Matthew Cox
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's a lot of gay people here.
And then he starts thinking, you can get AIDS from gay people.
This is back in the fucking 90s, right?
Late, late 80s, early 90s.
People wouldn't even drink out of the same cup or water fountain.
You're not going to get, you know.
And he started thinking, these gay people are in the water.
I'm in the water.
I'm going to get AIDS.
I'm going to get AIDS.
And he has a massive panic attack.
To have a panic attack, your body will manufacture situations that are just unreasonable.
And everybody has different versions of it.
And suddenly he starts trembling and he's uncontrollably terrified.
He gets out of the water, goes back to the hotel, packs up his bags.
Immediately he thought he wanted to see his mom.
I want to see my mom before I die.
Goes back, packs up his shit, gets into his car, drives all the way back to Tampa.
Goes back in there, tells his mom and dad what happened.
Never answers the phone.