The Downfall of Aaron Fike

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  • @hughesmovesgaming8748
    @hughesmovesgaming8748 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Mike skinner: certified drug expert is something I didn’t expect to hear today. Great video

    • @Dratchev241
      @Dratchev241 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      caught me off guard. had to replay that part again to see if i heard it correctly.

    • @hughesmovesgaming8748
      @hughesmovesgaming8748 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Dratchev241 same man same I was in the industry for a bit and I didn’t even hear about this until then so this was a phenomenal job

  • @mrj3217
    @mrj3217 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    OK, I remember back when this happened, and couldn't grasp him in a car shooting up in a parking lot.
    But when I fell into opiate addiction the day came when I was doing just that to not be in pain and to just simply feel normal.
    Missing a dose = Covid symptoms at their worst in just a few hours.
    Getting the dose didn't get him high it got him to a normal non-addicted people are at all the time.

    • @chrisg4305
      @chrisg4305 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep. Currently battling my own demons too. It sucks when you gotta use to feel normal.

    • @DanielD.-de9cy
      @DanielD.-de9cy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @mrj3217 That's what people who have never done drugs don't know. At first most people take drugs (pain pills, coke and heroin) to get high obviously, a numbing rush comes over your body that makes you feel great. Then over time, (different for everyone but not that long) you find yourself taking your drug of choice just to feel "ok". Something I will never forget was when I was with two friends and another guy who was with them. We had all four just shot up heroin and thirty seconds after as I could fill it running through my body I said "And the world is normal again." All three responded at the same time, one said "exactly" one said "fuck yeah" and one said "amen". Drugs will win if you let them

  • @rick6083
    @rick6083 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Addiction is hell i been through it and it started with a hurt back so i feel for him

    • @Tristin471
      @Tristin471 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s the saddest thing. I hate to see that so many addictions started with painkillers. I wish they would stop pushing opioid painkillers, but sadly, I’m sure the pharmaceutical industry pays hospitals big bucks to do so.

  • @christopherpettit2304
    @christopherpettit2304 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    While not condoning his drug abuse... People dont understand how debilitating back pain can be. When mine went to Shit, I literally cried most days. I drank to make the pain to subside. People do not understand how bad it is to lose the function of your back.

    • @TheronAnderson-hy3lp
      @TheronAnderson-hy3lp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I sorta understand, I have CTE from several concussions and hits to my head. I micro dose mushrooms almost everyday just to function. I can deal with pain even debilitating pain but I can’t deal with people and light most days unless I am using. If not I can’t be around people without being a complete asshole. Only thing that helps is being in a dark quiet room which is extremely depressing. Mushrooms have allowed me to live a normal life for the most part. I used to judge drug addicts and alcoholics. Now I realize I have no idea what they have been thru, only GOD can judge, all we can do is try and understand and help best way we know how.

    • @DeanandLisa1803
      @DeanandLisa1803 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@TheronAnderson-hy3lp “only god can judge”…😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

    • @easyenetwork2023
      @easyenetwork2023 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Then he needed to take racing off to heal his back, then get into racing without abusing drugs.

    • @valerierodger
      @valerierodger 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep, I think the only people who can understand how bad a back injury can be are those who have experienced it. I was in my final year of university when my back was injured in a car accident, and I remember I could either take enough painkillers to knock back the pain to a bearable level, in which case my brain was too foggy for me to be able to concentrate, or avoid the painkillers and be in so much excruciating agony it was to impossible to concentrate. And, multiple times just breaking down and crying because the pain was so bad, all day every day, and it wasn’t getting better, and there was nothing I could do about it (for over 6 months until a doctor sent me to a clinic which specialized in back injuries - until then, every specialist and physiotherapist said that my pain was from whiplash and what I felt in my back was just referred pain. This clinic took the time to do a proper work up. Turned out I had a disc injury, exactly where I had been telling medical professionals the pain was coming from… it was still a long and painful road to recovery, but during my first appointment, they showed me a stretch that would take the pressure off the injury, and for the first time since the accident I could do something to control the pain)
      Sure, I got a decent sized settlement out of it, But I would’ve given up every single penny of it if it meant I wouldn’t have had to go through all that pain.

  • @ic3man
    @ic3man 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    8:58 Mike Skinner is a hell of a driver and person.

  • @KellieLeigh48
    @KellieLeigh48 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Using on track during a race is just. Horrible. But I'm happy to see he's bettered himself.

    • @mcbassinfaas7285
      @mcbassinfaas7285 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Meanwhile 50% of pro athletes are hungover playing. Lol

    • @TheeGlocktopus
      @TheeGlocktopus 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mcbassinfaas7285 The other 50% are injecting synthetic hormones and other PEDs.

    • @KellieLeigh48
      @KellieLeigh48 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@mcbassinfaas7285 yeah but they aren't driving next to others at full speed either. Think of other people.

    • @IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT
      @IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I don’t even wanna imagine how it feels

    • @smunger69
      @smunger69 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@mcbassinfaas7285playing football while hungover, and driving while on heroin are 2 totally different things 💀

  • @RyanEverson16r
    @RyanEverson16r 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Tyler Walker has been posting videos on Facebook lately detailing his current addiction to crack cocaine. Extremely sad, he's one of the best sprint car drivers alive but can't get it together.

    • @nielgregory108
      @nielgregory108 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Addiction is the problem. It's his head. Crack is the symptom.

  • @m.a.mehalick0910
    @m.a.mehalick0910 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Imagine that... Mike Curb having his grubby digits on more open wheel drivers... Something is seriously fishy with that guy...

  • @theloneracer1935
    @theloneracer1935 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    And then Tyler was on FBlive doing crack last night. Sad to see Walker still on the wagon. Dude was one of the baddest in the business on dirt. Hopefully enough people begging him to get clean last night got to him and he actually tries this time.

    • @RyanEverson16r
      @RyanEverson16r 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He started popping up in my feed lately with lots of friends tagging him, begging him to get help. Dude was unreal in the Kumar 24 sprint car in CA in the mid 2000s.

    • @theloneracer1935
      @theloneracer1935 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @RyanEverson16r It eats me up to see it. He needs good patient people around him who aren't junkies. Last time he went back, it was definitely the company he kept that got him back in.

    • @Stormynormy42
      @Stormynormy42 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Okay so I saw some posts on Twitter about that yesterday and couldn't figure out who the hell everyone was talking about, but this comment made it all click together for me. Damn

  • @JayStephens8
    @JayStephens8 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Stinks all of that happened but I’m glad to see him get clean and living a good life now

  • @__deebzz__
    @__deebzz__ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Ive never used heroin but who the hell snitched?

    • @easyenetwork2023
      @easyenetwork2023 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A passerby according to the video. He should not be using at a family park. I go to Kings Island would report somebody using drugs in the parking lot.

  • @MikeKalasnik
    @MikeKalasnik 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How this guy kept getting rides is amazing. Did he have personal sponsors or family money? No way a guy like this lasts in todays NASCAR.

  • @rileyhart3054
    @rileyhart3054 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That ending was inspirational

  • @DJDouglasWarden
    @DJDouglasWarden 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I do certainly agree and understand that drivers should not be racing under the influence.However, what they do in their own free time should be their own personal business.Even if that includes illicit substances period nobody has a problem with everybody having too much to drink tonight before, but if you happen smoke, a joint or snow in a line.Well then you're fired

    • @2Truth4Liberty
      @2Truth4Liberty 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      John Ehrlichman (top white house aid of President Nixon) said the following in an interview according to a publication by CNN (Cable News Network) over 7 years ago . . . . . “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

  • @gfxman14
    @gfxman14 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I went to high school in Galesburg with Aaron, and his brother. Aaron was clean as they come. Personable, polite, and likeable. He was gone a lot for race events, and I recall he often fell asleep in class. Friends joked that someone had to be doing his homework on the pit crew because there was no way he would've graduated. I'm not even sure he walked at the graduation ceremonies actually. He lived a fast life, along with injuries it's no surprise that he resorted to drugs to ease the pains. He's doing well now though, turning a new leaf, and enjoying his family.

  • @GardenStateDiecast
    @GardenStateDiecast 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Do a video of Tyler Walker next since he was mentioned in this one.

  • @patrickracer43
    @patrickracer43 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Tbf, he did score a top five on heroin

  • @ScottyPimpinATL
    @ScottyPimpinATL 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The scenario of what happened in a parking lot seems more like people trying to scare him straight but backfired. Straight out of the Arrested Development George Bluth Sr handbook. Rich people do things like that alot and quickly deny anything if throwing money at it doesnt work.

  • @hectorzambrano4092
    @hectorzambrano4092 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That ending was pretty wholesome ngl. And inspirational too.

  • @las10plagas
    @las10plagas 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the reason why alcohol is generally viewed as harmless or less destructive as other drugs, is because everybody uses alcohol and they don't want to hear that they are addicted and slowly destroying they nervous system/brain with this. just like with any other drug... I'm not so sure about cannabis, though, but smoking weed makes me f-ing lazy

  • @SHarrell42069
    @SHarrell42069 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Aaron got that 1st Top 5 knowing he was doped out of his mind, and it made him feel like it was what he needed to run good 🥴

    • @Stormynormy42
      @Stormynormy42 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I mean, I get it. I got my first softball homerun on opiates and you'd better bet I was faded for every softball game from then til I got clean lol. Definitely a bit different with a racing though 😅

    • @SHarrell42069
      @SHarrell42069 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Stormynormy42 i definitely feel I do my best work when Im the right stoned and buzzy from a couple of beers. I know my limit, but definitely know where Im on point 👌🏻 Hahaha

  • @Stormynormy42
    @Stormynormy42 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As someone who's been through the addiction wringer, well done video. I'd be out of my gourd for softball games and convince myself i played better for it, but cant imagine doing that with a race car, especially at such a high level. Or maybe i can, i did do some wild shit back in those days lol

  • @easyenetwork2023
    @easyenetwork2023 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He had access to good doctors and treatments, yet decided to do illegal drugs. Some people with the most advantages never learn.

  • @the80hdgaming
    @the80hdgaming 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Now if you're gonna use on race day, I would imagine you'd want something to heighten your awareness, like an upper.. Not something that's gonna put you to sleep... 😮

    • @Cjohn31
      @Cjohn31 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No you want nothing but the high of racing alone

    • @YouTubeAuditor1
      @YouTubeAuditor1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Rookie ... Stimulants will give you a heart attack if your heart rate is already high, which it is if you're in a racecar. Lowering your heart rate will help you focus more and shake less. You will OD before you fall asleep in a racecar.

    • @stanparker9556
      @stanparker9556 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No that's you kid
      This is a job, pro athletes have to train for. Painkillers are no joke​@@Cjohn31

    • @Stormynormy42
      @Stormynormy42 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As a former opiate addict, I get why you'd think that, but it can also get you to this perfect zen awareness zone where you feel so in tune with everything that you're almost reacting to things before they happen, like everything is in slow motion other than your brain, without the hyperactivity associated with uppers. And the complete lack of anything even related to pain only heightens that focus. That combination is the high that people end up chasing that drags them into addiction. Doesn't surprise me that that run came within a week of becoming a daily user, he was superman that day, and it likely did actually make him a better driver on that day. But it isn't long before that level becomes harder to achieve, for shorter periods of time, and.... well, it tends to spiral from there, til you find yourself locked up for either using in a stupidly public place or alleviating property of their owners, or you die from trying too hard to find that level again.
      I'm glad his situation didn't result in any on track injuries and that he's seemingly found peace and stability in his sobriety, this all could have turned out so much worse in so many ways.

  • @TheSmoothGrind
    @TheSmoothGrind 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Its too bad substances messed up his career. Seems like a great guy, just got into some bad stuff.

  • @Johnnypaycheck77
    @Johnnypaycheck77 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've smoked cannabis and won dirt races sooooo

    • @chrisangel7463
      @chrisangel7463 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's not a drug buddy

  • @albondigas9549
    @albondigas9549 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Mike Skinner ratted him out...😂😂 thts hilarious.🎉

    • @bob8776
      @bob8776 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Mike Skinner might’ve saved his life or the lives of other competitors, crew members, and officials had the problem gone unnoticed

    • @albondigas9549
      @albondigas9549 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bob8776 Mike Skinner was high as a kite most of the time..

  • @Trackratz-zl9di
    @Trackratz-zl9di 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ancient history

  • @TheTruth-on5zx
    @TheTruth-on5zx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ARCA brakes at 0:45

  • @JacksonBandons-r2o
    @JacksonBandons-r2o 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Davis Sharon Martin George Hernandez Betty

  • @donnieburger3721
    @donnieburger3721 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    nascar would give him a bonus today lol

  • @shifty1927
    @shifty1927 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    How you flee and still get caught with shit. Also whys herion viewed so bad by a sport that had alcohol sponsors? Who cares what they do in their free time?

    • @AustinOgonoski
      @AustinOgonoski 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      You can't be serious lol

    • @cowmann3555
      @cowmann3555 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      amen brother, my right to do crack MAH BODY MAH CHOICE 🗣🗣🗣

    • @shifty1927
      @shifty1927 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AustinOgonoski why would I not be?

    • @shifty1927
      @shifty1927 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cowmann3555 yea same as my right to bear arms.

    • @saragrant9749
      @saragrant9749 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you that naive?! There’s a massive difference between beer and HEROIN!!

  • @nielgregory108
    @nielgregory108 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Carl Edwards did the same thing except with anabolic steroids. He raced while pumped, but NASCRAP let him "retire". I guess cause steroids are not in the same category as a hard-core drug.

  • @Redbelly357
    @Redbelly357 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who?

  • @RacingFanForLife19
    @RacingFanForLife19 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Herion" Fike

  • @MRosati5000
    @MRosati5000 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Terrible driver, wreck's too much equipment.

  • @saramccarty3921
    @saramccarty3921 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    first