Oct 7, 2026 · 1 hr 39 min · 14 segments
*Mean Girls* vs. *Superbad*: two defining high-school comedies from the 2000s, thrown into the Smashcut. Dyl and Raf go category by category — story, performances, quotes, scenes, production design…
All right, Raf, let's start off with you telling me what is one cool movie thing that you saw or learned in the last week?
So [clears throat] I don't know if this is cool, and this is probably-- I'm probably well, well behind this being news from people in the industry or whatever.
Uh, he's a really smart guy, Ben Affleck, and you hear him talk about AI, and he's very well-spoken about it.
It's actually funny because this was very hush-hush that he even had this company or was-
And a, a little while ago, before the news was announced that this company was being sold to Netflix, Ben Affleck was, like, being interviewed and started talking about AI, and was very well-spoken about it, and how it could be integrated in entertainment, what it can and can't do, and he, he just came off very intelligent on the topic, and people were really impressed.
I mean, wow, didn't know Ben Affleck would, you know, know so much about this.
And it turns out he knows so much about this because he owned a company [chuckles] that produced this kind of product.
Look, AI's gonna become more and more integrated into these workflows, and we gotta set up guardrails for it, and I don't think it can ever replace human creativity.
You want, like, a general take on AI and entertainment from me? That seems like a crazy thing to talk about to start the show.
All right, Raf, let's start off with you telling me what is one cool movie thing that you saw or learned in the last week?
So [clears throat] I don't know if this is cool, and this is probably-- I'm probably well, well behind this being news from people in the industry or whatever.
Uh, he's a really smart guy, Ben Affleck, and you hear him talk about AI, and he's very well-spoken about it.
It's actually funny because this was very hush-hush that he even had this company or was-
And a, a little while ago, before the news was announced that this company was being sold to Netflix, Ben Affleck was, like, being interviewed and started talking about AI, and was very well-spoken about it, and how it could be integrated in entertainment, what it can and can't do, and he, he just came off very intelligent on the topic, and people were really impressed.
I mean, wow, didn't know Ben Affleck would, you know, know so much about this.
And it turns out he knows so much about this because he owned a company [chuckles] that produced this kind of product.
Look, AI's gonna become more and more integrated into these workflows, and we gotta set up guardrails for it, and I don't think it can ever replace human creativity.
You want, like, a general take on AI and entertainment from me? That seems like a crazy thing to talk about to start the show.
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