Boonta Vista - UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: If You Post Up, They Will Come

Episode Date: December 28, 2025

It's Christmas-ish! We're taking a little two week break and leaving you, the freebos, with a two tastes of what it's like to subscribe to the podcast Boonta Vista. *** Lucy, Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: A look at Adam Sandler through the eyes of the people that love him, an AI scandal rocking one of America's oldest rice festivals, and the introduction of a brand new segment. *** Outro: Corner Crew Dub - Augustus Pablo, King Tubby

Hello, it's me, Ben, from the podcast, Punta Vista. This is just a little note to say that we're currently on our Christmas break, so instead of getting a new episode this week and next week, you are instead getting an unlocked bonus episode. So you can get a little taste of what things are like behind the paywall. See what you're missing out on. We've chosen two episodes that we quite liked, and I think both them also with sort of the origin story

of some writing jokes on the show this year. that you would have just gotten blind in media res I don't know if that actually works there or not but now he's kind of going back you're going back to the start it's like X-Men Origins Wolverine am I right

well please enjoy this episode I hope you had a lovely Christmas and hopefully you get some form of time off stay safe out there bye You know, I like that. You know what?

You know what? They've got a cheddar and beer-flavored one. You're what? I'm throwing out at the scene. Hello and welcome to Buda Vista. This is a bonus episode. I'm Ben, and I'm posted up on the corner with my crew. This is as good as.

life gets it's a lazy summer afternoon and we're drinking beers listening to dub side of the moon and just chopping it up my boy andrew's trying to see if you can still do a handstand andrew you're crazy i drank too many beers before doing this you like you can't do a handstand come on dude you i reckon i can do it oh don't hurt yourself though we will catch you dude we will catch you i reckon i could do it voice of a man who's had five beers and weighs 30 kilos more then he remembers weighing. Oh man, I had an embarrassing exactly this incident

probably like a year ago at a staff party where I had like four beers we were doing lawn bowls so you know big open grassy space I was like I can definitely still do a cartwheel landed exactly on my hip and I don't know

like lawn bowls is a thin layer of grass and then concrete yeah we're sort of built for very different kind of motions I had to play a off like it wasn't that big of a deal because all of my beautiful staff were looking at me all of whom are like mostly in their 20s and early 20s while I'm dying and that shit works that ship works way better in your 20s when like number one you would have been drunker yes

and number two you can actually take some kind of full force blow to most of your body and go oh you just bounce it off human body is just basically it's impervious to damage when you're in your early 20s, which is why you should take every risk that occurs to you. Yes, take more risks. Do more cartwheels. It's why one of my ankles makes a loud snapping sound with every step that I take.

Yeah. After you get into mid-35s, any HP damage? How are you mid-thirty-five? Six months point of being 35. Exactly there. Oh, shit, I'm coming up on my mid-35s. Oh, fuck, I'm not far off. Wow.

Damn. Not me. I'm going to be young forever. Yeah. If you take any damage, it immediately triggers a ragdoll state. Yeah. But you can't take damage anymore. You go GDA4 mode the moment something happens to you?

Just wait until you hit your late 42s. You're going to get so scared of ladders, dude. Oh, yeah, you don't want to build leak yourself. Dude, I'm so frightened of ladders now. Oh, Molly Meldrum yourself? Did he? Being up on my roof? Yeah, he fell off something.

I don't think he fell off something, I think a heavy hatch fell down and hit him on the head. Isn't that what happened to Bill Leak? I thought he was the hatch. I thought he fell off a roof and they made him racist. I think Bill Leake got hit twice, didn't he? He fell off a hatch? Yeah, there was a deck collapse, I think.

He fell off the deck that makes you not racist. Kim Kardashian's spot fell off. All he's not on the deck, The ground that makes you racist. Well, the ground's neutral, I think. I think the deck was stopping him from just reaching his neutral state, which is super racist. Racism, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. The ground holds him forever now because he's dead. He died. Yeah, now his son is drawing racist cartoons in the style of his dad. Worse, yeah, his son's somehow worse. Like when you put parents and the kid is taller than both of them, and you go like, how does that work? How does that shake out? Molly Meldrum got injured for gayer reasons, actually. An ambulance was called after Meldrum felt three meters downstairs

while putting up Christmas decorations around his spa area. Beautiful. All right, okay. Ben trying to decide if he's going to allow that one. We'll see. And if you just heard a harsh cut, My dude, Theo, is trying to list all these favorite bits from the John Wick movies. Theo, let's say what your favorite bit from the John Wick movies is at the same time.

You're ready? Three, two, one, knife museum. Shotgun part. Oh, okay. Dragon breath. Top-down, Dragon Breath, shotgun part from number four. I was thinking the shotgun scene at the start of the party in, you know, the big party, he goes in and he assassinations. Maybe that's towards the end of the party.

And he, you know, assassinations his former. The sexy Italian lady The age-appropriate Italian lady Yeah Yeah Some good shotgun bits in that I think it's that cool Benelli shot gun I know

I'm just a purist I think I think when it comes to me You know John Wick I love it when he's blast and fools I look at when he shoots people With their own gun I think that's cool I think when he throws a gun at someone

Or a part of a gun at someone That's kind of as good as it gets Yeah so the part that I am thinking of Is where He is using the shotgun and he runs out of ammo so he kind of pinses his enemy to the wall like pushes it up there using the shotgun puts one shell in the chamber and fires it just incredible areas that's really awesome so cool how he slides those shells in there

and i could describe seeds from the john wick movies all day we can just do that for the whole podcast really yeah a whole episode Himmel and hole. You know that. Every part of that just goes off like crazy. The fucking stair scene. They're all down those stairs. A friend of mine.

A guy I know. When they killed a dog. A guy I know tapped out of John Wick 4 during the staircase scene. Like he left the cinema. Wow. He's got mad. It was Joel, Lucy. He just was like, I can't do this anymore.

And he just left. I think after 3.5 movies, he's. He's like, no one. That's about enough. John Wick for me. It's lost its sheen right now. Oh, man. Yeah, there's a chick in the crew, but she's crazier than some of the dudes.

Lucy's showing off an awesome new dance she just invented. Lucy, that's so cool. Thank you. I'm kind of not like other girls. I'm just kind of like one of the guys. I just kind of like hanging with the crew here. And when we complain about our chicks, you're like, yeah, chicks are so complicated. Yeah, there's just so much drama, you know, I just don't like the drama of them.

Why don't they keep it simple? Why don't they just, like, get their crew to post up on the corner? Yes. You know? Yeah, girls, you never see a crew of girls posted up on the corner, do you? Never. What is it up with that? Do you think maybe we, I don't want to sound like, you know, whatever, but do we need to give them the social license to post up on the corner with their crew, like to bring them into the fold?

Because for us, it's natural. But they've been told their whole lives, you can't. Post up on the corner with your crew. You can't post up on the corner with your crew. You guys are a lady, like. I mean, it must be, it must be easy, like, probably, probably more comfortable to post up on the corner with your crew, like, wearing a skirt. Have you guys ever thought about that? Oh.

How it might be a little more comfortable to kind of, you know, you're posting up on the corner with your crew. And, you know, you're a lady. And maybe, you know, for me, my jeans are getting in the way. Yeah. My junkos. You're just, you're just in your chos. That's the pronunciation we're going with for that. I guess you do have to pick a vowel.

They don't provide one for you. They don't. It is a... Yeah. I don't know if you pick the right one. Sick jockos. You got them jankos on? Jankos.

You jonkin today? But what if you were on a skirt? I think the problem with the skirts, though, is that that's going to mess with you're trying to do a handstand with the homies business. Yeah. That's true. You just got to let it go. Yeah.

You can wear a dress. You can wear a dress with converse even, you know? I'm kind of wearing my granny griefs anyway. Yeah. Let's get Theo in one of those ones that has like built-in shorts in the scope. Theo, I don't know if you just want to be inviting this from our audience. I don't know if this is like a, I think some posts are going to get pretty interesting for you. This guy wants a squirt.

And if she wants to wear a scor, she can. People being kind of weird at you about some stuff that is maybe a little bit personal. That happens to celebrities We talk about celebrities Ian Celebrity Watch Where the fuck is the theme I'm getting mixed

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It's so hard to watch. It is so easy to watch and it is majestic. It's so beautiful. It's so perfectly done and edited. And everything about it is just wonderful. Please watch. So you want to win a penis pump. So beautiful that Demi's doing that.

And Tom is on the Australian bake-off show. It's really nice. Yeah. So weird seeing him in such an emotionally pure environment. It's fucked up. We shouldn't be there. It's wrong. I disagree.

Tom's a person? Oh, he's a sweet angel. Yeah. He's a fully fleshed out, like, very gentle, very loving, very kind, very thoughtful person who was also just put in his like 10,000 hours of like looking at fucked up shit on the internet

because it's the only thing that brings him true joy apparently. Sometimes I find the divine and the profane someone linked. This isn't really news per se. I just had a thought today where I was like what are the kind of posts that would happen if there was an Adam Sandler subreddit. And there is.

So here are some of those posts. Great. Here we go. I'd love to hang out with Adam Sandler, me, my wife and the Sandman. What would you and your wife do? Kind of asymmetrical outage. Well, actually, I think it's actually brings it back to it

because you would have a power imbalance if it's just you and Adam Sandler, but if it's too old, you'd put it back to parody. Yeah. Can I say something maybe controversial? because this is the joke that we're all going to think about this, obviously. I don't think that the average Adam Sandler fan is going to be into, like, cuck stuff.

I think they genuinely just want to hang out with the Sandman. Yeah, they just want to hang out the sandman. Wouldn't be a top choice for cucking, surely. Well, you'd be making too many jokes. Yeah, you'd be laughing too much to be sexually annoyed. He'd ask me to leave, and I'd be like, all right. the Sandman. I'd be too busy talking about our shared birthday.

Yes. Yes. Man, you've got, you really cleaned up in the birthday lottery. Like, you've got some great ones. I'd really love to meet Adam Sandler someday. That would honestly be one of the coolest experiences of my life. My wife would be just as excited. The three of us could hang out for a bit, maybe grab a beer, or who knows.

Maybe Adam would come up with something fun and unexpected to do. Who knows? Maybe one day we will see him if you visit to Minnesota. What an incredibly... This is... What an incredibly mild dream. Right? I just want to hang out with Adam Sandler.

It's not even like, what if I met him and like we got to be friends and then he invited me to like... He thought I was so funny. We should make a movie together. I was in grown-ups three and I got to go to Dubai and like abseil off a building and go down the world's longest water slide or whatever. No, it's just, what if we went for a beer and it was nice? I think the thing that really sells me that there's no pervert subtext to this is the Minnesota part. I'd be like, well, that'd be nice if we came to Minnesota. If we see you around.

Oh, hi there. Oh, gosh, honey, it's Adam Sandler. This post is titled Big Daddy Tubbs scene. Okay, now we'll this be horny? I found one clip on YouTube that may be one toe. go back and watch Big Daddy again. Basically, Adam Sandler dresses up as scuba Steve and tells Cole Spores

he needs to take a bath and he did. I still like both as actors today. I was prob 14 or 15 when Big Daddy came out. It's the end of the post. Wow. I haven't seen Big Daddy in a long time. Maybe it's time to revisit Big Daddy. 14 or 15 is a weird age to like fondly recall this particular scene.

Like, if you were the same age as Cole Spores was in Big Daddy, and you were like, and maybe you've got a troubled relationship with your father, you know, and you think, gee, if only I had a nice funny father figure, like Big Daddy Adam Sandler, to dress up like Scooose Steve, give me to take a bath. But instead he's like 14 or 15. Yeah. That's, you're kind of not identifying with Colesports or Adam Sandler. I think you just find it funny.

I think you're laughing at the sandman. Oh, he's jugged? He's jugged? Yeah. Yeah, that's the joke. All right, I'm just connected some stuff right now. Is Dylan Sporse also in the movie? Or was it only one spores?

I think they're both in the movie because... I think they both play that kid, right? A pair of Sporeses. Because the American Labor practice thing where, like, there's a limited amount of time that children can be on set filming movies. It's always Twitter. Yeah. It was two kids. It's like Mary Kate and Ashley and shit, you know?

That's why the 5G makes embryos split more often so that there's more twins so that Hollywood can have more child actors. That's right, that's right. That's why they put the fucking 5G everywhere. Yes, correct. Both of them were in Big Daddy. It's a two-for. But then only one of them in Riverdale. Yeah.

Why do you know about Riverdale? What, yeah, what is... Have you seen Riverdale? I've seen bits of it. Like, not like, intentionally, but like Caitlin was watching Riverdale for a while. The only thing that nearly got me to watch it is there's a bunch of episodes directed by the incredible queer film director Greg Arachie came in and directed a bunch. You should watch Riverdale. It's fucking insane.

I've heard that. Stuff about the worm king? Mental. Insane television program. The sports twins were in Big Daddy. And then the same. year the astronaut's wife the Johnny Depp

sci-fi thriller then Diary of a Sex Addict but if I keep scrolling down here we get to discography 2005 release A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes Oh no

That's very bad Oh what a title Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes Some people are just on a A different wavelength, aren't they? And sometimes that wavelength is a little slower. Doesn't propagate us quickly. This post is titled,

Adam Sandler Abacus joke. My buddy says there is a skit where Adam Sandler says, Break out your Abacus, motherfucker. We have looked it up and asked different AIs about this joke or the line from the skit, and it doesn't seem to exist. Is he trippard? Now, this is a crew posted up on a quarter.

Oh, absolutely. These guys be like, you remember that Adam Amicus scene tripping. Break out your abacus

motherfucker you're crazy he never said that let's ask it several AIs I actually

kind of even though we've seen some truly truly horrifying news about AI in the last

24 hours probably too much of a bummer to get into but let's just say they should publicly

execute Sam Altman uh but like that actually kind of seems like the perfect use for AI is as another member of the crew on the corner because you can ask him stuff and maybe it remembers it correctly maybe it doesn't true it does like a homie on the corner that is a good controversial point no Wikipedia getting on your phone fact check you're broke that's a party fail we all know that the like the phone ruined the pub argument

Yeah, unless the phone is wrong half the time. It's wrong half the time. Andrew. We found it. We found the one use case for AI. It is just, like you may as well not have it. You may as well just integrate another human into the crew. Yes.

But if the balance of your crew is off, or maybe if you have an even number of homies and you'd like to settle the argument by tipping it over, you know, you need to tiebreaker vote. That's right. And it's going to be weird like introducing it. Like, oh, hey, guys, this is my buddy. J-bot. Yeah, so he's a bit, he's a bit, so like one time I asked him

how many R's are in strawberry and he didn't know. We had an argument for like two hours. So maybe he's got something, but, um... I wrote it out and I circled all the hours and then I asked him again, still got it wrong.

But you can never wear him out. He's always up for a chat. He said, I'm sorry, you're absolutely right. There are 1,000 ars in strawberry. You are, you are crew that painting is called here comes mr pipe i think uh yeah i think you can you can use it as a tiebreaker because you know ideally everybody wants to add another homie to the crew oh yeah sometimes there's always room for one more homie yeah yeah but at some point it turns into a mob right

true yeah they need to break out spoils the mob what's the perfect number of people to have Homey's on a crew. Seven. Yeah. So I think seven's too many. I think seven's too many because you're going to pass this threshold where it's not so much fun for you guys, but it starts to become like maybe a little intimidating to the like owner of the corner store that you hang down in front of. Yeah. You don't want to be scaring people away.

I think three or four homes are three or four to be posted up outside. That's also enough of you that like one of you is going to. occasionally be buying like a Red Bull or a slurpy, you know, like kind of earning your spot out there in front. But if there's too many of you, might scare some customers off. And then you're going to get shooed away and you're going to have to find someone else saying it. I might lightly push back. I don't think you're ever going to have 100% attendance of the crew. I think having seven, knowing that on the day... Seven exists, but you're not posting up with seven usually. It's probably four or five.

People are dropping in and dropping out at the corner. Where's J-Bod? He's charging. But Ben, can I push back on your pushback? I would love for you to do that. I mean, look. It's actually twice as much force if we sort of both do it at the same time. Sometimes someone's going to bring their girl.

And even though she's cool, she's not going to look at it. She's not going to weird the vibes or anything like that. Well, Lucy's not going to like it for one. I'm not going to like it. Yeah, you're the only one pissed off about this. Like everyone else is like riffing. They're all vibing with her. and you were just, like, frowning.

Just girls just really harsh than live, you know. She seems like a massive slut. Yeah. Girlfriend seems like a slut, actually. Yeah, his girlfriend's a slut party today. We're letting girls hang out with the homies now. Another post here. I urge everyone to watch pixels synced with dark side of the moon.

And how's pixels spelled there, Ben? Oh, I'm so glad you asked Andrew. Pixels is spelled P-I-X-L-E-S. like axles I'm only to money now but the amount of six is perfect start the album the Sony logo did he didn't even get me he's not even done

how far through is money like halfway through like halfway but the lack of the lack of capitalization on that confuse the fuck out of me for a second yeah I'm only to money six god damn you're like 20 minutes and you're like, holy fuck, I think

they did this on purpose. Pausing the both at the same time so that he can get onto Reddit. Oh my God, using a remote with his toe. Here's another one. The post is titled, Which Adam Sandler character should be visible from space?

Okay. And that is the whole post. There is nothing else. There's no body text. Doesn't give a us a lot to go on like as a monument as like an inflation thing

we blew up happy Gilmore made a big amount because you've got to eliminate you've got to eliminate Billy Madison right out of the gate right because Billy Madison is just Happy Gilmore Jr. Yeah

I actually think there might be some sort of common thread running through a lot of Adam Settler characters. Do you think they shared some okay DNA. I think that Billy Madison is probably the least like identifiable on an individual level. No, that's not true. Big Daddy. He looks the same in all those. I think the question is actually which ones are most visually identifiable. Waterboy is right up then. Oh, yeah. Little Nicky? Little Nicky, yeah. But I think if you were going to make that one visible from space, you'd also have to broadcast an incredibly loud speaker of him doing the voice.

I think it should be him from uncut gems because, one, he would have survived the ending. And two, I don't think money would be a problem for him anymore because he could just pick up a plane and put it in his pocket. Okay, what's that do for him? The US Army? What's he doing with a plane? You've taken this to a place that I didn't anticipate at all. Speaking of Little Nicky, did you guys ever see that the like one hour MTV special that Adam Sandley did promoting Little Nicky where he got a bunch of like actors and musicians that he liked to come on and they were just like he was basically posting up with his crew chatting about the movie Little Nicky to promote it and as part of it, deaf tones came on and then with. Adam Sandler playing guitar as well, they perform an acoustic version of Be Quiet and Drive

while the footage of the sad scenes from Little Nicky play out in slow motion on TVs behind them. It's really fucking cool. Man really knows how to use this fame, you know? Well, I mean, that's what I do. If I had access to get fucking Chino to come hang out, Chino, you want to post up with me and my crew? I thought you meant Al Pacino from Jack and Jill. That's what we call each other. Chino and the Sandman Oh my fucking The set of heat

Al Pacino and Robert Deereo calling each other Niro and Chino They They're like Sandler's got to be incredibly good value Right? Like

It seems like he'd be genuinely fun to hang out with. He seems like he is genuinely an incredibly like lovely and funny and gracious person and everything. which also explains why he's managed to get like Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson and shit to be in insanely stupid movies with him. Yeah, I think they were also paid huge amounts of money. I'm sure they were. But that's also seems to be another endearing factor of Adam Sandler.

He gets enormous budgets for things loaded with product placement and then just pays all of his buddies shitloads of money to hang out and goof off. To do like destination movies? Yeah, for the last however long, Movies are just like, hey, we're going to do this at this, like, resort in Africa. All my friends are coming. Have you seen the grown-ups movies? Have you been watching these?

I have not seen them. Okay. We've seen Blended. There's a lot of tourist stuff in Blended. We did watch Happy Gilmore, too. What fuck you're talking about? Oh, how was it? Terrible?

Odd. There's some funny, funny Happy Gilmore stuff in it. But also, the movie starts with him. killing his wife by accident and then sinking into a deep depression and alcoholism. Cool. Strong sobriety message all through this movie. Very odd.

Really? Very odd. Also, he cast his wife and his daughters in it. And it made me go, I wonder if one of his kids is sober and was like, hey, you should put in a plot where he becomes sober and it's cool and good. Yeah.

Punch drug. Love, that's a good one. Yeah, I think we can all agree. That's a wonderful film. We can just list Adam Sandler movies. They're not making that guy move on space though. Can we list Adam Sandler movies? I did pretty well, all right?

I did pretty well. I forgot about Big Daddy. You were preparing your whole fucking life for this. We had a tiebreaker question at trivia where they get one person from each table to line up in a line and they just keep going through each naming movies from the filmography of a specific star. I heard Adam Sandler And I was like, let's go, let's go Lucy flamed out at

Are you second? I think I came second or third I was like, well She's got this in the bag She has that brain thing that she has She loves Adam Sandler These other people are going to get Absolutely fucking smoked by her

It's like one I don't go to trivial much But like one One trivia thing I went to I'm going to say 18 to 20 years ago Nice where

whole thing goes on at this pub but then there's like one entire bonus round that is just a sheet of questions about Jean-Claude Van Damme all right Wow

It's in my element Cracking my knuckles A fucking A friend of the show Shev and I did trivia at a pub in I want to say Inverell maybe

Somewhere in regional New South Wales and it was clearly one where like you just pay a subscription like the pub pays a subscription and they get given a trivia thing every week to read out and it was just like

grey nomads and country people and the theme of the trivia that week was like sci-fi and like one of the bonus rounds was just name all of these Star Wars characters and I'm just sitting there being like

boop, boop, moop, boop we won by such an incredible margin it was embarrassing got your chud guppo you got your blamps sparker The half-time bonus round thing was that they gave you some like Play-Doh and asked you to make a sculpture. Shev has a degree in sculpture.

Come on. We had a pretty good time. Another post here. Best row to see Sandler? I just got tickets to go see the man himself in Seattle in October. I'm in the 5th row, 5 the row in the middle. Think that'll be good enough for you or should I try to get closer? There's a second row available.

Anyone ever have the fifth or second row? How is the view? Fourth row, don't answer. Why do you care about the view at a comedy show? Third row, don't answer. This is so insane. How different do you think? What do you mean?

There's front row and there's everything else. I love the idea that like, I love the idea that seeing Adam Sandler Live somehow makes this specifically different to any other live show. you've ever seen. Only way in if you have specific experience about the fifth and the second row. Sixth row. Kill yourself. This just is what type of brain do you need to have?

I don't want to be too close, you know? The fifth row is fine because you will potentially be able to like kind of call something out. If it's relevant, don't just yell shit out at a comedy show. Like wait until you're kind of kind of invited. Is anyone in here a dental nurse? Not me. I am. You need fifth row or a head for that.

Fifth row is okay, but like first row, maybe you don't want to like get dragged for your pants. Maybe you don't want to get roasted. Yeah, oh, absolutely. Those guys wearing white pants. The sandmaster starts riffing on you? Yeah. Oh, you guys get together?

You dating? You shouldn't be. Yeah. You are much uglier than her. Yes. I think I saw you a picture in the most recent edition of tiny useless dick. weekly no

you seem cool and she's laughing so hard it's funny it's true if you're laughing it's really small it looks weird

she's holding she's holding a pinch thumb and forefinger up above her head pointing standing up a little bit sitting up a little bit sitting

she's doing the Arsenio hole oh oh go get him I think the Fifth row's fine, man. Relax. Maybe the second and fifth row experience might be different depending

on where you are. It might be regional. We talk about regional things in regional bullshit. Regional bullshit. Every little town has got their own bullshit. Regional bullshit. Every little town has just got to happen. This comes to us from K L-L-F-Y in Lafayette, Louisiana. I didn't actually look up how to pronounce the name of this place. Oh, Lafayette. There you go. Thank you so much.

Crowley? She always had Crowley. Crowley. Surely Crowley. Crowley's Rice Festival poster sparks debate over AI use. Okay. All right.

The 88th International Rice Festival in Crowley has sparked a bait over its poster art, which was created with assistance from AI tools. Assistance, is that? Yeah, I don't know about all that. The poster, which includes a tribute to Fallen Rain Officer Alan Nucci Crudur. Oh, no. Oh, no. Has received mixed reactions for the community.

Look, look what they did to the Nuch. This is very disrespectful of the nooch in his beautiful life. It's like they've dug him out through his grave. Now I'll have to grieve the nooch all over again. While some residents appreciate the artwork, others are critical of the use of AI and its creation. Quote, I just don't see the big problem or the big deal about it. It's just a poster, said one resident. Every year, a local artist is given the opportunity to show.

showcase their work as the poster art for Crowley's International Rice Festival. This tradition celebrates Crowley's rich history with rice and often becomes a collector's item for festival goers. See, I think that's kind of the issue for me is the local artists should maybe be the one who produces the piece of art. Well, they're with assistance. I mean, you know, some artists have assistance from the brush, from the paintbrush that they use.

Or there's parents who pay for their loft apartment. Yes. Quote, honestly, I think it was ugly And I don't agree with that But I just don't see the big deal about it You know? Yes, and we're in a new generation It's kind of what the world is coming to

Said another anonymous resident It doesn't have to I don't want to see AI art anywhere Yeah, we can stop it from the world coming to that I think I hope Yeah, we could just quit using it This is so good to get in to defend the person's use of AI I'd be like, but it does look like shit

It looks like shit, but that's fine that you used it. But I will defend to the death your right to produce this piece of shit. It's really funny to me to say, it's ugly and I don't agree with that. Yeah. That's the most perfect art criticism I've ever heard. Yeah. What about art for the sake of beauty or art for the sake of truth, huh? Well, that's in the computer.

They taught the computer about truth. Oh, okay. I thought you're saying the ugliness was in the computer. No, the ugliness is from the prompt. It is kind of what the world's coming to, though. Yeah, nowadays. The controversy surrounding this year's poster art stems from the artist's use of AI tools to assist in its creation, which has led to discussions on social media about the role of technology in art.

Quote, as far as the picture goes, I like the picture a lot, but I'm not sure about the authentication of it, said Tracy, a local resident. Tracy, local idiot. So, I mean, I have no problem with it. What? What do you mean? You're not sure about the authentication of it? You haven't authenticated the picture? News 10 reached out to both the artist and the international Rice Festival headquarters.

Don't call them that. Don't call them that. The artist. The technician. Yeah. The registered user. But they had not received a response by the time of reporting. The mixed reactions to the AI assisted post art highlight the ongoing conversation about technology's influence on traditional art forms.

As the festival continues, the poster remains a sense. central piece of the event's identity quote well the committee selected the poster so if it's all right with them it's all right with me said resident thomas thank you thomas for deferring to the authority of the committee i've uh included some samples of previous i was going to say what does this what does this look like yeah so i've put a little thing in the chat there for you guys um so we have 2023s there at the top which is a really beautiful it looks kind like a pencil illustration to me but it might be Might be digital.

It's just very colourful, very bright. You know, they're a little bit stylised. The grasp of the human figure, a little strange maybe, but it is beautiful. It's fun. But that's what makes it hidden, you know. Yeah, very pretty. The 2022 one for the 85th one, which I believe was themed fire and rice. Pretty good.

It's cool as hell. They're cooking a big ass pot of rice. Yeah, so these are really hand-drawn posters, too. These aren't even, like, computer art. No, this is, that one is straight up a pencil illustration and it's so colourful, it's so pretty. The one from 2013 is fucking nuts. It kind of looks like it was painted on silk by one of those like the Ghanian movie poster artists. Yeah.

Oh, it's amazing. There's like, there's moonlight. There's a bunch of lights shining on combine harvesters and grain silos like they are the stars of the show. Oh, that's sick. I want that. There's a big setup. And then down front there's a man playing a piece. piano accordion

and what I can only assume is some southern Zidico sweetness while some people dance away. He's so lost in the music. It's wonderful stuff. And then I have posted this year.

Oh my God, it's so awful. Yeah, now this is an audio medium so a little hard, but you all know what AI looks like. Yeah. And like,

it's got that really, that really AI look about it too. Like it's not one of the more modern ones. It's the, exactly what you're picturing. Yeah. With a big thing up the top that says,

rice rains, then there's a crown and a kind of scales. The scales of rice in it and then a big bowl of rice. And much like any piece of AI art, you can kind of look at the disparate elements

and make sense of them. But they've always been kind of homogenized into a like David Cronenberg style morass of of pieces that kind of don't go together. Soulless. It's in my launch. There's not even any people in here.

There's no joy. Well, there's not even like... There's the silhouette of a dead cop in front of the stage. Oh, is that him? Is that the name? I believe that is the man in question behind. Is that a piano accordion?

Him down. I think... Yeah, well, it's hard to tell because it's fucking AI, so it looks weird and... Weird and goopy. I think like genuinely apart from the obvious stuff that offends me about this

is that like I genuinely think it's a beautiful thing for like a local artist to just be able to have a crack at something because the ones the previous ones don't look to me like they were necessarily done by professional artists even outside of like

yeah if you if you opened like the poster for like a film festival in a major city or something you'd have art students and professional artists and all sorts of stuff applying for it but if you just kind of do one in crowley louisiana and say hey anyone can have a go with this do you get those those opportunities for like just a local person who likes drawing and stuff to go you know what kind of like have a little crack at this thing and maybe having that thing pulled out and featured is just a beautiful moment for them you You know, like, March Simpson being in a streetcar named Desire. Exactly.

Or an artist submitted this. An artist submitted this and the committee chosen. Yeah. Well, that's the other, like saying an artist who did this thing is also offensive to me because they put some prompts into a thing and got it spout out. This to me is the same thing as if you went on to like a stock website and said photo of rice being harvested or whatever if you just pulled a bunch of

assets that somebody else had already generated and plonked them on a thing and said, I'm an artist. I made this. She is also like a photographer and graphic designer

and I think she did that some of the typography herself has to have right because it's coherent. The typography is coherent. You can read the words. It's not in the AI font. Yeah.

Which is instantly. recognizable. So she's synthesized the two, but the end result is still absolutely dog shit. I also think the concept, I think earlier someone said, you know, we've got to grapple with the role of technology and art. That's horseshit. Technology's being in art for as long as technology's being around, right? Like the Beatles recording tomorrow never knows, right?

Like using the studio as an instrument, you know, people kind of, kind of of using, like, weird display tricks of, like, old computers and the, like, not clearing the blitter or whatever. But even, like, you know, you were saying getting stuff off of the, of the stock art kind of thing, you know, the people that are taking videos, and they might be stock videos, but then they're taking out the keyframes so that they, like, bleed off into, like, different different shapes and meanings and that sort of stuff it's you know

utilizing experimentation with technology in a transformative way whereas this is not transformative at all no it's the end product it is just the end product you say hey I got a little circle in the middle here I'd like you to put some rice bullshit in it for me it's actually a little bit more complicated than that and I'd be very happy to explain it to you

because the woman who made this also has a blog in which she shares tips for making AI art. These are from a post that she did called Ultimate AI Art Prompts for Maximum Impact. I've just sort of chosen a few sort of choice things here. It was actually quite long. This is all under the subheading viral content prompts.

So just some examples of like good prompts for getting viral content. Like art that will go viral. Like if you need something to go viral, you can just do this. Already mad. Optical illusion face hidden in morning coffee foam, steam forming mysterious. eyes viral social media aesthetic warm golden lighting close-up macro photography style gone i would love to see what dog shit that like pumps out oh you mean you can picture it i mean i can't close my eyes but you guys can't when you close your eyes you can kind of imagine it

imagine what about this one there's something weird about the edges right there's something weird about the way that the edges are lit that the light is never yeah it's weirdly uniform in a way what it is. Oh, okay. This is AI. Double take image. Is it a mountain landscape or a sleeping giants face, dramatic sunset lighting, epic scale, perfect for viral shares.

Why would this image go viral? Why would it go viral? For what reason? The one she did for the festival went viral. That's true. I guess. Yeah, we might be on to something. Just make dog shit art and it'll go viral.

Yeah. And got to push other. artists out of the space as well at the same time. Sort of just, like, your art in, your art in quotes, in place of where someone else would have, like, drawn something nice. I saw, yeah, I saw, like, a TikTok the other day that was just someone making a joke like, oh, I sure hope there's no AI artwork at the local market. And then there was just, like, so many scenes of, like,

when you go to your local market and they've got, like, coasters and teetows and shit, and it was just all AI dog shit. Can you imagine how many, like... It was grim. like Byron Bay camper van lifestylers who just like they pay for their extended holiday

by generating a bunch of dumb bullshit going to a local print shop churning it out going to the markets doing it for one weekend a couple hundred bucks keep moving fuck why can't you just do the cool

you know when you guys remember the guy that would be in the middle of the mall and he would have a piece of paper and a bunch of spray cans and some shapes and he'd make like a pyramid under the moon

you guys remember that guy? No. No, he was everywhere. I saw one in Sydney. I've seen one in Brisbane. This guy's everywhere. He makes really sick looking like... And he's got like 10 of them laid out on the ground around his...

And you just buy one. But the show is kind of part of it because you're like, wait, why is he putting a plate down and spraying around the... It's the moon. And there's a pyramid. And there's a beautiful... It's really... They look amazing. I want to learn how to do that.

And that guy, he's having an extent. ended holiday, but he's making people happy with beautiful pictures of pyramids in alien landscapes at sunset. That's beautiful. AI, not beautiful. We're going to be so much more hostile to this shit. I've had enough. I want it out of my

fucking sight. Get out of my life. I don't want this AI shit. I want a beautiful 22-year-old from Uruguay who's making beautiful pictures of pyramids. Seven pyramids on Mars, Martian sunset. Spray cans he got from Bunnings, the squirts ones that only cost like five bucks each.

No overheads, basically. People love it. I love it. What a life. I'm sick of this shit. Sick of it. Face in the clouds, optical illusion, dramatic storm clouds forming human expression, cinematic lighting or inspiring scale,

trending content style. Trending content style. God, this sounds like dogs. Trending content style. Hop, bump, bump, yeah. I think we share a brain. now Ben it fits just right

fucking hell hidden animal shapes in everyday objects coffee stain that looks like elephant silhouette minimalist white background perfect for engagement I'll kill you

I will kill you I don't even care that you're an ordinary single mother whose life has been ruined by this I fucking hate you it feels like these prompts are being AI generated yeah they probably are to feed back into the machine It's probably like chat GPT. Tell me a good prompt for art.

Generate me best prompts, viral art. Yeah. Use your brain. Pick up a pencil. Yeah. Drawing is really hard. I don't know if you guys have ever tried to draw as an adult. Yeah, it's rough.

But it's embarrassing to learn because you'll look at something that you've drawn and you'll be like, no one can ever see this. I've got it. This needs to go in the bin, like at the bottom of the bin. I remember, like, I used to have. I used to work at this design studio in like the fucking mid-2000s, maybe, right? And I worked with this dude, we were good friends, and we lived together as well. And we would like...

Oh, good friends. Historians say they were good friends. We lived together as well. Two fresh friends live together for 75 years. Just two friends living and working together. So we would, so we'd work on stuff at work, and then we'd go home and get real high and work on free glance stuff and then go back to work and work on work stuff. And like at some point I remember early in the piece here, I was having this conversation

about like the idea of sort of making a website and like aggregating content from other places and putting ads on it and then just kind of turning that into like a passive revenue source, you know, but like that it was a novel idea at the time kind of thing. Are you saying you invented Pinterest first? No, I'm not saying I invented it first. I'm saying it was more like, more like when that stuff was not the whole fucking internet. Yeah. You know?

Yeah. And I remember us talking about that concept as like, oh, that's a thing we could, we could do and like make some money out of or whatever. We're too stoned. We're too stoned. You could have made a website called Aggregator, but the. With like a, yeah. Yeah. Like the Gator is your mascot.

Oh, shit. Hi, I'm Gator the aggregator. He doesn't have to talk. Ask the voice. We don't need the voice. this was like this was like the age of people using like stumble upon and shit like i was fucking that was my social media what stumble upon i was trying to get updates on stumble upon is this like a reddit oh you were on the you're on the supply side of stumble upon i was on the

supply side of stumble upon so it was a browser plug-in uh primarily i think there was also just a website for it but you listed topics you were interested in and you would hit the stumble button and it would take you to a random website that had been submitted to that category. Yeah, it's actually a sick idea and it would still be great. It was just like a cool websites link aggregator. If only there were still 10 cool websites. Yeah.

You know? Imagine it's not a new website. No, fucking none of it's fun anymore. No one puts things on websites anymore. No one would make a new website for their thing. It would go somewhere else. People need to go back to artistically cataloging, niche interests

on a website, just yourself. Just cool, just cool blogging. Maybe when I could go back to doing that. Setting atheism is one of your interests on StumbleUpon. You're just looking at cool atheist websites and then updating them. Setting your interest through atheism and deaf tones. It was like movies, atheism, books and deaf tones.

I guess my point is just that like I just felt like I had a lot little sudden time warp then of just remembering the start of the time when the internet started to be like aggregation engines yeah you know and and now at the end we've got somebody logging into the aggregation and agreement machine and putting in prompts and the prompts all end with perfect for viral shares trending content style perfect for engagement like these These shouldn't be concepts that you can feed into something programmatically and have it understand in any way. It's horrifying to me.

It isn't and it won't and it can't. But that's what people want. It's so... We need a new beginning. We need a new... Yes. We need something to just wipe this all away. Yeah.

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marketplace ready quality, rare trait combinations. What is the point of this? What is the point of this? What are you coming? Rare trait combinations. Rare trait combinations. Rare trait.

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digital artwork style, NFT marketplace optimized, investment worthy aesthetic. Digital artwork style. What are they describing? What is the picture? What is the thing? What is it? You think the picture's coming out and they're saying,

oh, I guess that's what I meant. Yeah. There it is. It's one of those. Well, if you're thinking for me, I guess that's what I thought. Fuck. A good friend of mine

who has been like an AI guy for a while and he's also, he's also like has very entrepreneurial aspirations and I love him. Yeah, I'll kill him. Yeah, we'll fucking kill him, dude. Sounds like a cool guy. Like the most recent episode of New Season South Park

was about the entrepreneurs among us who like to have chat GPT agree with them it's pretty good actually and my friend sent me a message afterwards and he was like that one hit a little close to home oh yeah yeah he was like oh when when one of the characters asked chat GPT if uh if their french fry salad was a good idea and it said that's a great idea great business idea and he went oh that made me feel bad about my dog supplement company idea That's good You should feel bad, come on I don't want people to feel bad

But you should feel bad about the things you're meant to feel bad about If you've been using this stuff Like it's not too late to stop You don't have to embrace it You can be done with chat GPT That shame you feel, it's real Follow it. Yes

It's healthy, it's healthy shame It's going to lead you somewhere good It's going to lead you to making art shame is the teacher yes it is listen to it when shame speaks to you hear her listen uh here are some advanced prompting strategies um these are in specific category so your prompts need emotional triggers some examples here aspirational lifestyle authentic moment premium quality feel okay i don't think it's going to have a premium quality feel I don't think it's going to have...

You won't have that authentic moment. Authentic moment. This is the opposite of that. Yeah. On the rare occasion that I would log in to Facebook to look at Facebook Marketplace or something, right? If I'm on my phone, the first thing I see is like 1,800 posts that are all like

an AI generated photo of someone standing in front of like a 16 foot tall, impossibly intricate ice carving of an eagle. Oh yeah, it's full of AI shit, yeah. And then the caption says my niece carved this ice carving but everyone says she's a stupid

fucking slut for doing it. And this won't go viral. Everyone says she's so moronic and it will never go viral. And if you look at the replies to the post that has been shared tens of thousands of times

most of them are going wow, it's beautiful. But they're all AI too. Those are AI generated responses. Yeah, but there's also a heaps of posts that are like, but this is just AI, that's no good. You know? I'm like, but that's still, you're still engaging with it.

You're still engaging with it anyway. And I just feel like you might just dead night. To see if that is what my feed looked like. And instead I got a beautiful slice of humanity posted in the group Dim Sims for Life. Oh, that's why you posted that. That looks so good. I want to eat that right now.

Someone has posted a photo of their dimmy burrito. Yeah. Now, if you're not from Australia, that's how we say things. We take something like Dim Sim. Yeah. Or dims, as you might know them. And, well, actually, do we need to explain the Australian idea of a dim sim? It's like a long...

It's a long... Dim sim. Long dim sum. I want to kind of fill with like a ground meat product. You kind of have to picture the eggs from the alien movies if they were rounded rectangles because they do have the cross across the top that sort of opens like the petals of a flower a little bit to allow, I guess, for the steam that escapes from the dim sim in the cooking process? It's never occurred to me that other people would have no fucking idea what this is. I'm begging you if you are a listener who is not from Australia to Google or duck, duck go preferably. Australian dim sim.

Look at the photos of these objects. Deep fried dim sim from the cafe attached to a bunnings. Or it can be steamed, which is way more fucked up. It's way more fucked up. It's not like a steamed one. They're so rubbery.

I mean, these are steamed in the burrito, right? So he steamed four Aldi dim sims and put them in a burrito wrap. Dimmie burrito, four steamed Aldi's space. With ketchup manor. I guess we're meant to take. Spelled like ketchup. Yeah.

Ketchup, manis and chili oil cooked in the sandwich press Till Krispy from Banalla, Victoria. I think he's actually talking this down a little bit as well because it's not just chili oil. It's like Seshwad chili crisp. Like there's visibly the bits of chili crisp. Yeah. This goes in the future. I don't like the AI stuff.

If you're making like high person trash food and you've skipped putting some like cheese in there, what do you fucking... That image is also more beautiful than any. A.R-generated photo I've ever seen. Genuine moment. Imagine crushing that drunk at 1.30 a.m. at home.

God damn. There's still beauty out there in the world. I don't even know if they... With eyes to see. Can you still buy the packets of like nine frozen dim-sims that are just about the size of two golf balls?

Those still in the freezer section at super-spermarkets? Absolutely. The big bags, right? I'm going to get some dim sims this week. Go on dimmy mode. We should try and make a fancy version of the bad Australian dim sim. I think that's what the world... An elevated dim sim?

Elevated Australian... Elevated dim sim. Tuck shop dim sim. A bunch of like ground, high quality pork and prawn in there, you know? Well, that guys in my crew is called Hotbox dim sim. What up? HB commercial intent

Fuck Yeah sorry Conversion focused The brand aligned Purchase inspiring Purchase inspiring I'm going to kill Not myself

Others Someone's getting killed This is also So it's hyphenated Purchase and Inspiring As if it's like an adverbial compound An adverbial construct

Which is one of the most Infuriated pairs of words I've ever heard of my life. Grim. Purchase inspiring. This is an eminently buyable object. And of course, you need to include some viral elements like shareable content. Discussion starter, engagement boosting.

What do you think the machine will give you for that? Yeah, what is that? Is it just going to put something controversial in there? Like an eight-year-old white girl doing a Nazi salute in the image? in the image just to generate a little bit of buzz? And finally, I think I'm backtracking a little bit to the original article about this AI artwork. There was actually a little bit of a...

Just been kicked Inception style coming back up a level. That's right, we're going back up a level. This is a little footnote at the bottom of the story from KLFY in Lafayette, Louisiana. All facts in this report were gathered by journalists employed by K. LFY artificial intelligence tools were used to reformat from a broadcast scripted to a news article for our website

That's It started so strong Yeah They've started so strong Oh people are doing it Sick, yeah Awesome Yeah

And then we fed it into the machine You put it in the machine So you're in a newsroom But you're not really into the whole kind of Writing it into an article part You're not into the editing Per se Oh god damn

That's just I like that Australian lawyer this week who was getting shredded by a judge for his arguments all just having like invented cases and people in them. Wasn't it like a murder case as well? Something like it was quite serious.

Whatever the fuck it was. Well the guy what I really liked was the lawyer responding to this or council or solicitor or whatever the fuck we meant to call him who said oh well what I was doing was I was like asking chat GPT

or maybe it was like Claude. I think it He was asking Claude to put together stuff for him. And he was like, and then I validated that by putting that into Microsoft co-pilot and asking it to check all the stuff for me. Yeah. Yeah. Smart. That's thinking.

Actually, can I give you guys something that I didn't include because I was like, ah, it's not quite there. So I just give it to you really, really quickly. Yes, I guess. And I'm going to do it either our new segment. called Dumpit. When the story ain't funny enough. Don't it.

When there ain't enough funny stuff. If you want to show to be good, then gone and dumb all that stuff. Oh, you know what this is dump. Dumpet. Trash it. It's really good. That's really nice. So this is for stuff where I was like,

The kernel of the core thing of it is kind of funny, but it's not enough for me to actually write it down or include it. This is just some good, old-fashioned, regular human incompetence, not AI incompetence like the lawyers. A lady this week lost her, like, fair work commission appeal about getting fired because she was a nurse who defibrillated a completely awake patient. Many of you guys seen the pit? I'm not going to watch that.

It sounds very stressful. Yeah, stressful, yeah. But Noah Wiley is so beautiful. Oh, he's very daddy in that show. Oh, my God, Dr. Robbie? No, Wile? Is that what it's Wiley? Is that what it's pronounced Wiley.

We've all been saying it Wiley since the 90s, man, since he was on ER. You've got to get Dr. Robbie peeled. He kind of looks like that guy from Taskmaster. But in that show, like, like a thing the doctors keep doing because they're in like they're in the emergency room and if somebody is kind of like drifting off on them or losing consciousness or whatever they get like they just sort of have one knuckle out and they like just rub it in a circular motion on the sternum so me and elder kept seeing him do that and like now i keep doing it to her

if we're on the couch and she like gets a little lost in her phone or it's like a little drowsy i We have a good laugh She did this in me the other day though And I'll tell you what, that is not funny We're talking about Dr. Kenneth Monotov From Donny Darko Oh, yeah, he's a Tony Darko Yeah, okay, all right

Sexier now though Woo, oh okay I'll do some of investigating And this was definitely an episode of the podcast Pointe to Vista Thank you so much for joining us and thank you for subscribing. We really appreciate having you here.

There was a story I was hoping we're going to get to this one because I don't think, I think if we do it in a free episode, we're going to get yelled at a bunch, but I was hoping it would be within the confines of this safe, trusted space. But we'll just have to see. We need you guys to be our shooters.

Yeah. We need you out there defending us, being like, no, they are coming from a good place. Their hearts are true. Your hearts are true They're not really mean It's just kind of a bit It's a bit

They're very generous open Loving sensual people You've never been on the corner Just joking with your homies Oh my God That's actually can I leave you With a little This is my advice to you

The listener This week Make an active effort To post up on the corner With your crew It doesn't have to be a literal corner It could be a stoop It could be a veranda

It could be You know what's really fucking fun if you live in a place that has a driveway or a front lawn of some kind and you've got some outdoor chairs don't post up in the backyard post up in the front yard and they have a couple of beers and just watch the world go by maybe say hi to some strangers who are like enjoying the vibe you guys are putting out that can make for some of the most perfect afternoons of your life bring your bluetooth speaker out there play some bob siga say hi to say hi to nancy from down the street as she walks past you know you we boom

and you're cranking out dub side of the moon? You did say dub side of the moon. And I knew exactly what he was talking about too. I thought I misheard. No, dub side of the moon fucking rules. Doom side of the moon also very good. There was like a 36 chambers one. That's a fucking good time.

Just you and a few members of your crew hanging out. And you know what? Someone with a cute dog goes past. You go, wow, that's a really cute dog. And that person goes, oh yeah. This is Ezekiel. You go, what up, Zeke? I like your style.

And then, bam, you're having a perfect afternoon. Radio dread. Weather's getting better. It's time to do it. Post up with your crew. Find a corner. Make a corner. If you don't have a crew, you post up, and soon the crew will find you.

If you post up, if you post up, they will come. Hey, and if you're a busy, if you're a busy parent, the crew can be your family. that's okay i reckon that might be the latest in an episode we've got the title ever we'll talk to you very soon remember defend us in the free episode you'll know it when you hear it bye I'm going to be able to be.