Hey there, Nick's fans. How you doing?

It's your boy Jonathan Macri with you for another episode of the Nix Film School podcast.

We are continuing our honorable mention series for the Nix that were,

that were just on the cusp,

didn't quite make our 25 for 25.

I am here to talk about tonight's almost honoree with DJ Zulo.

Hello, sir.

How are you?

Doing okay.

Doing okay.

Dealing with a little health snafu,

I guess, but managing, you know, hanging in there.

We're going to get into that briefly now before we get it. And I don't know if it's an appropriate lead in to an episode about Alex Birx, but listen.

So you are dealing with a kidney stone?

Yeah.

First one of these things.

Yeah, Sunday.

So we're recording this on September the 17th.

So like three days ago on the 14th, I started to feel like weird like stomach pain. And I'm thinking like, all right, do I have a stomach bug? And back pain started. I'm like, what the hell is going on? Like this was going on. This went out for like three hours from like 10 to like one in the morning. At that point, I'm like, I'm starting to Google. I'm chat, GBT, what is going on? And everything was like, you have a kidney stone, You need to get to the ER. You need medication. So about 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm in the ER. My wife's with me. At this point, I'm pretty much assuming I have a kidney stone. And I'm looking up some things and Reddit threads as we're sitting in the ER room, of like passing the time. And I come along

this article and it's it basically said that a kidney stone for a man is basically the closest

thing to experiencing the pain of childbirth. So I say this to my wife. And she's like,

wow, really that you must be in like so much. And I'm, I'm in so

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