Rob Benedict
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62 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
Rob Benedict’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, so that's going to be a good show. Oh, I know what I want to talk to you about. You're a big AI guy. Yes, I am aware of AI and trying to figure it out. Did you know the thing you sent me on Instagram was AI? Yeah. I mean, it took me a second. I was like, okay, this is AI. But fun and funny, you know. Right. But the... Claude...
After I talked to you and you said you'd been using Claude for certain tasks. Yeah. I've been interested in that and trying it out for different things. And it's interesting. It's been interesting. Look, I'm not doing like – my friend Devin is writing software with it. Well, I don't have the brain for that. I'm not a code guy. Right, right.
But it can do that. Yeah. But if you're like, man, I wish there was a way that I could track my steps and have it go to this. You know, it can do that stuff. Yeah. You can write an app. You can develop an app. Anyway, but I used it for a... So I've been working on a script. And I just finished the script. And I...
Just wanted to, like it's a first draft. And I didn't want to give, it's not yet ready for the public or for friends to see it yet. It's, I just want to know, is this a script? You know what I mean? Right. Just analyze this for me. Be honest with me. And it gave the most, the greatest first set of notes in less than 10 seconds.
I know. It just was crazy. It was crazy. Isn't that crazy? I did it full on. I love the scene where blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And this is very emotional here and very funny here. This is a little murky for me. I don't get why. It was mind-blowing, the expanse of this analysis. And scary. It scared the shit out of me. But I still want a person. There's some things that it gave notes on where I was like, I don't think it's getting the nuance there. You have to kind of parse it out. Right.
Don't just say yes. Don't just, I don't need to be glazed over. I think you can, it's, you know, it's, it's the type of prompt that it gets, but you're, you know, I mean, look, there's a lot to be very worried about with AI. I mean, a lot. And like the other day I was typing, I typed in, why isn't Rob right for this role? And, and look, you weren't right for the role.
You've already cast my script, I just gave it. Well, Claude told me about it once we realized I was going to be on as director. But, man, there's a very scary documentary that was made that I started to watch with Hank the other night called The AI Doc. It's called The AI Doc. Yeah, it was frightening. It's frightening what some people are saying about AI. But then there's another camp that's like, no, no, no, it's the best thing. We're so lucky we're in The Verge.
One of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind, and we're at the birth of it. This is the most exciting time. And then there's another person that says, if you have a kid now, the kid's not going to make it to high school. I worry about all that, dude. I worry about... Somebody online said, why do kids keep booing commencement speakers who talk about AI? That's been a thing, if you've noticed recently.
It helps once you're hired. It doesn't help you get hired. I'd be curious. I mean, 10 years ago, I would have disagreed with you, but now... There's no way to disagree. We don't meet people. If we were in our 20s now, yeah, I think it might be. But 10 years ago, there were some things... I remember thinking... Because what I did when I first got out here was... What I was doing creatively was my friends and I had a little comedy, sketch comedy group, and we put on comedy shows and...
And I think about, like, if we had the internet to invite people and to make our comedy better and to put these bits we were doing, which were really funny, to put them out there with that 20-year-old energy, I think we would have killed. But now, like right now, yeah, I just don't know. I don't know. Okay, but what you're saying, I agree with. I think you're saying, okay.
Well, let me ask you this. I had a conversation with my daughter, Audrey, who's home for the summer and she's looking for a summer job. Right. And I was like, what you need to do is just like start down the street and just walk down that strip and, you know,
She's looking at those boutique places that we have so many in this neighborhood. Gift shops, card shops. All the sort of mom and pop little things we have in the area. And I said, go in there with your resume. You say, hey, I'm Audrey. I live up the street. Are you hiring this summer? And they'll say, yeah, no, or leave your resume. And leave your resume. And she was like...
Like, go in with a physical copy of my resume? And I was like, yeah, that's how you do it. She's like, but why wouldn't I just say, like, can I have your card and I'll email my resume? And I was like, oh, I guess, sure. Yeah, that. I mean, am I wrong? Am I off the, like, am I old man by suggesting she take her physical resume? No, I had Fletcher do the same thing. So, no, I don't think so. Did it work?
Not so far, but I don't think it has slowed him down. He hasn't been hired, but they haven't stared at him like he was bringing in something weird. Did they take it? Sometimes they took it. Sometimes they said, fill something in online. Got it. Yeah, that's her whole thing. She was like, it's all online. Everyone's doing it online now. So she hasn't gone in any place. She's just done it online. She's like, why would they advertise for a job online?
Why wouldn't they advertise for a job if they're looking for employees? I don't know, man. And I just said, again, from my experience, some of these places in our neighborhood are more like mom and pop. Yeah, we're lucky that way. And so she could go in and just be like, hey, I'm Audrey. I live in the neighborhood. I'm a neighborhood kid. I'm looking for a summer job. And they might take one look at her and be like, yeah, leave your resume. Maybe we are. You know what I mean? Right. And her thing is she didn't want to do it in person.
And they want to know who they're hiring. Yeah, I agree. And it's weird. It feels like that's a little old-fashioned. Well, it is. And that's why I think kids Fletch's age and Audrey's age...
have a harder time because I think COVID did a number on them. And I think the screen time thing and everyone's telling them everything's online. You just do it online. So it's taking away that experience of walking into a place, but like, hi, I'm Rob. Yeah. Looking for work. I remember I, when I got out to LA, I got, I went out to, I lived in Westwood and I went out to Santa Monica and there's, you know, that street, Montana, uh,
Call you back. And I go, there was a message on my machine, which there was. It just wasn't to me. Wow. And I got the job, ironically. And you got the job. Yeah. That's funny. I got a call back at California. No. What's the chain? It used to be one at the. Louise's. Beverly Center. The base of the Beverly Center. Louise's. Cheesecake Factory. Oh, yeah.
And they lined us all up and they asked us, what's the worst thing? Like, asked us for a bad restaurant experience. And I said, I went to a place that gave you, like, such big helpings that it was off-putting.
And California Cheesecake Factory is known for its extra large. Dude, that's their thing. They're like, literally, it's like, that's their bit. So I didn't get that job. It was not. I swung for the fences and swung and missed. Yeah. Funny times, getting kids jobs. Call in if you're a kid who has a job. Yeah, how do you get jobs, kids? I don't know.
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