Ever been parked on by a truckload of kids?
Let's talk about that.
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- Good Mythical Morning! - Back in July, a dude...
...named Luke Aikins was the first person to jump out of an airplane...
- ...without a frickin' parachute! - Yep.
And he falls, frickin', 25,000 feet into a net that's frickin' 100 feet wide!
I watched it live at a restaurant with patrons. It was amazing.
- (laughing) Really? - I just happened to be there.
Well, there are a number of people that have something inside of them
that makes them do insane stunts like this. I call it a defect.
- Oh, well.. that's you opinion, man. - It's just my opinion.
Because there are enough people out there -- enough of a percentage of the
population out there -- that more than just that dude and more than just
Evel Knievel have done these things. And today we're gonna be talking
about a number of them. It's time for...
- ♪ (rock music) ♪ - (Rhett) These stunts are insane...
- ...in the membrane. - But also creative.
- Let me take you to the... - Okay.
...pride of Albuquerque, New Me-hee-ko. One Rick Maisel . Now, when we was
eight years old, his parents gave him a choice: either get piano lessons...
- ...or magic lessons. - Magic lessons!
Well, in other words, they didn't want grandkids.
- (laughing) - He did choose magic lessons.
- Ugh. - He escaped the piano and has been...
...escaping from things from over 40 years, including straightjackets,
relationships, and running washing machines.
- That can't be done. - While wearing six pairs of...
...handcuffs and two leg irons. I've got footage from the UK show
...The Word. Let's watch this dude back himself into a washing machine.
- (host) Here we go. - (Link) If you want to try this...
- ...first you've gotta ear a singlet. - (Rhett) Yeah, he wears more than just...
- (Link) So I'm out right off the bat. - (Rhett) Well, you know what?
(Rhett) Every time I've ever gotten inside of a washing machine, I've had...
- ...a singlet on. - (Link) Right, because that's the...
...best way to get a singlet clean, is to stay in it.
- (Rhett) When did this happen? - (Link) Who cares? I don't know.
(Rhett) It looks like it happened in, like, '84.
(Link) Well, this is the UK, you know. She's wearing, like, a wintery dress.
- (Link) Here comes the countdown. - (Rhett) So exciting.
- (crowd) Two, one, go! - (Link) It wasn't even shut all...
...the way until the last second. - (Rhett) Mm.
(Link) And he's spinning backwards. I would go forwards.
(Rhett) No, you wouldn't go either way, man!
- (Link) If I had to... - (Rhett) You wouldn't do this!
...I would go head-over-feet, not feet-over-head. Now, there's...
- ...some baby soap in there. - (Rhett) He's getting clean.
(Rhett) He's cleaning that singlet. Thats a good way. Singlets can...
- ...get really dirty. - (Link) And look. Here he is.
(Link) Look, he's still alive. He's not any cool than when he went in, though.
- (Link) I'm just being honest. - (Rhett clapping)
- I think he looks great, Link. - I think they had it on the...
- ...whites slash delicates setting. - The singlet... (laughing)
- The singlet can get bacteria. - Right.
You gotta keep in on if you really wanna get it clean.
Yeah, you wrestle in that thing, especially.
- Good for you, Rick. - Okay, up next we've got...
...Bob Burnquist. Bob is from Brazil. When he was 11 years old, he started
skating. By the time he was 14, he was a professional skateboarder, and by the
time he was 30, he was skateboarding off of a ramp into the grand canyon.
- By the time I was 30, I had a chinstrap. - (Link laughing) You looked great, Rhett.
- (Rhett) And very poofy. Poofy hair. - Hey, you were compensating for...
- ...(stammering) the bare cheeks. - Okay.
Let's get back to the guy jumping off of the...
- I meant your face. - Now, Bob's plan...
He jumped off the Grand Canyon with a skateboard?
Yes. He rolled down a ramp. He grinded -- I think they call it --
on a 40-foot rail and then he base jumped into Hellhole Bend.
So that was his plan, at least. The first time he did it, he missed. He missed...
- ...the rail. Almost died. - Whoa!
But the very same day he was like, (laid-back voice) "Dude, I'm gonna
...do that again. Skate or die." And he got back up there, and he
did it again, and this is what the correct attempt looked like.
- (Link) That ramp doesn't look safe. - (Rhett) Look at that.
- (Link) That's cool. - (Rhett) This is what they call...
- ..."dropping in," Link.
(Link) Whoa! Grinding it, and dropping it.
- (Link) Now, the skateboard... - (Rhett) I hope the skateboard's okay.
- (Link) He ditched the skateboard! - (Rhett) I figure it is.
(Link) You can't just litter a skateboard into the Grand Canyon like that!
(Link) There's, like, a mule down there that got hit with a skateboard!
Yeah, one less mule in the Grand Canyon. Nobody notices.
- No, but he had a... He used a parachute. - He did. So you thought he was just...
...like, dive into the Colorado River? No, he did... "Oh, he took the easy...
- ...way out. He had a parachute." - (laughing)
Now, I'm no skateboarding expert, but I've been told that he nailed that
50-50 grind. But I don't really know, because I'm not an expert.
- Me neither. - We do have an expert.
Mike, can you tell me, did he nail that 50-50 grind?
- (skateboard wheels rolling) - (Mike) Yep.
(laughing) He's just... I don't know if you knew it, but...
- He's always there. - ...Mike has always been poised...
- ...to skateboard behind us. - To confirm skateboarding facts only.
That's one of the only things we let him do [around here].
- Oh, no. I think can confirm -- conform... - Okay.
...all types of stuff. Can I say "confirm?"
- You can. Conform. - Can I try to say it again.
- You can conform or confirm. - You head of those super-fast...
...jet cars? That, like, shoot... - Yeah.
- ...lava outta the back of 'em? - Funny cars, right? Or something.
Well, no. It actually has a jet and it shoots. It just goes really fast.
- Okay. - Have you ever... So you haven't seen one.
- No, I'm not a fan. - But you have seen one.
- Yeah, yeah. Not in person. - Have you ever thought...
"I'd like to be dragged behind one on my belly?"
- Well, I have thought that. Yeah. - Yeah, you have.
So has Swiss stuntman Reno Jaton. He harnessed himself facedown
behind a 14,000-horsepower jet car.
- That's a lot of horses. - (out of his side mouth) Uh, we was...
...wearing a titanium suit, but whatever. Check out this clip. The first part's
kinda hard to see, but it's still worth it. There he is, laying down.
And as we zoom out, see that smoke and that fire? That's the jet car...
- ...shooting flames over top of him. _ (Rhett) That's some quality footage.
- (Link) Well, he have another angle. - (Rhett) Oh, here we go.
(Link) This is his angle. Well, the angle right on him. That's his...
...helmet, not his actual eyes. But he's being dragged behind...
- ...this thing. 700 degrees Fahrenheit. - (Rhett) Whoa, look at the sparks!
236 miles-per-hour. He went a quarter of a mile, and then he releases himself
and goes past the parachutes of the jet car.
- Now, that looks like fun. - That's just such a smart thing to do.
He's done it twice. He's quoted as saying, (Swiss accent) "In the stunts...
...I coordinated, I went several time to hell and came back alive, and...
- ...with good, laughing stories to tell." - (laughing) Oh, good laughing stories!
As we all know, if you want a good laughing story, go to hell.
Yeah, yeah. Right. Any time you wanna grab onto my bumper, Link...
- ...just let me know. - Well, I'm working on my...
- ...titanium suit. - And that's not a euphemism for anything.
- Chase, help me out with that. - Okay, Tom Owen.
He's a bodybuilder from Birmingham, Alabama.
- Good. I'm with you. - But Tom doesn't build his body...
...by lifting weights. He does it by letting trucks run over him.
- Ha! - He's known as the human speed bump.
And there was a time where Tom commandeered and pickup truck with
20 kids in the back. In Birmingham, they call that a school bus.
- (laughing) He commandeered it? - Yeah. He got that school bus...
really a truck full of children -- to run over his belly. Here's the clip.
It's entitled, on YouTube, "Bodybuilder run over & parked on by...
...truck full of people." Very specific. You wanna know what you're clicking...
- ...on. In this case, you do. - I've searched those exact words...
- ...in that order. - Here it is.
(Link) Okay, it's a... Well, there's a lot of kids back there.
(Rhett) Yeah. It's a flareside, too, so there's extra weight.
(Link) He's doing sit-ups on an Oriental rug?
- (Link) Ooh. Here it comes. - (Rhett) More than that. Here we go.
(Rhett) That's Bob. And then that's a truck on his belly.
- (Link) Oooh! It's on him! - (Rhett) Yep!
(Link) Get it off! He had to push it off with his own hand.
(Rhett) And then I think the exhaust hit him a little bit.
(Rhett) As you can see, it doesn't seem like it ends well.
- (laughing) He rolled over. - It wasn't very victorious.
You wanna see a guy get up and be like this.
- (laughing) - He's like, "Oh, mistake... number 7."
Well, I think the mistake was it was a flareside pickup.
- Yeah, right. - If you wanna get run over...
- ...by a truckload of kids in a pickup... - You gotta take the flaresides off.
- ...don't go flareside. - Now, doctors believe that his...
...abdominal muscles are so strong that they act as a pillow for his
internal organs. But apparently they're not strong enough, because in that
particular stunt, the reason he rolled over like that is because he had
several broken ribs and internal bleeding. But it wasn't a big deal, because they
just threw him in the back of that truck. Because in Birmingham...
- ...they call that an ambulance. - (laughing) But he is okay.
- He's not still laying there, facedown... - He still does this.
- ...internally bleeding. - If you search "Tom Owen" on YouTube...
...he continues to do this into his old age.
You do you, Tom. Flareside or not. All right. Now we've got Frenchman...
- ...Alain Robert. - (Rhett) I've heard about this dude.
(Link) He is an urban solo freestyle climber. He's unemployed.
- (laughing) - The guy scales skyscrapers with no...
...climbing equipment. That's what the "freestyle" part is. And "solo" means he does it by himself.
And "urban" means he does it to skyscrapers.
- Yeah. Right. I understood all... - Not to, like, trees.
- ...of that without the explanation. - Okay.
But it's cool. I like it. Maybe some people didn't.
Now, sometimes he actually wears a Spider-Man costume...
- Yeah! - ...when he illegally scales buildings.
But in the footage we have, he's just wearing normal clothes with something...
...written on his back. He says when it comes to free climbing, there are...
- ...two options. - (Alain) It's very much like that.
Two option: whether you live or whether you die. And, of course, I keep on...
- ...choosing the first one. - (Rhett laughing) Good!
- (Link) He chooses the first one. - (narrator) It's not only dangerous...
...it's illegal. So to avoid security...
- (Link) He's with some news crew here. - ...we drive to the back of the tower.
- (Rhett) He's sponsored?! - (Link) Well, he wrote on the back of...
- ...his shirt. Something like parachute.com. - (Rhett) I thought it said TootCrate...
...for a second. I thought we had paid this guy.
(Link) Writing "parachute" on the back of your sweatshirt is not the same as
having a parachute on the back of your sweatshirt.
- (Rhett laughing) - (Link) But look. He just goes up...
- ...to a building and starts walking up. - (Rhett) Ugh, this is a nightmare for me.
- (Link) He's halfway up now. - (Rhett) Such a nightmare.
(Link) He's gathering a crowd and he's grunting.
(Rhett) He doesn't even wash the windows? He's just doing...
- ...it for fun. Whoa, little... whoa. - (Link) And he made it to the...
...top magically, and there's police there waiting for him.
- (Rhett) With helmets. - (Link) He gives a signal to...
- ...all of his fans. - (narrator) The authorities are waiting...
- ...for him at the top. - (Link) And then they...
...shake his hand, watch. They grab him in the -- well, okay -- and then they...
- ...shake his hand. - Yeah. Grab him by the belt...
- ...and shake his hand. - (laughing)
- That's how you congratulate a man. - They goosed him!
- They, like, goosed him up. - That's how you congratulate a man...
- ...in Birmingham: grab him by... - (laughing)
- ...the belt and shake his hand. - That was not in Birmingham.
Now, I'm tempted to believe that there's some sort of camera trickery
or something going on there. So I wanted to ask our resident urban solo climbing...
- ...expert, Mike! - We have one of those?
- Oh, he's that, too?! - Yes. What he thinks: is Alain...
- ...the real deal? - (Mike from far away) Yep!
- (Rhett) What? What? - There he is. (stammering)
- Heh? - Thanks, Mike. Mike says, "Yep."
- He is the real deal. - He's very simple.
- Mike? He's smart enough. - No, I don't mean like that!
- (crew offscreen laughing) - He's just straightforward.
- I'm not insulting the guy! - Oh! (laughing)
You ask him a question, and he gives you a straight answer.
- I appreciate that about him. - Well, he was kind of in the middle...
- ...of something. You know. - Yeah.
Scaling a building. Um, what do you wanna do?
- You wanna scale a building? - I do not wanna do that.
Do you want to get run over by a flareside truck?
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Click through to Good Mythical More, where Rhett is going to share a story...
- ...of a harrowing travel debacle... - (explosively) Yeah!
...that he encountered and endured recently.
- (Rhett) "Costco: The Musical." - (inhaling) ♪ (Look at us...) ♪
♪ (...grabbing our cart! The cart is so big!) ♪
- (Rhett snapping) - ♪ (I wonder why!) ♪
♪ (Why did you get so many pickles?) ♪
♪ (To fill up my huge cart!) ♪
♪ (But you know that you don't like pickles and I do!) ♪
♪ (I can't eat that many pickles for you!) ♪
- ♪ (What about toilet tissue?) ♪ - ♪ (Oh, I need lots of that...)♪
-♪ (...'cause all the pickles that I eeeeeeeat!) ♪
♪ (And chocolate iciiiiiing!) ♪ We must be pregnant.
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