GMMore 2395: Craziest Red Bull Publicity Stunts

Welcome to “Good Mythical More!” Red Bull does some crazy stunts, man. Oh, we’re switching brands. We’re switching brands ’cause we are not allegiant. And you know what we’re gonna do? We’re going to see which ones are real and which ones are made up. But first. And the real ones are crazy. So the made up ones better be crazy, too. We’re gonna play “Ready, Pet, Go” where we look at a picture of one of your pets and we try to name it. Now this one was submitted by White Mountain Witch. Okay. White Mountain Witch got a cat. That’s a pretty cat. Well, okay. Is that a Coon? A Maine Coon? And this is actually a witch. We need to think about that. You know what I’m saying? Right. If somebody was trying to play into that a little bit. Esmeralda. What was kitty cat’s name in “The Smurfs?” Exactly. What was Gargamel’s cat’s name? I thought it was Esmeralda. If it was, that’s quite a memory you’ve got there. I’m gonna say. Gargamel and? Azrael? Azrael. Azrael, that’s a good guess. Azrael is a great name for a cat. Elvira. Luma. Luma. Luma’s a good name for a witch cat. What does Luma mean? Luma means to, to shine a light upon a cat. It’s got, yeah, I mean, loom definitely means. A monetary unit of Armenia. Azrael. Oh, okay. There we go. Azrael, Azrael. How much caffeine have you? The brightness in an image. The brightness of an image? Yeah. How much caffeine have you had? Did you have before? Like what is your typical caffeine? Well, here’s a little story. I got up this morning and the first thing I do when I get up in the morning is I, I put on my walking clothes and I go downstairs with my dogs. What’s your walking clothes? These days with the temps at what they’re at. Thank you for asking. I wear underwear that come down a little further. Good, good. I wear athletic underwear. Always start with underwear. And then I wear shorts and a t-shirt and then I go downstairs with my dogs. I put on a puffy jacket that has a hood. You’re still puffy jacket right now? I’m still puffy jacket, but it’s a little bit open and I’m not wearing gloves anymore. But with shorts. With shorts. Okay. And first thing I do is I let the dogs out. Second thing I do is I walk around to see if a coyote’s eating the dogs. And third thing, and as I’m walking over, I start the coffee maker. I walk my dogs while drinking coffee. Out of a thermos? Out of just a mug with a lid on it. A lidded mug, puffy jacket, a little bit open shorts with underwear that are coming out the bottom. Wait, hold on. The difference between a thermos and a lidded mug. I must know. You’re just saying it’s not Thermos brand. The thickness of the mug. It’s not Thermos brand. I think. No. Thermos doesn’t have a handle typically, right? No, they’re coming up in the world. They have a lot going on. What do you mean by it’s not thick? It’s not, the walls are not thick. So it’s not insulated. It’s not insulated. It’s a mug that’s not insulated but has a lid. It’s a metal insulated mug. It’s like a sippy cup? Like a thermos. Yeah, thermi are insulated. All right. And also usually thermi are a little bit taller than mugs. You know what I didn’t do this morning? I didn’t have any half and half, so I didn’t put enough milk in my coffee. Well, so, what are you, just your coffee. Not, ’cause you got a really fancy coffee machine. Yeah, just coffee. You know what I’ve been doing recently? Let me finish answering the question. I wanna answer it after you answer it. I poured out my coffee. So this morning, out of all mornings. You remembered. I drank half a cup of coffee. Because of this? No, I didn’t remember this. I didn’t like the coffee ’cause it didn’t taste good. I poured it out and then when I got back home I was like, “I’m gonna redo my coffee.” So then I got ready. You had double coffee. And then I drank, then I made another coffee. You forgot about this. On the way into work. So on the way into work, I had another coffee and then I got here and I did this. You just sniffed. Yep. And my head’s hurting a little bit from, I think it’s from the creatine. You know what I’ve gotten into? And I believe that you can do it on your fancy coffee machine, ’cause mine’s kind of fancy but not as fancy as yours. A long shot. You know about a long shot? So I did the espresso. Pretty much every chance I take. Because the espresso is easier on your tummy tum than coffee. I don’t know why, but you know, internet said, and so I do a double long shot, which feels like a coffee, but is good for the tummy tum. And I just do it black now. I don’t know. I missed what you said a long shot was. It just has more water? It is a bigger, I like espresso because of the tummy tum but I want more liquid. Yeah, so they probably, it’s probably more water with the same amount. It’s more water. Yeah, yeah. So you end up getting, when you do a double, it ends up being like a half a cup of coffee, which is about all you need in the morning. But it’s a double shot. So it’s twice as much caffeine. I don’t really know about the caffeine. That’s what you need to be thinking. But all I do, I do that and typically I might have like some kind of caffeinated thing at lunch. Did you have a double shot this morning? Yeah, ’cause I forgot about this. You had two long shots. This is where it’s splitting. I just recommend it, though. If you’re drinking coffee, try a double long shot and just see how it feels. And then put cream in it ’cause you’ll make it like a coffee. I just don’t want to double my caffeine intake. I don’t know if it will, honestly. Well, I need to know that before I do it. Look up how much caffeine is in a long shot and how much caffeine and then make it times two. And then how much is in like eight ounces of coffee? [Mythical Crew Member] Well I know that espresso has less acid than coffee. Right, that’s why it’s better for your tummy tum. So this fancy coffee maker, you just make coffee with it, though? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Good, good. It grinds the coffee. It grinds the beans and it makes the coffee, though. Okay, I understand. Do you wanna talk about Red Bull stunts? Yeah, maybe. Let’s see one. I guess we should. Let’s see one. Real or fake? A professional sky diver wore a wingsuit and glided into the crater of the active Villa, Villa, Villarrica? Villarrica volcano in Chile. I think you can go into an active volcano and then just like, just tuck in under the, almost knocked my glasses off. Tuck in under the rim, you know? ‘Cause active volcano doesn’t mean, doesn’t necessarily mean lava pit. Right. ‘Cause the guy’s not gonna go into a lava pit. I mean, no matter how much Red Bull you’ve had, you can’t survive lava pits. So I’m gonna say this is real. This is real. It is real. Can we see video? Here’s the video without the sound. There he is. Wow, you ever wanna do that? Nope. Oh wow. That’s not the volcano. Oh, is he coming back? Is he turning around? You can’t turn around. That squirrel suit. Oh, he did do it. He just did, he went in. Oh, you can go up. That was it. He went in and then came up. Okay. Let’s see it from another angle. He did a little dip. Think about. That is crazy. That’s, that’s nuts. And also the reason he was able to come up is probably because of the hot air coming outta there. It’s like a huge thermal, right? So he could rely on the fact that if I go down and then I let the hot air bring me up. That’s cool. Man, that’s the kind of thing that. That is cool. If life was a video game. Right. Where you would just get an extra life, I would love to do that. But life isn’t a video game, kids. I think I would just like to walk around in one of those squirrel suits. You get one life. And imply that I also do this in the squirrel suit. I’m ready to jump out of anything. Hold my Red Bull. A tight rope walker made his way between two Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter aircrafts as a joint publicity stunt between Red Bull and the 2022 “Top Gun” sequel. No, because here’s why this happen. How did you describe those planes? What did you call it? A Grumman. A Grumman F-22 Tomcat. What’d you say? F-14 Tomcat. F-14 Tomcat. I don’t, I don’t think. If you can fly an F-14 Tomcat, it is unlikely that you would agree to this thing. Oh no, those guys, they would agree to everything. The problem is that. I don’t know about this. The movie studio is not gonna cut in Red Bull into their promotion. Oh, really? I don’t think that they had a need for that. I don’t know about that. Tom Cruise doesn’t work with Red Bull. I just think the Venn diagram of a responsible military pilot and this level of stunt, they don’t ever cross over. So we are saying no for different reasons. For different reasons. You guys are too good. You’re too good. So why is it that it didn’t happen? Because they made it up. Do you have that information? Because they lied to us, Rhett. Give us this next one, I hope it’s true. A parkour free-runner did the world’s first back flip on the tip of the iconic Sydney Opera House sails. The tip of the sails? The tip. This is, they didn’t let him up there. The Sydney Opera House is not letting some dude up on the tip. I didn’t say it was a dude. It’s a dude. I knew that it was a, I knew that it was a woman. But it’s not a dude. It’s a nobody. It didn’t happen. It’s not a woman, it’s not a dude, it’s not anybody. I actually, wow. Let’s see here. The tip of the sails. You doing a back flip off of that? What a wonderful place. First of all, can I say? We’ve been there. It’s as big as you think it is. We climbed on the bridge that goes over the bay there. The Sydney Harbour Bridge. That you can see the Opera House. What a wonderful place in the world. What a wonderful land. I’m saying false. It’s such an elegant place. I think it’s so irreverent and subversive, it’s exactly the kind of thing that Red Bull would be into. Yes, it happened. It happened. What? I can’t believe that Sydney agreed to it. There he is. Whoa. Look at that. He can walk all the way to the edge. You see that bridge, Link? We’ve been on it. Look at that. That bridge. Don’t look at the man flipping. Look at the bridge that we’ve been on. Was that the back flip? There it is, the bridge. He didn’t back flip off of it. Hold on, here it comes again. Hold on. The bridge is gonna be here again. I’m watching the dude. I’m watching the bridge. That is not, that was underwhelming. Well, would you do it? Well no, I don’t know how to do that anywhere. But if I could do it anywhere. You could do it jumping. I thought he was gonna do a back flip off of it. Not a back flip on it. No, on the tip. Onto what? On the tip. A back flip onto what, the ground? He’d be dead. Well, that’s his problem. It would be a problem. I was misled. Yeah, Link’s calling a foul on that one. He was misled. Misleading. Misleading the Link. Leading the witness. A race car driver took Red Bull Formula One car down the ski slopes that host the World Cup Alpine ski race in Austria. You can’t do that. You cannot take a race car down a ski slope. You can’t do it. No matter how many times you think about it, try it, you can’t do it. It’s so irresponsible. What if there’s no snow? It’s so irresponsible. Yeah, I can’t imagine this happening. There’s a lot of things you can’t do on a ski slope. List ’em. Some people learn the hard way. Most ski resorts, you can’t make love on a ski slope. Yeah. They frown upon that. You can’t wave large flags. No, you can’t do that ’cause it confuses people. You can’t walk a dog down it. You can’t catch up on email. Right. Yeah, you’re not really supposed to be on your phone at all. You can’t have a toothpick or chewing gum. Yeah, yeah. So this is a no. You can’t pass, it’s actually, this is weird ’cause it’s kind of like the way that reality falls back on itself. It is a law right in Utah that you cannot pass a law on a ski slope. Right. That’s weird, isn’t it? That’s weird. These are all really great pitches for a stunt Red Bull could have done. But they did in fact do this one. Whoa! Whoa! There it is! Oh my gosh. Red Bull does things that you think are impossible. Look at those chains. So, oh, they’re going up the ski slope. I’m not really seeing. I don’t know, I’m still impressed. I’m not really seeing, I’m seeing a bunch of slow-mo closeups, but I’m not really getting any context. I was thinking we’re going black diamond and now I’m seeing we’re on the bunny slope and I’m not impressed. This is bunny slope. You know, you can do a lot of things. You can pass laws on the bunny slope because it doesn’t even really count. If you say, “Hey, I went skiing this weekend,” and you stayed on the bunny slope, you’re lying. Okay? You did not ski my friend. You just stood on snow. Okay so, so far you are unimpressed. Unimpressed by Red Bull. Yeah, I mean that wasn’t, that wasn’t impressive. Hence the unimpressed. An Olympic luger rode a sled through the world’s largest water slide known as Kilimanjaro at Aldeia das Aguas waterpark in Brazil. Luging in water slides. Can I point something out? Yeah. A water slide is made to just go down without a luge. So what about doing it in a luge is more impressive? It’s not. It actually feels like it might be easier. And I think maybe the luge would damage. And I think it would damage. Yeah, it would damage. The water slide. This is physically impossible. This is fake. It cannot happen. Can’t happen. And there’s also a number of things you can’t do on a water slide. Did you know, you know about those things? Wave a flag. You can’t wave flags on there, yeah. Make love. Catch up on email. Interestingly, though. I thought you said give blood. Can’t give blood. That’s right. You can let blood but you cannot give blood. Can’t donate it. You can pass laws on water slides, though. This one’s fake. It’s actually relatively common. So let’s get to a real one. Yeah, those are all good points. And it is fake. A base jumper in a wing suit. We’ve heard this before. Jumped from the top of the Red Bull building and landed in an Olympic sized swimming pool filled with sugar-free Red Bull. What’s the Red Bull building? You know it. The Red Bull building. I don’t know if there is a Red Bull building. There might be a building that Red Bull like, leases the rights to put Red Bull at the top of it. Well, that’s what they mean. This is true. I don’t believe it’s true. I think this is fake. It’s fake. Oh, well let’s get to a real one. A BMX rider did tricks in a BMX bowl suspended underneath a flying hot air balloon. I’ve seen this. It’s true. This is real. And I would like to see it again. Yeah, this is cool. Okay, here you go. Look at that. And look, he’s not tethered. Is he tethered? Is he tethered? No, he has a parachute on just in case. He does, doesn’t he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the parachute looks like a t-shirt. He’s got a cool. Did he? What? Okay, we get it. So, is that a, what kind of swimming pool is that? Is that how they? It’s a molded, it’s like a fiberglass mold. I don’t think that’s a swimming pool at all. Yeah, they just made it dude. It’s just a ramp. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They just made it. Did you even say swimming pool? No. Oh, okay. Now what kind of swimming pool is that? That’s pretty cool. [Mythical Crew Member] Above ground. And where can I get one? Never been in a hot air balloon and I don’t know that I care to. Is it amazing? Is it kind of like, “Oh, okay,” and then you’re stuck there for another couple hours. I have to assume that being that high in the air and it being silent is something that would be kind of, a novel experience. Right, but then it, it seems like I would want to do it for 20 minutes, but I don’t know if I’d wanna do it for a couple hours. Oh, you can do it for 20 minutes and then end it. Okay, good. But you have to jump out. You got another one? But you know, life actually, research shows that life goes by more slowly the more novel experiences you have. So when you hear something like hot air balloons, you should not just think about it on its own merit. You should think about it in the context of how long you want your life to seem. You’re right. I’m so shortsighted. Do you want to slow down your life a little bit? Get in a hot air balloon. So doing more slows your life down. That should be on the pamphlet that you get in the hotel about the nearest hot air balloon place. “Slow down your life with our hot air balloon ride.” I kind of like it. I mean, when you’re in one, your life pretty much comes to a pause. Exactly. Can’t check email. Exactly. Can’t wave a flag. Can’t give blood. I bet you could give blood. You could give blood in a hot air balloon. I’ve done it. It’s a long tube though. To the ground. The blood-mobile. 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