Transcript of #673 - Jshock

I want to share that there is a textile update. We got a restock over on the merch site. We loaded up on the latest sock drop in, uh, 4 colorways, and, and the new Rat Con tees, they're back. It's a limited run and they won't be there for long, and it's all available at theovonstore.com. If you've gone there to support ever, uh, I just want to say thank you very much. Today's guest is a streamer, he's a content creator and a music producer out of Long Island, New New York. He just participated in Kai Sanat's Streamer University. Uh, had a great time getting to know him. It's Shock O'Clock. Today's guest is Jay Shock. Shock looking Sharp, boy.

Choco clock.

Choco clock, bro. Bro, dude. Yeah. Yes, bro.

Thank you.

Thank you, dude.

Yes, for having me.

You bet, man. Show me how to do the, uh, the look away handshake.

No look handshake. Yeah, that was created completely by accident, but you come in and you go for the look.

Okay.

And just look at the watch if you have one, or you can look at your phone. Okay, and this, you just do it. So here, if I got my phone, I'm doing it like, yeah, like, nice, what's your name?

And then, yeah, Theo, don't look at me. Okay, sorry, fuck, dude, it's in the directions and I messed it up.

Okay, all right, hold the phone with that hand, with this hand.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, what's your name? Awesome, good to meet you, man. That's great.

Yes. Yeah, how you doing? You want to know how that happened?

Yeah.

So I went into a deli with my friend to get a chopped cheese.

Which is typical for an Italian, right?

Exactly.

That's just a— that's a national pastime.

Yes. And, um, on Long Island where I'm from, they don't really have chopped cheeses, but this deli had one. It was in Carl Place or something. We go in and there's this old guy named Frank, 75, 80 years old. And we get in there and he's like going crazy, like, do you know who this is? Do you know who's in your deli right now? Random customer. He's like, I'm your biggest fan. It was the oldest fan I ever met.

Frank.

And He orders us food, me and my cameraman food. We get out, like, we got to do a video now, Drew. So we get in, and in the video you see me walking up to the guy Antonio, and I'm— he hands me his phone. He's like, what's your, your handle? And, uh, I type it in his phone, and I'm like, what's your name? And I said— he said Antonio. I'm like, okay, nice to meet you. But I didn't even click. There it is, look, it's right here, bro. So this got clipped. And of course, months after, who blindly goes—

who just gives their hand to a man they don't even know near a bunch of boar's head meats? I mean, that's crazy. Who just randomly offers? God only gives you two hands, Jayshawk, and you're just like, here, I'm just going to offer one up. What if that guy would have just frick— he could have just— dude, that guy could have put it right in his mouth.

He could have smacked my head. Look, I have no hair on my head. He could have smacked it off.

He could have put it right in his mouth, Jayshawk. It's like, don't feed the bears. We don't know what this guy's been up to.

So now a couple of weeks later, there's this TikTok. Okay. So if you click the comments, it should pop up blue, like no look handshake. So if something is trending, it'll be like a blue comment. And it kept popping up on all my videos and I didn't know what it was. So one day I went to Florida and my uncle's like, next time, look a guy in the face when you give him a handshake. And I was like, what do you mean? He's like, it's all over the internet. You didn't shake the guy's hand.

Your uncle told you that?

Finally clicked. Look at this.

This is what's going on. Why you no looking them all?

I did it to Kai, you know Kai Sinas?

Yeah, for sure.

When I got the stream with you, there it is, that one right there. Look at this. I hit them quick. Good, how are you? What time is it?

Wow, bro, you had it loaded too there. It's almost like you gotta like— it's like you got that thang on you, you know? You got that thang on, you got that Draco right there, bro. That's beautiful, dude.

Do you have like a A signature move like that?

I don't really. Sometimes it's like waving goodbye to people. Crying in a driveway is something I've done a decent amount over the years. I don't know if that's a signature move, really. You know what? I'm gonna think about that. Do I have a signature move, you think, Trevin?

Like, if you were doing a wrestling move, I would hit that. Just hit the Choco Clock on him.

Oh, hit the Choco Clock and this—

Body slam.

Yeah.

Dude, yeah.

What would be a good—

Your signature move is— It's more of a catchphrase, I think. What else?

Oh yeah.

Which one?

I say what else a lot because it's like sometimes if I'm talking to somebody, I don't like there to be like a lot of like downtime in the conversation. So I'll be like, if things get real quiet, I'll be like, what else? Yeah.

In a minute. Yeah. I've had a lot of different viral moments like that.

Oh yeah, I've seen that was one of the biggest ones unintentionally.

But like, I think the first major video I did was me going to Chili's And I said, first time trying Chili's, let's see what all the hype's about. And that video got like 2 million views.

Is there hype about that? I guess there is.

There's got to be some hype around Chili's, no?

Yeah, that's true, that's true, that's true.

Triple Dipper.

Oh, I don't even know how— yeah, what were we— I can't believe we were double dipping in there.

How did you find this? How was he so quick with it?

Oh, there you are.

So this is when— look at my hair, how different I look, bro.

You look freaking— you look—

I look like an Oh, you look like business casual Caillou. I look like a different human being.

Yeah, dude, you definitely—

And I used to drink. I don't drink anymore.

That's what I heard. You look like this lady that used to teach PE to us as well.

So this is my friend Andrew. He took a ginormous sip of Coors. You're going to see here.

Of what? Coors Light?

Little silver bullet. Look at this humongous sip.

It'll kill a werewolf. It won't kill a Jayshock though, huh?

Completely different style back then.

Dude, welcome, bro. Thanks for coming in, man. Thanks for hanging out, bro. Yeah, you bet, man. When is, uh, bro, when is, when is Shock O'Clock?

On officially, it's at 9:09.

Okay.

9:09 is my time.

It is? Why is that?

Shock O'Clock time. I just love the number 9. I was born April 9th, 1999. The number 99 has a lot of significance to me. Like, I rate out of 9. You know, when I rate my food, I rate only out of 9. I'm the only one that does that.

1 to 9?

1 to 9, because mathematically it makes no sense, but philosophically it does. So out of 9, I think you should always be at 99% and always strive to become perfect, because we'll never be perfect. Nothing's ever perfect. So when I rate out of 9, it's basically like— Oh yeah. You know, the 10 is perfect, but because we're taught in school 10 is perfect, you know, get 100. In school, you get an A+, you get 100%. I like to be at 99% and always try to be better.

Bet.

Amen. So it makes sense like that. But mathematically, if you were at a 9, it would technically be 100%.

That's Shockonomics, dude.

That's what you— Shockonomics. I like that.

That's what we're figuring out here, dude. But dude, do they have Shock O'Clock during like— do they even have it during like daylight savings time and stuff? Like, is it—

Yes. We'll set the clocks back, set them forward. It's always Shock O'Clock.

Doesn't matter.

Always on the wrist. So now when I have no watches on, it's Choco Clock on the wrist.

Okay.

When I have a watch on, it's Choco Clock on the dot. So if you go back to my older videos, you could see if I'm wearing a watch, I'm like, Choco Clock on the dot. Today we're having whatever.

And is there a day of the year when there's no shocking? Like, is there like one day of like— is there a day of the year where it's like no clocking? Yeah, we're not— yeah, the clock is not shockable. Every— it's not even plugged in, you know what I'm saying? Like, is there a day when it's off?

It's always on.

Really?

Mr. Vaughn, it's always on.

Even Christmas?

Every day. I recorded— last Christmas, or yeah, last Christmas, I was panicking because I didn't have a video because I was on a— when I quit my job and even before it, I was recording every day and posting every day and editing every day. Same day, same video for 365 days. I posted every day. I got all the way up to over a million followers and it worked. But the clock was always ticking.

It never ends.

I think maybe if I go to like church or something, it's off.

Okay.

Like there's no cameras. Even though people try to take pictures of me, I'm like, this is the Lord's house. Right. You know, we can't be— Jesus ain't posted on the 'gram today, you know?

Well, we gotta honor him. There's a bigger J. Yeah.

It's crazy.

Yeah, there's a bigger J on that day for sure.

I find it really hard to take breaks, especially with food. There's always new items coming out, like new— I don't know, pickle bubble gum or some crap, you know, like crazy Flamin' Hot.

Yeah. Barbecue napkins or something. There's always some shit. There's always like a new thing. They're like, yeah, man, we got this new like Chipotle spare tires or whatever.

Flamin' Hot toilet paper, you know, it's, it's always some bull—

Yeah, it's like something coming out, you know, it's like we got new Chipotle hairspray or whatever, some type of shit.

It's like, what do we— I saw they made McDonald's scented candles based on all the dipping sauces. They're candles.

Oh, that's beautiful.

The pop some sweet and sour, you know.

Oh, I would definitely put one of those on. Put it—

dude, look at this.

If I'm having a funeral, put a couple of those on, bro.

You have a favorite sauce, like condiment?

Uh, yeah, probably that, uh, I would say tzatziki, or, uh, I would probably say, um, or mustard, bro. You know what, I had a dream two nights ago that mustard was making a big comeback.

What? Hey, did it even fall off?

Oh, I think mustard fell off, brother. I think— I mean, I think a lot.

Yeah.

When it was the last time you even heard anybody talk about it?

Nobody. Nobody's like, yo, I'm gonna get some mustard out and put it on something.

And it's back, Jayshot. But dude, so here's what I want to, uh— so let's go into this. Uh, thank you, dude. Thanks so much for coming in, bro.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, it's definitely an honor, bro.

Yes, sir.

It's been a blessing to see you. Uh, and you don't call me sir, you can just say yes.

Okay, sir.

Okay, sir. And, uh, it's just been like, you, you came on my radar, like, I would see a lot of clips and stuff. And then, um, I was talking with Sketch and he's like, bro, you gotta meet my friend Jayshock. He's like the greatest guy ever. He thinks you're like, you know, he's like, you're this marinara savior, you know, this little, you know, he thinks you're this new sort of, um, angel of, of the world, you know.

Yeah. Did you see any clips of us in Streamer U?

Oh, dude, I saw the one. What's the one where you guys don't have your shirts on? That one was crazy.

Oh, that was funny when we spin out the door. So he was trying to teach me manners for my homecoming date at prom or at homecoming, and I was trying to get the door for him and I did like a look.

This is so class. Oh, dude.

Then I did a spin like a transition. Look at this.

Whoop! Oh, yeah.

Oh, right through. Fuck. We had so many good moments together, and it, it all was so natural and real. And I told, like, him and a lot of people, like, if I ever met big people, like, I don't know, celebrities like Post Malone or, I don't know, Jalen Hurts, I, I just want to be friends. Like, I want to be your friend, you know? I don't care about the cameras or publicity, the following. I just, I want to build good friendships.

Yeah.

And Sketch, to me, is like My brother, literally. We, we, we connected such a good way, and he was the realest person at that school.

Oh dude, he's just— yeah, he's a special guy, man. He's one of the few guys that'll just call and like check on me every now and then, just kind of see what's going on. He's got a big heart.

Yes sir.

Yeah, I just saw him a few weeks ago, bro.

I love seeing him.

Oh yeah, people made this. Who made this?

This, uh, my clipper Danny. He's like my stream manager, one of my best friends, and he made that instantly because we— it was Sketch's idea to make that pose, and We actually turned it into a t-shirt.

Oh, it's beautiful.

Funny as hell.

God, it's beautiful. Two young fellows out there just learning how their bodies work. Just spreading their manicotti out into the world.

Hey, if they do a sequel, Gadget and I got it.

You would do it. Oh, it'd be perfect, man. You could make your own. I mean, that's the thing now with streaming or with this, like, with taking clips from streams, it's just like a moment these days is almost like a whole movie was.

That's what I'm saying, yeah.

Was 20 years ago. So J-Shock, Jerome, that's your real name?

Jerome, yes, sir.

Do you use that at all, or you just go by J-Shock?

Um, maybe like my parents call me— my parents call me Jerry.

They do call you Jerry?

I hate that.

Really?

Okay, that's what I went my whole life. Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, you get the water?

Yeah, what water?

Bring your clothes down.

Was something on fire? Jerry, too much cologne. That's a big thing in Italian households.

No, you know what it is? Jerry, is this dirty? He'll be like, is this dirty? All day. And, uh, why?

Because your mother's just doing your laundry?

Yeah, like, well, I try to do it, but I don't get to. Yeah, it's gonna be done a certain way, you know. Afraid I'll blow up the laundry machine, I guess.

But that's part of, uh, that's part of Italian culture, is somebody, a mother's got to be doing your laundry.

They gotta. But my dad doesn't. Really? He practically is out There were some dirty things at that laundry machine.

Is he one of those nouveau kind of dads? Like, is he one of—

he's like, I love him, but he loves to do stuff. Gotta be mowing the lawn when it's raining.

Does he have his shirt on or off when he's mowing?

It's on. He's got his, uh, Cardhart or, um, Timberlands on, you know. Damn, really?

Was he listening to 50 Cent? What's he listening to when he's out there? Springsteen? What's he listening to out there?

Probably some some rock and roll, something Run-DMC, something like that.

Oh, tough.

He's from Hollis. He was a fireman for 23 years.

Really?

Yep.

Take me— well, take me into this, man. Take me into the origin story of how, like, before you were even like a J spark in your father's eye, right? Like, take me back then. Like, I want to go— I want to get into—

I'm gonna go all the way back.

I want to go all the way back, but I want to go into like the ingredients of the manicotti, right? I want to go into like—

cue that, cue that music.

Yes. Yeah.

That Twilight Zone, Dr. Strain music.

Yeah, yeah. Because there's a lot of rumors, like, but I want to know, like, where your parents, where did they meet at, right? Do you know that story?

They met at a club.

Okay, my mom, you're gonna have to take— I want you to take me there, right? I want you to set the season. Okay, I want you to set it because there's a lot of rumors.

I got you, right? I can tell you everything.

So there's— because there's rumors, there's rumors out there that, you know, you're— it was two people got caught hugging outside of a Sbarro Pizza or whatever, you know? It's like there's a lot of rumors.

There's a great I swear or no?

Yeah, you can swear.

There's some crazy shit out there. Yeah. About like me and all this dumb stuff.

Oh, there's crazy. It was two people, two Italians tickling each other outside of a Sbarro or whatever. And that's how you got started, right? So take me, I want to know, how did you really, who lit that Jay spark?

The Jay wave.

Yeah.

So my dad went to a club in the Bronx, I believe the Bronx.

And was your dad a clubber? What kind of guy was he?

I don't know, really. He doesn't really keep telling me that about that stuff. Like, if he— I asked him about, like, you know, you ever get any action before Mom? And he's like, did something on a bench.

Yeah. Oh, wait, something on a bench? Yeah, I mean, Forrest Gump, look. Yeah, it might have been.

Yeah, he had the mustache too, so he had that— oh, we had a mustache look, you know what I'm saying?

Oh, the ladies love that, that little word curtain. They pet that thing.

So they were at a club and he went up to my mom and he's like, hey, you want to dance? What's your name?

She's like, Debbie.

And he's like, Betty? She walked away. They eventually went back up there, they danced, and then he called her house a night after and she didn't pick up. And then she called again, he called again. My grandpa, who I call Chucky, who's not here anymore, he picked up and they went out, you know, hung out for a while, eventually got married. My dad proposed to my mom with a fortune cookie. No, he put a ring in the fortune cookie. Oh, like, imagine having Chinese takeout one night, boom, ring. That's baller, dude.

That's unbelievable. Well, it's just such a choice because, you know, it's hard after a little bit of Chinese food not to go for the, for the, for the, for the dessert.

So now they, they had a kid. They only had me, uh, in Cape Cod. That's where the—

so you were—

you— magic happened.

You were conceived out in Cape Cod. And do you know, like, what was it like?

Yeah, I know exactly where it was. You do? Was it a stormy night?

What was was going on out there?

I stole— because it was shock. Yeah, it was like maybe there was lightning. Maybe it, it struck the tip of my dad's Johnson.

Yeah, his clock tower.

Shock o'clock.

I don't know, dude. I'm just saying. Yeah, I'm wondering, like, we— because here's the thing, like, Jay Shock has been born to the world, right? And so we have to have the origin story. So it's two— your, your parents, they fell in love, they got married.

And I, yes, they got married, right? They had me after they got married, I think. And then—

Oh, really? So you might have been married. You might have been conceived out of wedlock.

I don't know.

That's a fucking— that was a j-shock to your grandmother, I bet, for sure.

A thunderstorm while it was happening, while the process was going down.

And where, what township was that in? Do you know?

What town?

Yeah.

It was in North Truro Topmast Resort in Cape Cod. I go there every year. I had to cut my— my trip short this year because I had to go to Shreem Brzee. And the first year I left, and every year we go, a ton of families.

Bring it up.

Best, top, best. North Truro, Cape Cod is my Disney World.

Wow.

It is.

And this is where you were conceived at as well.

Place ever.

So you were conceived here. Now you go back there to the scene of the freaking beautiful crime.

We got to go here. You like seafood?

We just met. Yes, I like seafood, but I don't even know.

I would, I would take you to the best lobster restaurant ever.

Oh, they got the lobsters?

God, dude, a little lobster mukbang.

I would love a little bit of lobster, but here, lobster gets to be too much if you have too much lobster at once. Do you notice that?

Yeah, I know what you mean.

So anyway, fast forward, I can only eat about 11 ounces of lobster at a time.

What's that?

I can only eat about 11 ounces of lobster at a time.

How about £4. Uh-uh.

You can handle that?

All the meat.

Nuh-uh. But £4, what's your body weight though?

Uh, 125, 130.

So you're saying you can eat 2% of your body weight in lobster?

Why not? Why not let it fly?

Yeah, yeah, you're right. Anyways, why not eat £2 of my own body weight in lobster, bro?

You want me to tell you the rest of the lore?

Yeah, dude, dude, can I tell you also though, I had a dream that, um, There was a parrot and he— and I had a dream that somebody got you a parrot and it could say, "Shock o'clock!" Bro, we gotta get a parrot that says that.

Just that. Yeah. Shock o'clock! Shock o'clock!

Yeah, dude.

What color would it be?

Huh? Oh, probably the Italian flag colors, I'm guessing, bro. I don't even know if they have something like that. If you guys see something like that, put— if you guys find something in AI or something, put something—

Italian parrot that says Chocolat. I'll put a Chocolat, a watch around his nose or something.

Yeah, put a watch around his neck, brother. Yeah, Chocolat, dude. How great would that be, bro?

You had a dream, huh? You had— that was a dream.

That was a dream that I had.

What the hell?

Because I just knew you were—

no way.

Let's go. Let's go, bro.

That's my favorite color too. Green.

Oh, that's it, dude. How do you not have 11 of these? You know who would buy 9 of them? You know? Yeah, we need 9 of them.

99.

Oh, there we go, bro. Oh, I got 99 parrots.

Oh my God.

But a bitch ain't one, bro. You feel me? That's all I'm saying.

That is so funny.

Dude, you know who would buy these for you? Probably has them in his yard. Um, Jake Paul.

That's those?

Yeah, dude, he lives, he lives in, uh, I think Puerto Rico, but he's got these in his yard.

Oh, I'd love to go there. I'm Puerto Rican.

You are?

I'm Greek, Italian, and Puerto Rican.

Oh my God, huh? You're a freaking islander.

I am, dude.

You were conceived at a United Nations meeting, huh?

You telling me?

Look at this, he's got some Who's this?

Is this Jake Paul's house?

I don't know. But he definitely has some parrots.

Damn.

I'm sure he's got a few parrots over there.

That'd be crazy. I think I've seen him with parrots. You ever see that dude, The Real Tarzan?

Nuh-uh.

Yo.

Good guy?

He's cool. I want him. I want to do a parrot mukbang with him. He's got a bunch of animals. He's crazy.

Let me see him. Oh, damn.

You never seen this guy?

Nuh-uh. Where is this at? Indiana?

Who knows? He goes to India, he goes to Africa, and he, he like, he'll grab them. That's a real cobra right there.

Oh, he's like that.

He look, he looks like Tyrone Woodley a little bit, slapping around a little bit.

Oh, you think that cobra feels any scared, more scared of this guy because the guy's jacked? Like, you think a snake can tell if you're jacked?

I think the, the cobra know that's so powerful, but this guy feels like he's one with that cobra, man. He'll pick up freaking bears and apes and all this crazy shit, man. Oh my gosh, he's a legend.

What kind of— and have you ever met this fella?

I wish, bro.

Look at the one right there where he has it around his neck.

Dude, he's crazy. What is that? Oh my God, he sleeps with him too. Nuh-uh. He's got a— you ever see the Froot Loop parrot? A toucan? He has one.

What?

Yeah.

Oh, he's really living large. And oh, he's got beautiful pets. What's this guy's name?

The Real Tarzan.

The Real Tarzan.

Yeah, he's cool, man.

Mike Holston.

You like animals like that?

I like animals like that. Yeah, I used to sell animals when I was growing up. What's your animal of choice, bro? I've heard, I've heard that you have a few pets.

I want you to guess. Oh, oh, like my, my favorite animal or like what I like to have?

I've heard that you have some pets. I've heard that you're—

I don't.

You don't have any pets?

I wish I did.

Really?

I want a dog. I used to have 3 Rottweilers at different times.

Nuh-uh.

That was my thing. Big dogs.

What made you get those?

My dad disliked them. My mom loved them. They're good guard dogs, you know? And they just look cute, you know? Yeah.

Oh yeah, dude.

My favorite animal is a bald eagle though, because it could see what I can't. 'Cause I have really bad eyesight and I feel like my spirit animal. Is a bald eagle. Fuck, you can see like everything, man. You know what I'm saying? You can see through people's BS.

Yeah, I love that, bro. Dude, imagine if one of them fucking picked you up too. This thing can pick up a lot of stuff.

I think it could pick me up, dude.

Two bald eagles could definitely pick you up.

Two? Yeah, I think so.

How much can they say they can pick up? I bet you didn't need— how many? Yeah, let's see how many bald eagles it would take to pick you up.

£130.

A bald eagle can typically lift about 3 to £4.

Yeah, see?

Oh, I thought they could do more.

Pick up little, little shock juniors.

Oh, they could. Yeah, they could be like— yeah.

So how many would it take to pick up me?

A little—

£4.

A little shock nugget or whatever.

Maybe like—

dude, what about, uh, dude, what about 130? A pelican? Yeah, it would take probably 40. Let me see.

It would be like 100 and it would take 40 pelicans.

It would take— no, it would take 40 eagles.

I can't do math.

I can't.

Definitely can't do math.

40 to 45 to 50 bald eagles to carry a grown man.

Well, let's test it out.

It's shock o'clock, dude. It's shock o'clock, bro.

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Oh, we go there every year with my friends too now. Okay, we got our own room, do our own thing, you know, good time there.

And would you ever— would that be some of the first place you would meet ladies and stuff? Dude, let me tell you this, I had my first kiss there.

Yeah, yeah, my first kiss on that bed. Girl named Julie.

Nuh-uh.

I pulled this shit out of my back pocket.

What happened?

So I liked this girl for so long. Yeah. Every year we would go, and her sister liked me too. So one year there was this other girl that came, 'cause it's all different families, and I ended up liking her over this other girl, and I kind of forgot about her. And the next year I came back, and then she forgot about me. She started messing with some other dude. So I was like, I gotta make a move this year. So we're on a bed, 'cause we all had different rooms around on the water, and we were all together, and I told one of my girlfriends, I'm like, "Yo, go get me some Oreo cookies. I gotta do something." She goes to get the Oreo cookies, she never comes back. And we're just talking about family, getting personal, and I'm like, "Yeah, so you'll be okay, right, with all this family stuff happening?" She goes, "Yeah." I'm like, "I know you will." She shocked, right? Then she started crying. Nuh-uh.

What happened? Did you kiss her really fast like a bird?

No, I just— I did it. We were cool. I went back to my room and apparently she started crying. She sent me a text message, I'm so sorry, but I like somebody else. I'm like, it's all good. Next day, like, kept it kind of chill, but I was like, I waited too long. I'm convinced I would have been dating that girl till today if I didn't wait that long, you know?

Like, you should have done it a summer before, you mean?

Exactly, exactly.

Dang, dude, love is wild like that.

Love is wild. She actually hit me up, uh, but love has a time on the vine.

Love has a time—

she's a great person, great family.

Love has a time on the vine where it gets ripe and then it falls off, you know what I'm saying?

You think so?

Yeah, I think so, man. You just told me it's like—

well, I I think you're right about that.

I think you told me that. I don't know. I think so.

I haven't had a girlfriend in 9 or 10 years. Wow. 2018 was the last time I had a girlfriend.

Really?

Last time I did anything.

Dang.

Yeah.

So you got, uh, so you got love on the brain though.

I got—

So you got a lot of love to give.

I got a lot of love to give and trying to receive it, man.

Amen. You know, bro, you put so much out there, man. Your energy is so just like I don't know. It makes me— I think it makes— it reminds people to just be themselves. You have to be the best that they can. Dude, I'll tell you this story. So one time we went to the beach and— are you comfortable?

Yes, sir.

Okay. We went to the beach and it was like down in like Panama City or Destin or something. And at night, like, the kids would go walk out on the beach at night. Like, that was the thing, you know, like if you were 14 or whatever, it was like right around that time where parents like, yeah, you can go to the beach, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Stay out of the— stay out of the ocean or whatever. But go have a good time. So during the day, we would go sneak liquor or something and bury it out in the sand or whatever. Then we'd go find it and dig it up later at night and drink it out there.

Okay.

But anyway, one night I'm out there, my buddy had met some friends, he's talking to them. So I went, I was, I'm kind of walking down the beach and I met this gal. And so we start like kind of talking and she's like, it's a full moon. She's talking about this full moon stuff. And then we end up like going out in the water and kind of like, um, kind of kissing or whatever a little bit. And so it was like very romantic, you know? And then we come back and we go back like over by the hotel or the motel, whatever we were staying in. And we got into like the lights that were over there and she was like 35 years old and I was like 14 or what. And we just didn't realize, I think like because it was dark out there, we just didn't realize it was like such an age difference. And bro, so we just both like looked at each other and we're like, what the heck? I think like the way the moonlight hit us, you just couldn't tell.

You hooked up with a cougar when you were 14?

Yeah, brother. And I was just out there on the beach just trying it. But it was just that, you know, when you're out there in the summer, that late night jam, that love, everything, summer love, everything sounds like love. Yes, everything sounds like love music too. Just the waves hitting, the moon sounds like it just hit.

The smell.

Oh, the smell of seagulls eating raviolis.

I know.

The moon seems like it only came up just to watch people kiss, you know.

Oh, you're getting like a painting of an image right now. I feel like we're at a beach, dude.

It's beautiful, brother. Yeah, that's one thing about that love, like especially that young love. There's just something about it, bro. When you'd be so nervous and you'd go to school, dude, that would be the craziest, bro.

I would get butterflies every time I saw this girl.

I would get fucking bald eagles in me.

Little bald eagles.

Yeah, they're flying around eating my intestines up. That's how nervous I got. Seriously? Like, I'd be standing there like this. There's fucking 9 parrots inside.

I'm just like, would you throw up sometimes?

Huh?

Throw up?

Oh, dude, I threw up one time out of the window in class. This one girl was so beautiful, I just ran over to the window and just vomited right on it.

That's crazy.

Didn't even care. And there was some kid out there studying or whatever. Whatever, screw him.

I think now, looking back with that, I've only been in one relationship. I think like, oh yeah, I always think like, I wonder if she sees me.

Oh, sees you now, like having some of your success doing your thing?

Because I feel like someone has gone up to a bar, be like, yo, like, you ever see this dude? Be like, that's with my ex. And then I want that dude to be like, well, you messed up. Yeah, you messed up, you know. But I never wish—

right, you're not wishing—

I've called her a million times. She never picked up, you know. She blocked my number, unblocked it. I haven't heard from her in like 10 years. And it's just like, block a clock. I want to see how you're doing. Block o'clock. Yeah. Is that what you said?

Yeah, dude, you can block o'clock, bro. The husby blocking is bad.

No, it's crazy, man.

And what— how did things fall apart between you and her?

I was immature, Mr. Vaughn. I was very immature.

I feel like, dude, every time you call me Mr. Vaughn, I feel like I teach driver's ed, dude. This is so good.

Do you want me to call you Theo?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I feel bad.

No, you can call me whatever you want. All right, but it's great though. It just, it shows who you are, bro. You got a level of respect in you.

So we were dating for a year and a half, and I just, I was immature. Like, I was stupid. I didn't know what I wanted to do in life. I wasn't like a man. I wasn't, I wasn't tough. I didn't have any priorities, you know, any, any, uh, hobbies. Like, I was just doing my thing, you know. I mean, I liked music. I, I made music. But, uh, I think she could, she sensed that. Like, she's like, I'm going to be a pharmacist in college. What are you going to do? I'm like, ah, I'll figure it out. I'll major in something. Yeah. So she went her way, I went my way, and she broke up with me. But I think she cheated on me because she kept bringing up like this other guy, and I'm like, who the fuck is this? You know, why do you keep bringing him up?

Rick or whatever his name was. Ricky?

Who?

Was his name Ricky or not? I just guess names sometimes. It wasn't Ricky, was it?

Tony.

Oh God.

I think it was Tony.

Of course it was Tony. Where was this at?

Where?

Yeah, 10 years ago in Long Island. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it was Tony.

It was definitely Tony. But, um, I think she was hanging out with him type shit, and, uh, it was just weird because, uh, toward the end of the relationship I wasn't seeing her that much. She was going out, and, um, she called me over one day to go to the beach, and she came out with a blanket— uh, not a blanket, a hoodie, my hoodie—

and there was a baby bracelet. And there was a baby in the hoodie?

No, like E.T.?

No, like she had a baby with the other guy, with Tony.

Like, looking like E.T., remember E.T.?

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, there was no baby. I don't think there was.

Oh, thank God.

And, um, it was all my shit. And she's like, here.

You just had a little bit of stuff? She had it all wrapped up in a hoodie?

All my stuff. I mean, my bracelet. I just, I gave it back to her. We took a walk. I started crying. She started crying. That was it. A couple months later, we tried to get back together, but her mom passed away.

No.

So I had to try to help her through it. And she was going through a lot of shit, man. So it just didn't work out. And ever since then, that's it.

That's been it.

The only love Shaq's ever had. Damn. And now it's weird because I don't know if a girl likes me for, like, my status, if I even have a high status, or if they like me for who I am. And it's like, I've been on different dating apps. I get matches, I don't get matches, and you don't know what's real. And it's just hard to find love because I'm such a sociable person. I talk to everyone. Like, we go to the bar or something, I'm talking to everyone, girls, guys, making friends. And meanwhile, these girls are approaching guys and I'm like, what the fuck? Am I a brick wall? Am I invisible? Am I muted? It's like, I can't, I can't land anything.

You know, do you ever feel like that? Um, do you feel like— do you ever feel like you're always going to be alone? Is that a weird question?

Um, I, I've become comfortable with being alone because I'm grinding. Like, I'm just so hungry now to just literally—

I saw you like 12 nuggets. I saw you eat freaking 12 nuggets, dude.

12 what?

I saw you eat 12 nuggets somewhere.

Oh, nuggets.

Yeah, it was at Burger King, I think.

Oh, I down those.

Dude, I saw you—

Crown nuggets?

I saw you eat those crown nuggets, yeah.

It looks like I ate it. It looks like I ate it. Oh. It's part of the magic.

That's the magic of Hollywood.

People think I'm eating all the food, but I'm really just putting it to the side, eating it after, bringing it home, giving it to someone, you know? Oh, that's the— There's not a lot of homeless people where I am, but if If there is, I'll go out of my way and drop it off, you know.

Well, these days you got to find them. It's like ever since— yeah, like that Pokémon Go, there was— they've had like a lot of competition out there, I feel like. Because dude, people were like— it's crazy when Pokémon Go came out.

A homeless Pokémon Go?

No, but it's like before Pokémon Go, we had homeless people. It was like they were the Pokémon Go. And then, and then they did— they even digitized— if so, homeless people like, what the fuck? Like, I used to have some. Now there's just— people would be like stepping over, like, get out of my way, homeless guy, I'm looking for for a digital Charizard, you know. So yeah, things have just gotten different, man. But, um, about the girls, you said that like now it's like, so now you have more popularity, right? So that's one thing that I think, or recognizability, that's another thing that I like to say. So it's like you get recognizability and then things do get a little bit confusing. But if you're a guy that's pretty close to their own feelings and close to their own emotions, I feel like you'd be able to clock pretty good if a girl is being real or not.

Definitely.

And then if you also are just looking to have something casual, just a little, you know, little, little something. Yeah, just a little something, just a little down to have a little something. Yeah, just a little tickle, trying.

Yeah, little, little cuddle session.

Yeah, just a little freaking popping a Blu-ray. Yeah, a little Dirty Ravioli Blu-ray, bro, and a blue fettuccine Alfredo. Yeah, bro, you're looking, playing with this little baby rattle I got in my pants here, that little The freaking Lord's manicotti, bro. The third thumb.

Yeah. Oh dude, hey, listen, I'm trying. I really am.

Oh, I got the penis of a large toddler, brother. That's what I say.

What a, what a binky.

Yeah, yeah. What are we talking about, dude? But yeah, dude, uh, but you would be able to notice, bro, because I'm saying, if you're so much of a heart Which I think, you know, that's who you are, right? You're so much of a guy who's like connected to the feelings. You're a real guy. You're going to know if somebody's being real or not.

Yeah, I've had— I went to this place in Port Washington and there was a group of girls, like all nines. I call them a nickel and four pennies.

Hmm.

Nine out of nines. And it was like their birthday weekend or something. And me and my boy, were out. It was me, my dad, and my two friends. And we got a couple espresso martinis. I had like a mocktail or something. And all these girls were out there talking to us. My friend was taking a shit in the bathroom from the espresso martini, missing out on all the action.

Oh, there's always that guy.

Yeah. My dad's talking to the bartender and me and my boy are talking to all these girls. And they keep coming out like a stampede. Of girls, and we're talking— I'm talking to all of them, talking to 10 girls at once.

Jesus Christ, that movie 300 or whatever.

I could talk to infinite amount of girls at the same time. There's parts of it—

Jayshock, don't say that.

I can.

At the same time?

I could.

You said you can't even do math.

Hey, how you doing? What's going on? Yeah, you good? Hey, I like your dress. Yeah, you like it? I'm just on the fly. Anyway, one girl is like, what do you, uh, I see you on TikTok, like you're famous, right? I'm like, I guess I'm not famous. I'm like, if you don't know me, I'm not famous. I don't like to say it. I never like to say I'm famous or something like that because I'm not. I like to say I'm just an example of what you could be. Yeah. You know, because that's being humble. Like God said that, you know, I'm just an example of what you could be. You're just an example of what I could be. You're like a mentor, whatever.

Because there's a lot of rumors out there. There's people that say you're Allen— I've heard you're Allen— one of Allen Iverson's kids. I've heard that before.

I could be freaking Shaq's kid. Who want we know?

I don't know.

Allen Iverson?

That's what I've heard. There's a lot of rumors out there.

I could shoot threes.

That's it, bro. That's all it takes. But anyway, but no, but also I want to— let me just— I'm trying to think of what else. Oh yeah, there's rumors that you were conceived during an episode of Jersey Shore, a reunion episode, you know. That's a, that's a, uh, by who?

Pauly D?

Huh? I have no idea, dude.

Pauly D and Snooki? Or JWoww? JWoww? JShock? Oh, possibility, bro.

That's a way possibility.

I had a crush on JWoww like crazy back then.

Who didn't?

Gosh diggity damn, bro. Is that her? Yeah. Who's she with now? Huh?

Damn, who's she with, dude? She's with us, bro, in our dreams, bro.

For real.

Oh dude, her, a vodka sauce, put me to sleep, Ronnie.

My God.

God.

Is that Ronnie?

Look, you got— we both got bad vision, dude.

I don't—

whoever he is, how about this? We love her so much, we don't care if he stays around.

We don't care.

Yeah. Oh, that's Zach right there.

Zach?

That's Zach right there. Oh, you know what, actually, I met him before. He's great, great guy.

Could I have this?

Yeah, you can have it. You're gonna take it home? You don't have it now?

Celsius. I'm gonna have a heart attack. I can't drink caffeine or energy drinks. You could do it. I'm gonna take a sip. Take a couple.

I can't believe your friend was shitting at the bar.

Yeah, you know, I was talking to the girls. That's freaking amazing. That's crazy.

I'll have a little with you.

Can we do a little cheers? Yeah, we can. It's, uh, Celsius o'clock.

Do we have to look the same at each other or not?

Yeah, it's sipping. It's shock o'clock. Gosh, that's really good, dude. Okay, so this is— so now, and that does— this girl, that does have caffeine in it, man.

He'll be fine. How much caffeine can you have before we get—

I'm not gonna have that much before we gotta pick you up or whatever.

How much can you have?

This is— I normally have like a quarter.

Okay, do I need to monitor it or you can monitor it?

I got it. Okay, you see me pass out, well, no.

Yeah, well, yeah, I don't care if you pass out.

I start twitching.

No, I don't— I just don't want you humping the furniture. I don't care if you— if you pass out, you're fine. We gotta, you know, I think Trevor's registered CPR or whatever. At least he learned online. But yeah, I just don't want you ruining these throw pillows.

No, I'm not. I'm not.

Okay.

She is asking me how much money I'm making. Like, like, she's like, how many views do you get? Like, did the money come from the views and all this stuff? I'm like, I'm not telling you that. Like, I don't talk about money like that. And like, like, I was—

was it one of those view diggers?

Yes.

There's a lot of those view diggers, dude. Yeah, view diggers are the worst, bro.

For real. Oh, that's a good term like that. Like, they have the gold version, then you have the view version.

Oh yeah, view diggers are the worst, bro.

I'm like, get out. Clout chaser.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

And I got like 4 of their numbers. Ask them.

You were interested then.

And I was like, which one of you wants to go on a date with me? And they raised their hand. And I'm like, all right, let's go get sushi. Nothing ever happened. That's how everything always happens. I go, I get the confidence, ask her out, we go nowhere. That's how it happens.

Dude, I freaking met this girl. I'll tell you this, not even that long ago, and she texted me, and then I guess I messed up. Let's do one more little cheers. I kind of enjoyed that, dude. Bro, I feel like I'm watching— dude, do it one more time. I feel like I'm watching your video. Choco clock. Choco clock.

You really gotta make a noise when you sip it too.

Whoa, a little gargle at the end, huh? The old Italian mating call. I'm good, brother. You only get one more sip, okay?

Okay, one more later.

Um, and you can't have it too close to bed either.

So good.

I know.

What is the flavor, huh?

I don't know. I think this is antipasta or whatever. We got something special because we knew—

a little mortadella flavor.

Yeah, we knew we'd have some Italians in here today. Oh yeah, we got some gnocchi.

Hell yeah.

Um, dude, oh, I was telling you this story about a frickin' date or something. Yeah, dude. And I said this girl, we ended up texting and then I sent her— I was just having like a day. Like sometimes I like sending voice notes better than text. Do you ever do that?

Oh, hell yeah. Or like, uh, you voice the text message. I'll type it out for you. But the voice memo is good because they like to hear your voice. Yeah, I heard girls like that.

Dude, I frickin' heard girls like that too. And so I sent this girl one and I sent this girl one and dude, and it was like I was— you ever notice when you're just in your bag, when you're talking, you're like, oh dude, I'm feeling good, I'm confident, everything's good. I sent her like a nice voice note. It was funny and everything. Nothing.

Damn.

Nothing.

Unbelievable. Did you fart in the voice memo?

No, I just was normal.

You didn't like sound like, like deep or high. What did you say?

Oh, I told her, I said I met this Christian water skiing group and I was at a lake last week and that I— and it was fun and that yeah, things were going pretty well and that, uh, and then, oh, I asked her, yeah, I said, do you have a husband or anything? Because I didn't know she had a husband because I didn't want to be messaging someone that had a husband.

That's like, you got to call. There's certain If you say that, that's saved forever. I like the call. Like, you don't want to have anything saved on voice or text.

What did I say that was wrong? You just said it. Do the voice note.

You said you like it. Husband.

No, but I said, do you have a husband? Because I don't want to be messaging some lady that have a husband. That's what I was saying.

I think you just go in blind, figure it out, find out.

What do you mean? That's what I did. And I didn't get nothing. I think I didn't figure out— I figured it out that that she was not interested, I guess.

I don't know.

But I don't know. I sent a nice voice note. She wasn't into it.

Yeah.

So it's okay. We don't need to feel bad about it.

She missed out.

She missed out, right?

You know what I say?

I don't feel bad about it.

They can't see greatness, so why should you settle for less?

Why? Yeah, if you can't see greatness, baby, I'm like, look, I can't— I ain't buying you glasses, girl.

You know, literally.

Dang.

What else?

Oh, what else, dude? Um, I got to know a little bit more about the origin story because there was so many, um, rumors. Oh, so many rumors, dude. There was ones that you were like conceived near power lines. That was one. There was one, uh, I'm trying to think what else. Oh, you were like a data center baby or whatever. Yeah, that's a big rumor going around that you're a data center baby, that like if you cracked you open, you'd have a bunch of data in your neck or whatever.

Could be, could be a robot.

A bunch of recipes or a bunch of episodes of Euphoria in your neck or whatever.

Yeah, wires or something like Italian rainbow cookies in me.

Yeah, dude, bro, that'd be so good, bro.

It's just coming out with cannolis come out of me.

It's just a fucking bunch of brave cannolis come out. Oh, that'd be so good though, dude. Bro, you could be an Italian superhero. I could see you being an Italian superhero because we need a new one. Who's the latest one?

Who's the what?

Who's the latest Italian superhero? Maybe Paulie D and Vinnie. Who's the latest one? Has there ever been an Italian superhero?

Tony Soprano could be it. Who the hell is an Italian? Is Iron Man Italian?

I don't know. Iron—

Rob—

Iron—

Tony Stark? No, that's not—

Iron sounds like Dutch or whatever.

Oh no, Bruce Banner, that's got to be Italian.

Bruce Banner?

Yeah, that's German. Banner's German.

Banner. But he was green. He wasn't green during the day.

What Marvel character is Italian?

Yeah, all right, he's being fairly represented in the Marvel Universe. Look that up. Are Italians being fairly represented in the Marvel Universe? In the Marvel Universe? Because if not, we'll fucking leave, you feel me?

Who is this?

Italian representation in the Marvel Universe is a mixed bag, viewed by many fans and cultural critics as historically lacking in depth, while Italian-American characters like the Punisher, Frank Castle— oh yeah, the Punisher, not bad.

He's awesome. Have you seen that show?

Oh dude, yeah, people admire him a lot. You see, people are making Halloween costumes out of him.

He's awesome, man. He was in The Walking Dead originally.

He's a great— yeah, yeah. Oh, he's a great actor. But what else did it say about the Italians? I wanted to read a little bit more of that because that's a great question. Um, our iconic direct Italian nationality is often neglected of mobsters like Count Nefaria stereotypes or occasional background characters.

Wow. Right, right.

There are very few major Italian or Italian-American superheroes.

Huh, you could see that? Yeah, I can't see any one of those words.

He's got it zoomed in pretty good. That's probably a 56 font.

I don't know how I drive.

Damn, you're allowed to drive?

Yeah, I mean, like, something is gonna be that size on the road.

I wouldn't let you drive a Doberman, homie.

I drive— I haven't been in an accident, knock on wood, ever, God forbid.

Really?

I have a— yeah, I drive a normal car, but now I drive a Tesla because it drives for you.

Oh, it's so nice.

So like, if you want to have some fun on the way home with a shorty, you put it in self-drive.

But bro, if you put in self-driving, you put your feet up like that, bro, that's pretty legendary, bro.

I just like this, bro.

I love how everything's a carnival ride to you, dude. You could be sitting in anything, you're just like, weee! Yeah, this is it, bro.

It's fast as hell, dude.

Holy shit, what are you, fucking 90 years old there, bro? That don't even look like you, dude.

90.

What is this, AI, dude? What app did they use? That's crazy.

ShockGPT, bro.

Bro, you need to shock your stem cells, bro. Your shit is— bro, this isn't fucking real. What are we doing here? This shit is— what are you— where are you driving through? A Rutgers pep rally, dude? Where are you going?

In a random parking lot?

Are you sure, dude? This looks like one of the Knights scenes in, uh, no, in Breath of the Wild. It looks like you're driving through— where are you fucking driving through right there? That's not even real.

The game Breath of the Wild? The game?

Yeah.

You played that?

Yeah, I played that game. Oh shit, I like that game. I didn't like the second one that they made, Tears of the Kingdom. Yeah, it just was too much. We had to put rims on the freaking— they wanted you to put—

you had to build shit. I know, those are really good games though.

Oh, they were great games, but you had to put rims on the fucking, uh, I know what you're talking about, like the boat or whatever, like the— yeah, yes, yeah, the craft, like, yeah, the—

yeah, like that.

They want you to buy rims in this shit. I'm like, this shit's getting a little too urban for me.

I love video games so much, man. I think part of me, like, the lore is from cartoons and video games. Why I'm so sociable, because I love colorful things. I like things that move. I like animation. I love animation. You ever see that Spider-Verse movie?

There's a new one that just came out. There's a new Spider-Man that just came out.

I know, my friend's going to see it today. You'll trip out without even doing anything. It just makes you go crazy.

Yeah, I gotta watch— I haven't even seen it.

Spider-Verse, dude, it's unreal. One of my favorite movies.

Yeah, dude, we just got to learn more about the lore because there was all kind of stuff. I heard that you wouldn't— you were not even conceived, you just spawned out of the chimney of like a buca di beppe or something. I've heard a lot of crazy—

was this on Shockapedia? Where did you find this?

I just heard this stuff, dude. I heard that they just found you, like, you were just in a bassinet in the, uh, like, in like a, in like one of those dishwashing, like, things at a, uh, at a Macaroni Grill. They just found you in there.

I mean, at this point, I might have been dropped off by a freaking UFO, for all we know.

Yeah, dude, I like that.

Who knows?

Who knows? There's just a lot of good But that's the best is the lore, bro, is just finding out like how it started, you know? Yeah. Because yeah, there's all kinds of stuff.

There's rumors. You just—

yeah, you weren't even born. You just climbed out of an anthill in Sicily or whatever. You know, there's all kind of like crazy rumors out there, you know?

I've never even been to Italy.

You haven't?

Never been outside the country. I've never been outside the country.

No way, dude.

Because my mom has a bad equilibrium, so she doesn't fly anywhere. Like, man up. This man. Look at this. Freaking wow. Freaking. What would you call that superhero name?

This guy? But that doesn't even look like you, does it?

No, I know that picture.

But yeah. So take me back to— let's go back a little, right? Take me back to when the shock o'clock was at zero, right?

Like when I was born? Yeah. Okay.

I was born April 9th, 1999, and I heard you stayed in the incubator for like 40 seconds. You were like, I'm out.

You know, like the Han Solo freezer. They had me in that because I was too— I was too hot when I came out. I got struck by lightning when I came out. Put me there to cool me down in that. I was frozen like this. Yeah, as a baby, bro.

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Um, I don't know my earliest memory, but I know like kindergarten, I was, I was looking at paper like this, and they called my parents to school. They're like, your son can't see shit. He's looking at the paper like it's like a Playboy.

Oh damn, bro. But you think you were seeing anything, or you think you thought there was something on it, you just No, no, no, I couldn't see.

So now—

oh damn, brother.

Yeah, I didn't bring them. I should have brought them. And, uh, they're like— they had to test my eyesight and see like what was going on.

And, um, could you see anything?

I, I just— it was bad.

It was like a worm or something, because worms can't even see. Can a worm see? Look that up.

A worm? Yeah, a worm.

Like, you know what I'm saying? How much could you see?

I mean, I could see. I just can't see little things. Okay. Yeah.

So you can't see the haters then?

I was born with like a really, really rare condition, which is why I can't see or hear that good. You want me to say what it is?

Yeah. Is that all right?

Kenny, like from South Park Kenny? Kenny Caffee syndrome.

Kenny Caffee?

Kenny Caffee syndrome. It's so rare.

I thought he fucking played for the Mets. Kenny Caffee?

It sounds like a frickin rap artist.

Yeah.

Yo, Kenny Caffee's dropping a new mixtape next week. Tweet.

It sounds like a rap artist out of Buffalo, dude.

Dude, the doctors, they don't even know what I have.

Like, of course they don't, dude. Like, he's got Kenny Caffey, you know?

Yeah, it's got Kenny Caffey.

Yeah, they're just naming fucking— he's like, he's like, he's got Benny Agbeyani fucking, you know, arms or whatever. Fucking just naming shit from the past, you know?

Oh my God, man.

Wow. Kenny Caffey syndrome is classified as primary bone dysplasia. Oh, dysplasia, dude. My buddy's, uh, Australian Shepherd has that.

It's a growth— it's a growth hormone deficiency. That's a hip thing, huh?

It's sometimes it can be in your hips too, I think. Meaning it is a disorder of how bones form and grow.

Yeah, I don't produce growth hormone because I have an underdeveloped pituitary gland and I don't produce calcium. So I got to take all different, like, I have to take injections for that and I have to take pills or else I'll have a seizure and fucking die, which is what almost happened when I was 7 or 8.

Did they know? When did they know you had it?

When I was born. When I was born. Because when I'm born, How they tell—

how they get you— how they— how they get you to admit it? Because I don't think you're a snitch. What happened?

I was an oversized baby. I was like freaking 8 to £10. Nuh-uh. And people that have my condition are big babies and their eyes look a little bit weirder.

But, um, so out the gate they knew you had it?

Oh, they— they knew. I mean, no, no, they didn't know.

They probably diagnosed me with it from different things because you probably didn't admit you have it.

Because I had a seizure. That's what happened. I had a seizure when I was like 1 or 2 years old. And then when I was 7—

that was the first— that was the actual Jay shock. Fuck, fuck.

When I do that, it's dark. That's bad.

But hey, out of dark comes light.

Yes, yes sir.

Let's go. Amen, brother.

Amen. But when I was 7, I was sick, like really sick, and I was throwing up all my medication. And that night, um, I used to watch movies with my mom and fall asleep, and I slept in her room that night. And thank God I did, 'cause I would've died. I legitimately would've died. Oh. Because I had a seizure and I woke up in the hospital. But when I was having a seizure, she like, I was like, you know, shaking. And she caught me and called the ambulance, called my neighbor. And I woke up in the hospital like, what happened? She's like, you had a seizure. Oh. And that was when we had to talk about, you know, getting better medication and, making sure that I don't miss, 'cause I was sick. I was very sick and I was throwing up, but the doctor was like, "He'll be fine." Yeah, he just had a bad ravioli or whatever. He almost died then, that's okay.

Yeah, he'd just been, yeah.

That's what happened.

Don't put any more gravy in his bottle or whatever. Exactly. God, that's crazy, dude. Man, thank you, Debbie, right?

Thank you, Debbie.

Thank you, Debbie.

Mama Shock.

For being there, man. Wow.

Crazy, right?

A mother's love that she just wanted you there with her that night. That's pretty special, man.

I cracked my skull open 2 times.

Nuh-uh. With what?

My head. I fell off a stage.

Oh, I thought you meant with something, like some crazy guy or whatever.

Like a lightning bolt?

Yeah, like, look, I'm a piñata and just fucking hit you.

A watch?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like a Rolex and slam it on my head?

Yeah. Oh, what the fuck?

No, I was on a stage playing a game on a Christmas party.

Wait, what happened? So take me in. How you break it? Wait, wait, what's— what happened?

Well, one, one, I fell down the stairs as a kid. And then two, I fell off of a stage. I was sitting like backwards like this, and we were playing like a little basketball game where you flick it and it shoots in a thing. I must have flicked too hard and I fucking fell back.

Dang.

Cracked my skull open. It was bad, dude. Still remember that. Like, you ever have those, those moments of pain where you could still feel them today? Oh, bro, I could still feel my head hitting that, that tile, man.

Yeah, I was jumping around on something when I was a kid. I jumped and this corner of my head hit something, broke it open, and sometimes I can still feel it a little bit.

Damn. And I have a weird shaped head. I don't know if you notice this. So you could put your finger there.

Let me see.

Ooh. And a lot of people online say it's a headset dent.

Let me touch one more. Let me do it one more time. Is that it? Ooh, wow, that's cool. Yeah, that's a shock button, huh?

The shock button.

Yeah. Hey, don't press this. It's like, hey, you should get one of those things like on the top of a ladder. It's like, uh, don't— not a step or whatever.

Yes, that's it. That's my head.

Damn, shock. So what do you have to do? Do you get that filled in or whatever?

My head?

Or yeah, like, what do you do? Do you put like a hardener in there or something? Like, how do you get it to, uh— or you got to protect that spot at all costs?

No. No, it's just there. I mean, I wish I could chisel it up a little bit.

But it's exposed though, a little.

Is it?

No, I mean, you can't see it, but if you feel around, I feel like you can find that one kind of entry point. You know what I'm talking about?

Yeah.

Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't want to, you know what I'm saying?

Like, I think I could put a quarter right there. It would sit there.

Yeah, that'd be cool.

Like this wouldn't move.

Oh, that's good, huh?

Right?

Yeah, let's go! Shock City, dude. So, but, um, and then how does your hearing get bad?

So through, through like grade school, middle school, like I had to get like enlarged textbooks. I had to get a little, little step stool to put my feet on because they would still, they would dangle. They still freaking dangle.

And, uh, around your legs seem long to me, man.

Yeah, my neck's long.

Bro, your neck is just your head's leg.

Exactly. And I kept saying, "What?" And I couldn't hear very good. And we had to take an audiologist test.

And how did you know you couldn't hear very good? Do you remember?

I was just saying, "What?" a lot. And I couldn't— I wasn't getting good notes in class because I was missing a lot. I'm like, "What did you say?" I was— it was crazy. I remember the first time I got hearing aids and they put them in, I cried.

Oh.

Because I was like, man, I never— I never heard shit like this, you know?

Oh really? You could hear stuff?

Yeah, different frequencies, different, like, you know, a hi-hat and a— and a music, a little cymbal. Like, I heard that, like birds chirping and shit.

And you'd never known that? So you— and you had never really conceptualized? Yeah, because how would you—

like, I've heard them, but I forgot what they sounded like because it got bad. Oh, even like music, like, I was so unclear. And now when I put headphones on, like, it's better. I can't wear AirPods because if I take these out— we should do a hearing exam right now.

Yeah, can I put one in?

What do you say?

Oh yeah, sorry, can I put one in?

If it doesn't fall in your ear, be careful. I don't want it to fall in your ear. Oh, you got these little That's the right one.

Okay.

That's the right one.

That's these little black olives, homie. Little sound cannolis.

Just put it up to your ear. Can you hear me? Is it in? Yeah. Can you hear louder?

Yeah, dude.

Right?

Bro, I can hear you.

Is it like a lot louder?

I'm hearing— I'm getting a lot of reverb too. I'm getting some other shit too. I think it's some Chris Brown that's coming in.

Could you hear Allen Iverson?

I'm getting, uh, yeah, I can hear Alan Iverson saying, "You're late for dinner.

He's pissed at you." Could you hear the alien, the Jack?

I can hear Mike Piazza. He's complaining about something or he's denying something.

A thunderstorm?

I can hear a thunderstorm. I can hear that movie Frequency playing. What else? Oh, I can hear about 70 fire trucks.

Okay. You hear the parrots?

Shock-a-clack! I can hear them. Yeah, they're all there, dude. There they are. They just showed up.

You summoned them.

Bro, you are not of this world, Jay Shock.

I'm not of this world? Is that what you said?

Oh yeah, you can't hear me. Sorry, I thought you were messing with me. I can't hear you. You, you, bro, put it in and I'll tell you something. What the fuck is going on, dude? Okay, dude, first of all, you need it. You had— you're picking up like 70 different houses around here.

Like, I'm picking up planets.

Yeah, bro. Oh, I could—

solar system.

I could hear somebody putting in their, uh, Paramount Plus password. Like, there's shit in there I couldn't even hear, dude. I can't even—

I'm in their Netflix login.

Yeah, yeah, dude. I just heard you got 2 text messages from Lacey you didn't reply to. I heard like 70 things all at once, bro. It's too much, dude. Bro, that was a lot, bro.

You know the best thing though? I— when I take them out, I can't hear anything. So when I go to sleep, I just crash. I don't hear alarms. Matter of fact, coming here, I almost missed a flight because— so when I— when I slept—

dude, what do you mean almost missed a flight? Just hire 50 eagles, you gooner.

I know, right? To take me? I slept on a pillow, like on a couch the whole week I was in Cali, and the pillow was here and the phone was here. I didn't hear the alarm. I slept through it. I slept through it, Mr. Vaughn, and I almost didn't come.

Mr. Vaughn? Am I somebody's stepdad?

Theo, Theo, Theo.

Thanks. It's okay. I accept Mr. Vaughn.

It just hurts. I missed the Uber. I didn't hear him knocking on the door. I wake up and I'm like, you got to call another Uber. We're not gonna make it. I missed the alarm. I slept right through because I can't hear shit.

But how good do you sleep, brother? Excellent.

Oh. But not really though. I don't get sleep because I can't sleep. I'm up all night till like 5 AM, 5:30.

What are you doing? What do you mean? Why?

Oh, I stream till like 1 or 2, and then I'm just editing or coming up with new content ideas and just studying like work, other people's work, and trying to make my own thing, you know.

Dude, you're the best, man.

So are you.

Thanks, bro.

Mr. Theo.

Hey, Mr. Shock.

Mr. Shock. Yeah, what was, um, so the hearing aids?

Yeah, yeah, dude, that's fascinating. I never got to— I never got to hear him before. Did it make you feel any type of way? Like, was it hard to develop, like, um, pause— like, did it affect how you felt about yourself, some of that stuff, or no?

Like, how I felt Yeah. From other people?

Yeah, just like, did it affect like how you felt about yourself? Like the fact you had to have a hearing aid?

It was so— I used to wear the over-the-ear ones. And that was like pretty obvious. Like when I was— I had them when I had a girlfriend and we would— when we would make out, it would just be like— it would sound like this. And she would— we're getting like, we're getting down to business and you hear—

She's like, upload me some wiener.

Uploading data. So I had to like take them out. So I couldn't even hear this girl moan when I, you know, it was like, I was like, she was moaning. I was like, one more time. She hit the, you know, I'm like, one more time. You know. Chaka klack. Oh yeah, no, I felt a little bit uncomfortable for a while wearing them, but I got used to it, you know. Yeah, the more mature and everything. I'll tell you a crazy story. I played rugby in college.

What? Yes. Where did you go to school? Online? How the fuck did you play rugby in college, bro?

I swear to God, look it up. Look it up. Malloy University. You're not going to find it. It's on my Instagram.

Like, wait, you're not going to find it?

Instagram, way down, you'll see I played the number 15 spot.

Fuck yeah.

And it was all the way on the end. And we had an alumni game, the first game we played. And I wore my over-the-ear hearing aid like an idiot. Theo, I rocked this kid so hard that I poked an ear in my eardrum.

You poked a hole in your eardrum?

And yes, with the hearing aid. I decked him and the hearing aid pushed in and poked a hole. I was able, 'cause I vaped at the time, I was able to blow smoke out of my ear. My ear.

No way.

I have the clip. Yeah, I have a clip of me and it was come out of my ear.

Oh dude, in Syracuse, New York, that's a mating call. Blowing vape smoke out of one of your ear holes.

Where? In Syracuse? Yeah.

Oh my God, that's a fucking mating call over there, brother.

I know, it's crazy. I played a lot of different sports. Wait, you found it? You see that, bro?

That's fucking nothing, bro. That's how you hail a taxi in Norfolk, Virginia, bro. This blowing a little vape smoke.

It's like a Thomas the Tank Engine. Yeah, dude, I love that. But now we gotta get a pair, man.

Bro, let me tell you this, as a gift, will you let me get you one?

It's got to be green, bro.

I think they only come like that, and you can only have a little more, okay?

I think I'm feeling it, Mr. Krabs.

I feel like we've done a good job so far. Do you guys feel like that? It's been really cool. Yeah, it's been fun, um, and it's been awesome, and it's been informative, man. And I think the best thing, man, about our conversation so far is I think I get a real feel for who you are.

Thank you.

As a person. I don't know, it's just cool, man.

We haven't gotten into like this, this, the how I got into like content more.

We're gonna get that. That's exactly where we're gonna head. We're about to head into streamer you, um, we're gonna— it's about to start in the content So, but yeah, man, I just think you start to get a feeling of who somebody is. And I think it just makes me feel excited that there's people in the world who still feel or still just trying to be themselves, you know? Right. And I think we're all just trying to be ourselves.

Yes.

Oh dude, I have to tell you about this. I can't, before we move on, shout out to my friend. His name is Solomon Williams. He is a rugby player and he played on Cal rugby. He won the National Player of the Year. I just want to bring a picture of him up. This, this, their whole family's great.

Definitely not better than me.

Hey, right, bro? Salma, you heard him, bro. He's challenging you. No, no, he's right there in the middle. He's the other one.

Jesus.

Yeah, he's that one.

That guy?

Yeah. So, and if you just seen that picture of those guys, you might not have picked him out of those guys.

But he played rugby.

Oh dude, he's the number one player in the country last year.

He got that jawline of a rugby player.

One of the best guys. Damn, that's— that guy's one of the best. Shout out to him. Shout out Cal Rugby. Fair play, Teda boys.

Oh yeah.

But anyway, you told me that, dude, and he popped into my head, bro.

It's funny.

Oh, and just before we move on, you really played rugby?

Yes, I did.

And did you guys practice and train and everything?

So I tried practicing. I couldn't even run half a mile.

What?

We had to go like run to the fence and back. I'm I would be tripping, falling. Like, I— my stamina is terrible. You ever see me run?

I'm like, yes, I saw you streamer you from here to the chair.

All right, you know, it's like, let me see it again.

Hold on. I don't know if it's duck. All right, try one more time. Give it one more time for me. Just— I want to make sure we got this, huh? Let's start back from over there. Cuz I feel kind of what you're saying about the ducting, but I don't know if I— all right, I feel it's like a, like a dad that had like a— one more time, sorry, I think I can't remember good. That's okay.

Oh, there's a camera there.

That one, you look like somebody that's like left something somewhere. Every time you run, it looks like somebody that left something somewhere and they're going to get it.

Is that camera good?

I don't know, I'll take a peek at it. Yeah, but so I can't run. Well then how do you play rugby then?

I ran. What?

He just figured it out.

I just— I could hit people hard. Okay, you know, I gotta put a muscle on me.

Jack Shock. Oh dude, bro, if I could—

the shock—

if I could jerk off with those arms, bro, I wouldn't leave the house, dude.

Spraying shit up.

What are we even talking about? Sorry, dude. You're of age, right?

I'm 27.

Oh, great. We're good then here. We're just a couple of Italian guys. You know what I'm saying? We're just a couple of out-of-work Italians. That's all we are.

I don't know. I wasn't— I'm athletic, but like, it's a lot of— takes a lot of energy for me. Like, we walked here in Nashville around. I was dying.

Yeah. You know, it can be a lot.

I'm like this.

What did you, um, but what was y'all's team name? The, the team name you played with?

The Malloy Rugby Lions. Malloy Lions.

Oh yeah, Lions, that's good. Yeah, Brisbane Lions, I was a fan of theirs, but they are, uh, Australian football. But, um, all right, so if you could go back in time, is there a sport that now when looking back strategically based on you and your abilities you think you would have been great at if you'd applied yourself Is there one?

I think basketball. I probably had the best shot because I was really good at shooting threes. A couple of clips of me playing basketball at Dreamer U, but I love basketball. Football is too small for me. Baseball was— baseball is another one though. Like Little League, like that shit, man.

Dude, your strike zone is the size of a Zen can.

These?

No, your strike zone, probably the size of a damn Zen can.

Yeah, right. Yeah. Hitting dingers right there, man.

Oh dude, they hit— you would've walked every—

I walked a lot.

Oh yeah.

But I also hit a couple, couple dingers. I remember I got my first double and my dad missed it 'cause he was driving the fire engine. Queens. My mom saw it.

Oh.

That was like a good moment. I used to pitch a little bit too.

Did you?

I have a gun. I have a fricking—

I could see it.

I could throw a football far, baseball far. Probably basketball though. 'Cause I liked it.

Yeah.

I was on my high school team.

You were?

There's pictures everywhere. You can find them.

I didn't even— you gotta— we guys get— we got to bring those up. We do our research, but we don't try to make it too much like, you know, I scored, I think, 13 points the whole season.

Uh-uh. Or 19.

That's good.

My dad— my uncle's like, you know, that's how much people get in a game. It's like top 5 score.

Yeah, yeah, the team sucked, dude. Yeah, the freaking team sucked. What was the team called?

The gales.

Oh, come on, the gales, dude.

I don't even know what that is.

It's a breeze, I think. There you go, right there. What, do you play in rugby?

That's rugby, man.

Let's go!

No cap.

Jay Shock, dude.

That's before I had my jaw surgery, so look how different I look, dude.

Yeah, you did look different. What was it about— what was the jaw surgery? When did that come in?

That came in, um, that kid behind me, the lightweight.

Obviously that kid, look at him, is fucking—

we gotta do like, um, what's it called in a frat where you like horse around? Um, something with an A, hazing or whatever. Yeah, hazing. So we had to do that like a warm-up, like get into the brotherhood, and we did like drinking challenges. Yeah, then we just hand it to the kid behind because they didn't like him. No, felt so bad. This kid couldn't drink either. He couldn't after, after half a beer. He would get drunk and he would like pass out. Oh, we got him messed up.

He looks like he'll drink half your nuts, to be honest with you. But I don't know him, bro. And also, blessings, dude. We can't be roasting this fucking kid. We don't even know him.

But look at the— I'm sorry, don't, don't say his name. You don't know his name. I'm so sorry.

You brought him up, dude. And first of all, bro, why didn't your parents put you in the sun a little bit? They got you fucking out here looking like a marshmallow that fucking plays soccer, dude. They got you out here looking like a—

like a green, bro.

You look like a white chamacol, dude.

You look like a fucking pelican, bro.

Yeah, you look like a fucking— you look like an egg that fucking got— that's doing his own thing for the day or whatever, bro.

I look like a— like a gas bubble.

What are we talking about, dude?

Like one of those cartoon gas bubbles?

Oh yeah, definitely, dude.

Damn, like a little fart.

Oh yeah, you look like a fucking— yeah, you look like a fart from Europe, dude. You look like something somebody would throw and a dog would bring back, bro. But a strong dog, you know what I'm saying? Not some little fucking—

yo, you ain't flaming me.

Sorry, bro, I'm joking. I'm joking, bro.

That is so funny.

I'm joking, bro. And look at the guy behind you trying to be black. He just put a bunch of dirt on his legs. That's bullshit. I hate it when dudes do that. I hate that, dude. That guy's— look, and then he even wore like the black sleeves, like, look, I'm black. That guy's not even black, dude. Bro, how could 3 dudes be 3 different colors and all live in the same country too in this picture?

Oh my God, this is crazy.

And this is FIFA, dude. This is the problem we're having since they expanded the tournament and let more teams in.

Look at my jawline, how bad it is.

I thought the jawline's solid, bro.

Yeah, it's before my surgery.

What'd they do?

They, they broke my top and bottom jaw and realigned it.

Jesus Christ.

Type in J-Shock jaw surgery, it'll come up.

Who were they? Did you get their license plate?

No, the doctor did it.

Were you having trouble feeding or whatever? Feeding or eating or whatever.

Feeding.

I don't know what you're doing, bro. At this point, everything—

this is the newer one. You got to go to the old one.

Um, what is going on?

I had to have corrective jaw surgery because of my calcium deficiency, and, um, they, they had to start by— because I have all baby teeth. These are all— you want to show you?

Yeah, let me see a couple of them. Oh wow, baby shark.

It's like a dinosaur.

Those are worth money though, the baby ones, right?

Mm-hmm.

You'd had nibbler.

So it's on YouTube, um, this Jshark99 jaw surgery on YouTube. But anyway, I had to get new teeth, so in order to get new teeth, they had to start by realigning my jaw. So I was out of work and school for like 3 or 4 months because I They blew up my jaw. Like, they had to break my top and bottom. I look like a freaking Kardashian model. Like, you're going to see the picture. It's crazy. It was the most pain I've ever been through. I couldn't even do this. My mom had to feed me soup and water through a syringe. Oh, and they put me on like, shock o'clock. Like, they put me on the shock o'clock.

They did.

I had a bottle of shock o'clock.

Nuh-uh.

It was bad.

Did you have one of those feeding bottles or whatever?

No, I don't know if I could talk about what I was on, like prescribed.

Oh, you were on medication? Strong medication. Was it scary?

No.

It was awesome?

For a little bit.

Oh, yeah.

But it's dangerous, that stuff. You can't be doing that shit. But Elden Ring came out around the time I was on the shock o'clock potion. It's fun.

Elevator ring? Oh, the ring camera?

No, Elden Ring.

Elden Ring, the game. Bad.

And it just like, it was crazy, man. Good. Like, it took away the pain, but it was like, it was crazy.

Yeah. I wonder what games go best with pills or whatever.

Hmm.

I wonder what games go best with pills.

I don't even know. Anything that's in the video game, probably. You gotta pull up that picture though. I have it. You want me to show you?

Yeah. Oh my God, bro, that looks like you and Sketch. This is really you, dude?

That's me. There it is. There it is. Look at it. Look how swollen I am.

Oh yeah, you look like you're saving something for winter. That's crazy.

There's some— there's like a screenshot or a B-roll or overlay of like the pictures.

Oh, look at you. Been drinking breast milk for 40 years. That's what you look like.

Sucking and mucking. Look at this.

Oh, fuck. Look like you— damn, look like you were sucking on a tit off of the LIE, dude, in the Tesla like this. Yeah, bro, you look like you fucking got a— yeah, got a tough hit on some Jersey tit right over there. Some fucking Turnpike nipple. That's what got a hold of you, brother.

The LIE nipples.

Oh, look like you were trying to give up. Damn, look like you were trying to slurp on something in bumper-to-bumper traffic right Yeah, brother, that's a tough look, dude.

Isn't that crazy?

It is, dude. God, you've been through so much, man.

I've been through so much, Theo. Oh, like real talk.

I know. And just your resiliency, man, and your attitude, your ability to have a positive attitude. It's so funny, man. I think seeing you today is like— and I hate to even make this about myself, but like, it's just what I needed. I needed to be reminded of like that, like everybody is dealing with stuff, we're all going through things, that we got this, right? And the way to do it is just to keep positive, you know?

I've been through some more psychological shit. I don't know how deep you want me to get into it, but could we talk about that stuff?

Yeah, what was one of the tougher times that you dealt with, do you feel like? Like when it comes to some of your mental health and emotional health, that sort of thing.

We could talk about like weed. Yeah, we can.

Yeah.

So I used to smoke a lot of weed when I was younger, like high school, college, or college mainly. And I was addicted to the pen called the Penjament. I had a Rick and Morty pen.

Penjament Button, they called you, I bet.

Something like that. Yeah. And I was in Cape Cod, my homeland, right where I was born. And I was drinking, I was smoking, not getting sleep. I was sleep deprived. And I think a mixture of everything. And then I did it so much that I went into psychosis from hitting that pen for over a month. And I was— it was bad. I was checked into multiple hospitals. I was in a psych ward for over a month. And while I was— how I got— why I suffered because—

Did you get 5150'd or whatever? Did you get 5150'd, it's called, or something?

5150'd.

You're in a psych ward, go on.

Oh, sorry. And before I got there, I was working at Home Depot. That was my first, like, real job. And I felt like people were were following me. Like, I was ringing up the same 4 customers all day. I was hearing voices in my head. And then I get in my car and I'm like, Dad, like, people are following me. Like, I would say, like, I would say red car, like, I want a red car. Like, a red car would drive by. It was always like weird little coincidences that were happening. But that's what happens when you're in psychosis. Like, these coincidences happen. Shit seems so real. So I ended up getting home I thought my dad was recording me. We had like a fucking fist fight. Like, it was bad, dude.

Oh, you accused him of recording you?

No, I thought cameras were recording me. There weren't. I thought my whole life was being broadcasted.

Where did you think that your dad was hiding the cameras?

On his phone. Because every time he was on the phone, like, the camera looked like it was recording me.

Oh, you thought it was recording you?

Yeah. So I ran to my neighbor's house.

Would you tell the neighbors? You knock on the door, you just go—

I said, my parents are trying I do some shit like— and they're like, no, you're good, you're good, trust me. Like, oh, oh no, I was, I was playing GTA, and in the game there was like things happening in the game. Like I was getting pulled over in the game, and like I thought like all this stuff was happening because of like what— like I did something wrong. It was so weird, Theo, like I can't even explain it. And was it scary too?

Was it scary also?

Yeah, it was really scary. They were telling me either you take the medicine or we check you into a psych ward. And the psych ward I was in was all of younger people. When I was there, did you have a sport?

You have like a volleyball team? You have a sports league or anything in there?

No, like a psych ward sports unit, or— yeah, like a, um, no, they had basketball court. And I'll tell you, I was shooting full court shots like it was like nothing, because the drugs they had you on in that hospital were like limit— let me see, limitless. Movie. It was like a pill that it unlocked all of my brain, and I was doing shit. I learned how to freestyle, I learned how to rap. Hey, hey, I learned how to do all this different stuff because of the medication. It's terrible.

Serotonin's down, but these buckets are up, you feel me? That's all I'm saying, bro. That's crazy.

So now while I'm there, like, it was all these different coincidence happening. There was a lot of weird people in there, like, that had their own problems in the psych ward.

Who was one of the wildest cats in there?

I don't remember any names really. Yeah, we don't need a name, but there's one dude, um, there was some crazy people in there, man. I had this big African-American guy in my room.

Black guy?

Yeah, big, big black guy in my room. And, uh, in the middle of the night he woke me up like hovering over me. Oh yeah, you got any snacks?

Really?

I got some gummies in my— chips in my bag. He probably smelled them. I need them now.

He said he needed them. Probably smelled them. If you're that big, dude, you can smell food better than we can.

Yeah, dude, there was so much shit that's happened in my life. And like, so the craziest part of all this is that, um, two things. One, when I was at Home Depot, I worked with this kid and he was training to become a doctor. And when I was in one of the hospitals that I was admitted to, I saw him walking around the hospital. I'm like, Dad, that's one of the guys that's following me. He works for me. He's spying on me. And he's like, he's not. He's just a regular doctor. A couple of years later, I call him like, yo, did you ever work at this hospital at this time? He's like, that was me.

You're lying.

He's like, that was me. He's like, now you can rest easy.

Was it really him?

It was really him.

So he worked at Home Depot and at the hospital?

Yeah, training. And then the second—

Training for what?

What?

Like, what training would a doctor need at Home Depot, really?

He just had a side job, like, while he was going to school, he worked there.

Oh, got it.

So now—

Dude, you ever have that— Okay, go on.

I'm sorry.

I had a question. I have a question about Home Depot, but—

I'm gonna tell you in a second. But the craziest thing about all this is the second thing. You know Logic, the rapper? Yeah. He wrote a book. His name is Bobby Hall, but he wrote a book called Supermarket. And in the book, it's about him living like a double life, and he's going through psychosis, and he's trying to like hide a killing that he did. It's a really great book, Supermarket. That book came out at the same time I was going through psychosis, so I thought I was the main character of the book that was being filmed live action in the hospital and around the world. I thought they were like doing a 24-hour livestream of me being a real character of that book.

J-Shock.

I swear to God.

Would you ever leave like messages for yourself to find later? Like, hey, I'm going to write myself this note.

Yes. So that whole notebook of it, I wrote songs in it. I wrote little things because we were trying to— of the girls I liked. I remember I got a— I got a boner.

I was like, tell us about that boner.

That boner. There was this nurse and like at the time, like my body wasn't working right. Like my brain, nothing was like working with, the stuff they were putting me on was making me feel different things. And I remember one day I was like, oh, I forgot what a boner felt like. And this girl came up to me, we were talking, I was rizzing the fuck out. I thought I was gonna bang this nurse.

Oh, it's hospital rizz, dude.

That thing was jumping. Oh, that's like having a great time talking to everyone. I just can't even explain to you. You would have to be in my head to really know what it felt like.

But how did the psychosis come to an end?

It just— they— my parents saved me. They really did. Like, they got me out of there. They're like, you can't give them any more medication because they try to keep you in there, Theo.

Oh yeah, they try to keep—

that's how they make money.

It's like the zoo. They want the animals.

Yeah.

Go— imagine you go to a zoo and there's no animals, or they're like, hey, this animal got better, we let him go. They're like, what? This animal's back happy with his family. You never see any of that. They're always like, this animal, yeah, he's having— if he's got bad lungs or whatever, we're keeping him or something. Them. That's always the prognosis when you're at the zoo, dude. It's fucking bullshit. Or this animal, yeah, he's still, you know what I'm saying, we're doing physical therapy with him for like 11 years or whatever, you know.

He's good now.

Yeah, yeah, it's always some bullshit.

Hippopotamus can open his mouth now, he's good. The eagle could fly. But yeah, I got out and I just, I never smoked weed again.

Do you think that something about that, do you Do you think that something about that psychosis, the idea of like seeing yourself outside of yourself, did that lead you into streaming? Like, you know what I'm talking about?

It led me into being creative. I'll say that I was always creative, but like, it kind of like, it was like an epiphany almost. Like, how? Well, I was doing music at the time. I produced music. So again, like, this is another example of why, of how psychosis works. I thought I was a producer for Jay-Z in the hospital. I was playing piano and I thought they were recording what I was playing on the piano and sending it to Jay-Z. And like, I was hearing it on the speakers because everything— when you're in psychosis, you feel like everything is happening for you. So that one of the guys, the music therapy guy, would come in and he would play music for us and he would play the radio and I would hear, I would hear like in the song, in the lyrics, Jay Shock made the beat. Jay Shock is on the— like, I would hear my name in the song, but it really wasn't there.

Got it.

It was just my mind tricking me.

Got it.

Fucking crazy, dude. Crazy.

But, um, so you made it through all of that?

I made it through all that. And like, I'm like, where you said, like, how it led to that— I produced music at the time, and I thought I was making hits. I was like calling my friends on the phone. I would remember every phone number that my friends have because we didn't have our cell phones So I would remember all the names, and I thought for the show or whatever live broadcast was on, I thought I would have to remember the phone number for the thing. I thought I called Riley Reid. I thought I called like supermodels.

Riley Reid, the porn star?

Yeah, I thought I called.

The model star?

I got a phone call and I'm like, who is this? And she's like, it's Riley. I'm like, what's up Riley? I'll be there later.

Yeah.

And it was just a fucking random person. Who was on the phone? There might have been no one on the phone. That's how crazy it was, Theo.

So, but so, Jesus Christ.

I know I'm getting deep. I know I'm getting all over the place, but all of it makes sense to me because it happened.

Well, I know it happened, dude, but you're like fucking out there. You're hitchhiking through your own—

I was shooting threes like Allen Iverson. I was calling points.

You know what's crazy is the more you talk, the more it sounds like you might be Allen Iverson's son.

Could be. I couldn't be.

So I just gotta know though, so you get out of the hospital, things start to get different. Um, oh wait, oh, one thing before we— what is something about Home Depot that people do not know, dude? Because I'll tell you this, we used to go in that section, my friends and I would get high and we go in that section where the doors are.

Yes, and we go doors.

Yeah, dude, we go Millwork. What's it called?

Millwork.

Yeah, we go into the Millwork section, dude, and we wait till somebody was standing on one of the doors and then we would knock on it, dude.

That's funny as shit. What is something to know about Home Depot?

Just fucking stand there, dude.

Just shitty company. That's all you got. You think it is for them to fire someone that got assaulted for defending themselves? You're a shitty company.

That seems like typical. I mean, that's typical Home Depot. I feel like in Atlanta, that feels like everyday Home Depot.

That's, that's the headquarters.

Yeah, of course. And we tried defending my case and all that and Did they settle out of court?

No, we didn't do any court stuff. What happened was I worked there for 4 years. I worked my way up to like a manager position, opening and closing the store. I was the king there.

And did you have to wear all that stuff, the belt and all?

The apron. I held a tape measure.

Was it heavy or not, the stuff you had to carry around?

No, it wasn't heavy. Had a walkie-talkie, you know.

Really?

It's crazy.

I like walkie-talkie.

Coo-coo, chock-a-clock, chock-a-clock. Yeah, but it was—

Yeah, I want to build a parrot cage.

Put a little parrot in the apron, pops out. Yeah, no, it was, it was crazy because like when I got fired, nobody like defended me. They all just dropped me. All the managers, all my friends, like they kind of left me for dead, you know.

But you didn't leave yourself for dead, man.

No, sir.

You know, tell me about how you ended up— I, I know you also ended up working, uh, with the U.S. Postal System.

I did. They fired me too. Really? Well, the first place I got fired from because this guy attacked me and I defended myself at Home Depot. It was— that was it.

I know, I, I just, I know that I've heard that story, but that's what happened there. You got attacked, you defended yourself. So I know that that story's out there.

It wasn't even like a— it wasn't like this. It was just like he comes in, I'm clocking out, and he knocked the wind out of me. At the time I had pneumonia, so my ribs were bruised, and I just got out of the hospital, and he, man, he hit me so hard. So I, I I slapped him back like that. And he's like, I could do whatever I want to, I'm older than you. I'm like, no, you can't.

Give him that fucking— give him that wrist ravioli, brother.

Popper deli smash.

Yeah, you want extra fucking ham on that?

And post office, had to get another job. My dad was like, you got to get a job, got to get a job. I didn't want to work for the post office.

Why? What do you have against them?

I didn't. It just didn't want— not what I wanted to do. I wanted to make music at the time. I want— that's all I wanted to do was make music.

Okay.

TV producer. Yeah, that's my passion, my dream.

Okay, but you— so you— how do you even audition to be— work at the post office?

Oh, you have to take a test online. What do you think, you're gonna like throw out mail?

I don't know, I guess— I guess I would have at least—

go around and set a bicycle, just like at least run from a dog. You gotta pass the road test, which was hard because I couldn't even reach the pedals.

So in the mail truck?

No, it's— it's— I got two pillows. Theo, I used to have dreams where I wouldn't be able to reach a car pedal. And when I finally worked for the post office, I was like, these are what the dreams are about.

Foreshadowing.

'Cause I couldn't reach the pedals. Passed the test. I was on probation for 30 days. I had an Asian man named Chen train me. And he's like, you're terrible. You're horrible. You're gonna be terrible mailman. He hated me, but he loved me at the same time. He was a Navy SEAL and he trained me to like, I had to have my magazines here, my letters here. You had to balance this shit. You have to have a bag over your head with newspaper. It's called your, I don't know, your day ones or something, whatever they're called. I don't remember what they're called. And you have to fill it with parcels, like packages, if you have a stop. Then you have to put all your magazines, they're called your flats, and then you got your letters. So the whole— and they're in rubber bands. So if you, if you miss a rubber band, because everything is in order, that shit drops. I would drop the mail like crazy. I remember one time I went to the back of the mail truck to organize it. I'm like, I gotta pee. And I had a cup I brought with me.

I fucking pissed on the mail. You did?

Dude, what the heck? What were you— what you fucking just peeing on the mail? I felt bad.

I peed so bad, but I was like, I couldn't control it. I just peed on them.

Go to a park.

We had a mail truck. There was no park. I was on the job.

Yeah, there's a park everywhere.

There was pee on the man everywhere. On the packages, on the mail. Someone got a letter with yellow shit that day, man.

Jayshock, you're not supposed to be peeing on people's mail. It's a federal offense.

I did it by accident.

What do you mean you did it by accident?

It spilled.

But if you got your wiener out, bro, that's— you know what I'm saying?

I'm not working with much, so I couldn't control it.

But still, dude.

So they fired me because they said— not because of that, not because of that.

What'd they fire you for?

They didn't open up the mail truck and just see piss everywhere, but because they said your hearing and vision are going to prohibit how you do this job, and we can't have someone like you.

Fuck them, dude. Nobody even cares if they get the mail anyway. Dude, we had a guy that was in Tucson. We had a guy who would sometimes— he would deliver the mail at like 11:30 at night. He'd just run out and throw it in the fucking yard and scream at his fucking kid in front of our house and then drive off. He would floor it. We had a guy who souped up his mail cart. He probably put like a— he probably put an F-350 engine in there or something. That bitch would hum, bro.

Oh my God.

But so you got laid off from the mail. How long were you, uh, how long were you, um, in the United Postal Service?

3 months. I got close. I started in winter too, Theo. So I was slipping on ice, looking like Michael Jackson, just dance moving on ice.

Looking like Kevin just going across that pond in Home Alone.

Yeah, yeah, literally. And it was hard.

Damn.

Really hard.

What was the hardest thing about the mail that people don't know? What's something people don't understand?

Just your relays and your routes. Like, you'll have blocks sometimes, especially if you get a walking route. You have to do a pushcart. You don't get a truck. That's the first route I ever did. So I got, I was in Port Washington and they were like, you're not good here. And I'm like, gimme one more chance. Then they sent me to another town. And that town, the first route I did was a walking route and I had to walk 200 blocks. Yeah, that's a walking route. I had to push this thing with all mail and packages. It was heavy.

Was it heavy?

Up and down this road. The route is supposed to take 2 hours. It took me 9.

But how would you even push it? Were you able to— did you ever think about just tying it around your waist and pulling it behind you? Ever try that?

No, you push it. You know, you know, you ever do that?

Just muck it along?

Yeah, just mucking and trucking. Dang, I wouldn't eat. Can't eat, barely.

Would you ever just throw some of the mail out like it was just too ridiculous?

No, no. Couldn't do that. That's a federal offense.

I'll piss on it. I'm not throwing it out, dude. I'll decorate it.

I'll piss on it, but I won't throw it out.

Um, all right, we got— we got to get to—

but while I was doing all this, I was still doing social media, like music. I was— I think I was doing food reviews, like, here and there in my car. And then I finally got that, and then my dad's like, you got to get another job. So I found this oil company. Mm-hmm. Um, Petro Oil Company. I'm not going to name the specific job I was at.

Okay. And they do oil?

They, they sell oil. So I was a credit representative and I was making sure people get oil so they don't freeze to death. So if you didn't have money, yeah, you were gonna fucking freeze that night. And it was bad. It was sad. Like a little old lady like, I need oil.

Yeah, give me some oil.

I need oil. She's freezing. Like, I could, I could picture her in her, her room freezing, and I'm sitting there.

Even my bra is cold. Yeah, my tits are so cold. It's shock o'clock.

It was bad, man. But I was like a top salesman there.

Come over, bring over that little parrot wiener.

Shock o'clock.

Oh my God, sorry, this story's getting a little crazy, dude. What town was it called? Port what? Huh? What town were you in?

What town?

Port Washington. Where was it at?

No, the oil company. Yeah, I don't remember where it was. Uh, Woodbury.

But where is it? All in New Jersey?

New York.

New York.

So now I got some like crazy customers on the phone yelling at you all day, and I'm selling oil.

You're up there selling oil by phone?

Yeah. Oh my God, literally, you got to collect money. You got to collect thousands of dollars.

Oh, I believe you, but it's just— what the fuck are you getting involved in, dude. You know what I'm saying? They just pulled all your teeth out and now they got you selling oil by phone.

Yep. And shooting threes in a psych ward.

Let's go!

But, um, I was doing food reviews at the time, getting past 10,000, you know, growing my following. In the mean— in the main, um, miss a moment. When I was training, one of my best friends, Charles, um, He's like, so what do you do for fun? I'm like, oh, I have a social media page where I do food reviews. And he was like, we were talking about fast food. I'm like, I got to get back into that. He's like, what, eating fast food? I'm like, no, doing my food reviews. And he kind of like started me back up again. Like I did like all those food reviews there. Like just kind of got me back in the rhythm of posting. So thank you to him. And I would be going on my lunch breaks, order food, do mukbangs.

Oh, so you started mukking like that?

Yeah, but that was at Home Depot too. I was doing it on all three jobs. I was producing music, you know, selling beats, making music for artists, and then eating food. The first ever video I did was Prime, the drink. Yeah, I did a review on that.

Can you bring that? Do you have a first video?

Oh, this is the first mukbang I ever did.

And, and so this is before Shock O'Clock and Let's Get to Mukking?

Yes.

Yes, it is. Okay, great, let's watch it.

Okay, first up we got Tropical Punch. I've had Prime before, I love it. And let's give this one— look, I got the Home Depot hat on, dude. Oh my God, really good. Tastes like a really good fruit punch. Um, I have no teeth in the coconut water in it.

You don't need them.

I have no teeth. Extremely nice, dude.

Who needs this one? That stuff probably strips your enamel anyway. That's just a rumor.

Okay, next up we got— oh, give it a shake. Always shake it, always spank it. Let's crank it. I don't think I like this flavor.

Oh God, yeah, there's some bad ones out there. Yeah, dude, that's awesome, bro.

But also, what you don't know is I did food reviews with no teeth and everyone made this meme up, gumming it down. Because when you take the teeth out, I have no teeth. They said they made up gumming it down. So I did food reviews for over a year with no teeth.

Well, that's—

who else is doing that?

Oh, that's our healthcare system. Okay. What do you expect? Half of America is doing that now, dude. But here's, here's my question. Here's, here's my question for you is, do you think it's easier to do a food review with or without teeth? Does one matter more than the other?

Well, now I have all these fake teeth and I say when I take the teeth out, I could chew it easier because when I'm chewing, this thing is like messing around, food getting behind it. Yeah, it's just a freaking nightmare. I'm eventually going to get all new teeth from my doctors. I have like some of the best doctors— Dr. Kurtz, Dr. Ruggiero, Dr. Schwartz. They're just great doctors. Dr. Barisi, like, Luca Relli— they're great doctors.

Italians, huh?

Yeah. In town, I guess. And they just, they know what they're doing. Like, they, they're dealing with like a lot of different equipment and like money for the procedure.

Oh shit, yeah, dude, just put a fucking— get a good calzone maker to put your, put your fucking, you know, stuff it up. Yeah, get some, uh, just a little shingles of the Lord, but some nice baby raviolis and put them in there, brother. That's all it is.

I, at that oil job, I started doing POV videos, okay? And I would film my lunch my 9-to-5s. And the first one I ever did, there was this guy named Hubbs Life. Shout out to Hubbs Life and shout out to Noe Murillo. They were the— they made this, you know, POV, right? POV, you end up on a POV, whatever. POV is point of view. So it gives you a perspective of what your life is like. So I saw this guy Hubbs Life filming his 9-to-5 and I'm like, I'm going to try one.

Okay.

I did it. Fucking 10 million views. Wow.

So you just tried a POV and you got 10 million views on it?

How much— how many views does this have?

That's you, Sean.

This has like 15, 14 million views, bro. That might even have more now. But look, I would film my whole routine.

Oh, I like that jump at the end.

Yeah, well, broke the internet.

It's athletic.

Broke the earthquake.

Oh my gosh, you look like my friend's sister a little bit in this.

Isn't this relatable, Theo? Like, it's cold, you don't want to be work.

100%.

You get an hour unpaid lunch break. Unpaid. That's what made me so relatable, was unpaid. Oh, little food tray. I was in Ellie, my car Ellie.

Would you always eat in the front seat, or sometimes you'd eat in the back?

Always front. Huh. What, I have a chain around my—

oh, the chain's great. But is there something weird about a guy eating in the back by himself?

Probably. That's something. Is that what you do?

I think it's okay to do it.

These blew up. I did so many. I did so many of these that I was able to leave my job.

So you're telling me that you were able to— so you did enough food reviews on your lunch break at work that you were able to quit your actual job?

Yeah, so I went into work one day and I had to use the bathroom. I had to put myself in personal time, but I had to go into the bathroom. I really had to go. Like, it was nonstop. My stomach was effed up. And I said the fat guy—

What had you been eating, you think? You remember?

I don't remember what I ate. Probably some Italian food.

Yeah.

Too much ravioli.

Some foreign shrimp or whatever.

Yeah. So I said the fact that I have to send an email to use the bathroom to extend my bathroom time is enough to make me quit. So I would plug in this calculator how much I would need to leave, like money-wise, because I would go home and I would livestream eating. I would make like, you know, a couple hundred dollars for my salary for the week. So I called up my boy, I'm like, yo, I'm gonna quit. He's like, do it. So I got a garbage bag, I came out of the bathroom, and I said, if I could find a box or something to put my stuff in, I'll leave. So this beautiful Spanish lady sitting out there with 3 big black hefty bags, I'm like, can I have one of those bags? I got all my shit, put it in there, and I left. And my manager called me back in, she's like, where you going? I'm like, I'm done. She's like, well, I need you to sign something that says you She hands me a loose leaf. Theo, I signed it as J-Shock. 'Cause I went in as Jerome and I left as J-Shock.

I get home, parents wanted to kill me. We're gonna kick you out. We're gonna get a job.

Were you still living at home?

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I'm out and about. Like, I'm never there. But I was. Yeah, look, see, this is me twinning. I filmed it.

That's crazy, dude.

But this is like a day after.

Right.

Like, this is when I had to come back and drop off all my shit. Fuck.

Um, so take us on— how do you end up like— um, dude, thanks so much for your time too.

Yes sir, thank you for having me.

Oh, you bet, man. This is awesome, dude. We have to— we'll have to keep in touch.

I'm gonna look you in the eyes for this one. Hey, no no look.

I like that. Thank you, bro. No no look. I got the look back.

Yes sir.

Um, do you take— so take us, take us on what is Streamer U.? And then how do you end up in, uh, how do you audition for Streamer U? Take us first up, for our listeners that don't know, what is Streamer U?

So there's 7 million applicants, I believe, maybe more or less around there. There was in-person audition that I didn't want to go to, and then there was online where you submit a video. Um, I didn't want to go.

You submit video to what?

To the— to get into the school.

And what is the school? I'm just saying, like It's a school full of content creators and streamers. Okay, got it.

Yeah, it's run by Kai Sinat.

Okay.

And his team. And it's just a really crazy opportunity that could change your life. It changed mine. And you learn about— it's a literal school. It was in Arkansas this year. And you learn like different tactics on how to grow, how to get better equipment, how to learn about like how to deal with the stress. There was all different classes like Lizzo was a teacher, Adapt. Ludwig. Like, there was all these cool teachers that are big content creators, and then you're surrounded by like 120 creators. So you're in a cafeteria, for example, with all streamers eating lunch, and everyone's live streaming.

Oh, it seems crazy, bro. It seems like a bunch of people just trying to catch each other saying the N-word is what it seems.

Yeah, it's like all clip farming. But anyway, like, I wasn't gonna reply, Theo. Like, I, I, I filmed the shitty video because I didn't care, and my boy Jacob, my editor, my— one of my best friends was like, you've got to apply and you got to try. So I filmed the video 2 days before Father's Day, edited it, and then we put it out, submitted it an hour before applications closed with my cameraman, my old cameraman. I fired him. And I saw that. I fired him at Screamer University. I don't want to get— I don't want to—

we're not going to get into it.

But anyway, we're not going to get into it. We got in.

You send the audition video in. How long is the audition video?

How long was it? Yeah, a minute and a half.

Let's watch it right now. We'll watch it right here.

I'm streaming. I'm streaming. I gotta go, I gotta go. I gotta see Skyler get the muffin.

It's choco o'clock.

Jarvis, take me to the best food spot on Long Island. Yes, Mr. Shock, would you like me to invite Sophie? Negative, let Deets and I know I'm on the way. Hey Deets and I, I'm Jay Shock, and if I'm accepted, you know I'm bringing pizza. Here's a few reasons why I should be accepted. Number 1, I quit my job to do social media full-time, and since then I've grown my page to over 2 million followers, and I'm not stopping. Mmm, so good. Number 2, I never give up. Growing up, I went through a lot medically, physically, emotionally, and a lot of people told me I was never gonna be able to do what I wanted to do, and that's create content. You're too small, you don't have the right look. Well, guess what? I'm doing it right now. A couple years ago, I had to get corrective jaw surgery. They had to break my top and bottom jaw to realign it so I could get new teeth. I was doing food reviews with no teeth. I was gumming it down.

Ah, fuck.

After all that, I'm still mucking, and I'm gonna teach you guys how to muck. Fuck, that sauce is crazy. And number 3, just like these slices, I offer variety. I do food reviews, daily gaming streams, and I've helped dozens of businesses across the country. Sometimes there's a line out the door thanks to you, Shock Squad. And oh yeah, that beat you heard throughout the whole video, I made that too.

Shock Squad, right?

And lastly, I want to bring food and streaming together Like no one ever has. I'm ready to shock the world. Are you? Shock out. She was banging, right?

Dude, that's so perfect, bro. What a great video you made. And so what advice would you give to people who want to make a video to submit for Streamer U?

Have a good hook. The first 2 to 3 seconds got to be very engaging. Got to be something different. Got to be something a little bit like relatable, a little bit sus, like something that like sticks out. And then you got to have a good like pacing. So like the flow of the video, like maybe like you doze off for like a little second, but like I engage with you that whole video. I kept your attention. That's what's so important about content is you got to remain retention. That's why when you're scrolling, these apps got to keep you on your platform. But the longer you look at a video, the more the Instagram or TikTok will push that video in the algorithm because they like to see eyes being on something for longer, you know? So just, you know, and be yourself, have fun with it.

What do you want people to take away from your content?

Just to be weird, you know, just have fun, be yourself, shock the world, you know, and just do what you love. Because I feel like everyone is unique and everyone's like, oh, you look different, you're different, you know, why don't you look like me? Why don't you have facial hair? Why are you so small? I'm like, because I'm unique. Everyone has a cool story to tell and you should monetize your life. You know, because me waking up in the morning, brushing my teeth, could be different than you, you know. Me putting my shoes on, some people can put a shoe on to no foot at all. Like, me wearing different clothes than you in the morning, like, everyone has some kind of uniqueness to them, you know. I like to say, like, let— I have a quote here, it's my yearbook quote for, for Shreemer University.

Yeah, let's check it out.

And I said for the yearbook, I said, um, Okay, ready? Don't let your disability define you. Use it as your ability to achieve greatness and shock the world.

Amen, bro.

Okay, that's real talk. Like, I never let my disabilities get into my head to find me. I use them to my ability to achieve greatness.

Yeah, yeah, man, because we're all we have, you know. Our experiences are what we have, you know. They're the ingredients that make us, you know.

And video, you know, getting accepted at 1:30 AM. I was screaming and he called my name. Like, my reaction is insane.

How, uh, so what was that? You're just watching the, the announcements and how many does he choose?

121.

Out of how many?

Out of 7 million. Isn't that crazy?

Crazy.

It changed my life. I wouldn't be here talking to someone as amazing as you if it wasn't for this opportunity by Kai.

Sure.

I mean, it's crazy. And while I was there, I was making so many viral moments. I was— because people knew me, but they didn't— they're like, oh, this is what he does, this is the real side of him, right? Because it was 24/7 livestream. And if you really think about it, remember when I was telling you when I was in the hospital and I thought people were watching me livestream, recording me?

Now they were.

Full circle. It happened.

So bizarre.

But this time it happened for real.

Let's go.

I mean, I think they could make a movie out of my life because it's so It's crazy.

Who would play you in the movie, you think?

I want to play myself.

What if they won't allow it?

Who do you think could play me? Nobody looks like me.

Freddie Prinze Jr., maybe.

Who's that? I got to see a picture.

He might be too old now. Let me think.

DJ Khaled?

Maybe one of DJ Khaled's kids. Peter Manfredo Jr., maybe. He was a boxer.

I don't even know. Nobody really looks like me, you know?

Yeah, you're right. I mean, yeah, you're unique, so it would be hard. Yeah, I'm trying to think, but you have to have a kid. It would have to be a child or one of those people. Yeah, yeah, because you have to put, you know, to play you starting young. I don't know, maybe I'm trying to think who else, uh, who could play you, man.

Post Malone.

Yeah, postal.

He's got tattoos.

What about United States Postal Malone?

Get like a post office worker.

Yeah, that's what we need.

Maybe you could play me, dude.

I would be— I'd be honored to shave your head. Yeah, I'd shave my head, shave my nuts. I can get it.

Jungle down there.

I mean, it's not a jungle, but I'll say this, there's been a little bit of me— oh, there's been a little reforestation probably. Yeah, I think they're probably— we probably need signs to know where the trails are. That's all I'm saying. Um, oh man. Uh, how, how long does the Streamer U last, the actual university?

5 days, I think.

It's 5 days, and you guys are all put up on this campus wherever you are, and do you actually graduate?

Um, I wasn't really a graduation ceremony. No, it's half the people didn't go to classes.

Oh really?

No, I went to every class. It was because I wanted to learn, but like there was like an award ceremony Aiden Nguyen. And there was like all these different activities and clubs. Like it was like a real school. It was crazy. Yeah. It was really cool. That's so cool. And the fact that people like livestream it 24/7. People watch me sleep at night. Yeah.

And those people should be investigated.

Yeah.

You know, watching somebody else sleep.

Imagine I started like cranking it. Oh yeah, it would have been terrible if you were somebody like who's sleep— like, or sleepwalk, or sleep eat, or sleep jerk, or sleep like with another girl. Like, that would have been like— I would have forgot to turn the camera off.

Or sleep fat. Sleep fat. If you're just somebody who's masturbating in their sleep, people do that all the time. My uncle used to jerk off in his sleep and they had to tie jingle bells on his wrist so you'd hear him. So you'd hear him when he was doing it.

I don't even— I don't do any of that shit, bro. I just work out.

It's heartbreaking. Well, if you do, I got a set of bells you can wear if you do. Just, you know what I'm saying? You don't—

because unbelievable.

You got to take care, you know what I'm saying? You just got to let people around you know what's going on, I think. But that's just who I am. Do you feel pressure now? I know you do, um, you do mukbangs. I want to talk to you about that in just a second. You do mucking, yes, right? You do content. I know you make music. Oh yeah, um, you're streaming coming out too. You do?

Next week.

You got a new song coming out next week?

You want to hear it?

Yeah, do you have it here?

I have it. So I produced the beat. My engineer, Sands of Mind, he helped me engineer it, and then I did the vocals. Okay. It's really good.

What's it called?

Just Let It Go.

Oh.

Be honest.

All right.

Can't do this. This one is a circle slide. Hey, you like it?

Yeah, bro.

This is you.

This is you. And who else?

Anybody else?

Play the beginning again, bro.

That was it. That was it. Good.

Let's go.

Let me, let me play you one more. Okay, one more real quick, cuz I want, I want to see what you like about it. No problem, dude.

And thanks for just be saying like, do you like this? I like it.

I want you to tell me which one you like better.

Okay.

Yeah, that's some Rufus horns back there, bro.

What do you think it sounds like? Like what artist?

Meek Mill.

Meek Mill. Lil YoungBoy.

Yeah, maybe so.

Yeah, yeah. Now people say like Juice WRLD. I sound like Juice WRLD a little bit.

Really?

Sketch said that.

Those horns in the back, bro, that reminds me a little bit of Rufus. Pull it down. I like— I like the first one better.

Thank you.

But is it really okay if I told you that? Yeah, I don't care.

I like both of them.

Yeah, I like both of them.

Thank you, sir.

But the first one I feel like hit me better.

Yeah, it feels like a summer vibe, right? Yeah.

And this one, I do like that you have more vocals in it.

Yeah.

So I get to hear you more. So that— those are the two things. I like the first one better overall for me. And the second one I like the fact that I get to hear you more—

I'll send you the link when it drops.

Yeah bro will you?

Bumpin' in the car!

Yeah dude! Oh fucking shit I'll put on my hearing aids! You know what I'm saying dude?! Bro are you fuckin'?

Put headphones on apparent!

This this this this this this this this...

Then tap the wrist. You gotta wear a watch.

I got to get one.

Chaka clunk!

Um, you do You do mukbangs too. There's something about— and for mukbang, and people don't know what it is, it's eating food.

We didn't even eat the food.

It's enjoying food.

I brought food, we didn't eat it. Do a mukbang.

I'll have to find one to do with you in LA then.

I'm down.

Okay, because I know I want to do something to be a part of what you're doing. Um, I just don't know if I have time today because I have to leave at 4 PM.

What's your favorite food to do, to eat, to come and do a mukbang on it?

Let me think about that. Let me think about that. Um, but I know you do mukbangs, which is eating stuff. There's something about the way you eat, bro. It's just— damn, some of it's just so romantic, bro. Like, sometimes you— what is it? But, God, you finish on a bite sometimes and it's just like, oh, oh, the way you kind of like— it's like watching The Notebook. I feel like, like, some of it is just— I feel like I'm watching like some like scenes from Twilight or something. Like, sometimes the way you finish on—

go to that, go to that fruit one above this. There's a fruit one that's hidden. Yeah, that one. Look at these, these are fruits. Oh, and I'm really, I'm really devouring that.

Oh, that's damn good.

Mucking on it.

Oh, that'll make you— oh yeah, you could sell some of this so good footage to some CEOs over there in Washington, DC, I tell you.

Now that I have teeth, I can really enjoy the food.

Oh, how different is it?

It's because the whole different thing, because your palate is right here. Oh, so when you're eating I used to have to chew everything in the back. Right now it's coming right here.

What would you say to somebody? So you're doing streaming, you're doing mucking, you're doing a lot of stuff, right? Do you feel a lot of pressure? Like I heard you say earlier, like, you know, we were talking about a story. You had to get a video up, but it's like, do you feel a lot of pressure to do everything? Do you find that something works best for you? And how do you— how are you going to navigate this? How and how are you navigating this space that you're in right now? Because it's a little bit different.

Now it's different because I'm streaming more and it's like people are looking for that stream. People are always like, "When is he dropping a new mukbang video? When is he going live?" So it's like you have to have good time management, which is something I kind of struggle with. Like, I don't have a good morning routine because I go to bed at like 4 or 5 because I'm doing this and wake up at like, you know, 10, 11.

Do you have a body pillow or anything like that?

A body— what do you mean?

I'm just trying to think of something that could help you sleep at night.

I don't know, punch me in the face. Knock me out.

That's crazy, dude. That's crazy. I mean, maybe. I mean, yeah, I was going to think I could maybe get you a body pillow or a fucking, like, just an Italian—

something like that.

Yeah, like an Italian bassinet or something.

You need a good team, you know? Yeah, I have my boy Danny. I have my boy Jacob. We're like, edit together, have someone get you on a schedule. And that's something that— the best thing that came out of Shroomer U was learning more about myself and my ego and other people's egos and how to react about certain situations. And it taught me like the right road of obedience, like how to like learn about your— like how to control yourself, you know?

Oh, so you're talking about—

how to tolerate yourself.

How to tolerate yourself?

Like how to manage how you could feel, how you could track what you're doing and just go out through life and be good, you know? So basically what I learned is like I have to be able to make content, stream, and also be happy at the same time. That's the hardest thing is you can't ever really find happiness, but you could try to find peace. Because if you, if you, if you're happy, there's also sadness. But when you're at peace, you're even with everything, you know. And that's what I want to find eventually, peace. But through all of this, um, I want to, I want to get so big that I could have like an inspiration medically on people. Like, I want to, I want to be able to send out a tweet like, hey, are there any good doctors out there that could help give kids better eyesight or better hearing? And I want to bring them all together and come up with cures for that. Like, I want to have that. An influencer has influence. Like, you could have an influence, but a lot of influencers talk about like cars and money and shit like that.

I want to have an influence medically on people and help save lives and help come up with cures and medicines. And really expand on that because I struggled seeing and hearing my whole life and kids deal with the same thing. So let's, let's try to do that. Let's get to that point.

Well, look, man, I see you, I hear you. And I also want you to like, you know, just from an outsider's perspective, you don't have to do a ton, bro, to make us love you. You know what I'm saying? Like, just keep being you. I don't think you don't— if there's a day where you're like, I don't know if I'm going to get a video up or like a week or something. I'm not saying you do, but don't.

I don't— I don't—

Don't feel too much pressure, bro.

I've developed like anxiety and depression like that, and I try to like ignore it, but it's there. Yeah, but I think I have never been so happy. It's not even about the money or like the new opportunities. It's about the satisfaction of I worked my frickin ass off and I finally did it. I finally— I manifested this shit. I became obsessed with the process, man. A copy of the result. Becoming obsessed with the process is manifestation. Amen. Manifestation. Becoming obsessed with the result is being greedy. You know, you got to be obsessed with the process, the little moments, the little things that happen, how you got here. It's fun. Enjoy the journey. My boy Clips said enjoy the little moments, you know.

Yeah, and that's what the clips are, which is interesting, you know. Um, JShock, dude, thanks so much, bro, for coming and hanging out. Here's what I'll do is if we— even if we can't get to do a mukbang, I know, because I I just— I have to be at this fight at 4 PM.

Yeah, but, uh, I'll come and stream with you or something, whatever you feel comfortable with. Like, I like to hang out with people off camera. Like, if you want to—

we can do that for sure. I'm gonna get your information, but I'm just saying I wanna— I wanna do something with you too. I appreciate you coming, bro.

Thank you.

This has been like, um, we could do it in the car. We could, uh, J— we could stream, uh, in the car.

Well, we could do the mukbang in the car and then stream like around wherever you want.

Well, I would love to at least get to stream. I have to look into mukbang. I've just never done it.

We could do a live mukbang in the car and record it at the same time.

Okay.

Of your favorite food.

Okay, let me think about what that is. Um, but yeah, man, I want to get to come and stream with you and do something good, you know? Yeah, dude, just thank you so much, JayShock.

I appreciate you.

You bet, man.

I appreciate it. You have no idea.

No, of course.

Yes, you're an amazing person. Like, I look up to people like you, and you have a very good impact on people's lives, and you're like a mentor to me, so I appreciate you having me.

Well, thanks, bro. I think you're, you're like a young mentor to me, so how about that?

I am. I'm, I'm a parent to you. Yeah, me chaka cluck.

Blessings. Yeah, that's perfect.

Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves. I must be Cornerstone.

Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found. I can feel it in my bones, but it's gonna take a little—