Panic Attack at Gelson's with Writer Brian Finkelstein
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2013
⏱️ 59 minutes
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When Writer/Comedian Brian Finkelstein goes to Gelson's, a simple shopping trip gets complicated. Warning, if you're a deli worker, you may be offended.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Brian Finkelstein and you're listening to Story Maybe, maybe Worthy. I don't know if it's worthy. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to the Story Worthy podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Svign. |
| 0:34.2 | Welcome to Storyworthy. |
| 0:35.8 | My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with... |
| 0:38.0 | Honest Finney, and we're coming to you from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of course, at the St. Mary's Hospital Emergency Room, because that's where I went when I had my first anxiety attack ever, many years ago. |
| 0:52.0 | Really? Wait, they'd sent you to the hospital? |
| 0:54.0 | Well... What? Well, no, I'd sent you to the hospital? Well... |
| 0:55.1 | What? |
| 0:56.0 | Well, no, I was... |
| 0:57.0 | I was... |
| 0:57.8 | Okay, I had an anxiety attack, I think, from smoking weed for the first time. |
| 1:03.2 | And I was just like, oh, my God! |
| 1:05.4 | Now, I remember my brother's crazy and my father's crazy, so I just assumed... |
| 1:10.7 | Yes, they're actually medically crazy. So I just assumed, yes, they're actually medically crazy. |
| 1:12.5 | So I was like, oh, I think I'm crazy. |
| 1:15.8 | Well, the whole point of a panic attack is that you have panic and then you think |
| 1:19.4 | much worse things than are actually happening. |
| 1:21.6 | So the panic exponentially multiplies. |
| 1:25.7 | So I was like, ah, I'm crazy. And then I go when the guy's like, yeah, you're, you know, 17, you smoked weed and you're having a panic attack. And you're here, take this bill and get the fuck out of here. So that was my first time. Is that where we can, is that where you were the St. Mary's, whatever you said, where we're at? Yes, yes. |
| 1:44.5 | It's a beautiful hospital on the east side |
| 1:46.3 | overlooking Lake Michigan. |
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