WEBVTT - Crazy Mike and High Flyin' Ryan: Bank Robbing Stuntmen? 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:10.920 Elizabeth Zaaren girl not much. It was ridiculous. Oh yeah, 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:12.920 I do you look like your face looks like. 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:14.560 My face is ridiculous? 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:15.320 What's ridiculous? 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.239 Christopher McTaggart rude dude sent us a message on Instagram. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.440 Mister McTaggart, has happened almost ten years ago. Now where 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.200 were you when you heard that Leonard Nimoy died? 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.960 I was, Actually, this is an interesting question. I was 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.360 with missus Leonard Nimoy pillow No. I was helping with 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.120 the grieving process. I'm a minister, Elizabeth. I thought you 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.360 knew that, and my focus is space. So the family 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:45.600 came to me and they said, Zaren, we need you 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.040 to help us with this transition here. I said, space, 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:49.400 it's the final frontier. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.440 You're a death duel and death is the real final 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.000 front is it is? 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.120 So he passed away? I spoiler? 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:57.520 What happened with this? 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.720 Well, there there was already this thing going on in Canada, 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.920 but like his death kind of like right, I guess, 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:12.720 I don't know, is any cling on or something? One 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:17.759 of them he's a little elf, yeah, exactly, So there 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.360 is this thing going on in Canada called spocking spoking. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.080 I don't know. That's what's spocking. 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.240 Spoking is there's a five dollars bill. It has a 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.480 portrait of Prime Ministers Sir Alfred Laurier on it, and 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.640 he kind of looks a little bit like Leonard Meimoy. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:39.520 So people started drawing on the bill a picture, right, 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:40.360 that's really good. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.959 That's better than the bill Murray five dollars bill with 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:43.480 the Lincoln. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.680 Yeah, this will this will be an Instagram story where 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.720 we put the what's ridiculous? But you can see, like 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.720 some of them, he's doing the live long and prosper 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.520 hand and all they do is like give him that 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.480 goofball haircut and like mess with the eyebrows and do 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.080 the ears. Anyway, I think that that's kind of ridiculous, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.640 but it's not illegal. Yeah, you can draw in. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.919 It, but they Canadian money. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:13.520 This is the some bank. Bank of Canada said it's 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:17.160 not illegal to write or make other markings on banknotes 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.040 because neither the Bank of Canada Act nor the Criminal 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:25.200 Code deals with mutilation or defacement of banknotes. But the 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.359 Bank of Canada feels that writing and markings on banknotes 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.480 are inappropriate because they are a symbol of our country 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.160 and a source of national pride. So they're saying, like, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.360 it's not illegal, but isn't there money called the looney 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.400 But apparently, you know, you could try using it and 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:48.880 it could negate its legal tender status, so someone might 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:49.720 not take it. 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.280 It becomes art once you draw on it. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.840 Yeah, and then you can, you know, stick it on 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.000 a wall in charge eight million. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:02.000 Dollars for it. Is ridiculous, Elizabeth, You know what else 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:02.560 is ridiculous? 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:03.640 I would love to know. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.679 Well, Okay, there's this guy named Crazy Mike and he 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.959 that's ridiculous. He's a stuntman. That's not the ridiculous part. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.920 He has a brother, also a stuntman. He's named High 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:15.640 Flying Ryan. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.280 Wait, Crazy Mike and Flying Ryan. Oh, Mama, tried. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.000 Still not the ridiculous part. It looks like it right, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:23.800 it's like right on the face of it, But Nope. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:29.120 To get all the way there will require motorcycles, fire stunts, 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.919 bank robbery, and the FBI. Wow. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:58.040 Yeah, This is Ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.960 outrageous capers, hi and cons. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:05.040 It's always ninety nine percent murder free and one hundred 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:13.120 percent ridiculous. Live Moss, Elizabeth Live Moss. As you know, Elizabeth, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.800 I always wanted to be a stunt man. I talked 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.400 about this like for real, for real, we. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:17.840 Call you an amateur stunt man. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.800 Yes, exactly, because I don't get paid for what I do. Now, 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.280 my heroes in the Blockbuster movies, those who do get paid, 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.320 those in the action films, the guys who always you know, 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.360 they took the real falls, the dudes who actually jump 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.800 from the building or building the building, the crazy cats 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.040 who drive real fast crash cars professionally my heroes, right, yeah, 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.479 And I'm not alone in this because my man Crazy 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.360 Mike and his brother hy flyin Ryan, they felt the same. Elizabeth. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.359 Now you have a brother, I have a sister. We 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.479 both grew up with siblings. Did you and your brother 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.240 Trev ever get into like the stuntman life, Like do 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.360 you ever make crash pads and jump out of windows 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.200 or like every two two of you were like ride 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:54.920 down a stairs in a cardboard box. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.000 Yeah, we did a lot of dumb stuff like that. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.880 We did. We built a BMX jump that was like 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.279 a piece of supply wood and what was elevating the 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.200 one end was like firewood. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:07.640 Oh, lord. Oh yeah, we did that. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.080 Yeah, that's how I broke my wrist. 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:09.960 I bet you did. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.359 And then on like a ten speed Oh. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.120 God, I jumped on it firewood rolls. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.560 Yeah, yeah, and that it does. And we also we 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.279 shared a bedroom we were really young, and uh we 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.320 hit There were these two twin beds and we would 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.880 each jump on them and then jump from one to 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.840 the other in high five in the middle. Yeah, and 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.480 then we broke them and then my mom Yeah, and 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.560 my mom was like, well, now you sleep on a 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.520 broken bed, like it's all slanted, because that's what you know, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.000 that's what you get. So yeah, we did a little stunt. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.480 Yeah right now by my sister, uh, she's younger, so 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.880 she had to come like basically listen to my ideas 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.919 what I came up with. For example, once I asked 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.359 her she had this like a green plastic worm that 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.640 had wheels and she'd push it around because she's barely 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.680 walking at this point, and I convinced her to ride 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:56.960 that down a flight of stairs. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:57.560 Oh god. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.880 Oh yeah. She still talks about it to this day, 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.680 like apparently it's a very formative event for her. The 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.599 infamous steroide with my green worm I'm like, when will 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.839 you forgive me? My point is, Elizabeth, like, when you 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.679 have a brother, a sibling, a sister in my case, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.440 you often can like kind of gin each other up 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.120 in a way. The people without siblings just don't really understand. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.520 They have nobody with a bad idea going we got 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:20.000 to do this. 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.920 Yeah, well, and then you have this just like you know, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.000 you don't worry about getting hurt and that kind of 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.200 My mom always said that we were like bear cubs, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.560 tumbling around and doing crazy stuff. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:31.120 Completely. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:31.479 Yeah. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.520 My mother always called us like insurance risks. That's when 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:36.280 she called us. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:37.960 We spent a lot of time in the ear. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.640 Oh my god, yes, Saturdays in the ear. So you 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.480 and your brother also loved you. Guys were like us 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.560 in this regard. You love the TV show The Fall Guy. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.560 Right reruns of that show. You've told me that you 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.440 you can sing the song? Do you do remember it? 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.440 I remember it. I can't sing it right now. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:54.480 I'm not asking you, but you can sing it, like. 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:59.800 Yeah, this weird talent where either like an eighties t 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:05.520 TV theme song or a song like a eighties, nineties, 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.839 mostly eighties, someone mentions it and then I can just 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.239 start reciting the lyrics. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.360 You're uncanny. I've seen you do it here in h 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.600 Q when you're like someone will like mention a lyric, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:15.880 or you hear a song and all of a sudden 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.080 you just start singing along. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.920 Yeah, I went. I went pretty hard on ice Ice Babies. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.840 But it was a very like intense reading of it. 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.120 Yes, theatrical, very theatrical. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:27.400 No. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.440 Oh, speaking of did you see the new movie version 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:31.040 of The Fall Guy? 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.880 I did not, but I know that, Like I figured 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.200 that was made specifically for you pretty much. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.560 But you know Ryan Gosling, right, not personally, but I 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.680 know of him. Could you favor a little impression of 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:45.480 Ryan Gosling? 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:51.400 Oh? Wow? Okay, yeah, I won three awards for this. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:53.520 Oh. I don't mean to brag on. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:59.560 You, okay, but by Ryan Gostling and I got a 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.120 bright olbrow. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.200 Yeah, I'm glad you called attention to best. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.160 That's all he talks about her is eyebrow. 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.360 See's either that or his abs. I'm like, oh, dude, ibros, abs, 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:11.600 Like where do we put our eyes? 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.600 He's one of the many Ryan's. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.920 So many Ryan's, although few were these days. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:16.320 Yeah. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:17.920 The reason I asked you to do an impression of 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.280 him and the reason I wanted to talk about the 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.840 fall Guy and just being stunt children is I wanted 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.480 to get your mind right for today's story of Crazy 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.920 Mike and High Flying Ryan stuntman brothers. Yeah, crazy Mike 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:30.960 born in nineteen eighty seven. Crazy Mike is not what 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.120 his parents named him. Yeah, it's a stunt man named 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.800 Elizabeth Government named Michael Gaboff. Now. His brother, high Flying Ryan, 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.360 also not what his parents named him. They named him 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.840 high Flying gab Off. No, they named him Ryan gab Off. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.160 Now I was kind of hoping that Ryan wasn't his name. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:52.800 It was like, you know, Flenge, I just want to 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:53.440 be Ryan. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.280 Do you name the products at IKEA? 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:56.040 I do? 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.640 Be real with me? You do? You have such a 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.120 gift for the like I'm to put a couple of constants 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:01.640 together in a. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.600 J just called culture. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.800 Ye'm sorry, Can let me sweat your flow? Now? These 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.839 two cats, the gab Off brothers, high Flying Ryan and 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.679 Crazy Mike, raised in New Jersey, starting out from a 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.800 young age, obviously, they found that they both love to 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.319 pull off heroic stunts, right, crazy dumb stunts, the kind 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.320 you pull when you have a brother close cousin, neighbor, 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.040 someone who's just as crazy as you are. Check out 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.680 their past work. I went and watched a YouTube video 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:27.880 that they had and had a bunch of them when 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.319 they were a kids, because apparently they were of the 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.360 age where they filmed like they had early VHS cameras, 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.360 then later on like you know, digital cameras, so they 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:40.640 just filmed everything, right, So they made this compilation edit 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.640 if you will. But it's also it's a documentary because 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.960 there's a story. I'll get into that later. The but 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.760 the documentary is called Crazy Mike is Dead. No he's not. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.520 But that's the title. It's a grabby title, right yeah, 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.720 right now, Elizabeth. The documentary movie. It starts with a 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.200 disclaimer that YouTube has previously taken down the video because 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.560 said video quote violates our child safety policy. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.480 Whether that happened or not. That's a really great way 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:04.120 to start. 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.600 It off, totally. I mean, that is a marketing they're 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:08.280 trying to keep this. 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.200 Tell you, guys, iHeart didn't want us to hear this 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.040 episode doing it anyway. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.640 Rebels like that. Now, the children at risk in this 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.440 video or obviously crazy Mike and high flying Ryan, right, 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.760 they weren't like getting other kids. Now, this video that 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.960 I watched as thirteen thousand views, so you know, just 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.080 getting good audience but not a huge one. But anyway, 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:31.360 this documentary pretty much recounts not just Crazy Mike's like, uh, 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.599 you know, their childhood, but like it's pretty much his 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.200 whole life. And he's a young guy, so it's not 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:36.599 a like, you know, not it's an hour and a 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.439 half movies when I'm basically trying to point out to 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.040 you good documentary. But mostly it recounts early on how 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:46.040 Crazy Mike High Flying Ryan become these stuntman brothers. Five 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.680 years old. His mother dubbed one crazy Mike because he 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:50.600 was that boy. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.600 Right, his mom's the one who gives she gave. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:52.959 Him the name. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:53.200 Wow. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.640 Yeah, he was always throwing himself down the stairs, off 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.360 the couch, right. And then along comes brother baby brother, 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.520 pretty much the same. Soon enough, it's Crazy Mike High 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.679 Flying Ryan. Now the brothers Crazy Mike, High Flying Ryan. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.719 They also have a big sister, Lindsey. No name for her, right, 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.960 but not that I could find. Maybe we'll call her 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.400 Lucky Lindsay. Alright, so Lucky Lindsay. The way she remembers 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.600 that her brothers were pretty much attached at the hip 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.200 like a pair of can joined twins, is how she 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:16.520 put it. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.400 How far apart in years were they? Do you know? 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:19.880 No, I do not know a couple of years, but 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:21.680 based on how they look, a couple of years, I 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.360 do not know. She also connects that it was their 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.440 father who used to like jump four wheelers and drive 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:28.560 demolition derbies. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:29.480 Oh well it is. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.000 He was the source of the boys crazy, all of stunts. Yeah, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:34.720 and then we cut to footage of the like the 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.959 father who calls himself awesome, allan. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.880 Awesome, his whole family is so good. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.520 So awesome. Alan standing in front of a totally wrecked 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.000 seventy two oldsmobile. He's clutching a trophy right from and 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.520 he's like he's won a demolition derby. And he's telling 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.640 this interviewer for like, I don't know, a public access 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.040 station in New Jersey and like eighty one or something. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.240 It feels great. I'll split this couple six packs from 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.200 my buddies, we'll fix another car. We'll be down here 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.120 at the next derby. 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.080 Can I tell you something? I love a demolition derby? 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:06.760 Same girl, There's so fun. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.840 This is the best I'm surprised to hear you say 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:09.520 that kind of. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.560 I you know the there's one at the Yolo County 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:13.559 four Yeah. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.920 One that no, I know that one the one of 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:16.480 the best. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:17.920 It's so that I have a T shirt. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.480 Do you do you go merch? I do so awesome. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.679 Allen are like demolition derby expert will say, but driver 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.880 really he raises his boys to enjoy motorsports as toys. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.559 So the brothers they ride four wheelers, dirt bikes, motorcycles, 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.640 jet skis. If it goes fast, they want to try it. Awesome. 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.960 Allen's like, get on boys, Hi flying Ryan. He puts it, quote, 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.480 we discovered adrenaline at a young age. Then after that. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:45.959 So you have to keep in mind he's born in 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.079 eighty seven to crazy Mike, So by this point he's 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.520 like at thirteen and when at two thousand, right right, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.160 Everything in two thousand, if you really take a look back, 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.560 was kind of extreme and insane for a thirteen year 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:56.959 old boy. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:57.320 Sure. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.800 For instance, he next gets into backyard wrestling. Oh do 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.040 you know backyard wrestling? Do you remember the backyard wrestling videos? 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:04.400 Yeah? 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.440 Like that. Boys would record videos of themselves like mostly 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.120 like in like Oklahoma, Southern Indiana, right, and some insane 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.680 wrestling moves like off of like a roof for a barn, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.839 and then onto another kid who they would then go 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.000 through like a piece of wood and break it. Yeah, 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.520 maybe like on saw horses, or maybe just a table 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.960 or like their mother's old furniture, a car hood, whatever, 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.240 and they're doing like body slams. One of the kids 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.440 would have like their arm wrapped in barbed wire, right 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.959 jumping off the family home. Oh yeah, that's what a 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.720 backyard wrestling was nuts. 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:33.000 Right. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.480 There'd be a a kid would jump with another kid 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.400 onto like those metal trash cans that kind of you 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.360 can kind of bend and fold right exactly, and then 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.640 they would land on like a bed of broken glass. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.240 I mean it was nuts. Uugh yeah, wait, it was 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:47.160 stupid insane. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.040 This is like the Jackass exactly. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.200 Two thousand, early two thousands, right, crazy Mike, high flying Ryan, 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.280 they go full tilt backyard wrestling dangerous limits. I'm telling you. 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.520 One friend remembered and I quote Mike was one of 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.800 the high usually found Mike going through multiple tables off 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.800 of a roof. Multiple tables, so imagine like those like 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.360 you know, tables for like a an outdoor event, those 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.160 plastic fold up condat just stack three high and then 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.440 a kid jumps off a roof and goes co kung fold. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.480 That's the stuff, right. Another friend he recalled how quote 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.320 you'd see a shed that's fifteen feet in the air 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.360 and it goes without saying, you know, oh god, Mike's 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.640 gonna jump off of this. Of course he did. So 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.760 crazy Mike, he goes full dollar store jackass. Right. He 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.600 starts filming everything he and his friends are doing and 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.400 his brother Hi Falan Ryan are getting into around the 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:35.880 Greater New Jersey area. 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:36.200 Right. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.120 Yeah, So, as I said, this is the same stuff 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.720 that's like the Big Brother videos, the Bammar Jerra videos 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.360 that are like would lead to jackass and the high 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.440 I'm Johnny Knoxville, Welcome to Jackass. 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:50.560 Yeah, I guess Jacks totally familiar with those. I used 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.760 to live with BMX riders. Oh you know this, and 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.160 we would watch I always like when they'd watch videos, 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.720 they'd be like, put on the ones where they all 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.200 crack exactly. Do you like the Dead Sailor? And they yeah, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.920 so I'm familiar with that genre. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.600 I thought you would be so crazy Mike and high 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.800 Flying Ryan. They are doing all these same things teen boys, 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.080 though like the younger version, they're looking up to these 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.560 the other guys who were like older teens and twenty 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.040 year olds. Right, it's all the while Crazy Mike is 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:21.520 also dreaming of fame and stardom in Hollywood, of course. Yeah, right, 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.280 So let's take a little break and after these fresh 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.400 out of the oven ads, Elizabeth, I'll tell you how 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.720 Crazy Mike becomes a real lifestunt man. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:54.080 I love this, and we're back a little Where were we, Mike? 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.680 Oh, that's Hollywood, New Jersey circa two thousand, before we 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.600 get to Hollywood Prime Jackass years more of these oh 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.840 innocent times. Crazy Mike continues to get better as an 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.280 amateur teenage stuntman. Right, there's footage of him doing the 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.880 car flying that I've told you about with my buddy Jay, Right, Like, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.600 I'm on top of a car and someone he Jay 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.000 slammed the brakes and I go flying. Yeah, he created 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:17.720 I could do it a little differently. He would sit 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.760 on the hood of the car, like right up against 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.840 the glass windshield, and then his friend would slam on 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.920 the brakes and you go flying into like a bush 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.880 or whatever, right, a little less dramatic, but I'm like, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.000 it's also more dangerous. I'm like, oh, you don't want 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:30.960 to be okay, you want. 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.880 To Why is that more dangerous than you being on 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:34.080 the top of the car. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.240 Because I would get up going really fast, and then 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.680 when he hit the brakes, I would go flying clear 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.720 of the car. He's basically in front of the car. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.280 They're going much slower. And then when they because he 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.640 doesn't have to go as far right, so I'm essentially 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.880 getting up to a speed. When my friend hits the brakes, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.720 we're separating me in the car. He's hitting the brakes 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.040 and the car's like going twenty miles an hour, so 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.840 like he could kind of fall in front of it, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.760 right right, right, Oh man, That's how I was seeing it. Anyway. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.880 My point is is that, like you know, I would 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.320 superman fly like hands in front of me, like through 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.119 the air, and then I'd hit and roll. He was 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:06.520 just like flinging himself. 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.280 Just what we're figuring out is that you were a 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.440 superior amateur stuntman. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.119 I just I think I studied it more honestly, Like 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.960 I mean, Yakim Uncanna, the stuntman who taught like John 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.880 Wayne how to be a John Wayne like. He basically 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.120 he meets his guy who's this like a real life 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.399 cowboy who's gone down to Hollywood, and he ends up 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.560 becoming a stunt man. First he's an actor, then they 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.159 make the talkies, and so Yaki Muchanna can't make the 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.000 transition into the talkies. Who becomes a stunt man. And 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.080 then you know, John Wayne steals his walk, his look, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.320 his attitude, everything you see that that that hip walk 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.840 that he does, that's all Yaka Muchanna, the way he talks, 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.439 the draw Because John Wayne is from Iowa, he's Maryan Morrison. 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.119 So he goes out there and he basically has to 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.760 become a cowboy. He becomes Yaka mccannon. I studied that 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:54.800 guy when I was a teenager, So I think these 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:59.359 guys were studying Jackass when I was studying the original stuntman. Yeah, exactly, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.080 this one is uh. I like this kid though, right? 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:02.800 He seems fun? 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.680 So what comes next for all crazy Mic? Great question, Elizabeth, 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.879 way to stick with me? Cut to older teen crazy 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.600 Mike jumping off of the roof with a table umbrella 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.000 as his parachute. You know, what what you hold? You 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.880 can push him up right? Yeah, for a backyard patios. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.679 He jumps off a roof, holding that like it's a parachute. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.480 Ain't gonna work, bro, it doesn't work too. Oh yeah, 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.600 it hits him. Cut to Crazy Mike jumping off a 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.399 brick wall onto the hood of a park GMC Jimmy, 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.639 why I don't know, teenage friend of Crazy Mics. He 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.160 would recall how at this point they're filming everything they did, 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.960 so they're this this free floating carnival of pain and 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.000 high jinks. As this friend put a quote, every night, 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.840 either someone was getting hurt or someone was getting arrested. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.719 The cops showed up, Moura, then the people showed up 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.200 like they're inviting people to watch them do stunts in 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.320 a parking lot, and then the cops show up. So 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.880 his brother Hi, Flying Ryan. He also recalled about this 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.399 point in their life that the brothers quote didn't care 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.119 about the law. We knew what the law was. We 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.120 knew what we were doing was illegal. They're bad boys. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.800 Cut Too Crazy Mic throwing a rock through the windshield 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.680 of a big yellow earth mover. Cut Too Crazy Mic 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.240 riding a BMX bike naked with just a ballaklava face mask. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.240 Right back to high Flying Ryan. We didn't care about anything. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.320 We didn't care about anyone. We didn't even care about ourselves. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.600 No kidding really, for real, heart, what. 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:30.360 There is that attitude like that? I lived with. Yes, 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.400 I drove to the er a bunch of times. 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.440 Let's go get stitches. Yeah, but it was like. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:36.479 You didn't fear that. 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:37.479 They didn't think that. 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:37.800 Yeah. 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:42.080 No, pain is like good skaters BMX bike the guys 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.600 who crash a lot. The pain you realize doesn't really 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.399 hurt if it's not like the back of your head. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.760 You know, some things really do hurt. A lot of things, 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:50.199 just like I gotta go get that research. 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.840 It's worth it for the experience of doing. Yes. 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.119 Now, these brothers also they love to compete because they're brothers, 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.240 all right. So they're scrapping and wrestling and fighting, but 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.280 they also get into boxing and fistfighting, always trying to 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.400 outdo each other. The only thing that seems to really 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:06.480 bring them together is the stunts. Like, you know, everything 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.120 else is like this brotherly like antagonism. Now, in two 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.639 thousand and three, a teenage spiky haired crazy Mike he 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.600 looks like at this point, the singer of crazy Town, 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.720 the guy did that song Butterfly, right, Yeah, like when 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.120 they were young, Like yeah, just like it's like. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.720 He looks like he's early on the bill on a 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:25.280 warped tour. 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.080 Yeah, and exactly early on the bill on warp tour 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.480 is exactly what Crazy going for too, Yeah, exactly. It's 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:35.480 Sonny out and hot. So this guy Crazy Mike. He 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.320 says it in two thousand and three about his high jinks, 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.480 and I quote, I just do stunts because I like 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.280 doing stunts. If I see a good roof to jump 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.960 off of, into a good tree, into a good pool, 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.639 into a pond, or even with my bicycle, I'm gonna 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:56.679 do it because just because it's there now, Elizabeth, you 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.640 may recall this is exactly what Sir Edmund Hillary said 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.680 about climbing Mount Everest. But he was a first Western 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.560 to climate back in nineteen fifty three. Folks asked him 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.720 why would he want to undertake such an insane challenge 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.840 to climb a mountain whose peak is higher than the clouds. 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.840 Then Sir Edmund Hillary said, because it is there now, 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.440 Except he didn't really say that. I looked it up 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:22.400 it's actually a different climber, George Leigh Mallory, who said 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.960 in the nineteen twenties, but he also never made it 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:26.919 to the summit because he disappeared on Everest. 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:31.119 Because they have lady surnames, they get exactly so people anyway, 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.080 point is just like a great heroic and famous mountain climber. 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.000 My man crazy Mike is also compelled to do something 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:41.240 simply because it's there. Now. The fact that something exists 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:43.439 is enough to compel them once again to do battle 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.520 with gravity. So fellow stunt man Leroy Patterson wanted to 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.359 put it in more elevated terms. He said, and I quote, 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:51.000 I like to thank them. We're all cut from the 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:53.720 same cloth, all the stunt people. You know, we do 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.520 what we do for a reason that most people don't understand. 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.200 I understand, Elizabeth. I'm one of those rare folks. And 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:01.720 I gotta say I agree with him. You kind of 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.520 nailed it before. There is a sensation of feeling. Yeah, 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:07.719 the adrenaline junkie thing is true. But the one thing 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:10.000 that killed me watching all the old footage of teenage 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.239 crazy Mic and hype flyinge Ryan is how bad they 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.120 were learning from their past failures. 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:15.399 Oh that's frustrating. 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:17.439 They don't get any better. They just keep doing the 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:20.959 same dumb thing. It's driving me nuts watching it. I'm like, guys, guys, 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:24.160 it was painful to watch, Like you wouldn't be able 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:26.240 to watch the footage, like the way you know your 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:27.480 sympathetic system. 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:30.280 And like the thing is, when I was younger, I 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:34.160 didn't have that problem. I loved watching the BMX stress videos. 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:36.439 I thought they were amazing. And then something happened. 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:38.359 You became sensitive to life, things became real. 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:40.840 Yeah, and then now if I see those, I get 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:41.880 the pains in my legs. 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:46.640 I can't watch your brain finished developing. That was it, 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.440 you know, those sympathetic pain reactions you get to watching this, Yeah, 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:52.240 you would have been vomiting on like on the floor 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:53.560 by seven minutes into this video. 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:55.720 It was so many things, so. 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:58.160 Crazy, Mike, high flying Ryan. They just to keep they say, 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:01.040 they keep doing just the worst and stunts ever, like 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:05.840 zero safety protocols in mind, but total commitment, commitment, slim 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:07.680 margin of error too. It's got to like you gotta 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:10.080 right there, like if they if they miss, it's just 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:11.399 like there's nowhere else to hit. 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.760 Well, And if they're not honing their technique. That's terrifying. 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:17.120 Oh god by So by the way, as I said earlier, 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:19.800 like they're a slim margin of error and there's zero 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:23.760 safety protocols. They're crash pads. They would always be improperly placed, 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:25.879 like to do any real help. So it'd be like like, 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:28.119 for instance, their flight passed, like when they're planning how 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:30.200 they're going to jump, the flight pass are almost always 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:31.879 straight down, Like they jump out of a window and 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:33.560 go straight down. Like if I jump out of the window, 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.320 I'm able to get like ten twelve, fourteen feet please, 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:38.520 so I can hit and roll and spend some of 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:41.359 that energy from the drop they do physics, They just 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:43.840 drop straight down. That's a great way to break an ankle, right, 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:48.240 which they do, so they just get They break elbows, ankles, denting. 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:49.080 It's crazy. 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:52.359 They have all the bones. I've broken. The nickel is like. 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:54.159 That's a bad one, the worst. Yeah, yeah, well you 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:57.440 breaking knee. That's also a real past just located. But 0:23:57.440 --> 0:23:59.159 there's some other ones. Yeah, your brother can tell you 0:23:59.160 --> 0:23:59.480 about that. 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:01.639 One, right, Travis dislocated his hip. 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:05.439 Yeah, but he's got My advice to these brothers, if 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:07.160 you're going to pick a fight with gravity, you gotta 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:09.200 spend some time in the dojo, you know, like they 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:12.120 do not, but they give a luck in young bones 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:14.199 to carry them through, which I've been there, I've done that. 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:17.760 But eventually anyway, Hey, there's this one footage. Oh my god, 0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:19.879 I wanted to tell you about this. Okay, this is 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:22.760 a perfect example. Cut to some friend of theirs driving 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:25.639 a quarter pipe down a suburban street. And by driving 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:28.679 a quarter pipe, I mean they're pushing it with a car, right, 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:31.880 And then you see crazy Mike driving a riding rather 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:34.600 a dirt bike at the ramp and he launches himself 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:37.320 over the car. Now do you think he lands it? 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:40.320 Of course doesn't land it just bails hard on the 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:42.000 street once again straight down. 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:43.920 Doesn't like there's no landing plan. 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:47.040 No, no, no, just like jump the car and can 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:47.639 I do this? 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:50.160 Yeah? We talk about this with criminals. They don't think 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:51.479 about the other side of it. 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:56.640 How do I land this and keep all my teeth? Yeah? 0:24:56.680 --> 0:25:01.720 So he went at speed toward a a quarterpipe. 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.360 Had a quarter pipe between them. Yes, hit the quarter 0:25:04.480 --> 0:25:07.160 pipe goes over it. Now cut the crazy mic Ice 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:09.760 skating the street by hanging off the driver's side door 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:12.359 of a pickup truck, just on his shoes. There's no ice. 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:16.760 Just seeing those videos like Saury Arabian, Yeah, the Gulf States, 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:18.720 they can do it. They figured it out. They're hanging 0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:20.520 off cars that are on two wheels on that angle. 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:22.320 They're doing all all sorts of stuff. 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:23.440 I do like those videos. 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:25.920 Oh my god, yeah them I a video and they're 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:28.560 they're sitting there like respecting the physics. You watch it. 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:31.000 They're balancing their low. It's amazing stuff. 0:25:31.040 --> 0:25:33.600 That was the last like m I a that I 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:35.639 listened to. She's gone crazy all. 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:38.480 The way off the deep end. Yeah so uh Elizabeth, 0:25:38.720 --> 0:25:40.720 As I pointed out the stunts, they bothered me because 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:43.440 he never seems to learn from them. It's just over 0:25:43.520 --> 0:25:45.359 and over again. He won't even learn from nature, like 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:47.359 the one of the Capitol End. Like I'm like, Naser 0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:48.000 won't allow. 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:48.199 You to do this. 0:25:48.320 --> 0:25:50.840 Like there's there's an example a right cut to crazy 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:53.399 Mike jumping a BMX bike off of the roof of 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:57.560 a school. It looks like down onto frozen wintertime grass. No, right, 0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:00.840 there's no know something about frozen wintertime grass. The soil 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:02.960 is going to be hard. There's not like the springy 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:05.160 grass of the summer where it's moisture in there from 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:08.359 the rains. In said, you got basically concrete with lighting. 0:26:08.440 --> 0:26:13.040 It's the heavy sliding. I've seen guys ride BMX. 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:14.800 You know school, Yeah, you know how to land those things. 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:18.199 You can't do it on icy downhill grass. Do you 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:21.480 think he lands it? Of course doesn't land in Elizabeth, 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:24.280 and Steady snaps an ankle, rolls down the hill and 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:27.280 then the bike ragged alls away from him. So Elizabeth, 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:29.679 consider the inspiration, like if you're going to do this 0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:31.040 kind of stuff, like if you're going to jump off 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:33.000 a roof or jump off a car, you gotta considered 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:35.840 nature right right. The flying squirrel shows us how to 0:26:35.920 --> 0:26:38.520 negotiate the air as a mammal with the wings, you 0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:41.960 have to spread out, get get as much resistance air resistance, 0:26:42.000 --> 0:26:45.159 going spot your landing, and then hit and roll. They 0:26:45.160 --> 0:26:46.600 don't hit and roll, but that's us. We have to 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:49.000 hit and roll this guy. He just goes up and 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:49.720 then comes down. 0:26:50.400 --> 0:26:53.520 But you're a good amateur stunt man because you're very 0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:57.040 nimble and you have good spatial awareness. And it sounds 0:26:57.080 --> 0:26:59.200 like they do not no, no, like they. 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:01.720 Do like backflips off the roof onto a pile of snow. 0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:04.520 Then so then sometimes they go rotate too far, hit 0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:07.040 their face. They jump straight down, as they said, out 0:27:07.080 --> 0:27:09.240 of second story windows. I mean, yes, I know you're 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:11.399 a kid, but you're also doing hundreds of stunts, like 0:27:11.440 --> 0:27:13.480 you've got to learn from some of these. Don't you 0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:17.120 two idiots learn anything? Yeah, I mean you've crashed through tables, ladderfalls, 0:27:17.119 --> 0:27:20.120 window jumps cars, and then they end up bruising ribs, 0:27:20.119 --> 0:27:24.879 twisting ankles, concussing brain pants. No learning occurring anyway. But 0:27:25.440 --> 0:27:27.880 eventually the law enters the picture and they're like, we'll 0:27:27.880 --> 0:27:29.879 help you learn a lesson. So now you see, not 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:32.560 only with crazy Mike filming all his bone jarring escapades, 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:36.000 who's also recording his and his friend's juvenile suburban crime spreeze. 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:39.240 Then they would edit them together, videotape, yell all their stunts, 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:41.520 their pranks, late night crime sprees, and they would sell 0:27:41.560 --> 0:27:42.479 them at school. 0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:45.560 Oh good, as Elizabeth didn't take. 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:47.960 Long for Crazy Mike's home movies to become the must 0:27:47.960 --> 0:27:50.280 have item at his local New Jersey school. That's kind 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:52.560 of amazing, right then, that gets the other kind of attention. 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:55.040 School administrators hear about it, They learn about the tapes, 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:56.920 and then one gets handed over to them. They handed 0:27:56.960 --> 0:27:59.919 over to the police, as high flying Ryan remembers it. 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:02.919 Of course, the tapes got into the wrong hands, and 0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:04.879 the next thing you know, the police are at the 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:09.159 school taking us all into separate rooms, interviewing us because 0:28:09.160 --> 0:28:11.879 they saw stuff that young people shouldn't be doing. 0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:13.840 Crime. 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:21.200 It's like young Elizabeth holding the tape being like, I feel. 0:28:22.640 --> 0:28:25.680 I have to save them from themselves. One of them's 0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:26.240 gonna die. 0:28:27.560 --> 0:28:27.919 Clerk. 0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:31.320 Yeah, I mean you need to see that the video 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:35.600 power nerd and away, but protecting your people exactly. So, 0:28:35.840 --> 0:28:37.800 once they document their crimes and then pass out the 0:28:37.840 --> 0:28:41.440 evidence to their friends' entertainment, boom. Now the family has 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:43.959 to hire a lawyer because the gay Bop brothers are 0:28:44.040 --> 0:28:46.400 charged with in decent acts due to one shot, which 0:28:46.440 --> 0:28:48.600 I assume is the one shot off crazy Mike streaking 0:28:48.600 --> 0:28:52.280 a basketball game. You're gonna be a sexual offender. We're 0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:53.480 gonna put you on the list and stuff. 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:54.520 They know. 0:28:55.400 --> 0:28:57.120 But they did then they that's what. 0:28:57.040 --> 0:28:59.440 They say, saying. Yeah, but like back in the day, 0:28:59.480 --> 0:29:01.680 they didn't. They didn't charge street. 0:29:01.560 --> 0:29:03.200 No, no, so they did not, you're right about that. 0:29:03.200 --> 0:29:04.800 They kick him out of school. Yeah, so then he 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:06.720 has to go to five different schools in a four 0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:08.959 year period. They just keep kicking him out of schools. 0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:12.640 He's poor month oh yeah, oh yeah. So after high school, 0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:14.840 Crazy Mike is finally free to go after his dreams. 0:29:15.000 --> 0:29:17.280 Now he can go to Hollywood, get into the pictures. 0:29:17.280 --> 0:29:21.000 He's well trained. Yeah, he plans to become a real, 0:29:21.120 --> 0:29:23.280 full fledged stuntman. But so, but first he's gonna go 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:25.240 to film school because he realized that's important. He wants 0:29:25.320 --> 0:29:27.920 to make movies. So the first time ever he excels 0:29:27.960 --> 0:29:31.680 in school. He's doing what he loves, movies, stunts, filming everything. 0:29:31.760 --> 0:29:34.720 No police are getting mad at him. He's a professional daredevil, 0:29:34.720 --> 0:29:37.560 basically a film producer or real life stunt man. He's 0:29:37.600 --> 0:29:39.840 doing it. So he and high Fly and Ryan they 0:29:39.840 --> 0:29:44.840 start we play crazy productions. Okay, we play crazy Elizabeth. 0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:48.280 They filmed stunts, extreme sports, anything that can kind of, 0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:51.160 you know, excite an audience. And then they make these 0:29:51.200 --> 0:29:54.280 videos and they catch the attention of their industry. One producer, 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.600 this guy, Steve Schlitz or Schliz, He recalls me, first 0:29:57.640 --> 0:30:01.360 saw crazy Mike's videos, and I was like, this guy's 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:06.440 a maniac. I mean, Katie's definitely crazy. Crazy. Mike definitely 0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:09.120 stands out of a crowd. Right, So that's his impression. 0:30:09.160 --> 0:30:10.840 He's making industry name for himself. 0:30:10.920 --> 0:30:11.120 Right. 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:13.400 Cut too crazy mic saying he's gonna do a backflip 0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:16.160 on a dirt bike. He guns the throttle, races a 0:30:16.200 --> 0:30:20.640 poorly constructed and oh badly placed ramp, rolls off the ramp, 0:30:20.640 --> 0:30:23.360 does the backflip. Does he land at Elizabeth? No, doesn't 0:30:23.440 --> 0:30:25.840 land it. The dirt bike comes down, smacks him in 0:30:25.840 --> 0:30:27.520 the head. He lands on top of a pile of 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:29.680 dirt and the bike lands on top of him. The 0:30:29.680 --> 0:30:32.120 brand Echo Seasons are like, this guy, he's great, he 0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:34.200 gets attention, so they sign him to be a content 0:30:34.280 --> 0:30:37.120 creator for them. Oh, he starts producing videos of him 0:30:37.120 --> 0:30:40.280 and his buddies from We Play Crazy. Right. So, imagine 0:30:40.280 --> 0:30:43.800 two young dudes dressed as like college football mascots running 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:46.760 around in a field in you know, America, except they're 0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:49.640 also on fire and they're running to a pond to 0:30:49.680 --> 0:30:52.080 be able to put out the fire. That's a crazy 0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:52.600 mic joint. 0:30:52.680 --> 0:30:55.600 I feel like I feel like Johnny Knoxville has like 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:58.600 a cease and desist in his pocket for this. 0:30:58.960 --> 0:31:03.360 Yeah, they're doing the waves. The wave is so great 0:31:03.400 --> 0:31:06.080 though that people at this point they're not gonna end. Yeah, 0:31:06.120 --> 0:31:08.920 because also Jackass was kind of an imitating imitation of 0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:10.320 some stuff that was going on in the culture and 0:31:10.360 --> 0:31:14.200 skateboard videos, so it was a culmination. But so they're like, oh, 0:31:14.240 --> 0:31:17.040 this is just the culture, right, and there they are 0:31:17.160 --> 0:31:20.800 the like w c W wrestling to WWE, they are 0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:24.000 the bitter. But it's all just a little bit exactly so. 0:31:24.360 --> 0:31:26.640 And also, as I said early two thousands, right finger 0:31:26.720 --> 0:31:28.640 on the pulse of this zeitgeist. He has got it. 0:31:28.680 --> 0:31:30.720 I mean when you watch his videos, if I played him, 0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:33.200 you could just hear the corn and Limp biscuit playing 0:31:33.240 --> 0:31:35.959 over the video at it. Yeah, right, Like do you 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:39.959 like a good God Smack soundtrack, Cause they've got you covered. 0:31:41.120 --> 0:31:43.960 So at this point, Crazy, Mike, Hyfelin, Ryan, the rest 0:31:44.000 --> 0:31:46.680 of them we played Crazy crew are showing up on 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:50.880 late night clip shows right of the lesser legacy broadcasting 0:31:50.920 --> 0:31:56.800 companies like upn Spike, Spike TV. Right yeah, right, so 0:31:56.800 --> 0:32:00.360 they make it also eventually onto MTV's ridiculousness very fit, right, 0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:02.640 They got some clips former skater Rob dry Deck, who's 0:32:02.680 --> 0:32:04.840 like runs that he has about the same reaction I 0:32:04.880 --> 0:32:07.680 do to seeing a Crazy Mike stunt and his safety 0:32:07.720 --> 0:32:09.840 prep for it break. I'm not sure if you know 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:11.479 the show, he'll had like a panel of gas. Right, 0:32:11.560 --> 0:32:13.880 they do a clip right, so he's got this panel 0:32:13.920 --> 0:32:16.040 of guests the studio audience. Rob plays a clip of 0:32:16.160 --> 0:32:19.440 Crazy Mike jumping a motorbike off of the steep embankment 0:32:19.480 --> 0:32:22.760 into like a red clay ravine. Rob Drydeck is like, 0:32:22.800 --> 0:32:25.080 here we go, We're just out here and boom we 0:32:25.160 --> 0:32:27.440 see Crazy Mic gun it off the edge. Then he 0:32:27.520 --> 0:32:30.760 ditches the bike in midair as is his way. Then 0:32:30.800 --> 0:32:33.200 he plummets and crashed lands and what looks like a 0:32:33.240 --> 0:32:35.640 mound of like I said, just earth like it looks 0:32:35.680 --> 0:32:37.440 like tailings from a mining operation. 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:37.920 Yeah. 0:32:37.960 --> 0:32:40.920 Little John who's on the panel all of the ridiculousness, 0:32:41.160 --> 0:32:45.360 he's watching this with stuned disbelief, like, oh no, right, 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:47.800 and then Rob dry Deck is like, there's no water, there, 0:32:47.960 --> 0:32:51.000 there's no sand, there's no foam pit, there's no girls, 0:32:51.040 --> 0:32:54.160 there's no nothing, right, none of the fasts. 0:32:54.560 --> 0:32:58.360 He's gonna land on a pile of girls. No sand, 0:32:58.440 --> 0:33:01.040 no foam, no pile of girl. 0:33:01.160 --> 0:33:05.240 They're kind of softly eight year old girls. So none 0:33:05.280 --> 0:33:07.719 of these facts top Crazy Mike. Not even gravity can 0:33:07.720 --> 0:33:09.840 stop them. So what do they do now? These guys 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:12.280 they make movies. Of course. Their first movie is called 0:33:12.440 --> 0:33:13.360 Hella Crazy. 0:33:13.880 --> 0:33:16.440 Oh yeah. At this point we're in box office success. 0:33:16.480 --> 0:33:19.400 Two thousand and six, big full on Bush ears like 0:33:19.640 --> 0:33:23.360 very America WWE is huge. To put it in musical terms, 0:33:23.360 --> 0:33:26.240 Elizabeth missed. New Booty by Bubba Sparks is at the 0:33:26.240 --> 0:33:27.240 top of the music charts. 0:33:27.280 --> 0:33:28.040 Oh my god. 0:33:28.720 --> 0:33:32.440 Only bigger hit that year is Crazy by NARLS. Barkley. 0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:35.000 Oh no, yeah, so just look at. 0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:36.160 Your mind, right yeah, so. 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:38.600 What a terrible, terrible time. 0:33:38.720 --> 0:33:44.840 A more innocent nation. Kind. So their movie Hella Crazy, 0:33:44.840 --> 0:33:46.680 which is just a super cut of all their craziest 0:33:46.680 --> 0:33:49.680 stunts and fails it. It's edited to a new metal soundtrack, right, 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:51.520 so it fits right in there. It's a hit. Now 0:33:51.640 --> 0:33:54.240 like at the box office, they're selling DVDs online in 0:33:54.360 --> 0:33:57.120 independent stores, skate shops, some music shops, head shops, that 0:33:57.160 --> 0:33:59.320 kind of place. But two thousand and eight, Hella Crazy 0:33:59.400 --> 0:34:01.320 is sold so well well enough that they secure a 0:34:01.360 --> 0:34:04.920 distribution deal to put their DVDs now in Target, Circuit City, 0:34:04.960 --> 0:34:09.160 best Buy, Barnes and Noble will sell Hella Crazy. Elizabeth. 0:34:09.440 --> 0:34:12.480 Oh yeah, they move enough units to make Hella Crazy 0:34:12.520 --> 0:34:15.680 two still crazy. Okay, I added that last part it's 0:34:15.680 --> 0:34:18.839 just called crazy two, but that one also a financial hit. 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:21.200 So they make Hella Crazy three crazy as I want 0:34:21.200 --> 0:34:24.839 to be again last part. Guy added that finally Hella 0:34:24.880 --> 0:34:28.200 Crazy four to Hella too Crazy thing again. 0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:28.400 Me. 0:34:28.560 --> 0:34:31.960 Sorry, but I can't help myself. The series gets some heat, right, 0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:35.959 infamous publisher of Hustler magazine, Larry Flint. Yeah, he sees 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:38.200 the work. He gives some praise. He calls Crazy Mike's 0:34:38.200 --> 0:34:42.319 work it's like Jackass on drugs. I think he met 0:34:42.320 --> 0:34:45.160 that as a compliment. Anyway. The extreme sports fans, the skaters, 0:34:45.160 --> 0:34:47.600 the pop punk kids, what's left of the new metal crowd, 0:34:47.640 --> 0:34:50.160 even the new emo kids, they all love Hella Crazy. 0:34:50.400 --> 0:34:52.440 Anyone who's like, oh I love backyard wrestling. This is 0:34:52.440 --> 0:34:55.080 like backyard wrestling but even better. Yeah, so they go 0:34:55.200 --> 0:34:57.200 nuts to watch Crazy Mike put it all out there 0:34:57.239 --> 0:34:59.160 for the fans. Elizabeth. There are so many clips that 0:34:59.160 --> 0:35:02.640 would have made you empathetically vomit. We'll get into the clips. 0:35:02.719 --> 0:35:06.839 Just imagine they're hell crazy. So anyway, Crazy Mike he's 0:35:06.880 --> 0:35:08.319 on the come up pretty soon. It's going to be 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:11.080 full on like Jimmy Cagney and White Heat, like Crazy 0:35:11.080 --> 0:35:13.879 Mic out there made him up top of the world. Right, 0:35:13.960 --> 0:35:16.000 he's getting really cocky at this point, right, he's getting 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:17.560 really loud. He's trying to get a lot of attention. 0:35:18.040 --> 0:35:19.960 They start showing up on like Doctor Phil. 0:35:20.719 --> 0:35:21.839 Wait, yeah, you can't. 0:35:22.000 --> 0:35:23.880 You remember he's doing he's selling clips. People are starting 0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:26.160 to become aware of him. So, yeah, can you get 0:35:26.160 --> 0:35:29.799 anything more early two thousands than Doctor Phil. Let's take 0:35:29.800 --> 0:35:31.480 a little break. I'll let you think about that. When 0:35:31.480 --> 0:35:33.600 we get back. I'll tell you why he was on 0:35:33.640 --> 0:35:57.560 Doctor Philka all right, Elizabeth, I promise you Doctor Phil. Yeah, 0:35:57.600 --> 0:36:01.279 all right, picture the Doctor Phil set crazy spiky hair, right, 0:36:01.560 --> 0:36:05.279 blonde tips. Doctor Phil has them on for a public intervention. 0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:09.279 We're gonna stop Crazy Mike. That's the call. Doctor Phil 0:36:09.320 --> 0:36:12.080 has experts on doctors to try real doctors to try 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:14.600 to convince crazy Mike to stop doing his crazy stunts 0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:17.000 and wrecking his body. Okay, because I also, I would add, 0:36:17.040 --> 0:36:19.240 because you're bad at them. Yeah, but in his own defense, 0:36:19.280 --> 0:36:22.520 crazy Mike tells the audience and specifically doctor Phil, how 0:36:22.560 --> 0:36:25.160 do I getting hurt? You know? Like, I mean this, 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:27.960 this makes me happy. It's like a drug. Stunts are 0:36:28.000 --> 0:36:30.120 like a drug to me. It's like it's my cocaine. 0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:32.879 I need it to do it to live. I need 0:36:32.920 --> 0:36:37.400 that adrenaline rush to live. I try to take safety precautions. Yeah, 0:36:37.440 --> 0:36:40.840 I might not be professional, but I'm taking safety and 0:36:40.880 --> 0:36:44.719 precaution now, Doctor Sphil says in a sarcastic way. Yeah, 0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:47.640 we all saw the safety protocols with the vending machine 0:36:47.960 --> 0:36:49.960 right now. The vending machine. It was this super viral clip. 0:36:50.040 --> 0:36:51.960 It's why he's on Doctor Phil. Crazy Mike does a 0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:54.520 backflip off of a vending machine. But get this, he 0:36:54.520 --> 0:36:56.200 doesn't landed, Elizabeth. 0:36:55.800 --> 0:36:56.600 Oh you're kidding. 0:36:56.600 --> 0:36:59.080 He smacks the hell out of his face against the pavement. Ah, 0:37:00.160 --> 0:37:03.080 this brain genius does the same stunt again, and get this, Elizabeth, 0:37:03.080 --> 0:37:06.239 Crazy Mike didn't land it again, but he did yet 0:37:06.280 --> 0:37:08.640 again smack his brains against the concrete and then he 0:37:08.719 --> 0:37:10.960 knocks himself out. So this viral video lands him on 0:37:11.000 --> 0:37:13.759 doctor Phil for the public intervention, and again in his 0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:16.160 own defense, Crazy Mike tells Doctor Phil, in order to 0:37:16.200 --> 0:37:19.080 be old and wise, first you have to be young 0:37:19.200 --> 0:37:23.280 and stupid. So Doctor Phil's rebutted, well, that's just stupid. 0:37:23.600 --> 0:37:28.279 So around the same time, DVDs they stop selling, right, 0:37:28.440 --> 0:37:31.240 just as a market now because people can illegally download 0:37:31.280 --> 0:37:34.080 Hello Crazy three and Hello Crazy four for free online. 0:37:34.160 --> 0:37:35.799 So what's the crazy Mike to do? 0:37:36.400 --> 0:37:36.919 I don't know. 0:37:37.280 --> 0:37:39.720 Takes his act to the people. They start doing live events. 0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:42.839 Cut to Girls Gone Wild style footage, but young men 0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:45.840 doing violence to their own bodies, calling it stunts and pranks. 0:37:45.920 --> 0:37:48.640 Right again, Elizabeth, I will spare you any of the 0:37:48.719 --> 0:37:51.319 graphic descriptions of what went down at a We Play 0:37:51.400 --> 0:37:54.919 Crazy live event, but there is this one video love 0:37:55.000 --> 0:37:58.400 high flying Ryan standing in a field. Okay, then you 0:37:58.440 --> 0:38:01.719 see this Dodge Econo line van barreling right at him. 0:38:02.560 --> 0:38:04.520 Strapped to the front of the van are like two 0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:08.120 children's mattresses, two children, no, two children's mattresses, like a 0:38:08.120 --> 0:38:10.759 little and then the van just runs into him and 0:38:10.880 --> 0:38:12.719 kind of over him, and they both smash into a 0:38:12.719 --> 0:38:15.040 pyramid of empty cardboard boxes. 0:38:15.400 --> 0:38:18.680 Wait, he just got hit by a van. Watched we 0:38:18.680 --> 0:38:19.719 get hit by a van. 0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:25.600 Safety and precaution, the crowd goes wild. So their live 0:38:25.640 --> 0:38:28.279 events typically featured also some oil wrestling on an air 0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:30.839 mattress platform. So you got two women in bikinis doing 0:38:30.880 --> 0:38:33.400 oil wrestling, and then I never saw men doing it. 0:38:33.400 --> 0:38:35.239 I didn't see any men because of course the men 0:38:35.280 --> 0:38:38.040 were involved in the boxing Gloved Fight Club, So just 0:38:38.080 --> 0:38:40.640 two guys in a field punching each other. Now for 0:38:40.719 --> 0:38:44.000 live music, they had their own We Play Crazy official band. 0:38:44.680 --> 0:38:47.360 Yeah they Toxic Masculinity, Yeah exactly. 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:49.799 It's why high Fly and Ryan put it. We get 0:38:49.800 --> 0:38:56.960 people entertainment, no matter what it is, no matter so there, no, 0:38:57.040 --> 0:38:59.759 it's high Flying, Ryan recalls, I mean crazy. Mike was 0:38:59.800 --> 0:39:02.360 a getting ready to move on from this because they 0:39:02.400 --> 0:39:04.400 were successful. So he goes out to Hollywood, takes this 0:39:04.480 --> 0:39:08.200 show on the road, and then, as his brother recalls, 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:10.719 it wasn't hard for him to get work. People wanted him. 0:39:10.719 --> 0:39:13.080 He had talent, he had character, he knew he could 0:39:13.080 --> 0:39:15.799 perform the stunt work. He was physically fit, he was 0:39:15.840 --> 0:39:19.520 a good looking guy. He had agents lined up. People 0:39:19.600 --> 0:39:23.359 wanted to manage him, right, That's the story. And then 0:39:23.520 --> 0:39:26.880 came the ghost Rider too stunt. He goes out to Hollywood, 0:39:27.080 --> 0:39:29.040 starts to become a success based on all the hell 0:39:29.080 --> 0:39:32.560 of crazy success ye, and then comes the Ghostwriter Too stunt? 0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:35.160 What is the ghost Rider Too? God? 0:39:35.200 --> 0:39:36.120 Please tell me. 0:39:36.360 --> 0:39:40.279 Elizabeth, I'm so glad you asked that documentary Crazy Mike 0:39:40.360 --> 0:39:43.359 is Dead, made by we played Crazy Productions. Well, I've 0:39:43.360 --> 0:39:45.360 been quoting from it to a bunch And it opens 0:39:45.360 --> 0:39:48.680 with Crazy Mike explaining this stunt to the viewer, the 0:39:48.680 --> 0:39:51.279 one that he's going to perform, and Crazy Mike says, 0:39:51.440 --> 0:39:54.680 I'm jumping my motorcycle over that Crazy Mike ramp in 0:39:54.719 --> 0:39:58.000 a ghost Rider suit into that lake that's I'm not 0:39:58.040 --> 0:40:02.200 gonna lie, only probably about five feet deep. Oh God, Elizabeth, 0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:04.520 I forgot to mention. For this done, crazy Mike would 0:40:04.520 --> 0:40:08.319 also be on fire. Well, the ghost Rider is on fire, 0:40:08.760 --> 0:40:10.640 He's got to be on fire, so you know it's 0:40:10.640 --> 0:40:14.839 a promotional event. April twenty first, twenty twelve, Crazy Mike 0:40:15.000 --> 0:40:17.360 is in a desert east of Los Angeles working on 0:40:17.400 --> 0:40:19.719 the promotional video for the sequel to ghost Rider Too. 0:40:19.920 --> 0:40:21.919 The plan is for him to ride a motorcycle wall 0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:25.280 on fire hit a super steep ramp but also super 0:40:25.360 --> 0:40:28.400 short launch ramp and which Will jettis him, him and 0:40:28.480 --> 0:40:31.040 the motorcycle high up into the air and he'll land 0:40:31.040 --> 0:40:33.319 in the pond, which will extinguish the fire. I think 0:40:33.400 --> 0:40:36.160 that's the general Cage would not approve. No, we would not. 0:40:36.600 --> 0:40:39.120 The early safety concerns are not about the launch ramp, 0:40:39.239 --> 0:40:41.760 which just looking at it, I had my safety concerns, 0:40:42.360 --> 0:40:44.280 but it's not like what I would do. So anyway, 0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:46.000 the most folks, they seem to be worried about the 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:48.400 shallowness of what they keep calling a lake, which is 0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:52.560 actually a pond. It is a really small, shallow poddle. Yeah, 0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:54.640 it's crazy. Mike pointed out. The pond is like five 0:40:54.640 --> 0:40:56.880 feet at it at its deepest, right, they have like 0:40:56.920 --> 0:40:59.080 guys walk out into it to measure how deep the 0:40:59.080 --> 0:41:00.799 pond is. It is way out They're like, oh, let's 0:41:00.800 --> 0:41:02.839 say it's up to my shoulders. I'm six feet, So 0:41:03.920 --> 0:41:06.480 there you go. That's the measurements. Crazy Mike fires up 0:41:06.480 --> 0:41:08.439 the motor onto the dirt bike. He takes a couple 0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:11.680 of practice runs in shorts and running shoes. Once he 0:41:11.680 --> 0:41:13.920 feels good about the speed he'll need to get going, 0:41:13.960 --> 0:41:16.120 which looks to be something he's kind of just guessing at, 0:41:16.239 --> 0:41:17.719 like there's no one on set that I can see, 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:20.320 like with a stunt schematic. There's nobody who's got the 0:41:20.440 --> 0:41:22.680 speed grafts or some mock up of the physics of 0:41:22.680 --> 0:41:24.560 the jump. It's just Crazy Mike going back and forth 0:41:24.560 --> 0:41:29.440 a few times bred and he's like, okay, oh yeah, 0:41:29.440 --> 0:41:32.040 I should be good. Ready to go over to wardrobe 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:34.439 for his costume, then over to hair and makeup. Once 0:41:34.480 --> 0:41:36.440 he's got all in, all the all black leather of 0:41:36.480 --> 0:41:39.080 the ghost Rider outfit, the chain around his chest, that's 0:41:39.120 --> 0:41:42.240 where the production team is secreted a GoPro camera. Crazy 0:41:42.280 --> 0:41:44.920 Mike holds his ghost Rider's skull head in his hands. 0:41:45.000 --> 0:41:47.839 Right the production crew rolls sound. 0:41:48.400 --> 0:41:52.080 It's just a sea of flat build Fox baseball caps. 0:41:52.120 --> 0:41:54.200 At this point, I wish there were more of them. 0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:56.879 I think some of them would have stopped so they 0:41:56.880 --> 0:41:59.239 sink with the sound. With the clapboard, someone calls action. 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:02.520 Crazy Mike pulls on his rubber ghost Rider full on, 0:42:02.719 --> 0:42:05.000 full head safety mask and this is it for the fire. 0:42:05.440 --> 0:42:07.799 He climbs aboard his all black ghost Rider dirt bike. 0:42:07.840 --> 0:42:12.120 He takes a few more practice runs, right if you 0:42:12.280 --> 0:42:14.680 last minute wardrobe check with the costume, then all set 0:42:14.680 --> 0:42:17.879 for the big stunt. Yeah, Crazy Mike comes tearing into 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:21.080 view on his dirt bike. He's on fire, flames are 0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:24.400 licking the air behind him. He speeds towards the ramp. 0:42:24.560 --> 0:42:28.280 He smashes through a set of long white fluorescent light bulbs, 0:42:28.280 --> 0:42:31.759 because that's like a Hella Crazy signature move, like run 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:35.160 through fluorescent light bulbs. They go yeah, the sh so 0:42:35.160 --> 0:42:38.200 they shatter into puffs of white, and then he's launched 0:42:38.200 --> 0:42:40.920 off the ramp, goes in skyward Elizabeth, and then you 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:44.479 see Crazy Mike lose the dirt bike in midair, right, 0:42:44.880 --> 0:42:48.560 because that's his signature move. I ain't gonna land this, yeah, Now, 0:42:48.680 --> 0:42:51.799 Immediately people start to react. He's just left the ramp, 0:42:51.840 --> 0:42:54.000 and you hear in the footage people they know this 0:42:54.040 --> 0:42:55.960 is not how the stunt should be going. If he's 0:42:56.000 --> 0:42:58.680 going right. Personally, having seen his stunt work, I can 0:42:58.840 --> 0:43:01.360 I can't tell the difference to you going right, but whatever, 0:43:01.600 --> 0:43:04.160 it looks like all of the stunts to me anyway, 0:43:03.560 --> 0:43:06.239 he always ditches the bike right mid air. He never 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:07.799 lands it. So I'm like, I don't know, he's ditch 0:43:07.880 --> 0:43:09.920 the bike, he's not gonna land it. But what I 0:43:09.920 --> 0:43:12.560 can also see is he's going way too far into 0:43:12.640 --> 0:43:15.040 the sky and too fast, so he's gonna clear the lake. 0:43:15.160 --> 0:43:18.200 Oh no, so you hear people shouting, oh oh no, whoa, 0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:20.759 and Crazy Mic is now plummeting like a rag doll 0:43:20.840 --> 0:43:24.799 that's on fire. Uh huh, clears sailing over the lake right, 0:43:24.880 --> 0:43:27.319 that's actually a pond. It seems to he went way 0:43:27.320 --> 0:43:29.040 too fast off the ramp because I remember he different 0:43:29.880 --> 0:43:31.920 and then practice that was it. So gravity wins their 0:43:32.000 --> 0:43:34.920 long standing fight. My man, Crazy Mike drops about sixty 0:43:34.960 --> 0:43:38.320 feet slams back down to earth like a modern Icarus. 0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:40.160 It's bad, Like, I don't want you to worry about Elizabeth. 0:43:40.200 --> 0:43:42.759 He's not dead. Crazy Mic is not dead. However, this 0:43:42.800 --> 0:43:45.520 stunt is so poorly planned. There's no one hidden in 0:43:45.520 --> 0:43:47.759 the tree line close by for the landing spot in 0:43:47.800 --> 0:43:50.560 case something goes wrong. So no one's ready with a 0:43:50.600 --> 0:43:53.280 fire extinguisher. No one's ready with the blankets. No no. Instead, 0:43:53.280 --> 0:43:55.680 remember crazy Mike is he's on fire. He's still on fire. 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:58.440 So now he slammed into the ground on fire. Production 0:43:58.560 --> 0:44:00.640 crew now is to make a panicked dash of like 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:04.200 sixty yards to get to them. Oh go, so, and 0:44:04.200 --> 0:44:06.040 they're all like making they're all panicked. Now they're like, 0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:08.520 oh my god, just running around chickens with their heads 0:44:08.640 --> 0:44:10.680 cut off. The first people to reach them, they just 0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:12.520 start kicking dirt and sand on the flames. 0:44:12.520 --> 0:44:14.279 He is rolling, Why aren't they rolling him? 0:44:14.360 --> 0:44:18.280 Finally folks reached with fire extinguishers, apparent they were slower runners, 0:44:18.760 --> 0:44:20.600 and then and they didn't give the like they should 0:44:20.640 --> 0:44:22.839 just give the fire singers the fastest crew. Not that right, 0:44:22.880 --> 0:44:25.000 They managed about out the fire. Then they turned the 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:27.840 yell medic. Medic, Well, that's sure. 0:44:27.719 --> 0:44:29.680 You don't want to roll because he probably broke his neck. 0:44:29.760 --> 0:44:32.480 Exactly, No, definitely, Like I'm losing it at this point, right, 0:44:32.680 --> 0:44:35.160 worst safety crew for a big stunt I've ever seen, 0:44:35.680 --> 0:44:40.080 just amateur hour clown show panic everywhere. Right, Anyway, they're rolling, 0:44:40.120 --> 0:44:42.480 they're moving him like it's it's in everything. You don't 0:44:42.520 --> 0:44:43.080 want to see. 0:44:43.160 --> 0:44:45.640 His CTE must be so bad. 0:44:46.200 --> 0:44:47.319 Yeah, I hadn't even thought about that. 0:44:47.600 --> 0:44:50.560 Yeah, his brain is just you know, the helmet. 0:44:50.440 --> 0:44:52.960 Helmet helped. It kept him from a traumatic brain injury. 0:44:53.040 --> 0:44:55.960 Yeah. But like the number of times that he's crash, Yeah, 0:44:56.320 --> 0:44:58.280 just like the shaking. 0:44:58.520 --> 0:45:01.840 He's basically an NFL athlete. I felt defensive yeah, so 0:45:03.080 --> 0:45:05.960 Crazy is fine. The ambulance takes him away. He's banged 0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:08.600 up real good though, right, this is his worst injuries yet. 0:45:08.600 --> 0:45:10.560 His arm is all bent, all kinds of wrong. He's 0:45:10.600 --> 0:45:13.120 lying there, moaning, half conscious, but he comes around. He 0:45:13.200 --> 0:45:15.120 tries to fight the medics so he can get up. 0:45:15.719 --> 0:45:17.839 He's like me, He's like the worst patient. They try 0:45:17.880 --> 0:45:19.680 to keep him calm. They still trying to triage all 0:45:19.760 --> 0:45:23.080 his injuries. All told, Elizabeth, he has a broken back, 0:45:23.160 --> 0:45:25.640 a broken neck, a broken pelvis, two broken arms, a 0:45:25.640 --> 0:45:29.000 broken collar bone, multiple broken ribs, collapsed both of his lungs, 0:45:29.200 --> 0:45:31.319 and he has the second degree burns from the fire. 0:45:32.360 --> 0:45:33.200 But he's not dead. 0:45:33.320 --> 0:45:34.520 Does he have health insurance? 0:45:34.600 --> 0:45:36.319 And his helmet, as he told you, kept his brain 0:45:36.400 --> 0:45:38.759 safe from the traumatic injury. But no, he does not 0:45:39.320 --> 0:45:42.440 have health insurance. He's doing all of these stunts with 0:45:42.640 --> 0:45:47.240 no health insurance. I just okay, Yeah, So the footage 0:45:47.239 --> 0:45:49.359 of the medics treating him, you can hear someone say 0:45:49.880 --> 0:45:53.120 he'd want you to film this, so of course they 0:45:53.239 --> 0:45:56.120 record the entire thing. The paramedics rolling Crazy Mic onto 0:45:56.160 --> 0:45:59.440 the backboard, stabilizing him, carding him off into the ambulance. Now, 0:45:59.440 --> 0:46:02.840 after that stuff, goes horribly wrong. Life takes a dramatic 0:46:02.880 --> 0:46:05.319 turn for Crazy monduse as you pointed out, he has 0:46:05.320 --> 0:46:07.680 no health insurance and he's doing these stunts. As I said, 0:46:07.719 --> 0:46:11.279 no health insurance America, right, which eventually has to file 0:46:11.360 --> 0:46:14.799 a lawsuit against the ghostwriter to production company because he's 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:16.800 got like a million dollars in medical bills. 0:46:17.440 --> 0:46:20.319 Yeah, of course, But I'm thinking if we had socialized 0:46:20.360 --> 0:46:23.200 medicine with universal health care, I wouldn't want my tax 0:46:23.320 --> 0:46:27.280 dollars going to his coverage stop. 0:46:27.520 --> 0:46:29.719 No, then what we can do with with everybody who 0:46:29.760 --> 0:46:31.719 speeds and because there's so many people. 0:46:31.480 --> 0:46:32.680 Who make risky decisions. 0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:33.799 Just crazy Mike, you. 0:46:33.719 --> 0:46:35.160 Have a crazy Mic again. 0:46:35.520 --> 0:46:35.719 Yeah. 0:46:35.719 --> 0:46:38.640 Well, Crazy Mike's legal team they contended that the production 0:46:38.760 --> 0:46:41.600 company for Sony, and they alleged that Sony's producers of 0:46:41.880 --> 0:46:44.799 Break Media and Next Point, Inc. Were quote consciously chose 0:46:44.840 --> 0:46:47.360 to proceed with the dangerous activity with a conscious disregard 0:46:47.440 --> 0:46:50.040 of the safety of those observing the activity. I'm like, 0:46:50.239 --> 0:46:52.399 I was reading it. I'm like, bro, you're serious. We're 0:46:52.440 --> 0:46:54.719 crazy Mike. I mean, crazy Mic is not man. All 0:46:54.760 --> 0:46:56.880 that was filmed. We all saw the prep. It's like, 0:46:57.200 --> 0:47:01.319 there's no protocol. Clearly there was terrible say so the 0:47:01.640 --> 0:47:04.640 lawsuit he loses. Cut to the present or close to 0:47:04.680 --> 0:47:07.640 it twenty twenty two, ten years later, all right, where 0:47:07.719 --> 0:47:10.520 is crazy Mike? Now, Elizabeth in a nursing home. Well 0:47:10.560 --> 0:47:13.320 to answer that, I'd like you to close your eyes, al, 0:47:13.560 --> 0:47:17.919 I'd like you to picture it. It's just before two 0:47:17.960 --> 0:47:21.560 pm on a Monday afternoon in August, and you, Elizabeth, 0:47:21.560 --> 0:47:25.600 are in Franklin Township, New Jersey. You recently moved to Franklin, 0:47:25.600 --> 0:47:27.759 New Jersey for a new job. You took an offer 0:47:27.760 --> 0:47:30.080 from a cousin. Now you're working at a Christmas tree farm. 0:47:30.400 --> 0:47:32.400 You're in charge of the Douglas First, which you are 0:47:32.600 --> 0:47:34.960 not your favorite Christmas tree, but a job is a job. 0:47:35.160 --> 0:47:37.160 At the moment, you're standing in line in the local 0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:39.359 Chase Manhattan Bank, it's been a long day and it's 0:47:39.400 --> 0:47:41.799 only two pm. You wait with a few others. You're 0:47:41.800 --> 0:47:43.279 trying to make it to a friend's house for a 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:45.239 dinner party. Just a few errands to run and then 0:47:45.239 --> 0:47:48.000 you can pop home and relax. You're there to deposit 0:47:48.040 --> 0:47:51.000 your first paycheck from the Christmas tree farm. The young 0:47:51.080 --> 0:47:53.120 man ahead of you in mine is listening to his 0:47:53.239 --> 0:47:56.000 music on his oversized headphones, loud enough that you can 0:47:56.040 --> 0:47:59.240 actually wrap along with jay Z whenever you recognize a line. 0:47:59.719 --> 0:48:02.920 Then you hear it. A motorcycle pulls up outside the bank. 0:48:03.280 --> 0:48:05.640 A short moment later, the door to the bank opens 0:48:05.680 --> 0:48:08.319 with the familiar chime of the bell. Then you hear 0:48:08.440 --> 0:48:11.719 motorcycle boots on hard tile. You turn to look and 0:48:11.719 --> 0:48:14.680 see if it's a big old biker. It's not. Instead, 0:48:14.719 --> 0:48:17.480 you see a young motorcycle guy. He's about five seven. 0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:20.319 He's in all black, black shirt, black pants, a black 0:48:20.400 --> 0:48:22.760 helmet with a black visor, black on black on black. 0:48:23.280 --> 0:48:25.720 The most importantly, he's also wearing a black face mask. 0:48:25.840 --> 0:48:27.960 There's an open space for his eyes, but not even 0:48:27.960 --> 0:48:30.440 his eyes are visible because they're covered by wait for it, 0:48:30.560 --> 0:48:33.520 black goggles. You listen to his motorcycle boots on the 0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:36.120 cold tile floor of the bank. As you do, the 0:48:36.200 --> 0:48:39.080 man darn it, this is a robbery. Why does this 0:48:39.120 --> 0:48:41.560 always happen to you, Elizabeth? The man in all black 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:43.799 walks past the line of waiting customers and heads right 0:48:43.880 --> 0:48:46.000 up to a teller one who's busy with a customer, 0:48:46.080 --> 0:48:48.480 a local plumber. When the customer turns and sees the 0:48:48.520 --> 0:48:50.879 man in all black and his face mask. The middle 0:48:50.960 --> 0:48:53.880 aged plumber lets out a tiny gas. The man in 0:48:53.920 --> 0:48:56.799 all black doesn't speak. He slyly nods to the side. 0:48:57.000 --> 0:48:59.719 The plumber understands. He steps away. You can't hear what 0:48:59.760 --> 0:49:02.360 the robber is saying. All you can hear is muffled 0:49:02.440 --> 0:49:04.600 jay Z. He sort of mouthed the words when jay 0:49:04.680 --> 0:49:07.960 Z gets to allow me to reintroduce myself, my name 0:49:08.040 --> 0:49:11.560 is ho oh h to the hovie. The bank robber 0:49:11.600 --> 0:49:13.840 works his way down the line of tellers. You assume 0:49:13.960 --> 0:49:16.319 he must have a gun, but you don't actually see it. 0:49:16.760 --> 0:49:19.480 The tailers do as instructed. They hand over wads of 0:49:19.520 --> 0:49:22.920 cash from their drawers. You mentally calculate how much this 0:49:23.000 --> 0:49:26.200 payday could be might be Your best guess is maybe 0:49:26.239 --> 0:49:29.120 thirty thousand dollars tops. But the man in all black 0:49:29.200 --> 0:49:31.759 sure seems pleased with his tape. Shoves the money into 0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:34.439 a small, loose sack, then like about like a half 0:49:34.480 --> 0:49:36.919 sized pillow. Then he shoves that sack of cash into 0:49:36.960 --> 0:49:40.160 his leather jacket zips up. He pulls his helmet down 0:49:40.160 --> 0:49:42.279 over his head, but as he does, he knocks his 0:49:42.280 --> 0:49:45.120 goggles loose. You see his eyes and they look kind 0:49:45.120 --> 0:49:48.160 of familiar. You actually wonder if you know him. Why 0:49:48.200 --> 0:49:50.439 does he look so familiar? The man in all black 0:49:50.480 --> 0:49:53.000 doesn't hesitate. He rushes for the door, his boots slapping 0:49:53.000 --> 0:49:55.960 at the cold, hard tile floor. No one stops him. 0:49:56.040 --> 0:49:59.040 The double doors swing open, then swing back shut. The 0:49:59.080 --> 0:50:02.560 bank robber gone. And that's when it hits you, and 0:50:02.600 --> 0:50:08.680 you mutter to yourself, Hella, crazy four. You recognize the 0:50:08.719 --> 0:50:11.080 man in all black from those dumb videos your old 0:50:11.160 --> 0:50:13.040 roommate used to watch back when you worked for the 0:50:13.080 --> 0:50:16.680 traveling circus. Outside the bank, you hear a motorcycle roar 0:50:16.840 --> 0:50:19.880 of life and races away. As the sound fades away, Elizabeth, 0:50:19.920 --> 0:50:23.279 you mutter to yourself under your breath, crazy Mike, is 0:50:23.320 --> 0:50:28.520 that you okay? So after that mass bandit fled on 0:50:28.560 --> 0:50:31.440 his motorcycle, the police of Franklin Township hopped to it 0:50:31.440 --> 0:50:34.600 is sprung into action. First they established a perimeter, then 0:50:34.640 --> 0:50:36.360 they called it in the FBI since it was a 0:50:36.400 --> 0:50:38.560 bank robbery, right, so the field ages. They're quick to 0:50:38.719 --> 0:50:41.480 their local cops aid, the FBI is there. They make 0:50:41.520 --> 0:50:43.920 this search, but it's all for not. Bank robber escapes. 0:50:44.520 --> 0:50:50.400 This begins Elizabeth, a three month investigation three months ninety days, 0:50:50.480 --> 0:50:52.440 at the end of which the FBI local police they 0:50:52.440 --> 0:50:54.759 have a solid suspect. They've worked their leads, and they 0:50:54.920 --> 0:50:58.719 have a real live suspect. Guess who, Elizabeth, that's right, 0:50:58.840 --> 0:51:03.239 one Mike gave aka Crazy Mike. On December second, a 0:51:03.239 --> 0:51:05.720 little more than three months after the late August of robbery, 0:51:05.800 --> 0:51:08.960 the FBI swat team from the Newark office raids the 0:51:09.000 --> 0:51:11.919 gab Off home. Mike isn't there, and his family gives 0:51:11.960 --> 0:51:14.359 misleading info about where he might be, try as they might, 0:51:14.440 --> 0:51:16.920 though this head start doesn't last long. Crazy Mike is 0:51:16.960 --> 0:51:20.040 subsequently arrested for the bank job. He's charged with second 0:51:20.080 --> 0:51:23.520 degree robbery, second degree conspiracy to commit robbery, both felonies. 0:51:23.719 --> 0:51:26.960 But that's not all. His father, Awesome Allen, his mother Sharon, 0:51:27.040 --> 0:51:30.080 and his little brother Jesse Gabos Sassy Sharon, we're all 0:51:30.200 --> 0:51:34.279 arrested for a third degree hindering. So wow, those charges 0:51:34.320 --> 0:51:36.560 were later dropped. So what happened? Was it all? Because 0:51:36.600 --> 0:51:40.680 the medical bills probably most likely right? Well to answer 0:51:40.680 --> 0:51:43.480 that question, Elizabeth. Recently, Crazy Mike sat down for a 0:51:43.560 --> 0:51:47.320 video interview to talk about robbing a bank in New Jersey. Yeah, now, 0:51:47.400 --> 0:51:50.480 thirty seven years old, Crazy Mike, still wearing sunglasses and 0:51:50.640 --> 0:51:53.839 still spiking his hair, explains to the camera how and 0:51:53.960 --> 0:51:56.759 why he was arrested. But from his side of the 0:51:56.920 --> 0:52:01.600 legal ledger quote on December, I was rudely awakened by 0:52:01.600 --> 0:52:04.640 a police and they handcuffed me, saying I was arrested 0:52:04.640 --> 0:52:08.160 for bank robbery. And yeah, I spent five days in 0:52:08.239 --> 0:52:10.960 jail and I got released on this thing called pre 0:52:11.080 --> 0:52:14.400 trial conditions. Now, the interviewer, I just asked them straight up, 0:52:14.640 --> 0:52:17.000 did you rob a bank? Yeah, Crazy Mike says I 0:52:17.080 --> 0:52:20.160 did not rob a bank. But then he clarifies, however, 0:52:20.440 --> 0:52:22.360 my brother robbed a bank. 0:52:22.719 --> 0:52:23.879 Oh, he puts it on Ryan. 0:52:24.120 --> 0:52:26.239 That's right, Elizabeth, it wasn't Crazy Mike. It was High 0:52:26.239 --> 0:52:29.640 Flying Ryan. Back to Crazy Mike for more clarification. And 0:52:29.880 --> 0:52:33.200 you know, some say I had like a slight involvement 0:52:33.239 --> 0:52:35.000 in it. I have to be real careful of my 0:52:35.080 --> 0:52:39.480 words because the case is still pending. And makes a video, 0:52:40.160 --> 0:52:42.520 but to his credit, the video is no longer on YouTube. 0:52:42.520 --> 0:52:46.800 I had to look public defender. Yeah. So it turns 0:52:46.800 --> 0:52:49.640 out in April twenty twenty three, his brother, High Flying Ryan, 0:52:49.760 --> 0:52:52.400 was arrested on the same charges of robbery and conspiracy 0:52:52.440 --> 0:52:55.600 to commit robbery. It seems at most Crazy Mike may 0:52:55.640 --> 0:52:58.719 have been involved in the getaway, or, as Crazy Mike 0:52:58.800 --> 0:53:02.040 put it, by way, teasing the cop who was investigating him. 0:53:02.040 --> 0:53:05.680 Another great choice when you're still in trial. I don't 0:53:05.680 --> 0:53:08.480 know if Detective Grosso really thinks I was really the 0:53:08.520 --> 0:53:12.239 ghetaway driver for this bank robbery. Detective Grosso, why would 0:53:12.239 --> 0:53:14.840 I have my iPhone on me? Ye? Silly Goose? 0:53:15.440 --> 0:53:16.320 Is silly goose? 0:53:17.120 --> 0:53:21.279 That's a direct quote, direct quote. Now, did Crazy Mike 0:53:21.360 --> 0:53:23.160 help hide his brother, High Flying Ryan? 0:53:23.480 --> 0:53:24.319 He sold him out? 0:53:25.480 --> 0:53:27.720 I don't know. I can't answer that question. But Crazy 0:53:27.719 --> 0:53:30.560 Mike wasn't the man in all black that you saw. Oh, 0:53:30.600 --> 0:53:32.879 in April of last year, his brother, High Flying Ryan, 0:53:32.960 --> 0:53:34.719 peacefully surrendered to authorities. 0:53:34.840 --> 0:53:35.080 Yeah. 0:53:35.200 --> 0:53:36.560 No word on his motive, so I don't know if 0:53:36.560 --> 0:53:39.080 it's like his brother's medical costs or not. However, since 0:53:39.080 --> 0:53:41.640 that's not the best Danu mal, I do have this 0:53:41.719 --> 0:53:43.920 little fact for you, Elizabeth. I happened to know that 0:53:44.000 --> 0:53:47.040 in twenty twenty two, Crazy Mike went back to the 0:53:47.120 --> 0:53:50.680 desert to retry the same ghost Riders stop that nearly 0:53:50.760 --> 0:53:54.879 killed him. No, yes, yes, yes, no stop in this one. 0:53:55.440 --> 0:53:57.719 This time it's the adrenaline, baby, you got it. You 0:53:57.760 --> 0:54:00.759 can't understand unless you feel I just can't. This time 0:54:00.840 --> 0:54:04.160 the ramp looked even worse in my opinion. Give me 0:54:04.239 --> 0:54:06.440 just shoot you straight up into the sky. Right at 0:54:06.440 --> 0:54:09.440 the top of the plywood. Someone and it's also like anyway, 0:54:09.640 --> 0:54:11.919 the top of the plywood, someone drew a red arrow 0:54:11.960 --> 0:54:14.560 pointing at the sky and there's just one word destiny, 0:54:15.920 --> 0:54:18.600 and people as you, oh my god, yes, and as 0:54:18.600 --> 0:54:20.719 you heard me like practically sputtering a second ago. This 0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:23.160 old school plywood ramp looks like something my friends and 0:54:23.200 --> 0:54:24.759 I built when we were twelve, Like can you talk 0:54:24.800 --> 0:54:27.680 about that ramp on the firewood? Yes, just a little 0:54:27.719 --> 0:54:29.319 bit better. It's like when we go and take scrap 0:54:29.400 --> 0:54:31.400 wood from them building homes and like old nails and 0:54:31.400 --> 0:54:33.560 like make these little X frames and then try to 0:54:33.600 --> 0:54:36.640 build a ramp. It's like that level of construction, and 0:54:36.719 --> 0:54:39.400 it's all pot like ply with overlapping. It's like, all right, 0:54:39.400 --> 0:54:41.359 I just put this here, and somebody's just like not 0:54:41.440 --> 0:54:44.120 even attached. Just we just laid it on because there's 0:54:44.160 --> 0:54:47.080 got some water here. Anyway, what do you think happens Elizabeth, 0:54:47.360 --> 0:54:49.080 does he land this jump? 0:54:49.239 --> 0:54:49.479 Yes? 0:54:50.080 --> 0:54:53.520 Well, first the police arrive, they see what I see. 0:54:53.719 --> 0:54:55.759 Someone else called in and then they showed up like, 0:54:55.760 --> 0:54:57.680 oh Jesus, we got to talk to somebody, so they 0:54:58.000 --> 0:55:00.680 nearly shut the stunt down. However, crazy Mike he uh, 0:55:00.960 --> 0:55:02.680 is able to sweet talk the cops, and by sweet 0:55:02.719 --> 0:55:05.680 talk I mean lie. He just straights up, tells him, oh, no, 0:55:05.680 --> 0:55:07.200 we're not gonna jump that. No, I don't know. No, 0:55:07.239 --> 0:55:09.279 We're just gonna setting up for photos and stuff. Right 0:55:09.400 --> 0:55:11.480 then the cops are convinced. They decided to let Crazy 0:55:11.480 --> 0:55:14.120 Mike be Crazy Mike, and they go away. So Elizabeth, 0:55:14.160 --> 0:55:15.920 again I asked, does he land it? 0:55:16.040 --> 0:55:19.200 Yes? And then he flew off in with the angel destiny. 0:55:19.680 --> 0:55:22.040 Well, I'll turn it over to crazy Mike. A gear up, 0:55:22.120 --> 0:55:25.200 soak all my leathers with the water to prevent any burns. 0:55:25.360 --> 0:55:28.480 Put conditioner all over my hair and face. I go 0:55:28.520 --> 0:55:31.320 in the spot where I'm about to begin. I gas 0:55:31.440 --> 0:55:33.640 my jacket up nice and carefully. Now, if you don't 0:55:33.640 --> 0:55:35.239 have a gas in your jacket up, he's gonna be 0:55:35.280 --> 0:55:38.279 on fire. So pouring gasoline on his leather jacket, and 0:55:38.320 --> 0:55:41.000 the video shows him pouring gas out of a gatorade 0:55:41.040 --> 0:55:43.280 bottle onto his jacket that's just lying on the cement, 0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:45.560 all crumpled in different angle. It's not like a smooth 0:55:45.560 --> 0:55:48.080 like we've applied this with a brush. It's even and 0:55:47.880 --> 0:55:49.680 we we're gonna have vapors coming. No, it's just yea 0:55:49.800 --> 0:55:54.080 some here, some there. Anyway, back to crazy Mike. He also, 0:55:54.160 --> 0:55:55.719 I should tell you he's got a partner named mister 0:55:55.800 --> 0:55:58.800 Stobb who's paying for this, so he'll come in into 0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:01.839 the story in a second. Yeah, So back to Crazy Mike. 0:56:02.040 --> 0:56:04.880 Mister Stobb says a prayer for me. I get on 0:56:04.920 --> 0:56:09.080 the bike. He lights me, and I'm going I'm riding 0:56:09.120 --> 0:56:11.680 as fast as that bike will go. And something came 0:56:11.719 --> 0:56:14.400 out of my mouth that I didn't even control, saying, 0:56:14.760 --> 0:56:16.480 what do you think? He said, Elizabeth, No, don't guess. 0:56:16.520 --> 0:56:18.279 I'll tell you what I guess, he says, and I 0:56:18.360 --> 0:56:27.319 quote I am the ghost Rider. And then as he 0:56:27.400 --> 0:56:28.120 tells it, and. 0:56:28.080 --> 0:56:30.600 I hit that ramp full beast mode and I was 0:56:30.680 --> 0:56:34.040 just flying felt like slow motion to me. Spotted the 0:56:34.080 --> 0:56:37.239 water and I was like, whoa, that water seems so 0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:41.080 far away from me right now? Who landed in the water? 0:56:41.239 --> 0:56:43.440 He landed at Elizabeth, Not really, he landed. He just 0:56:43.480 --> 0:56:47.200 grabbed down the water. No biking him together again more accurately, 0:56:47.239 --> 0:56:49.640 he watered it. So anyway, I got out of the 0:56:49.680 --> 0:56:52.360 water so excited. The feeling that I had when I 0:56:52.360 --> 0:56:55.360 got out of the water was pure bliss. This is 0:56:55.400 --> 0:56:59.279 why I do this crazy shit. That is always why 0:56:59.360 --> 0:57:03.920 I do this. It's crazy because I chase that feeling. 0:57:04.560 --> 0:57:08.319 So there you go, straight from the jackass's mouth. Is 0:57:08.360 --> 0:57:11.080 that why high Flying Ryan rob the bank? I cannot 0:57:11.120 --> 0:57:14.359 tell you to build the ramp? I don't know. Maybe 0:57:14.560 --> 0:57:16.360 the head, I think, though we do know it had 0:57:16.400 --> 0:57:19.840 something to do with that feeling and perhaps a desperate 0:57:19.840 --> 0:57:22.280 need for money, which is, you know, nothing to laugh at. 0:57:22.280 --> 0:57:24.680 So I don't mean to make light of that. However, 0:57:24.800 --> 0:57:28.320 crazy Mic and High Flying Ryan, they are ridiculous. 0:57:28.480 --> 0:57:29.200 Oh definitely. 0:57:29.320 --> 0:57:30.520 Man, do I love them for it? 0:57:30.840 --> 0:57:31.520 Definitely? 0:57:31.600 --> 0:57:33.560 So, Elizabeth, what's our ridiculous takeaway here? 0:57:33.800 --> 0:57:39.800 I'm curious as to their pain management protocols, like do 0:57:39.880 --> 0:57:43.320 they have that's dangerous to be injured so many times? 0:57:43.480 --> 0:57:48.480 Completely? And yeah, so that's there was no mention in 0:57:48.520 --> 0:57:50.320 the documentary, so I don't know if they have any 0:57:50.320 --> 0:57:53.680 issues with that. Interesting, that's my ridiculous takeaway. Thank you 0:57:53.680 --> 0:57:56.360 for asking, Elizabeth Is I you know I always tell 0:57:56.400 --> 0:57:58.280 you this that like I consider myself kind of the edge, 0:57:58.280 --> 0:58:00.640 Like if you are past me, I get work about you. 0:58:00.960 --> 0:58:03.440 These guys were so far past me. I could barely 0:58:03.480 --> 0:58:05.640 see him on the horizon. I was like, man, I'm 0:58:05.640 --> 0:58:09.440 worried about them. Are they still there? Anyway? There you go. 0:58:09.440 --> 0:58:11.600 That's all I have. Are you in the mood for 0:58:11.640 --> 0:58:15.080 a talk back? Always well, producer d can you hook 0:58:15.160 --> 0:58:22.480 us up? Oh? Oh my god, did you just see that? 0:58:24.600 --> 0:58:25.480 I let get. 0:58:28.600 --> 0:58:32.720 This is not a crime story, but it fits in 0:58:33.040 --> 0:58:34.640 with your sense of humor. 0:58:35.440 --> 0:58:35.880 Period. 0:58:36.160 --> 0:58:39.680 I think you would enjoy looking into the life of 0:58:40.080 --> 0:58:46.520 the Macho Man, a pro wrestler from the eighties period. 0:58:46.720 --> 0:58:50.480 Hope you enjoy it, Period. 0:58:50.920 --> 0:58:54.120 Well, thank you, Period. That was awesome. I ready you 0:58:54.120 --> 0:58:57.440 know macho Man, he's an amazing wrestler. The really tragic 0:58:57.480 --> 0:58:58.880 story and we're not going to cover it because it 0:58:58.920 --> 0:59:04.360 will toughly hit. Oh yeah, but thank you for the 0:59:04.360 --> 0:59:07.600 the the talkback. We do enjoy those as always that 0:59:07.720 --> 0:59:10.400 You can Period find us online Ridiculous Crime on the 0:59:10.440 --> 0:59:13.080 social media. 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