WEBVTT - The Plüschow Maneuver with Billy Magnussen 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:04.480 This is as great as Escapes, a show bringing you 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.920 the wildest true escape stories of all time. I'm Attura 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.560 Castro and I'm here with the incredibly talented actor with 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:41.640 the voice of an absolute angel, Billy Magnuson. Guys, what 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.760 a treat we have for you today. We have the one, 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:57.959 the only Billy Magnusse. So, brother, thank you so much 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:59.920 for doing this. I really appreciate it. You and Georgia 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.400 right now building a house from from from the ground up, by. 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.120 Yourself, renovating, renovating. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.160 No, no, no, you're building a house by yourself because 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:08.240 you're impressively fun. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.399 This admitted with my brothers. Actually it's actually with my 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:13.440 brothers and my dad. You know, grew up in a 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:14.200 carpentry shop. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.240 So are you renovating a house you grew up in 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:17.640 or a house you got in Georgia? 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.039 No, house I got in Georgia. It's like close to 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.000 my parents' place. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.319 So you know, when I'm not shooting a movie with 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.880 you co starring next to you, you know, I'm building houses. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.280 Work in construction, that's all. You're doing a movie or 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.280 you're building a house. That's what building Magison does. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.280 All right, that's it. What else is there to do? 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.040 Do you have something that you considered to be your 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:39.880 greatest escape? 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:44.080 Brother, My biggest real escape was like probably getting away 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.640 from a life I didn't want to live. I would say, like, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.920 I'm emotionally and deep. We came from the generation a 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.200 little bit before social media and shit like that, and 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.720 that that comparison thing that it causes, or at least 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.400 it caused me to do fucking crushed me me and 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.040 like detox from that and not do that shit. It's 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:05.000 been so helpful. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.519 Try try having the only other well known Watermellon actor 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:14.440 be Oscar Isaac. I mean every time every time I 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.800 did something even semi cool, my friends would send me 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.840 like the cover of a GQ with like an Oscar eyesagon, 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:21.480 and I was like, yep, got it, got it, got it. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.519 There was something about my own trust and like caring 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:29.560 for myself, I stop doing and to like move on, 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.360 move past that and escape that that black hole of it. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.119 That's been the best escape in my life to enjoy life. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.919 Again. Thank you for being so open with us, man. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.560 Did you ever get faced with the like like unsmoking, 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.400 what do you have to complain about? Not from your 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.519 family but from other people sometimes Yeah, no. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:47.560 No, definitely from my family. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.880 But again I come from the majority of dudes that 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.280 you know, it's my mom and then like four guys 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.240 and that sounds weird. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.480 It's me and my brothers, you know, a bunch of 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.000 dudes that I just. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.960 Got some guys that I just build some house. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.120 Yeah, but you know, David was just get your head 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.560 out of your ass and put yourself up, like what 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.840 do you got. Look, it's fucking beautiful today when you 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.440 get outside. It was tough love, okay. Escape was just yeah, 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.440 saying goodbye to that that life that wasn't working anymore, 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:16.440 or that mindset. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.720 Well, brother, listen, thank you so much for opening up 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.919 about that. Are you ready for me to tell you 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:23.400 an insane escape? Brother? 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:23.960 Yeah? 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:30.480 Yeah, that's rock and roll. So our story begins with 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.519 a man named Gunta Pluschkau. He was this German naval 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.000 officer in the early nineteen hundreds, and honestly, his life 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.360 was like a whole series of buck wild escapes. Eventually 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.600 he would even become one of the most famous prisoners 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.480 of World War One. We're going to start in the 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.240 year before the war started, when Gunta was assigned to 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.800 a brand new wing of the German military, the Air Force. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.120 So of course this was when they were first starting 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.440 to experiment with flying. And it turns out the Gunta 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.720 was an absolute prodigy. So at the beginning of nineteen fourteen, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.320 Gunter's story really took off. Because it's hard to say 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.240 this to believe, Gunter says it only took him three 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.920 days to learn how to fly. He was like, yeah, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.119 I don't know. I just spent up in the air 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.440 and I stayed there like boom came down. It's very simple. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.400 I actually feel like flying is probably very like second 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.240 act or like riding a bike. Weirdly, I remember doing 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.400 a hanglighting thing and I was like, this makes so much. 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.120 It's like the mechanics of it really actually works in 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:32.479 my head. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.200 And you're in this nothing. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.800 Kind of contraption, you know, it's just right the wind, 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.360 and it was just like this seems so simple. 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.320 Like you were simple what you're just feeling what the 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.000 air wanted to do, and you're just kind of like, oh, 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:47.520 this is how I can manipulate it, right. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.400 Yeah, you just it's like surfing or something, you know, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.320 like where you have to or snowboarding or skiing. You 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.000 could just feel where the momentum wants to take you. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.000 It's like little dancing in the air. It makes sense 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:59.040 to me, so listen. 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.120 So the German place of that time, they were called doves, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.080 and they were fucking janky as hell, right, and they 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.080 required the pilot to do a lot of pulling on 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.400 wires and levers to make the wingspend. But Gunter says 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.760 that not only could he do it after just three days, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.480 but he actually passed his flying exam on day five. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.719 Do you have any prodigy level skills, Billy? Were you 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.440 immediately proficient at that uh what they called the goat 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:20.520 carcass throwing race? 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:25.600 Well, coke peru co Yeah, no, definitely, not definitely. Not 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:26.839 that that was like showing up. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.719 That was like we were the Jamaican Bob sled team 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.120 showing up to like, you know, play coke peru. Coke 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.000 preau is a game basically during the World Nomad Games. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.720 It's like one of the biggest sports in the stands. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.000 And that was part of the first ever American coke 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.960 carew team, which is basically hockey like the same rules 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.440 as hockey, but you're on horseback and the balls of 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.280 dead goat carcass and you have to lean off the 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.039 horse to the ground, pick up the dead goat carcass 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:53.520 and throw it in the other team's goal. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.400 And it was the most aggressive thing I've ever done 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:56.839 in my life. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.920 Oh my god, is it is it shaped as a 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.799 ball or is it just literally like right. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.279 Before, right before the game, cut off the head and 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.960 cut off at the elbows and knees. Oh my gosh, 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.359 and blood everything, Oh my god. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:13.520 But then the winner gets to eat it. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.080 Wow, that's fucking insane. 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:16.840 That is insane. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.560 The German Air Force was so impressed with Gunta's prodigious 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.560 skills that they wanted to immediately ship him off to 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.560 the far reaches of the Empire. But Gunta must have 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.480 felt that he wasn't actually ready, so he made a 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.400 request before they sent him away. He asked for one 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:38.120 more long training flight across Germany, but this time joined 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.480 by a military observer. Yeah, if you're belief you're the 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.159 observer guy, you're gonna take this fucking flight with a 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.600 hotch a young pilot. I'd be like, fuck, no, man, 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.760 I'm busy avoiding syphilis and I don't want to die. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.960 I was like, you know, it's like nineteen hundred. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.080 Man, I just wanted my schnitzel and some beer. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.400 Yeah, I got polio. Dude, I can't do that. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.040 I guess I would do it though I'm that kind 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:57.360 of guy. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.440 Though you would, you would definitely do it. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.320 I like things in my life always show up, Like 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.000 if it shows up in front of me, I'm like, 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:05.840 this is the moment I'm doing. 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.400 That now, you know. It's yeah, yeah, It's like. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.480 Eating bugs for the first time in like Highland. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.960 It just like shows up to you and you're like, eh, yes, 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:13.840 I'm doing this here. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.920 I'm a bugget to know, you know. I find that 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.360 with like weird phobias that i have, like afraid of 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.040 heights or whatever the fuck. But even though I'm afraid 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.560 of heights, I've cliff dived and I've skydived, and I've 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.200 you know, because I'm more afraid of missing out on 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.520 the experience than i am up my petty little fears, 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.880 if that makes any sense exactly, Dude. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.160 I could not agree with you more. Would you ever 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:34.880 actually get your skydiving license? 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.040 My girlfriend at the time didn't fucking know that I 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.720 was afraid of heights, and she got me a skydiving 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.400 thing for my birthday. But my birthday is in November, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.400 and in New York you can't jump until June. So 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.400 I had about seven eight months to think about this 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.520 fucking thing, and I was like, I'm not gonna do it. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:50.920 I'm not gonna do it. I'm not going to do it. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.400 Two weeks before, there was an accident for a tandem 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:57.240 skydiving thing where the parents who didn't fully deploy and 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.080 so the dude landing on his client, and Vaporice is 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.240 client and he kind of survived, all fucked up, and 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.000 I was like, that's it. That's it. I'm not doing it. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.480 And then my writing partner, who is at the time 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.320 who is the softest dude I've ever met, he was like, oh, 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.080 scot of yeah, I've been like four times. I was like, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.760 there's no fucking world in which this market has gone 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.040 and I have not gone. Anyway, we go up there. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.680 It's the whole story about how I finally get up 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.200 there and they're like, okay, put your foot outside and 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:23.960 you count to three and then we'll jump. And I 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:28.760 was like, cool, one faint and I'm like I'm already 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.920 fucking fine. I'm like, wait, what it was like you 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.440 can see the video. It's just like I just like 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.280 not off for like a second. And the first fucking 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.360 thing is have you skydived few times? 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:39.720 Yeah? 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.640 Okay, So the first thing is your brain doesn't know 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.320 what the hell is going on, right, And then so 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.400 it's sort of kind of a sensor you're overloud. And 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:46.760 the second one is like, oh my god, I'm flying 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.760 through the air like a fucking bird. And then the 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.240 third one is like, please deploy, please deploy, please deploy. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.720 But I think that everybody should do it at least 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:54.560 once in their life. 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.960 What the scariest. The scariest part was the drive to 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.040 the airport for me. Yeah, yeah, but like every time 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.120 I've gone, I find it so peaceful, weirdly relaxing and 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.280 like just nothing else in the world matters. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.560 It doesn't feel like that that what's called the roller 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.079 coaster pole. It just feels like floating through the air. Yeah. Also, 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.240 I would like to shout out to our sponsors Tandem 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:23.040 Tandem Skydivings off Phillong Island. What if we're just this 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.600 is just a paid partnership I fucking for like Airlines, 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:31.720 German Airlines and Cark is throwing so Gunter got this 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.160 request approved right of somebody coming with him, but that 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.920 was something that everybody was going to regret because just 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.640 about everything that could go wrong went wrong. So at 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.160 first they took off in a dense fog and Gunta 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:48.080 couldn't see and flew thank you. Is that a fog sound? Yeah, oh, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:49.040 that's a plain sound. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.439 I'm pretty sure that's a lawnmower. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.080 That's a lot so he was. He realized that he 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.760 was cutting the grass, and he flew purely by compass 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.000 right because he couldn't see anything. And while the military 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.640 observer guy had this his life flashing before his eyes. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.600 It was the first time flying. It was the guy's 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.760 first time flying, and he was completely freaked out. It 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.320 forced them to land in the field and they couldn't 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.160 even leave until local farmers cut down trees to open 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.800 up a runway. Oh so what are you doing? Somebody 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.160 sending somebody who hasn't flown to supervise a flight, right? Like, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.080 what would they what would how would they know what 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:22.600 to look for? 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:24.120 We're still up in the air. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:30.559 Yeah, yes, it's good. Yeah, is flying big fighting boy? Yeah? 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.760 So wait, so they're chilling in this town till they 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.640 cut down the trees to make over. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.160 They had to land in a field and they couldn't 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.040 take off again until farmers came out and cut some 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.720 of the grass and vines and shit so that they 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:44.600 could take off again. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.080 That's like awesome, See what happens to humanity like that, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.880 where you're like, huh, you're lost, I'll help you out. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:51.560 You know. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.280 Well, listen, Billy, if a fucking guy landed with a 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.560 plane in my garden, I'd be like, yeah, I'm gonna 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:58.840 help you get the fuck out of my garden because 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.520 he's the weirdest thing I've ever seen. So I don't 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.840 know what's happened to I don't know if sweets humanity 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.360 or it's a it's just basically like, hey. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.000 I I mean, I got I got some shit, I 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:07.680 gotta get done. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:08.079 Get out. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.880 Yeah yeah, so let's get get you out. So when 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.760 Gunter finally did launch again, another fog rolled in and 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.559 as they flew going to realize that somehow that forced 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.120 landing had split the fuel tank and then the gas 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.360 was leaking out of the plane right, So they ran 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.560 out of fuel just as they reached their destination. And 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.600 that was bad enough, but then on the way back. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:28.960 Why are they fucking plying back? 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:30.320 Same plane? 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.199 Hey, overlords, it's got to be a different plane, right. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.720 Germany had like four planes at the time. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.040 So this was they just passed it out, ok, I 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.240 got so Gunter says that the only reason that he 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.360 tried taking off again was because he didn't know any 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.600 better at the time, and there was truly a shitty call. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:47.839 After a little while, he realized that the storm was 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.079 too strong and he couldn't control the plane, so he 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.320 tried to dive down and land in another field. I 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:54.720 love the farmers just looking at him. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.560 And like, nine, your set out best. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.400 And I imagine military observer right, like he's just confessing 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.120 to shit in case this is the last time. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.080 He's like, I've never like see you on the farm. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.280 I said I did, but I didn't. It smucksy and 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.000 it makes me look fat, you know, and it's like, dude, 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:11.160 come down, I'm not gonna die. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.520 So they came in for the landing, but at last 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.280 minute the wind picked up and a gus slammed the 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.760 plane and flipped it upside down just to see near 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.560 the ground. The plane slammed into the field and smashed 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.880 forward with the wind and rain slashing them. The flip 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.840 plane cut a trench into the turf before crashing a 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.080 to a halt against a high mound. Not the best 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.520 first day for our military observer. Guy Gudur and his 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.920 passenger were trapped onto the plane as the storm ranged 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.560 on overhead, and as he caught his breath he realized 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.640 he was still alive. Right, Gunter felt hot gasoline start 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.319 pouring down his face. The observer is probably like, Okay, 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.240 I'm observing some fuel getting into your mouth, and there's 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:53.080 like you don't no need to observe everything here. This 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.760 guy was fucking lucky. So some nearby farmers again had 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.959 actually seen the plane go down. They rushed to the site. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.120 They couldn't lift the plane, so they dug a tunnel 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.160 underneath it so they could pull out the trapman, What 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.800 has happened to humanity, Billy Magdison? Were people digging tunnels 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.600 for us these days? Nay, they don't exist. So Gunta 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.800 says that at that moment he realized that the mound 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.319 they had crashed the plane into was actually a giant 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.160 pile of manure. Fantastic, Yeah, what's the shitty? Have you 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:22.160 ever had a bad crash. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.920 Uh yeah, yeah, okay. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.880 Not like you're like, legally I cannot give your details 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:30.839 on it. I pleaded no. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.360 Contest, and I've always been lucky. Let's just say that 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:35.480 of like getting. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.280 Out of stuff, Like I've been flown from a bike 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.319 and somehow landed like basically on all fours. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.880 You're landing like a gymnastic, like say, just like doing 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.120 the hoods in the air. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.800 Like wow, falling rock climbing was the worst. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.760 Probably what happened rock climbing, you almost died. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:56.200 I felt like I felt like maybe fifty feet no, 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.120 and like it was but luckily we were over water 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.040 and it was like there was this step weirdly, so 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:01.560 I fell. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.440 I felt like thirty something feet halfway down, and when. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.600 I hit my back, I kicked off away from the 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.160 wall because there was rocks and like I kicked off 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:11.119 far enough. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.920 To land in water, and so what Yeah, we out. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.840 The worst part wasn't the like my back and the 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.400 scars there from all that. It was the poison oak 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:21.920 that got into my bloodstream. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.600 No, I was like a scab for the next. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.320 Two weeks ill you're like, what if you said like 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.400 the worst part of it was just you know, I 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.200 was my clothes got wet. That's really I was like, 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.440 well you really love your clothes. Well I'm glad you're alive. Brother, 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.120 So Gunter He says that the play was smashed up 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.880 into a tangle of wood, fabric and wire, and it 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.280 was fully broken apart in three places, and it was 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:50.680 completely embedded in soggy shit. Right, sorry, soggy poo poo. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.040 Somehow going to escape with his life, and so did 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.480 his passenger. He had Billy magnuson. Look, so this is 0:14:55.560 --> 0:15:02.400 his escape number one. Okay, okay, I really hope that 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.000 have is every time I name his escapes. Can I 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:09.640 give that one more time? Yes? Thank you. So in 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.800 this grace, both men took a train back to Gunter's 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.720 navy base to report. Their fellow officers were like, how 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.720 to go you know, and they're like, please fuck off. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.520 So now let's go back earlier. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.280 So they landed in a field, crashed in a field, 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:23.800 and they didn't just take the train back. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:25.120 They got back up in the air. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.680 No no, no, no, no, no no. They took the train back. 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.920 So they both both men took a first time where 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.160 the no, they got back up, They got back up 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.160 in the plane the first time they crashed into the field. Yeah, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.440 they cut them off and they're like, okay, yeah, I 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.400 think that's as good boys. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.400 That's just like hitchhiking a ride is like, yeah, I'll 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.080 go back up. I'm just saying they could have taken 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:48.600 a train. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:50.880 Yeah, they could have taken a train back, but they 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:52.800 just decided not to because they were like, maybe this 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.880 is what flying is. You have to like crash land 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.080 every now and then. You know, I also loved it, Like, 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.080 oh so it must be there must be some male 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.800 ego in play in this way. He's like, I will 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.200 not go into the fucking train. Everybody will know we 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.520 fucking chrished it. And it's like, I think everybody knows already. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:13.240 It's in the news. Somehow, despite this, the Navy still 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.080 thought that they should send him to China as their 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.080 special pilot boy or vunderkind, if you will, And somehow 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.040 Gunter still thought that this was a good idea. Literally, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.080 in his book, he ends the chapter of the crash 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.680 by saying, well, duty called, should you not wow? So 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.560 many terrible manure puns. I'm practicing for when I become 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:44.280 a farmer dad. You know, So, why did the German 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:48.280 navy send Gunta to China. Well, at the time, the 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.200 German navy had actually seized an entire city on the 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.120 Chinese coast in eighteen ninety seven, the city of Sin 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.440 Tau uhuh, named after the fantastic beer huh. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:16:58.720 Yeah. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.160 Yeah, because the German Kaiser was extremely jealous of his 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.440 cousins who ruled Russia and England, and they were all 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.760 taking parts in China for themselves. So you remember when 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.080 that morning career across Europe at that point was like 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.359 a messed up family affair, you know, and they're all like, 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.560 they're all basically like, no I wanted it, No I 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.639 wanted You know. That's really how World War for the 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.320 First World War happened. But how would you how would 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.280 your family do it? Ruling a continent? What do you think? 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.560 Imagine your family drama, but boosted by to scale to 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:25.800 scale a global empire. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.160 Oh man, I think it would be a good time. 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.119 Yeah. Particular, your brothers sound like, you know, like there's conflict. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.280 They're like, just get your head out of you ass, Hey, Russia, 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.240 just get your head out of ass. Let's go build 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:38.680 a house, guys, Let's go build some houses. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.200 Build the house. Let's have a beer, enjoy ourselves. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:46.119 So the German navy put the city under a military dictatorship. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.560 So side, I wonder if it's related that there's a 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.480 beer named after that city, because Germans do love their 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.359 their brewing, don't they? To hey, overlords, is it related? Yes, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:03.520 this is when the Germans built that brewery. Oh okay, okay, okay. 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.720 So I was right, good for me? So Wunderkin Gunta 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.119 was one of the navy officers who was sent to 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.560 China to be on the leadship of their Asian Navy squad. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.280 And by the way, he had joined a German military 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.639 academy at ten years old, so this was kind of 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.159 his thing, right, And before he learned to fly, he 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:24.679 had already sailed around Sintau as a navy officer. In 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.000 that first trip, he even got himself a tattoo, a 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.880 dragon that stretched from his left shoulder all the way 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:36.159 to his left wrist. You got any ink I do? Yeah, 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:37.080 you don't regret any of them. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.080 I don't think you've seen me with my clothes off. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.600 So do you? How many do you have? 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.640