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'This Fool' creator and star Chris Estrada

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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The Existential Crisis in a Working Class World

I've seen you describing your character on the show as dealing with an existential crisis. It borders on nihilism. I think it's also like to just have an existential guy in a working class world, because they exist,. And it was just really inspired by like, there's this movie called Killer of Sheep, a whole movie about this Black family in Watts and like the late 1970s. You'll find people who are existential in any class bracket or race or ethnic group, but you'll find them.

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