662: Zendaya Explained
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we explain all things Zendaya. From shedding her child-star exoskeleton to her breakout role in Spiderman, we discuss her career highs and lows, whether we need to close the Straight of Zendaya, and if the opportunity cost of big IP has paid off.
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- Watch Mentions: Shake it Up | K.C. Undercover | Spider-man: Homecoming | The Greatest Showman | Euphoria | Malcolm & Marie | Challengers | Dune, Part Two & Part Three | The Odyssey | The Drama
- Drive-bys: Tornado Alley update | Euphoria S3 | Red Notice | Upon Jamie’s Untimely Death | Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates | The Iron Claw | Mervyn’s vs Braums | Law Roach | Katharine Foster, Mila Kunis & Gal Gadot | Kellie Pickler vs Zendaya | Dua Lipa wedding | Descendants | Tom Holland IMDb
- Red light mentions: Europeans complaining about the heat | Not recommending Widow’s Bay strongly enough (see also: Rooster | Beef | Task) | Texas Tech vs Florida Softball | Knox’s Newsletter | Solo Mio
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| 0:00.0 | If you've encountered any sport anywhere, you've heard that word, and it doesn't mean some weird mangled penis. |
| 0:06.5 | What are you talking? I've never heard anyone say nodded. |
| 0:08.7 | No, I'm not going to let you gaslight normalize. It's a knotted. It's a mangled penis. |
| 0:14.0 | She wasn't in sports. And I played sports. I don't know. I've never heard that before. |
| 0:19.5 | It means tied. It means tied. Okay. That makes, it doesn't make sense, but I, |
| 0:23.9 | you guys, I understand what you're saying. You guys have ruined the word nodded. You've ruined the word |
| 0:28.2 | peg. Okay. Those were innocent things. And now I can't say them. Hey, because of you. |
| 0:33.2 | Notting and pegging is great. Happy Pride Month. |
| 0:47.7 | Hello, welcome to episode number 6.62 of the podcast, and we're your host, Knox McCoy. |
| 0:48.4 | And I'm your other host, Jamie Golden. |
| 0:50.1 | The podcast is a show dedicated to Delafel-Fo, ADC, and we're committed to educating |
| 0:53.7 | you on the things of entertain, but do not matter. |
| 0:56.1 | To find out more about these profiling pursuits, check us out at knox and jamie.com. |
| 1:00.6 | You can also find us on Instagram, threads, Facebook, and Blue Sky at The Popcast. |
| 1:06.2 | Thanks for joining us this week as we are going to be explaining who and what Zendaya is. |
| 1:11.5 | But before we do that, you guys, this month is packed full of patriotic and chaotic goodness. |
| 1:19.9 | We've got Flag Day. |
| 1:21.7 | We've got June Teeth. |
| 1:23.4 | We've got then right over the cusp. |
| 1:26.4 | We've got the 4th of July. |
| 1:27.8 | And when you love the podcast to help you with your patriotic garb, well, we've got you covered. |
| 1:33.7 | So we have some let's do some lights, all fireworks themed. |
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