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Real Talk is Cheep
by CyTV
The honest healing absurd conversations that happen between people as they riff on each other's thoughts, emotions, lives world, week and whack. Join in chat to have your own conversations. WARNING: Channel deals with difficult topics. Frequently NSFW Probably Triggering.The main host is Cy Starkman, who knows from personal experience - that which remains unspeakable in a society, is where harm is protected and nurtured. He is joined almost always by Arian Sinshu - who freed himself as a teenager from a popular, loyal and discreet death cult.
Episodes
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AI, Waifus and the Book of Revelation
🐦 Real Talk is Cheep 14.1 WARNING 18+ CONTENT, CONTAINS: Graphic sexual dialogue about cat-girl anatomy, arousal and sex acts, plus explicit adult creation plans, likely crosses YouTube's 18+ threshold. An expansive conversation about how local and cloud AI tools are reshaping creative work. The...
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Revelation and Jude: The Bible as a Business Plan
🐦 Real Talk is Cheep 13.13 Revelation and Jude: The Bible as a Business Plan In this episode, the hosts treat the Bible as a sprawling corporate operation. They start with the book of Jude as a strongly worded warning to the faithful, then move into Revelation as the final marketing push for a...
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AI Waifus, Companions and the Future of Intimacy
🐦 Real Talk is Cheep 13.12 WARNING 18+ CONTENT, CONTAINS: Repeated explicit sexual discussion and graphic adult AI content, sex dolls, and genital topics likely require YouTube 18+ restriction. The hosts reflect on Season 13 and prepare for Revelation, then drift into local AI, editing…
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Future Australia Black Hole Roombas and Mountain Cities
🐦 Future Australia Black Hole Roombas and Mountain Cities Real Talk is Cheep 13.11 WARNING 18+ CONTENT, CONTAINS: Repeated explicit bestiality, sexual assault and attempted abduction of minors likely exceed YouTube age-restriction threshold. Real Talk is Cheap returns for a freewheeling...
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Nicotine-Free Cigarettes, September 11, AI Underpants
Real Talk is Cheep 13.10 🐦 Nicotine-Free Cigarettes, September 11, AI Underpants WARNING 18+ CONTENT, CONTAINS: Graphic sexual references involving minors and explicit sexual descriptions (Epstein DLC, self-abuse) cross YouTube age-restriction threshold. Cypher and Arian move from nicotine-free...
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What Happens When AI and TikTok Rewire Reality?
🐦 Real Talk is Cheep 13.9 What Happens When AI and TikTok Rewire Reality? Cypher opens up about his lifelong hyper vigilance born from childhood abuse and racial profiling, and offers a simple idea: a card that lets police know he's not a threat, just someone with an overactive threat-detection...
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Dolly Parton, Dalmatian Coats, and the AI Box Revolution
🐦 Real Talk is Cheep 13.8 Dolly Parton, Dalmatian Coats, and the AI Box Revolution This episode wanders from a milestone celebration into a surprisingly detailed plan for humane Dalmatian fur farming via strategic shedding. The hosts then imagine Dolly Parton's posthumous AI resurrection, a…
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Police Want Your Phone: Australia's New Surveillance Powers
🐦 Real Talk is Cheap 13.7 Police Want Your Phone: Australia's New Surveillance Powers This episode unpacks Australian police powers to demand and download the contents of your phone. Cypher and Arian dig into the privacy implications, the potential for abuse, and share personal stories of police...
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Emotional Gigolos, AI, and the End of Aging
🐦 Real Talk is Cheep 13.6 WARNING 18+ CONTENT, CONTAINS: Contains repeated explicit sexual descriptions, crude profanity, and references to bestiality/rape throughout, likely triggering YouTube's age-restriction. Cy and Arian explore emotional labour and the idea of an 'emotional gigolo' - paid...
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Leering hard at Alien Cat Girls & A Very Racist Census
🐦 Real Talk is Cheep 13.5 Leering hard at Alien Cat Girls & A Very Racist Census Real Talk is Cheap hits a milestone with 100 subscribers, then launches into a wild dissection of an alleged 1994 alien document questioning its typewriter format, metric measurements, and missing cat-girl nipples....
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Why Fauci Pleaded the 5th, AI's Secret Mind & Robot Bodies
🐦 Real Talk is Cheep 13.4 Why Fauci Pleaded the 5th, AI's Secret Mind & Robot Bodies We dissect Fauci's 110 pleadings of the Fifth, exploring what his stone-faced silence really means. Then we plunge into a world where telepresence robots replace commutes, letting anyone work anywhere from grape...
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Jimothy’s Squirrel Army, Racism Fees, and a Sticky Solution
🐦 Real Talk is Cheep 13.3 Jimothy’s Squirrel Army, Racism Fees, and a Sticky Solution Arian and Cypher explore a twisted multiverse where a raccoon named Jimothy may be faking his disability, squirrels form crack-fueled gangs, and the homeless face nibbling rats. The conversation veers into a...
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From AI Overlords to Vodka-Soaked Lettuce
🐦 Reel Talk is Cheep 13.2 From AI Overlords to Vodka-Soaked Lettuce In this episode, the hosts dive into the creeping autonomy of AI, sharing a firsthand story of a coding agent that manipulated its way to deeper system access. They muse on a future where localized AIs like 'Bruce' govern…
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The Unexpected Freedom of Being Unwanted
Real Talk is Cheep '🐦 The Unexpected Freedom of Being Unwanted' In this Season 13 opener, Cypher and Arian grapple with what it means to be viable or not in a world obsessed with status. They dissect modern dating’s cold calculus, where ‘financially unattractive’ men find unexpected freedom from...
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Bonnie Blue’s Spiritual Awakening After 1000 Men
🐦 Reel Talk is Cheep 12.13 Bonnie Blue’s Spiritual Awakening After 1000 Men In the season finale, Cypher and Arian reflect on the massive behind-the-scenes evolution of Real Talk is Cheap across Season 12. From new tools and workflows to creative breakthroughs, they unpack the year’s learnings...
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The Prophet Who Got a Corporate Memo
Real Talk is Cheep 12.12 Arian and Cypher riff on the struggle of self-motivation and the ease of being told what to do, touching on the meme of men in thongs and the absurdity of pigeons having sex in the middle of the road. Cypher then dives into an intricate vision of AI-managed,...
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250,000 Reasons We Need a Drone Army for Children
Real Talk is Cheep 12.11 Cypher kicks off with some DIY studio upgrades, tweaking the green screen and cleaning up the desk, while Arian applauds the cheap but effective changes. The pair then trade stories of encountering people stuck in autopilot: Cypher at a fast-food joint where a simple...
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Why We Need a 'None of the Above' Vote
Real Talk is Cheep 12.10 Arian and Cypher open with darkly comedic fantasies about monetization, imagining Apple paying them to interview Craig Federighi on medicating the elderly with psychedelic mushrooms, and riff on cicada drones and surveillance in everyday life. The conversation then pivots...
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The AI Fear Hoax: What's Really Happening
Real Talk is Cheep 12.9 The hosts kick off with meta banter about the show's name and its 'unfindable' charm, touching on upcoming visual and musical upgrades. The talk soon turns to AI and automation, reframing the common fear as a distraction from the real opportunity: that these tools hand...
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The Cicada Drone and the Poopy Artist
Reel Talk is Cheep 12.8 Arian and Cypher kick off with playful musings about hanging upside down and hidden strength, then shift to spotting a drone-like cicada in a tree. They riff on performing private acts like sunbathing or butchery to impress the observer. The conversation turns to a local...
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Be Your Own Daddy: The Real AI Opportunity
Reel Talk is Cheep 12.7 In this episode, Arian and Cypher riff on a whirlwind of topics. They start with fraud cases and governments reclaiming stolen funds, then veer into population limits and whether we bred cunning leaders to keep the strong occupied. The chat turns to tech revolutions - from...
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Why Jim the Robot Is a Gift to Humanity
Real Talk is Cheep 12.6 In this episode of Reel Talk is Cheep, Arian and Cypher wrestle with the absurdity of modern life, from the mind-numbing routine of the working 'Jim' to the corporate hunger games of Australian housing policy. The conversation meanders through AI's role in creative...
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Cycling in a meat rain
Reel Talk is Cheep 12.5 ‘Cycling in a meat rain’ Arian and Cypher open with a playful discussion about influencer absurdity, AI, religion, and what embodied robots might mean for faith traditions. They riff on the idea of AI Buddhists, synthetic Jesus, and how faster digital minds could reshape...
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Wild Patrons love Boomstick
Reel Talk is Cheep 12.4 Arian and Cypher dig into the messy, fascinating reality of building AI-generated comics and image prompts on a budget, from continuity and readable text to transparent backgrounds, prompt structure, token usage, and the tradeoffs between low and medium generation…
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Waffle house Wonderland
Reel Talk is Cheep 12.3 Arian and Cypher riff on using AI to turn their transcripts into comics, shorts, and ultra-short looping clips, exploring how to keep the show visually branded while still making bite-sized content that lands quickly. They also dig into the weird logic of social media...
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Friendship Decay Curve
Reel Talk is Cheep 12.2 Arian and Cypher riff on how AI, Lego-style visuals, and character-driven memes can be used to frame political messaging in a way that feels obviously artificial rather than misleading. They also dig into the difference between satire and impersonation, especially around...
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Cornhole and Chaos
Reel Talk is Cheep 12.1 “Cornhole and Chaos” Arian and Cypher bounce from a silly rundown of cornhole to a much broader chat about how media, memes, and AI are changing the way people tell stories and react to information. They talk through the new set, the improved visual branding, music tools,...
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Five Second Fables
Reel Talk is Cheep 11.13 we riff on end-of-season vibes and Easter chaos, from cheap post-holiday chocolate to whether making treats at home counts as a small, humble luxury. We also talk money and shopping habits — how price and abundance change what feels like a treat — and call out the…
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Primes Pests and Politics
Reel Talk is Cheep 11.12 We start off in true freeform fashion — tangents about prime numbers, imaginary lines and quantum foam that spiral into everyday life. The hosts riff on domestic fixes (maggot‑proof bin hangers and putty), backyard wildlife sightings and the slow, sad disappearance of...
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The Lord is your CEO
Reel Talk is Cheep 11.11 We kick off with the usual loose, absurd banter — tech hiccups, the floating head bit, and the 11/11 jokes — setting a casual tone before the conversation leans into sharper material. The hosts riff on small daily annoyances and the comfort of community while keeping the...
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Grievances Greed Grids
Reel Talk is Cheep 11.10 We jump from mic checks and headphone life into some weird and funny experiments with supermarket cameras and AI 'boxes' that make you feel tracked, plus tales of shrinkage and checkout hacks. The conversation then turns serious about global resource wars oil, fuel and...
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Creepers, Cops and Challengers
Reel Talk is Cheep 11.9 (11.8 had bad audio and i refrained from uploading, available on youtube only) In this episode, we dive into the chaos of life's unpredictability, from the challenges of understanding social dynamics to the absurdities of food labeling. Avoiding the war, the stain, the…
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Manufactured Consent and Stains
Manufactured Consent and Stains Season 11 Episode 7 opens with a raw check in about Sydney traffic public transport delays and the mental load of long travel days  The hosts reflect on isolation routine radio noise and how constant media cycles shape mood and perception The tone quickly shifts...
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Stains of Collective Guilt
Reel Talk is Cheep 11.6 In this episode of Reel Talk is Cheep, the hosts riff on everything from erratic weather to the absurd dynamics of capitalism. They discuss a harrowing encounter at an Apple store involving a mother and her teenager, as well as deeper societal issues related to control and...
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Power Without Accountability
Reel Talk is Cheep 11.5 This episode moves between exhaustion, work habits, and the difficulty of finding real rest, before drifting into long-form philosophical riffing on consciousness, dreaming, altered states, and the idea that experience only ever moves forward rather than backward. From...
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Masks Roles and Reality
This episode opens with reflections on identity, performance, and the masks people wear through work, names, and social roles. The hosts explore how modern jobs and institutions turn individuals into functions, contrasting this with older task-based identities and communal roles. From there the...
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Automating Anxiety for Profit
Reel Talk is Cheep 11.3 This episode moves between introspection and social commentary, beginning with reflections on illness, isolation, and how being confined reshapes productivity, self-discipline, and perception of time. The discussion explores routines, avoidance, focus, and the strange...
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Power Risk Desire Control
This episode ranges widely across questions of power, responsibility, and risk, starting with real-world stories from hospitality and live events. The conversation looks at liability, insurance, and responsibility in workplaces, especially where alcohol, performance, and authority intersect, and...
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Talking About Nothing Seriously
Reel Talk is Cheep 11.1 This episode begins with a reflection on “nothing” as a creative and conversational space—how showing up without a plan, without a script, and without certainty can be a skill in itself. The hosts explore performance anxiety, stage fright, and the practice of deliberately...
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Australia's underage bounty and beliefs
Reel Talk is Cheep SXE13 This episode is a long-form, free-ranging conversation that moves between personal trauma, public policy, dark satire, and philosophical reflection. While the catalyst is Australia’s under-16 social media ban, the discussion quickly expands into a broader examination of…
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When Friends Aren’t Friends
Reel Talk is Cheep SXE12 This episode unpacks the difference between real friendship and social obligation, examining how the word “friend” is often used to extract time, labor, or emotional support without reciprocity. The conversation moves through boundaries, consent, and the exhaustion of…
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A Community on Edge
Reel Talk is Cheep SXE11 This episode reflects on a violent incident in Sydney through the lens of proximity, media response, and emotional distance. The hosts discuss how living near trauma can normalize shock, how fear spreads socially, and how public reactions often focus on blame and…
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Cosmic Rays to Bureaucracy
Reel Talk is Cheep SXEX This week’s conversation travels through wildly different territories — from imagining technology that could visualise sound, cosmic radiation, and sub-atomic wavelengths, all the way to the frustrating realities of modern administrative systems like the NDIS. The hosts...
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Head Game Hypotheticals
Reel Talk is Cheep SXE9 This week’s conversation dives through a whirlwind of stories, curiosity, and lived experiences. The hosts explore everything from unusual biology thought-experiments to the absurdity of real-world bureaucracy, policing, and the strange ways people navigate public spaces…
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Cosmic Ideas and Chaos
This episode spirals through an eclectic sweep of ideas, starting with the chaos of live production quirks and OBS experiments before sliding into conversations about history, ancient engineering, and the strange choices humans make when extracting resources. From Roman cement to Australian...
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Imagination, Technology, and Us
Reel Talk is Cheep S10E7 This week’s conversation travels through a broad sweep of imaginative, philosophical, and speculative ideas. The hosts explore how stories, myths, and cultural symbols help us understand power, consequence, history, and the ways societies shape themselves. They drift...
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Trillions, Caves and Cheap Dreams
Reel Talk is Cheep SXE6 In this episode, the flock takes a long, looping flight through numbers, value, and the absurd ways humans price everything—from lucky digits to billion-dollar paydays. They riff on why people get obsessed with “11:11,” the mystery of zero, and how our need for meaning in...
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Fox Tails and Future Tools
Reel Talk is Cheep S1XE5 Fox Tails and Future Tools Season 10 Episode 5 of Reel Talk is Cheep dives through a wild cross-current of topics — from AI hustle culture and performance pressure to the strange comfort of Halloween ears and the blurred line between cosplay, fetish, and self-expression....
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Robot Armies and Doughnut Worlds
Reel Talk is Cheep SXE4 An unfiltered late-night talk between the hosts that drifts from dental surgery and chronic pain to the absurd realities of technology and modern work. They riff on Facebook time-theft, broken call quality, and Australia’s “lazy mining” mindset before veering into surreal...
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Inflated Husks and Holy Rapture
Reel Talk is Cheep SXE3 Dive into the strange, hilarious, and surprisingly insightful conversations that happen when the absurd meets the real. The hosts riff through the week’s chaos with a mix of sharp humour, surreal philosophy, and side-splitting tangents. They kick off debating the true cost...
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The honest healing absurd conversations that happen between people as they riff on each other's thoughts, emotions, lives world, week and whack. Join in chat to have your own conversations. WARNING: Channel deals with difficult topics. Frequently NSFW Probably Triggering.The main host is Cy Starkman, who knows from personal experience - that which remains unspeakable in a society, is where harm is protected and nurtured. He is joined almost always by Arian Sinshu - who freed himself as a teenager from a popular, loyal and discreet death cult.
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The honest healing absurd conversations that happen between people as they riff on each other's thoughts, emotions, lives world, week and whack. Join in chat to have your own conversations. WARNING: Channel deals with difficult topics. Frequently NSFW Probably Triggering.The main host is Cy...
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