Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Yo, Elizabeth Dutton, Yo, Zaron Barnette, My girl, how you
Speaker 2: been good?
Speaker 3: Good looking?
Speaker 4: Good? You look? You look really like you've been getting
Speaker 4: sun well.
Speaker 3: I shaved my head.
Speaker 4: That's what the glow is nice. Okay, I got a
Speaker 4: question for you. With that new shiny doll. You know
Speaker 4: what's ridiculous besides that? Pate I do.
Speaker 3: Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Are you familiar with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeahs TV show?
Speaker 5: Right, So I'm talking about the novel, the TV show,
Speaker 5: the movie Richard Hooker. He wrote the book Mash and
Speaker 5: novel about three Army doctors, Richard Hooker Hooker, and then
Speaker 5: they they made the movie and they made the TV
Speaker 5: show and you know, it was like one of the best.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The TV show is kind of like an early dramedy,
Speaker 5: so they had like comedic elements, but I mean, come on,
Speaker 5: it's like wartime. There are very heavy elements to it too, totally.
Speaker 4: And it was like before the West Wing in terms
Speaker 4: of that earnestness of like we're gonna do a real
Speaker 4: real issues but in a metaphor.
Speaker 3: And give you a little chuckle here and there.
Speaker 5: Did you know that the finale, the series finale for.
Speaker 4: Mash Yeah, most watched show until JayR got shot.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, no, it still is.
Speaker 5: It's the most it's like the most watched finale, and
Speaker 5: it broke the record for the highest percentage of homes
Speaker 5: with television sets watching a TV.
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, everybody who had a TV pretty much was watching.
Speaker 4: It was one of those rare moments.
Speaker 3: You now.
Speaker 5: One of the demi ridiculous things I have, Like the
Speaker 5: intro ridiculous thing I have about this is that there's
Speaker 5: what they say is an urban legend, but then people
Speaker 5: have kind of backed it up from New York sanitation.
Speaker 5: Is that apparently when the show, when the two and
Speaker 5: a half hour episode ended, that New York experienced the
Speaker 5: highest water usage of anyone given time because everyone had
Speaker 5: been holding it and went to go to the bathroom at.
Speaker 4: The same time and they all flushed at the same time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that there was Someone said that seventy seven percent
Speaker 5: of people in New York.
Speaker 3: City flushed their toilets.
Speaker 4: That's insite.
Speaker 3: Like so many people were watching this.
Speaker 5: They set up auditoriums for the US Army in Korea
Speaker 5: that was still there to watch the episode. Just fourteen
Speaker 5: hour time difference. They got to watch the episode, so
Speaker 5: it was huge.
Speaker 3: It was huge. Yes, it's now that's kind of ridiculous, right,
Speaker 3: that number.
Speaker 5: But I've got something more ridiculous when it comes to Mash. Okay,
Speaker 5: did you know that there was a mash video game
Speaker 5: developed in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3: Three for uh Atari? Yeah? Atari ape it?
Speaker 4: Okay, what did you do?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: So you would control a helicopter and army doctors perform surgery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, apparently where's this big surgery?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Okay, so here's the Jamie Farr did some of like
Speaker 5: the you know, promotional stuff for it.
Speaker 3: Address really aggressively marketed.
Speaker 4: This was a whole.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they like, you know, it's this big deal,
Speaker 5: this big push. But then the reception. One guy, Mark Berman,
Speaker 5: who wrote for Electronic Fun with Computers and Games, I
Speaker 5: thought that realized the war found it quote heartless given
Speaker 5: how quote gruesome the war was, that it lacked humanity
Speaker 5: in the you know that was in the film and
Speaker 5: the and the TV show. But he said it says
Speaker 5: despite this, Berman still found the gameplay quote terrific.
Speaker 4: The gameplay is amazing, amazing gameplay. Someone else field surgery component.
Speaker 5: Yeah, someone else said it was boring because it didn't
Speaker 5: have the humor and the personalities of the TV show.
Speaker 3: Here's my favorite though, how would have the computer and
Speaker 3: video games?
Speaker 4: In their review of the magazine Computer and Video Games, Yes.
Speaker 5: They found the control that controlling a scalpel using a
Speaker 5: joystick was less responsive than it was on a keyboard.
Speaker 4: There really was a scalpel.
Speaker 3: Yes, scalpel.
Speaker 4: And then you got to use a joystick on an Atari.
Speaker 4: It was blown apart bodies. The kids are in their
Speaker 4: scalpel and elbows deep in blood.
Speaker 3: And then suicide is painless plays yeah, and they're like.
Speaker 4: A trap, Can you hand me a stint or whatever?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 4: This is amazing.
Speaker 3: And then hot Liss.
Speaker 4: And this wasn't a hit. I've never heard of this game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean I don't think it was much
Speaker 5: of a hit. Like I said, they went nuts on
Speaker 5: the marketing. Then they cut the price in half because
Speaker 5: there were too many Atari six twenty six hundred games on.
Speaker 4: The market, okay at twenty six hundred.
Speaker 3: And that was the other thing is.
Speaker 4: You're playing with a very simple joystick like Pong level
Speaker 4: like Tank.
Speaker 5: That's all you had with Atari was a button and
Speaker 5: a joystick. Now I will tell you that they held
Speaker 5: a contest for someone to come up with the premise
Speaker 5: for mash to video game, like this time with more PTSD,
Speaker 5: and they were going to give twenty five grand to
Speaker 5: whoever came up with the best idea, and then you'd
Speaker 5: also get like, you know, a mash t shirt. Some
Speaker 5: of the prizes, like if you didn't get it, but
Speaker 5: you came in close, you.
Speaker 4: Could get a jeep, like a military jeep.
Speaker 3: Get like an AMC jeep.
Speaker 5: They give you like computers, other cool video games. The
Speaker 5: sequel never happened. No one came up with a good idea.
Speaker 3: I guess, Okay, there you go. So that's ridiculous, ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Wow, I'm gonna need a moment. Yeah, that's a lot
Speaker 4: of process. That's a hell of a good one. I've
Speaker 4: got one for you if you got a second please.
Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, I was reading about this one and
Speaker 4: I could not believe that I wasn't the one to
Speaker 4: pull off this publicity stunt. I was like, really kind
Speaker 4: I was kind of heated. I can tell him, you know, like,
Speaker 4: how could this guy steal all the dumb glory for himself?
Speaker 4: Oh no, yeah, yeah, this California snowboarder YouTube influencer. Wanna
Speaker 4: be this guy? He takes a flight, right, and he
Speaker 4: takes his camera. Now I say takes a flight, I
Speaker 4: mean his personal plane. Oh he doesn't so yeah, no
Speaker 4: ticket involved, no drink service.
Speaker 3: He and then it was like being on Southwest exactly.
Speaker 4: It's just like Southwest and he's like up there, solo
Speaker 4: flight and he has this emergency and all of a
Speaker 4: sudden he has to crash his plane. Yeah, it turns
Speaker 4: out he may have done it on purpose. What yes,
Speaker 4: for clout and for cash? Yeah, Elizabeth, if this was me,
Speaker 4: I would have crashed this plane for free. I would
Speaker 4: have crashed this plane for the people. Trust me. This
Speaker 4: story is even wilder because this guy, he didn't do
Speaker 4: it for the people. He did it for the GRAM.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, this is ridiculous crime A podcast about absurd
Speaker 4: and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always ninety nine
Speaker 4: percent murder free and ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Yep, it is.
Speaker 4: Certified, right, is total guarantee. That's what the kids say
Speaker 4: right back in like ninety eight. Elizabeth, you know how
Speaker 4: sometimes you worry I won't make it here for our
Speaker 4: recordings of the show, because I've done something stupid again
Speaker 4: and got myself injured. Yeah right, well you must be
Speaker 4: glad that I don't have a pilot's license. Could you
Speaker 4: imagine if I could get up to twenty thousand feet
Speaker 4: no one could stop me.
Speaker 3: It's like, would you pilot the plane while wearing roller blades?
Speaker 4: I could? Then we need to hit a gas if
Speaker 4: you just.
Speaker 3: Put holes in the plane and when you want to land,
Speaker 3: he tried to style with rollerblades.
Speaker 4: I'm loving this. I know this is genius. So uh
Speaker 4: do you know that? Like when I was a teenager,
Speaker 4: I tried to fly.
Speaker 5: On my own, tried to fly on you with like
Speaker 5: a plane or just like a little PCP and jumped
Speaker 5: off a building.
Speaker 4: No PCP, okay, but I did jump off a building.
Speaker 3: Wait what?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah? I used to hang off the sides of buildings.
Speaker 4: It was crazy, so I could. I didn't get my
Speaker 4: driver's license at like early, like at sixteen, like most kids, like,
Speaker 4: I waited till I was like think twenty. But my
Speaker 4: best my best friend, he got his driver's license, right,
Speaker 4: so we got in his car, and being teenagers, we
Speaker 4: do dumb stuff, right, So eventually I was able to
Speaker 4: talk him into helping me achieve my dreams of flight.
Speaker 4: And you may be wondering, would he drive you to
Speaker 4: the airport to steal a plane? No, Elizabeth, I didn't
Speaker 4: steal a plane. We went out into this field right
Speaker 4: and it was this field, you know, Davis, with the
Speaker 4: town that I grew up in, the one where you
Speaker 4: went to college. This was in downtown Davis, and there
Speaker 4: was a grass field. This was like where they have
Speaker 4: like now a mall, like at the right by the
Speaker 4: train tracks to go to like the freeway right in downtown.
Speaker 3: Is one point where the unto the freeway.
Speaker 4: Yes, runs right there anyway, So right there we used
Speaker 4: to go and drive around and I would get up
Speaker 4: on top of his car and we would then get
Speaker 4: up to speed and I'd tap on the car roof.
Speaker 4: He would slam on the brakes and I would be
Speaker 4: thrown forward and I would fly.
Speaker 3: When you say, oh, when you say up to speed,
Speaker 3: what was speed?
Speaker 4: You know? We worked it out that it was thirty
Speaker 4: was the best.
Speaker 3: Speed, thirty miles an hour.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that took a little of figuring out. We
Speaker 4: figured twenty five was not fast enough to throw me
Speaker 4: far enough in front of the car that he wouldn't
Speaker 4: run me over. Thirty five was a little too fast
Speaker 4: where I was like, when I'm coming down, I'm rolling
Speaker 4: too much. I could break an arm, and forty was like, whoa,
Speaker 4: this is way too fast. If thirty was a sweet
Speaker 4: spot where I could get up, go like forty feet
Speaker 4: in the air, maybe fifty or whatever, flying squirrel up
Speaker 4: my arms.
Speaker 3: Out and then he slams on the brakes and then
Speaker 3: you fly.
Speaker 4: Huh yeah, so that's what you. He would slam on
Speaker 4: the brakes.
Speaker 3: I would fail for your parents.
Speaker 4: My dear mother. The first time we did this, we
Speaker 4: hadn't worked out like, oh, I'm gonna roll right you
Speaker 4: you turn the wheel left, so you didn't.
Speaker 3: Do like schematics like a grash paper.
Speaker 4: I worked out like how it would go that way,
Speaker 4: feels like triangles. I was like, okay, I'll be up here.
Speaker 4: You hit the brakes. It'll throw me like this at
Speaker 4: this kind of arc. Right, So I'm like doing stuntman
Speaker 4: math as I figured it out. I figured this out
Speaker 4: works right, So I'm like, I'm gonna dream of flying
Speaker 4: and we're gonna make it happen.
Speaker 3: Yet on the road on the grass.
Speaker 4: No, he would We're on a grass field.
Speaker 3: So he'd drive on the field exactly, but he.
Speaker 4: Would slide on the grass when he would hit the brakes.
Speaker 4: So the first time he did it, I'm in front
Speaker 4: of him, right, and he's sliding on the grass, and
Speaker 4: he's worried he's gonna run me over. So he drives,
Speaker 4: you know, he basically steers to the left and then
Speaker 4: rolls to you know, the car to rolls to his
Speaker 4: left is now relative to me. I roll off to
Speaker 4: the right. Yeah, And luckily that we both made the
Speaker 4: right choices. He could have gone to the right. I
Speaker 4: got went to the right. That would have been really bad,
Speaker 4: or you know whatever. Or he just didn't turn it
Speaker 4: all and I didn't move it all. He ran me
Speaker 4: over either way, totally survived, right, So what.
Speaker 3: You're trying to say is that you and your friend
Speaker 3: were morons.
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. Okay, So also what I'm trying to say, I.
Speaker 5: Kind of have brain damage from this. How many times
Speaker 5: did you fly off the car?
Speaker 4: Oh? Thirty forty fifty times? Like tons as many times.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like we did this three times, Oh.
Speaker 4: No, we did this multiple days until we got started
Speaker 4: getting seen people noticed us doing injury.
Speaker 3: You had I.
Speaker 4: Never get injured. I mean, like i'd like get bruised
Speaker 4: a little bit, never like broke anything or twisted anything.
Speaker 4: Because this wasn't the beginning. This was not the first
Speaker 4: thing I had dreamed of flight since I was a
Speaker 4: little boy. You know, Like how was that we go
Speaker 4: kind of person who would go and like it doesn't matter,
Speaker 4: but like I wanted to get up into the sky, right,
Speaker 4: And so what I'm saying is, if you're going to
Speaker 4: intentionally crash land to earth, I understand you, Like I
Speaker 4: get you, like I am your people. Man, Like I
Speaker 4: do this for yes, three four second flights, and you're
Speaker 4: doing this for like hours or whatever. But well, I
Speaker 4: just gotta ask you, did you and your brother ever
Speaker 4: do anything like this?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 4: You're jumping bed high five like silly stumps.
Speaker 5: No, I mean here's I did break my wrist kind
Speaker 5: of like jumping a ten speed bicycle off something that's
Speaker 5: pretty stupid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: But for the most part, like I don't know if
Speaker 5: I've said it on here or not, but I don't
Speaker 5: go to amusement parks.
Speaker 3: I don't go on roller.
Speaker 5: Coasters because like I spend most of my time trying
Speaker 5: to not die, So it's not an exciting feeling for me.
Speaker 5: Feeling like you will die, like, I don't get a
Speaker 5: thrill out.
Speaker 4: I don't like edging on death.
Speaker 3: No, I come on, I'm the one who wants to
Speaker 3: start sling.
Speaker 4: Some people do like enjoy roller coasters because it's like
Speaker 4: they know they're not really gonna die.
Speaker 3: I don't like you know you're not going to die.
Speaker 3: But I don't like that.
Speaker 4: Feeling that, even getting close to it, they're verging on it.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: I like to lay in a hammock and enjoy the sunshine.
Speaker 4: Count the profits from stall, like.
Speaker 5: Think about all the possible diseases I might have and
Speaker 5: could take me at any.
Speaker 4: Moment, and avoided by not going out of the house percisely. Okay, Well,
Speaker 4: the reason I told you about all of this, about
Speaker 4: my teenage attempts to fly and my willingness to crash
Speaker 4: land my own body was so that you know, I
Speaker 4: don't want you to worry about me more. Know that
Speaker 4: I'm good at this stuff, right, But that's not really it.
Speaker 4: I just want to set the table for the story
Speaker 4: I'm about to tell you. Now. This fella he one
Speaker 4: upped me right because he didn't use a car. He
Speaker 4: went out and got himself a plane and then he
Speaker 4: flew that for like thirty five minutes and then he
Speaker 4: intentionally crashed that into the earth.
Speaker 5: Hu.
Speaker 4: Even I wouldn't do that. Yeah, I was like, wow,
Speaker 4: show off.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, So the grand spirit of idiots everywhere, Elizabeth, I'd
Speaker 4: like to introduce you to my man, Trevor Jacob, twenty
Speaker 4: nine year old pilot, skydiver, competitive snowboarder, all around publicity stuntman. Now.
Speaker 4: On Christmas Eve twenty twenty one, Trevor Jacob, he uploaded
Speaker 4: this thirteen minute video to YouTube with the I grabbing
Speaker 4: title of I crashed my plane Now. Spoiler alert, Trevor Jacobs,
Speaker 4: he totally survived the plane crash, so you don't have
Speaker 4: to worry about like.
Speaker 3: Well, so he didn't write it from the after life crash.
Speaker 4: Plan, his family didn't post. It was his last wish.
Speaker 3: Till his last words post I crashed my plane.
Speaker 4: Okay, there it is. So the video of the crash
Speaker 4: and him surviving it was a monster hit on his
Speaker 4: YouTube channel, right, he gets like three point one million
Speaker 4: views and yeah, and so that's like this video. It
Speaker 4: was a a roller coaster of emotion, not just because
Speaker 4: he's like, oh, I crashed the plane, but like beyond
Speaker 4: the whole plane crash angle. The flight was also originally
Speaker 4: meant to be away for Trevor to go and honor
Speaker 4: a friend who passed.
Speaker 5: I was so hoping that you were saying that he
Speaker 5: was carrying like life flight like organs.
Speaker 4: He had a heart up into like a like one
Speaker 4: of those little cooler exactly.
Speaker 5: It's all thumping away in there, tumbles down a ravine.
Speaker 4: No, he wasn't a lifeguy, flight guy, know, he was
Speaker 4: just he had his friend's ashes with him.
Speaker 3: What.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he in the plane, uh huh yeah.
Speaker 3: Was he gonna like sprinkle him as he flew?
Speaker 4: Like that was the thing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like like tinker bell stuff exactly.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, here's some magic tink tinker bell dust.
Speaker 3: He's tinkle bell when he does.
Speaker 4: He's zooming around higher over the mountains, and he's in
Speaker 4: southern California, because of course he is, and he's he's
Speaker 4: above the ski resort.
Speaker 3: He's in Southern California exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: The guy's like the well, you just got to hear
Speaker 4: his friend's name. The friend's name is Johnny Strange. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So on this fateful day, Trevor's journeyed up above the
Speaker 4: clouds to spread the ashes of Johnny Strange. Okay, now,
Speaker 4: this dearly departed best friend, Johnny Strange, had passed away
Speaker 4: from a base jumping accident. Right, So, I don't know
Speaker 4: if Trevor planned like empty his friend's ashes into the
Speaker 4: sky so that he could make it safely to Earth
Speaker 4: this time.
Speaker 3: Is he just like replaying the whole exactly?
Speaker 4: That's what I thought him, Like, that's kind of not
Speaker 4: what you should do, Like anything, you should not do that.
Speaker 4: That's kind of how whatever, it's not my call. Maybe
Speaker 4: he wanted, as I said, to make it so if
Speaker 4: he's like, you know, making sure all of my ashes
Speaker 4: eventually get there anyway, what that's not what happened. Because
Speaker 4: the day November twenty fourth, twenty twenty one, Trevor Jacobs
Speaker 4: he drives out to Lompoc City Airports, little airport in
Speaker 4: southern California. His flight plan would have him fly up
Speaker 4: to this tiny airstrip in the mountains that the locals
Speaker 4: called Mammoth Yosemite Airport.
Speaker 3: Oh, no, I you know where that is. I know
Speaker 3: where that is?
Speaker 4: Look at you Jet Center right, flying to ski resorts
Speaker 4: without Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Like Paris, Milan, Yosemite.
Speaker 4: Yosemite exactly in my book I know I've read so
Speaker 4: Trevor Jacob. He climbs into his tiny personal plane. So
Speaker 4: they told you. He goes through his his like pre
Speaker 4: flight check. He contacts the tower, he logs his flight plan.
Speaker 4: Then he fires up the propeller. Because it's a one
Speaker 4: prop propeller plane.
Speaker 3: Do you have to get out and spin it?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Contact, So he aims the plane. Still, No, he
Speaker 4: aims the plane's nose down the runway, grips the throttle,
Speaker 4: fires the engine, and then he turns that little plane
Speaker 4: loosened the sky and now it's a little plane, right,
Speaker 4: So it rolls down the runway, the wheels lift off
Speaker 4: the tarmac, and then it just slowly begins. It's a
Speaker 4: scent into sky. Doesn't zoom into the sky. This plane
Speaker 4: is a nineteen forty plane.
Speaker 3: Oh, he didn't make it himself. He wasn't doing it,
Speaker 3: old John Denver.
Speaker 4: No, it's not like one of those aerial planes like, oh,
Speaker 4: I've got like the lighter than air thing. But yeah, exactly,
Speaker 4: now one of those. He's a YouTube guy. So he
Speaker 4: gets himself an old plane.
Speaker 3: That's what we call in the business a tuber.
Speaker 4: So this tuber, he's got plenty of cameras right with
Speaker 4: him for his flag. The plane was outfitted with multiple cameras,
Speaker 4: multiple angles for close ups, and for narration's sake, he
Speaker 4: had a selfie stick in there with him. So he's
Speaker 4: talking to the camera on the stick and he's got
Speaker 4: you know, he's up there high above Los Padres National
Speaker 4: Forest right and below him is stretching hills, mountains. They're
Speaker 4: all recently made green from a winter rain or I
Speaker 4: guess autumn ranks. It's still it's November, so the world
Speaker 4: below him, it's turning now into wrinkled mountains, just draped
Speaker 4: with this green cloth of fresh grass. Right, boom, tragedy strikes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I laughing. Tragedy strikes.
Speaker 4: So as this tragedy and I don't know why you're laughing, Elizabeth,
Speaker 4: but the tragedy strikes. And this guy's like, oh, what
Speaker 4: am I going to do? But he's not like some
Speaker 4: newbie pilot. This is not the first time he's taking
Speaker 4: this nineteen forty little tiny plane up into the sky.
Speaker 4: So he's like, okay, I got a cool headed I
Speaker 4: know what I'm going to do, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: tell you about it after this break, because tragedy does
Speaker 4: strike and gravity comes into play.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna adjust my bald cap, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Elizabeth. Yeah, you ready to hear about this tragedy
Speaker 4: striking this YouTube pilot and a madman extraordinaire. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you don't see him. I want to see you fired up.
Speaker 4: This man could die, Elizabeth. He's got his friend's ashes
Speaker 4: with him.
Speaker 3: Well spoiler alert, he told me he doesn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he could die die. I could be lying.
Speaker 4: Maybe he died. Maybe this is the one percent. Yeah,
Speaker 4: keep yourself on the edge of your seat.
Speaker 3: How horrific.
Speaker 5: Like at the end, you're like And then Johnny Strange
Speaker 5: wasn't dead, and he popped out and shot the guy
Speaker 5: in the back of the head and the plane crashed.
Speaker 4: It's the bleakest story I'm ever gonna tell.
Speaker 3: But I want crashed into a kitten orphanage.
Speaker 4: All over on a school. So anyway, Elizabeth, rather than
Speaker 4: telling you about this tragedy in the air, I'd like
Speaker 4: you to close your eyes. I like you to picture it.
Speaker 4: You are a single mother out hunting for your children.
Speaker 4: I say, hunting because you are an apex predator. You
Speaker 4: are a California condor.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, you have a wide, majestic wingspan which allows
Speaker 6: you to float high on the thermals, those swallows of
Speaker 6: pressurized air.
Speaker 4: You circle high above the California mountain lands looking for
Speaker 4: lunch for your youngins.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
Speaker 4: Then you hear it a propeller. It's one of those noisy,
Speaker 4: human made fake birds that are always polluting the skies.
Speaker 4: You are not a fan of this human with wings?
Speaker 3: Should I pull an ORCA take it out, ORCA energy
Speaker 3: on them, take it out for my brethren.
Speaker 4: Well, suddenly, though the noise stops. The propeller just cuts out.
Speaker 4: No sound being a problem for you anymore. Now that's
Speaker 4: gonna be a problem for the human and the plane.
Speaker 4: So once this engine cuts out, you're like, oh, nice,
Speaker 4: quiet again. Now the guy inside it's freaking out. He's like,
Speaker 4: not good quiet. Now you can almost make out what
Speaker 4: the pilot is saying in hurried words as he talks
Speaker 4: to his selfie stick. He narrates his ongoing emergency. His
Speaker 4: eyes are a little wild, his voice excited. He tells
Speaker 4: the anonymous viewers of his video, whom he hopes will
Speaker 4: one day watch when maybe his last earthly communication. He
Speaker 4: tells the viewers he's pretty sure the engine is out
Speaker 4: and he's truly screwed. So, as Trevor Jacob put it
Speaker 4: in I quote, Holy, I'm over the mountains and I
Speaker 4: have an engine out. So you circle the plane gazing
Speaker 4: at this man in distress. He looks kind of silly
Speaker 4: talking to his phone on the stick, all by himself
Speaker 4: in the sky. But whatever. Now, when Trevor looks around,
Speaker 4: he sees nothing but mountains below him, no stretches, a flatter,
Speaker 4: no good spots to land. He shows the camera what
Speaker 4: he sees. He says he can't get the engine to restart,
Speaker 4: so he abandons his plans to dump the ashes of
Speaker 4: his best friend, Johnny Strange. Now he just hopes he
Speaker 4: can survive his time in the sky. Elizabeth, you take
Speaker 4: a quiet flap and just watch.
Speaker 3: Just give him the middle feather, Trevor.
Speaker 4: He doesn't panic, He doesn't lose his head. His plane
Speaker 4: may be rapidly returning to Earth, but he knows he
Speaker 4: doesn't have to go with it. As you circle high
Speaker 4: and wide, watching him with the utmost curiosity, what's he
Speaker 4: gonna do? You see the door of the tiny plane
Speaker 4: kick out. The pilot leans his head out. He shouts
Speaker 4: a few more choice expletives. Then, just like a fledgling,
Speaker 4: like a brand new baby bird taking that first jump
Speaker 4: from the nest, the pilot leaps from the plane. You're like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's not gonna go well, bro, you ain't got a
Speaker 4: feather on you. Now the sky is with you. So
Speaker 4: you curl and go with the thermals, and you're gonna
Speaker 4: watch him go down. He's doing his best impression of
Speaker 4: a bird, kind of flapping his arms, but it's a
Speaker 4: really pathetic effort. He's neither soaring nor really flying at all. Instead,
Speaker 4: he just plummets. He's like a soft rock. No bird,
Speaker 4: no bat, nothing that you can go. I recognize your style.
Speaker 4: You just watch it and you circle him again. He's
Speaker 4: still plummeting. He's filming it all though. He's still got
Speaker 4: the selfie stick on him, and he's filming. The plane
Speaker 4: has gone in the other direction and it's looking like
Speaker 4: it's headed for the mountains. Gravity is taking over both.
Speaker 4: They're both headed to the earth. You're just circling again. Then,
Speaker 4: just as suddenly as he leapt from the plane, his
Speaker 4: parachute unfurls from his backside, and the parachute fills with air.
Speaker 4: It's Trevor Jacob safely sways back and forth to the
Speaker 4: sky until he comes to a gentle crash, landing in
Speaker 4: the high mountain desert. The plane, however, it beats him
Speaker 4: to the ground. You see it turn into a flaming wreck.
Speaker 4: The dude is super lucky that the plane didn't land
Speaker 4: in the woods of the National Forest and said it
Speaker 4: hit the mountain. Meanwhile, you soar off going, I don't
Speaker 4: know why they're allowed in the sky, such silly creatures.
Speaker 3: Now, Elizabeth, did his buddy get double cremated?
Speaker 4: I don't know really the story because.
Speaker 3: He didn't have it in his arms.
Speaker 4: No, no, he did not have the earned in his arm.
Speaker 4: And he's not having like from Baltimore over here. He not. No,
Speaker 4: he did not have to earn in his arms.
Speaker 3: So he's so, yeah, double cremation.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't really know happens. What's just saying
Speaker 4: that Johnny Strange double creamde Okay, there you go. So
Speaker 4: when Trevor he comes back to earth safely, the dude
Speaker 4: landed in a prickly desert bush, so at least there's
Speaker 4: that he lands like in a cactus. Right, He's like, oh,
Speaker 4: this sucks. Right, that's about the only real danger though
Speaker 4: he experiences. He totally pulls this off. Now, Elizabeth, can
Speaker 4: you guess what this cat's first words after returning.
Speaker 3: Safely to the Earth explative.
Speaker 4: No, it's mundane. I'm just so happy to be alive. So, now,
Speaker 4: if you're going to take the time to fake a
Speaker 4: plane crash, you would think you would give yourself a
Speaker 4: better line than just like, I'm happy to think about.
Speaker 5: What would you probably say, like if you, if you survive,
Speaker 5: have a plane crash, like your parachute opens, you land
Speaker 5: in like a man's in neat or some thorn bush.
Speaker 4: That's right, Gravity try again. I would be like that, Like.
Speaker 5: When I've broken bones and been like laying on the ground,
Speaker 5: you just go oh no, oh god, okay, okay, oh.
Speaker 4: I shouted gravity. Me and gravity. We got a long
Speaker 4: standing cue.
Speaker 3: I would just be having like trying.
Speaker 4: He ain't killed him yet, gravity.
Speaker 5: Although I got stung by a wasp once and they yelled, dude.
Speaker 4: Take it personal. That's how I relate to nature. It's
Speaker 4: a personal thing between Probably I'll do exactly at the
Speaker 4: Earth at the Earth. So this guy he doesn't do that.
Speaker 4: He says, I'm just gonna kind of taken in what happened.
Speaker 3: He's a great actor.
Speaker 4: He's really amazing, Right, It's like, what's that guy that
Speaker 4: Josh Josh, Paul Logan, Paul Logan, Paul Paul Logan, the
Speaker 4: boxer Josh Paul producer Dave Paul Hogan. I don't even
Speaker 4: think Logan Paul Logan Paul is that he's the boxer
Speaker 4: blonde kid. He did like the stunt we went to,
Speaker 4: like the suicide forest, but on YouTube, and he had
Speaker 4: toologized like I didn't know the suicide for us or whatever.
Speaker 5: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: Then he started boxing with real boxers. He's now a
Speaker 4: professional boxer, but he started out as like a YouTube
Speaker 4: guy like this. He's basically the same guy, right, This
Speaker 4: guy's like phenomenon impression of like him. He's got that
Speaker 4: same kind of energy. Right.
Speaker 3: That's really weird.
Speaker 4: Video is hard to find because it got taken down
Speaker 4: because of legal reasons. Well, we're about to get into.
Speaker 3: Did you check Reddit?
Speaker 4: I used your hall pacet Reddit. I'm like, I'm with
Speaker 4: the inspector. Take me to the back rooms. So my
Speaker 4: eyes are still hurting from what I saw. Anyway, So
Speaker 4: this dude, Trevor Jacob, right, what does he do now
Speaker 4: he's parachute is safely the earth. Well, he's in the desert,
Speaker 4: so he's got to survive that and that's no easy shore, right,
Speaker 4: So he starts hiking out and he's like, you know,
Speaker 4: have you you ever been stuck in the desert.
Speaker 3: I've been hiking in the desert.
Speaker 4: Have you ever been like lost? Have you been hikinger?
Speaker 5: Yeah, like in Toyobi National Park, Nevada or Zion.
Speaker 4: Did you get like any moments of like panic where
Speaker 4: you realize.
Speaker 3: Like, well, no, oh, I think it was. I think
Speaker 3: it was in Toyoba.
Speaker 5: It was with my family and we ran out of
Speaker 5: food on the last day, like on our way back. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And so everyone was bickering over like a little thing
Speaker 5: of trail mix.
Speaker 3: And then like Susie.
Speaker 5: Logistics over here, I told everyone to stop, like we're
Speaker 5: walking back to like where the car was.
Speaker 3: We've been out there a for a few days.
Speaker 5: I take off my frame backpack and I start pulling
Speaker 5: power bars out of the straps that I had hidden
Speaker 5: all up and yeah, they were like, but it was
Speaker 5: all power bars, and I start pulling them out and
Speaker 5: handing him to everyone because I'm like, I know, you
Speaker 5: guys are just gonna like you'd burn through this stuff.
Speaker 5: This is my emergency stash. So I basically saved my family.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you you. I know, Right, this guy,
Speaker 4: he's just stumbling around in the desert. He's like, I
Speaker 4: need water. He's drinking from like any water he finds, which,
Speaker 4: by the way, don't do that, don't you if you
Speaker 4: find like standing water in a hole in the desert.
Speaker 5: If he hadn't pooped his pants falling out of the plane,
Speaker 5: he's gonna poop his pants now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty much super gard So now that he has
Speaker 4: not started a wildfire and one of the worst.
Speaker 3: Places, right, and he said this is in November.
Speaker 4: Yeah, November twenty one.
Speaker 3: The wildfire season extends to November.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was still in the window wildfire season. Luckily
Speaker 4: there had been a recent rain and luckily where he
Speaker 4: crashed the plane was not directly in the woods. That's
Speaker 4: the only thing, right, But now that the dude is
Speaker 4: sitting there and he's like, you know, he's got to
Speaker 4: like go through hill and dale desert and canyon ravine
Speaker 4: and so forth. He's got. You know, he can't turn
Speaker 4: it a dale exactly. He needs to keep his body
Speaker 4: together in his mind on sexiness. So reality quickly sets
Speaker 4: in for him, and he's like, I got to get
Speaker 4: out of it before it's dark and all that.
Speaker 3: His phone is still able to still record.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he doesn't have reception. Man, out of here,
Speaker 4: of course, that's the whole point. That's the one thing
Speaker 4: that's gonna happen. But he doesn't have reception. Man, I
Speaker 4: can't get out of it. I don't believe him anyway,
Speaker 4: So he's stumbled around the desert. He gets through, it
Speaker 4: goes nighttime, it's dark. He's telling his future viewers it's
Speaker 4: so hot out of here. Just need water so bad,
Speaker 4: that's what the before he got dark obviously. Then he
Speaker 4: makes it to the stark and then he before the
Speaker 4: night actually follows as you reverse this, he goes and
Speaker 4: he has to find his crash plane because he wants
Speaker 4: to make sure that one you didn't start a wildfire.
Speaker 4: But he can pretty much tell for your no smoke.
Speaker 4: But too, he needs to get the footage from the cameras.
Speaker 4: That's the real important you get Johnny Strange out of the.
Speaker 3: Out of the film double Crematorium.
Speaker 4: Whatever's left of the plane. So he hikes across the
Speaker 4: mountains and canyons as they tell you. He gets to
Speaker 4: his plane crash. Somehow he finds it, locates the plane,
Speaker 4: planes totaled. He it's never seen the skies again, this plane.
Speaker 3: I'm so upset for the Strange family. By the way, yes,
Speaker 3: this is just discussing.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, So Trevor, he's able to recover Johnny Stranger's
Speaker 4: earn or whatever dented the camera footage. Then he says
Speaker 4: on video, thank you higher power for watching over me.
Speaker 3: It's like, so like to try and be non offensive
Speaker 3: to all listeners.
Speaker 4: Higher power, higher power. And he says that to the
Speaker 4: cel phone whatever.
Speaker 3: Whatever you guys believe in voty.
Speaker 5: I like both red and black licorice.
Speaker 3: He's like with the NFL out exactly, that's his vibe.
Speaker 4: So the dude, he stumbles his way out of the
Speaker 4: mountains in his rob low NFL hat and he gets
Speaker 4: to first mountain, then hill, then finally farmland and in
Speaker 4: dawn some farmer finds him. He claims he's been a
Speaker 4: long night of hiking, right, He's saved by this farmer,
Speaker 4: and the dude eventually makes it back home. He's not hurt,
Speaker 4: totally survived his ordeal. Once he's there, he uploads the footage.
Speaker 4: He edits it. On Christmas Eve, he posts the video
Speaker 4: on YouTube.
Speaker 3: Right, I imagine.
Speaker 5: Him sitting in his house with the backpack with the
Speaker 5: parachute still connected to it, like quickly editing at his computer.
Speaker 4: He didn't even take it off, so he posts his
Speaker 4: holiday gift to the world one. You know. The world
Speaker 4: at this point, you know, is eager for distraction. So
Speaker 4: you can imagine the holiday season of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: In bathrooms all around the world. People are watching this video.
Speaker 4: They're in the backs of cars on uncomfortable voyages. He
Speaker 4: is being watched. So this guy, this thirteen minute long
Speaker 4: video him crashing a perfectly good airplane. It becomes huge hit.
Speaker 4: Many are entertained, right, many are amused. Many recommended to
Speaker 4: a friend monster viral hit. Some go this is a fraud,
Speaker 4: Some say this is a hoax. That other say this
Speaker 4: is chick hanery. Right, and those people all seem to
Speaker 4: know something about what we call planes. They all said
Speaker 4: this is not right. If you've ever been in a plane,
Speaker 4: you know how to fly a plane, and some of
Speaker 4: your favorite people, the flight simulator crowd, they got heated, right.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so if this lucky, you're not so lucky aviator, right.
Speaker 4: They all call him an aeronautical con artist. They're like,
Speaker 4: and they decide, we can make videos too, bro, So
Speaker 4: they start.
Speaker 3: Making videos his videos.
Speaker 4: To prove all the ways that he faked this. You
Speaker 4: remember that guy on Reddit his wife or his girlfriend
Speaker 4: wanted to know if she was the a because she
Speaker 4: wouldn't go along with her boyfriend or her husband's insistence
Speaker 4: that she introduced him as a pilot and even though
Speaker 4: he was just a flight simulator guy.
Speaker 5: That's that's right, That is why I love that stuff, right,
Speaker 5: So imagine that guy who's going around insisting that his
Speaker 5: wife introduced.
Speaker 4: As a pilot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the white like he what job? Did he have
Speaker 5: office job or something? But he had a whole setup
Speaker 5: in his house for flight simulators and he had logged
Speaker 5: like hundreds of hours thousands, never been inside a plane, no,
Speaker 5: never been in the sky, and yet he yeah, so
Speaker 5: at parties and like at work functions for.
Speaker 4: Her, for her work functions like meeting her boss. He
Speaker 4: wants to be introduced as a.
Speaker 3: Pilot, and he get really offended if she didn't.
Speaker 4: So imagine if that guy was mad at you and
Speaker 4: he wanted to post videos proving that, yes, right, he's
Speaker 4: going to bring full throttle energy. Right, So the flight simulator.
Speaker 3: Pilots no pun intended.
Speaker 4: So the real live pilots and the flight simulator guys
Speaker 4: they get on a tag team to take down Trevor Jacob.
Speaker 4: So now this is not like an instance of blaming
Speaker 4: the victim. I just want to say flat out, because
Speaker 4: this dude laid down the gauntlet. But I'm just saying
Speaker 4: he asked for it, Like he definitely totally asked. What's
Speaker 4: about the to him? So the pilots they post video
Speaker 4: after video, also during the holiday break, plenty of people
Speaker 4: can watch those. And you know his I crashed by
Speaker 4: playing video with his three point million views. I don't
Speaker 4: know all the view totals, but they start racking up
Speaker 4: views too, right. So now we got like a YouTube
Speaker 4: like Ecology going videos on videos on videos, right, and
Speaker 4: this guy like he's got all these online commenters now
Speaker 4: coming because they've watched the flight simulator guys videos. So
Speaker 4: they come and they post on his videos. So eventually
Speaker 4: he's getting like the revenge of gravity, but from flight
Speaker 4: simulator guys. Right, so he has to like, you know,
Speaker 4: the response videos are so bad that he has to
Speaker 4: close comments on his YouTube video, which is always a
Speaker 4: bad sign. That's like basically the white flag. Right, So
Speaker 4: he's not admitted, but these guys are coming at him
Speaker 4: with legitimate questions.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: There's always, as I told you, suspicious aspects of the
Speaker 4: Trevor Jacobs fatal flight. The guys had questions, Elizabeth, can
Speaker 4: you imagine some of these questions? Ummm no, okay, I.
Speaker 3: Got them, but I'm eager to hear them.
Speaker 4: For one, why so many cameras like who what he said?
Speaker 3: Tuber?
Speaker 4: Exactly? So that was the explained away by some number Two,
Speaker 4: why was he wearing a parachute when he took off?
Speaker 5: That is a really good question because he's like flying
Speaker 5: the plane.
Speaker 3: So is he sitting way far up? Yes, exactly, he's
Speaker 3: got like you know, it's.
Speaker 5: Like when you're a kid, you get on the school
Speaker 5: bus and you got your backpack on and you're like
Speaker 5: pressed against the friend.
Speaker 4: But also the parachute would be under him too, would
Speaker 4: be on his back and underneath his butt. You would
Speaker 4: have to write the seat cushions out to be able
Speaker 4: to sit in this tiny plane with the parachute on.
Speaker 4: Although I got something going on a milk crate flying
Speaker 4: this plane.
Speaker 5: If I were, if I flew airplanes, I would have
Speaker 5: like eight parashes.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know you would have them in the Yes,
Speaker 4: you know you have a parachute for the plane, the
Speaker 4: plane the paris.
Speaker 3: Yes, do they make those?
Speaker 4: You actually make those? I think someone like you invented
Speaker 4: it was like, this plane needs a parachute.
Speaker 3: And then the plane like doesn't go off the ground.
Speaker 3: That's my kind of plane.
Speaker 4: Tell the other questions they got to more specifically, why
Speaker 4: was the door already unlatched? I guess that's like not common. Well, yeah,
Speaker 4: I guess you keep it long you don't want to.
Speaker 5: Fall out of the condors coming up and cracking it.
Speaker 4: Open, making laughs like you got food, got a candy.
Speaker 3: Bars, you got any games on your phone.
Speaker 4: So other people are like, why didn't he try to
Speaker 4: restart the engine?
Speaker 3: A solid question, your first, really good question.
Speaker 4: And then there's the other question, why the hell did
Speaker 4: he jump out when he could have easily coasted the
Speaker 4: plane to the ground even without an engine? Oh, remember
Speaker 4: I told you like I would flying squirrel, but as
Speaker 4: just as a human being in the air. I know
Speaker 4: if I put my arms out and spread like my
Speaker 4: clothing enough, I would start not get lyft, but I
Speaker 4: could control my descent because you just have certain properties
Speaker 4: in the air. He's in a plane.
Speaker 2: It's designed those light planes. You can kind of Oh dude,
Speaker 2: the right brothers killed it. The plane is an amazing creation.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like birds and bats. They're made to
Speaker 2: fly and the glide. The only they don't need an engine,
Speaker 2: right they need power to like you know, flap or whatever.
Speaker 3: That's their heart their engine exactly.
Speaker 4: Same for a plane. It doesn't need an engine, needs
Speaker 4: an engine to get into the sky. After that it
Speaker 4: can like circle and soar and glide because it the wings.
Speaker 4: Right now, this is unlike those devil creations the helicopter.
Speaker 4: You can't get me into a helicopter, Elizabeth. I mean
Speaker 4: it just seems like a bad with gravity. And you
Speaker 4: know I got a feud with gravity. Yes, no offense,
Speaker 4: mister Sikorski, But I'm not so into your invention. Now.
Speaker 4: If I was an upcoming rock star or soul singer,
Speaker 4: then no, you could not get me into a small play.
Speaker 4: But other than that, I trust planes. I can't sing
Speaker 4: for anything, so I can go into small planes. But helicopters, uh.
Speaker 3: Huh so and you cleared twenty seven So.
Speaker 4: Exactly it's the roaders.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: Yes they can auto rotate, but that's not a wing
Speaker 4: sense exactly. Well, this guy he had wings, so he
Speaker 4: could have glided down. So everyone's like, dude, why didn't
Speaker 4: he just mean? This is made. The reason why people
Speaker 4: like beginning pilots fly this plane is because if the
Speaker 4: engine cuts out, you can safely glide just land in
Speaker 4: a field.
Speaker 3: Okay, And it's like a well known thing.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, as I told meet like a secret life
Speaker 5: hack that he didn't watch the TikTok.
Speaker 4: He didn't miss the wrong TikTok. But uh as I'm
Speaker 4: telling you, these guys, the online commenters and especially the
Speaker 4: flight simulator guys and the real life pilots, they all
Speaker 4: wanted to get after them, right. But then they're also
Speaker 4: like aviation lawyers and flight instructors who got in on this.
Speaker 4: It just gets wilder and wilder. So let's take a break, yes,
Speaker 4: and then I'll be back and I can tell you
Speaker 4: about how this Uh, let's take down Trevor Jacob party
Speaker 4: turns into let's call the FAA. You're right, Elizabeth, We're back.
Speaker 5: Those ads were so good, went on so long that
Speaker 5: my hair is now as long as my way goes
Speaker 5: really nice.
Speaker 3: The Crystal Gale.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the flat iron worked so christ I'll be really
Speaker 4: impressed by the way. I told you the top of
Speaker 4: this that I wanted to be a pilot and I
Speaker 4: had my friend like, you know, take me out on
Speaker 4: the car and throw me into the sky. Right. Well,
Speaker 4: I wasn't the only insane person I knew. Like, I
Speaker 4: had this other friend, Ted, and he wanted to be
Speaker 4: a pilot too, And we grew up together. And when
Speaker 4: we were boys, he like he and I we were
Speaker 4: the We go to like the Nutcracker. We would go
Speaker 4: to the nut Tree and you know the back of
Speaker 4: the California where they have the black and white World
Speaker 4: War Two plane posters.
Speaker 3: It was originally like a nut orchard, and then they had.
Speaker 4: Turned into a tourist track.
Speaker 3: It was a roadside the restaurant.
Speaker 4: Yes, great restaurant had little airport, and so they sold
Speaker 4: plane stuff, and so we would go there and buy
Speaker 4: all this plane stuff, and you know, like we would
Speaker 4: like also go to Fairfield for the air shows, like
Speaker 4: because there's an Air Force base there. So this cat
Speaker 4: super bright, my friend Ted. He decides I'm going to
Speaker 4: become a pilot, and he goes and joins the Air Force.
Speaker 4: And the Air Force was smarter than Ted because they're like,
Speaker 4: you're not going to become a pilot here, like we're
Speaker 4: not putting that on our shoulders. You got to do
Speaker 4: that private. So he's like, I'm out of here and
Speaker 4: he leaves the Air Force. I'm over simplifying. But they
Speaker 4: didn't let him fly. He had dreams and they squashed
Speaker 4: his dream So he's like, I'm out of here, Chair Force.
Speaker 4: And then he goes and he decided he's gonna get
Speaker 4: a helicopter's license. If he can't planes will fly helicopter.
Speaker 4: So he goes. He goes to a helicopter flight school
Speaker 4: and this guy, he has this instructor. He loves a
Speaker 4: guy super brilliant, just like my friend Ted. The guy
Speaker 4: taught him everything you know. Ted flys solo helicopter flights
Speaker 4: and then he graduates. He's now an official helicopter pilot.
Speaker 4: I'm asking him, what are you gonna do? One week later,
Speaker 4: his flight instructor dies in a helicopter crash. Oh no, right,
Speaker 4: because I told you, helicopter's Elizabeth, the Devil's creation. I
Speaker 4: don't trust him. But anyways, Ted's wife is like me.
Speaker 4: She's like, look, I know we spend all this money
Speaker 4: to pay for the helicopter flight school, but honey, I
Speaker 4: love you. We have small kids. You're grounded, and like,
Speaker 4: that's the most brilliant thing she ever said other than
Speaker 4: like I do.
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, now once she got kids, I mean.
Speaker 4: And also, helicopter's Elizabeth, and helicopter.
Speaker 3: Says the guy who threw himself off a moving cars.
Speaker 4: That's my point. If I'm not willing to get into
Speaker 4: a helicopter, you gotta think what's.
Speaker 3: I would not ride in a helicopter.
Speaker 4: But anyway, back to our jackass of the day who
Speaker 4: didn't have a helicopter but had a plane, Trevor Jacob.
Speaker 4: He intentionally crashed his plane because he has my spirit.
Speaker 4: We discussed and I have his right. So now how
Speaker 4: all the real and fake aviators get mad at people
Speaker 4: like us because we do dumb things like this is
Speaker 4: why I don't post these videos?
Speaker 3: What is this us?
Speaker 4: Well, because I wouldn't post these videos. I'm like trying
Speaker 4: to fly.
Speaker 3: Get mad at me. They get mad at people like you,
Speaker 3: me and Trevor.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's the.
Speaker 3: You and I.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, no one gets mad at you.
Speaker 4: Come on, a lot of people get well, Elizabeth. As
Speaker 4: I told you, it was many, many VIDs all these
Speaker 4: people were posting, right, But it wasn't just them. I
Speaker 4: also told you that, like there were legal aviator like
Speaker 4: people who were like flight destructors, and then the aviation
Speaker 4: lawyers who got upset. So all these people they get
Speaker 4: mad at Trevor's flagrant play for Liken subscribes, right, and
Speaker 4: this this flight destructor, Robert Perry. He gets interviewed by
Speaker 4: the New York Times. Right, this guy he's eminently familiar
Speaker 4: with flying over these very same skies, this Los Padres
Speaker 4: National Forest. Right, so they get like an expert and
Speaker 4: this guy, he's like, uh, I looked at the videos
Speaker 4: and I thought this is sort of stupid. Why did
Speaker 4: he do that? There were so many things that made
Speaker 4: me know this was sort of a put on it.
Speaker 3: He crashed. Let's just walk this back for a second.
Speaker 5: When he crashed and he went through the desert on
Speaker 5: a name, and he wound up at the farm. What
Speaker 5: was it like, an alfalfa farmer. Did he videotape the encounter?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he edited stuff he didn't know. He talks about
Speaker 4: the farmer saving him and stuff. But also, as I
Speaker 4: told you, it was hard to find the video. So
Speaker 4: I was going off clips.
Speaker 5: If you're just this, like you know farm guy and this.
Speaker 5: You know, I was about to call him something terrible.
Speaker 5: But this guy comes walking out of nowhere with a
Speaker 5: natural and has a has a camera out filming.
Speaker 3: I just like Roundhouse kicked the camera, punched him in.
Speaker 5: The neck on your motorcycle gang, I'm like, I took
Speaker 5: down this apostrophe tuber and I just put his scalp on.
Speaker 4: The dated for the club. I understand. I respect you.
Speaker 3: On that something. He was just making me very violent.
Speaker 4: Well, the flight destructor Perry, he shared your anger, and
Speaker 4: he told The New York Times, you don't fly a
Speaker 4: little airplane with a parachute if it is your point
Speaker 4: this guy. You guys have a lot of commonalities I'm noticing.
Speaker 4: So I told you it was nineteen forty. It was
Speaker 4: a nineteen forty tailor craft plane.
Speaker 3: Okay, And I.
Speaker 4: Went because I don't know if you'd know what that
Speaker 4: looks like. I found a picture that's the plane. Okay, yeah, right,
Speaker 4: so it's like a little tiny.
Speaker 3: Plane, very Tommy fits.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's almost exactly the plane Tommy Fits would have flown.
Speaker 3: Who was your galpalv fly bar.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's very much the plane Tommy Fits would have
Speaker 4: been like using and landing on like the streets of
Speaker 4: New York. This is the type of plane you could do.
Speaker 4: So people are like, why couldn't you Tommy Fits it? Man,
Speaker 4: what's up?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: And he's like, I'm not the guy and the guy
Speaker 4: I'm half the man Tommy fits this. He didn't know
Speaker 4: who he is, right. But the point is I show
Speaker 4: you this plane is that plane is so small. There's
Speaker 4: so little room in the cabin. The pilot can barely
Speaker 4: turn around, like in their seats. Right, it's like flying
Speaker 4: a desk chair. It's tiny. Right, So Triver sat in
Speaker 4: that cabin he had a parachute on. They would have
Speaker 4: to remove seat cushion, possibly remove the seat, as I said,
Speaker 4: probably he've been sitting on a milk crane. So this
Speaker 4: this guy, they focus on these details.
Speaker 3: He said the parachute goes under him too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it goes under your butt.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it goes. It hangs down.
Speaker 3: Beneath like a JanSport backpack.
Speaker 4: Yeah nope. I had friends who used to pack parachutes,
Speaker 4: and I go out there and help them, and I
Speaker 4: was like, I don't think I should be doing this,
Speaker 4: Like I don't.
Speaker 3: Hell no, I don't want to be responsible.
Speaker 4: I won't tell anyone. I'm like, you need to have
Speaker 4: a better attitude about your job. So this is flan instructure,
Speaker 4: parents points out to the New York Times. Right, small
Speaker 4: planes like this tailor craft. They could be landed safely
Speaker 4: by anybody. That's the whole joy of them. Right. So
Speaker 4: he's like, why don't you just glide fifteen miles and
Speaker 4: just set it down in a field? Like I think
Speaker 4: this is nonsense.
Speaker 3: He could meet the farmer that way.
Speaker 4: Exactly, see the alfalfa field land there pal Anyway, the
Speaker 4: New York Times they had more questions than this guy
Speaker 4: could answer. So the Gray lady to find an aviation lawyer.
Speaker 4: They're like, what's up with this dude? Is he Logan
Speaker 4: Paul the Air? And they're like, yeah, man, he is.
Speaker 4: Because the guy's like the whole, this whole conceit is
Speaker 4: the engine suddenly stopped right, and the aviation lawyers like,
Speaker 4: I know exactly why at Airplanes's engine would suddenly quit
Speaker 4: like that. It's a really simple and obvious answer. And
Speaker 4: the New York Times like, what is it? And he's like,
Speaker 4: the pilot shut off the engine.
Speaker 3: He just turned.
Speaker 4: He's like, well, the question is why didn't he try
Speaker 4: to restart it? I mean, at least no shown on camera.
Speaker 4: Is this guy an idiot? Or did you just skip
Speaker 4: past the whole like I should restarting when he went
Speaker 4: right to I should jump out of the plane. Yeah,
Speaker 4: which is, you know, my goal. But anyway, the guy
Speaker 4: like I was like, yo, take the keys out, blow
Speaker 4: on him, try putting them back in, like it's a
Speaker 4: Nintendo cartridge. I don't know. So the dude, as I said,
Speaker 4: he gets to my version of it, I need to
Speaker 4: step out into the sky, and he does that, and then,
Speaker 4: as you know, all the stupid stuff occurs, and then
Speaker 4: he posts it on YouTube and then everyone gets mad.
Speaker 4: So then he gets so much attention that eventually the
Speaker 4: FAA comes along, right, and this guy is like, oh,
Speaker 4: he starts realizing oh, this will be bad. So he decided,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna, like, you know, after turning off the YouTube comments,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get ahead of this. I'm going to post
Speaker 4: a comment. I'm going to post a response video. Oh okay,
Speaker 4: Now keep in mind, Elizabeth, I said this cat was
Speaker 4: a skydive or a pilot, a snowboarder. I forgot to
Speaker 4: mention he was also a former Olympian in what he
Speaker 4: placed ninth in men's snowboard cross at the twenty fourteen
Speaker 4: Winter Olympics Snowboard Cross and as I checked out his
Speaker 4: team USA Olympian biography and it states and I quote,
Speaker 4: Trevor Jacob is also an accomplished skateboarder, surfer, motocross rider,
Speaker 4: BMX biker, snowmobiler and professional mad men with MTV's Nitro Circus. Now,
Speaker 4: I bring this up because you would think this dude
Speaker 4: would have a better media sense than he did once
Speaker 4: the cameras went and found it, because he's a former Olympian,
Speaker 4: former MTV madman on Nitro Circus, and I thought, like,
Speaker 4: you know, he should be able to handle his new
Speaker 4: brush with fans. He did not. He decided to shoot
Speaker 4: himself right in the dickies. So after the uproar of
Speaker 4: his fake plane crasher video, he refused to die down.
Speaker 4: Jacob's like, Okay, I'm gonna get ahead of it. He
Speaker 4: goes out there and he really, this is a statement.
Speaker 4: I'll happily say, I did not purposely crash my plane
Speaker 4: for views on YouTube. Given my background, I can see
Speaker 4: why people would think that I've been filming everything I
Speaker 4: do since I was five years old. Documenting this trip
Speaker 4: was no different than any other day from me. So
Speaker 4: that's was five. Yeah, that's his defense, right. So to
Speaker 4: further convince any doubters, skeptics, haters, or those idiots are
Speaker 4: just jealous, Trevor Jacobs says, quote people can believe whatever
Speaker 4: they choose. They have the freedom to just do that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, whenever you're in doubt, Elizabeth, I
Speaker 4: find his best to try to draw on the energies
Speaker 4: of that really smug eight year old on the playground.
Speaker 4: It tells you gets a free country. That's the energy
Speaker 4: that wins its where, especially if you're an adult, carries
Speaker 4: you through the moment. So I'm over here meanwhile, watching
Speaker 4: this stuff and reading the stuff. I'm like, hey, Trevor,
Speaker 4: I think the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board.
Speaker 4: I have a couple of questions for you trash the
Speaker 4: plane in a national forest?
Speaker 3: Who stays a national forest? And so like the bill
Speaker 3: too for cleanup and recovery?
Speaker 4: You, oh, yes, you see where it's going. So the FAA,
Speaker 4: the Federal Aviation Administration, and the NTS by step in.
Speaker 4: They launch investigations. That's what they do, right, So he'd
Speaker 4: kind of done the right thing. He'd contact their protocols
Speaker 4: you have to follow when you crash a plane, right,
Speaker 4: so he'd kind of followed them. He contact the NTSB
Speaker 4: and he's like, hey, man, I crashed. Few days later,
Speaker 4: it's cool, I'm alive. They're like that's not the point,
Speaker 4: like where did you crash? Getting you on? Yeah, So
Speaker 4: a few weeks past he gets contacted by California authorities
Speaker 4: and they asked for assistance, like where's the plane? Man,
Speaker 4: we got to go out and like clear it out
Speaker 4: of the woods. And he's like, okay, I'd be totally
Speaker 4: glad to help you. Guys. They're like, okay, where is
Speaker 4: He's like, I totally wish I could remember, guys. I
Speaker 4: just need to give me a little time to think.
Speaker 4: They're like, what are you talking about? I just can't
Speaker 4: quite remember.
Speaker 3: Man give for Google GPS.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, it turns out he was what we in
Speaker 4: the storytelling industry call lying. Yes, but the question is why.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you why. Elizabeth a helicopter the devil's instrument.
Speaker 4: He had a helicopter. He yes, Trevor had a pilot
Speaker 4: friend who was dumb as him, and so apparently this
Speaker 4: guy had a helicopter and he had his buddy fly
Speaker 4: out with his helicopter to where he'd intentionally crashed his plane.
Speaker 4: He needs to then, you know, descend down a line
Speaker 4: or hop off this kids, I don't know what he did.
Speaker 4: He has to go and hide the evidence of his crime.
Speaker 4: So in this case that means the whole damn plane.
Speaker 4: So he it's all evidence. So he goes and takes
Speaker 4: the whole plane December tenth before he posts the video
Speaker 4: on YouTube. This was smart the only thing they post.
Speaker 4: On December tenth. He goes out there and he and
Speaker 4: his pilot friend they fly to the crash site. They
Speaker 4: secure the wreckage from his plane to the helicopter. Then
Speaker 4: they lift the plane out of the national forest. They
Speaker 4: fly the plane to Rancho Ciscolock in Santa Barbara County
Speaker 4: is wait, that's what that's a little bit of a flight. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then they load I can't believe there's not bad
Speaker 4: footage of this. They load the plane onto a trailer
Speaker 4: and then Drefor drove his wreck plane back to the
Speaker 4: Lompoc Airport hangar where he first flound And that's.
Speaker 3: Why he didn't they just fly it to the Lompoker.
Speaker 4: I don't, dude, there's so many of why didn't base
Speaker 4: so confused? Why do they fly it so far? And
Speaker 4: then they just to then put it on a trailer
Speaker 4: and drive it on a truck back to Lompo. So
Speaker 4: then once he gets back to the hangar, what does
Speaker 4: he do now? Elizabeth was like, we got to get
Speaker 4: rid of the evidence. This is like, you know, if
Speaker 4: there's no body, there's no murder. If there's no plane,
Speaker 4: there's no plane crash. So he decides to cut up
Speaker 4: the plane and dissect it down to its constituent parts. Right,
Speaker 4: So what does he do now with all this this
Speaker 4: pile of evidence he has, Well, he does he does
Speaker 4: what you know, pretty much I would call the most
Speaker 4: stupid thing he could do. I don't even I'm not
Speaker 4: mad at him, but like, I'm just like, are you
Speaker 4: kidding me? He dumps it at the first place that
Speaker 4: had a trash can, which happens to be the airport.
Speaker 3: He put it in the airport trash.
Speaker 4: He was criminally lazy, Elizabeth.
Speaker 3: I was hoping he would even like to recycling first.
Speaker 4: Trash can he came across, he just dumped the evidence
Speaker 4: in the trash at the Lompoc Airport, Like why drag
Speaker 4: it that?
Speaker 5: This is like me when I last time I moved
Speaker 5: and I had all this like stuff to throw away.
Speaker 4: M hm.
Speaker 5: I was just driving around Oakland looking for unlocked dumpsters
Speaker 5: and I have mentally a map of all the unlocked up.
Speaker 3: Figured it out.
Speaker 4: He didn't do that trip. He's no leg Yeah, even
Speaker 4: New York Wigi War criminally astute on this book right exactly.
Speaker 4: So I mean this is his It's not his biggest mistake.
Speaker 4: I think his biggest mistake was intentionally crashing a plane
Speaker 4: into a national forest, filming it all, posting the evidence
Speaker 4: of his crime on YouTube. I think that was his
Speaker 4: biggest mistake. That this was second biggest.
Speaker 3: His mistakes probably started years ago.
Speaker 4: So the FAA is investigation it was fast moving, and
Speaker 4: they they you know, the criminal investigation that was started
Speaker 4: by the US Attorney's Office for the Central District of
Speaker 4: California was also fast moving, and the latter came to
Speaker 4: the conclusion that criminal charges were recommended since the YouTuber
Speaker 4: quote did not intend to reach his destination. So no, look,
Speaker 4: it may be a free country, but you're not free
Speaker 4: to just skylitter and crash a plane anywhere you would
Speaker 4: like for some kind of nouveau. Howard hughes energy, by
Speaker 4: the way, friend of the show, So Elizabeth, uh, this guy, right,
Speaker 4: he's a he pulled his diet coke version of faking
Speaker 4: your death, and he fakes his plane crash, intentionally crashes
Speaker 4: his plane into you know, the land has a wildfire problem.
Speaker 4: The government comes after him because of course they do.
Speaker 4: Can't have idiots like that in the air, right. So
Speaker 4: April of last year, FAA bans him from operating a
Speaker 4: single engine plane. The fa decided Trevor Jacob wasn't allowed
Speaker 4: back into the sky without a seat and a ticket
Speaker 4: and a flight attendant. So the FAA wrote to Jacob, quote,
Speaker 4: you demonstrated a lack of care, judgment, and responsibility by
Speaker 4: choosing to jump out of an aircraft solely so you
Speaker 4: could record the footage of the crash. Your egregious and
Speaker 4: intentional actions on these dates indicate that you presently lacked
Speaker 4: the degree of care, judgment, and responsibility required of a
Speaker 4: certificate holder. You are grounded, young man. Yes, next came
Speaker 4: the US attorney way worse. In May of this year,
Speaker 4: the Department of Justice had their response. According to the
Speaker 4: DOJ Trevor Jacobs quote, a utuber pilot has agreed to
Speaker 4: plead guilty to a felony charge for obstructing a federal
Speaker 4: investigation by deliberately destroying the wreckage of an airplane that
Speaker 4: he intentionally crashed in Santa Barbara County to gain online views,
Speaker 4: the Justice Department announced today. So why does YouTuber in
Speaker 4: front of something make it sound so much worse? It
Speaker 4: looks like diminish his eggs, YouTuber pilot.
Speaker 5: There's so many headlines today that if we went back ten,
Speaker 5: but especially like twenty years and showed people they think,
Speaker 5: what in the.
Speaker 4: World, Yeah, we gave up on English.
Speaker 3: This is not none of them. I don't know any
Speaker 3: of these words.
Speaker 4: Yes, these are not words.
Speaker 3: Yeah, YouTuber, I.
Speaker 4: Recognized the article a and the article the so this
Speaker 4: YouTuber repiled with Jacobs, his federal founty charge is considered
Speaker 4: a serious one. The punishment is quote a statutory maximum
Speaker 4: sentence of twenty years in federal prison. Oh dang, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: it's likely he'll be getting less than that.
Speaker 5: But damn fam I mean federal facility, yes, facility in
Speaker 5: half the way states No.
Speaker 4: No, but I don't know how they will pick that up.
Speaker 4: That's the maximums. I don't think he'll get the max
Speaker 4: for this, right, he didn't start a fire. If he
Speaker 4: would have started a fire, like Billy Joel would say.
Speaker 3: Boom man, the civil suits, right.
Speaker 4: I hope he enjoyed starting a flight simulator club at
Speaker 4: the federal penitentiary. That'll be fun. You know, hey, guys,
Speaker 4: do we have computer lab time? So one question, why
Speaker 4: did he do this? Elizabeth clout for the like and subscribes, right,
Speaker 4: But he also did it for the cloud, as you
Speaker 4: just said. And he also did it for the cash,
Speaker 4: as I said earlier. But who would pay this idiot
Speaker 4: to crash his plan into a national forest in California?
Speaker 4: What investor could be that dumb, that cavalier that.
Speaker 3: It's an investor?
Speaker 4: Yeah, someone paid him.
Speaker 3: Oh so it wasn't like I thought he was just
Speaker 3: like ad revenue.
Speaker 4: Oh no, No. From the Department of Justice press release,
Speaker 4: we learned the quote. According to his plea agreement, Jacob
Speaker 4: is an experienced pilot in Skydiver who has secured a
Speaker 4: sponsorship from a company that sold various products, including a wallet.
Speaker 4: Pursuing to the sponsorship deal, Jacob agreed to promote the
Speaker 4: company's wallet and a YouTube video that he would post
Speaker 4: now the company's wallet. The company is not named in
Speaker 4: the press release, but Shame Dollars to Donuts that the
Speaker 4: company's wallet is a reference to a crypto wallet, and
Speaker 4: I'd be willing to bet you it's not a leather
Speaker 4: goods company, Like I don't think that it was.
Speaker 3: Wis like a leather goods And he'd be like, my
Speaker 3: wallet survived.
Speaker 4: The No, I'm pretty sure it was a crypto energy
Speaker 4: because who's gonna fallo? Who's going to watch these guy's videos?
Speaker 4: A crypto bro crowd is definitely going to be following
Speaker 4: this logo.
Speaker 3: That makes way more sense. I was thinking a literal wallet.
Speaker 3: I was like, is it made out of like firehose material?
Speaker 4: And that it would tough youll skin. So the thirteen
Speaker 4: minute long video that's no longer available on YouTube. As
Speaker 4: I pointed out, tryvor Jacob, he included plenty of promotion
Speaker 4: for the company and it's wallet. We can have answers,
Speaker 4: but as I do not have them for you, I
Speaker 4: can only tell you the DJ noted Jacob admitted in
Speaker 4: his plea agreement that he intended to make money through
Speaker 4: the video. So way to go.
Speaker 5: Okay, So now I have a new investigation to begin.
Speaker 5: I am desperate to find.
Speaker 4: Out who was the Crypto Bros.
Speaker 3: Who's the sponsor?
Speaker 5: Yes, because I still think maybe it's the Louth Trading
Speaker 5: Company to say.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine do you have any do years in
Speaker 4: federal prison for trying to sell crypto to people? Literal wallet, Yeah,
Speaker 4: literal wallab even better?
Speaker 3: Yeah crypto.
Speaker 4: So what's our ridiculous takeaway here? Listen?
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, just don't get a plane.
Speaker 5: I mean, I like playing commercial bit don't don't fly
Speaker 5: a plane, don't fly, don't fly a plane.
Speaker 3: Leave it to the professionals.
Speaker 4: Well, my ridiculous takeaway once again, thank you for asking, Elizabeth,
Speaker 4: is that you are going to dance with gravity. Not you,
Speaker 4: but anybody if anyone's gonna dance with gravity, don't do
Speaker 4: it where someone else can get hurt. Take it from
Speaker 4: me a semi professional. That's just not fair. If you're
Speaker 4: gonna do your dance to it, only you get hurt.
Speaker 4: But if you're going to commit a crime, and that
Speaker 4: crime could put you in federal prison for a decade
Speaker 4: or more, please don't film it and then post it
Speaker 4: on YouTube. Just across the board.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's like, don't do so, like you said, don't.
Speaker 5: He could have hurt someone the damage that he caused
Speaker 5: to nature.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the possibility of fire is a real issue
Speaker 4: for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, California, and.
Speaker 4: Then you burn down houses and rich people get mad
Speaker 4: and then we see it on the news. It's terrible now,
Speaker 4: but it's really bad the wildfire season. Honesty is very bad.
Speaker 4: But this is up there for me, by the way,
Speaker 4: this basic advice of don't film your crimes and post
Speaker 4: it on YouTube. This is kind of like the don
Speaker 4: doesn't wear shorts. It's just a rule. You don't even
Speaker 4: got to You can't disagree with this one to just
Speaker 4: boom there it is. That's a crime rule. Thank you, John, Well,
Speaker 4: that's it. Thanks for listening. Y'all. That's all I got
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