August 12, 2026 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Puts you hit us together, and we're going to stut
and pot in a start.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm ready to party the Elvis ter Ran after party.
Something that happened to you in your life, And they're like,
you know what, I almost died?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Absolutely, I mean it could be a timing thing. Maybe
you if you let the house make maybe a minute earlier,
you would have been in a place where you have
been cremated by a fire. So I don't know, you know,
it just depends on what it was. We'll find out
what you've been through. But there was a story you
were talking about the other day, right, Gandhi.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Oh my god, yes, it actually gave me goosebumps. So
there was a high school football player at practice, playing
for about an hour, a little bit longer than an hour,
and he felt something weird in his helmet. He took
it off. They found a two foot long, venomous cotton
mouth in his helmet. He was playing with it on
for an hour and change, Like, holy cow, how did.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
He not feel it when he first put it on?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
So that was behind the pod, Yeah, behind the padding,
I know.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Can you aunt right on your head?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh my god, no, no, I mean okay, so that
was a possibly a near death experience for him.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Right, I'm just picturing him like playing and then the
snake crawling across the face mask part like heart attack.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'd have a heart attack, right, Okay, So have you
been in a cotton mouth in the helmet situation before?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
HI mean.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Near death experience? I mean other than you know, the
strokes that you've had, Nate, and of course, yeah, the
aneurysms you've had Froggy.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Those close, But beyond that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I do remember one moment, several actually, but one in particular.
I was with my friend in Russia and we were
just walking down the sidewalk and their safety standards do
not exist like they exist here where they have stanchions
and placards and people working above. They don't have any
of that. So we're walking down the street and they're
working on the building that we're passing, and all of
(01:58):
a sudden, behind us, about four feet behind us, sweere
wam and a cinder block had fallen off of the
roof that these guys were working on. Because they don't
do any sort of covering of the sidewalk or anything,
and if we had just been a little bit slower,
one of the two of us would have gotten slammed
in the head from the cinder plot and been dead.
(02:21):
So I still remember that what they call those flashball memories,
you know, I just boom. I remember that thing just
hitting the sidewalk behind us, like four feet behind us.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Dam.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You probably wouldn't even have felt it, Begore.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
I would have been mush, you know, but you lived.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
See it wasn't your time to go correct, What about you, Gandhi?
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Absolutely. I was driving to work one morning, so it
was dark and there was construction happening on a road.
So there was this giant hole that had been dug
out of the cement and there were no cones around it.
I don't know if somebody just came and took them
in the night or what happened. I drove directly into
that giant hole. I mean like my car was airborne,
landed on all four tires. I sat there for a
(03:02):
few minutes, like, oh my god, what just happened? And
then there was a little bit of like a hill
that you could drive out, so I just drove out
of it and went to work.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I was like, that could have been so bad.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Oh my God could have been dead.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, but it didn't happen. You're still alive. See here,
we're the chosen ones. We are the chosen ones. Yeah,
what about you scary near death experience?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
My heart is beating fast just thinking about at the
time that I went to Taos, New Mexico with my
friends and we went white water rafting on the Rio
Grande and I had never gone white water rafting before,
and I know what I was in for, but it
was a rough ride. I was hanging on for dear life.
There was just one wave or something where we ended
(03:43):
up against the rock. The raft went like almost on
a vertical. I grabbed onto the side of the raft
and I really thought I was gonna be flying out
and I didn't. But the rest of that ride, I
just closed my eyes. I'm like, got my God, Please
if I make it through this, I will never ever
go why water rafting, just like I I will never go.
(04:07):
It was the most I.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Will Did you have a discussion with everyone that was
with you about how they all felt the same way
or were you the only one that felt like you
were about to die?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Three of them were thrill seekers. They're like, oh, that
was nothing. It's not even high seats. But you lived.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I lived, everyone lived, and you lived to talk about it.
What about you, Danielle.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I have a couple of stories, but one of them
is like similar to Nates. It was after one of
our events we did something with Jessica Simpson, and I
was walking down the streets of New York and right
in front of me they were putting in windows up above,
and the window came crashing down onto the street in
all these glass pieces everywhere, and somehow it missed everyone
(04:53):
that was in its way, because it would have been
not I and I just figured out I was pregnant
with one of my kids that day because I was
very nauseous.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
So I'm like, I think I'm pregnant. And that happened that.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
It was so scary, so crazy, but you lived right,
Thank god you lived.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Froggy.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Now, when I was a little kid, a friend of mine,
I still remember his name, Greg. He got a little
like a pellet gun bb gun for Christmas and we
went out to go like just shoot stuff, and he
shot something. It ricocheted off and it hit me in
the chest. But where it hit me, it hit me
on the button of my jacket. It hit the button,
the metal button of my jacket, and it dented that
(05:34):
and it went the other way, didn't I It would
have gone through my skin for sure. I don't know
how deep it would have gone through. But I was like, Okay,
we're not shooting that gun anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
We're going.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
You can go shooting by yourself, buddy. But you lived,
Thank God God. That's like when you hang out with
our friend Rod Phillips. He's got a shirt that says,
but did you die? And so I know you're still here?
What about you? Have you ever had one as dramatic?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
But it was for me. We were in midtime Manhattan.
The about three of us were about to walk across
the street and I didn't look before I stepped into
the street, and I swear to God, it was It
looked two stories tall to me. A bus was coming
right at me, and I saw all I saw was
the not even the bottom of the windshield, because it
(06:22):
was above my head. It was that tall. And here
it comes, and my friend yaked me back and I
felt the breeze of the bus right in front of
my cheek. And so had he not pulled me back,
I would have stepped right in front of that bus,
and that bus was going really fast. It wasn't slow,
and so we all looked at each other, thinking, you
(06:45):
were supposed to die, dude, because the bus was at
its perfect, perfect speed and direction, aimed right at me,
and I was going to be right there in front
of it, my whole body.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
So yeah, it didn't. I made it.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I didn't, but I dies.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Yay, thank god.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Are you still friends with that friend?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, Okay, we're still friends and we still talk about it.
It's like, do you remember that you almost died? Yeah,
thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I owe you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I owe you something. Hello, Scott to me, did you
ever almost die while trying to put your private parts
into a stuffed Teddy bear?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Scotty's gonna have eight hundred and fifty stories, one of
which we're close to death.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
I have one like almost every day, but the one
when Gandhi tries to scare you. Yeah, near death. Yeah,
But I mean the one that I really remember happened
not that long ago when we were in Montaka and
I fell into some quicksand and I was up above
my knee and I was like, oh my god, if
I go any lower and if nobody was here, I
would be dead right now. So and I still think
(07:42):
about that.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Your knee, shut up?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What until you get under your waist about it?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Wait, Quicksand it's only on George of the Jungle Crimes.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
It's only in I've only ever seen it in cartoons
and never in real life. And we were walking on
the future. We were the only two there, and we
both fell in and we had to kind of pull
each other like I was genuinely scared.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
What about that testicular strangulation you had from Teddy Bear?
What about that one?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Oh no, no, he let go with some coaxing, he
let go.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, of course we've all been through near death experiences.
Texas now at fifty five one hundred and tell us
all about it. But you lived in Texas. See you're
doing
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Okay, elster Lan after party
Puts you hit us together, and we're going to stut
and pot in a start.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm ready to party the Elvis ter Ran after party.
Something that happened to you in your life, And they're like,
you know what, I almost died?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Absolutely, I mean it could be a timing thing. Maybe
you if you let the house make maybe a minute earlier,
you would have been in a place where you have
been cremated by a fire. So I don't know, you know,
it just depends on what it was. We'll find out
what you've been through. But there was a story you
were talking about the other day, right, Gandhi.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Oh my god, yes, it actually gave me goosebumps. So
there was a high school football player at practice, playing
for about an hour, a little bit longer than an hour,
and he felt something weird in his helmet. He took
it off. They found a two foot long, venomous cotton
mouth in his helmet. He was playing with it on
for an hour and change, Like, holy cow, how did.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
He not feel it when he first put it on?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
So that was behind the pod, Yeah, behind the padding,
I know.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Can you aunt right on your head?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh my god, no, no, I mean okay, so that
was a possibly a near death experience for him.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Right, I'm just picturing him like playing and then the
snake crawling across the face mask part like heart attack.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'd have a heart attack, right, Okay, So have you
been in a cotton mouth in the helmet situation before?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
HI mean.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Near death experience? I mean other than you know, the
strokes that you've had, Nate, and of course, yeah, the
aneurysms you've had Froggy.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Those close, But beyond that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I do remember one moment, several actually, but one in particular.
I was with my friend in Russia and we were
just walking down the sidewalk and their safety standards do
not exist like they exist here where they have stanchions
and placards and people working above. They don't have any
of that. So we're walking down the street and they're
working on the building that we're passing, and all of
(01:58):
a sudden, behind us, about four feet behind us, sweere
wam and a cinder block had fallen off of the
roof that these guys were working on. Because they don't
do any sort of covering of the sidewalk or anything,
and if we had just been a little bit slower,
one of the two of us would have gotten slammed
in the head from the cinder plot and been dead.
(02:21):
So I still remember that what they call those flashball memories,
you know, I just boom. I remember that thing just
hitting the sidewalk behind us, like four feet behind us.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Dam.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You probably wouldn't even have felt it, Begore.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
I would have been mush, you know, but you lived.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
See it wasn't your time to go correct, What about you, Gandhi?
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Absolutely. I was driving to work one morning, so it
was dark and there was construction happening on a road.
So there was this giant hole that had been dug
out of the cement and there were no cones around it.
I don't know if somebody just came and took them
in the night or what happened. I drove directly into
that giant hole. I mean like my car was airborne,
landed on all four tires. I sat there for a
(03:02):
few minutes, like, oh my god, what just happened? And
then there was a little bit of like a hill
that you could drive out, so I just drove out
of it and went to work.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I was like, that could have been so bad.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Oh my God could have been dead.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, but it didn't happen. You're still alive. See here,
we're the chosen ones. We are the chosen ones. Yeah,
what about you scary near death experience?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
My heart is beating fast just thinking about at the
time that I went to Taos, New Mexico with my
friends and we went white water rafting on the Rio
Grande and I had never gone white water rafting before,
and I know what I was in for, but it
was a rough ride. I was hanging on for dear life.
There was just one wave or something where we ended
(03:43):
up against the rock. The raft went like almost on
a vertical. I grabbed onto the side of the raft
and I really thought I was gonna be flying out
and I didn't. But the rest of that ride, I
just closed my eyes. I'm like, got my God, Please
if I make it through this, I will never ever
go why water rafting, just like I I will never go.
(04:07):
It was the most I.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Will Did you have a discussion with everyone that was
with you about how they all felt the same way
or were you the only one that felt like you
were about to die?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Three of them were thrill seekers. They're like, oh, that
was nothing. It's not even high seats. But you lived.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I lived, everyone lived, and you lived to talk about it.
What about you, Danielle.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I have a couple of stories, but one of them
is like similar to Nates. It was after one of
our events we did something with Jessica Simpson, and I
was walking down the streets of New York and right
in front of me they were putting in windows up above,
and the window came crashing down onto the street in
all these glass pieces everywhere, and somehow it missed everyone
(04:53):
that was in its way, because it would have been
not I and I just figured out I was pregnant
with one of my kids that day because I was
very nauseous.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
So I'm like, I think I'm pregnant. And that happened that.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
It was so scary, so crazy, but you lived right,
Thank god you lived.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Froggy.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Now, when I was a little kid, a friend of mine,
I still remember his name, Greg. He got a little
like a pellet gun bb gun for Christmas and we
went out to go like just shoot stuff, and he
shot something. It ricocheted off and it hit me in
the chest. But where it hit me, it hit me
on the button of my jacket. It hit the button,
the metal button of my jacket, and it dented that
(05:34):
and it went the other way, didn't I It would
have gone through my skin for sure. I don't know
how deep it would have gone through. But I was like, Okay,
we're not shooting that gun anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
We're going.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
You can go shooting by yourself, buddy. But you lived,
Thank God God. That's like when you hang out with
our friend Rod Phillips. He's got a shirt that says,
but did you die? And so I know you're still here?
What about you? Have you ever had one as dramatic?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
But it was for me. We were in midtime Manhattan.
The about three of us were about to walk across
the street and I didn't look before I stepped into
the street, and I swear to God, it was It
looked two stories tall to me. A bus was coming
right at me, and I saw all I saw was
the not even the bottom of the windshield, because it
(06:22):
was above my head. It was that tall. And here
it comes, and my friend yaked me back and I
felt the breeze of the bus right in front of
my cheek. And so had he not pulled me back,
I would have stepped right in front of that bus,
and that bus was going really fast. It wasn't slow,
and so we all looked at each other, thinking, you
(06:45):
were supposed to die, dude, because the bus was at
its perfect, perfect speed and direction, aimed right at me,
and I was going to be right there in front
of it, my whole body.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
So yeah, it didn't. I made it.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I didn't, but I dies.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Yay, thank god.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Are you still friends with that friend?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, Okay, we're still friends and we still talk about it.
It's like, do you remember that you almost died? Yeah,
thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I owe you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I owe you something. Hello, Scott to me, did you
ever almost die while trying to put your private parts
into a stuffed Teddy bear?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Scotty's gonna have eight hundred and fifty stories, one of
which we're close to death.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
I have one like almost every day, but the one
when Gandhi tries to scare you. Yeah, near death. Yeah,
But I mean the one that I really remember happened
not that long ago when we were in Montaka and
I fell into some quicksand and I was up above
my knee and I was like, oh my god, if
I go any lower and if nobody was here, I
would be dead right now. So and I still think
(07:42):
about that.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Your knee, shut up?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What until you get under your waist about it?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Wait, Quicksand it's only on George of the Jungle Crimes.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
It's only in I've only ever seen it in cartoons
and never in real life. And we were walking on
the future. We were the only two there, and we
both fell in and we had to kind of pull
each other like I was genuinely scared.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
What about that testicular strangulation you had from Teddy Bear?
What about that one?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Oh no, no, he let go with some coaxing, he
let go.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, of course we've all been through near death experiences.
Texas now at fifty five one hundred and tell us
all about it. But you lived in Texas. See you're
doing
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Okay, elster Lan after party
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