Brings this to mind, after the famous hot tub stream on January 29th with the Imholtes at the end of January, with whom they were swinging and doing cocaine, etc.
Non-specific health emergency was the reason for the cancellation, but he didn't specify who had the emergency:
Here is a complete timeline of what happened with contemporary speculation
Sunday January 28 2024:
Infamous hot tub swinger stream with the Rekietas and Imholtes. This was a STMS member's only show on the Sunday night.
Monday January 29:
Nick does not stream. He does not post any cancellation notice on Locals, as is his usual practice.
Tuesday January 30:
Nick cancels stream, saying that he was sick for the past couple days.
He's sick from the weekend. "Sick".
He says he was so sick Monday he couldn't even write a cancellation message.
Wednesday January 31, just before 10pm:
Nick
announces show will be delayed from his 11pm start time but will be as close to 11pm as possible.
He says he "can't set up the link where I am", suggesting he was away from home.
Wednesday January 31, around 11:30pm at night.
Nick cancels show, because of "a medical issue". A careful parsing of the statement reveals that he did NOT specify that he was the one with the medical issue.
As many people noticed, it was very odd that Nick suddenly had "a medical issue" develop when shortly before Nick was somewhere away from home.
Presented without comment.
Edit, speculation: Ok, so, he was at a place he couldn't set up the link...but now there is a med issue. At 11:30pm?
Ok, you say the medical issue was early; fine. But why was he going to stream then? Why can't he post the link from his whatever, at said med place?
It was noticed that Nick did not specify he was sick in the January 31 cancellation:
I noticed something in the cancellation notice.
"Sorry guys, have a medical issue. It's private."
First thing I noticed when reading that is that he does not specify that HE has a medical issue. This is different from what he said yesterday, when he specifically said he was sick and described some of the symptoms. Either his illness he described in detail suddenly morphed into something that is "private", the sick excuse is just cover for something else, or there's someone else with a medical issue which is private. Rekieta is definitely passive aggressive enough to describe his wife flipping out at him for coming up with the genius idea of streaming drunk from a hot tub flirting with his guests including the man, plus whatever the fuck happened afterwards, as a "medical issue".
Thursday February 1, shortly before show:
Nick
states in his stream live chat
"I've been dealing with a medical issue in my family for 3 days."
Upon going live, Nick held up a bottle of liquor and said he'll do a shot for every $150 in super chats.
Thursday February 1, start of show:
(Video in @Not Who You Think's post quoted at the top of this post, emphasis added)
"I've been dealing with various things over the past couple days, had to cancel a couple shows, I really hate it, but, it is what it is. Last night was a surprise, and I'm not gonna get really into what happened because it's not anyone's fucking business, but basically is fine, everything's okay. I just had to spend the entire night last night making sure that someone was okay. Sometimes that happens when you're a dad and that's how it goes, but everyone's good."
It's important to note that while Nick's comment in chat implied that the "medical issue in my family for 3 days" involved the same person, Nick's comments on Tuesday were not consistent with that, nor was the fact that he implied he was somewhere away from home shortly before cancelling the show due to the family member's medical issue.
My guess was that either Kayla was freaking out over the hot tub stream for the previous three days, OR that the sitting around to make sure that somebody was OK was only the Wednesday night and that the Monday-Tuesday cancellations were something different.
I want to call out the bolded portion. With a normal person, you would assume when reading that that the person was saying that their child was sick. You might be more than a little confused why they spent dozens of words when they could have just said "my kid has been sick for a few days", without giving any more detail than what Nick is already implying.
However, Nick is not a normal person. This is the type of liminal space he likes to operate in where he can imply something without actually lying.