Going Deep with Chad and JT - Ep 144 - Travis Pastrana Returns

Episode Date: July 29, 2020

What up stokers! This week , Travis Pastrana returns, he talks to us about the most scared he's ever been, what he'd be doing if he wasn't dirt biking, and answers listener's questions. Check out "Life Sized Toys" on Quibi Sponsored by Manscaped: Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code GODEEP20 at Manscaped.com. If you wanna trim your pubes during a contagion.

we are rolling sweet this thing on yeah i think we're live all right uh what's up dudes this is chad kroger coming in with the going deep with chad jt podcast guys before we begin i'll remind you once again that we are brought to you by manscape manscape thank you so much for keeping our trims pubed for looking after our hogs for making sure that we're looking fresh and clean because trims pubed trims pubed. Yeah. Yeah.

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And we are back with Travis Pastrana. What up, dude? Welcome. How you doing? Thanks for having me on. Yeah, good to see you again. Yeah, it hasn't been too long, actually. Yeah.

Just our monthly catch-up. Nice. i'd be all right with that yeah uh how's your fourth of july dude my favorite holiday uh it's awesome i have to say uh we had i mean it's finally corona is kind of lifting a little bit where we can have groups so uh we just went and did the all-american redneck bash like we always do and um had some filming for uh for quibi just on uh for that release coming out so it's been really cool to get everyone together and have an excuse to do it while technically working but yeah as soon as we were done uh done filming we definitely went uh with the can-ams and uh quadding and mudding and it was just absolutely awesome oh that's how about you guys what'd you guys do for the fourth

uh we were actually filming something during the day so it felt nice to actually like work or like be doing work you know it was like we like earned our uh our celebration afterwards and then we just curled some hot dogs uh and then had a couple brews and just it was just like three of us so we were staying safe and uh yeah it was fun yeah we're in jt's mom's backyard yeah my mom's backyard she's out of town so i kind of got the place to myself right now yeah i had a bottle of wine we watched gladiator and then rounders oh man baby bed bath and beyond i don't know if there'll be time are you a big firework guy uh yeah i like explosions so we did um we shot a 50 cal at a uh we learned from last year that we needed to chain the propane tank.

So five gallon propane tank. Man, you wouldn't believe the acceleration on those things. Rabbit with rubber cement, big, big boom. So we put it in a vehicle this year. The only thing that was left were the four tires. Wow. You just blew up a car. Yeah. I mean, don't, it was was a it was junk car we went until we actually rolled it flipped it crashed it the car was not moving so we decided to put the propane

tank in the car yes pretty exciting yeah that's amazing were you the trigger man no i was not street bike tommy took that uh yeah i was already had a drink so decided that was not in my best interest for anyone else's yeah uh is the whole squad do they do they live with you or near you a lot of them live live right around um we're actually from all over the world now there's a lot of guys from from Australia, a lot of the top action sports athletes from Western Canada, Australia. Actually, Utah is a really big kind of location. They've got all kinds of terrain out there as well,

everything from base jumping to skiing to Olympic Training Park. But no, my main mechanic, they call him Hubert Rowland. Everyone's favorite in that. He's actually on the Quibi field as well. But he was at my house when the quarantine started. So it was like the best case scenario for me because I had a full-time mechanic that was living in the house.

So everything I broke, he would fix because he didn't have really anything else to do. So it was- Yeah, it's awesome. It was probably his worst case scenario, but it was definitely awesome for me. Where do you live? So I live right outside of annapolis maryland um little

town called davidsonville so it's amazing because it's pretty close to annapolis baltimore dc uh but if you were within 10 miles of the house it's just farmland so a lot of trees it's pretty cool nice great place for fourth of july parties yeah Yeah, I bet. Were you, yeah, I was kind of wondering, like, were you, did you sort of have the mindset where like, I'm always going to live in Maryland? Or like, did you ever feel like you wanted to make the move out to California or something like that? Or you're just like, Maryland, rest of my life. So we do a lot of stuff in California.

My wife's actually from Northern beaches, San Diego. So love it out in Cali. Really nice. But most of the stuff we work with is working with dirt. So Temecula is kind of the motor motocross hub, if you will, of the world. Yeah. You know, just a far enough away kind of wine country where they got a little room out there. But for me, Maryland is where my family is. I grew up, my family had a construction company, real small. But so my grandma lived right next to me. It was our house, then my uncle's, then my dad's uncle, whatever that makes him, great uncle or something. And so on and so forth. So all the cousins kind of moved into our little road and

the construction company was right out back. So you know had a place to ride motorcycles and go-karts and everything else that you could possibly imagine and then kind of just moved a few miles out of town um to have a little bigger area to do the basically the same thing i did when i was a kid my dad's like man you're 36 years old and you're still making a live plan of making a living playing with kids toys. So yeah, that's the dream. That's what I thought. Yeah. We're kind of doing the same thing except,

uh, not with dirt bikes really, but just by, I don't know how you explain it. Yeah. JT, how would you explain it? Oh,

that's a good, uh, I'd say we're like making trying to make a living being like uh the dumbest version of ourselves that's why i was on command so it takes some it takes some discipline yeah yeah well that was like my specialty growing up was making people think i'm dumb and uh i was like it'd be pretty smart to do that to be honest yeah no it was like my superpower like it's like uh you know i don't know how to explain it it's like we have just assume you're dumb and you just like roll with it. And you're like, I'm going to make money this way.

I don't know. So, yeah. It's been awesome. Yeah. Yeah. What did you like? Who was like your hero growing up? Like, did you did you look at like Evel Knievel or were you like kind of like Motocross?

Then you sort of fell into stunts. Like how, how'd that sort of whole process come about? Yeah. When I was a real young, you know, obviously Evel Knievel was when you hear any of your parents or grandparents, you're like, Oh, you ride dirt bikes like Evel Knievel. But for me it was more like guys like Doug Henry, Guy Ayrton Cooper, the motocross racers for sure. And then you had Matt Hoffman, the Condor.

I just like the guys that were full set. Guys, they didn't necessarily care about winning. They wanted to hit the biggest jumps, go the fastest, do the craziest stuff. And my parents called a lot of flack for allowing me to follow my heart in that direction. I was probably like 10 years old doing no hands and no feet on the motorcycle. And other parents were like, how could you let your kid do that? I'm like, oh, he seems like he's having fun. So the flack was coming from other dirt biking kids' parents

or from just people in the neighborhood who would be like, why is this dude blasting around on his dirt bike so fast? Yeah, no, I mean, I never, never rode on the street or, and my dad was drill sergeant in the Marine Corps. So laws weren't, weren't broken. You know, definitely the opposite of, of lazy in our family, get up, work hard, but then play hard. So it was a really fun way to come

enjoy life i guess but yeah we were i was very fortunate because i had the construction company in the backyard so they were always yelling at me for getting on the bobcat and breaking all their stuff and mixing the white sand with the you know the clay and and so on and so forth yeah that's awesome did you ever have dreams of like being like a fighter pilot stuff like that especially when dad came out yeah oh yeah dude yeah not to get off subject but probably what i'm most disappointed about right now is that top gun 2 has been delayed oh that's good i want to see this movie i had a lot of friends that were uh did the camera stuff and filmed all that and like dude everything's like all the flying is real.

Like it's the earliest film I've ever been a part of. So I'm definitely excited for that to come out sometime. Hopefully maybe. That was like the best trailer I've ever seen. The, the talk on to it. Have you seen the movie theater shut down? Oh,

it'll be worth it though. I think, I think we're just holding in all this pent up stoke. And then once we can go see it, it's going to be that much more Epic. That's what I'm telling myself. There you go. I like,

I hope so. Hope it's not a letdown, man. I'm still looking forward to it. Yeah. Yeah. What? No,

I just, not necessarily a fighter pilot, but I always want to be a i wanted to race rally cars and i want to ride dirt bikes yeah my reality still hasn't set in because i'm i'm still kind of doing it yeah yeah getting a little old though i keep i'm falling apart at the seams but holding up enough yeah what what do you really see for yourself going forward? Have you sort of thought about the future for yourself? You know, Josh Sheehan was over the house. Yeah.

Josh Sheehan, freestyle motocross guy, was over the house. And we've been working on a triple backflip for so long. We're welding new ramps. We've got a 44-foot-tall takeoff, 80 degrees. So it looks like it's vertical yeah um you know pulling like absolute maximum g forces up this felt like you're in a fighter plane and then trying to spin three flips with a 250 pound dirt bike over your head landing on a 65 foot tall landing going 110 feet above ground level and i had internal bleeding and i was peeing out blood

just going to the airbag. And I thought to myself, I'm like, no, it's not worth it anymore. This is not worth it. And at that moment, it kind of became my next goal to just keep progressing the sport and to be a part of what I love to do, but help build the safety and help make the ramps and give the guys like Josh the best opportunity they can to safely do the stuff that everyone thinks is still impossible. So yeah. Yeah. Working on actually starting a facility here in Maryland where cause my wife,

she won the world championship last year and that's kind of her last, last hurrah if you will, just with our two kids, both, you know, we'll be in school next year, first grade and kindergarten. So, you will, just with our two kids, uh, both, you know, we'll be in school next year, uh, first grade and kindergarten. So, um, you know, trying to stay home more and, uh, to build a facility where we can really grow rally cross with huge jumps, talent, mega banks, right and left, and just to build it with our good friends and, and really bring racing back. And then, you know, with the Olympics now with action sports with, uh, you know, you had snowboarding, but now a skateboard and BMX,x uh going in like uh and x games and of course nitro world games and there's so many people over the house and from all over

the world all the time i just want to give them a place that's not a house where they can come and learn all this stuff safely that's cool uh yeah so like like tony hawk is like he's like he's like you know how old is he now like 50 something but he's like, you know, how old is he now? Like 50 something, but he's still shredding. But we talked to him and he's like, he's still like, he's like, he's like,

I'm still skateboarding as much as I can, but now I'm into like the technical stuff, you know, I'm like into like the more cerebral kind of skating. Tony's he's not human. He's still doing stuff. That's never been done. World's first after world's first stuff.

And did he start in skate parks? It's so many skate parks every year in places that would never have a chance to do it um yeah you know inner city and everything and uh just really such an ambassador for for action sport and i think just because he loves it he's just so passionate about skating and just wants to see everyone have the opportunities that he had yeah yeah uh well that's cool i have guys like you and tony sort of able to to provide that for for the kids these days it's awesome um uh what was i gonna ask okay so so you have uh kids do you have uh uh sons daughters i have uh two little girls oh nice nice no it's pretty awesome I always thought it was uh I thought it was nurture over nature but they're so different

um so yeah I don't know how many parents you have watching the show but it's uh it's definitely been a been a very interesting ride uh ride watching those two grow up. I kind of raise them like boys, especially my wife is a tomboy as well. They love dirt bikes and go-karts and BMX and everything. It's been fun. Do you build jumps for them? You're going to want to hook a fat tail whip off of this. Not quite to that level but no

they're by sides the uh like the can-ams little off-road things uh 170 cc and i had to get a full roll cage in the thing and i've had to put five-point harnesses in and uh we got like kicker stereo system my daughter's just got like you know it's a hundred acres out back and she knows like my wife would still get lost back there um just miles and miles of trails and addy she can get her oldest she's you know all of six years old just rips through those trails doing i mean probably like 30 foot gaps in really little side by side yeah oh that's nice to take all our friends with her i'm like ah yeah like you'll be okay but i don't think other parents are going to be okay

with this you just stay back there uh that's awesome um yeah i i can't when i grew up i had like a pretty big backyard so we had like a like a give it allowing your kids to have like adventures like that i think it's so beneficial for them. It just creates the best childhood, I think. Yeah, I definitely grew up pretty redneck. So that's, I don't know, that's the only thing we really know around here, but it's so much fun. And my wife is opposite. She's, you know, the board girl, surf, skate, snow, bicycles,

motorcycles, and cars. So growing up, they'll be well-versed in action sports, but we'll see what they end up doing best of both worlds i like that um so so uh yeah you have a new quibi show coming out which i was i was watching this morning i love it so the nitro circus crew is back uh and uh yeah do you want to maybe sort of explain for the for the listeners what it's all about yeah so quibi came to they wanted a couple action sports things so they went to ken block and like all right ken's gonna do the car stuff like we need something just just fun something

that's um you know our audiences think of hbo like you can do whatever you want just you be you bring together some good crew we want to see a build show so it started out as a build show and we thought ah we'll just build all our favorite kids toys because we still make a living on kids toys and we'll build bigger um so we ended up with a yo-yo uh that was attached to a giant crane that was hundreds of feet in the air and then the guys spinning until they pretty much puked that's the only one that i was like absolutely not we had a tossing catch you know those things you play with as a kid they're like the velcro yeah the ball the velcro pads well we were the velcro ball and uh had a rung my bell pretty good on that one um got lost out of a catapult and uh missed the missed the catch yeah kind of

like my childhood i wasn't very good at throwing or catching. I wasn't very good at physics either, as it turns out. Yeah. Yeah, it's so fun. Yeah. How did you guys decide on the toys? Like, how do you guys come up with the ideas for that? Do you have, like, a writer's room, or you just sort of – how's that come about? No, it's basically, you know, we learned real quick dealing with the guys from

Jackass when they first came out with the Nitro Circus Show and they were helping us. Like, look, if you have a really horrible idea, you have to be willing to at least try it first. So generally, we've got a really good group of some of the top athletes, if you will, in action sports. And we build most of our own stuff anyway. So we kind of understand a lot about how things work just because well when we grew up they weren't sports so we had we wanted to do it we had to build it um get a little less jerry-rigged over the years but um pretty fun to come up with ideas and say okay what do we want to do said okay we want to drive like barbie jeeps and basically let's have a barbie jeep race but let's

do it with with bigger barbie cars let's have more horsepower let's have jumps Barbie Jeep race, but let's do it with, with bigger Barbie cars. Let's have more horsepower. Let's have jumps. Yeah. You know, and then, you know, like the toss and catch, they were everyone's making fun of me cause I can't throw or catch. And obviously I wasn't even good as, as the human ball in that, as I crashed my to my head. But you know, just basically what do you think would be fun to do uh so for us like like well most of my childhood had a like a red wagon a radio flyer if you will um you know racing downhills and stuff so i was like let's do a radio flyer but we built it so big and then of course we

put a a jet pack on it so it took off much faster stuff oh yeah that's the best um yeah the uh that that catapult looked funny even even though even though you came up short um yeah did you did you have a favorite is there a favorite favorite toy that you guys did like do you have a favorite one um for me i want the catapult for the end of my pier um at the house just to watch the water like if there was yeah great that'd be a great fourth of july uh toy to have 100 i've been trying to get it to maryland but i think it's gonna stay out there oh damn dude the red wagon though we actually um we had some guys the same guys that built the red bull uh balloon like Felix Baumgartner's, like basically aerospace people. And why they went that direction, I have no idea.

But this red wagon was built like you would never believe. Like it was exactly to scale, only times 40 or whatever it was. And they got four of us in there. But literally the wheels roll so well, we could like take all the kids and pull it anywhere you wanted to go. Like it's taller than me, but we could like take all the kids and pull it anywhere

you wanted to go. Like it's taller than me, but we can pull this red wagon up the hill. So I want to, um, I'm trying to get it hopefully, uh, to basically my, I married into a house in California, so we don't get out there too often, but, uh, like to, cause it's not too far from the beach, just down the road with a wet red wagon.'s like on the sidewalk would be awesome yeah dude that's amazing um what was i uh oh yeah i this is a random question but so for the nitro circus movie my buddy ass clown aka jack his dad is dennis rice did you work with dennis rice yeah no sure did yeah uh i i came to the premiere i'm not sure if i met you i think it was like 2013 or something but dude that's been a while yeah shoot yeah it is no it's uh it's it was a cool crew like uh we were working with the 3d

cameras though at that point so it like they're, hold for camera, and you're ready to do something that you think you're going to die on. And you're sitting up there for like 45 minutes while they change the batteries out of these 3D cameras. I'm like, this is horrible. But yeah, pretty fun. Yeah. What's the most scared you've ever been? That's a good question. know anything sorry anything you're not prepared for i think so probably dropping in on bob burnquist mega ramp on a plastic rear-wheel

tricycle uh that we got from toys r us and as'm dropping in thinking, I hope this goes as fast as like a skateboard or a bicycle, because if I don't, I'm going to come up short and pretty much crash to my death. So it worked out. I still did knock myself out, but it worked out better. No death. That's good.

That's awesome. I, what was I gonna say um what uh so so what do you have coming up what's what's what's next for you oh man our racing season finally gets on the way i'm just hoping that this covid thing doesn't come back uh and stop everything again but i know you guys out in California are, I think you just said you had the most couch. Yeah.

What is it? Yeah. It's not looking too pretty right now, but we'll pull through. Yeah. It'll be good. I mean, it's just tough because racing and with action sports and trying to put on

live shows and, you know, nitro, we've got 20 athletes that we're expecting to get paid per show, and they're guaranteed a certain amount of shows. But if we don't have any shows, then basically everyone's finding real jobs or trying to go to construction. It's a tough time for a lot of guys, even guys that have trained

the last three years, four years to go to the Olympics. Skating is the Olympics. to go to the Olympics. Yeah. You know, skating's the Olympics, BMX is the Olympics. They're all excited. They're at their absolute peak prime and they're not sure when this stuff's going to actually happen now. So, you know, X Games didn't happen for the first time in 25 years. And it's a real interesting economy, I guess, but just landscape, especially for sports that, you know, are kind of a hobby. You know, we think of them as serious, but at the end of the day, you know,

that's kind of the first things to go. So hoping to, hoping to get everything back going, but the rally season starting back up here next week. So I'm excited. Although my co-driver and number one mechanic, like crew chief, if you will, are both from Europe yeah so they're not going to be here so i'm like scramble finding like someone to sit with me yeah surprisingly not hard to find someone that's willing to sit shotgun with me after my i don't want to do that yeah yeah uh and yeah you mentioned their formula one guys the original um yeah actually my uh The original? Yeah, actually, my co-driver is like a smart version of race car drivers.

So my co-driver actually works as an engineer on the Red Bull F1 team. And in his spare time, sits with me in a car going really fast through the woods trying to keep us on the road. Yeah. Yeah, so that's pretty neat. But my, we call him Graham. Oh, Graham Cracker. But he's a awesome dude. Um, he's from England as well. And just, uh, he's been basically stuck over there. His, uh, his whole family actually came down, um, with,

with COVID for a while. So that makes them even more like, I'm like, we already had it. Send him over. He's fine. Right. Yeah. How'd they deal with it? Were all right uh yeah so my um crew chief's wife ended up uh she got pneumonia and it was went pretty bad for a while she had some health issues uh before with cancer and stuff that she had already um fought through so um you know that was tough uh his uh daughter the or son um went right through like It was sick for two weeks, but it's pretty good. Good considering.

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Trim your chesticles with the besticles. All right, later. All right. Do I ask out mega babe? What up Chad, GT, Joe, Aaron, and possible guests? I come to you in a time in quarantine when libido is high and female contact is low. I've been going to physical therapy for a couple of weeks and there's an intern working there that is super cool and a mega babe. We talk every time on there, seeming to hit it off,

and learn that we share some common interests, one of them fitness. She's understandably focused on her job, so conversations are often cut short. The question is, do I ask out this mega babe, sparking some potential? If so, how? She's not always working, so it's hard to predict when I'll see her again. Or do I respect her career and just be friends for the time being, avoiding potential awkwardness? My PT lasts only a month, so getting rejected wouldn't be the worst thing. I'd be curious to hear your opinions on how to go about this. Thanks, guys, for your your constant inspiration uplifting everyone's lives during these especially difficult times uh yeah travis have you pre-marriage did you ever have any pt people that you were romantically interested in there was none of my physical therapists uh

were female so yeah no there there were i guess a couple but they were not exactly in my age bracket if you will right right um no i i've made a career on just not being afraid i guess so i think if if you uh i just always went for it. I mean, worst that can happen is they say no and then use the awkwardness to be funny and try to get that. The only thing that you can't recover from is creepy. So as long as you're not that you're good. Did I love that? Yeah. Just huck it in and set the right way to say it. just huck it in and set the right boys hit just hit the jump

and go for it yeah I agree I mean I think he doesn't really have anything to lose and yeah as long as he's not creepy you know just say what up like thank you for the PT

let's get pokey yeah that might fall under creepy i'm not sure oh maybe wait till you're you're done if you only have a month left to pt maybe just wait till the end too so that you don't have to uh cruise back in there post um post ask out because i don't want to assume it's going to go neg but yeah i would i would just maybe wait till the end so it's kind of like a seamless transition either way um all right to be or not to be friends what up legends going to make this short and simple after talking getting deep and vulnerable to super dupe super dope down to earth bay with our attentions emotions and feelings she straight quick super dope down to Earth Bay with our tensions, emotions, and feelings.

She straight quick scoped me to the heart with, look, I want to have sex, but I don't with you. Damn. Brutal. Long story short, we haven't hooked up in four months, and she wants to be just friends. Should I stay friends with this babe by letting time do its thing, or just let her go and drown like the legend Leo after that painful honesty

dude I mean if she said straight up that she wants to be friends and hook up with other dudes I mean it sounds like you want more so you know I think just freaking let go and drown to the atlantic like leo what do you think trap i i concur yeah i think you need some space dog

and then maybe maybe you'll swim really strong and then you won't drown like Leo. That was really deep, man. Thanks, dudes. All right, getting over mistakes. What up, Chad and JT and any fire guest that is on the pod? First off, I want to thank you guys for all you do. You guys have really helped me become a better person and helped tremendously on my path to becoming a Stoke Lord.

Now to my cue. Recently, I was at a party and I noticed this girl who was really digging me. As the night went on, we were both drinking and at some point, I knew something was going down. My stoke was high, but things took a turn for the worse when her friend told me she had a boyfriend. I took note of this, but when she came over and started rubbing on me, I knew it was over. We ended up hooking up that night and now I can't get over feeling like shit. My stoke is lower than ever and it's because even though I'm not dating anyone who didn't cheat i allowed her to cheat on her boyfriend with me i realized my mistake and even apologized to her the next morning she said she

isn't mad but i know what i did was wrong so i'm wondering if you guys have ever experienced anything like this and how do you get over any and all past mistakes appreciate all the help fellow stoker kyle um yeah i i had so much situation in high school and it yeah it felt terrible uh but i think the best thing you can do is just say moving forward i'm gonna you know try to have more integrity and just be more mindful of, you know, other dudes and, uh, just going forward,

just be the best dude I can be. I think that's all you can do. Really. What do you guys think? Travis, what do you think? You know, I,

I know like, you know, my wife was in the body issue of ESPN and, you know and those pictures will come up and you're like, all right. But I don't trust any other dude out there. I don't trust any of my friends, but I trust my wife. I think that's, at the end of the day, like, yeah, dude, don't go trying to go around and doing that to other people or to people that are in relationships. But that relationship probably wasn't going to work anyway.

She met you that night, and she's already doing whatever with you. You might have saved that guy a heartache down the road. Imagine if they'd have been married and she was still doing that and he didn't know. That was profound. Yeah, that's a nice perspective on it. One question. Are you boys on

motherfucking LinkedIn? Shit is hype. Commenting some fuck shit on your Goldman Sachs blowjob post. Hilarious. Ride the wave. Is that a question? Did you?

I don't think there were. Oh, are we on LinkedIn? Are you on LinkedIn, Travis? No. No. I'm on there, but I haven't updated in like seven years. I had a job, and my boss maybe put myself on there. Yeah.

But my name is slightly different. The rest of that question was a little bit confusing. Yeah. Goldman Sachs blowjob. I don't remember saying anything about any of the, either of those things. It's probably a fake you on LinkedIn that he's referring to. Oh, that'd be interesting interesting i'll have to start check into that did you ever think about working in the financial

sector travis nope never crossed my mind if you weren't dirt biking what do you or if you weren't doing extreme sports what do you think you would have done? Probably military, honestly. Most of my family, they either went sports or military construction, and they all ended up construction. So I'm still the last one left of the cousins or the uncles living the dream and still kind of doing what I love to do on kids' toys, if you will. Hell yeah. Which branch of the military do you think you would have gone into?

So we're from Annapolis. Naval Academy is right down the road. Most of my cousins went into the Navy. My best friend growing up, he became a SEAL. Cool. Actually retired two years ago, and now he's in security, which is actually pretty interesting like even for nitro circus we have you know a lot of guys that were in military just kind of help us

uh yeah a funny story i guess went over to um saudi arabia and uh i got a text right when i landed uh from fasol bin laden and i was like, I don't know how bin Laden got my phone number. And he's like, hey, do you want to check out my car collection? So we took all the military guys that we had with us. And James Foster and a couple of guys. I was like, sounds cool. Super nice family. Took us like nine stories down.

The military guys with us were like, oh, this is it. All the garage doors closed. I was like, this is where we die. But yeah, I got to try some awesome cars. It was pretty fun. So anyway, there's a random tidbit. That's awesome. All right, one more question.

Performance anxiety, enormous bomb. What up, fellas? I'm a stoker from up north and a huge fan of the pod. Everyone's effort on this show has helped me through a lot of ups and downs in my life. Really stoked this exists. I wanted the boys to share their experience overcoming performance anxiety or bad stand-up experiences. I'm a huge comedy fan and decided

to give an open mic a shot myself. But let me tell you, fellas, I absolutely bombed harder than anything imaginable. To provide context, it was a small room, socially distanced, and extremely bright lights, so I couldn't see anyone. That's not the problem, though. I love being on stage and feeling that rush. My problem was I literally could not get the words out I choked up and my throat seized my move was to lean headfirst into the silence and see if I could ride it out I felt humiliated but challenged to try again any advice on how to regain the confidence to get back up any memorable bombing stories uh well dude first off what I did when i started is i bought a mic and a mic stand got right here i just rehearsed non-stop you know even though it's stand-up and you need a crowd

you can still rehearse your jokes and just i i think in chavis you can probably test this like the the getting that that practice in and sort of uh getting the the pathways in your brain sort of primed for that experience probably similar to like dirt biking and and rally cars it just i think it just um increases your confidence tenfold for that experience so you can get the words out and uh yeah a ton of bombing experiences like but i love bombing it's one of my favorite things to do uh and so i think you just got to learn to love it um yeah trav how do you feel that that's an interesting perspective there um no i think one of the the toughest parts on nitro circus is we have to go around and a lot of times we go into countries

that you know they don't all speak english or even a very little bit and you can generally after you practice and you know what you're going to say and you've rehearsed it you kind of know what people get and what people don't get but there's been some times that i've just been up there and like i said the wrong city um you know get basically booed out of the stadium i've thrown an opening pitch because i'm horrible at throwing and i admit the catcher and i hit the braves mascot right yeah did you really made it up he went down the whole stadium mood my first ever super cross race i um i had a cast i just broken my thumb and i was nervous so i'm like i'm just gonna do a trick and i didn't think about it i had a cast on my hand so when i went to grab the rear fender on a trick now you're not supposed to do tricks

on the warm-up lap of a race let alone your first race my first professional race literally 70,000 people Indianapolis in the stadium I do a trick I miss the grab I crash eat crap I mean north southeast west crash like head over feet my bike launches off the berm takes out a camera guy camera guy I got to know him later but um like goes down pretty hard like can't film the whole crowd is. There's 70,000 people as I get up that are like literally hysterically laughing. And I have the one guy, like my boss, he just has his head down, Roger DeCoster, shaking his head. Like who did I hire on my team? I'm 16 years old. And I went to the starting line and my mechanics pissed off and he has to change the clutch is broken the handlebars are bent and he's like all right now you go out and

win because that's the only way you're gonna get over this yeah i didn't i actually landed on a guy in the second turn and then crashed and it was horrible again but that's how i started my pro career so really you can't really get worse than that that's a great story that's nice that's how I started my pro career. So really, you can't really get worse than that. That's a great story. That's nice. That sucked. Yeah, dude, I think bombing is just part of it. Failure is just part of it.

It sucks. It hurts. But you get used to feeling that hurt. And then the more you get used to it, the less impactful it is each time. Although sometimes it's still, when you don't see it coming, when you think you're going to crush and then you bomb and it just ruins your night. That's really tough. But I don't know. I look back on all those things fondly.

And then they say Chris Rocks like bombs a ton. He'll bomb on purpose. He'll like do his jokes with no personality just to see if they work like on their own without all of his performance chops. And I think his ability to choose that and to suffer through that is why he's Chris Rock. And then, yeah, I've bombed where I couldn't talk. I remember one time I was supposed to say a bit of lettuce, a bed of lettuce.

I was trying to do a joke about salad. I said a bed of lettuce and I said a bit of lattice and no one knew what i was talking about but you just keep going no one really notices as much as you notice yeah and i think uh if you do it for for the sake of doing it like you're like you know regardless of what happens i'm gonna go up there on stage and I'm going to have fun. That not only will that translate to the audience, but that helps you to become a little bit more impervious to because you don't want to be so result oriented where you're just like, I need to crush. I need to like get all these laughs where you're just like, I'm going to go up there. I love my material. I'm going to go up and just have fun. And regardless of what the audience thinks, I'll leave the stage just being like,

that was awesome. Yeah. And then also like, I like Anthony Jesselnik's sort of point of view where he's like, I wanted to go on stage and be like one of those WWE wrestlers. Who's like the villain, you know, and just purposely try and be hated.

So you can also take that approach. Yeah. That's cool cool he's a badass yeah travis i wanted to know what's the what's the most stoked you've ever been uh you know it's the the things that you do with your really good friends that's kind of always started nitro circus it's not necessarily what you do like i really good friends, that's kind of always started nitrous circus. It's not necessarily what you do. Like I had the best year as far as results wise, when I was 16 years old,

I've my whole life I've dreamed of representing the U S and the motocross nations. One over was the youngest person ever picked for the U S to represent, um, one, the motocross nations won the outdoor national championship, like went from you know family has three mortgages on the house can't figure out how to make ends meet to you know

making six figures at 16 and contracts coming in and it was the loneliest i've ever been yeah like i was doing everything that i wanted to but i i realized right then that I'm like, man, what do I really enjoy? I enjoy riding my dirt bike with my friends. I love racing, but I just want to have fun. I really changed my life around that point and probably went super downhill as far as results are concerned, but man, it's been a great ride. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, it's interesting you continually hear the stories of the people who like achieve their dreams like they had like these specific dreams that when they get there

it's not really what they always sort of get there and they're like this is not what i thought was going to be and they have to sort of reassess and when you get there you're like everything you've always worked for you you're like okay now what yeah yeah they say the david brooks calls it the second mountain where he says hyper successful people then realize their life is more about like trying to contribute to society and trying to help other people that's kind of what it seems like you're doing with your the next evolution of making the extreme sports more safe. Yeah. I mean, selfishly it's to be able to continue living my dream,

but in kind of the way that that goes back around is to be able to do it with your friends and to make, if any of my friends get hurt or my wife or my kids, you know, that are getting into this or the next generation, like that's, that's on me. And that's like what Tony Hawk,

I think, you know, just wants other people to be able to experience the life that he experienced and that's why he's open in so many skate parks everywhere tony hawk told us his nickname growing up was bony cock um did you have any nicknames growing up i can't compete with that oh my gosh no my parents called me uh and all my uncles said awful can awful from like 10 miles for it. Cause I crashed all the time. And like I actually made a career kind of about a crash,

but when you crash enough, like I figure if you're not trying to push yourself, you're not going hard enough. Did you ever find like I was, when I was riding dirt bikes growing up, if I like, if I like pinned it and I hit a jump, like going as fast as I could, like up if I like if I like pinned it and I hit a jump like going as fast as I could like even if I crashed I'd get a lot of love from the older bros like the guys who taught me how to dirt bike and stuff so it and their love meant more to me than the risk of driving faster than I felt like I was comfortable with did you do you did you feel that too like oh the

harder I push the more like acceptance I'll get? Well, you'd never believe it now, but I was a super shy, quiet kid. Like I was a teacher's pet, straight A student. Like just, if it wasn't for motorcycles, I don't know if I would have ever got any confidence or lived anything near the life that I've lived now, but they've definitely gave me the confidence because I could go out there. Even though I wasn't as fast as my cousins or I couldn't throw or catch as well as anybody else, really. Um, I realized that if I just jumped off of higher bridges than everyone else that did more flips and spins or twisted the throttle on

a dirt bike and went faster than anyone else was willing to go like didn't matter what you look like how dorky you were what your grades were they were just like yeah you said it and that was uh right kind of that confidence is what led me through life so yeah nice that's great yeah i uh this is a random question but you have a lot of experience with foam pits and we had an idea because we've been learning a lot about asteroids like asteroidal impacts and it's like do you think a huge foam pit could save us from uh armageddon like if an asteroid went to it's a fucking good question yeah because we've been thinking about it a lot yeah like i'm talking like massive foam pit maybe like 100 feet high

100 feet i think you're gonna need um so just knowing what i know about foam pits um and we dropped our really fat friend tommy from a hundred foot foot crane into the deepest foam pit that we've ever built. Yeah. And Tommy is not as big of an asteroid. He does have a big ass. And he did find his way all the way to the bottom and hit the bottom pretty hard. It took us over 45 minutes to find him. We were digging for so long.

So I think most of the foam would just kind of blow away I think you'd have a better chance building a massive airbag okay a kevlar top you know if the world came together and said okay this is where this asteroids gonna hit you know we got scientists that are smart enough to get that stuff out right Armageddon was great movie you know yeah yeah um i think we could just get like a bunch of kevlar topped um bags so like a 50 layered airbag i think will be your best bet oh nice dude that's that's good to know yeah i mean in case there's an asteroid coming i think that's you know nasa should look into that case there's an asteroid coming i think that's you know nasa should look into that yeah i think we'll we'll relay the message let them know because it's been on our minds a ton so yeah

but you know guys know something we don't know what's going on out there no i just love a lot of youtube and what jt well in just 2020s like throwing so much stuff at us i think we're just trying to be prepared for anything. Totally. Smart. Totally smart. We don't know what's coming next. Yeah, dude. And then if it's a comet, does sand work against a comet?

Sand? Yeah, like if you pour sand on a comet, does it cool it off? So you're going to shuttle some sand up to the comet? I was thinking, yeah. But I was also thinking you could just burn out on your dirt bike and just hit it with a wave of sand as it's coming at us.

It'd have to be a big dirt bike. That's a good point no it could be like uh what was what's the movie with the uh it was a big hit in uh in china i guess with the uh the monsters that come through the the earth oh pacific rim that's the one yeah they just build bigger humans just build build me one of those and i'll sit on a huge dirt bike and just make it happen that'd be so sweet dude that'd be sick all right man jt you have any more questions no that was it travis thank you for coming on again dude anytime just come on anytime yeah it's good to see you i do appreciate you guys have fun and stay in touch cool have a good one okay guys thank you later man amazing questions i did thank you

i did best of luck in that that upcoming race too no much much appreciate best luck have a good one