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capture the sun's energy

and they change it into, and they...

If it wasn't for Matt,

we would have lived very

boring lives as teenagers.

Here's round three

of kegger smashing.

What was that?

Matthew had quite a lot

of friends in high school

and he was kind of the leader

of them, which was nice.

He got into a lot of trouble.

But it wasn't bad things that he did,

it was just mischievous things like

you know, spitballs.

And of course there were probably things

I didn't know about.

Oh, sh*t.

Uh-oh!

It was always interesting

hanging around with Matt.

We had a friend that

would supply us with M-80s

and quarter sticks.

We had a lot of explosives

on hand that we used.

And if we didn't have those,

we would make match head bombs.

Not anything but just for the simple fact

of blowing things up, it was just for fun.

Whoa.

Hey, there's Terry.

Hey, Terry.

I've never had friends

quite like the people I grew up with.

We did everything together.

We had time for each other.

We never worried that we were wasting it.

We were free to think about

the things that made us laugh.

That made us happy.

And my friends,

they understood me.

As bizarre as I was,

they got my sense of humor.

And they'd join with me in my ambitions

no matter how strange they were.

All of us grew together.

We learned about life

and we changed, together.

I don't think we took it for granted,

but we did imagine that it

would always be that way.

That the world would

always just be a funny joke

to laugh at.

And that all the stress and sadness

that everybody else dealt with,

student loans, job resumes,

car insurance, home mortgages,

weddings to pay for, kids to feed,

divorce lawyers, debt.

Well, we'd just refuse to participate.

Go wipe your ass now!

Oh, sh*t!

'Cause who could make us?

But in reality, nobody is exempt.

Eventually, in our youth,

most of us will take a hit

that stays with us for life.

Have you spent time thinking about

what it really meant to be crucified?

Have you ever studied what the

Roman crucifixion was like?

They slapped him and

said, "Tell us the name

"of the person that slapped you."

Put a crown of thorns on his forehead

and push it down until it

bites into his temples.

And they take this whip and they lash

into the person over and over again.

They waited for the blood to dry

into the robe that was on his back,

and then they tore it off.

Placed one foot over the other

and drove a spike through his bones.

Every time you sin,

he feels the pain of that sin on the cross

2,000 years ago.

There's not one person in here, not one,

who would be willing to go

through this kind of torture.

Not one of us has the courage.

Not one of us would be able

to stand in for what he did.

Perseverance is nothing

but stubbornness refined.

So you really need to watch what you say

around stubborn people.

I don't think I was worried about Matt

or concerned about Matt growing up.

But I definitely saw signs of

darkness, you know, his

hair started to get longer,

he started wearing ripped, tattered pants

and spiked collars.

If there was anything dark or odd

or creepy, he was into it.

I worried that he was filling his mind

with things that weren't healthy,

and I wondered how this

would affect him negatively.

But I think every teenager

goes through this.

But after a while, down

the line, the ninja battles

just turned into, they were free for alls.

We were going around

trying to hurt each other

basically to get something good on film.

And it did happen.

Matt, I believe, broke his nose.

He bit through his upper lip.

He also incorporated barbed wire

and some fluorescent lights

were in the ninja battles,

but he was the only one brave enough

to take a hit of lights.

Definitely the major injuries

all happened to Matt.

Matt was the one that was

willing to take it the farthest.

Is there any good scars?

Any battle wounds from this one?

That's right about

the time the humor

started to fade.

And the innocence.

My thoughts and my plans

were increasingly guided by violence

and hostility.

But above all, self harm.

That's when I learned

if you can make people laugh

or keep them entertained,

it's amazing the things

you can get away with.

Burns, just all tore up.

No, it's okay.

I'm just hyperactive.

Oh, sh*t!

No, really.

I'm fine.

See, I'm a fan of stunt work.

That's my motive.

It's just the performance that I enjoy.

Funny thing is,

I don't remember being happy.

I didn't know what I was feeling.

But somehow I was convinced

that I wanted more.

If only there were a place

where this kind of

behavior was normal.

We had to just sit

him down and say, okay,

you are free to do

whatever you want to do,

but you're also free to pay

the consequences of your actions.

And that took a lot of

tension out of our family

because Matthew was really strong willed.

And we released him into a

phase of life where he was

free to make his own decisions.

And he made decisions that

were costly to him sometimes.

Matt is on his own program,

and I don't think anything I would've said

would've had an effect on him.

Matt is just motivated, and I think

even then he knew what he wanted to do.

I think he already had

probably made some plans

on going to wrestling school.

I knew at the time though,

because it wasn't regulated

to the same extent when I was involved,

I knew it was an atmosphere

where I could explore

some of the hostility

that was in me without

getting charges pressed against me.

When he decided to do

this, I actually drew

a picture of him in a set of hands

and drew a little stick

figure of my son inside them

and just said, "Lord, he's yours now.

"I'm trusting you to take

care of him and protect him."

What you see here is nothing

compared to what you're gonna see.

Tell 'em, Mondo!

This is just the start.

This is the way we choose to live.

Nobody tells us we have to do this stuff.

We are ultra violent.

We are CZW, and there's

no other federation

on the planet like us.

It looks like he's trying to go

for the Assault Driver.

The Assault Driver,

the Assault Driver.

25 feet in the air.

Oh, bam, someone call 911!

Are these men mentally sane?

Mondo going upstairs,

high risk maneuver.

The M. Bison, the M. Bison!

Ouch!

Bam!

CZW, CZW!

Nick Mondo has the

highest threshold of pain.

Remember Un F'n Believable?

John House has him up.

Tomorrow everybody sees

just how sick Nick Mondo can be.

Reversal of the

Irish Whip, Nick Mondo!

Holy f***!

Sh*t, holy f***!

The Iron Man Title.

If you wanna wear the Iron Man Title,

you have to wear scars on your body.

If you wanna carry the Iron Man Title,

you have to carry broken bones.

If you wanna have the Iron Man Title,

you have to have concussions.

I've done every single

one of those things.

Are you kidding me?

You gotta be nuts, you

gotta be kidding me.

Nick Mondo just went to hell.

John, somebody could get hurt.

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