Name: Ryan Williams | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #366
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ryan Williams | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #366' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-11. Transcript available.

Ryan Williams | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #366

Today's episode is brought to you by Liquid Death.
Today's guest is a valiant man, valiant young man.
He's from Australia, if you believe in that.
And he is a world-class gold medalist in scooter games and in BMX bicycling.
This man has done things that you and I could never fathom doing.
Even our dreams, we can't do the things that this man does in actuality.
He's a member of the Nitro Circus.
He's won countless gold medals.
He's from Australia.
And we are so happy to have him here today.
Mr. Ryan Williams.
I'll sit and tell you my stories.
Shine on me.
And I will find a song I've been singing just for me.
All right, mate.
Yeah.
How are you feeling, man?
I feel good.
Yeah.
Did you have a good time?
I'm sitting here with Ryan Williams, who was a real cyclist, I guess.
Is a, you know, a real astronaut, cyclist, almost.
Ex-gamer.
What's kind of the appropriate term for somebody like you?
I guess you would say a professional BMX rider and a professional scooter rider.
Okay.
Action sports athlete.
Okay.
I try to do it all.
You do?
Yeah.
Okay, so, and, um, action sports, like, so when you, when people say action
sports,
that encompasses what?
Um, anything that's kind of like, I guess, I guess slightly dangerous and
considered a sport.
Okay.
I would say so.
Yeah.
And, um, and I saw you last night.
We went to the comedy show.
Yeah, yeah.
It was sick.
Did you have a good time?
Yeah, it was, it was so good.
And I was like, uh, I don't know.
I've only been to, um, the comedy store, like, before that.
Yeah.
And then, um, so this is, like, the second time going somewhere in Hollywood.
Yeah.
Oh, nice, man.
Yeah.
Um, so, yeah, you guys, uh, yeah, that was such a surprise, dude.
So, do you have, do you go to a place, uh, so you live in Australia, right?
Yeah, yeah.
And do you, is there a comedy place you go to there?
Yeah?
No, I've actually never seen a comedy show in Australia.
Wow.
Yeah.
But, um, so, yeah, I'm living here in Huntington Beach.
But, um, usually Sunshine Coast in Australia.
And you've been to Australia, right?
Yeah, I've been to Australia, man.
I really like Australia.
You know, I like a lot of, I like how it all started with the inmates and
everything, putting
all, like, the seedy people over there.
Yeah, yeah.
I love seedy people.
And so, I think I love that about it, you know?
Yeah.
Seeing the children and grandchildren of seedy people and just seeing, like,
the ant, you
know, all the unique animals.
It feels almost like a, it feels almost like a, um, like a secret location,
kind of, you
know?
Yeah.
Uh, or it seems like a, um, like a practice facility for humanity.
That's what, and, and, and, and Mother Nature.
It feels like a training ground for, like, humans and Mother Nature.
That's what I feel like.
Just to see how it, like, mixes.
I feel like it helps, uh, it must be, like, in the blood, because I feel like a
lot of
us have, like, a few screws loose, and that's why, why you see us in action
sports, like,
just sending it.
Yeah.
Oh, there's a different level.
Yeah, Australians have a different thing inside of them, and I don't know if it's
a,
do they know if it's a scientific thing, you think, like, if it's, like, a, uh...
Maybe generational?
I don't know.
I wonder if there's, like, that rebellious thing because, because Australia
started because
I think there were inmates from England, they put them there, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So, there was, like, convicts, and they, um, shipped them over because there
was, like,
they're, like, oh, we want to free up some space here.
Yeah.
So, send them off to the mainland.
We need a little more bandwidth over here at the prison, so we're going to send,
we're
going to send a couple, uh, a couple of bad boys over there.
Yeah, dude, I love Australia, man.
I had a great time.
Um, so, how do you, so, so your world is mostly, like, take me through how you
kind of
got started, man, because I know you and I just met on IG.
I was in, like, I love all your, like, tricks, and it seems so extreme.
And, like, I get nervous being at, like, high speeds and stuff.
So, when I see somebody like you, I'm like, damn, this guy, you know, he's
really able
to level up, like, in this, um, you know, this guy seems like a real, like a,
you know,
uh, just like a real energy drink of a kind of guy, you know?
I felt like.
Yeah, um, I don't know, I guess it started, like, where the action sports
started was I
watched the X Games, and, like, there was a movie called The Ultimate X, and it
had, like,
guys like Travis Pastrana, Tony Hawk, and, like, I seen that, and I think all I
had at
the time were, like, rollerblades.
Because my mom took me to the roller drone, you know?
So, I was like, I want to go to the skate park now.
What do I have?
Rollerblades.
So, I just, like, went to the skate park on my rollerblades and fell on my butt,
like,
500 times.
And then, pretty much from then on, I was just, like, the skate park rat.
Right.
You know, skate park kid.
And so, at skate parks over there, are people doing drugs and stuff, or is it
mostly just
skating?
Um, you could probably find drugs at the skate park, but I, like, there's
certain skate parks,
like, the skate park I mainly go to, it's got a fence around it, so you don't
just go chill
there and do drugs.
You kind of, like, pay to go in, and you're not going to pay twice to do drugs.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, if you do your drugs and then you go in there, I mean, yeah, you want to
save that
money, I think, and just do your drugs outside, probably.
Yeah.
Um, so, when you started, like, did you find that you were good at it in the
beginning?
Because sometimes I wonder, how much of a, um, to be, like, an extreme sports
person.
Yeah.
How much, like, how much, like, um, is it in you, and then how much is it that
you can
learn?
Like, oh, yeah.
Because I've always felt like something like that is not in me, dude.
Like, you know, I'll even, like, even, you know, sometimes people, like, when
the car
stops real fast, people will put their hand over the person.
Yeah, yeah.
I will make people put their hand over me, even if we're just kind of cruising
along.
Yeah, I guess, um, I would say, I guess it is built in a little bit.
Like, you kind of have to be a little bit wild, because you've got to get over
the hill, you
know, you're going to crash.
You are going to crash.
There's, like, no way not to, really, if you want to push to that upper level.
But I guess it is something you could definitely learn.
Like, obviously, I started, I started just for fun.
And I was just like, all my homies were, like, down the skate park.
And then that's why I jumped on a scooter, because I was, like, the only rollerblade
kid.
Just all, like, the lonely rollerblader, basically, down the skate park.
And all my mates rode scooters.
And I was like, man, I want to ride with, I want to learn with everybody else.
So I ended up, like, I had to borrow, like, their scooter and their shoes.
Because, obviously, I rollerbladed, so I didn't have shoes.
You can't rollerblade on the scooter, yeah.
No, well, you can if you try hard enough.
But, yeah, pretty much just, it was all fun at the start.
And then you, like, build up and just, I don't know, you slowly progress.
But I guess at the start, you obviously have to be able to get hurt and not,
like, cry
about it, kind of thing.
You have to, like, pick yourself up and keep going.
And if you see somebody, like, were you helmeted in the beginning?
Are people in helmets or not?
Yeah, yeah, helmeted.
And is it well-received by others if you wear a helmet or is it kind of?
It depends what you're doing.
Like, you're not going to go out there and do a triple backward with no helmet
on.
Because if you crash, then you're not going to be doing any more flips after
that.
You might, you know, like, you can get seriously hurt.
But definitely, like, the skateboarding realm is, like, yeah, if you're not
wearing a helmet,
like, only in a stair set, they're like, what are you doing?
But it's kind of well-received in scooter and BMX to wear the helmet because a
lot of people
have gotten hurt even with a helmet on and, like, can't ride anymore.
So it's like, if everyone wasn't wearing a helmet, then there'd be way less BMX
riders
because I think that...
Oh, it's dangerous, huh?
It definitely does get dangerous.
And it's just like, why not have a helmet on and just protect your noggin?
Yeah, I just always...
I would never want my kids, I don't think, to see me in a helmet, you know, if
I'm a dad,
you know?
Yeah.
I feel like that's such a...
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I guess you might not suit a helmet.
I don't think I've ever seen a picture of you in a helmet, so...
Yeah.
And there's probably a reason for that.
Yeah, probably a reason for it.
Yeah.
But I think, yeah, if a kid sees their dad in a helmet, I think it just does
something
to a kid that it's just hard to, like...
You guys' helmets is different because they're more, like, cool-looking helmets,
I feel like.
But if you're in, like, one of, like...
If you're, like, on a bicycle, like, in the neighborhood, and you were...
And your dad drives up the driveway in the bike, and he has on a helmet, I feel
like it
just...
I don't know.
I would feel so sad for my dad, and then I would feel so sad for me, I think.
Yeah, I guess.
Like, if you're wearing a cyclist's helmet, the worst ones, I think...
I don't know if you have, like, birds that swoop you here.
Like, we have magpies in Australia, and they, like, swoop you.
So, you see cyclists, they'll have, like, a cycling helmet, and then they'll
have zip
tires, like, pointing up in the air.
To keep the birds out?
To keep the birds from swooping their heads.
Wow, that's crazy, dude.
Yeah, I used to paint this...
I used to paint fences on this man's property, and I used to do it with this
big, kind of
urban gentleman, and he died, actually, but he was alive at this point, and we
used to...
He also used to cut grass.
This dude, Johnny, was his name, Big Johnny, and he wore these...
He had, like...
It was big.
He had, like, real dark skin, and he had a big chest hair, and he would have
these jewels,
like, a lot of gold and stuff, and silver choice chains and stuff in it, and he
was a
homosexual guy, actually.
I didn't know that at the time, but people said he was later.
But anyway, he...
The birds would come...
He and I would paint these fences, and the birds would swoop down, because he
had a big
afro, so the birds would swoop down to get into his hair.
Yeah.
So, at one point, my only responsibility was to have this, like, badminton
racket, and
just fucking swat away all, like, these...
I want to say it was nightingales, but it might have been something else.
They were trying to, like, nest?
Yeah, they'd come in and try to nest at him.
He's like, you got my back.
I'm like, I got you, bud.
So, I'm just sitting there all day, just fucking...
Just love, love with Mother Nature, you know?
But anyway, yeah, so...
Because, yeah, I think sometimes if I had that helmet, it would make me...
If I saw my dad on a regular bicycle, but in your sport, you guys need the
helmet.
Yeah, yeah, I'd suggest wearing a helmet, just because you could, like, not
even be trying
anything crazy, and just, like, fall over and just hit your head, and there's,
like, a...
There's a lot of guys that, like, have had brain injuries, and then they can't
ride,
and it's, like, if they...
And there'd be people that get hurt not wearing a helmet and can't ride, so it's,
like,
may as well just wear one, but I get where you're coming from, but I'll stick
to wear an helmet, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
So, what about this?
So, you get going, you get...
Now, was it frowned upon that you're in there with the rollerblades?
Was that kind of, like, a...
Yeah, well, yeah, it was, because I rolled away for, like, four years, but it
was kind
of, like, that's all I had, you know?
Right.
I was just...
I grew up with a single mom, and she was, like, that's all we could afford,
ri