The Blake Cunningham Delirium
Don’t be serious, let’s gets delirious🫨
The Blake Cunningham Delirium
EP 20 WHAT IF NOTHING REALLY CHANGED AND WE JUST STOPPED PRETENDING IT DID?
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.
And it's like sunshine on a cloudy day. And this podcast is about to start today for the second video episode. It's the second video episode of the Blake Cunningham Am Delirium. Yeah. It's the second episode. It's the second episode of the best podcast in the beers. And it's the music that you like to hear. And you want to hear. And you love to hear. And it's all right here on the black. Blake Cunningham Delirium. And we're just having fun in the sun. And uh Yeah, you know we're gonna talk about music and we're gonna talk about politics and we're gonna be a little ignorant because I don't really know anything about it. But at least it will be kind of funny if you have a terrible sense of humor. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Welcome back to the Blake Cunningham uh delirium. We're here with the second video episode. This actually seems to be oh, you can see my beautiful teeth. Uh my beautiful white teeth. Um it seems to be sort of better uh r looking resolution. I don't know. I I won't know until I send it to my uh p producer and uh he takes a look at the footage and the resolution and all that. But we got it we got a great show. It's very we got a good stuff planned. We got the skull in the background again. It will not be the title of this episode, uh, but it will be he, you know, we'll phone into I can't remember if his name was f Jeff or Fred or something like that. So, what's going on? I haven't I actually haven't looked at the news today. I I don't really care, I'm kind of out of the cycle. I'm kind of thinking about things differently than maybe I was in the past. I don't really know what's going on, I don't really care. Um but I do know that no matter what anybody's saying in in in a more broader general sense, things seem to be more or less the same as pr they've probably been 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 arms about this or that and everything's changing, blah blah blah. But it's like if you really take a take a minute and take a step back, it does seem to be more or less of the same. And really what that conclusion ultimately leads you to believe is that it's always been sort of the same power structures at play. Like it's it is the establishment it is an established group of individuals and it's always been the same. And the the shifting of hands is is a illusion of the system. It's not the system is changing, but it's like I I don't know how to explain it. It's kind of like I don't know. I I I I I don't I think I just explained it. Um And that's like at the end of the day, that's like always the um so that's always the final my final conclusion on basically the entire thing. You know, and I I try to not be one of these like but w I don't know, I I am like one of these like old school libertarians that's like all of our problems lead back to the the Federal Reserve and you know the gold standard not being a thing that we honor anymore because like our you know uh and you've heard this spiel before. I'm I'm sure uh you've heard this spiel in some capacity or or another. I mean, I don't know how you would end up here on my sh like finding my show and not have heard about this kind of stuff before, but it's possible that there is a newbie out there that's you know has never heard the 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 if you've never heard of that, you'll really have a revelation about this kind of stuff, but um, you know, I don't I don't need to put on my tinfoil hat right now because that would mess up my hair, my beautiful hair. And I d I also I don't know. I I I literally could be wrong about all this stuff. Maybe maybe you know, our money not being tied to anything is actually great because it's freeing and money is not the ultimate end goal and you know you don't need anything or anything. You know, you don't need you don't need to be able to go to a grocery store. You don't need to be able to buy a new mattress, you don't need a new couch. I mean I mean, you know, there are ways to reduce your carbon emission, you know, sleep on the floor. Don't don't eat anything that you didn't scrape off of the bathroom stall. You know, you don't have to you don't have to eat steak tonight. You can scrape some gum off the bathroom stall. That's renew reuse, renew, and recycle. That's recycling. You're recycling the used gum for its uh caloric properties. Uh-uh. And you can do that instead of you know, eating getting meat from the store because you know, eating meat is bad and carbon emissions you know. Because like, you know, you drive a car and it it puts out carbon and that carbon is you know, carbon dioxide. You know, we know chemically carbon dioxide is represented as a compound on the periodic table of the elements carbon and two oxygen atoms CO2. Now we know that trees give us O2. But how do they give us O2? Well, it's a process called photos you know, photosynthesis, where they take or it's photosynthesis. Now let me think, is photosynthesis how they make um their glue glucose shit. Um whatever. Anyway, the trees take the the the ox they make oxygen from uh CO2. Well the trees but we're putting all the bad CO2 into the atmosphere and the trees take it and turn it into the oxygen that we breathe. Well well that's terrible. We need to stop that. We need to stop the trees from taking all the bad CO2 because the CO2's bad. And the trees turn into air that we breathe. So that that can't be good. That can't be that can't be good. No. No, no, no, no. No That's not good at all. No. No. I could no. No, I I I just believe what I read. You know, I just like to Ah I keep rubbing this on my face. I I I I I I just read what I read that you know, humans are bad and you know, I'm not don't eat meat and you know, sleep on the floor. You know, you probably shouldn't even have a floor because, you know, building materials, you know, it's bad for the environment. It's you know, bad for the environment. Now um let me ask you a question At what point are you exonerated? At what point do you reach, you know uh and I know the answer is never, but you never do you never 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 recycle tomorrow, like I don't have to like you know, you know, drink through a a a cardboard straw. I don't have to drink through like a straw that looks like a torch from Minecraft, like it's made out of cardboard. Like right, if I like recycle and like I uh drive an electric car, which is good for the environment because um you know the the coal comes from you know the ground and you know, charges the car and you know not any different taking fossil fuels from the ground, which are fossil fuels that don't actually come from fossils and they regenerate over time and I um I don't know. It's all interesting and I have no plans on going swimming. I I I d I'm a very good swimmer and I'm very mentally uh whatever sound. So Yeah. Where was I going with this? What where what is my direction? I'll tell you where my direction is. It's in this I'm making a new album. I'm making a new album for uh my my music. B-L-A-K-E-C-U-N-N-I-N-G-H-A-M. Uh Blake Cunningham on Spotify. I'm making a new album. It's of music I did like it's music from like five years ago. And um it's uh it's a lot of like demos and like literally just like me playing bass for two minutes and it's like really bad and everything's out of time, but I don't know. I I I tend to look at uh the whole artist thing as like everybody is so I don't know, I'm hunched over so much. Everybody is so like idyllic on like making these perfect 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 like everything I make should be out there on Spotify because one day I'm not gonna be able to put stuff on Spotify, so I don't s I don't see a reason not to. Like I don't care what my page is gonna be crowded, I don't really care. Like it's not my job to like I don't know, I some people view it as like it's my job to like sift 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 time to do that, I'm sure the numbers will tell you, you know, what people like the most, what the average person would like the most. And if you want to dig for something 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 to that, it's like there's no right answer. And I know that Spotify has recently taken off like like seventy-five million AI tracks or something, and I'm not saying that makes my odds better, but maybe my you know, these are really short tracks or like anywhere from like I don't know, t like twelve seconds to like a few minutes, like maybe my creation could somehow fill whatever void the AI v was filling. I don't I don't know if that it totally makes sense, but I don't know. And there I don't know, the AI stuff's uh and I hate I I I hate listening to a AI stuff on podcasts, which seems pretty counterintuitive or whatever, but like the a we're eventually going to reach a singularity point and you know I I guarantee yeah, there's a reason s I mean there's there's m a lot more than seventy-five million tracks on Spotify and there's probably billions or I don't know. Maybe not billions, but probably billions. Um maybe a billion, I don't know. I don't actually know the numbers, so but seventy-five million I'm sure was not, you know, maybe it's like one 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 ones they could uh now it's like almost peaking. That's just the ones they could uh detect. It's like how many did the software not detect because they're just so human like that even their algorithm and the algorithm they ironically the algorithm that they probably used to pull the songs off Spotify was also like an AI algorithm, so we're that kind of is just signaling that we are reaching the area of singularity with this stuff. I mean and and I I hate doing this. I hate listen I hate listening to it, I hate doing it, I hate listening to people speculate on AI because like literally tomorrow it could be like something better than AI comes out, or AI just you know, it just implodes on itself, or like w more likely than not, it like we could literally just so many people are against it, we could just literally wake up and just be like, I don't care about this, and like if people don't care about it, there's not gonna be funding for it and it's not gonna exist, except for like in niche communities where it existed before it kind of blew up. So I I don't know the future of this stuff, and I don't I I do I the thing is for me it doesn't bother me. Like some people are so bothered by it, I don't get it. I don't get why they're so bothered by like a human didn't create this because I I don't know because all these algorith like the algorithms I I I keep saying that and I can't stand it, but it's like they're fed with they're fed with human knowledge and like human creation, so like yes, a human's not creating it, but we created the 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's like it's like saying like I didn't paint that painting, but like human I don't know, I don't know. Like Crayola didn't uh I shouldn't say a brand. Crayola does not sponsor this podcast, but they can. And I'm gonna bleep that out next time. Not this time, too lazy. But let's say like a crayon company an unnamed crayon company says like we didn't create that photo. Well you created the the crayons that created that photo and it couldn't been created, so like you kind of did aid in the creation of that photo of the sun in the grass. That makes me want to draw. I wanna draw a sun in the grass. But I don't know. And I'm gonna end that segment on on a high note and let's talk about let's talk about what you've all been waiting for me to talk about my Instagram haters. If you're an Instagram hater and you're watching the show, you should buckle in. You should buckle into your seat tight because I am not gonna stop posting and commenting and doing whatever the F, the F and F I want on the Instagram platform. And guess what? I don't care. I don't care that you open the app and you're expecting to see little cute dog photos of your all your neighbors. I don't care. It's my app. It's my app. And I will continue to do what I want on the app and outside of the app and keep creating my music and creep keep keep creating this lovely show, regardless of what any one of these Instagram I'm holding my tongue here. Whatever these people, they're probably bots. I'm probably literally getting shat on by bots, but I I don't I don't care. I don't even care if it's a bot. I want I wanna prove the bot wrong. Like I literally want to prove the bot wrong. I don't care if it's not even in its programming to be right or wrong. I'm going to prove it some I'm gonna change its code with my comment. Like I'm gonna like divide zero by zero and like on this thing and like make it change its mind, like through some kind of like glitch or like system uh di in dis uh discrepancy. And ultimately I'm going to destro I'm going to destroy this thing. Like case in point, like it's it's OV. Like it's OV. Like it's so OV. And if you are a real person and you're beefing with me on my Instagram, just remember I will always win because I will talk about it on this show. And if you thought the Epstein list was bad, wait until I leak the list of all the people that have beefed with me on Instagram. That will be a much longer, much more grotesque list of individuals. So if you are trying to go there with me, just remember to keep my name out of your mouth, unless unless you're a fan of the show and you follow my in uh my music Spotify, then then you can talk shit. Because that's because it's I don't know, it's fun. We're just having fun at that point. But if you're if you're legitimately trying to criticize me, like if you're legitimately trying to criticize me, I d I I'm just not the kind of person that cares. You could literally say the most obscene worst thing. And I'll s I'll say something actually less obscene and probably nice and you'll take offense to it. Because everybody is a baby. Everybody is a baby nowadays. Nobody can like handle anything. Like literally nobody can handle anything. Like the toughest Jim Bros and like the you know the chick that's like, oh I'm like I talk like a dude because I'm like cool and like don't fuck with me like I uh I n I know my way around a knife or something. It's like they're everybody's like, you know, babies. They get in this beef with me and they're like, uh you hurt my feelings. Like I was like tough two seconds 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 you can go back to your your your meaningless life. I'm just kidding. I I'm kidding about the meaningless life part. I I I'm you probably literally have more going on than me, but I just want you honestly, I honestly I wish you I wish you the best. I hope you I hope you figure it out. I I honestly hope you do better than me so that I can turn back and say if you do better than me in life, then I can say, Oh, this person that is doing better than me is is is picking on me. And no, I'm not being the baby at that point. I'm you know, I don't know. I guess I am, but you know, you hurt my feelings. You know? And I'm just trying to make great stuff. Like I'm trying to make I'm like an artist with like a paintbrush. Like this, this, this is my paintbrush. And if if you're listening to this on audio only, uh I have like a sword in my hand. I miss I miss you know, most most people won't tell you this kind of thing, but I will because I'm honest with with all of you. I miss like when I first started the show and like it was like fun, like before all the fame and glory and stuff. Not glory, but like before all the fame and it was just like a guy with a microphone and I was just like shooting the shit, but now it's like I got like the deadlines and like the fans and like you know, I'm I'm in a gated like community, I have to like keep them away and they're like with their signs like we love your show and your music, mostly your music, Blake Cunningham on Spotify, B L A K E C 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 on Halloween. I'm so psyched for Halloween, but it's literally October 1st, and I'm pro I'm probably gonna do at least three, I don't know, a couple more episodes before then. I really want to pick up the steam. So uh yeah, I won't go into too much detail on Halloween. I I should do like a Halloween episode and definitely dress up in a costume. That would totally add to the experience of the show. But uh, I don't know. I I think that's good for now. I'm probably gonna get like in trouble for what I said at the beginning. Because like uh it was, you know, it was not the truth. Um and people are definitely gonna agree with what I said. There's gonna be no repercussions to that or you 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 had enough. I've had enough of it. Alright, I'm out. I'm out.