Rapid Fire with Skrizzly Adams

On this episode of The Rise, we switch it up! Let's get to know Skrizzly Adams through a series of rapid fire questions. Favorite food? Favorite song? First crush? Tune in to find out these hard hitting questions and more!

Transcript

Skrizz   0:04
And we are live. Skrizz and Adam episode eight. It's nice when you're having fun with the Podcast.  Adam, how are you doing?

Adam   0:12
Doing well. I feel like this is where I live now. Corduroy-looking couch, talking shop with you. So I'm going to put a little bit of a curveball on you. Okay? I like keeping you on your toes. I like when you get too comfy.

Skrizz   0:25
I don't want to get too comfy.

Adam   0:36
So today we're not going to talk too much about just like business and music. I'm sure it will be part of what we talk about, but I want to help the fans get to know you a little bit better. I've had the privilege of getting to know over the past five years and I want to make sure everyone else gets to know you.

Skrizz   0:45
Yeah. And then the more they get to know me, the less they're going to like me and the less subscribers we're going to get. And this thing will be over by episode ten.

Adam   0:54
Yes. And on that note, we just did launch our YouTube channel. So I want to give some pub to that. We're trying to, we have a, actually a high school intern that's helping us to grow this. And, uh, he's killing it. He said, he's going to get us to a thousand subscribers over the next month, so help, help him out to reach this goal. Um, but anyway, so.

Skrizz   01:11
Time out. Currently, we have a larger staff than we have the amount of subscribers on our YouTube, I think we have three subscribers and a five-person staff.

Adam   01:19
Yeah. We have, we have three subscribers.

Skrizz   01:21
It's either this podcast really sucks or I don't know, maybe we're destined for great things. It just, you know.

Adam   01:26
We just launched the podcast. We just launched the YouTube channel. So he's in a guess with Alison in no time. Please help him out. So, uh, anyway though, so I have my laptop here because I want to do some rapid-fire questions. So I just googled Random questions to ask.

Skrizz   01:41
Wow. We didn't even do them yourself. You googled?

Adam   01:43
No, I am too lazy for that.

Skrizz   01:44
Okay, let's try it.

Adam   01:45
Um, so I have random questions, but the point is like, you got to answer them right away. First thought. No felt in your stuff. It can't be canceled for whatever you say here as long as you don't say anything bad.

Skrizz   01:56
Okay. I probably will be canceled after this. Let's give it a go.

Adam   02:01
So, random questions, rapid-fire. The first thought that comes to your mind. Ready to go?

Skrizz   02:03
Here we go.

Adam   02:04
And I'm just pulling these. So don't judge me too on the questions. I'm just firing random stuff.

Skrizz   02:09
This is the first time we are doing this. We might do it again on another point.

Adam   02:10
All right. So if you can be an Olympic athlete, what sport would you compete in?

Skrizz   02:16
Track.  Running. Sprints.

Adam   02:19
Why?

Skrizz   02:20
Running is practical in real life.

Adam   02:21
Interesting.

Skrizz   02:22
When I went from the cops running away, I don't know.

Adam   02:27
We'll just leave it at that. Track. What do you think is the greatest invention of all time?

Skrizz   02:32
Electricity?

Adam   02:34
You're doing a great job so far.

Skrizz   02:35
Thanks, man. I have not said anything wildly offensive yet.

Adam   02:39
If you were in solitary confinement for six months, what would you do to stay sane?

Skrizz   02:46
Write a book. Write a book, write a movie.

Adam   02:50
What would the book be about? What would the movie be about? I know what the movie would be about.

Skrizz   02:56
Um, it'd probably be a comedy, either be a comedy or it'd be, if I had that much time, I'd probably want to do like a, like a full life type thing. I don't know what specifically it would be, but something like not just coming of age, but like birth to death type story.

Adam   03:11
Yeah. I feel like if you're in solitary confinement, you're probably not coming in the right space to write a comedy.

Skrizz   03:16
True. It's a good point. But yeah, something like that encompasses someone's life. It'd be fiction though.

Adam   03:22
Interesting. What is the most, I feel like you'll have a good one for this. What is the most ridiculous fact that you know?

Skrizz   03:30
Oh, I learned this yesterday. There is an immortal animal. There's an immortal jellyfish. This is a hundred percent true. Everyone Google it. I thought about posting on Twitter yesterday because I was so compelled by it on a yes, there are as look up the longest living animals. The second-longest living animal can live to be 500 years old or something, but a certain type of jellyfish can live forever. They just get eaten. It's the only animal, I mean, defines all, whatever, it has a defense mechanism or like a response to where it can change the stage in its life, which nothing on earth can do. Essentially it can be an adolescent, it can be elderly. It can just navigate the age of its life as it wants. So it lives forever.

Adam   04:11
I'm going to have to order jellyfish and more chicken. Jellyfish are kind of wild creatures. When you just look at them, they look.

Skrizz   04:18
Yeah. Sea creatures in general, they got a lot of going on.

Adam   04:21
Yeah, deep, deep parts of the ocean. I don't know if there's anything more terrifying.

Skrizz   04:25
Yeah. I don't think there is.

Adam   04:26
Alright. So, if or what's the worst movie that you've seen of all time, worst movie?

Skrizz   04:33
Oh, I definitely know it was that, uh, it was so bad. It was like, I forget like that it was a number. I was like the 1842 train from Paris or something, which was. It was literally so bad. And it was a.

Adam   04:47
Is that a mystery?

Skrizz   04:48
Clint, Clint Eastwood is his name. What's his name? What's the, what's the actual? What is it? Clint Eastwood is the director. He directed it. And, uh, it was essentially like a bunch of like American soldiers, like stopped like a terrorist attack on a train in France. The whole thing lasted like two minutes, the event itself, but for some reason, that was a brilliant idea to actually cast those soldiers to play themselves.

And they weren't qualified to be actors at all. And there was no script and it was just like, and the event that actually happened in film lasted two fucking minutes. So it was just like, it essentially.

Adam   05:24
It's always non-actors trying to fill up an hour and a half of a movie.

Skrizz   05:28
The episode happened in two and by the at the end of it, all these boomers it was just like playing off like patriotism and like all these boomers stood up and started clapping.

It's like, I mean, look up reviews. It's like one of the worst movies ever. And I like Clint Eastwood movies and he's made movies since then that have been fire but that, uh, that wasn't it buddy.

Adam   05:43
Concept. Great concept. Execution, maybe not so much. Like, it's kind of interesting to think about.

Skrizz   05:47
I think it was like they focused on everything leading up to that moment where it would have been a lot better if it started at that moment and then they reflected back on it and made it more dramatic or cinematic, but it was like, it was just like, I'm an everyday soldier. I happened to be here. We're going to stand up for and protect the people. It was just like, It was just corny. You know?

Adam   06:05
I think there's a, a future where Skrizz is the producer.

Skrizz   06:09
Yeah. That's the goal.

Adam   06:11
What, um, why does a round pizza come in a square box?

Skrizz   06:18
I don't know, but I did learn something about that little table on top that it has like a really specific purpose. They put it in the center of the pizza and I totally forgot what that is.

Adam   06:28
I couldn't tell you either.

Skrizz   06:30
Well, a round box is really hard to manufacture. That'd be just difficult. Well, yeah, it'd be difficult to manufacture. Yeah. So that's the question?

Adam   06:37
I didn't make up this question.

Skrizz   06:38
I know. I'm not blaming you. I'm blaming the guy who made the question.

Adam   06:41
Would you rather never use the internet again or this easy? Never watch TV again.

Skrizz   06:47
Never watch TV again.

Adam   06:47
Yeah. You Skrizzly Adams. That's like a very manly name, right? So what's the manliest thing you've ever done?

Skrizz   06:56
I guess I'm pretty feminine at the end of the day. Yeah. I have no idea.

Adam   07:02
 Come on. You've done such a good job bench pressing, right.

Skrizz   07:05
My bench pressing records is pretty impressive. It was like a 12 at 2 25. That was my peak. I'm not like the largest human being. So that was pretty, pretty, pretty manly. I actually remember when I was in like in high school or like, anytime I go to the gym or like, I've done certain, like going out there, fitness things, there's always like dudes that are like huge.

And I'm not a big guy by any means. And like, I can always like tremendously outlift at my peak and I actually don't lift very heavy anymore. People are a lot bigger than me and they're like how I'm like, I don't know. I don't know the answer.

Adam   07:37
Fun fact, Skrizz is a great venture. You see the movie I am legend?

Skrizz   07:42
No, no.

Adam   07:43
You never see Will Smith?

Skrizz   07:44
Yeah. I've heard good things.

Adam   07:45
Yeah. So anyway, if you were the only human being left on earth, what's the first thing that you do?

Skrizz   07:52
 St George golf.

Adam   08:00
Uh, it's really the first thing you do? Come on.

Skrizz   08:04
Honestly. Yeah, eat, eat. All right. Let's enjoy golf and preach would be all I'd be doing. So. Yeah.

Adam   08:11
I mean, I feel like there's a lot, like you wouldn't go to, well, I guess it's tough to get across at, you know, outside the US unless, you know how to fly.

Skrizz   08:19
I'd be minimalizing my life. I would not be expanding my life. I'd be keeping it very simple.

Adam   08:23
You know, like want to go to New York city and go to the top of the empire state building.

Skrizz   08:26
I didn't think about that. You're no barriers. I mean, I guess I'd steal some people's guitars.

Adam   08:37
Go like Madison square garden. Stand in the middle of the court.

Skrizz   08:39
Can't flex on the ground. What's the point?

Adam   08:40
It's true. That's a good point.

Skrizz   08:41
There's no ability to flex what you're doing. What's the point?

Adam   08:45
What can you do today that you couldn't do a year ago?

Skrizz   08:50
Don't complain. That's like my big thing now. I like don't to complain. Back in the day, I complained a lot.

Adam   08:56
What'd you complain about? Just everything?

Skrizz   08:58
Just bitching.

Adam   08:59
Just grumpy? I don't get enough sleep. I'm hungry.

Skrizz   09:02
I always get enough sleep. I'm always bitching, but yeah, I just don't complain. That's the big thing I have achieved. I always have a good outlook, but I kinda shit on things and I don't really do that anymore.

Adam   09:12
Would you rather not shower for a week or not brush your teeth for a week?

Skrizz   09:16
I'm brushing my teeth for a week.

Adam   09:18
Let me ask you a question. Personal question. How many times do you shower a day?

Skrizz   09:21
Every day. Once.

Adam   09:22
Just once.

Skrizz   09:23
Yeah.

Adam   09:24
 I'm a big shower, showerer. At least two times, probably average two times a day.

Skrizz   09:29
That's a lot. Isn't that bad for you?

Adam   09:32
In what way?

Skrizz   09:33
I don't know. I'm just making that up.

Adam   09:35
Uh, just a big, I love to shower. I agree, but not brush your teeth too. I don't know. Big hygiene guy. Batman, Superman. They're in a fight who wins?

Skrizz   09:45
I guess Superman. Batman has a superpower.

Adam   09:49
I feel like Batman.

Skrizz   09:50
How should know? Definitely. Duh, definitely Batman, because he's a billionaire he's and they get access to kryptonite. Cause he's smart. Like that man's biggest things. He has resources and he's smart. He's like, give me some kryptonite. Right? So he's gonna win no matter what. Yeah, no question about it. Whereas like Superman. Yeah. It's a no-brainer.

Adam   10:05
All right. Favorite food?

Skrizz   10:06
Buffalo wings. That was easy.

Adam   10:11
Favorite flavor, buffalo wings. How would you rate those wings we had in Saratoga?

Skrizz   10:14
I'd say the wings were like a six, the blue cheese was a 9.  Yeah. Well, she's just good because I put garlic in it. That was it.

Adam   10:22
Exactly. The garlic is, I mean, garlic and anything is good.

Skrizz   10:24
It's good stuff.

Adam   10:25
Um, favorite, favorite color?

Skrizz   10:29
Orange

Adam   10:30
Song?

Skrizz   10:31
 I just changed my favorite song two days ago to Me and Paul by Willie Nelson.

Adam   10:35
 Me and Paul by Willie Nelson.

Skrizz   10:37
Just check it out. It's really, really good.

Adam   10:40
Interesting. Biggest fear?

Skrizz   10:42
I was gonna say Heights, there's gotta be something. I'll say like, I will say this. I, for me, it's not ridiculous things that make me scared. Like I have fears of my pet bird being eaten by a cat every single night. Like the anxiety I have because the bird is so small.

And then there are things I've done in my life that were dangerous that while I was doing, I was like, just tough it out, get through it. But looking back, I get so much anxiety thinking about some of the dangerous things I've done that could have killed me. And uh, it's yeah. It's the everyday things that like in the moment I don't care about, but looking back, it's like if one thing went wrong, I would have been fucked.

Adam   11:24
Yeah. You look back to what we all did as kids. And just as young, you know, being younger, just stupid stuff that when you get older, you realize you are lucky to still be here for. Um, do you believe in ghosts?

Skrizz   11:38
No.

Adam   11:40
What's something you hate, like what's your, what's Skrizz pet peeve.

Skrizz   11:43
When someone goes into the sauna and just plays their phone and there's a bunch of people in there. I am the only person I know who confronts them about it. 100% of the time. I'm just like, Hey buddy, like, what are you listening to? Like you think we want to listen to that too. Do you ever hear of?

Adam   11:58
I've never heard of someone doing that. Does that happen a lot?

Skrizz   12:01
I'm in the sauna, like every day. And like, there's always, like, it's always like dudes on steroids that are just like, just like really just jacked up and headstrong.

If they're playing like music I like, I don't mind, but like, I'm just like, yo, you ever heard of headphones? I'm always an asshole to them. And they're like, no. And I think it definitely kicked my ass and like, well, like maybe try buying them because no one else wants to hear that shit. So I definitely do that a lot.

Adam   12:20
I like that. That's a good one. Who's your celebrity crush?

Skrizz   12:25
That was a weird one. Um, 1969, Emmylou Harris, just like a singer. Google her. Great vocal. I think she's dead now. They are still alive. She's good. She thinks back on his life. So we can't go live with, you're hearing this because one, you hear a time machine, let's get married.

Adam   12:50
Is that the number one person you'd want to collaborate with? Who's the number one artist or just person, in general, you'd want to collab with?

Skrizz   12:58
Can't give you a number one, but I can give you like a four, Mick Jagger, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, and those are my tops. My thing is like with Taylor. I think it's like, I know, I know what I would be doing. I mean, with Kanye, it'd be a trip. Like it might yield that absolutely nothing. Or am I yield like the craziest shit? I would love to work with Kanye. Kanye, if you're here in this like weird, like me as well as probably millions of other creators are all working so we can arrive at the Kanye calls you level. So we are all working towards that.

Adam   13:39
Kanye has been mentioned on this podcast, more than anybody else, We, we love Kanye. We love going here. Um, would you rather become, and I'm kind of just free firing at this point.  Would you rather be a number one best-selling artist or a top actor, award-winning actor, movie star, actor?

Skrizz   14:04
Definitely an artist. I don't care about being an actor at all.

Adam   14:08
Okay. Actor or professional athlete?

Skrizz   14:13
Athlete, definitely athlete.

Adam   14:14
What sport?

Skrizz   14:15
Football. Running back.

Adam   14:19
Running back? Your career is going to be five years and you'll leave with head damage.

Skrizz   14:22
Okay. I was going to say if you could remove the head damage part. I mean, I think the only chance I have is being a running back just like I could. I'm very fast.

Adam   14:35
Oh. Your fast. I thought you'd be more of a power back than the speedy back.

Skrizz   14:39
No speedback. I know I was really good at it, I never played football in school in like, what do you call it? Like in the league, I guess, but I played football and like, you know, elementary to middle school and high school and like engine class. And I was like 12 touchdowns every game. It was like a really simple, I'm not trying to be cocky.

Adam   14:57
Right. Skrizz is the goat. And I was like school in recess, gym, class football.

Skrizz   15:01
Yeah. I was the goat. It was pretty simple. Get me the ball. And it's over. That was it. That was, that was the plan. I, at one point I just remained quarterback. I was like, I'm not even gonna throw it to anyone. I'm going to get the ball. I'm gonna run it every time. And I just kept doing it over and over skinny kids couldn't get me.

Adam   15:18
They couldn't get you. You were benching 2 25 at age seven.

Skrizz   15:21
Definitely not, but, um, yeah. Good stuff.

Adam   15:23
Yeah, country, a country you could live in. You'd want to live in, if it wasn't the US?

Skrizz   15:28
Really, really, really, really good question. The main thing is I saw I have so many fans and other countries that I haven't been to yet so I can't speak on them. Italy. I want to go to Italy and like, live on the alpha me wherever you call it coast or something like that. Just check out for the rest of my life.

Adam   15:44
Yeah. Italy is, Italy is a popular one. I'm going to do it. We're going to do a few more here. Do you sing in the shower?

Skrizz   15:51
No.

Adam   15:52
Do you do karaoke?

Skrizz   15:54
Yes.

Adam   15:55
Favorite karaoke song?

Skrizz   15:56
Can you see marshall tucker band.

Adam   15:58
Have you ever done karaoke of your own music?

Skrizz   16:01
No.

Adam   16:02
Has anyone ever done karaoke of your music?

Skrizz   16:03
No.

Adam   16:05
Not that you know of. Would you ever do karaoke of your own music If you lost a bet?

Skrizz   16:10
I would do karaoke of my own music if it was like a top 10 hit. If it was like a massive smash, then I would definitely show up for some random bar and do it. That'd be awesome. It's like a metal something real funding mechanism beyond like, it's just like an ultimate tool.

Adam   16:23
That would be a, uh, let's actually put this on the record. When you get a tie.

Skrizz   16:28
When we get a top, top 40 top 100, if a hundred people know it, if you get a hot 100 single, I am doing a karaoke tour where me and you get a camera and I go to every bar in New Jersey and sing that song, Like, he sounds just like the guy.

Adam   16:44
Everyone heard this signed, sealed, and delivered. Last one. Let's get a good one for this. What is a random talent that you have, that we would all be shocked of not playing the harmonica.

Skrizz   17:01
Sure. No, I know exactly what it is. All right. I don't know why I can walk on my toes, like a ballerina, like the backside of my toe. And like most people do that. They just fall to the ground. I can just do it for like hours. I haven't done it in years, but I can just do it. I don't know why I have really strong toes.

Adam   17:19
Well, I mean on that note, I don't know if we're going to be able to top that.

Skrizz   17:24
Awesome. And we are out.