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Our interview with Alex/2Tone has been a long time coming. Alex—co-founder and creative director of Born x Raised and host of the Powerful Truth Angels podcast—was kind enough to move his naptime to host us in his office and finally pod while we were in Los Angeles on Paul Thomas Anderson messing up his SEO, his world-renowned calves, sometimes you just wanna be a walking gray pantone, fat kid trauma, dessert amnesia, shopping by happenstance, how to power nap 101, what a creative director actually does, the sad shark mindset, a shoebox full of cash and a dream, proudly claiming streetwear and a free history lesson, Spanto lives, an unstoppable force and immovable object coming together to make music, hats with animals ears vs. big ass brims, Born x Raised's annual Sadie Hawkins winter formal is New Year's Eve for women in LA and Alex has been crunching the numbers on attendee hookups, if you don't get in line for the photo booth were you even there, moments of clarity, jiu-jitsu and the power of saying yes because you don't know shit, wabi-sabi hair routines, his podcast's future, credit score hell, depression as a luxury and much more on Alex/2Tone's interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.