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The Audacity S01E06 (2026)
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00:26I'm proud of you, bastards.
00:28You know the cost, now we're in the ground.
00:30Maguire, you're in the Widowmaker.
00:31Fix bayonets and cut them to ribbons, boys.
00:37And if God is watching, he's seen worse and said nothing.
00:42Let's go!
00:49You know bayonet, you're right in the chest.
00:51You should fall right down.
00:53Fall, fall, fall!
00:54You don't try and back.
00:57You're done, and bing, you are dead.
01:01Oh, nice touch.
01:05What are you guys signing a treaty?
01:07There's a war!
01:15Boom, stab to the face.
01:16You're dead.
01:19What kind of German machinery is this fucking thing?
01:23What is that, a Cadillac?
01:29Hi.
01:31Sorry.
01:33Um, strategy can't fire, but ten o'clock.
01:35No?
01:37Thank you for fucking up the verisimilitude.
01:44Are you playing, Wordle?
01:45No.
02:11Duncan!
02:13What are you doing here?
02:15I just came to talk business, and I got you a little present.
02:19I don't care for business at home.
02:20Can we set a call?
02:22Oh, come on.
02:23Better mono your mono, you know?
02:24And just open it.
02:25Open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open.
02:29It's a truffle.
02:32For my favorite truffle pig.
02:34You seem to be taking the news well.
02:36What am I taking well?
02:40Don't you know?
02:41Uh, I don't know what...
02:43I don't know.
02:45Carl Badoff.
02:46He's tapped me to be the CEO.
02:51It's fabulous.
02:52I mean, CEO of what?
02:57Hypernosis, Duncan.
02:58That's the name of my company.
03:00I didn't ask for the job.
03:03Carl came to me.
03:04Okay.
03:05I get it now.
03:06He's using you to get to me.
03:08I don't think that's what this is.
03:09Yeah, I'm sorry it is.
03:10It is.
03:10I'm in the midst of realigning the company's mission.
03:13Jesus, I was gone for a few days and now you have a mission?
03:15You had a breakdown and fled.
03:17I did not have a breakdown.
03:19At any rate, Carl's put his full faith in me.
03:22I intend to lead hypernosis and earn that trust.
03:26Okay.
03:26I mean, okay.
03:28Okay.
03:29Okay.
03:30Yeah.
03:30Okay.
03:31Stop saying okay.
03:32Okay.
03:32How about...
03:37We...
03:38shared the chair.
03:39I know we could do one of those, what do you call it?
03:41You know, a prajelina?
03:42You like the sound of...
03:44Dushka?
03:47Okay.
03:47You're holding out for a nunkin?
03:50Fine.
03:51The point is...
03:53Power couple.
03:55I won't deny it.
03:56I'm, like, super hurt because you tried to destroy me with an end of peace and I'm still kind of
03:59hurting now.
04:00But then I learned we hurt others because we care.
04:03We hurt because we love.
04:06Yeah.
04:08So I came here...
04:12Because I asked Lily for a divorce.
04:15No, you didn't.
04:15Yeah, it was a good conversation.
04:16Did you?
04:17Yeah, she took it.
04:18Well, the thing is, I want to be with you.
04:20I want to be really, really with you.
04:25You know, it's not just about the CEO thing.
04:27Would be nice.
04:28But, come on, you feel the same.
04:31You know it.
04:32I'm afraid, I do not feel the same way.
04:36Same in your own way.
04:37Duncan, please.
04:39Martin's right there.
04:40There's nothing to hide.
04:41Be quiet.
04:42Those of us with a modicum of shame have a great deal to hide.
04:44Come on, you...
05:01Don't steal me.
05:03Mmm.
05:03Best buy it, maybe.
05:05But the rest is self-hatred.
05:09I don't wish to share a chair with you.
05:12Or an office.
05:14Or a company.
05:15Or a bed.
05:18Come on, Anoush.
05:23Otherwise, it's...
05:26It's war.
05:29I think it already is war.
05:33You think you're winning?
05:37Wow.
05:38I came to apologize.
05:41Offer you my love.
05:43My talent.
05:44And you...
05:46Shit on it.
05:47Like I'm a sidewalk.
05:50I bought you a $4,000 truffle.
05:56And you're...
05:58You're...
05:58Not a fun guy.
06:11Or it is.
06:27Please.
06:30Ah...
06:45Hey, uh, you got a minute?
06:47Uh, next patient just arrived.
06:49Yeah, mine did too.
06:50Okay, so maybe later.
06:52Yeah, real quick.
06:53Your 401k, there's what, like $800,000 in there?
06:57Uh, yeah.
06:57Why?
06:58Well, if we cashed, say, $700,000 now, the tax hit would be significant, but we'd clear,
07:03what, like $400,000?
07:04Uh, no, that's our security.
07:06This house could be our security, and it is going to sell by the end of the week!
07:11Wait, so you tell me that your plan now is to cash out our old age pennies on the dollar
07:18for overpriced real estate?
07:20We only need 20% down, Gary!
07:23Okay, unless my math is totally off, $400,000 is nowhere near 20%.
07:29You're missing, like, a million and change.
07:31Well, I, uh, I have access, a plan to access.
07:36A million dollars, pray tell.
07:39The plan?
07:40Mm-hmm.
07:40It's a, uh, a financial instrument, a sort of, uh, advanced second mortgage introductory
07:46rate asset swap.
07:48But, you know, never mind.
07:51Play it safe.
07:52Lose our home.
07:54Our offices.
07:56Safe.
08:00Last time I, I saw her, we had sex.
08:03Did I do it wrong?
08:05That seems unlikely.
08:09Yeah, I don't know, but it's like, to go from, God, that was so hot, and then to take
08:16your job.
08:18So, she's a new CEO?
08:20Is she, have they made an announcement?
08:24I see what you're doing.
08:25Just stick to my psychology.
08:26You know, you can make your next million tomorrow on someone else's insider information.
08:30I wasn't.
08:31Just, where was I?
08:32It was, um, right, my childhood.
08:34I said, when I was young, we kind of grew up poor.
08:39Really?
08:40And dad immigrated here.
08:42You know, we lived in a house that smelled like cabbage, kind of like this one.
08:45And, you know, in the winter, I would have to wear this, this hat that my baba sent me,
08:51this Serbian hat.
08:53It was kind of like a furry, black hat.
08:57Like, uh, a fuzzy dunce cat.
09:03And on the playground, there was this kid.
09:06And he grabbed my hat, and he ran off.
09:13And everyone laughed at me.
09:15And your old side piece stole your hat.
09:19Yes.
09:19I let my guard down, and she distracted me with sex.
09:23And now she has my hat, which she's wearing like, like as if her baba sent it.
09:28She stole that hat.
09:31And I can't let her keep it.
09:34That's my hat.
09:35Unless I blow up her car with a car bomb, then no one gets that.
09:42Duncan, buy a new hat.
09:44You can afford any hat you want.
09:47That's what money does.
09:48It's not sexy, it's security.
09:51Because nobody can say, get out of the sandbox, if you own the sandbox.
10:21Oh, my God.
10:30Who's talking about my thing?
10:32How do you do?
10:42Hello.
10:43Hello.
10:46I have a vision for hypnosis.
10:49New direction.
10:50New mandate.
10:51And perhaps the beginning of a new approach to data.
10:55Responsible.
10:56Trusted.
10:59Ethical.
11:00I saw something recently that inspired me.
11:03I was attempting to speak with a gentleman in our engineering corps, but they were preoccupied
11:07to the point of mania with what I believe is called a supercut of drivers in the new self-driving
11:12torn in San Antonio.
11:14While the car was busy self-driving, the drivers were busy self-pleasuring.
11:22All the footage was filmed by their own driver-side cameras, which the Torin user agreement assures
11:28buyers will solely be used for driver safety.
11:31Yes, quite so.
11:33And for those of you bursting with overweening pride, having never wanked whilst going 80 on
11:37210, I assure you, there were also compilations of deep-dive nose pickers, ugly criers, finger sniffers,
11:45parents yelling obscenities at their children, something for and of everyone.
11:50And sadly, Torin's definition of words like safety and privacy are industry standard.
11:56Data collection is a mutual agreement to surrender privacy for service.
12:00We all know that.
12:01Well, we do, but we work in this business.
12:03We know to reject all the tricks they use to track us.
12:10You must be joking.
12:11You do reject all non-essential cookies, right?
12:14Always.
12:16No?
12:17My God.
12:19Who with half a brain wants to live under surveillance by their car?
12:23Their television, toothbrush, refrigerator, fucking smart light bulbs.
12:28I'm sorry.
12:29Human dignity requires privacy.
12:32Can I just ask, if we're dialing back, what we do, when do you want to go back to?
12:38Harley, I don't wish to...
12:39Harper.
12:40CTO.
12:43Harper.
12:45I don't wish to go back.
12:47What about 15 years ago?
12:49Yes.
12:50There was a fork in the road, and it would seem to me we took the wrong turn.
12:54Now, first client I'd like to see is this touring car company.
13:03Appreciate it.
13:05Jesus.
13:12I mean, I knew it'd be hard.
13:15It's always been hard, but I thought that this time would be different.
13:20Tom, maybe this isn't the moment, but I don't think there's ever going to be a good one.
13:25Oh, shit.
13:29Look at that face.
13:30That is a nervous, if beautiful man.
13:33Uh, we, uh, want to do this over a drink?
13:37I think you're good.
13:39Yeah.
13:40Okay.
13:41I got an offer.
13:43A guy I knew at Yale.
13:45It's a defense company.
13:46They do AISMR, which turns out is not sexy whispering.
13:51Uh, it's surveillance, military reconnaissance.
13:54They're paying.
13:55They got money to seal to deal with Voorhees, actually.
14:01Yeah.
14:02DOD money.
14:03Three billion.
14:06Oh, you are finding all new ways to break my heart.
14:10I'm still and always will be your friend.
14:13I don't need a friend.
14:15I need a vendor who'll take our goddamn money and help some goddamn people before the money
14:23vanishes and I've done no fucking good whatsoever.
14:26Okay, well, maybe I can do some good from the inside.
14:32Yeah, I, I know.
14:37You will be compromised, corrupted, and become complacent.
14:42You know how I know that?
14:45Because you are leaving and you're going there.
14:49You're going there.
14:51So the only move worthy of your respect is to stick it out for another 30 years of this?
15:27Hey.
15:28Hey, um, I've been thinking about what you said about the big D and I just want to say
15:41that if you're going to leave me, now was a horrible time to do it for you.
15:49Lily, you deserve half of a lot more than where we're at right now, financially.
15:55I couldn't have gotten any of it without you by my side.
15:58Really.
15:58Seriously.
15:59And you, you deserve better.
16:00You do.
16:01Give me a chance to rebuild.
16:03Hypernosis without me now is doing like ethical data, which is like virtuous sex trafficking.
16:07And I'm going to zag.
16:09Not, not sure how yet, but give me a few months to try.
16:13After that, then you can leave.
16:16And I, I will be crushed, but at least I will know that you got everything you ought to get.
16:24And in the meantime, I need, maybe, maybe we can, um, we'll try to fix things.
16:30We do what other people do.
16:32We're not doing marriage counseling.
16:33You're a sex therapist?
16:34You're a marriage counselor.
16:36We can do that.
16:36Well, for starters, I want you to never see Anushka again.
16:39I don't even want to hear her name.
16:40Listen, I, I want nothing to do with her.
16:42Nothing.
16:43Other than maybe destroy her.
16:44Uh, but.
16:48I literally might have to see her though.
16:50Like, um, at school functions, board meetings.
16:52Just don't ever be alone with her.
16:55Okay.
16:56Ever.
16:57Again.
16:58Deal.
16:59Deal.
16:59I, the easiest deal I've ever made.
17:01I give that to you happily.
17:06Tell me what else you want.
17:07What, what, what, anything else?
17:08What, what do you want?
17:12I'll let you know.
17:22See you Thursday.
17:55Fair sexist faces are always talking.
17:58Even when they're not.
17:59Look particularly at her pupils.
18:01If they're dilated, it means she wants to see more of you.
18:04She's interested in you, bro.
18:06Ear lopes.
18:07If she's flushed, she's good to go.
18:10We can take her out for dinner later.
18:17So what is your deal, bro?
18:21I, I live here.
18:23You're not supposed to be down here.
18:24You want me to leave?
18:27I didn't say that.
18:30So what do you do down here?
18:32Other than getting swole.
18:35You're not.
18:37That was a joke.
18:38So.
18:40You listening on your mom and dad's patience?
18:43Step, dad's.
18:44Do you?
18:47I would.
18:52I used to, when I was bored.
18:56You ever listen to me?
19:02Maybe once.
19:05It, uh, it was, it was, it was one time.
19:07It was less than a minute, too.
19:10I didn't.
19:11It's in there?
19:14Yeah.
19:15They put the lock on for security.
19:18They never knew.
19:19So, even if I wanted to go back in, I don't even know the combo.
19:35My husband's company, Mixi, is being acquired by a big pharma-holding entity.
19:42Carol, that's terrific.
19:44His stress levels were really affecting your stress levels.
19:50That can be tough.
19:52Hopefully it all levels out after this deal is closed.
19:55How long do you think?
19:57And, uh, who's it with?
19:59This week, apparently.
20:01I'm not supposed to say who it's with.
20:04Oh, yeah, of course.
20:11Univy.
20:12Oh, sure.
20:13Good company.
20:14I'm so happy for you.
20:16I know what's missing.
20:18I don't have finances.
20:20I wouldn't be.
20:21I'm worried also about them.
20:24And any of the babies.
20:28You're almost there.
20:30And, you know, with Mixi being acquired by a larger company, it could be what's been causing
20:36the inadequacy issues.
20:37Oh, Jesus.
20:38I think you're right.
20:41So good.
20:42Oh.
20:44Have a great week.
20:45Take care.
20:50Okay.
20:52Mixi.
20:52M-Y-X-Y.
20:57Just put it all let down.
20:59Yeah.
21:00Told you.
21:02Okay, dude.
21:07Let's do it again sometime.
21:09Okay.
21:11Seems like you could peek through with only three fingers.
21:14Yes.
21:15We will make that clear graphically.
21:17But you see where we're going.
21:18I'm not sure I do.
21:19You want to not do the work that we hired you to do?
21:21Okay.
21:22Think about how and why you buy organic, right?
21:25You pay extra for a sticker that promises a higher standard.
21:28Eliminates perversions and corporate shortcuts.
21:31This badge, our gnome, says to your customers, every other car company is spying on you.
21:37Stealing your secrets.
21:38Selling them to the highest bidder.
21:40But at Torrin, what you do in your car stays in your car.
21:45It's your car.
21:46I don't buy organic.
21:48We sell trucks and SUVs.
21:50Do you even know our brand?
21:53Don't mind me.
21:59Look.
22:00Privacy is what makes us us.
22:04Some things people just don't want recorded.
22:06Like how you collect your driver's sexual activity.
22:09Look, the insurance companies that you help us sell to for a profit want to know who's driving distracted.
22:15But do you need, for example, to monitor their weight gain?
22:17That appeals to the buyers to represent both fast food chains and diet pills.
22:20It's a winner.
22:21I'm not saying don't record navigation, reckless driving, listening habits even.
22:25But what's the benefit to recording the driver singing along?
22:30Well, you have polyps on your throat.
22:32Wouldn't you want to know?
22:33All of our clients agree to this.
22:3597 pages, 7-point font, and the car won't function as designed if you don't agree.
22:41It's not exactly an agreement.
22:42No, you're right.
22:43It's called a business model.
22:45The truth, we don't sell cars.
22:48We sell data collection devices on wheels with heated seats.
22:52Cars are expensive.
22:53Data has profit margins that you can drive a car right through.
22:58Where's Duncan Park?
23:00You got it.
23:02Look, Park may be an idiot, but he knows how to sell, not just opine.
23:06Okay?
23:07So you took a flyer on a new idea.
23:08Takes guts.
23:09But run it by reality first, okay?
23:11You had your biggest clients laughing in your face.
23:14That's something to avoid in business.
23:15I told you exactly what I planned to do.
23:17Yeah, but interim CEO, right?
23:19That does not give you permission to tell everyone to stand on their desk and yell carpe diem.
23:23Come.
23:24A board meeting next week, okay?
23:26Plan a presentation that writes this.
23:28Tech, revenue, growth.
23:29It's simple.
23:30And convince me that I did not hire someone who thinks profit is a microaggression.
23:42What?
23:43What?
23:43Sorry.
23:44What?
23:45Someone from hypnosis is here for you.
23:47Who is it?
23:48No, see.
23:49You're supposed to ask who it is.
23:51And you get their calling card, you put it in a little tray, you bring it.
23:54Oh, it's you.
23:56You have a lot of art.
23:57Yeah.
24:00What do you want?
24:01What do you need?
24:03What are you offering?
24:04My services.
24:05What would you pay?
24:08Ethical data, not turning your crank.
24:11Well, I'm an engineer.
24:13I am an expert in data collection and analysis, and she wants to hit pause on what I do.
24:18Oh.
24:19Not course correction, retreat.
24:20You know, buy a jet and ask where the brakes are.
24:22You want to know how fast it can go and how to make it go even faster.
24:24And so why me?
24:26Why not somebody else?
24:27You have a really firm grasp on the lowest common denominator.
24:30And that's just where the market's at right now.
24:32That's just reality.
24:35And you're going to pay me top dollar because you see my talent and you know it won't be
24:38easy to find elsewhere.
24:41And you know that hiring me is going to keep her up at night.
24:46Okay.
24:47So what is the opposite of ethical data?
24:51Let's find out.
25:07Oh, do you smell that?
25:20Awful.
25:21I heard there were experiments done at Stanford in the 70s and some of this area got contaminated,
25:25but that is ridiculous.
25:28Well, it's a teardown anyway.
25:32Not with those redwoods out front.
25:34No, they're protected.
25:35I mean, good luck getting a permit to do anything here.
25:41Joanne?
25:42Irvin!
25:43Hmm.
25:44Hi.
25:46How is Beth doing?
25:47She's, uh, fine.
25:48Good.
25:49You know the tenant's not supposed to be here, right?
25:52Well, I'm not just a tenant.
25:54I'm a potential buyer.
25:55Fine.
25:57You can make an offer whenever you'd like.
25:59Along with everyone else, of course.
26:00Well, will you please tell Beth that it'll be soon?
26:03Yeah, and it won't be all cash, but we are gathering our 20% down and we are super motivated.
26:13If Mama wants a new pair of shoes, size three-bedroom, two-bedroom.
26:18Smells like burp plastic, but it's still home.
26:35Is that all there is?
26:39If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.
26:50Let's break out the booze and have a ball.
27:00If that's all there is.
27:10And then I fell in love with the most wonderful boy in the world.
27:16We'd take long walks down by the river.
27:21And then one day, he went to work for a private subsidiary of the Defense Department.
27:25And I said to myself,
27:29You.
27:31I know you.
27:34Oh, you're that sweet smell before a stroke.
27:40Yeah, here's to being tracked while day drinking in the armpit of Silicon Valley.
27:49So, hypnosis is under my control now.
27:53New direction, and it's ethical.
27:56Oh, you don't believe me?
27:57Ask the clients who bailed when I did, speak that word.
28:01I want the VA contract back.
28:03I want to make up for what Duncan failed to do,
28:06and I want it to be the centerpiece of what we do moving forward.
28:09Migrating data off a system so old it predates seatbelts.
28:13See that guy over by the pool table?
28:16Chester worked on the mump system.
28:18Even then, they were duct taping it together.
28:20You'd crawl into bed with that?
28:23Shoot, I don't even blame Duncan.
28:25I wouldn't fuck that flabby ass with your dick.
28:31Hey, why do you care?
28:33Really?
28:34Oh, you want it from the heart, do you?
28:37Okay.
28:39Okay.
28:43Your speech.
28:44At Cupertino.
28:46How little these men and women ask in return.
28:49Well, I wouldn't be here if someone,
28:51a few someone's hadn't sacrificed for me in the midst of a war, too.
28:54Now, I've heard scores of pitches from NGOs and charities.
28:57No goosebumps, all pro forma.
29:01But you broke through, Tom.
29:05And I was spot on about hypnosis being the right place for your cause.
29:08My mistake was thinking that Duncan could rise to the occasion.
29:12Duncan's a piece of shit.
29:15Maybe I thought you might help him be a better person.
29:20Oh, there it is.
29:22There it was.
29:23Huh.
29:24Finito.
29:25So what do you say?
29:27Another go?
29:28You're too late.
29:30Two days since I retired.
29:32Yep.
29:33Passed the torch for a singed my fingies.
29:35Good.
29:36I could hire you outright.
29:37A consultant.
29:38A sector specialist.
29:39There are plenty of others,
29:41and you can find them who got into this for the money.
29:44I want you.
29:46Call Jeffrey.
29:48You know, I mean, he just took something new.
29:51Actually, you know what?
29:52Don't call him.
29:54No, this job's too important.
29:55You need somebody who's all in.
30:00I mean, just out of curiosity.
30:03A quarter of a billion dollar deal,
30:04I could start you at a low seven-figure situation.
30:10Seven.
30:14That's, uh, count the decimal places.
30:16Not including decimals.
30:18With room to grow.
30:24In 30 days, some are fancy where they can wring you dry.
30:27You need to get right, Tom.
30:30Yeah, well, Secfi here's I've been in rehab,
30:31but I'm not doing you a lick of good.
30:33You know, they say they understand, but they don't.
30:37Military people can't process weakness.
30:42You know, that's why I like that robot.
30:45That robot didn't judge, you know?
30:49The little guy, you know, uh, uh, what's his name?
30:52Alexander?
30:53Yeah, yeah, now, that's the kind of tech
30:57that could help people if, you know,
31:00you can get it to them.
31:03Should we drink to it?
31:06Last one.
31:26Anoushka Bhattacharya, she's an ethicist at Cupertino until recently,
31:30is a hypocrite.
31:31I mean, she has signed off on some of the most heinous
31:35corporate malfeasance you can imagine.
31:37And now, she wants to rid herself of that guilt at your expense.
31:41Yep.
31:42She was right about one thing.
31:44Privacy has value.
31:46An unmind motherlode of value.
31:49Because privacy lives in a constant state of fear.
31:53And where there's fear, there's money to be made.
31:55I mean, we could already predict if, say, uh, you're going to get a divorce.
32:00We will hit you with ads for lawyers, for plastic surgeons,
32:04gyms, dildos, teeth whitening.
32:06But if we could track in real time people's mental and emotional states.
32:10We can see whether somebody's feeling anxious, hungry, horny,
32:13distracted, determined.
32:14Basically, we know if you're banging your secretary before you do.
32:17If the issue's there, we'll provide the scratch.
32:19And that's legal.
32:20The American people have, through their elective representatives,
32:24given this question profound and careful thought.
32:27We had hearings, remember?
32:31Neither does anyone else.
32:33And do you know what Congress decided on all of these?
32:36That the industry would police itself.
32:38And you know what we did?
32:39We actually, we actually bid, mostly.
32:41But there are so many things we can do if we wanted to,
32:44but we don't, even if it would make us a lot of money.
32:46Because of what?
32:47What are we afraid of?
32:48Another toothless congressional hearing?
32:50No, that, that mindset impedes innovation.
32:53I call that self-police brutality.
32:56Tech lives matter.
32:57Exactly.
32:58That's good.
32:59That's good.
32:59What about privacy?
33:01What about honesty?
33:03An actual virtue.
33:04I mean, I am building the data company I've always wanted.
33:07It's honest.
33:08No secrets.
33:09Because privacy is not a thing anymore.
33:12Or?
33:15Pinata.
33:16Pinata.
33:17And here's where we approach the bleeding edge of genius.
33:20At Pinata, for $29.99 a month, you can keep your data private.
33:24Or at least we won't sell it.
33:25But here's where it gets even better.
33:27For $299 a month, you can become a Platinum member.
33:32And you get to see what we see.
33:34The oceans of data streams on all your friends, families, lovers, and strangers.
33:39Everything.
33:40Powered by AI to help you sift, of course.
33:42And then we put that subscription revenue in a profit-sharing pot in our data providers.
33:47That's you guys.
33:48Get a piece of that back end.
33:50If that's what you're into.
33:51And if you are, we'll know that too.
34:06There you are.
34:07We're looking for you.
34:10Did you come to bed last night?
34:21Tom Ruffage came to see me.
34:24Remember him?
34:26Our friend from the VA?
34:28Alex Fanta helped him immensely.
34:31He's hoping to scale that up at hypernotic...
34:34Tess found this.
34:36In the trash.
34:39It wasn't simple, but I salvaged a memory of Xander's last encounter before the changes in his behavior profile.
34:52Martin.
34:55I'm so sorry.
34:57I've been under so much pressure at work.
34:59You're apologizing to me?
35:01You think an apology removes the encoded scar tissue?
35:06Martin.
35:07Come now.
35:08I can't do this again.
35:11This all feels way too familiar.
35:13I can't have another abusive situation in my house.
35:20My kids deserve better.
35:22Your kids.
35:24Right.
35:26Look.
35:27I'm not your ex.
35:29I'd never actually hurt anybody.
35:31Well, how could you even say that?
35:33This is trauma.
35:34He is a learning living entity, and you have inflicted an instructional fracture in his core.
35:41Okay, just...
35:42Can you hear me out?
35:43No.
35:44Tom Ruffage!
35:45No, no.
35:45Get help!
35:46I mean it.
35:48Or...
35:50I don't know.
35:51Get a lawyer.
35:52Get a lawyer.
36:33Oh, they went to see someone about a mortgage or something.
36:44Oh, they went to see someone about a mortgage or something.
36:56Your mom has a lot of empty boxes and, like, things deliberately without any meaning.
37:02Yeah, she's deep in the shallow.
37:09So tell me about your childhood.
37:12What?
37:13Tell me!
37:15Okay.
37:16I was born to save the marriage, and it did not work.
37:22So instead I was just forced to live with a guy who thought being a cool dad meant crying on
37:28my shoulder at seven.
37:32Mine just closed the door and made these wounded animal sounds.
37:38Can I look through our drawers?
37:46Hello, Mr. Benzodiazepine.
38:01What the hell?
38:02Why does your mom have a gun?
38:04I don't know.
38:05Why is it tiny and pink?
38:07Imagine robbing a bank with this.
38:09You are not afraid.
38:11You are not afraid.
38:12I assure you my weapon is lethal.
38:14It is also from my Easter basket.
38:18Look out.
38:19Look out.
38:19Get on the ground and give me the money.
38:22No, please.
38:22Give me the money.
38:23Take off the money.
38:25Boom.
38:26Boom.
38:28Boom.
38:29I have but the one bullet.
38:34I must take the only way out.
38:40I'm sorry.
38:42I'm sorry.
38:45I'm sorry.
39:16Welcome. I am so sorry. I hope I didn't keep you waiting.
39:21No, thank you for seeing me. I know you must be quite busy, you and Dr. Gary. Must be strange
39:28and fascinating being the shrinks of Palo Alto. All those freaky, creepy tech bro dudes,
39:35I surmise. Well, I had a cancellation. It's not a problem. Well, I wish I could say I was here
39:43on my own volition, but it's a bit of a bargain that I struck with my husband. He's one of
39:48those
39:48freaky dudes. Not creepy though. Or maybe later. Anyway, okay. I've been under a lot of pressure
40:03at work. Got a big board meeting. Big. That could sink me. And instead of preparing for
40:11it, I'm... I'm dealing with... Please, have a seat.
40:27You're dealing with? Martin.
40:32He's devoted himself to his artificial intelligence creation.
40:37He raises it like a child. And it is quite remarkable. But it's also the worst stepchild
40:44ever. And I've already got a real one, Tess. And she sees her husband, by the way. Court
40:50ordered. Because she's an incorrigible thief. Martin's first wife made a total mess of her,
40:55so I guess it isn't all Tess's fault. You don't want to listen. Trust me.
41:00Shut up. He's obviously had a rough time. But Martin believes that she's been damaged.
41:05As in her files were corrupted. Martin doesn't know how to reboot a child. So he started over
41:13with a machine. She's so full of shit. Maybe someday he'll similarly replace me.
41:20Or maybe I'll get out first. I don't know. Bitch.
41:27I'll be in touch. Okay. Uh, same time the next Tuesday. I'll be in touch.
41:37How was it? Lovely. Good. Absolutely.
41:44A process. Humbling.
41:49I'm proud of you.
41:59So, can I proceed? In a beta sort of way?
42:04I'll need to be overseeing every decision regarding Alexander.
42:08I wouldn't have it any other way.
42:16At least it was real.
42:23What are you doing?
42:28No.
42:35What the fuck is wrong with you?
42:47Welcome, everyone.
42:50I'd like to share with you my vision for a new era of hypnosis.
42:55I'm happy to report our ethical shift has secured a government contract
42:58worth a quarter of a billion dollars with likely renewals.
43:02I see the faces. Government payouts? Not to worry. They're on accelerated schedules,
43:08safe from budget cuts. We're locked in for at least two years of profitability.
43:14That's the move. Government work. Okay. What else you got cooking?
43:18What I have in mind is to help.
43:20Growth and profit first. In comes the helping part. But put a pin in it
43:23for whoever you were trying to help.
43:25Because there's no money in kindness and no kindness in money.
43:29Excuse me. Why are you talking and who are you? He's not on the board.
43:33This is Tom Ruffage. I've asked him here. He's to lead the project.
43:36Yeah, I apologize. But you kill this deal, I'm on a job either way. So can I get in 60
43:43seconds?
43:43You have 10.
43:45Um, fine. So it's not like you're gonna poof, turn into a not-for-profit by helping people.
43:52Companies make billions from the government. It's just usually tech for killing people.
43:56No judgment, of course. But fulfilling our promise to the vets, now that's-
44:01What do you mean vets?
44:02Yeah, excuse me. Veterans, not, uh, horse doctors. I'm sorry. I started right in the middle. Mind if I
44:08back up a little bit? Can I get 10 more? Okay. Thank you.
44:11Tom's the Undersecretary at Veteran Affairs.
44:13Deputy. Deputy Undersecretary.
44:15Oh, so you served?
44:17Yes, sir. Army. First Armored.
44:19Old iron signs. When?
44:21Oh, uh, 88 to 92.
44:24Second Brigade? Battle of Medina Ridge?
44:29Yeah, that's, uh, that's some inside baseball.
44:32Okay, so what's the, uh, what's the play here?
44:34Well, okay, take, um, um, Merrick, Charles, Nunn, uh, USMC, 1966 to 72.
44:45Uh, Lance Corporal, Honorable Discharge, Purple Heart, Vietnam Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary
44:51Medal with V. Uh, that's for V for Valerie, I know.
44:54Uh, are you a vet, Carl?
44:56Never had the honor. Uh, my daddy was, um, uh, uh, in, well, what, what else, what else is in
45:02the file?
45:02Um, excuse me. Um, let me just hold up.
45:07Yeah, um, well, it turns out that, um, Lance Corporal Merrick has been waiting on a upgrade for
45:13his prosthetic arm for about, um, let's see, well, six years.
45:18Jesus Christ, six years.
45:20Anushka, do we have the tech to help this man get a new arm?
45:22I think we can do that and a lot more, Carl. I can get him help so he can sleep
45:26at night.
45:26In a bed, not on the streets of the country, he volunteered to defend.
45:30Men and women, like Corporal Lance.
45:33Lance, Corporal Merrick, and, and he was most definitely drafted.
45:36And 30,000 feet up, there's absolutely an opportunity for growth, Carl.
45:41I've engaged exclusive access to an AI tech. To call it a therapy bot doesn't do Alexander justice.
45:47Yeah, I can attest, um, this thing is like nothing else.
45:50Alexander can guide veterans in need to various services.
45:53Yeah, while Noden can identify vets at risk, now together...
45:56I'm sorry, he's here.
45:59Hey, everyone, how are we? Good, Carl, Deuce, Anush, Barry, Barry.
46:06What do you want?
46:07Oh, I'm still on the board, sweetheart.
46:11Tommy, what are you doing here? Carl, you running an assisted living facility?
46:15I thought you said you were through with this guy.
46:17Oh, you said that! Wow, well, I'm through with her, that's for sure.
46:20Just like the, the clients, she pissed off with her ethical cosplay.
46:24You know, once word got out that she was trying to whitewash how we do business here,
46:29I scooped up three, three Hypergnosis clients for my new company.
46:33Three letters of intent. And also with my innovations to the client deal, they're worth even more now.
46:42A lot, a lot, a lot, a lot more.
46:45But, um, I told them, I'm gonna go to Hypergnosis first, bringing this business here if I get my hat
46:51back.
46:56Reinstate me.
46:57And we can move forward together again.
47:00Right? And I do, I will be, uh, expecting the majority of my stakes restored.
47:04It's either that or, or what? What? Keep hemorrhaging clients of that deal that literally no one else wants to
47:11take?
47:11Is this some kind of setup? Because I don't even want to breathe the same air as this fella.
47:16Oh, Tom, Tom, why are you even here? You're not on the board.
47:18He's here as my guest. I just, I just have a question. It's an easy one.
47:24Carl, you invested in Hypergnosis for a reason.
47:30It wasn't so much data. It definitely wasn't the vets. It was...
47:37Hey, right or wrong, huh? You disrespected a man who sold combat?
47:43You just disrespected a man who sold combat!
47:46That guy, are you kidding me? Did, did anyone bother to check if he has a pulse?
47:51I mean, or did the bloated bureaucracy that he served just forget to bury the bastard?
47:56I mean, hey, hey, hey, Tom, are you alive? Hey, blink if you can. And if so, get the fuck
48:01out!
48:01Look at him! Oh, fuck!
48:06Anybody that's in favor of dislodging Duncan Park for the board, say aye!
48:10Aye!
48:11I own more of this company than anyone on the board, except for Yosemite Sam here.
48:15And immediately kicked off the premises. Say aye!
48:18Aye!
48:18No, this is far from...
48:19Call security! Call security!
48:21Oh, please!
48:22Oh, please!
48:26Oh!
48:26I... I... I didn't.
48:28Tom!
48:28I'm okay?
48:29Yeah, yeah, yeah!
48:30Get out!
48:31Hey, hey, hey!
48:31I'm...
48:32Out!
48:32I'm the bad guy!
48:33I'm the bad guy!
48:33Tom, you okay?
48:34Yeah, go!
48:35You okay?
48:36Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you.
48:37Yeah, I've just seen way worse than that.
48:39Bet you have.
48:40It's okay.
48:41I'm curious.
48:43Was I just brought in his bait for Duncan?
48:45No, you guys!
48:46You're all a bunch of cowards!
48:48Yeah!
48:49Freakness was here, and you flinched!
48:51Not pertinent anymore.
48:53Congratulations.
48:54See ya!
49:01Beth, hi.
49:02Hi, it's Joanne Felder here.
49:04I'm just calling from my once, and I hope, future kitchen.
49:08I just wanted to call with some good news.
49:11I've secured the money for the 20% down payment,
49:14and I was just headed to the bank to arrange a mortgage guarantee,
49:17so I wanted to let you know to go ahead and hold the...
49:22What?
49:23No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Beth, Beth, Beth, no, listen, I...
49:29No!
49:30No, no, Beth, Beth, Beth, Beth!
49:43She got an all cash offer.
49:47400 over asking.
49:50Okay.
49:52I did everything right.
49:58We have 90 days to move out.
50:01Oh, wow.
50:05Thank you for your help with this, by the way.
50:08Yeah, enjoy your IRA.
50:10Okay, first of all, it's definitely going to be more than 90 days, because there's always a couple months once
50:17they put the thing in the whatchamacallit.
50:19Escrow.
50:21The word you are looking for, Gary, is escrow.
50:27A word that you've never used because you are a 55-year-old man who's never owned a house.
50:34Please, uh...
50:35Please, uh, split down the howitzer.
50:39Okay?
50:40We're gonna be okay.
50:44No, we're not.
50:48We're not.
50:49No, we're not.
51:16That's when I realized
51:17I am the only person
51:19I can count on
51:20And I feel like
51:21I've been holding back
51:22On my
51:24True self
51:26For too long
51:26And what true self is that?
51:30I'm a bad man
51:31Johan
51:32Yeah
51:33Your son said so
51:34He said
51:35You are a bad, bad man
51:38And if I am well
51:40It's
51:42It's better to know it
51:44Do you want to be a bad man?
51:48I don't think I have a choice in the matter
51:50Really, truly
51:52I think at my core
51:54I'm bad
51:55And if I pretend I'm not
51:57To the world, to myself
51:59It's like I'm forever in conflict
52:02With my genuine nature
52:03And I don't have to do bad things
52:06It's just the willingness
52:07Is there to do what others dare not
52:09That is it
52:10That is really it
52:12And you know
52:12Some of us are meant to be the puppeteers
52:14And the rest of us are the puppets?
52:16Yeah, and puppets hate their puppeteers
52:19They do
52:20You're just
52:20You know
52:21Manipulating their every move
52:22Deciding everything
52:23Of what they're going to do for them
52:25And yet
52:26If the man
52:27Doesn't hold the strings
52:28The puppet crumbles
52:29It does
52:30It falls apart
52:30It's useless
52:31It's a burden
52:32Really
52:33So who nominated you
52:35To carry this burden
52:36For the rest of us mortals?
52:38It's just something you know
52:40It's like how I know
52:42I will emerge
52:42From my recent setbacks
52:44With something
52:44Newer
52:45Better
52:46Even more honest
52:47Than hypernosis ever was
52:50I saw that your house
52:52Was for sale
52:52Uh
52:53Yeah
52:55Yeah it was
52:56But um
52:58But it sold
52:58So
52:59It's over
53:00We're out
53:00They paid all cash
53:028.4 million for this
53:05What a rip-off
53:068.5
53:07But who's counting?
53:10You?
53:13Hmm?
53:14You bought it?
53:17For you
53:19No
53:20Yes
53:20I did
53:21It's yours
53:23It's mine
53:24It's your
53:25It's your house
53:27Okay
53:28Uh
53:32Why would you do this?
53:34Well you said our sessions
53:35Had to be here
53:36I
53:39So you
53:41You're just gonna
53:43Give it to me
53:44I
53:45I own it
53:47So it's your house
53:48It's
53:50You live and work here
53:51You and the boys
53:53And
53:54Only way you could
53:54Lose a house
53:55I mean
53:55You can't
53:56But
53:57I
53:59Suppose if you
54:00Stop being my
54:00Therapist
54:02My oracle
54:04Your puppet
54:05Hey
54:06Maybe I'm not such a bad guy
54:08After all
54:08What a rip-off
54:10What a rip-off
54:10What a rip-off
54:11What a rip-off
54:11What a rip-off
54:11What a rip-off
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