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#0193_ STORY INSPIRE: Netanyahu in New York, Nepo Babies & The View — Politics, Media & Culture · INSPIRE STORY

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon show, the
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Speaker 1: weekly podcast we've done here for 10 years.
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Speaker 2: Whoa. We thank everyone for listening, of course.
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Speaker 1: And it's a beautiful week because it's the week of
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Speaker 1: the United Nations General Assembly, a time when all of
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Speaker 1: our differences kind of melt away. And then everyone kind
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Speaker 1: of gets together. All the different countries get together and
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Speaker 1: they're all unique and they're all special in their own way.
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Speaker 1: And everybody kind of comes together to discuss the events,
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Speaker 1: the events, the world, climate and war and the global economy.
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Speaker 1: And there's some controversy, but we're like a family. The
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Speaker 1: world is a family and every family.
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Speaker 2: Has a couple of nuts.
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Speaker 1: And when you're a big family, like we are our planet,
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Speaker 1: it's a little messy out there. And sometimes things boil
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Speaker 1: over and people get into squabbles and people get upset
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Speaker 1: with each other.
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Speaker 2: But that doesn't.
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Speaker 1: Mean we're not a family. We're a global community. And
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Speaker 1: there's room for everyone in this community. And I'm sick
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Speaker 1: of the people who are trying to divide us. We
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Speaker 1: have to bring us together. And I commend Benjamin Netanyahu
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Speaker 1: for coming and giving a speech because even though people
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Speaker 1: have been very mean to him and they said they're
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Speaker 1: going to arrest him, he shows up with a big
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Speaker 1: motorcade And I believe he threatened... He said, we have
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Speaker 1: special forces everywhere, so if you try anything, we'll try
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Speaker 1: something too.
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Speaker 2: You know, but I respect the fact that he.
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Speaker 1: Comes and he gives a speech at the UN General Assembly,
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Speaker 1: even when people have been so down on him. And
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Speaker 1: they've been, frankly, pretty nasty to Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Speaker 2: And I would like to.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Netanyahu says he has special forces ready if he's
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Speaker 1: detained or arrested.
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Speaker 2: I like that.
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Speaker 1: He's basically saying, listen, we're ready. That's where he's at.
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Speaker 1: He goes, we're ready. If you pull something, we're ready.
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Speaker 2: So here he is.
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Speaker 1: Now, a lot of people walked out before he delivered
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Speaker 1: his speech, and I don't love that. But he's there
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Speaker 1: to deliver a speech. And I don't know what he was,
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Speaker 1: what reaction he was anticipating. I imagine he thought to himself,
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Speaker 1: people are going to be angry at us. I imagine
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Speaker 1: that went through his head as he was coming in,
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Speaker 1: flying in on his jet.
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Speaker 2: What is it called? The wings of Zion or the?
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Speaker 2: The Lion of the Sky or whatever? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: But as he was landing, he probably looked at somebody
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Speaker 1: next to him and said, hey, they're going to be
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Speaker 1: angry with us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Wings of Zion.
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Speaker 1: He goes, they might be rude to us, but we're
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Speaker 1: going to show up and give this speech anyway. And
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Speaker 1: I respect that. And I think the people in Gaza do.
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Speaker 1: I think the people in Gaza respect it, actually. I
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Speaker 1: think the people in Gaza respect... Now, they may have
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Speaker 1: their differences with him. They're intense and rats are eating
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Speaker 1: them and they've been starved and their family members have
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Speaker 1: been vaporized in front of their eyes.
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Speaker 2: They have their differences for sure. We're not going to
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Speaker 2: gloss over that.
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Speaker 1: But I think they respect that he came to New
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Speaker 1: York City and.
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Speaker 2: He braved.
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Speaker 1: The elements, and by the elements, I mean the protesters,
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Speaker 1: Hannah Einbinder, Susan Sarandon, these people there, he said he
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Speaker 1: stared them down.
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Speaker 2: He stared them down.
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Speaker 1: And I think the people in Gaza respect that. I
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Speaker 1: think they have to say, you know, we've had our
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Speaker 1: differences with this man. He burned my mother alive. But
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Speaker 1: that being said, He showed up. He was not intimidated.
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Speaker 1: He showed up and he gave a speech. Now let's
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Speaker 1: listen to a little bit of this speech because there's
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Speaker 1: so much negativity about this man. And I want to
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Speaker 1: give him the benefit of the doubt. Let's listen to
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Speaker 1: what he's saying. So This is long-term friend of the show,
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Speaker 1: friend of the Kushners. You remember Benjamin Netanyahu used to
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Speaker 1: visit the Kushner house, kick Jared to the basement, and
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Speaker 1: stay in Jared's room. Then Jared married the daughter of
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Speaker 1: the now sitting president. Jared is running around the world
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Speaker 1: making deals, not in an official government capacity, but he's
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Speaker 1: just the negotiator. He's the Ray Donovan fixer type, if
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Speaker 1: you will, running around the Middle East, and he just
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Speaker 1: bought an island with a nice outfitted subterranean underground nuclear
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Speaker 1: blast area with his lovely wife, the daughter of our
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Speaker 1: current president, Donald Trump. So it's a weird, wacky family
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Speaker 1: with lots of branches. And here is Benjamin Netanyahu talking
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Speaker 1: at the United Nations General Assembly.
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Speaker 4: Okay, we're going to take you straight to the United
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Speaker 4: Nations General Assembly in New York because the Israeli Prime
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Speaker 4: Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is just going to be the stage.
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Speaker 2: Why is everyone leaving?
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Speaker 3: Let's have a listen.
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Speaker 2: This is tough to watch.
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Speaker 1: Why won't they at least hear his rationale for the genocide?
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 1: He probably has a good reason. Oh my God, everyone's
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Speaker 1: getting out of there.
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Speaker 2: What's his opener?
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Speaker 1: I wonder what his opener is after everyone's walked out.
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Speaker 2: Now stop it for a minute.
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Speaker 1: This is a great opportunity for anybody, any performer, to
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Speaker 1: realize that you're not always going to perform in an
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Speaker 1: environment that is hospitable to you. That sometimes you're going
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Speaker 1: to face a hostile crowd.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they're drunk. Maybe they've Maybe the air conditioning in
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Speaker 2: the room is broke.
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Speaker 1: Like the original room of the comedy store hasn't had
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Speaker 1: air conditioning in three weeks. And I don't know where
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Speaker 1: the hell the owners are, but they should figure that out.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, you will be in inevitably situations that are
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Speaker 1: hostile to you.
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Speaker 2: So now you have Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Speaker 1: Getting up to deliver a speech and then how rude
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Speaker 1: all these delegates are leaving and he's got to really now,
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Speaker 1: he's got to really look down deep within himself and
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Speaker 1: find the performer and just center. Benjamin, focus on the
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Speaker 1: ones that are there. Focus on the handful of people
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Speaker 1: that are still there countries where you've personally installed the
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Speaker 1: leaders or have bribed or blackmailed them, focus on them,
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Speaker 1: focusing on the countries that you've kind of co-opted through financial.
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Speaker 2: Means, military, whatever.
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Speaker 1: Focus on the handful of people left, and let's see
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Speaker 1: if he does it, because you've got to come out
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Speaker 1: the gate with a good opener.
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Speaker 2: Strong opener.
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Speaker 1: Address what happened.
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Speaker 2: Address it. Move on. These are the rules. Address what happened.
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Speaker 3: Move on.
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Speaker 2: Quickly, don't derail.
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Speaker 1: Quickly address the fact that everybody left because they think
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Speaker 1: you're Hitler, and you just say, move on, address it,
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Speaker 1: own it, move on. Address it, own it, move on.
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Speaker 1: Redirect their attention. You're the star of the show. Let's
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Speaker 1: see if he can do that Benjamin Netanyahu at the
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Speaker 1: United Nations General Assembly.
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Speaker 6: I request an order in the hall, please. I request
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Speaker 6: an order in the hall, please.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. Mr.
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Speaker 7: President, before I begin, just a quick announcement. If there
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Speaker 7: are any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall,
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Speaker 7: please do so now.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Okay, you see what he did? Now,
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Speaker 2: stop it there. You see what he did?
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Speaker 1: He addressed the elephant in the room. He called attention
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Speaker 1: to it.
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Speaker 2: Okay?
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Speaker 1: He then took what could have been a loss and
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Speaker 1: he made it into a win.
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Speaker 2: Right there.
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Speaker 1: If there are any other moral cowards that want to
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Speaker 1: leave the hall, do it now, ladies and gentlemen. he,
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Speaker 1: so now what could have been a liability has become
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Speaker 1: a strength. This is so important for anyone out there,
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Speaker 1: whether you're a genocidal maniac or not. But if whatever,
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Speaker 1: if you're thinking about public speaking, how to control a
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Speaker 1: room and This is such an important thing for.
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Speaker 2: You to learn.
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Speaker 1: This is why school's not important anymore because all of
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Speaker 1: the learning is free and it's all the time. That's
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Speaker 1: why you don't need to go to college and take
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Speaker 1: out a bunch of loans to take a public speaking course.
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Speaker 2: You don't need any of that.
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Speaker 1: You can just observe a master in his element brilliantly done.
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Speaker 1: Now let's, let's, now let's, can we see a little
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Speaker 1: bit of the speech after that? Just, is there any,
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Speaker 1: do we have any clip right after that?
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: He's still got a little left here. Let's, Oh no,
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Speaker 1: it's not that. It's just a few seconds. I want
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Speaker 1: to see a little bit because that was a brilliant
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Speaker 1: move by him. If there are any other moral cowards
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Speaker 1: that want to leave this room, they can do so now.
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Speaker 1: And he gets a small applause again from the country's,
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Speaker 1: where he, they've personally installed the leaders, uh, including our own,
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Speaker 1: by the way, including the United States. And, um, so, and,
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Speaker 1: and now he's going to give a speech and he's
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Speaker 1: going to speak, I believe about his plans for the world. And, um,
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Speaker 1: Let's go back to where everyone's leaving, and let's take
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Speaker 1: it from here.
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Speaker 3: Mr. President, before I begin, just a quick announcement.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 7: If there are any other moral cowards who haven't yet
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Speaker 7: left this hall, please do so now. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: That's right. Still a tough room.
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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 2: Still a tough room. Still a tough room.
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Speaker 3: 14 years ago.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: I stood on this podium and I drew a red line.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 7: I vowed to prevent Iran's murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs.
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Speaker 1: So this is another great way to, everyone's looking at
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Speaker 1: him going, you're a murderous dictator. You may be running
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Speaker 1: a murderous dictatorship. What he has done, watch how he's
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Speaker 1: doing it.
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Speaker 2: Smart.
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Speaker 1: He goes 14 years ago. He's not starting in the present.
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Speaker 1: The present's a real problem for him. The Haaretz article
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Speaker 1: just came out that he should have done more to
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Speaker 1: stop the attack. His own people are in revolt. You know,
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Speaker 1: people do not like him. He has damaged the U.S.-Israel
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Speaker 1: relationship to a point where it's like in smithereens on
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Speaker 1: the floor. He's lost the entire world, certainly the Western world.
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Speaker 1: And so he's, context here is key.
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Speaker 2: So he goes 14 years ago, like let's take.
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Speaker 1: A time machine back 14 years ago to when things
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Speaker 1: were good. 14 years ago, I stood up here and
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Speaker 1: I said, Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. That's what
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Speaker 1: we're talking about today. I like, it's called framing the issue.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about job interviews later because young
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Speaker 1: kids keep going on job interviews and not getting them
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Speaker 1: because they don't know how to take control. And they're
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Speaker 1: in there with like iced coffees being like, you know,
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Speaker 1: talking about whatever and no one cares, you know, trying
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Speaker 1: to like, you know, trying to talk about what deeply
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Speaker 1: fulfills them on a spiritual level and their employers like,
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Speaker 1: hey man, what? Benjamin Netanyahu is here facing a very
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Speaker 1: hostile crowd. By the way, it's not, is it harder
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Speaker 1: to be in Gaza now or is it harder to
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Speaker 1: be giving that speech?
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Speaker 2: Think about it.
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Speaker 1: Think about how difficult it is to be standing in
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Speaker 1: front of that room right now and the fact that
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Speaker 1: this man is doing it.
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Speaker 2: And yes, he's got clean.
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Speaker 1: Clothes and water and private jets and private security and
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Speaker 1: lots of money and tons of people that are funding
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Speaker 1: him and whatever and control of our country and our president.
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Speaker 2: Whatever, who cares? Sure, I guess. But no one's asking
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Speaker 2: those people in Gaza to give a speech. Huh?
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Speaker 1: No one's asking them to give a speech. They just
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Speaker 1: have to sit there and die. Take it away, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Speaker 7: Nuclear weapons aimed at destroying Israel. Nuclear weapons that could
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Speaker 7: threaten the entire world. That's exactly what we did. Now
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Speaker 7: let me say something that might surprise you. Devastating Iran's
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Speaker 7: nuclear facilities was hard.
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Speaker 2: It was hard.
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Speaker 3: It was very hard to do.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 7: But for me, it was one of the easiest decisions
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Speaker 7: I've ever had to make as prime minister.
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Speaker 2: I believe you.
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Speaker 3: Because if we hadn't done it, we'd all be dead.
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Speaker 2: Great.
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Speaker 3: Now you want to hear.
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Speaker 2: Stop it for a second.
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Speaker 1: This is a great. This is also a great lesson
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Speaker 1: in public speaking. If you have done a controversial thing, okay,
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Speaker 1: whether it's an experimental vaccine for novel coronavirus, okay, or
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Speaker 1: it's sex change operations for young people who are questioning
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Speaker 1: their gender or an incredibly controversial, highly illegal war that
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Speaker 1: you are losing with Iran. You will always make the
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Speaker 1: argument that if you hadn't done it, everyone would be dead.
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Speaker 1: It's the best argument to make. It is like the
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Speaker 1: top argument. If we don't do this, the trans kids
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Speaker 1: will kill themselves. If no, if everyone doesn't get all
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Speaker 1: the vaccine, we're dead without that.
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Speaker 2: Okay. If I didn't decimate Iran's ability to make a
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Speaker 2: nuclear weapon, we'd all be dead. We'd all be dead.
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Speaker 1: This is the tried and true methodology of how to
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Speaker 1: stand by a controversial decision that was clearly the wrong decision.
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Speaker 1: The entire world is falling apart. The price of commodities
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Speaker 1: is skyrocketing. Diplomatic relationships are fracturing. Our bases are being
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Speaker 1: blown apart. off the face of the earth. We're incapable
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Speaker 1: of defending longstanding alliances. It's remaking the Middle East. It's
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Speaker 1: remaking our relationships with oil-rich Gulf states that up until
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Speaker 1: now were modernizing and becoming more open and their societies
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Speaker 1: were becoming more tolerant. And a lot of that was
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Speaker 1: due to the fact that they were modernizing economically and
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Speaker 1: in many other ways.
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Speaker 2: But all of that now has stopped. It has frozen.
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Speaker 1: And the world order that we lived in is disintegrating
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Speaker 1: in front of our eyes. So when you've made a
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Speaker 1: decision like that, and those are the results, you just
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Speaker 1: have to go out and go, listen, we'd all be
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Speaker 1: dead had I not done that.
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Speaker 2: We'd be dead. There'd be no speech. I'd be up
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Speaker 2: here as a skeleton. Let's continue. I like the cut
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Speaker 2: of his jib. Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Speaker 7: In defending itself, Israel is also defending many of the
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Speaker 7: countries whose delegates just left this hall. In fact, I
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Speaker 7: want you to know that many of their leaders even
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Speaker 7: thanked us privately for taking out Iran's nukes. It's hard
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Speaker 7: to imagine more mind-blowing hypocrisy, but that's exactly what it is.
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Speaker 2: Classic textbook narcissist. I did it for you.
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Speaker 3: We were faced with a threat of annihilation.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: On June 5th, 1967.
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Speaker 7: I'm going to start talking. Israel was surrounded by enemies
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Speaker 7: who openly swore to destroy us.
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Speaker 2: All right, pause this.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to start speaking like this. I'm under the
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Speaker 1: threat of annihilation. What a powerful way to look at
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Speaker 1: the world. I am under the threat of annihilation and
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Speaker 1: everything I do is to prevent being annihilated, no matter
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Speaker 1: how fucked up it seems on its face.
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Speaker 2: No matter what.
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Speaker 1: Chaos I unleash, it is because I am constantly dealing
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Speaker 1: with the threat of annihilation and you wouldn't understand. In fact,
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Speaker 1: you are also dealing with the threat of annihilation. You're
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Speaker 1: too stupid to see it. I have to get rid
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Speaker 1: of the enemies for all of us. These enemies are
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Speaker 1: going to annihilate everybody. I got to get rid of
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Speaker 1: them for everybody. All right, get them out of here.
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Speaker 1: Benjamin Netanyahu, you should watch the whole speech, by the way.
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Speaker 2: How long is it? 40 minutes. 40 minutes of Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Speaker 1: But I think we've heard most of the tenor of it,
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Speaker 1: which is, hey, if I didn't do this, we'd all
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Speaker 1: be dead.
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Speaker 2: So, hey. It's, uh, I just, I just hope that, um.
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Speaker 1: be Rosie O'Donnell was fun. She's like, what happened to
22:55
Speaker 1: building seven and all that? And she, by the way, yeah,
22:57
Speaker 1: what did happen? She used to stay, say stuff like that.
23:00
Speaker 1: And Barbara Walters would stare in like shock and horror.
23:05
Speaker 1: And that's why that show was fun. You know, like
23:09
Speaker 1: Rosie O'Donnell would be like, Barbara Walters would say something like,
23:13
Speaker 1: coming up next, we've got Mary Steenburgen. And then Rosie
23:17
Speaker 1: O'Donnell would go, well, Bob, it's the first time in
23:19
Speaker 1: history that steel columns were melted by jet fuel.
23:24
Speaker 2: And Barbara would just kind of like roll her eyes
23:26
Speaker 2: and be like, oh, Rosie.
23:28
Speaker 1: And that made it watchable. Here is Sonny Hostin explaining
23:34
Speaker 1: why she has chosen to give her likeness to an
23:40
Speaker 1: AI company. She has licensed herself to AI because she
23:50
Speaker 1: cannot get anything made in Hollywood. Now, by the way,
23:53
Speaker 1: no one can, actually. Most people can. I talk to
23:56
Speaker 1: them all the time. Hollywood's making roughly 50% less stuff
24:02
Speaker 1: than they did.
24:05
Speaker 2: when they were doing stuff.
24:07
Speaker 1: And it's because it was a guy, nice kid named
24:09
Speaker 1: Adam Conover, who had a show called Adam Ruins Everything
24:12
Speaker 1: on TruTV. He convinced all of these people that they
24:15
Speaker 1: should go on strike because they weren't making enough money.
24:19
Speaker 1: He said, we've got the leverage. We're going to go
24:22
Speaker 1: in and we're going to show these executives who we are.
24:25
Speaker 1: And at that time, this was like kind of towards
24:29
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24:31
Speaker 1: shows in production and a lot of things are being made,
24:33
Speaker 1: but yes, people were unhappy. They were working long hours
24:37
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. Now they're not working
24:39
Speaker 1: at all, but Adam Conover and not only him, but
24:43
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24:46
Speaker 1: everyone in, in Hollywood, like, and they were.
24:50
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24:52
Speaker 1: He goes, we got to really get out there and say,
24:55
Speaker 1: you're going to pay us and we're going to get residuals.
24:58
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25:01
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25:05
Speaker 1: power to you. I'm not a studio exec. I just,
25:07
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25:10
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25:13
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25:15
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25:18
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25:23
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25:24
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25:27
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25:29
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25:32
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25:35
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25:39
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25:40
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25:41
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25:42
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25:46
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25:50
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25:53
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25:57
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26:02
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26:05
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26:07
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26:09
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26:11
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26:15
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26:19
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26:24
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26:29
Speaker 2: And the studios were like, Oh yeah, we weren't even
26:33
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26:36
Speaker 1: But the writers just didn't have the leverage they thought
26:39
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26:44
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26:47
Speaker 1: the strike was a mistake. Most writers in the town
26:50
Speaker 1: and actors and people that make a living will tell
26:52
Speaker 1: you privately will go, this was a mistake. Does it
26:55
Speaker 1: mean that the studios are good people or, you know,
26:58
Speaker 1: the executives are like, you know, their hearts are full of,
27:02
Speaker 1: you know, their beacons of truth and light and justice.
27:05
Speaker 1: It means that you didn't have the leverage you thought
27:07
Speaker 1: you did. And in fact, the situation for them at
27:10
Speaker 1: this point is worse now than it was. So Sonny
27:14
Speaker 1: Hostin is very upset because she writes romance novels about Like,
27:18
Speaker 1: get up the titles of some of Sunny Hostin's books.
27:21
Speaker 1: She writes romance novels, and they're kind of like drugstore slop.
27:30
Speaker 2: Summer in the Bluffs. Summer on the Bluffs.
27:34
Speaker 1: Set in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, the first novel
27:36
Speaker 1: follows a wealthy woman hosting her three goddaughters for life-changing summer.
27:40
Speaker 1: Summer on Sag Harbor. Summer on Highland Beach. So she's
27:45
Speaker 1: writing drugstore slop novels. And hosting The View. Now, by
27:51
Speaker 1: the way, not hating on that at all. Get your money,
27:55
Speaker 1: write that slop. She is upset that they have not
28:01
Speaker 1: made Summer on the Bluffs into a film. She is
28:08
Speaker 1: really upset about this. So Sunny Hostin, who I imagine
28:12
Speaker 1: was all for the writer's strike, and is all for
28:14
Speaker 1: every cause that elevates the marginalized and everything. And by
28:19
Speaker 1: the way, maybe I'm talking out of turn. Maybe she
28:21
Speaker 1: was big with the executive. I can't imagine that. She
28:24
Speaker 1: was probably very supportive of the WGA strike. This would
28:27
Speaker 1: be my guess. Which was all about AI. So Sunny
28:31
Speaker 1: Hostin is now coming on The View to explain to
28:34
Speaker 1: everyone why she has personally.
28:38
Speaker 1: She personally is selling all of her content to an
28:43
Speaker 1: AI company so that AI can make it. And because
28:47
Speaker 1: she wants people of color to get more opportunities, not
28:53
Speaker 1: actual people of color, but AI people of color. I
28:58
Speaker 1: want you to listen to Sunny Haas in here. It's
29:00
Speaker 1: very interesting. And this is why identity politics is like
29:04
Speaker 1: super important for the people that run everything. Because this
29:09
Speaker 1: explanation that she gives is so insane and brilliant.
29:14
Speaker 2: It's so insane and brilliant. I can't not like her.
29:19
Speaker 1: This is the thing about a lot of these, but
29:20
Speaker 1: just the same way I felt about, I feel about
29:23
Speaker 1: all these people.
29:24
Speaker 2: You know, whether it's a Meghan Markle or whether.
29:27
Speaker 1: It's the bitch from Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, or even Kash Patel.
29:34
Speaker 1: I find him likable, even though he is a goon
29:37
Speaker 1: and a goofball and dishonest. there is something likable about how,
29:42
Speaker 1: how absolutely, uh, like incapable he is of doing anything right.
29:53
Speaker 1: It's like a child you have that can't do anything right. Uh,
29:58
Speaker 1: You want to hit them and you want to ground them,
30:01
Speaker 1: but there's some likability they have because they're such a buffoon.
30:07
Speaker 2: So here is.
30:08
Speaker 1: Sunny Hostin trying to tell everyone on the panel why
30:14
Speaker 1: she sold everything.
30:16
Speaker 2: Here she is. Take it away.
30:18
Speaker 5: I recently partnered with a company called Fountain Zero who
30:22
Speaker 5: had an AI movie released at the Tribeca Film Festival.
30:26
Speaker 5: It was the first time that that was done. And
30:29
Speaker 5: one of the reasons I partnered.
30:30
Speaker 1: So now, stop it for a minute, and then we're
30:32
Speaker 1: going to play the whole thing. You can see Joy
30:34
Speaker 1: Behar getting mad. Joy Behar is.
30:35
Speaker 2: 112 years old.
30:39
Speaker 1: Joy Behar is a very old stand-up comedian from New
30:44
Speaker 1: York who's been on The View forever.
30:47
Speaker 2: And you can.
30:48
Speaker 1: See Joy Behar is getting really angry that Sonny Hostin...
30:56
Speaker 1: is saying, going, doing AI propaganda on The View. So
31:03
Speaker 1: you can see the muscles in Joy Behar's face start
31:06
Speaker 1: to tighten up. Like, Joy Behar's like, hey, what the fuck?
31:10
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
31:11
Speaker 1: And now we're going to watch this, and I want
31:14
Speaker 1: you to run it back, because we're going to watch
31:16
Speaker 1: the whole thing.
31:17
Speaker 2: But just also, as you're listening to this, you're going
31:19
Speaker 2: to start.
31:19
Speaker 1: To hear Joy Behar say, And for a lot of
31:22
Speaker 1: people that listen and aren't watching, you're going to hear
31:24
Speaker 1: Joy Behar become increasingly angry at Sonny Hostin.
31:29
Speaker 2: Here you go.
31:33
Speaker 5: Recently partnered with a company called Fountain Zero, who had
31:37
Speaker 5: an AI movie released at the Tribeca Film Festival. It's
31:41
Speaker 5: the first time.
31:42
Speaker 2: That that was done.
31:43
Speaker 5: And one of the reasons I partnered with this company
31:45
Speaker 5: is because I've written a trilogy and for six years
31:48
Speaker 5: I've tried to get my films or my stories made
31:52
Speaker 5: into series and films. And the gatekeeping in Hollywood around
31:56
Speaker 5: black and brown creative content is insane. I cannot get
32:01
Speaker 5: New York Times best selling books onto the screen to
32:04
Speaker 5: tell diverse stories to diverse communities.
32:06
Speaker 2: So what does that have to do with AI?
32:08
Speaker 5: With AI, that cuts out the gatekeeping. You get to
32:12
Speaker 5: make your film, you get to have a director. Do
32:15
Speaker 5: they have actors in it, though? No, they're generated. I've
32:18
Speaker 5: licensed my image, and so I may appear.
32:21
Speaker 2: Whereas Waldo's somewhere in it.
32:23
Speaker 5: Wait, wait, you're a robot now. I may appear, but
32:26
Speaker 5: in all seriousness, it's a way to go then to
32:30
Speaker 5: a streamer and say, here's the product. Will you license it?
32:33
Speaker 5: Will you show it? It's a way, I think, to
32:35
Speaker 5: get black and brown stories told. There are a lot
32:39
Speaker 5: of hidden figures out there.
32:40
Speaker 3: I don't get it.
32:41
Speaker 5: Those stories are not being told.
32:42
Speaker 2: But if those people are in fact robots, how does
32:45
Speaker 2: that help the real black community?
32:48
Speaker 5: They're not robots, they're AI images. Because the stories are
32:50
Speaker 5: not working. Because the stories are being told, Joy. Because
32:53
Speaker 5: the real people are not getting jobs in Hollywood. The
32:56
Speaker 5: train has left the station, and this is something that's here,
33:00
Speaker 5: it's not going away. And I think that there are
33:02
Speaker 5: going to be enormous benefits, but of course.
33:04
Speaker 2: Did you.
33:04
Speaker 7: Feel any ethical issues in signing that?
33:07
Speaker 5: I thought about it a lot.
33:10
Speaker 2: But she needs the project.
33:12
Speaker 5: Well, I don't need the project.
33:13
Speaker 2: I think that diverse stories need.
33:15
Speaker 5: To be told.
33:16
Speaker 2: I get that. Stop this.
33:19
Speaker 3: Okay.
33:20
Speaker 1: You hear exactly the rationale that has been used for
33:28
Speaker 1: every person Who drapes themselves in their identity all the time.
33:37
Speaker 1: It is primarily for the purposes of their own advancement.
33:42
Speaker 2: And by their own, I mean them. Not other people.
33:46
Speaker 2: Not even their communities.
33:49
Speaker 1: This woman is now saying black and brown stories need
33:51
Speaker 1: to be told even if it's with generative A.I., So
33:56
Speaker 1: those jobs don't go to black and brown actors. They
33:58
Speaker 1: will go to AI, and I will make all of
34:01
Speaker 1: the money. She doesn't care about black and brown stories
34:05
Speaker 1: being told. She cares about.
34:06
Speaker 2: Her stories being told.
34:11
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with diverse stories and diverse audiences.
34:16
Speaker 1: How many black and brown people are reading Summer on
34:18
Speaker 1: the Bluffs or whatever the fuck this bitch is even writing?
34:21
Speaker 1: But it is a blatant.
34:25
Speaker 2: And by the way, sure. Like, you know, like at
34:30
Speaker 2: the end of the day, if, if she.
34:36
Speaker 1: Would just say that, if she just said the trains
34:39
Speaker 1: left the station to say, I think it's not going anywhere.
34:42
Speaker 2: I'm getting on board. People could either love it or
34:46
Speaker 2: hate it.
34:47
Speaker 1: But she was like, it's about the stories being told it.
34:51
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. It's about her story.
34:54
Speaker 1: Being told and getting money for it and damn everyone
34:59
Speaker 1: else who wants to work.
35:01
Speaker 2: So she's just great.
35:05
Speaker 1: We like her. We're in support of her because we're
35:10
Speaker 1: excited to see over the next few months or years
35:14
Speaker 1: what else she will justify with this. Now that we
35:18
Speaker 1: have this framework, what else can we justify with this
35:23
Speaker 1: framework that like, hey, I've tried to make a bunch
35:26
Speaker 1: of bestsellers into movies and nobody would do it. So
35:30
Speaker 1: now we're using AI. Palantir's doing it. Palantir's doing it.
35:35
Speaker 1: You know why, Joy? Because diverse stories need to get told.
35:41
Speaker 1: And Peter Thiel's doing it. So how about that? You
35:46
Speaker 1: don't like it? Fuck, Elon Musk is doing it now.
35:50
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is doing it.
35:51
Speaker 2: You know why? Because diverse stories... Hey, Sam Altman's doing it.
35:56
Speaker 2: You know why? Because diverse stories need to get told.
36:00
Speaker 2: So it does... Yeah, what is Fountain Zero, by the way?
36:05
Speaker 1: These are AI... Because this is what they... All they
36:09
Speaker 1: want is AI slop. One of the things that, you know,
36:13
Speaker 1: whether I disagree with my colleagues on some other political things,
36:16
Speaker 1: and some of us do have disagreements and some of
36:18
Speaker 1: us are more aligned than you would think. But one
36:21
Speaker 1: thing that I really do respect about a lot of
36:25
Speaker 1: the people that I may have certain disagreements with is
36:29
Speaker 1: that we all want.
36:31
Speaker 2: Human art to be human and.
36:35
Speaker 1: That we don't want to participate in this AI slop factory.
36:41
Speaker 1: because it completely drains the humanity from what's going on.
36:47
Speaker 1: And I do respect that about people. But I also,
36:51
Speaker 1: at the same time, do respect multimillionaire Sunny Hostin, who
36:57
Speaker 1: needs to make a movie, and her need to have
37:00
Speaker 1: a movie made is bigger than humanity's need to thrive
37:04
Speaker 1: and continue to exist.
37:07
Speaker 2: So it's hard because I say to myself, I go.
37:10
Speaker 1: Should humanity remain the paramount creative force on earth?
37:16
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
37:17
Speaker 1: Because Sonny Hostin, multimillionaire Sonny Hostin, who's on television every
37:22
Speaker 1: single day, who has, by her own admission, many best-selling books,
37:28
Speaker 1: but they're not movies. No one's made a movie about
37:32
Speaker 1: Summer on the Bluffs. Now, get up, Summer on the Bluffs.
37:35
Speaker 1: And I want to know more about Summer on the
37:37
Speaker 1: Bluffs because she's saying this is so important right now.
37:40
Speaker 1: that black and brown children need to hear Summer.
37:44
Speaker 2: On the Buffs.
37:44
Speaker 1: Okay, Amelia Ama Vo Tanner, a wealthy retiree mourning her
37:49
Speaker 1: late husband, decides to move to the south of France.
37:53
Speaker 2: So automatically, it's automatically, if I'm a.
37:56
Speaker 1: Kid in the Chicago public school system, I'm like, give
37:59
Speaker 1: me this book. Nothing will help the economic conditions of
38:05
Speaker 1: minorities in this country more than this book. Amelia Ama Vautaner,
38:11
Speaker 1: a wealthy retiree mourning her late husband, decides to move
38:13
Speaker 1: to the south of France. She invites her three goddaughters
38:16
Speaker 1: to her Oak Bluffs beach house, Chateau Laveau, for one
38:20
Speaker 1: final summer get-together. Ama announces that by Labor Day, she
38:25
Speaker 1: will hand the deed to the prized house over.
38:28
Speaker 2: To only one of them.
38:31
Speaker 1: Each woman desperately wants the home, but each hides a
38:35
Speaker 1: major personal secret that she fears will ruin her chances
38:38
Speaker 1: at approval and unaware that AIMA.
38:41
Speaker 2: Is keeping secrets of her own. So that's Summer on
38:47
Speaker 2: the Bluffs.
38:49
Speaker 1: And listen, I think there are a lot of communities
38:54
Speaker 1: in America that should be better funded and Police should
38:58
Speaker 1: have better training. The school should get more money. People
39:00
Speaker 1: should get health care. People should have jobs. We should
39:04
Speaker 1: focus our money on the Bronx. We should focus our
39:06
Speaker 1: money on East St. Louis and all of these places
39:08
Speaker 1: and Detroit and Appalachia and whatever. It's not necessarily about race,
39:12
Speaker 1: although it's a lot of the black communities have been decimated.
39:18
Speaker 1: And we shouldn't be focusing our money on the Ukraine
39:20
Speaker 1: and Israel. But I also think in lieu of that,
39:25
Speaker 1: if we don't do that, if we just keep sending
39:27
Speaker 1: our money abroad and giving it to Sam Altman. i
39:31
Speaker 1: do think summer on the bluffs should be a movie
39:35
Speaker 1: Because if nothing else, those kids who live in de-industrialized,
39:40
Speaker 1: crime-ridden hellscapes, who don't have the resources to succeed in life,
39:45
Speaker 1: can then at least go home and watch Summer on
39:50
Speaker 1: the Bluffs. And I guess it will inspire them because
39:56
Speaker 1: they go, maybe one day I'll be able to write
40:00
Speaker 1: AI slop like Summer on the Bluffs. Every summer, Esperanza, quote,
40:07
Speaker 1: Perry Soto, a beautiful and talented Afro-Latina lawyer, escapes the field,
40:13
Speaker 1: the fetid heat of New York City for the gorgeous
40:16
Speaker 1: weather and cool water and stunning views of oak bluffs.
40:20
Speaker 1: Sharing a cottage on the beach owned by Amma with
40:23
Speaker 1: her late husband and two sisters, Perry is looking forward
40:26
Speaker 1: to trading meetings and clients for days of languor and fun.
40:30
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, this should be A.I., This should be
40:34
Speaker 1: AI slop. But it's the way that it's introduced. Like, hey,
40:38
Speaker 1: if I'm not going to get a movie, if you're
40:39
Speaker 1: not going to make my terrible book into a movie,
40:42
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43:45
Speaker 1: on the tech theme. A lot of these young tech
43:46
Speaker 1: guys are saying that women do not want to date them.
43:49
Speaker 1: Once they reveal that they are designing like weapons systems
43:52
Speaker 1: for Palantir or something like that.
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Speaker 2: This was an article that just came out. Why no
43:56
Speaker 2: one wants to date the tech pros.
43:58
Speaker 1: Once seen as nerdy, but harmless innovators, men in tech
44:00
Speaker 1: are now widely regarded as red pilled Elon Musk wannabes.
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Speaker 1: It's made getting laid a whole lot harder. Um, engaged
44:09
Speaker 1: in a flirtatious conversation at a bar in Manhattan. 23-year-old
44:12
Speaker 1: Gary stood with a Guinness in hand as he explained
44:15
Speaker 1: to a woman why he took an engineering job at Palantir,
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Speaker 1: the data analytics company founded by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel.
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Speaker 1: Ranking a $ 250, 000 salary would allow him to help pay
44:25
Speaker 1: off his parents' mounting medical bills, he explained. Gary wasn't
44:29
Speaker 1: met with sympathy. Medical debt, the woman told him, was, quote,
44:32
Speaker 1: not an excuse to work somewhere like that. She was referring,
44:36
Speaker 1: of course, to Palantir's controversial work with governments, including the U.S.
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Speaker 1: and Israel, which used the company's surveillance tools for law
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Speaker 1: enforcement and military operations. Since joining that tech company in 2025,
44:48
Speaker 1: Gary has noticed that naming his employer prompts brutal.
44:51
Speaker 2: Reactions from prospective women.
44:53
Speaker 1: One woman, he says, called him the devil. Another asked
44:56
Speaker 1: how he lives with himself. Sometimes people just straight up
44:59
Speaker 1: stop talking to me, he says. Recently, Gary's buddies requested
45:04
Speaker 1: he not mention Palantir on the nights out together so
45:07
Speaker 1: as to not tank the whole group's chances. I get
45:11
Speaker 1: nervous now. I don't bring it up, says Gary. That's hilarious.
45:17
Speaker 1: Gary has resorted to saying he works in AI. Even
45:19
Speaker 1: that gets some pretty bad responses sometimes. His Hinge profile
45:23
Speaker 1: doesn't mention his employer. Gary, I will suck your dick. Gary, Gary,
45:29
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, I will suck your cock.
45:33
Speaker 1: Come to Los Angeles. I'm very good at it. I
45:35
Speaker 1: will blow you. It may not be what you want.
45:38
Speaker 1: I could throw on my Meghan McCain wig, but this
45:40
Speaker 1: is what you get now. And I'll take you to
45:43
Speaker 1: the mothership and you can meet Joe Rogan. You've made
45:46
Speaker 1: your choice, sir. You've made your choice. You can meet
45:49
Speaker 1: Bert Kreischer at the Comedy Store. That's your life now.
45:54
Speaker 1: No more hot New York City pussy for you, Gar.
45:57
Speaker 1: Come here, and I will throw on my Barry Weiss wig,
46:01
Speaker 1: and I will suck on your balls. And that is
46:04
Speaker 1: what you get for working for Palantir. It's not over.
46:08
Speaker 1: It's just different. Hey, Gary, and I will eat your ass. Gary,
46:12
Speaker 1: I will eat it like an ice cream sundae. Now,
46:15
Speaker 1: you might be saying to yourself, oh, my God, what
46:19
Speaker 1: has happened? And you can bring me home to your family.
46:22
Speaker 1: You can bring me home to your family, and I
46:24
Speaker 1: will dress like a woman, as I have on this
46:25
Speaker 1: show many times, and I will show up like a
46:28
Speaker 1: woman to your house. And when your parents ask you
46:33
Speaker 1: if you're gay, say, no, but this is all I
46:35
Speaker 1: have now.
46:36
Speaker 2: I work for fucking Palantir.
46:39
Speaker 1: And we'll live in Austin, Gary, and it'll be 115 degrees.
46:45
Speaker 1: And your balls will always have a certain funk to
46:47
Speaker 1: them that I find appealing, but many others don't.
46:51
Speaker 2: And Gary, it will be a different life.
46:53
Speaker 1: We can go swim in the hot, disgusting lake that's
46:56
Speaker 1: always about 96 degrees. And I will go with you
47:00
Speaker 1: to your parents' house, wherever the hell they happen to live.
47:02
Speaker 1: And I will sit there in full drag while I
47:05
Speaker 1: compliment your mother's casserole. And you will say, I make
47:08
Speaker 1: 250 grand a year so I can pay for your
47:11
Speaker 1: medical debt. But now this is who I'm fucking. This
47:15
Speaker 1: is the only person who will put my cock in
47:17
Speaker 1: his mouth.
47:18
Speaker 2: Her mouth. I will serve her. I'll have food in
47:20
Speaker 2: my mouth. I'll go, her mouth, Gary. Her mouth. So, Gary,
47:26
Speaker 2: my DMs are open. You can email me.
47:29
Speaker 1: I'm represented by 3R to the Creative Arts Agency, CAA.
47:33
Speaker 1: You can email them. Email my agents. My manager. You
47:37
Speaker 1: can email my business manager. You can hit me up
47:41
Speaker 1: on any social media site. I do have a cat,
47:43
Speaker 1: but even if you're allergic to the cat, it's okay.
47:45
Speaker 1: We will lock it in another room while I have
47:48
Speaker 1: sex with you dressed as Barry Weiss.
47:50
Speaker 2: Yes or yes, Gary? Gary, it's all for you now.
47:53
Speaker 2: It's all coming true.
47:55
Speaker 1: Could you get a heart on, Gary? I'm dressed like
47:58
Speaker 1: Barry Weiss. We play traditional Israeli techno in the house.
48:03
Speaker 2: I'm dancing.
48:05
Speaker 1: And then after we both come, we read Peter Till's
48:08
Speaker 1: Satan lecture word for word in the house.
48:12
Speaker 2: Gary, doesn't it sound nice? Gary, doesn't it sound nice?
48:18
Speaker 1: It's not what you thought, but life never is, Gary. Gary,
48:23
Speaker 1: life never is. Imagine introducing me to your family with
48:30
Speaker 1: a nice wig. And my nice, sharp little Barry Weiss glasses.
48:34
Speaker 1: I'll wear my sexy little Barry glasses for you, Curry. Gary. Gary,
48:40
Speaker 1: it's just different. I hope someone sends this to him,
48:43
Speaker 1: and I hope he considers it. I hope you consider it.
48:45
Speaker 1: Don't go fucking faggoty whining to fucking, what is this, Wired?
48:49
Speaker 1: Or some fucking, don't go, what is this, Wired?
48:53
Speaker 2: Exactly.
48:54
Speaker 1: Stop whining to Wired that a couple of liberal bitches
48:58
Speaker 1: don't like your Palantir cock. I'll put it right in
49:00
Speaker 1: my mouth, and I'll rub it all over my face, Gary.
49:03
Speaker 1: Send this to your parents. Send this video to your parents.
49:09
Speaker 1: There's nothing you can say. Now, if Gary's good looking,
49:12
Speaker 1: and I imagine he's not great, but it doesn't matter, Gary.
49:16
Speaker 2: I don't care what you do.
49:18
Speaker 1: I don't care if you're... putting the targets on the
49:21
Speaker 1: baby's heads in Gaza while Palantir blows them up it
49:26
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me I separate the art from the
49:28
Speaker 1: artist Gary okay so that's how we solve that problem
49:35
Speaker 1: solved it moving on Moving on.
49:41
Speaker 2: Moving on, Gar.
49:43
Speaker 1: What else did I send you? I sent you something
49:44
Speaker 1: as I was heading over. I was, oh, yeah, this
49:48
Speaker 1: Nepo stuff. I want to get into this here.
49:50
Speaker 2: And, Gary, all of that is true. All of those
49:53
Speaker 2: things are true, and I am always.
49:54
Speaker 3: Ready for you, Gary.
49:56
Speaker 2: This is my girlfriend. Hello.
49:58
Speaker 5: Hello.
50:00
Speaker 2: What happened? We didn't know you're gay. I'm not gay.
50:02
Speaker 1: I just work for Palantir. And this podcaster is the
50:05
Speaker 1: only one that'll suck my dick. And he does it
50:07
Speaker 1: dressed like Barry Weiss. And we can have children together.
50:14
Speaker 1: We'll get a surrogate. We will get a surrogate like
50:17
Speaker 1: Barry did, I think. Oh, no, Barry's wife might have
50:19
Speaker 1: had the kids.
50:19
Speaker 2: Whatever.
50:20
Speaker 1: Anyway, Gary, DMs are open. Anyway, so this is an
50:25
Speaker 1: article from the Wall Street Journal.
50:27
Speaker 2: You heard of this?
50:30
Speaker 1: We've reached peak Nepo baby. Every new artist is hit
50:33
Speaker 1: with the label these days. So this is the Wall
50:37
Speaker 1: Street Journal. Now, by the way, the Wall Street Journal
50:39
Speaker 1: every now and then does something insane. Usually the Wall
50:46
Speaker 1: Street Journal is sort of a somewhat predictable, their editorial
50:53
Speaker 1: page is kind of boring. But then every now and
50:56
Speaker 1: then they will run an article like, you know, do
50:58
Speaker 1: you need a dining room table? Lunch is becoming a
51:02
Speaker 1: real problem, you know, because their, their game here is
51:07
Speaker 1: to bet. You have to stop complaining about your life.
51:12
Speaker 1: This is kind of what the wall street journal kind of,
51:15
Speaker 1: This is where they're basically like, we're not going to
51:18
Speaker 1: bother you with the woke stuff.
51:20
Speaker 2: That's what they say. We're not going to bother you
51:22
Speaker 2: with all the land acknowledgement shit.
51:24
Speaker 1: But you're also going to have to stop complaining about
51:26
Speaker 1: the cost of lunch or the fact that you live
51:28
Speaker 1: in a shed. We don't want to hear it. We
51:30
Speaker 1: don't want to hear it. We're not going to bother
51:33
Speaker 1: you with the DEI shit. But if you are living
51:36
Speaker 1: in a camper, we don't want to hear it. We
51:38
Speaker 1: don't want to hear it. We don't want to hear it.
51:42
Speaker 2: Artists is hit.
51:43
Speaker 1: So now basically the wall street journal, this article, which
51:45
Speaker 1: I read by Allie Jones is that it's about the
51:51
Speaker 1: fact that everybody now seems to be sort of a
51:54
Speaker 1: nepo baby in some way. They're either the direct child
51:58
Speaker 1: of an actor or actress, and I'll put them in
52:00
Speaker 1: my movie too. We're doing, we're raising money right now
52:02
Speaker 1: for a film. So if you're a nepo baby, don't
52:05
Speaker 1: think that I won't put you in the film because
52:09
Speaker 1: I'm not holding the Nepo thing against you because I believe,
52:13
Speaker 1: by the way, that some of them are very talented.
52:16
Speaker 2: I believe that. I don't care that their parents are
52:19
Speaker 2: actors or actresses.
52:20
Speaker 1: If you are talented and if you have sex with
52:23
Speaker 1: me on set and don't accuse me of raping you,
52:25
Speaker 1: I will put you in the movie, Gary.
52:30
Speaker 2: Stella Lefty was riding high.
52:31
Speaker 1: The country folk singer spent the summer going viral on
52:34
Speaker 1: TikTok for her breakout single Boston, a pared down love
52:37
Speaker 1: song that is currently number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
52:40
Speaker 2: Then internet sleuths.
52:42
Speaker 1: Discovered that Lefty was short for Lefkovsky, and the overnight
52:46
Speaker 1: success was the daughter of a billionaire. Lefty's father, Groupon
52:50
Speaker 1: co-founder Eric Lefkovsky, is not a music industry executive, but
52:54
Speaker 1: soon this singer was labeled a nepo baby along with
52:57
Speaker 1: many other new stars who have undeniable privilege but tenuous
53:01
Speaker 1: connection to the entertainment world. Okay, so here's what the
53:04
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal is saying. Just because she's a billionaire
53:08
Speaker 1: doesn't mean she's a nepo baby because her dad is
53:12
Speaker 1: a billionaire. It's not like her dad's Goldie Hawners. I mean,
53:14
Speaker 1: her dad's like, her mom's not Goldie Hawner. Dad's not
53:16
Speaker 1: Kurt Russell, whatever, you know?
53:18
Speaker 2: Now, okay.
53:24
Speaker 1: This discourse kind of, it bores me anyway because truly
53:28
Speaker 1: like rich people will always have an advantage, right? And
53:33
Speaker 1: I'm just going to tell the Wall Street Journalists, they
53:34
Speaker 1: may be unaware of this, it might actually be more
53:37
Speaker 1: advantageous if your dad's a tech billionaire than an actor
53:41
Speaker 1: or actress. You might actually get further. I know this
53:45
Speaker 1: might shock the Wall Street Journal to their core. You
53:48
Speaker 1: may get further in entertainment if your dad is an
53:52
Speaker 1: AI billionaire, tech billionaire, than if your dad was on
53:58
Speaker 1: House of Cards or something.
54:00
Speaker 2: So you see.
54:03
Speaker 1: Now, it bores me to constantly shake my fist at
54:07
Speaker 1: people that have more advantages in life than I do.
54:11
Speaker 2: I find that boring. I hate the mentality of a victim.
54:14
Speaker 2: That being said, it.
54:16
Speaker 1: Is hard to ignore how many of these people do
54:21
Speaker 1: seem to be out there. How many of these kids
54:25
Speaker 1: have famous moms and dads? And how many of these
54:28
Speaker 1: children's moms and dads are billionaires?
54:33
Speaker 2: Her name is long, so I understand why she cut
54:35
Speaker 2: it short. It's Jewish.
54:37
Speaker 1: That might be why she cut it short, too. That's
54:39
Speaker 1: happened in Hollywood. Um, and she's doing country music. So
54:43
Speaker 1: she might feel like, and I don't know, by the way,
54:44
Speaker 1: I don't know why she's doing country music, whatever.
54:47
Speaker 2: Um, but everything's for the taking now.
54:51
Speaker 1: So she doesn't, so I'm saying there's other reasons that
54:53
Speaker 1: she might've changed her name other than the fact that
54:55
Speaker 1: she didn't want people to find out who her dad is. But,
55:00
Speaker 1: Obviously people were going to find out and did find out.
55:04
Speaker 1: And I don't think that this makes her untalented. I
55:07
Speaker 1: don't find her that great and don't play her music
55:09
Speaker 1: because she'll copyright strike me. And then God only knows
55:12
Speaker 1: her father will really strike me with a drone.
55:16
Speaker 2: So the last thing we need to do right now
55:17
Speaker 2: is fucking anger. These fucks. Okay.
55:20
Speaker 1: I don't find her to be that amazing. I think
55:24
Speaker 1: she's fine. And I don't, I don't attack the woman
55:27
Speaker 1: because all she gets is hate.
55:29
Speaker 2: All the time.
55:30
Speaker 1: But to me, it doesn't, I hear the music, it
55:33
Speaker 1: doesn't move me. But we're also living in a time
55:36
Speaker 1: now where mediocrity is the enduring thing. And you will,
55:41
Speaker 1: and everything's for the taking. Like you can put on
55:43
Speaker 1: a cowboy hat and be a country music star. Nothing matters.
55:46
Speaker 1: You can be a rapper from a rich family and
55:49
Speaker 1: a prep school kid. Like everything is for the taking.
55:52
Speaker 1: You invent the identity you want to be and then
55:56
Speaker 1: people will just gravitate towards it. And these people are
55:59
Speaker 1: going to make so much money. It's unfathomable. And that
56:03
Speaker 1: will drive everyone nuts.
56:05
Speaker 3: It will.
56:06
Speaker 1: I'm not one of these big simulation guys, but the
56:08
Speaker 1: fact that someone named Stella lefty, we're discussing.
56:12
Speaker 2: This even, you know, she's a country mute. Is her,
56:18
Speaker 2: did she steal the song from Noah?
56:20
Speaker 1: Like it does feel like we're in some type of matrix.
56:25
Speaker 1: It does feel like we're in some type of simulation and,
56:29
Speaker 1: These people, you're just going to watch them make so
56:32
Speaker 1: much money. It's going to blow your mind how much
56:38
Speaker 1: money these people make.
56:39
Speaker 2: They're going to make gazillions of dollars.
56:41
Speaker 1: They're going to invent new denominations of money for how
56:45
Speaker 1: much money these people make because everything now is about
56:50
Speaker 1: the machine. It's the machine. It's not the raw talent.
56:56
Speaker 1: It's the machine behind the raw talent. So I know
57:00
Speaker 1: that the Wall Street Journal is saying, well, her dad's
57:02
Speaker 1: just a billionaire. He wasn't like the drummer in Metallica.
57:07
Speaker 3: Sure. Yeah. Sure.
57:11
Speaker 2: But, you know, that might also have advantages, Wall Street Journal.
57:14
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm a nepo baby in the
57:17
Speaker 1: sense that my mother was a schizophrenic and I'm on YouTube.
57:21
Speaker 2: That's kind of an epo baby.
57:22
Speaker 1: If you think about it, my mother was a fucking
57:25
Speaker 1: schizo and died in a public mental institution. Now I'm
57:28
Speaker 1: here doing it for a living. I have a very
57:32
Speaker 1: nice car, but so I get it. I understand this.
57:38
Speaker 1: Me and Stella, we're the same. You can't get mad
57:42
Speaker 1: at this stuff, but you can notice it. You can
57:45
Speaker 1: notice how much of culture is curated by machines and
57:51
Speaker 1: that are operating, all well-paid, well-organized campaigns to put something
57:57
Speaker 1: out there until you accept that it is the next thing.
58:01
Speaker 2: That's always happened to a degree.
58:04
Speaker 1: But now it's incredibly personal because you can see it
58:08
Speaker 1: happen and you can feel it. Whereas, you know, in
58:12
Speaker 1: the old days of traditional media, there were layers between
58:17
Speaker 1: that and you.
58:18
Speaker 2: Now you can feel it. You can see it happen.
58:25
Speaker 2: You know, I mean, and I have no.
58:33
Speaker 3: Fine.
58:36
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to begrudge anyone their success. Is it...
58:39
Speaker 2: Like the Ella Langley thing. She's good.
58:40
Speaker 1: She's really good. That song's good. But it's enough now.
58:44
Speaker 1: It's enough now. It's crazy that that's the biggest song ever...
58:49
Speaker 1: That's crazy. But it's what happened when everyone in this
58:55
Speaker 1: country was lectured for about four years that they were were.
59:00
Speaker 1: They had privilege and a lot of people didn't and
59:02
Speaker 1: some did. But a lot of these white people you
59:05
Speaker 1: were telling were privileged and evil.
59:08
Speaker 2: They ended up.
59:10
Speaker 1: They, they, they left the cultural spaces where that was happening.
59:13
Speaker 1: And they went to a cultural space where that wasn't happening.
59:15
Speaker 1: And everyone became a fan of country music.
59:18
Speaker 2: And now guys I.
59:19
Speaker 1: Know who grew up in New Jersey are like, you
59:21
Speaker 1: go to country music shows because they feel like they're
59:25
Speaker 1: not being moralized to, or they're not being lectured or whatever.
59:29
Speaker 1: But now I think we're at the point now where
59:32
Speaker 1: that's going to recede a little bit. And then you're
59:36
Speaker 1: going to start to see that that peaked. Trues in Texas,
59:40
Speaker 1: fun song, little bit of an earworm. You know, Trues
59:44
Speaker 1: in Texas, I can tell by the way. Yeah, it's good.
59:51
Speaker 2: It's good. It's good.
59:53
Speaker 1: But this is what happens with culture peaks. I think
59:56
Speaker 1: we're at the peak of that. We're at the peak
59:58
Speaker 1: of people just, you know, putting on cowboy hats and,
1:00:01
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of stealing someone else's culture just
1:00:04
Speaker 1: because it makes them feel more comfortable momentarily. I'm not
1:00:06
Speaker 1: saying you can't be a fan of country music. I
1:00:09
Speaker 1: love a lot of country music, whatever. So I think
1:00:11
Speaker 1: this Stella Lefty here is popping the bubble a little
1:00:14
Speaker 1: bit on that. And people are going, wait, what? And
1:00:21
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you should hate this woman. She wants
1:00:23
Speaker 1: to be a singer and she's singing. OK, but culture
1:00:28
Speaker 1: will is going to move on from this and it's
1:00:31
Speaker 1: going to move on to the.
1:00:40
Speaker 1: .
1:00:42
Speaker 2: .
1:00:45
Speaker 1: But there is going to be a time when people
1:00:47
Speaker 1: are going to have to actually make choices about what
1:00:50
Speaker 1: you consume.
1:00:51
Speaker 2: And if you're.
1:00:53
Speaker 1: Going to, if you value humanity and you value watching
1:00:59
Speaker 1: human beings and listening to human beings, there will be
1:01:03
Speaker 1: a time when you're going to have to choose to
1:01:04
Speaker 1: not see the AI movie. There's going to have to
1:01:08
Speaker 1: be a time when you go, yeah, I don't care.
1:01:10
Speaker 1: I'm not going to see it or I'm not going
1:01:11
Speaker 1: to watch the AI show. You know, and there will
1:01:15
Speaker 1: be a there will be a and now there's going
1:01:17
Speaker 1: to be people that don't make that decision, especially younger
1:01:19
Speaker 1: people who didn't grow up with human movies and don't
1:01:21
Speaker 1: give a shit.
1:01:23
Speaker 2: And they go, hey, man, I don't give a fuck.
1:01:25
Speaker 2: I didn't grow up with the Mighty Ducks.
1:01:27
Speaker 1: And when Harry met Sally in the birdcage and fucking casino,
1:01:31
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up with any of that.
1:01:32
Speaker 2: So what do I care? I'm just going to watch A.I.
1:01:34
Speaker 1: Slop.
1:01:35
Speaker 2: I'm going to watch Summer on the Bluffs.
1:01:36
Speaker 1: Because Sonny Hostin decided because she because she needed a
1:01:41
Speaker 1: fucking movie made. And listen, God bless Stella Lefty or whoever,
1:01:47
Speaker 1: whoever's out there. You know, it's very hard now to
1:01:51
Speaker 1: be a successful person if your parents are totally fucked.
1:01:56
Speaker 2: It's very difficult. Okay?
1:01:59
Speaker 1: It is really hard. So these kids do have a
1:02:01
Speaker 1: leg up. If your father is a billionaire, it's probably beneficial.
1:02:07
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you have no talent. It does mean
1:02:10
Speaker 1: that your talent is viewed.
1:02:14
Speaker 2: Differently.
1:02:14
Speaker 1: It's always going to be viewed differently.
1:02:20
Speaker 2: Sorry.
1:02:21
Speaker 1: I know a lot of rich kids who want to
1:02:22
Speaker 1: pretend to be musicians and comedians and all this stuff.
1:02:27
Speaker 1: And that's okay. You're allowed to do that. It's a
1:02:30
Speaker 1: choose your own adventure here.
1:02:32
Speaker 2: Okay? But you also just got to have the.
1:02:34
Speaker 1: Awareness, the self-awareness to know that people may see it
1:02:38
Speaker 1: a little differently.
1:02:40
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Speaker 1: Let's talk for a minute about job interviews before I
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Speaker 1: get out of here because I know a lot of
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Speaker 1: an explosive debate over iced coffee highlights how tricky it
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Speaker 1: can be to navigate interview etiquette. I'm telling you this
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Speaker 1: right now, folks. The job market is brutal. It's not great.
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Speaker 1: The Washington post now is saying that what you do
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Speaker 1: and don't do on an interview is different than it
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Speaker 1: used to be.
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Speaker 2: Things are evolving. They're shifting. They're changing.
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Speaker 1: When I was a fresh college graduate interviewing for my
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Speaker 1: full-time job, I thought about my mother's interviews, do's and don'ts.
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Speaker 1: Don't wear anything that could reveal tattoos. Don't start with
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Speaker 1: asking questions about salary. And always, she stressed this above
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Speaker 1: all else, mail a physical thank you note the next day.
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Speaker 1: In the years since I entered the job market, interview
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Speaker 1: etiquette norms have changed dramatically. While each sector, field, and
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Speaker 1: company may have its own rituals, former no-nos like tattoos
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Speaker 1: and dyed hair often aren't deal-breakers, and many interviews take
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Speaker 1: place over Zoom, which introduces a whole new slate of
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Speaker 1: do's and don'ts. But not everyone agrees on which rules
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Speaker 1: to keep and which.
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Speaker 2: To toss out. In a video posted on TikTok last week,
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Speaker 2: recruiter Caitlin....
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Speaker 1: Wenanian introduced a new one. Don't carry an iced coffee
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Speaker 1: into an interview. Walking in to shake hands while juggling
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Speaker 1: a drink can make a big moment seem just like
1:09:28
Speaker 1: another stop on your list of errands for the day.
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Speaker 1: The comment section under the original video exploded. One recruiter
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Speaker 1: agreed that bringing in an iced coffee to a meeting
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Speaker 1: can be distracting, one poster asked. Are you expecting my
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Speaker 1: whole day to revolve around a 30-minute meeting? Satires and
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Speaker 1: skits have spoofed both Gen Z job seekers.
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Speaker 2: And corporate overlords. When anian.
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Speaker 1: Has since posted a followup video saying she wasn't trying
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Speaker 1: to stoke the flames for the sake of likes and repos.
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Speaker 1: When you really want a job offer, you need to
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Speaker 1: know certain ways of going about the process that helps
1:10:01
Speaker 1: you build confidence. When you know what to expect going
1:10:04
Speaker 1: in the door, the video and the ensuing debate have
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Speaker 1: exposed a greater challenge. How do you navigate ever changing
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Speaker 1: interview etiquette when the job hunt can already be confusing,
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Speaker 1: discouraging and exhausting.
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Speaker 2: Here? You have two problems. I'm going to tell you
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Speaker 2: right now the two problems, okay?
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Speaker 1: And some of you will agree with me and some
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Speaker 1: will disagree with me and it won't change the fact
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Speaker 1: that I'm right. Gen Z has a very good quality
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Speaker 1: that has very bad components. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Gen Z's very good quality is this, from what I
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Speaker 1: can understand. and from the people that I've spoken to
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Speaker 1: and the things I've read about it, they want to
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Speaker 1: have a fulfilling life where they are not a slave
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Speaker 1: to their job and that their job is not the
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Speaker 1: only thing that they dedicate their time to. They want
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Speaker 1: to build a life that includes their career but is
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Speaker 1: not all about their career. This is from the people...
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Speaker 1: that interact in the Gen Z job market. And so
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Speaker 1: that you'll have conversations with Gen Z people where they
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Speaker 1: talk about time off and nights off and are they
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Speaker 1: really free and can you text them at night and
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Speaker 1: group chat?
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Speaker 2: How much work do they want to do? This, that,
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Speaker 2: and the other thing. Okay, so by the way, I
1:11:38
Speaker 2: think that's overall a good quality. It's a European quality.
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Speaker 2: It's seeing... Their.
1:11:43
Speaker 1: Millennial brethren get ground into paste by corporate America and
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Speaker 1: don't have much to show for it. Many of them
1:11:52
Speaker 1: don't own homes. The relationship pictures may be, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe they're not having children or getting married or whatever.
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Speaker 1: They're living in very expensive cities in arrangements with roommates
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Speaker 1: well into their 30s and even older. And their Gen
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Speaker 1: Z peers look at that and go, they dedicated everything
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Speaker 1: to their careers and their careers became their lives. And
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Speaker 1: their lives, they thought like they were going to meet
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Speaker 1: the guy or the girl working at Vice or whatever,
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Speaker 1: you know, working somewhere.
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Speaker 2: And some people did, but some people didn't.
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Speaker 1: So that is the Gen Z instinct to go, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to trade, but here are the bad components
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Speaker 1: of that because every good has a bad. Every positive
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Speaker 1: thing has a bad.
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Speaker 2: Working at Palantir, you make.
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Speaker 1: $ 250, 000 and you can pay your parents' medical debt off.
1:12:43
Speaker 1: But you are designing machinery of death to kill innocent
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Speaker 2: With you dressed as Barry Weiss. That's what it is.
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Speaker 1: Here are the bad components of Gen Z's overarching thing,
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Speaker 1: positive thing. Some of the negative components of that is
1:13:12
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Speaker 1: that you would need to to determine what those appropriate
1:13:33
Speaker 1: boundaries are.
1:13:36
Speaker 2: Meaning you get out.
1:13:37
Speaker 1: Of college, you go into the workforce and you go,
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Speaker 1: I'm 22 years old and I demand a perfectly balanced life.
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Speaker 1: That's never going to happen. It's never going to happen.
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Speaker 1: You have to fight for that opportunity. And I don't
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Speaker 1: mean you have to fight like in a crazy sense
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Speaker 1: where you are, you know, it becomes the struggle of
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Speaker 1: your entire existence. But I mean, like, you have to
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Speaker 1: determine what that looks like and what sacrifices you are
1:14:11
Speaker 1: willing to make for that. You can only learn those
1:14:16
Speaker 1: things through experience. And I'm not telling you to become
1:14:20
Speaker 1: a slave to some nameless, faceless corporation. But it is
1:14:23
Speaker 1: very hard at 20 years old or 22 years old
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Speaker 1: to go, I want every sector of my life to
1:14:30
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Speaker 1: And I want to have free time to pursue hobbies
1:14:45
Speaker 1: and side quests. That is something that is very unreasonable.
1:14:50
Speaker 1: And I think, by the way, I think the... The
1:14:53
Speaker 1: framework of that comes from a good place of going,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to throw my whole life away for
1:14:58
Speaker 1: this job.
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Speaker 2: But the practical application of.
1:15:02
Speaker 1: That is something that you cannot demand immediately. You have
1:15:07
Speaker 1: to then find that balance through asserting your own boundaries
1:15:14
Speaker 1: as you go through life. You're not going to get
1:15:18
Speaker 1: that immediately. You might work for a year at a
1:15:21
Speaker 1: job and go, that was too much for me. I'm
1:15:24
Speaker 1: not built for that. You might decide the city you're
1:15:27
Speaker 1: living in is too expensive. I don't really love that.
1:15:30
Speaker 1: You might decide that, you know what? You actually see
1:15:33
Speaker 1: you're more of a country person. You don't want to
1:15:34
Speaker 1: live in a city at all. There isn't a one
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Speaker 1: size fits all. And you need to, you need to
1:15:40
Speaker 1: learn that as you go. I don't think it's a
1:15:42
Speaker 1: bad thing to want a balanced life, but it's very
1:15:46
Speaker 1: hard at 20 years old. to go to a corporation
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Speaker 1: and go to walk in with a nice coffee and go, listen,
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Speaker 1: when's my, when's my vacation?
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Speaker 2: When do I get it? So how, so wait, will
1:15:58
Speaker 2: you text me at night?
1:15:59
Speaker 1: I don't want to ever return a text at night
1:16:01
Speaker 1: about a job related issue. I don't know if that's realistic.
1:16:07
Speaker 1: You know, do you understand what I'm saying? It just
1:16:12
Speaker 1: is what it is, folks. Like, you know, People have
1:16:19
Speaker 1: to just say to themselves, here we go. The interview
1:16:24
Speaker 1: has always been a place to assess fit, both for
1:16:26
Speaker 1: the applicant and for the company, said Sarah McCord, a
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1:16:32
Speaker 1: If there's an immediate visceral reaction on either end, the
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Speaker 1: company doesn't want a candidate who brings a nice latte.
1:16:37
Speaker 1: A candidate doesn't want somewhere where the company cares. That's
1:16:42
Speaker 1: actually specifically exactly how the interview is supposed to work.
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Speaker 1: So what this bitch is saying is walk in with
1:16:47
Speaker 1: a latte. And if they don't want your latte, you
1:16:51
Speaker 1: don't want them. That might be the great latte challenge.
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Speaker 1: You walk in and you put the latte down and
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Speaker 1: then look at. Here's what I would do if I'm
1:17:05
Speaker 1: in a candidate. Ask me right now.
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Speaker 2: Why I think I'm a good fit for the job.
1:17:14
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in. Why do you think you're a
1:17:16
Speaker 2: good fit for the job?
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Speaker 1: I'm not. Ultimate power move. Make them want you more.
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Speaker 1: Take a sip out of a latte and go, I'm not.
1:17:28
Speaker 1: If you think I'm one of these drones that's going
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Speaker 1: to sit there and fucking lose my identity in your
1:17:35
Speaker 1: capitalist machine, you're out of your fucking mind.
1:17:38
Speaker 2: My father owns Groupon, you faggot.
1:17:42
Speaker 1: My father owns Groupon and I'm a country gal. And
1:17:47
Speaker 1: then put your hat on with your latte and go,
1:17:49
Speaker 1: and I'm a country gal. And go in with a
1:17:52
Speaker 1: guitar and go, I want to sing in my interview.
1:17:55
Speaker 2: I want to sing.
1:17:56
Speaker 1: My father owns Groupon. AI's going to put you in
1:17:59
Speaker 1: a cage. Peter Thiel's my father. And open your eyes
1:18:04
Speaker 1: and they'll be all black and go, Peter Thiel's my father.
1:18:10
Speaker 2: And then you'll get the job.
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Speaker 1: Bye.