Reel Talk is Cheep

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. Many birds make a wire after noon. 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.

  1. Power Risk Desire Control

    1月18日

    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 how rules exist to manage risk rather than privilege entitlement. From there, the discussion broadens into how fame, attention, and money distort behaviour and identity. The hosts explore how celebrity culture, wealth, and social hierarchy shape expectations, personal boundaries, and the way people justify their actions when they believe they are “special” or above ordinary rules. The episode also moves into cultural and technological territory, touching on parasocial relationships, fantasy, and how media, characters, and symbols influence desire, attachment, and identity over time. This includes reflections on how people process intimacy, control, and healing in increasingly mediated and commercialised environments. Later, the conversation shifts toward future-focused ideas: artificial intelligence, automation, and human modification. The hosts speculate about how technology might integrate more deeply with the body, how identity could evolve alongside machine systems, and what it means for humanity if self-modification becomes normalised. The episode closes with commentary on platforms, media economics, and politics, including how social networks shape communication, how systems are deliberately broken and monetised, and how policy decisions—especially those affecting young people—often produce unintended consequences. Throughout, the discussion stays reflective, critical, and exploratory, moving between lived experience, cultural critique, and speculative futures. #risk #power #identity #technology #culture #media #politics

    1 小時 42 分鐘
  2. Talking About Nothing Seriously

    1月11日

    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 stepping into silence to let meaning emerge in real time. From public speaking to everyday conversation, the discussion reframes “having nothing to say” as a doorway rather than a failure. From there, the conversation expands into speculative geopolitics and systems thinking. The hosts riff on global power shifts, economic realignment, infrastructure mega-projects, and the idea of rapid, forced transitions at a planetary scale. These ideas are explored not as predictions, but as thought experiments about how narratives, authority, and compliance are constructed—and how people are persuaded to accept massive change. Social hierarchy, inequality, and control recur throughout the episode, touching on homelessness, privilege, labour, automation, and the uneasy overlap between care systems, corporations, and morality. Satirical concepts emerge around charity, faith-based institutions, sex work, and monetisation, used to question where dignity, exploitation, and agency really sit in modern society. The episode also returns repeatedly to philosophical themes of choice and consequence, personal agency within large systems, and whether humanity is capable of navigating a major civilisational “upgrade” without repeating collapse patterns from the past. Along the way, the hosts weave in observations about technology, media manipulation, creativity pipelines, and the strange feedback loop between imagination, infrastructure, and power. As always, the conversation is meandering, provocative, absurd, and sincere—less about arriving at answers, and more about staying present inside the questions. #freewill #geopolitics #homelessness #power #systems #automation #philosophy

    1 小時 40 分鐘
  3. Australia's underage bounty and beliefs

    1月3日

    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 how institutions claim to protect people while often amplifying harm through poorly designed systems. The hosts unpack the contradictions in exempting platforms like Roblox and Discord, using deliberately extreme humour to interrogate grooming, power, and responsibility online. This leads into a deeper discussion about child safety, how predators exploit structural gaps, and why concentrating young people into specific digital spaces may increase risk rather than reduce it. Alongside this, the episode explores lived experiences of trauma, addiction, withdrawal, and recovery. There is an unfiltered examination of coping mechanisms, self-sabotage, discipline, and the psychological difficulty of basic self-care when trauma is deeply embedded. These personal reflections are framed not as advice, but as testimony and context for understanding behaviour, resilience, and healing over time. The conversation also moves into relationships, intimacy, boundaries, and the concept of “no returns” — examining breakups, emotional contracts, union versus intimacy, and what it means to genuinely let go. Broader social themes emerge around gender, parenthood, women’s rights, the value of caregiving, and how modern economic structures have reshaped family, dependency, and survival. Further topics include belief as a currency, the monetisation of identity and attention, nostalgia as a commercial product, and how systems profit from vulnerability — from online platforms to welfare, disability, and consumption economies. The episode closes by reflecting on consequence, responsibility, and the quiet ways societies normalise exploitation while presenting it as care or progress. This is an explicit, confronting, and intentionally uncomfortable episode intended for adult audiences. It blends satire, documentary reflection, and personal narrative to provoke thought rather than provide simple answers. #NoReturns #OnlineSafety #WomensRights #Beliefs #AustralianGovernment #Pedophilia #SelfSabotage

    1 小時 35 分鐘

簡介

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. Many birds make a wire after noon. 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.