Speaker 1: Ridiculous crime is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Zaaren girl not much. It was ridiculous. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I do you look like your face looks like.
Speaker 3: My face is ridiculous?
Speaker 2: What's ridiculous?
Speaker 3: Christopher McTaggart rude dude sent us a message on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Mister McTaggart, has happened almost ten years ago. Now where
Speaker 3: were you when you heard that Leonard Nimoy died?
Speaker 2: I was, Actually, this is an interesting question. I was
Speaker 2: with missus Leonard Nimoy pillow No. I was helping with
Speaker 2: the grieving process. I'm a minister, Elizabeth. I thought you
Speaker 2: knew that, and my focus is space. So the family
Speaker 2: came to me and they said, Zaren, we need you
Speaker 2: to help us with this transition here. I said, space,
Speaker 2: it's the final frontier.
Speaker 4: You're a death duel and death is the real final
Speaker 4: front is it is?
Speaker 3: So he passed away? I spoiler?
Speaker 2: What happened with this?
Speaker 3: Well, there there was already this thing going on in Canada,
Speaker 3: but like his death kind of like right, I guess,
Speaker 3: I don't know, is any cling on or something? One
Speaker 3: of them he's a little elf, yeah, exactly, So there
Speaker 3: is this thing going on in Canada called spocking spoking.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's what's spocking.
Speaker 3: Spoking is there's a five dollars bill. It has a
Speaker 3: portrait of Prime Ministers Sir Alfred Laurier on it, and
Speaker 3: he kind of looks a little bit like Leonard Meimoy.
Speaker 3: So people started drawing on the bill a picture, right,
Speaker 3: that's really good.
Speaker 2: That's better than the bill Murray five dollars bill with
Speaker 2: the Lincoln.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this will this will be an Instagram story where
Speaker 3: we put the what's ridiculous? But you can see, like
Speaker 3: some of them, he's doing the live long and prosper
Speaker 3: hand and all they do is like give him that
Speaker 3: goofball haircut and like mess with the eyebrows and do
Speaker 3: the ears. Anyway, I think that that's kind of ridiculous,
Speaker 3: but it's not illegal. Yeah, you can draw in.
Speaker 2: It, but they Canadian money.
Speaker 3: This is the some bank. Bank of Canada said it's
Speaker 3: not illegal to write or make other markings on banknotes
Speaker 3: because neither the Bank of Canada Act nor the Criminal
Speaker 3: Code deals with mutilation or defacement of banknotes. But the
Speaker 3: Bank of Canada feels that writing and markings on banknotes
Speaker 3: are inappropriate because they are a symbol of our country
Speaker 3: and a source of national pride. So they're saying, like,
Speaker 3: it's not illegal, but isn't there money called the looney
Speaker 3: But apparently, you know, you could try using it and
Speaker 3: it could negate its legal tender status, so someone might
Speaker 3: not take it.
Speaker 2: It becomes art once you draw on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you can, you know, stick it on
Speaker 3: a wall in charge eight million.
Speaker 2: Dollars for it. Is ridiculous, Elizabeth, You know what else
Speaker 2: is ridiculous?
Speaker 3: I would love to know.
Speaker 2: Well, Okay, there's this guy named Crazy Mike and he
Speaker 2: that's ridiculous. He's a stuntman. That's not the ridiculous part.
Speaker 2: He has a brother, also a stuntman. He's named High
Speaker 2: Flying Ryan.
Speaker 3: Wait, Crazy Mike and Flying Ryan. Oh, Mama, tried.
Speaker 2: Still not the ridiculous part. It looks like it right,
Speaker 2: it's like right on the face of it, But Nope.
Speaker 2: To get all the way there will require motorcycles, fire stunts,
Speaker 2: bank robbery, and the FBI. Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, This is Ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and
Speaker 5: outrageous capers, hi and cons.
Speaker 2: It's always ninety nine percent murder free and one hundred
Speaker 2: percent ridiculous. Live Moss, Elizabeth Live Moss. As you know, Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: I always wanted to be a stunt man. I talked
Speaker 2: about this like for real, for real, we.
Speaker 3: Call you an amateur stunt man.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, because I don't get paid for what I do. Now,
Speaker 2: my heroes in the Blockbuster movies, those who do get paid,
Speaker 2: those in the action films, the guys who always you know,
Speaker 2: they took the real falls, the dudes who actually jump
Speaker 2: from the building or building the building, the crazy cats
Speaker 2: who drive real fast crash cars professionally my heroes, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: And I'm not alone in this because my man Crazy
Speaker 2: Mike and his brother hy flyin Ryan, they felt the same. Elizabeth.
Speaker 2: Now you have a brother, I have a sister. We
Speaker 2: both grew up with siblings. Did you and your brother
Speaker 2: Trev ever get into like the stuntman life, Like do
Speaker 2: you ever make crash pads and jump out of windows
Speaker 2: or like every two two of you were like ride
Speaker 2: down a stairs in a cardboard box.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did a lot of dumb stuff like that.
Speaker 3: We did. We built a BMX jump that was like
Speaker 3: a piece of supply wood and what was elevating the
Speaker 3: one end was like firewood.
Speaker 2: Oh, lord. Oh yeah, we did that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how I broke my wrist.
Speaker 2: I bet you did.
Speaker 3: And then on like a ten speed Oh.
Speaker 2: God, I jumped on it firewood rolls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and that it does. And we also we
Speaker 3: shared a bedroom we were really young, and uh we
Speaker 3: hit There were these two twin beds and we would
Speaker 3: each jump on them and then jump from one to
Speaker 3: the other in high five in the middle. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: then we broke them and then my mom Yeah, and
Speaker 3: my mom was like, well, now you sleep on a
Speaker 3: broken bed, like it's all slanted, because that's what you know,
Speaker 3: that's what you get. So yeah, we did a little stunt.
Speaker 2: Yeah right now by my sister, uh, she's younger, so
Speaker 2: she had to come like basically listen to my ideas
Speaker 2: what I came up with. For example, once I asked
Speaker 2: her she had this like a green plastic worm that
Speaker 2: had wheels and she'd push it around because she's barely
Speaker 2: walking at this point, and I convinced her to ride
Speaker 2: that down a flight of stairs.
Speaker 3: Oh god.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. She still talks about it to this day,
Speaker 2: like apparently it's a very formative event for her. The
Speaker 2: infamous steroide with my green worm I'm like, when will
Speaker 2: you forgive me? My point is, Elizabeth, like, when you
Speaker 2: have a brother, a sibling, a sister in my case,
Speaker 2: you often can like kind of gin each other up
Speaker 2: in a way. The people without siblings just don't really understand.
Speaker 2: They have nobody with a bad idea going we got
Speaker 2: to do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and then you have this just like you know,
Speaker 3: you don't worry about getting hurt and that kind of
Speaker 3: My mom always said that we were like bear cubs,
Speaker 3: tumbling around and doing crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: Completely.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My mother always called us like insurance risks. That's when
Speaker 2: she called us.
Speaker 3: We spent a lot of time in the ear.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, Saturdays in the ear. So you
Speaker 2: and your brother also loved you. Guys were like us
Speaker 2: in this regard. You love the TV show The Fall Guy.
Speaker 2: Right reruns of that show. You've told me that you
Speaker 2: you can sing the song? Do you do remember it?
Speaker 3: I remember it. I can't sing it right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not asking you, but you can sing it, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this weird talent where either like an eighties t
Speaker 3: TV theme song or a song like a eighties, nineties,
Speaker 3: mostly eighties, someone mentions it and then I can just
Speaker 3: start reciting the lyrics.
Speaker 2: You're uncanny. I've seen you do it here in h
Speaker 2: Q when you're like someone will like mention a lyric,
Speaker 2: or you hear a song and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: you just start singing along.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went. I went pretty hard on ice Ice Babies.
Speaker 3: But it was a very like intense reading of it.
Speaker 2: Yes, theatrical, very theatrical.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: Oh, speaking of did you see the new movie version
Speaker 2: of The Fall Guy?
Speaker 3: I did not, but I know that, Like I figured
Speaker 3: that was made specifically for you pretty much.
Speaker 2: But you know Ryan Gosling, right, not personally, but I
Speaker 2: know of him. Could you favor a little impression of
Speaker 2: Ryan Gosling?
Speaker 3: Oh? Wow? Okay, yeah, I won three awards for this.
Speaker 2: Oh. I don't mean to brag on.
Speaker 3: You, okay, but by Ryan Gostling and I got a
Speaker 3: bright olbrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you called attention to best.
Speaker 3: That's all he talks about her is eyebrow.
Speaker 2: See's either that or his abs. I'm like, oh, dude, ibros, abs,
Speaker 2: Like where do we put our eyes?
Speaker 3: He's one of the many Ryan's.
Speaker 2: So many Ryan's, although few were these days.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The reason I asked you to do an impression of
Speaker 2: him and the reason I wanted to talk about the
Speaker 2: fall Guy and just being stunt children is I wanted
Speaker 2: to get your mind right for today's story of Crazy
Speaker 2: Mike and High Flying Ryan stuntman brothers. Yeah, crazy Mike
Speaker 2: born in nineteen eighty seven. Crazy Mike is not what
Speaker 2: his parents named him. Yeah, it's a stunt man named
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Government named Michael Gaboff. Now. His brother, high Flying Ryan,
Speaker 2: also not what his parents named him. They named him
Speaker 2: high Flying gab Off. No, they named him Ryan gab Off.
Speaker 3: Now I was kind of hoping that Ryan wasn't his name.
Speaker 3: It was like, you know, Flenge, I just want to
Speaker 3: be Ryan.
Speaker 2: Do you name the products at IKEA?
Speaker 6: I do?
Speaker 2: Be real with me? You do? You have such a
Speaker 2: gift for the like I'm to put a couple of constants
Speaker 2: together in a.
Speaker 3: J just called culture.
Speaker 2: Ye'm sorry, Can let me sweat your flow? Now? These
Speaker 2: two cats, the gab Off brothers, high Flying Ryan and
Speaker 2: Crazy Mike, raised in New Jersey, starting out from a
Speaker 2: young age, obviously, they found that they both love to
Speaker 2: pull off heroic stunts, right, crazy dumb stunts, the kind
Speaker 2: you pull when you have a brother close cousin, neighbor,
Speaker 2: someone who's just as crazy as you are. Check out
Speaker 2: their past work. I went and watched a YouTube video
Speaker 2: that they had and had a bunch of them when
Speaker 2: they were a kids, because apparently they were of the
Speaker 2: age where they filmed like they had early VHS cameras,
Speaker 2: then later on like you know, digital cameras, so they
Speaker 2: just filmed everything, right, So they made this compilation edit
Speaker 2: if you will. But it's also it's a documentary because
Speaker 2: there's a story. I'll get into that later. The but
Speaker 2: the documentary is called Crazy Mike is Dead. No he's not.
Speaker 2: But that's the title. It's a grabby title, right yeah,
Speaker 2: right now, Elizabeth. The documentary movie. It starts with a
Speaker 2: disclaimer that YouTube has previously taken down the video because
Speaker 2: said video quote violates our child safety policy.
Speaker 3: Whether that happened or not. That's a really great way
Speaker 3: to start.
Speaker 2: It off, totally. I mean, that is a marketing they're
Speaker 2: trying to keep this.
Speaker 3: Tell you, guys, iHeart didn't want us to hear this
Speaker 3: episode doing it anyway.
Speaker 2: Rebels like that. Now, the children at risk in this
Speaker 2: video or obviously crazy Mike and high flying Ryan, right,
Speaker 2: they weren't like getting other kids. Now, this video that
Speaker 2: I watched as thirteen thousand views, so you know, just
Speaker 2: getting good audience but not a huge one. But anyway,
Speaker 2: this documentary pretty much recounts not just Crazy Mike's like, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, their childhood, but like it's pretty much his
Speaker 2: whole life. And he's a young guy, so it's not
Speaker 2: a like, you know, not it's an hour and a
Speaker 2: half movies when I'm basically trying to point out to
Speaker 2: you good documentary. But mostly it recounts early on how
Speaker 2: Crazy Mike High Flying Ryan become these stuntman brothers. Five
Speaker 2: years old. His mother dubbed one crazy Mike because he
Speaker 2: was that boy.
Speaker 3: Right, his mom's the one who gives she gave.
Speaker 2: Him the name.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was always throwing himself down the stairs, off
Speaker 2: the couch, right. And then along comes brother baby brother,
Speaker 2: pretty much the same. Soon enough, it's Crazy Mike High
Speaker 2: Flying Ryan. Now the brothers Crazy Mike, High Flying Ryan.
Speaker 2: They also have a big sister, Lindsey. No name for her, right,
Speaker 2: but not that I could find. Maybe we'll call her
Speaker 2: Lucky Lindsay. Alright, so Lucky Lindsay. The way she remembers
Speaker 2: that her brothers were pretty much attached at the hip
Speaker 2: like a pair of can joined twins, is how she
Speaker 2: put it.
Speaker 3: How far apart in years were they? Do you know?
Speaker 2: No, I do not know a couple of years, but
Speaker 2: based on how they look, a couple of years, I
Speaker 2: do not know. She also connects that it was their
Speaker 2: father who used to like jump four wheelers and drive
Speaker 2: demolition derbies.
Speaker 3: Oh well it is.
Speaker 2: He was the source of the boys crazy, all of stunts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then we cut to footage of the like the
Speaker 2: father who calls himself awesome, allan.
Speaker 3: Awesome, his whole family is so good.
Speaker 2: So awesome. Alan standing in front of a totally wrecked
Speaker 2: seventy two oldsmobile. He's clutching a trophy right from and
Speaker 2: he's like he's won a demolition derby. And he's telling
Speaker 2: this interviewer for like, I don't know, a public access
Speaker 2: station in New Jersey and like eighty one or something.
Speaker 2: It feels great. I'll split this couple six packs from
Speaker 2: my buddies, we'll fix another car. We'll be down here
Speaker 2: at the next derby.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you something? I love a demolition derby?
Speaker 3: Same girl, There's so fun.
Speaker 2: This is the best I'm surprised to hear you say
Speaker 2: that kind of.
Speaker 3: I you know the there's one at the Yolo County
Speaker 3: four Yeah.
Speaker 2: One that no, I know that one the one of
Speaker 2: the best.
Speaker 3: It's so that I have a T shirt.
Speaker 2: Do you do you go merch? I do so awesome.
Speaker 2: Allen are like demolition derby expert will say, but driver
Speaker 2: really he raises his boys to enjoy motorsports as toys.
Speaker 2: So the brothers they ride four wheelers, dirt bikes, motorcycles,
Speaker 2: jet skis. If it goes fast, they want to try it. Awesome.
Speaker 2: Allen's like, get on boys, Hi flying Ryan. He puts it, quote,
Speaker 2: we discovered adrenaline at a young age. Then after that.
Speaker 2: So you have to keep in mind he's born in
Speaker 2: eighty seven to crazy Mike, So by this point he's
Speaker 2: like at thirteen and when at two thousand, right right,
Speaker 2: Everything in two thousand, if you really take a look back,
Speaker 2: was kind of extreme and insane for a thirteen year
Speaker 2: old boy.
Speaker 6: Sure.
Speaker 2: For instance, he next gets into backyard wrestling. Oh do
Speaker 2: you know backyard wrestling? Do you remember the backyard wrestling videos?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Like that. Boys would record videos of themselves like mostly
Speaker 2: like in like Oklahoma, Southern Indiana, right, and some insane
Speaker 2: wrestling moves like off of like a roof for a barn,
Speaker 2: and then onto another kid who they would then go
Speaker 2: through like a piece of wood and break it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe like on saw horses, or maybe just a table
Speaker 2: or like their mother's old furniture, a car hood, whatever,
Speaker 2: and they're doing like body slams. One of the kids
Speaker 2: would have like their arm wrapped in barbed wire, right
Speaker 2: jumping off the family home. Oh yeah, that's what a
Speaker 2: backyard wrestling was nuts.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: There'd be a a kid would jump with another kid
Speaker 2: onto like those metal trash cans that kind of you
Speaker 2: can kind of bend and fold right exactly, and then
Speaker 2: they would land on like a bed of broken glass.
Speaker 2: I mean it was nuts. Uugh yeah, wait, it was
Speaker 2: stupid insane.
Speaker 3: This is like the Jackass exactly.
Speaker 2: Two thousand, early two thousands, right, crazy Mike, high flying Ryan,
Speaker 2: they go full tilt backyard wrestling dangerous limits. I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: One friend remembered and I quote Mike was one of
Speaker 2: the high usually found Mike going through multiple tables off
Speaker 2: of a roof. Multiple tables, so imagine like those like
Speaker 2: you know, tables for like a an outdoor event, those
Speaker 2: plastic fold up condat just stack three high and then
Speaker 2: a kid jumps off a roof and goes co kung fold.
Speaker 2: That's the stuff, right. Another friend he recalled how quote
Speaker 2: you'd see a shed that's fifteen feet in the air
Speaker 2: and it goes without saying, you know, oh god, Mike's
Speaker 2: gonna jump off of this. Of course he did. So
Speaker 2: crazy Mike, he goes full dollar store jackass. Right. He
Speaker 2: starts filming everything he and his friends are doing and
Speaker 2: his brother Hi Falan Ryan are getting into around the
Speaker 2: Greater New Jersey area.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, as I said, this is the same stuff
Speaker 2: that's like the Big Brother videos, the Bammar Jerra videos
Speaker 2: that are like would lead to jackass and the high
Speaker 2: I'm Johnny Knoxville, Welcome to Jackass.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess Jacks totally familiar with those. I used
Speaker 3: to live with BMX riders. Oh you know this, and
Speaker 3: we would watch I always like when they'd watch videos,
Speaker 3: they'd be like, put on the ones where they all
Speaker 3: crack exactly. Do you like the Dead Sailor? And they yeah,
Speaker 3: so I'm familiar with that genre.
Speaker 2: I thought you would be so crazy Mike and high
Speaker 2: Flying Ryan. They are doing all these same things teen boys,
Speaker 2: though like the younger version, they're looking up to these
Speaker 2: the other guys who were like older teens and twenty
Speaker 2: year olds. Right, it's all the while Crazy Mike is
Speaker 2: also dreaming of fame and stardom in Hollywood, of course. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: So let's take a little break and after these fresh
Speaker 2: out of the oven ads, Elizabeth, I'll tell you how
Speaker 2: Crazy Mike becomes a real lifestunt man.
Speaker 4: I love this, and we're back a little Where were we, Mike?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's Hollywood, New Jersey circa two thousand, before we
Speaker 2: get to Hollywood Prime Jackass years more of these oh
Speaker 2: innocent times. Crazy Mike continues to get better as an
Speaker 2: amateur teenage stuntman. Right, there's footage of him doing the
Speaker 2: car flying that I've told you about with my buddy Jay, Right, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm on top of a car and someone he Jay
Speaker 2: slammed the brakes and I go flying. Yeah, he created
Speaker 2: I could do it a little differently. He would sit
Speaker 2: on the hood of the car, like right up against
Speaker 2: the glass windshield, and then his friend would slam on
Speaker 2: the brakes and you go flying into like a bush
Speaker 2: or whatever, right, a little less dramatic, but I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's also more dangerous. I'm like, oh, you don't want
Speaker 2: to be okay, you want.
Speaker 3: To Why is that more dangerous than you being on
Speaker 3: the top of the car.
Speaker 2: Because I would get up going really fast, and then
Speaker 2: when he hit the brakes, I would go flying clear
Speaker 2: of the car. He's basically in front of the car.
Speaker 2: They're going much slower. And then when they because he
Speaker 2: doesn't have to go as far right, so I'm essentially
Speaker 2: getting up to a speed. When my friend hits the brakes,
Speaker 2: we're separating me in the car. He's hitting the brakes
Speaker 2: and the car's like going twenty miles an hour, so
Speaker 2: like he could kind of fall in front of it,
Speaker 2: right right, right, Oh man, That's how I was seeing it. Anyway.
Speaker 2: My point is is that, like you know, I would
Speaker 2: superman fly like hands in front of me, like through
Speaker 2: the air, and then I'd hit and roll. He was
Speaker 2: just like flinging himself.
Speaker 3: Just what we're figuring out is that you were a
Speaker 3: superior amateur stuntman.
Speaker 2: I just I think I studied it more honestly, Like
Speaker 2: I mean, Yakim Uncanna, the stuntman who taught like John
Speaker 2: Wayne how to be a John Wayne like. He basically
Speaker 2: he meets his guy who's this like a real life
Speaker 2: cowboy who's gone down to Hollywood, and he ends up
Speaker 2: becoming a stunt man. First he's an actor, then they
Speaker 2: make the talkies, and so Yaki Muchanna can't make the
Speaker 2: transition into the talkies. Who becomes a stunt man. And
Speaker 2: then you know, John Wayne steals his walk, his look,
Speaker 2: his attitude, everything you see that that that hip walk
Speaker 2: that he does, that's all Yaka Muchanna, the way he talks,
Speaker 2: the draw Because John Wayne is from Iowa, he's Maryan Morrison.
Speaker 2: So he goes out there and he basically has to
Speaker 2: become a cowboy. He becomes Yaka mccannon. I studied that
Speaker 2: guy when I was a teenager, So I think these
Speaker 2: guys were studying Jackass when I was studying the original stuntman. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: this one is uh. I like this kid though, right?
Speaker 3: He seems fun?
Speaker 2: So what comes next for all crazy Mic? Great question, Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: way to stick with me? Cut to older teen crazy
Speaker 2: Mike jumping off of the roof with a table umbrella
Speaker 2: as his parachute. You know, what what you hold? You
Speaker 2: can push him up right? Yeah, for a backyard patios.
Speaker 2: He jumps off a roof, holding that like it's a parachute.
Speaker 2: Ain't gonna work, bro, it doesn't work too. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it hits him. Cut to Crazy Mike jumping off a
Speaker 2: brick wall onto the hood of a park GMC Jimmy,
Speaker 2: why I don't know, teenage friend of Crazy Mics. He
Speaker 2: would recall how at this point they're filming everything they did,
Speaker 2: so they're this this free floating carnival of pain and
Speaker 2: high jinks. As this friend put a quote, every night,
Speaker 2: either someone was getting hurt or someone was getting arrested.
Speaker 2: The cops showed up, Moura, then the people showed up
Speaker 2: like they're inviting people to watch them do stunts in
Speaker 2: a parking lot, and then the cops show up. So
Speaker 2: his brother Hi, Flying Ryan. He also recalled about this
Speaker 2: point in their life that the brothers quote didn't care
Speaker 2: about the law. We knew what the law was. We
Speaker 2: knew what we were doing was illegal. They're bad boys.
Speaker 2: Cut Too Crazy Mic throwing a rock through the windshield
Speaker 2: of a big yellow earth mover. Cut Too Crazy Mic
Speaker 2: riding a BMX bike naked with just a ballaklava face mask.
Speaker 2: Right back to high Flying Ryan. We didn't care about anything.
Speaker 2: We didn't care about anyone. We didn't even care about ourselves.
Speaker 2: No kidding really, for real, heart, what.
Speaker 3: There is that attitude like that? I lived with. Yes,
Speaker 3: I drove to the er a bunch of times.
Speaker 2: Let's go get stitches. Yeah, but it was like.
Speaker 3: You didn't fear that.
Speaker 2: They didn't think that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, pain is like good skaters BMX bike the guys
Speaker 2: who crash a lot. The pain you realize doesn't really
Speaker 2: hurt if it's not like the back of your head.
Speaker 2: You know, some things really do hurt. A lot of things,
Speaker 2: just like I gotta go get that research.
Speaker 3: It's worth it for the experience of doing. Yes.
Speaker 2: Now, these brothers also they love to compete because they're brothers,
Speaker 2: all right. So they're scrapping and wrestling and fighting, but
Speaker 2: they also get into boxing and fistfighting, always trying to
Speaker 2: outdo each other. The only thing that seems to really
Speaker 2: bring them together is the stunts. Like, you know, everything
Speaker 2: else is like this brotherly like antagonism. Now, in two
Speaker 2: thousand and three, a teenage spiky haired crazy Mike he
Speaker 2: looks like at this point, the singer of crazy Town,
Speaker 2: the guy did that song Butterfly, right, Yeah, like when
Speaker 2: they were young, Like yeah, just like it's like.
Speaker 3: He looks like he's early on the bill on a
Speaker 3: warped tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and exactly early on the bill on warp tour
Speaker 2: is exactly what Crazy going for too, Yeah, exactly. It's
Speaker 2: Sonny out and hot. So this guy Crazy Mike. He
Speaker 2: says it in two thousand and three about his high jinks,
Speaker 2: and I quote, I just do stunts because I like
Speaker 2: doing stunts. If I see a good roof to jump
Speaker 2: off of, into a good tree, into a good pool,
Speaker 2: into a pond, or even with my bicycle, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do it because just because it's there now, Elizabeth, you
Speaker 2: may recall this is exactly what Sir Edmund Hillary said
Speaker 2: about climbing Mount Everest. But he was a first Western
Speaker 2: to climate back in nineteen fifty three. Folks asked him
Speaker 2: why would he want to undertake such an insane challenge
Speaker 2: to climb a mountain whose peak is higher than the clouds.
Speaker 2: Then Sir Edmund Hillary said, because it is there now,
Speaker 2: Except he didn't really say that. I looked it up
Speaker 2: it's actually a different climber, George Leigh Mallory, who said
Speaker 2: in the nineteen twenties, but he also never made it
Speaker 2: to the summit because he disappeared on Everest.
Speaker 4: Because they have lady surnames, they get exactly so people anyway,
Speaker 4: point is just like a great heroic and famous mountain climber.
Speaker 2: My man crazy Mike is also compelled to do something
Speaker 2: simply because it's there. Now. The fact that something exists
Speaker 2: is enough to compel them once again to do battle
Speaker 2: with gravity. So fellow stunt man Leroy Patterson wanted to
Speaker 2: put it in more elevated terms. He said, and I quote,
Speaker 2: I like to thank them. We're all cut from the
Speaker 2: same cloth, all the stunt people. You know, we do
Speaker 2: what we do for a reason that most people don't understand.
Speaker 2: I understand, Elizabeth. I'm one of those rare folks. And
Speaker 2: I gotta say I agree with him. You kind of
Speaker 2: nailed it before. There is a sensation of feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the adrenaline junkie thing is true. But the one thing
Speaker 2: that killed me watching all the old footage of teenage
Speaker 2: crazy Mic and hype flyinge Ryan is how bad they
Speaker 2: were learning from their past failures.
Speaker 3: Oh that's frustrating.
Speaker 2: They don't get any better. They just keep doing the
Speaker 2: same dumb thing. It's driving me nuts watching it. I'm like, guys, guys,
Speaker 2: it was painful to watch, Like you wouldn't be able
Speaker 2: to watch the footage, like the way you know your
Speaker 2: sympathetic system.
Speaker 3: And like the thing is, when I was younger, I
Speaker 3: didn't have that problem. I loved watching the BMX stress videos.
Speaker 3: I thought they were amazing. And then something happened.
Speaker 2: You became sensitive to life, things became real.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then now if I see those, I get
Speaker 3: the pains in my legs.
Speaker 2: I can't watch your brain finished developing. That was it,
Speaker 2: you know, those sympathetic pain reactions you get to watching this, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you would have been vomiting on like on the floor
Speaker 2: by seven minutes into this video.
Speaker 3: It was so many things, so.
Speaker 2: Crazy, Mike, high flying Ryan. They just to keep they say,
Speaker 2: they keep doing just the worst and stunts ever, like
Speaker 2: zero safety protocols in mind, but total commitment, commitment, slim
Speaker 2: margin of error too. It's got to like you gotta
Speaker 2: right there, like if they if they miss, it's just
Speaker 2: like there's nowhere else to hit.
Speaker 3: Well, And if they're not honing their technique. That's terrifying.
Speaker 2: Oh god by So by the way, as I said earlier,
Speaker 2: like they're a slim margin of error and there's zero
Speaker 2: safety protocols. They're crash pads. They would always be improperly placed,
Speaker 2: like to do any real help. So it'd be like like,
Speaker 2: for instance, their flight passed, like when they're planning how
Speaker 2: they're going to jump, the flight pass are almost always
Speaker 2: straight down, Like they jump out of a window and
Speaker 2: go straight down. Like if I jump out of the window,
Speaker 2: I'm able to get like ten twelve, fourteen feet please,
Speaker 2: so I can hit and roll and spend some of
Speaker 2: that energy from the drop they do physics, They just
Speaker 2: drop straight down. That's a great way to break an ankle, right,
Speaker 2: which they do, so they just get They break elbows, ankles, denting.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: They have all the bones. I've broken. The nickel is like.
Speaker 2: That's a bad one, the worst. Yeah, yeah, well you
Speaker 2: breaking knee. That's also a real past just located. But
Speaker 2: there's some other ones. Yeah, your brother can tell you
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 3: One, right, Travis dislocated his hip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's got My advice to these brothers, if
Speaker 2: you're going to pick a fight with gravity, you gotta
Speaker 2: spend some time in the dojo, you know, like they
Speaker 2: do not, but they give a luck in young bones
Speaker 2: to carry them through, which I've been there, I've done that.
Speaker 2: But eventually anyway, Hey, there's this one footage. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: I wanted to tell you about this. Okay, this is
Speaker 2: a perfect example. Cut to some friend of theirs driving
Speaker 2: a quarter pipe down a suburban street. And by driving
Speaker 2: a quarter pipe, I mean they're pushing it with a car, right,
Speaker 2: And then you see crazy Mike driving a riding rather
Speaker 2: a dirt bike at the ramp and he launches himself
Speaker 2: over the car. Now do you think he lands it?
Speaker 2: Of course doesn't land it just bails hard on the
Speaker 2: street once again straight down.
Speaker 3: Doesn't like there's no landing plan.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, just like jump the car and can
Speaker 2: I do this?
Speaker 3: Yeah? We talk about this with criminals. They don't think
Speaker 3: about the other side of it.
Speaker 2: How do I land this and keep all my teeth? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So he went at speed toward a a quarterpipe.
Speaker 2: Had a quarter pipe between them. Yes, hit the quarter
Speaker 2: pipe goes over it. Now cut the crazy mic Ice
Speaker 2: skating the street by hanging off the driver's side door
Speaker 2: of a pickup truck, just on his shoes. There's no ice.
Speaker 2: Just seeing those videos like Saury Arabian, Yeah, the Gulf States,
Speaker 2: they can do it. They figured it out. They're hanging
Speaker 2: off cars that are on two wheels on that angle.
Speaker 2: They're doing all all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 3: I do like those videos.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah them I a video and they're
Speaker 2: they're sitting there like respecting the physics. You watch it.
Speaker 2: They're balancing their low. It's amazing stuff.
Speaker 3: That was the last like m I a that I
Speaker 3: listened to. She's gone crazy all.
Speaker 2: The way off the deep end. Yeah so uh Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: As I pointed out the stunts, they bothered me because
Speaker 2: he never seems to learn from them. It's just over
Speaker 2: and over again. He won't even learn from nature, like
Speaker 2: the one of the Capitol End. Like I'm like, Naser
Speaker 2: won't allow.
Speaker 3: You to do this.
Speaker 2: Like there's there's an example a right cut to crazy
Speaker 2: Mike jumping a BMX bike off of the roof of
Speaker 2: a school. It looks like down onto frozen wintertime grass. No, right,
Speaker 2: there's no know something about frozen wintertime grass. The soil
Speaker 2: is going to be hard. There's not like the springy
Speaker 2: grass of the summer where it's moisture in there from
Speaker 2: the rains. In said, you got basically concrete with lighting.
Speaker 3: It's the heavy sliding. I've seen guys ride BMX.
Speaker 2: You know school, Yeah, you know how to land those things.
Speaker 2: You can't do it on icy downhill grass. Do you
Speaker 2: think he lands it? Of course doesn't land in Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: and Steady snaps an ankle, rolls down the hill and
Speaker 2: then the bike ragged alls away from him. So Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: consider the inspiration, like if you're going to do this
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, like if you're going to jump off
Speaker 2: a roof or jump off a car, you gotta considered
Speaker 2: nature right right. The flying squirrel shows us how to
Speaker 2: negotiate the air as a mammal with the wings, you
Speaker 2: have to spread out, get get as much resistance air resistance,
Speaker 2: going spot your landing, and then hit and roll. They
Speaker 2: don't hit and roll, but that's us. We have to
Speaker 2: hit and roll this guy. He just goes up and
Speaker 2: then comes down.
Speaker 3: But you're a good amateur stunt man because you're very
Speaker 3: nimble and you have good spatial awareness. And it sounds
Speaker 3: like they do not no, no, like they.
Speaker 2: Do like backflips off the roof onto a pile of snow.
Speaker 2: Then so then sometimes they go rotate too far, hit
Speaker 2: their face. They jump straight down, as they said, out
Speaker 2: of second story windows. I mean, yes, I know you're
Speaker 2: a kid, but you're also doing hundreds of stunts, like
Speaker 2: you've got to learn from some of these. Don't you
Speaker 2: two idiots learn anything? Yeah, I mean you've crashed through tables, ladderfalls,
Speaker 2: window jumps cars, and then they end up bruising ribs,
Speaker 2: twisting ankles, concussing brain pants. No learning occurring anyway. But
Speaker 2: eventually the law enters the picture and they're like, we'll
Speaker 2: help you learn a lesson. So now you see, not
Speaker 2: only with crazy Mike filming all his bone jarring escapades,
Speaker 2: who's also recording his and his friend's juvenile suburban crime spreeze.
Speaker 2: Then they would edit them together, videotape, yell all their stunts,
Speaker 2: their pranks, late night crime sprees, and they would sell
Speaker 2: them at school.
Speaker 3: Oh good, as Elizabeth didn't take.
Speaker 2: Long for Crazy Mike's home movies to become the must
Speaker 2: have item at his local New Jersey school. That's kind
Speaker 2: of amazing, right then, that gets the other kind of attention.
Speaker 2: School administrators hear about it, They learn about the tapes,
Speaker 2: and then one gets handed over to them. They handed
Speaker 2: over to the police, as high flying Ryan remembers it.
Speaker 2: Of course, the tapes got into the wrong hands, and
Speaker 2: the next thing you know, the police are at the
Speaker 2: school taking us all into separate rooms, interviewing us because
Speaker 2: they saw stuff that young people shouldn't be doing.
Speaker 6: Crime.
Speaker 3: It's like young Elizabeth holding the tape being like, I feel.
Speaker 2: I have to save them from themselves. One of them's
Speaker 2: gonna die.
Speaker 3: Clerk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you need to see that the video
Speaker 2: power nerd and away, but protecting your people exactly. So,
Speaker 2: once they document their crimes and then pass out the
Speaker 2: evidence to their friends' entertainment, boom. Now the family has
Speaker 2: to hire a lawyer because the gay Bop brothers are
Speaker 2: charged with in decent acts due to one shot, which
Speaker 2: I assume is the one shot off crazy Mike streaking
Speaker 2: a basketball game. You're gonna be a sexual offender. We're
Speaker 2: gonna put you on the list and stuff.
Speaker 3: They know.
Speaker 2: But they did then they that's what.
Speaker 3: They say, saying. Yeah, but like back in the day,
Speaker 3: they didn't. They didn't charge street.
Speaker 2: No, no, so they did not, you're right about that.
Speaker 2: They kick him out of school. Yeah, so then he
Speaker 2: has to go to five different schools in a four
Speaker 2: year period. They just keep kicking him out of schools.
Speaker 2: He's poor month oh yeah, oh yeah. So after high school,
Speaker 2: Crazy Mike is finally free to go after his dreams.
Speaker 2: Now he can go to Hollywood, get into the pictures.
Speaker 2: He's well trained. Yeah, he plans to become a real,
Speaker 2: full fledged stuntman. But so, but first he's gonna go
Speaker 2: to film school because he realized that's important. He wants
Speaker 2: to make movies. So the first time ever he excels
Speaker 2: in school. He's doing what he loves, movies, stunts, filming everything.
Speaker 2: No police are getting mad at him. He's a professional daredevil,
Speaker 2: basically a film producer or real life stunt man. He's
Speaker 2: doing it. So he and high Fly and Ryan they
Speaker 2: start we play crazy productions. Okay, we play crazy Elizabeth.
Speaker 2: They filmed stunts, extreme sports, anything that can kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, excite an audience. And then they make these
Speaker 2: videos and they catch the attention of their industry. One producer,
Speaker 2: this guy, Steve Schlitz or Schliz, He recalls me, first
Speaker 2: saw crazy Mike's videos, and I was like, this guy's
Speaker 2: a maniac. I mean, Katie's definitely crazy. Crazy. Mike definitely
Speaker 2: stands out of a crowd. Right, So that's his impression.
Speaker 2: He's making industry name for himself.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Cut too crazy mic saying he's gonna do a backflip
Speaker 2: on a dirt bike. He guns the throttle, races a
Speaker 2: poorly constructed and oh badly placed ramp, rolls off the ramp,
Speaker 2: does the backflip. Does he land at Elizabeth? No, doesn't
Speaker 2: land it. The dirt bike comes down, smacks him in
Speaker 2: the head. He lands on top of a pile of
Speaker 2: dirt and the bike lands on top of him. The
Speaker 2: brand Echo Seasons are like, this guy, he's great, he
Speaker 2: gets attention, so they sign him to be a content
Speaker 2: creator for them. Oh, he starts producing videos of him
Speaker 2: and his buddies from We Play Crazy. Right. So, imagine
Speaker 2: two young dudes dressed as like college football mascots running
Speaker 2: around in a field in you know, America, except they're
Speaker 2: also on fire and they're running to a pond to
Speaker 2: be able to put out the fire. That's a crazy
Speaker 2: mic joint.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like Johnny Knoxville has like
Speaker 3: a cease and desist in his pocket for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're doing the waves. The wave is so great
Speaker 2: though that people at this point they're not gonna end. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because also Jackass was kind of an imitating imitation of
Speaker 2: some stuff that was going on in the culture and
Speaker 2: skateboard videos, so it was a culmination. But so they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is just the culture, right, and there they are
Speaker 2: the like w c W wrestling to WWE, they are
Speaker 2: the bitter. But it's all just a little bit exactly so.
Speaker 2: And also, as I said early two thousands, right finger
Speaker 2: on the pulse of this zeitgeist. He has got it.
Speaker 2: I mean when you watch his videos, if I played him,
Speaker 2: you could just hear the corn and Limp biscuit playing
Speaker 2: over the video at it. Yeah, right, Like do you
Speaker 2: like a good God Smack soundtrack, Cause they've got you covered.
Speaker 2: So at this point, Crazy, Mike, Hyfelin, Ryan, the rest
Speaker 2: of them we played Crazy crew are showing up on
Speaker 2: late night clip shows right of the lesser legacy broadcasting
Speaker 2: companies like upn Spike, Spike TV. Right yeah, right, so
Speaker 2: they make it also eventually onto MTV's ridiculousness very fit, right,
Speaker 2: They got some clips former skater Rob dry Deck, who's
Speaker 2: like runs that he has about the same reaction I
Speaker 2: do to seeing a Crazy Mike stunt and his safety
Speaker 2: prep for it break. I'm not sure if you know
Speaker 2: the show, he'll had like a panel of gas. Right,
Speaker 2: they do a clip right, so he's got this panel
Speaker 2: of guests the studio audience. Rob plays a clip of
Speaker 2: Crazy Mike jumping a motorbike off of the steep embankment
Speaker 2: into like a red clay ravine. Rob Drydeck is like,
Speaker 2: here we go, We're just out here and boom we
Speaker 2: see Crazy Mic gun it off the edge. Then he
Speaker 2: ditches the bike in midair as is his way. Then
Speaker 2: he plummets and crashed lands and what looks like a
Speaker 2: mound of like I said, just earth like it looks
Speaker 2: like tailings from a mining operation.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Little John who's on the panel all of the ridiculousness,
Speaker 2: he's watching this with stuned disbelief, like, oh no, right,
Speaker 2: and then Rob dry Deck is like, there's no water, there,
Speaker 2: there's no sand, there's no foam pit, there's no girls,
Speaker 2: there's no nothing, right, none of the fasts.
Speaker 3: He's gonna land on a pile of girls. No sand,
Speaker 3: no foam, no pile of girl.
Speaker 2: They're kind of softly eight year old girls. So none
Speaker 2: of these facts top Crazy Mike. Not even gravity can
Speaker 2: stop them. So what do they do now? These guys
Speaker 2: they make movies. Of course. Their first movie is called
Speaker 2: Hella Crazy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. At this point we're in box office success.
Speaker 2: Two thousand and six, big full on Bush ears like
Speaker 2: very America WWE is huge. To put it in musical terms,
Speaker 2: Elizabeth missed. New Booty by Bubba Sparks is at the
Speaker 2: top of the music charts.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Only bigger hit that year is Crazy by NARLS. Barkley.
Speaker 3: Oh no, yeah, so just look at.
Speaker 2: Your mind, right yeah, so.
Speaker 3: What a terrible, terrible time.
Speaker 2: A more innocent nation. Kind. So their movie Hella Crazy,
Speaker 2: which is just a super cut of all their craziest
Speaker 2: stunts and fails it. It's edited to a new metal soundtrack, right,
Speaker 2: so it fits right in there. It's a hit. Now
Speaker 2: like at the box office, they're selling DVDs online in
Speaker 2: independent stores, skate shops, some music shops, head shops, that
Speaker 2: kind of place. But two thousand and eight, Hella Crazy
Speaker 2: is sold so well well enough that they secure a
Speaker 2: distribution deal to put their DVDs now in Target, Circuit City,
Speaker 2: best Buy, Barnes and Noble will sell Hella Crazy. Elizabeth.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they move enough units to make Hella Crazy
Speaker 2: two still crazy. Okay, I added that last part it's
Speaker 2: just called crazy two, but that one also a financial hit.
Speaker 2: So they make Hella Crazy three crazy as I want
Speaker 2: to be again last part. Guy added that finally Hella
Speaker 2: Crazy four to Hella too Crazy thing again.
Speaker 4: Me.
Speaker 2: Sorry, but I can't help myself. The series gets some heat, right,
Speaker 2: infamous publisher of Hustler magazine, Larry Flint. Yeah, he sees
Speaker 2: the work. He gives some praise. He calls Crazy Mike's
Speaker 2: work it's like Jackass on drugs. I think he met
Speaker 2: that as a compliment. Anyway. The extreme sports fans, the skaters,
Speaker 2: the pop punk kids, what's left of the new metal crowd,
Speaker 2: even the new emo kids, they all love Hella Crazy.
Speaker 2: Anyone who's like, oh I love backyard wrestling. This is
Speaker 2: like backyard wrestling but even better. Yeah, so they go
Speaker 2: nuts to watch Crazy Mike put it all out there
Speaker 2: for the fans. Elizabeth. There are so many clips that
Speaker 2: would have made you empathetically vomit. We'll get into the clips.
Speaker 2: Just imagine they're hell crazy. So anyway, Crazy Mike he's
Speaker 2: on the come up pretty soon. It's going to be
Speaker 2: full on like Jimmy Cagney and White Heat, like Crazy
Speaker 2: Mic out there made him up top of the world. Right,
Speaker 2: he's getting really cocky at this point, right, he's getting
Speaker 2: really loud. He's trying to get a lot of attention.
Speaker 2: They start showing up on like Doctor Phil.
Speaker 3: Wait, yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2: You remember he's doing he's selling clips. People are starting
Speaker 2: to become aware of him. So, yeah, can you get
Speaker 2: anything more early two thousands than Doctor Phil. Let's take
Speaker 2: a little break. I'll let you think about that. When
Speaker 2: we get back. I'll tell you why he was on
Speaker 2: Doctor Philka all right, Elizabeth, I promise you Doctor Phil. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, picture the Doctor Phil set crazy spiky hair, right,
Speaker 2: blonde tips. Doctor Phil has them on for a public intervention.
Speaker 2: We're gonna stop Crazy Mike. That's the call. Doctor Phil
Speaker 2: has experts on doctors to try real doctors to try
Speaker 2: to convince crazy Mike to stop doing his crazy stunts
Speaker 2: and wrecking his body. Okay, because I also, I would add,
Speaker 2: because you're bad at them. Yeah, but in his own defense,
Speaker 2: crazy Mike tells the audience and specifically doctor Phil, how
Speaker 2: do I getting hurt? You know? Like, I mean this,
Speaker 2: this makes me happy. It's like a drug. Stunts are
Speaker 2: like a drug to me. It's like it's my cocaine.
Speaker 2: I need it to do it to live. I need
Speaker 2: that adrenaline rush to live. I try to take safety precautions. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I might not be professional, but I'm taking safety and
Speaker 2: precaution now, Doctor Sphil says in a sarcastic way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we all saw the safety protocols with the vending machine
Speaker 2: right now. The vending machine. It was this super viral clip.
Speaker 2: It's why he's on Doctor Phil. Crazy Mike does a
Speaker 2: backflip off of a vending machine. But get this, he
Speaker 2: doesn't landed, Elizabeth.
Speaker 3: Oh you're kidding.
Speaker 2: He smacks the hell out of his face against the pavement. Ah,
Speaker 2: this brain genius does the same stunt again, and get this, Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: Crazy Mike didn't land it again, but he did yet
Speaker 2: again smack his brains against the concrete and then he
Speaker 2: knocks himself out. So this viral video lands him on
Speaker 2: doctor Phil for the public intervention, and again in his
Speaker 2: own defense, Crazy Mike tells Doctor Phil, in order to
Speaker 2: be old and wise, first you have to be young
Speaker 2: and stupid. So Doctor Phil's rebutted, well, that's just stupid.
Speaker 2: So around the same time, DVDs they stop selling, right,
Speaker 2: just as a market now because people can illegally download
Speaker 2: Hello Crazy three and Hello Crazy four for free online.
Speaker 2: So what's the crazy Mike to do?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Takes his act to the people. They start doing live events.
Speaker 2: Cut to Girls Gone Wild style footage, but young men
Speaker 2: doing violence to their own bodies, calling it stunts and pranks.
Speaker 2: Right again, Elizabeth, I will spare you any of the
Speaker 2: graphic descriptions of what went down at a We Play
Speaker 2: Crazy live event, but there is this one video love
Speaker 2: high flying Ryan standing in a field. Okay, then you
Speaker 2: see this Dodge Econo line van barreling right at him.
Speaker 2: Strapped to the front of the van are like two
Speaker 2: children's mattresses, two children, no, two children's mattresses, like a
Speaker 2: little and then the van just runs into him and
Speaker 2: kind of over him, and they both smash into a
Speaker 2: pyramid of empty cardboard boxes.
Speaker 3: Wait, he just got hit by a van. Watched we
Speaker 3: get hit by a van.
Speaker 2: Safety and precaution, the crowd goes wild. So their live
Speaker 2: events typically featured also some oil wrestling on an air
Speaker 2: mattress platform. So you got two women in bikinis doing
Speaker 2: oil wrestling, and then I never saw men doing it.
Speaker 2: I didn't see any men because of course the men
Speaker 2: were involved in the boxing Gloved Fight Club, So just
Speaker 2: two guys in a field punching each other. Now for
Speaker 2: live music, they had their own We Play Crazy official band.
Speaker 3: Yeah they Toxic Masculinity, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: It's why high Fly and Ryan put it. We get
Speaker 2: people entertainment, no matter what it is, no matter so there, no,
Speaker 2: it's high Flying, Ryan recalls, I mean crazy. Mike was
Speaker 2: a getting ready to move on from this because they
Speaker 2: were successful. So he goes out to Hollywood, takes this
Speaker 2: show on the road, and then, as his brother recalls,
Speaker 2: it wasn't hard for him to get work. People wanted him.
Speaker 2: He had talent, he had character, he knew he could
Speaker 2: perform the stunt work. He was physically fit, he was
Speaker 2: a good looking guy. He had agents lined up. People
Speaker 2: wanted to manage him, right, That's the story. And then
Speaker 2: came the ghost Rider too stunt. He goes out to Hollywood,
Speaker 2: starts to become a success based on all the hell
Speaker 2: of crazy success ye, and then comes the Ghostwriter Too stunt?
Speaker 2: What is the ghost Rider Too? God?
Speaker 3: Please tell me.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth, I'm so glad you asked that documentary Crazy Mike
Speaker 2: is Dead, made by we played Crazy Productions. Well, I've
Speaker 2: been quoting from it to a bunch And it opens
Speaker 2: with Crazy Mike explaining this stunt to the viewer, the
Speaker 2: one that he's going to perform, and Crazy Mike says,
Speaker 2: I'm jumping my motorcycle over that Crazy Mike ramp in
Speaker 2: a ghost Rider suit into that lake that's I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna lie, only probably about five feet deep. Oh God, Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: I forgot to mention. For this done, crazy Mike would
Speaker 2: also be on fire. Well, the ghost Rider is on fire,
Speaker 2: He's got to be on fire, so you know it's
Speaker 2: a promotional event. April twenty first, twenty twelve, Crazy Mike
Speaker 2: is in a desert east of Los Angeles working on
Speaker 2: the promotional video for the sequel to ghost Rider Too.
Speaker 2: The plan is for him to ride a motorcycle wall
Speaker 2: on fire hit a super steep ramp but also super
Speaker 2: short launch ramp and which Will jettis him, him and
Speaker 2: the motorcycle high up into the air and he'll land
Speaker 2: in the pond, which will extinguish the fire. I think
Speaker 2: that's the general Cage would not approve. No, we would not.
Speaker 2: The early safety concerns are not about the launch ramp,
Speaker 2: which just looking at it, I had my safety concerns,
Speaker 2: but it's not like what I would do. So anyway,
Speaker 2: the most folks, they seem to be worried about the
Speaker 2: shallowness of what they keep calling a lake, which is
Speaker 2: actually a pond. It is a really small, shallow poddle. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's crazy. Mike pointed out. The pond is like five
Speaker 2: feet at it at its deepest, right, they have like
Speaker 2: guys walk out into it to measure how deep the
Speaker 2: pond is. It is way out They're like, oh, let's
Speaker 2: say it's up to my shoulders. I'm six feet, So
Speaker 2: there you go. That's the measurements. Crazy Mike fires up
Speaker 2: the motor onto the dirt bike. He takes a couple
Speaker 2: of practice runs in shorts and running shoes. Once he
Speaker 2: feels good about the speed he'll need to get going,
Speaker 2: which looks to be something he's kind of just guessing at,
Speaker 2: like there's no one on set that I can see,
Speaker 2: like with a stunt schematic. There's nobody who's got the
Speaker 2: speed grafts or some mock up of the physics of
Speaker 2: the jump. It's just Crazy Mike going back and forth
Speaker 2: a few times bred and he's like, okay, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I should be good. Ready to go over to wardrobe
Speaker 2: for his costume, then over to hair and makeup. Once
Speaker 2: he's got all in, all the all black leather of
Speaker 2: the ghost Rider outfit, the chain around his chest, that's
Speaker 2: where the production team is secreted a GoPro camera. Crazy
Speaker 2: Mike holds his ghost Rider's skull head in his hands.
Speaker 2: Right the production crew rolls sound.
Speaker 3: It's just a sea of flat build Fox baseball caps.
Speaker 2: At this point, I wish there were more of them.
Speaker 2: I think some of them would have stopped so they
Speaker 2: sink with the sound. With the clapboard, someone calls action.
Speaker 2: Crazy Mike pulls on his rubber ghost Rider full on,
Speaker 2: full head safety mask and this is it for the fire.
Speaker 2: He climbs aboard his all black ghost Rider dirt bike.
Speaker 2: He takes a few more practice runs, right if you
Speaker 2: last minute wardrobe check with the costume, then all set
Speaker 2: for the big stunt. Yeah, Crazy Mike comes tearing into
Speaker 2: view on his dirt bike. He's on fire, flames are
Speaker 2: licking the air behind him. He speeds towards the ramp.
Speaker 2: He smashes through a set of long white fluorescent light bulbs,
Speaker 2: because that's like a Hella Crazy signature move, like run
Speaker 2: through fluorescent light bulbs. They go yeah, the sh so
Speaker 2: they shatter into puffs of white, and then he's launched
Speaker 2: off the ramp, goes in skyward Elizabeth, and then you
Speaker 2: see Crazy Mike lose the dirt bike in midair, right,
Speaker 2: because that's his signature move. I ain't gonna land this, yeah, Now,
Speaker 2: Immediately people start to react. He's just left the ramp,
Speaker 2: and you hear in the footage people they know this
Speaker 2: is not how the stunt should be going. If he's
Speaker 2: going right. Personally, having seen his stunt work, I can
Speaker 2: I can't tell the difference to you going right, but whatever,
Speaker 2: it looks like all of the stunts to me anyway,
Speaker 2: he always ditches the bike right mid air. He never
Speaker 2: lands it. So I'm like, I don't know, he's ditch
Speaker 2: the bike, he's not gonna land it. But what I
Speaker 2: can also see is he's going way too far into
Speaker 2: the sky and too fast, so he's gonna clear the lake.
Speaker 2: Oh no, so you hear people shouting, oh oh no, whoa,
Speaker 2: and Crazy Mic is now plummeting like a rag doll
Speaker 2: that's on fire. Uh huh, clears sailing over the lake right,
Speaker 2: that's actually a pond. It seems to he went way
Speaker 2: too fast off the ramp because I remember he different
Speaker 2: and then practice that was it. So gravity wins their
Speaker 2: long standing fight. My man, Crazy Mike drops about sixty
Speaker 2: feet slams back down to earth like a modern Icarus.
Speaker 2: It's bad, Like, I don't want you to worry about Elizabeth.
Speaker 2: He's not dead. Crazy Mic is not dead. However, this
Speaker 2: stunt is so poorly planned. There's no one hidden in
Speaker 2: the tree line close by for the landing spot in
Speaker 2: case something goes wrong. So no one's ready with a
Speaker 2: fire extinguisher. No one's ready with the blankets. No no. Instead,
Speaker 2: remember crazy Mike is he's on fire. He's still on fire.
Speaker 2: So now he slammed into the ground on fire. Production
Speaker 2: crew now is to make a panicked dash of like
Speaker 2: sixty yards to get to them. Oh go, so, and
Speaker 2: they're all like making they're all panicked. Now they're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, just running around chickens with their heads
Speaker 2: cut off. The first people to reach them, they just
Speaker 2: start kicking dirt and sand on the flames.
Speaker 3: He is rolling, Why aren't they rolling him?
Speaker 2: Finally folks reached with fire extinguishers, apparent they were slower runners,
Speaker 2: and then and they didn't give the like they should
Speaker 2: just give the fire singers the fastest crew. Not that right,
Speaker 2: They managed about out the fire. Then they turned the
Speaker 2: yell medic. Medic, Well, that's sure.
Speaker 3: You don't want to roll because he probably broke his neck.
Speaker 2: Exactly, No, definitely, Like I'm losing it at this point, right,
Speaker 2: worst safety crew for a big stunt I've ever seen,
Speaker 2: just amateur hour clown show panic everywhere. Right, Anyway, they're rolling,
Speaker 2: they're moving him like it's it's in everything. You don't
Speaker 2: want to see.
Speaker 3: His CTE must be so bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hadn't even thought about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, his brain is just you know, the helmet.
Speaker 2: Helmet helped. It kept him from a traumatic brain injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But like the number of times that he's crash, Yeah,
Speaker 3: just like the shaking.
Speaker 2: He's basically an NFL athlete. I felt defensive yeah, so
Speaker 2: Crazy is fine. The ambulance takes him away. He's banged
Speaker 2: up real good though, right, this is his worst injuries yet.
Speaker 2: His arm is all bent, all kinds of wrong. He's
Speaker 2: lying there, moaning, half conscious, but he comes around. He
Speaker 2: tries to fight the medics so he can get up.
Speaker 2: He's like me, He's like the worst patient. They try
Speaker 2: to keep him calm. They still trying to triage all
Speaker 2: his injuries. All told, Elizabeth, he has a broken back,
Speaker 2: a broken neck, a broken pelvis, two broken arms, a
Speaker 2: broken collar bone, multiple broken ribs, collapsed both of his lungs,
Speaker 2: and he has the second degree burns from the fire.
Speaker 2: But he's not dead.
Speaker 3: Does he have health insurance?
Speaker 2: And his helmet, as he told you, kept his brain
Speaker 2: safe from the traumatic injury. But no, he does not
Speaker 2: have health insurance. He's doing all of these stunts with
Speaker 2: no health insurance. I just okay, Yeah, So the footage
Speaker 2: of the medics treating him, you can hear someone say
Speaker 2: he'd want you to film this, so of course they
Speaker 2: record the entire thing. The paramedics rolling Crazy Mic onto
Speaker 2: the backboard, stabilizing him, carding him off into the ambulance. Now,
Speaker 2: after that stuff, goes horribly wrong. Life takes a dramatic
Speaker 2: turn for Crazy monduse as you pointed out, he has
Speaker 2: no health insurance and he's doing these stunts. As I said,
Speaker 2: no health insurance America, right, which eventually has to file
Speaker 2: a lawsuit against the ghostwriter to production company because he's
Speaker 2: got like a million dollars in medical bills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, But I'm thinking if we had socialized
Speaker 3: medicine with universal health care, I wouldn't want my tax
Speaker 3: dollars going to his coverage stop.
Speaker 2: No, then what we can do with with everybody who
Speaker 2: speeds and because there's so many people.
Speaker 3: Who make risky decisions.
Speaker 2: Just crazy Mike, you.
Speaker 3: Have a crazy Mic again.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, Crazy Mike's legal team they contended that the production
Speaker 2: company for Sony, and they alleged that Sony's producers of
Speaker 2: Break Media and Next Point, Inc. Were quote consciously chose
Speaker 2: to proceed with the dangerous activity with a conscious disregard
Speaker 2: of the safety of those observing the activity. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I was reading it. I'm like, bro, you're serious. We're
Speaker 2: crazy Mike. I mean, crazy Mic is not man. All
Speaker 2: that was filmed. We all saw the prep. It's like,
Speaker 2: there's no protocol. Clearly there was terrible say so the
Speaker 2: lawsuit he loses. Cut to the present or close to
Speaker 2: it twenty twenty two, ten years later, all right, where
Speaker 2: is crazy Mike? Now, Elizabeth in a nursing home. Well
Speaker 2: to answer that, I'd like you to close your eyes, al,
Speaker 2: I'd like you to picture it. It's just before two
Speaker 2: pm on a Monday afternoon in August, and you, Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: are in Franklin Township, New Jersey. You recently moved to Franklin,
Speaker 2: New Jersey for a new job. You took an offer
Speaker 2: from a cousin. Now you're working at a Christmas tree farm.
Speaker 2: You're in charge of the Douglas First, which you are
Speaker 2: not your favorite Christmas tree, but a job is a job.
Speaker 2: At the moment, you're standing in line in the local
Speaker 2: Chase Manhattan Bank, it's been a long day and it's
Speaker 2: only two pm. You wait with a few others. You're
Speaker 2: trying to make it to a friend's house for a
Speaker 2: dinner party. Just a few errands to run and then
Speaker 2: you can pop home and relax. You're there to deposit
Speaker 2: your first paycheck from the Christmas tree farm. The young
Speaker 2: man ahead of you in mine is listening to his
Speaker 2: music on his oversized headphones, loud enough that you can
Speaker 2: actually wrap along with jay Z whenever you recognize a line.
Speaker 2: Then you hear it. A motorcycle pulls up outside the bank.
Speaker 2: A short moment later, the door to the bank opens
Speaker 2: with the familiar chime of the bell. Then you hear
Speaker 2: motorcycle boots on hard tile. You turn to look and
Speaker 2: see if it's a big old biker. It's not. Instead,
Speaker 2: you see a young motorcycle guy. He's about five seven.
Speaker 2: He's in all black, black shirt, black pants, a black
Speaker 2: helmet with a black visor, black on black on black.
Speaker 2: The most importantly, he's also wearing a black face mask.
Speaker 2: There's an open space for his eyes, but not even
Speaker 2: his eyes are visible because they're covered by wait for it,
Speaker 2: black goggles. You listen to his motorcycle boots on the
Speaker 2: cold tile floor of the bank. As you do, the
Speaker 2: man darn it, this is a robbery. Why does this
Speaker 2: always happen to you, Elizabeth? The man in all black
Speaker 2: walks past the line of waiting customers and heads right
Speaker 2: up to a teller one who's busy with a customer,
Speaker 2: a local plumber. When the customer turns and sees the
Speaker 2: man in all black and his face mask. The middle
Speaker 2: aged plumber lets out a tiny gas. The man in
Speaker 2: all black doesn't speak. He slyly nods to the side.
Speaker 2: The plumber understands. He steps away. You can't hear what
Speaker 2: the robber is saying. All you can hear is muffled
Speaker 2: jay Z. He sort of mouthed the words when jay
Speaker 2: Z gets to allow me to reintroduce myself, my name
Speaker 2: is ho oh h to the hovie. The bank robber
Speaker 2: works his way down the line of tellers. You assume
Speaker 2: he must have a gun, but you don't actually see it.
Speaker 2: The tailers do as instructed. They hand over wads of
Speaker 2: cash from their drawers. You mentally calculate how much this
Speaker 2: payday could be might be Your best guess is maybe
Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars tops. But the man in all black
Speaker 2: sure seems pleased with his tape. Shoves the money into
Speaker 2: a small, loose sack, then like about like a half
Speaker 2: sized pillow. Then he shoves that sack of cash into
Speaker 2: his leather jacket zips up. He pulls his helmet down
Speaker 2: over his head, but as he does, he knocks his
Speaker 2: goggles loose. You see his eyes and they look kind
Speaker 2: of familiar. You actually wonder if you know him. Why
Speaker 2: does he look so familiar? The man in all black
Speaker 2: doesn't hesitate. He rushes for the door, his boots slapping
Speaker 2: at the cold, hard tile floor. No one stops him.
Speaker 2: The double doors swing open, then swing back shut. The
Speaker 2: bank robber gone. And that's when it hits you, and
Speaker 2: you mutter to yourself, Hella, crazy four. You recognize the
Speaker 2: man in all black from those dumb videos your old
Speaker 2: roommate used to watch back when you worked for the
Speaker 2: traveling circus. Outside the bank, you hear a motorcycle roar
Speaker 2: of life and races away. As the sound fades away, Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: you mutter to yourself under your breath, crazy Mike, is
Speaker 2: that you okay? So after that mass bandit fled on
Speaker 2: his motorcycle, the police of Franklin Township hopped to it
Speaker 2: is sprung into action. First they established a perimeter, then
Speaker 2: they called it in the FBI since it was a
Speaker 2: bank robbery, right, so the field ages. They're quick to
Speaker 2: their local cops aid, the FBI is there. They make
Speaker 2: this search, but it's all for not. Bank robber escapes.
Speaker 2: This begins Elizabeth, a three month investigation three months ninety days,
Speaker 2: at the end of which the FBI local police they
Speaker 2: have a solid suspect. They've worked their leads, and they
Speaker 2: have a real live suspect. Guess who, Elizabeth, that's right,
Speaker 2: one Mike gave aka Crazy Mike. On December second, a
Speaker 2: little more than three months after the late August of robbery,
Speaker 2: the FBI swat team from the Newark office raids the
Speaker 2: gab Off home. Mike isn't there, and his family gives
Speaker 2: misleading info about where he might be, try as they might,
Speaker 2: though this head start doesn't last long. Crazy Mike is
Speaker 2: subsequently arrested for the bank job. He's charged with second
Speaker 2: degree robbery, second degree conspiracy to commit robbery, both felonies.
Speaker 2: But that's not all. His father, Awesome Allen, his mother Sharon,
Speaker 2: and his little brother Jesse Gabos Sassy Sharon, we're all
Speaker 2: arrested for a third degree hindering. So wow, those charges
Speaker 2: were later dropped. So what happened? Was it all? Because
Speaker 2: the medical bills probably most likely right? Well to answer
Speaker 2: that question, Elizabeth. Recently, Crazy Mike sat down for a
Speaker 2: video interview to talk about robbing a bank in New Jersey. Yeah, now,
Speaker 2: thirty seven years old, Crazy Mike, still wearing sunglasses and
Speaker 2: still spiking his hair, explains to the camera how and
Speaker 2: why he was arrested. But from his side of the
Speaker 2: legal ledger quote on December, I was rudely awakened by
Speaker 2: a police and they handcuffed me, saying I was arrested
Speaker 2: for bank robbery. And yeah, I spent five days in
Speaker 2: jail and I got released on this thing called pre
Speaker 2: trial conditions. Now, the interviewer, I just asked them straight up,
Speaker 2: did you rob a bank? Yeah, Crazy Mike says I
Speaker 2: did not rob a bank. But then he clarifies, however,
Speaker 2: my brother robbed a bank.
Speaker 3: Oh, he puts it on Ryan.
Speaker 2: That's right, Elizabeth, it wasn't Crazy Mike. It was High
Speaker 2: Flying Ryan. Back to Crazy Mike for more clarification. And
Speaker 2: you know, some say I had like a slight involvement
Speaker 2: in it. I have to be real careful of my
Speaker 2: words because the case is still pending. And makes a video,
Speaker 2: but to his credit, the video is no longer on YouTube.
Speaker 2: I had to look public defender. Yeah. So it turns
Speaker 2: out in April twenty twenty three, his brother, High Flying Ryan,
Speaker 2: was arrested on the same charges of robbery and conspiracy
Speaker 2: to commit robbery. It seems at most Crazy Mike may
Speaker 2: have been involved in the getaway, or, as Crazy Mike
Speaker 2: put it, by way, teasing the cop who was investigating him.
Speaker 2: Another great choice when you're still in trial. I don't
Speaker 2: know if Detective Grosso really thinks I was really the
Speaker 2: ghetaway driver for this bank robbery. Detective Grosso, why would
Speaker 2: I have my iPhone on me? Ye? Silly Goose?
Speaker 3: Is silly goose?
Speaker 2: That's a direct quote, direct quote. Now, did Crazy Mike
Speaker 2: help hide his brother, High Flying Ryan?
Speaker 3: He sold him out?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't answer that question. But Crazy
Speaker 2: Mike wasn't the man in all black that you saw. Oh,
Speaker 2: in April of last year, his brother, High Flying Ryan,
Speaker 2: peacefully surrendered to authorities.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No word on his motive, so I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's like his brother's medical costs or not. However, since
Speaker 2: that's not the best Danu mal, I do have this
Speaker 2: little fact for you, Elizabeth. I happened to know that
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, Crazy Mike went back to the
Speaker 2: desert to retry the same ghost Riders stop that nearly
Speaker 2: killed him. No, yes, yes, yes, no stop in this one.
Speaker 2: This time it's the adrenaline, baby, you got it. You
Speaker 2: can't understand unless you feel I just can't. This time
Speaker 2: the ramp looked even worse in my opinion. Give me
Speaker 2: just shoot you straight up into the sky. Right at
Speaker 2: the top of the plywood. Someone and it's also like anyway,
Speaker 2: the top of the plywood, someone drew a red arrow
Speaker 2: pointing at the sky and there's just one word destiny,
Speaker 2: and people as you, oh my god, yes, and as
Speaker 2: you heard me like practically sputtering a second ago. This
Speaker 2: old school plywood ramp looks like something my friends and
Speaker 2: I built when we were twelve, Like can you talk
Speaker 2: about that ramp on the firewood? Yes, just a little
Speaker 2: bit better. It's like when we go and take scrap
Speaker 2: wood from them building homes and like old nails and
Speaker 2: like make these little X frames and then try to
Speaker 2: build a ramp. It's like that level of construction, and
Speaker 2: it's all pot like ply with overlapping. It's like, all right,
Speaker 2: I just put this here, and somebody's just like not
Speaker 2: even attached. Just we just laid it on because there's
Speaker 2: got some water here. Anyway, what do you think happens Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: does he land this jump?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Well, first the police arrive, they see what I see.
Speaker 2: Someone else called in and then they showed up like,
Speaker 2: oh Jesus, we got to talk to somebody, so they
Speaker 2: nearly shut the stunt down. However, crazy Mike he uh,
Speaker 2: is able to sweet talk the cops, and by sweet
Speaker 2: talk I mean lie. He just straights up, tells him, oh, no,
Speaker 2: we're not gonna jump that. No, I don't know. No,
Speaker 2: We're just gonna setting up for photos and stuff. Right
Speaker 2: then the cops are convinced. They decided to let Crazy
Speaker 2: Mike be Crazy Mike, and they go away. So Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: again I asked, does he land it?
Speaker 3: Yes? And then he flew off in with the angel destiny.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll turn it over to crazy Mike. A gear up,
Speaker 2: soak all my leathers with the water to prevent any burns.
Speaker 2: Put conditioner all over my hair and face. I go
Speaker 2: in the spot where I'm about to begin. I gas
Speaker 2: my jacket up nice and carefully. Now, if you don't
Speaker 2: have a gas in your jacket up, he's gonna be
Speaker 2: on fire. So pouring gasoline on his leather jacket, and
Speaker 2: the video shows him pouring gas out of a gatorade
Speaker 2: bottle onto his jacket that's just lying on the cement,
Speaker 2: all crumpled in different angle. It's not like a smooth
Speaker 2: like we've applied this with a brush. It's even and
Speaker 2: we we're gonna have vapors coming. No, it's just yea
Speaker 2: some here, some there. Anyway, back to crazy Mike. He also,
Speaker 2: I should tell you he's got a partner named mister
Speaker 2: Stobb who's paying for this, so he'll come in into
Speaker 2: the story in a second. Yeah, So back to Crazy Mike.
Speaker 2: Mister Stobb says a prayer for me. I get on
Speaker 2: the bike. He lights me, and I'm going I'm riding
Speaker 2: as fast as that bike will go. And something came
Speaker 2: out of my mouth that I didn't even control, saying,
Speaker 2: what do you think? He said, Elizabeth, No, don't guess.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I guess, he says, and I
Speaker 2: quote I am the ghost Rider. And then as he
Speaker 2: tells it, and.
Speaker 7: I hit that ramp full beast mode and I was
Speaker 7: just flying felt like slow motion to me. Spotted the
Speaker 7: water and I was like, whoa, that water seems so
Speaker 7: far away from me right now? Who landed in the water?
Speaker 2: He landed at Elizabeth, Not really, he landed. He just
Speaker 2: grabbed down the water. No biking him together again more accurately,
Speaker 2: he watered it. So anyway, I got out of the
Speaker 2: water so excited. The feeling that I had when I
Speaker 2: got out of the water was pure bliss. This is
Speaker 2: why I do this crazy shit. That is always why
Speaker 2: I do this. It's crazy because I chase that feeling.
Speaker 2: So there you go, straight from the jackass's mouth. Is
Speaker 2: that why high Flying Ryan rob the bank? I cannot
Speaker 2: tell you to build the ramp? I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 2: the head, I think, though we do know it had
Speaker 2: something to do with that feeling and perhaps a desperate
Speaker 2: need for money, which is, you know, nothing to laugh at.
Speaker 2: So I don't mean to make light of that. However,
Speaker 2: crazy Mic and High Flying Ryan, they are ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Oh definitely.
Speaker 2: Man, do I love them for it?
Speaker 3: Definitely?
Speaker 2: So, Elizabeth, what's our ridiculous takeaway here?
Speaker 3: I'm curious as to their pain management protocols, like do
Speaker 3: they have that's dangerous to be injured so many times?
Speaker 2: Completely? And yeah, so that's there was no mention in
Speaker 2: the documentary, so I don't know if they have any
Speaker 2: issues with that. Interesting, that's my ridiculous takeaway. Thank you
Speaker 2: for asking, Elizabeth Is I you know I always tell
Speaker 2: you this that like I consider myself kind of the edge,
Speaker 2: Like if you are past me, I get work about you.
Speaker 2: These guys were so far past me. I could barely
Speaker 2: see him on the horizon. I was like, man, I'm
Speaker 2: worried about them. Are they still there? Anyway? There you go.
Speaker 2: That's all I have. Are you in the mood for
Speaker 2: a talk back? Always well, producer d can you hook
Speaker 2: us up? Oh? Oh my god, did you just see that?
Speaker 3: I let get.
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