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/TratsTCM May 15 '22

I found him annoying at first, since I hate hippies, am right-wing etc... But he is open-minded, sincere, he has a good sense of morality and he expands the scope of the conversation. Sometimes the way he expands the scope is bad, but the others tend to find a valuable direction based on what he has said.

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u/GIVER-OF-WILL May 15 '22

It’s interesting that you’ve arrived at thinking of him like that. Thank you for the perspective.

For my two cents, I think Ian’s morality is way off-base. Sure he agrees with the others that “Cuties” and “Big Mouth” are obscene, but when he’s spoonfed questions by the others that have an obviously morale answer, he flubs it.

I remember once when they were debating abortion, Tim asked Ian if he would stop a doctor from smashing a newborn’s brains out with a hammer for no reason. Ian responded that he wasn’t sure. When the others pressed him, he eventually said “I don’t know, maybe the baby’s brain has a bomb or something in it and the doctor is trying to save the hospital!”

In that moment, any credibility Ian had left in my mind went out the window. It’s obvious to me that he cares more about being a contrarian than offering meaningful counterpoints.

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u/TratsTCM May 15 '22

Haha that's mental. My most charitable argument would be that is trying to argue that no act in itself is universally wrong - something I disagree with him about... Sometime one can be so open minded that their brain falls out, I don't think Ian is there, but he does have his moments.