Speaker 1: Welcome with the Good Stuff. I'm Jacob Shick and I'm
Speaker 1: joined by my co host and wife, Ashley Shick.
Speaker 2: Jake is a third generation combat Marine and I'm a
Speaker 2: gold Star granddaughter, and we work together to serve military veterans,
Speaker 2: first responders, frontline healthcare workers, and their families with mental
Speaker 2: and emotional wellness through traditional and non traditional therapy. At
Speaker 2: One Tribe Foundation, we believe.
Speaker 1: Everyone has a stored itself, not only about the peaks,
Speaker 1: but also about the valleys they've been through to get
Speaker 1: them to where they are today.
Speaker 2: Each week, we invite a guest to tell us their story,
Speaker 2: to share with us the lessons they've learned that shape
Speaker 2: who they are and what they're doing to pay it
Speaker 2: forward and give back.
Speaker 1: Our mission with this show is to dig deep into
Speaker 1: our guest journey so that we can celebrate the hope
Speaker 1: and inspiration their story as the offer and Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Good Stuff.
Speaker 2: Our guest today is always looking for the next big adventure.
Speaker 2: He's a Daredvil wild Man street bike Tommy Passamonte.
Speaker 1: He is part of Nitro Circus, which is an action
Speaker 1: sports company with some of the biggest events in BMX, FMX,
Speaker 1: skate and scooter, and he tells.
Speaker 2: Us a story of some of his craziest stunts in
Speaker 2: the accident that actually started him down this venturesome path
Speaker 2: and eventually led him to time travel to ancient Egypt.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hear about a lot of wild stunts, so kids,
Speaker 1: needless to say, don't try this at home.
Speaker 2: And as another quick disclaimer, we actually recorded this episode
Speaker 2: a while back and a few things have changed in
Speaker 2: Tommy's personal life since then, but he told us he
Speaker 2: wouldn't change a thing that he said.
Speaker 1: Tommy loves so hard and I love this man. He
Speaker 1: understood the mission of the podcast the moment we discussed
Speaker 1: it with him, So let's jump right in. Here is
Speaker 1: Street Bike Tommy Passimonte. But then they turn it off
Speaker 1: and they're like, I got this. That's your point, you get,
Speaker 1: all right, So hype up your day. Yeah yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean to put on your bad ass cape. I'm the
Speaker 1: courage to put on your badass cape and do epic shit.
Speaker 3: Y yeah. Or even if you can't do epic shit,
Speaker 3: just go ahead and enjoy your ride.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you only get one shot around the sun.
Speaker 3: You know, I would hate for somebody to compare themselves
Speaker 3: in my life, because my life is like you couldn't
Speaker 3: even I don't even think I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: But to be able to like just enjoy every breath.
Speaker 3: People they try to plan on the future too much
Speaker 3: and they really try to like live in the past
Speaker 3: or like, oh well I did this, and oh man,
Speaker 3: I'm really bummed I did that about my life. The
Speaker 3: main thing that I've learned in life is just to
Speaker 3: chill and like enjoy what's happening around you, like smells, tastes,
Speaker 3: I mean, just the people you're around, because like who knows,
Speaker 3: you never know what ride somebody's on, you know, right, Absolutely.
Speaker 1: St podcast episode for coming.
Speaker 2: No, No, that's awesome. We are so excited today to
Speaker 2: have Stuntman, wild Man, Adventure Man, Friend, Contractor, Contractor, street
Speaker 2: Bike Tommy or Tommy Pasamonte here with.
Speaker 3: Us on the good Stuff.
Speaker 1: Dude. It's a it's an honor and privilege to have
Speaker 1: you on. Man. You know, I love you to the
Speaker 1: end of the.
Speaker 3: Honored privilege to be invited on the show. But I
Speaker 3: greatly appreciate it. It's great to see you. We've had
Speaker 3: some times and uh, I feel like we don't we
Speaker 3: don't do it enough.
Speaker 1: Agreed. You know, I know you've been told this before,
Speaker 1: but one thing that really connected me to you in
Speaker 1: the very beginning. I mean, you love hard, bro, you
Speaker 1: love all the way I'll come be damned. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we just need we need more souls like yours. It's magnetic.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's the first time anybody everybody's actually
Speaker 3: like verbalized that. But like, yeah, that's truly like how
Speaker 3: I like to live my life. I don't have like acquaintances.
Speaker 3: If you're around me, it's because like you're an awesome
Speaker 3: person and I love you like fully.
Speaker 2: Soul feeders not bleeders.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: Your career, your life, your path has been one to
Speaker 2: make sure you have as much fun as possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just even if it's not fun, it's like
Speaker 3: just life, Like I want to experience the word life
Speaker 3: as much as possible. You only get one go around,
Speaker 3: and I'm not wasting a single second of this thing exactly.
Speaker 2: And that shows in some of the daredevil risks you've taken,
Speaker 2: but also the path that you've led. You're actually famous
Speaker 2: for having one of the most brutal crashes in extreme
Speaker 2: sports history.
Speaker 3: One of the most viral videos of all time. I
Speaker 3: think it was a top download of the Internet in
Speaker 3: like five or six something like that. And yeah, back
Speaker 3: when nobody got paid.
Speaker 2: So timing is everything. Back in the MySpace days, I
Speaker 2: mean that life forever ago. You're also the coast of Sorry,
Speaker 2: the co host of the Explosion Show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tory Bilichi's my man's shout out science channel. That
Speaker 3: was twenty twenty when we did that. That was a
Speaker 3: lot of fun, most fun job I ever had because
Speaker 3: I wasn't scared. It was It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: We went around blue stuff up. It was like the
Speaker 3: best job.
Speaker 1: Ever I can somewhat relate.
Speaker 3: He's got chokes.
Speaker 2: Still too soon, Still too soon. It's been eighteen years.
Speaker 2: Still too soon, Tommy Pasamonte. We're so excited to have
Speaker 2: you here on the good Stuff. You've lived a life
Speaker 2: full of risk taking and adventures, and we're excited to
Speaker 2: hear about some of those today. You definitely pushed the
Speaker 2: extremes that most people can only comprehend they've only seen
Speaker 2: him on TV or when they go viral on social media.
Speaker 2: But striving for these ultimate highs has also led you
Speaker 2: to some of your most deep, philosophical and spiritual places.
Speaker 2: You've ever been, so oh yeah, we want you to
Speaker 2: tell us about the journey that you took from your
Speaker 2: first done as a teenager to the pyramids of ancient Egypt.
Speaker 3: When I was a kid, I didn't do anything that
Speaker 3: was dangerous at all. Like my brother and I and
Speaker 3: my sister got dirt bikes and stuff, and like we
Speaker 3: got him super late, like I beg my dad for him,
Speaker 3: but we didn't have money at all, and he finally,
Speaker 3: like you know, he's working man, he like finally saved
Speaker 3: up enough dough to get dirt bikes, and my brother
Speaker 3: and his friends like took to him real quick. Like
Speaker 3: they would just like jump. They would build all these
Speaker 3: like wood ramps and like dirt ramps and they would
Speaker 3: go jump, and I was like, oh, whoa, that's so cool.
Speaker 3: But every time I tried, just hurt my feet when
Speaker 3: I lay on the pegs and I was just like
Speaker 3: over it from there. So I was like, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm not doing that. And then like that kind of
Speaker 3: kept me from being like too crazy. In high school,
Speaker 3: I got my first car, which was a Ford Explorer,
Speaker 3: and that was right around the time that Gone in
Speaker 3: sixty Seconds, the movie with Nick Cage had come out
Speaker 3: Eleanor and oh dude, Eleanor and me and my friends
Speaker 3: were like super into cars because fast and furious one
Speaker 3: like that was like my era. Jackass was just getting huge,
Speaker 3: and like you just had that new genre of people
Speaker 3: that were making money and making livings off of just
Speaker 3: doing what your friends do stupidly and garages and you know,
Speaker 3: just hanging out after school or whatever, and like they're
Speaker 3: making livings off of it. I was like all about
Speaker 3: that life. I was like, those guys seem like they're
Speaker 3: so cool, They're gonna be my best friends. And so,
Speaker 3: you know, locally, I was always known as the kid
Speaker 3: that would just do whatever. You know, I'd take any
Speaker 3: bet you want to eat those French fries covered in
Speaker 3: the whole bytle of hot sauce for twenty bucks, all right,
Speaker 3: twenty bucks twenty bucks. So like I was doing stuff
Speaker 3: like that. And then one night, me and my friends
Speaker 3: were just playing video games. I need gym shorts or
Speaker 3: something stupid from my house. So like we jumped in
Speaker 3: my truck and we were driving to my house. My
Speaker 3: driveway is like a full mile of like asphalt before
Speaker 3: you can even get to my house. But that's where
Speaker 3: I would drive fast because you don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about two way traffic, but it's only like a fifteen
Speaker 3: mile on our zone and the road kind of sucks
Speaker 3: and you don't think about things like tire pressure and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. So like I was like always driving
Speaker 3: like super fast around this one corner and especially like
Speaker 3: during the fall, like like the truck would settle on
Speaker 3: the suspension and like you could feel it like slide
Speaker 3: across the leaves and then like catching and I'd go again,
Speaker 3: and like it was just like I'm super fast, you know,
Speaker 3: and all my friends saw I was like the sick
Speaker 3: like drift driver. Turns out like every time that I
Speaker 3: was doing that, like I didn't I wasn't checking my
Speaker 3: tire pressures and then in the fall, like your tires,
Speaker 3: uh lose pressure. Just from that the temperature change. On
Speaker 3: top of the fact that I was just terrible to
Speaker 3: my first vehicle. I don't think I ever changed oil,
Speaker 3: not one time. This one night, we're going to get
Speaker 3: Jim shorts and it's nighttime, so it's like even colder,
Speaker 3: and there's a bunch of people at my house. But
Speaker 3: we weren't trying to go to this party. It was
Speaker 3: like party my brother was having. We're going down my
Speaker 3: driveway and like my one friend's in the front and
Speaker 3: he's like older, and he was like the coolest kid
Speaker 3: in high school. He's like prom king and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: So he's like, you won't go as fast as you
Speaker 3: can around this corner. And I was like what And
Speaker 3: he was like, go, baby, go, so like the button
Speaker 3: on the on eleanor in the movie, you know, he
Speaker 3: was like, go baby, go and he's and then I
Speaker 3: was like all right, bah, you know cause like you know,
Speaker 3: who won't. I had a lot of pepper when I
Speaker 3: was younger. I mean I ha a lot of pepper.
Speaker 3: So I like punched the gas. And then my buddy
Speaker 3: that was in the back, Nick, he was like the
Speaker 3: only friend that was like old enough to be out
Speaker 3: of high school, and he was like an older, wiser friend.
Speaker 3: He was like no, stop, no, like laid down because
Speaker 3: like he thought we were gonna crash. And I take
Speaker 3: the corner like I had a bunch of times, and
Speaker 3: the tires just folded right off the rims. Like it
Speaker 3: was like as soon as I set that suspension, and
Speaker 3: it just like instantly sent us into like a flip
Speaker 3: and I rolled the truck. But right on that first flip, luckily,
Speaker 3: I wasn't wearing my seat belt, and I got ejected
Speaker 3: out of my driver window, so like my head smashed
Speaker 3: that window and I went out that window. If I
Speaker 3: was in the vehicle, I wouldn't be sitting here today.
Speaker 3: There was like blood spatter like where because I went
Speaker 3: out and up and like police were there measuring the
Speaker 3: scene and all kinds stuff, and then there's a big
Speaker 3: old blood splatter twenty plus feet in the air, like
Speaker 3: it like I went up and just smoked this tree
Speaker 3: and fell down, like that's where they found me. But
Speaker 3: apparently they couldn't find me for a little while because
Speaker 3: once the truck came to rest, Nick who laid down
Speaker 3: in the back, he just got a seat belt in
Speaker 3: his mouth and ended up like splitting his lip real bad.
Speaker 3: But he was generally okay. My other buddy in the
Speaker 3: front like had a concussion and like corn rotator cuff
Speaker 3: and wasn't in the greatest shape. But if my seat,
Speaker 3: like if I was in my seat, like it looked
Speaker 3: like somebody had can open or this pillar like it
Speaker 3: ripped through the door and the roof, I probably would
Speaker 3: have been like decapitated by it, because it was just
Speaker 3: like that like open sharp whatever caught that space of
Speaker 3: the truck and peeled it. But luckily I got ejected
Speaker 3: and Nick called my friends like my brother at that party,
Speaker 3: and everybody thought we were like messing with him. But
Speaker 3: then he called back another time, had that like voice,
Speaker 3: and I guess my brother like rounded up the house
Speaker 3: full of kids at a party, so now you have
Speaker 3: like fifteen drunk kids that were like leaving the house.
Speaker 3: And then they got to the crash scene and they
Speaker 3: called the paramedics. They called a helicopter, but they had
Speaker 3: a hard time deciphering like who was drunk and who
Speaker 3: was in the accident, and there's all these kids everywhere
Speaker 3: and like, but I had no clue what was going on.
Speaker 3: Apparently I had woke up and I started yelling. A
Speaker 3: deer jumped out in front of me. A deer jumped
Speaker 3: out in front of me. I don't know, even in
Speaker 3: an unconscious state, I was still looking out for myself.
Speaker 3: I think the first memory that I have of that,
Speaker 3: because I still don't have a memory of the actual accident.
Speaker 3: I have just right up until we rolled and then
Speaker 3: like nothing until like they were pulling me off the
Speaker 3: helicopter at the hospital because the first thing I remember
Speaker 3: is like being super cold, looking up at blades and
Speaker 3: like looking down, and then the sheet that they had
Speaker 3: on me like blew off, and I was completely naked
Speaker 3: and they wheeled me through the whole hospital with my
Speaker 3: wiener out and I was like, man, that kind of sucks.
Speaker 3: So right now, that was my first recollection from the accident.
Speaker 3: Butedi that was Baltimore Shock Trauma, one of the best
Speaker 3: trauma hospitals in the world, thankfully, and they took care
Speaker 3: of me because I had like seventy hairline fractured or
Speaker 3: some crazy number like that. I don't think they got
Speaker 3: an actual count, but that's what they said as doctors
Speaker 3: was like, you just have a massive like from here
Speaker 3: to like mostly this side in the front, which ended
Speaker 3: up healing back with like calcium deposits and stuff. So
Speaker 3: I have a very thick skull for real, like not
Speaker 3: even like joking. I think I have really tough nugget.
Speaker 1: Pretty sure anyone who's familiar with you has no problem
Speaker 1: believing that. No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've had quite the illustrious career of like head injury.
Speaker 3: One instance where we did that barrel in the three
Speaker 3: D movie, Me and Jim de Champ we had the
Speaker 3: same head injuries and he had a brain bleed, and
Speaker 3: he's still not okay from it, like he still has
Speaker 3: remnants of that that he deals with on a brain
Speaker 3: level daily. But I've been super lucky as far as
Speaker 3: the stuff we've been through. I mean even from birth,
Speaker 3: I was premature and like they thought it was like
Speaker 3: they read me my my my last rights when I
Speaker 3: was born. So really, like my whole life, I've just
Speaker 3: been lucky to be here. So I'm here for a reason.
Speaker 2: Take us back to the hospital bed. What when you
Speaker 2: wake up? What's going on?
Speaker 3: Like at the time, I ended up getting some memory back,
Speaker 3: and that's where I remember the chopper blades and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. But like at the time, at the exact moment,
Speaker 3: like when it happened, I was playing video games in
Speaker 3: my buddy's room, so like I'm sitting there playing like
Speaker 3: PlayStation and I'm like and all of a sudden, it
Speaker 3: was like somebody just chopped like a movie, you know how,
Speaker 3: like you can take film and like splice like one
Speaker 3: one into another, like back in the day before like
Speaker 3: computer editing. But it was like you took one film
Speaker 3: and then you put another film that was totally different,
Speaker 3: and like it was just like I went from playing
Speaker 3: video games and all of a sudden, controller's gone. I
Speaker 3: look down and I'm in a gown. I'm laying down
Speaker 3: in a hospital bed. I'm looking around hospital bed, and
Speaker 3: I'm kind of smiling as I'm coming to It was
Speaker 3: like the Wizard of Ozz. So it's like my dad,
Speaker 3: my mom, and like all my friends at the time,
Speaker 3: and everybody's like around the bed and they're like crying,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, what is what are you all crying about?
Speaker 3: And then like the nurse was right there. I was like,
Speaker 3: why am I in the hospital? And all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: like as soon as I say that, like all this
Speaker 3: pain set in, like in my back and like in
Speaker 3: my head, and I was like whoa. I was like
Speaker 3: what happened? And like the nurse, like on cue, was like,
Speaker 3: you crashed your truck, honey, And I was all like
Speaker 3: at the time, like I'm fast dripping the world, and
Speaker 3: so I was like, yeah, bullshit, whatever, No I didn't.
Speaker 3: They're like, no, like you really wrecked your truck. And
Speaker 3: I was like, was anybody with me? And they were like, yeah,
Speaker 3: your friend Nick and Brian, and I swear to god,
Speaker 3: this was like a movie. As soon as she said
Speaker 3: Nick and Brian was with me, the curtain to my
Speaker 3: side opens up. Like I was like, we're good, bro.
Speaker 3: It was like Brian he's in a gown and his
Speaker 3: arms all jacked up and he's got like half an
Speaker 3: ear hanging off, you know, Nick sitting there, he's got
Speaker 3: stitches in his mouth. He's like, yeah, dude, we're good.
Speaker 3: And they're like holding on too little IV things. But
Speaker 3: it was like on cue, like it was like a movie,
Speaker 3: like they had planned all these things and like that's
Speaker 3: all just happened naturally. And then over the next two weeks,
Speaker 3: I was pretty much just in and out of consciousness
Speaker 3: because of how bad my concussion was. The world didn't
Speaker 3: feel real. There was too many coincidences where I was like,
Speaker 3: there's no way that that happened in that time. That's
Speaker 3: just too much. And like from that point, like I've
Speaker 3: even today, like if I start thinking about things and
Speaker 3: situations that have happened in my life, and like I
Speaker 3: start thinking about them when they happened, I can actually
Speaker 3: put myself in a place where like this isn't real,
Speaker 3: like and it's like a really weird headspace. But then
Speaker 3: I'll shake it off and I'm like, all right, this
Speaker 3: is reality. Don't be stupid.
Speaker 2: Wow, So that's crazy, like go crazy, you.
Speaker 3: Know, No, it's definitely like my brain. It's so weird
Speaker 3: the things that I've experienced inside my own head in
Speaker 3: my lifetime to where you're just like, what's it all mean?
Speaker 3: Like even sleep, Like I get caught thinking all the time,
Speaker 3: like in my sleep, where do we go? Why do
Speaker 3: we do that? What sense does that make? To no
Speaker 3: longer be on this plane for eight hours a night
Speaker 3: or whatever you end up getting sleep? Because I've woken
Speaker 3: up from dreams I war to god they were real.
Speaker 3: I mean, like as real as this is happening right now.
Speaker 3: I've woken up and been like, oh, this is real.
Speaker 3: But is it? The brain's a weird place.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like this wreck, like these injuries, is
Speaker 2: that what set you on this path of being able
Speaker 2: to go into this almost alternate.
Speaker 3: It's funny because like before the car crash, I was
Speaker 3: always like super cautious as far as like pain levels
Speaker 3: and stuff like I never really wanted I was like sissy,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, man, that's gonna hurt. But then
Speaker 3: like after that crash, I was like, when it hurts
Speaker 3: that bad, your body's just going to turn it off.
Speaker 3: So like, what's the matter. Like, once it gets to
Speaker 3: you know that level, like what you're scared of, you're
Speaker 3: not going to feel it. If you actually get into
Speaker 3: a situation where your body thinks that this is the end,
Speaker 3: like it automatically does the chemical dump that is like
Speaker 3: really weird. So I was like, Oh, I don't really
Speaker 3: have to worry about that, So it's gonna live life.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. What effect did the crash have on your family?
Speaker 3: I never really asked, but like I had never seen
Speaker 3: my dad cry before, and I like saw him cry then,
Speaker 3: and I haven't seen him cry since. I saw him
Speaker 3: really super upset with me after I crashed the street
Speaker 3: bike because that was only like four years three three
Speaker 3: years after that truck crashes when I crashed the motorcycle,
Speaker 3: and he just had that face like you're gonna be
Speaker 3: done with this, and I was like, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be done, and then.
Speaker 1: And then you work done.
Speaker 3: Then I got better and I made a whole career
Speaker 3: out of it. I jumped off a cruise ship one time,
Speaker 3: and like I saw my grandma like right after, and
Speaker 3: like I had my face it was basically like from
Speaker 3: here to here, it was just like swollen, shut and
Speaker 3: purple cause like I had hemorrhaged my left eye from
Speaker 3: hitting the water so hard. And she was like, Oh
Speaker 3: my god, your face.
Speaker 1: What happened? What happened to your beautiful face? I thought
Speaker 1: you wanted to be a scientist.
Speaker 3: It was the funniest thing. Yeah, it was so good.
Speaker 3: Oh and when I got my show on Science Channel,
Speaker 3: I was like, hey, Grandma, check it out. I'm on
Speaker 3: the side. I'm scientist.
Speaker 2: That came full circle.
Speaker 3: It's kind of funny, she laughed.
Speaker 2: So what was the tipping point? Like how did you
Speaker 2: then jump into this as a career for life?
Speaker 3: Well that's I get that a lot, Like how did
Speaker 3: I become part of Nitro Circus? And it's just such
Speaker 3: a weird question for me personally because everybody thinks that,
Speaker 3: like you think of it now as like a brand.
Speaker 3: It's like Nitro Circus is a thing. I was just
Speaker 3: hanging out with Travis for STRONGO and like I wasn't
Speaker 3: even hanging out with Travis, Like I was hanging out
Speaker 3: with Jim de Champ and Greg Powell, Travis's cousin who
Speaker 3: both of them lived at Travis's house at the time.
Speaker 3: We were just kind of kicking around, goof and off.
Speaker 3: We were just hanging out and he was shooting DVDs,
Speaker 3: and I thought I was gonna be super famous, you know.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh man, this is a DVD that's
Speaker 3: gonna be a motorcycle shops and maybe even Walmart. This
Speaker 3: is crazy. I'm gonna be so famous. From having that
Speaker 3: thought to seeing where it is now, it's crazy because
Speaker 3: like I didn't sign up for anything. I wasn't part
Speaker 3: of it. I helped create it, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 3: I like it became something because of what we were doing,
Speaker 3: and now like I've gone around the world four or
Speaker 3: five times with it.
Speaker 1: When that started, there wasn't a Nitro Circus yet.
Speaker 3: No, there was only Jackass and that was only an
Speaker 3: MTV thing, Like it wasn't even movies yet thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was just clarifying as I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: pretty sure. Niner Circus came later.
Speaker 3: So when I did my street bike flip, the reason
Speaker 3: why I even did it was because I was at
Speaker 3: a party where Jim de Champ had just started dating
Speaker 3: a family friend of mine. We were always at parties
Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and my friends were like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, Jim to Shamp, he's so cute. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: he hangs out with Travis Pastrana, because like Travis was
Speaker 3: like super locally talked about because he's like our famous guy.
Speaker 3: Jim lived at his house and like Travis's house was
Speaker 3: just on cribs and like all my friends were like
Speaker 3: super impressed by him, and I'm super like, I'm like,
Speaker 3: talk about that guy. I'm way cooler than that guy,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. They were filming Nitro Circus one,
Speaker 3: the DVD. They had just shot pretty much all of
Speaker 3: it and they were in the editing process of it,
Speaker 3: but they were so pumped on how the first one
Speaker 3: was turning out that they were already filming for number two.
Speaker 3: I talked smack on the first one because Jim showed
Speaker 3: it at a party and like all my friends were like,
Speaker 3: that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. I was like,
Speaker 3: if I had that kind of money and like, you know,
Speaker 3: I could do better, And Jim was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: you think you do better? Put up a shut up
Speaker 3: basically and invited me over to do a film shoot
Speaker 3: to see who could come up with the best footage
Speaker 3: for two grands. So like a bunch of teams went
Speaker 3: out over a twenty four hour period to see who
Speaker 3: could get the coolest footage. Didn't matter what it was,
Speaker 3: it just had to be the coolest footage. I ended
Speaker 3: up overshooting the phone pit and I won the two grand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I would imagine. I know you haven't
Speaker 1: seen this video. Yeah you can't know.
Speaker 2: I don't like yucky stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you don't see the yucky stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean you can imagine that. You can imagine the
Speaker 1: yucky stuff because when street bike, it's street bike, Tommy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: okay from Yeah, some people referred someone as a crotch rocket. Like,
Speaker 1: we're not talking a dirt bike, We're not talking a
Speaker 1: jump bike. We're talking a bona fide street bike.
Speaker 3: It was a two thousand and two Suzuki GSXR one thousand.
Speaker 1: I've watched that video multiple times, and now that I
Speaker 1: like know you and I love you and you're my bro,
Speaker 1: I'm like what I want to be like, what were
Speaker 1: you like? Don't do that ever again?
Speaker 3: I mean, in my defense, I didn't plan on missing
Speaker 3: the phone pit.
Speaker 2: You just really wanted to win that two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean so in my brain I thought that
Speaker 3: because I had jumped it before at like twenty five
Speaker 3: miles an hour, and I just like was like and
Speaker 3: like barely went in the phone. And then my only
Speaker 3: other buddy, because Travis wasn't here, nobody else here. They
Speaker 3: were out film and trying to get their own clips.
Speaker 3: And my only buddy that had any dirt bike experience
Speaker 3: at all was like a plumber friend of mine. His
Speaker 3: name's Wayne, and he's the one that actually shot the
Speaker 3: famous clip from the ladder in the tree. He was like,
Speaker 3: you can hear them on video. He goes, you can
Speaker 3: go twice as fast, and like I went twice as
Speaker 3: fast and.
Speaker 2: Physic Yeah, And clearly you didn't learn your lesson in
Speaker 2: the Ford Explorer when your friend had said you won't go.
Speaker 1: Well, there was no money on the line then.
Speaker 3: Though, Yeah. Yeah, And like I said, I had a
Speaker 3: lot of pepper, a lot of pepper when I was younger.
Speaker 2: After this second close escape from death happens, now suddenly
Speaker 2: the world knows who you are and you're reunited with
Speaker 2: Travis Pastrow. What happened next?
Speaker 3: Well, at that point, you know, one of my biggest
Speaker 3: things was like, cause I really like going out of
Speaker 3: bars and stuff. I do enjoy the company of a female,
Speaker 3: so like, I don't ever want to be like the
Speaker 3: boring guy at a bar. Like I was young, and
Speaker 3: I was like, just how I'm gonna get chicks?
Speaker 1: Little?
Speaker 3: Does anybody ever tell you that you get more dudes
Speaker 3: than anything with the life that I've chose to live.
Speaker 2: So you became really popular with the guys.
Speaker 3: Oh man, man, the bros are my man, those are
Speaker 3: my homies. Because if it wasn't for the bros, no
Speaker 3: chick ever know at all what I do. They're always like,
Speaker 3: you don't know who this is? And they're like, no,
Speaker 3: why would I know who that is? And then they
Speaker 3: show them the clip and they're like that's stupid, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, I didn't go anywhere I thought that was
Speaker 3: gonna go. So but yeah, that's pretty much my original
Speaker 3: drive was just to like party because like after that,
Speaker 3: I became like the hot girl at the bar. You know,
Speaker 3: everybody was just buying me drinks and stuff, and that
Speaker 3: still happens to this day. Like I cannot go out
Speaker 3: on my birthday. If I go out on my birthday,
Speaker 3: it's just like out of hand. So I tend to
Speaker 3: limit myself on holidays and stuff like that because people
Speaker 3: do really like to get me going because I'm a
Speaker 3: lot of fun when I drink.
Speaker 1: This is what's crazy is because you're you're a lot
Speaker 1: of fun anyway. Yeah, right, so then you know, you
Speaker 1: throw in the chemicals and it's like it's rocket fuel.
Speaker 2: Yep ye, So you decide to make another go at
Speaker 2: the ballpit.
Speaker 3: So the thing was, It's like because after after the
Speaker 3: each DVD was made with Travis, he would rent out
Speaker 3: a theater in our hometown, a Napolis small theater and
Speaker 3: play it on the big screen to a whole theater crowd.
Speaker 3: And I was always sold out because he would sell
Speaker 3: tickets through a bike doctor in Annapolis and it would
Speaker 3: always get a sold out crowd. And in my brain,
Speaker 3: you know, oh my god, they played it on a
Speaker 3: movie theater. So like I'm like, well, I'm a movie star, right, literally,
Speaker 3: somebody rented it and like you know, it's like a
Speaker 3: one theater thing. That was like the coolest thing because
Speaker 3: I showed up hammered. I was still in a wheelchair,
Speaker 3: and like all my friends were like feeding me drinks,
Speaker 3: like because we're partying because I'm a movie star now.
Speaker 3: And that night like right as like the movie ended
Speaker 3: and everybody was walking out. Greg Godfrey, who was the
Speaker 3: original producer of Nitro Circus, he came up to me
Speaker 3: and my friends because we were like the last ones
Speaker 3: in the theater, so like high five and then like
Speaker 3: passing each other drinks and stuff. And he comes up
Speaker 3: and he goes, hey, man, and I see you're having
Speaker 3: a good time, and I don't want to like interrupt,
Speaker 3: but I just want to introduce myself.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 3: I'm great, God for you, God forre you entertainment. I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, whoa, you're like a big Hollywood producer,
Speaker 3: you know, And he goes, I just wanted to say Hi,
Speaker 3: I introduce myself, and I wanted to give you my
Speaker 3: card in case you feel like doing anything else, because
Speaker 3: I don't know, if you know what you have here,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have one of the biggest clips of all time.
Speaker 3: Like you can either always be that guy at every
Speaker 3: bar and everybody's gonna be like, oh my god, like
Speaker 3: that's the guy that did that thing, or if you
Speaker 3: want to take this ball and run with it. Let
Speaker 3: me know, just give me a shot. And he like
Speaker 3: flicked his card at me, and I was like, all right, cool, dude,
Speaker 3: that's sick. And I got, you know this this director's card.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh my god, and he told me he
Speaker 3: wants to work with me. I got to come up
Speaker 3: with a really good idea. I want to do this forever.
Speaker 3: So that's when I had the idea to jump off
Speaker 3: that cruise ship. And uh yeah, that's an even longer story,
Speaker 3: but long story short, I jump off hemorrhage to my
Speaker 3: left eye and I still had pins in my foot
Speaker 3: at this time, Like I was still super injured from
Speaker 3: the street bike thing. But I didn't want to like
Speaker 3: waste the opportunity. So like I jump off the side
Speaker 3: of his cruise ship and I had my buddy film
Speaker 3: it from a jet ski, but he was like super
Speaker 3: far away. The footage ended up really sucking. He just
Speaker 3: looks like somebody threw like a dead body off the side.
Speaker 3: It was like, ye, it was just like a little
Speaker 3: dot like it made nitro circus lock and load and
Speaker 3: it was either lock and load or three. But they
Speaker 3: like had to put like one of those like zoom
Speaker 3: in circles on the little dot and be like that
Speaker 3: was Timy that jumped off a cruise ship. It was
Speaker 3: really terrible footage. Otherwise, like that would have been huge too,
Speaker 3: because there was like a kid that jumped off a
Speaker 3: cruise ship not too long ago, but like the it
Speaker 3: was like on a cell phone that was actually pretty
Speaker 3: good and his video went crazy. So I feel like
Speaker 3: if I had something like that, it would have been
Speaker 3: way better for my career. But that got me in
Speaker 3: the door because once I actually did that, because that's
Speaker 3: where the name street by Tommy comes from, because I
Speaker 3: took that number and I called that number and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, it was like ring ring, ring, ring,
Speaker 3: Hello God for you entertainment, this is the Stacey's Sea,
Speaker 3: How I help you? And I was like not planning
Speaker 3: on talking to a secretary, So I was like, uh so,
Speaker 3: and like in my brain, I'm like, how am I
Speaker 3: going to make myself sound important enough for her to
Speaker 3: actually transfer me to Greg. I was like, I'm a
Speaker 3: Tommy from the last video. I was a guy on
Speaker 3: the street bike the crash the Pumastrana land Champ Tommy
Speaker 3: like because it said it on the video. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: Tommy street Bike Tommy, the guy with the Tommy guy
Speaker 3: with and she was like yeah, hop please and like
Speaker 3: and then it was like fifteen minutes later being like
Speaker 3: on hold. Greg picks up the phone and he's like,
Speaker 3: so you got a nickname now? And I was like,
Speaker 3: what are you talking about? And he was like, street
Speaker 3: bike Tommy. I like it, And I was like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, that's the dumbest name. All right, yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: Greg Godfrey who's famous and like producer guy that I
Speaker 3: want to work with. Sure, that's my nickname. And it
Speaker 3: just stuck. That's how I got my foot in the
Speaker 3: door was that he didn't believe me once I told
Speaker 3: him that I was going to jump off a cruise
Speaker 3: ship and when I was going to jump off cruise ship,
Speaker 3: because I still wasn't like I wasn't even remotely from
Speaker 3: the street by crash, I did that and I actually
Speaker 3: did it, and from that point on he was like,
Speaker 3: I gotta have like an actual camera on this guy.
Speaker 3: Like from now I'm like, he has to have a crew.
Speaker 3: And every time he called me up invited me out
Speaker 3: on a shoot, like I'd always get really good footage,
Speaker 3: and I just kept getting the invite and I kept
Speaker 3: showing up. But the thing that nobody tells you is
Speaker 3: that I didn't get a single paycheck until we are
Speaker 3: actually on MTV, and I actually had quit Nitroy Circus
Speaker 3: because they just wouldn't pay me at all. Like in
Speaker 3: the DVD days, I was in like seven DVDs and
Speaker 3: like I had not gotten one paycheck, not a single
Speaker 3: red scent. All the early day stuff was you know,
Speaker 3: you're basically throwing yourself to the wolves and like risking
Speaker 3: your life for beer and T shirts because you get
Speaker 3: out on these film shoots and you know, it's the
Speaker 3: most fun ever because you're with like some of the
Speaker 3: gnarliest dudes to ever live, and we all go really hard,
Speaker 3: and you know, you do your stunts during the day,
Speaker 3: but afterwards it's like the best party could ever see
Speaker 3: or think of, And like, you just don't you don't
Speaker 3: want to be left out like that. FOMO is really
Speaker 3: what kept pushing me to do as much as possible.
Speaker 3: And then I got to travel, like after like I
Speaker 3: jumped off the cruise ship. The very first trip that
Speaker 3: I ever went on was to Spokane, Washington. I had
Speaker 3: never been anywhere but Florida before, or Ocean City, Maryland.
Speaker 3: But now all of a sudden, I'm flying to Spokane, Washington,
Speaker 3: and I watched Travis do the very first double backflip
Speaker 3: to dirt ever, which was this huge step up.
Speaker 2: So what were you up to that got you from Spokane,
Speaker 2: Washington to ancient Egypt.
Speaker 3: So shortly after I did the cruise ship jump, and
Speaker 3: then shortly after I learned that backflip, I was like,
Speaker 3: you know what, I think I can do backflips. So like,
Speaker 3: I learned how to do a backflip and I landed
Speaker 3: a backflip to dirt on a two stroke two fifty,
Speaker 3: so a full sized dirt bike. But then I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, because I was trying to do a front
Speaker 3: flip on the street bike. I was like, man, nobody's
Speaker 3: ever done a front flip on a dirt bike. I
Speaker 3: bet you I could do it. So then I was
Speaker 3: like dead set on like learning how to do front flips.
Speaker 3: So I start jumping in the phone pit like all
Speaker 3: the time trying to do a front flip. But like
Speaker 3: the phone pit is super unforgiving. Everybody thinks it's like,
Speaker 3: oh it's a pitophone. Sure it makes it so like
Speaker 3: you can land and like live, but there's so many
Speaker 3: different things that can go wrong in a phone pit.
Speaker 3: Like one you can miss it, like go over it.
Speaker 3: You can miss it to the side because like you
Speaker 3: hit and like you kind of g out because like
Speaker 3: you maybe you pulled harder with your right hand than
Speaker 3: your left, like all your movements are multiplied.
Speaker 1: And you really think you check both those boxes with
Speaker 1: the step bike jump.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the street bike I went straight over. And
Speaker 3: then another time after that I actually landed on the
Speaker 3: side wall of the phone pit because I was like
Speaker 3: just showing off for this like chick that had to
Speaker 3: sturt bike. That was like I can't backflip my motorcycle
Speaker 3: because it's a one twenty five And Tray was like,
Speaker 3: Tommy can do that, and I was like, yeah, I can.
Speaker 3: And then like yeah, and I like I did like
Speaker 3: the flip, but in it on like the actual wall
Speaker 3: of the phone pit and like threw my hip out
Speaker 3: for a little while. But that never even made film.
Speaker 3: That was just something that's stupid that I did. But
Speaker 3: this time you don't let go of the bike because
Speaker 3: like there's been a few times like in the movie,
Speaker 3: like I was going for a backflip and there's so
Speaker 3: much power that it like blew out of my hand,
Speaker 3: so I didn't even like mean to lick o of it,
Speaker 3: and it just goes up. Well, you hit the phone
Speaker 3: and then it hits you. Oh yeah, So like it's
Speaker 3: basically like somebody dropping at dirt bike on you from
Speaker 3: like twenty twenty five feet a two hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: pound motorcycle like.
Speaker 1: That can do it sucks, that can do some damage.
Speaker 3: Well, another thing that nobody ever really thought of was
Speaker 3: like when I go up and I get stuck under
Speaker 3: the bike, you're wedged and you're at the mercy of
Speaker 3: whoever jumps in sticks the hook around the tire and
Speaker 3: then pulls the bike out first, and then you have
Speaker 3: to like wiggle out, you know, because you're wedged in there.
Speaker 3: And a lot of times they would have to like
Speaker 3: dig to me because I would compress the phone so
Speaker 3: much that I couldn't move, Like I was at the
Speaker 3: mercy of like however, however my body was it's like
Speaker 3: a really hot avalanche like that you have to get
Speaker 3: somebody to dig you out of. And then this particular
Speaker 3: time I was going for a backflip on Travis's really
Speaker 3: expensive race bike, and I go for this backflip or no,
Speaker 3: at that time, I was going for the fronts. So
Speaker 3: I'm going for the front, and I'm like landing on
Speaker 3: my face and I'm getting like super wedged in. I'm
Speaker 3: like super deep, and then you don't see anything. It's
Speaker 3: super dark, like it's it's completely black, and you can't
Speaker 3: breathe at all. As soon as you hit, you got
Speaker 3: to kind of like make a little cavity of air
Speaker 3: because like otherwise if you just go like can't you know,
Speaker 3: you suffocate yourself that way. So like I land upside down.
Speaker 3: But as soon as I land the little nipple cap
Speaker 3: Normally you have like this breather tube, but Travis had
Speaker 3: the gas cap ones and like the little top popped off,
Speaker 3: so it was like streaming race gas like on my neck.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh no, And like I tried to
Speaker 3: like put my head to the side. I got nothing
Speaker 3: but race people. I put my I had this way,
Speaker 3: nothing but race fuel. And then like I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: there's nothing I can do. I'm literally stuck breathing only
Speaker 3: race fumes. I was trying to find air anywhere, and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden. I was getting that feeling,
Speaker 3: which you probably know all too well, is like when
Speaker 3: they put you under anesthesia and the world just does
Speaker 3: this yeh, And I just like and I passed out
Speaker 3: on race fumes and I come to in my head.
Speaker 3: I don't come too but I'm now aware. In my head.
Speaker 3: I basically like look up, and my friend Chris is
Speaker 3: on the side of the phone pit, standing like looking
Speaker 3: at me, and I'm like, what are you doing? And
Speaker 3: he's like what I was like, throw me the hook
Speaker 3: and he's like I can't. I was like, what do
Speaker 3: you mean you can't. He's like, phone pits haven't been
Speaker 3: invented yet. And I was like, what do you mean
Speaker 3: they haven't been invented yet. I'm sitting in one. He
Speaker 3: just do phone pits haven't been invented yet. It's like
Speaker 3: when he said whatever year it was, it was like
Speaker 3: something dumb like thirteen forty two. I forget what it was,
Speaker 3: but like it was like ancient Egypt times, like in
Speaker 3: my brain whatever that number was. And I was like,
Speaker 3: what do you aren't we in Travis's phone pack. He's like, no, dude,
Speaker 3: We're in Egypt. And I was like all right, and
Speaker 3: like I just I some in my hallucinization. I accepted that.
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, cool, I guess I'll just wait.
Speaker 3: So like all the all these like years start passing by,
Speaker 3: and like in my head, this is like real time,
Speaker 3: as real as this time is passing right now, these
Speaker 3: years start passing. And I was like in this phone pit,
Speaker 3: just hanging out like for year and a year, and
Speaker 3: I was like, bro, you know, there's gotta be something
Speaker 3: like you've got to throw me a hook that's like
Speaker 3: super hot. So like I think I'm in the desert
Speaker 3: because like now I'm starting to feel like I'm burning.
Speaker 3: I was like, bro, like I have to get out
Speaker 3: of here. I'm burning, like something like the sun's burning me.
Speaker 3: And he was like all right, hold on, and he's like, oh,
Speaker 3: good news. This thing's a time machine or whatever. And
Speaker 3: then like I was like, oh, like and it's just
Speaker 3: this was all making sense to me, you know, as normal,
Speaker 3: see as normal, get normal. I was like, all right, sweet,
Speaker 3: good thing, this is a time machine. He was like,
Speaker 3: let's just go in the future. It's gonna take about
Speaker 3: forty years. I was like, okay, cool, now I'm waiting
Speaker 3: forty years and like this time is like literally passing,
Speaker 3: and like as soon as he said that, there is
Speaker 3: a time machine that started moving. Now this phone pit
Speaker 3: that like I'm in looking up, so like you, I
Speaker 3: only see an upview of the world around me. So
Speaker 3: I'm like seeing like Egyptian things and like they're like
Speaker 3: slowly passing, and like this thing's moving, like you know,
Speaker 3: it's a time machine, so it's passing like it's in Egypt,
Speaker 3: but it's traveling towards Maryland, like where Travis's phone pit
Speaker 3: actually is. So I'm like staring up at the sky.
Speaker 3: I'm seeing all these different views and then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, I see nothing for a really long time
Speaker 3: because like I'm crossing the Atlantic, and then like after
Speaker 3: like you know, whatever amount of years has ended up
Speaker 3: being like probably thirty years. It's like when I started
Speaker 3: seeing like trees and stuff, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm almost there, you know, when I started seeing East
Speaker 3: Coast trees, and like forty years past, forty real years
Speaker 3: in my head pass by, and like I look over.
Speaker 3: I was like can I get out yet? He's like yeah, man,
Speaker 3: And then like I'm like on fire. I'm literally like burning.
Speaker 3: I'm like I'm so glad that you know, I'm here now.
Speaker 3: And it was weird because the whole time that was moving,
Speaker 3: there was also like I've seen like hawks, like when
Speaker 3: something really wild where I think I'm having like a
Speaker 3: near death experience, like I've always seen like a hawk,
Speaker 3: but in my hallucination there was like a hawk, and
Speaker 3: I just I always felt comfort when I saw this hawk.
Speaker 3: It was like looking out for me. That's happened like
Speaker 3: multiple times throughout my life too. It's been really weird.
Speaker 3: But then like I was like, throw me in the hook.
Speaker 3: He was like all right, and then like no joke,
Speaker 3: like God's hand like came down, but this like there
Speaker 3: was like here and like I just grabbed God's hand.
Speaker 3: I was like yay, all right, here I go, and
Speaker 3: like it was like the normal thing, like nothing was
Speaker 3: weird about that, and like I like start getting pulled
Speaker 3: out and I was like, yeah, this is awesome. And
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, the real world actually happened.
Speaker 3: Like I took a deep breath and I was like
Speaker 3: and like, all of a sudden, I'm in the real
Speaker 3: world again, and like it's back at that time when
Speaker 3: it actually happened, I was like in my brain. Forty
Speaker 3: years had gone by, but I was like, weird, It's
Speaker 3: like now I'm here again. I felt like I was
Speaker 3: getting a do over. And then I look up at
Speaker 3: the at God's hand, which ended up I was just
Speaker 3: holding onto the hook, like the actual hook you know
Speaker 3: we used to pull our bikes and stuff out with.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, hey, hanging on to it. And then
Speaker 3: like I get out and like I have this whole
Speaker 3: thing and I'm like, can't believe that, Like I'm back.
Speaker 3: And then still to this day, like I think about
Speaker 3: that hallucination, like I still feel those forty years. It's
Speaker 3: almost like I got those forty years in my life
Speaker 3: just laying there.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've always been fascinated with dreams and you're subconscious,
Speaker 2: right because it's so real and so you even sharing
Speaker 2: some of the experiences that you've had throughout your life,
Speaker 2: when you look back on that time, those forty years,
Speaker 2: it feels like it was part of your life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's as real to me as this time right now.
Speaker 3: Even talking about it kind of freaks me out. That's
Speaker 3: another that's like kind of rewind all the way back,
Speaker 3: like when I was talking about that kind of stuff
Speaker 3: when we first, this conversation was like, you don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't understand the different plane. Like, I feel like
Speaker 3: there's so much more out there that we don't know
Speaker 3: about because of what I have personally experienced and don't
Speaker 3: understand in the slightest. But I feel like there's so
Speaker 3: much more we don't understand how to unlock it yet.
Speaker 3: But I feel like whatever it is, it's going to
Speaker 3: be rad because I've been I've touched bits of it,
Speaker 3: and I'm just I'm trying to absorb as much as
Speaker 3: I can see.
Speaker 1: To me, the I think some people refer to it
Speaker 1: as an out of body experience. I think some people
Speaker 1: were referred to I mean, there's, as you well know,
Speaker 1: especially in this country, there's no shortage of opinions, right,
Speaker 1: and the good thing is is that everybody can have
Speaker 1: their beliefs right even if you disagree, you can still
Speaker 1: love each other in this country. That's okay, right, And
Speaker 1: so I hear you tell that, and yeah, I could
Speaker 1: see that. I mean, without a doubt, it's.
Speaker 3: Crazy, like I've always heard it out of body experiences,
Speaker 3: and I I feel like I've never had that. I've
Speaker 3: never ever in my whole life felt out of body.
Speaker 3: I've always felt out of plane.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that's interesting. But I think part of that
Speaker 2: in Jake's experience that too, But he's experienced that two
Speaker 2: on some level, and I think that does allow the
Speaker 2: two of you to have such a different experience and
Speaker 2: even compassion for other people. Yeah, and that desire to
Speaker 2: live life to the fullest.
Speaker 1: I think it awakens a part of the human spirit
Speaker 1: that usually lies dormant in self protection and self preservation.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent. I mean, I've had over a dozen
Speaker 3: times in my life, a dozen for short, solid ones,
Speaker 3: where I have accepted that I'm dying. Like I've been like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm today's right now, this is happening, I'm going to die,
Speaker 3: and then luckily I've made it through it. But there's
Speaker 3: been that many times in my life where I've truly
Speaker 3: accepted that that was the end. And if I met
Speaker 3: me in high school versus me now now, like I
Speaker 3: would be so just upset at myself, like I can't
Speaker 3: believe what it's even just the travel that I've been
Speaker 3: able to do and meet the people that I have
Speaker 3: because you're just you're so stupid, I mean, just you
Speaker 3: know nothing until you get out there and experience life.
Speaker 3: It's crazy how small this world is. I originally was
Speaker 3: a drywall hanger from Shadyside, Maryland that was never going
Speaker 3: to see the world at all. And I thought, like,
Speaker 3: you know, I knew everything. You know, I truly in
Speaker 3: my brain was like, oh yeah, you think you got
Speaker 3: to handle on. You don't know the first thing about nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why it's a saying yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And travel, I mean it's so important to us because
Speaker 2: it does it broadens your horizons. It allows you to
Speaker 2: see how other people live and to know their environments
Speaker 2: and what they've gone through or what they go through
Speaker 2: on the daily. And it's ye, love travel. It's extremely
Speaker 2: important to us. What are your loved ones think about
Speaker 2: your lifestyle?
Speaker 3: Like, once again, I don't really I don't know if.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I mean they think it's cool. Like my dad's like
Speaker 3: super proud nowadays, Like he whenever we're on job sites
Speaker 3: and stuff, you know, because I'll still work with him
Speaker 3: every once in a while. I know, he's like bragging
Speaker 3: on me all the time. He does like a lot
Speaker 3: of work with storage facilities. There's these people that work
Speaker 3: the front desks and stuff like that that like are
Speaker 3: responsible for the properties, but like it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: you're his famous son, blah blah blah blah blah, And
Speaker 3: I'm all like, yeah, I'm super famous, sign autographs and
Speaker 3: home depot and talking to you guys.
Speaker 2: Like that's awesome, proud dad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been able to achieve the fame, but I've
Speaker 3: never been able to achieve the financial freedom to like
Speaker 3: have that kind of insulation. So like, I'm a very
Speaker 3: normal guy, Like day to day, I'm still a carpenter,
Speaker 3: and I still you know.
Speaker 1: What, say you do get hit with that fortune, you know.
Speaker 3: Even though you've already got the I don't think I
Speaker 3: would ever change you.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't change a bit, dude. I think you and now
Speaker 1: work with your dad just to go work with your dead.
Speaker 3: I truly vibe that now. I feel like when I
Speaker 3: was younger, I would have been like, oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna buy an airplane and all this stupid stuff. But
Speaker 3: I feel like, honestly, like nowadays, the lessons that I've
Speaker 3: learned in life, I wouldn't change anything, but I would
Speaker 3: just my go on life at this point. If I
Speaker 3: do ever hit like that massive fortune, the only thing
Speaker 3: that I would do is just turn off my social
Speaker 3: media and actually truly live the life that I portray.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, I live the life that I portray,
Speaker 3: but I don't get a chance to really experience it
Speaker 3: for myself because I'm always trying to have something to
Speaker 3: show the world, so you don't truly enjoy it for yourself.
Speaker 3: And I enjoy what I do, don't get me wrong
Speaker 3: at all, but I would love to actually be able
Speaker 3: to enjoy the life that I do live for myself.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious to know what motivates you to get
Speaker 1: up and keep going through the grind every day, then
Speaker 1: you have to go do a world tour, then you
Speaker 1: have to come back and go do this job, or
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. What motivates you to keep on
Speaker 1: grinding with grace the way that you do.
Speaker 3: For me personally, it's just being able to do both
Speaker 3: really is everything, because when I do one or the
Speaker 3: other too long, I get like these vibes that like,
Speaker 3: what's the point I'm doing the same thing that I've
Speaker 3: always done over and over again. Like if I'm working
Speaker 3: a lot, I'm like, Okay, now I'm seeing the same
Speaker 3: seven dudes that I see all day every day, telling
Speaker 3: the same stories all day every day, doing the same
Speaker 3: work all day every day, and I start to get
Speaker 3: this like anxiety, like this like I gotta go do something,
Speaker 3: and then like you know, then I'll jump on and
Speaker 3: go do some rad stuff. And then if I'm doing
Speaker 3: that for such a long time to where I start
Speaker 3: feeling like I'm living out of a suitcase, and then
Speaker 3: that has its monotony, because like when we were doing
Speaker 3: the live tour, I haven't done a live torn four years.
Speaker 3: I've done two shows just recently, but other than that,
Speaker 3: I haven't been on the Live tour at all. Because
Speaker 3: it got to the point where I was just getting
Speaker 3: to these places in the world, like when you have
Speaker 3: a regular spot in Russia or something like that, you know, like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm going back to Japan that restaurant that I go
Speaker 3: to all the time. As cool as that is, you're
Speaker 3: just like I need to do something different, you know,
Speaker 3: and then like I'll change it up, cause like even
Speaker 3: like even through COVID, I was a traveling contractor, you know,
Speaker 3: like I just went and did heavy timber frame stuff
Speaker 3: randomly to go from state to state, and like I
Speaker 3: had no plan at all. Like I was just getting
Speaker 3: by experiencing as much as I could. And it was
Speaker 3: just such a really weird time in my life that
Speaker 3: I truly value because like I was staying with friends
Speaker 3: wherever I was going, but in between, like when I
Speaker 3: was going from state to state, I was driving and
Speaker 3: I had like, you know, the overlanding set up on
Speaker 3: my expedition, I was like sleeping in my tent and
Speaker 3: like parking on like rad canyon sides and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and like living that vagrant life. It was really crazy,
Speaker 3: Like you just you don't expect that's where you're gonna
Speaker 3: be at some point in time. You just never know.
Speaker 3: So like, never stop living because every single day we'll
Speaker 3: throw you a curve ball, no matter how in deep
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, this is going to mean my life
Speaker 3: because this happened nasun guarantee. You don't know nothing about
Speaker 3: tomorrow guaranteed, you know, just just keep waking up, keep
Speaker 3: doing it while you can, because one day you're not
Speaker 3: gonna wake up, and you don't rush that because we
Speaker 3: all get one life, So what's the point of wasting
Speaker 3: a single day of that? And like I've you know,
Speaker 3: I've been sad I've been down, especially like being what
Speaker 3: you see is successful but not successful, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Like you get down on yourself. But like
Speaker 3: that's the one thing that's kept me going through anything.
Speaker 3: Has just been like Tomorrow's going to be different, good, bad,
Speaker 3: and different. Tomorrow is going to be different. You go
Speaker 3: through spells and as bad as stuff as I've experienced
Speaker 3: in my life, you know what, Like I've experienced like
Speaker 3: just as much, if not more good. It's peaks and valleys,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna ride the roller coaster till it's truly over.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to rush the roller coaster.
Speaker 2: That's beautiful. Thinking back on your life's journey, is there
Speaker 2: one person or organization or entity that's made a huge
Speaker 2: impact on your life?
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously Travis Pastrana and like, because I didn't
Speaker 3: care about doing anything that I've done in life until
Speaker 3: it just organically happened. But yeah, I mean there's probably
Speaker 3: there's got to be a hundred of those, no matter
Speaker 3: who tells you they've done it by themselves or whatever.
Speaker 3: Like there you don't have anything in life happen without
Speaker 3: another person. And like I've been fortunate enough to have
Speaker 3: the ratus group, and like whatever it is that brings
Speaker 3: us together, Like our group has this gravity that just
Speaker 3: brings the greatest people on Earth together. But Travis Foreshore,
Speaker 3: Joe Lene like are the original cast members of Nitro Weekly.
Speaker 3: You try to anyway, But just lifelong friends. I mean
Speaker 3: even like my friends back before anything ever happened, Like
Speaker 3: kids that I've been hanging out with, like my Explorer buddies.
Speaker 3: You know, they're all still my best friends. It's just
Speaker 3: people that have been in my life and have stayed
Speaker 3: in my life.
Speaker 1: So what do you do to recharge in unwind?
Speaker 3: I mean I say that like I love just sitting
Speaker 3: on the couch watching TV and like sleeping in like
Speaker 3: without an alarm. That's my favorite RESTful things. But nothing
Speaker 3: like truly recharges me like life experience or learning something new,
Speaker 3: taking a risk and having a new education on something
Speaker 3: that like I never thought I would have. That feeds
Speaker 3: me because I want to be the most capable person
Speaker 3: I can possibly be, Like I got my CDL, I
Speaker 3: ran a restaurant up until COVID screwed that up. You
Speaker 3: wouldn't believe the things that I've done just to learn
Speaker 3: how to do something that I wouldn't think that I
Speaker 3: would be able to do. And like it's just it's
Speaker 3: very organic. It's not something that I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I want to do that. It's just something that happened
Speaker 3: to come into my life. And I was like, that'd
Speaker 3: be cool if I learned that, and I just that's
Speaker 3: I just I love learning.
Speaker 2: That's yeah. Absolutely. And the final question what feeds your soul?
Speaker 3: Love feeds my soul? Friends, just the intimate connection that
Speaker 3: I have with who I'm with. You know, I've had
Speaker 3: now three girlfriends of my entire life, Like I had
Speaker 3: two up until recently, and then like now I'm with
Speaker 3: someone that I truly care about amy Hood. I can
Speaker 3: truly say that, like this is the happiest I've been
Speaker 3: in over ten years. Wow, Honestly, I haven't known a
Speaker 3: love like this yet. Like she truly compliments me, and
Speaker 3: I just this is very new. We've dabbled for like
Speaker 3: eight years, but we've just recently like decided like that
Speaker 3: let's just be together. She truly feeds my soul because
Speaker 3: I feel like this is like the first time in
Speaker 3: my life that I've found like my mirror, Like wow,
Speaker 3: she is like the hot female version of me. Like
Speaker 3: it's crazy. It's crazy. Man, I really do think that
Speaker 3: she's the one for me. So I'm pretty currently.
Speaker 1: If we don't get an invitation, Bro, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: visiting a hospital.
Speaker 3: Oh bro, I'm gonna get you standing up there with me.
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: And you know what, after the last one I did,
Speaker 1: I looked at Ask and I was like, baby, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm never doing this again. I'm over it. I'm overcoming
Speaker 1: the thing I would do that.
Speaker 2: I would especially because Jake knows exactly what everything you
Speaker 2: just said, like, he knows exactly what that feels like.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, humility, that's the humility flowing out of
Speaker 1: Ashley's face.
Speaker 3: Right, I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for you, man.
Speaker 3: I compreciate you.
Speaker 2: And she's a badass daredevil too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And that's the thing, like since we've gotten together,
Speaker 3: we truly compliment each other. And we've had like opportunities
Speaker 3: that have already come up in like this first two
Speaker 3: months of being together that like we just feel like
Speaker 3: this power couple vibe. We're going to tag team this thing,
Speaker 3: you know, And it's like, not only do we truly
Speaker 3: enjoy each other, but like, we're going to have a
Speaker 3: lot more opportunities to enjoy life together because of we're
Speaker 3: being together. And that's what's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna share this crazy, spinning ball of chaos
Speaker 1: that and habit, yeah you should share it with somebody
Speaker 1: that challenges you to be.
Speaker 3: Better one hundred percent. And like, this is the first
Speaker 3: time in my life I've ever had that, and I
Speaker 3: feel really excited about it. So I'm enjoying every moment
Speaker 3: for it is what it is, and I'm not taking
Speaker 3: a single moment for granted, like not one.
Speaker 2: It's so inspiring to hear because we do get into
Speaker 2: our rhythms and we get into our patterns and we
Speaker 2: get into our day to day. But yeah, we've got
Speaker 2: to live. Life is so short, we've got to live
Speaker 2: it to the fullest. So Street Bike Tommy, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for being on the good stuff. We truly
Speaker 2: appreciate your words of wisdom and thanks for opening up
Speaker 2: and telling us your stories of all the times you
Speaker 2: got your butt kicked and came through on the other side.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate you guys taking the time and the invite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I mean courage, your stupidity. Let it be
Speaker 1: your choice. I love you, always have day one man,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait till you get back together whatever
Speaker 1: that looks like. For whatever reason in the flesh, right.
Speaker 3: I have to do a double date somewhere cool done,
Speaker 3: absolutely Dane.
Speaker 1: I dig you bro, A dig your spirit and a dig
Speaker 1: your soul, and thank.
Speaker 3: You fam rather you man, nothing but.
Speaker 1: Love the Man, the Myth The Legend Street by Tommy Passamonte.
Speaker 2: Dude is hilarious and like you said, it's clear he
Speaker 2: loves so hard, like he does everything so hard.
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, he his halfway button.
Speaker 2: Just is inop sounds like someone I.
Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, I know. But it's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: I think we connected so well from the very beginning.
Speaker 1: And I just love his passion for life. I love
Speaker 1: his love of life. And when he says like I
Speaker 1: don't want to waste a single moment, right, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what he means.
Speaker 2: And that's the biggest takeaway for me on this episode
Speaker 2: and this conversation that we had with him, is that
Speaker 2: life is short and sometimes we do we get bogged down.
Speaker 2: We need these reminders of hey, you know what, Today's
Speaker 2: an opportunity. Today is a gift. I've got to go
Speaker 2: out and I've got to live it to the fullest
Speaker 2: and give it everything that I've got.
Speaker 1: And he's one of those guys that just reminds me
Speaker 1: and it's okay to take risks and fail, right, that's okay.
Speaker 1: You know you have permission to fail. And the difference
Speaker 1: being in Tommy's case, he brings me back to the
Speaker 1: old thing. If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, you might have some broken bones,
Speaker 2: but that's okay.
Speaker 1: But seriously, one of the greatest guys on the planet
Speaker 1: who has a true love for all things adventure, and
Speaker 1: Travis Pastrano has been such a great friend to him,
Speaker 1: and I know that their bond's unbreakable, and I just
Speaker 1: think it was awesome to have him.
Speaker 2: Great human great lesson. Absolutely enjoyed it and don't be
Speaker 2: afraid to take risks. Thank you so much for listening.
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Speaker 1: Put on your bad ass capes and be great today.
Speaker 1: And remember you can't do epic stuff without epic people.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to the good stuff.
Speaker 2: The Good Stuff is executive produced by Ashley Shick, Jacob Shick,
Speaker 2: Leah Pictures and q Coode Media. Hosted by Ashley Shick
Speaker 2: and Jacob Schick, Produced by Nick Cassellini and Ryan Counts.
Speaker 2: House post production Supervisor Will Tindi. Music by Will haywood Smith,
Speaker 2: edited by Mike Robinson, sound effects by Eric Aaron, Mixed
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