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Speaker 1: You. I'm now listening to soft Core History.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to Softcore History. I'm your

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host for the week Damage Ester, joined as always by Robert.

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Speaker 1: Fox feeling Gas. Today, we had a.

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Speaker 2: Long shoot yesterday. We have some bookstore sketches coming out

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in the next couple of weeks, hoping to drop those

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Monday Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Monday Wednesdays Tuesday for the Monday sketches on YouTube. Yeah,

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but yeah, I'm proud.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited. I was happy with what we did.

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Speaker 1: Proud. Wow, that's not the way the day started. So

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I'm glad that's the way the day ended.

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Speaker 2: I was very flustered. It was very cramp space.

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Speaker 1: It was really small, but good looking space.

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Speaker 2: So stay tuned for those.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Today, though, we're actually talking about something fun and light.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I love that, a little light history.

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Speaker 2: And by that I mean we're gonna see a lunatic

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tragically followed through with this plan.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, he said this was all recorded, So what

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horrible things are you gonna you're gonna show me today?

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Speaker 2: Let's get into it. Okay. So the idea of yeating

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yourself off something tall and landing safely dates back to

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China in the fourth century BC, who experimented with umbrella

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like devices to replicate a plumb blossom pedal gracefully floating

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through the sky before touching softly onto the ground. There's

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a legend of Emperor Shun escaping a burning building in

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twenty two hundred BC using two wide bamboo hats to

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glide down to safety like.

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Speaker 1: A bird, like one on each arm.

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Speaker 2: No, I think it's more like an umbrella. Okay, like

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Mary Poppin's Oh he Mary Poppins it, but with two

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just giant rice hats.

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Speaker 1: That's sick. Oh. No, I know what we're doing. Oh fuck,

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I think I already know this. The dude who tried

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to make a flying vest or flying jacket and off

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the Eiffel Tower.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that. Yeah, you nailed that. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know much about this guy, but I do know.

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I just do know that that happened.

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Speaker 2: Stepping all over my episode. I just, I just I

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don't have this whole like preamble building up about parachutes

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and kind of the history of people doing this. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Can I say something though, real quick for anyone who

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listens to this show regularly, you know that I am

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a vowed Leonardo da Vinci hater.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get to him.

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Speaker 1: Just save your takes, okay, okay, save your takes for

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when you're asked to hit them.

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Speaker 2: I wanna set them up on a tee for you

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to crush. All right, Wait your turn, damnit, I'm ready.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready.

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Speaker 2: There's an order to the show. Now. In the ninth

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century Spain, some dude named Armin Furman attempted to fly

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by jumping off a tower with a large cloak. Shockingly,

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he didn't turn into a mashed human and survived the

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attempt with non life threatening.

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Speaker 1: In How big was the tower? I guess big enough

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ninth century You probably looking at maybe ten stories, Max.

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I feel like.

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Speaker 2: Playing Assassin's Creed the Baghdad one. It's kind of land

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because there are no top eldans. Yeah yeah, yeah, so

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like the tallest things, like I don't know, like five

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stories in Baghdad. So ninth century Spain is that moors?

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's controlled mostly by the moors.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not expecting, you know, them to build up

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these giant monstrosities.

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Speaker 1: They built, big towers, they built you know, I don't

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know why bag Dad wasn't crushing it. But I feel

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like the various Muslim cultures at that time built some

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pretty decent towers for something, for whatever reason.

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Speaker 2: Now, the earliest evidence of a true parachute design comes

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to us thanks to Francisco de Giorgio Martini in a

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manuscript from the fourteen seventies showing a free hanging man

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clutching a crossbar frame attached to a canopy. Shortly after,

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a more sophisticated parachute was sketched by your favorite boy,

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Leonardo da Vinci in fourteen eighty five.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he sketched it. Sketch it, didn't invent it.

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Speaker 2: Also, not the first to sketch it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeahs other people had this idea.

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Speaker 2: Seems like he kind of ripped our boy Martini.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. But you know what, if he

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I'll give a little more respect. If he's just ed

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Edison ng motherfuckers.

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Speaker 2: That's how he's gonna earn your respect. You're gonna totally

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flip on Da Vinci. What do you realized he stole everything?

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Speaker 1: No? No, because he still didn't make it. Edison made it.

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That's the difference produced it.

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Speaker 2: It made a worse product.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he made it.

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Speaker 2: The light bulb, wasn't the whole thing, Like, why would

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you have it last forever? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No one needs to be replaceable, right, No

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one's gonna buy one the last forever. I mean, you're

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not gonna make any money on it anyway.

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Speaker 2: Now, the modern parachute was invented in the late eighteenth

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century by Lewis Sebastian le Norman and France, who made

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the first recorded public jump in seventeen eighty three. Now,

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in seventeen eighty five, Jean Pierre Blanchard demonstrated it as

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a safe way to bail from his hot air balloon.

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Speaker 1: I's gonna say, at this point you have people high

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enough in the sky, albeit infrequently that yeah, it's becomes

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less of like, ay.

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Speaker 2: What if it's mostly in France too?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well they were. This was kind of like peak France.

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I feel like I feel like France from like the

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eighteen sixties to I don't know, the twenties, we'll call

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it the thirties to nineteen thirty. That's peak France.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well this is seventeen eighty five.

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Speaker 1: Oh seventh, I thought he's in eighteen eighty five, Oh,

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seventeen eighty five now never.

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Speaker 2: Mind big time for like hot air balloons. Oh yeah,

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Wall Blanchard's first parachute demonstrations were conducted with a dog

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as a passenger. He later had the opportunity to try

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himself in seventeen ninety three when his hot air balloon

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ruptured and he had to use it as a parachute

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to escape with his life in an emergency.

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Speaker 1: So motherfucker used a dog. Thankfully, I think the dog survived.

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Sounds like the dog survived. Yeah, if he was like, Okay,

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this works, I'll put it in the hot air balloon.

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But uh, you know, we have a long human beings

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of a long history of making dogs do our aviation

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dirty work for us.

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Speaker 2: First, how many dogs do we send the space.

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Speaker 1: America? I don't know what I know. Russia killed that

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dog or just left it up there?

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Speaker 2: Did we send a monkey?

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Speaker 1: We definitely sent a monkey, but we might have sent dogs.

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Speaker 2: To How many animals did we send in the space

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Speaker 1: Guess, I bet like ten max google AI says hundreds

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of animals, including dogs, monkeys, fruit flies.

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Speaker 2: Well if that doesn't count, yeah, yeah, get out of here,

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mice and even turtles.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't try.

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Speaker 2: I don't I trust the turtle. But a turtle in

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space is a hat on the hat?

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Speaker 1: Why because the Earth.

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Speaker 2: Are all flying through Yeah, on a turtle's back, turtles back.

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Speaker 1: I will say though, like, but what does that mean?

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International Space Station. So I'm talking about like, uh, you

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know ones, You're just shove in a pod and shoot

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up there.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we have an animal in our studio right now,

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my dog. Yeah, as you can hear in the background,

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I'm gonna have to send Chase to space.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Sorry, Jase getting in the pod.

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Speaker 2: That's his final mission.

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Speaker 1: I mean he if he has an intergalactic grave or

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an interplanetary grave, that's pretty sweet.

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Speaker 2: He gets to see the Earth one last time.

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Speaker 1: Gets to see it, not know what it is really,

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but no.

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Speaker 2: I comprehend it. Yeah, it's the giant blue marble. Will

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just gives be like, where's Dan? And that brings us

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to today's topic about the man he mentioned earlier. He

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tried to put his own stamp on the parachuteing lore.

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His name was Franz riiekelt.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so he was not was he German?

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Speaker 2: I guess He was born in Austria, Okay, in eighteen

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seventy eight to a family of hops farmers, oh and

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stayed in the family business.

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Speaker 1: Didn't what he was. He had bigger dreams than to

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be a hopsman.

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Speaker 2: Obtained his French citizenship in nineteen oh nine after he

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moved to Paris at the age of nineteen a few

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years before, and he adopted the first name Francois.

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Speaker 1: Oh, okay, he's integrating. You know what I mean, He's assimilating.

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Doesn't want its filthy German Germanic name anymore.

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Speaker 2: Franz, He's he's friends Will Falwill.

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Speaker 1: He opened up a successful tailor in dressmaking business, but

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a simple life of creating and altering suits and pants

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was simply not enough. He dreamed of the stars.

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Speaker 2: For Francois, don't call me Franz, no model. He decided

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to use his skill set and what he thought was

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a more useful manner. By nineteen ten, there was still

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no parachute suitable for use in jumping from a plane

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or at low altitude, so in July of that year,

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Raikelt began to develop a parachute suit that could be

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worn by a pilot with the addition of a few rods,

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a silk canopy, and a small amount of rubber that

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allowed it to fold and become what he hoped to

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be a practical and efficient parachute.

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Speaker 1: This was this thing was like not totally, but wasn't

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it kind of just like a squirrel suit.

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Speaker 2: It's the original squirrel suit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so for from the the very conception of it,

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you're just likely to die horribly even if it works.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, it could work too well. Yeah, going

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too fast? It's not slow any down.

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Speaker 1: I every time I get one of those videos of

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my algorithm, I'm just like I can't encourage this, Like

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I have to flip by it because like these assholes

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are all gonna die.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. What was the Red Bull of nineteen ten? Did

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you get in some greeny sponsorship? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Like Speed, just speed or yeah, I wouldn't be loudom

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it was just some whatever the earliest version of Speed was.

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I'm sure they had it. Maybe it's Cocaine Francois sponsored

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by Cocaine. I mean we did the episode. I can't

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remember if the patrio her main but on the on

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the pope who appeared in a cocaine wine advertisement that's true.

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The only pope I believe to ever be in any advertisement.

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And he he, he wasn't sponsored by them, but he

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loved the cocaine wine so much that he was like,

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I will happily endorse it for you as the head

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of the Catholic Church and God's messenger on earth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, Also, we figured out who invented coca cola

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on a previous episode we talked about on the Patreon

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picture on dot com sauce softcore history when we were

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talking about Grant Yea and him expelling the Jews from

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Mississippi in Tennessee. The Confederate commander there, Pemperton. Yeah, he

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actually was the inventor of coca cola.

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Speaker 1: Oh shit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so somebody told me that in the discord and

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I just remember to stash in my back pop.

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Speaker 1: Oh God, that's fucking funny. Yeah. I mean it's an

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Atlanta company, so it makes sense.

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Speaker 2: So back to our boy friends law. His early tests

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were successful. Dummies equipped with foldable silk wings touched down

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lightly when dropped from five floors, but converting the prototypes

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into a wearable suit was a much more difficult task.

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His original design used sixty five square feet of material

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and weighed around one hundred and fifty pounds.

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Speaker 1: So that's not a great start. Now, if you want

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Speaker 2: That's just adding an anchor to yourself.

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Speaker 1: It literally is just adding shit to you. It's just

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an acme and vill Yeah, that's just riding it down,

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said parachute written on it.

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Speaker 2: It's a looney too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, except you die, Yeah, you die, Yeah, you don't.

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You don't like. Your whole body falls through the ground,

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but your eyes stay above the hole and blink.

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Speaker 2: You don't light a cigarette that explodes in your face

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and it just erases your eyebrows. Right, your face blows

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up as well.

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Speaker 1: It's a stick of dynamite you thought was a cigarette.

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Speaker 2: We tricked kids into eating cigarettes.

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Speaker 1: Oh I loved candy cigarettes and cigars.

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Speaker 2: I bet you did.

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Speaker 1: Those were great. It was getting you ready, it was

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that's just supporting American business, big tobacco. That was one

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of the smartest things they ever did. I would always

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be like, Dad, can I get a candy cigarette? And

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he'd be like, Okay, I don't know whatever.

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Speaker 2: Big league chew just getting your prepped and ready.

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Speaker 1: Big League chew was my shit. That was that's that?

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Shit was so good.

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Speaker 2: We used to mix big league chew with actual chew,

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with actual chew?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how was that?

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Speaker 2: Oh great?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah better than real chew though. Yeah, true, you know,

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add a little flavor chew. I can't couldn't do that

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over chew and dip. Could never dip usually Redman, so Redman,

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Big leagu chew. Mix it together, throw it in, yeah,

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vomit immediately.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like it's just the samlot. Like you're just like.

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Speaker 2: You gotta earn your wings.

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Speaker 1: That's true. It's a right. It is a rite of passage.

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Speaker 2: So he presented his design to the leading aeronautic organizations

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at the aero Club de France, hoping that they would

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test it, but they rejected his designs and told him

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the surface of your device is too weak and you

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will break your neck.

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Speaker 1: But he wasn't ready to take no for an answer.

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He was like, I'm a master tailor. What do you

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fly boys know about the air and how things go

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through it?

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Speaker 2: I'm really good at sewing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah all right, yeah, I'm a sewer. God damn it,

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this is a sewer's business.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. You get obsessed with something.

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Speaker 1: But that's actually also a cheap shot, because a lot

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of inventors and stuff in that time, like the fucking

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Right Brothers their bicycle repairman.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, actually you got to run a small time shop

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to become an innovator.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, like they just were like, uh, they kind

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of just figured it out. I think I don't remember

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you did the episode, I believe, but yeah, like so

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it makes sense that a lot that someone who like

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a lot that happened a lot back then, that people

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would like.

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Speaker 2: See somebody that just tinkers. Yeah, yes, you want to tinker.

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Speaker 1: A lot of tinkerers invented things that didn't.

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Speaker 2: Really that's our problem nowadays. We don't tinker.

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Speaker 1: No tinkers.

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Speaker 2: Why we don't innovate because we don't.

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Speaker 1: We don't need a tinker because I can just watch

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slop on my phone all day. Yeah, I have nothing

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to tinker with. You're tinkering with the algorithm. Yeah, that's

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the only thing I tinker with.

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Speaker 2: But it's only making the algorithm stronger and me weaker.

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They attempted to dissuade him from spending further time on development,

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but he was determined to prove the haters wrong and

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continue to refine and test his design.

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Speaker 1: Check it out. Sometimes your haters are right.

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Speaker 2: Haters are often right haters.

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Speaker 1: There's this weird uh, you know, like idea that haters

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are batting zero.

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Speaker 2: Haters are hitting haters at least eight hundred, Like they're

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hitting much better than the people that prove the haters.

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Speaker 1: Are two Ti cobs stacked on top of each other.

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Speaker 2: All time Hall of Fame haters put them in. In

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nineteen eleven, Roy Kelt personally jumped from the height of

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thirty three feet at joint. The attempt failed, but a

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pile of straw helped break his fall and he escaped injury. Okay,

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literally assassin's creed jump into the hay.

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Speaker 1: So and I assume he put the hay there right

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like he had. He had to have done that. He

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didn't just get lucky, I would hope.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Actually that'd be kind of sick if if he

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did it was just a random bail of hay.

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Speaker 1: I you know, it's the it's the eighteen hundreds.

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Speaker 2: Good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's bales of hay everywhere everywhere.

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Speaker 2: He was not so lucky from his attempt from twenty

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six feet though, and he broke his leg.

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Speaker 1: Ugh, but he's not going to let that hater physics

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keep him down.

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Speaker 2: No, especially now when there's a prize on the line.

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Speaker 1: What is the was there like a please someone invent

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this parachute?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so Colonel Lallance wrote to the aero Club de

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France offering a prize of ten thousand francs for a

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safety parachute for his pilots, because again, early stage airplane,

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you're not getting up too high. No, and they crash

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a lot.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh these people are just crashing constantly.

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Speaker 2: You get into a dogfight, you know, you get a bail. Yeah,

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really just kind.

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Speaker 1: Of roll, honestly, Like the only way to bail is

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to just like get it lower and lower until you

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can jump out of the plane. Yeah. And that like

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that was the thing. Like I don't even know how

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much it was in World War One, but probably a

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shit ton. But like even in World War Two, like

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a lot of aviator desks where just like plane didn't work,

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like planes stopped being a plane. That's the thing in

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what is a Fuck? I always heard the name of

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the Apple show.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're spinning God's face at that point. Oh yeah,

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they're not even real planes. What nineteen eleven planes?

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Speaker 1: Oh? They're barely a plane. They're paper, they're yeah, like

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kind of literally, they're like fucking canvas and wood with

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a fucking engine.

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Speaker 2: So the competition was open for three years and stipulated

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that the parachute must weigh no more than fifty five pounds,

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So he had to get it down from his original

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one hundred and fifty pounds to fifty five pounds.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's sometimes it's good to make an artist

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work within a box, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: It's often way more beneficial for the oughter is to

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walk to work in that box.

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Speaker 1: To give, to give. Limits are the key to creativity,

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to be quite honest, because otherwise, if you just give

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someone some shit, they're like, go do whatever you want.

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They come back with the most self indulgent garb. One

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hundred and eighty pound parachute is what they come back with. Now.

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Speaker 2: Roy Kelt refined his design, reducing the weight while increasing

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the surface area of the material until it reached one

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hundred and thirty square feet. Dummy after dummy plummeted straight

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to the earth.

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Speaker 1: What a nightmare of a neighbor. Yes, there's just another

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dummy getting yeeeded out of his window. Or off the roof,

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like someone please stop giving France wat roof act.

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Speaker 2: You think you have it bad because you're underneath a

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guy above you that's just stomping around at late hours

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of the night. Imagine if you lived under me right

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now and I'm just constantly throwing things out of my window.

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Speaker 1: Huge things like you just live in the neighborhood. You're walking.

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You just bought a baguette and like six bottles of wine,

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like that famous picture of that French chick, and then

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a dummy just fucking falls out of the sky right

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smashes all your wine. You're like, what the fuck? Like,

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I gotta move, I.

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Speaker 2: Got a big bag yet in your bag?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all wet and fucked up now it fell

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in some horseshit Like you're just your day's ruined because

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Francois thinks he can invent a squirrel suit.

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Speaker 2: What do you think the Paris version of I'm walking his.

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Speaker 1: Oh I wish I knew better French? Uh, just take

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a drag of a cigarette, piece of sheet. Fuck you, yeah,

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mailed mailed.

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Speaker 2: Even though it seemed like the dummies weren't really giving

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him the results he wanted, he still pushed on and

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convinced himself that the problem lay not in his invention,

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but how he tested it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the Uh, it's the principal skinner meme. Is

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it me that's wrong? Like, is it me that's out

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of touch? No? No, it's the children.

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Speaker 2: The children.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's all it is. He's like, is it

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my invention that's bad? No, No, I'm there's something else

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that must be wrong. He believed he needed to do

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it from a greater height. Yes, you need to up

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the stakes because it's not working enough. Hair he's not Yeah,

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that's not catching enough from the apartment.

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Speaker 2: You know, how can I tell if it takes like

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a split second longer than it did last time?

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Speaker 1: There's no way. There's no way up.

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Speaker 2: The height is too short. Yeah, we must up the stakes.

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So Roy Kelt announced to the press in early February

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nineteen twelve that he received permission and would shortly conduct

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an experiment from the Eiffel Tower to prove the value

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of his invention.

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Speaker 1: First off, I imagined him walking into a newspaper office

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like Charles Guitau, you know what I mean, just walking

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in and being like I am a great man. Come

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cover my great come right stories of my great feats

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that I will soon do. And I assume the newspaper

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was like, God, this like the fucking eighth guy today.

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All right, what are you doing jumping off the Eiffel Tower?

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Because I have a suit that makes you fly. And

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I don't think they were listening past jumping off the

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Eiffel Tower. Yeah, because that's a good news story. Either wow,

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that's great. Yeah, either it works, good news story or

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it doesn't work, great news story.

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Speaker 2: On Sunday, February fourth, at seven am, Riikelt arrived at

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the tower by car with two friends. He was already

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wearing his parachute suit. The weather was cold, with the

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temperatures below freezing around like zero degrees celsius thirty two

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degrees fahrenheit. Yeah. Yeah, And there was a stiff breeze

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blown across the Champ de Mars.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's helpful, get a little extra air, and your

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under here squirrel suit just blows you further to your death. Yeah,

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I mean, one would hope, one would hope there's an updraft.

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I know there wasn't, but one he could hope the.

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Speaker 2: Suit did not restrict the wearer's movements. And he described

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the method of deploying the parachute as being as simple

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as extending your arms out to form a cross with

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the body. So it's just this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in Christ's name, you fly not the worst strategy wide. Yeah, yeah,

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that's what.

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Speaker 2: You make yourself as wide as possible, because I you

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crumple up, then you just sink.

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Speaker 1: I do think someone can tell me this because I

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assume we have a listener who was, because we was

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a fair amount of military guys. Listen, who listen who

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was like in the airborne or has jumped out of

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a fucking plane before. But I do think that the

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advice and not of really advice, but they're like your one,

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like last ditch, Hail Mary, is you got to spread

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yourself out as much as possible if shoot fails or whatever.

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I think.

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Speaker 2: And for the bushes, oh god, that's actually one of

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the best opening scenes of a movie ever, just the

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rock and Samuel L. Jackson, Oh yeah, the other guys

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guys for the bushes arguably like the great Well Farah movie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Some police officers were present to maintain order, as the

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Parisian police captain had given Reikelt permission to do his experiment.

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Believe in Reikelt would like a sane person be conducting

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dummy drops, and he had no clue that he would

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be making the jump himself.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually shocked he got permission at all. So there

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was a there was a guy speaking of monuments. I

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think this happened when I was like really little, or

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maybe right before I was born. But it was a

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dude who was trying to His goal was to parachute

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out of a plane, land on the top of the

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Saint Louis Arch, and then I think slide down the arch. Anyway,

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he just died.

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Speaker 2: Didn't work. How far did he get though, that would.

470
00:22:53,799 --> 00:22:55,960
Speaker 1: Have I'll have to look that up. But his goal

471
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,200
was partially like hit the arch and then I think

472
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,200
slide down. I think that's why it was. Yeah, that's

473
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,480
tight as hell. Yeah, well it would have been.

474
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 2: It's like if you're going down into the subway and

475
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,720
all the people are kind of crowding the stairs, you

476
00:23:10,839 --> 00:23:13,440
just fucking slide down the pole on your ass.

477
00:23:13,519 --> 00:23:16,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's sweet, And I think that's what he

478
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:17,759
uh wanted to do.

479
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 2: But did he want to do it with like a skateboard? No?

480
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 1: Oh god, I wish This would have been almost like

481
00:23:22,759 --> 00:23:24,200
pre skateboard in a lot of ways.

482
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 2: There's no way it's pre skateboard.

483
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,519
Speaker 1: The arch is not that old, it's not pre skateboard,

484
00:23:28,519 --> 00:23:33,359
but it's pre skateboard being popular. U Kenn Sawyer in

485
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,640
nineteen eighty attempting to parachute onto the Gateway arch and

486
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,240
then base jump, but his secondary shoot failed and he

487
00:23:40,279 --> 00:23:44,759
fell to his death. When was that nineteen eighty eighty? Yeah,

488
00:23:45,279 --> 00:23:51,240
Now there was another guy who did succeed. He suction

489
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,000
cupped all the way up to the top of the

490
00:23:53,079 --> 00:23:56,039
arch from the bottom, pretending to be like Spider Man. Yeah,

491
00:23:56,039 --> 00:23:58,319
and then he parachuted off and he succeeded. He went

492
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,000
to he got he went to jail, but he succeeded.

493
00:24:01,279 --> 00:24:03,559
Speaker 2: Homeboy that died though. Did he even get to slide

494
00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:04,119
down or.

495
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,279
Speaker 1: He landed on the top but his parachute failed to

496
00:24:09,319 --> 00:24:13,160
deploy properly, So I think it was Oh, he didn't

497
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,039
try to slide down the North Lake. He just did

498
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:15,720
slide down there.

499
00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:19,559
Speaker 2: Okay, Well you know he went out in style.

500
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah like that. By the way, that is

501
00:24:22,759 --> 00:24:27,240
a very popular tourist destination, so there were.

502
00:24:27,079 --> 00:24:29,599
Speaker 2: There had to be at least a couple hundred people

503
00:24:29,799 --> 00:24:34,480
on site watching this happen. This was a surprise to everybody,

504
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,480
including his friends that accompanied him to the Eiffel Tower,

505
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,519
as ry Kelt had concealed his intentions until the very

506
00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:43,200
last moment.

507
00:24:44,759 --> 00:24:48,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's not a good it. Really should have

508
00:24:48,559 --> 00:24:51,359
told him that, Like he couldn't tell them like I

509
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,039
should have in a revelation room. He couldn't tell them

510
00:24:53,039 --> 00:24:55,240
because he knew they'd tried to talk him out of it.

511
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 2: So dumb.

512
00:24:56,079 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was just like, my friends will turn

513
00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:59,640
to haters if I tell them the truth.

514
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,799
Speaker 2: To keep the allies you have on your side, because

515
00:25:03,839 --> 00:25:06,000
then you turn them into haters, that's just more people

516
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:06,680
they are gonna be, right.

517
00:25:06,839 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, So he didn't want he didn't want them to

518
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,799
be haters until the very last second. I guess he

519
00:25:11,839 --> 00:25:15,039
didn't dream big enough. What do you mean he only

520
00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:18,240
went to the first floor. Oh yeah, yeah. He wasn't

521
00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:20,200
like at the steeple or whatever.

522
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 2: He was at the first like base of the Eiffel Tower,

523
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:29,279
which man not as cool visually, because I will show

524
00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:34,200
you the video. Yeah, it goes exactly how you think.

525
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,319
It just an immediate like WP his friends tried to

526
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,359
persuade him to use dummies in the experiment once they

527
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,920
went up, assuring him that he would have other opportunities

528
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,720
to make the jump himself. When this failed, they pointed

529
00:25:47,759 --> 00:25:49,759
to the strength of the wind and said he could

530
00:25:49,799 --> 00:25:54,200
call off the test on safety grounds, or at least

531
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,599
delay it until the wind dropped. So like, you know,

532
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,640
you have an excuse. You don't look like a coward.

533
00:25:58,640 --> 00:25:59,119
You're fine.

534
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 1: You haven't out, dude.

535
00:26:01,079 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 2: It's a cold, windy day. It's brutal. I honestly, my

536
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,160
friend asked me to attend him, and I look at

537
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,599
the weather report now, but sorry.

538
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: Bud, I'm not gonna make it. Would cold wind if

539
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000
he asked you to what go with him to jump

540
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,599
off the effel? Oh? Yeah, me alone?

541
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:17,839
Speaker 2: Yeah?

542
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,599
Speaker 1: The cold, the cold, knowing he would die, it's fucking freezing.

543
00:26:21,799 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 2: Knowing that he would die, I would still be like,

544
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,079
hey man, I'll be at the funeral.

545
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll catch you the funeral. Dude, it's too fucking

546
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:27,480
cold today.

547
00:26:28,279 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 2: I just can't do cold wind. Yeah, and God forbid,

548
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:31,160
there's rain.

549
00:26:32,279 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 1: Yeah. The wind is what the wind is what gets you.

550
00:26:34,599 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 2: He then told journalists from Lapitte Journeal that he was

551
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,440
totally convinced that his apparatus would work and work well, like.

552
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:46,839
Speaker 1: We know, we know you're convinced. That's not the problem.

553
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 2: When question as to whether he planned to take any

554
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,920
additional precautions, such as using a safety rope, he replied

555
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,680
that he would not since he intended to trust his

556
00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,640
life entirely to his parachute. In his own words, he

557
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,960
said in French, I want to try to experiment myself

558
00:27:05,079 --> 00:27:07,920
without trickery, as I intend to prove the worth of

559
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:08,480
my invention.

560
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,039
Speaker 1: Again, as we said earlier, haters higher batting average than

561
00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:21,440
you think, and betting on yourself not always a great idea.

562
00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:25,119
Sometimes you're just a guy, and that includes us.

563
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,839
Speaker 2: Most times you're just a guy.

564
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, most times you're just a guy.

565
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:35,319
Speaker 2: The world's full of jags. Now. Gustan Herveau, who was

566
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,200
also working on his own parachute suit, was present to

567
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,119
witness the demonstration. So a guy who's just as crazy.

568
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,559
Speaker 1: Yeah.

569
00:27:42,599 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 2: He attempted to dissuade Ray Kelt from making the jump,

570
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,759
believing that the parachute needed longer to fully open than

571
00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:53,160
the few seconds from the drop of the first platform.

572
00:27:53,319 --> 00:27:54,559
So he's like, dog, you gotta go higher.

573
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, like he's yeah, also that was how much higher

574
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,799
is this than his apartment? Because his whole fucking thing

575
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:01,960
was that his apartment wasn't high enough.

576
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean he was making like thirty three foot.

577
00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 1: Drops, but I like you that even that still was

578
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,920
like the other parachute guy was like, that's not high enough, dude,

579
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,720
because those squirrel suit dudes who do it now, they

580
00:28:12,799 --> 00:28:17,559
jump off of monstrous cliffs because they know they need

581
00:28:17,599 --> 00:28:19,359
like every ounce of air they can get.

582
00:28:19,599 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: The first platform of the Eiffel Tower is one hundred

583
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,680
and eighty seven feet high. Seems tall enough, I don't know.

584
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's what like fucking five times over six

585
00:28:30,079 --> 00:28:34,400
times what he was doing. Fair enough to him, point

586
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,079
to Francois.

587
00:28:35,759 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 2: But point the other way because a guy in your field, yeah,

588
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,680
very you know, it's a limited fraternity.

589
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: It's a small, small house.

590
00:28:44,839 --> 00:28:47,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like, man, you gotta you gotta go higher. Yeah,

591
00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:50,000
that's not it's not gonna work for you. This is

592
00:28:50,039 --> 00:28:52,960
not gonna go well. Yeah, I know he probably thought,

593
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,960
Doug just wants to see me drop out. He wants

594
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,920
the gloria, he wants the glory. Absolute hater right here,

595
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,079
he's the biggest hater. Yeah, he wants to steal my valor.

596
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: He wouldn't let him. Nothing was stopping this man from

597
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:07,440
jumping off.

598
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,799
Speaker 2: There were many people that could have stopped him.

599
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,119
Speaker 1: I mean the cop could have literally been like nope,

600
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,160
well there was actually a guard too. Oh really, Why

601
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,559
weren't the police like, oh, oh, that's.

602
00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:21,039
Speaker 2: What you wanted to do because they didn't know.

603
00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:23,119
Speaker 1: Did they not go up there with them? No, they

604
00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:24,920
were just there and they're like wait what They like,

605
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,319
just look up. They're like, whoa wait. Wait.

606
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,759
Speaker 2: So he shows up and he's in the suit, and

607
00:29:28,839 --> 00:29:30,079
I think they were confused.

608
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,839
Speaker 1: I mean, but you could still, I guess, argue like, oh, well,

609
00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:36,680
he's just showing what it looks like on a person. Yeah.

610
00:29:36,799 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 2: I don't think he told, you know, cops on the

611
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:39,960
ground that he planned on jump.

612
00:29:40,079 --> 00:29:41,359
Speaker 1: Yeah.

613
00:29:41,599 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 2: Now, ropes had been suspended between the legs of the

614
00:29:43,759 --> 00:29:47,680
tower by police at Rykelt's request to prevent the crowds

615
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,759
from spilling onto the landing zone, and he spent some

616
00:29:50,799 --> 00:29:54,759
time discussing the arrangements with the marshals and ensuring that

617
00:29:54,799 --> 00:29:58,680
there was a sufficient space for his land in before

618
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,160
going to the stairs to climb to the first platform,

619
00:30:02,319 --> 00:30:04,200
and his first attempt to ascend to the first stage

620
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,559
of the tower was actually blocked by a guard named Gassan,

621
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,160
who had witnessed previous unsuccessful dummy drops and feared that

622
00:30:13,319 --> 00:30:17,839
Rykelt's attempt would end in disaster. Yeah, He's like, please,

623
00:30:17,839 --> 00:30:18,279
don't do it.

624
00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:20,319
Speaker 1: It's just some blue collar high He's like, listen, buddy,

625
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,319
because I think as he's going up the steps, he's

626
00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:24,640
telling his friends and the guard's.

627
00:30:24,319 --> 00:30:28,079
Speaker 2: Like what yeah, no, no, go back.

628
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna fucking die, dude. How does the guard

629
00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:32,480
not have enough authority to get him the fuck out

630
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:32,720
of there?

631
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,559
Speaker 2: Can't stop a man that wants to die?

632
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much.

633
00:30:36,039 --> 00:30:39,839
Speaker 2: Despite the guard's resistance, by eight am, the matter had

634
00:30:39,839 --> 00:30:44,920
been resolved again. Also too eight am. It's cold, windy day.

635
00:30:45,519 --> 00:30:47,920
Just not showing up. Yeah, not showing up for my boy.

636
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: Oh my god, early in the morning. Such a hard ass,

637
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,119
fucking freezing, Like you better fucking survive this, No shit,

638
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,200
this better be worth seeing. Roy Kelt was visibly shaken

639
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,799
by his argument with the guard. He was allowed to

640
00:31:01,839 --> 00:31:05,599
mount the tower with his two friends and a cinematographer.

641
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,880
Sounds like the guard got through to him a little bit.

642
00:31:08,519 --> 00:31:09,519
Speaker 2: He was in his own head a bit.

643
00:31:09,599 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, not enough, not enough, but a little bit.

644
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 2: Another was stationed near the foot of the tower to

645
00:31:15,559 --> 00:31:18,960
record the jump from below. So we have footage from

646
00:31:19,039 --> 00:31:20,960
the jump and we have the footage from the bottom.

647
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,759
Speaker 1: Oh good, perfect, you can intercut it.

648
00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:26,799
Speaker 2: Also. Do you think these guys that kind of film

649
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,359
the documentaries like Free Solo, do you think they're like

650
00:31:30,839 --> 00:31:33,400
cheering for the guy to fail? I think low key

651
00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:35,960
or well it just kind of like Nix the film.

652
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:42,519
Speaker 1: I think probably not. But when they do fail, that

653
00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:45,119
a lot of their grief is fake, like, oh, I'm

654
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,960
doing this in honor of him. It's like, na, dude,

655
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,759
you just got sick content from that guy.

656
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 2: Fucking followed like if you're not that close the guy

657
00:31:52,799 --> 00:31:55,799
just hired you. Yeah, it's like all right, yeah, I

658
00:31:55,839 --> 00:31:57,119
hope you know the check cash.

659
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,559
Speaker 1: This is in honor of Chad. It's like, is it?

660
00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 2: Is it?

661
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: There's a little part of me thinks these guys were

662
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,319
hoping it didn't work.

663
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, again, it's those friends. But like the two guys

664
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,920
that were holding the camera, it's like kind of sick.

665
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:10,759
If I could sell this.

666
00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:13,279
Speaker 1: To the papers, dude, Well again, it goes either way.

667
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:14,519
It goes back to what I said when he walked

668
00:32:14,519 --> 00:32:17,039
into the newspaper station, right, those newspaper guys are like,

669
00:32:17,079 --> 00:32:20,079
great story either way. That's the documentary guy to say, way,

670
00:32:20,119 --> 00:32:22,640
well be it. It'll either be a good story or

671
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:23,559
a great story.

672
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 2: That's where I ket climbed the stairs. He paused, turned

673
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,079
back to the crowd, raised his hand and wished them

674
00:32:31,119 --> 00:32:37,240
a cheery see you soon. His friends continued to try

675
00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:40,960
to talk him out of the jump, but he remained undeterred.

676
00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:46,480
At eight twenty two, am observed by a crowd of dozens.

677
00:32:48,599 --> 00:32:51,319
Speaker 1: I mean it's in a park, dozens of us. Yeah,

678
00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:53,599
it's in a park. I feel like people just walked

679
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,440
up and we're like, what's going on.

680
00:32:56,039 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 2: Oh shit, It's like thirty journalists and a couple onlookers.

681
00:33:01,039 --> 00:33:06,079
Roy Kelt readied himself facing towards the river on a

682
00:33:06,079 --> 00:33:09,839
stool placed on a restaurant table next to the interior

683
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,079
guardrail of the tower's first deck.

684
00:33:12,119 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: An extremely scientific setup.

685
00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:18,599
Speaker 2: Yo, move that table from the restaurant over here so

686
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,160
I can kind of like get myself up.

687
00:33:20,279 --> 00:33:22,279
Speaker 1: Basically what my kids do to get candy out of

688
00:33:22,319 --> 00:33:25,720
the pantry. Just stack furniture on top of furniture until

689
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:26,400
they can reach it.

690
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,839
Speaker 2: Move that over. I gotta reset this. Yeah, a little

691
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,240
more than one hundred and eighty seven feet above the ground.

692
00:33:35,119 --> 00:33:38,759
After adjusting his apparatus with the assistance of his friends

693
00:33:39,359 --> 00:33:41,359
and checking the wind direction by throwing a piece of

694
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,119
paper taken from a small.

695
00:33:42,759 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: Book, yep, so just did the little.

696
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,359
Speaker 2: Piece of grass into the air.

697
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,039
Speaker 1: Yeah.

698
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 2: He placed one foot on the guardrail, hesitated for about

699
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,559
forty seconds, and leapt forward.

700
00:33:55,039 --> 00:33:57,799
Speaker 1: There's some part of him that was like, this is crazy.

701
00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:00,480
This is crazy, and then the other brave, spid part

702
00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:03,279
of him was like, now is the time seize your destiny.

703
00:34:03,799 --> 00:34:09,159
Speaker 2: His parachute, which had seemed to only half open, folded

704
00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:13,679
around him almost immediately, and he fell for a few

705
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,400
seconds before striking the frozen soil at the foot of

706
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:22,800
the tower. Rykelt's right leg and arm were crushed immediately

707
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:27,119
on impact, his skull and spine broken, and he was

708
00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:31,599
bleeding from his mouth, nose, and ears. His eyes were

709
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:35,199
wide open and dilated. He was dead by the time

710
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,079
onlookers rushed to the body, but he was taken to

711
00:34:38,119 --> 00:34:43,440
the hospital where he was officially pronounced dead and autaps.

712
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,960
He concluded that reich Elt died of a heart attack.

713
00:34:48,079 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 1: What did what did it conclude?

714
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 2: Silver lining? I think he died in the air. Yeah yeah, yeah.

715
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:58,199
Speaker 1: Maybe they're at least given that to the papers, one hopes,

716
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:03,639
trying to paint any type of happy ending. Yeah, yeah,

717
00:35:03,679 --> 00:35:06,880
like it's not as bad as he totally explodes. Yeah

718
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:07,639
yeah yeah.

719
00:35:08,159 --> 00:35:09,679
Speaker 2: Uh. Now do you want to see the video? Yeah,

720
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:10,519
of course, all right.

721
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that thing is horrible. I forgot how

722
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:24,039
bad it was. Like, it looks insane, It doesn't look useful.

723
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,440
Oh and he he just I mean, he drops.

724
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 2: The next day, newspapers were full of the story of

725
00:35:36,599 --> 00:35:42,000
Riikel's tragic experiment, complete with photographs and I'll throughout the episode.

726
00:35:42,159 --> 00:35:45,760
This is going to be a pretty media heavy episode.

727
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,639
Check it out on YouTube, yeah, software history YouTube, because

728
00:35:49,639 --> 00:35:53,039
you're going to see how ridiculous this contraption is.

729
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:54,679
Speaker 1: It's the worst thing I've ever seen.

730
00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 2: The fact that his boys just let him even followed

731
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:01,360
through with any of the tests.

732
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: They weren't good friends. They should have tackled him to

733
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:04,599
the ground.

734
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 2: At least four newspapers showed images of the fatal jump.

735
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,960
Film of The attempt included footage of Reichkelt's body being

736
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,119
removed and the onlookers measuring the depth of crater left

737
00:36:15,159 --> 00:36:19,360
by impact. Oh god, which was distributed by news organizations.

738
00:36:19,639 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: What was the depth? It had to be like six

739
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,880
inches at least. It was at least I mean, and

740
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,000
that was hard ground. It wasn't like a soft summer ground.

741
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,559
Speaker 2: That's not how I want to die. No, that's not

742
00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:34,119
where I bleed out. No, dude, I mean, that's worse

743
00:36:34,159 --> 00:36:38,039
than Goslin and a blade runner stairs.

744
00:36:38,159 --> 00:36:39,199
Speaker 1: Yeah.

745
00:36:39,599 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 2: Reikelt's death was the first to result from a parachuting

746
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:48,719
accident since Charles Leroy died given a demonstration in Estonia

747
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,960
in eighteen eighty nine. On February two, nineteen twelve, two

748
00:36:53,039 --> 00:36:57,159
days prior to Reichkelt's fatal jump, an American Frederick ar

749
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:02,280
Law actually successfully parish from the viewing platform of the

750
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,880
torch of the Statue of Liberty, which was two hundred

751
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,480
and twenty three feet. So he not only died at

752
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,920
the Eiffel Tower and in France, but he got cooked

753
00:37:12,079 --> 00:37:12,920
like two days before.

754
00:37:13,079 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just didn't know.

755
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 2: News didn't travel that hat.

756
00:37:16,079 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, so some guy did it before him. So some

757
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,079
guy did it before him. He got beaten and just

758
00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:26,320
didn't fucking know and went through.

759
00:37:26,199 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 2: With died like an asshole.

760
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,559
Speaker 1: Now did the other guy have like a normal what

761
00:37:30,559 --> 00:37:32,199
we would think of it as, like a normal parachute?

762
00:37:32,199 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 2: Probably, I believe so.

763
00:37:33,679 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, the good tongue wasn't squirrel suit, Yeah, the good kind.

764
00:37:37,639 --> 00:37:39,480
This isn't even a squirrel It's like if it's like

765
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,599
if you combine like a squirrel suit with like some

766
00:37:42,639 --> 00:37:45,719
sort of genie or Queen Amidala costume.

767
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,519
Speaker 2: It's like what stoo pickles would make for Tommy. Yeah,

768
00:37:48,559 --> 00:37:51,480
and the kids, so they wouldn't like, you know, saram

769
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,440
wrap your child so they won't hurt themselves.

770
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, this thing didn't look sturdy. It didn't look like

771
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,199
it had any idea how like physics or win or

772
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:01,280
air worked at all.

773
00:38:01,519 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 2: No, Like he was just.

774
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: Like, I think this is right, and I'm gonna sew

775
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:06,400
it up from scratch.

776
00:38:06,599 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 2: After Riikel's death, authorities became wary of granting permission for

777
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,360
any further parachute experiments using the Eiffel Tower.

778
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 1: Like like, oh, it's just wary. It's not like a

779
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:16,800
hard No.

780
00:38:17,119 --> 00:38:19,159
Speaker 2: It wasn't a hard note they did allow people to

781
00:38:19,159 --> 00:38:22,639
continue to experiment. You know, they did their due diligence beforehand.

782
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, checked a couple more boxes before they let him

783
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:27,480
jump off the Eiffel Tower.

784
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 2: It's like, how many just squashed humans do we have

785
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,559
to peel off the ground underneath the Eiffel Tower.

786
00:38:34,639 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: This is not only a public park, but the most

787
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:41,079
popular tourist destination in one of at the time, maybe

788
00:38:41,119 --> 00:38:44,760
like the most yeah new wish. Yeah, no, it was

789
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:45,719
pretty fucking new at the.

790
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 2: Time, honestly. Yeah, you go to France and you see

791
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,559
somebody just like plunge through their death in the Eiffel Tower,

792
00:38:51,679 --> 00:38:54,920
you're probably I mean that is making the recap of

793
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,360
your trip. You're telling your friends about.

794
00:38:57,119 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: Oh that's top three.

795
00:38:58,239 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

796
00:38:58,519 --> 00:39:01,159
Speaker 1: Absolutely. It's like, oh, we went to you know that

797
00:39:01,199 --> 00:39:02,519
famous cafe.

798
00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:04,639
Speaker 2: We had really good wine in the south of France,

799
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,719
and yeah, we as we walked by the Eiffel Tower,

800
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,960
some lunatic just jumped in a squirrel suit to his death.

801
00:39:11,039 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was weird. We watched. We were on our

802
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,280
way to get some morning coffee and that.

803
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 2: Was like really good gelato there too. That gelato was insane,

804
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:20,280
It is so good.

805
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: It was just the best. Yeah, yeah, I'd be like

806
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:25,719
I would be like, yeah that, and then I ate

807
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,000
one of those ham and butter sandwiches so good. The Parisian.

808
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 2: I wonder why he ultimately did it though. It's not

809
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,239
like people were gonna remember him for this ultimately.

810
00:39:40,039 --> 00:39:41,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he would have gotten fame at the moment.

811
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 2: I guess he just didn't think big picture enough.

812
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: He was thinking too big picture. He was only thinking

813
00:39:47,559 --> 00:39:49,320
of the end zone, not how to get there.

814
00:39:49,519 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 2: Or he was one of the ten thousand francs. Also

815
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,679
that that wouldn't get that military sweet sweet contract.

816
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. I can't imagine what that would be in

817
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,159
today's money, but probably pretty sturdy.

818
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,079
Speaker 2: I don't want to do the conversion.

819
00:40:01,159 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: No, we don't need to do that. But yeah, I

820
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,039
think he was just really more concerned with being I

821
00:40:08,039 --> 00:40:09,880
don't know famous is the right way to put it,

822
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:14,480
but like known, respected. You know, he could have just.

823
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 2: Tailored suits and done a really solid job with a

824
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,480
respected business.

825
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: Married a nice woman, had kids.

826
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 2: I think he was unmarried. Yeah, yeah, this is definitely

827
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:25,920
the work of non married is a.

828
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,320
Speaker 1: Single man's project. Certainly no woman looks at it.

829
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,599
Speaker 2: Some of the right brothers, they weren't married. Yeah, something

830
00:40:33,599 --> 00:40:38,519
about the sky and women don't mix. No, Melia Airehart

831
00:40:38,679 --> 00:40:39,440
perfect example.

832
00:40:39,519 --> 00:40:42,079
Speaker 1: Yeah. See that is the thing is like having a

833
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:45,559
good woman for the most part, will keep you alive,

834
00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:47,840
but every once in a while it will diminish your greatness.

835
00:40:48,039 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, but like for.

836
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,599
Speaker 1: Nine out of ten guys, it'll keep you alive.

837
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,760
Speaker 2: Because a woman's not gonna let you get up onto

838
00:40:55,760 --> 00:41:00,559
that platform. No, No, like, think about our family, think

839
00:41:00,599 --> 00:41:02,599
about our children, yeah, think about me.

840
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,079
Speaker 1: And he's just like, yeah, you can't. You can say

841
00:41:07,079 --> 00:41:09,400
that to yourself and to your friends who like, you know,

842
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,719
like you, but not they don't care about you that much.

843
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:13,559
And you know, be like the sky calls to me

844
00:41:13,639 --> 00:41:15,760
and you'll get away with it. But your wife, you

845
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:16,639
can't say that to your wife.

846
00:41:16,639 --> 00:41:19,159
Speaker 2: Even though dude in Free Solo, I remember he was

847
00:41:19,159 --> 00:41:22,719
blaming his girlfriend at the time. He's like, man, I'm

848
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,159
injuring myself more since she got involved in the picture.

849
00:41:26,159 --> 00:41:26,960
I think it's on her.

850
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,159
Speaker 1: He's just not concentrating, that's what it was.

851
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like, my my sole focus needs to

852
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:31,639
be here.

853
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 1: Makes it he died actually because of her?

854
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:34,199
Speaker 2: No, he's still a lot.

855
00:41:35,119 --> 00:41:36,119
Speaker 1: That's the Free Solo guy died.

856
00:41:36,159 --> 00:41:38,039
Speaker 2: Free Solo is still around, Okay, I still care who

857
00:41:38,039 --> 00:41:40,400
died somebody, somebody one of those I think like his

858
00:41:40,559 --> 00:41:42,599
boy in it. I think one of the guys that

859
00:41:42,639 --> 00:41:45,679
made in the parents in Okay the documentary dies because

860
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,239
of course they are going to that their ultimate end.

861
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. I I think I saw a story

862
00:41:51,159 --> 00:41:53,159
that was like, for I just like the New York

863
00:41:53,159 --> 00:41:55,559
Post will do this. You know, they'll say, like Star

864
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,519
of X dies and it'll be like like like for example,

865
00:41:59,519 --> 00:42:02,039
like it'll be like Seinfeld star dies and it's obviously

866
00:42:02,039 --> 00:42:03,639
not one of the four. It's like some person who

867
00:42:03,679 --> 00:42:04,840
appeared in three episodes.

868
00:42:05,159 --> 00:42:07,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, but also the guy could have just died too.

869
00:42:07,159 --> 00:42:08,239
I didn't hear about it that.

870
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.

871
00:42:10,679 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 2: I mean, like he could die tomorrow. Yeah, you do

872
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,920
that every Day's it's just what happened. Those the odds

873
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,440
of it happening are just you know, immense astronomical. You're

874
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,800
good to die, You're just like I mean, it's like

875
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,960
just being like a professional rough Russian roulette player. Yeah,

876
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:27,960
like you're it's just like.

877
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,159
Speaker 1: Oh, dude, another pro Russian roulette player died, like well,

878
00:42:31,159 --> 00:42:33,800
that's the name of the game pretty much. But yeah,

879
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,960
I think he really. You know, back in that time,

880
00:42:37,039 --> 00:42:40,079
that was one of those like very in not just

881
00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:42,920
in America, but in that in Western Europe too, like

882
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,039
a very just like exciting, hopeful time, like sciences here

883
00:42:47,079 --> 00:42:50,440
and there's all these new things and industry and flying

884
00:42:50,519 --> 00:42:53,800
and you just they're just like the atmosphere itself convinces

885
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,119
you that you can do fucking anything. But again, you're

886
00:42:57,119 --> 00:42:59,800
probably just a guy, and you probably can't.

887
00:43:00,519 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 2: That's the lesson we learned today. You're probably just a guy,

888
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,599
So get married. Don't go to the sky.

889
00:43:07,639 --> 00:43:10,519
Speaker 1: This guy is not calling to you. You're hearing voices

890
00:43:11,199 --> 00:43:14,639
God's sky. Yeah, we weren't meant to be there, we

891
00:43:14,679 --> 00:43:17,199
were not. I mean, look, I'll use an airplane, don't

892
00:43:17,199 --> 00:43:19,880
get me wrong, but that's as far as I'll go.

893
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,840
I'll never fly one. I won't spit in God's face

894
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:22,199
that way.

895
00:43:23,159 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 2: You don't want to roy holiday the situation.

896
00:43:25,159 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: No, Wow, it's usually me that brings that up.

897
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, well I was just trying to get

898
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,880
ahead of it. Yeah, I knew it was coming.

899
00:43:31,159 --> 00:43:33,639
Speaker 1: Wasn't even on my mind, actually it was.

900
00:43:33,679 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 2: It's always on your mind. You think about roy Holiday

901
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:40,400
crashing his little plane into the sea every twenty minutes.

902
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 1: I believe that it comes in a lot for sure.

903
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,559
We're like, man, he threw a no hitter in the playoffs,

904
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:51,199
first playoff game, and he still needed more.

905
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,079
Speaker 2: Just wasn't enough juice. Yeah, not an adrenaline junkie guy.

906
00:43:55,199 --> 00:43:55,840
Never happened.

907
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:56,639
Speaker 1: No.

908
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 2: Actually, when I was a kid and we were riding

909
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,480
like dirt bikes and ATVs and stuff, I'd always go

910
00:44:02,639 --> 00:44:06,599
like a normal speed. Yeah. I was never popping wheelies.

911
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: Never doing crazy jumps or anything like that. No, I

912
00:44:09,039 --> 00:44:13,840
was terrified. It's yeah, dude, there was a fucking I'll

913
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,480
never be a motorcycle boy right down the street. Don't

914
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,559
need to worry about that with my midlife crisis. Yeah,

915
00:44:19,639 --> 00:44:21,920
right right down of the street by the restaurants and

916
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,800
grocery store stuff. I was going to the liquor store,

917
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,519
I think, the other day, and I pulled into the

918
00:44:26,519 --> 00:44:32,320
parking lot and there's just a literal motorcycle gang of teens.

919
00:44:33,079 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 2: Teen motorcycle gang.

920
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: Teen motorcycle gang on their dirt bikes, just like ten

921
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:37,320
of them.

922
00:44:37,519 --> 00:44:39,199
Speaker 2: Oh. I saw at the seven eleven the other day.

923
00:44:39,199 --> 00:44:42,280
There was a couple, uh like Fast and Furious crew.

924
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:43,519
Speaker 1: Oh sick.

925
00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 2: Yeah. There was even like an Asian chick that was

926
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,360
like drifting, just very totally.

927
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: Someone's whipping shitties at seven eleven.

928
00:44:50,039 --> 00:44:53,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, with like the neon lights underneath.

929
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: Yeah. I got actually dealt with that. Driving to Gabby's

930
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,039
house the other day its location scout for the sketches,

931
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,360
I was on two and just we're like fucking four

932
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,360
of them right past me at like at nine o'clock

933
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:05,760
at night.

934
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:07,320
Speaker 2: I was just like, what.

935
00:45:07,119 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: The fuck, dude, what the fuck? And there were shitty cars.

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Speaker 2: Too, yeah. Yeah, it's usually just a souped up camera. Yeah,

937
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I mean, dom most reliable car in America, but dog

938
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shit cars don't put a spoiler on it.

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Speaker 1: I was like, God, damn it, dude. This is why

940
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I don't go out anymore. This is why I'm just home.

941
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Speaker 2: This today's hitler.

942
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Speaker 1: This guy no his friends.

943
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Speaker 2: His friend's just not doing enough.

944
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Speaker 1: They didn't do nearly enough. If they liked him at all,

945
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you just rip him down, Yeah, you hold him down.

946
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Speaker 2: I think today's hitler are the dogs that are underneath me,

947
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that bark at everything, that moved every fucking thing.

948
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Speaker 1: I talked to the lady who wanted them, and she

949
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was like, I guess they're just doing their ches and

950
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clean up the shit. It's crazy and it smells so bad.

951
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,159
They're huge, huge dogs. It is like a fat man's shit.

952
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Speaker 2: It's more shit than yard. Yes, yeah, just massive dumps.

953
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That's my hitler today. Okay, those dogs that owner, yeah,

954
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just leaving. I mean she has kids too, Like make

955
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the kids pick up the ship.

956
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like that's what they're there for, hey, gutside, pick

957
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up the ship.

958
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Speaker 2: Yeah, train your dogs better, guys, train your children. Better

959
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:21,159
train your children. Better train your children by training your dogs. Yeah,

960
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train the same way.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, this guy's fucking friends really just we're like,

962
00:46:25,639 --> 00:46:26,920
I don't know what to do. Maybe they didn't know

963
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him that well, you know what I mean, Like there

964
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was buddy.

965
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, are they friends or acquaintances?

966
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like he's just like met them. He's like, you

967
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,599
want to come and check this out? And like an

968
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acquaintance will be like, I don't know, Brian, you know,

969
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,719
like I don't know, friendzois fucking see you like a

970
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,639
bad idea, but I don't know you do you dude?

971
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And that is the story A Franz friendcois yep, right out.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for tuning in. We love you guys, thanks

973
00:46:55,039 --> 00:46:57,880
for joining. Make sure to check us out on patre

974
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975
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977
00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:10,559
the upper tier, and I give out a weekly column

978
00:47:10,599 --> 00:47:14,320
for golf, so uh check that out. I'm not sure

979
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,280
if this is gonna hit this week, but we're getting

980
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:21,519
eh now, so can like another solo? Second? Oh, that's brutal.

981
00:47:22,079 --> 00:47:24,400
We're getting calls though, first first term of the season.

982
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That's a good it's good start. It's a good start. Yeah,

983
00:47:27,559 --> 00:47:29,519
we're around the hole. It's like you can ask for.

984
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:35,199
But check out the YouTube. Check out uh Spotify, Apple,

985
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leave a review please and thank you five stars.

986
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Speaker 1: And give us a follow on on Instagram as well.

987
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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, stay tuned for those sketches. Those should all

988
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be coming out soon. Yep, So Rob Fox, I'm damageester.

989
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You just got saw served.