BONUS The Friday Show - Darby Allin Went Up the Mountain
Guest:You were at Globe Life Field in Texas and you were looking around saying, I'm wondering what I can jump off of here.
Guest:And maybe you could just tell us, is that thought still in your head, jumping off something at Globe Life Field?
Guest:Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Marc:Hey, Chris.
Marc:Hey, wait, I'm Mark.
Marc:It's Mark Marin.
Marc:Oh, look at that.
Guest:It's not Chris.
Guest:Where is Chris?
Guest:Oh, there you are.
Guest:How are you doing, buddy?
Guest:What the fuck?
Guest:Yeah, what the fuck indeed?
Guest:What is Mark doing here?
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:You guys summoned me.
Guest:We did.
Guest:We summoned you because we have a guest today.
Guest:And the funny thing is, you know what we've been doing here, Mark.
Guest:I mean, maybe you don't.
Guest:Maybe you don't give a shit.
Yeah.
Guest:But we started this thing way back in 2023 when you and I went to the wrestling and then we had all these wrestling fans listening to those exclusive shows with the wrestlers.
Guest:Right.
Guest:So we were like, well, what do we do?
Guest:We got to keep them around.
Guest:And then we started doing this Friday show.
Guest:It very quickly became apparent that all your fans, they listened to everything no matter what.
Guest:Even me.
Guest:So we were like, okay, I guess we have to not just do wrestling.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:So for the last two and a half years, we've been doing this show on Fridays.
Guest:But every now and then, what still happens is they get wrestlers pitched to us.
Guest:And we don't say yes all the time now because it's not like a wrestling show.
Guest:But sometimes people are appropriate.
Guest:Like the last time we had someone on from wrestling, this guy, RJ City, who is one of the producers, basically.
Guest:He's a wrestler, but he's a producer.
Guest:And he made a whole storyline that was based on All About Eve.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And they were doing it in wrestling.
Guest:So we thought, okay, this is up the alley of our audience.
Guest:Pretty heady.
Guest:We talk about old movies and wrestling.
Guest:But so I got noticed that this guest wanted to come on.
Guest:And I thought, well, that's, first of all, it's very cool because he just did something that would really, anybody should want to talk to him.
Guest:But then I started thinking like, well, this is actually a guy who Mark should join us to talk with.
Guest:And that's because this guy, there's basically everything I go through with him.
Guest:It's like something that might, you know, perk your interest.
Guest:First of all, as a wrestler, he goes by the name Darby Allen.
Guest:And that is both the combination of Darby crash from the germs and Gigi Allen.
Guest:Now, you know, I, I made sure about this with you that you knew who the germs were, right?
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:So he's got, he likes heroin and to throw shit.
Yeah.
Guest:If they allowed him to do that in wrestling, I think that that would be his gimmick, frankly.
Guest:In fact, I will show you, this is about like 15 seconds.
Guest:They'll give you a good example of what he does here.
Guest:Just press play.
Guest:I know how to do that.
Guest:All right, here it goes.
Guest:Wow.
Marc:Oh, look, he hurt his back.
Marc:Yeah, that's real glass he went through.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:He's a pain addict.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:Well, the pain comes from the fact that he started out as a professional skateboarder.
Guest:In fact, he's like a known guy with all the actual pro skateboarders.
Guest:In fact, I'm sending you a picture right now.
Guest:This is from his Instagram.
Guest:This was when he had done a stunt and he broke his foot.
Guest:And this picture is him and Tony Hawk with Tony Hawk doing the invert on
Guest:on darby's broken foot uh at the top of the uh half pipe there but the the thing that he just became famous for very notable for is uh as i guess he's probably the first wrestler to ever do this but also maybe the first skateboarder professional whatever is if you look at your your instagram again that's him at the summit of mount everest
Guest:Oh, wow.
Guest:Yeah, he is.
Guest:He just climbed Everest.
Guest:He just got back last month.
Guest:And this was like apparently like a lifelong goal.
Guest:He had never climbed anything before, you know, first out of the chute, which a lot of people who are novices do not make it all the way up.
Guest:They go back.
Guest:I was like, well, forget all the other stuff.
Guest:How many times in your life you ever talked to somebody who summited Mount Everest?
Guest:So I was like, all right.
Guest:Get this guy on.
Guest:But then the other thing is, I feel like me and Chris, we would wind up asking a lot of like wrestling questions.
Guest:And I think for you, like this guy seems like he has a much more interesting life than wrestling, particularly because...
Guest:It was like a Mariska Hargitay situation.
Guest:He was in a car accident when he was five.
Guest:The guy was driving.
Guest:It was his uncle.
Guest:He died.
Guest:And this guy says he's like had trauma and that his whole life.
Guest:He's like one of those straight edge dudes who won't touch any drugs or alcohol, which is, I guess, why he's addicted to the thrill seeking and pain stuff.
Guest:He actually says that the thing with his face being painted half skeleton is that he considers himself half dead inside.
Guest:That's why he turned that into his gimmick.
Guest:gimmick so i thought uh you know this kind of this kind of guest i'm not sure me and chris are equipped to handle this ourselves let's bring in the expert let's bring in the guy who plumbs the depths well you know i'll do what i can do well also you have a tragic mountain story oh well it's not everest
Guest:Hey, look, we all summit different levels.
Guest:I can see the summit from my yard.
Guest:Well, Chris, you've seen the summit of Everest, right?
Guest:You flew by it.
Guest:Yeah, yeah.
Guest:My plane flew by it.
Guest:Was it higher than the plane?
Guest:Yeah, yeah.
Guest:Oh, no.
Guest:Well, it was adjacent.
Guest:But yeah, I saw the top of it.
Guest:It looked nice.
Guest:It looked nice.
Guest:I definitely have no interest in climbing it.
Guest:That just seems excessive.
Guest:I see that Darby is in the waiting room.
Guest:I'm going to let him in here.
Guest:Hey, hello.
Guest:Can you hear us?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Hey, how's it going?
Guest:I can hear you.
Guest:Can you hear me?
Guest:Yeah, sounds good.
Guest:Beautiful.
Guest:Wow.
Guest:You're not in a shipping crate, are you?
Guest:No, I'm actually in a sauna.
Guest:Oh, okay.
Guest:Very good.
Guest:Well, it's not on because I'm wearing a fucking jacket.
Guest:That's not a sauna uniform.
Guest:Are you developing pictures?
Guest:Well, Darby, good to meet you.
Guest:Glad you're here with us.
Guest:I figured it was a great time to have you on with Mark because first of all, I don't know if you know this, but like
Guest:Just like you just had a guide for your trip.
Guest:I have kind of served as Mark's guide through wrestling since the last few years.
Guest:I took him to Dynamite when he was in L.A.
Guest:We met a bunch of the wrestlers.
Guest:We had Tony Khan over right in that garage where Mark is.
Guest:So we've kind of given him a crash course in wrestling.
Guest:But at the same time, I thought Mark is also a guy who climbs a lot of mountains.
Guest:He climbs them figuratively.
Guest:He climbs them literally.
Guest:And I thought that you just came back from a mountain.
Guest:And first of all, how are you?
Guest:Are you doing fine now that you're back?
Guest:Yeah, no, fuck yeah.
Guest:I'm surprisingly feeling great.
Guest:I thought, you know, coming back, I was going to be all mangled and shit.
Guest:And it was going to be like snap back.
Guest:Because in my outside of just wrestling, I skateboard all the time.
Guest:I do all these other crazy stuff.
Guest:So pretty much as soon as I got back, I was off to a plane to Bahamas, the film Shark Week.
Guest:so it was a it's like a whole thing but my body feels great i feel mentally great and that's the coolest thing is i've learned so much inside within myself on that mountain there's so much stuff i can get into when it comes to the life lessons that i've learned on that mountain because a lot of people say it's not about summoning mount everett it's about conquering like yourself and your inside and pulling stuff out so okay all right well i got some questions then
Marc:Let's start with the dead people.
Marc:Now, how many dead people did you walk by?
Guest:I believe there was like a total of eight.
Guest:But you know, the crazy thing is when I went up and then I instantly, when I did the summon, I was coming back down.
Guest:You see all these new dead bodies that you didn't see within the last 12 hours.
Marc:That just got there?
Guest:Yeah, like new ones that died within 12 hours.
Guest:Come on.
Marc:People just dropping dead up there like every day?
Guest:Oh, I don't know about every day, but it was literally... I went up when I did the summit, and then I was coming down.
Guest:All of a sudden, you see a new dead body that wasn't there on the trail 12 hours ago.
Marc:Different jacket?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:It was pretty crazy.
Guest:Because then you start thinking about your own situation, and obviously they don't go there with the death wish.
Guest:They go there thinking, oh, shit, I'm going to do this motherfucking mountain.
Guest:And then it just...
Guest:It doesn't work out.
Guest:And it's just like you're like, oh, my God, how are the Sherpas?
Guest:They just like leave.
Guest:It's just like a whole thing.
Marc:I don't know what I don't know why they leave there.
Marc:But maybe the guy's like, you know, I'm going to climb this fucking mountain if it's the last thing I do.
Marc:And it turns out it was.
Guest:There is a thing called summit fever where people just don't know when to turn around.
Guest:And I felt that I felt that a hundred percent because when I was climbing summit day, we left camp four at 11 PM and I was going for the summit.
Guest:And then out of fucking nowhere, there's this traffic jam.
Guest:You hear, you hear these stories of traffic jams all the time.
Guest:Um, but here it was just a good weather day.
Guest:So everybody wanted to almost summit like that day.
Guest:And you know, if you think about the grand scheme of,
Guest:people on everest a little only a little over 400 permits were issued this year you know people like oh my god everybody and their mom's doing fucking everest like that's not the case is 400 people in the whole fucking world doing this mountain but like in in general do you uh just by judging by your the way you live your life do you know when to turn around
Guest:No, not really.
Guest:Because I'll explain in detail about the whole psychology behind the way I live and why I live the way I live.
Guest:But it's like the first thing when I was about to do this mountain, the guy asked me, are you willing to die on that mountain?
Guest:And then you're like, yeah, absolutely.
Guest:Because if you're not,
Guest:don't even step foot on the mountain because you got loved ones you got all this shit like my mom and my brother walked to base camp with me and i remember my brother and my mom uh after it was time for them to leave and i'm staying there to get ready to do this mountain and i remember them walking away and i'm like crying to myself thinking this is not going to be the last time i see them and this is and then i was like i need to like be so strong and finish this mountain and
Guest:And it just puts things in perspective where you're like, damn, man, I could see if I have, say, a family with kids and stuff.
Guest:I almost feel like I wouldn't be on that mountain because it's kind of a selfish thing to do.
Guest:But at the same time, it becomes really, real fast.
Marc:It's a high price to pay for recreation.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:But it's just such a spiritual journey and pulling stuff out of you.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:like i said when i got to the top of the mountain i was crying it was just such a overwhelming feeling of accomplishment and it's like pulling something out of yourself and but you know you hear this the traffic jams it goes back to the traffic jams you hear all this stuff about the traffic jams and then instantly we're climbing and then all of a sudden everything just stops and you're like oh shit what's going on and then
Guest:There's about a little over 100 people in this line.
Guest:And you're not moving on the side of the mountain for an hour, over an hour.
Guest:You're standing in the same spot.
Guest:And I start to panic because I feel, I see all the Sherpas that I'm with.
Guest:They're getting cold.
Guest:They're smacking their hands together, stomping their feet.
Guest:And I was like, oh shit, these guys.
Guest:And I was like, what's going on?
Guest:And I was like, damn.
Guest:And then I was like, people are running out of their oxygen tanks.
Guest:And some people are like turning back and just be like, yo, fuck this.
Guest:And then I could see right there, I was like, how am I going to explain to anybody I didn't do Everest because of a traffic jam?
Guest:It's just a hard thing.
Guest:You kind of just hit the panic button.
Guest:I felt 100% summit fever on that fucking mountain at that time.
Guest:I was like, I'm going to fucking die on this mountain before I turn back.
Guest:And it's a real thing.
Marc:Oh, you mean summit fever is you've got to get there, not like an actual physical sickness?
Guest:Yeah, it's a mental thing where you're thinking, oh, shit, man.
Guest:So much goes into it, so much time, the money, everything that goes into it.
Guest:Me, in the sense of being publicly saying, I'm climbing Mount Everest, so there's these expectations that, oh, this guy's going to fucking do this.
Guest:Uh, and I was like, man, I got to do this because the year before I was supposed to climb, I broke my foot in a match a week before I was supposed to fly out.
Marc:I just don't get like, if they only gave out 400, uh, you know, uh, permits for the year, we're all 400 on the mountain the same day you were.
Guest:no so it's all spread out people pick different summit days and it's like it's just a weather window but the day i was going it felt like there was like 160 people going for the summit from camp four um which up there seems like a lot when when it happens uh um but it was just yeah there it was really crazy just being up there and
Guest:And I'm no mountain expert.
Guest:I don't claim to be a mountain expert.
Guest:I just claim to work really hard and dedicate myself quick and apply myself.
Guest:And just seeing a lot of people up there that had no business of being up there.
Guest:Sure.
Guest:It's like, holy shit, this is crazy.
Marc:Like families with kids or something?
Guest:Well, just physically, physically not being like, you know, and they're just getting pulled up.
Guest:And a lot of cultures, some cultures, it's like if you climb Mount Everest, you get a promotion in your job.
Guest:And then, yeah, it's crazy because then some people go do it, but they can't summit.
Guest:So they Photoshop themselves on top of the mountain to get the summit.
Guest:And then they find out that it's fucking fake and they can fire this guy.
Guest:Stolen mountain valor.
Guest:And then I was like, dude, I got to summit this.
Guest:I can't Photoshop myself on Everest.
Marc:um but it was uh yeah it was very uh humbling but it just comes from you know i don't know how yeah it just there's a lot of moving parts of why i even wanted to start the fucking mountain in the first place like but based on like you know like what you do for a living and how you've lived your life and sort of acknowledging that a lot of that you know comes from whatever damage you have in your childhood were you able to let go any of that going up there
Guest:Yeah, well, it's also just letting this, proving to yourself that you're capable of anything.
Guest:And I know that sounds generic, but honestly, we live in the world, in the professional wrestling world.
Guest:The guy who runs the show controls how far you're going to make it or how low you're going to make it.
Guest:So someone's in control of your destiny.
Guest:It's not like, say, boxing or mixed martial arts where I'm going to prove I'm the fucking best by knocking you out.
Guest:It doesn't work like that in the world of wrestling.
Guest:There's so much.
Guest:politicking and random shit that goes into it.
Guest:And I wanted to just prove to myself I'm fucking capable of this.
Guest:Because you can't politic your way up that mountain.
Guest:There's no helicopter that goes up that high where you can jump out and take a nice little photo on the summit and be like, yo, I climbed Everest and just lie to people.
Guest:You gotta fucking scratch and claw your way up that fucking shit.
Guest:And then that's where it was so humbling to remind myself what I'm capable of because you get into the world of wrestling.
Guest:There's nothing else like the world of wrestling to me.
Guest:It's like the most amazing job in the world for someone like myself because it's like stunts, acting.
Guest:It chucks off all the boxes that I'm very passionate about.
Guest:But on the flip side, like I said, someone else has control of your destiny.
Guest:Someone else has control of how far you're going to make it and how low you're going to make it because you can have this passion.
Guest:I'm the fucking man.
Guest:It's like, well, no, you're not.
Guest:You're going to be losing every week.
Guest:And it's just like, I don't know.
Guest:It's just that, dude, I see the world of wrestling and I love, like I said, I love fucking wrestling, but
Guest:It's kind of crazy how people get into this small bubble and then allows them to be chewed up and spit out because all it is is a 15 minute ride.
Guest:And then if you don't focus on your fucking real life, it's going to chew you up and spit you out and you're going to believe your own hype.
Guest:And the next thing you know, you're being this character that you are on TV in real life.
Guest:And it's like, dude, detach.
Guest:I always wanted to be the person coming into the world of wrestling.
Guest:I always wanted to leave the same person coming out.
Guest:I didn't want to just all of a sudden get this ego and just all of a sudden believe in my own hype.
Guest:And like, I'm fucking Darby Allen.
Guest:It's like, shut the fuck up, dude.
Guest:And there's a bunch of little parts in it.
Guest:And to be able to do this mountain in the middle of what I feel is my physical...
Guest:Peak, where I feel amazing.
Guest:And Tony Khan, the owner of AEW, being like, yo, do this shit.
Guest:It's like, cool.
Guest:Because a lot of people in the world of wrestling, man, they just chew you up and spit you out and leave you with nothing.
Guest:And the fact that he allowed me to do this is, I'm so grateful for it.
Guest:Darby, the question that I come up with when I hear you talking about this, you say the detachment.
Guest:How can you detach when...
Guest:You physically go through so much that you obviously have to feel it and know it day to day from yourself.
Guest:Like like, you know, it's like any other athlete.
Guest:You are physically competing and you come away with, you know, any number of physical ailments from it.
Guest:Does that affect your ability to go back to it like at a time like this where you've been out for several months and think I can go back to, as you said, you're at the peak of your physicality?
Guest:To me, it's all mental.
Guest:It's a mental thing.
Guest:And I do a lot of, you know, so I know, Mark, you've talked to Rick Rubin before and Rick Rubin's a big wrestling fan.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I talked to Rick about wrestling in the sense of, you know, staying grounded and staying level headed and not all, you know.
Guest:So I was like, yo.
Guest:You do TM meditation, Rick.
Guest:So can you set me up in this course?
Guest:Because I just want to be as grounded as possible.
Guest:I don't want to be this egotistical maniac.
Guest:So I feel in the sense of being as level-headed and grounded.
Guest:And I do a lot of meditations.
Guest:I've gone to so much crazy retreats and so much things.
Marc:You do the whole twice a day thing?
Guest:Oh, absolutely.
Marc:Oh, really?
Marc:So you went all in on TM?
Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Damn.
Guest:Cause dude, it's scary.
Guest:Cause you don't know that this new version of yourself is taking over the egotistical part.
Guest:And then someone like Rick, he would, he's done so much, but he's so grounded.
Guest:Like when he talked to him, same with like my, the guys like Tony Hawk and everybody that I've met there, they're,
Guest:not like tony hawk doesn't do tm meditation but he's such a grounded dude and you see this coming up and you're like damn man how do you hold on to a part of yourself without letting the whole culture of the world take over you and then um and i just asked rick i was like yo dude like you know what keeps you most grounded and level-headed he's like oh meditating and i was like yeah cool like and so i started doing that and within the meditation you find
Guest:that with all the physical stuff you can handle so much.
Guest:Cause to me, if your mind goes and your body goes, it's not the, so, um, there's a lot of moving parts in it.
Guest:And I just felt like mentally laser focused.
Marc:It's interesting about, about, um,
Marc:Who did you just mentioned?
Marc:The skateboarder guy?
Marc:Tony Hawk.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:I've interviewed him.
Marc:And he's one of those guys that used to be so hard on himself just to challenge himself to keep bettering himself.
Marc:And it always seemed like the competition was always within him.
Marc:And I guess...
Marc:One of the reasons he might be grounded is he kind of accepted that he hit his peak and he kind of did some things that no one else ever could do.
Marc:And now he's like OK with who he is now.
Marc:He kind of leveled off.
Guest:Yeah, no, absolutely.
Guest:I think you've probably heard this thing where the people that are like the top of their performers are like the most mellow, but it's the guys that are still feeling like they got prudent selves that are the dickheads.
Marc:Well, yeah, because those guys end up crashing and being pathetic and sort of like, you know, tragic characters because they they can't accept that they're over it, over the hump.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And that's that's the big thing, you know, growing up.
Guest:And, you know, living in Seattle and pretty much being told my whole entire life, don't expect much.
Guest:Be grateful for the bare minimum.
Guest:Don't don't.
Guest:You're not you're not going to be great when you grow up.
Guest:You're going to be living a whole life of working, you know, fast food jobs and all this stuff.
Guest:And you you start believing them.
Guest:Wow.
Guest:Being like, yo, this isn't possible.
Guest:It isn't possible for me because I'm trying to listen to everybody.
Guest:And everybody's telling me, yo, don't expect shit out of your life.
Marc:What part of Seattle?
Guest:Uh, it's like, it's called like, like Renton area.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:I know where Renton is out by Boeing.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Kind of by the airport.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:So it's like, I graduated high school.
Guest:I was 119 pounds.
Guest:And I told my dad, he's like, what are you going to do with your life?
Guest:And I said, I want to be a pro wrestler.
Guest:He's like, the fuck you are.
Guest:And it's just like, and then you're like, oh shit, maybe I'm not.
Guest:And then you try to play it safe.
Guest:So I went to film school.
Guest:Cause that's kind of like, you know, educational film school, yada, yada.
Guest:And then I just remember the first day I got there, I was like, this isn't me.
Guest:This fucking sucks.
Guest:There were so much rules within film school that at that school I was going to in Arizona, they weren't letting me do what I wanted to do.
Guest:The films I wanted to make and everything.
Guest:And I was like, dude, fuck this shit.
Guest:at the time i was listening to everybody and i was working at the 99 cent store and i was like this is fucking miserable i was a dishwasher doing all these odd shitty jobs i'm like is this what gets me listening to people like is this so like you just gotta like say fuck everybody i'm gonna do my own thing and when i entered the world of wrestling i said i'm either gonna make it as darby i'm gonna fail as darby but i ain't changing a single fucking thing
Guest:because if I change something, then I feel like I'm just letting, you know, I never wanted to fake, you know, who I was to make it in the world of wrestling, but to stay like my vision was hard.
Guest:You named yourself after some menacing cats, but it just, it's a, yeah, it was like a, it's a whole, it's a whole crazy, crazy thing.
Guest:My dad comes from the world of like sports, like his, his grandfather was,
Guest:he never met his dad but he was an nfl football player so my grandfather was like an nfl football player who came to town and had a one-night stand with my grandma and left town and out came my dad and i was just like shit so i'm like this complete opposite fucking punk rock skateboarding yahoo that's doing the most wild shit in seattle and do you know which player
Guest:No, my dad knows the name.
Guest:I can't remember the thing.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:He's dead now, though.
Guest:I know the guy is dead now.
Guest:Were you were you ever pushed to go that way, Darby, into football?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:No, absolutely.
Guest:Absolutely.
Guest:All these sports and stuff like definitely was pushed in that way.
Guest:But I just felt, I was like, man, I was just so much drawn to the world of skateboarding and punk rock.
Guest:And with wrestling, too, I was a big fan of wrestling growing up, but I never could relate to the wrestlers.
Guest:I could never relate to, like, oh, I see myself wanting to be like that guy.
Guest:No one was inspiring in that sense.
Guest:It was more, like, I was inspired by musicians or, you know, skateboarders.
Guest:Which musicians?
Guest:Henry Rollins.
Guest:Oh, yeah.
Guest:And people that wanted to...
Guest:be more than what they were given they weren't just going to lay down and take what they were given and you know it's funny we did so much just i don't know it started from an early age of trying to push myself out of my comfort zone and the moment i started doing crazy shit is when i started breaking down these mental barriers in my head that were holding me back
Guest:And then next thing I know, that was my ammo to keep moving forward.
Guest:I say no one's willing to go to the places I'm willing to go in wrestling physically, and I mean that.
Guest:And I was like, yeah, the more I do crazy shit, the more I feel anything's possible.
Marc:How does it feel when you get hurt?
Marc:Do you like it?
Guest:Yeah, no, because, dude, the thing is I do so much physical recovery.
Guest:People don't know my physical recovery regimen and everything.
Guest:There's so much that goes into that.
Guest:So I feel great.
Guest:Everyone's like, you're not going to be able to walk when you're 30.
Guest:And I'm like, well, motherfucker, I'm 32 right now.
Guest:And I feel great.
Guest:And, uh, you know, but it's just like, just keeping updated with all that stuff.
Guest:Wait, so how do you, how do you rehab or, uh, your, what's your regimen for, you know, jumping off of a 20 foot ladder onto a, you know, glass?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Honestly, I feel like the years of skateboarding got me ready for that because nothing's harder than concrete, landing on concrete and doing all this shit.
Guest:It just, um, but it's like the physical recovery afterwards is just like a lot of like stretching the ice baths.
Guest:And then, like I said, it's like mental too.
Guest:You take care of your brain, your body just feels like nice and loose.
Guest:People carry so much tension, you know, just tense all the time and their body just breaks down from their minds being, you know.
Marc:So when, so when you're falling from a ladder, you're, you're pretty relaxed.
Yeah.
Guest:Oh yeah, no, absolutely.
Guest:Absolutely.
Guest:And it goes back to the, uh, before I jump off the ladders or crazy shit, I'm like, I say to myself, I'm going to the hospital tonight.
Guest:And it's just like, and it's like, so it's so you're at peace.
Guest:You gotta be at peace with it.
Guest:You gotta be at peace with the work to come.
Guest:Just like Everest.
Guest:You gotta be at peace with it.
Marc:Did you fall at all on Everest?
Marc:Did you go tumbling?
Guest:no no you're pretty strapped in uh to the safety rope at all times oh okay yeah yeah you're pretty safe but that you know uh i've seen a lot of people get helicoptered out and shit like from camp three and camp three is a little over 23 000 feet it was fucking gnarly and but you just have to stay like focused and i remember being in that tent and
Guest:for, you know, like all day, just being like, you might die tonight or you might die tomorrow.
Guest:And you're just like, you're constantly telling yourself.
Guest:But how do you, how do people die up there?
Marc:What hypothermia?
Marc:What is it?
Guest:It can be anything.
Guest:It could be anything.
Guest:It could be like sometimes people's bodies just give out.
Guest:It's not so much hypothermia, I feel like, because they got so much new equipment and staying warm and everything.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I just think it's pure exhaustion.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Pulmonary stuff probably, too.
Guest:Right.
Guest:The figure heart's not capable to handle the all the all the rigors of that.
Guest:Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Guest:And that's the thing is so much people put their energy in going to the summit.
Guest:So when then they come down, they've blown all their energy coming to the summit because and then they don't have anything to get down with.
Guest:And you can't really save someone when you're that high.
Marc:Well, you know, nothing about what you're what you're saying makes me want to do it.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:But Mark, that's the fun part.
Guest:That's the fun part is because the shit that no one else wants to touch is the places I'm willing to go because just like all those years ago when people told me I wasn't going to amount to shit, now it's like finding new things to keep accomplishing and pushing yourself constantly out of your comfort zone.
Marc:Well, I do that, but I think I do it more mentally, you know, in terms of physically.
Marc:I don't know that I take many risks, but I've definitely almost lost my mind a lot.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:So what do you do then to stay balanced out?
Marc:He climbs a mountain.
Marc:Well, there's a mountain.
Marc:You know, I can see the summit from my yard.
Marc:But I go up there every day.
Marc:I blacked out up there once before.
Marc:I think I just had low blood pressure.
Marc:You know, I exercise.
Marc:I've just never been one of these people, and I've talked about it on stage before, where, you know, pushing my physical limits –
Marc:You know, I'm good if I just stay physical and stay in shape.
Marc:But, you know, mentally, I'll definitely drift.
Marc:And sometimes I have control over that and sometimes I don't.
Marc:But I find that my creativity lies in my sense of anxiety or dread or anger and all that stuff.
Marc:I can kind of push that stuff through and make jokes out of it.
Marc:But that's the things I'm willing to risk.
Marc:But in terms of balance, I don't know how the fuck...
Marc:you do that.
Marc:I mean, I've thought about meditation.
Marc:I was doing it a little bit during COVID, but like a lot of people I'm talking to, to get past your ego has got to be a big deal.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:No.
Guest:Um,
Guest:it's also, it's kind of, this is a funny story.
Guest:Um, cause when I first started agreeing to do Everest, it was just like, I told myself, okay, man, you know, you're going to keep living your life for other people, what people expect you to do now that you're wrestling full time twice a week, every week, there's no off season.
Guest:And then you get kind of on that.
Guest:Like I said, that routine.
Marc:Yeah.
Guest:And then you're like, man, I feel like I'm living my life for somebody else now.
Guest:And even though it's an amazing job, but at the same time,
Guest:You should always have that balance to go off and really explore your life.
Marc:Well, I'm about to do that.
Guest:What are you doing?
Marc:Well, I mean, you know, we've been doing this show for 16 years and I've been doing comedy my whole life.
Marc:And I'm 60.
Marc:I'm going to be 62.
Marc:And I don't know what it's like not to to sort of.
Marc:It's not so much working for other people because we work for ourselves.
Marc:But I imagine you deal with this, too, that you are working for the audience on some level, too.
Marc:I mean, you know, you have a job.
Marc:But the thing that sort of sticks in your head as a performer is you've got to you've got to meet the audience's expectations.
Marc:And that's this whole other thing, because that lives in your head.
Marc:And, you know, I don't know what my life is going to be like without that.
Marc:But I'm looking forward to the space, you know.
Guest:Yeah, it's just being at peace with because a lot of wrestlers, for example, but any any entertainer, I feel like just can't let go of that.
Guest:Yeah, like that.
Guest:Yeah, I got to be always in the in the public eye.
Guest:You got to be always be.
Guest:And then I feel like when you're at peace with letting that go and to like live your own life, that's like the true essence of happiness.
Guest:And that's where I felt, you know, you're always on this routine of being like, I got to be the top guy in wrestling.
Guest:I can't take a break for five months and then I'll be irrelevant.
Guest:People forget about me.
Guest:I don't give a shit.
Marc:That's good, man.
Marc:I mean, I talked to Owen Wilson the other day and he was telling me this Salinger quote is that, you know, having the courage to be a nobody.
Guest:Yeah, it's so it's like when you get to that point.
Guest:And that's when I feel like that's the true essence of being free in life.
Guest:When you're constantly not worrying about what other people expectations.
Guest:Because like I said, dude, I've seen a lot of wrestlers give their souls for this for 30 years.
Guest:And the moment they retire, the fans are going to be like, what's next?
Guest:We're going off to the next toy.
Guest:And then that person's kind of left like, shit, man, I put all my energy in to try to make these fans happy.
Guest:And then they just chew you up and spit you out.
Guest:And the thing is, like, there's always going to be great fans where everyone's like really grateful for your body of work.
Guest:But I just never wanted to try to appease people to the point where it was a detriment to my own, you know, growth as a human.
Guest:And then, you know, so this whole self exploring with the Everest and everything.
Guest:It was just very awesome.
Guest:And then this is a funny story.
Guest:Cause when I first started going to agree to do Everest, uh, I was a single man.
Guest:So I was like, Oh, well there's no freaking thing I have to worry.
Guest:You know, nobody has it.
Guest:But then halfway through, um,
Guest:I reconnect with this girl I had a crush on, uh, on the school bus in high school.
Marc:In Seattle?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I had a crush on her and then we reconnected and then all of a sudden we start dating.
Guest:So it's a whole new level of like, Oh shit.
Guest:Now if I die, I feel like.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:She'll be sad.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:But it's, it's a crazy story because I had a crush on her in high school and then, uh,
Guest:She ended up getting shot in the head.
Marc:Wow.
Marc:What the fuck?
Marc:Jesus Christ.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:She ended up getting shot in the head in high school.
Guest:And I was like, oh, my God, this crush of mine from the school bus got murdered.
Guest:But she luckily survived.
Guest:And then it's crazy because all these years she got a restraining order against the person who shot her.
Marc:Well, that's good.
Marc:Is he locked up for he's not getting out, is he?
Guest:I don't really know.
Guest:I think he's out now.
Guest:I think he's out now because when he when he did it, he was like underage.
Marc:How did how did she recover from getting shot in the head?
Yeah.
Guest:Oh, she became, that inspired her to become an ICU nurse.
Marc:Oh, wow.
Marc:Oh, wow.
Guest:That's awesome.
Guest:But fast forward, I'm on top of Everest on the summit.
Guest:And I, uh, I filmed this video where I proposed to her.
Guest:Oh, no shit.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:So it was like, uh, so yeah, now we're engaged, but it's like a fun, like full circle moment.
Guest:But I'm thinking the whole time now, I'm not just worrying about myself.
Guest:I'm worrying about this future wife of mine and all this stuff.
Guest:Like you gotta, you gotta make it out alive, you know?
Guest:And
Guest:It adds such a level of, oh, my God, you can't be selfish anymore.
Guest:Like I said with my brother and my mom, like, dude, I got to survive for them.
Guest:I got to survive for this, you know, fiance and all this stuff.
Marc:What are you going to do about this?
Marc:I mean, I got to assume that because of the way you've lived your life your whole life that you're kind of, you know, addicted to the thrill of it.
Marc:Do you see that letting up at all?
Guest:No, no, absolutely not.
Guest:That's good.
Guest:I never want to lose that.
Guest:That's never going to be lost on me because, you know,
Guest:Yeah, I do.
Guest:I spent so many times in Seattle just staring at a wall and be like, there's a whole world out there.
Guest:And the moment I get a taste of it, I'm never going to let up.
Guest:So I'm constantly on the move and I'm constantly I'm not the type of guy who can stay put for long.
Guest:I have to always be doing the next thing and whatever.
Guest:But it's not like I'm searching for the next, like, say.
Guest:Everest?
Guest:I don't consider myself an adrenaline junkie.
Marc:No?
Marc:No?
Guest:Yeah, I feel like it's all a growing experience.
Guest:It's all like a mental thing to become a better person and to get out of your comfort zones.
Guest:And it's just a growing experience for me, for everything.
Guest:So it's not like, oh, yeah, I'm going to fucking jump off a cliff tonight.
Marc:No, you'll probably say it more like, yeah, I'm going to jump off a cliff tonight.
Guest:Yeah, I'm very, I don't know.
Guest:It's like, it's just...
Guest:Yeah, the whole thing was just incredible with the... That's good.
Marc:That's good, man.
Guest:Now, Darby, one of the things that the three of us would probably do that, you know, we're saying we wouldn't climb Everest, we wouldn't throw ourselves off a ladder, but we did see you in a sketch with Tim Robinson, who is someone we all three of us love, and we want to know how that happened.
Guest:How did you get hooked up with him to do the concrete Halloween sketch?
Yeah.
Guest:That was just straight up, uh, there's that clothing brand brain dead out in LA and I'm buddies with them.
Guest:And they were just like, Hey, you skateboard, you want to do this, uh, skate with Tim?
Guest:And I was like, yeah, let's do it.
Guest:And I was like,
Guest:And then when I got there, because I skateboard all the time, I got a skate park in the backyard at my house.
Guest:And I was like, man, so I'm going to, like, we're going to be doing tricks and shit, right?
Guest:And they're like, no, you're going to be eating shit the whole time.
Guest:I was fully expecting to get on the thing and be like, dude, I got to land all these tricks.
Guest:I got to bring my A game today.
Guest:No, man, you're just going to be falling all day on concrete.
Guest:And I was like, well, shit, all right.
Guest:Like, that makes it easier.
Guest:But, yeah, no, yeah, it was funny because,
Guest:I got hit by a bus last year.
Guest:Oh, yeah, in New York, right?
Guest:On purpose?
Guest:Three days after I got hit by the bus, I went to Tim's stand-up show.
Guest:And I have dried blood still coming out of my nose three days later.
Guest:Because it's constantly dripping and shit like that.
Guest:and it's just like yeah i just wanted to come to your show and say what's up i i had a broken i had the broken foot at the time from the wrestling match and then i got the nose and so i just looked like a corpse walking in there when the bus hit you did you relax into it are you familiar with like uh you know you know mark you know a guy named raymond pettibone yeah so yeah like i'm uh doing an art show with him in september
Guest:Down in New York, we have like a month long art gallery.
Marc:What are you going to do with it?
Guest:In the gallery, we're setting up a wrestling ring, and we're going to do live performances like wrestling, and then he's going to do the art.
Marc:So he's going to have all the drawings around the ring kind of deal?
Guest:Yeah, yeah.
Guest:And it's going to be just a gallery where people then can walk in, but we're going to have live shows with bands.
Marc:And you hang out with Raymond?
Guest:Yeah, yeah.
Guest:I go to New York all the time to hang out with him.
Guest:I'll stay at his place.
Marc:See, he's a guy that I think is a good example of somebody who goes out there taking risks with his brain.
Guest:Yeah, we've had a lot of fun times hanging out with him.
Guest:But he's such a recluse where he's in his apartment all the time.
Guest:So whenever I go there, I'm like, yo, let's go to a Broadway show or some shit.
Guest:So we went to go see Sweeney Todd.
Guest:And then I'm crossing the street because I have the broken foot.
Guest:And the bus is taking a ride around the corner and it clipped me.
Marc:And you were with Raymond?
Guest:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:How did he handle it?
Guest:He's so calm about everything.
Guest:But we ended up going to...
Guest:We end up making it to the show.
Guest:There's a photo of us at the show.
Marc:So you did the show before you went to the hospital?
Guest:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Guest:Well, because it's Sweeney Todd closing weekend.
Guest:No, I get it.
Guest:You got to do what you got to do.
Guest:They could have thought you were there in costume.
Guest:It's a lot of blood in the show.
Guest:Yeah, yeah.
Guest:But it was fun.
Guest:It's just...
Guest:Yeah, no, that was a good time.
Marc:I did two shows on a broken foot and I didn't know it was broken, but I didn't break it in any sort of exciting way.
Marc:I just kind of stepped off a bench wrong and I didn't know it was broke.
Marc:So I went and did two shows down in San Diego hobbling around and then it was it was busted, man.
Guest:Yeah, no, that's happened to me so many times where I'm kind of in denial about something being broken.
Guest:I'm like, it might be broken.
Guest:No, it's not broken.
Guest:It might be broken.
Guest:No, it's not broken.
Guest:That's how it was when I broke the foot last year before I was supposed to wrestle.
Guest:No, before I was supposed to go to Everest, I broke my foot in the first minute of the match and the whole match I'm in denial.
Guest:I'll be like thinking to myself,
Guest:fuck is this broken i'm gonna have to cancel everest and it's just like such a shitty thing like no it's not broken like this can't be broken i'm supposed to leave to everest next week and it's crazy just how that uh how that and everybody was like that's a sign from god you don't don't climb that fucking mountain that's a sign that you should come down and i was like hell no it's a sign i should do it next year and in that time it was like i went on so much fun journeys and
Guest:before climbing Everest.
Guest:Like, I don't know if you're familiar with, like, Wim Hof.
Marc:Oh, what is that?
Guest:Wim Hof's that crazy dude from, like, I forgot what country, Poland, where he, like, he stays in the ice the whole time.
Guest:Like, he's that crazy guy who stays in the ice.
Marc:Oh, my God.
Guest:Yeah, he holds, like, the world record for being in ice water the longest.
Marc:Do you do that?
Marc:Do you do the ice baths?
Guest:Oh, yeah, I got, like, two of them in my house.
Marc:Two of them?
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Why do you need two?
Marc:Because he does a cold plunge and then a colder plunge.
Yeah.
Guest:Yeah, but I went to the Wim Hof retreat in the winter retreat in Poland before Everest where we just went there.
Guest:And you climb this mountain kind of in your only your boxers and shoes with no shirt and no pants.
Guest:And it's like freezing out there.
Guest:And then you got to stay in this frozen waterfall for like 30 minutes.
Guest:Oh, my God.
Guest:But the thing is, it's cool because I brought my dad with me.
Guest:And I didn't know what the hell we were doing.
Guest:And we brought him there.
Marc:How'd he do?
Guest:He did good.
Guest:He found it amazing.
Guest:And yeah, it was just like a full circle moment just where I was when I was 18.
Guest:And he was so worried.
Guest:Like, what are you going to do with your life?
Guest:And now I had him retire and he's my personal assistant.
Marc:That's sweet.
Guest:But I just bring him on all these crazy adventures.
Guest:I was like, maybe like one week we'll just have like a helicopter show up to the house.
Guest:All right, we're going to jump out of the helicopter into the lake today.
Guest:And he's like, damn it.
Yeah.
Guest:damn it again well the the last time i saw you at the um the the location of the upcoming pay-per-view all in you were you were at globe life field in texas and you were looking around saying i'm wondering what i can jump off of here and maybe you could just tell us is that thought still in your head jumping off something at globe life field
Guest:absolutely all right good here come the wrestling questions yes well that i mean this is so this is a very big show for the company too they haven't done a stadium like this in uh in the u.s and i assume you just like want to make a big splash the whole company does when you're there but do you go into these things like that darby do you think like any one of these i have to make a big splash i have to do something that gets attention or is it all at the same level whether you're on a dynamite or whether you're on you know any show
Guest:Oh, every show is a big deal for me.
Guest:Every time I make an entrance in my mind, I feel act like it's my first time, uh, debuting in the company.
Guest:You always have that like healthy chip on your shoulder where you're really trying to be like, yo, because dude, I come from when I first started wrestling, there's only one game in town for us, really us TV wrestling that was WWE.
Guest:And you, and you felt like,
Guest:that they had all like everybody by the balls where you're like, um, dude, you're, you guys, uh, there's only one game in town.
Guest:And the fact that AEW started, you're just like, wow.
Guest:Oh my God.
Guest:So it's, I've, I love being on the ground level of AEW when it first started, like right when it first started, I was there and it's just showing like the world of wrestling.
Guest:Yo, uh,
Guest:if we're as good as we think we are, we can build this up and make it a big deal.
Guest:And we did, if you look back, dude, we, we did 81,000 plus people at Wembley setting the all time attendance record for a wrestling show.
Guest:And I think it was like year five into AEW.
Guest:That's fucking unheard of.
Guest:And now we're just trying to bring all that energy to the U S and have this big stadium show.
Guest:But yeah,
Guest:You know, the whole thing is it's whether it's a dynamite or a collision or even the Arlington, Texas show July 12th.
Guest:I every fucking time I step out there, I have to point to prove.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And I just saw we we just two days ago passed your sixth anniversary in the company.
Guest:That was your debut match was June 29th.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And that's the you know, I know it's been it's been a wild ride.
Guest:But the beauty of it all is, like I said earlier, Tony Khan just being like, yo, dude.
Guest:I want you to live your life outside of the ring and be happy.
Guest:And that's, that's, that's the cool balance.
Guest:That's, that's something I can never take for ground.
Marc:And it's something Vince McMahon would never say.
Guest:Definitely not.
Guest:It's like, yeah, I, I feel, uh, yeah, no, I, I just feel so free.
Guest:And I, I, I told Tony before I left for Everest, I had to talk with him and I was like, Hey man,
Guest:I already feel like I'm the champion of the world.
Guest:I don't need the championship belt, per se, to feel validated because I'm already winning in life.
Guest:I feel so free and I feel so like happy.
Guest:I was like, dude, I don't know.
Guest:I'm just grateful for everything.
Marc:Belt would be nice though, right?
Guest:It depends on, I don't know, man.
Guest:I really, I don't, I really don't give a shit.
Guest:I'm going to be honest with you.
Guest:I, it's just so much.
Guest:People are so concerned with winning this thing.
Guest:Um, but I just want to, I just want to have good storylines.
Guest:I just want to have good storylines.
Guest:I'm not trying to be like, I need to be the top guys.
Guest:I just want to have good shit.
Hmm.
Guest:And you climbing Mount Everest, did Tony promise you a promotion?
Guest:Are you going to be an EVP when you come back?
Guest:No, dude, no.
Guest:I did tell him earlier, I'm just going to bring that AEW flag and take a photo on top of the world with the AEW flag.
Guest:And that's kind of the, in a way, the trade-off where he allows me to do that if I do that.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:It was, yeah, no, dude, I don't need no promotions.
Guest:Did you send the proposal video to your girlfriend while you were up there?
Guest:Like she got it while you were still on the mountain?
Guest:No, I waited to get down.
Guest:Oh, okay.
Guest:Did this whole thing at the house.
Guest:Oh, okay.
Guest:Yeah, like we're like...
Guest:you know, showed it on the projector.
Guest:I was like, Oh, let's watch this video.
Guest:It was like, it was like, yeah, it was great.
Guest:That's so funny.
Guest:I think this is what, I mean, maybe it's not, and you don't obviously have to reveal this, but I just saw sting giving an interview and he said, well, Darby did something up at the top of that mountain that I can't talk about yet.
Guest:And, and I don't know if you did something else up there, but that would be a pretty cool thing that he was protecting for you.
Guest:He wasn't going to let everybody know until you did.
Guest:Yeah, no, I think he was referring to the proposal.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Okay, good.
Guest:So no coffin drops off of like... Oh my God, hell no.
Guest:It was, yeah, it was so crazy because the guy I went with to the summit, his name's Andorji, and he actually is the fourth leading person in the world to summit Everest the most times.
Guest:He's summited Everest 24 times.
Guest:And I don't know if you guys are familiar with the 1996 disaster that happened on Everest where a lot of people died.
Guest:They make the whole movie out about it.
Guest:John Krakauer wrote a book called Into Thin Air.
Guest:But at the time, he was a Sherpa.
Guest:In Nepal, because he's from Nepal.
Guest:He was a Sherpa on that thing where everybody died.
Marc:Is that the Josh Brolin movie?
Guest:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:I saw that.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Crazy.
Guest:He was actually there, so it was crazy because he was born in Nepal, but now he lives in Boise, Idaho, and he's a mechanic, but he climbs Everest still once a year.
Guest:Oh, my gosh.
Guest:Yeah, it's so fascinating.
Marc:That must make it, you know, easier to be a mechanic on some level.
Marc:Like it's that it's that spiritual life you're talking about where, you know, the courage to be egoless and just, you know, live your life.
Marc:But you know that you did that.
Marc:That gets you a year.
Marc:You know what I mean?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:No, but it's like, yeah, it's super fascinating being able to climb with the mountain with him.
Guest:and he's like the master but i told them from day one i want to prove to you guys that i belong on that mountain i didn't want to be this you know dude who just shows up and is like waiting like have his hand held the whole way up there i was like yo like i want to prove to you guys that i deserve to be on this mountain because you are the best of the best when you do this uh and then i did a lot of training and went into it and i
Guest:by the time we got to the mountain and Dorji said, dude, you're so fucking ready for this.
Guest:Right on.
Guest:It felt great.
Guest:Cause you hear all these stories of people just going up to Everest without the proper training and everything.
Guest:They kind of take it for granted.
Guest:It's a whole beast within itself that you can never really, you know, be ready for.
Guest:So there's some crazy stories.
Guest:This one's funny.
Guest:I, uh, went, I was training in this mountain, Akikangwa, uh,
Guest:uh, it's up in Mendoza.
Guest:And I'm, I'm like, it's, we're at camp two about to go for the summit.
Guest:Um,
Guest:And the night before, and there's one outhouse where you go to the bathroom in.
Guest:And then I look out and someone's in the outhouse.
Guest:And I'm like, man, I'm about to crap my pants.
Guest:Hurry up.
Guest:So then I was like, oh, I'm just going to crap in this plastic bag in the tent.
Guest:But I'm like sitting and bent over, crapping.
Guest:And I'm like, oh.
Guest:And I look, I'm like, I missed the whole plastic bag.
Guest:I crapped all over my sleeping bag.
Guest:Oh, no.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And then I also crapped in my pants, too, just because it sprayed everywhere.
Guest:You ruined your whole day.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Well, no, I'm up all night.
Guest:And then we only get like four hours of sleep.
Guest:So instead of sleeping, I'm scrubbing, pouring hot water on my sleep bag, scrubbing the diarrhea out of it.
Guest:And I'm like, dude, I'm like, this is crazy.
Guest:I got a summit soon.
Guest:I'm like, I get no sleep.
Guest:I crap my pants and all this stuff.
Guest:And I'm like spraying all that, uh, with that Johnny Depp, Dior cologne everywhere.
Guest:And just like, cause like, I don't want to like go out and be like, yo, what happened to you last night?
Guest:I'm up all night scrubbing this fucking diarrhea sleeping bag.
Guest:It was gnarly.
Guest:And I was like,
Guest:I was like, damn, I guess this is training for Everest.
Guest:Yeah, that's the hilarious thing.
Guest:That sounds like the most grueling thing you went through, and it was your training period.
Guest:Yeah, I know.
Guest:That's the big thing.
Guest:Then we got climbing Everest.
Guest:Once we got to Camp 2, I was just like, dude, I want to make the most out of all this journey.
Guest:So that's why I brought my skateboard with me.
Guest:And I wanted to set the all time highest elevation kickflip of like all time.
Guest:And that was pretty that was pretty wild, too.
Guest:I saw that in a video.
Guest:Now, when you did that, too, were you like super winded by that?
Guest:Just the exertion of that one kickflip?
Guest:No, surprisingly not really.
Guest:Cause I did so much like altitude training.
Guest:I got this machine at my house that replicates 22,000 feet.
Guest:So every day I'd walk on this treadmill, like on a steep incline for about four hours straight every day with the, yeah, replicating 22,000 feet.
Guest:So I felt like I was like,
Guest:game mode the only thing that was hard about that is the board itself became really icy and slippery so it felt like i was like trying to do a kickflip in an ice skating rink and it was so hard and then i have all these sherpas filming me on their phones and their gopros and then they're like man like this guy fucking sucks i couldn't kickflip i felt so much pressure i was like damn man can we not film me right now i gotta land this and then i ended up landing and i was like oh yeah but it was it was it was fun the whole thing uh
Guest:Yeah, and I was also climbing Everest for Tony Hawk's charity called the Skate Park Project, so we can build skate parks in areas that don't have the proper funds.
Guest:So, yeah, that was like a big thing that I wanted to do.
Guest:And I just want to auction that skateboard off.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:raise some money to build some damn skate parks.
Guest:Cool.
Guest:Well, that's great.
Guest:You got, you got that coming up.
Guest:You got a shark week coming up.
Guest:There is all in Texas coming up.
Guest:So your date card is full, but we, we appreciate you taking the time to come on here with us while we're here.
Guest:We're in the process of wrapping up.
Guest:Yes, sir.
Guest:Yeah, absolutely.
Guest:It was a, thanks for having me on.
Guest:I just wanted to share the story with a proper, I don't want to share the story for the first time on a,
Guest:You know, some random-ass, like, thing.
Guest:Like, I don't know, I kind of like just talking to things outside of the world of wrestling.
Marc:Well, it was great meeting you, man.
Marc:Yes, sir.