Chapter 1: What does comfort mean to the speaker?
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My name's Nathaniel Smith. I'm from Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Growing up in a small town, a lot of things you get away with that are criminal, but you don't really think of them like that. You're just kind of a kid. You're kind of just breaking the law, I think. It's kind of growing up and sowing your oats. Stuff kids do, set people's houses on fire, stealing their cars.
Yeah, I get into that later, but I didn't think I was really a criminal until I got arrested. But looking back before I came here, I was looking at my life and I was like, boy, second grade, I stole a stopwatch so I could trade it for a pocket knife. I was a thief in second grade. So I started really thinking about it. And I get into like sixth and seventh and eighth grade.
And we're all into trading baseball cards. That's like the big thing in the late 80s, early 90s, right? I'm 44. I was born in 1980. So we had a history class. And in history class, they were showing us how you can take tea leaves and make documents look old, you know, fortune documents, right? Right. So in my sixth grade brain, I think, I can do that with these baseball cards.
At the time, Topps would make a Mickey Mantle reproduction card or a Phil Rizzuto, right? In the 1989 Topps, it was just a throwback. But it looked like the original 1956 Mickey Mantle or the 1951 Phil Rizzuto. you couldn't tell them apart other than somewhere on the back. It probably said reprint, but I take it. And some, I started, I put them in the oven and I burn them a little bit.
And I do the tea leaves. And then I would convince friends at school that they were real. And I would get them to trade that one card for possibly their whole collection. Cause they're thinking they got a $5,000, uh,
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Chapter 2: How does Nathaniel Smith describe his childhood and early misbehavior?
1950s Mickey Mantle, I'll give you everything I got. I actually got two Michael Jordan rookie cards in my collection from back in those days, just from hustling. Right, from trading these counterfeits. Counterfeits, basically. It's funny, I had a buddy of mine who would take... He would take, I guess they, I guess across them and like a hologram, it would say reprint or something like that.
It was like a, whatever, a rookie card or something. He said, you know, he's, he'd order like 10 of them and he is, but you know, it says reprint. Yeah. He would stick them out in the sun. He said, if you do that for, you sit in the sun over the course of a couple of days, you He said, it heats it up so much, and I guess the UV rays lift off the thing, and it starts to crumble.
He said, you basically could just, yeah. Wipe it off. Wipe it off. He said, now I've got, I have a, like, I have a, whatever, I don't know. It's probably the Michael Jordan, because it's the number one counterfeited card out there. And then he would sell them on, he'd sell them on eBay or whatever. It's wrong, you know. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What led Nathaniel to realize he was a criminal?
Into high school, I was always an athlete, played sports, never the best, but good enough, you know, to make the team. But I wasn't a starter on the team. So I always... was involved. I had great parents, both self-employed, both on their own business, both hardworking. Never saw my dad as a kid, except he'd make it to baseball practice, you know, and then he'd end up at a side job at night.
Chapter 4: How did Nathaniel's early experiences with theft affect his life?
I mean, self-made guy, both my parents, hardworking people, great people. Never saw my mom have a sip of alcohol until I was 21 years old. My dad would, you know, indulge. So they didn't raise us with drugs and alcohol were acceptable. We were always taught the normal morals of life. But I always looked for an edge. I always looked for a little hustle. I played golf in high school.
Golf was what I was best at. I probably could have went to college to play golf, but I was a knucklehead. I was a wise guy. I was a little guy. I had a big mouth. I didn't like being bullied, so I would Be a wise guy, you know? And that got me a couple of butt whoopings to learn that hard way. But so I get kicked off the golf team.
Once I get kicked off the golf team, I didn't really care about school anymore. So that's when kind of smoking pot was kind of going around. But I was still like, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. And I got put into a peer pressure situation and I tried it and I liked it. And then so pot became... Big in my life for a long time. I quit school.
I went to work for my dad and he's teaching me the trade. And now, you know, I go from 12 to 15 to 20 and things are good. And I'm learning. Now I'm able that he could send me out on my own. So he makes me a subcontractor. I buy a van and I get insurance and I'm a subcontractor through his company.
and we had some in-house and we had dealt with some subcontractors but he knew for me best way for me to make the most money would be a subcontractor right so that was 2001 2002 i had met my which is now my ex-wife i met her in 2001 she was just getting out of college and starting her job and i was kind of rocking and rolling in the flooring business starting to make some good money things were going good
We fell in love and we bought a house and did all the things you're supposed to do, right? You meet a woman, you get married, have a kid, buy a house. The American dream, right? So they say, I'm making great money flooring. She's a college grad. She's doing well. We buy a house. Things are good. But I'm miserable. I'm just miserable. I never liked the flooring business.
I did it because I thought it was an honorable thing to do. She decided to quit her job, come work for the company, our company, Country Carpet. which was a good idea in hindsight, bad idea working with your wife is too much time. And then when you're off, you're always talking about business. So there's no, you just grow apart personally, but you have a business relationship.
That's what it turned into, unfortunately. And, uh, But we did it. We did it. And we did it very successfully for about five or six years because it was third generation. We had a lot of good commercial accounts that kept us steady. And then all the residential stuff on top of that, you know, was a profit. And I have a sister, by the way, she's two years younger than me.
She wanted, my mom owned a flower and gift shop, beautiful antique store. She had six or seven forests downstairs cranking out. I mean, she was the only flower shop in town. My mom had a tremendous business started from scratch. She was a florist at a supermarket and said to my father, I want to do this for myself. And he went out and built her. a beautiful place.
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Chapter 5: What deal does Nathaniel make with the girls he meets?
So I did the deal with them. I said, I said, give me 20 bucks instead of the 50. I said, and when I leave tonight, I'm going to come upstairs and I'm going to knock on your door and give you your keys. And whatever, whatever. She told me her room number she was in. All right. So 11 o'clock came. It was time to punch out. Me and another guy go up to the room. They're good looking girls.
Everybody wanted to come with me, right? Right. And so we go and knock on the door. They open the door. They're like scantily clad, bottle of Patron.
Chapter 6: What happens during Nathaniel's wild night out?
I'm sober other than the Kratom. Right. Right. They're like, you guys want to do some shots? Like, okay, sure. So they're pouring shots of tequila. And the next thing you know,
all right i mean i nearly never met a drunk i didn't like i was gonna say they they they bamboozled you into it yeah i mean i was forced at this point yeah i couldn't get out so no so no we no no stop it yeah right so yeah we're doing that we actually go through what they have and they're like let's go get more i'm like okay it's a bad idea yeah no i have a car we shouldn't do
no that's my porsche they the girl had a car they had come in so we get in their car and we drive to the slums and we get more and we go back to the hotel and now it's like like three and the kid that was with me knew he wasn't getting anywhere with one girl she had kept saying she had a boyfriend
The other girl and I had a little chemistry and he's like, and he wasn't, and he wasn't, Oh yeah, absolutely. I'm thinking she was, she's in love. Yeah. And I'm in love, you know? So he's, and he didn't do it. This kid was a good kid.
Chapter 7: How does Nathaniel end up in trouble with the law?
He was younger. He didn't do it. He didn't get involved with the COVID. He's like tapping out at three o'clock. He's like, I'm going to go home. I got work tomorrow. Yeah. Buzzy. I can handle this. So he leaves. We finish up what we're doing. I want to say the girl's name was Sarah. That's my sister's name. I want to say that the friend was Sarah. And she said, Sarah has to go to her boyfriend's.
He only lives in Boca. We're in Fort Lauderdale. It's right up on a, a one a she goes, Sarah was drunk and she goes, I'll drive Sarah's car to Boca. You just pick me up, come back, and stay with me at the hotel. I haven't stayed on the beach. So pretty girl in a hotel room looks like a win for me, right?
Yeah, no.
A bed, an air condition. I mean, I don't have to get up and shake the sand off me. I know. I get it. I get it. Your wife would understand. Right.
Chapter 8: What are the consequences of Nathaniel's actions?
But I'm not going to say, tell them, well, that'd be great, but I don't have a car.
Right.
So I'm like... Perfect. You guys go get your car, and I'll meet you. I'll call you when I'm heading up A1A, and then send me the directions. So that was the plan. They get in their car. They head up. I wait. Guy parks the car. I grab a set of keys. Do my thing. Boop, boop, boop. It's an F-150. Great. Four-door, nice. I'm going to look like a pimp. I get in there. I head out.
I'd rather get into a fight with a guy in a Porsche than an F-150. I feel like that guy's 6'2". It's a good chance. Listen to this. This gets even crazier. I need a guy in a tiny little car. This gets even more bizarre. Like, is there a Fiat? Like, is there a Mini? Like, that's what I'm taking. I can take this guy. This is after we finished the blow, and now I've never done any benzos in my life.
Of all the drugs, I've never done a Xanax, Klonopin, none of that stuff. I just never had the opportunity, or it just was never around. So as we finished the Coke and we're getting ready to bring the girl home, she goes, here, take one of these. It will help you come down. And she gave me a Xanax. I don't know what milligram it was, but I just took it, didn't do anything.
15 minutes, 30 minutes, didn't do anything. So we're all doing the thing. She's heading up A1A to bring the friend home. I'm looking for a vehicle. I find one. I'm out. I'm on to A1A. I'm driving. I had like a thousand bucks at the time because I was living on the beach, so everything I had on me. And I was waiting on this big paycheck because they paid us every two weeks.
So I just had to make it to that next paycheck and then I had enough to find a room or something, you know. So I remember I was, the pill must have been kicking in. I remember I had all my money in my pocket.
lap and i had my backpack with my wallet in it on the passenger seat and the next thing i know i wake up and it's and it's smoke and i don't know what happened i fell asleep and the only part of a1a between the westin hotel and boca raton is about two miles from the westin It is a double-lane road.
Nothing, no median in between, except for this 50-foot median about two miles from the west and heading north on A1A. And don't you know that's the... The truck veers into the median, hits the trees, totals... I jump out of the truck, money goes everywhere. I'm like, I'm scrambling for money. People are coming out of their house. Dude, are you okay? What's going on?
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