This is, of course, the best thing about the video. Maybe he was about to get fired from his job, and he wanted to use that coverage they'd been giving him? Then again, I doubt this is the sort of guy who works at a job with benefits. Which is why we need...
I was trying to figure that out, too. It must be a set-up for some stunt they had dreamed up. It can't just be that they decided to film their friend crushing his skull.
But no, no, he clearly places his head in the crushing position and then cues his friend to "go". Amazing.
"I'm just a couple minutes away. (They are) taking me over there to get surgery" Assumedly talking about whatever hospital they're about to transport him to for surgery.