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Vladimir Episode 6.ts
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00:00I'm a beloved professor. I know you feel that way. Have you ever looked at my
00:05evaluations? Hey, let's take a walk. I mean, just take a walk. I have always felt the
00:12origin of anger in my vagina and I'm surprised to do not mention the word
00:16literature. Many students are uncomfortable that you haven't spoken out.
00:22Stalk it out? You've been seen with him in public. He's my husband. That association
00:28is becoming difficult for the students. What? And the faculty. You make me feel
00:34uncomfortable. In what way? Your behavior has been erratic. Well, you can't just fire me.
00:39There's a process. I have tenure. We are asking you to voluntarily step down by the
00:43end of the week. Well, I won't. If you don't, we can't put you on administrative leave until
00:48the end of the year, starting next week. We'd prefer not come to that. I mean, who would
00:51take over my classes? We're in the middle of a semester. Cynthia is well-versed in your
00:55subject matter. This is about the file. What file? This is not about the file. The... But what?
01:01It will be better for you if you voluntarily step down. Why? Because if we put you on administrative
01:06leave, we will have to formalize the complaints. Really? Yes. Well, if you do that,
01:12David, I will absolutely never even conceptualize fucking you ever again. What? That is perfectly
01:21fine. It is? Yes. I have no interest in doing that. You don't? No. Well, thank you, David.
01:33Thanks a whole fucking lot.
01:40I'm sorry. What? I don't know. She's erratic.
01:53You've spoken out? Of course I could have spoken out. Excuse me, ma'am. Smoking is proven
01:59it on campus. Don't they understand? I could have been a feminist hero if I wanted to be.
02:04Since when? Three years. I could have spoken out all over campus. Big swaths of adoring,
02:11and doing young people just drooling over me as I lusciously spoke out. Ma'am?
02:16But it is against my principles. I do not have to answer for my husband's behavior.
02:22Are you going to put your cigarette in? I am my own person. I have done nothing wrong.
02:27May I see your ID? Oh, well, thank you for the compliment, but I'm not a student. I'm a professor.
02:32Yeah, I figured. Are you resisting?
02:34Oh, okay. Um, all right. I put it out. Okay? Huh. Now, may I find a trash can? Because
02:39I don't litter. I need your ID. Why? What are you going to do? Suspend me from teaching?
02:45No, ma'am. I'm writing you a sentence. What?
02:49No, ma'am. Come in.
03:07Hey there. Oh, hi. Is this a bad time?
03:12Uh, sorry. Sorry. You heard. I heard what?
03:16Oh. Nothing. No. Nothing. You just, uh, you came to speak to me.
03:22Yeah. Yeah, I know. I was on my way to class, and I had to ask you, have you ever
03:29read Susie Boynt?
03:31Loved and Missed? Oh, my God.
03:33Yes, I just started that book. I haven't encountered a voice like hers in a very long time.
03:38You know, when I read it, I just kept thinking, how could it be so emotional, so funny, and so
03:43good all at once?
03:44Yes, exactly. It's the best book I've read in a while.
03:48Oh, of course he thinks it's better than mine. It is better than mine. I believe in admiration, generosity, being
03:54a fan.
03:55That and yours.
03:56What?
03:57That and yours.
03:59I bet you say that to all the writers.
04:06Are you okay?
04:09What?
04:10I don't know.
04:11Well, you just, you seem, I don't know.
04:14You look a little forlorn.
04:16Oh, God. I thought I was hiding it so well.
04:20You can't hide anything.
04:22No?
04:23You're translucent.
04:26It's beautiful.
04:30Oh.
04:35Can I put my arm around you?
04:37Of course.
04:41Oh, I appreciate the kindness.
04:50I'll take you away.
04:53Professor Levinsky?
04:55Oh.
05:01I'll see you later.
05:02Yeah.
05:04I mean, they can't just ordain that I go on administrative leave.
05:08Hey, I'm as angry as you are, but look at it as an opportunity. You'll still get paid.
05:12Not right.
05:14No?
05:14Brown suit, brown tie?
05:17Give me a pair of aviators, keep me 500 feet from the playground?
05:20Don't joke like that.
05:21I have to joke.
05:22It's the only thing I can do from keeping me losing my fucking mind.
05:26They're not allowed to keep me from my position when I did nothing wrong.
05:29Well, handle it after the heat.
05:31No, no.
05:31I'm not going to sit here and take it like a, like a lump.
05:35Okay.
05:41What's this, Lila's writing?
05:43I have scans. Don't think you can burn it.
05:47Hmm?
05:48May I take it?
05:50Hmm.
05:52Alexis is going to be here in an hour.
05:53She is?
05:54We'll bring in the big guns.
05:56Are you and Alexis back together?
05:58Oh, we were never really broken up.
06:02Well, do you think you might have told me that she was coming?
06:04I mean, I'm really not in the mood for entertaining right now.
06:06No.
06:07I think one of the reasons you and Alexis never click is because you feel like you have to
06:10put on this big show.
06:11We had to show like some 1950s housewife whenever she comes.
06:14You don't have to entertain.
06:15What do you think?
06:16Can you try a different tie?
06:18I want to dress like myself.
06:21What are you wearing?
06:22I'm not a 1950s housewife.
06:24Sorry.
06:25What are you wearing?
06:26I don't know.
06:27Mom, optics are important.
06:30If the complaints get dismissed, I bet a lot of your problems go away.
06:33What if they don't get dismissed?
06:35We sell the house, move to Mexico, and everyone can fuck off.
06:54Everyone else is going to fuck off.
06:58I'm needed here.
07:00Not if you're not teaching.
07:01I'm going to be teaching, John.
07:03I need to talk to somebody about this.
07:06Mom, no, don't do anything.
07:07Please, please, please.
07:12Every year, the president of the college holds an event for business school alumni.
07:18Lynn likes to say that they are properly endowed.
07:34I have a doctor.
07:36They may blaze down.
07:38Lynn.
07:39Hi.
07:40What are you doing here?
07:42This event is for business majors.
07:44Real people who have the college in a real way.
07:47Did you hear about the administrative leave?
07:49I can't talk about that right now.
07:51Well, can't you ask Steve to intervene?
07:53No.
07:54Do you think it's right that I get punished for John's actions?
07:57Steve has to look out for the college in general.
08:01Lynn, this is your chance to take a stand.
08:04You have a PhD in medieval philosophy, and yet all you do is entertain like some 1950s housewife.
08:11Because the only thing that's ever really mattered to you in your whole life is being approved of by men.
08:15Well, if I'm such a bone job, then why are you asking for my help?
08:21Lynn?
08:26Lynn said I could use for a bathroom.
08:51I'm of a mind that if you come across a controlled substance, you should always take at least one.
09:11Sid made this for me when she was ten.
09:27What's up?
09:31Nothing.
09:55Run away with me.
10:15What's up?
11:07These are beautifully chopped peppers.
11:10Good morning, Sydney.
11:12Good morning.
11:13Did anyone feed you last night?
11:16Oh, yeah.
11:17Yeah, we ordered in.
11:19I know I just had a sprang.
11:20A sprang sprung?
11:22Oh, you could say it is a visit on you,
11:25and my mother would have been furious.
11:28No, no.
11:29Well, I mean, thank you for saying that, but no.
11:31Babies have to be tiny.
11:33That's what I'm doing.
11:34No, small.
11:35I hear you've come to save us.
11:37I'm just offering some advice and some moral support.
11:41Did you hear they asked me to step down from my tenure at the position?
11:47Yes.
11:47Yes.
11:48And she told me to do nothing until after the hearing.
11:52That's good.
11:53She's very right.
11:55You should listen to your daughter.
11:56She's a very good lawyer.
11:58And don't worry, we won't be in your hair too much longer.
12:01Nobody's in my hair.
12:02We're gonna head back to the city right after the hearing wraps up.
12:04Together?
12:06Yes.
12:06Are you moving back in with her?
12:08Why are you saying her like that?
12:10I just don't think you've proven that you're ready for the kind of relationship that she's
12:12been asking for.
12:13What?
12:13Don't tell me that Alexis is not standing here.
12:15It's fine.
12:16I think Sid knows what she's ready for.
12:18Listen, I know how it feels to be a 35-year-old woman.
12:22What?
12:22But do you really think that she's ready to be a co-parent?
12:25I mean, she can barely look after herself.
12:27Babe, what did you tell her?
12:28I...
12:29I don't know.
12:30I told her when we may be getting ready to start the process.
12:33Mom, you have to stop.
12:34Babe, that's our business.
12:35You're gonna be counting your eggs?
12:37She hasn't even got a job.
12:38I have five interviews lined up.
12:41In the city?
12:42Yes.
12:43But where my life is.
12:44You haven't been telling me anything.
12:47Because I don't need to ask for your permission for everything I do like I'm a fully grown adult.
12:50Well, you do not behave like one.
12:52Why are you being so mean?
12:54You need to speak to your daughter more respectfully.
12:56Oh, no thank you.
12:57Uh-uh-uh.
12:58No thank you.
12:58Guys, what's going on?
12:59Don't call me guys.
13:00I'm her mother.
13:01Where were you last night?
13:03Seeing a friend.
13:04You don't want me to be an adult.
13:05You want me to depend on you so you can feel like you still matter.
13:11You're the one who's mean.
13:28Why are you so agitated?
13:29I don't want to talk about it.
13:31I wouldn't be in this position if it weren't for you.
13:33What position?
13:35They are asking me to give up my career.
13:38Wow, you are gone.
13:40You know what?
13:41You're right.
13:41Let's not talk about it.
13:42No, let's not.
13:43Yeah.
13:44Jesus Christ.
13:45You know, first of all, you could have spoken out against me or whatever you wanted and you chose not
13:50to.
13:50Excuse me?
13:51You have free will.
13:52Make your own choices.
13:54I can't believe it.
13:55I can't believe it.
13:55Second of all, we only came to an agreement because of you.
13:58Oh.
13:58You're the one who let the door open for all this shit to happen.
14:01You mean so?
14:01Have I been more of a strict little wife?
14:03See, it was your idea.
14:05No, no.
14:06We came to this agreement together and we did not want a conventional marriage.
14:09We were being good, anti-establishment radicals.
14:12We didn't want to accept the status quo.
14:14Maybe that's what you wanted.
14:15I'm gone.
14:17You're gone.
14:18No, that is the most illusional thing I've ever heard in my life.
14:21You didn't want to fuck around.
14:23You were fucking around before we came to the agreement.
14:26That's why I suggested the fucking agreement in the first fucking place.
14:29Listen.
14:30I am not moving to Mexico.
14:36You've always been the most important person in my life.
14:40What a lie.
14:41No, I'm serious.
14:41I'm serious and I'm not conflicted with myself.
14:45I'm with you because I want to be with you.
14:49I wish you could say the same.
14:54I feel so manipulative motherfucker.
15:18As T.S. Eliot wrote, this is how the world ends.
15:22Not with a bang, but with an NP.
15:25Not with a bang, but with an NP.
15:26Not with an NP.
15:27Not with an NP.
15:32Not with a P.E.
15:54If I can't have my job, and I can't have my daughter, and I can't have the man I love,
16:02then at least I can do something decent.
16:06Hey!
16:07Are you kidding me? More space!
16:10I want to tell you something.
16:12No, we're past that. Back up.
16:14Honey, I just want to tell you that I thought that this story was really rather brilliant.
16:18What is that?
16:19It's from your substat.
16:21The one you're going to use to defend me.
16:22I'm serious, Lila. It really touched me. There's an honesty there that I admire. Very, very good. I mean it.
16:32I'm not going to drop out of the case.
16:34No, that's not why I'm saying this.
16:36And you kept me from the scholarship.
16:38I don't think I did.
16:39You promised I would get it.
16:40No, I didn't.
16:41You told me I was the strongest candidate.
16:44Well, you were, but then you got cocky and lazy, and you didn't put enough work into your application.
16:49I'm not lazy.
16:50Well, you can be. The work was not strong enough, and you didn't try hard enough.
16:56Listen to me, Lila. I mean, who fucking cares?
16:59You know those people who are so good at things early on?
17:02Well, they usually turn into boring people whose biggest accomplishments are behind them by the time they're 25.
17:09You have your whole life in front of you.
17:13You didn't have to be great in high school or college or in your 20s.
17:18You can make mistakes.
17:19You can fuck a professor.
17:20Life is not about nailing it when you're young.
17:23It's about clinging to the fucking rock face no matter who or what tries to push you off.
17:31Don't make yourself irrelevant before you're done living your life.
17:34You will be irrelevant soon enough.
17:36Believe me.
17:45Okay, guys. Okay. Okay, folks. Folks, folks, I appreciate your dedication to this committee, but how much time do we
17:51want to waste on this, okay?
17:53The mother called the dean. She keeps emailing me. He wants us to just give the kid honors, so let's
17:58just give it to her.
18:05I have taken your recommendation into consideration.
18:10I plan to turn my next lecture into a public forum.
18:14I'll answer all student questions, including those about my marriage, tomorrow at three.
18:20I don't know if that's best for the students.
18:24Well, of course you don't, Warren. It's because you're my frenemy.
18:27I'm not that.
18:29Sweetie, I agree with Flo. This kind of thing is unpredictable.
18:32They want me to speak out, so I'm speaking out.
18:35What outcome do you expect?
18:37They'll see I'm an open book, and they will understand.
18:41Sorry, I don't think the students are in the right place to talk to teachers about this kind of stuff
18:45right now.
18:46I know you're coming from a good place, but it's generational.
18:49They just think about these things in a really different way.
18:52Well, I can offer up my perspective.
18:54I think it's a good idea.
18:56I do. I think the students want us to be real with them. That's what I found.
19:02What?
19:03They want you to be real.
19:05All of us?
19:06No.
19:07They want a literary celebrity with a cool jacket to be real with them.
19:11Not a middle-aged career professor.
19:14We were all you once.
19:16We know what changes.
19:21A little harsh, Dan.
19:23Well, I am going to be holding this forum, whether you like it or not.
19:27And you are all invited.
19:29I have a dermatologist appointment.
19:31Very good.
19:55You will all have to forgive me for not speaking up sooner about the case against my husband.
20:00It was difficult for me to know how best to proceed.
20:04I wanted to provide you with the opportunity to write questions anonymously, so thank you very much for these.
20:12But if anyone has the urge to speak up directly, then I aim to be in a listening position.
20:24First question is, do you agree that what your husband did was wrong?
20:32Well, you have to understand that I come from a very different generation.
20:36When I was growing up, I was taught that my virginity was the most important thing about me.
20:42It was more important than my brain or my soul.
20:45We stigmatize sex by telling women that it's going to hurt them.
20:50These were consensual relationships.
20:53So if I say that John was wrong, I'm saying that these women were hurt by the act of having
20:59consensual sex,
21:00and I am not comfortable with that.
21:11The next question is, um, did you know about the affairs?
21:19Only vaguely.
21:22But in full disclosure, we had a marital agreement.
21:28What do you mean agreement?
21:29Do you mean an open marriage?
21:33Well, you could call it that.
21:36Like polyamory?
21:40Well, you could think of it as polyamory.
21:43And we didn't, but you could.
21:51Yes, Aaron?
21:53What's your take on conversion?
21:55What is that?
21:56Like, the well-being you feel when your partner takes pleasure in another relationship?
22:01Oh, I don't feel that.
22:05How do you deal with jealousy?
22:08Jealousy?
22:11Jealousy can be an opportunity.
22:13Sorry, your husband's relationships involve power imbalances,
22:17not relationships between consenting adults on equal footing.
22:21But who is ever on an equal footing?
22:24I mean, aren't you adults?
22:26Aren't you capable of making your own decisions?
22:31I know it sounds like an old shibboleth, but it really was a different time.
22:36I mean, I would argue that in the past, love affairs with all different kinds of people,
22:41some who lifted you up, some who left you a little bruised,
22:45I mean, emotionally, of course, were considered, within reason, really kind of fun.
22:53So a student suffering because of the teacher is fun?
22:55That's not what she's saying.
22:57Then what is she saying?
23:17I was looking for my keys.
23:19I had my forum today.
23:23And?
23:24I don't know.
23:26We'll be fine.
23:28One foot in front of the other.
23:31Where are you going?
23:32Our friend.
23:34Who is this friend?
23:36You've been out every night this week.
23:38Nobody.
23:41It's helping.
23:47What's helping?
23:51What's helping?
24:40Inspiring.
24:59Inspiring.
25:01Inspiring.
25:03Inspiring.
25:17Inspiring.
25:18I didn't realize this would be a group endeavor.
25:21On a Saturday, no less.
25:23We thought it might be better to meet, not on campus.
25:27OK.
25:32Want a donut?
25:33Maple glazed?
25:35No.
25:37OK, then let's just get to it since this is
25:39profoundly fucking awkward.
25:42We are happy to say we are not putting you
25:45on administrative leave.
25:49Wonderful.
25:51That is great.
25:52But the faculty has decided that you will be supervised.
25:58What do you mean by supervised?
26:00Your classes will be monitored.
26:02Monitored.
26:03By whom?
26:04I'll take women in American fiction.
26:06OK.
26:07And I'll take your seminar.
26:08And do what with it?
26:10We'll write up notes?
26:12It's administrative.
26:14It's accountability.
26:16And then we'll meet biweekly to review.
26:20Review what?
26:21To make sure that you are appropriately in line with our departmental goals.
26:26So you are going to be advising me as to whether or not my instruction is in line with your
26:31departmental goals in a biweekly meeting?
26:35It's a formality.
26:37It's a safety issue.
26:38It's a safety issue.
26:38We want to make sure our students feel safe.
26:40It's a safety issue.
26:40Some students requested that you be removed.
26:44Some advocated that you stay.
26:45So we feel that this is a compromise.
26:47You are going to be right with the police.
26:48To amaze them and abducted them.
26:49To play game.
26:51Yeah.
26:53They're in charge.
27:02Oh I appreciate the update may I ask that this decision please not leave this room
27:17sure
27:39don't
27:48It's the big day mmm. Yeah, it is. How are you feeling good?
27:53Well Alexis and Sid and I are going to go get breakfast and I don't know talk over the
28:00Bullshit strategy. Mm-hmm. If you wanted to come or you can just meet us there. I'll meet you there
28:08I do want you there. I know I'm coming
28:13You sure
28:14John, I mean this hearing is the only way out of this whole mess for you and for me
28:18I have my own reasons to be there. Okay
28:22Cynthia coming which one's Cynthia
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29:17I'm so glad you changed your mind.
29:21Are you ready?
29:22Are you ready?
29:23You're done?
29:24My love.
29:26Help me, I think I'm falling in love again.
29:32When I get that crazy feeling, I know I'm in trouble again.
29:38I'm in trouble, cause you're a lover and a lover and a sweet-talking ladies man.
29:44And you know how you're loving me.
29:47You know how you're loving me.
29:50I like your love, your freedom.
29:53You know how you're loving me.
29:58I love you, I love you.
30:03I love you.
30:08I love you.
30:13I love you.
30:16I love you.
30:20I love you.
30:21I love you.
30:22I love you.
30:25I love you.
30:36You know how you're loving me.
30:50I love you.
30:50I love you.
30:50I love you.
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