted because they're in nature and i don't know what they do
out there in it
but apparently they like it they also have a very strong social uh safety net
well they're saying there
are psychological benefits of nature in finland that these people their
psychological benefits of
nature like they go to nature and they feel better about themselves they also
have a nice welfare state
so nobody's cast out of society for not performing um so rather than happy they
are more likely to
characterize fins as quite gloomy a little moody and not given to unnecessary
smiling so they're just
they're just these are different types of people they're nordic um they're not
they don't have
that kind of manic highs and lows that americans have but they have sustainable
lives like their
idea of success is being able to meet basic needs that's the big difference
between those nordic countries
and america they want like basic needs a little house a little fish and a few
potatoes
a little family and they and they have art for art's sake no one gives a about
what the finnish do
they don't have a finnish ice spice they have just this for the sake of it they
have it for the sake of
it like we nothing in america is for the sake of it nothing if you ain't trying
to get big
it's not worth it in america nobody's enjoying anything everybody in the back
of their head is
thinking that whatever the hell they're doing is going to lead to something
else the finnish don't
believe that so the finnish enjoy uh music uh and entertainment but they enjoy
it for the sake of it as
opposed to americans who are like trying to get their kids on the line for
american idol so the kids can
get famous and they can retire like americans just are chasing fame and chasing
money this is part of
our culture we want fame and we want money we don't really care about nature
does it that does not do
anything for us we want fame and we want money and if we're not famous and rich
we want our kids to be
famous and rich you know the fins don't feel like that they want their kids to
have a little house
a little fish and little potatoes and that's fine with them that's a nice way
to live america
we want our kids to be famous first and rich we want our kids to be big time
big time we want to
tell people like that's my kid we don't care if they have face tattoos if they're
on drugs we don't
care if their lives are ruined we don't care if they're in debt to record
companies we don't care
if hollywood is molesting them we don't care if they're being exploited by
everyone in their lives
we don't care if they're if literally their manager and agent are stopping them
from killing
themselves and throwing them back out on stage none of that matters to us as
long as they are famous
and rich that is fine that is fine and then the next step if they're not famous
and rich is like
good job that you can tell people about a decent house big house nice wife nice
kids like look at
that but first and foremost we'd like them to be famous and rich and the fins
aren't doing this their
lives are not built on this unsustainable rat race that americans are in americans
are constantly in
this rat race of being the best at everything the most successful putting in
the most time getting
the big job getting the corner office getting the big house in the pool and the
cars but the finish
people but but again i don't know what's better i don't know what's better i
don't know what's better
is it better to have a little house with a little fish and the little potatoes
and you it's a tiny
little house and no one really speaks they speak occasionally or is it better
to live in a mcmansion
where everybody in their rooms is plotting against everybody else and they're
plotting to try to get
their lives where they want them to be i don't know i don't know what's better
do you want to live in a
place where you get excited by something as stupid and gay as nature is that
like something that you
want to be a part of i mean it's easy to say that yes americans are sick and
our value system is wrong it is
and you know everything and our country's rotted it has but the flip side of it
is like the fins have
never had any impact culturally on the world and you could say well america's
impact is now negative
well maybe i'd agree with you but we've certainly done some good things i mean
name me a finnish movie
you know or something in terms of music i mean i don't know it's not as easy to
just say like hey
the finisher the happiest people in the world and we should all take a page out
of their book
i don't know i don't know if that's just easy to say as people believe like if
people
really want to do that spring has sprung and our friends at manscape the
leaders in below the
waist grooming have the best tools for some spring cleaning in your pants trust
me your confidence
will be blooming like the flowers look your best this spring and join the other
eight million men
who trust manscaped use code tim d to get 20 off free shipping at mansc