Zack Wickham

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690 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 28 Jan

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Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz · Celebrating Pride with The Valley's Zack Wickham · 3 Jun 2025 podcast

Yeah, I feel like when people constantly tell you your entire life, and they could have meant it in negative ways, or they could have meant it in positive ways. You never know. But they're like, you should be on a reality... You're meant for reality TV. I'm like, I don't know what you mean by that, but I'll take it. Thank you. You were...

Okay. Now let's actually, I'm glad you brought that up. Cause let's correct that a little. Let's put a little addendum on that. Um, number one, she always used to say, babe, you have to be on a reality. I used to tell you that. So yeah. And I'm like, ha ha ha, whatever. But then, um,

we were i was auditioning or not auditioning but like they were figuring out the valley for the last year that i was working for her so yeah it got talked about a lot but like not where i was like that was all i ever talked about so you're not plenty of other things to talk so you're not dehydrated thirsty guy yeah salivating over the prospect of being on television i'm kidding i'm

Well, no, I think it's really funny when people say like, oh, they're thirsty to be there. No, I'm sorry. I'm just good enough to be here.

Right. I didn't, you know...

Meet somebody else and then, you know, whatever. Like, I knew people before I moved here. I know. Like, Nicole, her little sister, was my best friend growing up. So, even before I knew Brittany. And then, I met Brittany in college. And, yeah. So, like, the two people when I moved here were Nicole Scherzinger and Brittany Cartwright. Yeah.

And then Tom Schwartz shortly thereafter.

Have you been watching Overcompensating on Amazon? Oh, it's so good. It's so good. Benito is, I'm so happy for him because he was, he's such a pandemic star where like he, I always considered those TikTokers that rose during the pandemic, pandemic stars. And I'm so glad to see him just like thriving and thriving.

No, how?

You know, I think that's what it's crazy to think about how far we've come, but how far we still have to go. I don't think people realize Pride this year means probably more than it's meant in a lot of years because LA Pride got defunded. They lost huge sponsors. They're not even having... I think last year was Mariah and Megan Thee Stallion... Megan Good, Jesus...

making the stallion and then um the year before was christina aguilera you know they've had huge acts and now all of a sudden they're not doing like the concert series they're maybe doing like a watered-down version yeah you know it

uh st louis pride lost their biggest sponsor which was budweiser they'd been sponsoring it for years and years and years all of a sudden just not it is so crazy to think how far we've come and then kind of like you and your old apartment like i feel like we're living in the old apartment again and we need to figure out how to get back to the house yeah some of the headlines i've been seeing lately some of the legislation that's being proposed is scary

Yeah. Well, in being proposed, but also like legit and not just being like talked about like, oh, randomly, you know, here's this really crazy person saying, you know, they don't want drag, you know, in public or whatever, that it'll never even get talked about. These are like mainstream politicians that this will go to the floor and this will get voted on.

There's like so many of those where it's not just like some crazy idea. It is like becoming law or becoming, you know, the law of like different areas. And it's kind of crazy to think that we're like in 2025, we're now dealing with this again.

Well, yeah. I mean, even then, I remember one year walking home from Pride, and this white car, this white van was yelling the F word out of the van. And they were passing me when they did that, and I flicked them off. And then... they did like a circle came back around cause I was waiting for my friend at seven 11.

They circle came back around, opened up the door and there was like five giant men in there. And I was like, my, my jaw dropped and I just like was immediately like self preservation mode and like ran into the seven 11 and, Cause I think they were like being like, Oh, come at me, bro. I'm like, no, number one. No, I'm not going to get kidnapped. Sorry. Not on pride.

You know, I usually diagnose like that's LA.

I actually love a straight man that is comfortable in his sexuality and can be around gays and it's not like a thing. It's kind of like my roommate. He's like the gayest straight man there is. But just like the most accepting and just like, but these are his people. You know, it's like that big A, that big ally. You've got that ally card and... You're representing it.

But you know why they have those? Because society, you know, it all comes down to like society and that societal constructs. And these are things that unfortunately we are so, they're so enamored into us at such a young or hammered into us at such a young age that

that we don't even realize they're there we don't even realize these prejudice against our own self are there until we're much older that's why like coming out stories are so important and that's why it became such a big movement because visibility seeing it brings it into the light and brings it oh wow that it brings the humanity to it

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