Boiler Room Page #4

If you want them off the phone so bad,

why don't you just hang up?

You should get them excited.

You know, excited?

They should beg for a broker

on the first call. Sh*t.

Yeah. Howard Young, please.

Seth Davis over at J.T. Marlin.

- No, he's not expecting my call.

- No. Tsk.

- Okay. Yeah. I'll call you.

- Good-bye. Good-bye.

Hang up the phone.

Thank you. That's nice

for you to do that for me.

First of all, there's gonna be a lot of

these regardless of how good you are...

but you happen to suck big,

fat-ass rhinoceros dick.

Well, thank you.

That's confidence-inspiring.

I got this friend who runs this

other firm, right?

He hands out

this book to new trainees.

It's called a rebuttal book.

It looks like a little Filofax.

It's got these index tabs,

but instead of having letters...

like "A" to "B," "G" to "H,"

it has different things like...

"My wife won't let me"...

or "I'm not in the market now"

or "Send me a prospectus."

It has a rebuttal

for any excuse.

Anyway, that's stuff

you'll have to learn later.

The most important thing

you gotta know right now...

is that you can be whoever

you wanna be on the phone.

You know what I'm sayin'? Who cares?

Do what you gotta do.

Change your last name.

Say you're the f***in' vice president.

You know? Who cares?

Just get the cocksucker on the line.

Yeah, but how can I do sh*t like that?

Isn't there a compliance officer here?

No. No, man. Everybody does that sh*t.

Are you kidding?

I mean, even on Wall Street.

You talking about John there?

That guy works for us.

The guy's a f***in' chimp. Look at him.

The only compliance work...

he's doin' is makin' sure my lunch

is still hot when it gets here.

He's only here because the S.E.C.

Requires it. Easiest job in the world.

Look. I think he's actually

masturbating right now.

- Stay the f*** away from her.

- Yeah.

Holy sh*t, you slut.

You made the call.

No, no. Don't you dare. Get your

filthy one-race paws off my money.

What'd you bet me?

A month's commission?

- Yeah, and yours too, kid.

- How do you get away with this?

'Cause I'm a Jew,

and I have the mind of a champion.

See this?

Here, kid.

Go get a tan and some Rogaine.

- Watch out for this.

- F***in' A.

The only bookie in New York

that delivers FedEx.

When are you gonna

take the test, Seth?

Well, you know, after

the training program's over.

They want you to get a good idea

of how things work there...

before you take the Series Seven,

but it's a great system.

- I'm really learning a lot.

- Are you gonna be rich, Seth?

- Oh, God willing.

- I hope so.

How come I've

never heard of this firm?

I don't know.

It's a smaller firm, I guess.

There's a million others like it

you probably never heard of.

The reason I ask is 'cause I would've

thought that you would've...

joined a firm like Goldman Sachs

or something of that stature.

- Marty, what are you starting for?

- What?

No, no. Ma, it's okay.

The reason is, Dad...

that the larger houses don't really like

to hire kids straight out of college...

you know, unless you went

to an Ivy League school...

or you wanna do cash-flow analysis

for the next 15 years.

They usually like you

to work...

outside their firm for a few years

to get a good sense of the marketplace.

But most all brokers usually start out

in little firms like J.T. Marlin.

That's great. See? He answered

the question. That was easy.

So all you have to do

is close the casino, right?

Marty,

we talked about this.

- What are you giving me looks for?

- Didn't we talk about this?

- What? I just...

- It was a celebration.

You know what?

I gotta go meet somebody.

I love you, Ma.

See ya.

See ya later.

Nice job, Marty.

Originally, I got in for the cash.

But getting my dad's respect...

That's what kept me there.

So he took some parting shots from time

to time. Whatever. I didn't care.

Not really.

Anyway, the point is,

I had to adapt to this new world.

I didn't really know these guys.

What I did know is that they had

all the money in the world...

and not a clue

what to do with it.

Seth, what's up, man?

- Wait outside.

- Hey, man.

Thought you weren't gonna make it, man.

Sit down. Grab a slice. Have a beer.

What's up?

You think he f***ed

Hannah or Sheen f***ed her?

- Both of 'em.

- Did he just move in?

- He's been here eight months.

- Life all comes down to a few moments.

"This is one of 'em."

Sheen was kind of a pimp.

Shut up, man. Listen. Gecko's coming on.

"What the hell's goin' on?"

I'm lookin' at 200,000 shares moved.

I wanna know if we're part of it.

We'd better be, or I'm gonna come down

and eat your lunch. Back in two, Alex.

Look. I loved it at forty.

Fifty? It's an insult.

Their analysts? They don't know

a preferred stock from livestock.

They wait till it goes down,

and like gumdrops and sperm counts...

This is the kid. Calls me 59 days

in a row. Wants to be a player.

Oughta be a picture of you in the

dictionary under "persistent," kid.

Yeah? Now, listen, Jerry, I'm

looking for negative control.

No more than 30, 35 percent.

Just enough to block

anybody else's merger plans...

and find out from the inside

if the books are cooked.

Looks this good on paper, we're

in the kill zone, pal. Lock and load.

Lunch? You gotta be kidding.

Lunch is for wimps.

Okay, Fidel,

I'll talk at you.

Very good.

How do you do, Mr. Gekko?

Bud Fox.

So you say, "Nice to meet you."

Hope you're intelligent.

Where'd you get these?

- I got a connection at the airport.

- Nice job, Mr. Clean.

Hey. Get the f*** off me.

- I'm really busy, Seth.

- No. Look, I understand, Doctor.

I'm really busy here myself.

We're gonna come back to you

in one month with one idea only.

If you like what we have to say, great.

We'll do business. If not...

I mean, worst-case scenario, you'll hear

yourself a new business idea...

- That X ray is useless.

- We'll part as friends, right?

What?

Are you working with a million

dollars in the market now?

Who is this?

You're a doctor. Have you heard

of a drug called Phenodryl?

It's being manufactured

by M.S.C. Pharmaceuticals.

No.

Well, listen, okay? It's in the

third stage of F.D.A. Approval.

Word is it's gonna be approved

within the next three months...

and it could be tomorrow

for all I know.

But, you know,

I'm getting ahead of myself...

and you're real busy over there...

so why don't I just send you out

the information...

Wait, wait, wait.

Forget the info.

Let's talk about this now.

What was the name

of that drug again?

Could you hold on

for one second?

I'm gonna get...

a senior broker who's a little more

familiar with that particular stock.

All right? Hold on a second.

One second.

Reco!

- Got it.

- Sorry.

His name's Dr. Jacobs,

and I'd say that he's definitely...

- Whoa. I don't wanna hear it, kid.

- Okay.

Hi, Dr. Jacobs?

This is Chris Marlin at J.T. Marlin.

- Marlin?

- Right. He's my father.

My associate tells me you're interested

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