Mike "Rooftop" Escamilla helped invent what street BMX looks like. Hoffman Bikes built frames around him. Nine X Games. Two Guinness World Records off the mega ramp. Then Hollywood: The Suicide Squad, Ant-Man, and dying in almost every episode of Lioness season two. He gets into where "Rooftop" really came from (it's neither story you've heard), a fire truck in Kuwait that rewired his brain, the stem cell treatment he credits with giving his life back, and why an industry with no gatekeepers has no quality control.

Unglossy is hosted by Bun B, Jeffrey Sledge, and Tom Frank and produced and distributed by Savage. All episodes at https://www.besavage.co/unglossy. Join the conversation @unglossypod.

John A. Dailey left West Virginia at 17 to join the Marine Corps and stayed more than twenty years. Sniper, then Force Reconnaissance, then platoon sergeant with First Force Reconnaissance Company on 09/11/2001. In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld ordered the Marines to build a unit answering to US Special Operations Command. Colonel Robert J. Coates got 86 men and a two year charter, picked four team leaders, and gave them one brief: tough rugged bastards with strong backs and hard feet. Dailey was one of those four. He tells Tom Frank, Jeffrey Sledge and Bun B about HAHO jumps at 35,000 feet, locking out of a submarine at 60 feet, sniper school stalks, and why the bookworm sometimes outshoots the hunter. He retired in 2008 and got an MFA in creative writing. Find him at jadaily.com and on Substack.

Unglossy is hosted by Bun B, Jeffrey Sledge, and Tom Frank and produced and distributed by Savage. All episodes at https://www.besavage.co/unglossy. Join the conversation @unglossypod.

Season premiere, and we didn't ease into it. Merrick Studios has been acquired by Savage. Every show keeps its name, its hosts, and its point of view. Tom Frank steps in as Chief Creative Officer and runs Savage TV.

In the chair for it: Robert Stout. Savage driver. Youngest ever to win Touring Car at Long Beach. Son of the voice you grew up hearing over Monster Jam. He talks about the part of racing nobody puts on the highlight reel, and what happens in Sydney this week when a four-rotor RX-7 goes up against a Corvette and a clock.

Unglossy is hosted by Bun B, Jeffrey Sledge, and Tom Frank and produced and distributed by Savage. All episodes at https://www.besavage.co/unglossy. Join the conversation @unglossypod.