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Zack Fox Brings Uncensored Laughs and Unpredictable Wisdom

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Zack Fox Brings Uncensored Laughs and Unpredictable Wisdom

The episode blends humor, personal storytelling, and social commentary centered around Zach Fox, a multi-hyphenate creative known for music, comedy, and his new film *Lurker*. Through lighthearted and often absurd anecdotes, the show explores themes of toxic group dynamics, mental health struggles — including ADHD and the toxic acceptance of personal failure — and the importance of self-awareness and community. The conversation delves into digital behaviors like "lurking," examining how curiosity and observation can cross into privacy violations or emotional discomfort. There's a strong undercurrent of cultural reflection, particularly around Black communities’ relationship with mental illness and neurodivergence, emphasizing the need for acceptance and accountability. A playful sketch game adds comedic depth, leading to surreal interpretations of common objects and figures, like linking Elon Musk’s chest to a "bra" or "Alabama." The episode ultimately champions self-reliance, authenticity, and the courage to confront personal and societal truths, using humor as a tool to open up difficult conversations. It blends personal growth, social critique, and digital culture into a dynamic, relatable narrative that celebrates creativity and vulnerability.

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He wanted to tell us for free, come on. I mean, I got some work. I get laid the way, like, fender benders happen. Not paying attention. Just kind of not paying attention. Scott, I'm trying so hard to keep my job. And, neighbor, pulling up to the house today is the hilarious Zach Fox. We, of course, all love him on Abbot Elementary as to reek. But you also may have seen his DJ sets blowing up online, and he's got a new movie out called Lurker that he's starring in. He's a multi-hyphenic creative that is made a whole career out of betting on himself and winning every time. And he's got the kind of energy that will have you wanting to do the very same in your own life. And he's the kind of house guest that doesn't just tell stories. He takes you down rabbit holes that you never even knew existed. The Danger Zone was weird. I don't know where they came from. That's a great one to start off the day with, though. I was glad there. Thank you. And so, brother, it's very good to have you at the house right now. Thank you. Likewise. Our whole family here is freaking out that you are sitting in this chair right now. I'm so excited to be here because I'm a huge friend of the show. Bro, don't do that to me. I am. So, this is, uh, equally, this is just an honor to do strange to be sweating in your own house. That's crazy. Okay. So, I'm going to make us some ice coffees to get started. Are you an ice coffee drinker? Are you a hot coffee drinker? Come to the message that before. Really? Uh, all of the flavoring and all of the, uh, accoutrement, all of that stuff is just a thinly veiled, uh, veneer to hide my addiction to caffeine. So, really, however, you want to judge it up. I need it in my sister's head. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a crackhead, masquerader, you know, as a, as a, as a coffee connoisseur. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is your first cup hot? Man, it's just got to get me high, dude. But, I'm not. He's like, is it working? I'm itching right now. Let's get it going. No, no, no. Just blast me off, like, whatever's in there, make it work. We're just making work. Okay. I'm like, almost, almost three years sober now. Word. Was there a situation, uh, an occurrence, a thought, an intervention, like, what happened that you decided today is the day? Uh, I was driving the car real fast one night. Seriously? Got to drive in the car real fast, trying to drift it around, being bad, and, uh, crushed the whole side of the car, being, being bad. Yeah. And then my wife said, stop, you know, she has the vagina. So, like, everything, that's the main resource. You'd listen of my life. So, if that's gone, then I have nothing really don't own anything. Whatever vagina says. Whatever the vagina says. Yeah, absolutely. In my house. In my house. He said, "I'm never sleeping in the house." In my house. I need one of those flags. It's like, in this house, we believe whatever the vagina says. Man, it's a three years. It's my Steve Harvey book. In the Steve Harvey, like, pink cursive font, like the-- Yes, yes. Think like a man instead, it's whatever the vagina says. That would have been a three years. You know the rest. Do you do ice coffee? I do. I do this. Yeah, I've had my first one, obviously. This would be, like, number three for me today. Okay, got it. Yeah, I'm pop-- I'm popitating right now. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Right. Okay, let's-- let's do this. Let's do this. Here we go. I need you to relax, because I need you to know how low maintenance. How low-- The bar from me being impressed with what you're about to make is whatever you say to me. That black stuff in that cup right there? It's going to work. It's going to work. You could do whatever with it now, baby boy, you could just throw it. Are you oat milk or are you cow milk? Are you soy milk or almond milk? Is there-- Is there all the oat milk? Yeah. I'm so glad you said it, because that's what I got. I'm glad you did ask that, because we have to film this stuff, and I'll get farty in here. For sure. Nobody wants that. Yeah. You know, I had the-- I had the Vietnamese stuff. Oh. Went to Vietnam. Oh, with the foam coffee. Had the Vietnamese coffee. How did you like that? Understood why we lost that one. [laughs] Immediately. We got fucked right up by that. You said, "Whoa!" Wow. Holy shit. I am awake. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I can kill everything. Everything is right now. Anything. Yeah. I'm trapped in the jungle. [laughs] Because everybody's gonna get so high, like, whatever. Shave some bamboo. The caffeine, it's no joke. And I feel like, you know, I tried to do the little green-- you know, I'm gonna switch to green tea. I'm gonna go ahead and say that C word. Have you tried Celsius? Have you ever had a full Celsius, like in your life, like drank a full-- like in one sitting, like a full Celsius? Have you ever had, um, let's try four full Celsius? That's 12-hour period. You had four Celsius. I-- Your heart didn't burst. Hmm. No, it did. [laughs] He's put it back together. Yeah. I had to glue it back. Celsius? Yeah. That's cracking a can. That is legal crap. And then the flavor system that they got now, they-- they started with fruits. Yes. They started with flora fauna. But now, it's fives. Fives. I see, they got play-a-vot. They getting ebonic with it. I'm gonna be honest with you. It's delicious. Play-a-vot is the best beverage on planet Earth right now. It's delicious. Listen. You give me a play-a-vot and a gun. Tell me who-- [laughs] Say what? Oh, where? [laughs] I literally-- I don't think I'm having kids because of Celsius and AI. [laughs] Cool. Those two things existed at the same time. I'm like-- Yeah. Yeah. Get out of here. Cheers. Cheers indeed. Yeah. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. That's delicious. Right? I feel like that. You just see the substance. Mm-hmm. You know, every time she took a little shot of that-- Man. --that back juice in her eyes. Did you say back juice? Yeah, that. [laughs] So that's how the days will go. [laughs] I feel like I just took a shot of that back juice. That's spinal motel. She was sucking on us. [laughs] I'll never forget near the end of the movie when she morphed into the whatever the thing was. Did Titi grow out of her back? Yeah. And then the Titi fell off. She turned into Dick Cheney at the end. A lot of people don't know that. Sorry to ruin the movie for you. Yes, she turns into Dick Cheney at the end of the movie. That's factually true. Look it up. That is why it is critically acclaimed because that is funny for someone to turn into actually the actual vice president, formerly of the United States of America. A Titi on your back. Titi on his back. This is a new movie out, Lurker. Yeah. The trailer, I was like, "Oh, okay, I can, this is going to be fun." And then I watched it and I was like, "This is not exactly what I thought might be. It's a good time." This was anxiety. Oh my God. This is a lot of people's real lives on both sides of the coin, right? You have the celebrity and then you also have the fan. Yeah. The pair of social relationship, especially online, but it was wild. You had to describe the movie for people who hadn't seen it, but were curious about it. How do you break it down? I'd pitched the movie, honestly, and that it is a movie about toxic hierarchies amongst a group of boys. Yeah. If I had to use less words, I'd say it's Mean Girls with Scary Music. It's pretty actually fucking spot on, actually. Yeah. Whoever scored hereditary by. Yes! Let them score Mean Girls and it's closer to Lurker. Yeah. It's a good examination of these hierarchies that I think, even if you're not in music, even if you're not in the entertainment business, you know, there's that mean of, like, girls. You've ever been dating a nigga and then you realize he's not the leader in his friend group. Like, we all know these things. They're like kind of implicit. Yeah. But I think that this movie is going to deliver a really, really fresh angle on that and deliver something new to the lexicon. I learned it. Well, the writer director, Alex Russell, famously of beef. He wrote on the bear. He wrote on Dave. Yeah. I've known Alex for about 10 years. We met in New York, but I was living in Atlanta. And shortly after we met in New York, he just also came down to Atlanta and during that time, I was a part of an underground rep collective off of records. which spawn people like a Theorio, Abra, Playboy Cardi, he was around and he was examining these dynamics and then from there he went on to kind of like be like just around music and around music groups and just examine their high arches and some of them are benevolent as you might know sometimes it's benevolent, sometimes there's just a star and there's the people who help and they tell a healthy thing but sometimes it can be really toxic it can be really predatory, it can be kind of perverted and I think he's seen like every version of that as have I. There were points of the movie I was like I hate everybody in this movie but also I feel bad for all these people also but I also also see all these people I also know all these people and it's like that thing of like when you hate something it's because it kind of reminds you of a piece of yourself that's either stifled or that you have in a lot of yourself to unpack. This is just caffeine that's not even no yerba mate. That's just the coffee. It's no sensious. No player vibe in here. Hear me? Okay so we're going to play a little game. Yes. Lurk it or leave it. Situations that come up in your life I know they definitely come up in mine. I don't want to know if you've lurked it or if you leave it. Let's go. The person sitting next to you on your flight is texting something in big text. Boy I am nosy one time. Oh yeah? Seen a good brother. My good um. Getting chewed out by his sugar baby. Oh yeah because he wasn't producing. He wasn't producing the sugar. He was being a salt base so dude if I see that big text. Are you old? I'm looking. Cause you guys are not going to see me look anyway. You're not going to see me. I feel like on the plane in particular because you're in such close proximity if you don't have a privacy screen on it's an invitation. Yes. We text the niggas. Yeah. It's us together. As a matter of fact you failed that wrong. Let me help you out. Let me do your birth chart for you. The new girls want to know what time you was born. You're looking for possessive. She trying to know your rising don't tell her right. I want to just help. And that's the preposition. That's not the one you won't. Ooh you get a DM request with a photo but it's blurred out. You're the one that's not to open it up to it. You can see it. Yeah. Okay. User name seems pertinent. But I'm going to say seems thought. I'm going to go ahead and say go to hell. You're going to have to get you up out of here. I'll beat you. It's a name of you. It's not only in my block. I'm reporting you. Get out of here. I'm getting you docks. Get out of here. You're out of here. Damn. No flight list and everything. She's a terror. She's an ISIS. I've seen her around. She's building a bomb. I'm going to look at it. I'm going to look. That's fair. I'm going to look. And you know what? There might be a world in which I look. I'm going to look. But I'm going to still do that. I'm going to look and then renew you. I can't. I believe you can't. You would see me. Whoa. How many cheeks? This is I think this is going to be I'm interested to see if we defer on this one. Okay. Do you scroll your memo fee to see who's paying who and for what? Why did they create a timeline a fee for a payment act? Yeah. It's the worst idea. It really is bad. And I'm looking to see. I want to know with pizza. Okay. I see a house emoji. I see a race car emoji. I've got more questions about the race car emoji. We'll come back to that. Sexual. Feels like it. The trombone. Definitely sexual. Super sexual. Matter of fact, maybe go to jail. Talent for trombone. What I was going to say. Yeah. Because then you also put it in the might need to look at a career shift. If you're putting the trombone depending on what the payment was, you probably already made the shift. I've never really scrolled the wall though. I've never scrolled the wall. What? I think I'm too straight to like get in there. Yeah. And really like like my nosiness goes different ways than that. Like my wife. She is scrolling the feed, going crazy and telling me about it. And I think like I'm too. I was eating it by proxy. I get it by proxy, but I think like as a dude, like we're not like we're not trying to play around in subtext. Yeah. You know what I mean? But I want to see. I don't want to have to sit and decode anything. With the big text, you can cut stuff out by the sugar baby next to me on the flight. Very clear. Very super clear. It's in big text. My wife like folks like y'all like to do the the web. Yeah. The red yarn. Okay. Well, that says you know, payment got posted at this time. And then her story, she had on a tabby. So she must have been at dinner also figuring out. I didn't know that you knew this person enough to pay them $300 for race car. So in race car is now I want to know. Yeah. How do you know? I don't know if God likes race car. You don't think God's cool with everything. But race car soon might be a sin. I definitely want to know how race car is. Let me tell you right now. You're house sitting for a friend. Do you go through their drawers? Oh, whoa. Go through the drawers how thoroughly like just a quick little. I mean, even a quick is a lurk. Okay. Yeah. I'm in your house. I'm gonna let me in. Hey, you trusted me. You're done. I'm not going deep. No. Right. Yeah. I don't go into somebody's bedroom. Yeah. Looking through their stuff. No. But like, you know, every once in a while, you're trying to hold the hand soap is out. Let's see if there's maybe some more hands open this cabinet. Let's look. Oh, no. But there's other stuff in this cabinet. There's other stuff in here. There's the substance in here. Which is in the back juice. The back juice. The back juice is in there. The stem cell margarita that she was drinking that. They gross. That's real. I think that that's not actually too far away from where we are. I think that's real. stem cell mezcal margarita is going on the rocks. These holes would drink that. If you took some coconut water and labeled it back juice and put it in arrow wine, you telling me they're not drinking that? They're drinking it. They're not even going to ask who's back. They're just taking it. Let me tell you something. Billion dollar idea if you shake my hand on it. Back shots. You heard it here, folks. I'm going to say this. They're going to drink it. I'm just going to say this. We can wrap this shit up. This is done. This this shit here. This is the last episode you're ever going to see me. I'm not asking. I'm going to rig them a roll, but I ain't going to hold it. Back shots. Goop. You're out of here. You're out of here. It's done. There's a new goop in time. There's a new goop and it's goopy y'all. And it goes back. Also. We we we go back. It goes back. Come on. Because time. Reverse. This is how Billion dollar ideas are made. Not dude, man. This is just what I do. This is the last really a shame. I know I said subscribe earlier, but I don't need to subscribe. Yeah, subscribe. You might want to just hit block us. Well, hey, whoa, we. Oh, okay. Okay, too far. Okay, all right. I don't have a patent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Max shots. I don't know. You get it on the shelves. Okay. Re-subscribes. Sorry. You create a finster to lurk on your ex. Are you lurking or you leaving that girl? What? I'm with you. If it's over. It's over. It's a wrap. It might have like this over. It's been over for like a good most second. So you're not going to create one. I don't care. Yeah, me neither. I don't care. I've never done that. I've never done. Why would I do that? Why I have so much going on? Yeah. Like I'm a Vinmo fees. Yeah. I mean, they have big text messages to me. But I look like creating, you know, a thought fence to just to lurk on you. Never? Huh? I think my relationships, if I'm being honest with you, have been so unspectacular that nobody's lurking each other. It's over. It's over. It's over. It's over. It's over. It's over. They end in the most boring ways. Like I'm not on the tee app. That's pretty disappointing. Like there's no like even a mediocre review. Just anything like this nigga was born. Just nothing. Just so mediocre that I don't even register on the tee app. Not bad enough. That's safe, I suppose. I guess. I guess but it hurts a little bit. I thought I was running around my 20s being toxic. There's going to be an X in the comments like, well, yeah. Can't wait, right? Please, spice it up. Maybe not please. You get a notification on your ring camera and it's your neighbors arguing in the hallway. Do you watch? I'll do you one better. I'm joining in the argument from the ring camera. What? Fuck both of y'all. Get the fuck out the hallway. Put all that yelling on an argument. Join in here from the ring. - First of all, from my fall. - And I recorded it. - And I'm recording, yeah, and I'm posting it. (laughing) - And like, you know who wouldn't shit in that argument anyway. - Yeah. - So I'm also maybe gonna take a side. - 'Cause I've been listening to y'all. - 'Cause also living in LA, you learn these walls. - Hmm, right then. - Then, half of these buildings is oil rig, shells. I just found that out. - What? - They go fake ass sitting, man. - They got these buildings, the Beverly Center. They just got a Louis Vuitton, so they could justify putting the oil rig right there in the middle of town. The middle of it is oil operation. - I'll be dead. - And there's a lot of different buildings in houses that are just facades. - So there's a rig in there. - With the oil rig. Just sucking up mother earth's back juice. - It always comes back. - It always comes back to the back juice. - To the back juice. - Hello. - Don't ask me. - Yeah, you didn't make it up. - They did it, not me. - Messenger. - Don't shoot. - If you do. (laughing) Before you were married. - Okay. - Cutie gets on the train, one stop, before you have to get off. Do you stay to orchestrate your meat, cute? - Again, I'm so like not interesting when it comes to this. Like, I have (laughing) I didn't register that my wife liked me for like the first half a year that we were friends. - What? - I was just kind of like, yeah, we're chilling. We're just hanging out. - And you're on date number three. - And I don't even know it. (laughing) I have no, I got waived. (laughing) She got meat. - Yeah. It's always been an accident. - Seriously. - Every time I've gotten laid, has been an accident. - Zach. - I get laid. - I get laid the way, like, fender benders happen. - Not paying attention. - Just kind of not paying attention. Scrolling through my phone, trying to find the next song I'm gonna listen to. Whoa! - Zach, this is wild. - I swear, I apologize. - And the reason I say that is because, you know, and respect to your relationship, before you were married, before you two were together. You're on lists of like, hottest personalities, hottest guy online. Like I even saw, I think it was on Twitter, that you sparked a new kind of demographic of hotness. - Okay. - Surrebrally hot. - That's a new way to call somebody kind of ugly. I love that. - No! - I love that. - No, she went like that. (laughing) - Just kind of like this. - He's so up here, here. - When you look at it, you know what you're doing? You're thinking like, ooh, brain. - I don't know, the mind. - No. - Thoughts. - Put this down. - This right here? - This right here, this right here. - Ooh, that cortex. - Woo! Frontal? - Swear to God, that's crazy. We never be in the stroke club. Like, ooh, that bitch, cortex. Bussin. - Make it go. - Make that cortex go. - Make that cortex clap. We don't say that. - She's like, how do you do it? - I don't know. - She's just up there flipping. She's up there with a candle. - She's reading. - She's reading. - There you go. - Surrebrally hot. - Surrebrally hot. - I take, I accept it. - I was wondering how you accept it. - I was wondering how you might receive it. 'Cause what she goes on to say is that he is very handsome, but he's also funny. She also mentioned the fact that you had like simple things, like hobbies. - Okay. - And the bars. - Hobbies came up quite a bit. - The bars. - The bars really fucked up. - Well, it's tough out here. - A homegirl saw a picture of me in high school recently. - Okay. - And she was like, whoa, you must have been so ran through in high school and you must have been, and I got mad. I was like, this is so revisionist. And so, I feel so ghastly. - Is it not nice to be like this? - It's not nice to be like this. - 'Cause this is not my experience whatsoever. - What was your experience like in high school? - Boy, they wasn't spitting. Is that fuck's direction? Tell you, boy, what? I am like, this shit is, it's upsetting. That's why I just let it, I just let it occur. - Right. - I don't say anything. I don't prop test. - Right. - Thank you so much. Bottom of my heart, I appreciate it. - Keep it moving. - Well, I know, for a fact, that 2007, 2008 that pocket, was the height of lameness from my life. Not in my milieu, in my circle, my nerd world. - Going crazy. - I was going crazy. - But outside of that. - Outside of that. - And it took all the system. - No, my God, are you kidding me? - That's good ball game. - What? - There's the basketball players. I remember I got mad. I found out, it was way after high school. It was like, yeah, North Springs high school. All of the teachers was fucking all the students. - So I'm just chopped liver. (laughs) - So, you mean to tell me, like, I can't, not even a predator? - Not even a predator. - I didn't even get a look like a, (laughs) - Maybe you missed? - Yeah, yeah, never never. - Stay in the class. - Yeah. - No. - I stayed under class because I was in trouble. - One might say you'd dodge the bullet with that one. The whole teacher thing. - I'ma go ahead and hit that one with a share. (laughs) - I think about my experience in high school and how difficult it was to do well in class because there were times where my ADHD was so. - Just fucking. - Was that like your life as a student? - Yeah. - And when did you figure out the path or the system, the formula for being able to succeed or even just focus? - I honestly don't think that that started to, like, materialize for me until very recently within the past couple of years. - Seriously? - Yeah, and I think, like I'm sure you feel this way, like ADHD, that first emotion you feel in school is like, I'm broken, like something is. - Oh yeah, they tell you, they tell you. They're very vocal about it. - The teachers are like, this guy sucks. - He's making it very hard for my class to function. - Clicking and dragging you to the recycle bin of people. - Yeah. - And then I hit this, like, sort of, what's the word I'm looking for? Like, just like a toxic acceptance of that and then being like, okay, well that must be true. So I got to college and I was like, taking vibe ants, extended release, trying to complete, as I went to art school. So it was like super, like, I was just blowing my brain to bits with amphetamines and trying to succeed in this mall, 'cause I was like, well, there's no other way. There's no other path. - And everyone else is doing it. - And everyone else is doing it and I feel not normal. So I might as well do something and then, like, two years in the college, I had like this, like, really bad room trip. And after that room trip, I was like, I just kind of like, jettisoned so much, all of that. I left school, I left relationships. I left friendships that were toxic. I left a lot of stuff and I think that was the point of me being like, I know it's funny to say. It's like, oh, it's true trip, but that was a point. I mean, at least diverging. I think after that, I was like, okay, I don't have the answers. I don't know what the right way to do this is or how to piece this together, but I do realize that it needs to be broken apart. - I can't keep doing it this way. This is not going to. And I'd rather go out into the world and like, re-peace it back together, DIY, then like, lie to myself. - There's, I think, something so, something so incredible to recognize whatever got you to that place, be it mushrooms, therapy, conversation, failing out of school, whatever, the situation for whoever, whomever it might be, but to recognize it, I can't keep doing it the way I've been doing it. And that something has got to change. So I'm going to change as much as I can to while I piece that back together. Man, that's such a word. - Yeah, do you know what I mean? - Yeah, because it's like a lot of fear. - It's all the night. - A lot of us back. - Yeah. Dude, one time my mom almost got in a fight with a lady. - What? - Because like, she said that she could like, by looking at people's handwriting, like tell their behaviors or something like that. The lady said the way that I wrote certain letters and meant that I might have been a little bit on the spectrum. - Okay. - And my mom almost killed that lady. (laughing) Black Christian moms, they're like, you're saying, you're saying my baby's incorrect. You're saying like, right. - Yeah, you're saying, I did something to my baby. - And then you're saying, God. - Hello. - He made a mistake and he don't do that. - Not with my baby? - Not with mine. So then I have to murder you, unfortunately, in the Savannah Mall. - Brought it on your sale? - On the way to take my kid to see a bug's life. - Was this information that your mother had asked her about? Or did she just like, she saw your handwriting was like, oh man, you probably want to-- - She volunteered it for sure. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah. - That's why she volunteered it. - Why are you even overheating? - And it's like, it's an handwriting. - Was she wrong? - Hey. (laughing) - Probably not. - Was she wrong? - Hey. - Hey. - Listen. - There's no formal diagnosis here. I'm not going to-- I'm not going to do any type of stolen, neurodivergent valor here. - That part. - But there's something going on with everybody. - That's why they call it a spectrum. - And I think my mom's denial of that. Followed by violence. - Is funny. - Is something. - Black elder. Rejection of mental illness otherness is funny. If black people just started accepting the autism, we would have black Japan. Sweet of God, we would have black Japan. We would just take the whole Southeast corridor of the United States of America and we would break it off and start a whole new island. It would be black Japan. We just need to accept the black autistics and let them just run shit, let them go. - Because there is an order, there's an order. - That's the hierarchy. They are the leaders, the neurodivergence, they run shit. Let those people do it all. - I agree. - I mean, we've done it the other way. - Your friend hands you their phone to take a photo to you swipe through their camera roll. - I have been betrayed. - By not necessarily the camera roll, but the roll preview in the bottom. - Someone looked at yours. - They got me. - How did that make you feel? - Lurked on. - Violated. - Well, I was proud. - It's a good photo. - Whatever you saw. - Yeah, it was there. - That's it. - That's it. - It happens to be with that photo. - That is it, that's it. - You went both the same. - But there is, here we are. - Now, you know, damn. - Does your camera roll? - Oh, my shit's fucked. - What do you mean? - Oh, God. - That's me and my wife. - You know what I mean, what? - Let me tell you something. The FBI agent. - Don't have to look. - Who has to monitor my phone? - Right. - Is on suicide watch. - Or highly entertained. - Maybe both. - Maybe both. - The next ridiculous photo I take. - I'm gonna be like, this one's for my pen and I don't file. - This one's for you. - Elon. - Oh, yeah. - X one, it's like allow access to full library. Go ahead. - Go ahead. - Let's take a look at that. - Yeah, there you go. - Take a look at that. - Me. - There you are. That's what you want. - That's what you want. - That's what we're here. - You want me to allow limited access? - Sure. - No, no, no, no. - Take the photo. - I know what you have all of it. - I know what this is. - You want it to buy Twitter so you can have access to the most meat picks out of anybody. You a meat pick hoarder, you're weird, you got a big chest, here you go. Go ahead. Look at it. - It's just a big chest. - Big chest a bit. - Did you say you want to look at? - You want to look at my dick and balls, because he's a big box chested billionaire bitch with a boxed chest. - At least what I'm doing. - You doing all this? - Did you say you want to look at a big chest? - Biggest chest, at least on the Western hemisphere. I'm gonna go ahead and say. - What make you say a big chest? - I just got a big chest. - Does he not? The big bitch. - Is that his bones? What part of the body? - What part of the body? - The body has never heard somebody be described as the dude who swallowed the big JBL speaker. - What? - What's in there? A curic? What's in your chest? - It's back shots. - Back shots? - Yeah. See he's brewing. He's boiling it up. - Boiling it up? - What ever your thing, it could be anything, Canva helps you make that thing a thing. Canva is a simple online tool thing. It's a way to design with our magic AI tool things. 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"I would eat long, yeah." "I think his substance double is growing in there." "The tedion is back." "Yep, it's growing right now." "I do wonder if she got a chance to look at that costume before she put it on." "You know?" "I do wonder if she was like, I just feel like the tedion is back." "You think she's signed up?" "Yeah, whatever." "I've been showed her and she was like, holy fuck." "There's a titty on my back, y'all." "Oh, damn it." "Like, this teeth on my elbow, I mean, elbows are already weird. You could leave it alone." "Elbows are nasty." "Get rid of it." "It's a weird thing to, well, I don't know if you can get rid of it." "You'd be like this, get rid of the wrinkle." "Straight and do it away." "Don't do anything to anybody when they're born. No more circumcision." "No bowtocks in the elbow, smooth it out. Stop circumcising, dig his arm." "Really?" "Not that I'm complaining about being a aerodynamic or whatever, but it's unnecessary." "But it's unnecessary. I want my shit back." "You know you can do it." "I would like to do that. Where do I sign up?" "Well, that I don't know." "Okay." "But I do know that they are offering it a reattachment, a rehabilitation of the foreskin." "What are they making it out of?" "I had no idea what they make it out of, it could be frog skin. I don't know." "I mean, if I could pick, which would you pick?" "I like a Japanese denim, you know." "You want a selvedge, selvedge, selvedge, selvedge, selvedge foreskin." "That seems very unpleasant." "It's only for aesthetic, you know." "You want a cuff?" "Yes." "Some little go next with a dog, Martin." "Get out of here." "I saw a video of you talking about your start. You describe this time in your life being a fan of adult swim, like many of us were, and getting the opportunity to literally walk into the offices." "Yeah." "So now you're like, yes, I'm about to make this happen. And they tell you, instead of, yes, come be an intern, actually go build your own thing. How did you decide this is now my course of action instead of, I'm going to go jump off of the bridge?" "Yeah, I mean, I think I was blessed too. It's like I knew, and I'm still, you know, fairly close to Walter Newman. He was like a huge inspiration for me because he was responsible for Loiter Squad, you know, like, dying of my, like, smiling friends was his last great contribution to adult swim, and camp-tang. So, I was in a position where I got to be blessed because it was like, this is an older brother type of figure. I think there was something that he saw in me that maybe I was minimizing." "Hmm. How about you develop the talents that you had before you attach yourself to a machine that's going to use you?" "Exploit sounds like such a crazy word, but employment is quite literally that. So, you have to do that to employ people. So, it's like, I think he just saw me who was like, you don't want that smoke, like, go get back in the streets and craft." "DJ, animator, rapper, musician, actor, comic, like there are a lot of things that you do very, very well. How do you determine, how do you decide what thing you're going to do next?" "I think I just always center excitement and what activates that inner child feeling of that version of me is excited, then I'm going in the right place." "Yep." "And a lot of times that's made possible to catalyst is just friendship. Communities like, my God, that's the one thing that I look up to now, because I'm not singular." "You know what I mean, like, and walled from Walter to Thundercat to, you know, the folks are awful records to Earl sweatshirt, like, I'm blessed to say I'm surrounded by people." who are just like amazing collaborators. - Yeah. - Quinta being one of them who like, you can't shine unless somebody's like, gonna give you a layup. And even if it's like, okay, this is my project and this is my thing that I'm doing over here, I need a community that is gonna treat that with care and help me complete a vision. - How did that happen? How did the you and Quinta abbot elementary situation happen? - Quinta me and Quinta met 2017 when I moved out here. - Okay. - She was putting on a comedy show and she invited me and a few other friends to come just do some time and me and her knew about each other from Twitter. Of course, you know, she had seen my antics over there. She see me acting up. I already knew about her. She was already, by the time I met Quinta, she was already like, she's already bossed up in my mind. I'm like, this is it. - Right, right. - She's killing, you know? When 2020 happened and Gal Gadot did the John Linnon thing. - Yeah. - I asked her to be a part of a parody that I did of that where we got together and sang Slava Manav, about three, six mafia. - Like Quinta and the Cobb, like Quinta and the Cobb and we delivered it, we waxed poetic. You know, we did the whole Gal Gadot thing and I think from that moment, like seeing her like clown, like at that level, I was like, this is my sister forever, like she's-- - And it's fearless. - She's fearless, like she's actually a funny person, but also super studied, like knows the full back link, the back catalog of sitcom universe. I mean, name and episode knows the story art. - It's that kind of attention and dedication to a craft that explains why she's successful. - Yeah. - 'Cause a lot of people think she was on Vine, you know what I mean, on social media, then went to Buzzfeed and then blew up. - Yeah. - And it was way more work than that. - So many decisions. - Yeah. - So many knows. - So many knows, so many, yeses through gritety in order to like make a lateral move. - Yeah. - I've seen a lot of ups and downs and by the time we were even friends, she had already, she had taken so many shots, you know? And I think that inspired me that I was like, this is not about a linear thing. This is about like, how many times are you going to learn from what we call failure? - Yep. - How many times are you gonna intake that data and say, okay, what if I tried this configuration? What if I tried to develop a show this way? - Yep. - Or what if I, you know, found the script first and then we got this producer or what if I wrote the script and then we attach a direct, like, she's tried every play, every option. And then Abbott was just that one play where it was like, okay, boom, touch now. - I'm gonna go back. - Okay. - Booty math. - Mmm. - Yeah. - Booty math. - Yes. - Not Z-Fox. - Not anything else. - Not. - You know, I just got, um, Foxy, if you got it, I just got kicked out of the crib where I was standing up. - Okay. - I was being a hobo, sexual, okay? I just like, didn't even wanna like deal with that. Like, being yelled at anymore. So I was like, I'm just gonna like, just gonna go. I moved like, 500 feet down the street. And I had this homie Aaron Smith, one of the best punk musicians and music archivists that I've ever met. And he was like, dude, you can sleep on my couch, dude. She's tripping, you can sleep on my couch, dude. And we would sit there, we would watch like, body horror movies on VHS. Just like, really messed up movies. - Yeah. - Like, I was just like super disoriented. And like, in a place where I was just like, this is so funny, like, being displaced right now to meet the absurdity of it. - Right. - The best Twitter, the top 0.1% of humor on Twitter. When you're poor and drunk and like, malnourished, the best tweets. - Nothing to lose. I started that account to make like, my 10 closest friends laugh. - And then hundreds of thousands of people - Yeah. - Also found it ridiculously funny. - Yeah. - But it was literally me just tweeting through the pain. But it also was like a pseudonym. It was some space away from you. - Yeah. - Then you transition into like, a space online where it is your face, it's your voice, it's your likeness. Why did you decide to flip it? - I decided to flip it because like, some shit just got to die. Some stuff like, when it's run its course, it's run its course. Like, I've never, I don't want to milk anything. I've never wanted to like, and honestly, at my manager and my team's, you know, they hate it. They don't, they hate that about me. Probably sometimes that I don't want to do that. - Right, when it's over for you, it's over. - When it's over for yourself. - There's so much money that can be made here. There's still like, it's an opportunity. - Like whatever, like, it's done. Let's move on to the next thing. And I felt that way like, I think it was like, 2016 or whatever. And Trump was either on his way to being elected or was getting elected. And I was like, no amount of absurdity that I can, would beat this. - It's not beating this, okay, so now it's flipped. America's absurd, absurdity is zero. It's time to reorient something. Not that absurd comedy doesn't still exist. You are positioned in this. - My position in it. - And what you contribute in it is going to be something different. Because the audience has informed us that things are different. - Yes, there was a space even on Twitter that was like absurdist millennial humor. There's multiple accounts that kind of made up the space. And it was a specific time in a specific era that spewed people like Jibuki, who's incredibly hilarious, incredibly talented. Now he's writing Dochi tour treatments. He wrote, heard glass and barrier treatments. So it's like that place in that time, like I look at it for what it is and it's that pocket and it was perfect. - Yeah. - Have you seen Asab Rocky lately? (laughing) - Yeah. Please tell me how that went. - Dude, we hung out recently. I went to the dang premiere of R.E. Astor's Boas of Frank. - Okay. - And he was up in there. And he saw me, and the thing I love about Rocky is that he's like, booty map. Like he still is like, there. He's still there with it. Yep. And I'm like, this dude's a fool. - But also when you talk about like library. - Yeah. - You know what I mean? - He's the smartest. - He's pulling up. - He's like smart. - Yeah. I feel like that moment or that joke that he saw that and he just was like, fuck yeah. (laughing) - What I was gonna ask, do you ever have to apologize for where you've taken it? - Only if I feel as though it's a situation where a punch was misinterpreted as coming from above. You know, or in my case, like laterally in my community. - Yeah. - Like if something I ever said or do, which I'm sure will, it's because it's like, I'm a public figure. - Right. - Makes a bunch of people mad. - I'm going to my immediate community rather than this like imagined digital one because that's not what I can't do accountability there. And I'm blessed to be in a community where people can like, call me out of my shit. - Right. - You know, and be like, no, miss, miss. - Right. - It's like, dude, I'm like, I was born in 90. Like I'm five years away from 40. We've got to be wrong with it. I feel like black men have a very hard expiration date, sometimes on, on when we're correct, if we're not willing to be like, ah, my bet. And there's nothing wrong with being incorrect or being called out, but like, are the people around you incentivized to do that? - Right. - And help hold accountable. - Yeah. - It's like it'll make you better friends, fuck being an artist or an entertainer. It brings people closer. - Well, but speaking of you being an artist, I got a game. - I love it. I want to play with you. - Okay. - He's going to get kind of sketchy though. - Okay. - And tell him I'm going to say, wow. - Yeah. - You just leave it there. - Leave it there. - And you're just going to leave me at the, you're just going to leave. - You just actually, I'm going to go and leave. - You know, leave me in, leave me in the back yard. - Yeah. - All right. - Yep. - Well, I'll be here. - Not to get sketchy. - All righty. - It's hot. - I mean, if you want to come inside, you're going to see a lot of me. - I'm going to come inside. - Yeah, you. (upbeat music) - I'm still tripping over the big chest. I just, what's he hiding? What's he doing? (laughing) - Okay, so we're going to play this game. It's called sketchy connections. - Okay. - So you DJ, so you know all about a mashup. - Sure. - We've got two different sketches. - Okay. - Getting us to the common denominator. - Okay. Two sketches, one answer. First to five wins. Okay. Okay. First one. How the hell am I going to draw that? The common denominator between my clue and your clue. Yep. You only got 30 seconds to draw. 10 seconds? Okay. Time. Time? Ready to flip? Not particularly. Okay. One, two, three. Hey. That is an alligator. But that is a man wearing potatoes. It's a chain. I just drew it really fast. So it kind of looks like. Oh. Okay. I got like a gold chain. It's a dukey chain that kind of disused you to bar in the dukey direction. What was your car? Mine said microphone. Okay. So wait a second. So I drew Lil Wayne currently. That's it. Little Wayne's I tried to draw as many of his dreads that currently exist. That is the wildest illustration. Because the microphone I thought of a rapper the greatest whoever existed who has five dreads right now. And so if I went with microphone. Yes. An alligator. I mean, alligator bites don't heal. So wait. So then that's Dochi. That's Dochi, right? That's Dochi. Here's my question. What's your shit, sir? Mine said alligator. Oh, so you just drew what was on your shit. I thought that was the game. Great. I love that. That is the game. I saw the moment of you walking out on stage. I heard the audience respond to you at Dochi's concert. Dochi's performance. But what is that like for you, the music video, the connection that you two have, but also the love that it seems like the audience also has for that connection? It's super dope. I mean, that that opportunity to to get on that music video didn't come from like a casting situation. That wasn't like agents and managers. Oh, yeah. It comes down to like community and being close and friends having ideas and knowing and having recall and being like this person would be good for this. But my homies, Kim Hicks and Justin Grant, aka Mexico were hired to help her with those shorts to accompany that music video. And yeah, they were just like, yeah, when you guys have a chance, we need somebody to play all-do with the 2019, you know, and they were like, who's going to be comfortable playing this mystery and the hell nigga? You just turn around like, yeah. Hello. Here we go. I've already failed. Really? Yeah. What? Okay. Oh, that's really stressed out. One, two, three. Yeah. God. The universe is so strange. Did you draw Elon Musk? Did you draw the Twitter bird? Is it? Is Twitter? It must be Twitter. It's Twitter. It's Twitter. So I guess you got that one. Is this what you see when you see Elon Musk? Isn't this not what it is? Is this what you see something different? Is this a blue or gold dress situation? Because every time I look at a picture, Elon Musk, this is what you see. This is what I'm looking at. Why does his chest also a smiley face? I don't understand his face. There's another face in it. Yeah. Is Elon Musk's chest possessed? There's something in there. The devil. I don't know how to draw that. What? Okay. Why am I still green? It's going to have to be. Oh god, I just messed it up. You're not going to know what that is. I really ate shit on that one. Flip the iPads in three, two, three, four. Okay. Okay. Okay. I know what it is. It's the bra. Alabama bra. It's Alabama bra. Okay. You got that one quicker than 90 because I was just like folding chair. I was like, I don't know. Boat. I tried to get you some water there. Okay. I tried my best to get you some water. That's the boat. That is a boat. I saw a river boat. I saw a loaf of bread and french fries on the counter. Also, this could sub in four. Elon Musk chest. Just floating. Put this right here. Put that face back there. Give it my arm and a couple legs. Isn't that the same thing? That's our guy. That's a boy. Oh god. Oh god. That's hard. Okay. I don't even know what this is. I apologize. I'm going to not apologize. Okay. And I'm just going to, I'm just living your true. I'm going to just stand on this. Okay. And if it's not clocking to you, then it's my fault. That's not my bad. And three, two, one. Okay. So you, you have a, we both got airplane. You got airplane out of that. I am proud of myself. Those are two airplanes. Yes. Those are two, one would say fighter jets. I'm not going to deny you that. Okay. I'm not sure why they're fire planes over any other. They're not commercial jets. Maybe. Okay. It's a deserted island. Is it a show? Yeah, but, but, but the commercial jet is going there. The island is, the island is just an idea of where the plane is going for the purpose. Yours is two planes. See the, oh, is it two jet holiday? Is it two jet holiday? Whoa. Is it two jet? Wow. Yeah, that's got to be it. You got it. Because mine is a vacation. Oh, jet two holiday. It's two holiday. Because I was like, what is it? What's your say? It's two jets. Oh, but I thought maybe that better than me. I would have drawn 9/11 so fast on accident. On accident. On accident. I mean, it's a jet two holiday. Where did it come from? Where did the family go from? Come from. I'm guessing based on the accent somewhere, British? It's giving CIA. Because it came out nowhere. Zach, I'm going to be honest with you. What it's giving to me is song of the summer. Put it on the radio. I'm not saying here. I'm not hating on it. You know, as soon as you're here, do you know exactly what it is? I'm shaking hands. He's got really called you yet or not. She has him. What? Do I feel bad? Glow has it called you? Yeah, I do. Have you been practicing? Yeah. I practice every day. I'm like, where is it at? Zach, let me see. Zach, let me see. I felt free. And that's okay. I'm not. I want you to go ask for free. Come on. I mean, I got some what? I mean, speaking up. Okay. Speaking up. Oh, this is terrible. Oh, God. Why did I take it too far? Uh-oh. I'm so done. I'm having details now. I'm running laps, man. I'm not going to do it. No. I'll wait. Okay. Tick, tick Scott. Okay. Tick, tick buddy. I've had flipping three, two, one. Atlanta, Georgia. Yes, that's what I mean. It's a common denominator. How did you get that? That's a hatchet. It's a hole. That's a peach right there. And that's a hole. That's a Tomahawk. - Okay. - Oh, I thought that was a Tomahawk. - Uh-huh. - You see it? - You see it? - That's right. - You see it? - Yeah. - This almost became uto and ass. I see where you're trying to get that in there. - I was trying to get the leg up and this could also be, you are most chess. - What would you say is the most Atlanta thing about you? - Hmm. The most Atlanta thing about me. - Yeah. - Hmm. (laughing) - The fact that you've thought of maybe 50 things already and you're like, "I can't say that." Scott, I'm trying so hard to keep my job. (laughing) Can't say that. - Let's play a safe, love Gladys Knight in the pips and her chicken and waffles. - Okay. - Love the falcons. - Okay. - Okay. - I love Erscher. - Erscher, baby, yeah. - How many times have you seen life? - Zero. (sniffing) - You want me to see you skating around, listening, taking my bitch in front of me. - Yeah, it's me. - Erscher, concert, Chris Brown, concert, haunted house for monogamy. (laughing) - You're on to something. - When you spend $1,000 to get my girl taking my wife taken and impregnated. - Yeah. Volunteer is tribute, as a matter of fact, actually. - Yeah, how about this? I'm done. - How about that? - Served you drawing neck? - Yeah, he's drawing. - Let's draw a gun. - Shotgun. (laughing) - That's the most related thing about me. - I think that's it. - Yeah, I think that's it. - Are you ready? (bell dinging) - No. - Okay. - You thought this was your run club era. Turns out, it was more of a thinking about run club era. The good news? Someone's marathon training is about to start. Sell your workout gear on Deepop. Just snap a few photos and we'll take care of the rest. They get their race day fit and you get a payout for trying. (bell dinging) Someone on Deepop wants what you've got. Start selling now. Deepop. Where taste recognizes taste. (keyboard clacking) - Yeah. (keyboard clacking) - Yeah, I'm done. (keyboard clacking) - I'm good, three. - Two. - Uh. - Okay. - That's a microphone. - TV dinner. TV. - Is that an ED? - It's a CEO. - CEO. - Yeah. - Don't allow that to take over the, - Okay. - What the thing is. - Okay, I'm just going to put some, yeah, office. - But that's a microphone. - That is a microphone. - It's something, think, think, don't think so literally. - It could be a desk, it could be tiny. It could be a tiny desk. - Oh, so right. - You got there before the test. - My clue was singer. - Ah. - You didn't want to draw a singer. - I didn't know how to draw a singer. - What singer would you have drawn? - Whitney Houston. - Okay. - I didn't know how to draw that. - How do you draw Whitney? - If you told me to draw Whitney, I'ma draw, um. - I'm nervous. (laughs) - Okay, so the score right now? - Four, two. - I feel like maybe it's a little bit of a setup happening over here. - Let's not act like this is a stack in my favor. - I'm just saying that. - You're scared first. - This is a home game, okay? - I'm just saying. - It's your house. - Your first clue was microphone. Don't invite me over, play Uno and then give Matt when-- (laughs) - And you drew a little weight when potatoes on his neck. (laughs) - I'm also curious about what you chose for the lips, but we're gonna talk about that another time. (laughs) (bell dinging) - Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. (keyboard clicking) (keyboard clicking) (keyboard clicking) - Time. - Damn. - This could be the game point, but we're on C. - I'm confident. (laughs) - Okay. - Here we go. Three, two, one. (bell dinging) (sighs) - Oh, old. Old. Old. Are those? - Oh, what's going on here? - Oh, these are just eyeballs. - I said, uh, my hand made it person with only two hairs. - Why is it just the eyes on the nose? - Then he's got glasses on. - It's not Homer 'cause he's got glasses, he's got jowls. - No mouth. Is that a decision? - Could be. - I'm struggling with this one. - I'm gonna be honest with you. - We need a clue. - Restaurant chain. - I'm gonna be honest with you, that clue hurt me. It drew me further away. Should we-- - Old people? - Golden girl? - Cracker barrel? - For another world- - One of the old people there. - Another old people. - Old. - Uncle Grandpa. - Grandpa's more than Papa John's. - Pizza. - Papa John's. - That ain't it, and what could it possibly be? - What did you draw? - Whoop eyes. - What did you draw? - Grandpa. - Grandpa has, I hope every grandpa. - Grandpa. - Grandpa. - Grandpa's eyes. - Grandpa. - Grandaddy's. - Grandpa. - Grandaddy's. - Grandpa. - Pops. - Grandpa. - Grandpa's. - Grandpa. - Marie calendars. - I just have a seed. (laughing) - Die. (laughing) - This is hard burst. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Too much dust. (laughing) - Grand Papa? Grand Papa. - Papais. - Papais. - Papais. - Papais. - Papais. - Yes. - Papais, guys. - I got that one. - You've been able to be successful at a number of different things. I'm sure you've also tried a number of different things that we do or don't know about, that didn't all the way go. What's something that you know now you wish you knew a little earlier? - I wish I'd detached from conclusions way earlier. - With me. - Like I wish I'd detached from where is it going? Or getting some thing that's gonna feel like the big one. - This is equal success. - Yeah, I wish I'd detached myself from the idea like when I was a teenager. - And just did thing. - And just, and just, I wish I was just failing earlier. - The fear of what is it gonna be? - What am I gonna do? - What is it gonna mean? - The fear of the blank page in every aspect. - Just start. - Just start. Just do it and let it fall apart. And then when people are like, "Hey, what happened that thing?" Just be like, "Oh, I stopped." - Right. - 'Cause it sucked. (laughing) Or you know, I'm just, I'm onto this thing now. The fear of judgment is way crazier, I think. I mean, not crazier, more than like what we put on ourselves, but it's something that's a factor in. - Right. Like your dream versus someone else's dream. Your dream versus someone else's success. So like all of that is just so much easier to count yourself out. - Yeah. - And now you got people who are like 23, like, it's over. - Right. Do you know what I was doing at 23? - I was like twitching, do you know what I was doing? At 23. - Yeah. - I was on my homies couch, who was smoking resin bowls. - Well, you at rock bottom, that's the guy. - Right. - That's gonna come get you. - Ooh. - Ooh. (laughing) - Okay. - Okay. - Hmm. - Okay. - Ah. - Oh, and that last one got a little crazy. Yeah. Oh, and that looks like a tree. - Hi. - Oh God. I can safely say, I'm sorry. - That's fair. - I accept. I accept. - Okay. - I think I'm confident that you'll see what I'm kicking here. - Okay. - One, two, three. - Oh. - It's something down there at the bottom, right? - No. - Was that a mistake? - It was a mistake, I didn't have time to trace it. I got nervous 'cause the clock was going, and I was also gonna change the color, and I couldn't change. - I'm just gonna go ahead and answer that one. - What do you think? - This is the zombie apocalypse. - This is absolutely the zombie apocalypse. - Yeah. - I just was worried that you were gonna think this was a tree. - No, and it was supposed to be a mushroom cloud. - I registered it as a man witnessing his demise. - Eyes. - See, so the thing was on purpose. - Super helpful. - You thought it was a mistake, and it was the key to the whole. - The whole. - But now my question is, 'cause I know you thought about this. There's no way you haven't. - Yeah. - The zombie apocalypse is occurring. - How do you prepare? - Do you prepare yourself? - What's it? - You what? - Kill. - You what? - Myself. - Out. - Out of here. - Super done. - Yeah. - Yeah, good for y'all. - Once the Wi-Fi goes out, here's my thing. What are we saving? And for who? 'Cause it's not like all just the good people gonna survive. - Right. - The bad people gotta go to. - First thing I'm gonna do is I'm a feed. The masses of zombies have what Elon's chest. (laughs) - I'm gonna make sure they're good. I'm gonna buy some time, okay? So I can, I'm gonna buy a couple years so I can save my goodbyes, get my fears in order. - Just toss Elon in the fray. - Toss him in. That's a good little 365 days. - Right there. - That they're chillin' that one chest. - That one chest. - And then after that, when they're at my door, I'm out. - I'm out. - I'm out of here. - What was the movie with, Will Smith? - I am legend. - I am legend, he's surviving for years for the dog. (laughs) - I am legend is not long on one last. - Then the dog's one person you talking to and you got all these little dogs. - Then the dog's sick now. You gotta choke out the dog. - Don't know if anybody want that. - I got Chihuahua's, man. - I mean, a Chihuahua's have zombie as we speak. - They already is. Like they gotta be immune to it anyway. - It's hybrid, it's hybrid. - You know? - Yeah. - You won, bruh. You win. Who's at five, five, three? - Five, five, two, five, three. - Two, five, three, five, five, five, four. - Some would say, some would say sweet. - Five, three. - Five, four? That's so crazy. - Five, five, seven, eight. (laughs) - I give it up. - Bruh. - Bruh. - This is amazing. - Amazing time. - Thank you for inviting me. - Truly, truly, thanks for coming out. - Beautiful space, man. - Beautiful food, brother. - I'm still geeked up. - I mean, coffee. - I mean, should we make another coffee? - Yeah, I mean, let's do it. - I could, I could box right now. - I could do whatever. - The zombies don't want me. - Yeah, they all look. Catch a fade real quick. - I'm definitely gonna fade me a couple. ♪ Maybe we'll life, maybe we'll cry ♪ ♪ But best believe we'll have a time ♪ ♪ Hey neighbor, come inside ♪ ♪ Musical guests stand a little perspective ♪ ♪ Seeing the stars in a new light ♪ ♪ Hey neighbor, hey neighbor ♪

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Zach Fox, a multi-talented creator, shares his journey from music and comedy to acting in a new film, *Lurker*, highlighting his confidence in self-driven success.
  2. The episode explores themes of toxic hierarchies in social and group dynamics, drawing parallels to the film *Lurker* and real-life experiences of power, control, and exclusion.
  3. A recurring theme of "lurking" — secretly observing others online or in personal spaces — is discussed as both a form of curiosity and a violation, reflecting on privacy, trust, and digital boundaries.
  4. The conversation touches on mental health, including ADHD, personal struggles, and the importance of self-awareness and breaking toxic patterns in life and relationships.
  5. The host highlights the cultural significance of Black communities and neurodivergence, emphasizing the need for acceptance, accountability, and community support.
  6. A playful game of "sketchy connections" is used to explore hidden meanings, leading to humorous and unexpected interpretations, such as linking Elon Musk’s chest to a "bra" or "Alabama."
  7. The episode blends personal anecdotes, social commentary, and absurd humor to examine identity, creativity, and how people navigate digital and physical worlds.
  8. Underlying all the chaos is a message about self-acceptance, community, and the courage to face uncomfortable truths — both in personal life and public expression.

Summary:

The episode blends humor, personal storytelling, and social commentary centered around Zach Fox, a multi-hyphenate creative known for music, comedy, and his new film *Lurker*. Through lighthearted and often absurd anecdotes, the show explores themes of toxic group dynamics, mental health struggles — including ADHD and the toxic acceptance of personal failure — and the importance of self-awareness and community. The conversation delves into digital behaviors like "lurking," examining how curiosity and observation can cross into privacy violations or emotional discomfort.

There's a strong undercurrent of cultural reflection, particularly around Black communities’ relationship with mental illness and neurodivergence, emphasizing the need for acceptance and accountability. " The episode ultimately champions self-reliance, authenticity, and the courage to confront personal and societal truths, using humor as a tool to open up difficult conversations. It blends personal growth, social critique, and digital culture into a dynamic, relatable narrative that celebrates creativity and vulnerability.

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