They Call Us Dumbfoundead

Jeff and Phil welcome rapper/actor/writer Jonnie Park, aka Dumbfoundead , author of the new memoir SPIT: A Life in Battles . He talks about why the time felt right to share his story through this book; coming up in Koreatown and finding his voice as an artist through the Los Angeles battle rap scene; making the leap from music to movies and TV in projects like K-Pops! and Beef ; and why Phil is the only person who calls him by his government name. Also: The Good, The Bad, and The WTF of writing SPIT .

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They Call Us Dumbfoundead is an episode from They Call Us Bruce by Jeff Yang & Phil Yu.

This episode is 51:25 long.

This episode was published on Apr 17, 2026.

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