This week on Holly Randall Unfiltered, Holly sits down with performer, actress, and former Playboy cover model August Skye for one of the most honest and entertaining conversations of the season.

From stripping in Denver to navigating the chaos of social media censorship, August breaks down what it really takes to survive and evolve in the adult industry today. She shares the story of a champagne room encounter involving a police officer that spiraled completely out of control, how she’s lost eight Instagram accounts to vague community guidelines, and the tech she now uses to protect her business online.

August also opens up about winning acting awards for the indie web series Born at Night, why she prefers story-driven feature productions over gonzo scenes, and how the industry gave her a safe space to explore her submissive side and personal fantasies without judgment.

Plus, she reveals the reality behind the business: why filming scenes is only a fraction of the work, how creators burn out trying to stay relevant, and what separates performers with longevity from everyone else chasing quick attention.

It’s funny, chaotic, unexpectedly thoughtful, and a rare behind-the-scenes look at the emotional and business side of modern adult entertainment.

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August Skye on Her Viral Debut and Exploring BDSM Fantasies

Phil and Emily are joined by film critic, screenwriter, and Hip Pocket podcast host Drew McWeeny to discuss Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the Spike Jonze adaptation of Maurice Sendak's 85-word picture book that cost roughly $100 million, barely broke even, got one Blu-ray release, and has been sitting in a strange kind of limbo ever since.


Drew has been close to this film longer than almost anyone outside the production. He saw a rough cut in Pasadena before a single effects shot was completed, got a personal call from Legendary Pictures founder Thomas Tull asking for his honest reaction, and later sat down with Spike Jonze himself for two hours as the film fought to find its finish line. Phil thinks it's a miracle it exists at all. Emily finds it formally audacious and sometimes frustrating in equal measure. Drew thinks it's a great film. He also thinks it might not be a film for children.


The three dig into the full production story, from the Jim Henson Company's 50-pound creature heads that got scrapped six weeks before filming to Spike's decision to shoot everything handheld with no green screens and no tracking dots on any of the creatures. They talk about why James Gandolfini was the perfect choice for Carol, what the voice cast recorded running around a black box theater instead of isolated booths, and what it means to watch this movie as a parent who has been the angry one in the room.


This episode wraps up the show's Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman miniseries, following Adaptation and Synecdoche, New York.




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93: Where the Wild Things Are with Drew McWeeny

Taylor Vixen spent two decades climbing the corporate ladder as a VP in finance. Now she’s captivating a very different kind of audience, and she’s done it on her own terms. The former executive didn’t just leave corporate America behind; she walked straight from a high-stakes world of hundred-million-dollar transactions into one of the most competitive spaces in adult content. She’s navigated the moment her Mormon-run company discovered her OnlyFans, watched her professional image transform in real time, and recently hit a milestone that most people would find either jaw-dropping or deeply enviable: earning an AVN MILF Performer of the Year nomination within her first two years in the industry.
Taylor is humble, resilient, and refreshingly unguarded. She talks openly about her journey from a sexually repressive marriage to hosting lifestyle events across the country, and the clinical precision she now uses to manage fans who mistake fantasy for reality. She has a philosophy for everything  including how to handle internet trolls and the bizarre world of custom video requests, like faking a heart attack for a surgeon and she delivers all of it with the calm perspective of someone who once managed life-altering financial decisions.

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Taylor Vixxen Quit Her Executive Career to Have Sex on Camera and Doesn’t Regret It

Phil and Emily are joined by Angie Han, TV critic at The Hollywood Reporter, to discuss Synecdoche, NY (2008), Charlie Kaufman's audacious directorial debut and the film Roger Ebert called the best of the 2000s.


Kaufman wrote and directed this hallucinatory portrait of Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an ailing theater director who uses a MacArthur Fellowship to build a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse. As the decades pass and his art consumes his life, the film tunnels deeper into mortality, creative obsession, and the quiet horror of living in a body that won't cooperate. Originally conceived as a horror film with Spike Jonze, Synecdoche, NY opened in October 2008 against High School Musical 3 and Saw 5, made $4.5 million on a $20 million budget, and has since been ranked among the greatest films of the 21st century by the BBC, the Guardian, and Time.


Phil finds it deeply triggering as a self-described hypochondriac. Angie has seen it a dozen times and finds it weirdly soothing. Emily thinks it's funnier than people give it credit for. All three dig into why this film bombed commercially and became a critical touchstone, what it means to watch it in your 20s versus your 40s, and why it still doesn't have a Criterion edition.




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92: Synecdoche, New York with Angie Han

Ellie James spent years keeping people alive in the ICU. Now she’s keeping a very different kind of audience riveted and she’s done it on her own terms. The former dietitian didn’t just leave healthcare behind; she walked straight into one of the most competitive spaces in adult content and built something most creators only dream about. She’s answered every single fan DM personally, watched Reddit’s NSFW landscape transform in real time, and recently hit a milestone that most people would find either jaw-dropping or deeply enviable: over a thousand people have touched her breasts and she’s nowhere near done raising that number.

Ellie is funny, self-aware, and refreshingly unguarded. She talks openly about polyamory, about intuitive eating, about the moment she and Holly first crossed paths on the AVN red carpet in what she describes as an exercise in mutual awkwardness. She has a philosophy for everything including how to dismantle a public confrontation using what she calls “aggressive kindness” and she delivers all of it with the calm, clinical precision of someone who once managed life-or-death decisions between meal plans.

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Phil and Emily are joined by Katey Rich, awards editor at The Ankler and host of the Prestige Junkie podcast, to discuss Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Michel Gondry's Charlie Kaufman-written love story and one of the defining films of its generation. This episode is part of the ongoing miniseries on the 2000s films of Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry.


Jim Carrey plays Joel and Kate Winslet plays Clementine, former partners who independently undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories. The film also stars Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, and Elijah Wood. Released March 19th, 2004, it opened against Dawn of the Dead, The Passion of the Christ, and Starsky and Hutch, earned only two Oscar nominations, and somehow still became Charlie Kaufman's highest-grossing film.


Phil, Emily, and Katey dig into how a movie that felt like a March dump release became a Sight and Sound list entry and a Letterboxd top 5 staple, why the Academy of 2004 simply wasn't ready for it, and how Jim Carrey managed to get overlooked by Oscar voters again six years after The Truman Show. They also get into how the Gondry and Kaufman collaboration works so much better here than it did on Human Nature, what the ending means when you come back to it older, and why Everything Everywhere All At Once couldn't exist without this film.


Katey saw it right after her first real breakup and was completely walloped by it. Emily has seen it over ten times and has been happily married since college. Phil was 24 when it came out and was in exactly the right kind of romantic chaos for it to hit hardest. Three very different relationships with the same movie.


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91: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Katey Rich

This week, host Holly Randall is joined by adult creator Lydia Love. With a career spanning 10 years, Lydia has built an impressive resume as a webcam model, femdom performer, and the owner of IGF Studio, an agency dedicated to helping models navigate the industry within their own boundaries.
Lydia recently found herself at the center of a national media frenzy as the first person to speak out following allegations involving Byron Noem.

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Bimboification and Byron Noem: Lydia Love Breaks Her Silence

Phil and Emily are joined by film critic and author Jason Bailey to revisit Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, George Clooney's 2002 directorial debut based on Chuck Barris' unauthorized autobiography. Jason is the author of Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano, now available in paperback.


Chuck Barris created The Dating Game and The Gong Show. He also claimed to have secretly killed 33 people for the CIA. Charlie Kaufman wrote the screenplay, Sam Rockwell stars as Barris, and Drew Barrymore and Julia Roberts co-star. Before Clooney made it, the film passed through David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky, Sam Mendes, Bryan Singer, Johnny Depp, Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, and Mike Myers over nearly a decade of development.


The three dig into what Clooney kept and what he stripped from Kaufman's original script, whether Sam Rockwell's performance holds the whole thing together, and what Roberts and Barrymore bring to a film that never quite commits to its own tonal chaos. They also get into Clooney's arc as a director, a genuinely promising debut followed by a filmography of diminishing returns, and whether Confessions of a Dangerous Mind holds up as his most interesting work two decades on.


Jason says yes, unequivocally. Emily loved it then and is reconsidering. Phil never fully clicked with it. They all agree the ending is something close to perfect.+


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90: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind with Jason Bailey

Gigi Dior spent a decade in mainstream fashion and music videos before becoming one of hottest rising MILFs in adult entertainment and it turns out the second career comes with just as many plot twists as the first. In this episode, Gigi gets into the stalker who hacked her accounts and drained her finances, the ayahuasca ceremony in a Mexican jungle that covered a decade's worth of therapy in three days (alien encounters included!), and why she hated her first scene but still came back. She also breaks down a three-year trademark battle she fought against a major fashion conglomerate and won, explains why she spends her weekends hunting for UFO crash sites in the Arizona desert with a metal detector, and shares what she wishes someone had told her before entering the industry later in life. Yep… this one goes all over the place.

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Industry Secrets Exposed: Why Gigi Dior Waited Years to Go All the Way

This week on Podcast Like It’s the 2000s, Phil Iscove is joined by writer David Iserson (Ponies) and author/podcaster Dana Schwartz (Noble Blood, Anatomy: A Love Story) to unpack one of the most inventive films of the decade: Adaptation.


Part of our Spike Jonze & Charlie Kaufman mini-series, the group explores Kaufman’s famously meta screenplay, Nicolas Cage’s dual performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman, and how the film turns writer’s block into one of the most daring Hollywood movies of the early 2000s. They also discuss the film’s wild journey from Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief to the screen, along with unforgettable supporting turns from Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper.


A deep dive into creativity, storytelling, and one of the strangest Oscar-winning screenplays ever written.

Podcast Like It’s the 2000s is a weekly podcast revisiting the movies, culture, and filmmaking that defined the decade.


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89: Adaptation with David Iserson & Dana Schwartz

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In a lot of ways 1999 was the year that changed movies. From “The Matrix” and “The Blair Witch Project” to “American Beauty” and “The Sixth Sense”, the last year of the millennium was transformative for Hollywood. Through "Podcast Like It's 1999" writers Phillip Iscove (co-creator of FOX's Sleepy Hollow) and Kenny Neibart (Entourage, Hindsight) examine this apex of Cinema, before television took over, before Reality TV, before TMZ and Twitter but also after the internet, after Clinton, after OJ, after Howard Stern and Jerry Springer. This podcast will cover the over 250 exciting, funny and influential movies produced that year. Get excited to do a deep dive into all things 1999.


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