May 31, 2025
📝 spend
“Is it so unreasonable for me to want to know how my children are spending their time?” “I’m not a child.”
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📝 spend
“Is it so unreasonable for me to want to know how my children are spending their time?” “I’m not a child.”
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Billions - 4x03 || 4x04 - Taylor’s father finally respecting their preferred pronouns
SACKER: Report signed by Taylor Mason… You were trying to warn the kid about the place they’re working. CONNERTY: Yeah. I think “they” know.
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TAYLOR: You came to see me. I thought you were ready. DOUGLAS: To use your “preferred pronouns…” TAYLOR: They’re the ones used by those who respect me. Without the quotes. DOUGLAS: I’m sorry, kid. I’m trying to get there. I missed ya. That’s why I’m here. ——— DOUGLAS: Hey, kid. You know I don’t think that “woke” stuff is all worthless or for idiots just because I’m no good at it. Right? I know it matters. TAYLOR: Right. ——— DOUGLAS: Ah. Don’t listen to me, kid. Just rambling. TAYLOR: Okay. I won’t.
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DOUGLAS: Hey, kid, what do you say we keep it clean and go it alone for another round? With you funding the next steps. An additional fourteen million, by my calculations, which you’ll see back fivefold. TAYLOR: Your calculations are inaccurate. And low. And that return is unrealistic.
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DOUGLAS: You know what, kid? You are just like me. Only colder. TAYLOR: Yeah. So maybe I’ll actually win.
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AXE: And ‘cause I want Taylor back at Axe Capital, working for me. CHUCK: Come again? AXE: They’re the best player I’ve seen in this league in two decades. Real five-tool, you know? CHUCK: Back at the beginning this was advertised as me getting a Wall Street scalp. But now that it’s haircut time, you tell me no. Why don’t you just hire the kid back and stop wasting my fucking time?
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AXE: I think it’d be different now. I’m different. You are. We have a concrete goal in mind for you, so there’d be a defined exit. Then you could go do all the positive things that you’re destined for. Won’t be forever. But I think it’d be very, very good for everyone. You and me, together again, kid. TAYLOR: I’ll give it real consideration.
2x11 golden frog time // 4x03 chickentown // 4x06 maximum recreational depth // 4x07 infinite game // 4x12 extreme sandbox // 7x12 admirals fund
📝 taylor
“Really. I know you, Taylor.” You want to scream. It’s like he’s trying to completely undo the therapy session you just had.
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📝 obvious
“And college in New York, you know that’ll cost an arm and a leg, if you’re lucky and it’s not both legs —”
“They have financial aid packages,” you say. Obviously he’s forgotten about you asking for a copy of the family’s tax returns for exactly that reason. “And scholarships.”
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TAYLOR: In the future, if you find yourself in conversation with one of them, pay close attention to the pronouns they use in reference to me.
DOUGLAS: This talk again, huh?
TAYLOR: You came to see me. I thought you were ready.
DOUGLAS: To use your “preferred pronouns…”
TAYLOR: They’re the ones used by those who respect me. Without the quotes.
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TAYLOR: Hello. I’m Taylor. My pronouns are they, theirs, and them.
AXE: Okay.
4x03 chickentown // 2x02 dead cat bounce
📝 change
He changes lanes, and honks long and loud at someone who tries to pass him. “It’s not just about whether you’ll get As in your classes, like I’m sure you will. It’s a cutthroat business.”
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DOUGLAS: Don’t you need me?
TAYLOR: Yes, and I always have. But the version of you I really need — the one who’s a father first — he doesn’t exist. ‘Cause all he cares about is his own advancement.
DOUGLAS: I’m leaving. And I’m taking my fin technology with me.
TAYLOR: No, you’re not. I owned it. And I sold it to the government.
DOUGLAS: You people. All you care about is fucking money. You know what, kid? You are just like me. Only colder.
TAYLOR: Yeah. So maybe I’ll actually win.
DOUGLAS: Maybe, but I’ll say this. It won’t feel like it.
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AXE: I thought you wanted to get rich together, and I let that fool me. But your problem, as an investor, is that your idealism is at war with your profit drive. And one day that will ruin you.
TAYLOR: While your problem, as a boss, as a mentor, as a person, is you see my work product, my company, me, as yours to do with as you see fit.
AXE: And so now you’ve killed your mentor. Congratulations. Must mean… what? Now you’re strong? You can lead?
TAYLOR: Maybe. I did think I’d feel better about it, though, have some sense of victory or accomplishment.
AXE: You never did react well to competition.
4x07 infinite game // 5x12 no direction home