The Tim Dillon Show - 514 - Netanyahu In New York, Nepo Babies, & “The View”
Episode Date: September 26, 2026Tim discusses Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN General Assembly in New York, Sonny Hostin from “The View” explaining why she sold her likeness to an AI company, tech bros having a hard ti...me dating, Nepo Baby culture, and how to nail a job interview. Become a Friend Of The Show https://bit.ly/BecomeAFriendOfTheShow and get access to weekly bonus audio episodes of the podcast!Tour Dates:🎟 https://punchup.live/TimDillonSPONSORS: Morgan & Morgan Got to https://forthepeople.com/TIM Or Dial “POUND LAW” Their Fee is FREE Unless they Win! Underdog FantasyDownload UNDERDOG To Play “Keep Your Million”. Start With $1,000,000, Make It Through All 20 Picks, And Walk Away With Whatever’s Left In Bonus Funds! Hims EDGet simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, & More at https://hims.com/TIM Quince Download the Quince App or Go To https://quince.com/TIM For FREE Shipping On Your Order & 365 Day Returns! UpWorkVisit https://upwork.com right now and post your first job free! IM8Go To https://IM8HEALTH.com/TIM Right Now And Use Code “TIM” For A FREE Welcome Kit, 5 FREE Travel Sachets, Plus 10% OFF Your Order▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Subscribe to the channel:https://www.youtube.com/@TimDillonShow?sub_confirmation=1Instagram:https://instagram.com/timjdillon/X:https://twitter.com/TimJDillonFB:https://www.facebook.com/TimDillonComedyTik Tok:https://www.tiktok.com/@timdListen on Spotify!https://open.spotify.com/show/2gRd1woKiAazAKPWPkHjds?si=e8000ed157e441c8Merch: https://store.timdilloncomedy.com/For every $400,000 we gross in revenue, we are donating five dollars to end homelessness in Los Angeles. We are challenging other creators to do the same.#TimGivesBack
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon show, the weekly podcast we've done here for 10 years.
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We thank everyone for listening, of course.
And it's a beautiful week because it's the week of the United Nations General Assembly,
a time when all of our differences kind of melt away, it feels.
And then everyone kind of gets together.
all the different countries get together and they're all unique and they're all special in
their own way and everybody kind of comes together to discuss the events the events the world
climate and war and the global economy and there's some controversy but we're like a
family. The world is a family and every family has a couple of nuts.
And when you're a big family like we are, our planet, it's a little messy out there.
And sometimes things boil over and people get into squabbles and people get upset with each other.
But that doesn't mean we're not a family. We're a global.
community.
And there's room for everyone in this community.
And I'm sick of the people who are trying to divide us.
We have to bring us together.
And I commend Benjamin Netanyahu for coming and giving a speech
because even though people have been very mean to him,
and they said they're going to arrest him,
he shows up with a big motorcade.
And I believe he threatened.
he said we have special forces everywhere,
so if you try anything, we'll try something to.
You know, but I respect the fact that he comes
and he gives a speech at the UN General Assembly,
even when people have been so down on him
and they've been, frankly, pretty nasty
to Benjamin Netanyahu.
And I would like to, yeah, Netanyahu says he has special forces ready if he's detained or arrested.
I like that.
He's basically saying, listen, we're ready.
That's where he's at.
He goes, we're ready.
If you pull something, we're ready.
So here he is.
Now, a lot of people walked out before he delivered his speech.
And I don't love that.
but he's there to deliver a speech.
And I don't know what he was,
what reaction he was anticipating.
I imagine he thought to himself,
there's going to, people are going to be angry at us.
I imagine that went through his head as he was coming in,
flying in on his jet.
What is it called the wings of Zion or the lion of the sky or whatever?
I don't know.
But as he was landing, he probably.
looked at somebody next to him and said, hey, they're going to be angry with us.
Yeah, the Wings of Zion.
He goes, they might be, they might be rude to us, but we're going to show up and give this
speech anyway.
And I respect that.
And I think the people in Gaza do.
I think the people in Gaza respected, actually.
I think the people in Gaza respect.
Now, they may have their differences with him.
they're intense and rats are eating them
and they've been starved
and their family members have been vaporized in front of their eyes
they have their differences for sure
we're not going to gloss over that
but I think they respect that he came to New York City
and he braved
the elements
and by the elements I mean the protesters
Hannah Einbinder, Susan Sarandon
these people there
he said he stared them down.
He stared them down.
And I think the people in Gaza respect that.
I think they have to say,
you know, we've had our differences with this man.
He burned my mother alive.
But that being said, he showed up.
He was not intimidated.
He showed up and he gave a speech.
Now let's listen to a little bit of this speech because there's so much negativity about this man.
And I want to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Let's listen to what he's saying.
So this is long-term friend of the show, friend of the Kushners.
You remember Benjamin Netanyahu used to visit the Kushner house, kick Jared to the basement,
and stay in Jared's room.
then Jared married the daughter of the now sitting president.
Jared is running around the world making deals,
not in an official government capacity,
but he's just the negotiator.
He's the Ray Donovan Fixer type, if you will,
running around the Middle East,
and he just bought an island
with a nice outfitted subterranean underground,
nuclear blast area,
with his lovely wife, the daughter of our current president, Donald Trump.
So it's a weird, wacky family with lots of branches.
And here is Benjamin Netanyahu talking at the United Nations General Assembly.
Okay, we're going to take you straight to the United Nations General Assembly in New York
because the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is best to be the stage.
Why is everyone leaving?
This is tough to watch.
Why won't they at least hear his rationale for the genocide?
Why?
He probably has a good reason.
Oh my God, everyone's getting out of there.
What's his opener?
I wonder what his opener is after everyone's walked out.
Now, stop it for a minute.
This is a great opportunity for anybody, any performer,
to realize that you're not always going to perform, you know,
in an environment that is hospitable to you,
that sometimes you're going to face a hostile crowd,
maybe they're drunk, maybe the air conditioning in the room is broke.
Like the original room of the comedy store hasn't had air conditioning in three weeks,
and I don't know where the hell the owners are,
but they should figure that out.
But anyway, you will be in inevitably,
situations that are hostile to you.
So now you have Benjamin Netanyahu getting up to deliver a speech
and then how rude all these delegates are leaving
and he's got a really now,
he's got to really look down deep within himself
and find the performer and just center.
Benjamin, focus on the ones that are there.
focus on the handful of people that are still there,
countries where you've personally installed the leaders
or have bribed or blackmailed them,
focus on them, focusing on the countries
that you've kind of co-opted through financial means, military,
whatever. Focus on the handful of people left.
And let's see if he does it,
because you've got to come out the gate with a good opener.
Strong opener.
Address what happened.
Address it, move on.
These are the rules.
Address what happened.
Quickly, don't derail.
Quickly address the fact that everybody left because they think you're Hitler.
And you just say, move on, address it, own it, move on.
Address it, own it, move on.
Redirect their attention.
You're the star of the show.
Let's see if he can do that Benjamin Netanyahu with the United Nations General Assembly.
the hole at the United
I request an order in the hall, please.
Come on, Benj.
I request an order in the hall, please.
Thank you.
Mr. President, before I begin...
Yes.
Just a quick announcement.
Right.
If there are any other moral cowards
who haven't yet left this hall,
please do so now.
Thank you very much.
Okay, you see what he did?
Now stop it there.
You see what he did.
He addressed the elephant in the room.
He called attention to it.
Okay?
He then took what could have been a loss and he made it into a win.
Right there.
If there are any other moral cowards that want to leave the hole, do it not.
Like he, so now what could have been a liability has become a
strength. This is so important for anyone out there, whether you're a genocidal maniac or not,
but if whatever, if you're thinking about public speaking, how to control a room, this is such an
important thing for you to learn. This is why school's not important anymore, because all of
the learning is free and it's all the time. That's why you don't need to go to college and
take out a bunch of loans to take a public speaking course.
You don't need any of that.
You can just observe a master in his element.
Brilliantly done.
Now let's, let's, can we see a little bit of the speech after that?
Is there any, do we have any clip right after that?
Okay, he's still got a little left here.
Let's, oh no, it's not that.
It's just a few seconds.
I want to see a little bit
because that was a brilliant move by him.
If there are any other moral cowards
that want to leave this room,
they can do so now.
And he gets a small applause, again,
from the countries
where they've personally installed the leaders,
including our own,
by the way,
including the United States.
And so, and now he's going to give a speech.
And he's going to speak,
I believe, about
his plans for the world.
And let's go back to where everyone's leaving,
and let's take it from here.
Mr. President, before I begin, just a quick announcement.
That's right.
If there are any other moral cowards
who haven't yet left this hall, please do so now.
Thank you very much.
That's right.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Still a tough room.
Still a tough room.
14 years ago.
That's right.
I stood on this podium and I drew a red line.
That's right.
I vowed to prevent Iran's murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs.
So this is another great way to everyone's looking him going, you're a murderous dictator.
You may be running a murderous dictatorship.
What he has done, watch how he's.
doing it smart he goes
14 years ago
he's not starting in the present
the president the president's a real problem
for him the heretz article
just came out that he should have done more to stop
the attack his own people are in
revolt you know people do
not like him he has damaged the
U.S. Israel relationship to a point
where it's like in smithereens
on the floor
he's lost the entire world
certainly the Western world
and and so he's
He's context here is key.
So he goes 14 years ago, like let's take a time machine back 14 years ago to when things were good.
14 years ago, I stood up here and I said Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon.
That's what we're talking about today.
I like, it's called framing the issue.
We're going to talk about job interviews later because young kids keep going on job interviews.
and not getting them because they don't know how to take control.
And they're in there with, like, iced coffees being like, you know,
talking about whatever and no one cares.
You know, trying to like, you know,
trying to talk about what deeply fulfills them on a spiritual level.
And their employers are like, hey, man, what?
Benjamin Netanyahu is here facing a very hostile crowd.
By the way, it's not,
Is it harder to be in Gaza now, or is it harder to be giving that speech?
Think about it.
Think about how difficult it is to be standing in front of that room right now.
And the fact that this man is doing it.
And yes, he's got clean clothes and water and private jets and private security
and lots of money and tons of people that are funding him and whatever
and control of our country and our president, whatever, who cares.
sure, I guess.
But no one's asking those people in Gaza to give a speech.
Huh?
No one's asking them to give a speech.
They just have to sit there and die.
Take it away.
Benjamin Netanyahu.
Nuclear weapons aimed at destroying Israel.
Nuclear weapons that could threaten the entire world.
That's exactly what we did.
Now let me say,
something that might surprise you. Devastating Iran's nuclear facilities is not enough.
Was hard. It was hard. It was very hard to do. Right. But for me, it was one of the easiest
decisions I've ever had to make as prime minister. I believe you. Because if we hadn't done it,
we'd all be dead. Great. Now you want to hear. Stop.
it for a second. This is a great, this is also a great lesson in public speaking.
If you have done a controversial thing, okay, whether it's an experimental vaccine for novel
coronavirus, okay, or it's sex change operations for young people who are questioning
their gender, or an incredibly controversial, highly illegal war that you are
losing with Iran, you will always make the argument that if you hadn't done it,
everyone would be dead.
It's the best argument to make.
It is like the top argument.
If we don't do this, the trans kids will kill themselves.
If everyone doesn't get all the vaccine, we're dead without that, okay?
If I didn't decimate Iran's ability to make a nuclear weapon, we'd all be dead.
We'd all be dead.
this is the tried and true methodology
of how to stand by a controversial decision
that was clearly the wrong decision.
The entire world is falling apart.
The price of commodities is skyrocketing.
Diplomatic relationships are fracturing.
Our bases are being blown off the face of the earth.
We're incapable of defending longstanding alliances.
It's remaking the moment.
Middle East. It's remaking our relationships with oil-rich Gulf states that up until now
were modernizing and becoming more open and their societies were becoming more tolerant.
And a lot of that was due to the fact that they were modernizing economically and in many
other ways. But all of that now has stopped. It has frozen. And the world order that we lived in
is disintegrating in front of our eyes.
So when you've made a decision like that,
and those are the results,
you just have to go out and go,
listen, we'd all be dead.
Had I not done that, we'd be dead.
There'd be no speech.
I'd be up here as a skeleton.
Let's continue.
I like the cut of his jib.
Benjamin et Niahu.
It defended itself.
Israel is also defending many of the countries whose delegates just left this hall.
In fact, I want you to know that many of their leaders even thank us privately for taking out Iran's nukes.
It's hard to imagine more mind-blowing hypocrisy, but that's exactly what it is.
Classic textbook narcissist. I did it for you.
We are faced with a threat of annihilation.
Yes.
On June 5th, 1967,
I'm going to start talking like this.
Israel was surrounded by enemies
who openly swore to destroy us.
All right, pause this.
I'm going to start speaking like this.
I'm under the threat of annihilation.
What a powerful way to look at the world.
I am under the threat of annihilation
and everything I do is to prevent being annihilated,
no matter how fucked up it seems on its face.
No matter what chaos I unleash
it is because I am constantly dealing with the threat of annihilation
and you wouldn't understand.
In fact, you are also dealing with the threat of annihilation.
You're too stupid to see it.
I have to get rid of the enemies for all of us.
These enemies are going to annihilate everybody.
I got to get rid of them for everybody.
All right, get them out of here.
Benjamin Netanyahu, you should watch the whole speech, by the way.
How long is it?
40 minutes.
40 minutes of Benjamin Netanyahu.
but I think we've heard most of the tenor of it,
which is, hey, if I didn't do this, we'd all be dead.
So, hey, it's, uh, I just, I just hope that, um,
you know, I just hope that, that people can open their heart to this man.
That's all.
That's my only thought.
I, I, I think it would be really good to open, uh,
you have to open your heart to this man because he is, um,
He is a beautiful soul, you know?
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Sonny Hosten, who's becoming my favorite person on the view,
because she's really unhinged.
And, you know, the view needs a few of these women
to make it watchable, a few people who are genuinely unhinged
and you don't quite know what they're going to do ever.
And that's what this is, and I only watch clips of it,
but the only reason that the view now is like,
it used to be Rosie O'Donnell was fun.
She's like, what happened to Building 7 and all that?
And she, by the way, yeah, what did happen?
She used to say stuff like that,
and Barbara Walters would stare in like shock and horror.
and that's why that show was fun.
You know, like Rosie O'Donnell would say something like,
coming up next, we've got Mary Steenbergen.
And then Rosie O'Donnell would go, well, Bob,
it's the first time in history that steel columns were melted by jet fuel.
And Barbara would just kind of like roll her eyes and be like, oh, Rosie.
Like, and that made it watchable.
Here is Sonny Hosten explaining why.
she has chosen to give her likeness to an AI company.
She has licensed herself to AI
because she cannot get anything made in Hollywood.
Now, by the way, no one can, actually.
Most people can't.
I talk to them all the time.
Hollywood's making roughly 50% less stuff
than they did.
when they were doing stuff.
And it's because it was a guy, nice kid named Adam Conover,
who had a show called Adam Ruins Everything on True TV.
He convinced all of these people that they should go on strike
because they weren't making enough money.
He said, we've got the leverage.
We're going to go in and we're going to show these executives who we are.
And at that time, this was like kind of towards the end of the pandemic,
there were a lot of shows in production and a lot of things are being made.
but yes, people were unhappy.
They were working long hours or whatever the case may be.
Now they're not working at all.
But Adam Kanover, and not only him,
but he was the front and center guy of this,
telling everyone in Hollywood like,
and they were writing on shows that nobody was really watching.
He goes, we got to really get out there and say,
you're going to pay us, and we're going to get residuals,
and we want to know who's watching what,
and we want our power as writers.
Now, by the way,
all power to you.
I'm not at studio exec.
I just from the outside was going,
this will not work the way they think it's going to work.
Didn't have a dog in a fight, truly.
I mean, I want everyone to get paid.
I want everyone to be happy.
I'm not, you know, but I knew
this will never work the way they think it's going to work.
It just isn't what,
first of all, they all started protesting
outside of these studio lots.
The studio people started cutting down the trees
so they would get sunburned.
So all of these writers out there getting sunburned
and then the Screen Actors Guild
went on strike and I'm in the Screen Actors Guild
so I was technically on strike which whatever
I mean I'm sitting here
Podcasts were not part of the strike
but whatever and again
I'm not like saying anything good about David Zazlov
I'm just saying I could see this from outside
going this is not going to work
they're not going to so they
they hammered out this very tenuous agreement
and then they just went,
we're not even going to make anything anymore.
We're going to make a few things
and we're going to deal with a small group of people
and we are going to,
and they had invested heavily in, during the pandemic,
all of these studios, streamers and whatnot
had invested heavily in AI programs.
And one of the big things with the writer's strike
was like, we will not be replaced by AI.
And the studios were like, oh, yeah,
we weren't even.
even planning on replacing you.
But of course, they were.
But the writers just didn't have the leverage they thought they had.
So the studios hammered out this kind of, you know, agreement.
Now, most people privately will tell you the strike was a mistake.
Most writers in the town and actors and people that make a living will tell you privately,
we'll go, this was a mistake.
Does it mean that the studios are good people or, you know, the executives are like, you know,
their hearts are full of, you know, their beacons of truth and light and justice,
it means that you didn't have the leverage you thought you did.
And in fact, the situation for them at this point is worse now than it was.
So Sonny Hosten is very upset because she writes romance novels.
Like get up the titles of some of Sunny Hosten's book.
She writes romance novels and they're kind of like drugstore slop.
Summer in the Bluffs.
Summer on the Bluffs.
Set in Oak Bluffs on Marthes Vineyard,
the first novel follows a wealthy woman
hosting her three goddaughters for life-changing summer.
Summer on Sag Harbor.
Summer on Highland Beach.
So she's writing drugstore slop novels
and hosting the view.
Now, by the way, not hating on that at all.
Get your money, write that slop.
she is upset that they have not made summer on the bluffs into a film.
She is really upset about this.
So Sonny Hosten, who I imagine was all for the writer's strike.
It is all for every cause that elevates the marginalized and everything.
And by the way, maybe I'm talking at a turn.
Maybe she was big with the executive.
I can't imagine that.
She was probably very supportive of the WGA.
strike. This would be my guess, which was all about AI.
So Sunny Hassan is now coming on the view to explain to everyone why she has personally,
she personally is selling all of her content to an AI company so that AI can make it.
And because she wants people of color to get more opportunities, not actual people of color,
but AI people of color.
I want you to listen to Sunny Haaston here.
It's very interesting,
and this is why identity politics is like super important
for the people that run everything.
Because this explanation that she gives
is so insane and brilliant.
It's so insane and brilliant.
I can't not like her.
This is the thing about a lot of these,
but just the same way I felt about,
I feel about all these people.
You know, whether it's a Megan Markle or whether it's the bitch from Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes,
or even Cash Patel, I find him likable, even though he is a goon and a goofball and dishonest.
There is something likable about how absolutely, likeable he is, likeable he is of doing anything right.
It's like a child you have that can't do anything right.
You want to hit them and you want to ground them,
but there's some likeability they have because they're such a buffoon.
So here is Sonny Hosten trying to tell everyone on the panel why she sold everything.
Here she is.
Take it away.
I recently partnered with a company called Fountain Zero.
who had an AI movie released at the Tribeca Film Festival.
It's the first time that that was done.
And one of the reasons I partnered with this company...
So now, stop it for a minute.
And then we're going to play the whole thing.
You can see Joy Behar getting mad.
Joy Behar is a hundred and twelve years old.
Joy Behar is a very old stand-up comedian from New York,
who's been on the View forever.
And you can see Joy Behar is getting really angry
that Sonny Hostin is saying,
going, doing AI propaganda on the view.
So you can see the muscles in Joy Behar's face start to tighten up.
Like Joy Behar's like, hey, what the fuck?
What are you doing?
And now we're going to watch this when I want you to run it back
because we're going to watch the whole thing.
But just also, as you're listening to this,
you're going to start to hear Joy Behar.
and for a lot of the people that listen and aren't watching,
you're going to hear Joy Behar becoming increasingly angry at Sunny Hosten.
Here you go.
Recently partnered with a company called Fountain Zero
who had an AI movie released at the Tribeca Film Festival.
It's the first time that that was done.
And one of the reasons I partnered with this company
is because I've written a trilogy,
and for six years, I've tried to get my films or my stories
made into series and films.
And the gatekeeping in Hollywood
around black and brown
creative content is insane.
I cannot get New York Times
best-selling books onto the screen
to tell diverse stories to diverse communities.
So what does that do with AI?
With AI that cuts out
the gatekeeping.
You get to make your film.
You get to have a director.
No, they're generated.
I've licensed my image.
And so I may appear
where is Waldo somewhere in it.
Wait, wait, you're a robot now?
I may appear, but in all seriousness,
it's a way to go then to a streamer and say,
here's the product.
Will you license it?
Will you show it?
It's a way, I think, to get black and brown stories told.
There are a lot of figures out there.
Those stories are not being told.
But if those people are, in fact, robots,
how does that help the real black community?
I would say, because the real people are not working.
Because the stories are being told, Joy.
Because the real people are not getting jobs in Hollywood.
The train has left the station, and this is something that's here.
It's not going away.
And I think that there are going to be enormous benefits, but of course they're going to be...
Did you feel any ethical issues in signing that?
I thought about it a lot.
But she needs the project.
Well, I don't need the project.
I think that diverse stories need to be told.
I get that.
So stop this for...
Okay.
you hear exactly the rationale that has been used for every person who drapes themselves
in their identity all the time.
It is primarily for the purposes of their own advancement.
And by their own, I mean them.
Not other people.
Not even their communities.
This woman is now saying black and brown stories need to be told
even if it's with generative AI.
So those jobs don't go to black and brown actors.
They will go to AI and I will make all of the money.
She doesn't care about black and brown stories being told.
She cares about her stories being told.
It is nothing to do with diverse stories and diverse audiences.
How many black and brown people are reading?
summer on the bluffs or whatever the fuck this bitch is even writing.
But it is a blatant.
And by the way, sure.
Like, you know, like, at the end of the day, if she would just say that,
if she just said the trains left the station to say,
I think's not going anywhere, I'm getting on board.
People could either love it or hate it, but she was like,
like it's about the stories being told.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's about her story being told and getting money for it and damn everyone else who
wants to work.
So she's just great.
We like her.
We're in support of her because we're excited to see over the next few months or years
what else she will justify with this.
Now that we have this framework, what else can we justify with this framework that like,
hey, I've tried to make a bunch of bestsellers in the movies and nobody would do it.
So now we're using AI.
Palantir's doing it.
Palantir's doing it.
You know why, Joy?
Because diverse stories need to get told.
And Peter Thiel's doing it.
So how about that?
You don't like it?
Fuck, Elon Musk is doing it now.
Elon Musk is doing it.
You know why?
Because diverse stories, hey, Sam Altman's doing it.
You know why?
Because diverse stories need to get told.
So it does, yeah, what is Fountain Zero, by the way?
These are AI, because this is what they, all they want is AI slop.
One of the things that, you know, whether I disagree with my colleagues on some other political things,
and some of us do have disagreements
and some of us are more aligned than you would think.
But one thing that I really do respect
about a lot of the people
that I may have certain disagreements with
is that we all want human art to be human
and that we don't want to participate
in this AI slop factory
because it completely drains
the humanity from what's going on
and I do respect that about people.
But I also at the same time, do respect multi-millionaire Sonny Hosten
who needs to make a movie and her need to have a movie made
is bigger than humanities need to thrive and continue to exist.
So it's hard because I say to myself, I go,
should humanity remain the paramount creative force on Earth?
No, because Sunny Hosten, multi-millionaire,
Sunny Hosten, who's on television every single day,
who has, by her own admission, many best-selling books,
but they're not movies.
No one's made a movie about Summer on the Bluffs.
Now, get up Summer on the Bluffs,
and I want to know more about Summer on the Bluffs
because she's saying this is so important
that Black and Brown children need to hear Summer on the Bluffs.
Okay.
Amelia Amma Vaux-Tanner, a wealthy retiree mourning her late husband,
decides to move to the south of France.
So automatically, if I'm a kid in the Chicago public school system,
I'm like, give me this book.
Nothing will help the economic conditions of minorities in this country more than this book.
Amelia Amma, Votaner, a wealthy retiree mourning her late husband,
decides to move to the south of France.
she invites her three goddaughters to her Oak Bluffs Beach House, Chateau LeVoe,
for one final summer get-together.
Amma announces that by Labor Day, she will hand the deed to the prized house over to only one of them.
Each woman desperately wants to home, but each hides a major personal secret that she fears will ruin her chances at approval
and unaware that Ama is keeping secrets of her own.
So that's summer on the bluffs.
And listen, I think there are a lot of communities in America
that should be better funded.
The police should have better training.
The school should get more money.
People should get health care.
People should have jobs.
We should focus our money on the Bronx.
We should focus our money on East St. Louis and all of these places.
and Detroit and Appalachia and whatever,
it's not necessarily about race,
although it's a lot of the black communities
have been decimated.
And we shouldn't be focusing our money
on the Ukraine and Israel.
But I also think in lieu of that,
if we don't do that,
if we just keep sending our money abroad
and giving it to Sam Altman,
I do think somewhere on the bluffs
should be a movie.
Because if nothing else,
those kids who live in deindustrialized crime-ridden hellscapes
who don't have the resources to succeed in life
can then at least go home and watch summer on the bluffs.
And I guess it will inspire them
because they go maybe one day
I'll be able to write AI slop like summer on the bluffs.
Every summer, Esperanza, quote,
Perry Soto, a beautiful and talented Afro-Latina lawyer,
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for the gorgeous weather and cool water
and stunning views of oak bluffs.
Sharing a cottage on the beach owned by Amma with her late husband and two sisters,
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for days of languor and fun.
I mean, yeah, this should be AI.
This should be AI slot.
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if you're not going to make my terrible book into a movie,
if you're not going to make my terrible book into a movie,
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A lot of these young tech guys are saying
that women do not want to date them
once they reveal that they are designing
like weapons systems for Palantir
or something like that.
This was an article that just came out
why no one wants to date the tech pros.
Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators,
men in tech are now widely regarded as red-pilled.
Elon Musk wannabes!
It's made getting laid a whole lot harder.
engaged in a flirtatious conversation
at a bar in Manhattan,
23-year-old Gary stood with a Guinness
in hand, as he explained to a woman
why he took an engineering job at Palantir.
The data analytics company founded by Alex Carp and Peter Thiel,
ranking a $250,000 salary would allow him to help
pay off his parents mounting medical bills, he explained.
Gary wasn't met with sympathy.
Medical debt, the woman told him,
was, quote, not an excuse to work somewhere like that.
She was referring, of course, to Palantir's controversial work with governments, including the U.S. and Israel, which used the company's surveillance tools for law enforcement and military operations.
Since joining that tech company in 2025 that naming his employer prompts brutal reactions from prospective women.
One woman, he says, called him the devil. Another asked how he lives with himself.
Sometimes people just straight up stop talking to me, he says.
recently Gary's buddies requested he not mentioned Palantir on the Knights
Out together so as to not tank the whole group's chances.
I get nervous now.
I don't bring it up, says Gary.
That's hilarious.
Gary has resorted to saying he works in AI.
Even that gets some pretty bad responses sometimes.
His hinge profile doesn't mention his employer.
Gary, I will suck your dick.
Gary?
Gary, I'm telling you right now.
I will suck your cock.
Come to Los Angeles.
I'm very good at it.
I will blow you.
It may not be what you want.
I can throw on my Megan McCain wig,
but this is what you get now.
And I'll take you to the mothership
and you can meet Joe Rogan.
You've made your choice, sir.
You've made your choice.
You can meet Bert Kreischer at the comedy store.
That's your life now.
No more hot New York City pussy for you, Gare.
Come here and I will throw on my Barry Weiss wig.
and I will suck on your balls.
And that is what you get for working for Palantir.
It's not over.
It's just different.
Hey, Gary, and I will eat your ass.
Gary, I will eat it like an ice cream Sunday.
Now, you might be saying yourself,
oh my God, what has happened?
And you can bring me home to your family.
You can bring me home to your family,
and I will dress like a woman, as I have on this show many times,
and I will show up like a woman to your house.
And when your parents ask you if you're gay, say, no, but this is all I have now.
I work for fucking Palantir.
And we'll live in Austin, Gary, and it'll be 115 degrees.
And your balls will always have a certain funk to them that I find appealing, but many others don't.
And Gary, it will be a different life.
We can go swim in the hot, disgusting lake that's always about 96 degrees.
And I will go with you to your parents' house.
wherever the hell they happen to live.
And I will sit there in full drag
while I compliment your mother's casserole
and you will say,
I make 250 grand a year
so I can pay for your medical debt.
But now this is who I'm fucking.
This is the only person
who will put my cock in his mouth.
Her mouth.
I will serve her.
I'll have food in my mouth.
I'll have food in my mouth.
Her mouth.
So Gary, my DMs are open.
You can email me.
I'm represented by three arts.
to the Creative Arts Agency, CAA.
You can email them, email my agents,
my manager, you can email my business manager.
You can hit me up on any social media site.
I do have a cat, but even if you're allergic to the cat,
it's okay, we will lock it in another room
while I have sex with you dressed as Barry Weiss.
Yes or yes, Gary.
Gary, it's all for you now.
It's all coming true.
Could you get a heart on, Gary?
I'm dressed like Barry Weiss.
We play traditional Israeli techno in the house.
I'm dancing.
And then after we both come, we read Peter Till's Satan lecture word for word in the house.
Gary, doesn't it sound nice?
Gary doesn't it sound nice?
It's not what you thought, but life never is, Gary.
Gary, life never is.
Imagine introducing me to your family
With a nice wig
And my nice sharp little Barry Weiss glasses
I'll wear my sexy little Barry glasses for you
Gary
Gary
Gary it's just different
I hope someone sends this to him
And I hope he considers it
I hope you consider it
Don't go fucking faggety whining to fucking
What is this wired
Or some fucking
Don't go
What is this?
Wired exactly
Stop whining
to wire did a couple of liberal
bitches don't like your Palantir
cock. I'll put it right in my mouth
and I'll rub it all over my face, Gary.
Send this to your parents.
Send this video
to your parents.
There's nothing you could say, now
if Gary's good looking and I imagine he's
not great, but it doesn't
matter, Gary. I don't care what you
do. I don't care
if you're putting the targets on
the baby's heads in Gaza
So while Palantir blows them up, it doesn't matter to me.
I separate the art from the artist, Gary.
Okay.
So that's how we solve that problem.
Solved it.
Moving on.
Moving on.
Moving on, Gar.
What else did I send you?
I sent you something as I was heading over.
I was, uh, oh yeah, this Nepo stuff.
I want to get into this here.
And Gary, all of that is true.
All of those things are true, and I'm always ready for you, Gary.
This is my girlfriend.
Hello?
What happened?
We didn't know you're gay.
I'm not gay.
I just work for Palantir.
And this podcast is the only one that'll suck my dick.
And he does it dress like Barry Weiss.
And we can have children together.
We'll get a surrogate.
We will get a surrogate like Barry did.
I think, oh, no, Barry's wife might have the kids.
Whatever.
Anyway, Gary, DMs are open.
Anyway, so this is.
is an article from the Wall Street Journal.
You heard of this?
We've reached peak Nepo Baby.
Every new artist is hit with the label these days.
So this is the Wall Street Journal.
Now, by the way, the Wall Street Journal every now and then
does something insane.
Usually, the Wall Street Journal is sort of a somewhat predictable.
Their editorial page is kind of boring.
But then every now and then they will run an article like,
you know, do you need a dining room table?
Lunch is becoming a real problem.
You know, because their game here is to bet you have to stop complaining about your life.
This is kind of what the Wall Street Journal kind of,
this is where they, they're basically like,
we're not going to bother you with the woke stuff.
That's what they say.
We're not going to bother you with all the land acknowledgement shit.
but you're also going to have to stop complaining
about the cost of lunch or the fact that you live in a shed.
We don't want to hear it.
We don't want to hear it.
We're not going to bother you with the DEI shit,
but if you are living in a camper,
we don't want to hear it.
We don't want to hear it.
Artists is hit, so now,
basically the Wall Street Journal of this article,
which I read by Ali Jones,
is that it's about the fact
that everybody now seems
to be sort of a nepo baby in some way.
They're either the direct child of an actor or actress.
And I'll put them in my movie till we're raising money right now for a film.
So if you're a nepo baby, don't think that I won't put you in the film either.
I'm not holding the nepo thing against you because I believe, by the way, that some of them are very talented.
I believe that.
I don't care that their parents or actors or actresses.
If you are talented and if you have sex with me on sex,
and don't accuse me of raping you,
I will put you in the movie, Gary.
Stella Lefty was riding high.
The country folk singer spent the summer going viral on TikTok
for her breakout single Boston,
a pared down love song that is currently number two
on the Billboard Hot 100.
Then internet sleuths discovered that Lefty was short for Lefkofsky
and the overnight success was the daughter of a billionaire.
Lefty's father, Groupon co-founder, Eric Lefzkovsky,
is not a music industry.
but soon this singer was labeled a Nepo Baby
along with many other new stars
who have undeniable privilege
but tenuous connection to the entertainment world.
Okay, so here's what the Wall Street Journal is saying.
Just because she's a billionaire
doesn't mean she's a nepo baby
because her dad is a billionaire.
It's not like her dad's Goldie Hawners.
I mean, her dad's like her mom's not Goldie Hawner,
dad's not Kurt Russell, whatever, you know?
Now, okay.
This discourse kind of,
It bores me anyway because truly like rich people will always have an advantage.
billionaire, and I will, I'm just going to tell the Wall Street Journalist,
they may be unaware of this.
It might actually be more advantageous if your dad's a tech billionaire than an actor or actress.
You might actually get further.
I know this might shock the Wall Street Journal to their core.
You may get further in entertainment if your dad is a AI billionaire, tech billionaire,
than if your dad was on House of Cards or something.
So you see that now I'm also,
it bores me to constantly shake my fist
at people that have more advantages in life than I do.
I find that boring.
I hate the mentality of a victim.
That being said,
it is hard to ignore
how many of these people do seem to be out there.
How many of these kids have famous,
moms and dads.
And how many of these children's moms and dads are billionaires?
She, her name is long.
So I understand why she cut it short.
It's Jewish.
That might be why she cut it short too.
That's happening in Hollywood.
And she's doing country music.
So she might feel like, and I don't know, by the way, I don't know why she's
doing country music, whatever.
But everything's for the taking now.
So she doesn't, so I'm saying there's other reasons that she might have changed your name
other than the fact that she didn't want people to find out who her dad is.
But obviously people were going to find out and did find out.
And I don't think that this makes her untalented.
I don't find her that great and don't play her music because she'll copyright strike me.
And then God only knows her father will really strike me with a drone.
So the last thing we need to do right now is fucking anger, these fucks.
Okay?
I don't find her to be that amazing.
I think she's fine and I don't, I don't attack the woman because all she gets is hate all the time.
But to me, it's, it doesn't, I hear the music, it doesn't move me.
But we're also living in a time now where mediocrity is the enduring thing.
And you will, and everything's for the taking.
Like you can put on a cowboy hat and be a country music star.
Nothing matters.
You can be a rapper from a rich family and a prep school kid.
Like, everything is for the taking.
you invent the identity you want to be
and then people will just gravitate towards it
and these people are going to make
so much money, it's unfathomable
and that will drive everyone nuts.
I'm not one of these big simulation guys
but the fact that someone named Stella Lefty
were discussing this even
you know, that she's a country mute is her
did she steal the song from Noah Cahot?
Like it does feel,
like we're in some type of matrix.
It does feel like we're in some type of simulation.
These people, you're just going to watch them make so much money.
It's going to blow your mind how much money these people make.
They're going to make gazillions of dollars.
They're going to invent new denominations of money
for how much money these people make
because everything now is about the machine.
It's the machine.
It's not the raw talent.
It's the machine behind the raw talent.
So I know that the Wall Street Journal is saying,
well, her dad's just the billionaire.
He wasn't like the drummer in Metallica.
Sure.
Yeah.
Sure.
But, you know, that might also have advantages,
Wall Street Journal.
And by the way,
I'm a Nepo baby in the sense
that my mother was a schizophrenic
and I'm on YouTube.
That's kind of a netbo baby.
baby, if you think about it.
My mother was a fucking schizo and died in a public mental institution.
Now I'm here doing it for a living.
I have a very nice car.
But, so I get it.
I understand this.
Me and Stella, we're the same.
You can't get mad at this stuff, but you can notice it.
You can notice how much of culture is curated by machines that are operating, all well-paid.
well-organized campaigns to put something out there
until you accept that it is the next thing.
That's always happened to a degree.
But now it's incredibly personal
because you can see it happen and you can feel it.
Whereas, you know, in the old days of traditional media,
there were layers between that and you.
Now you can feel it.
You can see it happen.
You know, I mean, and I have no, on a train back to bar.
Fine.
I'm not trying to begrudge anyone their success.
Is it exit?
Like the Ella Langley thing, she's good.
She's really good.
That song's good.
But it's enough now.
It's enough now.
It's crazy that that's the biggest song ever.
That's crazy.
But it's what happened when everyone in this country was
lectured for about four years that they were, were, they had privilege.
And a lot of people didn't.
And some did.
But a lot of these white people you were telling were privileged and evil, they ended up,
they left the cultural spaces where that was happening and they went to a cultural space
where that wasn't happening and everyone became a fan of country music.
And now guys I know who grew up in New Jersey are like, you go to country music shows
because they feel like they're not being.
moralized too and they're not being lectured or whatever.
But now I think we're at the point now
where that's going to recede a little bit
and then
you're going to start to see that that peaked
Choose in Texas, fun song,
a little bit of an earworm,
you know,
Jesus, I can tell
by the way,
yeah, it's good, it's good.
It's good. It's good.
But this is what happens with culture
at peaks. And I think we're at the peak of that.
We're at the peak of people just, you know, putting on cowboy hats and, you know,
just kind of stealing someone else's culture just because it makes them feel more comfortable
momentarily. I'm not saying you can't be a fan of country music. I love a lot of country music,
whatever. So I think this Stella lefty here is popping the bubble a little bit on that.
And people are going, wait, what? And I'm not saying you should hate this woman.
She wants to be a singer. And she's,
singing, okay? But culture will is going to move on from this and it's going to move on to the
when you hear Sunny Hassan going to train is left to station. She's not wrong when she says that about
AI and about all of these things. The train is left to station and this is left to station and that's going
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But there is going to be a time
when people are going to have to actually make choices about what you consume. And if you're going to,
if you value humanity and you value watching human beings
and listening to human beings,
there will be a time when you're going to have to choose to not see the AI movie.
There's going to have to be a time when you go, yeah, I don't care.
I'm not going to see it or I'm not going to watch the AI show.
You know, and there will be a, there will be a,
and now there's going to be people that don't make that decision,
especially younger people who didn't grow up with human movies,
and they don't give a shit.
And they go, hey man, I don't give a fucking.
fuck. I didn't grow up with the mighty
ducks and when Harry met Sally in the
bird cage and fucking
casino. I didn't grow up with any of that.
So what do I care? I'm just going to watch AI
Slop. I'm going to watch Summer on the Bluffs
because Sunny Hosten decided because she
needed a fucking movie made.
And listen, God bless Stella Lefty
or whoever, whoever's out there.
You know, it's very hard now to be a
successful person if your parents
are totally fucked.
It's very difficult.
Okay?
It is really hard.
So these kids do have a leg up.
If your father is a billionaire,
it's probably beneficial.
It doesn't mean you have no talent.
It does mean that your talent is viewed differently.
It's always going to be viewed differently.
Sorry.
I know a lot of rich kids who want to pretend to be
musicians and comedians and all this stuff.
And that's okay.
You're allowed to do that.
It's a choose your own adventure here.
Okay?
But you also just got to have the awareness,
to self-awareness to know
that people may see it a little differently.
That's all.
You just got to own it.
You just got to do it.
Why are all of these people
the only people that seem to be getting
anything, that's a fair question.
That's a fair question.
I think a lot of it is that they grow up with these
executives and casting directors and people like that
and they're in the world already and they know the customs
and they know how to do things and
maybe they'll shut their mouth about, you know, some behavior
that other, they go, these people know how to keep their mouth shut.
Maybe that's part of it.
You know? Whereas I'll go on a movie and then trash it
because it was bad because my job is to tell people shit on this fucking program,
a lot of those people will not.
And they might be a better investment than me.
Like if Stella Lefty was in Joker 2,
she wouldn't have said a goddamn thing about it.
She would have said, I love that.
It was such a joy to work with Gogh, the other one, and Joaquin.
And, you know, she would have done it.
Because she understands, she understands the assignment.
I'm not even saying that's necessarily bad.
I'm just saying perhaps that is a reason
you see a lot of these netboat babies get shit
is because the powers that be,
the powers that be,
the ones that are making large investments
are trying to manage risk.
And they go, these kids know how to keep their mouth shut.
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Daddy, I want to play soccer.
And I would say,
I got to find my supplements.
And they knew I was about to Hulk out and go nuts
because I didn't have my fucking supplements.
And it became really difficult for my family.
My wife, Asmerelda, and my three sons,
Muhammad,
Muhammad, another son named Muhammad.
And, um,
Avzal.
Avzal rolls with a puncher
more than the two Mohammeds.
And so to me, it's really about
kind of a real beautiful
halal thing
for my personal Muslim family
to have this supplemental
drink every day
from David Beckham. So thank him
and his family, but it is actually good.
In all serious, it's great.
Thank you.
Let's talk for a minute about job interviews before I get out of here because I know a lot of
an explosive debate over iced coffee highlights how tricky it can be to navigate interview etiquette.
I'm telling you this right now, folks.
The job market is brutal.
It's not great.
And you're not all going to have to get, and you're not all going to have fucking daddy
group on.
So you're going to have to figure it out.
This is an article.
Where was this from?
Washington Post.
Yeah.
The Washington Post now is saying that what you do and don't do on an interview is different than it used to be.
Things are evolving, they're shifting, they're changing.
When I was a fresh college graduate interviewing for my full-time job,
I thought about my mother's interviews, dues, and don'ts.
Don't wear anything that could reveal tattoos.
Don't start with asking questions about salary.
And always, she stressed this above all else.
Mail a physical thank you note the next day.
in the years since I entered the job market
interview etiquette norms have changed dramatically
while each sector field and company
may have its own rituals
former no-noes like tattoos and dyed hair
often aren't deal breakers
and many interviews take place over Zoom
which introduces a whole new slate of dues and don'ts
but not everyone agrees on which rules to keep
and which to toss out
in a video posted on TikTok last week
recruiter Caitlin
Wenanian
introduced a new one.
Don't carry an ice coffee into an interview.
Walking in a shake hands while juggling a drink
can make a big moment seem just like another stop
on your list of errands for the day.
The comment section under the original video exploded.
One recruiter agreed that bringing in a nice coffee to a meeting
can be distracting, one poster asked.
Are you expecting my whole day to revolve around a 30-minute meeting?
Satires and skits have spoofed both Gen Z job seekers
and corporate overlords.
Wenanian has since posted a follow-up video saying she wasn't trying to stoke the flames for the sake of likes in repose.
When you really want a job offer, you need to know certain ways of going about the process that helps you build confidence.
When you know what to expect going in the door, the video and the ensuing debate have exposed a greater challenge.
How do you navigate ever-changing interview etiquette when the job hunt can already be confusing, discouraging, and exhausting?
You have two problems.
I'm going to tell you right now
the two problems, okay?
And some of you will agree with me
and some will disagree with me
and it won't change the fact that I'm right.
Gen Z has a very good quality
that has very bad components.
Wow. Settle in.
Gen Z's very good quality is this,
from what I can understand.
and from the people that I've spoken to and the things I've read about it.
They want to have a fulfilling life where they are not a slave to their job
and that their job is not the only thing that they dedicate their time to.
They want to build a life that includes their career but is not all about their career.
This is from the people that interact.
in the Gen Z job market.
And so that you'll have conversations
with Gen Z people
where they talk about time off
and nights off
and are they really free
and can you text them at night
and are they going to have to be
on the Slack group chat?
How much work do they want to do?
They said any other thing.
Okay, so by the way,
I think that's overall a good quality.
It's a European quality.
It's seeing their millennial brethren
get ground into paste
by corporate America,
and don't have much to show for it.
Many of them don't own homes.
The relationship pictures may be,
you know, maybe they're not having children
or getting married or whatever.
They're living in very expensive cities
in arrangements with roommates
well into their 30s and even older.
And their Gen Z peers look at that and go,
they dedicated everything to their careers
and their careers became their lives.
And their lives,
they thought like they were going to meet the guy
or the girl working at Vice or whatever,
you know, working somewhere.
And some people did, but some people didn't.
So that is the Gen Z instinct to go,
I don't want to trade,
but here are the bad components of that
because every good has a bad.
Every positive thing has a bad.
Working at Palantir,
you make $250,000,
you can pay your parents' medical debt off.
But you are designing machinery of death
to kill innocent people.
people, and I'm going to have sex with you, Justice, Barry Weiss.
That's what it is.
Here are the bad components of Gen Z's overarching thing, which again, I think is good.
I think that's a positive thing.
Some of the negative components of that is that you're trying to reverse engineer something.
thing without the knowledge that you would need to determine what those appropriate boundaries
are.
Meaning you get out of college, you go into the workforce, and you go, I'm 22 years old,
and I demand a perfectly balanced life.
That's never going to happen.
It's never going to happen.
you have to fight for that.
And I don't mean you have to fight like in a crazy sense
where you are, you know, it becomes the struggle of your entire existence.
But I mean like you have to determine what that looks like
and what sacrifices you are willing to make for that.
You can only learn those things through experience.
And I'm not telling you to become a slave to some nameless faces,
corporation. But it is very hard at 20 years old or 22 years old to go, I want every sector of
my life to be hot and great and fulfilling and thrilling. I want a great social life and a great
romantic life and a great income and a great relationship with my family and I want to live in a
place that I like and I want to have free time to pursue hobbies and side quests. That is something
that is very unreasonable. And I think, by the way, I think that,
The framework of that comes from a good place of going,
I don't want to throw my whole life away for this job.
But the practical application of that
is something that you cannot demand immediately.
You have to then find that balance
through asserting your own boundaries as you go through life.
You're not going to get that immediately.
You might work for a year at a job,
and go, that was too much for me.
I'm not built for that.
You might decide the city you're living in is too expensive.
I don't really love that.
You might decide that, you know what?
You actually see, you're more of a country person.
You don't want to live in a city at all.
There isn't a one-size-fits-all,
and you need to learn that as you go.
I don't think it's a bad thing to want, a balanced life,
but it's very hard at 20 years old
to go to a corporation and go,
to walk in with a nice coffee and go, listen, when's my, when's my vacation?
When do I get at, so wait, will you text me at night?
I don't want to ever return a text at night about a job-related issue.
I don't know if that's realistic, you know?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Oh, yeah.
It just is what it is, folks.
Like, you know, people have to just say to themselves,
Here we go.
The interview has always been a place to assess fit,
both for the applicant and for the company,
said Sarah McCord, a former career columnist
and founder and CEO of Sarah McCord Communications.
If there's an immediate visceral reaction on either end,
the company doesn't want a candidate who brings a nice latte.
A candidate doesn't want somewhere where the company cares.
That's actually specifically exactly how the interview is supposed to work.
So what this bitch is saying is walk in with a latte.
And if they don't want your latte,
you don't want them.
That might be the great latte challenge.
You walk in and you put the latte down
and then look at...
Here's what I would do.
If I'm a candidate,
ask me right now
why I think I'm a good fit for the job.
Thanks for coming in.
Why do you think you're a good fit for the job?
I'm not.
Ultimate power move.
Make them want you more.
Take a sip out of a latte and go, I'm not.
If you think I'm one of these drones, it's going to sit there and fucking lose my identity in your capitalist machine.
You're out of your fucking mind.
My father owns Groupon, you faggot.
My father owns Groupon, and I'm a country gal.
And then put your hat on with your latte and go, and I'm a country gal.
And go in with a guitar and go, I want to sing in my country gal.
interview. I want to sing. My father owns Groupon.
AI's going to put you with a cage.
Peter Teels my father!
And open your eyes and they'll be all black and go,
Peter Teals my father!
And then you'll get the job.
Bye.
