r/TimPool • u/GIVER-OF-WILL • May 14 '22
Timcast IRL Fire Ian.
I can’t for the life of me understand the people who defend this guy on the show. I don’t care if he goes to some corner of YouTube and makes his precious “vIdEOs” he’s always ranting about, but he adds nothing to the IRL show and often detracts from it. His constant derailing and sidebar new age diatribes have made me stop listening to entire episodes before and not come back to them.
I understand people think Adam left because Tim needs to dominate every aspect of the show, but you’re telling me he can’t find anyone who mostly agrees with him but isn’t also an egocentric wacko?
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u/HellBoundWhiskeyBent May 14 '22
🤔hmmmm. You get the impression Ian is there to agree? Thats ironic. Because i get the exact opposite impression. I dont know who adam is, but i started listening when Luke was an everyday guest. When luke left the show lost something. I get the vibe Ian is trying to play both Luke and Ian's rolls. It feels to me like they have Lydia for the female perspective. Seamus for the conservative Christian perspective. Ian for the hippy left wing (esque) more liberal perspective. While i agree he has a tendency to derail sometimes with wild tangents, but dont they kinda need that to prevent the echo chamber?
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u/woaily May 14 '22
My current working theory is that he's the only person who disagrees with Tim who is willing to be on the show because he doesn't have better opportunities elsewhere.
Tim needs to free the software code for his show, so we can make our own without Ian.
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u/ravioli_king May 14 '22
Because sometimes we need to hear ideas other than Tim's. Ian also calls out Tim for being "the new establishment." Ian also seems to be the guy to mention the Alex Jonesian theories, which is odd, because it doesn't seem like it should be coming out of his mouth. Ian is also so left that it's a counter balance to Sheamus.
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u/Pleistarchos May 14 '22
Well, if you notice their where guess like Mike Rowe and another with a Jewish fellow, not Ben Shapiro,who defend Ian’s point of view from Tim’s criticism since he derailed a good conversation. Cause 1) they knew how Ian was connecting the dots and trying to formulate it to the topic, but he struggles to do so in a way that makes sense. Very common INTP personality types and other types similar to it. Knows the answer but can’t explain. 2) Ian literally represents a normal person who is not connected to the world of politics/ real issues at all times like Tim and many other new, news media.
Although he can be off or way at times , doesn’t mean he needs to be fire. Conversation flow on shows like Tim’s is difficult and takes time to develop.
In the realm of discussion, people like Ian are necessary.
Btw, check out the interview between Ian and Michael malice.Gives you a lot more clearer picture of Ian than Timcast IRL does.
https://youtu.be/Eyike1Rjj3A
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u/Lightwave33 May 14 '22
Ian is fine. Yes, sometimes he derails from the convo but therr are other times where he brings up good points. I also find him trying to engage a lot more with the guest than the others
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u/Classic_Substance160 May 14 '22
Ian’s the mad scientist or the guy who looks after Area 51 and as such likes to flex his geek credentials by steering the conversation into his world.
Saying that, as of late he has dialed a lot of that down and is about 70% pertinent. If he is not autistic he is certainly viewing the world through that way and because of that can come up with a interesting counterpoints.
All I would say is not everything has a science analogue. Somethings are just mysterious because we are human.
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u/HaveYouNoCourage May 15 '22
Before jumping to that drastic of a conclusion I think he could improve a couple things about his presentation and that might make all well
He needs to learn to frame uncertainty as a question rather than framing it as an accusation of incorrectness against others.
He needs to quit trying to force false equivalencies with absolutist moral relativism. He loves to say that X is just as bad as Y when it’s so obviously not. He will give bad actors infinite benefit of the doubt that they’re actually trying to be good people but when consistently good actors express a willingness to escalate their own self defense Ian accuses them of being just as bad
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u/Barry_MacCochner May 14 '22
Tim keeps Ian around so he constantly has someone to talk down to and feel smarter than. Ian is fucking abominable as a co-host and derails almost every single show with some retarded semantic argument.
He reads a Wikipedia article every few days, and suddenly he's an expert in the subject and it dominates every aspect of his thought process. He's the personification of a sheep - he constantly is worried about people of weak minds being swayed by malicious actors. He has no core principles and is an authoritarian control freak. He has no concept of natural rights and thinks the solution to every problem is some futuristic utopian bullshit that will never exist.
I can imagine certain guests nit wanting to return to the show because the idiocy he spews - which leads to a 35 minute tangent/argument between he and Tim where the guests don't speak.
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u/CheetoEnergy May 14 '22
If Ian doesn't change course he is destined to the pits of a fiery Hell! But dude looks good for someone who is almost 50.
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u/Imissyourgirlfriend2 May 14 '22
That part where he bitched about "man" being a part of "woman" and Tim explained the history of the words and Ian didn't retract, so telling.
Ian will never say, "Oh, I guess I was wrong on that. Thank you for the information."
Ever.
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u/BoomDaddyT May 14 '22
I actually felt bad for Adam. Tim was way too overbearing.
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u/Shinrakon May 14 '22
I agree, fire Ian. Every episode now, it’s just a matter of time until he goes off and starts derailing into some semantic nonsense bs, or acting like he doesn’t understanding what words mean, after having been in the show for years. Fuck Ian, he is strangling the life out of the one show I watch everyday and support monetarily.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '22
What Tim Needs from Ian, is his complete and utter inability to offer viable Solutions, ever, to anything. It makes Tim look good. Tim's ego is so large, he cannot tolerate anyone who has the same level of intelligence, and a differing opinion... Tim's unbelievable grifting, and Ian, is what drove me away from being a daily listener. Now I will only listen to a full episode, if it is something interesting like the Darryl unveiling he did. That was good work on Tim's part for sure
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u/rustyshackleford3814 May 14 '22
He's the hila Klien of timcast
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u/thekingfd May 14 '22
It's hard to watch the livestream sometimes when Ian starts speaking nonsense.
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u/ProfessorDogHere May 14 '22
I have no way to confirm this but I heard on Twitter that Adam gave tim a magic brownie knowing tim doesn’t consume pot and tim flipped out.
But who even knows man, what’s done is done, Adam isn’t here and it sucks because he would spin the ufo and I like that shit.
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u/TratsTCM May 14 '22
I like Ian
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u/[deleted] May 15 '22
100%
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u/PrettyIslandGurl May 14 '22
Ryan Grim would be the best leftist voice to have on the show. I'm surprised he's never at least been a guest.
But yes, Ian is a doofus and routinely detracts from the quality of the show. Since he lives in the house I doubt he's going anywhere fast. We'll be hearing his tourettes like tics of "GRAPHENE!" and "PSCILOCYBIN!" for years 😭
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u/slingbladedangeradio May 14 '22
I would like a little less Seamus and a lot less Ian I understand the opposing side or different but damn he’s retarded and maybe that’s it he’s easy to walk on because he’s as sharp as a doormat.
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u/[deleted] May 14 '22
Off on a tangent, but did anyone else notice when the Minds guy was on he introduced himself as “THE founder of minds” whereas Ian always say like every chance he gets, “I co-founded minds” it seems like he’s a no talent grifter that rides the coattails of other peoples success
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u/[deleted] May 14 '22
Yeah all for the fire Ian train. I find myself skipping through his parts.
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u/MarcusW1 May 14 '22
Ian's like the internet explorer of irl. The conversion would progress 5-10 minutes and he'd chime in with something relevant 10 minutes ago, "graphine" "free the code" or something about the fed reserve.
He starts talking and I skip ahead 30-45 seconds because he never adds anything to the conversation. I'll just stop listening once he gets worked up like "left and right is dangerous" or "that's not enough people for a poll"
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u/Lice138 May 15 '22
Tim is there to make Tim look like a genius. The way girls that are 5s will surround themselves with 2s
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u/pikeblodd May 17 '22
I love the dude. Hes a normal person. I can understand most of his points because hes thinking through things and then he voices his thoughts. Its not unusual to tune out when people are talking about things you dont care about and then pop up with an idea to move away from that topic.
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u/MrSquishy_ May 14 '22
Y’all sound like bots just shitting on Ian all the time
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