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Touring Steve Bing's Suicide Apartment

from #243 - Best of Patreon Vol. 2 | The Tim Dillon Show · #243

8 min

Tim recounts touring a luxury Santa Monica apartment building with Ben, encountering a beautiful sales rep, riffing on Kobe's article "Condos of the Living Dead," and discovering their toured unit was where Hollywood producer Steve Bing jumped to his death.

In this bit12 moments
  • Tim imagines Bill Clinton calling Steve Bing to cryptically tell him "this is just not the same Steve we knew."
  • Real estate agent's sales pitch included mention of Mossad and whether she'd turn off cameras to have someone thrown off the balcony.
  • Tim asks the real estate agent where Steve Bing jumped, and she reveals it's the unit they're currently touring on the 27th floor.
  • When Tim says at least Bing had a view of the Pacific, the agent replies without missing a beat that he could also see all of downtown.
  • Tim notes how broke Steve Bing must have been at the end—so desperate that a podcaster might rent his apartment.
  • Tim jokes about renting the apartment and killing himself the same way, turning it into the apartment where everybody dies.
  • Fictional real estate agent confesses she pushed Steve Bing off the balcony for a hundred thousand dollars while the security cameras were off.
  • Tim confirms the 27th-floor location is definitively accurate—Steve Bing did jump from that specific balcony.
  • Tim reads about Bing's circumstances: the quarantine was affecting him, he was coming up on the anniversary of his girlfriend's overdose.
  • Steve Bing wrote Kangaroo Jack as his solo screenplay, which Tim describes as a stunning failure and embarrassment.
  • Bing also co-wrote Con Air, which is a good movie, making it his most impressive credited work.
  • Tim draws a connection between Con Air—where convicts take over a plane—and 9/11, suggesting an ominous link to what came after.
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Steve BingKangaroo JackCon AirBill Clinton

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