Claire Parker

Like I do think it can be both like on the one hand, he like has come up with this cultural psyop to kind of make sure the downtown NYU future generation never comes for him.

But I also do think he seems to want to be liked, you know what I mean?

Which is always interesting to me because as someone who's gotten success on the internet, like my dream of success is like having enough money.

You never have to go on a line again.

And I'm like, if I had a hundred billion dollars, I have like 10 people I love.

I would just be in a giant house with them somewhere.

eating dinner, the idea of trying to, of paying for somebody else's party and like being in the news like that.

I don't know.

OK, here's my new theory.

I don't think he wants to be liked, but I think he's a smart man who realized it wasn't enough to have power.

You have to have like cultural capital in this weird way.

And this was his attempt to buy it.

Yeah, I thought you were saying books.

I'm like, how much, how much reading?

I guess enough to drive me absolutely insane.

I'm trying to think.

Because I guess much like the director, and I think he's like a great cautionary tale against what I'm about to say.

I feel like everybody has a number where you go, well, with that amount of money, you do it once and then you do way more better.

You know what I mean?

What is one crazy podcast episode versus if I could give $5 million to people who need help on the street or something?