Wow, 3-4 hours later than the blue collar guys. Poor Nick, dying on the cross for his family.
I think the issue is less that he was complaining about having to leave to pick up one of the darn kids at 9am but more that he said that he had to leave to pick up one of the darn kids in 4 hours right after talking about being drunk.
Let's do some math. That clip (it's on page 2052) is three minutes long and starts at 05:49:00 in the VOD. His stream is scheduled to start at 11pm Central time, but If I'm reading the Rumble UI correctly, Rumble appears to have timed the stream as starting at 11:09pm Central time; adding 5 hours and 49 minutes to that time places that clip sometime around 4:58am Central time. That's just over 4 hours before 9:00am, which comports with Nick's statement. Even if he were to have started on time as scheduled at 11pm, that's only a difference of nine minutes.
The clip below comes from the end of that night's stream, at 06:24:35 in the VOD. That's over half an hour since Nick said he had to leave in four hours at 9am, and around 5:33am if the timing on Rumble is correct. It's well past five in the morning; Nick still has a drink in his hand.
Would you let this man drive your child around three and a half hours after this clip?
When it was discovered Nick had been popped speeding while driving his kid to a speech meet back on a Saturday in April, the morning after a Friday stream I defended the guy. I skimmed through the VOD and argued that Nick didn't appear to be drinking to excess during the stream and there was no reason to believe his drinking was a problem at that time.
Before people speculate, I want to be fair and say that regular viewers would have noticed Nick was acting outside his normal routine for his Friday streams that night. He was not drinking to excess and it looks like he switched to drinking water well before the end of the stream. There's nothing to indicate that his drinking on stream would pose problems for driving later in the morning.
I'm going to try and call a spade a spade here. I think it's fair to point out that Nick was drinking on this stream in May. He looks drunk, he sounds drunk, he says he's drunk at least once during the stream. And he says he has to start driving at nine in the morning because he may or may not need to pick up his kid from a speech tournament again.
I don't think Nick does breathalyzer super chat goals like Ralph does, or at least not yet, so I don't know exactly
how drunk he was. I haven't bothered to count how many drinks he's had. It's completely possible that by 9am his BAC actually wasn't above the legal limit. I'm not an expert on how fast alcohol is metabolized, especially for a heavy drinker such as Nick Rekieta.
Maybe he's playing it up for the camera. I don't know. How could I know?
I'm just saying that between the drinking and apparent lack of sleep - if he went immediately to sleep after the stream ended and walked immediately from his bed to the car, that's still 3.5 hours or less of sleep - I personally would not agree to be a passenger in his car. Not a chance.
I just hope if Nick does something stupid and gets himself hurt he's the only one who is hurt.