Paul W. Downs

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439 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 May

Paul W. Downs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Daily Show: Ears Edition · Boycotters Skip the Bezos Met Gala & Trump Can’t Focus on the Economy… or Anything | Paul W. Downs · 6 May 2026 podcast

It's really, really terrifying.

You know, it feels like there may be applications that make sense for it, but in the creative process, it feels like that's something that we figured out.

We absolutely don't need it.

And it's something that is decimating huge segments of the workforce and will fundamentally change society.

So, yeah, I'm scared.

There's a lot of, uh, a lot of chat GPTs.

You look gorgeous.

Well, yeah, you know there's, like, a cool kids' table at lunch, and then there's a less cool kids' table at lunch.

And then there's a place in school, at least in my high school, which was an attic theater, where if you were super uncool, you could go and perform for other people who weren't at lunch.

Yeah.

And so I used to do that.

I used to do this, like, lunchtime theater.

And it was actually the first time I wrote characters and performed and was writing and performing.

And so it was actually really formative to not be at the cool kids table.

I have to go on the record, I was incredibly popular.

I also had a calling, though.

I had a calling, you know, so it was self-selected.

Yeah.

You know, probably the most famous one for any of you who were around at the time.

I did a Norwegian goat milk farmer.

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