WEBVTT - All Gas, No Breaks with Tommy Passemante 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.879 Welcome with the Good Stuff. I'm Jacob Shick and I'm 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.160 joined by my co host and wife, Ashley Shick. 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.599 Jake is a third generation combat Marine and I'm a 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.360 gold Star granddaughter, and we work together to serve military veterans, 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.840 first responders, frontline healthcare workers, and their families with mental 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.600 and emotional wellness through traditional and non traditional therapy. At 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.160 One Tribe Foundation, we believe. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.479 Everyone has a stored itself, not only about the peaks, 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.680 but also about the valleys they've been through to get 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:35.839 them to where they are today. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.640 Each week, we invite a guest to tell us their story, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.120 to share with us the lessons they've learned that shape 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.199 who they are and what they're doing to pay it 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:44.400 forward and give back. 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.240 Our mission with this show is to dig deep into 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.720 our guest journey so that we can celebrate the hope 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.360 and inspiration their story as the offer and Welcome to 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:53.040 the Good Stuff. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.200 Our guest today is always looking for the next big adventure. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.200 He's a Daredvil wild Man street bike Tommy Passamonte. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.880 He is part of Nitro Circus, which is an action 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.920 sports company with some of the biggest events in BMX, FMX, 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:11.920 skate and scooter, and he tells. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.040 Us a story of some of his craziest stunts in 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.040 the accident that actually started him down this venturesome path 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.440 and eventually led him to time travel to ancient Egypt. 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.280 You're gonna hear about a lot of wild stunts, so kids, 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.880 needless to say, don't try this at home. 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.720 And as another quick disclaimer, we actually recorded this episode 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.039 a while back and a few things have changed in 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.520 Tommy's personal life since then, but he told us he 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.080 wouldn't change a thing that he said. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.760 Tommy loves so hard and I love this man. He 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.440 understood the mission of the podcast the moment we discussed 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.959 it with him, So let's jump right in. Here is 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:54.960 Street Bike Tommy Passimonte. But then they turn it off 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.400 and they're like, I got this. That's your point, you get, 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.400 all right, So hype up your day. Yeah yeah, I 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.760 mean to put on your bad ass cape. I'm the 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.920 courage to put on your badass cape and do epic shit. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.079 Y yeah. Or even if you can't do epic shit, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.000 just go ahead and enjoy your ride. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.880 Yeah, you only get one shot around the sun. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.000 You know, I would hate for somebody to compare themselves 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:17.760 in my life, because my life is like you couldn't 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.280 even I don't even think I know what I'm doing. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.960 But to be able to like just enjoy every breath. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.840 People they try to plan on the future too much 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.000 and they really try to like live in the past 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:30.919 or like, oh well I did this, and oh man, 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.040 I'm really bummed I did that about my life. The 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.760 main thing that I've learned in life is just to 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:40.040 chill and like enjoy what's happening around you, like smells, tastes, 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.720 I mean, just the people you're around, because like who knows, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:49.560 you never know what ride somebody's on, you know, right, Absolutely. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.960 St podcast episode for coming. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.160 No, No, that's awesome. We are so excited today to 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:07.600 have Stuntman, wild Man, Adventure Man, Friend, Contractor, Contractor, street 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.799 Bike Tommy or Tommy Pasamonte here with. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:11.760 Us on the good Stuff. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.960 Dude. It's a it's an honor and privilege to have 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:15.680 you on. Man. You know, I love you to the 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:16.200 end of the. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.160 Honored privilege to be invited on the show. But I 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.160 greatly appreciate it. It's great to see you. We've had 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.400 some times and uh, I feel like we don't we 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:24.280 don't do it enough. 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.920 Agreed. You know, I know you've been told this before, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.320 but one thing that really connected me to you in 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.760 the very beginning. I mean, you love hard, bro, you 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.240 love all the way I'll come be damned. Yeah, and 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.600 we just need we need more souls like yours. It's magnetic. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.960 I feel like that's the first time anybody everybody's actually 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.800 like verbalized that. But like, yeah, that's truly like how 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.800 I like to live my life. I don't have like acquaintances. 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.120 If you're around me, it's because like you're an awesome 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.880 person and I love you like fully. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:58.560 Soul feeders not bleeders. 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.160 Right, Yeah, that's right. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.000 Your career, your life, your path has been one to 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.560 make sure you have as much fun as possible. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.560 Yeah, and just even if it's not fun, it's like 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.440 just life, Like I want to experience the word life 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.760 as much as possible. You only get one go around, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.120 and I'm not wasting a single second of this thing exactly. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.440 And that shows in some of the daredevil risks you've taken, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.760 but also the path that you've led. You're actually famous 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.120 for having one of the most brutal crashes in extreme 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:27.159 sports history. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.360 One of the most viral videos of all time. I 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.800 think it was a top download of the Internet in 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.800 like five or six something like that. And yeah, back 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:36.679 when nobody got paid. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:42.280 So timing is everything. Back in the MySpace days, I 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:47.280 mean that life forever ago. You're also the coast of Sorry, 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.039 the co host of the Explosion Show. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:54.200 Yeah, Tory Bilichi's my man's shout out science channel. That 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.560 was twenty twenty when we did that. That was a 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.640 lot of fun, most fun job I ever had because 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.560 I wasn't scared. It was It's a lot of fun. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.200 We went around blue stuff up. It was like the 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:02.839 best job. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.320 Ever I can somewhat relate. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:07.480 He's got chokes. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.920 Still too soon, Still too soon. It's been eighteen years. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.760 Still too soon, Tommy Pasamonte. We're so excited to have 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.800 you here on the good Stuff. You've lived a life 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.200 full of risk taking and adventures, and we're excited to 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.200 hear about some of those today. You definitely pushed the 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.200 extremes that most people can only comprehend they've only seen 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.240 him on TV or when they go viral on social media. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.320 But striving for these ultimate highs has also led you 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.880 to some of your most deep, philosophical and spiritual places. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.320 You've ever been, so oh yeah, we want you to 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.440 tell us about the journey that you took from your 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.200 first done as a teenager to the pyramids of ancient Egypt. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.039 When I was a kid, I didn't do anything that 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.599 was dangerous at all. Like my brother and I and 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.720 my sister got dirt bikes and stuff, and like we 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.000 got him super late, like I beg my dad for him, 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.480 but we didn't have money at all, and he finally, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.599 like you know, he's working man, he like finally saved 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.400 up enough dough to get dirt bikes, and my brother 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.039 and his friends like took to him real quick. Like 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.000 they would just like jump. They would build all these 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.600 like wood ramps and like dirt ramps and they would 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.840 go jump, and I was like, oh, whoa, that's so cool. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.520 But every time I tried, just hurt my feet when 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:15.920 I lay on the pegs and I was just like 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.200 over it from there. So I was like, no, no, 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.040 I'm not doing that. And then like that kind of 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.440 kept me from being like too crazy. In high school, 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.880 I got my first car, which was a Ford Explorer, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.280 and that was right around the time that Gone in 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.039 sixty Seconds, the movie with Nick Cage had come out 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:39.119 Eleanor and oh dude, Eleanor and me and my friends 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.159 were like super into cars because fast and furious one 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.680 like that was like my era. Jackass was just getting huge, 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.480 and like you just had that new genre of people 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.560 that were making money and making livings off of just 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.040 doing what your friends do stupidly and garages and you know, 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.680 just hanging out after school or whatever, and like they're 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.479 making livings off of it. I was like all about 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.280 that life. I was like, those guys seem like they're 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.479 so cool, They're gonna be my best friends. And so, 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.280 you know, locally, I was always known as the kid 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.160 that would just do whatever. You know, I'd take any 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.600 bet you want to eat those French fries covered in 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.320 the whole bytle of hot sauce for twenty bucks, all right, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.640 twenty bucks twenty bucks. So like I was doing stuff 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.280 like that. And then one night, me and my friends 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.440 were just playing video games. I need gym shorts or 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.640 something stupid from my house. So like we jumped in 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.800 my truck and we were driving to my house. My 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.560 driveway is like a full mile of like asphalt before 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.760 you can even get to my house. But that's where 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.560 I would drive fast because you don't have to worry 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.440 about two way traffic, but it's only like a fifteen 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.400 mile on our zone and the road kind of sucks 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:45.840 and you don't think about things like tire pressure and 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.119 stuff like that. So like I was like always driving 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.520 like super fast around this one corner and especially like 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.680 during the fall, like like the truck would settle on 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.600 the suspension and like you could feel it like slide 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.440 across the leaves and then like catching and I'd go again, 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.360 and like it was just like I'm super fast, you know, 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.400 and all my friends saw I was like the sick 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.760 like drift driver. Turns out like every time that I 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.320 was doing that, like I didn't I wasn't checking my 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.600 tire pressures and then in the fall, like your tires, 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.040 uh lose pressure. Just from that the temperature change. On 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:15.960 top of the fact that I was just terrible to 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.520 my first vehicle. I don't think I ever changed oil, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.640 not one time. This one night, we're going to get 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.600 Jim shorts and it's nighttime, so it's like even colder, 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.680 and there's a bunch of people at my house. But 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.120 we weren't trying to go to this party. It was 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.839 like party my brother was having. We're going down my 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.360 driveway and like my one friend's in the front and 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.520 he's like older, and he was like the coolest kid 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.240 in high school. He's like prom king and all that stuff. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.240 So he's like, you won't go as fast as you 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.200 can around this corner. And I was like what And 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.240 he was like, go, baby, go, so like the button 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.440 on the on eleanor in the movie, you know, he 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.800 was like, go baby, go and he's and then I 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.000 was like all right, bah, you know cause like you know, 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.000 who won't. I had a lot of pepper when I 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:55.400 was younger. I mean I ha a lot of pepper. 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.079 So I like punched the gas. And then my buddy 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.760 that was in the back, Nick, he was like the 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.319 only friend that was like old enough to be out 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.480 of high school, and he was like an older, wiser friend. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.079 He was like no, stop, no, like laid down because 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:08.880 like he thought we were gonna crash. And I take 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.280 the corner like I had a bunch of times, and 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.920 the tires just folded right off the rims. Like it 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.960 was like as soon as I set that suspension, and 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.960 it just like instantly sent us into like a flip 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.760 and I rolled the truck. But right on that first flip, luckily, 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.720 I wasn't wearing my seat belt, and I got ejected 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.720 out of my driver window, so like my head smashed 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.800 that window and I went out that window. If I 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.160 was in the vehicle, I wouldn't be sitting here today. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.679 There was like blood spatter like where because I went 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.160 out and up and like police were there measuring the 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:41.760 scene and all kinds stuff, and then there's a big 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.440 old blood splatter twenty plus feet in the air, like 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.560 it like I went up and just smoked this tree 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.400 and fell down, like that's where they found me. But 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.120 apparently they couldn't find me for a little while because 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.120 once the truck came to rest, Nick who laid down 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:55.840 in the back, he just got a seat belt in 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.040 his mouth and ended up like splitting his lip real bad. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.240 But he was generally okay. My other buddy in the 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.199 front like had a concussion and like corn rotator cuff 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.120 and wasn't in the greatest shape. But if my seat, 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.160 like if I was in my seat, like it looked 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.320 like somebody had can open or this pillar like it 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.400 ripped through the door and the roof, I probably would 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.480 have been like decapitated by it, because it was just 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:21.440 like that like open sharp whatever caught that space of 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.640 the truck and peeled it. But luckily I got ejected 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.480 and Nick called my friends like my brother at that party, 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.400 and everybody thought we were like messing with him. But 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.040 then he called back another time, had that like voice, 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.720 and I guess my brother like rounded up the house 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.600 full of kids at a party, so now you have 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.640 like fifteen drunk kids that were like leaving the house. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.439 And then they got to the crash scene and they 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.880 called the paramedics. They called a helicopter, but they had 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.240 a hard time deciphering like who was drunk and who 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.120 was in the accident, and there's all these kids everywhere 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.559 and like, but I had no clue what was going on. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.199 Apparently I had woke up and I started yelling. A 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.160 deer jumped out in front of me. A deer jumped 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.720 out in front of me. I don't know, even in 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.840 an unconscious state, I was still looking out for myself. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.080 I think the first memory that I have of that, 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.880 because I still don't have a memory of the actual accident. 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.240 I have just right up until we rolled and then 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.760 like nothing until like they were pulling me off the 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.440 helicopter at the hospital because the first thing I remember 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:24.120 is like being super cold, looking up at blades and 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.760 like looking down, and then the sheet that they had 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.440 on me like blew off, and I was completely naked 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.120 and they wheeled me through the whole hospital with my 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.360 wiener out and I was like, man, that kind of sucks. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:42.840 So right now, that was my first recollection from the accident. 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:50.080 Butedi that was Baltimore Shock Trauma, one of the best 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.120 trauma hospitals in the world, thankfully, and they took care 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.400 of me because I had like seventy hairline fractured or 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.000 some crazy number like that. I don't think they got 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.520 an actual count, but that's what they said as doctors 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.920 was like, you just have a massive like from here 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.360 to like mostly this side in the front, which ended 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.600 up healing back with like calcium deposits and stuff. So 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.720 I have a very thick skull for real, like not 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.680 even like joking. I think I have really tough nugget. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:19.280 Pretty sure anyone who's familiar with you has no problem 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:20.360 believing that. No. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.600 Yeah, I've had quite the illustrious career of like head injury. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.839 One instance where we did that barrel in the three 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:30.920 D movie, Me and Jim de Champ we had the 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.720 same head injuries and he had a brain bleed, and 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.040 he's still not okay from it, like he still has 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.520 remnants of that that he deals with on a brain 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.000 level daily. But I've been super lucky as far as 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.600 the stuff we've been through. I mean even from birth, 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.400 I was premature and like they thought it was like 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.480 they read me my my my last rights when I 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.960 was born. So really, like my whole life, I've just 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.120 been lucky to be here. So I'm here for a reason. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.120 Take us back to the hospital bed. What when you 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.080 wake up? What's going on? 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.000 Like at the time, I ended up getting some memory back, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.960 and that's where I remember the chopper blades and stuff 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.240 like that. But like at the time, at the exact moment, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.400 like when it happened, I was playing video games in 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.520 my buddy's room, so like I'm sitting there playing like 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.240 PlayStation and I'm like and all of a sudden, it 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.559 was like somebody just chopped like a movie, you know how, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.120 like you can take film and like splice like one 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.280 one into another, like back in the day before like 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.840 computer editing. But it was like you took one film 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.680 and then you put another film that was totally different, 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:34.959 and like it was just like I went from playing 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.080 video games and all of a sudden, controller's gone. I 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.040 look down and I'm in a gown. I'm laying down 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.719 in a hospital bed. I'm looking around hospital bed, and 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.040 I'm kind of smiling as I'm coming to It was 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.880 like the Wizard of Ozz. So it's like my dad, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.040 my mom, and like all my friends at the time, 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.720 and everybody's like around the bed and they're like crying, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.199 and I'm like, what is what are you all crying about? 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.679 And then like the nurse was right there. I was like, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.319 why am I in the hospital? And all of a sudden, 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:00.680 like as soon as I say that, like all this 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.440 pain set in, like in my back and like in 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.120 my head, and I was like whoa. I was like 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.720 what happened? And like the nurse, like on cue, was like, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:10.880 you crashed your truck, honey, And I was all like 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.840 at the time, like I'm fast dripping the world, and 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.520 so I was like, yeah, bullshit, whatever, No I didn't. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.880 They're like, no, like you really wrecked your truck. And 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.000 I was like, was anybody with me? And they were like, yeah, 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.760 your friend Nick and Brian, and I swear to god, 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.360 this was like a movie. As soon as she said 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.800 Nick and Brian was with me, the curtain to my 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.840 side opens up. Like I was like, we're good, bro. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.520 It was like Brian he's in a gown and his 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.360 arms all jacked up and he's got like half an 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.760 ear hanging off, you know, Nick sitting there, he's got 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.600 stitches in his mouth. He's like, yeah, dude, we're good. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.080 And they're like holding on too little IV things. But 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:46.880 it was like on cue, like it was like a movie, 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.680 like they had planned all these things and like that's 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:54.200 all just happened naturally. And then over the next two weeks, 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.880 I was pretty much just in and out of consciousness 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.560 because of how bad my concussion was. The world didn't 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.520 feel real. There was too many coincidences where I was like, 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.320 there's no way that that happened in that time. That's 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.000 just too much. And like from that point, like I've 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.240 even today, like if I start thinking about things and 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.000 situations that have happened in my life, and like I 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.280 start thinking about them when they happened, I can actually 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.960 put myself in a place where like this isn't real, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.680 like and it's like a really weird headspace. But then 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.160 I'll shake it off and I'm like, all right, this 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:27.760 is reality. Don't be stupid. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:32.840 Wow, So that's crazy, like go crazy, you. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.920 Know, No, it's definitely like my brain. It's so weird 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.560 the things that I've experienced inside my own head in 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.840 my lifetime to where you're just like, what's it all mean? 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.960 Like even sleep, Like I get caught thinking all the time, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.640 like in my sleep, where do we go? Why do 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.000 we do that? What sense does that make? To no 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:56.120 longer be on this plane for eight hours a night 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.600 or whatever you end up getting sleep? Because I've woken 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.440 up from dreams I war to god they were real. 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.680 I mean, like as real as this is happening right now. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.040 I've woken up and been like, oh, this is real. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.760 But is it? The brain's a weird place. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.800 Do you feel like this wreck, like these injuries, is 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.920 that what set you on this path of being able 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.040 to go into this almost alternate. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.680 It's funny because like before the car crash, I was 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.320 always like super cautious as far as like pain levels 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.320 and stuff like I never really wanted I was like sissy, 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.000 I was like, oh, man, that's gonna hurt. But then 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.200 like after that crash, I was like, when it hurts 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.600 that bad, your body's just going to turn it off. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.520 So like, what's the matter. Like, once it gets to 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.520 you know that level, like what you're scared of, you're 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.320 not going to feel it. If you actually get into 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.960 a situation where your body thinks that this is the end, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.200 like it automatically does the chemical dump that is like 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.840 really weird. So I was like, Oh, I don't really 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:55.480 have to worry about that, So it's gonna live life. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.960 Yeah. Absolutely. What effect did the crash have on your family? 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.000 I never really asked, but like I had never seen 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.880 my dad cry before, and I like saw him cry then, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.840 and I haven't seen him cry since. I saw him 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.399 really super upset with me after I crashed the street 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.280 bike because that was only like four years three three 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.119 years after that truck crashes when I crashed the motorcycle, 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.480 and he just had that face like you're gonna be 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.280 done with this, and I was like, yeah, I'm gonna 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:26.119 be done, and then. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:27.240 And then you work done. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.720 Then I got better and I made a whole career 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.000 out of it. I jumped off a cruise ship one time, 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.120 and like I saw my grandma like right after, and 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.120 like I had my face it was basically like from 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.040 here to here, it was just like swollen, shut and 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.840 purple cause like I had hemorrhaged my left eye from 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:44.840 hitting the water so hard. And she was like, Oh 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.520 my god, your face. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.359 What happened? What happened to your beautiful face? I thought 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:51.919 you wanted to be a scientist. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.200 It was the funniest thing. Yeah, it was so good. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.040 Oh and when I got my show on Science Channel, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.399 I was like, hey, Grandma, check it out. I'm on 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:00.480 the side. I'm scientist. 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:05.800 That came full circle. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:07.679 It's kind of funny, she laughed. 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.320 So what was the tipping point? Like how did you 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.240 then jump into this as a career for life? 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.200 Well that's I get that a lot, Like how did 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.840 I become part of Nitro Circus? And it's just such 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.760 a weird question for me personally because everybody thinks that, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.760 like you think of it now as like a brand. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.359 It's like Nitro Circus is a thing. I was just 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.720 hanging out with Travis for STRONGO and like I wasn't 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:32.239 even hanging out with Travis, Like I was hanging out 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.880 with Jim de Champ and Greg Powell, Travis's cousin who 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.800 both of them lived at Travis's house at the time. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.520 We were just kind of kicking around, goof and off. 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.919 We were just hanging out and he was shooting DVDs, 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:45.960 and I thought I was gonna be super famous, you know. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:47.880 I was like, oh man, this is a DVD that's 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.359 gonna be a motorcycle shops and maybe even Walmart. This 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:55.040 is crazy. I'm gonna be so famous. From having that 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.760 thought to seeing where it is now, it's crazy because 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.560 like I didn't sign up for anything. I wasn't part 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.600 of it. I helped create it, you know what I mean, Like, 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.040 I like it became something because of what we were doing, 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:08.879 and now like I've gone around the world four or 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:10.320 five times with it. 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.800 When that started, there wasn't a Nitro Circus yet. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:16.959 No, there was only Jackass and that was only an 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.400 MTV thing, Like it wasn't even movies yet thing. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.119 Okay, I was just clarifying as I was like, oh, 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.320 pretty sure. Niner Circus came later. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.440 So when I did my street bike flip, the reason 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.399 why I even did it was because I was at 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.119 a party where Jim de Champ had just started dating 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.760 a family friend of mine. We were always at parties 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.360 and stuff like that, and my friends were like, oh 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.920 my god, Jim to Shamp, he's so cute. Oh my god, 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.679 he hangs out with Travis Pastrana, because like Travis was 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.760 like super locally talked about because he's like our famous guy. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.600 Jim lived at his house and like Travis's house was 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.199 just on cribs and like all my friends were like 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.720 super impressed by him, and I'm super like, I'm like, 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.440 talk about that guy. I'm way cooler than that guy, 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:59.160 you know what I mean. They were filming Nitro Circus one, 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.520 the DVD. They had just shot pretty much all of 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.359 it and they were in the editing process of it, 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.240 but they were so pumped on how the first one 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.680 was turning out that they were already filming for number two. 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.440 I talked smack on the first one because Jim showed 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.080 it at a party and like all my friends were like, 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:14.960 that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. I was like, 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:17.359 if I had that kind of money and like, you know, 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.680 I could do better, And Jim was like, oh yeah, 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.000 you think you do better? Put up a shut up 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.600 basically and invited me over to do a film shoot 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:27.760 to see who could come up with the best footage 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:29.720 for two grands. So like a bunch of teams went 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.360 out over a twenty four hour period to see who 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:34.840 could get the coolest footage. Didn't matter what it was, 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:36.760 it just had to be the coolest footage. I ended 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.439 up overshooting the phone pit and I won the two grand. 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:43.200 Yeah, I mean I would imagine. I know you haven't 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.639 seen this video. Yeah you can't know. 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:48.160 I don't like yucky stuff. 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.080 Yeah, well you don't see the yucky stuff. 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:54.679 I mean you can imagine that. You can imagine the 0:20:54.760 --> 0:21:01.400 yucky stuff because when street bike, it's street bike, Tommy, Yeah, 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:06.560 okay from Yeah, some people referred someone as a crotch rocket. Like, 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:08.600 we're not talking a dirt bike, We're not talking a 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:12.400 jump bike. We're talking a bona fide street bike. 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:16.440 It was a two thousand and two Suzuki GSXR one thousand. 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.159 I've watched that video multiple times, and now that I 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.320 like know you and I love you and you're my bro, 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.520 I'm like what I want to be like, what were 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.000 you like? Don't do that ever again? 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.359 I mean, in my defense, I didn't plan on missing 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:31.080 the phone pit. 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:33.959 You just really wanted to win that two thousand dollars. 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.000 Yeah, I mean so in my brain I thought that 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:38.320 because I had jumped it before at like twenty five 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:41.159 miles an hour, and I just like was like and 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:44.080 like barely went in the phone. And then my only 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:46.199 other buddy, because Travis wasn't here, nobody else here. They 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:47.920 were out film and trying to get their own clips. 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:50.680 And my only buddy that had any dirt bike experience 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.520 at all was like a plumber friend of mine. His 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:54.879 name's Wayne, and he's the one that actually shot the 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:58.680 famous clip from the ladder in the tree. He was like, 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:00.159 you can hear them on video. He goes, you can 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.919 go twice as fast, and like I went twice as 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:03.439 fast and. 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:07.480 Physic Yeah, And clearly you didn't learn your lesson in 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.119 the Ford Explorer when your friend had said you won't go. 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:12.399 Well, there was no money on the line then. 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.199 Though, Yeah. Yeah, And like I said, I had a 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:17.879 lot of pepper, a lot of pepper when I was younger. 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:24.360 After this second close escape from death happens, now suddenly 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:26.720 the world knows who you are and you're reunited with 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:28.760 Travis Pastrow. What happened next? 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:31.360 Well, at that point, you know, one of my biggest 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:33.320 things was like, cause I really like going out of 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:36.720 bars and stuff. I do enjoy the company of a female, 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:38.199 so like, I don't ever want to be like the 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:40.760 boring guy at a bar. Like I was young, and 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:42.520 I was like, just how I'm gonna get chicks? 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:43.719 Little? 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:46.520 Does anybody ever tell you that you get more dudes 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:49.040 than anything with the life that I've chose to live. 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:53.760 So you became really popular with the guys. 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:56.840 Oh man, man, the bros are my man, those are 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:59.399 my homies. Because if it wasn't for the bros, no 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:02.080 chick ever know at all what I do. They're always like, 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:04.680 you don't know who this is? And they're like, no, 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:06.280 why would I know who that is? And then they 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:08.480 show them the clip and they're like that's stupid, and 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:13.920 I'm like, I didn't go anywhere I thought that was 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:19.320 gonna go. So but yeah, that's pretty much my original 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:23.040 drive was just to like party because like after that, 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:25.399 I became like the hot girl at the bar. You know, 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:28.280 everybody was just buying me drinks and stuff, and that 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:30.040 still happens to this day. Like I cannot go out 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.000 on my birthday. If I go out on my birthday, 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:34.679 it's just like out of hand. So I tend to 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:37.399 limit myself on holidays and stuff like that because people 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.000 do really like to get me going because I'm a 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:41.080 lot of fun when I drink. 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.520 This is what's crazy is because you're you're a lot 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:48.800 of fun anyway. Yeah, right, so then you know, you 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:51.879 throw in the chemicals and it's like it's rocket fuel. 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:56.199 Yep ye, So you decide to make another go at 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:56.680 the ballpit. 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:00.480 So the thing was, It's like because after after the 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:03.960 each DVD was made with Travis, he would rent out 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:08.920 a theater in our hometown, a Napolis small theater and 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:12.080 play it on the big screen to a whole theater crowd. 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:14.359 And I was always sold out because he would sell 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:18.480 tickets through a bike doctor in Annapolis and it would 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:21.399 always get a sold out crowd. And in my brain, 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:23.639 you know, oh my god, they played it on a 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:28.119 movie theater. So like I'm like, well, I'm a movie star, right, literally, 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:31.000 somebody rented it and like you know, it's like a 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:35.080 one theater thing. That was like the coolest thing because 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:37.720 I showed up hammered. I was still in a wheelchair, 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:40.000 and like all my friends were like feeding me drinks, 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:41.800 like because we're partying because I'm a movie star now. 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:46.720 And that night like right as like the movie ended 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:49.720 and everybody was walking out. Greg Godfrey, who was the 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:53.119 original producer of Nitro Circus, he came up to me 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:54.960 and my friends because we were like the last ones 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:56.480 in the theater, so like high five and then like 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:59.439 passing each other drinks and stuff. And he comes up 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:00.600 and he goes, hey, man, and I see you're having 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:02.160 a good time, and I don't want to like interrupt, 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:03.440 but I just want to introduce myself. 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:03.560 Hi. 0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:05.320 I'm great, God for you, God forre you entertainment. I 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:08.199 was like, oh, whoa, you're like a big Hollywood producer, 0:25:08.560 --> 0:25:11.000 you know, And he goes, I just wanted to say Hi, 0:25:11.040 --> 0:25:12.760 I introduce myself, and I wanted to give you my 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:15.080 card in case you feel like doing anything else, because 0:25:15.280 --> 0:25:17.120 I don't know, if you know what you have here, 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:20.359 you're gonna have one of the biggest clips of all time. 0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:23.600 Like you can either always be that guy at every 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:25.919 bar and everybody's gonna be like, oh my god, like 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:28.240 that's the guy that did that thing, or if you 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:29.760 want to take this ball and run with it. Let 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:31.119 me know, just give me a shot. And he like 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:34.280 flicked his card at me, and I was like, all right, cool, dude, 0:25:34.280 --> 0:25:37.280 that's sick. And I got, you know this this director's card. 0:25:37.760 --> 0:25:39.800 It's like, oh my god, and he told me he 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:41.919 wants to work with me. I got to come up 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:44.480 with a really good idea. I want to do this forever. 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:47.520 So that's when I had the idea to jump off 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:52.840 that cruise ship. And uh yeah, that's an even longer story, 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:56.560 but long story short, I jump off hemorrhage to my 0:25:56.640 --> 0:25:58.240 left eye and I still had pins in my foot 0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:00.239 at this time, Like I was still super injured from 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:02.399 the street bike thing. But I didn't want to like 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:04.960 waste the opportunity. So like I jump off the side 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:07.040 of his cruise ship and I had my buddy film 0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:10.000 it from a jet ski, but he was like super 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:12.399 far away. The footage ended up really sucking. He just 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:14.920 looks like somebody threw like a dead body off the side. 0:26:14.960 --> 0:26:17.960 It was like, ye, it was just like a little 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:22.480 dot like it made nitro circus lock and load and 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:26.040 it was either lock and load or three. But they 0:26:26.119 --> 0:26:27.920 like had to put like one of those like zoom 0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:30.719 in circles on the little dot and be like that 0:26:30.760 --> 0:26:32.520 was Timy that jumped off a cruise ship. It was 0:26:32.560 --> 0:26:35.840 really terrible footage. Otherwise, like that would have been huge too, 0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:37.680 because there was like a kid that jumped off a 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:39.520 cruise ship not too long ago, but like the it 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:41.200 was like on a cell phone that was actually pretty 0:26:41.200 --> 0:26:43.320 good and his video went crazy. So I feel like 0:26:43.320 --> 0:26:45.120 if I had something like that, it would have been 0:26:45.640 --> 0:26:47.960 way better for my career. But that got me in 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:50.280 the door because once I actually did that, because that's 0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:52.919 where the name street by Tommy comes from, because I 0:26:52.920 --> 0:26:56.239 took that number and I called that number and all 0:26:56.240 --> 0:26:58.040 of a sudden, it was like ring ring, ring, ring, 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:00.160 Hello God for you entertainment, this is the Stacey's Sea, 0:27:00.320 --> 0:27:02.000 How I help you? And I was like not planning 0:27:02.080 --> 0:27:05.320 on talking to a secretary, So I was like, uh so, 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:07.480 and like in my brain, I'm like, how am I 0:27:07.480 --> 0:27:09.960 going to make myself sound important enough for her to 0:27:10.000 --> 0:27:12.879 actually transfer me to Greg. I was like, I'm a 0:27:13.880 --> 0:27:16.399 Tommy from the last video. I was a guy on 0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:20.119 the street bike the crash the Pumastrana land Champ Tommy 0:27:20.200 --> 0:27:22.200 like because it said it on the video. I was like, yeah, 0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:24.640 Tommy street Bike Tommy, the guy with the Tommy guy 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:27.159 with and she was like yeah, hop please and like 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:32.919 and then it was like fifteen minutes later being like 0:27:33.000 --> 0:27:35.440 on hold. Greg picks up the phone and he's like, 0:27:35.520 --> 0:27:37.200 so you got a nickname now? And I was like, 0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:39.560 what are you talking about? And he was like, street 0:27:39.560 --> 0:27:41.240 bike Tommy. I like it, And I was like, oh 0:27:41.280 --> 0:27:44.720 my god, that's the dumbest name. All right, yeah, all right, 0:27:44.760 --> 0:27:47.080 Greg Godfrey who's famous and like producer guy that I 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:49.320 want to work with. Sure, that's my nickname. And it 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:51.639 just stuck. That's how I got my foot in the 0:27:51.640 --> 0:27:53.960 door was that he didn't believe me once I told 0:27:54.040 --> 0:27:55.359 him that I was going to jump off a cruise 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:57.480 ship and when I was going to jump off cruise ship, 0:27:57.480 --> 0:28:00.480 because I still wasn't like I wasn't even remotely from 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:04.440 the street by crash, I did that and I actually 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:06.840 did it, and from that point on he was like, 0:28:06.880 --> 0:28:08.960 I gotta have like an actual camera on this guy. 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:11.440 Like from now I'm like, he has to have a crew. 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:13.960 And every time he called me up invited me out 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:16.440 on a shoot, like I'd always get really good footage, 0:28:16.440 --> 0:28:18.240 and I just kept getting the invite and I kept 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:20.680 showing up. But the thing that nobody tells you is 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:22.919 that I didn't get a single paycheck until we are 0:28:22.960 --> 0:28:27.160 actually on MTV, and I actually had quit Nitroy Circus 0:28:27.240 --> 0:28:30.080 because they just wouldn't pay me at all. Like in 0:28:30.080 --> 0:28:36.040 the DVD days, I was in like seven DVDs and 0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:38.760 like I had not gotten one paycheck, not a single 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:41.520 red scent. All the early day stuff was you know, 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:44.520 you're basically throwing yourself to the wolves and like risking 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:46.560 your life for beer and T shirts because you get 0:28:46.600 --> 0:28:48.800 out on these film shoots and you know, it's the 0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:50.600 most fun ever because you're with like some of the 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:56.080 gnarliest dudes to ever live, and we all go really hard, 0:28:56.360 --> 0:28:58.160 and you know, you do your stunts during the day, 0:28:58.200 --> 0:29:00.600 but afterwards it's like the best party could ever see 0:29:00.680 --> 0:29:02.800 or think of, And like, you just don't you don't 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:05.040 want to be left out like that. FOMO is really 0:29:05.080 --> 0:29:08.320 what kept pushing me to do as much as possible. 0:29:08.360 --> 0:29:10.560 And then I got to travel, like after like I 0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:12.920 jumped off the cruise ship. The very first trip that 0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:15.840 I ever went on was to Spokane, Washington. I had 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:19.280 never been anywhere but Florida before, or Ocean City, Maryland. 0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:23.160 But now all of a sudden, I'm flying to Spokane, Washington, 0:29:23.840 --> 0:29:26.920 and I watched Travis do the very first double backflip 0:29:26.960 --> 0:29:29.719 to dirt ever, which was this huge step up. 0:29:32.880 --> 0:29:34.960 So what were you up to that got you from Spokane, 0:29:35.080 --> 0:29:36.640 Washington to ancient Egypt. 0:29:37.200 --> 0:29:41.360 So shortly after I did the cruise ship jump, and 0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:43.920 then shortly after I learned that backflip, I was like, 0:29:43.960 --> 0:29:47.000 you know what, I think I can do backflips. So like, 0:29:47.040 --> 0:29:48.600 I learned how to do a backflip and I landed 0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:51.640 a backflip to dirt on a two stroke two fifty, 0:29:51.680 --> 0:29:53.560 so a full sized dirt bike. But then I was like, 0:29:53.600 --> 0:29:55.000 you know, because I was trying to do a front 0:29:55.000 --> 0:29:58.000 flip on the street bike. I was like, man, nobody's 0:29:58.080 --> 0:30:00.240 ever done a front flip on a dirt bike. I 0:30:00.320 --> 0:30:03.400 bet you I could do it. So then I was 0:30:03.440 --> 0:30:06.760 like dead set on like learning how to do front flips. 0:30:07.080 --> 0:30:08.920 So I start jumping in the phone pit like all 0:30:08.960 --> 0:30:11.320 the time trying to do a front flip. But like 0:30:11.360 --> 0:30:14.040 the phone pit is super unforgiving. Everybody thinks it's like, 0:30:14.040 --> 0:30:16.800 oh it's a pitophone. Sure it makes it so like 0:30:16.840 --> 0:30:20.320 you can land and like live, but there's so many 0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:23.760 different things that can go wrong in a phone pit. 0:30:23.880 --> 0:30:26.719 Like one you can miss it, like go over it. 0:30:27.040 --> 0:30:28.959 You can miss it to the side because like you 0:30:29.040 --> 0:30:30.960 hit and like you kind of g out because like 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:32.959 you maybe you pulled harder with your right hand than 0:30:32.960 --> 0:30:36.720 your left, like all your movements are multiplied. 0:30:36.200 --> 0:30:39.000 And you really think you check both those boxes with 0:30:39.080 --> 0:30:40.280 the step bike jump. 0:30:40.440 --> 0:30:43.000 Yeah, so the street bike I went straight over. And 0:30:43.040 --> 0:30:45.120 then another time after that I actually landed on the 0:30:45.160 --> 0:30:47.200 side wall of the phone pit because I was like 0:30:47.320 --> 0:30:49.280 just showing off for this like chick that had to 0:30:49.320 --> 0:30:52.200 sturt bike. That was like I can't backflip my motorcycle 0:30:52.200 --> 0:30:54.360 because it's a one twenty five And Tray was like, 0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:56.280 Tommy can do that, and I was like, yeah, I can. 0:30:56.760 --> 0:30:59.160 And then like yeah, and I like I did like 0:30:59.240 --> 0:31:01.800 the flip, but in it on like the actual wall 0:31:01.840 --> 0:31:04.280 of the phone pit and like threw my hip out 0:31:04.280 --> 0:31:06.800 for a little while. But that never even made film. 0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:08.520 That was just something that's stupid that I did. But 0:31:08.680 --> 0:31:11.560 this time you don't let go of the bike because 0:31:11.600 --> 0:31:13.720 like there's been a few times like in the movie, 0:31:13.760 --> 0:31:16.560 like I was going for a backflip and there's so 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:18.440 much power that it like blew out of my hand, 0:31:18.520 --> 0:31:21.040 so I didn't even like mean to lick o of it, 0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:23.400 and it just goes up. Well, you hit the phone 0:31:24.000 --> 0:31:27.280 and then it hits you. Oh yeah, So like it's 0:31:27.280 --> 0:31:29.680 basically like somebody dropping at dirt bike on you from 0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:32.600 like twenty twenty five feet a two hundred and fifty 0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:33.800 pound motorcycle like. 0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:36.200 That can do it sucks, that can do some damage. 0:31:36.240 --> 0:31:39.520 Well, another thing that nobody ever really thought of was 0:31:39.560 --> 0:31:42.200 like when I go up and I get stuck under 0:31:42.240 --> 0:31:45.120 the bike, you're wedged and you're at the mercy of 0:31:45.160 --> 0:31:48.960 whoever jumps in sticks the hook around the tire and 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:51.360 then pulls the bike out first, and then you have 0:31:51.440 --> 0:31:54.360 to like wiggle out, you know, because you're wedged in there. 0:31:54.600 --> 0:31:55.960 And a lot of times they would have to like 0:31:56.080 --> 0:31:58.800 dig to me because I would compress the phone so 0:31:59.120 --> 0:32:02.080 much that I couldn't move, Like I was at the 0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:05.680 mercy of like however, however my body was it's like 0:32:05.880 --> 0:32:09.600 a really hot avalanche like that you have to get 0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:12.400 somebody to dig you out of. And then this particular 0:32:12.520 --> 0:32:15.920 time I was going for a backflip on Travis's really 0:32:15.960 --> 0:32:18.280 expensive race bike, and I go for this backflip or no, 0:32:18.680 --> 0:32:20.840 at that time, I was going for the fronts. So 0:32:20.840 --> 0:32:22.360 I'm going for the front, and I'm like landing on 0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:25.000 my face and I'm getting like super wedged in. I'm 0:32:25.040 --> 0:32:27.320 like super deep, and then you don't see anything. It's 0:32:27.320 --> 0:32:30.840 super dark, like it's it's completely black, and you can't 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:32.720 breathe at all. As soon as you hit, you got 0:32:32.720 --> 0:32:34.880 to kind of like make a little cavity of air 0:32:35.560 --> 0:32:37.800 because like otherwise if you just go like can't you know, 0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:41.680 you suffocate yourself that way. So like I land upside down. 0:32:41.680 --> 0:32:44.760 But as soon as I land the little nipple cap 0:32:45.080 --> 0:32:47.880 Normally you have like this breather tube, but Travis had 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:50.560 the gas cap ones and like the little top popped off, 0:32:50.680 --> 0:32:53.640 so it was like streaming race gas like on my neck. 0:32:54.440 --> 0:32:56.720 I was like, oh no, And like I tried to 0:32:56.720 --> 0:32:58.400 like put my head to the side. I got nothing 0:32:58.440 --> 0:33:00.720 but race people. I put my I had this way, 0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:03.280 nothing but race fuel. And then like I was like, oh, 0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:07.200 there's nothing I can do. I'm literally stuck breathing only 0:33:07.280 --> 0:33:10.040 race fumes. I was trying to find air anywhere, and 0:33:10.080 --> 0:33:12.120 then all of a sudden. I was getting that feeling, 0:33:12.200 --> 0:33:14.360 which you probably know all too well, is like when 0:33:14.400 --> 0:33:16.920 they put you under anesthesia and the world just does 0:33:16.960 --> 0:33:20.480 this yeh, And I just like and I passed out 0:33:20.520 --> 0:33:24.600 on race fumes and I come to in my head. 0:33:24.760 --> 0:33:28.920 I don't come too but I'm now aware. In my head. 0:33:29.760 --> 0:33:34.040 I basically like look up, and my friend Chris is 0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:36.160 on the side of the phone pit, standing like looking 0:33:36.200 --> 0:33:38.520 at me, and I'm like, what are you doing? And 0:33:38.520 --> 0:33:41.080 he's like what I was like, throw me the hook 0:33:41.720 --> 0:33:44.440 and he's like I can't. I was like, what do 0:33:44.440 --> 0:33:47.440 you mean you can't. He's like, phone pits haven't been 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:49.040 invented yet. And I was like, what do you mean 0:33:49.040 --> 0:33:51.240 they haven't been invented yet. I'm sitting in one. He 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:53.440 just do phone pits haven't been invented yet. It's like 0:33:53.480 --> 0:33:55.160 when he said whatever year it was, it was like 0:33:55.720 --> 0:33:59.120 something dumb like thirteen forty two. I forget what it was, 0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:01.800 but like it was like ancient Egypt times, like in 0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:04.000 my brain whatever that number was. And I was like, 0:34:04.600 --> 0:34:08.200 what do you aren't we in Travis's phone pack. He's like, no, dude, 0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:11.759 We're in Egypt. And I was like all right, and 0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:15.440 like I just I some in my hallucinization. I accepted that. 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:17.640 I was like, all right, cool, I guess I'll just wait. 0:34:18.719 --> 0:34:21.759 So like all the all these like years start passing by, 0:34:21.840 --> 0:34:23.879 and like in my head, this is like real time, 0:34:24.080 --> 0:34:27.160 as real as this time is passing right now, these 0:34:27.239 --> 0:34:30.160 years start passing. And I was like in this phone pit, 0:34:30.280 --> 0:34:35.120 just hanging out like for year and a year, and 0:34:35.200 --> 0:34:38.720 I was like, bro, you know, there's gotta be something 0:34:38.920 --> 0:34:40.680 like you've got to throw me a hook that's like 0:34:40.719 --> 0:34:43.760 super hot. So like I think I'm in the desert 0:34:43.840 --> 0:34:45.760 because like now I'm starting to feel like I'm burning. 0:34:46.400 --> 0:34:47.839 I was like, bro, like I have to get out 0:34:47.880 --> 0:34:50.600 of here. I'm burning, like something like the sun's burning me. 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:54.400 And he was like all right, hold on, and he's like, oh, 0:34:54.719 --> 0:34:57.719 good news. This thing's a time machine or whatever. And 0:34:57.760 --> 0:34:59.520 then like I was like, oh, like and it's just 0:34:59.560 --> 0:35:02.200 this was all making sense to me, you know, as normal, 0:35:02.239 --> 0:35:04.880 see as normal, get normal. I was like, all right, sweet, 0:35:04.920 --> 0:35:06.520 good thing, this is a time machine. He was like, 0:35:06.800 --> 0:35:08.759 let's just go in the future. It's gonna take about 0:35:08.760 --> 0:35:12.200 forty years. I was like, okay, cool, now I'm waiting 0:35:12.239 --> 0:35:15.840 forty years and like this time is like literally passing, 0:35:15.960 --> 0:35:17.719 and like as soon as he said that, there is 0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:20.359 a time machine that started moving. Now this phone pit 0:35:20.400 --> 0:35:22.640 that like I'm in looking up, so like you, I 0:35:22.680 --> 0:35:25.600 only see an upview of the world around me. So 0:35:25.640 --> 0:35:27.640 I'm like seeing like Egyptian things and like they're like 0:35:27.680 --> 0:35:30.719 slowly passing, and like this thing's moving, like you know, 0:35:31.360 --> 0:35:34.000 it's a time machine, so it's passing like it's in Egypt, 0:35:34.080 --> 0:35:38.040 but it's traveling towards Maryland, like where Travis's phone pit 0:35:38.080 --> 0:35:40.839 actually is. So I'm like staring up at the sky. 0:35:41.239 --> 0:35:42.759 I'm seeing all these different views and then all of 0:35:42.760 --> 0:35:44.520 a sudden, I see nothing for a really long time 0:35:44.560 --> 0:35:47.800 because like I'm crossing the Atlantic, and then like after 0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:49.840 like you know, whatever amount of years has ended up 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:51.720 being like probably thirty years. It's like when I started 0:35:51.719 --> 0:35:53.120 seeing like trees and stuff, and I was like, oh, 0:35:53.160 --> 0:35:55.359 I'm almost there, you know, when I started seeing East 0:35:55.360 --> 0:35:59.240 Coast trees, and like forty years past, forty real years 0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:01.600 in my head pass by, and like I look over. 0:36:01.640 --> 0:36:03.759 I was like can I get out yet? He's like yeah, man, 0:36:04.120 --> 0:36:08.560 And then like I'm like on fire. I'm literally like burning. 0:36:08.600 --> 0:36:11.399 I'm like I'm so glad that you know, I'm here now. 0:36:12.040 --> 0:36:13.879 And it was weird because the whole time that was moving, 0:36:13.880 --> 0:36:16.879 there was also like I've seen like hawks, like when 0:36:16.880 --> 0:36:19.000 something really wild where I think I'm having like a 0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:21.200 near death experience, like I've always seen like a hawk, 0:36:21.840 --> 0:36:23.759 but in my hallucination there was like a hawk, and 0:36:23.880 --> 0:36:27.239 I just I always felt comfort when I saw this hawk. 0:36:27.280 --> 0:36:29.160 It was like looking out for me. That's happened like 0:36:29.200 --> 0:36:31.360 multiple times throughout my life too. It's been really weird. 0:36:31.960 --> 0:36:34.200 But then like I was like, throw me in the hook. 0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:36.600 He was like all right, and then like no joke, 0:36:36.680 --> 0:36:39.719 like God's hand like came down, but this like there 0:36:39.800 --> 0:36:42.200 was like here and like I just grabbed God's hand. 0:36:42.200 --> 0:36:44.040 I was like yay, all right, here I go, and 0:36:44.080 --> 0:36:46.000 like it was like the normal thing, like nothing was 0:36:46.000 --> 0:36:49.080 weird about that, and like I like start getting pulled 0:36:49.080 --> 0:36:50.680 out and I was like, yeah, this is awesome. And 0:36:50.680 --> 0:36:53.280 then all of a sudden, the real world actually happened. 0:36:53.640 --> 0:36:55.160 Like I took a deep breath and I was like 0:36:55.800 --> 0:36:57.279 and like, all of a sudden, I'm in the real 0:36:57.320 --> 0:37:00.440 world again, and like it's back at that time when 0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:02.200 it actually happened, I was like in my brain. Forty 0:37:02.280 --> 0:37:03.919 years had gone by, but I was like, weird, It's 0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:06.920 like now I'm here again. I felt like I was 0:37:06.960 --> 0:37:09.719 getting a do over. And then I look up at 0:37:09.719 --> 0:37:12.160 the at God's hand, which ended up I was just 0:37:12.160 --> 0:37:15.040 holding onto the hook, like the actual hook you know 0:37:15.040 --> 0:37:16.960 we used to pull our bikes and stuff out with. 0:37:17.320 --> 0:37:19.480 And I'm like, hey, hanging on to it. And then 0:37:19.560 --> 0:37:22.040 like I get out and like I have this whole 0:37:22.080 --> 0:37:26.080 thing and I'm like, can't believe that, Like I'm back. 0:37:26.560 --> 0:37:28.359 And then still to this day, like I think about 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:31.560 that hallucination, like I still feel those forty years. It's 0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:33.680 almost like I got those forty years in my life 0:37:33.680 --> 0:37:34.319 just laying there. 0:37:34.880 --> 0:37:38.560 I mean, I've always been fascinated with dreams and you're subconscious, 0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:42.120 right because it's so real and so you even sharing 0:37:42.160 --> 0:37:44.680 some of the experiences that you've had throughout your life, 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:47.760 when you look back on that time, those forty years, 0:37:48.239 --> 0:37:49.960 it feels like it was part of your life. 0:37:50.360 --> 0:37:52.640 Yeah, it's as real to me as this time right now. 0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:54.920 Even talking about it kind of freaks me out. That's 0:37:54.920 --> 0:37:57.640 another that's like kind of rewind all the way back, 0:37:57.719 --> 0:37:59.439 like when I was talking about that kind of stuff 0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:02.920 when we first, this conversation was like, you don't know, 0:38:04.080 --> 0:38:06.120 I don't understand the different plane. Like, I feel like 0:38:06.120 --> 0:38:08.080 there's so much more out there that we don't know 0:38:08.200 --> 0:38:12.600 about because of what I have personally experienced and don't 0:38:12.680 --> 0:38:16.200 understand in the slightest. But I feel like there's so 0:38:16.320 --> 0:38:19.080 much more we don't understand how to unlock it yet. 0:38:19.080 --> 0:38:22.200 But I feel like whatever it is, it's going to 0:38:22.239 --> 0:38:24.879 be rad because I've been I've touched bits of it, 0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:26.840 and I'm just I'm trying to absorb as much as 0:38:26.880 --> 0:38:28.200 I can see. 0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:30.960 To me, the I think some people refer to it 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:33.320 as an out of body experience. I think some people 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:36.120 were referred to I mean, there's, as you well know, 0:38:36.480 --> 0:38:40.040 especially in this country, there's no shortage of opinions, right, 0:38:40.040 --> 0:38:43.839 and the good thing is is that everybody can have 0:38:43.880 --> 0:38:46.560 their beliefs right even if you disagree, you can still 0:38:46.560 --> 0:38:49.799 love each other in this country. That's okay, right, And 0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:53.960 so I hear you tell that, and yeah, I could 0:38:54.000 --> 0:38:56.839 see that. I mean, without a doubt, it's. 0:38:56.760 --> 0:38:59.520 Crazy, like I've always heard it out of body experiences, 0:38:59.560 --> 0:39:02.040 and I I feel like I've never had that. I've 0:39:02.040 --> 0:39:04.240 never ever in my whole life felt out of body. 0:39:04.280 --> 0:39:05.760 I've always felt out of plane. 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:09.200 Okay, yeah, that's interesting. But I think part of that 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:12.440 in Jake's experience that too, But he's experienced that two 0:39:12.520 --> 0:39:14.360 on some level, and I think that does allow the 0:39:14.400 --> 0:39:18.120 two of you to have such a different experience and 0:39:18.280 --> 0:39:21.920 even compassion for other people. Yeah, and that desire to 0:39:21.960 --> 0:39:23.240 live life to the fullest. 0:39:23.719 --> 0:39:28.480 I think it awakens a part of the human spirit 0:39:28.640 --> 0:39:33.839 that usually lies dormant in self protection and self preservation. 0:39:33.640 --> 0:39:37.480 One hundred percent. I mean, I've had over a dozen 0:39:37.560 --> 0:39:41.000 times in my life, a dozen for short, solid ones, 0:39:41.040 --> 0:39:45.800 where I have accepted that I'm dying. Like I've been like, Okay, 0:39:45.800 --> 0:39:49.080 I'm today's right now, this is happening, I'm going to die, 0:39:49.239 --> 0:39:51.360 and then luckily I've made it through it. But there's 0:39:51.400 --> 0:39:54.840 been that many times in my life where I've truly 0:39:54.920 --> 0:39:57.719 accepted that that was the end. And if I met 0:39:57.840 --> 0:40:02.040 me in high school versus me now now, like I 0:40:02.360 --> 0:40:07.359 would be so just upset at myself, like I can't 0:40:07.440 --> 0:40:10.640 believe what it's even just the travel that I've been 0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:12.399 able to do and meet the people that I have 0:40:12.800 --> 0:40:16.560 because you're just you're so stupid, I mean, just you 0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:20.080 know nothing until you get out there and experience life. 0:40:20.680 --> 0:40:26.600 It's crazy how small this world is. I originally was 0:40:26.640 --> 0:40:29.080 a drywall hanger from Shadyside, Maryland that was never going 0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:32.319 to see the world at all. And I thought, like, 0:40:32.400 --> 0:40:35.000 you know, I knew everything. You know, I truly in 0:40:35.080 --> 0:40:37.520 my brain was like, oh yeah, you think you got 0:40:37.560 --> 0:40:42.440 to handle on. You don't know the first thing about nothing. 0:40:43.000 --> 0:40:46.720 I mean, that's why it's a saying yeah yeah. 0:40:46.719 --> 0:40:49.560 And travel, I mean it's so important to us because 0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:52.279 it does it broadens your horizons. It allows you to 0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:56.040 see how other people live and to know their environments 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:58.040 and what they've gone through or what they go through 0:40:58.040 --> 0:41:01.280 on the daily. And it's ye, love travel. It's extremely 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:04.600 important to us. What are your loved ones think about 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:05.560 your lifestyle? 0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:08.839 Like, once again, I don't really I don't know if. 0:41:11.520 --> 0:41:11.759 You know. 0:41:11.960 --> 0:41:14.279 I mean they think it's cool. Like my dad's like 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:17.480 super proud nowadays, Like he whenever we're on job sites 0:41:17.480 --> 0:41:19.399 and stuff, you know, because I'll still work with him 0:41:19.400 --> 0:41:21.600 every once in a while. I know, he's like bragging 0:41:21.600 --> 0:41:23.759 on me all the time. He does like a lot 0:41:23.800 --> 0:41:26.920 of work with storage facilities. There's these people that work 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:29.239 the front desks and stuff like that that like are 0:41:29.320 --> 0:41:32.680 responsible for the properties, but like it's like, oh my god, 0:41:32.960 --> 0:41:35.520 you're his famous son, blah blah blah blah blah, And 0:41:35.520 --> 0:41:37.800 I'm all like, yeah, I'm super famous, sign autographs and 0:41:37.840 --> 0:41:39.600 home depot and talking to you guys. 0:41:41.760 --> 0:41:43.799 Like that's awesome, proud dad. 0:41:44.000 --> 0:41:46.839 Yeah, I've been able to achieve the fame, but I've 0:41:46.880 --> 0:41:50.319 never been able to achieve the financial freedom to like 0:41:50.440 --> 0:41:52.719 have that kind of insulation. So like, I'm a very 0:41:52.760 --> 0:41:56.360 normal guy, Like day to day, I'm still a carpenter, 0:41:56.440 --> 0:41:57.680 and I still you know. 0:41:57.680 --> 0:42:02.560 What, say you do get hit with that fortune, you know. 0:42:02.520 --> 0:42:04.040 Even though you've already got the I don't think I 0:42:04.040 --> 0:42:04.719 would ever change you. 0:42:04.719 --> 0:42:06.799 Wouldn't change a bit, dude. I think you and now 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:09.480 work with your dad just to go work with your dead. 0:42:09.680 --> 0:42:11.880 I truly vibe that now. I feel like when I 0:42:11.920 --> 0:42:13.400 was younger, I would have been like, oh yeah, I'm 0:42:13.400 --> 0:42:15.400 gonna buy an airplane and all this stupid stuff. But 0:42:15.440 --> 0:42:17.600 I feel like, honestly, like nowadays, the lessons that I've 0:42:17.640 --> 0:42:20.080 learned in life, I wouldn't change anything, but I would 0:42:20.160 --> 0:42:22.360 just my go on life at this point. If I 0:42:22.440 --> 0:42:25.160 do ever hit like that massive fortune, the only thing 0:42:25.200 --> 0:42:26.960 that I would do is just turn off my social 0:42:26.960 --> 0:42:29.600 media and actually truly live the life that I portray. 0:42:30.400 --> 0:42:32.120 You know, I mean, I live the life that I portray, 0:42:32.160 --> 0:42:33.840 but I don't get a chance to really experience it 0:42:33.840 --> 0:42:36.600 for myself because I'm always trying to have something to 0:42:36.640 --> 0:42:40.840 show the world, so you don't truly enjoy it for yourself. 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:42.719 And I enjoy what I do, don't get me wrong 0:42:42.760 --> 0:42:45.719 at all, but I would love to actually be able 0:42:45.760 --> 0:42:48.120 to enjoy the life that I do live for myself. 0:42:51.440 --> 0:42:54.160 I'm just curious to know what motivates you to get 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:57.680 up and keep going through the grind every day, then 0:42:57.719 --> 0:42:59.200 you have to go do a world tour, then you 0:42:59.200 --> 0:43:01.040 have to come back and go do this job, or 0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:05.200 et cetera, et cetera. What motivates you to keep on 0:43:05.280 --> 0:43:07.000 grinding with grace the way that you do. 0:43:07.600 --> 0:43:10.760 For me personally, it's just being able to do both 0:43:11.040 --> 0:43:14.560 really is everything, because when I do one or the 0:43:14.640 --> 0:43:18.239 other too long, I get like these vibes that like, 0:43:18.520 --> 0:43:20.319 what's the point I'm doing the same thing that I've 0:43:20.360 --> 0:43:23.040 always done over and over again. Like if I'm working 0:43:23.080 --> 0:43:25.200 a lot, I'm like, Okay, now I'm seeing the same 0:43:25.920 --> 0:43:28.759 seven dudes that I see all day every day, telling 0:43:28.800 --> 0:43:31.239 the same stories all day every day, doing the same 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:33.480 work all day every day, and I start to get 0:43:33.480 --> 0:43:37.160 this like anxiety, like this like I gotta go do something, 0:43:37.200 --> 0:43:38.960 and then like you know, then I'll jump on and 0:43:38.960 --> 0:43:40.719 go do some rad stuff. And then if I'm doing 0:43:40.760 --> 0:43:42.799 that for such a long time to where I start 0:43:42.840 --> 0:43:44.600 feeling like I'm living out of a suitcase, and then 0:43:44.680 --> 0:43:47.160 that has its monotony, because like when we were doing 0:43:47.280 --> 0:43:50.680 the live tour, I haven't done a live torn four years. 0:43:50.719 --> 0:43:53.200 I've done two shows just recently, but other than that, 0:43:53.280 --> 0:43:54.839 I haven't been on the Live tour at all. Because 0:43:54.840 --> 0:43:56.680 it got to the point where I was just getting 0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:59.279 to these places in the world, like when you have 0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:02.759 a regular spot in Russia or something like that, you know, like, oh, 0:44:02.800 --> 0:44:04.759 I'm going back to Japan that restaurant that I go 0:44:04.800 --> 0:44:07.759 to all the time. As cool as that is, you're 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:10.120 just like I need to do something different, you know, 0:44:10.160 --> 0:44:12.000 and then like I'll change it up, cause like even 0:44:12.040 --> 0:44:16.000 like even through COVID, I was a traveling contractor, you know, 0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:18.480 like I just went and did heavy timber frame stuff 0:44:18.560 --> 0:44:20.680 randomly to go from state to state, and like I 0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:23.280 had no plan at all. Like I was just getting 0:44:23.320 --> 0:44:25.640 by experiencing as much as I could. And it was 0:44:25.719 --> 0:44:27.600 just such a really weird time in my life that 0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:30.080 I truly value because like I was staying with friends 0:44:30.080 --> 0:44:32.080 wherever I was going, but in between, like when I 0:44:32.080 --> 0:44:34.200 was going from state to state, I was driving and 0:44:34.239 --> 0:44:36.239 I had like, you know, the overlanding set up on 0:44:36.280 --> 0:44:39.120 my expedition, I was like sleeping in my tent and 0:44:39.160 --> 0:44:42.200 like parking on like rad canyon sides and stuff like that, 0:44:42.280 --> 0:44:45.640 and like living that vagrant life. It was really crazy, 0:44:45.719 --> 0:44:48.479 Like you just you don't expect that's where you're gonna 0:44:48.520 --> 0:44:50.759 be at some point in time. You just never know. 0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:55.080 So like, never stop living because every single day we'll 0:44:55.120 --> 0:44:57.960 throw you a curve ball, no matter how in deep 0:44:57.960 --> 0:44:59.680 You're like, oh, this is going to mean my life 0:44:59.719 --> 0:45:03.040 because this happened nasun guarantee. You don't know nothing about 0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:08.279 tomorrow guaranteed, you know, just just keep waking up, keep 0:45:08.280 --> 0:45:10.239 doing it while you can, because one day you're not 0:45:10.280 --> 0:45:12.799 gonna wake up, and you don't rush that because we 0:45:12.840 --> 0:45:15.760 all get one life, So what's the point of wasting 0:45:15.760 --> 0:45:18.080 a single day of that? And like I've you know, 0:45:18.360 --> 0:45:23.839 I've been sad I've been down, especially like being what 0:45:23.880 --> 0:45:26.360 you see is successful but not successful, you know what 0:45:26.400 --> 0:45:28.560 I mean, Like you get down on yourself. But like 0:45:29.160 --> 0:45:31.600 that's the one thing that's kept me going through anything. 0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:34.680 Has just been like Tomorrow's going to be different, good, bad, 0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:37.080 and different. Tomorrow is going to be different. You go 0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:40.000 through spells and as bad as stuff as I've experienced 0:45:40.040 --> 0:45:43.040 in my life, you know what, Like I've experienced like 0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:46.440 just as much, if not more good. It's peaks and valleys, 0:45:46.440 --> 0:45:48.600 and I'm gonna ride the roller coaster till it's truly over. 0:45:48.640 --> 0:45:49.960 I'm not going to rush the roller coaster. 0:45:51.440 --> 0:45:54.680 That's beautiful. Thinking back on your life's journey, is there 0:45:55.000 --> 0:45:58.360 one person or organization or entity that's made a huge 0:45:58.400 --> 0:46:01.040 impact on your life? 0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:05.400 I mean, obviously Travis Pastrana and like, because I didn't 0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:08.680 care about doing anything that I've done in life until 0:46:08.680 --> 0:46:11.440 it just organically happened. But yeah, I mean there's probably 0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:15.360 there's got to be a hundred of those, no matter 0:46:15.400 --> 0:46:17.760 who tells you they've done it by themselves or whatever. 0:46:17.920 --> 0:46:20.840 Like there you don't have anything in life happen without 0:46:21.200 --> 0:46:24.080 another person. And like I've been fortunate enough to have 0:46:24.560 --> 0:46:27.560 the ratus group, and like whatever it is that brings 0:46:27.640 --> 0:46:31.319 us together, Like our group has this gravity that just 0:46:31.360 --> 0:46:36.520 brings the greatest people on Earth together. But Travis Foreshore, 0:46:36.960 --> 0:46:40.720 Joe Lene like are the original cast members of Nitro Weekly. 0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:43.160 You try to anyway, But just lifelong friends. I mean 0:46:43.160 --> 0:46:45.560 even like my friends back before anything ever happened, Like 0:46:45.920 --> 0:46:48.400 kids that I've been hanging out with, like my Explorer buddies. 0:46:48.600 --> 0:46:51.960 You know, they're all still my best friends. It's just 0:46:52.680 --> 0:46:55.160 people that have been in my life and have stayed 0:46:55.160 --> 0:46:55.720 in my life. 0:46:55.800 --> 0:46:59.800 So what do you do to recharge in unwind? 0:47:00.840 --> 0:47:02.920 I mean I say that like I love just sitting 0:47:02.920 --> 0:47:05.160 on the couch watching TV and like sleeping in like 0:47:05.200 --> 0:47:09.600 without an alarm. That's my favorite RESTful things. But nothing 0:47:09.719 --> 0:47:14.880 like truly recharges me like life experience or learning something new, 0:47:15.120 --> 0:47:19.440 taking a risk and having a new education on something 0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:23.440 that like I never thought I would have. That feeds 0:47:23.480 --> 0:47:25.640 me because I want to be the most capable person 0:47:25.680 --> 0:47:29.200 I can possibly be, Like I got my CDL, I 0:47:29.280 --> 0:47:32.040 ran a restaurant up until COVID screwed that up. You 0:47:32.040 --> 0:47:35.680 wouldn't believe the things that I've done just to learn 0:47:35.719 --> 0:47:39.040 how to do something that I wouldn't think that I 0:47:39.040 --> 0:47:41.759 would be able to do. And like it's just it's 0:47:41.880 --> 0:47:43.759 very organic. It's not something that I was like, oh, 0:47:43.800 --> 0:47:46.040 I want to do that. It's just something that happened 0:47:46.040 --> 0:47:47.680 to come into my life. And I was like, that'd 0:47:47.680 --> 0:47:49.719 be cool if I learned that, and I just that's 0:47:49.840 --> 0:47:50.920 I just I love learning. 0:47:51.640 --> 0:47:56.000 That's yeah. Absolutely. And the final question what feeds your soul? 0:47:57.800 --> 0:48:01.640 Love feeds my soul? Friends, just the intimate connection that 0:48:01.680 --> 0:48:04.120 I have with who I'm with. You know, I've had 0:48:05.080 --> 0:48:07.600 now three girlfriends of my entire life, Like I had 0:48:08.280 --> 0:48:10.840 two up until recently, and then like now I'm with 0:48:11.080 --> 0:48:13.440 someone that I truly care about amy Hood. I can 0:48:13.480 --> 0:48:15.200 truly say that, like this is the happiest I've been 0:48:15.200 --> 0:48:19.440 in over ten years. Wow, Honestly, I haven't known a 0:48:19.520 --> 0:48:23.799 love like this yet. Like she truly compliments me, and 0:48:23.880 --> 0:48:26.759 I just this is very new. We've dabbled for like 0:48:26.800 --> 0:48:30.319 eight years, but we've just recently like decided like that 0:48:30.880 --> 0:48:34.200 let's just be together. She truly feeds my soul because 0:48:34.200 --> 0:48:35.560 I feel like this is like the first time in 0:48:35.600 --> 0:48:39.040 my life that I've found like my mirror, Like wow, 0:48:39.120 --> 0:48:43.160 she is like the hot female version of me. Like 0:48:43.719 --> 0:48:47.920 it's crazy. It's crazy. Man, I really do think that 0:48:47.960 --> 0:48:52.239 she's the one for me. So I'm pretty currently. 0:48:53.600 --> 0:48:55.680 If we don't get an invitation, Bro, you're gonna be 0:48:55.760 --> 0:48:56.640 visiting a hospital. 0:48:56.680 --> 0:48:58.840 Oh bro, I'm gonna get you standing up there with me. 0:48:58.840 --> 0:48:59.480 What are you talking about? 0:49:00.760 --> 0:49:03.439 And you know what, after the last one I did, 0:49:03.640 --> 0:49:05.120 I looked at Ask and I was like, baby, I'm 0:49:05.280 --> 0:49:07.800 I'm never doing this again. I'm over it. I'm overcoming 0:49:07.960 --> 0:49:10.200 the thing I would do that. 0:49:12.200 --> 0:49:15.759 I would especially because Jake knows exactly what everything you 0:49:15.920 --> 0:49:18.080 just said, like, he knows exactly what that feels like. 0:49:18.120 --> 0:49:22.560 So oh yeah, humility, that's the humility flowing out of 0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:23.600 Ashley's face. 0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:25.640 Right, I love that. I love that. 0:49:25.960 --> 0:49:27.439 I'm so happy for you, man. 0:49:27.560 --> 0:49:29.080 I compreciate you. 0:49:29.120 --> 0:49:30.879 And she's a badass daredevil too. 0:49:31.080 --> 0:49:31.400 Yeah. 0:49:31.480 --> 0:49:33.800 Yeah. And that's the thing, like since we've gotten together, 0:49:33.840 --> 0:49:36.239 we truly compliment each other. And we've had like opportunities 0:49:36.239 --> 0:49:38.160 that have already come up in like this first two 0:49:38.160 --> 0:49:40.600 months of being together that like we just feel like 0:49:40.640 --> 0:49:43.120 this power couple vibe. We're going to tag team this thing, 0:49:43.680 --> 0:49:45.520 you know, And it's like, not only do we truly 0:49:45.920 --> 0:49:48.200 enjoy each other, but like, we're going to have a 0:49:48.200 --> 0:49:51.719 lot more opportunities to enjoy life together because of we're 0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:55.040 being together. And that's what's what it's all about. 0:49:55.520 --> 0:49:59.840 If you're gonna share this crazy, spinning ball of chaos 0:49:59.840 --> 0:50:02.560 that and habit, yeah you should share it with somebody 0:50:02.560 --> 0:50:03.840 that challenges you to be. 0:50:03.680 --> 0:50:06.040 Better one hundred percent. And like, this is the first 0:50:06.040 --> 0:50:07.279 time in my life I've ever had that, and I 0:50:07.280 --> 0:50:10.040 feel really excited about it. So I'm enjoying every moment 0:50:10.080 --> 0:50:12.560 for it is what it is, and I'm not taking 0:50:12.600 --> 0:50:14.880 a single moment for granted, like not one. 0:50:15.360 --> 0:50:17.840 It's so inspiring to hear because we do get into 0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:19.840 our rhythms and we get into our patterns and we 0:50:19.880 --> 0:50:21.719 get into our day to day. But yeah, we've got 0:50:21.760 --> 0:50:24.400 to live. Life is so short, we've got to live 0:50:24.440 --> 0:50:26.400 it to the fullest. So Street Bike Tommy, thank you 0:50:26.480 --> 0:50:28.480 so much for being on the good stuff. We truly 0:50:28.840 --> 0:50:31.920 appreciate your words of wisdom and thanks for opening up 0:50:31.920 --> 0:50:34.520 and telling us your stories of all the times you 0:50:34.520 --> 0:50:36.760 got your butt kicked and came through on the other side. 0:50:36.840 --> 0:50:39.280 Yeah, I appreciate you guys taking the time and the invite. 0:50:39.360 --> 0:50:42.640 Yeah, dude, I mean courage, your stupidity. Let it be 0:50:42.680 --> 0:50:46.560 your choice. I love you, always have day one man, 0:50:47.080 --> 0:50:50.000 and I can't wait till you get back together whatever 0:50:50.040 --> 0:50:53.160 that looks like. For whatever reason in the flesh, right. 0:50:53.040 --> 0:50:54.960 I have to do a double date somewhere cool done, 0:50:55.120 --> 0:50:55.879 absolutely Dane. 0:50:56.440 --> 0:50:58.560 I dig you bro, A dig your spirit and a dig 0:50:58.600 --> 0:50:59.800 your soul, and thank. 0:50:59.600 --> 0:51:01.319 You fam rather you man, nothing but. 0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:10.480 Love the Man, the Myth The Legend Street by Tommy Passamonte. 0:51:11.000 --> 0:51:14.040 Dude is hilarious and like you said, it's clear he 0:51:14.120 --> 0:51:16.640 loves so hard, like he does everything so hard. 0:51:16.680 --> 0:51:20.279 I feel like, yeah, he his halfway button. 0:51:20.040 --> 0:51:23.040 Just is inop sounds like someone I. 0:51:23.000 --> 0:51:25.400 Know, Yeah, I know. But it's one of the reasons 0:51:25.480 --> 0:51:27.880 I think we connected so well from the very beginning. 0:51:27.920 --> 0:51:31.239 And I just love his passion for life. I love 0:51:31.680 --> 0:51:34.400 his love of life. And when he says like I 0:51:34.480 --> 0:51:37.680 don't want to waste a single moment, right, that's exactly 0:51:37.680 --> 0:51:38.280 what he means. 0:51:38.400 --> 0:51:41.160 And that's the biggest takeaway for me on this episode 0:51:41.239 --> 0:51:43.719 and this conversation that we had with him, is that 0:51:44.200 --> 0:51:46.640 life is short and sometimes we do we get bogged down. 0:51:46.840 --> 0:51:50.040 We need these reminders of hey, you know what, Today's 0:51:50.040 --> 0:51:52.319 an opportunity. Today is a gift. I've got to go 0:51:52.400 --> 0:51:54.280 out and I've got to live it to the fullest 0:51:54.760 --> 0:51:56.359 and give it everything that I've got. 0:51:57.200 --> 0:52:00.000 And he's one of those guys that just reminds me 0:52:00.400 --> 0:52:03.440 and it's okay to take risks and fail, right, that's okay. 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:06.800 You know you have permission to fail. And the difference 0:52:06.800 --> 0:52:10.680 being in Tommy's case, he brings me back to the 0:52:10.719 --> 0:52:13.040 old thing. If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough. 0:52:13.640 --> 0:52:15.600 I was about to say, you might have some broken bones, 0:52:15.680 --> 0:52:16.800 but that's okay. 0:52:16.960 --> 0:52:20.040 But seriously, one of the greatest guys on the planet 0:52:20.080 --> 0:52:24.160 who has a true love for all things adventure, and 0:52:24.560 --> 0:52:27.160 Travis Pastrano has been such a great friend to him, 0:52:27.200 --> 0:52:30.000 and I know that their bond's unbreakable, and I just 0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:31.720 think it was awesome to have him. 0:52:31.680 --> 0:52:35.239 Great human great lesson. Absolutely enjoyed it and don't be 0:52:35.320 --> 0:52:38.680 afraid to take risks. 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