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It's getting harder and it's only going to get harder.
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I don't understand why all the AI porn,
everything has a dick.
Let's go.
It's that time again.
Welcome back.
Hey everybody.
It's time to go big.
It's time to go big.
Again?
Two episodes in a row?
Man, big.
It's not stopping.
This is a lifestyle for all my big sippers out there.
It's time to go big.
Jesus Christ.
Time to go big.
Interesting.
Okay.
Another day, another sips with a Z.
Still not getting paid.
Go big everybody.
Everybody keep going big, okay?
Oh my gosh.
He does it for the love of the art and the children.
Mm.
What flavor?
That was good.
Durs, I know you're waiting for someone to ask you
what's going on over there.
Good day.
So I guess we'll get it out of the way right up top.
You look very anonymous.
What's going on?
What's going on, bud?
You starting to hack people's computers or?
Actually, didn't even need you to bring it up.
It's science.
I guess it's too late.
Yeah, what?
What is going on?
Are you good, bro?
You good?
I'm just trying on the mysterious vibe.
Sometimes you just got to switch things up, you know what I mean?
Honestly, Durs, I feel this.
I feel this.
I've been thinking I want to start to pivot to a little more mysterious.
I feel like I'm too out there.
It's coming off a little dorky.
Maybe get a little-
We agree.
Yeah.
Maybe introspect a little bit.
We're right there with you.
Yeah.
Maybe it's time to just say less.
But like-
No, Blake.
You're saying. You're saying so less.
You're saying less.
Yeah.
So less.
Okay?
You hardly ever talk.
We-
I'm giving you a chance.
Well, you talk, but you don't have opinions on things.
So you'd be like, "Oh, that's fine."
Yeah.
I talk way more than I would like to.
I'd like to be very mysterious.
I'd like people not to really know where I'm coming from, you know?
Like really-
I guess, I mean, for a podcast, I think the whole point is for people to know where you're
coming from.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I might take an oath of silence.
Who knows?
Here's a look.
Okay.
It's just you're too-
Anders, what?
Dude, please explain.
You can't just keep doing this.
Goodbye.
I just-
If you're watching this on Netflix, maybe you understand what's going on.
I'm watching it right now, and I don't.
And if you're listening, you truly have no idea.
Well, it's-
He's wearing-
He's fully hooded.
And this is just a perfect example of Adam just not having control.
He doesn't understand it.
He has to call it out.
He doesn't allow us to be mysterious.
Why do we have to be so-
We have to be so opinionated and out there.
Adam, how about I be me, you be you, bada bing, bada boom, forget about it.
I wanna rock!
That's true, dude.
Well, he does have a point.
If all three of us-
I just put on a fucking windbreaker.
I'm sorry.
What were you wearing the other day with the chain fucking hat?
I just have the hood up 'cause I do.
Yeah, but you were very quiet.
You're being all mysterious.
I just wanted to know, is there a backstory to this mysterious thing?
Is there some kind of an arioso complex that you have?
He's just vibin'.
No, Mr. Hollywood executive.
It doesn't need a backstory.
It just is what it is.
He's just vibin'.
He's just vibin'.
There's no mythology.
But Adam is right.
If we're all mysterious, it will be a pretty boring podcast because it is audio unless
you're watching on Netflix, which we support that.
In which case, it still might be a boring podcast.
If we're all just kinda quiet.
If we're all just quiet, being mysterious.
Sort of brooding.
So do you need the hood down?
I don't need the-
No, no.
You can keep the hood up.
I just didn't know if you were doing like a bit or a character this episode or like what
you were doing.
I had a character, but forget it now.
That's right.
It seemed like you had a character and were ready to go with something.
'Cause you kept doing like this and like-
Yeah, you are like-
I was like, "Oh, is he a boxer?"
Dude, I think I just was here.
That's what it is.
Yeah, you were like not showing your eyes, but then you kind of were doing like little
jabs.
And I was like, "Oh, he's doing-
Yeah, you don't wear hoods a lot.
You're like not really a hoodie guy.
You're kind of just like collars or windbreaker no hood."
Mm-hmm.
All right.
See, guys, this is the mastermind behind.
We got to talk about something.
I put up a hood, now suddenly you guys can't shut up and we got 10 minutes in the bank.
Gotcha, bitch.
Okay.
Wow.
Thank you, Dersh.
Thank you.
Thank you for that premium content, man.
Thank you.
This is real mud.
You're welcome.
This is why Netflix, why they shelled out the cash for us so we can be on their platform.
They're like, "I hope Dersh puts on a hood and then doesn't say much."
This is important.
God damn.
That shit's important.
Adam, the brilliance is Adam.
They would have never thought of it.
Yeah, that's true.
Oh, God.
Of course not.
This is what I bring to the table.
The algorithm would not have thought of that.
Mm.
It would not have thought of that.
The goddamn algorithm.
And by the way, don't you kind of want to wear a hood?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you want to watch a podcast where a guy looks like this the whole time, like Sia?
Fuck it.
Wait.
You know Sia, her hair just is like this?
Yeah.
Oh, yes.
You're speaking of the artist Sia who had like that huge like-
The bangs.
The crazy bangs.
Yeah.
What happened to Sia?
Yeah.
I'm talking about freaking Sia.
Well, she was just on an episode of-
Yes.
Points.
Of Company Retreat.
Wait.
What?
Oh, oh.
Of Jury Duty Company Retreat.
Oh, did she pull up?
Freaking Sia.
She pulled up in an episode.
She pulled up?
Yeah, dude.
You got to-
I haven't watched the new season.
Oh, you got to watch it.
It's great.
You loving it?
I bet.
Really?
It's great.
You're a fan.
Yeah.
I actually, Jake Szymanski, who directed every episode-
Yes, we love him.
He asked me to host there for your consideration.
They're like Emmy's campaign.
Okay.
A brunch or whatever it was.
Yeah.
It was sick.
It was like the roof of this hotel and it was really nice and I hosted it-
Were there big sips there?
Big sips had to have been there.
You can't see them, but any great establishment has big sips ready to go.
Okay.
Cool.
Cool.
Cool.
But yeah, so I watched, I binge watched all of it and then there's also like behind the
scenes stuff that you can watch on Amazon.
Oh, that's cool.
It was really, it was cool.
I don't want to give anything away.
Because it is like a, it is a, it's a fucking marvel what they pull off.
Yeah.
It's fucking crazy.
It's fucking crazy.
So the premise is, Jury Duty was the first season on Amazon.
Amazon, and it was
essentially they're jurors and they everyone's in on the bit everyone's an actor except for one guy
and so the the even the judge is an actor yeah coincidentally ike baron holtz's dad which is so
cool he's such a cool guy so then the crime obviously is all fake and and they made it crazy
and it was really really good but then you're like are they gonna do it's called jury duty are they
gonna do it again so what they what they did which was smart it's still jury duty but it's jury duty
company retreat and it's this company um it's this hot sauce company rocking grandma's hot sauce
they just sent me dude i i got it i got it they sent me they sent me a pack and it's actually
kind of freaking good have you tried it i did not bust it open yet yes i put some on some tacos the
other day there's four different flavors i kind of like the smoky one i'm like this is legit i will
give up one joke
you
and i hope it doesn't ruin it for anyone but just watch the damn thing but there's a rock and
grandma they're like doing this big presentation to the investors and uh the rock and grandma
is supposed to like rock out on the guitar but then it just looks like she's jerking off when
the hand movements so she's just going like bro dude hey i already love it i already love it dude
it's fantastic i'm about to tap in the whole season so for this instead of um a
horror it is a intern at their uh their company and their company and they're about to do a company
retreat and they're going to be taken over by a larger company and then they you know so it's uh
there's a lot going on but it's much larger in scale than the jury duty so it was cool yeah but
they they they switch out the whole cast too like everybody's new and all that it's gotta be yeah
yeah yeah gotta be that's they blew up their spot it's like punked yeah or like even bit like before
that kind of like this a similar idea do you remember what was it like the joe schmoe show
do you remember that yeah yep brian keith etheridge yes it was like a fake wrote it or
co-created it or something he was in it i think kristin wig was on it kristin we had your wig
i say wig i think it might be kristin wig is it we think it might be weak it might be weak
kristin wig wig you say kristin wig there's two eyes isn't it yeah bke he was the showrunner and
starred who also brian keith etheridge also a writer on workaholics that's right that's right
he was the showrunner of the joe schmoe show yeah was that on spike comedy central or where was that
spike spike spike tv yeah they know dudes like dude that was that was like old school reality
show i i watched the first episode of the show and i was like oh my god i'm gonna watch the first
episode of the very first uh real world the other day sure pulled it up because i'm like what the
hell was it are you a drug dealer dude it is crazy to go back and watch is that the first episode
where her she's got a pager and then she's like are you a drug dealer she's like that's racist
you're from the country yeah she's like from yeah she's from yeah she's from tennessee or something
do you guys know how old i am yeah i mean the fact that ders knows every every part of those
first few seasons heather b is a legend it is wild that you just pulled that out of your head
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it's kind of crazy though like because reality tv has gone through such a like a
evolution or de-evolution i'm putting my hood back on even then you can tell the shit was still
pretty scripted they're like oh like let's let's plant this moment so that they they they they
talk about this or whatever but like it's really cool to go back and watch that stuff because it's
such a time capsule what's a little white country girl's name eric niece was bout bout her yeah and
i might have uh talked about this on another podcast but i was a road rules guy yeah road
rules rocked yeah rocked just because it was sick they're like all in this rv they're on like a
little road trip together it was fucking cool yeah now they're running our country fuck yeah and uh
spencer pratt he wasn't road rules no he's not on it sorry i wish i wish no but the first time i saw
theo von oh that's right he was in road rules and when i met him at the comedy store like fucking
almost 20 years ago now i was shook yeah i was like holy shit oh yeah he was like a true star
and he was like a baby he was a baby on that show right he was 18 or something right yeah
yeah he was a he was a young book it was him it was the blonde dude with the big hair
cat kit kit who's now a host on like extra or some shit dude not everybody but you'd be surprised
ms i think the ms is definitely from there yeah the ms was definitely from there was the ms road
rules no the ms was um the ms was real world was he i think so he might have been real world
real world road rules all-stars who knows i think he i feel like he would walk around a house in like
the costumes that's all i can picture he was real world isaac sane yeah yeah was los in the first
season of road rules where he's like i don't have to do shit but stay black and die i was like
this dude's cool that is tight there's a there's a lot of very legendary and that was like when
he said that i remember when he said that i thought he was the first person to ever say
that right oh wait he didn't because you know i was i was a kid so you're like oh my god like that's
so cool to say like that was paul mooney though yeah yeah and for sure wasn't um no yeah so i
guess that's the trick to go on a reality show and then you just sort of repeat really iconic
iconic famous bits from stand-up comedians somebody stop me and then you're not saying
you're the only one to ever say that
but i just want to party yeah you just do our soundboard loose butthole yeah this dude's iconic
what is the one that my dad says cowabunga kumbaya how do you how do you not know the
the most iconic drop yeah of your 2026 dude this one is kumbaya kumbaya it's a good that one is
flame your dad is a human soundboard is pretty fucking cool he is he it's nothing but
soundboard bits with that guy trying to have a heart to heart is hard with him dad i just want
to let you know that i i love you so much and having you and mom here it means the world to
me that you guys want to spend kumbaya kumbaya uh tight butthole okay adam are you a resident
of la or are you a resident of orange county i'm a resident of both places
go off king go off king but who do you vote for like what's your main residence oh
we're talking voting let's go bro i think we we split the diff it's a it's a house house divided
oh so i think i am in orange county uh my vote and i think chloe's vote is in la so she gets to
put one in for our guy who's who's our guy who's our guy i think you know who's our guy who's our
frat needs to fall bro
i turned on the debates i thought the i thought it was the roast i'll tell you
there's no difference anymore it's crazy his campaign videos are insane it's just ai shit
and you're like we need to bring uh you know the entertainment business back to la and then it'll
be i agree agree yes
but i don't think it's going to be a big deal i don't think it's going to be a big deal i don't
think it's going to be a big deal i don't think it's going to be a big deal i don't think it's going to be a big deal
i don't think it's going to be a big deal i don't think it's going to be a big deal i don't think it's going to be a big deal
but then it'll just be ai actors in the video of him being like we got to bring the entertainment
business back to la it's science it's an all ai video it actually it is crazy like you are right
everything is so like nothing is more elevated than the next like the governor like all the
shit it might as well just be a roast like it doesn't matter if it's politicians or comedians
everybody is operating at the same wavelength right now nobody feels like smart or elevated
on tv anymore like it's kind of a bummer i think a little bit because there's no decorum they used to
there's no decorum they used to like respect each
other shout out a points for decorum yes points and for x and for extra points spell decorum decorum
oh i d-e-c-o-u-r-m okay todd all right is that right todd yeah points todd todd d-e-c-o-r-u-m
i said u-r-m you know i might have fucked it up hey yes yes points you got them anyways man
i don't know i don't know if i said it right or not honestly no there's no way to tell we're not
recording are we we're in a bizarre pull the hood up yeah put the hood back on yeah we're in a
bizarre time but also it's just like when people are smart they're told to talk like dumb like
simplify shit yeah that's it adam um yeah get it and so it's like a lose-lose you either have to
like talk like an idiot from the schoolyard or you're fucked nah man fuck that i spencer pratt
by the way like uh i mean he's so dumb sounding okay it's crazy holy charge let's go he just he
just is he would fit right in here definitely yes he's definitely us like i know it makes me kind
of want to run and go yeah no me too you could you could be city councilman dude he says he's
gonna do this i'm gonna do it better and faster yeah you do a really good impression uh you did
it the other day i look just as tired as he does that motherfucker looks hard yeah and he's just
like no it's always he's a little out of breath when he's when he's talking dude because he's
worked up he's passionate no karen bass she's an idiot and it's unreal i wouldn't be i'd get in
there and i'd fix the problems there's homeless people all over the streets just lighting fires
and injecting he's right injecting their eyeballs with superman super meth was a eye-opener that's a
robocop if i were if i were the mayor that wouldn't even happen saying you're like well how how would
it not happen it wouldn't happen it wouldn't happen it wouldn't happen it wouldn't happen
it wouldn't i'd fix it she made it happen but how would you change it i'll tell you what i wouldn't
do what she did what'd she do she didn't do yeah dude dude and then and then people that are like
finally someone's speaking the truth and you're like what that's the wildest part here's when
i'll know we've hit the peak during the debates when homegirl's talking spencer puts the mic up
his ass and just goes right dude and it'd be like everybody like oh
gotcha bitch you know what's like breathing air in los angeles right now
well that's funny though so he might i know i would vote off that viral moment
sometimes you gotta vote off the viral moment dude maybe it is wild it does and i'm i have no
time for this but it does make me want to do like a real life comedy sketch going i would actually do
what he would do too but different yeah and everyone would be like oh i get what he's doing
and spencer does seem kind of stupid now like the fact that nobody goes what are this dude's
qualifications and look i don't know what he's been up to what's he been up to sure he refuses
to tell us i don't know i guess i just i don't even know i know he was on tv but i just don't
even know if he's had to delegate like any sort of responsibility to people working for him
on any scale i don't know what he's been up to that's my thing i don't know what he's been up to
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nobody likes when a question is asked and a politician goes well i can't say yes or no it's
complicated and they get into like a 10 minute diatribe that covers all their bases it's a yes
or no it's a yes or no and he goes he answered yes or no which is refreshing to people who just
want a simple answer right but that doesn't mean his answer is right yeah yes yeah yeah you're right
you're right
because there are questions that there are no yes or no's because it's too complicated it's nuanced
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like there's a sure there's a certain scale where all of a sudden too much nuance yeah
looking at him now i'm like how how dude why didn't we also run a three-headed monster can we run as
three people dude can we run the three of us together for mayor and we'll call ourselves
the super mayor this is jury duty season three it would be fucking tight dude three-headed mayor oh
shit we're one of us lacks in skill the other also lacks in skill yeah my whole thing is like
our smart head is
durs and i feel like he's and he can't tell time so let's give it the old college try
you could put all three of us together and we're as good as spencer pratt no i i would say we're
probably better than spencer you go toe-to-toe with him yeah yeah yeah okay okay what are we
doing here here's what i'll say he wrote he like he remembered like memorized like seven facts
i think i'm good for two or three yeah i can't do numbers it's science yeah you
are really bad at memorization which is your main job so you might have to work on that improv
like is every is every debate this year this lit
is all the like people like trying to become mayors in every county like fucking this cool
no no no this la this cool uh this like sat la one is rock and roll extra nuts yeah right but like
is it i mean dude the new york one had a um there's the memory a guardian angel dude oh
who i actually thought made some sense which what i was like this guy this guy kind of is fed up
and he gets it in a way that's even like he makes spencer pratt like or spencer pratt makes him seem
like a genius right that's just wild so the other guys like been around lived started guardians
angels that's kind of sick and guardians angels remind me they were like the guys with the red
jackets in the subway the berets no they wore like red berets and like tank tops and shit they
looked like it basically looked like the warriors movie yes if you have any trouble in
the subway system in the 80s when it was really dangerous in new york they were essentially like
vigilantes who were like yes we walk around and if people are fucking around and like hassling you
we'll fucking step to them yeah we'll fuck you up curtis slywa silva sleeves it was jojo
it was jojo slywa's uncle just hold up fucking jojo siwa yeah that's right that's right that's
right no she's cool dude no she isn't but like that dude had lived a life had
done a thing she's not she's the worst loved it well that's dope yeah also i don't know i don't
know if he should be the mayor you know i just want some where's where's our just smart old guys
or women well dude this is what's so fascinating to me is that we shit on the guy who makes all
the malls so hard because we're like fuck that guy what do we want fountains everywhere i'm like
fountains have been in l.a long before his mall yeah but now that guy seems kind of good
this is what that guy seems we push away people who are like kind of not our favorite
and then we end up with absolute fucking knuckleheads and then we go uh where's the mall
guy and the mall guy's like you think i'm gonna fucking do this again he's like i'm not i'm not
running i what do you mean i made up dave and busters and fucking torrents that is what he said
that is what he said yeah it's wild dude spencer pratt also had a video where he's like i'm talking
to engineers i'm talking to like the smartest engineer and he has a crew of like 15 other
engineers and they left l.a because it's too hard for them and they're like we're not gonna do this
it's too hard to build here i'm gonna get rid of all those restrictions by the why while he's doing
this interview there's an ai video plane and and it's of a futuristic city of l.a that of like
buildings that maybe can't even be built because they're fucking from the future yeah he's like
and we're gonna do like really cool stuff that you won't see anywhere else and you'll be like
it's just it'll be like people will come here and be like
this is the most beautiful city in the world because of our cool architecture and then in
the comments it's like way to go yes make our city beautiful again and i'm like it's wild it's science
it's an ai video you dumb fuck it's like all my parents yeah who it's you know it's like my my dad
will watch a video all my parents it's it's my we know how it's all of our parents right they watch
these videos and they can't tell it's ai yeah my dad will watch like fishing videos and it's just
like a guy catching a megalodon and my dad's like jesus christ look at this i'm like yeah dad that's
not real obviously well this is where it gets dangerous because like now like my stepdad's
kind of getting getting hip to it so he's like now when he watches videos he's like that one
was ai and i'm like i actually i don't think that one was ai right right right they try and get it
i think that one was real dude yeah it was real i i think i think that was a true life
thing happened in there well what's crazy is is my mom can't tell it'll be like the the kind of ai
where they're like their mouths never really shut you know and you could you could just tell when
they're talking and my mom is like i'm like jesus is so ai and my mom was like how can you tell
i'm like because their mouth doesn't shut properly because they have 800 teeth because they're
looking into the camera like this yeah no it's getting it's getting harder and it's only gonna
get harder it is is it and i'm only gonna get harder i'm gonna now we're talking because when
you get the ai ai porno no it's the future is going to be if there is the future is not it will
be so gnar it will be so i just don't understand why people want this so bad what ai yeah no one
wants to know no one wants it it's just the people building ai want ai the rest of us are going everyone wants it people are all
using it because now that it's here if you don't yeah exactly if you don't want it why do we use it
but that is this that's what happens nowadays it's like we we all are like i don't like it but then
like people still use it you're buying it we're buying into it like you have to say i don't like
it i'm not going to use it and then the theory is well if you're not using it you're going to
get left behind because because everyone else is going to use it and get whatever work you're doing
done in 10 minutes instead of 10 hours yeah but that and so it's it's it reminds
me of the plandemic it reminds me of boosters it reminds me of boosters sorry not boosters but the
the vaccines where it's like the idea of our vaccine is that everyone has to do it and some
people are like i don't want to do it the idea for combating ai is for no one to do it but everyone's
like well i want to do it i'm gonna i'm gonna i gotta do it it's like a reverse vaccine yeah
the one the ones that no i like it hang on like ask a simple ask a
question and then it can it can really answer you like a human would answer in a way that uh
google sometimes really have to get in the weeds that's not exactly what i wanted it
gathers all the data at once that to me is helpful what i don't like googling you mean
using it like a google a sort of but it's like an advanced google really break it down for you
in the way that that it's like you're talking to a person as opposed to asking google i don't
want it to talk to me like a person i think that's dumb yeah like what about like
research and finding is important like you have to great question but what i don't like
is is the video component i'm like who asked for this like a bunch of like fake video oh slop stuff
yeah yeah but that's like but now it's getting like really really good kumbaya yeah but that's
the most fun thing for anybody anywhere especially if you're like you're 10 years old you're like
slop slop just making sure like imagine the up thing for me is that we're basically we're letting
these search engines just farm all the intelligence that humans came up with
and no one's getting like paid on that back end right yeah no they're not no like if you have a
farm and someone's like hey we need corn you go great i'm gonna work and you're gonna buy my corn
and then people are gonna eat people are just eating your corn and you're like well i don't
understand they're like people are eating over here and i go well yeah but like that's my corn
not anymore gotcha no that is so like how
does that work my sister works for a a giant tech company demon and she's training the little robot
dogs she's training ai to take her job right i'm living in a nightmare like every day she's like
feeding the ai information to take her job this is what i would do and it goes cool great good to know
she's like it's any day now i'm gonna be let go because ai is just gonna be like okay thanks britney we've got it and you're
like but even then my mind goes to okay are they cashing her out because she's
she's the prototype type like she is the the brain that they they drew from like
no no not at all exactly why are we like they're not cashing her out i know nobody so why are we
like letting go of all of this just to the robots for no anything because it helps me schedule it
helps me whatever like someone is getting cashed out someone is you know yeah it's the it's
it's terrible i don't know man and like throw the hood up i wish i had a hood dude we should have
hooded up they keep talking about i i'm saying dude bro we're going they keep saying like you're
gonna be able to travel and like you could just paint all day but people need to do yeah people
need people need to feel in demand like well that is what uh plants that is what zuckerberg uh said
he was like well this will this will you people won't need jobs they'll they'll be able to have
all their times to spend how they want to and you're like no no no no people people need to
pay for dude people have mortgages and their kids need to eat and right that's the
part of the equation like and also if you don't have a job i know in in theory alcohol running
yeah in theory not having a job is great but not having a job means you're going to drink big sips
you either turn into an alcoholic or you get absolutely shredded now it's feeling a little
targeted it's pandemic where you just are like got nothing to do what am i going to do and then
you turn into something no wait the pandemic was sick the pandemic was sick i know but the
pandemic a lot of people were sick they died i know people died uh it lasted a year and change
right this is what the rest of what a humanity and that's just the short end the short end
i did so many puzzles sooner or later the robots the ai is going to build robots they're going
this is terminator 2. i just watched it with my kids
it's happening the ai is building robots and then the robots are gonna fuck us and and we're gonna
let it no no they're gonna have that out there no we're not gonna let them we're gonna give the
old college try and then they're gonna slit our throats everything is building towards we are
gonna go to to war with robots and everybody's gonna be stoked and we're all gonna band together
and be like humans hell yeah dude right finally we're all friends again and the robots we're
fighting an enemy that doesn't have to eat or sleep yeah the robots are gonna fucking annihilate
us dude in ways done in ways we thought in the back of our mind that they extracted and they're
like oh i know what would really hurt if we just like peel their buttholes off like stickers and
they're gonna do that to us it's gonna be bad dude see but the fact that you just said that
blake the fact that you just said that into a podcast this can now be mine and now it's part
of their greater brain
trust brain trust it's science they're gonna have us lined up and they're gonna just start
peeling our buttholes off like scratch you will be anderson scratching sniff bro you will be
anderson well i was like okay so i was like i forget how i got down that road but like vlad
the impaler right he would like cut off the guy who interviews rappers no no no no no no like
really old school vlad the impaler paler what who was vlad the impaler i don't quite
i don't fully know you should see the guy who put people's heads on the wall yes but he would
basically like cut off the whole army's head like of his opponents and then like put them on stakes
so when like vlad the impaler vladimir guerrero no no that's uh he's an expo he's a baseball player
he was a dominican former professional no no no not him not 16 he was the guy that was
dracula was based off right oh yeah
and he would basically like wipe out opposing armies and then just cut their heads off and put
all their like or not even cut their heads off he just put the steak like through their butthole
through their mouth so when you entered a town it was just like oh my god what the fuck am i going
into that's what robots are gonna do to us but peeling off her buttholes this is what happens
when we let you talk but in the meantime like ai porno it seems like it's gonna be cool in the
meantime
yeah but like i'm not gonna click on it until it's available like they try and make you sign
up for a whole website and make it a whole lifestyle hey guess what it's not a lifestyle
it's not gonna be my lifestyle yet it's not a lifestyle it's not gonna be it cannot be your
lifestyle when they try and make it a lifestyle i'm like guys this is a pastime this is a hobby
this is a it's a bagel and then maybe the ship's talking this is a well i'll take a peek i got 20
to kill let me take a peek here if the video was already available but what they want you to do is
like build your own super super no you will i don't want to get in the weeds dude this is like
when i go on a subway i'm making my own sandwich and this may be the sips talking but i'm not
trying to do that man and by the way i'm trying to get in the weed how about ai you know what i
like you know what i've clicked on so just build something make an amalgam build it build it and
i will come build it and i will come points
and don't and do not give it a dick do not give it a dick i don't understand why all the ai porn
everything has a dick everybody's coming agreed yeah i don't know and it must i want to see one
i gotta see we'll see see preferably with pegroni see you're laughing too hard see sorry sorry
sorry it's okay sorry i'm back it's the sips talking see they must the algorithm must know
something that we don't know that's why they all have dicks
the algorithm knows no no no but they're fishing they're fishing they're fishing i don't know you
gotta have a worm to fish and i click on something because i go whoa that demon and that elf look
like they're getting it on oh no the elf has a humongous fanny cock too right and they don't
show and they don't show that in the thumbnail so here i think todd just threw something in the
chat a 21 year old texas student builds an ai only fans model using only 400 macbook earns
forty three thousand dollars a month and by the way
this is this is the thing that happens and everyone goes this is amazing it's gonna be
amazing for 10 years and then everything is gonna be mad max in a bad way yes yes yes yes yes like
right now we are like bearing the fruits of that but it will it will sour very quickly we're being
lured see what click it well this is just this this dude this 21 year old dude in his college
dorm room i'm a dude and he's and he's bent over like look at like this and then he's like oh my
Then AI turns him into a very sexy chick in her underwear.
Are you clicking on these links?
I'm a dude.
Yeah, always, dude.
I click on everything.
Which one?
The fourth link?
Yeah, which one was that?
Which one was that?
The guy bent over?
The bottom one, the AI-generated person.
Set your choices, reject all.
Yeah, why are we?
And I'm in.
Every time I click these, it's like warning, warning, warning.
And so now this guy, when he moves, the body of this woman is there?
Like, that's what you see if you're. Oh, yeah.
That's what you see.
It's him, but AI turns him into her.
So he could just be like. Yes, yes.
I actually saw something similar.
Now I'm watching you turn the sound down.
Yeah, what are you. So you could be jerking off to this woman, this sexy woman.
Yes.
Really, it's just a dude in his living room.
It's AOL all over again.
I'm a dude.
Yeah, I saw something.
There was a. I think it was a lady who was putting on. It's basically a filter.
It's like a live filter.
Yeah.
And she was like this really hot chick, but then like something happened where it glitched
and it revealed who was really behind it.
And then like she lost all of her followers, but. But not all of them.
Not all of them.
Not all of them.
Some of them were like. I promise you there's one guy who goes, I knew it.
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Hey, this is Hayes Davenport.
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We host the podcast Hollywood Handbook on the Big Money Players Network.
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Not that great.
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How about we flip it on its head?
How about we flip the script, okay?
What if the surprise woman, who actually you think is the straight man,
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Adam Scott.
This entire time, you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show.
I would never expect.
Let go of that.
I would never set expectations for something like that to happen.
If the universe allows for something like that to happen, I'm open.
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I'm always going to accept.
Okay.
Danny McBride, fine.
Yeah.
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I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you.
I was like, is that weed?
Nope.
It's fragile masculinity.
Ben Stiller, no.
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It's going to get weird.
It's only going to get weirder, dude.
We might as well build little avatars.
No, that's too much.
It's too much.
Be a cool frog.
Be a cool frog man or something and just go.
Like, why not?
Why is it even on?
He means like you make an avatar for yourself so you can walk around the virtual land as a frog guy.
The fact that you didn't, if you were richer, Blake would have bought a bunch of NFTs.
If Blake was richer, he would have got like a Borde.
No, that never appealed to me.
That seemed silly.
NFTs are actually, the interesting thing that I do think was cool about NFTs is that,
if you were an artist and you made a piece of art, every time it sold, you got paid.
As opposed to you selling it for, let's say, $50,000 because you're successful.
And then, five years later, as you get more successful, somebody sells it for $250,000.
You don't get any of that money.
You know what I'm saying?
But what have that ever made any noise beyond the apes?
Like, I never knew anything beyond that.
That's a good question.
Would there be noise?
What do you think, Adam, as far as the noise?
Thank you, God!
NFT God.
Guys, the Beeple guy that I met, I met in Charleston.
We went to his, like, headquarters, I guess.
His fucking computer lab?
And the Beeple, he sold his, he sold his NFT, the one, it was the one that went for, like,
$67 million or $87 or something that was absurd.
Goddamn.
And then, six months later, it's worth, like, $200.
Yeah.
Right.
It's worth nothing.
But here's my question.
Imagine being the guy that paid the $67 million because you're like,
this is the future.
Look up how much Beeple actually sold his artwork for.
Adam, what do you think, don't you think smart people would go,
hey, I'm creating this whole new world of art.
Let's get in on it.
You've got $67 million.
Buy my art for $67 million.
I'll give it right back to you.
But we've created the idea that this stuff is actually selling.
Sure, dad, I paid that much.
And people go, oh, I want to be, they bought $67 million.
I got $5 million.
Let me get into this.
And now,
you've just made $5 million.
Yeah.
That's probably.
Yeah, I don't think that's what happened, but.
Some dude lost a lot of money.
I'm just saying, isn't that how art works?
That's insider trading, dude.
Yeah, but that's art.
He sold it for $69.3 million at Christie's in March 2021.
Yeah.
And then also sold another one for nearly $29 million.
And then that's it.
I talked to the guy.
He was like, yeah, it's essentially dead now.
Yeah.
But I was able to get mine.
And so I was there at the right time.
And I'm like.
And what's he doing now?
I know I would be doing absolutely nothing.
He owns like an artist compound in Charleston.
And.
Yeah, that's cool.
And then I think just throws parties there and stuff.
Yeah, I'm like, oh, so he like is actually down for the arts, but he's really just raging.
He's just kind of party.
Yeah, no, he's down for the arts.
He does all kinds of weird shit.
I just didn't even.
Yeah, I don't know.
I didn't tap into that.
He like.
Makes those masks that look exactly like people.
So you're just like.
Oh, those are pretty cool.
We're at the part at this party and just all of a sudden like Jeff Bezos is there.
And you're like, fucking Jeff Bezos is here.
Yeah, it's crazy.
And then.
But why is his head like a little extra big?
Why is he on a bikini?
It was.
It was really off-putting.
Those are actually cool.
I like that.
Like, you want to be a frog.
Just get one of those masks and walk around.
But yeah, honestly, how much do you think those masks cost?
They're probably like.
I think you can afford it.
Yeah.
You're on Netflix now.
You think they're five grand?
No.
No.
I bet they're more than that.
Fifteen hundred.
Really?
You don't think they're like fifteen hundred bucks?
No.
For a really, really, really good one?
Well, you just said really, really, really three times.
Like a really, really good one.
Yeah, I think you're right.
The really, really, really good ones.
No, I'm talking.
I'm talking about just the good ones.
No, I want a really, really, really good one.
Well, you don't want that looks like a Halloween.
Yeah, no, no.
I want it to look amazing.
Like Blake is going to go in blackface as Whoopi Goldberg.
He wants to look exactly like.
When did I ever say that?
No, I know.
I know that's the vibe that you're giving.
I said frog.
I want to be a frog.
I'm seeing a Trump mask here for twelve hundred.
OK.
OK.
Realistic.
I typed in realistic Trump mask.
Pizza, pizza.
I feel like I went to like DesignerCon in Pasadena and they had some pretty good masks.
And.
It wasn't that much, but I feel like even then it's starting to it's getting realer every.
Yeah.
Well, if you want to be just like a random guy, you can.
It seems like just for a couple hundred bucks, you could look really, really, really scary, weird and scary, which is scary.
OK, so wait, I'm getting confused.
Maybe that's what we do for the next podcast.
I think that's a great idea.
That's great.
Heads.
Let's just look completely.
Completely different.
But the mouth moves.
The mouth moves.
That's it's all about the mouth.
Hey, for us, it's all about our mouth.
This one's six hundred bucks.
I guess I'm like if they're ten thousand dollars, I don't know who's buying.
Well, see that I want that one.
People.
Who?
People.
Yes.
People is doing.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Pets aren't really shopping like they used to.
I'm still going to send it.
I want the ten grand one because it's going to it's going to last.
Right.
OK.
You get.
Hey, do you know, be really funny.
You get the ten grand one.
I'll get one that's about ten dollars.
See you.
That's from Party City.
Well, yeah.
I remember finding out how much like real good wigs were.
And when I got into the business, the industry and shocked.
Yeah, they can go for thousands and thousands of dollars.
I wouldn't know.
I don't have a wig.
I don't.
Forty thousand dollars for like.
Yeah.
For like a legit movie star.
For like if fucking Meryl Streep has like the Devil Bears Prada, that's got to be a wig.
And it's a centerpiece of the movie.
Right.
That's a forty thousand dollar wig.
Maybe more.
That's that's right.
Well, because this is any time that there's like a wig and it doesn't look any time there's
a wig and it doesn't look good.
Then the movie tanks.
Right.
You know, then people are like, well, fuck this.
The wig.
What movie?
What movie is coming to mind?
It's true.
There's a Mark Wahlberg one where he had long hair.
And I remember seeing the billboard and be like, nah, I'm good.
That ain't it.
I'm good.
I'm good.
What?
Like, yeah.
Dan Brown.
Fucking those Tom Hanks movies.
I think they did well.
But I was like, nah, I'm not going to see it.
That's a bad wig.
I ain't watching that.
Nah.
You get your wig right.
Get your wig right, dude.
You better come correct with that wig.
Meryl Streep.
How much did she pay for that wig?
Damn it.
Cost.
We know.
We're talking Devil Wears Prada, too.
Let's see what Gemini says.
Wait.
No, we can't use it.
See?
You refuse to look.
I will say I did ask Gemini.
Like, during the Troubadour show, he sent us a photo of these leather pants and was
like, should I buy these leather pants?
And then the next day, he goes to buy the leather pants.
Apparently, they weren't good enough leather pants.
No, they weren't tight.
I know he just wanted me and Isaac to go pay for them.
But I know.
It's not the case.
You saw.
I sent photos of me wearing them.
They were very baggy.
They were not cool.
Bruh.
And then I go, okay, I guess I'll take care of it, even though Blake was the one that
said he was going to take care of it.
Wow.
Adam has shouldered something.
That's cool.
Get the drums.
Into my phone.
Adam was fueled by rage.
Get the drums.
I'll do it.
Into my phone, I asked Gemini, and it was pretty cool.
I go, hey, Gemini, what's the closest rock and roll style pants, fake leather pants,
near me?
And one point.
You're looking ripped today, Adam.
1.2 miles away was a place called Rocktown.
And they had all the, if you're ever in Hollywood, Rocktown has all the rock and roll stuff.
Send me a picture of you in those pants.
Did you guys keep the leather pants?
I believe Isaac kept all of my clothes for Dalton to wear on Halloween.
Damn.
You guys didn't take the leather pants home?
I forgot.
I feel like you could rock those.
I did.
I didn't keep mine, but I definitely kept the fish.
I will say, oh, I don't think we talked about, I truly almost passed out when we stole the
to, to, um, when we were fighting and we're about to break out in song.
Unbeknownst to you, break out in song.
We stood up and all of a sudden the room goes, whoa, whoa.
Yeah.
And I almost fucking passed out.
Because the clothes were so tight?
The leather pants?
I think that vest, the, the pants weren't really that tight, but the vest itself was
denim and it was really tight.
Like through my midsection, I think when I stood up, something.
then something shifted.
And like you really, really thought you're about to like drop and hit your head.
You didn't have any mention of it.
I didn't see like that look in your eye or anything.
Well, afterwards, I told you.
After the show we talked about.
I know, but like I would think I would clock it as like your your fellow thespian.
Well, because I was trying to I was trying to gather myself because I knew that Will Forte was about to grab that guitar.
And then and if he were to grab a guitar, I would have to be the first one to sing.
How cool would it have been if we had like a real medical emergency and Will had to be there for it?
And it was like we have our first guest and Adam's just like twitching like.
I do feel like he would have just kept playing and been like, this is part of it, right?
This is part of the bit.
By the way, you're supposed to like go up on like a perch on the stage.
And if you got up there and just fainted into the crowd.
Nosedive.
Oh, you would have killed somebody.
That would have been a catastrophe.
Well, that's why I didn't.
I didn't jump up there right away.
If you notice, I stood on stage for a second.
I did.
I go, go to your perch and watch it.
Yeah.
I stood there like just like.
Now I've got to watch it.
Yeah.
For a second.
And then all of a sudden, Forte starts.
And you're like.
And I'm like, got to get to my perch.
It's just in slow mo.
Dude, well, you pulled it off, man.
That's why you're a fucking.
Rain, sleet, or snow.
A legend, mate.
That's being.
You really.
I remember doing like a one act where like I had to like pretend to be dead on a live stage show.
But I was like.
They cast you as a dead body.
I.
No lines.
But I had to like sit with my neck cranked like that.
But it was like cutting off blood circulation.
And I could start to feel like my whole body tingling like I was going to truly pass out.
Mm-hmm.
So.
So.
So you're like you're dead, but you're you're dead, but you're like kind of like slowly like I'm like if I like really move slow.
I have to do like I'm truly going to pass out and actually be dead.
So you're like kind of like make your.
I didn't pass out, but I was damn close.
Dude, you just reminded me that God, this is crazy.
God, this is when I was like so funny.
I don't know.
Ten.
Maybe 11.
I was in some play for like the Westing game was like a book.
And so they were like, hey, go read the book this week or whatever.
I just didn't read the book.
Can't.
And so then we get to like, we we get to the casting and they're like, so who wants to play who?
And they're like, Anders, we think you should play this guy.
And this girl goes, oh, yeah, you'd be really good at that.
And I was like, oh, fucking.
I guess she gets she fucking gets it.
And then it's like a dude in a wheelchair.
It's got like.
Down syndrome and doesn't talk or something.
And so I'm in this play and I'm like.
Oh, no.
And it's not supposed to be funny.
But, you know, you put a little extra on it.
The hood was up.
But then after I got cast, I go, that fucking bitch said what?
She let me think I was like something.
Bro, she gifted you, though.
You could have been.
That's rough, though.
That was like your Oscar moment, dude.
If you would have took it seriously.
Come on.
Good point.
Hey, could have would have showed up.
Hey, thanks, dude.
I like to see how you live.
I wish we knew each other.
Let's run for mayor.
So in the book, in the book, Christos, Chris is a 15 year old boy who uses a wheelchair due to a degenerative muscle disease.
So, oh, yeah, I didn't have down syndrome.
Can I tell you something?
Just the way just the way you played it.
This was.
30 something years ago.
I just remember he was like he like couldn't talk and was in a fucking wheelchair.
And was this like the lead or.
No, it's like a ensemble.
You're a fucking disaster, my guy.
Don't even remember what the book was about.
Yeah, I don't know, Christos.
I don't think I I don't think we read that.
We did not read that over here.
No, I've never heard of that book.
What is the Westing game?
The Westing game.
They need to start burning some of these books.
This should have been banned.
I'll tell you that.
Dude, I like this is the kind of shit I'm into, though.
Like, I bet I bet this book is good.
Yeah, I bet this book is fucking good.
What book?
The Westing game.
Why do why do you say that?
Just because if you're reading it in school.
See, this is what I'm saying, Blake.
You got to say more words.
OK, because like I remember like there was a time when I like went on Insta stories and I'm like,
because I found this book in a used bookstore where I'm like, this was the first like novel I read outside of school.
And I posted it.
And people it was called The Legend of the Blue Lights or something.
But then everybody started to post the first books they ever read.
And a lot of people said it was this book called The Giver.
And I read it.
And that book was actually fucking cool, dude.
It was like an easy read.
Went right through it.
But it was like the giving tree.
No, it's called The Giver.
Super is pictures and shit, right?
Yeah, I believe you.
Yeah, no, you said you posted about that.
But a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, it was called The Giver.
Yeah, I think I think you're right.
I do love someone who reads books listening to us go books can actually be kind of sick.
Dude, they're sick.
Of course they are.
I know.
And you're like, it was actually a quick read because.
Well, it's a YA for children.
Middle schoolers.
Well, but it would.
No, but it wasn't.
It's not like it's not like, you know, it's not like the stories you read at bed in bed at night.
That's not fucking.
Busy world.
Well, yeah, it's not for like elementary school kids, but for middle school age kids that can read.
It had it was it was kind of mind blowing, dude.
The Giver has big concept.
If it's not a Caldecott Award.
It was a chapter book.
So, yeah.
Yes, but it was good.
It was fucking good, man.
And it like ended.
It had like the ending like kind of makes you think.
And I'm like, what are more books like this that are.
This is this is exactly what I keep going.
Any reader out there is like, dude.
You have to run for mayor.
I could maybe win.
Yo, these laws in game are the West End game is pretty good.
I've got a feeling it might be pretty good.
It's not hatchet by Gary Paulson.
I'll say that.
It's definitely not.
What is which is another one that was mentioned quite a bit.
The hatchet, of course, is a goaded book.
You guys ever read White Fang?
Real White Fang is how the movie.
No, no, no.
White Fang.
White thing.
White thing.
No, that was only at your school.
Who wrote that?
I'm still writing it.
You are so dumb.
Damn.
White.
White Fang.
That was my nickname was White Fang.
Anders Holmes released a new young adult novel called White Fang.
I'm going to have AI rewrite White Fang.
And I'm just going to go whatever you think White Fang is, write it.
Go.
Please write it.
Plug and play.
Okay.
Maybe AI isn't so bad.
And I am voting for.
Spencer Pratt once in a while, AI will deliver something pretty funny.
And now it knows what it's doing.
It's a good time.
Any take backs, any apologies, any epic slams?
I'm sorry.
What we said about Spencer Pratt.
That's just not okay, dude.
We can't do that.
Yeah.
Why can't we?
This was actually very politically charged.
Polly charged.
You know, it's funny.
It made me think when, when Chappelle, when, when Trump won, maybe the first time and Chappelle went on SNL and he was like, you know, I didn't vote for this.
This guy, but I wish him the best.
That did not work out.
Well, um, depending on, depending on where, how you lean, um, you know, the part of me that wants to be like, do you have political perineum?
What is the penis disease?
Peyronie.
Do you have political Peyronie?
Yeah.
Which way do you lean?
But the part of me wants to say like, I mean, hell give him a shot.
It's like, no, stop.
No, there's no shot.
Do not give that guy a shot.
He's just going to be like, can I go on ride alongs?
And shoot people like, well, you think I'm joking, but I promise you Trump's been like, if I could get into one of those tanks, I'd do it.
And I'd fucking blow up a school myself.
This is where I think it really like spawns from is like, as we talk about it, I'm like, what sucks is like, I bet if we collectively were like, yo, Spencer Pratt, what's up?
Like, if you get in power, I bet we could do a lot of fun stuff together.
Right.
And he'd be like, fuck.
Yeah.
I'm bringing you with me.
I promise you, he'd be like, you guys are fucking nerds.
Everybody's coming.
I promise you.
I bet.
I bet.
I bet.
He was like an evil reality high school, reality show high school guy.
Yeah.
And he was like a super rich.
He wouldn't fuck with us.
Yeah.
I don't know anything about him, to be honest.
And I don't think he will.
He seems like he wouldn't fuck with us.
Yeah.
I bet he, everybody's coming.
Yeah.
Everybody's coming.
All right.
Well, I'd have nothing to take back.
I have nothing to take back for this.
Blake.
I don't know who gets to vote then.
So, who are you voting for?
I don't know yet.
As soon as Blake says he's going to vote for her, then we hang up.
And that was another episode.
I don't know yet.
I don't know.
I got it.
Still undecided.
He has it.
He doesn't know the other two.
Undecided.
I do.
I do.
I do.
I do.
And I refuse.
Ninthia and Karen.
Yes.
I know the big bass.
You pulling some bass?
Big mouth bass.
Big mouth bass.
That's pretty funny.
How has he not called her that?
- Oh, and also don't forget John Logsdon.
- Oh, is that the guy?
The guy who recorded the show?
Yeah, who helped us at the Troubadour show.
He's running.
Yes, he's running.
Hold up the QR code if you have it right there.
Holy shit.
I don't.
Fuck.
He's running.
Yeah.
We got to vote for him.
You could just run for mayor.
Let's explain this.
We did our show at the Troubadour, and immediately after, the guy who set it up to be filmed,
who works in the film business and was part of the festival, was like,
by the way, I'm running for mayor.
You just run for mayor, dude.
I have to.
I don't know what's happening, but somebody needs to do something,
and he gave us his brochure and a little business card with the QR code.
Lost it immediately, but yeah, Todd just put it in the chat.
That's right, dude.
I'm voting for.
He's got my vote, even though I can't.
I live outside of LA.
Logs Don.
I'm voting for Logs Don.
You live outside, so you can't vote?
Is that right?
Cash me outside.
I live outside.
Cash you outside?
How about that?
I live outside.
All right.
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