DeepSummary
Sean Hayes and Will Arnett welcome Johnny Knoxville and Elna Baker, hosts of the new Wondery podcast 'Pretty Sure I Can Fly,' to promote the show. Elna shares her experience growing up Mormon and leaving the religion at age 28 after touching her first penis. Johnny talks about his Southern Baptist upbringing and his addiction to dangerous stunts.
They discuss the brave and determined people profiled on 'Pretty Sure I Can Fly,' who have achieved remarkable feats by defying naysayers, personal safety, and conventional thinking. Many had difficult childhoods that fueled their daring exploits. Johnny recounts the story of the Jamaican bobsled team training with no equipment before the Olympics.
The group plays a clip from the podcast featuring Travis Pastrana describing his legendary double backflip motorcycle jump, which he decided to attempt at the last minute after a game of rock-paper-scissors. His emotional retelling captures the momentous achievement and crowd reaction.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Many daring people who achieved remarkable stunts and feats had difficult or repressive childhoods that fueled their determination.
- Even accomplished daredevils like Johnny Knoxville struggle with addictions to pushing boundaries and endangering their lives.
- Attempting stunts that seem impossible requires extreme bravery, commitment, and disregard for personal safety.
- Major achievements are often the culmination of years of perseverance overcoming setbacks and self-doubt.
- Life-altering decisions to pursue ambitious goals are sometimes made impulsively or irrationally in the heat of the moment.
- Pushing human limitations opens new realms of what's possible but can come at immense personal cost and risk.
- Achieving greatness defying conventions requires overcoming naysayers, risk of failure, and breaking established norms.
- Daredevils crave the adrenaline rush and ensure of attempting stunts that most would never dream of trying.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “It did become an addiction.“ by Johnny Knoxville
- “If there's a through line for people on the show, it's bravery and being colorful. And these people are extremely determined.“ by Johnny Knoxville
- “You always say, I'm in or I'm out. The reason this was such a tough decision for me, and I think the reason that it got built up more was because I was on the fence on this.“ by Travis Pastrana
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SmartLess
Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett
4/18/24
Pretty Sure I Can Fly is a humorous exploration of things that had never been done, until someone did them. It’s a series of weekly conversations about what it takes to break through the barrier of “impossible” and set new standards for human limitation. Pretty Sure I Can Fly is like going to history class, except your teachers are actor, stuntman, and outlaw radio DJ Johnny Knoxville and long-time This American Life contributor Elna Baker. And each week they bring a new guest to tell you all about how they “grabbed the bull by the bunglesteen” or “really hogwrenched that spatooly.”
Listen to Pretty Sure I Can Fly: Wondery.fm/PSICF
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