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Industry - Season 4 - Episode 01: Paypal of Bukkake
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02:09I'll be right back.
02:50I'll be right back.
03:25I'll be right back.
03:47I'll be right back.
03:55No.
03:58My boss, he flies to Africa basically weakly.
04:02Huh?
04:02That's my line.
04:05I don't want to take advantage of you.
04:07You can use your tongue wherever you want.
04:12Someone.
04:13My ex and my pussy looks like pink bubblegum.
04:18I don't want to take advantage of you.
04:41I don't want to take advantage of you.
04:44Oh, thank you.
04:46Well, if you told me your name, I've forgotten it.
04:52What did we do?
04:53So I'm, uh, I'm Jim.
04:56Uh, Jim Dyker?
05:00From Vin Digest?
05:02You're the only person who replies to me.
05:05No one at your company returns my calls.
05:10James Dyker?
05:13Mm-hmm.
05:13Oh my god, I replied to that as a professional fucking courtesy.
05:16Yeah, no, no, I know, I know.
05:18But listen, there are multiple anonymous-
05:20Oh my god, what the actual fuck?
05:22What the fuck are you even talking about?
05:24Get out of my fucking house!
05:26All your quotes could be not for retribution.
05:27Or just let me speak to your boss.
05:29You followed me?
05:30Are you fucking crazy?
05:32Okay, the time to get your little notepad out has fucking passed, dickhead!
05:36Okay, get out!
05:38Get the fuck out of here with journalistic ethics, you fucking stalker!
05:41And my boyfriend will be home soon.
05:43And he's big.
05:44And he's fucking black!
05:46Oh wow, what does that mean?
05:47You know what it means, bitch!
05:49I wasn't intending to come back here, okay?
05:51But I am human.
05:52I made an air of fucking judgement.
05:54I know, I know, but listen.
05:56I have been communicating with your boss's old assistant.
05:58Maybe, maybe, ask him about that.
06:00Where is she?
06:01I guess NDA to fuck, okay?
06:03Because questions, they don't just disappear because these don't eyes they exist.
06:06What are you doing?
06:07Fuck!
06:08Get the fuck out of here!
06:09Why?
06:10I'm leaving, I'm leaving, I'm leaving.
06:13I can just, just get my jacket.
06:15Look, it's just got my keys in it!
06:18Fuck!
06:20Fuck!
06:21Fuckin' hell!
06:24Fuck!
06:38Fuckin' hell!
06:46You guys are acting shifty.
06:48Are you under or overstimulated?
06:50I had a three-bottle lunch on Friday with James Ashford from Ashford Asset Management.
06:55He was so livid he forgot to flirt with a waitress.
06:58Yeah, trap door behind his eyes open like a man wearing a divorce.
07:01You know, a professional one.
07:03What are you talking about?
07:04Anyway, he said he was gonna make official contact, i.e. not boozy lunch contact.
07:09With our investor relations guy about withdrawing capital from your fund.
07:15You'll pay to outperform the market, not track it.
07:19Roland, I fucking concur.
07:21So maybe you can tell me why it is I'm faced with a firing squad every time I try to
07:24put a short on.
07:25I'm here to offer counsel.
07:26I've not seen you offering counsel in anyone else's office.
07:29Is your counsel Otto's diktat?
07:31Otto's retired.
07:32I'm really tired of dancing around the fact that I was promised a fund,
07:35and given what feels like a separately managed account with claustrophobic levels of oversight.
07:40Head of UK discretionary sales is just a verbose way of saying babysitter, let's be honest.
07:44I wanted to know whether you intended to keep running the short basket you had on.
07:47This OnlyFans and siren nonsense is spooking your investors.
07:50For surveillance.
07:51I am managing this fund, okay?
07:53And yes, it is still my view that the online safety bill will be a negative catalyst for those adult
07:58content players.
07:59So now our primary trade centers around mid-caps bank sites.
08:04Compelling.
08:05I guess one could argue these porn services are predatory platforms that coerce the vulnerable.
08:13Is this something you want to say to me directly, or...?
08:16Uh, no. No, sorry. I misspoke. My bad.
08:20Yeah, I just... I don't think that we should be trading minutes around specific verbiage of government statements
08:25that could pertain to a basket of names. I mean, it's not like these are criminal enterprises.
08:30Well, siren's prevalence in my search history feels criminal, though.
08:34That's a joke. Sorry, my bad. I don't consider myself a prolific masturbator.
08:39Okay, enough. Enough. Gentlemen, I think we're done here.
08:44Unless you'd like to troubleshoot any other methods you got cook enough to tell me how to do my fucking
08:48job.
08:59I used to think we looked the same age. If I thought I was gonna live this long, I would've
09:02taken better care of myself.
09:04You should try a semen retention streak, firms of the collagen in your face.
09:07No fap. Oh, Cap, you do that shit?
09:10No. Does it look like I need to?
09:11Dude, you're glowing. You chalk that up to infrequent ejaculation.
09:15I drink a lot of water. You're glowing, too.
09:17For a man who comes as much as I do?
09:18Yes. No, wait, what the fuck are we even talking about?
09:21It's just a redux of the 90s and the pro-clutching of the Christian right.
09:25I agree. It's Newt Gingrich with a blue rinse job.
09:27But siren's age verification methods remain fucking trash.
09:30So they're the lightning rod for all this shit because they committed the crime of being the most popular?
09:34Look, Manny, this is the Labour government's crusade against children being turned into pornography.
09:38And I maintain our mission statement should always be expansion.
09:42What?
09:44Hey, you pushed us into fucking Africa.
09:47What's the next territory we can slap a tag on and call the Global South?
09:51Look, I know you think the nuts and bolts of our biz is tawdry.
09:54Tawdry, dude, it's about censure regulation and the potential erosion of our profit model while we thumb our own asses
10:00with no eye on the future.
10:02I need coffee.
10:03I can't shit that much.
10:04I'm not calling the CEO of a company that pays us a shitload of cash just to spook him over
10:09some government virtue signaling.
10:11It's the Labour Party's first hundred days in government.
10:14They want flashy, ideological headlines like this bill that end up going nowhere.
10:19Why do we work with Siren and their evergreen users?
10:21Because human perversion is a hydra. What more needs saying?
10:25So once again, you railroad me into getting what you want.
10:28If that's how you choose to see it, sure.
10:30I mean, do me a favor and light the candle that I got you.
10:32I bought it on my personal and there's an ambient fog of something in here that's been a few comments.
10:37And that's antithetical to executive function?
10:39Uh, yes. Yes, it is.
10:41Will you indulge me, come by my office tomorrow and let me lay this out for you?
10:44Do we have any bobas at a thing we can do?
10:46Um, I don't know what that is, but I can check.
10:48Will this indulgence make you shut the fuck up about it?
10:51It may well do.
10:52Then I'll be there.
10:53You do look great, by the way, for a man twice your age.
10:57Oh.
11:04Let's do doubles then, yeah?
11:05Doubles? Definitely.
11:07Plus, my round?
11:09Yeah, one for everyone. I've just been promoted.
11:11You're actually at a wake.
11:13What?
11:13You're at a wake.
11:15Oh, yeah? Who died?
11:16No one you'd know, I don't think.
11:18You can buy me a drink still, if you want.
11:20What do you want?
11:21Gin and tonic, please.
11:23Two gin and tonics.
11:25Coming up, boss.
11:25When you're touched by God like me.
11:28You're more than 15 years to bring about real change, and you've bankrupted the country.
11:32Look, the online safety bill, it really isn't radical.
11:35You would say that as someone who pens Bevan's speeches and sockpedals her Orwellian nightmare.
11:39Yeah, I mean, people's online activity is effectively being NSA'd, no?
11:43They'll be logging our bowel movement soon, like the Chinese.
11:46I mean, listen, you must know what Bevan's gonna say tomorrow, right?
11:48Where do you work again? I could've sworn that I recognised you.
11:52I mean, there's thousands of me across London.
11:54Fuck off!
11:55Right, I'm gonna get another round.
11:57Yeah, put up my tab. It's been a good year.
12:00Go be a little hired in.
12:02Bit cheeky.
12:03She's got this doppelganger on siren.
12:05I'm 90% sure it's not her.
12:08You city boys must be all over this disgusting little website.
12:13Right, look at that.
12:15This woman redefines the concept of big naturals.
12:20She has that look, you know?
12:21Nazi fertility propaganda.
12:25Yeah, show me again, mate.
12:34Yeah, no, don't worry.
12:36I could've sworn she was at school with my younger sister.
12:38But, yeah, milk her, son.
12:41Jamie!
12:42I'm sorry for your loss.
12:44Basos had a brain the size of a planet.
12:46He was an exceptional mentor.
12:48A real, a real pipes-man.
12:50Stickman too, but a pipes-man, that's where he made his name.
12:53If it wasn't a Drake to kill him, it would've been the Cock Rock.
12:56Giant, like a Redwall MP on expense.
12:59A true proponent of cause 44.
13:0144 fights before 44pm.
13:06What are you looking for?
13:07Did you buy a photo?
13:08No, where was it last?
13:10I don't know, I think it was in here.
13:11What was it?
13:12You're fucked by now.
13:21Cheers.
13:24Fuck me!
13:25No.
13:26Tastes like prison hooch that blinds you.
13:29Ooh, shots.
13:30Jeez.
13:31No, thank you.
13:31That is all you love.
13:32Fuck.
13:33Mate, you haven't seen my phone, have you?
13:35I haven't.
13:36Ugh.
13:39So, is this gonna be a thing now?
13:43Seems a bit desperate for you.
13:45Lot of known knowns here, right?
13:48There's no way that the market has fully priced Bevan naming Siren specifically in Parliament tomorrow.
13:53Yeah, I mean, the names have all sold off a little in anticipation.
13:58But it's definitely not fully priced in that Siren's gonna catch the most flack.
14:03It has the most downside.
14:05Sirens were to be short in size.
14:20I can't get past even the most cursory background checks.
14:24Without an economic function, society buries you before you're dead.
14:30I, uh, I took care of that chunk of change that you had at the Priory for your stay.
14:35You said you put me as kin on your record.
14:37I didn't know.
14:40I was pretty zonked on meds.
14:45I wasn't actually trying to do anything.
14:49Not really.
14:53Okay.
14:55I'll be in touch if this works.
15:03AI driven fraud detection.
15:08Leading in financial wellbeing, trust, privacy, security.
15:15A one-stop shop for savings, investments, exchange.
15:21Why should wealth management be only for the 1%?
15:26Tender, a private banker in your pocket.
15:33A lot of Asians in that.
15:37It's not a negative, just an observation.
15:39You're kind of like heavy Asian.
15:41That wasn't intentional.
15:42It's not not compelling, but this can't be what you wanted to show me.
15:45I mean, this is a completely different business.
15:47I canvassed our investors casually.
15:48They like the potential direction of travel.
15:50Since when did this become a democracy?
15:51Uh, since we went public, we should be and can be a full-service banking app.
15:56A bank in your pocket.
15:57A neobank.
15:58Is that why you blew all this money moving us to Canary Wharf?
16:01The tab was probably smaller rebuilding Notre Dame.
16:03The, um, the euphemistic bull that, uh, spares everyone's blushes in our earnings reports.
16:09What's the phraseology?
16:10Alternative merchants, 23% of income.
16:13Alternative merchants.
16:14What does that mean?
16:15Gambling and pornography.
16:18Sucking!
16:18Fucking!
16:19Rolling the dice!
16:21PayPal, Google Pay won't touch it, so it's our 23%.
16:26Siren, which now dwarfs OnlyFans in terms of active users and profits, makes up, what, 4% of our revenue?
16:33Jerking off is recession-proof.
16:35There are markets that aren't accessible to the project due to associations with Siren and other risque banders.
16:41If Tender wants a banking license...
16:42We can't expect people to want to deposit their savings or take a mortgage with us if we're associated with
16:47squirting videos and, uh, ebony gilf gets force-bred by black bull.
16:52Fuck yeah. That's my go-to right there when I'm hungover.
16:55Hey, does it make me racist or anti-racist that I can only get hard for black-on-black action?
17:01Also, we are not a bank.
17:04Maybe Tender shouldn't be satisfied simply being the PayPal of Bukkake.
17:07PayPal of Bukkake is good. Write that down.
17:09Don't write that down. We can weather the short-term pain.
17:11Sorry, 4% of revenue is short-term pain?
17:13Yes, compared to the long-term gain of what we could be once we rehabilitate Tender's image.
17:18Yes, this is a pivot. I'm not underselling that it is.
17:20But I think you need to at least engage with what we could be.
17:25Siren doesn't belong at Tender 2.0.
17:27Because there is no fucking Tender 2.0.
17:30Oh my god, we IPO'd less than two years ago and not very successfully.
17:33Alright, and what's happened since? Rampant growth. A surge in your net worth.
17:37Yeah, fueled by my acquisition strategy.
17:39Okay, alright, so we're highly cash-generative. Growing in users. Increasingly loved by sell-side analysts.
17:45And you're suggesting a re-break of our business model? Wait, make the picture make sense.
17:49Not a re-break. A re-imagining of what we might be capable of.
17:52No, fuck that. Not everything needs disrupting, okay?
17:55A fucking artisanal olive oil does not need to be delivered through your letterbox.
17:59This is what we always talked about.
18:02Late capitalism is a carcinogen that breathes a product for everything that you think you need except the thing you
18:08really want.
18:08I have the product people really want.
18:12Or, we can sputter along, bob and weave, and in a few years you're gonna come to me and be
18:18like,
18:18Hey, wit, why ever profits eroded so much? And what the fuck do you want me to say to you
18:22then?
18:29Sometimes. The next thing is just to continue being very good at the thing we're fucking doing, okay?
18:37Man, I hate, I hate fighting.
18:41You need to be really careful about using phrases like black-on-black action in this office.
18:50Never deny a man has passions.
18:59Haley! Chair!
19:03Hi. How'd it go?
19:06Not good.
19:10Minister for Industry!
19:12Could you benefit me all the borrow you can on Siren?
19:15Now?
19:16No, at the next full fucking moon. Yes now!
19:18Fucking hell, Hob. It's not very liquid.
19:19All the sides you can find.
19:20Madam Speaker, I welcome the online safety bill returning to the Commons, having gone through extensive scrutiny in the Lords.
19:28This bill is a vital piece of legislation that will protect our children from the darkest recesses of the internet.
19:36The changes this government and my department have outlined will ensure that the bill contains the strongest possible protections for
19:44children
19:44and the internet users' rights of both free expression and privacy are protected.
19:50Okay, we're short, chunky for a midcap.
19:54100 bars, about 3.2% afloat.
19:57The member for South Senate.
20:00Can I ask the minister when she believes Britain became a gulag?
20:06Oh my God.
20:07How far does she think we are away from my constituents being handed jail sentences longer than paedophiles for posting
20:16the truth on X?
20:20This bill is not about silencing speech.
20:24It's about accountability.
20:25Holding platforms responsible.
20:28Pornography companies masquerading as content aggregators.
20:31Websites like Siren.
20:33And the vendors and the payment processes that facilitate those transactions and turn a blind eye to exploitation.
20:40Oh, Siren name specifically.
20:43We're lurching down here.
20:46Down 8%.
20:48What am I?
20:48This has come at a large personal cost to the consumer.
20:52If we've learned anything from the previous government, it's that if you want to make people pay attention, first you
20:59hurt their body.
21:00Yay!
21:03Okay, well, we made a tiny little profit here. You want me to lock it in?
21:06He's got her all the way fucked up.
21:08We will pursue the most aggressive pleasures.
21:11Oh, take profit, hop.
21:12Yeah, lock it in.
21:13Uh-uh.
21:13Sorry, I thought we were investors, not seat of our pants traders.
21:17Run the position.
21:19We have a short and it's working.
21:22End of story.
21:29I heard you got to know Jennifer Bevin.
21:31What does your husband think about that budding friendship?
21:34We need to talk about our Jonah problem.
21:36I was calling to see if you sit me next to her.
21:40If you sit me next to Stephen Fry again, I'm not responsible for what happens.
21:44Well, she is being touted for the big job in the next reshuffle.
21:47I'll be elevated Dern to business secretary to help placate the remaining hard left of the party.
21:53Yeah. Jenny's going to be around for a while.
21:56The revolving door of Tory ministers made lobbying fucking hard.
21:59I could never get a foothold.
22:01Well, listen, I'll perch you next to her.
22:03You can stick your silver tongue in her ear, see how she squeals.
22:07But, um, I want to keep the conversation about Henry's future alive.
22:11Sound fair?
22:12Sounds fabulous.
22:18The Jonah problem is not our problem.
22:23The company is me and Jonah. Our friendship predates all this fucking noise.
22:27Apologies. I overstepped.
22:30But if he's your friend, you need to protect him from himself.
22:36See, this is a serious company. He's not a serious person.
22:45On a website that's like SARM. And the vendors and the kind of processes that facilitate those transactions
22:52are a term of blind eye to exploitation.
23:13Sure, sure.
23:13Gentlemen, thanks for coming in on such short notice.
23:16So, as mutually beneficial as the partnership has been,
23:20we can no longer be your payment processor.
23:25What?
23:26We can't be linked to pornography of any, uh, denomination.
23:30We're not a porn company. We're an online subscription aggregator.
23:34That's a new semantic trait.
23:35What is pornography anyway? I mean, do feet count by way of example?
23:41A lot of our performers are non-nude. It's all consensual.
23:44This online bill and the recent stink around age verification in the press
23:47contends that you make no concrete guarantee of that.
23:50If a woman wants to record her flatulence into a microphone and monetize it,
23:54it's her agency.
23:56Siren is feminist.
23:58Remind me what Siren was called before, uh,
24:01Balderton bankrolled your Series B and you hired that on-the-nose
24:04hip-a-little agency for the rebrand?
24:06Had a military element, as I recall.
24:09You partnered with Colonel Cream Pie.
24:12With who?
24:12With Colonel Cream Pie. You partnered with Colonel Cream Pie.
24:15And I want Jonah in this meeting. I want the chief executive here right now.
24:19We'll stop processing your payments in the next 24 hours.
24:22We'll then start cutting ties with other vendors in the space.
24:25I'm sorry, but, politely, we don't know you.
24:31So why are you in this meeting?
24:35That's Ferdinand. He's a CFO of IBM Barrow Bank and a non-exec director on our board.
24:41Okay. So why is he speaking to us like an executive director?
24:45We have a 6% stake contender, and Whitney's vision for the company is going to be back.
24:50We won't be blackmailed like this.
24:51Good. I'm not blackmailing you. This is just what's gonna happen.
24:56We have a contract.
24:57You do. So, uh, let the lawyers fight for years about whether said contract is worth the papers printed on.
25:06Tender's POV. Contract's terminated.
25:10All right. Buy safe, boys.
25:16What the fuck?
25:31Hey!
25:33Thought you should know I fired a siren.
25:36Something is happening in your company.
25:38Dude, are you joking? I'm the fucking CEO!
25:42Publicly-traded companies, so fucking act like it!
25:49Do you want me to avoid the... the ass?
25:52Don't say ass like that.
25:54Silver Cliff, do you want me to avoid your ass area?
25:56Yes! Yes, I do!
25:58What if you wanted me to fuck you in the ass, huh?
26:01Chill!
26:02What the hell? I'm not about to be penetrated for some cheap feminist thing.
26:06All right.
26:09Are you good?
26:10Yeah.
26:13I just... I think I put my foot in my mouth with sweet pea yesterday.
26:19I feel like most women in this business walk into rooms and have men address them with their eyes.
26:24No, that's false equivalence.
26:26Thousands of guys in the city have literally seen her box.
26:29Yes! And whoever forwarded that leak is fucking complicit.
26:31It was meant to be anonymous. She never wanted to put her face to it.
26:34No, you're right. You're right. Yeah.
26:35I know I'm right.
26:36Sucks.
26:38This won't define her anyway, don't worry.
26:41Mm-hmm.
26:43Have you seen it?
26:46No.
26:48No.
26:51And she's not my type.
26:53You've never fantasized about fucking her?
26:56A pristine white girl whose pussy you could just fucking ruin?
27:02Sounds like a party.
27:04Excuse me.
27:06Oh.
27:13Fucking cunt.
27:15What?
27:18The Lily Lara family office has just put in a redemption request to withdraw their capital.
27:23Who's that? I've never heard of it.
27:26Fucking cunt. Sucking bitch.
27:34Take this down. I'm gaining the fund.
27:37What? What? Why on God's green earth would you do that?
27:39Because. Because.
27:40I'm sick and fucking tired of people taking decisions out of my hands.
27:44Do it.
27:46I have motherfuckers always making shit fucking personal.
27:52I must acknowledge recent performance has not met the high standards that we set for ourselves.
27:56My conviction in Siren, a position which is now working, has led me to the difficult decision to implement an
28:02emergency gate which will temporarily prohibit outflows from the fund.
28:05This gate is to protect you, the investor. We don't want to dilute potential returns for remaining investors.
28:11Lie number one. Who'd invest in your project now?
28:13As our team has discovered a set of short positions we think will be extremely lucrative in the short to
28:18mid term.
28:18Lie number two. Well the funds yet to have an idea that truly broke out and we've owned the conversation
28:22around.
28:23Yes, because Otto is fucking backseat driving. We should in no uncertain terms make it clear what this fund is
28:28going to be moving forward.
28:30I get-
28:30Can you shut the fuck up please and just take the goddamn email?
28:33Jesus Christ.
28:36Issues with governance and management has meant I have not been able to fulfill the short only mandate you believed
28:41you were investing in a little over a year ago.
28:44That changes from tomorrow.
28:47Yours, Harperstern, Short Opportunities Fund, Mauston Asset Management.
28:52Harper, look, I get you're the boss. This is not a good idea.
28:55Send it.
28:59Fine.
29:01What's the distribution?
29:05Client-wide.
29:11What's going?
29:15Excuse me?
29:15Do I look like I'm made out of flame retardant material?
29:18I have never heard that collection of words come out of anyone-
29:20Why am I always going into business with fucking arsonists?
29:25James?
29:25I'm protecting us from capricious outflow while a key idea of the quarter is working.
29:30I thought I was investing in someone finding long-term non-consensus shorts with potentially massive payouts.
29:36Siren's not even on a proper index. It's tiny!
29:39The short only mandate changed without my consent.
29:48This doesn't have anything to do with your chairman emeritus' political ambitions, does it?
29:54What the fuck are you talking about?
29:57It might be worth asking Lord Mostyn what a noisy short only fund was doing to his chances of a
30:03peerage when the Tories were defenestrated.
30:06The House of Lords Appointment Commission has a vetting process to ensure nobody brings it into disrepute.
30:16I have instructed my Funds Council to draft a redemption request and a note for your investor letters if you're
30:23ever lucky enough to write another one again.
30:26There's no need to be so sesquipedalian. Sesquipedalian. Sesquipedalian. Sesquipedalian.
30:41This is all because you couldn't make me come.
30:45Sesquipedalian.
30:48If you're gonna have a fucking stroke, please do it outside of my office.
30:52Oh my god!
30:54Oh shit!
30:56Oh my god, oh my, get, um, get.
30:58What the fuck?
30:58Serena, please go get, uh, call, call 911, 999, call somebody.
31:08Very inconvenient.
31:12Thank you guys.
31:15What's the opposite of a runner's high?
31:17That isn't funny.
31:19Well, the only solution to mortality is a smile, Rowland.
31:21It's gonna be fine, guys.
31:22The EMTs said it was a transient ischemic attack. A stroke skull was a baby.
31:26What the fuck were you thinking trying to gate the fund?
31:29If you wanted pyrotechnics, let me tell you something. It has fucking well worked.
31:33I think it might be worth a brief pause to analyze why we're causing bleeds on our clients' brains.
31:39We are supposed to have an investigative strategy, slow and steady. Months, years even, to build a case.
31:47People like Ashford wanna sit in their pile and know that their money is working for them.
31:51If you lack impulse control, why are you managing other people's money?
31:55People like Ashford invested in me.
31:58I am not the one who made this fund schizophrenic. Can you give me six feet, please?
32:05Otto's on the line.
32:10No.
32:15Fuck!
32:31I have been feeling calls all morning about your churlish gating email
32:35whilst concurrently swearing my allegiance to His Majesty the King.
32:39You are the last person that I wanted to see today.
32:41I never signed on to be a separately managed account.
32:44You are not a separately managed account.
32:46In all but name, I am.
32:48Short selling companies that act in the public interest is the work of vultures, and we are not vultures in
32:53here.
32:53Are you telling me that Siren acts in the public interest?
32:55Wanking is utilitarian. I am talking about your other prospective shorts. Public utilities. Those board members are friends. They are
33:05nephews. They are godchildren.
33:07Okay, so then what are we doing here, honestly?
33:11You are in an enviable position for a woman of your age.
33:15Now, I am going to cauterize the bleed of your ridiculous and unilateral email, and we will assess your performance
33:24quarter on quarter, like any other manager.
33:26Unfortunately, Harper, this is a brave new world based on merit.
33:32You hired me on merit.
33:34I hired you as a face.
33:37And the cost-benefit analysis of the progressive sheen that you brought to the wider umbrella of Mostyn Asset Management,
33:44and it no longer stacks up.
33:47You wanted to hire a puppet in blackface so you could continue being a crook.
33:55And in whose eyes am I provably a crook? A crook anointed by the king?
34:01And that woke shit no longer moves the needle in this new world.
34:08I accidentally called a subordinate a retard yesterday.
34:14Nobody flinched.
34:16And you know what, Harper?
34:19Tomorrow, I might do it again.
34:35My granddaughter gets a 200k allowance and whines about being poor in New York.
34:41That's not an allowance. It's an endowment.
34:45And Christ and his consigliere, we were young enough for deregulation, old enough for compound interest.
34:51Yeah, three things increase with compound interest. Good deeds, bad deeds, and cash.
34:56You now keep up on the market?
34:57Nah.
34:58How many spare balls do you reckon is detailed, Gary?
35:03Is 47 ever allowed anyone to play through?
35:05Not in this lifetime.
35:07Okay, I got us a four-top at the Palm for tonight.
35:11No wives or girlfriends or twinks, Peaky.
35:13Again.
35:14If you want to try somewhere else, it's always the fucking poem.
35:17When he ends up in the bunker, he shouts fake news and the mall disappeared.
35:20Fuck this. I'm not waiting for him to finish another hole when I shot 82 already.
35:24What the fuck I'm playing here?
35:26Tell it to your priest.
35:27I heard he loves playing with Tiger.
35:29He doesn't feel like a civil right here.
35:31C'est l'oie de blanc. Et c'est mesonier.
35:42Well, hello.
35:44Bizarre way to tell me you miss me.
35:47Excuse me?
35:47Your family office withdrew funds.
35:51Lily Lara are pulling out.
35:53I'm retired, Harper.
35:55Dylan's the one that's across how we're invested.
35:58He didn't like your last few quarters.
36:00Said you're throwing sand in the air and you're surprised it doesn't land as a castle.
36:05He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
36:10Author. First name's six letters.
36:12Last name's seven.
36:13No idea.
36:14You want to know why people think Bridgewater is the best fund in the world?
36:18It's not underlying returns.
36:20It's because Dalio crows louder than the rest when they're owning one good position and shuts the fuck up when
36:27they're on a bad run.
36:29Dylan showed me your gating email. It read a little aggressive.
36:35Angry black woman. Is it really as reductive as that?
36:39You are an angry black woman.
36:41I was stopping outflows while landing on an idea that works.
36:45A public gating of your fund is the coroner's signature. A gating at 30 years old. Oh boy.
36:52Cutting investors off from their money? Come on.
36:55Otto killed my vision.
36:59You know what Harp? I think you find it useful to always have a prepackaged person to blame when you
37:09failed.
37:10But if you're hell-bent on that strategy, find a structural short you actually believe is violently overvalued and should
37:18rewrite, own the story.
37:21Your name on the trade because it's your name on the door, not some other schmuck.
37:27What if it was our names on the door?
37:31You look thirsty, baby.
37:33Want to come over when you're done?
37:37Uh, yeah. Yeah, I'll be right there.
37:42That sounds like a good arrangement.
37:45Uh, yeah. Wait, what arrangement? She likes me.
37:50Yeah. And I bet an old girl has a fat old ass.
37:54Correction, actually, I can't imagine that she's very old at all. She sounds black.
38:00I'm not a fetishist.
38:02Oh, I didn't... I did not say anything.
38:06Maybe we could just... talk about what it could look like. Maybe...
38:15You've had a long day, I'm sure. Don't say things you want to recant come morning.
38:25Retirement must be heaven on earth.
38:30Don't be a stranger.
38:31Blue, blue, my world is blue.
38:35Blue is my world since I'm without you.
38:40Gray, gray, my life...
38:43Where the fuck do you get off doing something so self-destructive?
38:45You're acting like a legacy CEO, your job is governance and growth.
38:49Dude, if you want out, if you want to resign or someone's courting you, you can say.
38:54You know who's after me. I'm a happy hero. I won't stop advocating for maturing the business.
39:00To think this all started importing dupe bape hoodies from Puyang.
39:04Michelangelo made David. You birthed the platform for rerouting porn payments.
39:08We birthed it.
39:10Come on, do you still find me attractive?
39:12Objectively.
39:13I put this one chick away recently. Tight fucking body, real pommel horse.
39:17When I got full nude, I could see you're doing the mental calculus whether fucking me was worth the dinner
39:22at some overpriced Gordon Ramsay shit hole.
39:23Can I do another vodka this time? Bone dry, coldest space, thanks.
39:28Hmm. But I'm sick of your solo project shitting on the flow of our band, man. Globetrotting Whitney disappearing to
39:34Africa every fucking two minutes to overpay for some piece of shit native biz.
39:38You signed off on it.
39:39Africans are as horny as anyone in the West, potentially hornier. I thought this was a porn play.
39:43The Ghanaian economy is basically on HGH. We're buying a footprint, local expertise, and we're buying users. Grow or die.
39:50Kid I met at Stanford knew that in his bones.
39:52What was the thing you said to me when I pitched up a college shaking like a fucking chimney sweeps
39:56apprentice?
39:57Where do you pick up these little phrases from?
39:59I read. What did you say?
40:00No idea.
40:01No, I'll never forget it. You said, in America, your story begins when you start telling you.
40:09Look, we've obviously hit an impasse in our relationship, right?
40:12Poor communication. So bring me in. Put me on the ground where we're expanding.
40:17I just need your blessing to pursue the vision for 10 to 2.0. That's it.
40:22Dude, you want me engaged. You can't complain when I engage.
40:24I can countenance your acquisition strategy, but only if you introduce me to Tony Day if he's our financials guy
40:29down there.
40:30I couldn't pick him out of a lineup and he's your fucking lieutenant down there for fuck's sake.
40:33And I want to get rid of the kraut.
40:35You can't get rid of the kraut.
40:36I know, I know. But I like to dream.
40:38And he's Austrian.
40:40What if we buy the kraut out?
40:41Market cap is bigger than IBM Bowers now.
40:46It was, um, it was vital that we clear the air so that we don't take our personal bullshit out
40:51on our shareholders.
40:53But you know we can never be a bank.
40:56That's not our story.
41:01I understand.
41:05I, uh, I need to head.
41:08I'll keep the tab open.
41:09This dysmorphic TikToker from Stockholm who's gonna slide into that seat.
41:13She could bring a friend.
41:14Might be fun to hang a deux, uh, four, quattro.
41:18Thanks, but I can't miss this.
41:23I, uh, I really don't think you should come in hungover tomorrow.
41:29Wait, I have nothing to go home to.
41:33You do know that I love you.
41:35Right?
41:37I can't believe that I do.
41:39And worse still, love you too.
41:55Vogue's in the room.
41:56Unless you're fuckable, fashionable, or famous for facing your furniture.
41:59Yeah?
42:01Apparently Vogue have a photographer here, but he tied all the rich white women before they do something brave and
42:05inclusive.
42:06Hello.
42:10You know I'll come back for that drink.
42:15Have you ever felt alone in a group?
42:19I'm Whitney.
42:21Halberstern.
42:22Harperstern.
42:24I, I know who you are.
42:25I've seen your face on the org chart when researching companies you were in business with.
42:29Siren.
42:30Oh, fuck.
42:32My face pinned to a cork board like a common criminal.
42:36Not quite, but...
42:38Why am I lucky enough to share a room with you now?
42:42You know who I am?
42:44Of course I know who you are.
42:47Um...
42:49I, I know the woman who's putting on the event.
42:52Same.
42:53She's a, uh, dear friend.
42:57Hey, Edmund.
42:58How are you?
42:59Hello.
43:01Hello.
43:02So glad to bring you two together.
43:05Nice to see you.
43:07You're beautiful.
43:08Thanks so much.
43:11Whitney, this is Jennifer Bevan, the new Minister for Industry.
43:15Struggling to imagine how the two of you got friendly.
43:17Well, Henry and Jennifer really battled it out in the election.
43:20So, I thought the right thing to do would be to invite her over for a friendly tea.
43:25We like a gab, don't we?
43:27I thought that off my shop was stuffed.
43:29I'm sure Lord Norton would think you'd look great on the wall.
43:33Um, this is Whitney Horvastrom from Tender.
43:36It's a pleasure.
43:38Yasmin has a habit of making the right connections at the right times.
43:40And Henry might be working with Whitney soon.
43:44Well, I'd love to meet him.
43:46Then you should come and visit.
43:48Yeah, once he's shaken off this little cold.
43:51It's his birthday.
43:52And the house will be in full festive swing soon.
43:55I imagine that, uh, a meeting with Lord Norton's pretty high on the agenda for you and the new business
44:01secretary,
44:01now that you've been given this role in government.
44:03Well, Lisa isn't one to count out on legacy media.
44:07She's not a ring kisser.
44:10I watched your speech.
44:12I think it's laudable.
44:14It's prompting a re-evaluation of our whole direction as a company.
44:18We have boundless ambition for what Tender could evolve into.
44:21Actually, as of this morning, we're no longer affiliated with Siren or any porn company.
44:28You know, we'd love a champion in government.
44:32And crucially, in the press.
44:42Hey.
44:46Couldn't take your eyes off me.
44:48Pretty sure you were looking at me.
44:56You wanna come home with me?
44:59Didn't we decide that a long time ago?
45:04Hayley.
45:05Hmm?
45:05You booked us a car?
45:06Car's pulled up.
45:08Thanks for sticking around.
45:17I, uh, I need to go to a crawl again.
45:19Tell Tony you'll need a few hours, no need to diarize.
45:21Okay.
45:21Um, oh, also the, the girl that I replaced is looking for a reference.
45:28Is she?
45:30I'm glad to hear she's back up and running.
45:32What happened to her?
45:36Uh...
45:37I probably shouldn't say.
45:38She, she had crumbs.
45:43We'll pay for her to go private.
45:44Long recovery time.
45:47Good?
45:48Yeah, thank you.
45:51Get home safe.
45:53Oh!
45:54Ah!
45:55Ah!
46:01Ah!
46:02Ah!
46:08Did you enjoy how I fucked you?
46:13You wanna return a favor?
46:15Do something for me?
46:18I guess. Depends what it is.
46:23Surprise. Go on my walk-in.
46:30Okay.
46:34A little bit nervous.
46:36Hey, don't be. Bottom right, black box.
46:47Open it.
47:06I guess it still purports to be a free country.
47:19Big everybody.
47:43Okay, go."
47:43I guess that's when I gave me a good class.
47:43That everyone for me just woke up and it turned out there more and continue moves to it.
47:44I guess I should wait to say there's a short reason.
47:44Yeah.
47:46No, no.
47:47Harper's turn.
47:48Harper.
47:49Hi.
47:51My name's Jim Dyker.
47:52I work at Findigest.
47:54How did you get this number?
47:56A source in the city lets you get an email to me.
47:59I look at financial fraud.
48:01Look, I'm working on a story on Siren's now former payment processor tender.
48:07Your email said you were sure Siren.
48:11You've been looking at the wrong company.
48:14I'm going to have to call you back.
48:17All right, look.
48:18I think these people are capable of almost anything to stop someone looking too closely,
48:22all right?
48:26Harper?
48:28All good?
48:31Never better.
48:48Business or pleasure?
48:54Didn't do too well chasing pleasure.
49:03How are your girls?
49:10Yeah, well, you moved thousands of miles away, so...
49:14Boarding school, huh?
49:16Maybe that's a justification.
49:19I abdicate the responsibility to an institution.
49:24Could be the story of our lives.
49:27Give everything to something that kills you.
49:37I'm glad you came.
49:44So, what do we call this?
49:46Do we call it a partnership?
49:53What's stopping us?
49:56Think we're capable of being that for each other?
50:02You came.
50:05You called.
50:11What is your angle here?
50:13Honestly, because I can't be a punching bag for another man's fear.
50:22I sacrificed too much to sit on the sidelines.
50:29When you're young, you've got all these ideas and nowhere to put them.
50:39When you're getting to the end of it,
50:43all you've got...
50:47is...
50:48Money?
50:55Yeah.
50:56Money.
51:05I want my name on the door.
51:09So do I.
51:17It's really funny how honest communication can feel like a...
51:23fucking...
51:25exorcism.
51:27Yeah.
51:31The problem with heaven on earth...
51:34is that nobody wants it when it's here.
51:47I was so fucking drunk.
51:49I passed through drunkenness to, like, this new elevated level of sobriety.
51:55Then, of course, somebody put a fucking 10am in my diary.
51:59You good?
51:59How do you think it's wrong?
52:10Remember I wanted to spare you this indignity.
52:21Mr. Atterbury, if you'd like to sit down.
52:25What are we doing here?
52:27Thanks, I'll stand.
52:29As you wish.
52:31Wait, what's going on?
52:33I think you should take a seat, man.
52:47Mr. Atterbury, we are assembled here...
52:50to relieve you of your position of Chief Executive Officer.
52:54What the fuck does that mean?
52:55You are in breach of contract.
52:58Despite warnings.
53:00There are several behavioral clauses.
53:02Wait, what the fuck? What warnings?
53:04The company reserves a right to terminate any executive who acts amorally,
53:08continually, with seemingly no compunction.
53:13Persistent consumption of narcotics on company premises.
53:17Persistent state of intoxication on company premises.
53:21Persistent misuse of company funds and...
53:24Like fucking what? Sorry, no, like what? Like what?
53:27The playpen.
53:29Los Angeles, $2,800.
53:32Magic City, Atlanta, $4,300.
53:36Complaint continues.
53:38General hygiene not befitting status of executive function.
53:42Excuse me?
53:42Your odour, Mr. Atterbury, your attire, your levels of cleanliness.
53:53The board have voted unanimously for dismissal.
53:57No.
53:58As a concession, your equity in the company remains undiluted,
54:02and at the special request of Mr. Holberstrom,
54:06future dividends and additional benefits, healthcare, pension, remain unchallenged.
54:13How fucking noble.
54:20Look at me, you asshole.
54:25Fucking look at my face!
54:29Say something!
54:32Fucking speak to me!
54:39The problem is...
54:43I'm not speaking to you, Jonah.
54:48Haven't seen you for some time.
54:52I would like to nominate myself as interim CEO.
54:55I'll conduct a search for a viable candidate.
54:57All in favor?
55:14I've started laying track with the new government's business department.
55:19Our comp is no longer Stripe or PayPal.
55:24It's not even Chase or Goldman Sachs.
55:27We're gonna be all these things and more.
55:31We're gonna be a bank killer.
56:05We know dinner.
56:24We need banks.
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