rant · moment 22 of 28
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.
- 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.
Steve BingKangaroo JackCon AirBill Clinton