The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - Nadav Itzkowitz - HoneyNadav

Episode Date: May 6, 2024

Nadav Itzkowitz returns to Highlight his Lowlights, from his fascination with gambling to the unexpected ownership of a crypto racehorse dubbed "Kent Blazemore." He takes us on a journey through his mishaps, from a failed internship at NBC Universal leading to a summer stint as a courtesy clerk at Vons Supermarket, to the the time her keyed a car in the 10th grade.  Nadav also touches on how life has been following his resignation from the role of executive producer at Your Mom's House Podcast with Tom Segura and Christina P., 2 Bears 1 Cave, and YMH Studios. He also talks about his time in the emergency room treating an umbilical hernia shortly after losing his health insurance. SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE and watch full episodes of The Dew every toozdee! https://youtube.com/@rsickler SUBSCRIBE TO MY PATREON, The HoneyDew with Y’all, where I Highlight the Lowlights with Y’all! You now get audio and video of The HoneyDew a day early, ad-free at no additional cost! It’s only $5/month! Sign up for a year and get a month free! https://www.patreon.com/TheHoneyDew What’s your story?? Submit at [e-mail] CATCH ME ON TOUR https://www.ryansickler.com/tour Los Angeles, CA | May 12th Miami, FL | June 7th & 8th Get Your HoneyDew Gear Today! https://shop.ryansickler.com/ Ringtones Are Available Now! https://www.apple.com/itunes/ http://ryansickler.com/ https://thehoneydewpodcast.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE CRABFEAST PODCAST https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-crabfeast-with-ryan-sickler-and-jay-larson/id1452403187 SPONSORS: BetterHelp -The HoneyDew is sponsored by BetterHelp, get 10% off your first month at https://www.Betterhelp.com/HONEYDEW The Perfect Jean -F%*k your khakis and get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code HONEYDEW15 at https://www.theperfectjean.nyc/HONEYDEW15 #theperfectjeanpod Liquid I.V. -Get 20% off ANYTHING you order when you go to https://www.LiquidIV.com and use code HONEYDEW DraftKings -Download the NEW DraftKings Pick Six app now using code HONEYDEW and take on the competition with your best NBA player picks!

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I always say these are the stories behind the storytellers. And I am very excited to have this guest back on the honeydew. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Davits go. It's all right. The honeydew honeydew is here. Everybody's like, you missed out. Kirsten, have we ever used Honey Jew for Ari? I think we might have missed it. Yeah, cause people are like,

oh, you missed an opportunity. And I'm like, I think we did. And if we didn't, this episode is definitely Honey Jew. Fair enough, I'll take it. It's good to see you, bud. It's good to see you too, man. It's good to be here. Before we get into whatever we're gonna talk about today,

please promote anything you would like. Sure. Follow me on Instagram at Varian Adav Show. Subscribe to my YouTube channel, Varian Adav Show, where my podcast is up every Friday at 11 a.m. Central Standard Time. And also support me at the Lodge Pok room. If you see me there, sit down at my table and feed me money. Is that in Austin? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Are you up? No. In your career? No, no, actually, no, no, no. At the Lodge? Not at that place. At that place I am up. Okay. But in my career I am not. Yeah. I don't know many people. I mean, Vegas isn't built on winners. You know what I'm, every time I go to Vegas, I'm like, there's a new casino they're building here. It's crazy. It's like, I've so my feed has just started getting

infiltrated with just Vegas influencers and I love it, but I'm seeing so many people like, cause every now and then if you gamble, you're like, yo, is this a problem? Like, is this an issue? I mean, we got a list of stuff to talk about and it's not on here and I want to talk about it. Well, yeah, because I've ruled it out cause I've seen all these other influencers.

I'm like, I don't do it like that. I'm good, dude. Like I'm not. You can walk away. Yeah, I always, I'm like, I never gamble with anything that I'm not okay with losing cause I see it all as an investment of fun. Like, yeah, I'm withdrawing 500 bucks from the ATM,

but I'm planning to have $500 worth of fun that night. Last night, I did a spot at the Ice House, and I haven't seen I get off stage and this dude's like, good stuff. And I looked down and it's a dude named, I'm going to give him a shout out. What's up, George? I didn't get to say goodbye to you, bro. I had to get out of there.

George Melanchek. What's up, George? What's up, George? George and I, George was a graphic designer, bro. I had to get out of there. George Malancha. What's up, George? What's up, George? George and I, George was a graphic designer, badass. And back in the day when I was writing and producing at this was at it was called Fine Living. They were part of like Food Network and scripts, all that stuff. I'm one of the writer producers. And we're all hanging out. And he's cool with shit.

And, you know, he started to get to know somebody a little bit. And then he starts telling us that he and his dad are into the ponies. And we're like, oh, OK. And then one day he comes in. Now, I may have the numbers wrong, but I'm pretty damn sure they went out to Santa Anita and they did. They picked the winner for 10 consecutive races. What the fuck?

And they hit it. This guy's number. I couldn't even say goodbye. I got George comment on this video, man. Say that you're that George. I need to talk to you. So I don't. So I want to say around seven, they hit seven in a row. He said they came to them and said, listen, we'll pay you out at this amount. Now you don't have to risk. And they said, nah, wait, he did. Wait, it was a parlay. I believe so.

It was a 10, a 10 winners only parlay. And it went at like six or seven. They came down and said, we'll go ahead and pay you out. Now you get paid as fuck on just one winner, right? Right. You get paid the fuck out. What's up, George fucking side ahead and pay you out now. You know you get paid as fuck on just one winner, right? Right. You get paid the fuck out. What's up, George? Fuck inside of my DMs, dude.

I need that intel. They get to like eight, they come down again, we'll buy it this, nope. They get to nine, we'll buy it this, nope. And they hit, they fucking hit it. I don't remember the number. It was definitely six figures. They escorted them out of there with security.

And then he came to work and took the whole department to this bad ass steakhouse for lunch downtown. What's up, George? He hooked us up. The only time it was like this old vintage steakhouse, he took the whole department out for lunch. But then, but then this is the part I'm getting to. We're all working.

I'm just hearing people down way down the hallway. He's got them all credit card betting online. All of them, all over credit card betting online. There is fun shit you can do with horses. You know, for the longest time I had a crypto race horse. Nah, that's what, that was a thing. Dude, what do you mean? What does a crypto, there's a crypto horse track where you can literally have,

you could buy a crypto race horse that literally is one of one. And my buddy for my birthday bought me a horse named Kent Blazemore. He was breeded from like two, like top of the line, like bloodlines, like, oh, this, like this crypto race horse won so many races and this one did too. And I was so stoked. I like, I think I did one. I can't wrap my head around this. If it's a digital thing like this, that seems to be so much more easily manipulated than an actual horse race. It's different, Ryan. It's different because it's not your race horse

versus other like, you know, these are like, NPC race horses. All of these race horses belong to people. So you're not betting on just like a race. Like you're betting on your horse. Like you're submitting your horse. So it's just, you know, it's, you can't fuck with that, but unfortunately I lost them in the move from LA to a, how do you lose it?

It's a 12 word pass code written on a piece of paper. He's alive. He just grazed. I don't own him. And also he's just in the ether. Kent Blazemore is in the wonder where the fuck everybody is. I miss you, Ken. I don't need nothing to say. I have a problem with gamblers because it affected me personally. I had a degenerate fucking cousin that lived with us for a hot sec

and we all worked different times. I worked graveyard at UPS. Shout out to UPS Baltimore, I'm a primary one Joe Edmonds. And he would get home earlier. So I also went to college. So he was getting mail. And at that time, when you're in college,

that's when you start getting flooded with the credit card. Fuck it. You know what I mean? They're coming to the house. Ryan Sickler signed up and I'm like, nope, nope, nope, nope. Well, my brother lives there with us too. And my brother's the first victim.

He gets the call from the credit card company, like, hey, you know, you owe us $3,000. He's like, I don't even have a credit card. Holy shit. That could have been so much higher. And then it could have been, but that was way more than 10 K. It was a discover. It was a discover car taken to the limit. But he was like, I don't. And it fucked his credit up for so long. Then I'm working one night and I get a call while I'm on the limit. But he was like, I don't. And it fucked his credit up for so long. Then I'm working one night and I get a call while I'm on the floor. This dumb motherfucker filled out all the information, but put my work

number on there. So they call me at work and it's like Citibank. And I was like, I know exactly what this is. I don't have a credit card with you. Never felt. I know who did it. I can give you this and boom. So I do. And that night I go right to the police station and I put a warrant out for his arrest because he's now stolen my social, Yeah, fuck this guy.

and my brother's and then all of it comes out in the wash. My grandmother who had just died months before stole her social credit cards and her name. And my grandfather, I don't know how he did this. I think my grandmother just, I remember her saying out of just like- He fucked up your entire family's credit. Out of, my grandfather died in 1973.

And I think my grandmother just kept a line of credit under his name so she had two. And then he ran fucking credit on that dude. His dudes had good credit. Who's running fraud on fraud? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two dead, two alive that we know of. So I delayed my whole move here.

I was like, fuck this guy. I'm gonna take- You broke this guy's legs, right? But he, I didn't need to. I think you're legally allowed to. He was such a piece of shit that, you know, when you put a warrant out for somebody, usually for something like this, they have to get pulled. They're not going to go get them.

You got to get pulled over or whatever. And within like three days, he fucked up and boom, they got them on that. And then he kept delaying the court dates and never showed. So I had like a public defender who finally said, listen, I'll be there. Just fucking go. And I was like, no, I want to be there. He's like, you should just go ahead and move and get on with your life. This is real. And, but all in, I don't know how much over 20,000, probably on all the cards slap on the wrist. Nothing. Is it washed?

Washed? No, but it fucked my brother's credit up, fucked mine up for a long time. But I fought it. My brother didn't fight it. I fought it. Isn't it fraud protection though? Where it's just like, hey, I didn't have to pay anything or anything like that. It just ruined my credit. I couldn't get more credit after that because they're like, wait, this whole thing went down. Oh, they're like, well, you hang out with people that could do this to you, which is a liability. Yeah. So watch your mail y'all. Watch your mail. Dude, did you do any, like, I mean, we could talk off Mike, but you did some to fuck this guy up, right?

We'll talk. We, we, we definitely cross paths in Baltimore city. This is like, I'll tell you this one story. So, um, we ended up getting kicked out. My uncle realizes he's got this gambling problem and says, fuck it. Gives the house to him. Okay. Kicks us out. My uncle realizes he's got this gambling problem and says, fuck it, gives the house to him. Okay. Kicks us out. We're homeless. That is rightfully half of our house. Okay.

But whatever. My grandmother's sister takes me in and this dude lives in the house for a year. One, my grandmother had this house since World War II, forties, whatever. Okay. Fucking doesn't make one payment, not one in a year. And the bank took it just like that. Like it wasn't, you know, this big whatever. It was like, you guys get out, I'm going to help my kid out.

And then the kid didn't help himself out. And then we all ran into each other in a bar in the city. And man, you want to talk about a white trash family. We're yelling at our uncle. And he's like, he tell my brother, I spit on your grave, dad. And they're like, who is that? That's our uncle and our aunt and our cousin. They're like, what?

And I'm calling my other cousins like, these motherfuckers are here. They're racing across the city to get there. Like, drive $500 in property tax. What are we doing? He's like, get in the city to get there. Like dry property. What do we do? And I was like, I'm trying to run it. They're trying to get out of here. And the bar, everything settles down to bartenders. Like, who's that? Just our family. Like that's your family. Like it used to be. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. So fuck any gambling is one of the ones that just gets me. Cause it got me. All right. I didn't even do anything.

You know, I didn't have any of the fun. Yeah. We used to have, we used to have bookies call the house. They would call. I'm not kidding you. It would every, it would be like this. Tell them the Duke called the Duke. The Duke.

Hey, on my life, my brothers would back me up on this. The Duke. That was the doc. And then one time they sent dudes to the house. They came to the fucking house. Sent dudes to the house? Two dudes came to the fucking house. And where they just like kind of had hands in pockets?

Two dudes came to the house and he had his wife go down and answer the door with the baby in her arms cause he thought that would soften the blow. And I was like- He knew who it was? Yeah. And he was like, send the kid out. Dude, he would VHS record like these coke got late night coke.

There used to be this guy in Maryland called the stallion. He was an ocean city. I'm sweating like I just lost 10. That's how you like that. He would be coked out of his mind. He would give you games, horses,

whatever. And my cousin like this all came out later in the watch. You're programming the VCR to record fucking these like, I don't know. Do you remember this shit? It would be like late night. I don't even know where you find it, but it'd be on late night, like two in the morning. It would just be like

these degenerate guys trying to give you lines on sports. I don't think I ever saw that. He knew all of it. It was like public access shit. But he was terrible at it. It looked like public access. Yeah.

I mean, you know, it's funny is that like I, I've always wanted to like get into sports because like, Oh, all my friends like love sports. And I, I always just get quiet during that. Cause I'm like, ah, I don't mean like basketball or football or baseball. And I wish I did. And recently though, I figured out the way to get me excited about sports is to gamble on it. And so don't get me wrong. I'm losing it. Like I'm spending,

you got the showy Ohtani shit going on right now, which is insane. I'm investing like $20 in a, at a time to have fun. I'm investing 20 units of fun into all these games and like, I'm missing all these parlays, but like the soup, this is the most fun Super Bowl I've ever had and fucking Pacheco could have I Think I needed five more rushing yards from him and I could have gotten like three grand off the Super Bowl instead I lost 400, but you know what?

That's just how she goes She goes. Yeah, you're you're oh, yeah fucking a Tony like like his interpreter Was putting bets on games that he was involved in. Listen, I don't make showy O tiny money that most people don't make anywhere near it. Is he Japanese? Yeah. If you fucking move my money like that, I would know about it. It's a couple million. Also, look, this is the, I'm not even going to say arguably he's,

he's the greatest baseball player ever. He is rocking outer space. Okay. Dominant pitcher, dominant batter. He's injured with his throwing arm right now, so he can't pitch for another year, but he can still fucking hit. Okay. And I just hope like hell that he, uh, I mean, I'm selfish. I want them to clear up. This is the, And I just hope like hell that he, I mean, I'm selfish. I want them to clear up. This is like, we might be, if he bet on baseball,

we're about to be robbed of the greatest players ever played the game. We're not even, Japan's gonna be like, whatever, come on back. But we're not gonna be able to see the greatest player do play because of gambling or MLB MLB is going to be like, you know what? You can't have on baseball now. Everybody like that. It's, it's, it's a sticky situation.

I want to hear that interpreter as a podcast guest, you know, I want to hear that dude. And then let's get you on a honey. Yeah. That dude's got a honey dude. Man. Fuck. Yeah, dude. That's that type of shit makes me sweaty where it's like, yeah, yeah, this is a wild story. And like, you just place yourself in it. Like, like do you see uncut gems? Oh yeah.

Like watching that is like a nonstop exhilarating, like anxiety ride. And it's man, like it's like, you have to go, like a bad episode. Yeah. You're just sweating. It's way more relatable because like, yeah, I'm not going to make fucking 50 tons of crystal like it's like, you have to go take a lot episode. Yeah. You're just sweating. It's way more relatable. Cause like, yeah, I'm not going to make fucking 50 tons of crystal meth, but like, I could see myself, you know, sneaking over a bag across like, and getting my face like caved in from some New York grifters, like Jesus Christ, who like goes to the same shul as me and my kids.

Like, of course that's who you're borrowing money from. Dude. I also got, I was a victim of, uh, when I lived, when I first moved out here in North Hollywood, I lived in this shady ass neighborhood. I lived out, um, it was the corner of Fulton and Sherman way. And this was in the nineties. Fulton and Sherman way. I know. It was North Hollywood technically, but yes, it was right I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean But this landlord was a real piece of shit, and he knew someone at the bank. And again, this is how I found out in the end, but he was washing our checks.

He would wash them. He would, you know, you could put in a solution and clear the check. Then he would write it to himself. OK, so what he would do is like, let's say I'm I'm. Pretending I'm the dog. I wash your check, your rent check, P.S. This's say I'm pretending I'm Nadav. I wash your check, your rent check, PS. This is my rent check I'm turning in. I'm paying my rent. He's washing our checks.

And then he would write a check to himself. Okay. And then he would bring a check in. I would say, I'm you, but I know you. You're the teller. So you don't ID me, you don't whatever. And I say, hey, I wrote this check for $2,000. Give me a thousand of it in cash and just put the other thousand in. And what you're really doing is putting zero in

and they're giving you a thousand dollars. And he was doing that for a while until like the landlord, the company hit me up, like, why aren't you paying your rent? I'm like, I've paid my rent every month since I've been here. And then that all came out literally in the fucking wash. Yeah. It's been taken. So you know what I did, man, you've been fucked over left and right. Gambling motherfuckers. It's all gamblers. It's all the degenerate money guys that are trying to hustle the twos and fuses

and they never get ahead, but they're always still broke. They're always, always broke. But here's what's cool about them. They could always get enough for the next bet. Yes, but they can't stop. They can't stop. Who was it that came on? You only need one to hit, Ryan. You only need one to hit. Somebody that came on, it was a gambler

back on the Crab Feast days, and he said, here's the thing, you'll never, he was telling us, like, you're never gonna hit it big when you're gamble, because you'll keep it. He goes, the guys that hit it big are me, because I'm gonna go give it right back. You know what I mean? Like luck works that way. Like the guy that's going to keep putting it in, you're not going to hit a hundred grand and walk away. So one time I did this,

I had a friend of mine's like, you want to go to Vegas? And I was like, no, you know what I want to do? And it's the dumbest fucking thing, but it made me laugh so hard and I just invested in this. All right. So a friend of mine hits me up and tells me about you can invest in currency. I didn't know you could buy currency. I had no idea you could buy another country's currency. And then if that currency goes up or down, you-

Oh, futures and shit? You cash out in that, at that number, good or bad. Right. So he's got this whole thing. He tells me about the Vietnam dollars called the Dong. Okay. He's investing in Dong. Good. So I'm like, all right. He's like, Ryan, it's worth nothing.

Like it's worth nothing. And if it, if it just moves a whisper, you're, you're going to be like six figures and nothing. So I was like, you know what? If I buy a ticket to Vegas right now, it's going to cost me what? LA a few hundred bucks, hotel, food, gambling. I'm just going to take $2,500. I'm going to buy a few million dollars of dong. So I bought a bunch of Vietnamese dong

instead of going to fucking Vegas. And I'm just sitting on some dong. The dong. Sitting on some dong. You're sitting on some dong. Yeah. Stacks of dong. And if that dong even moves a whisper,

I'm cashing in like a motherfucker. I got I gave it to my business manager. I'm like, y'all hold this. This is my dong. I want you to my business manager. I'm like, oh, this is my dong. I want you to hold my dong. Got Vietnamese. Hold my dong. Now, here's the thing. Do I know it's bullshit?

100 percent. But also I would have just gave that money to fucking Vegas. But what I can do still is even if that money never fucking grows or loses, I can take it back to a bank and go, you know what,

let me just cash that out and still get my money back. It's just dong on loan unless something happens. So instead of blowing 2,500 on a weekend in Vegas, I blew it on some dong, but I'm sitting on that dong. Hoping that dong grows while I sit on it. You know what I'm saying? I want that dong to get bigger. Let's just grow a couple more inches, Dongy.

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about dad. Like, okay. And he goes, you know, he invested, he thought that, you know, he, do you know what agricultural futures are? So it's pretty much like whatever, let's say the price of pork, right? Let's say the price of pork right now is you think pretty low. You could buy futures of pork now. And then when pork goes up, you can now sell your futures and you have now made money on agricultural

futures. Okay. So you're buying like stock, agricultural stock, but you're investing that it goes up. Right, now here's the key part of investing in agricultural stock. You are not like stock of a company, like you're buying a piece of paper that's a portion of it, you are actually buying this agriculture.

So say for example, like they say a good time to invest in pork is when the McGrib is announced, because that's when pork prices are at their lowest. So I think I can't remember if my dad purchased pork or salt, but he had bought a shit ton of agricultural futures of let's just call pork. And so you just like, oh yeah, fucking, you know, it was like a three month contract or whatever. And at the end of this, like I didn't make any money on it. So I guess I'll just take the hit on it. And then he gets a call from a company saying like, Hey, is this

address good for all the pork? And he goes, what? He goes, yeah, you bought like three metric tons of pork. He goes, wait, no, I didn't. He goes, yeah. Is this the agricultural future that you buy? Like, yeah. It was, well, we're coming with a truckload of pork and we're dumping

it onto your lawn if you don't have a place to receive it goes, wait, wait, wait, wait, yeah. He goes, well, we're coming with a truckload of pork and we're dumping it onto your lawn if you don't have a place to receive it. He goes, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. And so then he just had to fucking offload, like he just found some person to fucking offload this pork to her salt or whatever the fuck. But like agricultural futures, that is what happens. It's showing up.

You're straight up buying that stuff. And like there's no like representation, like a stock of a company or whatever. You are buying that stuff. And like, there's, there's no like representation, like a, like a stock of a company or whatever. It's you are buying this stuff. And see, I got my, just got my dong and a Ziploc. You know, little hermetically sealed jar. I have all my dong collection. I bought dong instead of going to Vegas. I really did.

Fuck all this fucking Bitcoin dude. I got a fucking trunk full of crazy. Scambling stories was a comedian named Brant Tobler. He came on the craft feasts back in the day and he was a bookie. He was a crooked bookie. Yeah. Right. He's admittedly so. And it was the game. It was when it was the mile high miracle we call it in Baltimore. It was Joe Flacco and the Denver Broncos, Joe Flacco, it's the year we won the Super Bowl.

And he took a bet from a guy that the Broncos were going to win. And so he took, I don't know, again, I don't know the number, but it was big. He was a bookie in Vegas. He was working as a bookie and he took like 50 grand from this guy, but didn't place the bet. He was sure that the Ravens were going to win. So he just kept this dude's 50. And then it comes down to this, like, we're definitely done. There's 18 seconds left in the game.

That's it. And he's like, Oh my God, I'm going to fucking get killed. I don't have the money to pay this guy. And Joe Flacco throws a fucking hail Mary and it lands in Jacoby Jones arms. And he runs it in and we tie it. We win and double overtime. He was like, I was that guy was going to kill me. That guy was going to fucking kill me. Yeah. That's what they do. Yeah. All right.

Let's switch gears out of gambling and get to some of your stories that you actually draw out here because I want to hear. So you grew up here, right? Yeah. Born and raised in LA. So tell me about, you worked at Vons. Oh yeah, dude. That was, that was.

So Vons is a grocery store here in Los Angeles, which is funny to me because I, when I first heard Ralph's, I was a big fan of, still am, Robin Harris, the comedian who passed away, Baby Ace Kids, and he had a whole album back in the day and he was doing a bit about going and getting some super duper maxi pads for his girlfriend at Ralph's. And I always just thought, what a-

It's just a guy. What is, what a weird, you know what I mean? What a weird name for a grocery store is Ralph's. Yeah. You know, and now I'm so used to it, but it's like, fuck is Ralph's. Like we had Safeway. Right. We had Wise, We had, you know, that's what it is. Like Kroger. Whenever you go to a different city, you're just like,

oh, this is the ecosystem of supermarkets here. Right. All right. Like, and they're all still some weird somehow weirdly affiliated. Like, yeah, we're Kroger, but we're Ralph's. Right. On the East coast, it's Aldi's, but on the West coast, it's Trader Joe's. Right. Some bullshit like that. So you're working at Vaughn. How old are you? So this was, I think my first summer, uh, back from my freshman year of college. So I had had a internship set up at like NBC and it was going to be like my first internship, like in the industry. I was like, so fucking excited. And I go to orientation and we get through like an hour, two hours of orientation.

Everyone there is from an Ivy league school. Like I'm seeing dudes that play on the Princeton basketball team and it's like, God damn, this is fucking cool. Like there's some fucking like big people like in this room, all interns. And like at the end of orientation, we all go take the tram ride. Like when we go through the back lot and we like just all sorts of cool shit. This is the first time I'm getting like any taste of Hollywood.

And at the end of the orientation, like the two program directors come up to me and they're like, oh, by the way, we like, didn't ever like get this document from you. Like, is that, did you send that? I was like, I was completely unaware of any, like anything that you guys needed from me. Like I thought you guys had everything. And they're like, we don't. It's like, oh, okay, well I'll get you that paper.

He goes, oh, no, no, no, it's too late for that. I'm like, what do you mean? I'm like, maybe next year. And like, wait, what? And like my entire summer of like, just like, oh, this is gonna be my first summer in the industry, just got taken away from me. It got super fucking deflated.

And I go home, I tell my mom, she's like, how was orientation? Oh, and they give me like this white folder that says NBC Universal on it. Like a really white glossy folder with all like the shit. And she's like, how'd it go? I'm like, yes, I don't think I'm getting accepted into the program. Apparently they needed some paper that I didn't submit. And, uh, she's like,

well, Vons is hiring. I'm like, oh, fuck. Like for a second I was just like, oh, I guess I'll just have a summer doing nothing. My mom's like, the fuck you are. So, uh, my brother had worked at that Vons like the summer before or something like that. Like our family had been running through this supermarket. And I remember like, I went in for the job interview and like I aced it cause it's a bag boy

or they called it a courtesy clerk for Vons. And I remember, what was her name? Fucking Monica. Yeah, Monica was interviewing me. She's like, well needless to say, you're overqualified for this job. All we have to do now is just take a swab from your cheek and that you pass the drug test and you're good to go.

And I'm just like, why would you have to pass a drug test to be a bag boy? Yeah, it's a fucking bag boy. To help old ladies out to their comfort. And so she's just,, she starts opening up the bag and I'm like, oh, we're doing this right now? And like, I had just smoked weed, like, on the way to the,

Yeah, right, before I came in. Yeah, like, and so she's like, yeah, is that a problem? And like, I think of something like, just on the spur of the, I'm just like, I went to the dentist today. And she's like, uh-huh. I'm like, they put fluoride or whatever in my mouth. God forbid, like something happens. You guys would think I'm on drugs. I don't want you guys to think that she goes, nothing that you'd take it.

The dentist would mess this up. I'm like, better safe than sorry. Can I take this with me? She was like, you can't take it, but like you could just come back. I don't know. When do you want to come back? I'm like, it's called a week. Like I'm really busy for the next week. It's like, sure. It came back, did the swab. Everything was fine. I passed it. And, uh, I can't believe they drug tested you. It's fucking wild dude. And like the people that work there were the biggest, fucking degenerate.

I was going to say, do you just have to take one to get in and then you're good? Like I remember, uh, so the way that they break you in is, uh, Oh yeah. So once I passed the drug test, they're like, good news, buddy, you're on the team and they give me the exact same white folder that NBC universal gave me. But with the Vons logo, I'm like, I'm like already trying to hold back tears. I'm like, my, how the mighty have fallen. Like we just flew a little too close to the sun. And the way that they break you in is your first week. You're showing up at 4 AM to sweep the

floors, like restock anything that needs to happen. Like, you know, putting plastic bags and all the cash registers and like, I'm there on my first day and Monica's like, all right, well, here's what you need to do. Here's a bucket and a mop and, you know, just start cleaning up all the aisles. And like, I'm cleaning up the aisles and like all of a sudden, and I don't know why this triggered me, but you remember that song, Hey There Delilah?

Yeah. Hey there Delilah. Yeah. It's like, how's it there in New York City? I'm just like, the walls are caving in. I'm just like, everything just fucking broke for me. I should be seeing Jaws right now. Dude, I literally go to the bathroom and fucking cry my eyes out.

Fucking devastated. This is day one of being broken in. And I have five more days of 4 a.m. shifts that are going to start like this and I'm just fucking devastated I'm just like and we're just like yo what's up dude you get high? I'm like no I just cried a lot I'm just crying and so then I just start meeting all these other degenerates that are on like the job there's this dude, I think his name was like John or something. But like I look at it like, and he's like, clearly a degenerate. And I'm like, Hey man, how long you been working here for?

He's like, like three years trying to get fired. I'm like, trying. You're failing at it. You're failing at getting fired. He's like, well, yeah,, yeah, like I like dude Why don't you just like go smoke weed and don't put drops in and they'll they'll fucking figure it out I guess I did that I did that. I'm like what they do he goes. They docked my pay I'm like, okay, it's like well like aren't there more things you could do it goes. Well, yeah, then I was just like Oh, well, the problem is that I'm smoking outside of the store So I just started smoking inside the bathroom that's inside the supermarket. And I'm like, they didn't catch you. They was like, well, no, I had too, I have too many friends here and they smelled it before management did.

So they just started spraying acts, body spray all over the door, giving me Visine and stuff. And then, you know, that didn't like, they just docked my pay again. I'm like, well, it's like, then I did shrooms. I'm like, yeah. He goes, dock my pig. I'm like, dude, are you paying to work here? Like how just fucking leave dude. But I remember I would pull all sorts of shit. Cause I was just like, you know what? This is a good motivation. I'm never like, I'm never going to work at Vaughn's again. Knock on wood. Uh,

there's still a chance I still, I still got like another 25 more years. So I might be 70 bagging. But, uh, uh, I remember, uh, I was just like, you know what this is. And I remember I'd made a pact there cause I was like, I started smoking weed on my lunch breaks. I was like, look, this is not a good like pattern to start. So I made myself a rule. I'm like, I'm only going to go, I'm only going to smoke at jobs that I don't respect.

And Vaughn's supermarket is at the top of that list. And I was just like, I'm going to cut every corner. Cause like, that's not who I am. I'm a, I'm a very hard worker. Like when I care about the shit, but I don't care about fucking Vons is bottom line. I got out and pull so much shit. Cause I knew what I was legally allowed to do and what I wasn't. And if they caught me on shit, I'm like, they're going to dock my pay. Worst case scenario. I'm here for, I'm here for a short time. I'm here for the summer. Like I can't, I don't care what they do.

So I remember it was summer and everyone gets cart duty. And like when you get cart duty, you're just getting carts from the parking lot. It's summer, you're doing at least one hour window at a time. And I was like, you can't, you can't take a break from that because you have to like go back to the punch card system every 15 minutes to be like, you're still out there doing stuff. Oh, cause if you're out of the building, you didn't want to make sure you're on the clock still or something. Just knowing like, just like a record of just like, yeah,

you came back in every 15 minutes to do shit. And so what I would do is whenever I did cart duty, I would then just go disappear into the walk-in freezer until they called my name on the intercom. Cause what I found, like, first of all, it felt great in there, but also I found, I found this grease barrel in there. And they also had a whole bunch was like, now's a good time to kind of practice my beer pong skills. So I would stand on one end of the walk-in freezer. I'd take the lid off. I'd take the lid off of the grease bro. And I had no idea what the intention of this grease barrel was.

I don't know if it was going back into like, into the friars. Yeah. I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I take the lid off. I think the lid off of the grease bro. And I had no idea what the intention of this grease barrel was. I don't know if it was going back into like, into the fryers, or if it was like going to get shipped off to like a landfill or something. But I just took a lid off. I'm just like,

I'm just beer ponging dibs into this grease barrel. And it made like a, like a really cool clunk sound. And then I would hear my name being called on the intercom like Nadav, uh, you're needed, uh, at the courtesy clerk, uh, desk in the front. And I'd go and there was this fucking manager named Deborah, such a fucking bitch cared way too much about her job. It's just like, it's a Vaughn supermarket. Like, well, like I'm fresh out of high school first year call, like what, like, what are we doing here? And she'd be like, hey, I noticed, like, where have you been?

I'm like, what do you mean? She's like, you've been gone for like an hour. I'm like, no, I was on cart duty. He was like, no, no, no, I know when your cart duty ended. You've been gone for an hour since then. I'm like, oh yeah. She's like, what do you mean, oh yeah? I'm like, no, I was in the bathroom.

She's like, for an hour? And then I was just like, oh, are you about to tell me I can't use the bathroom? She's like, well use it less. I'm like, I don't think you're allowed to say that. She's like, you can't tell me how long I can shit. You can't tell me to shit less or piss less. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Take it out of my paycheck. And like, uh, uh, whenever my family would come, like I spoke, I speak Hebrew. So whenever my family would come,

they would come to like the, the, the, the checking aisle that I was bagging at. And then in Hebrew, I would say to them, say yes to whatever I'm about to ask you. And they're like, okay, okay. And then as a bag boy, you have to say, excuse me, miss, do you need help out to your car? And then they'd be like, yes. And then I would just go chill in the parking lot with my sister and my mom for like an hour in air conditioning, like just fucked off. And then I'd come back and be like, where were you? I was like, oh, I was helping that lady.

That lady. It was like, wasn't that your sister or your mom? Like, yeah, they needed help. It was like, eh. And like, they just kept on trying to be like, you can't do that. I'm like, show me where it says I can't do that. And yeah, I remember, I remember fucking hating that job

and just, it was so demoralizing. I cried so much at the first week of that job and I was like, never fucking again. It's been the biggest fucking like fire under my eyes. Like, I don't know, dude, you wanna fucking work at Vons again? They're hiring. You need that barometer.

My mom's voice always rings in my ears. I'm just like, Vons is hiring. Fucking devastating. Yeah. You needed to fucking get missed. I think it was the best thing that probably ever happened to me because I think like up until then things were going fine. Like I never really, like there were no stakes for any decisions that I had to make, but that was the first thing where just like, Hey, you fucked this up. And now you're going to pay for it all summer.

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And I'm- Did you know the person? Was this a random thing? Yeah. So here's the whole story. So like, I had not, this was 10th grade. I had not even started smoking weed yet. Like I was still in the drugs are bad, like camp. And I was hanging out, God are bad, like a camp.

And I was hanging out. I don't want to use this real name. Um, we'll call them, we'll call them John pooch. We'll call them John pooch. Um, and so, uh, everyone in my school, everyone in my school had a story of, Hey, I used to be best friends with John pooch. And then we did this thing together and then our parents don't let us hang out together anymore. So this is my story of not being allowed to hang out with John pooch anymore. So hanging out with John and like, he's just a terrible influence. Like I'm in 10th grade. Literally I come out and hang out with them. I'm like,

Hey John, like, what are we doing? It's like, well, my dad should be passing out. He passes out right when the Daily Show comes on at seven. And so when he passes out, he doesn't wake up again until like 1 a.m. And then when he moves to the door, or when he moves to his bed, I'm like, okay. He goes, yes, we're gonna take his car. I'm like, what?

So he's just like, yeah, you know, at like seven, my dad passes out and then we just kind of take his car. John, Poosh for you is George Wilk. And that's his real, that's his real name for us. So I would hang out with John pooch. I'd say like, I don't know, a couple of times a month, I'd just go over like, it'd be like, Hey mom, drop me off at John's. Like we're going to have a sleepover.

And like that sleepover was just like, Oh yeah, he's going to like have me smoke weed for the first time We're gonna do we're gonna drink and shit like all sorts of just wild shit like we'd have friends over and just have like we play the pass out game like all sorts of just shit that are just terrible for kids and so I remember like God fucking John John put me through so much fucking weird situations Like we went out and he's like, Hey, I want to buy weed. Did you steal the car?

Yeah. You guys Joy road and I didn't. Yeah. John, John was going to do that. Whether I was there or not. He did this every night. He did this every night and never got caught. And uh, I remember he said,

uh, Hey, I want to buy weed. We're going to meet up with this guy. I'm like, I've never really like gotten into, like, I wasn't into it yet. And so we meet up with this dude and like, it was like, Oh my God, that's, that's a 12th grader. You know, like we're buying weed from a 12th grader. Like we're in neither 10th grade at the, at the time. And, uh, he's just like, Hey, I don't have a bag. So, uh, put your hand out. I'm just like,

well, John, what do you want? I was like, put your hand on the dog. I'm like, and he just puts like fucking weed in my hand and goes, all right, have a good night guys. Like, wait, I'm just driving around with just weed open like this in my hand. And so another night we're with, we're hanging out with like three or four kids from our school. Like it was kind of like in the Jewish school system, it's like, Oh yeah, you got a Jew elementary school over here. You got a Jew high school in, in here.

And then the Jew middle school is like these three options and these two options. So like essentially you knew every Jewish kid in the Los Angeles area just because there's so much overlap and crossovers. So there's a couple kids from my elementary school and like they're all into like smoking weed and like I was just like, yeah guys, let's go, let's go get drugs. And they're like, oh, fucking Barry, Barry has weed. Let's go get weed from Barry. And I'm like, okay. So we steal his dad's, we steal John's car, John's dad's car again. Uh, we go over to his house and like they haven't even texted or called them or anything. I don't even remember if cell phones were around back then. Might've been like the very, like the iPhone one probably just came out.

So, oh yeah. So it was flip phones and shit. So they're flip phone, they're flip phone texting, uh, Barry being like, Hey man, can we buy some weed? Like, uh, uh, you said that you had some and goes, Oh, I just sold the last of it to, I don't know, fucking Seth or whatever. And so John starts getting real mad. He's like that fucking bitch selling our fucking weed to fucking someone else. I'm like, did you call dibs on it? Like, wait, I don't understand what's going on. I don't care. I don't smoke weed. So he goes, fuck this.

And oh yeah. And leading up to this, I'd lost my house keys like a week before that. My brother just got me new keys and to fuck with me. He got me a pink Jewish, like a pink, uh, like a key in the shape of a pink guitar with a cross in the middle. And then for the other door, it was a blue guitar with a Jewish star in the middle. And so it was very distinct. Very distinct keys. And so we get, so like we get there in two cars, the one car like decides to go like, all right, well whatever, there's no weed here. Like we'll just go. And then John's like, yeah, yeah, we'll catch up with you guys in a bit.

I'm like, what are we doing? John goes, I'll show you. And so we pull up. He's like that right there. That's Seth's car. That's the guy that he sold weed to. I'm like, okay. He goes, we're going to fuck up his car.

I'm like, what, why? And he goes, cause fuck them. I'm like, all right, well, I don't, you do whatever you want, man. I'm like, what, why? He goes, cause fuck him. I'm like, all right, well, I don't, you do whatever you want, man, I'm good. And so he's like, my keys are in the ignition right now. Give me your keys. So like, okay, give him the keys. He just starts fucking keying the car.

And then he looks at me and goes, you wanna get in on this? And I'm like, what? And I look at it and I just see pink, pink scratch marks all over. I'm like, Oh, that's from my fucking brand new keys. All right. Well, no one's going to fucking figure that out, right? He goes, do you want it on this or not? I'm like, peer pressure. All right, fine. Take it. I just like do something real quick. We get home.

The other car is just like so spooked at like, you guys vandalize. Like, I'm like, I don't, this is all John. I mean, that kind of John did it. And so then the next, like everyone, like we do the sleepover, get picked up from, uh, by my mom, get home. And then John calls me. I'm like, Oh, hey, what's up, Johnny goes, you gotta tell your mom. I'm like, what? It was, you gotta tell your mom what happened like, what do you mean? What happened? He goes well, we keyed the car We huh?

He goes. Yeah, we both keyed it and like sure. Yeah. Yeah, I guess yeah It was both of our ideas equally I guess but sure like what happened and goes well The guy in the other car fucking told his mom what we did The guy in the other car fucking told his mom what we did Called John's mom and then John's mom is like, hey you got a fucking like you're paying for this Like it was like a fucking Beamer or something that we keyed up. So it was expensive paint or whatever And so I'm just starting to fucking freak out cuz he's like look, it's a $2,000 paint job back then Yeah, so he's like your half is a thousand. I'm like, I don't have a thousand dollars. What the fuck are you talking about? And so,

is this your gambling origins? I'm like, I'm never going to be in this problem again. I'm never going to not have a thousand dollars. So I remember going, I'm like, Oh shit. Like it was like probably my first like go and like, like face the music moment where I'm like, all right, Nadav, you fucked up. You're a big boy. This is what big boys do. Go be a big boy. And like I go and my mom, we had a family friend from Israel staying with us at the time. So my mom is in the backyard. Like I'm in the room. That's like right next to the backyard. And I like get that call. I'm like,

all right, well let's go tell Tammy what happened. So I go out and like, Hey mom. And she's out in the backyard with her, with the family friend that's visiting. I'm like, Hey, I got to tell you something. And she was like, well, whatever you have to tell, I'm sure you could say it in front of Yosi. I'm like, you sure? She's like, yeah. I'm like, okay. I keyed a car last night. I need a thousand bucks to fix it.

And she's like her jaw starts, she's like, oh, let's go inside. Let's go inside. She's like, what the fuck happened? I was like, yeah, I keyed a car and I need a thousand bucks for the paint job, cause that's how much my half is. She goes, well, there goes your summer. Like what? She's like, yeah, you worked over. So like I had worked construction over summer at her, at the, at her job. She goes, there goes your summer. You worked,

you got a thousand dollars. There goes a thousand dollars. And in my mind, I'm like, totally forgot I had a thousand dollars. I could have just fucking not shut up. And instead I was just like, I think I grounded myself for like six months. So like I'm a terrible piece of shit. Like fucking slug me like that. Like I was so bad at punishments and I was the only kid in my family. I was the youngest of four kids. Only one that ever got grounded. I'm the only one that I've got caught being in trouble. Really?

Damn. You think the young one would get away with whatever. No, dude, dude. I remember my mom would constantly tell me, she's like, you know, I had four kids and I thought I had it figured out. And then you come along and you fucking do all this new shit I've never seen before. But yeah, I fucking, yeah, I keyed a car and paid a thousand bucks and I didn't even have to tell my mom about it but I did

Let's clear the air here is this this Ymh story post Ymh is this a have you talked about this which one your your last one there? Oh, yeah Yeah, is this publicly known like does everybody know why you didn't do the marathon and all that? Have you ever cleared it up? I mean, I didn't do the marathon just because it was unhealthy for me to do that. Like doing a merit. Like I think they're doing a by the time this comes out, they would have already done the five K, but you know how long they from when they announced it to when

they're doing it more time than I had to train for a full fucking marathon. But yeah, what had happened was, so I decided to leave wine man, just cause you know, I'd been there for seven years and you know, I'd built that machine and I just want to build machines a for myself and like make a machine out of helping other people with their shit. Well, you didn't build a machine. You guys built a fucking goddamn rock. Yeah.

Went into another stratosphere. Yeah. And what I, and thank you. And what I felt was that like, you know, over there, I was more just maintaining it and not doing the building that I enjoyed in the beginning. So I was like, I want to get back in that building phase. I haven't used that part of my brain in forever and I miss using it. So, uh, I had left, you know, I just decided to leave and then, like, I was still doing all of my routines. I was working out regularly. I was going on, like, I was walking slash jogging a 5k. But you were also training for it initially, weren't you? Oh, yeah. Well,

what had happened originally, I mean, we had gone through a couple of weight loss competitions. The first one was just, it was funny. It was set up and then just kind of like forgot about. And like I'm training like a couple of times a week with trainers over it on it. And like, I remember like there was an episode of two bears where, uh, you know, Tom was like, uh, Oh yeah. So Nadav you're, uh, like, how's the working out going? And Bert's like, you're working out. I'm like, what working out going? And Bert's like, you're working out? I'm like, what do you mean? What do you mean am I working out?

I'm working out because of the thing that we said on this show. And then that really fucking took, I was like, wait, did they even fucking remember that this has happened? And while I was lifting weights for that, my belly button had gone from an innie to an outie. And I thought that was just like, is this a fat thing or a muscle thing? What is pushing my belly button had gone from an any to an Audi. And like, I thought that was just like,

is this a fat thing or a muscle thing? Like what is pushing my belly button? Was it painful? No, it was never painful. It just popped out. It just all of a sudden turned into a soft Audi. And so- I gotta be honest.

I got an any too. Yeah. I wouldn't mind an Audi for a second, just so I could Q-tip and get in there good. Did you clean it? Oh dude, Audi doesn't do that. Audi creates more crevices. Oh, no still it's still like a sewn weird No, it's deeper crevices that you can't like you like your Audi is out but like you're still makes sense getting in between there, but I

Remember I went to To the doctor immediately. I'm like, yeah, what does it mean when I'm fucking when you're when your any turns into an Audi, she's like, you working out a lot. I'm like, yeah, I was like, yeah, that's what's happening. Like everyone's abdominal wall more or less like has defections near the, the, the, the belly button, because that's where the umbilical cord was and it's the most common type of hernia and it's the least like one of the least threatening ones. She's like, does it hurt right now? I'm like, no, has it ever hurt? No. All right. Well,

this isn't an immediate emergency. If and when it starts hurting, that's when you need to take care of it. So like, okay. Literally like didn't think about it for a year. I was just like, man, it's like anytime I caught myself in the mirror, like, Oh yeah, I have an Audi. And then, uh, uh, I started when I started like the training for the marathon and like I had left, but I'd still wanted to do the marathon. So I'm still doing everything. I'm lifting weights and all that. And one day, uh,

my girlfriend's coming over and like she starts, she starts cooking. And like right when she comes over, like, I'm like, man, I got a fucking tummy ache. She like, yeah. I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna go lie down for a bit. Lie down for like two hours. It's just getting worse. It's hurting more and more.

And like, this is, this is on a Thursday night. And like, this is also, I think you'll understand this. This is like the first month that I'm releasing episodes of my new show, which comes out on Fridays at 11 AM central standard time on varying Adolf show YouTube channel. And this is like the fifth or six, like something like that. It's like very early into me releasing these episodes and like the stomach ache is not going away. She's like, and when I work like it is going to be surprising here, I forget to eat sometimes because you're, and when I work, like, this is going to be surprising here.

I forget to eat sometimes because you're just so locked in that like, you know, five o'clock runs around, comes around and you're like, Oh shit, I don't even think I really ate today. I had some coffee in the morning, but like nothing else really. So I was like, you know, maybe this is just like a hunger pain or something. So we eat dinner, pain does not get better. It starts getting a little worse. I'm like, this is kind of, I kind of don't like this at all. And like at this point, all I have left on my episode

to release the next day is I have to make a thumbnail and I have to write a description. And I think I have to just upload and route it to different places. And so I'm like, you know what? Like my stomach's been hurting so much for the last three hours. Let me just feel around and see if I could touch something.

And then like my finger goes over my Audi belly button and it's rock hard. And like, oh, that's it. That's, I found the culprit. And I'm like, oh, I think this might be a hernia. And like, I tell my girlfriend, I'm like, yeah, I think this is a hernia. And then she looks at me and she's like,

she'd been telling me that we need to go to the ER for like the last hour. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it's just, and then I realized it, oh, I think this is a hernia. And like, this is like the pain that my doctor was talking about that is constitutes an emergency. And so my girl's like, all right, well, you're ready to go to the ER. And I'm like, And so my girl's like, all right, well, you're ready to go to the ER. And I'm like, if we go to the ER, I'm not sure when we're coming back. I have an episode dropping at 11 AM central standard time on Friday.

And, uh, I was like, look, babe, um, I totally agree. I need to go to the ER, but give me like 45 minutes. And she's just like, dude, she got so fucking mad. She's like, you're a dumb piece of shit. I'm like, I know I am, but we don't miss uploads. We don't miss uploads. Not this early in the run. You just don't do it. And I went and I like, I worked it.

It fucking sucked. It sucked so bad. It's just like, it's like a pain just deep in your stomach, like deep in your stomach. It fucking hurt so bad. And like, then I just started, uh, and like 30 minutes, like while I'm doing all this stuff, she's looking up like ERs and urgent cares and stuff. And she found one that was like really well reviewed. It's like, Oh, I found one like while you were working. I'm like, Oh, that's great that you had time to find one. If you didn't have time to, like, I just start like manipulating all the, like, Oh, good thing you had all this time to research a good spot.

Right. And so we get to the ER and this is now kind of like, we're, I'm playfully joking around in it, but that's also what I do when I'm scared is like, I just try and make everything funny. Cause if I'm scared, that's a shitty feeling. But if I'm not scared, then I'm laughing. And if I'm laughing, it's, it's hard to cry and freak out, you know, as long as Hey There Delilah doesn't play on the background.

Like that's really like one of my, that's one of my triggers. And so, and so we get to, uh, uh, we get to the urgent care and I'm just fucking like, uh, like, I'm starting to get delirious because as we're driving over there, it's getting exponentially more painful, like on the ride over there. And so she's getting parking, I'm walking in and like, it's, I don't know, like nine or 10 at night. And we're the only ones in

there and like the, the, the, the nurse at the front, it's just like, Hey, can I help you? Like, yeah, I have a tummy ache. She's like, what? Like my belly button, there used to be an A it's an Audi now and it's hard. And she's like, what the fuck are you saying? Like then my girlfriend comes in and she's like, let me write out this fucking like paperwork for you. And we get in there and while they're like getting all this information, like asking why all this happened, I think it would be cute to make them, cause like the entire time my girlfriend is just like, I cannot believe that you're waiting all this time.

Like you need to go to the ER. I'm like, 30 minutes isn't going to do anything. Like it's fine. Like I'm probably, I'm sure it's fine. And so while we're there, like they're done taking all the info from me, I'm done taking all the info from them. And they're like, do you have any questions about this?

I'm like, yeah. Let's say I came in 45 minutes before I did. Would I be in a better situation? Like, no. Like in a better situation? Like, no, like you hear that. She did not like that. There's always time to write a description, babe. And, uh, yeah, they were very upset. She was very upset, but as usual, like, just so you know, this is going to be the last time

that we'll wait going to the emergency room. I was like, that's fair. And now your health is good? Yeah, now I'm back. So what had happened was that they didn't know if they were gonna have to do surgery that night. So they're pushing around, they're like, look, if we can't get,

because what happens with an umbilical hernia, your intestines are literally coming out of your belly button. And that's- Can they manipulate it back in without surgery sometimes so that there's a hole and then they do the mesh thing so that's what they're hoping to do they're like look we're just going to investigate like we're not going to do anything i'm like yo are you about to push my shit back in and like no we wouldn't do that without telling you i'm like okay and so then they're just like starting to go they're getting closer and closer i'm like it feels like they're trying to push my shit back and they're like look we're not we're not starting to go out, they're getting closer and closer. I'm like, it feels like they're trying to push my shit back.

And they're like, look, we're not trying to push it in. We're just investigating. I'm like, okay. So they're investigating. And all of a sudden they investigated my shit back into my belly button. And it just, all of a sudden I felt a pop. I'm like, yo, what just happened?

Like I had no idea what had happened. I was like, yo, was that a good pop or a bad pop? They're like, oh, you felt that? I'm like, yeah, I felt that. And they're like, does it hurt? Like, actually no, it doesn't. Like, yeah, we just pushed your shit back in. I'm like, cool. But now do you have to have the surgery to have the like, So I scheduled the surgery for like, like that happened on a Thursday.

I had surgery on that Tuesday. Okay. And then, um, yeah, got a plenty of time to prep that next episode. I got ahead. I got two weeks ahead before that. Thank you for being here and thanks for having me. It's always such a pleasure. Same bro. Uh, one more time, promote whatever you'd like. Yeah.

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