Side Bar: Unforgettable Anecdotes of Hangovers and Hindsight

Ever had one of those hangovers that just won't quit, despite your best efforts? One where that throbbing headache or the constant retching makes you swear off alcohol for good? Well, we've all been there! In our recent conversation, we took a trip down memory lane to some of our most infamous hangovers - the kind that unfold after a night of too much of a good thing or a themed party gone wild.

Our chat wasn't just tales of woe, though. We also revisited the reckless freedom of our twenties and contrasted it with the responsibilities of fatherhood. From a memorable first year at Coachella, fueled by breakfast burritos and shots, to the dangerous game of "Beer Life" that had us downing pints like there was no tomorrow, we laid it all bare. But we also acknowledged the darker side of these antics, highlighting the risks of binge drinking and the importance of knowing when to say no. 

And then there were those drinking stories that are more cautionary tales than badge-of-honor-worthy exploits. Remember that time with the cement mixer shots or the one that led to a hospital trip? Or the fun trip to Costco that ended with an unbearable hangover? We discussed these and more, sharing the lessons we've learned along the way. So, buckle up for a hearty chat filled with laughter, cautionary tales, and a few unforgettable anecdotes.

Transcript

intro

Speaker 1 0:13

This is Gentlemen of the World, and I have a sidebar question for you. My name is Evan.

Speaker 2 0:20

John.

Speaker 3 0:21

Andrew Dave.

Speaker 4 0:23

Vern Justin.

Speaker 1 0:25

Dave, alex. So, gentlemen, tell me the story of the worst hangover you've ever had. Wow.

Speaker 3 0:34

Very well Ugh.

Speaker 5 0:37

Hmm. And what are. Can you just give us some parameters Like does this include the drinking aspect of it, or is it just the feeling afterwards, or is it kind?

Speaker 1 0:48

of whatever you want to be. Lay the story out for me. What happened before after?

Speaker 2 0:56

How much time do we have?

Justin: Theme Party

Speaker 6 0:59

So I'll start. When Evan asked me, or he brought up this, we were talking in the car on the way here, and when he, when we started talking through it, a vision came in of my head of the hangover itself, like the moment, but it was linked to lots of moments, but it was more like a period in time. Everything honed in on a period of time and I felt myself like the. My mind started painting the picture of this is where you are now, this is where you're laying on the couch, this is the blanket wrapped around you and like all that stuff. And then I was like, okay, and now we have a story now connected to this whole thing. So I'm gonna backtrack it.

Speaker 6 1:42

But when you originally said that I was wrapped in a blanket, when I moved out to Long Beach, I lived with my aunt and uncle in Huntington Beach and they would go away on vacation and my cousins would. When they went away, we'd throw a party at their house and for the most part, we love to throw themed parties more at their house, and so there was lots of themed parties that led to lots of hangover moments, and I'll get to the parties, but for the hangover moments, they always ended up the same the next morning, where I was wrapped in a blanket on the couch watching the office and this is when the office was actually still on TV. So we were watching whatever we had recorded, just whatever episodes you had recorded when you recorded episodes on a DVR is that what they were called?

Speaker 4 2:34

I think so. T-bow yeah, something like that.

Speaker 2 2:38

You, youngsters.

Speaker 6 2:40

And just sitting in your own filth in your own shit after vomiting three or four times, so that my hangover morning always looked like that. It was like that every time. Now to the parties that led to that. It was a lot of these themed parties and the ones that I can remember, some of the highlighted ones where we threw a prom this was probably mid-20s and we threw a prom or, like you asked a girl to this prom, but it was just a house party. You had a friend, dj, and we moved all of the good furniture into the garage so it didn't get messed up. All my aunt, uncle were away hopefully they weren't listening.

Speaker 1 3:21

You moved out of furniture.

Speaker 6 3:22

We lifted up the table and the good couches and left the party couches out, just so we could have that space. That could be the dance floor in the dining room. But yeah, themed parties is what came to mind when you said that to me, and the first theme party that I thought of was the prom. But we had everything from. We had a friend that moved away to Australia so we threw an Australian themed party where we had people dressed up as fucking kangaroos. People came as aborigines. Car name prom. They would be canceled now.

Speaker 6 3:55

But like shit, like that yeah we had all kinds of great themed parties that led to the hangover. And again the hangover is me on a couch, wrapped in a blanket watching the office. That's your brand, that's my brand. No, thank you.

Speaker 7 4:07

Thank you. Is that still your go-to if you have a hangover?

Speaker 6 4:10

The office on a couch in a blanket. Yeah, after hurling and me and my fiance we actually talking about this the other night where we have different styles of hangover, where I'm good for if I drink enough I'll throw up, but it's all in one session. I get it all out in one session and I'm done for the day night, whatever the day.

Speaker 2 4:34

That's a fresh move. Yeah, we're free.

Evan: Cochella pre-party

Speaker 6 4:37

She will throw up three times over the course of a whole day, getting it all out, but I get all my throw up done in one setting. That's me Smart, yeah thank you.

Speaker 3 4:51

I foresee that this will be our most listened to. It's deep.

Speaker 6 4:58

It's real.

Speaker 1 4:59

Who's next. I mean, I guess I can go if nobody else wants to go. So it's not necessarily the worst hangover I've ever had, but it was very memorable hangover that I had, specifically on the fact that I literally drank one beer.

Speaker 5 5:16

No, I drank one beer the night before.

Speaker 1 5:18

And, for whatever reason, woke up with the worst hangover I've ever had.

Speaker 6 5:23

That beer was 100% ABV, it was clear, and it was vodka yeah.

Speaker 1 5:29

It was literally, literally, but like it was more lorged. And I woke up the next morning, I was 20, and my best friend, andy, had just gotten his apartment after high school and he was the first one to move out and, like, of course, his apartment turned into, like party central USA, hell yeah. And so his brother-in-law was a bartender at Sharky's in Newport Beach and he's like, hey, let's go get some.

Speaker 3 5:52

Well, that was your problem yeah. He's like let's go get some.

Speaker 5 5:56

Yeah there's the hangover.

Speaker 1 5:57

Keep in mind. This story is now taking place while I'm hungover. So he's like, hey, let's go get some breakfast burritos at Sharky's, you know. And I'm like, whatever, I don't know if I can get in, I'm not 21. He's like, dude, my brother's the bartender, it doesn't matter. So we're sitting there like trying, I'm trying to like eat a breakfast burrito and he keeps coming up to us with shots in a in Styrofoam cups. He's like here, I made this one for you guys, I made this one for you guys. I'm just like fucking trying to chug down these shots while miserably hungover, eating breakfast burrito, and I'm like this is fucking worse. But you did it, I did it and go out into the parking lot.

Speaker 3 6:36

If I would got you to the hangover was one bud light.

Speaker 7 6:41

This is scientifically. I don't know how that's possible.

Speaker 1 6:44

I believe you. I don't know either. It's the only time has ever happened in the story.

Speaker 7 6:49

Did you get?

Speaker 1 6:49

roofie Possibly. Ok, that could be. I don't think so.

Speaker 3 6:54

It was guilt, so first time drinking.

Speaker 1 7:00

So what we have on the agenda for that day was tickets to Coachella. This was literally. Coachella's first year of Coachella ever, and so my miserable hungover ass like from Newport Beach, throwing up in the parking lot outside of Sharkies, got into a car and drove all the way out to the Coachella.

Speaker 1 7:21

Valley and sat through fucking Coachella the entire day, just miserably hungover and just. I will never forget it. I mean watching fucking Beastie Boys and just trying to keep my life together while my friends are just parting it up and me just trying to keep everything together was just the most miserable experience of my entire life.

Speaker 3 7:42

But at least Frank Ocean played right. I don't even remember.

Speaker 7 7:48

Frank Ocean, if it's the first Coachella.

Speaker 1 7:50

Frank.

Speaker 7 7:50

Ocean was like 12.

Speaker 1 7:51

Yeah, no, I saw, I saw Weezer and I saw the Beastie Boys. Those are the two, two bands that I saw. I know like.

Speaker 6 8:00

I'm probably the youngest one here, so I shouldn't sound like I'm an old person or anything but like the like, the ability. I remember the ability to be able to do things like that, where you're able to have a hangover and then drink shots like after or in your hangover and then go to Coachella or go to an event whether it be like a fucking Vegas or whatever, it doesn't matter. That was that's fucking psycho Me. Like hearing that now or trying to do something like that now sounds insane, but like that was something that you could do when you were like in your 20.

Speaker 1 8:34

Yeah, you know, I'm a father now, guys.

Speaker 5 8:39

Oh yeah.

Speaker 6 8:40

Another human being. He's keeping a human being alive. Yeah, not right now. It's scary.

John :Beer Life Champion

Speaker 5 8:44

Well, he knows how to keep himself alive, so yeah, he's here. That's right. Oh, he's proved himself. That's a red passage for every father. Can you keep yourself alive?

Speaker 6 8:54

Great job. You can have a kid. You could be a dad now.

Speaker 2 8:59

All right, so I'll go next, if nobody. Yeah, jump in there and mine encompasses every aspect of his, his requirements. We had friends in the valley, we're having a party and we had we had been married, my wife and I had been married, they had just gotten married, you know a few years and they had us over. I don't remember how many people will just say 20 people were there. Sure, we're charging, can we?

Speaker 5 9:28

say 30? Nobody's going to fact check. Yeah, that's right Up to 30 people.

Speaker 2 9:33

Hold on. Let's say there's 30 people there. We were in charge of the salad. Make a note of the salad.

Speaker 3 9:41

OK, salad. So, we brought a new bowl of salad.

Speaker 2 9:45

So we're just having drinks throughout the night, wine and things like that. Well, at the end of the near the end of the party starts winding down. My friend and his friend had created a game in college and it was. It was like they call it beer life and it was just a board game. So they brought out a board game and they had all handwritten things in and dice and so everybody's playing. So the his wife, who's been familiar with the game, brought out, she started bringing out the beer and it was I want to say it was Coors Light or something like that and she just starts putting several Coors Lights in front of everybody that was playing.

Speaker 2 10:26

And how it would be you'd roll the dice, you'd move your piece and then, whatever the punishment was, you'd have to do shots of beer. So you had a little shot glass and you'd say, ok, you got to do four shots, so you do four shots of beer. But then there was also the punishment. You say, ok, well, now you assign somebody eight shots. So like, all right, you and it could be anybody at the table. So people were just and this is my first time playing and it all of me. It always seemed like the game was between the two guys who created it. The game was right. The rules were changed. Yeah, I was right.

Speaker 2 10:58

You know people were targeted and the thing was so let's say I All right, you have to do 20 shots. You could say I'm done, you wouldn't have to do them, you could just quit the game and you're out. So it got down to me and the other not my friend, but his friend, the other creator of the game and I'd be damned if I was going to lose this game because you got to sign the board if you want, so I honor.

Speaker 6 11:23

I want that too, so I'm pushing.

Speaker 2 11:27

We're playing, we're playing, we're playing and you're drinking so much beer in a short period of time my stomach immediately filled and it gets to a point where I'm thinking I got to throw up, not from sickness, just like I don't have any capacity.

Speaker 3 11:46

Just Just projectile.

Speaker 2 11:47

I choose myself and as I'm walking to the bathroom, I put my hand on my mouth and it just shoots out from my fingers, from the holes, and everybody's like, oh he's done, he's done. So I go to the bathroom, empty myself, come back and finish the game.

Speaker 6 12:06

So like a proper man would.

Speaker 2 12:09

So we keep going, we keep going and we must. I mean we probably went through over a 12 pack or more. I'm just going to say a 12 pack because that's what I remember sitting, but it was probably 24.

Speaker 6 12:20

Who knows?

Speaker 2 12:21

Yeah. So we're almost at the end and I he lands on something and I like, all right, you got you. I'm going to give him 12 shots and he's like I'm out, I win. But then the rule is I still have to finish the game. Oh, and I was Schumann. Yes, I'm the only one playing at this point and I'm still having to give myself shots until the end to get to the end.

Speaker 6 12:52

So then, to sign your dick on the board Right at the end.

Speaker 2 12:57

The spot right before the finish line is. Go back to the beginning. Whoa, and I landed on it, oh, and I was fully prepared to run the gauntlet again.

Speaker 6 13:10

This is what God has chosen for me and I am not.

Speaker 2 13:14

I am your Marine. I am not three. I'm beyond three sheets at this point.

Speaker 4 13:19

Four sheets.

Speaker 2 13:20

Four, yeah, four or five sheets to the end and I'm like I'm ready to go, I'm like I'm finishing this game and they're like no no, no, no, we're done, we're done, we're done.

Speaker 5 13:29

You're dying, sir.

Speaker 2 13:32

On the way home. I wasn't driving, my wife was driving and I was, and I had the salad bowl.

Speaker 2 13:42

Which was empty at this point because everybody ate the salad which is beneficial for me, because I filled the salad bowl on the way home, Ended up sleeping in our downstairs bathroom all night, throwing up all night. What was left of that, that wasn't that I didn't put into the salad bowl and then spent the next I'm going to say at least full day, if not into the second day sleeping on that floor in the bathroom covered up with the rug that was that we have in there, and just kept the door closed and my wife would peek in every you need some water here and she'd slide a glass of water in and every six hours just left me in there and it was even the day when I actually felt fine to get up and move around.

Speaker 2 14:35

It was the worst thing.

Speaker 4 14:38

But you were in your cocoon and you came out a beautiful butterfly.

Speaker 6 14:42

You emerged, sir.

Speaker 2 14:45

So that is my worst hangover.

Speaker 6 14:47

I like that. You did it for the love of the game. You know you had a goal you wanted to get signed the board. That's what I wanted to hear. That's fucking cool.

Speaker 5 14:59

That's legendary, and the fact that your wife took care of you. I feel like if I did that and was barfing in my bathroom, my wife would just lock the door and take the children and leave the water for like a week she shut the water off, he'd wake up with realtors selling your house, like don't pay attention to him, he doesn't come with the house. Just water.

Speaker 6 15:26

He's not a part of this family.

Vern: Cigar fun

Speaker 5 15:29

Wow, very good. Anybody else he's? I don't know if I can outdo that.

Speaker 2 15:36

Maybe I should have gone last.

Speaker 5 15:40

So I can go next. I used to have more of a superpower, but I don't know if it's my Polish blood or whatever, but I don't get hangovers. So I did not get hangovers for a while but I still knew how to drink. And there was one experience I was probably early 20s. I was living in a Winnebago with a friend of mine and our other buddy got a house sitting, basically a mansion down in, or was it like Del Mar, like Orange County, and he's like come down, we'll have a little party, we'll have fun.

Speaker 5 16:24

So we were into cigars at this moment Dave, you've heard this story, I think and we got these huge cigars like ungodly, the thickest cigars, sixty Ringage, sixty Ringage, it's awkward to smoke them like very awkward, a bit girthy, sucker, yeah. And they even had like some mold which is called plume, it's called plume, it's called plume, add plume on it, which is like it's a very well-aged like kind of you know, it's a musty wine kind of a thing. We took those cigars down, we went to the party and we're just stoked to be in the house because we live in a Winnebago, so it's like a shower is amazing and we get into the hot tub. We don't know anybody, and we start drinking whiskey, smoking our huge cigars in a hot tub, which for the uninitiated don't do. You can do one of those things.

Speaker 2 17:20

Yeah, don't do two of those things.

Speaker 5 17:21

At a time and then you rest for a day and then you can do the next thing. But we did all three of them in the hot tub and at some point we're like, I don't know, I'm gonna go to bed. Yeah, me too. And Vernon, are you green? Yes, I've never seen my face green before and it looked green.

Speaker 5 17:43

I went and our friend had given us rooms in the mansion that he was house sitting and so I knew where my bed was. I found it. I'm like, okay, I'm definitely ready for bed. I lay down and I feel like I closed my eyes for one second. I opened it and sat up and barfed on myself in the bed of this mansion, just sat up and just puked on my chest and felt like there's more to come.

Speaker 5 18:17

So this is maybe more of a barf story, but this is as close as a cat. So I go and I'm feeling through the dark hallways and both my buddy, jeff, who lived in the Winnebake, with me we're both filmmakers kind of starting out and stumbling through the hallway. I open the door and it's like Barf all over your body, oh, yeah, well, I think so, I probably. And I opened the door to the bathroom and it's Jeff grabbing the toilet on the ground. My other friend is filming him just like just laughing and I didn't even ask any questions. I just closed the door and felt another door opened. It felt something ceramic and barfed in that got back into my barf bed, went to sleep and woke up and all the barf that was on my bed and me was black par Like the nasty is.

Speaker 5 19:19

Yeah, from like the end of it was like the cigar or the what are they called A bile?

Speaker 7 19:24

Where you're throwing on the bed Like the deep shit, the deep dark stuff that was your soul.

Speaker 1 19:30

It was my soul.

Speaker 5 19:31

Yeah it never been the same since. See how it was. And now we're going.

Speaker 8 19:35

That's when I started having hangovers, I'm pretty sure you were possessed by a demon.

Speaker 5 19:40

Yeah, I barfed down. A demon for sure.

Speaker 2 19:43

Do we know what the ceramic thing was that you?

Speaker 5 19:45

Oh yeah, I found it in the morning and it was the laundry room, that was the laundry sink, that.

Speaker 7 19:51

I barfed in, but at least it was a sink.

Speaker 5 19:53

Yeah, it was only nailed it. Good job.

Speaker 6 19:55

Good job You're welcome, you could have waited in the washer or dryer, and that would have been kind of bad. But you went in the sink, which was good, and then we left.

Dave: UPS loader

Speaker 5 20:02

We left in our winnabagel like an hour later, never heard from him again. Yeah, it was a beautiful scene, but I did learn a lesson and I didn't smoke a cigar for probably five years after cigar toast. You know I love them, so you know it's a redemptive story.

Speaker 6 20:20

Yeah, you're back, better than ever.

Speaker 8 20:21

Yeah sure, really, all right, I'll go. So in my early 20, one of the things that I liked to do after I dropped out of college and came back to Southern California was hang out with my friends on some beach Boulevard bar. Specifically, we would go to the Verna room Probably doesn't exist anymore and cheap pool and get something called Alipay. It's like Southern Comfort.

Speaker 8 20:57

Very tight Feeling, hungover, just hearing yeah, it's very cool, it's like Southern Comfort and I believe, seven up and you like slam the shot to make it, and so we had lots of those. I believe like Lakers playoff time, like in the early 2000s lots of those, I believe. So we were having like a great time. But so during that time I was also working as a loader for UPS, so I my basically my job was to load brown truck for.

Speaker 8 21:35

So what I would do is just go out with my friend from go home and like get up and work and like fully, like not even like really hung for at that point, just like still fully, and like my supervisor would come in like brewery, yeah, yeah. So I would basically like do my job, like loading the brown truck to head off in the morning and loading work truck and I end up like one for the, so four trucks, and so I run like five or six packages to like different trucks. Then I run over to the trash. Can, yeah?

Speaker 3 22:31

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 8 22:33

Load more trucks Run over to the trash can. It was a mess, but no yeah.

Speaker 2 22:44

What's the life lesson?

Speaker 8 22:45

there Don't work for UPS.

Speaker 2 22:51

I was hoping the truck was going to leave somewhere.

Speaker 8 22:55

There was nothing coming out.

Speaker 2 22:57

It didn't come out of both ends, I only came out of one end.

Speaker 8 23:00

I'm glad it didn't, but yeah, it was. It was a rough time. I think that happened on more than one occasion, but like yeah, one specifically stuck out in my mind I think it was like during the winter season, like packages are like three times more. Well, it is true.

Speaker 2 23:22

You mentioned Alabama slime. Have you? Is anybody familiar with a cement mixer?

Speaker 4 23:26

Oh gosh, I'm not. Yes, those are not fun.

Speaker 3 23:29

That's in my second hangover.

Speaker 8 23:32

Those are like the joke shots that you get when they turn over.

Speaker 2 23:35

Nobody asks for one.

Speaker 6 23:38

John, I don't know what that is, it's essentially you.

Speaker 8 23:41

Two shots, yes.

Speaker 2 23:43

It's Baileys, I believe in one, and lime juice in the other. Oh no, and you shoot the. Baileys, and then you shoot the lime juice and then you swish it and the lime juice curdles the cream. So now it tastes incredible, it tastes good but it does not want to go down. But the texture is cottage cheese. And then now you have to swallow those I'm out on this drink.

Andrew: a trip to the hospital

Speaker 8 24:12

If anybody offers you a cement mixer. You say no. Like it is something that you give to like 21 year olds that don't know any better.

Speaker 6 24:21

Yep, you send the words, Cardle.

Speaker 3 24:25

I was out. Yeah, I was in. It's disgusting. I'll go Just kind of. This whole time I've been thinking of a story which is quite memorable, but it's actually like my worst drinking story, my worst being drunk story. I don't really remember the hangover much. You can give the quick version which is my first time drinking. I drank way too much and ended up in the hospital.

Speaker 6 24:54

It's your first time.

Speaker 3 24:55

Yeah, I had a nice day Party at our house. We had a keg of Guinness. I don't know, six, seven pints I don't know, and a few shots of Irish whiskey, a couple shots of rum.

Speaker 6 25:07

That was your first time drinking.

Speaker 3 25:09

I think I had had a beer or two beers, I was 21. I mean, I was before that. I was like proud straight edge, you know, and I was okay. Now I live away from home. I'm college. I went crazy and then ended up asking my roommate to take me to the hospital two IV bags, but I honestly don't remember the hangover. Oh, because you have the IV bag. I can't believe it at that. Real quick, was it?

Speaker 2 25:35

an.

Speaker 7 25:36

IV bag and eat, because this is a thing. Was it a double IV bag at the same time, or just one after the other?

Speaker 3 25:41

One after you.

Speaker 7 25:42

Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 3 25:43

What's the difference? Oh, I'm curious.

Speaker 7 25:46

If you're in dire straits, they give you two. If you're in dire straits, they double bag you at the same time. So I was just curious.

Speaker 3 25:52

I don't know, but I do remember the nurse asking I may have been hitting on her Smart. I remember her asking what she was doing Like what. So what are you doing After you saved my life, After you?

Speaker 6 26:05

clean up my view. No, her asking, not me. You're back there. So what's going on? You know the standard question.

Speaker 3 26:11

So what's?

Speaker 6 26:11

why are you here? What's going?

Speaker 2 26:12

on. What's the matter? What do you do?

Speaker 3 26:16

I think my response was I threw up and I threw up. I think my response was I threw up. And since childhood I've always had like this reflex where once I threw up, I just keep throwing. If you can just give me a shot and get me out of here and my roommate's standing next to me like elbowing me or what you drank? Tell her what you drank, and then they anyway. This was not the hangover story, so I can stop now or I can tell the alternate.

Speaker 5 26:44

Oh, it's like an anti-hangover. Like you were saved by a lawyer, I was saved by the hospital.

Speaker 3 26:50

Yeah, I want to know if you got that day. Did you get that day? Not that I recall.

Speaker 1 26:56

No, wow, not as I recall. Yeah, wow, lawyerly answer yeah.

Speaker 3 27:00

He is a lawyer. Strong tricks of words yeah, didn't happen.

Speaker 1 27:05

I did not have sexual issues.

Speaker 3 27:09

It depends on what the meaning of is is.

Speaker 4 27:17

David, alex, dave, you're me.

Speaker 7 27:19

I honestly I don't have a good one and it's not worth like. I just have bad hangover stories, but none of them are bangers, so I don't want to waste anyone's time with mine. But you have been hungover. Oh incredibly, yeah, incredibly. But, like, none of them are good stories. It's just, you know, like you're hungover.

Speaker 5 27:36

What's the best place you've been hungover. How about that?

Speaker 7 27:42

Right, so I'll give you the one that stands out and it's not like necessarily best place, but my worst hangover was I did a Costco. I got my own apartment back in 2012 and I was really proud. My goal was to be like a parents' apartment, like that has all the shit. You know how you go like to a parents' house and they've got like frozen stuff that you could just heat up and you're just like wow, I just again they've got your, they've got your free suns, they've got everything.

Speaker 7 28:10

So, like I like, stocked the house because I like when my friends come over, I want them to be able to eat and drink and have whatever they want, because I lived with roommates and there was never anything. It was Soviet Union in every country. So I like stocked up the house and, of course, like I was like, oh, there's a. I was at Costco. I was like, oh, there, you know, I'll get the handle of bullet. And I was like, oh, they had just come out with bullet rye. It was like new. So I was like I bought the handle of bullet rye, I brought it home and so you were rich back then.

Speaker 7 28:37

I was rich, I, just I wasn't rich but I stocked up the place and I had bullet rye and I had like a couple glasses of bullet rye, which is not good whiskey for the record, but bullets fine for a mix. Yeah.

Speaker 5 28:52

And it is what it is.

Speaker 7 28:53

No, I like it.

Speaker 5 28:56

But like bullet rye, like rocks, is not necessarily what it's built for.

Speaker 7 28:59

It's not what it's built for. It's a cocktail.

Speaker 6 29:01

How old were you at the time?

Speaker 7 29:03

Not that young, like 26, 27, something like that, and still 26,.

Speaker 6 29:06

you know you're okay with it, but I'm not wearing shit up, so I have a couple and you stopped having gushers in the cupboard.

Speaker 7 29:14

Yeah, yeah. So I had a couple glasses of whiskey and then my now wife, then girlfriend came over. Hey.

Speaker 2 29:18

Jody.

Speaker 7 29:19

Yeah, she came over and we're hanging out watching a movie or whatever, and she just was like in a more hospitable mood than normal and she's like do you want another drink? And I was like sure, and so she would just go in. We're watching a movie, lights are off, and she would bring me a glass of whiskey and I would just drink it. And then, sorry, do you remember what movie I don't remember, okay, and the weapon.

Speaker 8 29:40

I wish it was like a tight story like present Well to me Coming to America.

Speaker 7 29:47

So she just kind of threw out the night like kept bringing me glasses of whiskey and I had no real concept of you know, lights off watching a movie, I just kept drinking whiskey, you know. It was fine. And then she left. We didn't live together. She left and went home at the end of the night and I went to bed and I woke up the next morning and I was like I'm not hungover, I'm dying, Like I'm not, yeah. And so I was like I'm going to go for a walk to the ocean because I lived, you know, like three blocks from the ocean and I like go for a walk to the ocean where you were going to go to die.

Speaker 6 30:15

Yeah, to die, and I'm going to go and I just like randomly I'm like oh boy, here it comes.

Speaker 7 30:21

And I just like I'm walking and I'm like thinking walking will help. It doesn't help, and I just like Ralph, like on the side of the street, like like great, you know.

Speaker 6 30:29

so I, I'm not in the sand on the beach.

Speaker 7 30:32

No, I didn't, I don't, I do.

Speaker 6 30:34

You were a respectable hobo, yeah, or somewhere off the side of the I think I've rallied and made it to the beach.

Speaker 7 30:42

But yeah, I ended up like so and like my hangover wasn't, it wasn't improving, it was not good. Like I told you, the story isn't good and so I. I could not shake the hangover. So I eventually was like I feel like I'm actually dying, like no matter what I drink, I can't hydrate. So I was like I'm going to, like I had health insurance. I was like I'm just going to go to the urgent care and get an IV, like and get some hydration in me. So I get to the urgent care and they're like oh, there's a supply chain shortage, so we don't have IV bags. And I was like but like I'm going to die.

Speaker 2 31:15

This is pre pandemic.

Speaker 7 31:18

No, this is urgent care.

Speaker 3 31:20

And the one on ocean Boulevard 555 ocean Boulevard.

Speaker 7 31:23

Shout out to there's another one, sorry, they gave me. They gave me a pill to help with nausea and then they gave me one styrofoam cup with like four ounces of water in it and they like the moral of the story is the following day I went out into the kitchen.

Speaker 6 31:50

For the gashers, yeah, for the gash.

Speaker 7 31:53

No, I went out to the kitchen and saw the bottle. It was a handle. It was a handle and it was more than halfway gone. So I just on your now wife right. Well, I mean, I'm going to thank you for pouring you drinks. I'm not saying it's on anyone, you were simply watching the movie, you were pouring the drinks.

Speaker 6 32:11

All I know is that I single handedly she dropped you yeah.

Speaker 7 32:15

Single handedly drank more than one half of a half gallon. So sorry, the math is twisted, but yeah it was a lot. Yeah, yeah, it was a lot. So yeah, story over Wow.

Speaker 3 32:26

Yeah, yeah, heavy night. It was a heavy night.

Speaker 6 32:31

So if you, if you want to get an IV bag, apparently don't go to the.

Speaker 7 32:39

They will not help you Amazon dot com Type in IV bag.

Speaker 5 32:44

Yeah, and then it'll get there by 4am.

Speaker 1 32:47

Go to Fiverrcom and.

Speaker 7 32:51

Well, now there's like IV bag people. Like you can just call an IV bag person. They'll just come and just come and hook you up in at your house.

Speaker 3 32:58

Like it's totally a. Thing like door to be expensive like door dash.

Speaker 5 33:02

But yeah, no, no, no, no. It's expensive, like that's our club sponsor right there, whatever that brand.

Speaker 1 33:08

Ivy bags yeah, they are.

Speaker 7 33:11

I won't warn you because I was curious, because I know that they're supposed to be really good, like for like, getting an Ivy bag can really help like cleanse your kidneys and all that. I was like I wonder how much that is. It's like almost $400.

Speaker 2 33:21

Not if they're our sponsor, but it isn't just like the sailing. I'm sure they do that.

Speaker 7 33:26

But they do have like boosted. That's what we're talking about. Yeah.

Alex: ..."the whole Soviet Union attacked"

Speaker 5 33:32

It's like that's different, I mean it's.

Speaker 1 33:38

It's.

Speaker 3 33:38

Gives you wings.

Speaker 2 33:42

Like good thing.

Speaker 4 33:44

Well, it's just me so.

Speaker 5 33:47

All right, oh wait, are we going to Chicago? Yes, we are.

Speaker 1 33:50

Yes, I know.

Speaker 5 33:52

Are we going to Mallorca?

Speaker 3 33:53

Chicago, I was involved.

Speaker 4 33:55

It always involves, the more it was involved. It's some fun of the night. All right, I'm going to take you on a trip. So my rocket, my bachelor party.

Speaker 5 34:06

OK, yes, the anchor. There's nothing to do with this. My wedding.

Speaker 4 34:10

We did a DIY wedding in Chicago. We drove from LA all the way to Chicago with a full wedding in our SUV and we were exhausted aside from work and just doing the whole DIY wedding and getting everything set up and everything just stacked boom, boom, boom, boom, boom up to the wedding day. Well, we had a rehearsal night and then that night everyone wanted to take me out, all the guys, so we went out. We started at three dots in a dash, which is basically the bamboo club here, the Tiki lounge. So just sugary Tiki drinks just for the first hour Sounds lovely. And then just shots of tequila and everything. I had been up. We drove from LA to Chicago in like almost record time. I had no sleep, I drove straight through, so I was just out of it at that point and just drinking heavily like that After the Tiki room is where everything starts to go fuzzy. Everything starts to go fuzzy. We ended up in a place called the Electric Hotel, which is a nightclub.

Speaker 4 35:18

They my brother got like my brother got like table service and there was one of those stupid giant bottles of gray goose like the sparkler on top that whole thing. Not my vibe, but I just remember just getting fed and I don't remember much after that. I remember getting up trying to find one of my brothers at the bar and I had these really cool, what I thought was cool, like suede shoes.

Speaker 4 35:48

And I was walking through and I'm a very patient guy, but there's just those little things that get me. And I remember walking through the nightclub trying to find my brothers and this giant Russian guy, and at this point lights are out. This giant Russian guy stepped on my foot and I fucking clocked him out, clocked him, knocked him out, his whole, the whole Soviet Union came.

Speaker 7 36:18

So you this is nuts Currently.

Speaker 5 36:21

this is why we're on this Soviet Union. Who knew himself, right or?

Speaker 7 36:26

left and did he black out immediately?

Speaker 2 36:28

I think it was.

Speaker 4 36:28

Putin.

Speaker 3 36:29

Well, I think.

Speaker 4 36:30

From what it was told it was one shot, one kill.

Speaker 1 36:34

Anything you were playing. I knocked him out and one hit.

Speaker 4 36:37

I don't remember any of it. And then they fucking just pummeled me. And then my brother, my brother-in-law came with a look-very goose. It just started dumping it on the Russians. My brother's got involved. I got dragged out. There's a photo of me being propped up against like a note parking sign.

Speaker 2 36:57

Weekend of Brings.

Speaker 4 36:58

Yeah, yes, covered in blommet and bruises. The next day was not the wedding, but Thank God, I woke up. I woke up in Airbnb With a knot on the back of my head and I was told that my brothers and friends couldn't carry me up the stairs to the to the second story of what we're saying and my head slammed in the door. So I had a huge knot in the back of my head. I woke up instantly. Everything out Throughout. I had the shakes all day. My soon to be wife wanted me to go pick up the wedding dress and deliver it to like where she was at with her parents getting ready for the wedding day.

Speaker 7 37:43

My brother-in-law was there.

Speaker 4 37:44

That's the material right there. So I went, yeah, I went. I took an Uber to go get the wedding dress delivered it. I told my brother to come outside to the Uber, handed him a random sighted building and I fucking graffitied the whole building. I was like projectile vomit, just shaking, like shaking.

Speaker 4 38:06

And my wife's parents are very, very, very religious people that don't drink and I was shell shocked to go into that house to be around them that day. And my father-in-law looked at me and he goes oh, you got rocked. And I had never heard this Christian man say these words, the word rocked. And every half an hour I would say I had to go to the bathroom but I'd go out the front door to the side of the building to my same spot. And just, they know, you were there. This poor neighbor who had lived next to this Airbnb just got her flower bed, just like just littered. Her flower bed got rocked. And if you look at my wedding photos, I have a giant knot on the side of my head, I have a bruise under my eye and that's my that's my story.

Speaker 2 38:59

You're gonna see graffiti on the side of your in-laws house and your father-in-laws outside the window and I was like hey, alex, I should have gone to the house walk Because I clearly had alcohol poisoning from shaking that violently.

Speaker 4 39:10

So wow, Besides the violence that you put out, and I've done a lot of stupid shit in college to get to that point too, but that was the last. It's never again.

Speaker 6 39:23

This is the last time you took on the Soviet Union.

Speaker 5 39:26

Yeah, so thank you for your service. Yeah, it's a great story.

Speaker 6 39:29

By the way, yeah.

Speaker 3 39:31

Was it during?

Speaker 6 39:31

winter time, because, yeah, you're not supposed to invade Russia during winter?

Speaker 1 39:34

is that yeah?

Speaker 6 39:36

Yeah, I didn't know that we had an American hero in our club Totally.

Speaker 4 39:42

Cheers guys, yeah.

Speaker 6 39:44

Cheers, gentlemen. Yeah, great stories all around.

Speaker 5 39:46

Oh so many beautiful memories.

Speaker 3 39:48

That was yeah.

Speaker 5 39:49

And heroes, and there's so many heroes amongst us, I had no idea.

Speaker 1 39:54

And to the children out there. This is why you don't drink.

Speaker 5 39:57

Yeah, don't even start.

Speaker 6 39:59

Don't do any of those things To our sons and daughters. Cheers.

Speaker 5 40:04

I mean really, the only lesson I learned was don't drink.

Speaker 8 40:08

Right, don't do exactly what we're doing right now.

Speaker 5 40:12

Or if you do get an IV, that's not how we're aware, but do that Get an IV service? I think is the lesson For farm drill Uber Eats yeah.

Speaker 1 40:21

Uber, eats, yeah, uber.

Speaker 2 40:23

Eats, that's a bear. Oh, right there, that's got some legs, you got it.