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Noah Baumbach's Vassar Commencement Speech Roast
from Iran Forever, Belfast Riots, & College Commencement | The Tim Dillon Show #499 · #499
8 min
Tim eviscerates filmmaker Noah Baumbach's Vassar commencement speech in which Baumbach nurses a decades-old rejection letter, calling it petulant and mediocre, and contrasts it with Elon Musk's trillion-dollar milestone.
- Tim congratulates Elon Musk on becoming a trillionaire.
- Noah Baumbach's Vassar commencement speech was mediocre slopfest bullshit, Tim says.
- Tim prefers a commencement speech threatening AI compliance over Baumbach's masturbatory crap.
- Baumbach's entire speech hinges on a play rejection he got 30 years ago and still holds a grudge about.
- The worst thing happening to rich Vassar kids is someone telling them they're not geniuses.
- Tim imagines himself flattering Baumbach in a meeting about the commencement speech.
- Baumbach used his Vassar speech to petulantly settle a score with a dead theater critic.
- Tim notes that community colleges have graduations because some students transfer to four-year degrees.
- Tim discovers a community college commencement speaker named Paul Calvo on YouTube.
- Tim finds it interesting that Fresno Community College even books a commencement speaker.
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