Davin's Den · Davin Rosenblatt

IT’S LIKE HIRING PEPE LEPEW NOVEMBER 22, 2025

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A new AI-generated actress named Tilly Norwood is causing a Hollywood union backlash and raising fears about human actors being replaced.

1. Davin's Den records on November 22, 2025, with host Davin Rosenblatt and co-hosts Joe Curry and Pip Helix covering AI entertainment, childhood psychology, immigration policy, and the scammer series. 2. Davin Rosenblatt hosts; Joe Curry and Pip Helix are co-hosts; the episode picks up both the psychiatric evaluation and Sophia scammer threads from recent episodes. 3. The episode has four segments: the AI actress debate, continued psychiatric evaluation reading, Trump immigration coverage, and scamming scammers. 4. A Dutch actor-producer from a London-based AI company debuted Tilly Norwood — a photo-realistic AI actress — at a Zurich film summit, drawing interest from studio executives and condemnation from SAG-AFTRA. 5. SAG-AFTRA's concern is explicitly about health insurance: actors need a minimum number of paid gigs per year to qualify, and AI performers competing for roles could eliminate the work required to maintain coverage. 6. Davin notes AI sets an impossible standard for aging actresses who already face pressure to get plastic surgery and fillers — they are now competing against a performer who does not age. 7. Davin and Joe briefly debate whether AI characters in sex scenes involving apparent minors would meet community standards, concluding that the community standard applies regardless of whether the characters are real. 8. Davin continues reading the 1985 psychiatric evaluation, reaching the peer relationships section, which states that neighborhood parents kept young Davin out of their homes because his family was Orthodox Jewish. 9. Davin says this is the first time he has learned this information, and both he and Joe react with a combination of dark humor and genuine acknowledgment of childhood exclusion based on religious identity. 10. The evaluation also notes Davin had speech therapy for three years for TH sounds, sometimes became verbally overloaded, cried and argued when frustrated, had difficulty buttoning his clothes, and could not roller skate or ice skate. 11. Davin and Pip joke that the evaluation reads like a list of everything still true about him as an adult — fumbling for words, frustration, inability to ice skate. 12. The immigration segment covers the Trump administration issuing seven-day self-deportation notices to roughly 900,000 migrants who entered the US legally through the Biden-era CBP-1 smartphone app with two-year work authorization. 13. The DHS statement cited was that it has 'full authority to revoke parole' and those who do not leave will be found, removed, and permanently barred from reentry. 14. Davin argues the Trump campaign ran on deporting violent criminals and gang members, and that applying unrealistic deportation numbers to legal residents contradicts the stated mandate. 15. Davin notes migrants who entered legally through CBP-1 have been paying Social Security taxes into a system they will never benefit from unless they eventually gain citizenship. 16. Joe argues the Biden program may have been legally questionable from the start and designed to build a future voter base, while Davin counters that if the administration believed it was illegal, the proper recourse is court adjudication not seven-day notices. 17. Davin criticizes ICE behavior including a reported incident where a family in a Sam's Club parking lot — described as American citizens — had a child pepper-sprayed by ICE. 18. In the scamming scammers segment, Sophia's hotel rating job scam promises $1,000 for five days of work, $3,500 for 30 days, all via clicking 'start' and 'submit' on a fake workbench platform. 19. The tone is conversational and politically candid — Davin expresses frustration with both the Trump administration and the Biden immigration legacy without endorsing either position fully. 20. Listeners interested in immigration policy commentary delivered through an informal comedy lens will find the episode substantive; listeners wanting only comedy with no politics may want to skip the middle segment.

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