Bonus #108 - Nick Halkias and Gentleman X [PATREON PREVIEW]

Patreon preview. Unlock full episode at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld Stav’s brother Nick Halkias and a mysterious guest with an unspecified connection to the Halkias family known only as Gentleman X join the podcast to discuss the Halkias Brothers’ childhoods, their most memorable holiday moments, why Eldis has always been an untrustworthy rat, and much more. Nick, Gentleman X and Stav help callers including a housekeeper who’s afraid of a coworker who practices voodoo, and a man who’s concerned that he is a serial rebound. They also take some question directly from the beautiful Stavvy’s World patrons. Follow Nick Halkias and his gym Odyssey Strength and Conditioning on his social media: https://www.instagram.com/nikostrength_ https://www.instagram.com/odyssey.strong 🎟️ See Stavvy live on the Dreamboat Tour 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets 🎥 Rent or buy LET'S START A CULT at https://stavvy.biz/movie ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld ☎️ Wanna be part of the show? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice!

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  Remember when we convinced mom and dad that we were gonna like start a band?

• 0:05Stavros Halkias?

  Oh yeah. There was that Christmas, they bought us all instruments.

• 0:09Speaker 00

  Yeah dude. A drum set and uh-

• 0:12Stavros Halkias?

  A bass and a guitar.

• 0:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 0:14Stavros Halkias?

  We maybe like jammed literally two times.

• 0:17Speaker 00

  Yeah, it was, it was like, I think about it, I felt so bad, it's like-

• 0:21Stavros Halkias?

  I know they're poor.

• 0:22Speaker 00

  They obviously so could not afford those.

• 0:24Stavros Halkias?

  Like, please, please, we're gonna learn music, we promise. And you spend thousands of dollars that you don't have?

• 0:33Speaker 00

  Yeah, I started off with the drums first, George was playing the bass and then you were the guitarist slash songwriter.

• 0:40Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 0:41Speaker 00

  And I was just absolute dog shit on the drums, dude.

• 0:45Stavros Halkias?

  My, I got, I got lessons and I, my fingers were too fat to play guitar. I would get lessons and I could play, obviously Smoke on the Water.

• 0:52Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, the classic.

• 0:54Stavros Halkias?

  The first part of the Godfather theme.

• 0:55Speaker 00

  George was rocking the bass and then George, George took over the drums and he was sick at both of those.

• 1:00Stavros Halkias?

  He was really good, yeah.

• 1:01Speaker 00

  Gentleman X is shaking his head.

• 1:02Stavros Halkias?

  Gentleman X, cause Gentleman, and feel free to weigh in, cause you know us, you know, we're not saying who you are.

• 1:07Speaker 00

  He was more like our manager, like our band manager.

• 1:10Stavros Halkias?

  We'll just say Gentleman X was in the room when this stuff was happening.

• 1:14Speaker 02

  I was outside, I was in the hallway.

• 1:16Stavros Halkias?

  He was in the hallway, but all this checks out, so at any time, if you wanna weigh in, you would, you're just talking as Gentleman X, you won't be betraying who you are.

• 1:28Speaker 02

  He did love, he played the drums for years after. He really enjoyed it, Nick gave him up, uh, he, he, he really got into it. He did the talent shows at the high school he went to.

• 1:43Stavros Halkias?

  Oh. What did he play? Do you remember Gentleman X?

• 1:47Speaker 02

  Oh god, well he was, remember he was 15, so.

• 1:51Speaker 00

  Long, nope.

• 1:52Speaker 02

  Don't judge, but he-

• 1:53Speaker 00

  He did not have long hair.

• 1:55Speaker 02

  Him and his, well-

• 1:56Stavros Halkias?

  George did, Gentleman-

• 1:57Speaker 00

  George did, Gentleman X.

• 1:59Stavros Halkias?

  We won't say what kinda hair Gentleman X has.

• 2:00Speaker 00

  Doesn't matter.

• 2:01Speaker 02

  I've been bald for like, since I was 12.

• 2:04Stavros Halkias?

  Gentleman X is a fully bald man.

• 2:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, someone sprayed acid on my head. Highland Town.

• 2:12Stavros Halkias?

  What? Oh, really? It was in Highland Town?

• 2:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, I threw a rock at a guy's window, thinking I was funny.

• 2:17Stavros Halkias?

  And you got your comeuppance?

• 2:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, it might have been, I don't remember what it was, but he dumped it all over my head.

• 2:23Speaker 00

  Damn, dude.

• 2:24Stavros Halkias?

  I'm sorry to hear that.

• 2:25Speaker 00

  Gentleman X is the victim of an acid attack.

• 2:30Speaker 02

  So anyway.

• 2:31Stavros Halkias?

  So what was George playing?

• 2:33Speaker 02

  So he was a sophomore. There were two seniors. One of them was an ROTC.

• 2:39Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 2:39Speaker 02

  And he didn't have many friends, but he was an, I liked him. He liked him.

• 2:45Stavros Halkias?

  George liked him?

• 2:46Speaker 02

  I was there the whole time.

• 2:46Stavros Halkias?

  You were there, watch.

• 2:47Speaker 00

  Joe Max also liked him.

• 2:48Stavros Halkias?

  Feel free to just, let's just say you're George's representative in this story. So if you want to say, I feel free and everyone understands you're talking about, you're talking as George.

• 2:59Speaker 02

  So they, they decided to play, uh, Alice in Chains.

• 3:04Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 3:05Speaker 02

  What was that song where he screams good?

• 3:07Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, fuck my ass. I'm the man with no cock.

• 3:13Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 3:13Speaker 00

  That's the one.

• 3:14Speaker 02

  And there was a freshman singer and he only did like screamo shit. And he had like purple hair and like fucked up ears because he just pierced them.

• 3:22Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. He had a bunch, he had those gauges.

• 3:24Speaker 02

  He sung terribly and we lost.

• 3:27Stavros Halkias?

  That's tough to do screamo because our high school, which we all went to the same high school, was, uh, 85% black.

• 3:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 3:34Stavros Halkias?

  So you couldn't, you could do some white shit. You could do a rock. You could do whatever, but screamo was a little too white.

• 3:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, too white.

• 3:42Stavros Halkias?

  For, uh, majority black school.

• 3:44Speaker 00

  Crossed the line of whiteness.

• 3:45Stavros Halkias?

  Unless you really killed it and this guy did not, if I have memory serves.

• 3:49Speaker 00

  If I remember this singer, he was also obsessed with like Invader Zim.

• 3:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, he was. He was.

• 3:55Stavros Halkias?

  He was one of those guys?

• 3:56Speaker 00

  Would always wear like a Hot Topic zip up Invader Zim.

• 4:00Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, man. That's a tough guy.

• 4:02Speaker 00

  It was rough, yeah. You know, the other thing I was thinking of is when I figured out Santa wasn't real anymore.

• 4:12Stavros Halkias?

  What year was that? Do you remember how old you were? Do you remember what happened?

• 4:16Speaker 00

  We were like, I think we were the poorest. Like, we hit the poor.

• 4:21Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 4:22Speaker 00

  And like mom couldn't even, like we, she couldn't, and you know, I grew up and I was like, oh my God, they couldn't even afford wrapping paper.

• 4:29Stavros Halkias?

  It was aluminum foil.

• 4:30Speaker 00

  It was aluminum foil.

• 4:31Stavros Halkias?

  Wait, I don't remember this at all.

• 4:32Speaker 00

  So we, so this was-

• 4:34Stavros Halkias?

  We weren't that poor, were we? A little bit of fucking wrapping paper's like, she probably just forgot, dude. The wrapping paper's 99 cents.

• 4:41Speaker 00

  I don't know, Brian.

• 4:42Stavros Halkias?

  We didn't grow up in the Great Depression.

• 4:44Speaker 00

  I don't know, I just remember-

• 4:45Stavros Halkias?

  We weren't Eldis's family, for Christ's sake.

• 4:46Speaker 00

  Eldis was poor.

• 4:47Speaker 03

  We always used wrapping paper, fuckhead.

• 4:50Stavros Halkias?

  See, if they use wrapping paper, we could always afford it.

• 4:54Speaker 02

  Eldis snitched on me, that's why I have to wear this disguise.

• 4:58Stavros Halkias?

  What'd he say?

• 5:00Speaker 02

  He ratted on me.

• 5:01Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, you ratted on who? Gentleman X or George?

• 5:03Speaker 02

  No, Gentleman X, I'm not George.

• 5:08Speaker 00

  I can't believe you-

• 5:09Speaker 03

  What did you rat?

• 5:10Stavros Halkias?

  I can't believe you would snitch on Gentleman X.

• 5:12Speaker 00

  He's been through enough, he's bald, permanently bald.

• 5:15Stavros Halkias?

  He got an acid attack?

• 5:17Speaker 02

  He called the fucking police on me.

• 5:19Stavros Halkias?

  You did, Eldis?

• 5:20Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 5:21Speaker 03

  I've never called the cops on anyone.

• 5:23Speaker 02

  I've had to run away, be a lamb.

• 5:25Stavros Halkias?

  I can't believe that.

• 5:26Speaker 02

  And be fucking hidden, in the shadows.

• 5:28Stavros Halkias?

  Gentleman X would love to show his, he's of course a dear friend of ours that grew up in our neighborhood and was the victim of an acid attack at age 12. He's a real guy. He's not, he's certainly not one of our family members alias. He's just a real guy who's in disguise.

• 5:45Speaker 00

  I've never called the cops to snitch on anyone, and I certainly have never called it on someone who is a victim of an acid attack and was permanently scarred from it. That'd be extra fucked up.

• 5:55Stavros Halkias?

  Have you never called the cops?

• 5:57Speaker 00

  I called them, I think I've called them when like my car was broken into one time.

• 6:02Stavros Halkias?

  I remember that.

• 6:04Speaker 00

  Maybe it was like twice.

• 6:05Stavros Halkias?

  You got your shit, you got your bookbag with your fucking ratty underwear?

• 6:09Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 6:10Stavros Halkias?

  Broken into?

• 6:11Speaker 00

  And like my fucking, uh, old, uh, what was it? The old little Samsung fucking phone charger?

• 6:17Speaker 03

  Did they do anything, like, were they?

• 6:19Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, the cops found his stuff. Immediately.

• 6:22Speaker 03

  Yeah. They're like, oh, you lost the bookbag with your underwear?

• 6:25Stavros Halkias?

  They weren't like, oh, you're some fucking goofy 22 year old fat white guy who got his shit stolen in Baltimore City.

• 6:32Speaker 00

  Officer, officer, help.

• 6:33Stavros Halkias?

  Can you guys help me?

• 6:35Speaker 03

  My backpack was stolen. I left my backpack in the backseat on the Bridge on Maryland Ave. How did this happen?

• 6:46Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, they broke into my shit to take a GPS. That's how fu- I'm dating myself here. But having a GPS, and it was a shitty GPS too.

• 6:55Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:56Stavros Halkias?

  When the neighborhood was half baseheads.

• 7:01Stavros Halkias?

  Seems to be better now. Seems to be less crackheads in Greecity Town.