What do you think
is more
nerve-wracking?
Overcoming a fear or discomfort that you know
you already have
or letting chance
choose your challenge?
Time could give you a chance to prepare,
but anticipation
could psych you out.
So today,
we're throwing ourselves in
by letting a dice
control our lives
for an entire day
in New York City.
But hold on,
that's only half of the story.
You see
a few months ago,
New Balance challenged us
to take one of their athletes
on a day
in the life
of Yes Theory.
Obviously,
we said YES.
but under one condition:
That in exchange,
Matt gets to swap lives with that athlete
and live a day in his
or her shoes.
New Balance agreed,
and our adventure
was on.
So, the New Balance pro Lacrosse player
Trevor Baptiste,
Ammar
and myself, Thomas
chose New York City
as our playground while Matt
would be training like a Lacrosse player
in Denver, Colorado.
The rules are simple.
Every number on the dice is linked to a specific
Uncomfortable challenge.
We take turns at rolling the dice
and whatever it lands on,
we have to complete.
let's see if this athlete can keep up
with a day in our lives
and whether Matt
will make it through his.
I'm starting the day with a training.
We're gonna go
and meet up with a bunch of Trevor's coaches.
I've literally never played Lacrosse.
So it'll be like, "Yo, what's up dudes!"
And then like, "Where the f*** is Trevor?"
You know Denver is like one of the BEST teams.
Where like, some of the most intense coaches.
Yeah....
What's up dude?
How ya doin'?
What's up?
How 'bout you?
How are you?
Nice to meet you too.
Trevor, what are you expecting today?
Expectin' to get out of my comfort zone.
I don't really talk to many strangers
Feel like I catch myself saying no a lot of times.
So today's gonna be a lot different.
Today's gonna be a lot different.
One.
One is the race.
We need to race to the charging ball
And the first team gets to spend $200
on our meal and the losing team have to eat
Street hot dogs.
Right now?
We're gonna choose teams.
Samir and Thomas
and Trevor and I.
OK
3, 2, 1
Let's go!
What the f***?
where are we going?
Do you know where we're going?
I have no idea where we're goin'.
Where are we going?
Wall Street, right?
There's no time to tie your shoe.
Three and a half miles.
shall we run?
25 minutes subway ride? It's the fastest.
Let's go by foot.
You can take the subway up to a certain point.
Here's what at stake, Samir.
$200 lunch or a Hotdog.
What do you want? Huh?
Ooh.
No Hotdogs for the boys today.
We're gonna make this.
Let's go Samir!
I'm kind of gassed right now.
It'll be such a shame.
An athlete doesn't win this.
Single, right?
Let's go.
Ooh.
Oh!
Yeah, I think it's this way.
no, it's going..
It's not it...
It's not it..
That's not it?
You didn't?
Waiting
when you're racing
is probably the most painful thing
you could possibly do.
Plus, Trevor is a freaking athlete
He's gonna be way faster than us.
Yeah, if they're sprinting.
Yeah..
Trevor is a navigator.
There we go.
This feels like the
longest three minutes of my life.
OK. one minute.
We're like two-thirds there.
We've been sitting on this train for like
45 minutes
We gotta sprint.
We gonna have to absolutely sprint.
We gotta sprint
Alright
Just charge through. Just -- *chuckles*
Excuse me,
Which side is the Charging ball?
Two blocks down.
Thank you, thank you.
Two blocks down.
Down the middle.
Did we win?
Yeah
We won!
There they are.
Oh my god.
Sweet, sweet, taste of hot dog boys.
Samir and I are gonna go get a nice little brunch
You guys wanna look up Yelp?
And find somewhere
with like 4 dollar signs
and send us there... Or?
Forget these guys.
Let's get a Hotdog.
Wow! Look at this!
What do you guys want for brunch?
Well they're having hot dogs.
Oh, Yeah
Hotdogs
Let's go find a Hotdog.
Alright.
Look at what we found.
I'll do Ketchup and Mustard.
Woah, dude.
ahhhh
Its got a kick, right?
Oh, wow.
Love that.
Thank you.
That's for you, right? You have the
white scrambled eggs.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
- Appreciate it.
Cheers.
Nice to meet you.
How are you?
It's nice to meet ya.
My name's Tim Murray,
I'm one of those assistant sports performance coaches
here at the University of Denver.
So today, we're gonna bring Matt
through basic movement prep stuff
that we would do with Trevor
In a scale, of like,
difficult to not,
What do we got for him today?
Being honest here?
Yeah
For an athlete,
It's gonna be
pretty moderate workload,
but for Matt,
they might be pretty difficult.
I'm already feeling sore as hell.
It only just started.
I'm feeling
like you couldn't have gotten through it all
Survived.
Yeah. Make sure to get a lot of water in today.
Yeah.
You'd be crushed.
Okay.
Yeah.
I feel like,
dizzy.
like, "Woooohhh"
That's a quarter
of a f***ing workout.
It's gonna be painful.
Alright.
Three,
Ok.
Ammar, do you like coffee?
Ohhhhhh
What is it?
Six shots of espresso
and then throw again.
The barista's gonna be like,
"Who's this lunatic right now?"
Can I please get six shots of espresso?
It's not recommended
to drink more than four shots per day
Six shouldn't be that bad, right?
Yeah, he's going six right now.
Oh my god.
- Oh my God.
Just *exploding noise*
Six.
Get a stra-
Get a stranger
to pick your ridiculous Halloween costume
and wear it for the rest of the day.
This is amazing.
Espresso shots are gonna hit you.
Can I ask you a favor.
I just got a dare
to pick a Halloween costume for me that I'm gonna
spend the rest of the day in.
Unless you guys are busy, we can-
Yeah, no, definitely not busy.
You're not busy?
You have to come with us to the store.
yeah?
All right,
let's go.
I don't want to infuence with your decision
But the female costumes are
are that way.
I just want to look at all the options.
Hippy or should we go a little,
a little more sexy?
A giant baby?
That'll be ridiculous.
A giant baby
that just had six espresso shots.
All right.
Where's the dressing room?
All right,
I think he's coming out.
You look insane.
Nice pick guys.
Good job.
It's like the most scarring thing I've ever seen actually.
Over-caffeinated baby right now.
Running around loose in New York City.
[You're] Maybe wondering what happened to Matt.
Let me tell you something.
He turned into-
a warrior.
That hurt your hand?
It kinda hurt everything.
I probably need like a goalie.
We can get you the last one.
It's very uncomfortable.
That's the whole point.
You want to be uncomfortable.
Also, if we have a cup or something.
I'll go check out.
OK, cool.
Alright,
it's finally Trevor's turn.
Most of items left now involve strangers.
Perfect.
I love strangers.
Alright.
Number four.
Convince a street performer to let you join their act
for fifteen minutes.
Oh my gosh.
So whatever it is,
You gotta figure out
one way to join.
Whether you're a backup dancer
or a backup singer.
Alright,
15 minutes.
I, I find people looking at me
I'm like, "Why are people looking at me?"
And then I look down
And I'm like
"Yeah."
" 'Cause I'm a big baby.
And I just had
six shots of espresso."
Can't wait to see you perform, Trevor.
I don't even know
what I can do for fifteen minutes.
I'm a little nervous.
I wasn't nervous like a few minutes ago
I was actually really excited.
But now that it's getting a little closer.
The nerves are kind of hitting me.
how are you guys doing?
Good, how are you?
I just want to know
if I could maybe join you guys act
for maybe like 15 minutes.
go song with you guys.
How would you envision yourself sitting in with us?
I could dance-
that's about it..
Okay.
Have you got some dance moves ready?
No,
I'm just gonna let the music take control.
I can get the crowd going a little bit,
you know.
Maybe a little party in this park.
Do you mind holding this kelp?
Yeah.
I trust you, 'cause I'm really nervous.
This is called ' the states of Discomfort '
-And the look too.
When you think people are judging you,
but they don't really care.
You'll ease into it and you'll be like,
" Alright, screw it.
I'm just gonna have fun."
Okay, I'm ready. Let's go
Dance?
C'mon
Show your moves
Let's get started
Wanna dance?
You guys wanna
dance?
No?
You guys wanna dance?
No
Thank you.
Do you wanna dance with me?
No
Let's dance!
We going!
Just a little dance.
C'mon
Yeah!
Let's go.
C'mon.
Here we go,
oh yeah!
Wanna dance?
Let's dance!
Let's DANCE!
Oh!
Boom!
Wooah!
I don't really know this song
You've made it!
If Lacrosse doesn't go well for you,
I promise,
New York has got so much stuff.
I feel so alive
right now.
I feel like I was learning more about myself
than other people were judging me.
If that makes sense.
That's exactly what it is-
Can you tell
I was the new guy in town?
In a new team dude.
Yeah.
I feel like
f***king idiot
right now.
Born ready, dude.
There you go.
Getting the hang of it.
That is extremely fast.
Woah.
Very intimidating.
That's a lot faster than I expected.
Thank you, sir.
Good job.
How are you feeling?
Terrified.
Absolutely terrified.
I can't even imagine
in a real game
what that must feel like.
These guys shoot the ball
close to a 100 miles an hour.
Have you ever played goalie?
Yeah, in my first year
Yeah, I cried every game
then I switched to defense.
That's what I did.
That is it for practice today.
I've gotten over the ultimate discomfort
of getting balls
whacked at me.
And now, I get to enjoy tacos
as a reward.
So Trevor and I facetimed about a week ago.
He said that one of his fears is
Heights.
And there's nothing that I enjoy more
than someone telling you
that they're afraid of heights.
When you told me that,
I hit up my friends here
that run a heli tour company,
they're called Fly Nyon.
So I asked them if they could take the doors off the heli
and see New York City all the way up in the air
Well, I'm honored.
You've never been in a heli?
No
We need to find someone else
who's also afraid of heights.
and we're gonna end up taking th--
that person on that experience.
so then both of you
will just be thrown in it,
get the shared experience
of being scared in the heli with no doors
be over New York City
and today is just absolutely beautiful.
Alright, let's do it.
Are you afraid of heights?
No.
Good-
Good. That's good for you.
I - I am wondering
what your biggest fears are?
I'm not afraid of anything.
Woww
Hell yeah.
Tough guy.
Stone cold.
[Are you] comfortable with heights?
Are you serious? - Yeah
I can - I can do heights
You can do heights? - Yeah
Y-yeah, I can do
I can do heights
How is your relationship with heights?
It's okay.
Okay.
How do you guys feel
about heights?
I'm f***ing terrified
I'm so scared of heights, bro.
I hate that s***.
I get vertigo.
Terribly scared of heights.
Yeah - yeah. Yeah.
Like horrible? - I hate it. I hate it.
Right now,
we're about to go
on a helicopter ride
over New York City
with no doors.
And we want you to come with us.
Oh my god.
You're f***ing with me!
Yo, I'm down, bro.
I'm f***ing down!
Let's do it.
Let's go!
You're scared of heights?
I'm terrified of heights.
Are you ditching class?
Yeah.
Let's go.
I think our guest is a little
nervous in the back.
I'm thinking about it.
This is a no-doors heli.
My dad's gonna be pissed.
Have you ever been in a heli?
Absolutely not.
I'll know exactly how afraid of heights
he is when I show him this.
It's a 200-500 foot
f***ing drop.
Yeah,
I'm not doing that.
What was that yes? Where did it come from?
I've had, like,
close encounters with like
high heights
before,
and,
but like,
I've always had the ability to kind of step back a bit.
So, like,
kind of being forced to just be like
not like stick your head off the window
like that's a bit of enticing
and terrifying thing.
So, like,
just push yourself a bit further
and see what happens.
We'll see.
You alright? - I'm good baby.
I'm good. I'm good.
I'm not good.
Alright, so I'm just gonna go ahead
and show you the safety video.
Second guessing this now.
The nerves are hitting me.
That's always how it works.
There's like a moment of confidence
and then a giant hesitation right before.
See how it looks like.
*nervous laughter*
I don't think you understand
how much I'm freaking out right now.
I don't think you understand.
Right now,
I probably feel how you felt
after those six espresso shots.
How you feeling, Alex?
I'm feeling it.
- I'm feeling it.
Looking gooooood.
That is discomfort right there.
You're a champ! You're a champ!
Oh my god!
No! What the f***?
Oh my god!
Yo!!
as obvious as
Yes.
Is that the last thing in the episode?
I guess?
Yes.