The Audacity (2026)

Season 1, Episode 6 — Sandbox

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So I wanted to let you know to go ahead and hold the--
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Wh--no, no, no, no, no, no.
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No, Beth. Beth. Beth, no.
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Listen, I--
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No. No. Beth?
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Beth. Beth.
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Beth!
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She got an all-cash offer,
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400 over asking.
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Okay.
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I did everything right.
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We have 90 days to move out.
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Oh, wow.
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Thank you for your help with this, by the way.
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Yeah, enjoy your IRA.
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Okay, first of all, it's definitely gonna be
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more than 90 days because there's always
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a couple months once they put the thing
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in the whatchamacallit.
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Escrow.
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The word you are looking for, Gary, is "escrow,"
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a word that you've never used
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because you are a 55-year-old man
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who's never owned a house.
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Jesus, put down the howitzer.
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Okay?
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We're gonna be okay.
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No, we're not.
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That's when I realized I am the only person
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I can count on, and I feel like I've been holding back
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on my true self for too long.
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And what true self is that?
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I'm a bad man, JoAnne.
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Yeah. Your son said so.
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He said, "You are a bad, bad man."
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And if I am, well, it's--
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it's better to know it.
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Do you wanna be a bad man?
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I don't think I have a choice in the matter, really, truly.
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I think at my core, I'm bad.
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And if I pretend I'm not, right, like, to the world,
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to myself, it's like I am--
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I am forever in conflict with my genuine nature.
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And I don't--I don't have to do bad things.
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It's just, the willingness is there
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to do what others dare not.
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That is it. That is really it.
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And you know, some of us are meant to be the puppeteers.
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And the rest of us are the puppets?
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Yeah, and puppets hate their puppeteers.
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They do.
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You're just, you know, manipulating their every move,
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deciding everything on what they're gonna do for them.
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And yet, if the man doesn't hold the strings,
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the puppet crumbles.
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It does. It falls apart. It's useless.
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It's a burden, really.
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So who nominated you to carry this burden
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for the rest of us mortals?
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It's just something you know.
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It's like how I know I will emerge from my recent setbacks
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with something newer, better, even more honest
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than Hypergnosis ever was.
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I saw that your house was for sale.
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Uh, yeah.
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Yeah, it was, but, um--
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but it sold, so it's over.
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We're out.
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They paid all cash.
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8.4 million for this. What a rip-off.
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8.5, but who's counting?
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You?
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Hmm?
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You bought it?
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For you.
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No.
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Yes, I did. It's yours.
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It's mine?
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It's your--it's your house.
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Okay, uh, you--b--
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why would you do this?
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Well, you said our sessions had to be here.
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I--
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so you--
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you're just gonna give it to me?
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I-I own it.
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So it's your house.
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It's--
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You live and work here, you and the boys.
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And only way you can lose the house--
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I mean, you can't, but I suppose if you stop
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being my therapist, my oracle.
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Your puppet.
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Hey, maybe I'm not such a bad guy after all.
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We are truth tellers.
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Truth tellers historically get burned alive.
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Hey! Buck up.
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You met someone who got you.
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Turned out to be another creep.
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Hey, Duncan.
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Infinite growth isn't for everyone.
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Hi, Mary. My name is Alexander.
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I'm from Veterans Affairs.
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You are inviting a pushback
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that is going to feel like the wrath of God.
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We're a hit.
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"Audacity" scene...
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Oh, fuck it.
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I wanted to do it professionally, but.
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In episode six, one of the big themes of the show
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is established very directly with Duncan's new company,
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Privacy Is Not A Thing Anymore.
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Privacy lives in a constant state of fear.
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And where there is fear, there is money to be made.
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I mean, I could talk about this for hours.
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I really could.
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I think what people need to wake up to is you
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and mostly your children are the new oil,
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and we're being mined by these companies.
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- Horrible. - You can't hide anymore.
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I'm not saying, like, you should hide,
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but, like, there's so much invasive things happening
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about your personal privacy that is out there.
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Data collection is a mutual agreement
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to surrender privacy for service.
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We all know that.
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Well, we do, but we work in this business.
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We know to reject all the tricks they use to track us.
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You do reject all nonessential cookies, right?
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I would blindly just accept the cookies.
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I didn't even know what the cookies were.
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Like, yeah.
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Whenever someone offers cookies, you say yes.
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Strangers, computers.
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But now I'm just like, no, I do not want them.
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It's very hard to exist now without participating
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in that to some degree.
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And unfortunately, there's a very predatory group of people
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who come from this little small town
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who are driving technology and ultimately driving
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where we go as a civilization.
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And, so, Privacy Is Not A Thing Anymore
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is just an acknowledgment of that.
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For Duncan, it's like, hey, let's just come out and say it.
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This is what we're doing.
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This is what the whole industry is doing.
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Let's take advantage of it. - You know,
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once word got out that she was trying to whitewash
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how we do business here, I scooped up three,
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three Hypernosis clients for my new company.
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He comes in with a pretty convincing argument.
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And it doesn't work because, as we see at the beginning of 106,
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we learn that Bardolph has a real affinity for veterans
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in an extraordinary sequence
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that shows this billionaire's vanity,
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having never served himself wanting to reenact battles
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from World War I, in this case, in the backyard of his mansion.
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You're done, and boom, you are dead.
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Oh, I got you.
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So, when Duncan insults veterans in general
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and Tom specifically, it sets Bardolph off.
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- Get the fuck out! - You get the fuck--
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If Duncan had not insulted Tom,
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I believe that Bardolph and Stan
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were prepared to bring Duncan back to run the company.
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And that blows it all up.
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So, congratulations, Anushka.
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You're CEO.
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We only need 20% down, Gary.
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400,000 is nowhere near 20%.
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You're missing like a million and change.
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Well, I-I, uh, I have access--
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a plan to access...
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A million dollars? Pray tell.
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For JoAnne, it's all about
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doing whatever it takes to keep the house.
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JoAnne feels that need to control her fate so desperately
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that she is willing to break all kinds of laws to keep her house.
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- Ugh, do you smell that? - Ugh.
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And Duncan swoops in at the end and buys it.
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8.4 million for this. What a rip-off.
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8.5, but who's counting?
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- You? - It's the ultimate power move.
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I own your house and your office.
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And, hey, I'm totally happy for you guys to live here,
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but let's not forget who owns it.
#1186
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The only way you can lose the house--
#1187
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I mean, you can't--
#1188
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but I suppose if you stop being my therapist, my oracle.
#1189
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Your puppet.
#1190
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Hey, maybe I'm not such a bad guy after all.
#1191