1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know Frounhouse Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. 3 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry And this is part two 4 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: of the Evil Knevil Saga, the sequel. Yeah, we genuinely 5 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: didn't know. Yeah, we kind of. That's why he didn't 6 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: set it up as part one of them two because 7 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: we got into it and like, dude, this thing can't 8 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: be an hour and a half long. I guess it good, 9 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: but no, we found our sweet spot is not an 10 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: hour and a half of content. We did a one 11 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: part on Isaac Newton, but the two part on Evil Knel. 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: All right, so where we left off, we'll just get 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: right into it. Huh. Evil Knevil had just completed the 14 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: Caesar's Palace jump, completing it with his head and smashed pelvis. Yeah, 15 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: and by the way, he was in a coma for 16 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: twenty nine days after that crash. These were not light injuries. No, 17 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: and uh we left at a very important point right 18 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,839 Speaker 1: when he went and did that jump. On his way 19 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,559 Speaker 1: out to the jump area, he took a hundred bucks 20 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: put it on the blackjack table, promptly lost, hit the bar, 21 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 1: did a shot of wild turkey and went out and 22 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: jumped apparently with the two show girls, one under each 23 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: arm that was in head blocks. That was his style. 24 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: He lived hard because he was from the hard land 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,199 Speaker 1: of Butte, Montana. So he lands right, and he didn't 26 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: land on his his bike. Like, I can't remember what stuck, 27 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: but something stuck. I guess his back tire was it. 28 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: It was usually spack tire that gave him the trouble. 29 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: He always almost made it like you were saying something. 30 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,919 Speaker 1: I think it was back tire. I'm trying to visualize 31 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: the crash. But his his handlebars just get pulled right 32 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,559 Speaker 1: out of his hands because the bike bucked down well, 33 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: and it's just such an impact with that three pound bike. Um, 34 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: he just couldn't hold on and so once he didn't 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: have the handlebars anymore, he didn't have control and he 36 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: goes flying off. Oh it's tough to watch. It is 37 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: tough to watch, especially in slow motion, which is how 38 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: I saw it. Yeah, it's the only way to see it. Um. 39 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: So he has finished this jump with his head like 40 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: you said, and his star is bigger than ever, like 41 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: because of this crash. He's more famous than ever. He's 42 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: making Grand per performance by And it was after the 43 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: Caesar's Jump where he first starts to plant the seed 44 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: to the press that he wants to jump the Grand Canyon. Um. 45 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: For some reason, I have a feeling this just came 46 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: out of his mouth, like what's the biggest thing I 47 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: can think of? Um. But he started a genuine, seemingly 48 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: genuine attempt to get permission from the National Park Service 49 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: to do this Grand Canyon jump. Over the years, he 50 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: needed permission from I think it was the Interior Department, 51 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: and they were like, no, absolutely not. And he said 52 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: why yea, And they were like, we really have to 53 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: tell you why you can't have permission to jump that. Um. 54 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: But he did keep it up. It was a drum 55 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: that he beat like almost constantly. During interviews. He would 56 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,679 Speaker 1: say like, you know, coming one day, I'm going to 57 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: be able to jump the Grand Canyon. That's gonna be 58 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: my next big trick. And then in the meantime he 59 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: would set up these other exhibitions. Yeah and and chuck. 60 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: He said he was making Grand of performance. He was 61 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: doing a performance a week for a while there. Oh yeah, 62 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: I mean he was rich he was a wealthy man 63 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: at this point. Uh In nineteen seventy one, in January, 64 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: on the eighth, the ninth, he broke two records. He 65 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: sold out the Houston Astrodome twice over two shows in 66 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: a row. He sold out the Astrodome and one which 67 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: was a record. And then um in February he broke 68 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: an actual jump record by jumping nineteen cars on that 69 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: Harley XR seven fifty. It's pretty impressive. It's funny when 70 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: I'm looking at my my liner notes on this because 71 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: sometimes I'll just put kind of what's going on, so 72 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: it reminds me. It just says jump crash, jump, crash, jump, crash, 73 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: over and over and over. But that's what I'm saying. 74 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: Like he would, he crashed a lot, like the Pepsi 75 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: truck one. It turns out it was thirteen Pepsi trucks. Um, 76 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: he crashed that one. That one. It wasn't necessarily his fault, 77 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: like he had a short He had a fairly short 78 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:52,919 Speaker 1: run up distance and it went pavement grass, pavement. Not ideal. Yeah, again, 79 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: he didn't really think through. I don't know if he didn't. 80 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: He didn't people thinking it through in his behalf. Yeah, 81 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,679 Speaker 1: well he would just do whatever. Or like I said earlier, 82 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: like well this is how much room I have, wasn't like, 83 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: well maybe I don't have enough room, right, maybe this 84 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: is a bad idea. Well I said I'd do it. 85 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: So if I die, oh well, Well, in his famous 86 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: uh quote he always said was it's it's not about crashing, 87 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,799 Speaker 1: you know, it's about getting up and trying it again. 88 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of a trite saying it's direct 89 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: from success through a positive mental attitude. Yeah. Probably, so 90 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: his favorite book, so, um, the Grand Canyon thing is 91 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: building steam um in some ways as far as leaking 92 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 1: it to the press, but the government is still like, no, 93 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: you can't do that. Little boys all over the country 94 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: are I think his one quote was little boys want 95 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: to be like me, men want to be me, and 96 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:53,679 Speaker 1: women want to be with me. I Yeah, he definitely 97 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: thought a lot of himself. Uh So, finally, officially the U. S. 98 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: Department Interior said, I'm denying you airspace over the Grand Canyon. 99 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: This is not gonna happen. Please stop calling us. Yes, yeah, 100 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: So what does he do? Well, he apparently was on 101 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: a plane ride and he was over um Idaho, and 102 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: noticed that there was a pretty good sized canyon that 103 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 1: was formed by the Snake River around what's that down 104 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: there that looks like a canyon. Yeah, i'll jump that. 105 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: There's more than one canyon in the US and he uh, 106 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: he decided to go check it out, and outside of 107 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: Twin Falls, Idaho, he found a little area that was 108 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: just perfectly wide. Um, there was enough run up on 109 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: either side for him to try to jump it. Well, 110 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: he didn't need much run up and he uh, well, 111 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 1: he didn't know at the time. He thought he was 112 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: going to use a motorcycle. Um. Yeah, he did a 113 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: rocket cycle. Um and uh he uh. Most importantly, though, 114 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 1: it was was privately owned, so he didn't need permission 115 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: from any kind of government agency, although he did actually 116 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: that he had to get permission Um from the local 117 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: I think the county to register the vehicle. Is that 118 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: it and they registered at it as an airplane even 119 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: though it was actually a rocket, a steam powered rocket. Yeah. 120 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: He leased three acres for thirty five grand and said, 121 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: September seventy two, it's going down. ABC Sports said we're 122 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: not gonna pay whatever you're asking. So he said, fine, 123 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: remember how this worked out last time. I'm gonna hire 124 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: Bob Aram who was a boxing promoter still is I think, yeah, 125 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: his name sound of familiar unless he's passed away. But 126 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: he was, uh for Top Rank Productions. He said, all right, 127 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: you handled the filming and we'll do this new fangled 128 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: thing called close circuit TV show at movie theaters. We'll 129 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: all get we're all gonna get rich. Hard a subcontractor 130 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: and actually got engineers for this. And they built that 131 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: X one sky cycle, which, like you said, I've i'd 132 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: forgotten it was gonna be a rocket motorcycle, a rocket 133 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,080 Speaker 1: powered motorcycle. And they built it and tested it that 134 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: went right down a mile down into the river. And 135 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: he said, maybe we should just do it like a 136 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: straight up rocket. And this this dude, this engineer. So 137 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: he hired an engineer named Doug Maliwiki, and Doug Maliwiki 138 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: subcontracted the actual like design and construction out to another 139 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: UM Aeronautics engineer. His name is Robert. I can't figure 140 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: out how to say this guy's last name. It's spelled 141 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: like true acts true. Yeah, I think I remember the documentary. 142 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: It was Robert Truick. Okay, So Robert Truix was the 143 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 1: guy who actually designed and I believe built the rocket, 144 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: the steam powered rocket, the X two that um that 145 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: Eva Kinnevel used to jump the Snake River Canyon right, 146 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: and as you'll see, it didn't go according to plan. 147 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: So this guy's son is the one who is behind 148 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 1: this jump that's being done by Eddie Braun in September 149 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: because he wants to vindicate his father that this thing 150 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: would have made it had this um, this parachute not 151 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: deployed and kept him from making So he's like, he 152 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: wants to show that this this would have worked, and 153 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: that his dad, who's had lots of scoring heaped on 154 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 1: him over the years, including publicly by Evil kinevil Um, 155 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 1: that it was all quite unfair. Well, we're getting something 156 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 1: in a minute, which makes him seem like a bigger 157 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: jerk even but things are going well, well that's not 158 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:31,959 Speaker 1: exactly true. September eight n it's gonna go down. Uh. 159 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: This thing had turned into the party of the century, 160 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: like a hippie Hell's Angels biker party, a huge one. 161 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: And this is like Twin Falls, Idaho is not like 162 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 1: a hippie biker town. It was like a normal god 163 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,679 Speaker 1: fearing country town and all of a sudden, thousands of 164 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 1: hippie biker weirdo Druggi's show up and start partying in town. Yeah. 165 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: They were hammered, they were drunk, they were high on grass, 166 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: setting fires, just setting fires. It was completely out of hand. 167 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 1: They had no idea it was gonna attract this many people. Uh, 168 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: and became like a three day party. Did you say grass. Yeah, 169 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: they're high on grass. Oh yeah yeah, now would a 170 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: weed probably herb, the herb nugs. So uh, it's a 171 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 1: huge party. It's like Woodstock. People are drunk out of 172 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,199 Speaker 1: their minds. Yeah, high on the grass. Yeah, I bet you. 173 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: There's some LSD going around, maybe even maybe some Benni's. 174 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: And on this documentary I saw there was a real fear. 175 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: They had a temporary fencing put up to keep people 176 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,439 Speaker 1: away because the lip of the canyon it's just a 177 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: straight drop. Yeah, so they have this temporary fencing and 178 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: we'll talk about the jump in a second, but when 179 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: it actually goes down, they bum rushed this thing because 180 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: you couldn't see it what was going on. And there 181 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: was a real fear that they were going to be 182 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: mass deaths like Lemmings. Yeah, where people would get shoved 183 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: off the lip of this canyon because the people up 184 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: front would just run and stop, and then five thousand 185 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: people behind him. I don't even know how many people 186 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: there was more than five thousand even, I think, but yeah, 187 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: that they were just gonna be like hundreds and hundreds 188 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: of people shoved unwillingly to their death. Yeah, I guess 189 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 1: more like the Three Stooges than Lemmings. I think that 190 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: could have happened. Yeah. Yeah, if you look at I 191 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: don't know how. I saw a video of this um 192 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: and there's just people like just looking over the ledge. Yeah, 193 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: I don't know how it didn't either. It's it's like 194 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: you just describing it scares me. You got a little shutter. 195 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: So here's what happens. Evil Kin. Evil is not feeling 196 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: good about this. He literally goes to his family and 197 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: the trailer and says goodbye, And they interviewed his family 198 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: and they were like, this sucked. Like we really thought 199 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 1: we were saying goodbye to our father forever, Like we 200 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: thought he was gonna die that day. No, like P. T. 201 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: Barnum bs going on, like we thought we were gonna 202 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: see his see his death in front of our face. 203 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: So he goes off, and um, the promoter apparently was like, 204 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: had these armed guards. He said that they looked like 205 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: they were there for the crowd control. He said they 206 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: were there to make sure he got in that rocket, 207 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: he said, because I was not going to let this 208 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 1: knot go down with that scene going on there. So 209 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: he gets in. They do the countdown. This steam rocket 210 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: goes off. It was built from the from I think 211 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: the fuel tank of a jet. Yeah, it's like a 212 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: little one man rocket. Yeah, and they like superheated this 213 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: water I think like five degrees to create this blast 214 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: of steam. It takes off and almost immediately the the 215 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: parachute is deployed, which provides drag, and it did not 216 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: get very far. No, but apparently if you look at 217 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: the initial trajectory, it was right on target, which is 218 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,679 Speaker 1: why the engineer's son is like, it would have worked. 219 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 1: It will work if the parachute doesn't deploy. And in 220 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: the in the engineer's defense, the promoter and Evil Knievel, 221 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: so we're not testing this. We already spent all a 222 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: bunch of money on that X two cycle or the 223 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 1: X one rocket cycle. Um, we so just make it right. 224 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 1: So they had one parachute. They didn't test it, and 225 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,199 Speaker 1: when he did this jump, it was the jump as 226 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: well as the only test that they've gone right. So 227 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: the parachute did deployed, but they think that had it 228 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: not deployed, he totally would have made it. But the 229 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: parachute did deploy, so he didn't make this jump and 230 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: started drifting, luckily attached to a parachute, into a mild 231 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: deep canyon. The thing is, I can't believe they did this. 232 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: They had him harnessed in his jumpsuit, was like strapped 233 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 1: to the seat this thing, so he had no way 234 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:04,319 Speaker 1: of getting out. He had he needed help to get out, 235 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: and apparently there's no one waiting in the canyon down 236 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: below to help get him out. They were all on 237 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: the other side of the canyon. So had he landed 238 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,319 Speaker 1: in the river, he would have drowned because he had 239 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: no way of getting out. Luckily, he landed within feet 240 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: of the river. So it goes a mile down drifting slowly, 241 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: totally up in the air. It's like a plank oat 242 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: chip at this point. Now no one knows where it's 243 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: gonna land. And he landed within a few feet of 244 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: the of the water, so that he survived amazing. Uh 245 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 1: you know how I teased you and said, there's a 246 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: little tidbit that makes him seem like a jerk. There 247 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: is speculation that Evil can Evil pulled that shoot because 248 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: he didn't think he was going to make this thing, 249 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: and and he might not have thought he was gonna 250 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: make it to begin with, and it was all just 251 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: a big publicity stunt, and he knew that he could 252 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: pull that shoot as soon as he took off and 253 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: float safely down. So in the documentary they talked about 254 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: a little bit. I saw another VH one What's the 255 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: behind the Evil? Yeah, something like that, where um he 256 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: was our true Hollywood story. I think um E network 257 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: and he um. They talked about it, and there too, 258 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: they were like his hand was on that lever, like 259 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: he was the one responsible for pulling that thing, because 260 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: they enter of the engineer and he was like, I 261 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: don't know how this thing like it should have deployed, 262 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: like he was getting all the scorn. Well, yeah, you 263 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: couldn't figure out how it deployed. And Evil can evenly 264 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: even call him an idiot. He's like kind never like 265 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: that engineer he was an idiot. So that does make 266 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: it way worse because apparently also the engineer was very 267 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: surprised to hear this because they were good friends. They 268 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: become good friends over the coach of this project. Now 269 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: he's publicly calling him an idiot. Yeah, I think he 270 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: took that secret to his grave, so we'll never know. 271 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: But there was definitely speculation that he never intended to 272 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: make that jump. I had not heard that, which is 273 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: pretty remarkable. Well, let's let's take a break, um, and 274 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: we'll come back, because, believe it or not, he kept jumping, 275 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: all right, Josh, Snake River Canyon is in the books. 276 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: It is, and apparently he made like six million dollars 277 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: from that job. Yeah, that's what he personally needed. And 278 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: then spend it like in the next three weeks on diamonds. Yeah, 279 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: because it goes like, yeah, we'll talk more about that later, 280 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: all right. So now we moved forward a few years. 281 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: He's in between seventy two and seventy five, does plenty 282 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: of other jumps and had plenty of other hospital stays, 283 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: and then May in front of once again ABC's wide 284 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: world of sports. The thrill of victory, the agony of 285 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: defeat that still around when you were around. No, I 286 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: watched the laugh Olympics. Wilde World of Sports is like 287 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: the biggest thing on TV on Sundays. Yeah, no, it was. 288 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: I think it was on. It just never caught my 289 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: fancy and it was so great the weekend. Seriously, it 290 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: was just all about cartoons with me, you know, like 291 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: there was that point cartoons would started like seven in 292 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 1: the morning and then go to like ten thirty eleven 293 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: sometimes and then like non cartoons would start and just 294 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: be like that's when you nave and put this on TV, 295 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: you said, and then at naptural prime time. Uh So 296 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: in seventy five he says, you know what I'm gonna do. 297 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the biggest jump of my career in England. 298 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: I'm world renowned jumper. At this point I can go 299 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 1: to London, England. Yeah, because again not just like he's 300 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: on the wide World of Sports and he's known for 301 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: the Snake River Canyon jump and like the sea just pals. 302 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: There's the stunt cycle toy was the largest selling toy 303 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 1: of Christmas nineteen seventy three. Yeah, he made a ton 304 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,879 Speaker 1: of money off that. Atari had a stunt Cycle like 305 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: video console in nineteen seventy six. Um he there were 306 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: there were action figures. There's a whole like action figure 307 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: line by ideal. He was making mad cash from just 308 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: being a daredevil. Yeah, adds he was a pitch man. 309 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 1: He was making money hand over fist and like we say, 310 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: over and over spending it. And he was huge. He 311 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: was just a huge star. It's such a seventies thing 312 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: to be star for being a daredevil. Yeah. Yeah, it 313 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: beats the two thousand tens thing of just being a 314 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: star for being famous. No, I agreed. You know, at 315 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: least this guy was doing something. Yeah. Did Kim Kardashian 316 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 1: never put her life on the line. No, that's what 317 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 1: I want to see being Paris Hilton's assistant, probably because 318 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: she survived it. She was persisted. That's where she started out. Really, 319 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 1: what would you mean started out? She started out as 320 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: a rich kid in Brentwood. She did, but she wasn't 321 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: a celebrity by any MO until well until that sex tape. 322 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 1: But I think she was Paris Hilton's assistant at the 323 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: time that came out. That's weird. You know, Paris Hilton 324 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: has my same eye affliction, the tosis you paras Hilton, 325 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 1: Forest Wortaker, Tommy York. Oh yeah, he's got too huh yeah, 326 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: get that fix one day. I don't think you should 327 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,360 Speaker 1: adds a tremendous amount of character. I don't know. It's 328 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 1: easy to say when you don't have a droopy eyelid. 329 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: I think you should keep that vestigial tail, right, that's character. 330 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: I like it. When you wag it, we'll see what 331 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: it's doing. Is it's it's inhibiting my vision. Well, then 332 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 1: I can see that, you know, not a ton. But 333 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: like when I left my eyelid up all the way, 334 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I can see fift more of the room. 335 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: There's the sky. Yeah, anyway, that's my issue. So is 336 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: at Wimbley Stadium sold out Wimbley Stadium in London, England, 337 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: and he's gonna jump how many people that is? Well, 338 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: this is ninety thousand, the other articles at seventy. Either way, 339 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 1: it's a bunch between seventy and nine. So I don't 340 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: think we can sell that sell out Wimbley. No, but 341 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 1: we sold out two shows in London, so they clearly 342 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: have a jones for American American Americans making asses of them. 343 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: So he jumps these A E. C. Merlin busses, These 344 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: are not the double deckers, um, but they're still busses. 345 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: And it's a big jump. It's a believe as biggest 346 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: to date. And he crashes, of course, breaks his back. 347 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: Broke his back. Yeah, and in the very famous footage, 348 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:55,440 Speaker 1: told Frank Gifford, I came in walking. I went out 349 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: walking because Frank Gifford's like, get this guy, stretcher. He's 350 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,400 Speaker 1: broken his back. And Evil was like, I'm walking out 351 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: and he did. He did. It wasn't smart, but he 352 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: did it. Uh. Then he goes to another huge jump 353 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: at King's Island theme park in Ohio. I've been there. 354 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: I bet is it still around? I don't know, but 355 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: I've been there. And when when I was a kid, 356 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: it's clearly where is it? You know, I don't know. 357 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: I was always a passenger. I have no idea what 358 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: part of Ohio it's but it's clearly second Banana to 359 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: Cedar Point to Cedar Point pretty much everything is in 360 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: the world his second Banana Point. Yeah. No, this is 361 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 1: a your your parents hate you, do they take you 362 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: to King's Island instead of Cedar Point? Yeah. Uh. So 363 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: he makes us jump at Cedar Point at King's Island 364 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: and it is at the time, the highest rated event 365 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: and wild world wide. It's a tough one wide world 366 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 1: of sports history. Still still yeah, I guess so the 367 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: show's not around. Yeah. A hundred and six sixty three 368 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: successful jump. I don't think he even crashed on this one. Yeah, 369 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 1: this is an all around good one for him. You 370 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: got the buses. It's at King's Island, successful set, a record, 371 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: highest rated, everything's coming up basis on this one. It 372 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 1: is coming up basis and he says he's retiring. Yeah, yep, 373 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: he's Uh. He started to say that a lot, starting 374 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: with this jump. After just about every jump, he would 375 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: be like, that's it, I'm done. I'm never going to 376 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: do it again, and then he would do it again. 377 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: And actually I believe he retired after Yeah, he retired 378 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 1: after Wimbley. Okay, that's the famous line was I remember 379 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: now He crashed spectacularly, grabbed the mic and told the 380 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: stadium that you are the last people in the world 381 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: who will ever see me jump. I will never ever 382 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: ever ever jump again ever him through. And then five 383 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: months later he jumped to King's Island, right, and then 384 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,479 Speaker 1: retired after that one. Right. Then he retired after that one. 385 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: He did another one um shortly after that at the 386 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: Kingdom in Um Seattle. Actually it was a year after 387 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: that when he retired again. That one that was like 388 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: Tyson's last fight, Like he he jumped seven greyhound busses 389 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: and I guess the crowd was fine with it, but 390 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: he apologized for it being not so great, for not 391 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 1: like being risky enough, and and so he retired again. 392 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: And then he came back again, right, and this time 393 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: he was channeling the Fons. Oh yeah, he was gonna 394 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: jump a tank of shark. He's gonna literally jump the shark. Yeah, 395 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: and he did well, he didn't in the seven in Chicago, 396 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: he saw Jaws the movie and said, let's just like 397 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: he kind of reminds me of my dad a little bit. 398 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: My dad has this weird If he would have had 399 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 1: a ton of money, he would have had this kind 400 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: of weird excess crazy ideas like the bombshell. After it 401 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: was like these dudes of this generation there was something. 402 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 1: They're all crazy. Yeah, they still hadn't they didn't get 403 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: movies yet. Yeah, that's what um. So he says he's 404 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: gonna jump a bit of sharks, put it on TV, 405 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: and during rehearsal, he has a really bad crash and 406 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: actually severely injured a cameraman. Yeah, the guy lost his eye. Ye, 407 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: and I guess that was a really big deal that 408 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 1: evil can even Yeah, he was like I can't come 409 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: back from that one. Nope. So did he not do 410 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: the actual jump? No, I think he called it off. 411 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,719 Speaker 1: Had I been the cameraman, I would have been like, 412 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: so I just lost my eye for nothing. Yeah, he's 413 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: like getting that shark. Yeah, at least do the jump. 414 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: Uh Yeah. And apparently he sat on that footage for 415 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: almost twenty years, and then there was finally a documentary, 416 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: not the one I saw, but another one where he 417 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: allowed that footage to be shown and then he did retire, 418 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: So you know this is smart. I'm sure that camera 419 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: operator was like, oh, you couldn't have retired before you 420 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: took my eye out, not a week earlier. But that 421 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: was the one where he finally is like I'm done. 422 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: And he had a great quote. It was a professional 423 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: is supposed to know when he has jumped far enough. 424 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: Good quote. It is a pretty good quote. And like 425 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: he said, it wasn't just the Seattle jump that he 426 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 1: he He started doing less risky jumps toward the end 427 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 1: period that were like, I guess he lost his nerve. 428 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 1: Maybe after Boise or twin Falls the Sneake River, maybe 429 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: because it seems like that's where about it it changed. 430 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: Things changed, Although no, I guess it would have been 431 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,199 Speaker 1: wimbley because you gotta have a lot of nerve to 432 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: try that. So maybe after he broke his back he 433 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: was like probably who all right, well, let's take another 434 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: break here and we'll wrap it up with a little 435 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: bit more on his private life and all those broken bones, 436 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: broken bones. Josh, you know the old rumor that he 437 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: broke every bone in his body. Yeah, not true, but 438 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: he does hold a record for most broken bones. He does. 439 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, because he said he's broken thirty five bones. 440 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: That didn't seem like a record. Thirty five bones, four 441 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: d and thirty three fractures of those bones, and I 442 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 1: believe both of those are records as far as Genness 443 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: is concerned. Well, when you look his own website has 444 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: a neat little chart where the injuries are broken up 445 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: into fractured, broken, broken, and replaced and broken multiple times. 446 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: The other one that I'm I'm curious about, his crushed 447 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,400 Speaker 1: like he crushed his pelvis, is that an actual medical term. 448 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: You see it, Yeah, frequently. What has to take place 449 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: for a bone to be considered crushed? My interpretation of that, 450 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: which is completely made up, is that it's fractured so 451 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,919 Speaker 1: severely it goes beyond multiple fractures. They can't put Humpty 452 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: back together to just crushed into powder, fine powder. That's 453 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: what comes to mind. I'm sure that's not what happens, 454 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: but I think of like a big pile of like 455 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 1: sawdust in his butt. But if you look at his 456 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: injury list, it's you know, uh, skull, nose, teeth, jaw, 457 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: left and right clavical stern um, upper vertebrae, right arm, 458 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: left arm, all ribs, pelvis three times cox six both wrist, 459 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: hip and ball socket, lower bird of a femur. Five times. 460 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: He broke his femur. Can you believe that? Yeah? Yeah, 461 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I can right knee, right shin, 462 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 1: both ankles toes. It looks like his left below his 463 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,919 Speaker 1: femur on his left leg, he was virtually unscathed. Weird, 464 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 1: isn't that weird? No? No, no left end, no left 465 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: just say both ankles typically fallen into a certain fashion. 466 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: Maybe you know this is that's over Apple Cardiff. I 467 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 1: think that is what they call it. These are his 468 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: bones too. This isn't taking any account the coma he 469 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: was in and the multiple concussions he suffered. Yeah, and 470 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 1: I think he there was like internal bleeding and things 471 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: like that along the way too. And as as a 472 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 1: result of this, there was um there were rumors that 473 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: still stand, although I couldn't find much in the way 474 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: of substantiation of him that he was he took drugs himself, 475 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: probably painkillers. Apparently his good friends were like he ate 476 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 1: him like candy, Yeah, while grand standing against drugs. So 477 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: that was a really big part of what he was doing. 478 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: And one of the reasons why he did become a 479 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: role model to a whole generation of young boys was 480 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: he he had set himself up like that. He would 481 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: at the at the beginning of every UM show he 482 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: would basically do like a don't do drugs message, stay 483 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: in school, um, keep your word, And these were what 484 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: what UM he considered his his core values, right, So um. Yeah, 485 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: the idea that like he was doing drugs himself, it's 486 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: I have the impression if he was, it was very 487 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: much an Elvis interpretation, Like these aren't drugs. My doctor 488 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: gave him to me. I'm completely hooked on him, but 489 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:37,719 Speaker 1: I got him from the doctor, right. Um, not like 490 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: he was like hitting like bumps of coke or something before. 491 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: He was, you know, hitting the ramp. Yeah, he was. 492 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 1: He was a bad drink or huge, huge drink. Drink 493 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 1: lots of wild turkey. Yeah. He At one point he 494 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: said he probably drank about a fifth of whiskey a 495 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: day with beer chasers in between. That's a lot, especially 496 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: when you're trying to control a motorcycle jumping a hundred 497 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: and sixty three ft over some greyhound bus. Well, I 498 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: don't think he would do those jumps wasted or anything, 499 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: but he would like probably drink afterwards. He would take 500 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: his traditional shot a wild turkey before. So you think 501 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: he did it straight? Yeah, I don't think he was 502 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: jump I'm very curious you think. Yeah. But a lot 503 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: of the stuff, a lot of the dirt that we 504 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: know about Evil Knevil came out in a book by 505 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,239 Speaker 1: his former published publisher names Shelly Saltman. Yeah, that was 506 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: a big deal in the documentary, so I think after 507 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: the Snake River Jump in nineteen seventy four, Saltman published 508 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,479 Speaker 1: a book about the jump um and it was an 509 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: authorized book, but Saltman decided to to point out that 510 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: um working working for Evil Knevil. A day spent working 511 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: for Evil Knievel was like spending three hours at the 512 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: dentists without novacaine. Um. That the he he said that 513 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: he abused, He was abusive towards his family. That he 514 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: um was totally he hooked on drugs and drank and 515 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: was immoral and all this other stuff just completely hung out. 516 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: All the guy's dirty laundry may or may not have 517 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: made up rumors. Well, and this is when you could 518 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: still lead kind of a private life, like you know 519 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: about the stuff now, but um, it's not like today, 520 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: like if you're carousing women in bars, there's ten people 521 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: filming you with a cell phone, right and like within 522 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: minutes it's like out on on the internet. No, this 523 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: is like it took a tell all biography for this 524 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: kind of stuff to get out, right. Um. So Evil 525 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: Kinevel goes and finds the guy and attacks him with 526 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 1: the baseball bat and had two broken arms at the time. Yeah, 527 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: oh he did. Yeah, he like left the hospital with 528 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 1: two broken arms and said give me that bat and 529 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: attacks his former good friend. Okay, like really badly well, bro, Yeah, 530 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: he shattered one of his arms. The guy had his 531 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: arm up to defend himself and that arm got shattered. Um, 532 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: And this was where everything really went off the rails. Um. 533 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: He did six months for that six months in jail, 534 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 1: and this is at a time when his stars as 535 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: high as it could have possibly been. Um. Remember he 536 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,040 Speaker 1: had those action figures from my deal that he was 537 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: making so much money. Going to prison actually voided his 538 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: contract with them, so he lost all of his licensing 539 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,479 Speaker 1: fees from that and that was a huge source of 540 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: his income at the time. Um. That him being in prison, 541 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: he had started the daredevil craze and there are lots 542 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: of people nipping at his heels. Him going to jail 543 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: opened up this huge vacuum to where every daredevil in 544 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: the world was trying to fill it. Now and there 545 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: was actually this guy that um that the house stuff 546 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: works recently ran a great article on called the Human Fly, 547 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: and his star rose because he was trying to fill 548 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: this void left by Evil Kinevil when he was in prison. 549 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: So we're going to do a show on him too, right, 550 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: We've got to. Yeah, But so I won't say anything more. Okay, Um, 551 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: but but it was a big deal. This is where 552 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: things like really went downhill for him. But his son said, 553 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: I read an interview with his son and the Guardian, 554 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: his oldest son, Kelly, who I think is like kind 555 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: of the the executor of his estate and everything. Um, 556 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: he said that this this definitely was where it went downhill. 557 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: But his life, his dad's life never circled the drain 558 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: or anything like that. He didn't like just go completely 559 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: overboorder off the rails, despite the fact that like the 560 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: family like lost all their finances within a few years. Um, 561 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: he had to pay Shelley Saltman twelve million dollars. Well, 562 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: he didn't pay him a cent. Oh, he didn't know 563 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: he was ordered to er. Um. Yeah, there was a 564 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: lot of like all the money just went away. Yeah yeah. Um. 565 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 1: The reason he had to serve as full sentence. He 566 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: probably would not have had the judge not found out 567 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: that in his prison work release program he was being 568 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: chafferd and a limousine convertible back and forth and arranged 569 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 1: for other inmates to get mamzine transportation for their work release. 570 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: So the judge didn't think that was very funny and said, 571 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: you know what, You're gonna serve your whole sentence. So 572 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: he did six months, did the full six months, and 573 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: like you said, his beyond just losing money for the licensing, 574 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: it was just everything kind of went south for him 575 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 1: after that in life, his star fate was fading. Um, 576 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 1: it was not a great time to attack someone with 577 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 1: a baseball pat. You know. It wasn't like early in 578 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 1: his career he might have survived something like that. It's 579 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 1: not like nineteen forties or fifties, butte Montana. Yeah, but 580 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: people were kind of losing interest a bit. Well, yeah, 581 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 1: he he and he very wisely kind of faded back 582 00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: into the woodwork a lot. Um. He had already stopped 583 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: doing stunts, but he he was still doing public appearances, 584 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,359 Speaker 1: but more as like a motivational speaker or something like that. 585 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: This was where he like really began to retire. Yeah. 586 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: He made his own movie in nineteen seventy seven called 587 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:01,520 Speaker 1: Viva kan Evil with gene Kelly. Sadly and um that 588 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: gene Kelly was in this. Gene Kelly's great. I know 589 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,399 Speaker 1: it's sad for gene Kelly. He was in this garbage movie. 590 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: Lauren Hutton was in it and um and she's great too. 591 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,759 Speaker 1: Evil Kine Evil played himself as Evil Kine Evil, and 592 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: he was bad and he his The plot was that 593 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,560 Speaker 1: he um foiled Mexican drug traffickers, right, yeah, I mean 594 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 1: it kind of opens. I mean it was clearly him 595 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,520 Speaker 1: saying like, this is the story I want to tell. 596 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,560 Speaker 1: Like it opens with him like rescuing an orphan on 597 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,479 Speaker 1: his motorcycle a lot of a bad orphanage, like riding 598 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,800 Speaker 1: them out of there, and then he foils crimes and 599 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: forcing the orphan to make knockoff wallets. Yeah, and that, 600 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: you know, he even charms. I think the thing in 601 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:49,640 Speaker 1: the review I read said he quote eventually charms the 602 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 1: feminist reporter assigned to him, which was Lauren Hutton. Really, 603 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,759 Speaker 1: oh yeah, so he was one of those like you know, 604 00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: what do you what do you like? He's writing a 605 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,280 Speaker 1: bad article on me. Watch this, I'll charm the socks 606 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:09,319 Speaker 1: off of you, pants off. It's worth watching a bit 607 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,360 Speaker 1: of that, or at least a trailer hunt. I definitely 608 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: i'd watched that movie for sure. I want to see 609 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:18,359 Speaker 1: the George Hamilton's movie of him. George, It's Hamilton's as 610 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 1: Evil Kine Evil I'm sure even George Hamilton's was like me, Well, 611 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 1: McConaughey for years was gonna do a movie. He would 612 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 1: have been perfect. I think he kind of had that 613 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:36,160 Speaker 1: look a little bit. Yeah, but now I think that 614 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:37,839 Speaker 1: movie has been trying to be made for so many 615 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 1: years now. It is currently Darren Aronofsky directing Channing Tatum 616 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 1: as Evil Kine Evil really, so we'll see. Okay, I 617 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 1: like Channing Tatum, I do too, but he's just got 618 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 1: this um vulnerability that I don't think even he's aware 619 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,719 Speaker 1: of that he brings to every role. I don't think 620 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,000 Speaker 1: it belongs anywhere near evil. Kannebl Well, that's true, because 621 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,680 Speaker 1: he was like McConaughey would have been perfect. I think 622 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 1: he would. But Channing Tatum, he's he's one of those 623 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,200 Speaker 1: guys that did not want to like, but then it 624 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,759 Speaker 1: turned out like he was a pretty good actor and 625 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:21,319 Speaker 1: funny and sort of self deprecating despite his looks. So 626 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,280 Speaker 1: I was like, I guess I do like this guy. 627 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,320 Speaker 1: I got nothing against him. I just don't think he 628 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: could be a good evil. Kannevil, Yeah, I hear you. Well, 629 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 1: he's an actor. Though he's an actor, he doesn't have 630 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,920 Speaker 1: to personify the role. Yeah, I guess if George Hamilton's 631 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 1: did it, Channing Tatum can do. I think I've told 632 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,440 Speaker 1: this story before. One of my good friends said that 633 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,600 Speaker 1: he saw George Hamilton's on The Tonight Show in the seventies, 634 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: and Hamilton's said that he never wore the same pair 635 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 1: of socks twice. He always wore a brand new pair 636 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,799 Speaker 1: of socks. And my friend was like eight years old, 637 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: and he was just thought that was the most like, yeah, 638 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,879 Speaker 1: like exotic, wonderful thing of all time. And he's still 639 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,760 Speaker 1: thinks about George almost at Alexander Hamilton's of George Hamilton 640 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: when he gets new socks and puts some money. Uh. 641 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,439 Speaker 1: So Kenneble ended up being married twice. His first wife, 642 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 1: Linda thirty eight years. She hung him through the thick 643 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:19,680 Speaker 1: and then uh, he divorced and then married a woman 644 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 1: named Crystal Kennedy for two years they were married. Yeah, 645 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,480 Speaker 1: but apparently they've been together for a very long time, 646 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,719 Speaker 1: and so he's like, while he was previously married, I 647 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,799 Speaker 1: believe so um I saw I saw her described as 648 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,879 Speaker 1: his long time partner. Yeah, she helped him after during 649 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,719 Speaker 1: his illness, and it was a sad thing. At the 650 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,920 Speaker 1: end for his his family and friends to see him 651 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,480 Speaker 1: that way, right, Well, well, apparently they when they were 652 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,160 Speaker 1: married for two years, they divorced and then reconciled and 653 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: then lived together as friends, um, but unmarried. They never remarried, 654 00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,080 Speaker 1: but they stayed very close. Yeah. And he eventually he 655 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 1: died of well what was it exactly? He died oddly 656 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:11,320 Speaker 1: enough of diabetes, Okay, Well, he had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, 657 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,840 Speaker 1: so I believe he actually, um had a heart condition 658 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,440 Speaker 1: is what it sounds like, you no, a lung condition 659 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,840 Speaker 1: of breathing problem. And I guess the impression I have 660 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,480 Speaker 1: is that he just had just worn his body down. Yeah, 661 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 1: but it wasn't like, uh he broke bone or slipped 662 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,080 Speaker 1: on a banana peel or something like you'd expect you. Yeah, 663 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,960 Speaker 1: and his when uh in any of the documentaries, his 664 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 1: friends and family talked about how sad it is when 665 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,680 Speaker 1: you see someone that lived a life like he did 666 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 1: to be so sick and uh. And I think he 667 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,040 Speaker 1: converted to Christianity late in life and sort of he 668 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,000 Speaker 1: was baptized publicly. Yeah. I tried to come clean about 669 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,520 Speaker 1: not having done the right thing. A lot of times 670 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,440 Speaker 1: and you know, kind of the classic story deathbed regrets, 671 00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,920 Speaker 1: but he he became. I mean, he was a led 672 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,279 Speaker 1: and he's an American legend for sure. Yeah. He was 673 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,319 Speaker 1: buried in a butte in two thousand seven and one 674 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,080 Speaker 1: kind of cool thing that happened. He very much. They 675 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,440 Speaker 1: call him like the Godfather of the X Games because 676 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,839 Speaker 1: he has kind of inspired all that stuff, and they 677 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,360 Speaker 1: brought him back to the X Games before he died 678 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,600 Speaker 1: and paid tribute to him. And it was kind of 679 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,480 Speaker 1: cool seeing all these kids that were like, you know, 680 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:28,680 Speaker 1: like you're you're the dude, like you are evil Kinevil. 681 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,759 Speaker 1: He got to experience that, yeah, because he he was 682 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:33,839 Speaker 1: kind of broke at this point and not doing well 683 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,760 Speaker 1: and he saw all these people kind of uh paying 684 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,719 Speaker 1: homage to him and saying like You're the reason all 685 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,239 Speaker 1: this is here. That's cool and I'm sure he's probably well, 686 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:45,080 Speaker 1: can I get a cut of it? You just said 687 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,840 Speaker 1: I was a reason? You know? He get my lawyer 688 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,040 Speaker 1: on the phone. His very famous mostly white in red 689 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,640 Speaker 1: and blue jumpsuit. I never already wouldn't say it that way, 690 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,719 Speaker 1: and his motorcycle are in the Smithsonian. Yeah, the good 691 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:04,120 Speaker 1: old white, blue and red right. That's how true patriots 692 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,880 Speaker 1: say it. That's right. If you want to know more 693 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,279 Speaker 1: about evil Knevil, you can't because there's nothing more to 694 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,839 Speaker 1: know because we said everything. But in its Just in case, 695 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,799 Speaker 1: you can type those words in the search bar of 696 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,279 Speaker 1: your favorite search engine. You know, we'll bring up some 697 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:22,000 Speaker 1: really interesting stuff. And since I said search engine, it's 698 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:27,799 Speaker 1: time for listener mail. I'm gonna call this differential equations. 699 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,200 Speaker 1: Hey guys, big fan, it's really excited on the latest 700 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 1: show on chaos theory, maybe the most irrelevant episode in 701 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,120 Speaker 1: my line I worked thus far. I'm a PhD student 702 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:41,040 Speaker 1: mechanical engineering at Auburn University boo, and I'm currently instructing 703 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,359 Speaker 1: a class on system dynamics and controls. I can't believe 704 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,279 Speaker 1: you mentioned differential equations. Been harping on my students on 705 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:52,799 Speaker 1: the importance of UH the dif eq UH. But it 706 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,920 Speaker 1: is a hard sell. Uh, It's not hard to believe, 707 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,720 Speaker 1: my friend. Even more relevant was your decision on deterministic systems. 708 00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:04,560 Speaker 1: Whereas my work deals primarily with determinism's evil relative UH 709 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:10,360 Speaker 1: stochastic systems randomness. My field of research involves state estimation, which, 710 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,600 Speaker 1: put crudely, is the practice of applying statistics to make 711 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:19,800 Speaker 1: the best guess of a systems state i e. Position, timmature, pressure, etcetera. Obviously, 712 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,399 Speaker 1: the beauty of estimation lies in its ability to use 713 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,320 Speaker 1: knowledge of a measurements uncertainty, or even the uncertainty in 714 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:29,360 Speaker 1: the initial condition, for producing an optimal estimate. Anyway, I 715 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:30,640 Speaker 1: could go on and on. I just want to say, 716 00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:34,160 Speaker 1: great show, great episode, great podcast. A side note was 717 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,200 Speaker 1: the Isaac Cream Newton bit a nod to Wu Tang 718 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:41,840 Speaker 1: clan as in cash rules everything around me c R 719 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,640 Speaker 1: e A. M. Cream Get the money, Get the money, 720 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:49,080 Speaker 1: dollar bills bills, y'all, Dollar dollar bills, y'all. That's from 721 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:53,759 Speaker 1: Dan Dans multi talented. Yeah, he's into Wu Tang and 722 00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,680 Speaker 1: mechanical engineering. Yeah, at Auburn and he's doing it all 723 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:04,440 Speaker 1: my kineevil. Thanks a lot, Dan, We appreciate that. 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