1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: from house toff works dot com Kaboom and welcome to 4 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. 5 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: What are you doing now? You're doing the cheeks? Huh? 6 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: Have you ever captured that? Yeah? We did it once 7 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: and then people have asked occasionally liked the cheek thing again? 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: And I don't want to. I want to do it 9 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: like once every hundred and fifty shows. Literally that's a 10 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: good that's a good pace. I don't want to overdo that. 11 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: So that's that'll be the third time soon coming up, 12 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah, sure, four fifty right around the 13 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: corner head around company. Um, chuckers, have you ever had 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: kaboom cereal? No, dude, that was such a thing good? Um, No, 15 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: it wasn't good. The marshmallows were good. They it was 16 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: basically like Lucky Charms. I don't know who ripped off who, 17 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: but it was clown themed rather than you know, Irish themed. 18 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: That's genius. Yeah, But there was a clown on front 19 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: and he had a cannon and that's where the name 20 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 1: came from. Kaboom. It was a circus clown circus cannon. 21 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,639 Speaker 1: But then they realized clowns where scary as heck most people, 22 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: so it failed miserably. I wrote this blog post recently. 23 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: Did you read it about it? Yeah, the clown giving 24 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: clown therapy. People seem to like it too. Yeah. I 25 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: thought it was a nice one. Um, that wasn't my intro. 26 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: My intro was about hunter te. Oh, well, let's hear it, 27 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: do you remember? Well, sure, you're probably gonna reference his 28 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: death wish. Yes, so he you know, he comes down 29 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: with the cancer and um shoots himself in the head. 30 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: And regardless of how you feel about suicide, what happened 31 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: next was his um As you said, I guess his 32 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: death wish, which you made in life. Ironically. Yeah, there's 33 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: two kinds of death wishes. There's a wish that you 34 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: make upon your death that you would like for things 35 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: to happen after you die, and then there's the jolly 36 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: Brunson death wish. Nice. That's good, good, Chuck bron Well, 37 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: that's a Simpsons character too, But it's the Simpsons character, right, 38 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: the mustachioed sales clerk yes, but he clearly references Gerald's Brunson. Um. Anyway, 39 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: what happened to Hunter T was he Um, he he 40 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: was cremated and he had his remains shot out of 41 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: a cannon. Have you seen it? Yeah? Thanks to Johnny 42 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: Depp helped that dream come true because he has tons 43 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: and tons of money to make that happen. Yes, he does. 44 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: It is quite a cannon too. Um. And we've talked 45 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 1: before about how I want my dead body shot out 46 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: of a cannon. We have indeed, Um, I'm not so 47 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: sure anymore. Maybe who knows? It would be after reading 48 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 1: this article and the physical requirements, it would be kind 49 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: of gruesome. It wouldn't be like unless they stiffened you 50 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: up somehow, you would come out in a big like 51 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: a dead body would. That's what I've always imagined though, 52 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: that's what I see flying through the air. I thought 53 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: you saw yourself like shooting through a rocket towards the storm. No, 54 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 1: like flopping like through the air and doing like half 55 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: somersaults and twists. Think it's gonna be naked too. I 56 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: was gonna land on the Kansas Prairie and let the 57 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: vultures finish me off. All right, We'll see idea, bring it. 58 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: I got a backyard for you. I think that's how 59 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: we met coop um he he offered. He was like, hey, 60 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: I I live in Kansas and I can get this done. Yeah, alright, 61 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 1: so we'll see. But I think that that's an image 62 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: that people can have in their head while we talk 63 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: about how human cannonballs work, right, because like you said, 64 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: there's a lot to it, but one of the things 65 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: that's not to it. And I think it's funny that, 66 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: um people wonder how this how you can shoot somebody 67 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: out of a cannon and the gunpowder doesn't blow them up. 68 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: There's no gunpowder, of course there's not. I don't understand 69 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: how someone cannot understand that intuitively. Yeah, because I think 70 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: people want to believe that they're being fired out of 71 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: a cannon instead of a a long piston enclosed in 72 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: a in a tube with a fake boom in a flash. 73 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: Yes for effect. Okay, so I guess it's the fake 74 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: boom in the flash they're they're buying it. Yeah, Well 75 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: that's the idea from the beginning. That was the idea, 76 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: so yes, and it has long roots back to the 77 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: nineteenth century, back to the UK which by the way 78 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: I've noticed. Did you notice from like this article in 79 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: doing any supplementary research, the UK is big into human cannonballs. 80 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: I think they're big one, just this whole circus experience. 81 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: They were the original showman. Yeah. Sure, they own the world. 82 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: Yeah that's true, you know, and they sold it. And 83 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: when you own the world, you have an obligation to 84 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 1: entertain the world, and they did so by human cannonballs. Specifically, 85 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: something called the projector is the is the I guess 86 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: grandfather of the human cannon ball cannon right, the Ferini 87 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: project Or seventy one, George Farini. Basically it was like 88 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: a we're like a catapult, like a spatula that would 89 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: just flip people and stop day and people would go 90 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 1: flopping and flying through the air. Yeah, oh god, I 91 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: regret this. Yeah. Uh. Specifically Lulu Um, who was a 92 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 1: man dressed as a woman, because that always adds to 93 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: the comic effect, right, put a dude in address and 94 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: he was the first person in America to get flapjacked 95 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: with Ferini's contraption. There. Yeah, and not only did he 96 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: do that, he was he sailed thirty ft into the 97 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: air and Um was caught by someone on a trampieze. 98 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 1: So as we go through this, I don't want any 99 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: just think about my dead body being shot onto the 100 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:02,679 Speaker 1: Kansas Prairie. Uh. I want you to think about how 101 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: difficult it is to catch somebody on a trapeez who's 102 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: just been shot out of a cannon. While you're on 103 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: a trapeeze. You're swinging it just the right point, hitting 104 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: him just the right way, and then taking their for 105 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: momentum and yanking him another way on the trapeez. Yeah. Well, 106 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: this um, in fairness, Lulu wasn't caught by someone. She 107 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: he just actually grabbed hold of the trapeeze. But there 108 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 1: are people later on in this article who were caught 109 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: by people on the trampez. I just want to get 110 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: that so someone out there was like, no, no, Lulu. 111 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 1: I wonder there'd be one person who knew that. Um 112 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 1: so uh. The Farini projector was invented in eighteen seventy one. 113 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: It was obsolete by eighteen eighty because this is the 114 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: year that a fourteen year old girl named Rosa Marie 115 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: Richter whose stage name was Zazzle. All right, great great 116 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: grandmother to Andy Richter. No, I'm just kidding, um, great 117 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: stage name though, right Zazz. She's fourteen um and she, 118 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: at the behest of one P. T. Barnum climbed into 119 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: the first cannon human cannonball cannon um that that is 120 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: designed like today's modern cannons, and she was shot out 121 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: of it and um shortly after that, within a few performances, 122 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: she broke her back and was the first casualty of 123 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: the human cannonball in this first the first cannon used 124 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: the springs, and they employed the blast the fire in 125 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: the in the boom to make people thinking back then, 126 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: they probably really bought it. Oh how bad? You know, 127 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: people are so dumb back then. Uh. And there's a 128 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: very famous picture of her climbing into the cannon. It's 129 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: called like beautiful girl and huge gun or something like that. 130 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: I thought that our fore fathers like invented everything and 131 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: like built the world, and we're like, they're so dumb 132 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: stupid people. Yeah, well, it's harder and harder to build 133 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: and discover new things now because they're all that was 134 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: all the easy stuff, Like you and I could have 135 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: discovered all this stuff right now, it's just more and 136 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: more difficult. You have to really look for subtlety, right, 137 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: So we say, thanks to no one Um. So the 138 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: the late nineteenth century, is this the human cannonball idea 139 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: just takes off? Right, thanks to Dazzle, thanks to George Loyal. 140 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: He was the one who was shot out of a 141 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: cannon and would be caught by a woman on a 142 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: trap at the Yankee Robinson Circus. Right, Yes, that's incredibly difficult. 143 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: It is, And you think about it, like, I think 144 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 1: I've even seen that before, like in person, at at 145 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: a circus when I was a kid. Um. But now 146 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: that I've researched and read this, I'm like, I can't 147 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,319 Speaker 1: imagine how difficult that has to be, how everything has 148 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: to be totally precise, and that these circus performers must 149 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: spend like all day practicing every day just to make sure. Yeah, 150 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: and not just the to the timing. There's a lot 151 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: of other stuff that you have to take into account. Right, 152 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: It's not just get in this cannon. We're gonna push 153 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: you out, no, Josh, Because the little sled that you're 154 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 1: basically in goes forward at a force of three thousand 155 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: and six thousand pounds per square inch of pressure. Right 156 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: that we should say pressed air is now the the 157 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: preferred means of shooting that little piston forward right, and 158 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: you're in a little capsule like imagine um Mark's egg, 159 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: but with the top cut off, so you're not you're 160 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: in the in the barrel in what amounts to a barrel, 161 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: a bullet in the barrel, a bullet with the top 162 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 1: cut off, and um that bullet is attached to the cannon. 163 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: So when the when the compressed air shoots it out, 164 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: the cannon stops, but you keep going, that's right, But 165 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: it shoots you out at a what did you say, 166 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: like three thousand to six thousand pounds per square inch 167 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: of pressure. Yeah, that produces some some force. That's a lot. 168 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: And that's why you can't just be like all limp. 169 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: You know, that would crush you. You know, you have 170 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: to be extremely strong and rigid, and your legs have 171 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: to be taught. Like. You can't just be like all right, 172 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 1: shoot shoot it off, or like your dead body. That's 173 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: why it would be so gruesome. I wonder if I 174 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: just explode in blood at the end of the can. 175 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe, but with with the big daddy 176 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 1: cannons these days, you can go horizontally about two hundred 177 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: feet or vertically, which they say that's where the ooz 178 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: and ods come from as high as two hundred feet 179 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: uh and then speeds up to sixty to seventy. Right, 180 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: So you're hauling, you are hauling. Um, you're also under 181 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: some tremendous force, right, oh yes, so yeah, you've got 182 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: about nine ges during launch and twelve jess and impact 183 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that later. But chuck the dodoon 184 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: paw right, it's a roller coaster in Japan. It has 185 00:10:55,559 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: the highest acceleration. UM. It's a two point seven geezez. Yeah, 186 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: so imagine nine right, Yeah, this is a this is 187 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: a this is you're putting this human body under a 188 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: lot of stress, right then, yes, and you fly out 189 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: a long way. And that's why you have to take 190 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: into account the things we briefly mentioned like wind speed, 191 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: body weight, obstacles like the guy wires and the tent 192 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: for the net and the poles for the for the tent, 193 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: and we also we mentioned that in Sniper. Remember, yeah, 194 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,079 Speaker 1: we're talking about the bullet trajectory, and they have to 195 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: take into account like humidity. So do people who set 196 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: up human cannonball cannons. And usually I get the impression 197 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: the human cannonball is the manager in charge of this 198 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: whole act. They don't just come out and they're like, 199 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: all right, I'll get in it already, did it right? Yeah, 200 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: And some carnie like puts out a cigarette's like it 201 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: looks good to me. Uh no, that's not the case. Um. 202 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 1: A lot of planning goes in because they make a point. 203 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: It's pretty easy to get into a cannon and get 204 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: shot out, although, like we said, you gotta be really 205 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: strong and stuff. But the landing part is the crucial part, obviously, right, 206 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: because of fifty byt net look pretty big when you're 207 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: standing on it, but when you're two hundred feet away 208 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 1: and two hundred feet up, it might look like a 209 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: postage damp to you. And I mean, this is a 210 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: big deal, and you want to hit that net. You 211 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: you want to hit it in just the right place 212 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: to sure. Um. Yeah, So to make sure that the 213 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,599 Speaker 1: person hits the net, um, test dummies are used. The 214 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: test dummy is a human cannonball's best friend because you 215 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: can shoot a test dummy out as much as you 216 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: want until you figure out whether or not you've got 217 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: the barrel trajectory just right that the temperature is a problem. 218 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: What have you adjustments early, right, And so they just 219 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: shoot a test dummy at the net until they have 220 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: it just right, and then they I guess they feel 221 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: that they're confident they're going to try their luck at it. Yeah, 222 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: and like you said, you gotta hit the net at 223 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 1: the proper place too, which is generally the rear third, 224 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: because when you hit something going down in an angle 225 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: like that, you're gonna bounce backwards, not like pop straight 226 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: up or go forward. So you don't want to hit 227 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 1: it on the first third because then you'll bounce backwards 228 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: off the net. So yeah, it's pretty specific. It is 229 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 1: um So Chuck, who does this crazy circus people, circus families. 230 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 1: It's always families. Yeah, you know, like once you get 231 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: into circus then you've almost guaranteed that your kid is 232 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: going to do that. So you want to talk about 233 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: some of them, Well, yeah, the one I think I've 234 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: heard of these people even before this um this article, 235 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 1: But the Zucchini family Zacchini zucchini zucchini zacchinis have been 236 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: doing uh while, They've been performing in circuses since the 237 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties, and apparently they stopped in the nineties They're like, 238 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: seventy years is enough for us. The Zipchinis are hanging 239 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 1: up our little fancy shoes right. Uh. And in that time, um, 240 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: there were seven brothers in the family. Five of them 241 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,599 Speaker 1: became human cannonballs. And that's just the brothers. There was 242 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:01,439 Speaker 1: also a sister to who human cannonballing. Yeah, I'm just 243 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: dying to know what those other two dudes. It's like 244 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: Eli and Peyton Manning's brother that most people go, there's 245 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,479 Speaker 1: another brother, right, like, well, what does he do? He 246 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: he's the oldest budn't he And he's like he was 247 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,199 Speaker 1: like a big man on campus at Old Miss, but 248 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: that was it. He didn't he just parted. Doesn't play 249 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: football though, so he's not beloved by his father Archie. Yeah, 250 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: so not true probably. Uh. They worked with the Ringling 251 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: brothers that the Zucchini's did, who obviously a big name 252 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: in circuses, and uh, they sort of pushed the envelope. 253 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: Hugo and Victor the brothers did a little double barrel 254 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: gag that went over pretty well, and Mario would get 255 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: shot over Ferris wheels, like two Ferris wheels, Mario Zucchini 256 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: two Ferris wheels, not on top of one another, No, 257 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: one after the other. That's quite a weird quite a beat. 258 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: And then um, John Weiss human bullet. Yeah, he started 259 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: out as a clown apparently, really, he did five years 260 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: as a clown and then made the very rare jump 261 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: to human cannonball, from clown to cannonball this year and 262 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: apparently his first first shot sent him six ft really, yeah, yeah, 263 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: that was his first Did you do it as a clown? 264 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: You know? I think that that would have been a 265 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: mockery to the human cannonball um tradition. Okay, yeah, I 266 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: don't want to do that. And then there's the Smith family, 267 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: also a very popular circus cannonball family. Did you talk 268 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: about John Weiss, Well, he was. He was one of 269 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: the most prolific cannonballers. Did he die doing it? No? 270 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: Did you mention how many times he's done it? Five thousand? 271 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: That is a lot of time to be shot out 272 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: of a cannon. I did just kind of breeze over 273 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: that five thousand times. And he started in nine teen seven. Yeah, 274 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: so he was doing it for a little while there. 275 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: For years, I guess he was doing it once a day, 276 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: six days a week, fifty weeks a year. Yeah, you're right, 277 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: that's a lot of blasts. There is a lot. That's 278 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: a lot of I mean, especially what we know about 279 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: what the pressure and it exerts on a body. I mean, 280 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: that's that's rough work. Yeah, and it's uh, I mean 281 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: we've pointed out how it is safe. But more than 282 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: thirty people have died doing this over the years. Okay, 283 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: so the that that that pops up in this article, 284 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: thirty people have died as human cannonballs. There's a British 285 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: historian who died a few years back. His name is A. H. Cox. 286 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: He Um says that there's been only about fifty people 287 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: to ever be human cannonballs. Thirty have died. Really, yeah, 288 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: I thought that's kind of significant enough to be put 289 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: into this article. Ward me off of human cannonballs. So 290 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: thirty out of fifty have died, and that's just who 291 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: died others, you know, like back, Zazzle broker back, Um, Yeah, 292 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: we'll get into that gruesomeness soon, zazz Alright, So back 293 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: to the Smith family. They are the modern um cannonball 294 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: family that are pretty awesome. Um. David Cannonball Smith Jr. 295 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: Has spent much of his life inside of a cannon. Yes, 296 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: have you been on their website? Pretty funny. He just 297 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: he's described as having a dynamic personality. I like that. 298 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: It's better than saying he has a dynamite personality to 299 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 1: be pretty bad. But David the Bullet Smith Jr. Is 300 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: a son and I'm sorry, he's the one with the dynamics. Okay, 301 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: his dad was a real snooze. I don't know. Uh, 302 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: he bested his dad's record of by flying a hundred 303 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: ft Yeah, but his dad still holds the highest. I 304 00:17:54,560 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: think two hundred and three two and that's friends outside 305 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: of America. That's one of those over two Ferris wheels. Yeah, 306 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: that's crazy. Yep. Oh, should you mention the DARPA thing. 307 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: I thought that was completely stupid and ridiculous. Did you 308 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: think so? Yeah? I think it's kind of cool. I 309 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: think if DARPA could perfect this, then it could take 310 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: the human cannonball art to a whole new level. Spill it. 311 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 1: But basically, DARPA the Defense Research Project, Right, there's an 312 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: a in there somewhere. Yes, thank you, Um they were 313 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 1: looking at I think they filed the patent for a 314 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:38,680 Speaker 1: basically human cannonball cannon that has like a sled chair 315 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: right that shoots you up. I think they said they 316 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: can get a first responder special ops a firefighter on 317 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 1: top of a five story building in two seconds. So 318 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: basically their idea is to take the human cannonball concept 319 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 1: and just shoot people on top of buildings to go 320 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,239 Speaker 1: fight fires or to go snipe people or whatever. So 321 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: I get that. It's the landing thing that they say 322 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: is the hardest part in real cannonballing. So what what's 323 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: going on there? Well, that's what I'm saying. I have 324 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: no idea. I don't know if they were like, well, 325 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 1: we've got this part, now, let's go figure out the 326 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 1: other part. But that's that's kind of the big um 327 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: joke or the big underscore among human cannonballers is it's 328 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: not a problem shooting somebody out of a cannon. It's 329 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: the landing that's the important part. Yeah, right, Or in 330 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: this case, if you're shooting someone on a building, if 331 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:28,959 Speaker 1: you're off there, then it's all of a sudden, you're 332 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,360 Speaker 1: a cartoon and you smack into the building and then 333 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: slide very slowly down, except unlike a cartoon, you leave 334 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: a trail of blood when you slide down. Yeah, And 335 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: you slide down fast and then there's more blood and 336 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: body parts on the street. Yes, which has happened. I'm 337 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: sure it has. There's there's been a lot of accidents. 338 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: As we've said, out of fifty, uh thirty human cannonballs 339 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: have died, right, it's a lot and um to to 340 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: prevent this. You know, these people stay in tiptop shape, 341 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: right Um. You have to work out your core. You 342 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: have to have a strong back. You need to be 343 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 1: able to brace yourself like you said, and really just 344 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: go totally rigid so when you're shot out, you don't 345 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 1: just you're not crushed. You need to become a projectile, 346 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: right um, because all you're wearing a helmet, maybe a 347 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: little padding. Yeah, but Alma's not gonna do much if 348 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 1: you miss your net, no, um, and the net is 349 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,920 Speaker 1: very important. A lot of people use air bags as well, 350 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:30,719 Speaker 1: right um. There was a guy who's named Elvin Bale 351 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 1: and it's the human Space Shuttle. He used air bags 352 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: and he is a victim of circumstance if there ever 353 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: has been one. Right. He was big in the seventies 354 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: and eighties until I believe seven, when he went through 355 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: all the the tests shot his crash test dummy out. Um, 356 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 1: it landed fine in these air bags where he calculated 357 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: they should be. And um, what he didn't know is 358 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 1: that his crash test dummy had gotten wet, which made 359 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: it much heavier, which completely changed the dynamics of its 360 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 1: test run. So when he shot himself out, he missed 361 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: the air bags right, he did, He was he sailed 362 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 1: right over him. This is in Hong Kong. And he 363 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: said that he knew quote, I could see where I 364 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: was going and that it was too far, too fast, 365 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: so he knew in mid air he was conscious enough 366 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,360 Speaker 1: to be like, oh crap, I'm not going to hit 367 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: the air bag and apparently the dummy, because when I 368 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: read that, I was like, well, how does this happen 369 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: when that's the only safety thing you can do. How 370 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 1: do you have a soap dummy? Apparently it was left 371 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: in the rain and they're filled with sand, and so 372 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: the outside of it dried, and but the sand was 373 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: still wet on the inside, so it didn't like feel 374 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,160 Speaker 1: wet to the touch when they were testing it, And 375 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 1: he said he remembered it feeling like it was in 376 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: slow motion and that his brain actually thought he could 377 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: solve this problem in mid airrow aerodynamically like do something 378 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 1: like I can do this and shorten the trip and 379 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: land upright, which might save me. But instead he overshot 380 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: it by just a few yards and slam feet first 381 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: into the floor, shattered his ankles, knee, a leg in 382 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: his spine, and he's paralyzed from the moist down and 383 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 1: that is very sad. Uh. He mentions the aerodynamics right, like, 384 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: there is a specific way you want to land. Yeah, 385 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: you want to do that little easy somersault and land 386 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: on your back, which is that's the way to land. 387 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: But you also said something, um, that brought to mind 388 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: the idea that this the g force that we talked 389 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: about earlier that's been shown to produce a loss of 390 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: consciousness and people. So that's another danger that you you know, 391 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: when you're sailing, you want to like stay like a 392 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 1: projectile and if you're blacked out, you're gonna be like 393 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: a dead body like you yes, um. And Elvin Bell 394 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: is not the only person that something horrible has happened 395 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 1: to obviously, Yeah, Matt Cranch just this year a month 396 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: in April. Yeah, he and this is just a nightmare scenario. 397 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: He got blasted off and right after he blasted off 398 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: the net collapsed. Yeah, so how does that happen? I 399 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 1: don't know, that's probably what he's asking. Well, he died, 400 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: He landed on his head and died. He did die, 401 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: so that is not what he's asking. That is what 402 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: his family is asking, probably via a lawsuit. It would 403 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: be my guest that was in Great Britain too very sad. 404 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 1: And remember I mentioned a Zichini's sister. Um, she the 405 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: Zichinis used to do these double barrels stunts where they 406 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: two would be shot out at the same time, usually 407 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 1: next to one another, right along parallel one another. Well, 408 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: she and another brother had a had an act where 409 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,159 Speaker 1: they'd be shot in the same direction as when it 410 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: had passed by and like high five. Yeah, well they 411 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,719 Speaker 1: collided and she broke her back. That's just a bad idea. 412 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: That was a bad idea. But the same thing is 413 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: that if you if you look at modern people, like 414 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: the modern cannonballers, they are safety conscious. Um they were 415 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: just like a net collapsed or the dummy was was wet, 416 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: which that that makes it even sadder to me. If 417 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: you could shot, you know, two ft into the air 418 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: at your brother sixty close break your back then something. Yeah, 419 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: that was part of the equation. I wonder how close 420 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: they intended to go to one another, because obviously the 421 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 1: closer the better, Like if they were apart, it's not 422 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: it's impressive. So they probably wanted to get it tight 423 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 1: for the effect. But can you imagine all of a sudden, 424 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: like when you see that coming straight at you probably 425 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: have the same realization, like a crap that I'm gonna 426 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: die by hitting my brother sister brother. Very sad. Yeah, 427 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 1: anything else, that's it? Man, I did a do we 428 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,360 Speaker 1: ever did the thing on Daredevil's Uh no, I wrote 429 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: an article on Daredevil's and maybe we should do that 430 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: at some point. Or we've been talking about our Evil 431 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: Evil kin Evil podcasts. Maybe because he's a big part 432 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: of that one, maybe we can just cover it all songs. 433 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: Human cannonball, Yeah, we've got that one covered done. Okay, Well, 434 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,959 Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about human cannonballs, including 435 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: how long it takes to accelerate a human cannonballer to 436 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: their top speed, do you want to know one bit 437 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: of a second? Really? Yeah? You can find all that 438 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: by typing human cannonball onto the search bart how stuff 439 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: works dot Com and from what you say, Chuck, it 440 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: sounds like that will bring up more than just one article. Yeah, 441 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 1: my daredevil sing like pop up Um, I said handy 442 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: search bar at house divorce dot com. That means it's 443 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 1: time for a listener mail. That's right, Josh, I'm gonna 444 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: call us underground Railroad. Uh, I'm writing in about underground Railroad. 445 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,199 Speaker 1: Wanted to share a little bit of my childhood summers 446 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: in upstate New York. My great grandfather, Louis Loveland made 447 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: a home in Johnsburg, New York, in the Adirondacks. What's 448 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 1: so funny? Like you know him? Yeah, Louie. The home 449 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: itself is incredibly cool and haunted. There's a very cluttered 450 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: and dimly lit room hidden away behind the kitchen, which 451 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: has a small organ buried beneath h decade stored and 452 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 1: forgotten items. Family legend has it that the organ would 453 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 1: mysteriously start playing it all hours of the night thanks 454 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: to spirits. As if that weren't enough, there's a very 455 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 1: large barn behind the home, which has seen its better days. 456 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: My sister and I were always warned to be careful 457 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: when we went near the barn. Uh. The reason because 458 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: the earth beneath our feet could give away at any moment. Well, 459 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: this sounds a good, terrifying house. But there's a hidden 460 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 1: tunnel beneath the barn. Because there's a hidden tunnel beneath 461 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: the barn, running from the back of the home, below 462 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 1: the barn and out into the mountains, right next to 463 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: a strawberry patch that my great grandfather planned a hundred 464 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,120 Speaker 1: years ago. The tunnel was a part of the underground railroad, 465 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 1: and I've been told it's one of the last stops 466 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,679 Speaker 1: in the adder on decks that is still intact today, 467 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: although it varies. The tunnel is roughly three to four 468 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: ft below the ground, about five ft tall, four ft 469 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: wide and seventy five yards long, packed with dirt and rocks, 470 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: and an absolute death trap to navigate without a flashlight. 471 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 1: The entrance from the home it's just too dangerous to 472 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: use anymore. But there is a way to drop into 473 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: the tunnel vi a hidden door in the barn, as 474 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: long as you don't mind a many landslide of dirt 475 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 1: and hay following you into the tunnel, which I would 476 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: um that's it. Once you carefully make your way through 477 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 1: the tunnel, you emerge into sunlight and a strawberry field. Nice. 478 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: That's little treat if you're somebody A warm wet towel, 479 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: moist towel and that is from Alice in St. Louis. Wow. 480 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: Thanks Alice. You could do that, couldn't you? Chuck the 481 00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: you've gone caving before. I could do that as long 482 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: as it's buttressed. I wonder if it is buttressed. If 483 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: Charles Bronson anything, do what it is? Uh. If you 484 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 1: have a great recipe for fresh strawberries, we want to 485 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: hear it. 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