Extreme sport

Welcome to the show.

With me today is Sebastian Bates, and he is someone who has got a lot of stuff going on that is just absolutely wild.

He is an extreme sports athlete with 500 plus wingsuit base jumps.

He is the founder of the Warrior Academy, which is the largest martial arts academy in the Middle East, teaching over 10,000 children every week.

And he's the founder of the Bates Foundation, sponsoring 8,000 at-risk vulnerable children every week, taking them on a life-changing journey, which we are going to talk about, which I have played a teeny tiny part in to my great honor.

Within a few, no, within a year of that, I got the news that my wife, my girlfriend at the time was pregnant.

And now my girlfriend at the time, I met two weeks before the accident.

So she got into a relationship with this extreme sports athlete, professional fighter who had his own business, you know, super fit, early twenties.

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when is the world's greatest action sports yard sale?

You can't promote any of your stuff, but then you also have this badge of honor.

And in my head, I'm like, yeah, but, like, we have our own Olympics as a- at Action Sports.

It was called the X Games.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then I'm like, I wanna do something more with skateboarding and action sports because I'm more, like, driven in that scene and, like-

It's more artistic

Yeah, they're like, "She fell down." She fell down.

Well, I was gonna ask you, the next question was if you do any kind of extreme sports, but I feel like you just answered that you have done some snowboarding.

I'm very extreme.

Snowboarding is like- Arguing.

Yeah.

Podcast over.

I was gonna say, I mean, you do a lot more extreme sports than I ever would've guessed.

I feel like most comedians- You say do like I'm doing now ... no, but I mean, I don't think most comedians have bungee jumped.

It was just like...

Was, was this kind of like the last of that era? Uh, they all didn't work because they were trying to tap into, like, the extreme sports mentality, but then they were very clean, safe Hollywood productions.

So they just didn't have...

Like, the actual film franchise that came from that, um, community is Jackass.

Yeah.

Wow.

Because extreme sports is, it's punk.

It's, "We don't wanna play by the rules.

I'm like, I'll just not quit.

I've done probably some of the craziest stuff in the world when it comes to extreme sports and stuff.

I was like, I can just do anything.

And Uh, yeah.

And those are great.

And they, there's plenty of them that are very good, but then there's like when sports goes off into the weeds and we kind of get like very arcadey fun sports games and we get ridiculous ones and we get extreme sports games and wrestling and all that stuff.

So it's a really interesting space to kind of hang out in for a little

bit.

I think Tony Hawk being the biggest of the exports games, Mike.

Yeah.

So there were some X extreme sports like ESPN X games before Tony Hawk, but Tony Hawk kind of kicked that door open with Activision and never solved.

And they were making, they made Tony Hawk.

How many black guys do you see that are into, like, extreme...

Not extreme sports, because there's a lot, like, especially, like, skating and biking, but, like... like extreme, like newer things where people don't know.

There's barely

any,

it's just white people.

Extreme sports where there's almost a certainty of death.

If you miscalculate.

No, that's, that's a white folk thing, dude.

like to start covering and I'm going to use it if we do plays of the week I want to talk about this but

I would like us to start covering extreme sports I understand and I'm ready with plays of the

week whenever it's time to go but we have a lot to get through

beforehand

Play of the week.

Well, my play of the week.

um i've been trying to get into extreme sports uh because i watched this i don't know if you guys watched that there's a documentary on hbo that's recent um about this famous climber named dean potter

oh yeah i think it's called the dark wizard and it's really good