Raanan Hershberg

Of course. And then you'd be watching the TV waiting for your county to be listed as the one that could be. And you're like, fuck.

We wake them up at, like, farmer times. Like, we wake them up. I used to get up at, like, 5 in the morning like I was a farmer. Yeah. And your parents would just go back to bed. They're like, we don't go. They just get up and then they go back to sleep. I'd be on the bus at like five in the morning. Horseshit.

And then they say we have ADD.

So I got addicted and I ended up.

I think probably like 30 milligrams. Right away? Yeah.

I think. Maybe it was a little less.

Yeah.

First recreationally. Then I got the prescription.

Yes. But then I started taking more and having to buy them off the street. Phew. And then at one point I couldn't get any, and this kid I knew, this kind of bad seed, I asked him if he had any. He had something he said his uncle made. It was like a synthetic drug. Turned out to be bath salts.

greet her at a H&R Block, you know, the tax place. And I just, like, basically had this horrible panic meltdown. Like, it kicked in, and I just thought I was about to die. And when I called my twin sister, I freaked her out. I was like, I think I'm about to die. Goodbye. Then I hung up. And then she called back, and she was like, call the ambulance. They called the ambulance.

My heart rate was at, like, 100 and, like, I don't know. Probably what yours is when you're exercising. But it was fast for me. Probably was normal. There was like 190. Oh my God. And yeah, I totally. That's redlining. It was crazy. Yeah, I almost died. And then I ended up going to rehab for Adderall, which is kind of embarrassing. How hard was it to kick?

You know, I weaned off, which was, if you wean off, I think it's okay. Cold turkey is not for me.

You know, it was just 80 one week.

I think something like that, yeah.

No, no, I was functional. I was annoying. That was the thing. I was annoying.

Yeah, I got really annoying. And it ended up, like, people were just, that's the thing. People think drugs will, you know, I'm not, like, a crazy person, but I just annoyed everyone. Right. And so the intervention was more like, you're really annoying, you talk nonstop. Yeah. And then I got off and it was kind of the same. It wasn't that different. I'm like, no, that's just me.

But I miss it. I mean, I could never do it again. But I miss it. It was great. It was my favorite drug. Because I have, like everyone, I have low self-esteem. And when he did it, it made me just right. I just was so productive on it.

Yeah, because when I write, I mean, I've gotten better at it now over the years, but when I write, you have that voice telling you it's shit and you can't move forward. And the Adderall, this was before I was doing stand-up a little, but writing screenplays and stuff, and the Adderall gave me the confidence to just fucking plow through it. It wasn't all good, but some of it was good.

Pervitin.

Oh, man. That's crazy.