70 Men Ages 5-75: What Was The Scariest Moment in Your Life?

[Interviewer] What was the scariest moment of your life?

I don't have a scary moment, but I have a scary dream

about a tiger trying to eat me.

The elevator in the Haunted House.

It was when I saw this movie called The Intruder.

When my brother dressed up as a clown.

I think around like 2 a.m. I saw like a shadowy figure.

My brother scared me in the shower curtain,

so I ran downstairs in the living room.

Getting a cactus on me.

I had to take, um, the state test.

A nightmare I had.

When I jumped off my uncle's boat.

There's this one Halloween where I thought

there was like a ghost when I was little.

I woke up one day and I walked down the stairs

and I saw someone that I don't think was part of my family

in my house.

When we had a soft lockdown at my school.

when I almost got hit by a car.

When I fell into the bathtub and I couldn't get up.

When I contemplated suicide.

Going to college.

Losing my dad.

I was in the backseat of a convertible

and a trucker behind us got road rage,

and I thought he was going to run me over.

I think I've never had anything scary come at me just yet.

I don't know. [chuckles]

During my middle school years

when I was aggressively bullied

and not knowing if I was gonna be able to overcome

that moment in my life.

When I fell off the monkey bars

and I couldn't breathe for 60 seconds.

Losing my mom.

I wasn't a very good swimmer so I kind of just accepted

that I was gonna drown.

When I was about 14, my stepdad got drunk

and choked me until I was unconscious.

I thought I was going to die.

The day that I found out that my mom had heart disease.

It's one time I was rock climbing

and I didn't have the rope fully secured

and a bit of slippage.

Moving to New York and going after my dreams.

I was there when someone was shot

at the J Street station in Brooklyn.

When I launched my startup.

I was walking back in the neighborhood

with my mom and my brother who was in the stroller,

and we were walking up our street

and I turned to look down another street

and I swear there was a tornado there.

And I like bolted back to the house.

When I lost my parents.

Having a brain aneurism.

When I was a kid, I almost drowned.

When I woke up on a Saturday morning in 2015

and heard my leg crack.

When I let her down.

When I was in a street fight many years ago.

One time when I was getting off the train,

someone tried to cut me with a razor blade.

When I was 12 years old

and I crashed through a storm window

and had a 12-inch piece of glass hanging out my stomach.

I crashed in a car and in a ravine,

and we were in the car and it was sinking.

I had graduated from high school

and I was going off to college to live on my own

for the first time.

The day I found out my brother died.

Seeing my firstborn coughing a lot.

Nearly getting disfigured while doing rodeo.

The day I was shot.

When my mom was losing her battle to cancer.

Coming to New York. [laughing]

The day I quit drinking.

I got hit by a car.

Almost got shot with my own gun.

When my daughter Juliana died.

There was a pool in someone else's backyard

and the top was covered with ice.

And I was like five years old and the ice cracked

and I fell in and I almost drowned.

When I passed out in my apartment and I didn't know why.

I had vertigo and I collapsed into the street

and I bit through my tongue and there's a bus coming.

Getting questionable medical results.

I was driving my tractor upstate on my farm

and my son Steven jumped up, like we hit a bump,

and I get literal flashbacks of this,

grabbing him so he wouldn't fall underneath

one of those big, huge tires and get crushed.

Working with a partner up in Harlem

and we had 12 guys on the wall without backup.

The first time I saw the line at Trader Joe's.

When I was writing a bar exam

and realized that I had five minutes

to do the last question.

Losing my mom.

The doctor told me I was having a heart attack.

Getting mugged.

When my grandfather died.

Birth of my first child.

I was on a plane and it had a very quick drop

and it became very scary.

when I was serving in Vietnam.

When my hips went out on me.

I was involved in a near plane crash.

I fell with a horse.

In 1968, I was in the Detroit riots.

Coming back from Thailand, we took off three times,

and three times we had to come back,

and they dumped fuel on the ocean, and everything's okay.