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Matthew McConaughey on Why Evel Knievel Was a Legend(M4A_128K) · Drawn of History

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  Speaker 1: Were you an Evil Knievel fan?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get into him much. We'd see him like,
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  Speaker 2: I think I saw him do one jump, but that
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  Speaker 2: might have been just a touch before I was like
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  Speaker 2: kind of awake to the world.
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  Speaker 3: I got into it because my brother turned me on
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  Speaker 3: to my older brother, Pat. Anyway, I was just thinking about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, fallen heroes and icons that, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: got to know him later in his life.
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  Speaker 2: Evil?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Got to know him pretty doggone well, man. I was
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  Speaker 3: trying to, you know, there's still a story out there.
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  Speaker 3: to be told on him a movie to be made
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  Speaker 3: and i was around it developing it for 25 years
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  Speaker 3: and uh yeah there we are spoken is at his
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  Speaker 3: uh funeral.
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  Speaker 4: No way that's so cool yeah what kind of guy was.
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  Speaker 3: He oh man you know he did not people the
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  Speaker 3: misconception are like he had a death he didn't have
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  Speaker 3: a death he had a life wish dude he was
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  Speaker 3: as he said he needed to jump because he needed
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  Speaker 3: to sweat in his boots it was almost like i
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  Speaker 3: think is when he got on the bike and put
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  Speaker 3: his hands on the handlebar i think his pulse went
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  Speaker 3: down meaning you know you know you know there's certain
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  Speaker 3: boxers that that get the shit beat out of them
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  Speaker 3: and they're like dude you're taking four fights here's too
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  Speaker 3: many and they're like tell you no i have to
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  Speaker 3: my life outside when i don't have to train or
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  Speaker 3: get ready for a fight.
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  Speaker 1: It's tougher on me.
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  Speaker 4: It's too scary. A lot of guys say that.
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  Speaker 3: And I think he would always say like, hey, he
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't postpone any jump, even if it was impractical, even
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  Speaker 3: if his engineer was like, dude, you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: make it. He was like, well, the American people want,
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  Speaker 3: and they paid their tickets, and they're going to show
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  Speaker 3: up on time.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do this.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think part of that for him, my
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  Speaker 3: opinion is that he was like, no, I have to jump.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I can't postpone these things.
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  Speaker 2: Well, also to have that level of integrity with time itself,
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  Speaker 2: with the clock of life, right? To be like, because
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  Speaker 2: I'll postpone things.
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  Speaker 4: I'll feed you. I'll be 10 minutes late. I'll be 15, 20.
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  Speaker 2: But to say, to tell time, to tell like existence,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be there and meet existence right there.
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  Speaker 4: That's pretty ballsy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these days it's super ballsy, but yeah. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just, I think it's a ballsy thing for anybody
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  Speaker 2: to do. But he was like Red Bull before they
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  Speaker 2: made a damn liquid. Remember? I mean, he was.
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  Speaker 1: Hell yeah.
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  Speaker 4: People would tune in to field song sports.
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  Speaker 2: I remember people just in the yard, if he was
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  Speaker 2: going to jump one night, they'd have people out in
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  Speaker 2: the yard fucking drinking Dr. Pepper and fucking just massaging
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  Speaker 2: each other's shoulders. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And the thing, you know what happened, what got kind
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  Speaker 3: of sad, but it's just true, towards the end of
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  Speaker 3: his career, and I saw this happen with his son
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  Speaker 3: at a jump too, is.
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  Speaker 4: People started, first came, wow, he made the jump.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Then it became like, I'm coming for the wreck. I'm
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  Speaker 3: coming for the crash. And I've been to jumps where,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because you always come out first, right?
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  Speaker 1: There's the ramp. Here we go. Oh, he's just bypassing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You got a little tease.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You got to do a couple of runarounds to get
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  Speaker 4: everyone going. Get the brawl off a little.
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  Speaker 1: And then he's getting the crowd going up and they're
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  Speaker 1: all just, you know, pulling. Here we go. And then
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  Speaker 1: he does it.
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  Speaker 2: Boom.
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  Speaker 3: And soon as he lands and makes it, it's almost like,
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  Speaker 3: I saw so many people like, oh, shit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Stomp the cigarette out.
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  Speaker 4: Throw that Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Pepper in the trash can and leave.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Dang it.
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Good for him, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, but he made.
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  Speaker 4: A, he was a legendary cowboy, man. Let's look at
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  Speaker 4: one of these. This is Caesar's Palace.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and he created this. He called, he was in
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  Speaker 3: a motel and called the head of Caesars, all right,
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  Speaker 3: and said, hey, my name's, you know, Bobby Bernstein. I'm
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  Speaker 3: with ABC Wide World of Sports. I hear this guy,
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  Speaker 3: Evel Neville, is going to jump your fountain.
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  Speaker 1: And they're like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know Evel Neville.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. Hung up the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Call back. Another voice impersonated, I'm with Wide World of Sports.
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  Speaker 1: Name's Bob Knott. I hear this evil Neville's gonna.
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  Speaker 3: He did it like three times, and finally, the guy
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  Speaker 3: on the other end of Caesars was like, who the
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  Speaker 3: hell is this evil Neville, evil Neville guy?
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  Speaker 1: Find him.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And they ended up calling back.
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  Speaker 4: Evil answers his phone as evil and goes, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'll do it. And worked out the deal.
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  Speaker 3: But he created that jump. And this jump is, look
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  Speaker 3: at the violence after it. I mean, jumps found, and
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  Speaker 3: look at the.
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  Speaker 1: Crash, man. Boom! Here we go. Oh, shit.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, can we talk impact? Bro, that's, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There ain't no smoke and mirrors with that, man.
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  Speaker 4: There ain't no mattress that's going to fix that.
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  Speaker 1: No, sir.
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  Speaker 4: There ain't no posture.
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  Speaker 1: That ain't AI. You didn't fix that in post to
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  Speaker 1: make it look worse.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.