Pretty Sure I Can Fly with Johnny Knoxville & Elna Baker

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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.”

  • 47 minutes 37 seconds
    RERUN: Dudley Tal Stokes

    One of the first Jamaicans to ever compete in the winter Olympics, helicopter pilot, and the inspiration for Disney’s Cool Runnings.

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    30 December 2024, 8:00 am
  • 45 minutes 28 seconds
    Bucking Off with Ty Murray

    This week, we're joined by 9 time PRCA champion cowboy, Ty Murray. He shares some of his insights on bull and bronc riding, tells us about his rigorous martial arts training regimen, and looks back on the wild night he and Knoxville first met. 

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    23 December 2024, 8:00 am
  • 53 minutes 33 seconds
    Diving Deep with Chris Lemons

    This week we're joined by Chris Lemons, a saturation diver who narrowly escaped death when his umbilical cord broke while he was on the seafloor. He tells us about some of the risks of the job, his brush with death, and what life is like trapped in a metal tube for 28 days at a time.

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    16 December 2024, 8:00 am
  • 49 minutes 47 seconds
    Fighting Hate with Daryl Davis

    This week, we're joined by renowned musician, Daryl Davis, who has spent decades befriending and deradicalizing members of the KKK. He's successfully convinced more than 200 people to leave the KKK and other hate groups. We talk about his youth in 1960s America, how he fell in with a country band in the 1980s, and how that led him to meeting his first card-carrying KKK member. 

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    9 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 47 minutes 47 seconds
    Fake it Til You Make it with David Henty

    This week, we're joined by world renowned art forger, David Henty. We discuss the finer points of art history, how to make a convincing fake painting, and David's "dodgy" past as a passport counterfeiter and car thief. 

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    2 December 2024, 8:00 am
  • 44 minutes 37 seconds
    Don't Mess with Danny Trejo

    This week, we're joined by the Hollywood legend himself, Mr. Danny Trejo. He tells us about being hypnotized by Charles Manson, robbing every joint in Knoxville's neighborhood, and what life was like at San Quentin prison. Danny Trejo has over 400 TV and film credits to his name, including his upcoming show on the History Channel, "Mysteries Unearthed", which premieres on December 6th. 

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    25 November 2024, 8:00 am
  • 47 minutes 48 seconds
    RERUN: Travis Pastrana

    Stuntman, motocross and rally champion, NASCAR driver, the first man to do a double backflip on a dirt bike, and also the only man to break Johnny Knoxville's dick.

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    18 November 2024, 8:00 am
  • 53 minutes 30 seconds
    DIY Space Exploration with Jeff Tremaine

    This week, we're joined by Jackass director Jeff Tremaine to talk about Nick Piantanida, a record breaking parachutist from the 1960s. Knoxville and Tremaine tell the story of how a truck-driving, exotic pet-dealing, all-American hunk singlehandedly created the field of civilian space exploration, and how he eventually lost his life to that pursuit. 

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    11 November 2024, 8:01 am
  • 41 minutes 24 seconds
    Elna Baker: Love Guru

    This week, a very special episode featuring our very own Elna Baker. She shares some of her best (and dirtiest) stories about love, loss, and wolf men. 

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    4 November 2024, 7:01 am
  • 55 minutes 6 seconds
    Rodney Mullen

    The legend.

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    28 October 2024, 7:01 am
  • 36 minutes 3 seconds
    How to Milk a Cobra with Tim Friede

    This week, we're joined by self taught snake venom scientist Tim Friede. Over the years, he's self administered over 200 snake bites, and 700 injections of venom, all in an attempt to create the world's first universal anti-venom. He tells us about flatlining after taking two bites in the same night, how he amputated part of his leg (without booze!), and the power of honesty. 

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    21 October 2024, 7:01 am
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