Matt McCusker

You have to do, like, but I wouldn't have never have known otherwise.

My body, like, completely rebelled against me.

Sometimes I feel like they suck at the moment.

Well, not so much the ones on stage, but it was, like, when I started getting anxiety, I was like, man, this is coming out of nowhere.

This is bullshit.

But, like, I wasn't sleeping.

I was drinking almost every night of the week.

I was, like, selling weed.

I was doing all... I was, like... Yeah.

Just had a very... On top of being in college full-time, and, you know, I'd have, like, odd jobs here and there.

So I was just living in, like, an insanely stressful way, and my body was like, yo, dude, like...

whatever this is, no.

And it like, and also too, like, you know, I was so young that like, I didn't really have much empathy for other people at the time.

I was just kind of like, I wasn't like, you know, super mean, but I just was, I didn't really like think about how other people felt at all.

And that was like the first time I got like,

really kind of confronted with, like, I really was, like, broken by it at, like, an early age.

Like, I got so anxious, I stopped going to class.

Yes, that was a huge moment for me to be like... Do you know something?

Yeah, that was a big thing, too, of, like, just being absolutely... Especially when you're a young man, you're like, you know... You're not supposed to be empathetic.

Exactly.