The Farthest I've Ever Fallen

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climb that high again the last time Jake climbed that high and died, life is about conquering your fears and when you have a youtube channel it's about doing it in front of the camera, today is the perfect day to Honestly, I didn't even realize it was still off. Do you remember how long it has been off? It's been off since the first video of the year. The digital quarter faces the toughest challenge we have

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faced in 2018, replacing it. light bulb before that, wait, my God, this light bulb has been out longer than your son has been alive, that's incredible, we tried in September, June, we tried to get the key, we tried, we tried in August, but like There is only one staircase in everything. building that is tall enough to climb up there and steve is here today and he has the key to who will be the one to climb the ladder so that whoever climbs that ladder can die.

I have things to do today, my hands are fragile and weak. You're literally doing it the day I'm filming did you make a girl? I think you could do it, Clint, you're an athletic guy. I can't, maybe we don't even have a light bulb that fits, buddy, no one else has the key. the staircase because it belongs to the building, not any of the people who rent, so it looks like a big light bulb, man, I need to make sure this one is soft white, even though it's ready to go up. Screw in some light bulbs.

You can do it? I gotta film this video, man, the video of us changing it, you can't do it, can't I just film you? No, why can't I film you? I don't know why you can't do this. I'm filming. Dude, I don't know why I always have to be the fixer around here, but no one else can do this. Everyone is very busy. There are two ways to place it against the skylight or against the wall. Why not? You do, I get hazard pay no, okay, just let me check something, like I feel like you're trying not to do this light bulb thing.

I swore to my wife and children that I would never climb that high again. fell off a radio tower on a cruise ship it was sam nico's bachelor party like the best man thought it would be a great idea if we all took a cruise a three day trip to ensenada and back sounds like a lot of fun well it was up to the Last night we were playing Nerf in Terrorist City on the top deck of the cruise ship and we were in the imagination of the carnival. I climbed the radio tower because I wanted the height advantage, by the way, never in any way.

Is this consent or tolerance of this in some way? Anyone who does this is an idiot. Now I will explain to you that there is a radio tower, there is a platform about 20 feet high that has a radio beacon that rotates and does not. I didn't stop, there is a small ladder for a technician to climb up there. I approached this ladder and then I jumped up and grabbed the bottom rung and I got up and I climbed up to the top where there was a platform and there's on it things like 12 feet wide and I thought it wouldn't be a big deal if I went up on that deck and As long as I stayed down and didn't get up, the thing wouldn't hit me under Dee and Clint would start yelling at me.

What are you doing? Get down from there. That's so dangerous. I look at them and go. What do you mean it's totally fine? And as I say, "okay," this giant thing hits me in the back, throws me over the railing, I hold on to the full turn of the rails. My first thought is to just grab hold of the rail. You'll be able to grab the rail and you won't fall, but I had so much force coming back and I just hit it and just jumped. He sent me into a free fall somersault, luckily Dee was standing there and extended her arm to him like that.

I twisted my chest and landed on his hand and then that broke some of the impact from there. I fell face down on the track. so that's what happened and that's what happened um it wasn't good it wasn't smart I'm lucky to be alive I passed out and all the kids thought I was dead but I woke up on my back and they were all standing around me and then they said to me: can you feel your toes? Can you feel that your body is not moving? They went and called the paramedics. They took me to the infirmary.

The worst thing that happened was I really messed up my thumb. My back was like. I messed up for a while, I got stitches in my chin and I can't believe that's the worst thing that happened because honestly on the way down I was like I'm dead, I'm going to die like me. It's funny how fast your mind works in that situation, that's why I can't get up the ladder. Today is a glorious day for the last three months. Clint and Ren have been sneaking out to lunch on their wheels for the rest of it. Of us bipedal humans without access to a glorious wheel device, we just stood here twiddling our thumbs, but today I'm spinning with you, that's right, it makes me happy.

Take your worst cruises. They can only do full time cruises or none at all, yes. So you're not Tom Cruise, oh wait, wait, take that back. Sorry, I take it back. Okay, okay, very loud. I think they are great. Now I can take my friends who don't ride with wheels with me. In Minnesota we did a scooter ride and a group wheel where we all went out as a big group, rented scooters or won jumps in Minnesota and it was just me, Ren and Ivy had our only wheels and everyone else on scooters, it was a blast.

Now you can do it all the time, yes I think they are awesome gang scooter games. I am a big advocate of four-wheeled transportation in cities. Honestly, having these electric vehicles in the studios is amazing when you live downtown or work. Outside of downtown it takes forever to get anywhere, not because there is traffic but because parking sucks. Scooters are a lot of fun. Check them out for yourself. There's a link in the description and don't forget we have a coupon code if you want to snag it. one for you get your car save the planet seriously have fun live a little ride a scooter your favorite memory of 2018 so far this scooter gang nick good luck good luck wendy sorry remove the light bulb you will go down safely phase two, turn up the light bulb, everything It's going to be great, phase three, come down, okay, okay, Jared, I'm going up, I got you out of the grip, I feel like a survivor, man, you got me, Jared, so fantastic, you know, it's funny we use the word terra firma . when we return to solid ground because the surface of the earth is something we take for granted as safe and as our home and it is not until you leave that surface that you are aware of the inherent danger that exists around you, which is why the sailors used to use it, I mean, they still do and why probably astronauts and other people who leave the surface of the earth to return to it have this concept of dry land and it's not something we talk about in normal life because it's It is simply taken for granted, but the truth is that it is very delicate.

Now I'm putting the bulb in the socket. Oh yeah, that's right, it will light up, right? That's how we did it, guys. Yes, it just has to be done. Warm up well now I feel like an astronaut up here guys deep down who are you? Well, that's what needs to be discovered. That is what has been forgotten. Look, that's the bottom of the tapestry. What has been left out. Each of us deep down. At its core there is an act of a function of a performance of a manifestation of the entire cosmos flickering with all its galaxies and forever and ever, whatever is beyond that god in the Western tradition or brahman in hindu philosophy or tao in chinese each of us is really like that but we pretend like we're not and I remember being at scaffolding work and I was like dad how do you guys work like that every day? and he says, you just get used to it, actually, that monologue helped. a lot I just wasn't thinking about it, I really hope everyone in the studio appreciates what we've accomplished here today, it's been a long time coming and Gideon, that's for you, big guy, I mean, I have no idea what you are.

I'm moving on but I dropped out of college, okay, I have a flight at three, oh man, okay, so you had a week, you worked that whole week, that week is over, yeah, the video is done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done , I started writing this. almost exactly a year ago