WEBVTT - Evel Knievel Part II 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:11.200 Welcome to stuff you should know Frounhouse Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.400 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.320 Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry And this is part two 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:25.919 of the Evil Knevil Saga, the sequel. Yeah, we genuinely 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:27.680 didn't know. Yeah, we kind of. That's why he didn't 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:29.640 set it up as part one of them two because 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.080 we got into it and like, dude, this thing can't 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.080 be an hour and a half long. I guess it good, 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.040 but no, we found our sweet spot is not an 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.000 hour and a half of content. We did a one 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.000 part on Isaac Newton, but the two part on Evil Knel. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:48.760 All right, so where we left off, we'll just get 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:53.440 right into it. Huh. Evil Knevil had just completed the 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:59.400 Caesar's Palace jump, completing it with his head and smashed pelvis. Yeah, 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:00.880 and by the way, he was in a coma for 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.120 twenty nine days after that crash. These were not light injuries. No, 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.160 and uh we left at a very important point right 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.839 when he went and did that jump. On his way 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.559 out to the jump area, he took a hundred bucks 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.320 put it on the blackjack table, promptly lost, hit the bar, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.399 did a shot of wild turkey and went out and 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.399 jumped apparently with the two show girls, one under each 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.520 arm that was in head blocks. That was his style. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.160 He lived hard because he was from the hard land 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:38.199 of Butte, Montana. So he lands right, and he didn't 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:43.400 land on his his bike. Like, I can't remember what stuck, 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.560 but something stuck. I guess his back tire was it. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.640 It was usually spack tire that gave him the trouble. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:53.440 He always almost made it like you were saying something. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.919 I think it was back tire. I'm trying to visualize 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.240 the crash. But his his handlebars just get pulled right 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.559 out of his hands because the bike bucked down well, 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:06.600 and it's just such an impact with that three pound bike. Um, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.800 he just couldn't hold on and so once he didn't 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.080 have the handlebars anymore, he didn't have control and he 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.320 goes flying off. Oh it's tough to watch. It is 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.799 tough to watch, especially in slow motion, which is how 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:23.080 I saw it. Yeah, it's the only way to see it. Um. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.840 So he has finished this jump with his head like 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.640 you said, and his star is bigger than ever, like 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.560 because of this crash. He's more famous than ever. He's 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:39.800 making Grand per performance by And it was after the 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.880 Caesar's Jump where he first starts to plant the seed 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:47.120 to the press that he wants to jump the Grand Canyon. Um. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:48.840 For some reason, I have a feeling this just came 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.200 out of his mouth, like what's the biggest thing I 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:56.800 can think of? Um. But he started a genuine, seemingly 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.600 genuine attempt to get permission from the National Park Service 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.560 to do this Grand Canyon jump. Over the years, he 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.720 needed permission from I think it was the Interior Department, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:12.000 and they were like, no, absolutely not. And he said 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.200 why yea, And they were like, we really have to 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:19.600 tell you why you can't have permission to jump that. Um. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.320 But he did keep it up. It was a drum 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:25.800 that he beat like almost constantly. During interviews. He would 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.679 say like, you know, coming one day, I'm going to 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.160 be able to jump the Grand Canyon. That's gonna be 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.720 my next big trick. And then in the meantime he 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.720 would set up these other exhibitions. Yeah and and chuck. 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.480 He said he was making Grand of performance. He was 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.600 doing a performance a week for a while there. Oh yeah, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.360 I mean he was rich he was a wealthy man 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.000 at this point. Uh In nineteen seventy one, in January, 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.280 on the eighth, the ninth, he broke two records. He 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:58.000 sold out the Houston Astrodome twice over two shows in 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.840 a row. He sold out the Astrodome and one which 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.760 was a record. And then um in February he broke 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:10.080 an actual jump record by jumping nineteen cars on that 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.560 Harley XR seven fifty. It's pretty impressive. It's funny when 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.760 I'm looking at my my liner notes on this because 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.760 sometimes I'll just put kind of what's going on, so 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.960 it reminds me. It just says jump crash, jump, crash, jump, crash, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.080 over and over and over. But that's what I'm saying. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.520 Like he would, he crashed a lot, like the Pepsi 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.839 truck one. It turns out it was thirteen Pepsi trucks. Um, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:43.400 he crashed that one. That one. It wasn't necessarily his fault, 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.920 like he had a short He had a fairly short 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:52.919 run up distance and it went pavement grass, pavement. Not ideal. Yeah, again, 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.880 he didn't really think through. I don't know if he didn't. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.560 He didn't people thinking it through in his behalf. Yeah, 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.679 well he would just do whatever. Or like I said earlier, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.400 like well this is how much room I have, wasn't like, 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.640 well maybe I don't have enough room, right, maybe this 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.080 is a bad idea. Well I said I'd do it. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.080 So if I die, oh well, Well, in his famous 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.480 uh quote he always said was it's it's not about crashing, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.799 you know, it's about getting up and trying it again. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.919 You know, it's kind of a trite saying it's direct 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.560 from success through a positive mental attitude. Yeah. Probably, so 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.080 his favorite book, so, um, the Grand Canyon thing is 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.920 building steam um in some ways as far as leaking 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.919 it to the press, but the government is still like, no, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.360 you can't do that. Little boys all over the country 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.840 are I think his one quote was little boys want 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.680 to be like me, men want to be me, and 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:53.679 women want to be with me. I Yeah, he definitely 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.920 thought a lot of himself. Uh So, finally, officially the U. S. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:02.440 Department Interior said, I'm denying you airspace over the Grand Canyon. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.800 This is not gonna happen. Please stop calling us. Yes, yeah, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.200 So what does he do? Well, he apparently was on 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.640 a plane ride and he was over um Idaho, and 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.160 noticed that there was a pretty good sized canyon that 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.840 was formed by the Snake River around what's that down 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.640 there that looks like a canyon. Yeah, i'll jump that. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.440 There's more than one canyon in the US and he uh, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.800 he decided to go check it out, and outside of 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.039 Twin Falls, Idaho, he found a little area that was 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:36.320 just perfectly wide. Um, there was enough run up on 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.000 either side for him to try to jump it. Well, 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.800 he didn't need much run up and he uh, well, 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:43.280 he didn't know at the time. He thought he was 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.200 going to use a motorcycle. Um. Yeah, he did a 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:52.080 rocket cycle. Um and uh he uh. Most importantly, though, 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:56.039 it was was privately owned, so he didn't need permission 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.640 from any kind of government agency, although he did actually 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.719 that he had to get permission Um from the local 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.960 I think the county to register the vehicle. Is that 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.920 it and they registered at it as an airplane even 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.000 though it was actually a rocket, a steam powered rocket. Yeah. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.000 He leased three acres for thirty five grand and said, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.480 September seventy two, it's going down. ABC Sports said we're 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.360 not gonna pay whatever you're asking. So he said, fine, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.400 remember how this worked out last time. I'm gonna hire 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.920 Bob Aram who was a boxing promoter still is I think, yeah, 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.320 his name sound of familiar unless he's passed away. But 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.360 he was, uh for Top Rank Productions. He said, all right, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.640 you handled the filming and we'll do this new fangled 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.840 thing called close circuit TV show at movie theaters. We'll 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.680 all get we're all gonna get rich. Hard a subcontractor 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.240 and actually got engineers for this. And they built that 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.480 X one sky cycle, which, like you said, I've i'd 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.400 forgotten it was gonna be a rocket motorcycle, a rocket 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.080 powered motorcycle. And they built it and tested it that 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:04.960 went right down a mile down into the river. And 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.480 he said, maybe we should just do it like a 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.720 straight up rocket. And this this dude, this engineer. So 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.720 he hired an engineer named Doug Maliwiki, and Doug Maliwiki 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:19.000 subcontracted the actual like design and construction out to another 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.880 UM Aeronautics engineer. His name is Robert. I can't figure 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.400 out how to say this guy's last name. It's spelled 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.760 like true acts true. Yeah, I think I remember the documentary. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.280 It was Robert Truick. Okay, So Robert Truix was the 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.959 guy who actually designed and I believe built the rocket, 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.760 the steam powered rocket, the X two that um that 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.000 Eva Kinnevel used to jump the Snake River Canyon right, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.280 and as you'll see, it didn't go according to plan. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.439 So this guy's son is the one who is behind 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.319 this jump that's being done by Eddie Braun in September 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.520 because he wants to vindicate his father that this thing 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.559 would have made it had this um, this parachute not 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.400 deployed and kept him from making So he's like, he 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.000 wants to show that this this would have worked, and 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.360 that his dad, who's had lots of scoring heaped on 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:16.679 him over the years, including publicly by Evil kinevil Um, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.319 that it was all quite unfair. Well, we're getting something 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.079 in a minute, which makes him seem like a bigger 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:26.120 jerk even but things are going well, well that's not 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:31.959 exactly true. September eight n it's gonna go down. Uh. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.679 This thing had turned into the party of the century, 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.600 like a hippie Hell's Angels biker party, a huge one. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.160 And this is like Twin Falls, Idaho is not like 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.679 a hippie biker town. It was like a normal god 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.679 fearing country town and all of a sudden, thousands of 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:55.199 hippie biker weirdo Druggi's show up and start partying in town. Yeah. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.600 They were hammered, they were drunk, they were high on grass, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.160 setting fires, just setting fires. It was completely out of hand. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.559 They had no idea it was gonna attract this many people. Uh, 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:12.480 and became like a three day party. Did you say grass. Yeah, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:19.080 they're high on grass. Oh yeah yeah, now would a 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:25.600 weed probably herb, the herb nugs. So uh, it's a 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.559 huge party. It's like Woodstock. People are drunk out of 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.199 their minds. Yeah, high on the grass. Yeah, I bet you. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.960 There's some LSD going around, maybe even maybe some Benni's. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:39.720 And on this documentary I saw there was a real fear. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.000 They had a temporary fencing put up to keep people 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.439 away because the lip of the canyon it's just a 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:50.040 straight drop. Yeah, so they have this temporary fencing and 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.040 we'll talk about the jump in a second, but when 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.720 it actually goes down, they bum rushed this thing because 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.280 you couldn't see it what was going on. And there 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.640 was a real fear that they were going to be 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:06.040 mass deaths like Lemmings. Yeah, where people would get shoved 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.040 off the lip of this canyon because the people up 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.160 front would just run and stop, and then five thousand 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.800 people behind him. I don't even know how many people 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.400 there was more than five thousand even, I think, but yeah, 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.080 that they were just gonna be like hundreds and hundreds 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.120 of people shoved unwillingly to their death. Yeah, I guess 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.439 more like the Three Stooges than Lemmings. I think that 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.640 could have happened. Yeah. Yeah, if you look at I 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.280 don't know how. I saw a video of this um 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.800 and there's just people like just looking over the ledge. Yeah, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.040 I don't know how it didn't either. It's it's like 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.600 you just describing it scares me. You got a little shutter. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.640 So here's what happens. Evil Kin. Evil is not feeling 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.520 good about this. He literally goes to his family and 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.840 the trailer and says goodbye, And they interviewed his family 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:56.160 and they were like, this sucked. Like we really thought 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.959 we were saying goodbye to our father forever, Like we 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.760 thought he was gonna die that day. No, like P. T. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:05.320 Barnum bs going on, like we thought we were gonna 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.160 see his see his death in front of our face. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.240 So he goes off, and um, the promoter apparently was like, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.840 had these armed guards. He said that they looked like 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.280 they were there for the crowd control. He said they 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.080 were there to make sure he got in that rocket, 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.080 he said, because I was not going to let this 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.079 knot go down with that scene going on there. So 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.680 he gets in. They do the countdown. This steam rocket 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.920 goes off. It was built from the from I think 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:37.240 the fuel tank of a jet. Yeah, it's like a 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.160 little one man rocket. Yeah, and they like superheated this 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.120 water I think like five degrees to create this blast 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.800 of steam. It takes off and almost immediately the the 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:53.160 parachute is deployed, which provides drag, and it did not 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.880 get very far. No, but apparently if you look at 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:01.160 the initial trajectory, it was right on target, which is 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.679 why the engineer's son is like, it would have worked. 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.440 It will work if the parachute doesn't deploy. And in 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:12.120 the in the engineer's defense, the promoter and Evil Knievel, 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.520 so we're not testing this. We already spent all a 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.760 bunch of money on that X two cycle or the 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:22.559 X one rocket cycle. Um, we so just make it right. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.559 So they had one parachute. They didn't test it, and 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.199 when he did this jump, it was the jump as 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.360 well as the only test that they've gone right. So 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.000 the parachute did deployed, but they think that had it 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.480 not deployed, he totally would have made it. But the 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:43.000 parachute did deploy, so he didn't make this jump and 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:47.600 started drifting, luckily attached to a parachute, into a mild 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:52.120 deep canyon. The thing is, I can't believe they did this. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:57.640 They had him harnessed in his jumpsuit, was like strapped 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.679 to the seat this thing, so he had no way 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.319 of getting out. He had he needed help to get out, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.040 and apparently there's no one waiting in the canyon down 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.120 below to help get him out. They were all on 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:14.240 the other side of the canyon. So had he landed 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.319 in the river, he would have drowned because he had 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:23.200 no way of getting out. Luckily, he landed within feet 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.120 of the river. So it goes a mile down drifting slowly, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.680 totally up in the air. It's like a plank oat 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:31.520 chip at this point. Now no one knows where it's 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.120 gonna land. And he landed within a few feet of 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.360 the of the water, so that he survived amazing. Uh 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:39.800 you know how I teased you and said, there's a 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.920 little tidbit that makes him seem like a jerk. There 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:48.280 is speculation that Evil can Evil pulled that shoot because 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.000 he didn't think he was going to make this thing, 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.400 and and he might not have thought he was gonna 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.840 make it to begin with, and it was all just 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.440 a big publicity stunt, and he knew that he could 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.600 pull that shoot as soon as he took off and 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.480 float safely down. So in the documentary they talked about 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.640 a little bit. I saw another VH one What's the 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:14.360 behind the Evil? Yeah, something like that, where um he 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.240 was our true Hollywood story. I think um E network 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.320 and he um. They talked about it, and there too, 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.160 they were like his hand was on that lever, like 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.320 he was the one responsible for pulling that thing, because 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.000 they enter of the engineer and he was like, I 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.960 don't know how this thing like it should have deployed, 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.400 like he was getting all the scorn. Well, yeah, you 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.160 couldn't figure out how it deployed. And Evil can evenly 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.080 even call him an idiot. He's like kind never like 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.920 that engineer he was an idiot. So that does make 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.960 it way worse because apparently also the engineer was very 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.120 surprised to hear this because they were good friends. They 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.000 become good friends over the coach of this project. Now 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.240 he's publicly calling him an idiot. Yeah, I think he 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.480 took that secret to his grave, so we'll never know. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.560 But there was definitely speculation that he never intended to 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.960 make that jump. I had not heard that, which is 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:03.360 pretty remarkable. Well, let's let's take a break, um, and 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.720 we'll come back, because, believe it or not, he kept jumping, 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.160 all right, Josh, Snake River Canyon is in the books. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.880 It is, and apparently he made like six million dollars 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.080 from that job. Yeah, that's what he personally needed. And 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.920 then spend it like in the next three weeks on diamonds. Yeah, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.280 because it goes like, yeah, we'll talk more about that later, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.040 all right. So now we moved forward a few years. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.480 He's in between seventy two and seventy five, does plenty 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.120 of other jumps and had plenty of other hospital stays, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.520 and then May in front of once again ABC's wide 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.800 world of sports. The thrill of victory, the agony of 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:11.240 defeat that still around when you were around. No, I 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:16.080 watched the laugh Olympics. Wilde World of Sports is like 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.000 the biggest thing on TV on Sundays. Yeah, no, it was. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:20.560 I think it was on. It just never caught my 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.359 fancy and it was so great the weekend. Seriously, it 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.480 was just all about cartoons with me, you know, like 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.840 there was that point cartoons would started like seven in 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.119 the morning and then go to like ten thirty eleven 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.399 sometimes and then like non cartoons would start and just 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.000 be like that's when you nave and put this on TV, 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:42.040 you said, and then at naptural prime time. Uh So 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:43.760 in seventy five he says, you know what I'm gonna do. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.160 I'm gonna do the biggest jump of my career in England. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:51.879 I'm world renowned jumper. At this point I can go 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.640 to London, England. Yeah, because again not just like he's 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.840 on the wide World of Sports and he's known for 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.880 the Snake River Canyon jump and like the sea just pals. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:05.720 There's the stunt cycle toy was the largest selling toy 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.360 of Christmas nineteen seventy three. Yeah, he made a ton 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.879 of money off that. Atari had a stunt Cycle like 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:16.600 video console in nineteen seventy six. Um he there were 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.200 there were action figures. There's a whole like action figure 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:24.560 line by ideal. He was making mad cash from just 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.240 being a daredevil. Yeah, adds he was a pitch man. 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.440 He was making money hand over fist and like we say, 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.520 over and over spending it. And he was huge. He 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.160 was just a huge star. It's such a seventies thing 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:40.159 to be star for being a daredevil. Yeah. Yeah, it 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.639 beats the two thousand tens thing of just being a 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.760 star for being famous. No, I agreed. You know, at 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.520 least this guy was doing something. Yeah. Did Kim Kardashian 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.439 never put her life on the line. No, that's what 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:57.680 I want to see being Paris Hilton's assistant, probably because 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.600 she survived it. She was persisted. That's where she started out. Really, 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.199 what would you mean started out? She started out as 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.000 a rich kid in Brentwood. She did, but she wasn't 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:11.080 a celebrity by any MO until well until that sex tape. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.639 But I think she was Paris Hilton's assistant at the 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:18.560 time that came out. That's weird. You know, Paris Hilton 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:23.480 has my same eye affliction, the tosis you paras Hilton, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.960 Forest Wortaker, Tommy York. Oh yeah, he's got too huh yeah, 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.480 get that fix one day. I don't think you should 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.360 adds a tremendous amount of character. I don't know. It's 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.399 easy to say when you don't have a droopy eyelid. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.720 I think you should keep that vestigial tail, right, that's character. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.800 I like it. When you wag it, we'll see what 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.000 it's doing. Is it's it's inhibiting my vision. Well, then 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:50.919 I can see that, you know, not a ton. But 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.800 like when I left my eyelid up all the way, 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.720 I'm like, oh, I can see fift more of the room. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:06.840 There's the sky. Yeah, anyway, that's my issue. So is 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.359 at Wimbley Stadium sold out Wimbley Stadium in London, England, 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.919 and he's gonna jump how many people that is? Well, 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.160 this is ninety thousand, the other articles at seventy. Either way, 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.920 it's a bunch between seventy and nine. So I don't 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:23.280 think we can sell that sell out Wimbley. No, but 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.840 we sold out two shows in London, so they clearly 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:31.840 have a jones for American American Americans making asses of them. 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.440 So he jumps these A E. C. Merlin busses, These 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:39.440 are not the double deckers, um, but they're still busses. 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:44.240 And it's a big jump. It's a believe as biggest 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:48.359 to date. And he crashes, of course, breaks his back. 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.080 Broke his back. Yeah, and in the very famous footage, 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.440 told Frank Gifford, I came in walking. I went out 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.520 walking because Frank Gifford's like, get this guy, stretcher. He's 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.400 broken his back. And Evil was like, I'm walking out 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:05.119 and he did. He did. It wasn't smart, but he 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:11.280 did it. Uh. Then he goes to another huge jump 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.800 at King's Island theme park in Ohio. I've been there. 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:17.760 I bet is it still around? I don't know, but 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:19.600 I've been there. And when when I was a kid, 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:23.560 it's clearly where is it? You know, I don't know. 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:26.040 I was always a passenger. I have no idea what 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:28.639 part of Ohio it's but it's clearly second Banana to 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.000 Cedar Point to Cedar Point pretty much everything is in 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.240 the world his second Banana Point. Yeah. No, this is 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:39.159 a your your parents hate you, do they take you 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:42.800 to King's Island instead of Cedar Point? Yeah. Uh. So 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.320 he makes us jump at Cedar Point at King's Island 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.439 and it is at the time, the highest rated event 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:54.480 and wild world wide. It's a tough one wide world 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:58.879 of sports history. Still still yeah, I guess so the 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:03.240 show's not around. Yeah. A hundred and six sixty three 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:07.960 successful jump. I don't think he even crashed on this one. Yeah, 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.680 this is an all around good one for him. You 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:15.760 got the buses. It's at King's Island, successful set, a record, 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.520 highest rated, everything's coming up basis on this one. It 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:24.160 is coming up basis and he says he's retiring. Yeah, yep, 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.520 he's Uh. He started to say that a lot, starting 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:30.280 with this jump. After just about every jump, he would 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.919 be like, that's it, I'm done. I'm never going to 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:35.280 do it again, and then he would do it again. 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:40.840 And actually I believe he retired after Yeah, he retired 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:45.679 after Wimbley. Okay, that's the famous line was I remember 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:50.240 now He crashed spectacularly, grabbed the mic and told the 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.159 stadium that you are the last people in the world 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:55.440 who will ever see me jump. I will never ever 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:59.960 ever ever jump again ever him through. And then five 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:02.080 months later he jumped to King's Island, right, and then 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:04.479 retired after that one. Right. Then he retired after that one. 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.000 He did another one um shortly after that at the 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:11.280 Kingdom in Um Seattle. Actually it was a year after 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:14.480 that when he retired again. That one that was like 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:18.720 Tyson's last fight, Like he he jumped seven greyhound busses 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:20.639 and I guess the crowd was fine with it, but 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:25.040 he apologized for it being not so great, for not 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:28.439 like being risky enough, and and so he retired again. 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:32.600 And then he came back again, right, and this time 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:36.560 he was channeling the Fons. Oh yeah, he was gonna 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:40.400 jump a tank of shark. He's gonna literally jump the shark. Yeah, 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:45.720 and he did well, he didn't in the seven in Chicago, 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:50.359 he saw Jaws the movie and said, let's just like 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:52.040 he kind of reminds me of my dad a little bit. 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:54.080 My dad has this weird If he would have had 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:56.439 a ton of money, he would have had this kind 0:23:56.480 --> 0:24:01.080 of weird excess crazy ideas like the bombshell. After it 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:03.200