October 1, 2025 • 30 mins
Headlines shout change while life keeps looping the same chorus. That’s where we start—questioning whether power actually rotates or just changes outfits—and then we tumble into money myths, climate theater, and what it means to keep making art when everyone wants you polished, quiet, and on-brand. I admit the libertarian spiel, then pull it apart, not to be edgy but to be honest: if fiat is story, why does the story hold, and what does that say about the incentives beneath our outrage?
From there, I swing hard into a choice I know will split the room: releasing a new album built from old demos—mistakes, warts, timing drifts and all. I’m done waiting for perfect. I’d rather ship the truth and let you decide what’s worth saving. Think of it as an open archive on Spotify, not a museum. While we’re at it, we talk about the AI music flood and what those mass takedowns might actually signal. If algorithms remove algorithmic songs, is that enforcement or just machines arguing with each other? I don’t fear synthetic tracks as much as I fear forgetting why a human voice matters: a fingerprint of intent, a pattern of risk that software can imitate but not own.
And yes, I address the Instagram haters. Maybe they’re bots. Maybe they’re bored. Either way, I’m not handing them the steering wheel. If I get criticized, I’ll turn it into a bit, a riff, a song—something I control. That’s the real theme tying this all together: agency. Don’t wait for permission from a platform, a pundit, or a purity test. Make the thing only you can make. Publish it before your nerve fades. Then come back here and argue with me about whether anything is truly changing or if we’re just repainting the same walls.
Tap play, subscribe for the Halloween album drop, and leave a review with your spiciest take: should artists release everything, or curate like guardians of taste? Your call—and your comments—will shape where we take this next.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
And it's like sunshine on a cloudy day.
And this podcast is about tostart today for the second video
episode.
(00:21):
It's the second video episode ofthe Blake Cunningham Am
Delirium.
Yeah.
It's the second episode.
It's the second episode of thebest podcast in the beers.
(00:47):
And it's the music that you liketo hear.
And you want to hear.
And you love to hear.
And it's all right here on theblack.
Blake Cunningham Delirium.
And we're just having fun in thesun.
(01:10):
And uh Yeah, you know we'regonna talk about music and we're
gonna talk about politics andwe're gonna be a little ignorant
because I don't really knowanything about it.
But at least it will be kind offunny if you have a terrible
(01:35):
sense of humor.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (01:40):
Welcome back to the Blake Cunningham uh delirium.
We're here with the second videoepisode.
This actually seems to be oh,you can see my beautiful teeth.
Uh my beautiful white teeth.
Um it seems to be sort of betteruh r looking resolution.
I don't know.
I I won't know until I send itto my uh p producer and uh he
(02:07):
takes a look at the footage andthe resolution and all that.
But we got it we got a greatshow.
It's very we got a good stuffplanned.
We got the skull in thebackground again.
It will not be the title of thisepisode, uh, but it will be he,
you know, we'll phone into Ican't remember if his name was f
(02:30):
Jeff or Fred or something likethat.
So, what's going on?
I haven't I actually haven'tlooked at the news today.
I I don't really care, I'm kindof out of the cycle.
I'm kind of thinking aboutthings differently than maybe I
was in the past.
I don't really know what's goingon, I don't really care.
Um but I do know that no matterwhat anybody's saying in in in a
(03:00):
more broader general sense,things seem to be more or less
the same as pr they've probablybeen for the last like ten
years.
And I'm not saying that's good,but I'm not saying that like
everybody's like all up in armsabout this or that and
(03:21):
everything's changing, blah blahblah.
But it's like if you really takea take a minute and take a step
back, it does seem to be more orless of the same.
And really what that conclusionultimately leads you to believe
is that it's always been sort ofthe same power structures at
(03:45):
play.
Like it's it is theestablishment it is an
established group of individualsand it's always been the same.
And the the shifting of hands isis a illusion of the system.
It's not the system is changing,but it's like I I don't know how
(04:07):
to explain it.
It's kind of like I don't know.
I I I I I don't I think I justexplained it.
Um And that's like at the end ofthe day, that's like always the
um so that's always the final myfinal conclusion on basically
(04:28):
the entire thing.
You know, and I I try to not beone of these like but w I don't
know, I I am like one of theselike old school libertarians
that's like all of our problemslead back to the the Federal
Reserve and you know the goldstandard not being a thing that
(04:51):
we honor anymore because likeour you know uh and you've heard
this spiel before.
I'm I'm sure uh you've heardthis spiel in some capacity or
or another.
I mean, I don't know how youwould end up here on my sh like
finding my show and not haveheard about this kind of stuff
(05:15):
before, but it's possible thatthere is a newbie out there
that's you know has never heardthe word fiat currency or
anything like that.
And um yeah, I mean look it up.
F-A-A-T.
I mean you'll you'll really ifyou've never heard of that,
you'll really have a revelationabout this kind of stuff, but
(05:36):
um, you know, I don't I don'tneed to put on my tinfoil hat
right now because that wouldmess up my hair, my beautiful
hair.
And I d I also I don't know.
I I I literally could be wrongabout all this stuff.
Maybe maybe you know, our moneynot being tied to anything is
(06:00):
actually great because it'sfreeing and money is not the
ultimate end goal and you knowyou don't need anything or
anything.
You know, you don't need youdon't need to be able to go to a
grocery store.
You don't need to be able to buya new mattress, you don't need a
new couch.
I mean I mean, you know, thereare ways to reduce your carbon
(06:23):
emission, you know, sleep on thefloor.
Don't don't eat anything thatyou didn't scrape off of the
bathroom stall.
You know, you don't have to youdon't have to eat steak tonight.
You can scrape some gum off thebathroom stall.
That's renew reuse, renew, andrecycle.
(06:46):
That's recycling.
You're recycling the used gumfor its uh caloric properties.
Uh-uh.
And you can do that instead ofyou know, eating getting meat
from the store because you know,eating meat is bad and carbon
emissions you know.
Because like, you know, youdrive a car and it it puts out
(07:10):
carbon and that carbon is youknow, carbon dioxide.
You know, we know chemicallycarbon dioxide is represented as
a compound on the periodic tableof the elements carbon and two
(07:30):
oxygen atoms CO2.
Now we know that trees give usO2.
But how do they give us O2?
Well, it's a process calledphotos you know, photosynthesis,
where they take or it'sphotosynthesis.
(07:57):
Now let me think, isphotosynthesis how they make um
their glue glucose shit.
Um whatever.
Anyway, the trees take the thethe ox they make oxygen from uh
(08:19):
CO2.
Well the trees but we're puttingall the bad CO2 into the
atmosphere and the trees take itand turn it into the oxygen that
we breathe.
Well well that's terrible.
(08:43):
We need to stop that.
We need to stop the trees fromtaking all the bad CO2 because
the CO2's bad.
And the trees turn into air thatwe breathe.
So that that can't be good.
That can't be that can't begood.
(09:04):
No.
No, no, no, no.
No That's not good at all.
No.
No.
I could no.
No, I I I just believe what Iread.
You know, I just like to Ah Ikeep rubbing this on my face.
(09:26):
I I I I I I just read what Iread that you know, humans are
bad and you know, I'm not don'teat meat and you know, sleep on
the floor.
You know, you probably shouldn'teven have a floor because, you
know, building materials, youknow, it's bad for the
environment.
It's you know, bad for theenvironment.
Now um let me ask you a questionAt what point are you
(09:55):
exonerated?
At what point do you reach, youknow uh and I know the answer is
never, but you never do younever reach a point, you know,
okay I'll I'll recycle tomorrow.
I'm good, right?
I'm good, right?
Like I I I if I recycletomorrow, like I don't have to
(10:18):
like you know, you know, drinkthrough a a a cardboard straw.
I don't have to drink throughlike a straw that looks like a
torch from Minecraft, like it'smade out of cardboard.
Like right, if I like recycleand like I uh drive an electric
car, which is good for theenvironment because um you know
(10:43):
the the coal comes from you knowthe ground and you know, charges
the car and you know not anydifferent taking fossil fuels
from the ground, which arefossil fuels that don't actually
(11:05):
come from fossils and theyregenerate over time and I um I
don't know.
It's all interesting and I haveno plans on going swimming.
(11:26):
I I I d I'm a very good swimmerand I'm very mentally uh
whatever sound.
So Yeah.
Where was I going with this?
(11:48):
What where what is my direction?
I'll tell you where my directionis.
It's in this I'm making a newalbum.
I'm making a new album for uh mymy music.
B-L-A-K-E-C-U-N-N-I-N-G-H-A-M.
(12:12):
Uh Blake Cunningham on Spotify.
I'm making a new album.
It's of music I did like it'smusic from like five years ago.
And um it's uh it's a lot oflike demos and like literally
just like me playing bass fortwo minutes and it's like really
(12:33):
bad and everything's out oftime, but I don't know.
I I I tend to look at uh thewhole artist thing as like
everybody is so I don't know,I'm hunched over so much.
Everybody is so like idyllic onlike making these perfect
(12:54):
performances in the studio,everything's to the grid and I I
just don't view it as that way.
I view it as like literally likeeverything I make should be out
there on Spotify because one dayI'm not gonna be able to put
stuff on Spotify, so I don't s Idon't see a reason not to.
Like I don't care what my pageis gonna be crowded, I don't
(13:18):
really care.
Like it's not my job to like Idon't know, I some people view
it as like it's my job to likesift through all my stuff and
give you the best of the best,but like you should do that.
And if you don't have the timeto do that, I'm sure the numbers
will tell you, you know, whatpeople like the most, what the
average person would like themost.
(13:38):
And if you want to dig forsomething different, you'll have
to dig.
I mean, grab a shovel.
You know?
I mean, I I don't know.
There's no when it comes tothat, it's like there's no right
answer.
And I know that Spotify hasrecently taken off like like
seventy-five million AI tracksor something, and I'm not saying
(14:00):
that makes my odds better, butmaybe my you know, these are
really short tracks or likeanywhere from like I don't know,
t like twelve seconds to like afew minutes, like maybe my
creation could somehow fillwhatever void the AI v was
filling.
I don't I don't know if that ittotally makes sense, but I don't
(14:22):
know.
And there I don't know, the AIstuff's uh and I hate I I I hate
listening to a AI stuff onpodcasts, which seems pretty
counterintuitive or whatever,but like the a we're eventually
going to reach a singularitypoint and you know I I guarantee
yeah, there's a reason s I meanthere's there's m a lot more
(14:44):
than seventy-five million trackson Spotify and there's probably
billions or I don't know.
Maybe not billions, but probablybillions.
Um maybe a billion, I don'tknow.
I don't actually know thenumbers, so but seventy-five
million I'm sure was not, youknow, maybe it's like one
(15:05):
percent, I don't know.
But there's probably, you know,that's that's the ones they
could detect.
Ah, I keep like you like that?
Ah That's just like the onesthey could uh now it's like
almost peaking.
That's just the ones they coulduh detect.
It's like how many did thesoftware not detect because
(15:29):
they're just so human like thateven their algorithm and the
algorithm they ironically thealgorithm that they probably
used to pull the songs offSpotify was also like an AI
algorithm, so we're that kind ofis just signaling that we are
reaching the area of singularitywith this stuff.
(15:53):
I mean and and I I hate doingthis.
I hate listen I hate listeningto it, I hate doing it, I hate
listening to people speculate onAI because like literally
tomorrow it could be likesomething better than AI comes
out, or AI just you know, itjust implodes on itself, or like
w more likely than not, it likewe could literally just so many
(16:16):
people are against it, we couldjust literally wake up and just
be like, I don't care aboutthis, and like if people don't
care about it, there's not gonnabe funding for it and it's not
gonna exist, except for like inniche communities where it
existed before it kind of blewup.
So I I don't know the future ofthis stuff, and I don't I I do I
(16:38):
the thing is for me it doesn'tbother me.
Like some people are so botheredby it, I don't get it.
I don't get why they're sobothered by like a human didn't
create this because I I don'tknow because all these algorith
like the algorithms I I I keepsaying that and I can't stand
it, but it's like they're fedwith they're fed with human
(16:59):
knowledge and like humancreation, so like yes, a human's
not creating it, but we createdthe things that created it.
So in a a weird roundabout way,it's like a bi byproduct of
human creation.
So we did create it.
You know?
It's like I don't know, it'slike it's like saying like I
(17:24):
didn't paint that painting, butlike human I don't know, I don't
know.
Like Crayola didn't uh Ishouldn't say a brand.
Crayola does not sponsor thispodcast, but they can.
And I'm gonna bleep that outnext time.
Not this time, too lazy.
But let's say like a crayoncompany an unnamed crayon
(17:49):
company says like we didn'tcreate that photo.
Well you created the the crayonsthat created that photo and it
couldn't been created, so likeyou kind of did aid in the
creation of that photo of thesun in the grass.
That makes me want to draw.
I wanna draw a sun in the grass.
(18:10):
But I don't know.
And I'm gonna end that segmenton on a high note and let's talk
about let's talk about whatyou've all been waiting for me
to talk about my Instagramhaters.
If you're an Instagram hater andyou're watching the show, you
(18:33):
should buckle in.
You should buckle into your seattight because I am not gonna
stop posting and commenting anddoing whatever the F, the F and
F I want on the Instagramplatform.
(18:54):
And guess what?
I don't care.
I don't care that you open theapp and you're expecting to see
little cute dog photos of yourall your neighbors.
I don't care.
It's my app.
It's my app.
And I will continue to do what Iwant on the app and outside of
(19:17):
the app and keep creating mymusic and creep keep keep
creating this lovely show,regardless of what any one of
these Instagram I'm holding mytongue here.
Whatever these people, they'reprobably bots.
I'm probably literally gettingshat on by bots, but I I don't I
(19:41):
don't care.
I don't even care if it's a bot.
I want I wanna prove the botwrong.
Like I literally want to provethe bot wrong.
I don't care if it's not even inits programming to be right or
wrong.
I'm going to prove it some I'mgonna change its code with my
comment.
Like I'm gonna like divide zeroby zero and like on this thing
(20:01):
and like make it change itsmind, like through some kind of
like glitch or like system uh diin dis uh discrepancy.
And ultimately I'm going todestro I'm going to destroy this
thing.
Like case in point, like it'sit's OV.
(20:25):
Like it's OV.
Like it's so OV.
And if you are a real person andyou're beefing with me on my
Instagram, just remember I willalways win because I will talk
(20:49):
about it on this show.
And if you thought the Epsteinlist was bad, wait until I leak
the list of all the people thathave beefed with me on
(21:10):
Instagram.
That will be a much longer, muchmore grotesque list of
individuals.
So if you are trying to go therewith me, just remember to keep
my name out of your mouth,unless unless you're a fan of
(21:36):
the show and you follow my in uhmy music Spotify, then then you
can talk shit.
Because that's because it's Idon't know, it's fun.
We're just having fun at thatpoint.
But if you're if you'relegitimately trying to criticize
me, like if you're legitimatelytrying to criticize me, I d I
(21:59):
I'm just not the kind of personthat cares.
You could literally say the mostobscene worst thing.
And I'll s I'll say somethingactually less obscene and
probably nice and you'll takeoffense to it.
Because everybody is a baby.
Everybody is a baby nowadays.
Nobody can like handle anything.
(22:21):
Like literally nobody can handleanything.
Like the toughest Jim Bros andlike the you know the chick
that's like, oh I'm like I talklike a dude because I'm like
cool and like don't fuck with melike I uh I n I know my way
around a knife or something.
It's like they're everybody'slike, you know, babies.
(22:43):
They get in this beef with meand they're like, uh you hurt my
feelings.
Like I was like tough twoseconds ago, but now I'm like, I
don't know.
Just don't start with me.
Just don't start with me.
Just let me do my thing.
Just let me do my thing, and youcan go back to your your your
meaningless life.
(23:04):
I'm just kidding.
I I'm kidding about themeaningless life part.
I I I'm you probably literallyhave more going on than me, but
I just want you honestly, Ihonestly I wish you I wish you
the best.
I hope you I hope you figure itout.
I I honestly hope you do betterthan me so that I can turn back
and say if you do better than mein life, then I can say, Oh,
(23:27):
this person that is doing betterthan me is is is picking on me.
And no, I'm not being the babyat that point.
I'm you know, I don't know.
I guess I am, but you know, youhurt my feelings.
You know?
And I'm just trying to makegreat stuff.
(23:48):
Like I'm trying to make I'm likean artist with like a
paintbrush.
Like this, this, this is mypaintbrush.
And if if you're listening tothis on audio only, uh I have
like a sword in my hand.
(24:09):
I miss I miss you know, mostmost people won't tell you this
kind of thing, but I willbecause I'm honest with with all
of you.
I miss like when I first startedthe show and like it was like
fun, like before all the fameand glory and stuff.
Not glory, but like before allthe fame and it was just like a
(24:34):
guy with a microphone and I wasjust like shooting the shit, but
now it's like I got like thedeadlines and like the fans and
like you know, I'm I'm in agated like community, I have to
like keep them away and they'relike with their signs like we
love your show and your music,mostly your music, Blake
(24:56):
Cunningham on Spotify, B L A K EC U N N N N B L A K E C U N N I
N G H A M.
And new album coming out onHalloween.
I'm so psyched for Halloween,but it's literally October 1st,
and I'm pro I'm probably gonnado at least three, I don't know,
(25:18):
a couple more episodes beforethen.
I really want to pick up thesteam.
So uh yeah, I won't go into toomuch detail on Halloween.
I I should do like a Halloweenepisode and definitely dress up
in a costume.
That would totally add to theexperience of the show.
(25:40):
But uh, I don't know.
I I think that's good for now.
I'm probably gonna get like introuble for what I said at the
beginning.
Because like uh it was, youknow, it was not the truth.
Um and people are definitelygonna agree with what I said.
There's gonna be norepercussions to that or you
(26:04):
know you know, I don't know.
I'm just a truth tailor.
Yeah.
Well I don't know.
I think that's good for today.
I think you know, I I've hadenough.
I've had enough of it.
Alright, I'm out.
I'm out.
And it's like sunshine on a cloudy day.
And this podcast is about tostart today for the second video
episode.
(00:21):
It's the second video episode ofthe Blake Cunningham Am
Delirium.
Yeah.
It's the second episode.
It's the second episode of thebest podcast in the beers.
(00:47):
And it's the music that you liketo hear.
And you want to hear.
And you love to hear.
And it's all right here on theblack.
Blake Cunningham Delirium.
And we're just having fun in thesun.
(01:10):
And uh Yeah, you know we'regonna talk about music and we're
gonna talk about politics andwe're gonna be a little ignorant
because I don't really knowanything about it.
But at least it will be kind offunny if you have a terrible
(01:35):
sense of humor.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (01:40):
Welcome back to the Blake Cunningham uh delirium.
We're here with the second videoepisode.
This actually seems to be oh,you can see my beautiful teeth.
Uh my beautiful white teeth.
Um it seems to be sort of betteruh r looking resolution.
I don't know.
I I won't know until I send itto my uh p producer and uh he
(02:07):
takes a look at the footage andthe resolution and all that.
But we got it we got a greatshow.
It's very we got a good stuffplanned.
We got the skull in thebackground again.
It will not be the title of thisepisode, uh, but it will be he,
you know, we'll phone into Ican't remember if his name was f
(02:30):
Jeff or Fred or something likethat.
So, what's going on?
I haven't I actually haven'tlooked at the news today.
I I don't really care, I'm kindof out of the cycle.
I'm kind of thinking aboutthings differently than maybe I
was in the past.
I don't really know what's goingon, I don't really care.
Um but I do know that no matterwhat anybody's saying in in in a
(03:00):
more broader general sense,things seem to be more or less
the same as pr they've probablybeen for the last like ten
years.
And I'm not saying that's good,but I'm not saying that like
everybody's like all up in armsabout this or that and
(03:21):
everything's changing, blah blahblah.
But it's like if you really takea take a minute and take a step
back, it does seem to be more orless of the same.
And really what that conclusionultimately leads you to believe
is that it's always been sort ofthe same power structures at
(03:45):
play.
Like it's it is theestablishment it is an
established group of individualsand it's always been the same.
And the the shifting of hands isis a illusion of the system.
It's not the system is changing,but it's like I I don't know how
(04:07):
to explain it.
It's kind of like I don't know.
I I I I I don't I think I justexplained it.
Um And that's like at the end ofthe day, that's like always the
um so that's always the final myfinal conclusion on basically
(04:28):
the entire thing.
You know, and I I try to not beone of these like but w I don't
know, I I am like one of theselike old school libertarians
that's like all of our problemslead back to the the Federal
Reserve and you know the goldstandard not being a thing that
(04:51):
we honor anymore because likeour you know uh and you've heard
this spiel before.
I'm I'm sure uh you've heardthis spiel in some capacity or
or another.
I mean, I don't know how youwould end up here on my sh like
finding my show and not haveheard about this kind of stuff
(05:15):
before, but it's possible thatthere is a newbie out there
that's you know has never heardthe word fiat currency or
anything like that.
And um yeah, I mean look it up.
F-A-A-T.
I mean you'll you'll really ifyou've never heard of that,
you'll really have a revelationabout this kind of stuff, but
(05:36):
um, you know, I don't I don'tneed to put on my tinfoil hat
right now because that wouldmess up my hair, my beautiful
hair.
And I d I also I don't know.
I I I literally could be wrongabout all this stuff.
Maybe maybe you know, our moneynot being tied to anything is
(06:00):
actually great because it'sfreeing and money is not the
ultimate end goal and you knowyou don't need anything or
anything.
You know, you don't need youdon't need to be able to go to a
grocery store.
You don't need to be able to buya new mattress, you don't need a
new couch.
I mean I mean, you know, thereare ways to reduce your carbon
(06:23):
emission, you know, sleep on thefloor.
Don't don't eat anything thatyou didn't scrape off of the
bathroom stall.
You know, you don't have to youdon't have to eat steak tonight.
You can scrape some gum off thebathroom stall.
That's renew reuse, renew, andrecycle.
(06:46):
That's recycling.
You're recycling the used gumfor its uh caloric properties.
Uh-uh.
And you can do that instead ofyou know, eating getting meat
from the store because you know,eating meat is bad and carbon
emissions you know.
Because like, you know, youdrive a car and it it puts out
(07:10):
carbon and that carbon is youknow, carbon dioxide.
You know, we know chemicallycarbon dioxide is represented as
a compound on the periodic tableof the elements carbon and two
(07:30):
oxygen atoms CO2.
Now we know that trees give usO2.
But how do they give us O2?
Well, it's a process calledphotos you know, photosynthesis,
where they take or it'sphotosynthesis.
(07:57):
Now let me think, isphotosynthesis how they make um
their glue glucose shit.
Um whatever.
Anyway, the trees take the thethe ox they make oxygen from uh
(08:19):
CO2.
Well the trees but we're puttingall the bad CO2 into the
atmosphere and the trees take itand turn it into the oxygen that
we breathe.
Well well that's terrible.
(08:43):
We need to stop that.
We need to stop the trees fromtaking all the bad CO2 because
the CO2's bad.
And the trees turn into air thatwe breathe.
So that that can't be good.
That can't be that can't begood.
(09:04):
No.
No, no, no, no.
No That's not good at all.
No.
No.
I could no.
No, I I I just believe what Iread.
You know, I just like to Ah Ikeep rubbing this on my face.
(09:26):
I I I I I I just read what Iread that you know, humans are
bad and you know, I'm not don'teat meat and you know, sleep on
the floor.
You know, you probably shouldn'teven have a floor because, you
know, building materials, youknow, it's bad for the
environment.
It's you know, bad for theenvironment.
Now um let me ask you a questionAt what point are you
(09:55):
exonerated?
At what point do you reach, youknow uh and I know the answer is
never, but you never do younever reach a point, you know,
okay I'll I'll recycle tomorrow.
I'm good, right?
I'm good, right?
Like I I I if I recycletomorrow, like I don't have to
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like you know, you know, drinkthrough a a a cardboard straw.
I don't have to drink throughlike a straw that looks like a
torch from Minecraft, like it'smade out of cardboard.
Like right, if I like recycleand like I uh drive an electric
car, which is good for theenvironment because um you know
(10:43):
the the coal comes from you knowthe ground and you know, charges
the car and you know not anydifferent taking fossil fuels
from the ground, which arefossil fuels that don't actually
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come from fossils and theyregenerate over time and I um I
don't know.
It's all interesting and I haveno plans on going swimming.
(11:26):
I I I d I'm a very good swimmerand I'm very mentally uh
whatever sound.
So Yeah.
Where was I going with this?
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What where what is my direction?
I'll tell you where my directionis.
It's in this I'm making a newalbum.
I'm making a new album for uh mymy music.
B-L-A-K-E-C-U-N-N-I-N-G-H-A-M.
(12:12):
Uh Blake Cunningham on Spotify.
I'm making a new album.
It's of music I did like it'smusic from like five years ago.
And um it's uh it's a lot oflike demos and like literally
just like me playing bass fortwo minutes and it's like really
(12:33):
bad and everything's out oftime, but I don't know.
I I I tend to look at uh thewhole artist thing as like
everybody is so I don't know,I'm hunched over so much.
Everybody is so like idyllic onlike making these perfect
(12:54):
performances in the studio,everything's to the grid and I I
just don't view it as that way.
I view it as like literally likeeverything I make should be out
there on Spotify because one dayI'm not gonna be able to put
stuff on Spotify, so I don't s Idon't see a reason not to.
Like I don't care what my pageis gonna be crowded, I don't
(13:18):
really care.
Like it's not my job to like Idon't know, I some people view
it as like it's my job to likesift through all my stuff and
give you the best of the best,but like you should do that.
And if you don't have the timeto do that, I'm sure the numbers
will tell you, you know, whatpeople like the most, what the
average person would like themost.
(13:38):
And if you want to dig forsomething different, you'll have
to dig.
I mean, grab a shovel.
You know?
I mean, I I don't know.
There's no when it comes tothat, it's like there's no right
answer.
And I know that Spotify hasrecently taken off like like
seventy-five million AI tracksor something, and I'm not saying
(14:00):
that makes my odds better, butmaybe my you know, these are
really short tracks or likeanywhere from like I don't know,
t like twelve seconds to like afew minutes, like maybe my
creation could somehow fillwhatever void the AI v was
filling.
I don't I don't know if that ittotally makes sense, but I don't
(14:22):
know.
And there I don't know, the AIstuff's uh and I hate I I I hate
listening to a AI stuff onpodcasts, which seems pretty
counterintuitive or whatever,but like the a we're eventually
going to reach a singularitypoint and you know I I guarantee
yeah, there's a reason s I meanthere's there's m a lot more
(14:44):
than seventy-five million trackson Spotify and there's probably
billions or I don't know.
Maybe not billions, but probablybillions.
Um maybe a billion, I don'tknow.
I don't actually know thenumbers, so but seventy-five
million I'm sure was not, youknow, maybe it's like one
(15:05):
percent, I don't know.
But there's probably, you know,that's that's the ones they
could detect.
Ah, I keep like you like that?
Ah That's just like the onesthey could uh now it's like
almost peaking.
That's just the ones they coulduh detect.
It's like how many did thesoftware not detect because
(15:29):
they're just so human like thateven their algorithm and the
algorithm they ironically thealgorithm that they probably
used to pull the songs offSpotify was also like an AI
algorithm, so we're that kind ofis just signaling that we are
reaching the area of singularitywith this stuff.
(15:53):
I mean and and I I hate doingthis.
I hate listen I hate listeningto it, I hate doing it, I hate
listening to people speculate onAI because like literally
tomorrow it could be likesomething better than AI comes
out, or AI just you know, itjust implodes on itself, or like
w more likely than not, it likewe could literally just so many
(16:16):
people are against it, we couldjust literally wake up and just
be like, I don't care aboutthis, and like if people don't
care about it, there's not gonnabe funding for it and it's not
gonna exist, except for like inniche communities where it
existed before it kind of blewup.
So I I don't know the future ofthis stuff, and I don't I I do I
(16:38):
the thing is for me it doesn'tbother me.
Like some people are so botheredby it, I don't get it.
I don't get why they're sobothered by like a human didn't
create this because I I don'tknow because all these algorith
like the algorithms I I I keepsaying that and I can't stand
it, but it's like they're fedwith they're fed with human
(16:59):
knowledge and like humancreation, so like yes, a human's
not creating it, but we createdthe things that created it.
So in a a weird roundabout way,it's like a bi byproduct of
human creation.
So we did create it.
You know?
It's like I don't know, it'slike it's like saying like I
(17:24):
didn't paint that painting, butlike human I don't know, I don't
know.
Like Crayola didn't uh Ishouldn't say a brand.
Crayola does not sponsor thispodcast, but they can.
And I'm gonna bleep that outnext time.
Not this time, too lazy.
But let's say like a crayoncompany an unnamed crayon
(17:49):
company says like we didn'tcreate that photo.
Well you created the the crayonsthat created that photo and it
couldn't been created, so likeyou kind of did aid in the
creation of that photo of thesun in the grass.
That makes me want to draw.
I wanna draw a sun in the grass.
(18:10):
But I don't know.
And I'm gonna end that segmenton on a high note and let's talk
about let's talk about whatyou've all been waiting for me
to talk about my Instagramhaters.
If you're an Instagram hater andyou're watching the show, you
(18:33):
should buckle in.
You should buckle into your seattight because I am not gonna
stop posting and commenting anddoing whatever the F, the F and
F I want on the Instagramplatform.
(18:54):
And guess what?
I don't care.
I don't care that you open theapp and you're expecting to see
little cute dog photos of yourall your neighbors.
I don't care.
It's my app.
It's my app.
And I will continue to do what Iwant on the app and outside of
(19:17):
the app and keep creating mymusic and creep keep keep
creating this lovely show,regardless of what any one of
these Instagram I'm holding mytongue here.
Whatever these people, they'reprobably bots.
I'm probably literally gettingshat on by bots, but I I don't I
(19:41):
don't care.
I don't even care if it's a bot.
I want I wanna prove the botwrong.
Like I literally want to provethe bot wrong.
I don't care if it's not even inits programming to be right or
wrong.
I'm going to prove it some I'mgonna change its code with my
comment.
Like I'm gonna like divide zeroby zero and like on this thing
(20:01):
and like make it change itsmind, like through some kind of
like glitch or like system uh diin dis uh discrepancy.
And ultimately I'm going todestro I'm going to destroy this
thing.
Like case in point, like it'sit's OV.
(20:25):
Like it's OV.
Like it's so OV.
And if you are a real person andyou're beefing with me on my
Instagram, just remember I willalways win because I will talk
(20:49):
about it on this show.
And if you thought the Epsteinlist was bad, wait until I leak
the list of all the people thathave beefed with me on
(21:10):
Instagram.
That will be a much longer, muchmore grotesque list of
individuals.
So if you are trying to go therewith me, just remember to keep
my name out of your mouth,unless unless you're a fan of
(21:36):
the show and you follow my in uhmy music Spotify, then then you
can talk shit.
Because that's because it's Idon't know, it's fun.
We're just having fun at thatpoint.
But if you're if you'relegitimately trying to criticize
me, like if you're legitimatelytrying to criticize me, I d I
(21:59):
I'm just not the kind of personthat cares.
You could literally say the mostobscene worst thing.
And I'll s I'll say somethingactually less obscene and
probably nice and you'll takeoffense to it.
Because everybody is a baby.
Everybody is a baby nowadays.
Nobody can like handle anything.
(22:21):
Like literally nobody can handleanything.
Like the toughest Jim Bros andlike the you know the chick
that's like, oh I'm like I talklike a dude because I'm like
cool and like don't fuck with melike I uh I n I know my way
around a knife or something.
It's like they're everybody'slike, you know, babies.
(22:43):
They get in this beef with meand they're like, uh you hurt my
feelings.
Like I was like tough twoseconds ago, but now I'm like, I
don't know.
Just don't start with me.
Just don't start with me.
Just let me do my thing.
Just let me do my thing, and youcan go back to your your your
meaningless life.
(23:04):
I'm just kidding.
I I'm kidding about themeaningless life part.
I I I'm you probably literallyhave more going on than me, but
I just want you honestly, Ihonestly I wish you I wish you
the best.
I hope you I hope you figure itout.
I I honestly hope you do betterthan me so that I can turn back
and say if you do better than mein life, then I can say, Oh,
(23:27):
this person that is doing betterthan me is is is picking on me.
And no, I'm not being the babyat that point.
I'm you know, I don't know.
I guess I am, but you know, youhurt my feelings.
You know?
And I'm just trying to makegreat stuff.
(23:48):
Like I'm trying to make I'm likean artist with like a
paintbrush.
Like this, this, this is mypaintbrush.
And if if you're listening tothis on audio only, uh I have
like a sword in my hand.
(24:09):
I miss I miss you know, mostmost people won't tell you this
kind of thing, but I willbecause I'm honest with with all
of you.
I miss like when I first startedthe show and like it was like
fun, like before all the fameand glory and stuff.
Not glory, but like before allthe fame and it was just like a
(24:34):
guy with a microphone and I wasjust like shooting the shit, but
now it's like I got like thedeadlines and like the fans and
like you know, I'm I'm in agated like community, I have to
like keep them away and they'relike with their signs like we
love your show and your music,mostly your music, Blake
(24:56):
Cunningham on Spotify, B L A K EC U N N N N B L A K E C U N N I
N G H A M.
And new album coming out onHalloween.
I'm so psyched for Halloween,but it's literally October 1st,
and I'm pro I'm probably gonnado at least three, I don't know,
(25:18):
a couple more episodes beforethen.
I really want to pick up thesteam.
So uh yeah, I won't go into toomuch detail on Halloween.
I I should do like a Halloweenepisode and definitely dress up
in a costume.
That would totally add to theexperience of the show.
(25:40):
But uh, I don't know.
I I think that's good for now.
I'm probably gonna get like introuble for what I said at the
beginning.
Because like uh it was, youknow, it was not the truth.
Um and people are definitelygonna agree with what I said.
There's gonna be norepercussions to that or you
(26:04):
know you know, I don't know.
I'm just a truth tailor.
Yeah.
Well I don't know.
I think that's good for today.
I think you know, I I've hadenough.
I've had enough of it.
Alright, I'm out.
I'm out.
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