Hollywood Stuntman Trampas Thompson: Life on The Edge, Expanding Consciousness & What It’s Like To Be Birdman

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2015

⏱️ 192 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest isn’t famous. He hasn’t written a book. He's not an in demand speaker. But I can almost promise that you have seen Trampas Thompson — you just didn’t know it. Working behind the scenes, Trampas is a Hollywood stuntmen extraordinaire, collecting blockbuster credits performing a dizzying array of delicious, death-defying acts in some of the world's most popular movies and television shows. Trampas has run the streets on fire, sword battled with Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and most recently doubled Michael Keaton in Birdman. Yes, that was Trampas, not Michael, who lept off a New York Theatre District rooftop in the most memorable scene from last year's Oscar winning best picture. His credits are impressive: The Dark Knight Rises, National Treasure, 21 Jump Street, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, The Wolf of Wall Street, and on and on. But what drew me to Trampas as a great fit for the podcast actually has very little to do with his work. Far more fascinating? Who he is. What kind of person becomes a stuntman? God broke the mold with this guy. Larger than life, Trampas is one-of-a-kind. A renaissance man living life full throttle 24/7. The kind of guy who survived a skydiving accident when his parachute didn’t open, then jumped again. A person unapologetically himself, incapable of doing anything half-assed and utterly fearless. This is another epic, thoroughly entertaining 3-hour conversation with a truly singular human about living life on one’s own terms. It's about dragonfly tattoos, synchronicity, Burning Man and the never ending spiritual quest to grow and expand consciousness. It's about what it means to hand-wring the adventure out of life. I sincerely hope you enjoy this conversation with one of my favorite people. Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0	My intention is to just like with my heart is wide open as it can, like jump into the
0:08.8	air and like I'll think of like smashing my head in the concrete you know or like planting
0:15.9	it. I don't think of the the the graphingness of that but it's just like you know I'm intending
0:19.9	to touch it you know and it stops me right but there's no fear and there's nothing diminishing
0:25.6	my bandwidth so as a result like my my consciousness expanded my heart is wide open and in that space
0:31.4	like I'm open for those things one to enter and also to be aware of it. That's Hollywood stuntman
0:38.4	trampist Thompson and this is the Retro-Podcast. Hey guys what's happening everybody it's
0:57.5	Rich Roll back at you with another midweek episode of the RRP the show where I converse with
1:03.6	forward thinking minds across all categories of health wellness fitness athleticism entrepreneurship
1:09.4	environmentalism mindfulness spirituality and consciousness and the formative idea here is to just
1:17.2	get us all to think more openly and broadly about our lives and things that matter so that together
1:24.3	we can grow into our best most authentic selves so thank you so much for tuning in today for
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2:01.3	this little podcast going so we appreciate everybody who has made a habit of that means a lot
2:06.9	so today we're going to take a little bit of a left turn to venture into a subculture a world that
2:13.9	I know virtually nothing about the world of Hollywood stuntman and in particular the life of
2:20.7	a guy who is really a renaissance man my friend trampist Thompson he is a completely unique
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