Being Evel Page #3
the edges of the envelope.
they're forgiving
about some criminal activity,
but they don't
particularly like criminals.
tonning:
he had three kids at the time.
he threw all of his
burglar bags in the river
and decided to go straight.
so knievel gets this job
selling insurance
for combined
insurance company,
and it was run by this guy,
w. clement stone,
who wrote a book called
"success through a positive
mental attitude."
i feel healthy.
i feel happy. i feel terrific.
jay tamburina:
his thinking drastically.
i mean, he was that way
to begin with,
and it just intensified it.
he was a legendary salesman.
when he was selling insurance,
he was selling insurance,
and he was selling
a lot of it.
tamburina:
i remember he wentto the mental hospital
in-- in--
i believe it was deer lodge.
and he wrote 271 policies
in this hospital,
mental hospital.
this was a super record,
nobody had ever written
that many policies
in a week ever.
and he talked to the president
of the company at that time
and said, "i'll break
every record in the company,
"every single one
that exists,
and you make me a vice president
after i do that."
and mr. stawn says, "sorry,
that isn't gonna happen."
well,
knievel didn't like that.
knoxville:
so he picks up his family
and moves
to moses lake, washington,
where he gets a job
selling honda motorcycles.
gunn:
he was makinga good living at it,
but it wasn't
good enough for him.
he says, "i think i need
to do something weird,
"some kind of a stunt
so it'll get people
to come down here
and see the motorcycles."
so he had this crazy idea
about doing this jump.
he says, "i'm gonna jump over
cougars and rattlesnakes"
i said,
gunn:
my part inthat mountain lion jump
was i wore a white coat
like a doctor,
and evel introduced me
as the veterinarian,
which was a crock of bull,
but...
so he brings 'em down
and put the cougars underneath.
and they're scared to death.
they won't come out.
they were like kitty cats.
but the snakes,
holy -- !
we put them
in a big refrigerator carton,
and they were pissed off.
so he goes around the track,
and then he goes up the ramp.
and, well, the minute
he went up in the air
i could see
he wasn't gonna make it.
by god, he was about
three feet short.
his back tire hits
the refrigerator carton.
and the snakes
go flipping into the crowd.
and getting out of there.
-- !
( laughs )
the poor guy from vantage wants
us to help catch his snakes!
( laughs ) i said, "you gotta be
kidding me!"
and he just rode back
on his motorcycle,
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