WEBVTT - Dangerous Jobs: Human Cannonball, Human Torch + Dangus! 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:07.440 Really now, Really, really. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.000 Now really Hello and welcome to this episode of Really 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.280 No Really with Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden. The number 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.680 one podcast in America would really enjoy this podcast if 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:24.239 they even knew it existed. On today's episode, you'll learn 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.840 about some of the most offbeat and dangerous jobs in 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.760 the world from the people who actually do them, and 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.600 what makes anyone take those jobs. You'll also learn why 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:38.640 would peckers peck, if it's possible to hold an alligator's 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.440 mouth open, and what a dangus is. Plus what is 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.599 Jason's favorite Seinfeld bit and what is the huge surprise 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.519 that Peter has arranged for his pal. Now Here are 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.760 your hosts, who also consider themselves off beaten, dangerous. Jason 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:55.280 Alexander and Peter Tilden. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:58.600 Hello everybody. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.920 Once again, I remain any Jason Alexander here with my 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.720 the boxer. Peter Tilton came in. Yeah, yes, and this 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:08.520 is the by the way, the lord you've come to 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.200 know in love calls really No Really. 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.479 And it's funny because when we started this, however, many 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.319 episodes ago, we were best friends and I used to 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.240 push that Now it's really diminishing it's diminishing with everybody. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.800 I never said best friend. And you know why, because 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:24.559 you're a coward. You wouldn't admit that we're best friends 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.840 because you would alienate. You want to alienate my other 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.800 I knew us. That's right. How many other friends do 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:29.479 you have to alien? 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:29.640 Hey? 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.959 What are we three? When you're when you're on the playground, 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.800 you have a best friend? Oh? Okay, that hurt? What 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.800 who is I'm not looking at camera saying now the 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.800 humor is not humorous anymore. It's serious. Le's to move on. 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:43.920 We're here in Las Vegas and looks like we spent money. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:45.920 Looks and this morning I went in first thing because 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.480 there's a fabulous coffee you never let go of and 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.120 hid myself a beautiful cappuccino. I put it down, looked 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:53.840 just like this. I put it down. I went out 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.880 to use the restroom. My cappuccino is gone. I'm looking around. 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.040 I'm looking around, and you notice there's a cap right 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.240 over there in front of me. I can laugh and 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.640 you're a bathe what's in that? You know what's in that? 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.840 Peter? You're urinating a lot more than you said. Can 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:06.720 we get into the episode? 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:11.000 Stop clowning around. There's your segue. There's your segue, because 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.320 today what we're talking about. We started to do some 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:17.679 research on the world's most dangerous jobs, and one of 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.400 the number one, if not the number one, and a 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.120 lot of the rundowns on it was human canniball. And 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.120 I called Peter and I said, Peter, you know what 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.160 the most dangerous job is. I don't know how we're 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.400 going to do this. It's being a human cannibal. And 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.560 Peter said, one of my best friends. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.520 Uran cannibal. And I said, what do you mean, best friend? 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.280 And I said really, no, really, so you will get 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.280 to meet if you've never seen somebody who gets shot 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.720 out of a cannon at seventy to seventy five miles 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.839 per hour goes over two hundred feet yeah, I think 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.200 one of the highest heights that have been shout seventy 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.520 five feet I think seventy five feet up two hundred 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.000 feet out. But I think our guy goes about thirty 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.639 thirty five feet up. But what's interesting about this? Oh, then, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.560 really we didn't get the guy. I think that guy, 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:09.840 I think I think the human hanniball first entered the 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.160 public consciousness in the nineteenth century days in eighteen seventy one, 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.280 I'm an english Man named George Farini. Can you imagine? 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.399 Other people are working on other stuff and he's trying 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.400 to shoot people. He's trying to come up with a car. Yeah, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.320 what do you work? What's your husband George working on 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.440 shooting people out of the canters? It's trying to fly 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.360 And don't tell the cousins toy, you're okay. So George 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.600 Rereene developed the mechanism he called a projector, made out 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.640 of heavy springs Indian rubber. It was simply a platform 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:37.080 with springs. Looked nothing like a cannon, but when released, 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.520 it shot a person or whatever. Now could you imagine? 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.440 Because George was I'm sure trying to convince the first 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:47.280 person that George knew what he was doing. He applied 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.680 and received a patent in June thirteenth, eighteen seventy one. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.800 Two years later, eighteen seventy three, the projector made its 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:58.680 first appearance to the American public. Due to his own girth, however, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.760 he couldn't fit in. And that's what he's it. I'm 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.600 not going in. I'm not going You could have made 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.160 the two bigger George oh no, oh no, oh no, no, no, no, 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.120 that's madness. It was not himself but Lulu, a compete 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.760 young man dressed in women's clothing. Sure already, sure, already 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:17.760 with the Yeah, he trained Lulu. And when George let 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.440 go to latch, Lulu, what was what was that training 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.680 you're standing on? Getting Get in get in the two, 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.520 get in the tube. Already by those months of coaching, 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.039 you had to put a meal. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.120 And beat him to get him to go on the 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:33.320 d If you start putting. 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.760 Food in there, then sleep in there, and then one 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.640 day you just shoot it off. When George let go 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.880 the latch holding the spring, Lulu shot thirty feet into 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.039 the air and grabbed the bars and grabbed the bars 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.800 of a trapeze hanging down from the ceiling. Crowd went 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.840 while George and they did it in the crowd, We're 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.400 going to do this first time, went as wall if 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.520 you're going to go? If I rated it, George and 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.200 Lulu were hitting and took to the road with a 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.120 circus act. By eighteen seventy five, Lulu was known as 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.120 the Queen I'm sure I pe this, but their act 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.120 would be eclipsed by a new invention in the human 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:10.239 projectile history. A guy named George Loyal in Australia also 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.640 did this thing and catching and shooting up into the 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.320 air and the whole bit, so that it has a real, 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:19.000 real history of this. And I actually was working I 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.240 think it was PM magazine in Philly a long time ago, 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.680 and I was One of my segments was to join 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.440 the circus for night and go to clown college and 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.760 abbreviated version of clown clown abbreviated. They did it in 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.160 Philadelphia at the time because clown college you have to 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.280 apply it. I'll see you in a clown college. I 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.840 got to tell you, I don't see it. I don't 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.080 get well. I had low sat so it was tough, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.200 but I think I could put you put clown white 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.400 makeup on that face. I met. I met this next 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.160 guy who you're going to meet. He was a clown 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.640 assigned to me. He made me up, taught me clowning, 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.960 and I was in the center ring of Ringling Brothers 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.599 and he ran around and hit me with the I 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.919 know I Wringling Brothers went on. He hits me with 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.080 a giant powder puff and I'm the act. And we 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.599 have stayed friendly and we just talked about thirty seven 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.680 years he's traveled with his family. And John started out 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.200 as a clown with Ringling Brothers and then progressed and 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:09.960 he called me one day so proud, he said, guess 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.359 what I'm doing there? I said, what, John, You're the 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.799 head clown. He said, I'm getting shot out of the cannon. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:19.560 And I went really And with that introduction, ladies and gentleman, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.680 mister John, mister John Weiss, the human one of the 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.040 few human cannibals right in the world. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.839 Yeah, I was very fortunate I was able to jump 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:27.400 in there. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:31.360 And you're for fortunate. It's a lucky break, lucky breaks 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:36.760 of a lucky break. So, John, you were a circus 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.359 clown and I know that applying to clown college. Station's 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.440 joking about that, but like five six thousand people applying 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.360 the only pick like thirty or forty. Right. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.960 Yeah, they hold the auditions throughout the United States, and 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.240 the professional clowns. When we're in a particular location, we 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.240 bring the people in the rain, We audition them, We 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.440 do all kinds of improvisational stuff, and they select only sixty. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:57.799 How long is it and how long is clown college? 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.120 It was almost two months when I went. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.720 When I met him, try and lift a shopping cart. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.200 You know, however your shopping cart is. It's impossible. John 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:09.760 was juggling a shopping cart and balancing it on his chin. Exactly. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.119 You couldn't. You couldn't lift it up. You can partly 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:13.760 return it when you're done shopping. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.680 You don't know that I can lift a shopping No, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.000 you cannot. I can lift a shopping John, what is it? 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:19.360 What's a what's a card way? 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:20.040 I don't know. 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.840 I used a Costco shopping cart. Yes, that's what I wanted, 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.840 Masco shopping. Not only yeah, I just heavy is better 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:26.000 for me. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:32.440 You're not gonna he Also, you're also like an idiot. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.040 I mean this used to during me crazy. You would 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:35.240 bounce it. Not just the shopping. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.360 I saw photos of you balance a dollar bill on 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:38.720 your chin. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.040 You balance a feather on your chin, and also a 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.200 running chainsaw and a running chainsaw. I can do that too. 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.360 I want to see that one. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.200 And by the way, if you'd like to apply for 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.880 the co host position, No, it's you know. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.840 I just started as a kid balancing stuff. Didn't know 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.920 I had the talent. And then as I got older, 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.480 people who challenged me to balance bigger things, and that's 0:07:58.520 --> 0:07:59.400 how I got to climact. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.960 Know, this is such a stupid question with the balance, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.920 And did you always on the channel? 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.280 Did you like try on a finger? 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.240 No? No, I started on my foot, on your foot, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:10.920 and then it got to my knee, my shoulder, and 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.920 then my face. Heavy objects on the chin, light on 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:14.320 the nose. 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.680 So you went from clowning. And the interesting thing for 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.440 me about clowning, there is a cash system in the 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.160 circus and most of the acts are generation and they're 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.600 very protective of the act. They don't want they only 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.920 give away secrets. So here's this, here's a clown who 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.880 wants to all of a sudden learn how to do that. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.240 I read somewhere. I read a lot of articles that 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.760 there may have even the sabotage whereas Bill shuts the seventhage? 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.240 Is that true? John? How hard was that to break 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.120 into a family, traditional business where the circus treats those 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.439 people like god, that's they're the big stars. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.680 Well, it starts at different levels, like you have supposedly 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.280 it did. At one point it was all the act people, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.000 and then you had clowns and show girls at a 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.360 different level, so we would never at that level. To 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.800 get to that, you will usually within your family, you know, 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.559 years and years of training, and that training, as you said, 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.160 went down to the next generation, and that would give 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.080 them longevity in the business. What did they do or 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.160 what do you think they do well in retrospect? When 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.000 I when I go back and I look at everything. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.720 When I trained people, I give them distance to realize 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.400 where they're going and to react in time to talk 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.880 and hit the net on the back of the shoulders. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.840 Right when I was trained, it was right over the 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.840 net and I only went like like ten feet, uh huh. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.079 And I knew after that first cannon shot I was 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.560 going to be able to do it because they tucked 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.680 in time. But I did hurt myself. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.480 So the amount of throw from the cannon is relatively 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.439 little because it's only, as you say, shoot you about 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.920 ten feet, But it gives you enough of the sense 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.839 of oh, okay, I see what this is going to 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.920 build up to, and I have to So is the 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.599 learning did it gradually add more and more distance and 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.640 therefore more and more thrust? 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:57.160 Blush? 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.800 Yeah, I mean, look, no matter what, when the cannon 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:02.240 goes off, it's like a blink. If you blink your eyes, 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.320 that's how fast it is. So even a short shot 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.120 is a huge jolt on your body. It's like being 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.440 in a car accident and you're parked and somebody hits 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.199 you from about sixty five miles an hour, but you're 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.480 ready for it. Yeah, And that's the kind of force 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.680 we're talking about, between ten and twelve g forces in 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.760 a second on your average flight. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.880 What's the difference on the average flight, you mean, like 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:22.640 a regular flight. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.640 Yeah, if you were doing this, it's three seconds, about 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.120 one hundred and sixty five feet under thirty five feet high. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.079 Okay, so one hundred and sixty five feet. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.040 In three seconds, and it's only thirty five feet high 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.640 because the rigging is trimmed out at forty two so 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.080 as your legs come over, you want to make sure 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.080 that you obviously don't clip your legs on the rigging. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:45.199 Oh my god. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.720 And psychologically, when you're in there, you don't see the net. Yeah, 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.080 all you see is the rigging. So psychologically, when the 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.760 building is lower than forty two feet at trim and 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.320 you're trying to, you know, bring the canon down lower 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.600 for a line drive a logically, our first shot really 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:02.920 could do a lot of damage to so. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.120 As you say, much like I understand parachutists. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.240 Do you know they before they opened the shoot there 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.760 any little movement of hands, foot, head, altars, how they fly. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.199 You're doing the same thing. But you're doing it. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.520 It must be completely instinctual, because you can't there's no 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:20.760 time to process. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.120 Oh, I need to I need to get muscle memory. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.959 It's got to be muscle memory. It's doing an auto 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.680 sort of an autobiolot. Not to make a pun, but I. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.920 Trained one clown and the reason I picked him because 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.200 when we used to grun out from the back curtain 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.200 on to say, the floor of the garden Madison Sweat garden, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.320 we're running out as clown, I would trip him as 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.480 he's in a full run, and he was able to 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.920 roll out of it. So I said, okay, because it's 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:47.640 a good. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.680 And how many times a day did you do this? Well? 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.960 We did about ten to thirteen times a week, three 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.360 times every Saturday, three times every sing and there was 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.400 a year that we did we produced the show with 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.840 the cat and opening the show that was the worst 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.199 because its like a ten o'clock show. You'd be shitting 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.320 out of a cannon. Horrible man. Do you know. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:11.040 It's worse than Peter stealing my boss? One hundred? Why 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.960 do you? And I'm not saying this to be funny. Jason, 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.679 before he goes on stage, I always say, around four o'clock, 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:17.640 have you have? You? 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:18.840 I have? 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.400 I had a terrible incident on stage one time where 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.840 I was in desperate need of a bathroom and held on, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.439 thank God, but it was touch and go. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.720 So I go, I'm on. I'm on empty when I 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.160 when I perform on, I'm adjusting empty would be better? 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.480 Empty is better? Is better? Had seventy miles an hour? Yeah? 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:37.040 Wow? 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.480 You know, but speaking of that, not only as the cannibal, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.400 but as a clown as well. You know the I 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.400 know what it's like having to go on stage as 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.200 an actor when you have a headache or you're feeling 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.080 a little under or something's happened in your life and 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:54.240 you're upset, and you know, focus to be a clown 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.920 first of all, which is just pure entertainment. There's no 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.720 plot to hide behind, there's no story, there's no lines, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.640 pure you know, pure joy entertainment. And then the risks 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.480 of doing this if you're feeling off, do you do 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:09.040 it anyway? 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.240 Do you? You just go? I got it it. Showtime, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:12.080 Show must go on. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.880 Show must go on always always, Yeah, you know, Look, 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.720 the audience is medicine for me. If I'm not having 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.320 a good day, I get on stage and everything goes 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.040 away because I'm connecting with an audience and I'm getting 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.240 automatic feedback from what I'm doing and I'm having a 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.440 good time. And create memories. Yeah, that's what we do 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.760 as entertainers. We create memories and to be a part 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.040 of someone's memory for the life. Yeah, forever is a 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:33.719 wonderful thing. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.360 It just happened. Did you I never saw you. I 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.280 never saw you test the thing? Could you test it 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:38.920 with dummies? 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.760 A lot of people make mistakes, and I've made mistakes 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.040 in it. It cost them dearly. There was a gentleman 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.800 his name was Elvin Bally. He was doing the Candon 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.240 before I did un wringling in Japan. He used the 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.640 dummy to test the distance, and that dummy absorbed the 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.360 water and it wasn't weighed prior to shooting out moisture 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.559 or whatever it may have been. Right the way, he 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.200 overshot the airbag. 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.200 And oh he was in front of an audience, right. 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.280 Yeah, he landed in like a bleachers of seats or 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.679 something and he got paralyzed from it. And that was 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.240 during the time I was training. So then I was 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.520 questioning whether I was doing the right thing. But I 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.120 was steadfast on my decision to learn this and achieve 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:18.440 it and to become the best I could. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.240 And I never asked you. Did Laura ever say John, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.160 don't do this. Did she ever trying to suade you 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:22.920 from doing it? No? 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.040 But I got life insurances soon as I started as 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:25.400 a clown. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.600 Okay, but the whole it wasn't just the ca I mean, 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:33.200 if you look around, everything in the circuits seems dangerous 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.600 to me. If you're on a wire, if you're on 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.920 a trapeze, if you're working with an animal, if you're 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.880 I mean, the whole thing is, and the way, you know, 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:46.760 especially with something like wringling, the whole rigging goes up 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.800 like in a blank comes down in a blink. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:55.720 It all seems very very precarious to me. Drewe falls Wow. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.320 You know. Look, it's it's just like anything. A few 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.360 lose respect for a ass car, a motorcycle and you 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.400 don't take the precautions necessary. There's always going to be 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.520 something that's going to happen. With the Cannon example, it's mechanical, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.960 so anything can happen. So you can't take anything for granted. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.440 Every show is different, and every show you have to 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.040 take that time to make sure everything's right. And I 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:21.160 did overshoot a couple of times, but side by Side 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.360 it was only two weeks into the double Cannon and 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.000 I was not in charge, and when I got inside 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:27.920 of it, we didn't have an intercom system in there. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.320 We didn't even have a safety So once I got 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.480 in there, they started the countdown and I'm like, oh 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.200 my god, I'm gonna oh my You. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:36.000 Knew something was wrong. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.360 Absolutely. I was in the same level as the next guy. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.120 So at this point when I get in, it's usually 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.360 staggered the capsules. Right I get in with side By 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.040 I could see him, Oh my god, and by then 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.680 it's too late for what happened. You're bracing, you're praying. 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.120 I got to hit the net. You know, afterwards you 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.720 get off, smile for the crowd and then go screaming somebody. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.320 No, I'm not about that. But what I did was 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.640 made sure every show I checked it after that. But 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.480 that one time could have killed me, could have killed him. 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.480 We could have bounced out of the net. We went 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.240 side by side land in the same part of the 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.440 net we got up on. You could see our faces. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.880 I having on video. You can see our faces, and 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:15.960 they were like, oh my god. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.440 We're alive. Oh thank you John, thank you for having 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.800 me by the wall. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:31.520 The five to five and Underclub salutes us. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:36.480 Really today's episode really, So, today's episode was ostensibly about 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.200 the deadliest job in the world, and we had John 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.080 Weishaung who gets shot out of cannon. However, you've been 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.920 talking about this gentleman, saying I don't know how he 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.040 does this. I can't believe he does this. You got 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.240 to see the You've been raving about this guy for 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.240 a million years and I didn't want to step on. Hey, John, 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.120 getting shot out of the canon is not the most 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.120 dangerous job in the world. But this guy does something 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.880 that is insanely dangerous. And you're gonna go crazy when 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.800 I tell you we reached that Lord tracked him down 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.960 and found him. I'll back this up. He's at the Bellagio. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:14.920 He's in the show the guy who sets him fire 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:16.639 every single. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:21.040 And I know it's not Richard ray. 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.080 Ray Wald is coming in right. I think the only 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.760 guy in the world that does this sets himself. What's 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:27.160 the act. 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.359 The act is, he sits and he's dressed like a 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.359 clown with a hat and shoot. And he comes and 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.200 he sits in a lawn chair, a reclining lawn chair, 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.720 and he puts a kerosene lamp down on the floor 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.159 and he's reading a newspaper and the kerosene lamp catches 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.720 the lawnchair on fire. So he catches on fire from 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.360 head to toe. The paper is burning too, and as 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.560 he's burning, he goes, oh, I'm on fire, and walking 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:54.320 very slowly, he gets and he walks off stage. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:55.520 That's the whole act. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.520 But he is visibly on fire from head to toe 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.320 for close to a minute and a half to. 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.280 And he was on America. However many times a week 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.400 he has to do America's Got talent. He had his 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.240 mother on with him. He was throwing flaming knives with 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:18.280 his mother, which is but here he I knew you wanted. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:26.119 This gunbelievable, all right, So ladies and gentlemen, let us 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.800 who sets himself a play several times. 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.280 The other part of the show, and I was just 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.040 reminding Ray is that when I saw it was you know, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.560 fairly early in its run, and and Seinfeld was a thing, 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.199