Alex, welcome to Locked in, man.

Thank you, thank you.

Pleasure having you today.

Thank you for having me, dude.

You're from New York, right?

Yes, New York. And you grew up in New York? Yeah, I grew up in Long Island my whole life. I was born in a town called Smithtown. It was my family lived on the border of a place called Comac, and that's what I was born and raised. Yeah, I worked in Comac for a little bit.

The Whole Foods there.

I kind of hopped around when I was living in Mass of Hequa for a little bit.

Yeah, I think in Comac for a little bit. Really? The Whole Foods there. Oh, cool, cool, cool, cool. I kind of hopped around when I was living in Massapequa for a little bit.

Yeah, I think Comac Whole Foods was like the first Whole Foods in Long Island when they first started coming this way from West Coast.

But then I was born there and then spent most of my childhood and more out east. Okay. Is that a nice area?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, Suffolk County is pretty much, you know, like people don't even

realize is that Suffolk County actually has the most paid cops in the whole entire country.

Really? Yes. So when they come out, fresh out, you know, they're getting paid like six figures

plus like Suffolk County cops. And you have to like score like a 98% like something or whatever on the test to even like be considered.

How do you find out about all those? Are you just interested or? Well, no, it's just common knowledge in Suffolk, you know, just, you know, a lot of people or they feel protected and stuff like that. And, you know, it's number one, the cops. Who do you grow up with? I grew up with my parents and stuff, you know, I had a really, you know, great childhood. You know, a big part of my identity is, you know, my Jewish upbringing. I really owe a lot of like who of my identity is, you know, by being

Jewish. And, you know, I spent a lot of time in Jewish sleepway camp and just growing up in that

kind of environment and, you know, temple and just like, you know, just fun memories of stuff like that.

Or you guys like fully Jewish, both your mom and your death. Yeah. So it's pretty interesting because like, you know, we could trace my family's Jewish lineage for years and years and years. And it's like even funnier because on my dad's side, you know, their parents were Hasidic and, you know, their grandparents were and they were just like, you know what, we're done. We don't want to be acidic anymore and you know we're becoming our own form of judaism and stuff and it was pretty

cool to see you know my family's first iteration of that did you have any siblings oh yeah i have one

sibling uh one brother what'd your parents do for work so my mom she was a nurse she's a nurse

um and then my dad he had a bunch of businesses he started with his brothers and family and stuff.

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