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-[ Over radio ]
Comm, video check, please.
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-Copy.
Loud and clear.
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♪♪
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[ Static crackling ]
-Attention down on track.
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Gimme a wind check down there.
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-About mile 4 here,
we have a consistent wind,
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probably about 10 miles an hour
or so.
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-We still got some good gusts
down here
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and they're 8, 9.
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-So, this would be my first
run out this whole week.
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It's time to get suited up,
Jessi.
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Alright!
I'm on my way.
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If it's feeling good,
yeah, I'll push it,
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but I'm not gonna go for 550
to 600 on this run.
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Maybe still 400.
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[ Laughs ]
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Which is still so crazy
to think about.
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-Data to comm.
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Do we have the rock pickers
clearing the course?
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-Rock crew is at the 7.5,
working to the 8,
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and I got crew coming back.
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-Range 3 to comm.
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We're in position
at mile marker 3.
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-Driver Jessi has
entered the cockpit.
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-And let's go ahead
and bring the air on now.
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[ Hiss ]
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-Information prestart checklist
is in progress.
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[ Controls clicking ]
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♪♪
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♪♪
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-Information.
The canopy is down and locked.
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-Hey, this is mile zero.
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Are we ready down 4?
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-Mile 4 clear.
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-Mile 5 clear.
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-Mile 6 clear.
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-Mile 7 clear.
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[ Boom ]
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-[ Speaks indistinctly ]
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-Is this 37?
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Alright, Take 37.
Marker.
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[ Clack ]
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-[ Laughs ]
It's a loaded question.
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♪♪
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For the most part, I'm just
a normal girl, you know?
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But I live a life that's risky.
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I don't live a normal everyday.
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♪♪
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I had a desk job once.
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It lasted six months
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because I don't know how to be
something I'm not.
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And, when it comes to cars,
when it comes to driving,
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I think it's
what I was born for.
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Hey, guys. Sorry I haven't
posted in a while.
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It's been super crazy-busy.
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I forgot what I was going
to say. [ Laughs ]
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Hey, guys. Sorry I haven't
posted in a while.
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It's been super crazy-busy,
lots going on.
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I am going to be driving all
1,134.4 miles of the Baja 1000.
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Only a couple other women
have ever attempted this before,
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so I'm pretty special.
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[ Scoff ]
I'm special.
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[ Laughs ]
Jesus.
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It's now 12:44 in the morning.
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You'd think
I would have this done.
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You would think, after 15 years
of being on television,
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that I would have this shit
figured out by now.
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[ Laughs ]
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-Jessi is someone
that has two sides to her.
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One side is what I think
the general public sees,
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which is a very easygoing,
carefree person.
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The other side to that is
someone
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who sees something they want
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and they do everything they can
to make that happen.
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-If I'm tired now,
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what does this mean
for the 1000?
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-But to actually be around
and work with someone like that,
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it's exhausting.
[ Laughs ]
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Jessi and I hosted
a show together.
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It was called...
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And this was everything
from simple stuff
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to the most outrageous things.
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Gently, left, left, left,
left, left!
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-[ Laughs ]
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[ Siren wailing ]
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You could tell like,
when she was super comfortable,
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she was very confident.
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[ Tires screeching ]
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But she's a person
who puts on a public persona,
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so, when she's not
super comfortable,
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she's just as scared
and just as nervous as I was.
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[ Laughs ]
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-Feel my pulse.
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-Yeah.
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And she lives
in a specific world
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which is male-dominated
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and she dealt with a lot of shit
from that side.
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[ Engines revving ]
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♪♪
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♪♪
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[ Indistinct conversation ]
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-[ Laughs ]
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-I think, finally,
after all these years,
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the men are starting
to believe that,
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"Hey, you know, she actually
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[ Laughing ]
knows what she's talking about."
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But I am in a man's world.
I work around men every day.
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All my friends are men
because I am very passionate
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about driving and racing
and building
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and that's what I am.
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So, as far as being a woman
in a man's world,
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it doesn't really bother me,
as long as they allow me
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to be a woman in it.
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-5, 4...
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-...3, 2, 1.
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-Go, go, go.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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-[ Laughs ]
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Fuck yeah. We're having fun,
motherfuckers. Aah!
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-With Ultra4 Racing,
I'm still the only female
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to podium finish.
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So I've won.
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Like I've beat hundreds
of dudes,
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but I went down to the Baja 1000
seven times
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before I actually got
the opportunity to race.
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And so I have to push harder.
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I have to prove more.
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I have to do things bigger,
better.
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-[ Laughs ]
You're amazing!
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You're so damn good!
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-And it's like I knew
I could do it
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and that's what keeps me going,
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is knowing that I have
what it takes to win.
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[ Cheering ]
-Jessi Combs, everybody.
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-Yeah!
-Alright!
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Those are some of the most
epic moments of my life.
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The cards that have been
dealt to me
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are pretty fricking awesome.
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But it's like I come home
and it's kind of like
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a standstill.
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That's my selfish part of me,
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because I need
to fill that void.
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And it doesn't matter
how many tools you get out
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and how many things
you want to start creating
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and you try and fill that void,
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but you're not gonna be
able to do that again
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until the next adventure.
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♪♪
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[ Vehicle door closes ]
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[ Door closes ]
-Jessi!
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-[ Laughs ]
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Hi!
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[ Laughs ]
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Are you crying?
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Why?!
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Aww, sweetie.
-Thank you.
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[ Whimper ]
-I love you.
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[ Laughs ]
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Mom doesn't know I'm here yet.
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[ Laughs ]
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-Oh, you're welcome.
-Hi, Mom.
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-Shit!
-[ Laughs ]
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Yeah, again.
-Oh, my God!
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-[ Laughs ]
-Oh, my God.
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Oh, you're crazy.
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-[ Laughs ]
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-When she comes home,
it's precious when that happens
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because she's so busy.
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You know, from day one,
Jessi has been a goal setter,
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from even as a little girl,
never fearful of anything,
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with a few tickets
in her pocket.
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[ Laughs ]
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[ Siren wailing ]
-Damn it!
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How does this
always happen to me?
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-I don't know.
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-A few accidents in her pocket
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and maybe
Mom would never notice.
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That's what she said one day
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and I thought
that was hysterical.
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There's cat scratches
on the top of my car
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as she went
under a barbed-wire fence.
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"Oh, Mom won't notice."
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[ Laughs ]
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-Yes! I made it!
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There's only one speed --
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not fast enough.
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-But I remember the day
that she said to me that,
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"I need to show you this video."
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♪♪
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And she goes, "I need you to pay
attention to this
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because I'm going
to drive that car."
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And Mom starts getting
this hyperventilation going on.
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[ Chuckles ]
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[ Crying ] And it was
like, "Oh, my gosh!
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This is really happening."
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-Fighter planes have
long been known
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for their speed in the air,
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but this one may soon be known
for its speed on the ground.
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A group of men in Pierce County
are converting
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an old F-104 fighter plane
into what they hope will be
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the world's fastest car.
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-Oh, I think it's a thrill.
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It'd be like being
the guy picked
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to be the first
to summit Mount Everest.
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-Ed Shadle is the car's driver,
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the man who'll be
behind the wheel
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of the North American Eagle,
as it's called,
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going 800 to 900 miles per hour.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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-At my age,
there are a lot of guys
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who are already retired
and they're done.
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They're laying on the couch,
watching television
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for the rest of their life
and waiting to die.
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That isn't the way I feel
about life.
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My name is Ed Shadle,
principal owner and driver
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of the North American Eagle.
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The initial goal
for this project
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really started back
in the '90s,
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when, you know, Andy Green went
out and set that record in '97.
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-The British team
has established
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a supersonic land speed record
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in the Nevada desert.
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The RAF pilot Andy Green,
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driving the thrust
supersonic car,
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broke the sound barrier
on Monday.
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-Andy Green and ThrustSSC
have just set
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the first ever supersonic
land speed record.
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-It's human nature to push back
the bounds of what is possible,
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what has been achieved,
in the same way
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that people want to,
for the first time ever,
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to climb Everest,
to go supersonic in the air,
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to walk on the moon.
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Today, for the first time ever,
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we created a car
and made it supersonic,
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something that humankind
has never done before.
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-The British came along
and went supersonic, okay?
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That's a whole different chapter
in the physics books.
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-When the car
is driven subsonically,
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it compresses the air
in front of it.
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At the speed of sound,
the air parts suddenly,
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causing a shock wave
and a sonic boom.
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[ Boom ]
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[ Cheering ]
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-Get going!
-Go, go!
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-Go! Go, go!
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-Congratulations for Andy Green,
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whose average speed
over a measured mile
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was clocked
at 763 miles an hour.
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[ Applause ]
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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-At the time we thought, "Man,
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anybody that'd try
to break that is crazy."
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And I don't know
if Ed came up with it,
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but we both agreed that,
if we could find
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a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter,
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maybe we could convert it
into a land speed car.
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As crazy as that sounds, okay?
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The beauty of the aircraft is
that you got a wind chill
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that's good at Mach 2.8.
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It has a perfect inlet geometry.
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The aircraft itself is only
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about this much in diameter
bigger than the engine,
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so you couldn't design
anything smaller.
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And what allow the F-104
to go supersonic was
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a turbo jet engine that had
an afterburner producing
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over 18,000 pounds of thrust.
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♪♪
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So, how were a couple of guys
from Seattle going
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to improve on that?
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♪♪
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-Well, it took me about a year
to find an F-104,
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in an aircraft junkyard
back in Maine.
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-It was a mess!
It just looked nasty!
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And I can't believe we paid
25 grand for this thing.
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But Ed started taking the paint
off of the vehicle.
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The numbers started to start
coming through that last layer
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and it said FG,
for fighter group,
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and then 763.
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The world land speed record is
763 miles an hour.
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Now, we think there's divine
intervention involved.
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♪♪
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-The next thing you know,
you've gathered other people
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on your team that are like you,
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you know,
the same mission in mind.
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-History in the making.
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-Absolutely.
-Hear, hear.
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-800 miles an hour, people.
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-Yes, sir.
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It'd be nice, someday,
if somebody gave us some money
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to help us.
That'd be great.
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But, so far, you know,
we're making it, you know,
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one nickel at a time.
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-One thing I want to point out
is this is a hobby.
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It has turned
into a million-dollar hobby.
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It's something that we do
after work and on weekends.
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-From the beginning,
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we were looking
for a female driver
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and we were looking
for a female driver
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for a couple different reasons.
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We were looking for somebody
that could
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bring attention to the project.
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There was no doubt about that.
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We were looking for somebody
that could help us.
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-I remember the first time
we met Jessi.
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She had a whole new audience,
people that were following her
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and her King of Hammers
and her off-road and Baja stuff,
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plus her TV stuff
that she was doing.
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-Hello, everybody, and welcome
to "All Girls Garage."
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-You could tell that she was
in total command...
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...and she had stage presence.
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♪♪
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And Ed and I are about 40 feet
outside the restaurant.
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We turn to each other and say,
"We got to get her."
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-When I was introduced
to Jessi, I says, you know,
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"We'd like to make you
the number one candidate,
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but you have
to pass some tests."
335
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And so there are some things
we had her do
336
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which probably were
a little unusual.
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I sent her up with a friend
in an open cockpit biplane
338
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and did an hour's worth
of aerobatics
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to see if he could
make her throw up
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00:18:18,597 --> 00:18:19,681
and she didn't.
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00:18:19,765 --> 00:18:21,183
She, in fact, had a lot of fun.
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00:18:23,018 --> 00:18:24,520
Took her to the
Bonneville Salt Flats,
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put her in a highboy roadster,
had her run out there.
344
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She did like 178 miles an hour.
345
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And it was like,
"[ Scoff ] No big deal."
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She'd make someone a really good
fighter pilot. [ Laughs ]
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♪♪
348
00:18:40,118 --> 00:18:44,832
-When Jessi came up to do
the engine test that first time
349
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and put it into full afterburner
and it jerked up on the chain...
350
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...she basically said,
"Where do I sign?
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Because I want to do this.
352
00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,220
I want to be part of this."
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00:18:58,303 --> 00:19:05,394
♪♪
354
00:19:05,477 --> 00:19:12,568
♪♪
355
00:19:12,651 --> 00:19:19,575
♪♪
356
00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:21,827
The instructions we gave her
right out of the box was
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not to go into afterburner
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and don't go over
100 miles an hour
359
00:19:26,623 --> 00:19:27,958
and so she did that.
360
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She did everything
we asked her to do.
361
00:19:30,168 --> 00:19:33,964
She got out of that car
and she was mad at us
362
00:19:34,047 --> 00:19:35,549
and she looked at me
and she goes,
363
00:19:35,632 --> 00:19:37,885
"My damn Jeep goes faster
than that."
364
00:19:37,968 --> 00:19:40,470
And I just said, "I get it."
365
00:19:40,554 --> 00:19:41,805
And then she went out
and pulled off
366
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250 miles an hour.
367
00:19:43,265 --> 00:19:45,559
Then she pulled off
280 miles an hour.
368
00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:47,769
These are
on back-to-back rounds
369
00:19:47,853 --> 00:19:49,396
and she went and did this stuff.
370
00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:55,110
-Our short-term goals
for this vehicle this week is,
371
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one, get the record
for Jessi Combs
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on being the world's
fastest woman on four wheels.
373
00:20:03,702 --> 00:20:07,414
That record was set
by Lee Breedlove in 1965.
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00:20:07,497 --> 00:20:11,293
She did a two-way average
of 308 miles per hour
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00:20:11,376 --> 00:20:14,087
in a four-wheel jet car.
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00:20:14,171 --> 00:20:17,049
Second is the overall
women's record.
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00:20:17,132 --> 00:20:22,638
It was set by Kitty O'Neil,
at 512 miles an hour in 1976,
378
00:20:22,721 --> 00:20:24,640
in a three-wheel rocket car.
379
00:20:25,349 --> 00:20:26,850
-That is the record now.
380
00:20:26,934 --> 00:20:29,645
That's the new land speed
record for women.
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-We're gonna go faster.
She wants to go faster.
382
00:20:34,566 --> 00:20:36,693
-To get the record,
you have to go
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over a measured mile
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and do the return run
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over the same measured mile
386
00:20:42,449 --> 00:20:44,660
and then average the two runs.
387
00:20:44,743 --> 00:20:47,120
Then we have to gather
all that data with witnesses,
388
00:20:47,204 --> 00:20:49,665
present that to the authorities,
and then they say,
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00:20:49,748 --> 00:20:50,958
"Yes, you did it."
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00:20:51,041 --> 00:20:59,758
♪♪
391
00:20:59,841 --> 00:21:01,843
♪♪
392
00:21:07,015 --> 00:21:08,642
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
393
00:21:08,725 --> 00:21:10,644
-She's good to go,
as long as the car's good to go.
394
00:21:12,229 --> 00:21:19,778
♪♪
395
00:21:19,861 --> 00:21:22,948
♪♪
396
00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:28,370
-I have to trust myself.
397
00:21:29,371 --> 00:21:30,706
The moment I start
doubting myself
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is the moment I'm gonna fail,
399
00:21:32,124 --> 00:21:34,209
the moment something's going
to go wrong.
400
00:21:34,292 --> 00:21:35,836
I have to trust myself.
401
00:21:35,919 --> 00:21:37,587
I don't think
I really have a choice.
402
00:21:43,719 --> 00:21:45,345
We don't think about that.
403
00:21:45,429 --> 00:21:47,723
But there's still that factor
that lingers.
404
00:21:47,806 --> 00:21:50,142
I mean, it's like, you know,
405
00:21:50,225 --> 00:21:52,352
I'm young
and I have a living will.
406
00:21:53,603 --> 00:21:56,356
I don't think people my age
think about those things.
407
00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:03,905
♪♪
408
00:22:03,989 --> 00:22:05,657
-[ Crying ] Truly,
the worst-case scenario is
409
00:22:05,741 --> 00:22:07,409
the car wrecks.
410
00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:09,953
We know the ultimatum there.
411
00:22:10,037 --> 00:22:11,538
There's no surviving.
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00:22:17,961 --> 00:22:25,844
♪♪
413
00:22:25,927 --> 00:22:29,347
♪♪
414
00:22:30,474 --> 00:22:36,646
♪♪
415
00:22:44,571 --> 00:22:53,830
♪♪
416
00:22:53,914 --> 00:22:58,418
♪♪
417
00:22:58,502 --> 00:23:00,087
-Once that car leaves,
418
00:23:00,170 --> 00:23:03,131
then all of us have the freedom
to chase down that lake bed.
419
00:23:04,174 --> 00:23:06,635
And so, here we are,
flying as fast as we can.
420
00:23:06,718 --> 00:23:08,345
in our vehicles
that usually govern out
421
00:23:08,428 --> 00:23:10,555
at 100 or 110 miles an hour.
422
00:23:11,515 --> 00:23:13,308
Of course, the whole time
Nina and I are in there,
423
00:23:13,391 --> 00:23:15,936
we're hoping, when we get to the
other end of the lake bed,
424
00:23:16,019 --> 00:23:18,271
that there's not a pile
of red rubble there.
425
00:23:18,355 --> 00:23:26,655
♪♪
426
00:23:26,738 --> 00:23:30,909
♪♪
427
00:23:39,126 --> 00:23:40,877
-[ Speaks indistinctly ]
428
00:23:48,343 --> 00:23:50,303
-It felt amazing.
429
00:23:50,387 --> 00:23:53,515
It was the coolest feeling I
think I've ever had in my life.
430
00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:54,850
-Ooh!
431
00:23:55,433 --> 00:23:56,893
[ Laughter ]
-I was gonna say.
432
00:24:00,647 --> 00:24:02,691
-Don't tell us.
-No?
433
00:24:05,443 --> 00:24:08,405
-[ Whispers indistinctly ]
-[ Laughs delightedly ]
434
00:24:12,409 --> 00:24:14,536
-Seriously, I knew it was.
435
00:24:14,619 --> 00:24:16,830
-What was the number?!
436
00:24:16,913 --> 00:24:19,416
-Ah, that feels so good!
-Ooh!
437
00:24:19,499 --> 00:24:21,334
-Well, what's the number?
438
00:24:21,418 --> 00:24:23,211
-Yeah, baby!
-Give it to 'em.
439
00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:24,838
-440.4.
440
00:24:24,921 --> 00:24:28,008
[ Cheers and applause ]
441
00:24:28,091 --> 00:24:34,472
♪♪
442
00:24:34,556 --> 00:24:36,057
-Jessi Combs, known as the
443
00:24:36,141 --> 00:24:37,976
fastest woman on four wheels.
-The fastest woman
444
00:24:38,059 --> 00:24:39,477
on four wheels.
-We know she was driving
445
00:24:39,561 --> 00:24:41,271
her jet-powered car
446
00:24:41,354 --> 00:24:44,441
440 miles per hour.
447
00:24:47,152 --> 00:24:49,196
-I've beat a record,
now I just have to turn it in
448
00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:50,906
and there's still
another record out there,
449
00:24:50,989 --> 00:24:54,034
which is that 512,
so this is just baby steps
450
00:24:54,117 --> 00:24:56,161
to go on to the bigger,
better things.
451
00:24:56,244 --> 00:24:57,954
It was probably one
of the best rides
452
00:24:58,038 --> 00:24:59,414
I've ever had in my entire life
453
00:24:59,497 --> 00:25:00,916
and I'm gonna keep
going faster.
454
00:25:00,999 --> 00:25:02,250
That's the best part about this.
455
00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:03,418
This is so rad.
456
00:25:03,501 --> 00:25:10,050
♪♪
457
00:25:13,678 --> 00:25:16,306
-Fastest woman in the world.
-Oh, I love you.
458
00:25:23,438 --> 00:25:25,440
She's a natural.
459
00:25:25,523 --> 00:25:27,651
She knows that it's her calling.
460
00:25:27,734 --> 00:25:31,071
[ Tender tune plays ]
461
00:25:33,448 --> 00:25:35,200
-Yes! Aaah!
462
00:25:35,283 --> 00:25:36,576
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
463
00:25:36,660 --> 00:25:42,457
♪♪
464
00:25:42,540 --> 00:25:45,043
-She's always been
pretty fearless
465
00:25:45,126 --> 00:25:49,130
and we knew that pretty early on
because, before she was one,
466
00:25:49,214 --> 00:25:54,803
her uncle and I would throw her
across the kitchen
467
00:25:54,886 --> 00:25:56,346
and she would just laugh
and giggle.
468
00:25:56,429 --> 00:25:57,847
She just had
the time of her life.
469
00:25:57,931 --> 00:26:00,850
And, you know, most kids
would've just freaked out,
470
00:26:00,934 --> 00:26:02,727
but not Jessi.
471
00:26:04,271 --> 00:26:08,441
-She was always hiding,
missing in action.
472
00:26:08,525 --> 00:26:10,443
There were days
I couldn't find her.
473
00:26:10,527 --> 00:26:14,239
We lived in this mobile home
and there was a box
474
00:26:14,322 --> 00:26:17,117
sitting on the stairway
like this,
475
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,995
and I had passed it three
or four times.
476
00:26:20,078 --> 00:26:22,539
She was curled up
in that box, sound asleep.
477
00:26:23,707 --> 00:26:26,001
-There's kind of that little
mischievous stuff behind her
478
00:26:26,084 --> 00:26:29,004
of, "Yeah, I'm gonna have
a little fun and do it my way
479
00:26:29,087 --> 00:26:31,006
and this is gonna turn
into a good story."
480
00:26:31,089 --> 00:26:35,969
♪♪
481
00:26:36,052 --> 00:26:38,013
-We both loved the outdoors.
482
00:26:38,471 --> 00:26:40,015
There would be days
when she and I
483
00:26:40,098 --> 00:26:41,224
would just jump in a vehicle.
484
00:26:41,308 --> 00:26:43,393
We'd drive
out to the Black Hills
485
00:26:43,476 --> 00:26:46,563
and just sit out
while it was snowing.
486
00:26:46,646 --> 00:26:53,069
♪♪
487
00:26:53,153 --> 00:26:56,364
-I lived a pretty secluded life,
you know?
488
00:26:56,448 --> 00:26:57,741
We didn't have Internet.
489
00:26:57,824 --> 00:27:00,118
We didn't have access
to the outside world.
490
00:27:00,201 --> 00:27:01,578
When I was a little girl,
I never met
491
00:27:01,661 --> 00:27:02,829
any really badass women
492
00:27:02,912 --> 00:27:05,165
that were doing
exceptional things
493
00:27:05,248 --> 00:27:07,542
and I think that's why I started
so late in life.
494
00:27:07,625 --> 00:27:16,092
♪♪
495
00:27:16,176 --> 00:27:19,346
[ Languid rock plays ]
496
00:27:23,516 --> 00:27:25,518
As much as we loved being here,
497
00:27:25,602 --> 00:27:27,187
Jessi was like ready to --
498
00:27:27,270 --> 00:27:29,147
she was --
she was ready to run.
499
00:27:31,149 --> 00:27:33,193
"I got to get out of here.
I'm feeling stifled.
500
00:27:33,276 --> 00:27:34,486
This is not where I belong."
501
00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:37,864
-Everything she did,
she did full-on
502
00:27:37,947 --> 00:27:41,326
and, when it was time for her
to flee the nest,
503
00:27:41,409 --> 00:27:43,578
she did it, and she did it big.
504
00:27:43,661 --> 00:27:52,087
♪♪
505
00:27:52,170 --> 00:27:54,422
-She was 19, I think,
506
00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:57,050
met a guy in Sturgis,
507
00:27:57,133 --> 00:27:58,301
went to Chicago
to live with him.
508
00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:00,929
Like she had met him
at the rally.
509
00:28:01,679 --> 00:28:04,265
[ Laughs ]
Like, "Holy shit!
510
00:28:04,349 --> 00:28:06,142
What are you doing?!"
511
00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:09,979
-She does spontaneous things.
512
00:28:10,063 --> 00:28:12,690
That's just the way she is.
513
00:28:12,774 --> 00:28:17,445
-There is this desire
for her to find the right guy.
514
00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:19,239
I think we all had our ideas
of what that would be, you know?
515
00:28:19,322 --> 00:28:21,157
My dad was like, "He's going
to be a cowboy," you know.
516
00:28:21,241 --> 00:28:23,827
[ Laughs ] "It's got to be."
You know, whatever.
517
00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:31,126
-I remember when she called me
up and said, "Mom,
518
00:28:31,209 --> 00:28:32,919
I know what I want to do."
519
00:28:33,002 --> 00:28:34,254
And I said, "What's that?"
And she goes,
520
00:28:34,337 --> 00:28:35,755
"I want to build cars."
521
00:28:35,839 --> 00:28:37,799
I said, "Right, right."
522
00:28:37,882 --> 00:28:40,969
-She gives me a call
and tells me she's going to
523
00:28:41,052 --> 00:28:43,304
go to trade school at WyoTech
524
00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:46,850
and I'm thinking, "Why would she
do that," you know?
525
00:28:46,933 --> 00:28:50,019
[ Tender tune plays ]
526
00:28:50,103 --> 00:28:56,109
♪♪
527
00:28:56,192 --> 00:28:58,695
-I was not really for it.
528
00:28:58,778 --> 00:29:01,197
It was more of a man's world,
you know?
529
00:29:02,115 --> 00:29:03,616
How do girls fit
into men's worlds?
530
00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:07,078
It doesn't usually turn out
really well for women.
531
00:29:10,373 --> 00:29:12,000
-It wasn't even a year
and a half later,
532
00:29:12,083 --> 00:29:16,212
she graduated top of her class
out of 2,300 men.
533
00:29:18,089 --> 00:29:19,549
-I'm a rule breaker.
534
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,844
I'm a risk taker.
535
00:29:22,927 --> 00:29:25,180
I'm a "Say I can't, say I won't,
536
00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:27,474
I'll prove you wrong"
[ Laughing ] a kind of person.
537
00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:30,518
I like getting things done.
538
00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:32,520
I like seeing things be created.
539
00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:36,149
♪♪
540
00:29:36,232 --> 00:29:37,775
-Watch out, everybody.
541
00:29:39,736 --> 00:29:43,490
-We're all people that are,
by nature, problem solvers
542
00:29:43,573 --> 00:29:47,577
and I think fixing and inventing
stuff that is so odd, unusual,
543
00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:50,914
difficult, is probably
the reason why we do this.
544
00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:54,792
I built a soapbox derby racer
when I was about 14.
545
00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:56,753
Then in the '50s, you know,
get into drag racing
546
00:29:56,836 --> 00:29:59,380
and running around the streets,
acting like a fool.
547
00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:01,132
Then at the same time,
I was, you know,
548
00:30:01,216 --> 00:30:02,717
learning how to fly airplanes.
549
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,345
But when I went
to the Bonneville Salt Flats
550
00:30:05,428 --> 00:30:08,890
and I got involved
with racing out there,
551
00:30:08,973 --> 00:30:12,101
land speed racing has been my,
you know, my main passion.
552
00:30:13,311 --> 00:30:17,065
-Someday, this is gonna be
the future racer.
553
00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:19,692
Yeah.
Is this Grandpa's car?
554
00:30:20,985 --> 00:30:22,195
-That car.
555
00:30:22,278 --> 00:30:24,239
-[ Tapping ] Right here.
This Grandpa's car?
556
00:30:24,322 --> 00:30:26,074
-It's Grandpa's car.
557
00:30:26,157 --> 00:30:28,326
[ Thunder rumbling ]
558
00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:33,915
[ Ring ]
559
00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:37,210
[ Ring ]
560
00:30:38,253 --> 00:30:40,755
-Hey, Ed. It's Jessi.
How's it going?
561
00:30:51,766 --> 00:30:52,892
Okay.
562
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,572
Really?
563
00:31:05,655 --> 00:31:08,199
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
564
00:31:08,283 --> 00:31:10,451
-And, uh...
565
00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:14,914
-[ Laughs ]
566
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,629
♪♪
567
00:31:21,713 --> 00:31:24,090
-When you come out here
right now, it's dry.
568
00:31:24,173 --> 00:31:26,050
But if you were here
in late December,
569
00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:29,345
there'd be a foot of water
over this whole thing.
570
00:31:29,429 --> 00:31:33,725
♪♪
571
00:31:33,808 --> 00:31:36,019
The wind blows
that water around,
572
00:31:36,102 --> 00:31:37,353
smoothes out all these ruts.
573
00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:39,147
All these ruts
that are out here,
574
00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:40,940
these all get smoothed out
and this'll be
575
00:31:41,024 --> 00:31:42,775
like a pool table
when it's done.
576
00:31:42,859 --> 00:31:50,408
♪♪
577
00:31:50,491 --> 00:31:53,536
♪♪
578
00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:57,040
-Okay, so, what does that mean
for our runs in September?
579
00:31:57,123 --> 00:31:58,458
-Well...
580
00:32:02,545 --> 00:32:03,713
-Okay, so, as of right now,
581
00:32:03,796 --> 00:32:07,175
we are postponed
for September, then?
582
00:32:07,258 --> 00:32:08,468
-Yeah.
583
00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:20,396
♪♪
584
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:28,404
♪♪
585
00:32:28,488 --> 00:32:31,366
♪♪
586
00:32:31,449 --> 00:32:33,701
-South Dakota's one
of those states.
587
00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:36,204
There's not a lot out here,
you know?
588
00:32:36,287 --> 00:32:39,082
It's cold. It's bleak.
It's flat.
589
00:32:39,165 --> 00:32:41,626
Except for where I grew up,
which is in the Black Hills.
590
00:32:41,709 --> 00:32:45,254
But outside of the Black Hills,
there's nothing.
591
00:32:45,338 --> 00:32:48,299
There's nothing.
It's lots of
592
00:32:48,383 --> 00:32:50,593
long, straight, boring roads.
593
00:32:50,677 --> 00:32:54,889
-In half a mile, turn left
onto 115th Street.
594
00:32:54,972 --> 00:32:57,225
[ Turn signal clicking ]
595
00:32:57,308 --> 00:33:01,396
-For 54 miles,
continue on 115th Street.
596
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:03,731
-Fifty-four miles
597
00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:05,400
on the same street.
598
00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:07,110
[ Laughs ]
599
00:33:13,491 --> 00:33:15,618
-Maybe it has something to do
600
00:33:15,702 --> 00:33:17,704
with the lifestyle
that she lived
601
00:33:17,787 --> 00:33:19,163
and there was a lot going on
602
00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:21,624
and she just needed to get
some peace and quiet.
603
00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:23,167
[ Laconic rock plays ]
[ Camera shutter clicking ]
604
00:33:23,251 --> 00:33:24,669
-It was just what most
of the tenants
605
00:33:24,752 --> 00:33:26,170
of the Valley Hilton Hotel
606
00:33:26,254 --> 00:33:27,922
had come to L.A. to see --
607
00:33:28,005 --> 00:33:29,549
a bit of Hollywood --
608
00:33:29,632 --> 00:33:30,925
and, to top it all off,
609
00:33:31,008 --> 00:33:33,469
none other
than Wonder Woman herself.
610
00:33:33,553 --> 00:33:37,265
♪♪
611
00:33:37,348 --> 00:33:41,728
-♪ Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ♪
612
00:33:41,811 --> 00:33:45,523
Actually, it was not the TV
show's star, Lynda Carter,
613
00:33:45,606 --> 00:33:49,318
but the famous 32-year-old
stunt woman Kitty O'Neil.
614
00:33:51,028 --> 00:33:52,905
-This is the Mattel toy.
615
00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:54,198
Do you like it?
616
00:33:56,826 --> 00:33:59,120
-Kitty O'Neil
has been totally deaf
617
00:33:59,203 --> 00:34:00,788
since she was two years old,
618
00:34:00,872 --> 00:34:03,458
but she hasn't let that
slow her down.
619
00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,961
-The stunt community
is pretty damn small.
620
00:34:07,044 --> 00:34:09,589
Back then, it was.
Now it's huge.
621
00:34:09,672 --> 00:34:13,092
There was no women
that I knew of at the time.
622
00:34:17,889 --> 00:34:19,515
All of a sudden,
we got this woman
623
00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:21,392
that's a heck of an athlete,
you know,
624
00:34:21,476 --> 00:34:22,977
and she's deaf, on top of it,
625
00:34:23,060 --> 00:34:26,647
and she's capable of doing
all these incredible things.
626
00:34:26,731 --> 00:34:30,234
-Are there any stunts
that you don't like to do?
627
00:34:32,695 --> 00:34:33,905
-You don't like motorcycles?
628
00:34:35,573 --> 00:34:36,824
-Uh-huh.
[ Laughter ]
629
00:34:36,908 --> 00:34:39,368
Too crazy.
630
00:34:39,452 --> 00:34:41,704
♪♪
631
00:34:41,788 --> 00:34:44,373
♪♪
632
00:34:44,457 --> 00:34:46,626
-♪ So dangerous ♪
633
00:34:46,709 --> 00:34:48,377
-A lot of people standing
around here
634
00:34:48,461 --> 00:34:50,671
were asking themselves, "Why
does this pretty little lady
635
00:34:50,755 --> 00:34:52,173
do this kind of stuff?"
636
00:34:58,012 --> 00:35:00,181
Miss O'Neil says she has
no intention
637
00:35:00,264 --> 00:35:02,350
of stopping
her dangerous lifestyle.
638
00:35:02,433 --> 00:35:05,561
She hasn't yet decided
which record she'll break next,
639
00:35:05,645 --> 00:35:07,897
but, she says,
she'll keep us posted.
640
00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:12,902
♪♪
641
00:35:12,985 --> 00:35:18,074
♪♪
642
00:35:21,619 --> 00:35:23,037
-Let's see
if we can get it to go.
643
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,456
Oh!
Oh, my gosh!
644
00:35:25,540 --> 00:35:29,585
Now, this here's Kitty
in a rocket car
645
00:35:29,669 --> 00:35:31,879
out in the desert at El Mirage.
646
00:35:31,963 --> 00:35:34,549
Boy, I was a lot thinner
back then, too, I see.
647
00:35:34,632 --> 00:35:36,717
[ Laughs ]
648
00:35:36,801 --> 00:35:39,053
One day I picked up the paper
649
00:35:39,136 --> 00:35:43,099
and here I see about this young
lady in a land speed car
650
00:35:43,182 --> 00:35:45,726
that was approaching
breaking the men's record
651
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:47,979
and, well, it just so happened
652
00:35:48,062 --> 00:35:50,189
I got a car right in my shop
here I'm building.
653
00:35:50,273 --> 00:35:52,692
I'm building a car to go
1,000 miles an hour.
654
00:35:52,775 --> 00:35:54,318
I'm gonna see
if I can get ahold of them
655
00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:56,195
and see if they'll
team up with me.
656
00:35:58,739 --> 00:35:59,907
She knew that right off the bat
657
00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:02,076
that I was really
gung ho about it.
658
00:36:02,159 --> 00:36:05,663
And her and I,
we hit it off right away.
659
00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:11,168
We set 72 state and national
and international speed records.
660
00:36:13,379 --> 00:36:16,632
But, you know, when you're deaf,
you live in your own world.
661
00:36:16,716 --> 00:36:19,302
And Kitty was
in her own little world.
662
00:36:21,512 --> 00:36:24,849
And she trusted too many people.
663
00:36:24,932 --> 00:36:28,436
She trusted the wrong people.
664
00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:30,229
Who knows how far
she could have gone.
665
00:36:30,313 --> 00:36:33,107
Yeah. History
would have been different.
666
00:36:33,190 --> 00:36:36,903
♪♪
667
00:36:36,986 --> 00:36:40,323
-Over the years, apparently,
she's become an alcoholic,
668
00:36:40,406 --> 00:36:43,367
and she gets in these bouts
of rage when she's drunk
669
00:36:43,451 --> 00:36:45,202
and she tears her house apart.
670
00:36:45,286 --> 00:36:47,288
She can't go anywhere.
She can't drive.
671
00:36:47,371 --> 00:36:49,081
She got three DUIs in one week.
672
00:36:49,165 --> 00:36:51,042
She's 66 years old.
She's fallen apart.
673
00:36:51,125 --> 00:36:53,419
Her liver is shot,
her health is fading,
674
00:36:53,502 --> 00:36:55,212
which is one of the reasons
why I feel like
675
00:36:55,296 --> 00:36:59,675
I need to come out here and I
need to meet her because...
676
00:36:59,759 --> 00:37:01,260
there's not one other woman
out there
677
00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:03,846
who could really understand
what we're all about,
678
00:37:03,930 --> 00:37:06,307
which I don't even know
if I figured it out yet.
679
00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:10,019
And maybe that's what I'm trying
to figure out with her.
680
00:37:10,102 --> 00:37:12,104
What is it
that really drives us?
681
00:37:22,865 --> 00:37:25,326
Here's her stuff.
682
00:37:25,409 --> 00:37:27,828
I hear her.
683
00:37:27,912 --> 00:37:29,664
Hello?
684
00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:32,667
-[ Speaks indistinctly ]
685
00:37:32,750 --> 00:37:34,877
-How are you? Hi.
686
00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:36,295
You look lovely.
687
00:37:36,379 --> 00:37:38,047
-Thank you.
-Yeah.
688
00:37:38,130 --> 00:37:39,632
My gosh, you're so tiny.
689
00:37:39,715 --> 00:37:41,175
Look how small she is.
690
00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:43,886
I thought I was little.
You're little.
691
00:37:43,970 --> 00:37:46,013
I thought I was little,
but you're little.
692
00:37:46,097 --> 00:37:48,474
Look at you.
693
00:37:51,686 --> 00:37:54,105
That's when you crashed, right?
694
00:37:54,188 --> 00:37:56,440
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
695
00:38:00,069 --> 00:38:01,654
[ Laughs ]
You want to do it again?
696
00:38:03,155 --> 00:38:05,282
You are crazy, aren't you?
[ Laughing ]
697
00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:17,586
Well, thank you
for paving the path.
698
00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:19,630
Now I'm just trying
to be like you...
699
00:38:19,714 --> 00:38:22,091
but faster.
700
00:38:22,174 --> 00:38:24,760
[ Laughter ]
701
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,181
What got you into
being a stunt woman?
702
00:38:29,265 --> 00:38:31,684
Was it -- Was it because
you're not afraid of anything?
703
00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:42,319
So you don't get nervous?
704
00:38:42,403 --> 00:38:43,696
-No.
705
00:38:43,779 --> 00:38:45,781
-You don't think twice.
You just...
706
00:38:45,865 --> 00:38:48,909
Okay. "This is what I have to
do, and I'm gonna do it."
707
00:38:48,993 --> 00:38:50,286
Yeah.
708
00:39:02,506 --> 00:39:06,552
-One thing about Kitty
is she really made a mark
709
00:39:06,635 --> 00:39:08,429
with, you know, deaf people.
710
00:39:08,512 --> 00:39:09,930
To this day,
711
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:11,599
if they find out that I was
involved with Kitty O'Neil,
712
00:39:11,682 --> 00:39:13,309
they come running
right up to me.
713
00:39:13,392 --> 00:39:16,312
-You've had a lot of things
that you've had to overcome.
714
00:39:16,395 --> 00:39:17,688
You work harder?
715
00:39:23,152 --> 00:39:25,321
-Why did you stop?
716
00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:39,251
Yeah.
717
00:39:51,472 --> 00:39:53,599
Yeah.
718
00:39:54,683 --> 00:39:56,602
Do you have any advice for me?
719
00:39:58,646 --> 00:40:00,314
[ Laughing ]
720
00:40:02,983 --> 00:40:04,568
And I have your blessing
to break your record?
721
00:40:05,444 --> 00:40:06,612
Awesome.
722
00:40:12,910 --> 00:40:14,829
Okay. Thank you.
723
00:40:15,913 --> 00:40:17,248
I will.
724
00:40:20,501 --> 00:40:22,753
-Get in there, Kitty.
725
00:40:26,257 --> 00:40:28,843
[ Indistinct conversations ]
726
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:37,935
-She likes looking
really little.
727
00:40:38,978 --> 00:40:40,354
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
728
00:40:40,437 --> 00:40:49,321
♪♪
729
00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:54,368
♪♪
730
00:40:54,451 --> 00:40:58,998
It's very rare to find somebody
that I can relate to.
731
00:40:59,081 --> 00:41:00,624
Because there's this whole
other part of us
732
00:41:00,708 --> 00:41:03,085
that it's not about us,
you know,
733
00:41:03,169 --> 00:41:06,380
for her, it was -- it was
the deaf children,
734
00:41:06,463 --> 00:41:08,215
you know, to show
that there is no handicap
735
00:41:08,299 --> 00:41:10,509
and they can do anything
that they set their minds to.
736
00:41:10,593 --> 00:41:14,221
And for me, it's girls
and it's women to let them know
737
00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:17,391
that they can go fast
and get dirty and have fun
738
00:41:17,474 --> 00:41:20,311
and be just as good as the boys,
if not better,
739
00:41:20,394 --> 00:41:25,149
and still at the end of the day,
be a girl.
740
00:41:25,232 --> 00:41:29,361
You know, when I broke my back,
I had an opportunity to kind of
741
00:41:29,445 --> 00:41:31,071
connect myself
with the rest of the world
742
00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:33,282
because I built a website
and that was before social media
743
00:41:33,365 --> 00:41:34,867
or anything really came around.
744
00:41:36,827 --> 00:41:39,455
I freakishly had a piece
of machinery fall on me.
745
00:41:39,538 --> 00:41:41,457
It burst-fractured my L3.
746
00:41:41,540 --> 00:41:43,417
My doctors call me
a miracle case.
747
00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:44,752
I should be in a wheelchair,
748
00:41:44,835 --> 00:41:46,795
should be paralyzed
from the waist down.
749
00:41:46,879 --> 00:41:49,089
And it kind of just pushed me
to try harder
750
00:41:49,173 --> 00:41:50,424
and to try and be better
751
00:41:50,507 --> 00:41:52,009
because I had a whole
new perspective on life.
752
00:41:54,970 --> 00:41:56,597
When I started hearing
these people's stories
753
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,099
and the lives that I was
changing, it was amazing.
754
00:41:59,183 --> 00:42:01,435
I started realizing
that the things that I was doing
755
00:42:01,518 --> 00:42:04,939
was making an impact on people's
life and making a difference.
756
00:42:05,022 --> 00:42:12,112
♪♪
757
00:42:12,196 --> 00:42:15,157
Kitty and I operate
on a very similar level
758
00:42:15,241 --> 00:42:16,951
because she did it.
She lived it.
759
00:42:17,034 --> 00:42:19,453
And she did it for a lot
for the same reasons.
760
00:42:19,536 --> 00:42:24,333
♪♪
761
00:42:24,416 --> 00:42:29,046
But she was this thriving
super stunt person
762
00:42:29,129 --> 00:42:31,715
that everybody knew
back in the day
763
00:42:31,799 --> 00:42:33,801
to nobody knows where she is.
764
00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:36,178
Nobody knows what she's doing.
765
00:42:39,223 --> 00:42:43,936
It makes you wonder
what actually broke down in her.
766
00:42:44,019 --> 00:42:46,981
There's a part of me
that wants to make sure
767
00:42:47,064 --> 00:42:51,652
that one of my heroes
is gonna be okay
768
00:42:51,735 --> 00:42:54,113
because maybe that
will give me a sense
769
00:42:54,196 --> 00:42:56,115
that I'm gonna be okay.
770
00:42:56,198 --> 00:43:03,831
♪♪
771
00:43:03,914 --> 00:43:06,000
[ Wind whistling ]
772
00:43:06,083 --> 00:43:10,129
♪♪
773
00:43:10,212 --> 00:43:12,047
-The conditions out here
at Alvord this year
774
00:43:12,131 --> 00:43:16,802
are just really very,
very nice, minimal wind.
775
00:43:16,885 --> 00:43:19,179
In some cases,
it just gets dead calm
776
00:43:19,263 --> 00:43:22,224
and the course is just so smooth
for the first 8 miles.
777
00:43:22,308 --> 00:43:25,311
It's just beautiful.
778
00:43:25,394 --> 00:43:27,855
The number-one mission
for this week of runs
779
00:43:27,938 --> 00:43:31,734
is to get Jessi that record
that Kitty O'Neil holds.
780
00:43:31,817 --> 00:43:34,570
We would like to put down
at least one really good,
781
00:43:34,653 --> 00:43:37,364
strong run and see
if we can get it over 600.
782
00:43:37,448 --> 00:43:39,867
With only 8 miles,
it's kind of questionable
783
00:43:39,950 --> 00:43:41,493
whether we can actually do that.
784
00:43:41,577 --> 00:43:43,329
But you don't know till you try.
785
00:43:49,585 --> 00:43:51,128
-I kind of like the fact
that Ed is the guinea pig
786
00:43:51,211 --> 00:43:54,131
because, one, he knows the car.
787
00:43:54,214 --> 00:43:55,841
He's been building this car
for 15 years,
788
00:43:55,924 --> 00:43:58,844
which makes me feel way more
comfortable to be in the car
789
00:43:58,927 --> 00:44:01,722
knowing that he can do it,
I can do it, for sure.
790
00:44:02,598 --> 00:44:04,183
[ Flare pops ]
791
00:44:04,266 --> 00:44:11,899
♪♪
792
00:44:11,982 --> 00:44:18,947
♪♪
793
00:45:09,248 --> 00:45:14,294
♪♪
794
00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:17,297
[ Indistinct conversations ]
795
00:45:17,381 --> 00:45:20,968
-Coming out your way.
It's all you, baby.
796
00:45:21,051 --> 00:45:23,637
-Ed gets in a car,
makes a test run.
797
00:45:23,721 --> 00:45:26,598
Right off the bat,
it goes to the left,
798
00:45:26,682 --> 00:45:28,183
can't go to the right.
799
00:45:28,267 --> 00:45:31,145
The steering was -- was junk.
800
00:45:31,228 --> 00:45:34,565
Remember, we worked on this car
for 50 weeks a year
801
00:45:34,648 --> 00:45:37,276
and then we test it
for two weeks a year.
802
00:45:37,359 --> 00:45:39,069
We can't just go out every week,
month or so
803
00:45:39,153 --> 00:45:40,320
and check the car out.
804
00:45:40,404 --> 00:45:41,864
-Ready?
805
00:45:41,947 --> 00:45:43,949
[ Indistinct conversations ]
806
00:45:44,032 --> 00:45:51,248
♪♪
807
00:45:51,331 --> 00:45:58,505
♪♪
808
00:45:58,589 --> 00:46:05,804
♪♪
809
00:46:05,888 --> 00:46:12,936
♪♪
810
00:46:13,020 --> 00:46:14,229
-There was no let-down
on these guys
811
00:46:14,313 --> 00:46:15,898
trying to get this thing
ready to go.
812
00:46:15,981 --> 00:46:18,317
They're out here, the wind's
blowing, the sand's blowing.
813
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,444
I mean, everybody could have
went and gotten in a trailer
814
00:46:20,527 --> 00:46:22,863
and hid out and nobody did.
815
00:46:22,946 --> 00:46:24,031
I'm proud of them.
816
00:46:24,114 --> 00:46:25,532
You know, as a crew chief,
817
00:46:25,616 --> 00:46:27,576
I can't be anything
but proud of them.
818
00:46:27,659 --> 00:46:32,080
♪♪
819
00:46:47,304 --> 00:46:48,805
-Worried this time?
820
00:46:50,807 --> 00:46:53,060
Yeah, my mom seems a little
bit more comfortable
821
00:46:53,143 --> 00:46:54,520
this go-around.
822
00:46:54,603 --> 00:46:57,564
Probably because I haven't
gotten in the car yet.
823
00:46:57,648 --> 00:46:59,733
That's the prettiest guacamole
I've ever seen, Mom.
824
00:46:59,817 --> 00:47:02,444
-Who is that girl?
-What girl?
825
00:47:03,946 --> 00:47:06,406
Who's that girl?
826
00:47:06,490 --> 00:47:08,742
What is this mess going on here?
You need to fix this.
827
00:47:08,826 --> 00:47:10,077
Clean up.
828
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,870
I want this all cleaned up
by the end of the day.
829
00:47:11,954 --> 00:47:13,372
-See ya.
830
00:47:15,999 --> 00:47:17,709
-Whoo! It's hot.
831
00:47:22,256 --> 00:47:25,842
My mom's job is never done.
Poor woman.
832
00:47:25,926 --> 00:47:27,469
She sees me do stuff like this,
833
00:47:27,553 --> 00:47:30,597
and I swear her heart
is beating out of her chest.
834
00:47:30,681 --> 00:47:36,937
♪♪
835
00:47:37,020 --> 00:47:43,402
♪♪
836
00:48:36,121 --> 00:48:38,915
-Sorry.
-I'm sorry for you guys.
837
00:48:38,999 --> 00:48:41,376
-It's depressing.
838
00:48:41,460 --> 00:48:42,961
You know, you finally
reach a point
839
00:48:43,045 --> 00:48:45,547
where you don't have
the technological wherewithal
840
00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:47,466
to solve the problems
in the field.
841
00:48:47,549 --> 00:48:50,302
So it's time to go back home
and lick our wounds
842
00:48:50,385 --> 00:48:51,970
and then solve the problem.
843
00:48:52,054 --> 00:48:56,725
♪♪
844
00:49:06,151 --> 00:49:07,527
-No, I'm praying.
845
00:49:07,611 --> 00:49:09,529
I touch the car, I pray.
846
00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:12,866
[ Indistinct conversations ]
847
00:49:12,949 --> 00:49:14,409
It just sucks that
we have to wait another year
848
00:49:14,493 --> 00:49:16,453
or however long
for it to happen.
849
00:49:19,623 --> 00:49:22,709
It's really difficult,
you know, how long
850
00:49:22,793 --> 00:49:24,711
am I gonna have
to put my life on hold?
851
00:49:24,795 --> 00:49:27,381
Like, I can't have a family
852
00:49:27,464 --> 00:49:31,259
and try and break
a world land speed record.
853
00:49:31,343 --> 00:49:34,262
That, all of a sudden,
makes things very real.
854
00:49:34,346 --> 00:49:42,729
♪♪
855
00:49:42,813 --> 00:49:50,404
♪♪
856
00:49:50,487 --> 00:49:52,072
-There's a really big period
of time
857
00:49:52,155 --> 00:49:53,865
where Jessi and I
just lost touch
858
00:49:53,949 --> 00:49:58,036
because I was raising a family
and she was just out living.
859
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,498
But I remember a time where
she just started communicating,
860
00:50:01,581 --> 00:50:03,709
"I'd really like somebody
to come home to
861
00:50:03,792 --> 00:50:05,627
that I can consistently
count on."
862
00:50:05,711 --> 00:50:07,838
And "Am I ever gonna be a mom?
Am I --"
863
00:50:07,921 --> 00:50:09,923
You know, like,
"How can I make this work
864
00:50:10,006 --> 00:50:14,010
and still keep following this
dream of mine that is running
865
00:50:14,094 --> 00:50:17,347
and if I don't go with it,
I'm gonna miss that boat."
866
00:50:36,908 --> 00:50:40,287
-It's not as glamorous
as it seems.
867
00:50:40,370 --> 00:50:41,621
It's not.
868
00:50:41,705 --> 00:50:44,040
I am pulled in
a lot of different directions
869
00:50:44,124 --> 00:50:46,418
between the television,
between the race teams,
870
00:50:46,501 --> 00:50:48,670
between the sponsors,
between the representation,
871
00:50:48,754 --> 00:50:51,465
between everything
that I'm doing.
872
00:50:51,548 --> 00:50:55,051
And where is there time
for other people?
873
00:50:55,135 --> 00:50:57,637
Where is there time
for, like, a real life?
874
00:50:57,721 --> 00:50:59,389
Hey, guys. I know
I haven't been posting
875
00:50:59,473 --> 00:51:00,974
on social media a lot lately.
876
00:51:01,057 --> 00:51:04,102
I'm sorry. It's just
been ridiculously busy.
877
00:51:04,186 --> 00:51:05,729
We had Babes Ride Out
last weekend,
878
00:51:05,812 --> 00:51:07,230
then I went to go test
the trophy truck.
879
00:51:07,314 --> 00:51:09,649
I've got SEMA next week.
880
00:51:09,733 --> 00:51:12,444
It's not like I get
to come home to, like, a dog.
881
00:51:12,527 --> 00:51:15,030
I would kill my dog. I just got
a fish and I'm like --
882
00:51:15,113 --> 00:51:17,157
I joke about how this fish
is gonna die
883
00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:18,992
within weeks, literally weeks,
884
00:51:19,075 --> 00:51:22,621
because who's gonna
take care of it when I'm gone?
885
00:51:22,704 --> 00:51:24,998
Who? Like who -- My plants.
886
00:51:25,081 --> 00:51:28,668
It's so hard for me
to keep plants alive.
887
00:51:28,752 --> 00:51:29,836
You know what I named my fish?
888
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,046
Puppy.
889
00:51:34,633 --> 00:51:36,134
So I do have a puppy.
890
00:51:38,929 --> 00:51:40,806
-You're gonna have to choose,
right?
891
00:51:40,889 --> 00:51:43,183
It's -- it's just impossible
to balance everything.
892
00:51:45,393 --> 00:51:49,689
If you're going to live a life
where you are chasing adventures
893
00:51:49,773 --> 00:51:52,526
and you get to do
all these wonderful things
894
00:51:52,609 --> 00:51:55,529
that keep you away from home
most of the year,
895
00:51:55,612 --> 00:51:57,864
you're gonna have to sacrifice
896
00:51:57,948 --> 00:52:01,535
having a solid relationship
and a family.
897
00:52:01,618 --> 00:52:09,376
♪♪
898
00:52:09,459 --> 00:52:15,674
♪♪
899
00:52:20,637 --> 00:52:22,639
-Everybody, we're starting
the start car.
900
00:52:25,809 --> 00:52:27,811
-Okay.
Start sequence has begun.
901
00:52:31,815 --> 00:52:34,776
My information --
we have generator working.
902
00:52:43,326 --> 00:52:46,538
Okay. Information --
the canopy is down and locked.
903
00:52:46,621 --> 00:52:54,588
♪♪
904
00:52:54,671 --> 00:53:03,138
♪♪
905
00:53:03,221 --> 00:53:11,938
♪♪
906
00:53:12,022 --> 00:53:16,985
♪♪
907
00:53:25,493 --> 00:53:32,542
♪♪
908
00:53:32,626 --> 00:53:39,799
♪♪
909
00:53:56,399 --> 00:54:03,531
♪♪
910
00:54:03,615 --> 00:54:10,830
♪♪
911
00:54:10,914 --> 00:54:16,753
♪♪
912
00:54:26,471 --> 00:54:31,726
♪♪
913
00:54:31,810 --> 00:54:37,232
♪♪
914
00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:47,367
♪♪
915
00:54:47,450 --> 00:54:49,703
♪♪
916
00:54:49,786 --> 00:54:52,539
-Whoo.
917
00:54:52,622 --> 00:55:00,296
♪♪
918
00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:03,049
Holy fuck.
919
00:55:03,133 --> 00:55:07,220
[ Laughs ]
Oh, my God.
920
00:55:09,639 --> 00:55:10,807
-Yeah, I saw that.
921
00:55:13,476 --> 00:55:14,978
-Both parachutes failed.
922
00:55:17,564 --> 00:55:19,232
That's why I didn't
fucking stop.
923
00:55:19,315 --> 00:55:27,449
♪♪
924
00:55:27,532 --> 00:55:29,117
♪♪
925
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:30,785
♪♪
926
00:55:30,869 --> 00:55:32,620
♪♪
927
00:55:49,512 --> 00:55:50,764
-Okay.
928
00:55:50,847 --> 00:55:52,432
-Even when I saw the bushes
coming, I was okay.
929
00:55:52,515 --> 00:55:55,602
I promise.
930
00:55:55,685 --> 00:55:56,853
Could you hear me?
931
00:55:59,981 --> 00:56:01,858
How did you know?
Why were you freaking out?
932
00:56:11,451 --> 00:56:14,120
Okay. Okay.
933
00:56:14,204 --> 00:56:18,416
♪♪
934
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:19,876
That was fucking scary.
935
00:56:19,959 --> 00:56:26,508
♪♪
936
00:56:26,591 --> 00:56:33,014
♪♪
937
00:56:33,098 --> 00:56:35,850
I fully believe that
I experienced a miracle.
938
00:56:37,435 --> 00:56:39,104
Right before the bushes,
939
00:56:39,187 --> 00:56:41,606
I had to have still been going
100 miles an hour.
940
00:56:41,689 --> 00:56:45,151
It literally seemed like
the hand of God just came out,
941
00:56:45,235 --> 00:56:49,906
put his hand on my windshield,
and took me from 90 to nothing
942
00:56:49,989 --> 00:56:52,325
in the most graceful way
possible.
943
00:56:56,329 --> 00:56:58,873
You know, there was a small
fraction in there like,
944
00:56:58,957 --> 00:57:00,792
"Ahh, this might be
my last day."
945
00:57:00,875 --> 00:57:02,669
Like, I --
That was the first time
946
00:57:02,752 --> 00:57:05,880
I think I've ever literally
thought that thought,
947
00:57:05,964 --> 00:57:08,466
like "This might be
my last day."
948
00:57:11,761 --> 00:57:16,182
I -- I'm not afraid of dying,
but I'm not ready to die.
949
00:57:19,269 --> 00:57:22,313
This is something that
I really want to die for.
950
00:57:22,397 --> 00:57:23,982
You know?
951
00:57:24,065 --> 00:57:27,861
Is this something
I want to die for?
952
00:57:27,944 --> 00:57:34,617
♪♪
953
00:57:34,701 --> 00:57:36,870
-That was terrifying.
It was just --
954
00:57:36,953 --> 00:57:40,206
And to hear that she was scared,
she doesn't get scared.
955
00:57:40,290 --> 00:57:41,666
So it was like -- So I think
956
00:57:41,749 --> 00:57:43,042
that's what made it scarier
for me
957
00:57:43,126 --> 00:57:45,128
because it's like, "Okay,
if Jessi is scared
958
00:57:45,211 --> 00:57:47,380
from what just happened today,
959
00:57:47,463 --> 00:57:50,049
that means it can get
really, really bad."
960
00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:55,346
♪♪
961
00:57:55,430 --> 00:57:58,141
There was a major shift
that we could all see
962
00:57:58,224 --> 00:58:00,476
and we could all feel.
963
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,104
Something would have to change
in the career life
964
00:58:03,188 --> 00:58:06,232
in order to make family
as profound
965
00:58:06,316 --> 00:58:07,859
and beneficial as she wanted.
966
00:58:11,321 --> 00:58:12,906
I don't think depression
is the right word,
967
00:58:12,989 --> 00:58:15,158
but she just -- She was lonely.
968
00:58:15,241 --> 00:58:18,369
And it was -- It was a space
that not even us as family
969
00:58:18,453 --> 00:58:20,079
could have filled for her.
970
00:58:23,791 --> 00:58:26,252
Hey, everybody. I just wanted
to miss you a merry Christmas.
971
00:58:26,336 --> 00:58:29,339
I know this isn't always the
easiest time of year for people.
972
00:58:29,422 --> 00:58:31,257
I know it's really
difficult for me,
973
00:58:31,341 --> 00:58:33,635
but at least it snowed here.
974
00:58:33,718 --> 00:58:37,096
-Christmas was always the
hardest time of year for her
975
00:58:37,180 --> 00:58:40,308
because that's
when her family split.
976
00:58:40,391 --> 00:58:44,812
And so she actually would
go away on her own.
977
00:58:44,896 --> 00:58:52,070
♪♪
978
00:58:52,153 --> 00:58:53,488
-The divorce wasn't so bad
979
00:58:53,571 --> 00:58:55,698
as it was just how it
all kind of came about.
980
00:58:55,782 --> 00:58:57,784
It all happened at Christmas.
981
00:58:57,867 --> 00:59:01,037
And so Christmas
was always bad for her. Always.
982
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,957
And she was 12
when that all happened.
983
00:59:11,881 --> 00:59:14,300
-Yeah, I guess.
984
00:59:14,384 --> 00:59:15,969
I mean, you know,
I'd go out and mow the lawn
985
00:59:16,052 --> 00:59:18,429
and who would be out there
traipsing along beside me?
986
00:59:18,513 --> 00:59:21,140
Jess. [ Chuckles ]
You know?
987
00:59:22,517 --> 00:59:28,189
-She liked hanging out with him,
and he absolutely adored her.
988
00:59:28,273 --> 00:59:29,565
But because of the divorce
989
00:59:29,649 --> 00:59:31,401
and because of moving
so far away from her dad,
990
00:59:31,484 --> 00:59:35,905
there weren't nearly as many
family moments after that.
991
00:59:42,287 --> 00:59:45,957
-Uh, just some of the poor
decisions that were made
992
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,126
along the way, I guess.
993
00:59:52,046 --> 00:59:53,756
Some of the stuff. Yeah.
994
00:59:55,758 --> 00:59:57,844
So...
995
01:00:00,555 --> 01:00:03,558
-You know, I think you kind of
have this Disney-movie idea
996
01:00:03,641 --> 01:00:05,852
of what true love
is supposed to be like
997
01:00:05,935 --> 01:00:07,395
and how it's your prince forever
998
01:00:07,478 --> 01:00:10,648
and it's always gonna be perfect
and it's not.
999
01:00:10,732 --> 01:00:14,110
So she's seeking out something
that's probably unrealistic.
1000
01:00:14,193 --> 01:00:18,031
♪♪
1001
01:00:18,114 --> 01:00:19,907
-I don't understand why men
can go out
1002
01:00:19,991 --> 01:00:22,452
and live these wild
and free lives
1003
01:00:22,535 --> 01:00:24,912
but still be able
to attract partners.
1004
01:00:24,996 --> 01:00:28,374
Whereas I seem to get
these assholes
1005
01:00:28,458 --> 01:00:30,668
or these people
who don't fully get it.
1006
01:00:30,752 --> 01:00:34,881
♪♪
1007
01:00:34,964 --> 01:00:37,342
It's like this never-ending
cycle of being
1008
01:00:37,425 --> 01:00:41,721
in really bad relationships
or being completely alone.
1009
01:00:43,723 --> 01:00:45,016
-There's an old saying --
1010
01:00:45,099 --> 01:00:47,310
Behind every great man,
there's a woman.
1011
01:00:47,393 --> 01:00:49,771
Well, today,
the opposite is also true.
1012
01:00:49,854 --> 01:00:51,022
And for Kitty O'Neil,
1013
01:00:51,105 --> 01:00:53,316
the man behind the scene
is her husband,
1014
01:00:53,399 --> 01:00:54,400
Duffy Hambleton.
1015
01:00:54,484 --> 01:00:55,735
His confidence and support
1016
01:00:55,818 --> 01:00:58,488
has helped Kitty win many
unusual accomplishments.
1017
01:00:58,571 --> 01:01:00,531
-The guy that she supposedly
was married to,
1018
01:01:00,615 --> 01:01:02,575
Duffy Hambleton --
They were not married.
1019
01:01:02,658 --> 01:01:05,495
Their relationship
was not very good.
1020
01:01:05,578 --> 01:01:07,830
I seen Duffy slap her around.
1021
01:01:07,914 --> 01:01:09,248
That was out there.
1022
01:01:09,332 --> 01:01:10,750
There was a lot of screaming
in the household.
1023
01:01:10,833 --> 01:01:15,421
That's one of the reasons
I moved out of that place.
1024
01:01:15,505 --> 01:01:18,841
Duffy was a schemer.
Duffy was a smart guy.
1025
01:01:18,925 --> 01:01:21,844
He was a smart criminal.
1026
01:01:21,928 --> 01:01:23,262
She told me that he had
1027
01:01:23,346 --> 01:01:26,015
$1,000,000 life-insurance policy
on her.
1028
01:01:26,099 --> 01:01:29,102
He was out there
to take her money away from her
1029
01:01:29,185 --> 01:01:30,686
and then get rid of her
at the end.
1030
01:01:30,770 --> 01:01:32,438
He was a bad guy.
1031
01:01:32,522 --> 01:01:35,441
♪♪
1032
01:01:35,525 --> 01:01:40,947
One day we went out
to El Mirage, California.
1033
01:01:41,030 --> 01:01:43,324
We had a rocket-powered
Corvette,
1034
01:01:43,408 --> 01:01:46,327
and we were gonna have her
set a record.
1035
01:01:46,411 --> 01:01:49,122
But there was something going on
that I didn't know about.
1036
01:01:49,205 --> 01:01:55,962
♪♪
1037
01:01:56,045 --> 01:01:57,713
-Whoa! She's flying!
1038
01:02:00,258 --> 01:02:01,801
She's going too fast to stop!
1039
01:02:01,884 --> 01:02:03,594
[ Yells indistinctly ]
1040
01:02:03,678 --> 01:02:06,305
End over end.
1041
01:02:06,389 --> 01:02:08,808
Wreckage is strewn everywhere.
1042
01:02:08,891 --> 01:02:11,227
[ Siren wails ]
1043
01:02:11,310 --> 01:02:13,271
-I couldn't believe
that she crashed.
1044
01:02:13,354 --> 01:02:15,440
I, uh...
1045
01:02:15,523 --> 01:02:18,276
I didn't understand
what the h-- what happened.
1046
01:02:18,359 --> 01:02:20,153
I couldn't believe that,
you know,
1047
01:02:20,236 --> 01:02:21,654
there's not a scratch on her.
1048
01:02:21,737 --> 01:02:23,656
-I'm okay.
1049
01:02:23,739 --> 01:02:25,491
-Kitty is alright!
1050
01:02:25,575 --> 01:02:26,826
-Yeah.
1051
01:02:26,909 --> 01:02:28,911
It was fine.
1052
01:02:28,995 --> 01:02:29,954
I'm okay.
1053
01:02:30,037 --> 01:02:38,212
♪♪
1054
01:02:38,296 --> 01:02:41,632
-Kitty disappeared
after that car crashed.
1055
01:02:41,716 --> 01:02:42,967
And at that point,
1056
01:02:43,050 --> 01:02:46,429
I knew that Duffy
had something to do with it.
1057
01:02:46,512 --> 01:02:49,307
I mean,
she feared for her life.
1058
01:02:49,390 --> 01:02:54,145
And even after he passed away,
she was still scared of him.
1059
01:02:54,228 --> 01:02:58,357
♪♪
1060
01:02:58,441 --> 01:03:00,401
-This is, like,
this mind-boggling thing
1061
01:03:00,485 --> 01:03:03,571
because she seems
that she's very capable,
1062
01:03:03,654 --> 01:03:06,199
very strong,
can handle anything.
1063
01:03:06,282 --> 01:03:10,369
She's tough.
Nothing seems to phase her.
1064
01:03:10,453 --> 01:03:13,372
And yet she lives up
in this environment
1065
01:03:13,456 --> 01:03:15,082
that's...
1066
01:03:15,166 --> 01:03:18,127
Like, it's empty
and it's lonely.
1067
01:03:18,211 --> 01:03:22,673
And the last thing that I want
is to end up like that.
1068
01:03:22,757 --> 01:03:26,802
♪♪
1069
01:03:26,886 --> 01:03:30,431
-Jessi is this enormous
energy, right?
1070
01:03:30,515 --> 01:03:32,391
And super independent.
1071
01:03:32,475 --> 01:03:35,645
That only got stronger
and stronger the older she got.
1072
01:03:35,728 --> 01:03:37,772
More independent,
more adventurous,
1073
01:03:37,855 --> 01:03:39,524
more all of those things,
1074
01:03:39,607 --> 01:03:41,234
which made it even harder
for a guy to be like,
1075
01:03:41,317 --> 01:03:43,069
"I don't know
if I can handle this package."
1076
01:03:43,152 --> 01:03:45,238
Right?
1077
01:03:45,321 --> 01:03:46,864
But there is power in that.
1078
01:03:46,948 --> 01:03:50,910
If you can figure out
how to culminate that strength,
1079
01:03:50,993 --> 01:03:54,705
it is something
that will take you far.
1080
01:03:54,789 --> 01:03:56,165
People will trust you.
1081
01:03:56,249 --> 01:03:59,126
People will know
they can rely on you.
1082
01:03:59,210 --> 01:04:01,379
People will turn to you.
1083
01:04:01,462 --> 01:04:04,257
There's just so much power
in being yourself.
1084
01:04:04,340 --> 01:04:07,134
♪♪
1085
01:04:07,218 --> 01:04:10,346
-Yeeeeeaaaahh!
1086
01:04:10,429 --> 01:04:12,431
Whoo-hoo!
1087
01:04:12,515 --> 01:04:17,395
-First female Grand Marshal
in Sturgis --
1088
01:04:17,478 --> 01:04:20,022
her backyard, her hometown.
1089
01:04:20,106 --> 01:04:22,191
-My home.
-It is her home.
1090
01:04:24,652 --> 01:04:27,947
-I am the Grand Marshal
of the 77th Sturgis rally.
1091
01:04:28,030 --> 01:04:30,408
First female
in all of its history.
1092
01:04:30,491 --> 01:04:38,624
♪♪
1093
01:04:38,708 --> 01:04:40,585
[ Horns honking ]
1094
01:04:40,668 --> 01:04:45,089
-For me, watching Jessi become
the Grand Marshal for Sturgis,
1095
01:04:45,172 --> 01:04:47,300
shatter that ceiling,
was everything.
1096
01:04:47,383 --> 01:04:48,968
It was everything.
1097
01:04:53,556 --> 01:04:58,311
♪♪
1098
01:04:58,394 --> 01:05:00,646
You know,
it's a male-dominated thing.
1099
01:05:00,730 --> 01:05:02,690
You know, it's all of these men
on motorcycles.
1100
01:05:02,773 --> 01:05:04,984
And it didn't even occur to her
that she was a woman.
1101
01:05:05,067 --> 01:05:07,194
She just jumped in and thought,
"You know what? I can do this.
1102
01:05:07,278 --> 01:05:10,197
I'm gonna -- I'm just going
to shoot in that direction."
1103
01:05:12,408 --> 01:05:15,494
-I tried to take that whole
female factor out of it.
1104
01:05:15,578 --> 01:05:17,163
Fastest female on four wheels.
1105
01:05:17,246 --> 01:05:21,876
While I'm also in the top 10
fastest people on the planet.
1106
01:05:21,959 --> 01:05:24,670
But at what point
are we gonna not have
1107
01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:27,757
to make that determination
of, like, male, female?
1108
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:29,634
[ Engine starts ]
1109
01:05:29,717 --> 01:05:31,052
As soon as I grab that throttle,
1110
01:05:31,135 --> 01:05:33,554
it doesn't know
if I'm a male or a female.
1111
01:05:33,638 --> 01:05:36,807
It's gonna react
the same exact way.
1112
01:05:36,891 --> 01:05:39,268
I just drive, and I drive
as fast as I can.
1113
01:05:39,352 --> 01:05:48,444
♪♪
1114
01:05:52,948 --> 01:05:56,077
[ Dog barking ]
1115
01:05:59,955 --> 01:06:03,209
-There's more coffee
in this coffee pot.
1116
01:06:03,292 --> 01:06:04,627
-Alright.
1117
01:06:04,710 --> 01:06:06,837
-[ Humming ]
1118
01:06:12,426 --> 01:06:15,054
We were kind of neighbors.
1119
01:06:15,137 --> 01:06:18,307
And I used to ride my horse
to see him.
1120
01:06:19,934 --> 01:06:23,437
We were only 16 and 17, too,
when we started going together.
1121
01:06:25,481 --> 01:06:28,401
He always wanted to be a pilot
in the Air Force
1122
01:06:28,484 --> 01:06:31,779
and then they put him
into crypto, into machines,
1123
01:06:31,862 --> 01:06:34,073
and he was really good
at that, too.
1124
01:06:34,156 --> 01:06:38,577
He ended up with IBM Corporation
when he got out of the service,
1125
01:06:38,661 --> 01:06:40,496
and he worked there
for 30 years.
1126
01:06:47,002 --> 01:06:50,005
When did he know he was sick
or when did I know he was sick?
1127
01:06:50,089 --> 01:06:51,382
-Both.
1128
01:06:51,465 --> 01:06:54,343
-About three years
before he really did get sick.
1129
01:06:54,427 --> 01:06:57,680
I knew it because
he was slowing down.
1130
01:06:59,432 --> 01:07:02,560
Cancer is a very ugly disease.
1131
01:07:02,643 --> 01:07:08,858
And it took 13 months for him
to really say, "I'm done."
1132
01:07:11,444 --> 01:07:14,447
-Ed and Elaine talked.
1133
01:07:14,530 --> 01:07:15,781
Basically what was
gonna happen
1134
01:07:15,865 --> 01:07:18,617
is that they would remove
the medication
1135
01:07:18,701 --> 01:07:20,619
that controls his blood pressure
1136
01:07:20,703 --> 01:07:23,247
and simply his blood pressure
would drop.
1137
01:07:23,330 --> 01:07:25,291
He would go to sleep
and then pass.
1138
01:07:25,374 --> 01:07:30,004
♪♪
1139
01:07:30,087 --> 01:07:34,550
So I hold his hand
and tell him it's okay to --
1140
01:07:34,633 --> 01:07:36,010
it's okay to go, Ed.
1141
01:07:38,387 --> 01:07:39,430
It's okay to go.
1142
01:07:39,513 --> 01:07:46,479
♪♪
1143
01:07:46,562 --> 01:07:49,148
Hey, first of all, I want to
thank everybody for coming here.
1144
01:07:49,231 --> 01:07:50,775
Okay?
1145
01:07:50,858 --> 01:07:54,612
We had some really
extraordinary circumstances
1146
01:07:54,695 --> 01:07:57,072
in the last, you know,
the last month,
1147
01:07:57,156 --> 01:07:59,909
but it's actually been going on
about a year.
1148
01:07:59,992 --> 01:08:05,748
Two days ago, on Friday,
Ed Shadle, our leader,
1149
01:08:05,831 --> 01:08:09,627
passed away
from a long illness of cancer.
1150
01:08:11,170 --> 01:08:14,673
One week before Ed passed,
Jessi flew up
1151
01:08:14,757 --> 01:08:17,593
and spent the whole day
with Ed on a Thursday
1152
01:08:17,676 --> 01:08:22,765
and Ed basically handed
over the keys to Jessi and said,
1153
01:08:22,848 --> 01:08:25,851
"Okay, you're our driver,
you got to go do it."
1154
01:08:25,935 --> 01:08:29,355
And so I think
that's when the restraints
1155
01:08:29,438 --> 01:08:30,856
were taken off of Jessi.
1156
01:08:30,940 --> 01:08:33,442
And she knows she could go out
and go for the record.
1157
01:08:35,820 --> 01:08:37,738
Ed made it really clear there
1158
01:08:37,822 --> 01:08:41,325
that, "Jessi, you're now
the number-one driver.
1159
01:08:41,408 --> 01:08:42,743
We're going to support you
1160
01:08:42,827 --> 01:08:45,871
and make you go as fast
as you want to go."
1161
01:08:45,955 --> 01:08:49,375
And then we got
Eric there as a backup.
1162
01:08:49,458 --> 01:08:53,420
You know, if for some reason,
Jessi decides to get married...
1163
01:08:53,504 --> 01:08:55,297
[ Laughter ]
1164
01:08:55,381 --> 01:08:58,300
...have children...
1165
01:08:58,384 --> 01:09:00,094
Les, you want to say anything?
1166
01:09:00,177 --> 01:09:01,637
-I just want to say --
1167
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:03,389
-Here. Stand up here.
-I'm not getting up there.
1168
01:09:03,472 --> 01:09:05,057
-Alright.
-On the soapbox.
1169
01:09:05,140 --> 01:09:06,642
-I called Cam on Friday
1170
01:09:06,725 --> 01:09:09,895
and asked him
if he'd bring Ed's hat.
1171
01:09:09,979 --> 01:09:12,857
So...
1172
01:09:12,940 --> 01:09:16,902
[voice breaking] it's gonna be
in the car all week.
1173
01:09:19,947 --> 01:09:22,408
That's his favorite dirty
200 hat, you know?
1174
01:09:22,491 --> 01:09:23,826
[ Laughter ]
1175
01:09:23,909 --> 01:09:26,912
But Jessi's gonna take it
with her on all the runs.
1176
01:09:26,996 --> 01:09:28,455
So...
-Yep.
1177
01:09:28,539 --> 01:09:37,381
♪♪
1178
01:09:37,464 --> 01:09:38,632
-Ed's not here physically,
1179
01:09:38,716 --> 01:09:41,760
but we know
he's here spiritually.
1180
01:09:41,844 --> 01:09:43,679
You know, this is his baby
and it's his project.
1181
01:09:43,762 --> 01:09:45,681
And he put his
whole life into it.
1182
01:09:45,764 --> 01:09:49,852
But now it's a lot of it
is just resting on my shoulders.
1183
01:09:49,935 --> 01:09:53,188
That's heavy because if there's
one thing that I can do for Ed
1184
01:09:53,272 --> 01:09:56,525
is really just be able
to live out this legend.
1185
01:09:56,609 --> 01:09:59,111
Okay. Alright.
Enough crying.
1186
01:09:59,194 --> 01:10:01,572
Let's break some records.
-Let's do this.
1187
01:10:01,655 --> 01:10:07,912
♪♪
1188
01:10:07,995 --> 01:10:10,831
-Steve. N7STT.
I am at 2.
1189
01:10:10,915 --> 01:10:14,293
-Proceed.
1190
01:10:14,376 --> 01:10:21,008
♪♪
1191
01:10:21,091 --> 01:10:26,931
♪♪
1192
01:10:27,014 --> 01:10:28,641
[ All cheer ]
1193
01:10:28,724 --> 01:10:33,771
♪♪
1194
01:10:33,854 --> 01:10:36,815
-Lord God, thank you.
1195
01:10:36,899 --> 01:10:38,567
Father, thank you for your hand
1196
01:10:38,651 --> 01:10:43,697
and your protection
as we go forward.
1197
01:10:43,781 --> 01:10:46,825
Trust only in you, Lord,
1198
01:10:46,909 --> 01:10:49,286
as we reach the limits
of our capability.
1199
01:10:49,370 --> 01:10:51,830
[ Air hissing ]
1200
01:10:51,914 --> 01:10:58,712
♪♪
1201
01:10:58,796 --> 01:11:01,006
-Starting engines.
1202
01:11:01,090 --> 01:11:03,092
Eagle 2, starting engines.
1203
01:11:03,175 --> 01:11:06,428
[ Air hissing ]
1204
01:11:06,512 --> 01:11:08,514
-Copy that.
1205
01:11:08,597 --> 01:11:16,981
♪♪
1206
01:11:17,064 --> 01:11:25,197
♪♪
1207
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:32,538
♪♪
1208
01:11:32,621 --> 01:11:34,999
♪♪
1209
01:11:44,591 --> 01:11:52,016
♪♪
1210
01:11:59,815 --> 01:12:01,900
-I felt great.
Felt so good.
1211
01:12:01,984 --> 01:12:03,318
All of it felt good.
1212
01:12:03,402 --> 01:12:05,446
And that was slow.
It was.
1213
01:12:05,529 --> 01:12:07,197
It was really, really slow.
1214
01:12:07,281 --> 01:12:11,827
Like I said, your guys'
steering now is so good.
1215
01:12:11,910 --> 01:12:13,996
It's really, really good.
1216
01:12:14,079 --> 01:12:15,414
All my ghosts, all my demons,
1217
01:12:15,497 --> 01:12:17,583
all the stuff that happened
from the last run
1218
01:12:17,666 --> 01:12:20,419
completely gone.
1219
01:12:20,502 --> 01:12:23,088
It's the best feeling
in the entire world.
1220
01:12:28,218 --> 01:12:29,970
-I was riding in the limo back,
1221
01:12:30,054 --> 01:12:31,889
listening on
the radio conversations,
1222
01:12:31,972 --> 01:12:35,059
and somebody said something
about the hydraulic door
1223
01:12:35,142 --> 01:12:36,268
is gone.
1224
01:12:36,351 --> 01:12:37,644
Well, at that point, we're
going, "Uh-oh.
1225
01:12:37,728 --> 01:12:39,104
That's right forward
to the inlet."
1226
01:12:39,188 --> 01:12:40,898
There's a good possibility
1227
01:12:40,981 --> 01:12:43,067
it might have gone down
the inlet and into the engine.
1228
01:12:43,150 --> 01:12:45,819
The aluminum parts, the engine
can usually ingest that stuff
1229
01:12:45,903 --> 01:12:47,946
and not get too much damage
in there.
1230
01:12:48,030 --> 01:12:49,281
If there's a steel part,
1231
01:12:49,364 --> 01:12:52,451
the engine is pretty much junk
at that point.
1232
01:12:52,534 --> 01:12:54,995
-And that's why we're out there
sweeping the desert,
1233
01:12:55,079 --> 01:12:56,330
is to make sure
that we don't get rocks
1234
01:12:56,413 --> 01:12:57,956
or anything going
into those blades,
1235
01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,709
because if it fractures
one of those, we're done.
1236
01:13:00,793 --> 01:13:02,795
So right now,
we're -- we're thinking
1237
01:13:02,878 --> 01:13:04,129
that we're done for this trip.
1238
01:13:04,213 --> 01:13:06,131
Terry?
1239
01:13:06,215 --> 01:13:08,092
Yeah?
1240
01:13:09,718 --> 01:13:11,345
Yeah.
1241
01:13:15,057 --> 01:13:17,101
Okay. That's okay.
1242
01:13:17,184 --> 01:13:19,895
We're not gonna talk about that.
It's nobody's fault.
1243
01:13:22,106 --> 01:13:25,109
-I shut that door
like I did a million times,
1244
01:13:25,192 --> 01:13:28,987
and it was loose
and locked and loose...
1245
01:13:29,071 --> 01:13:32,241
I don't know what happened.
I apologize.
1246
01:13:32,324 --> 01:13:34,493
-I'm not blaming anybody.
You know?
1247
01:13:34,576 --> 01:13:37,746
The weight of the world falls
on all of our shoulders.
1248
01:13:37,830 --> 01:13:40,249
So hopefully we can
lift it up off of you.
1249
01:13:40,332 --> 01:13:43,544
Because to me, that run
was fucking amazing, Keith.
1250
01:13:43,627 --> 01:13:45,254
-Yeah.
-It was really, really good.
1251
01:13:45,337 --> 01:13:47,673
-Yeah.
-It restored my faith in myself.
1252
01:13:47,756 --> 01:13:50,050
-Yeah.
-It restored faith in the team.
1253
01:13:50,134 --> 01:13:51,677
Like, everything was working.
1254
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:54,638
Steering was working,
everything worked.
1255
01:13:54,721 --> 01:13:57,850
I 100% forgive you.
I don't think it's your fault.
1256
01:13:57,933 --> 01:13:59,309
-At least the steering worked.
1257
01:13:59,393 --> 01:14:00,477
-[ Laughs ]
1258
01:14:00,561 --> 01:14:02,563
[ Speaks indistinctly ]
1259
01:14:02,646 --> 01:14:04,731
Come here. Come here.
Come here.
1260
01:14:04,815 --> 01:14:05,899
I love you, Keith.
1261
01:14:05,983 --> 01:14:07,484
-I love you, too.
1262
01:14:07,568 --> 01:14:10,696
-I'm not mad. Okay?
-Okay.
1263
01:14:10,779 --> 01:14:12,906
-Okay, let us take
some burden off.
1264
01:14:12,990 --> 01:14:19,204
♪♪
1265
01:14:19,288 --> 01:14:22,749
-I pulled out the top vectors
for "X," "Y" and "Z"
1266
01:14:22,833 --> 01:14:24,376
and added them together.
1267
01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:27,546
And it's gonna be left or right
of that number right there.
1268
01:14:27,629 --> 01:14:30,465
[ Laughter ]
1269
01:14:30,549 --> 01:14:32,384
-Really? Really?
1270
01:14:32,467 --> 01:14:34,219
You're kidding me.
1271
01:14:34,303 --> 01:14:37,055
-That's the top speed.
-And that's my shakedown run.
1272
01:14:37,139 --> 01:14:41,143
-If you had gotten on it,
like, at the quarter mile
1273
01:14:41,226 --> 01:14:43,395
instead of after the one mile...
-Yeah.
1274
01:14:43,478 --> 01:14:45,647
-...you would have been
way over 500.
1275
01:14:45,731 --> 01:14:47,524
Ahh.
1276
01:14:47,608 --> 01:14:50,652
-I always love your information.
1277
01:14:50,736 --> 01:14:52,571
-I always love giving it to you.
1278
01:14:52,654 --> 01:14:54,239
-Yes.
-Wonder why.
1279
01:14:54,323 --> 01:15:03,207
♪♪
1280
01:15:03,290 --> 01:15:10,172
♪♪
1281
01:15:10,255 --> 01:15:17,054
♪♪
1282
01:15:17,137 --> 01:15:21,099
-3, 2, 1. Ignition.
1283
01:15:21,183 --> 01:15:26,772
♪♪
1284
01:15:26,855 --> 01:15:32,277
♪♪
1285
01:15:32,361 --> 01:15:34,738
-Kitty was supposed to just
break the woman's record,
1286
01:15:34,821 --> 01:15:36,990
which was 300 miles an hour,
1287
01:15:37,074 --> 01:15:40,619
and then all of a sudden,
she's gone over 500.
1288
01:15:43,038 --> 01:15:45,832
-That is the record now.
-The official record.
1289
01:15:45,916 --> 01:15:47,709
-New land speed record
for women.
1290
01:15:47,793 --> 01:15:49,127
-She's doing great.
1291
01:15:49,211 --> 01:15:50,796
We're gonna go faster
if she wants to go faster.
1292
01:15:50,879 --> 01:15:53,507
-Yeah, I want to go faster.
-You want to go faster.
1293
01:15:53,590 --> 01:15:55,676
Very good.
1294
01:15:55,759 --> 01:15:58,470
-And then the story I heard
1295
01:15:58,554 --> 01:16:02,057
is that they wanted Hal Needham
to set the overall record,
1296
01:16:02,140 --> 01:16:03,934
and they yanked her
out of the car.
1297
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:11,817
It just seems to me that they
could have worked that deal out.
1298
01:16:11,900 --> 01:16:13,360
But if you were to put Kitty
in that car,
1299
01:16:13,443 --> 01:16:15,279
she would have put it right
to the wood again.
1300
01:16:15,362 --> 01:16:16,822
I guarantee she would have.
1301
01:16:16,905 --> 01:16:19,283
-Seemed like
when you want to do something
1302
01:16:19,366 --> 01:16:20,826
that's the first time
ever done in the world,
1303
01:16:20,909 --> 01:16:23,328
everybody wants to stop you
for some reason.
1304
01:16:23,412 --> 01:16:24,496
I don't understand that.
1305
01:16:24,579 --> 01:16:26,748
I feel very disappointed
with it.
1306
01:16:29,543 --> 01:16:32,379
-It's sad.
It's very sad.
1307
01:16:32,462 --> 01:16:36,091
She suffered in many ways,
mentally and physically,
1308
01:16:36,174 --> 01:16:38,468
because those things
were done to her,
1309
01:16:38,552 --> 01:16:39,928
you know, over the years.
1310
01:16:41,305 --> 01:16:44,016
And then she just disappeared.
1311
01:16:44,099 --> 01:16:46,184
Nobody knew where she was at.
1312
01:16:47,978 --> 01:16:49,354
All of a sudden,
I get a call
1313
01:16:49,438 --> 01:16:51,606
from a mental institution
in Texas.
1314
01:16:51,690 --> 01:16:55,027
And so I jumped on a plane
and went down there
1315
01:16:55,110 --> 01:16:59,197
and I went to court
and became her legal guardian,
1316
01:16:59,281 --> 01:17:00,699
brought her back up
to Minneapolis.
1317
01:17:00,782 --> 01:17:03,702
And I thought everything
was gonna be really good,
1318
01:17:03,785 --> 01:17:05,787
and she took up drinking.
1319
01:17:07,497 --> 01:17:10,792
Yeah. She -- You know,
I was 10 years older than her
1320
01:17:10,876 --> 01:17:14,296
and she aged very, very fast.
1321
01:17:14,379 --> 01:17:17,090
-Kitty O'Neil,
the fastest woman in the world,
1322
01:17:17,174 --> 01:17:20,052
died this week
in Eureka, South Dakota.
1323
01:17:20,135 --> 01:17:22,179
She was 72 years old.
1324
01:17:25,140 --> 01:17:26,558
In December of 1976,
1325
01:17:26,641 --> 01:17:30,479
Kitty broke the women's
land speed world record.
1326
01:17:30,562 --> 01:17:32,939
Her record still stands today.
1327
01:17:33,023 --> 01:17:38,070
♪♪
1328
01:17:38,153 --> 01:17:43,075
♪♪
1329
01:17:43,158 --> 01:17:47,454
-So it's, um, August 14th.
1330
01:17:47,537 --> 01:17:50,290
We leave for the lake bed...
[clears throat]
1331
01:17:50,374 --> 01:17:53,919
...in, what, six days,
seven days?
1332
01:17:54,002 --> 01:17:58,298
Um...
and I'm still at my mom's house
1333
01:17:58,382 --> 01:18:00,509
in Rapid City, South Dakota.
1334
01:18:00,592 --> 01:18:04,179
I never left
after the Sturgis rally.
1335
01:18:04,262 --> 01:18:06,640
My back was doing so good.
1336
01:18:06,723 --> 01:18:09,351
And then...
1337
01:18:09,434 --> 01:18:11,436
And then I came home
with strep throat.
1338
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:13,271
[ Clears throat ]
1339
01:18:13,355 --> 01:18:14,981
So all the coughing
has gotten me
1340
01:18:15,065 --> 01:18:18,026
to a point where
my back hurts again.
1341
01:18:20,654 --> 01:18:23,365
-She was overseas
filming in Italy.
1342
01:18:23,448 --> 01:18:26,451
Her -- her back
kind of gave her some fits.
1343
01:18:26,535 --> 01:18:29,413
You know, she had a --
She was in a lot of pain.
1344
01:18:29,496 --> 01:18:32,999
You know, I'm sure it's as
a result of the injury years ago
1345
01:18:33,083 --> 01:18:34,334
that she experienced.
1346
01:18:37,212 --> 01:18:40,841
-From then, it's, you know,
1347
01:18:40,924 --> 01:18:43,051
2 steps forward,
10 steps back.
1348
01:18:45,762 --> 01:18:49,099
-Nina and I weren't sure
that Jessi
1349
01:18:49,182 --> 01:18:50,851
was even gonna go
to the desert this year.
1350
01:18:52,060 --> 01:18:55,021
-Alright, guys, this is
my first time driving
1351
01:18:55,105 --> 01:18:57,816
in, like, two months.
1352
01:18:57,899 --> 01:18:59,651
For some odd reason,
when I put my foot
1353
01:18:59,734 --> 01:19:00,861
down on the throttle,
1354
01:19:00,944 --> 01:19:03,989
it just goes straight
to my back pain.
1355
01:19:04,072 --> 01:19:05,157
So I haven't driven.
1356
01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:06,783
I haven't ridden
a motorcycle either,
1357
01:19:06,867 --> 01:19:09,286
but driving
is kind of a big deal
1358
01:19:09,369 --> 01:19:12,038
because I really like
being able to get myself around.
1359
01:19:12,122 --> 01:19:15,375
I'll let you know in 15 minutes
if it's sucked.
1360
01:19:15,459 --> 01:19:18,336
♪♪
1361
01:19:18,420 --> 01:19:20,005
-She stayed at our house
1362
01:19:20,088 --> 01:19:23,383
for the 10 days
for the Sturgis rally.
1363
01:19:23,467 --> 01:19:25,343
We went out for dinner one night
and the question
1364
01:19:25,427 --> 01:19:27,304
was posed to her,
"Do you think it's wise
1365
01:19:27,387 --> 01:19:30,682
for you in your condition
to get in the car?
1366
01:19:30,765 --> 01:19:34,561
You could possibly be paralyzed
from the waist down."
1367
01:19:34,644 --> 01:19:36,980
Is that really something
that you want to risk?"
1368
01:19:40,567 --> 01:19:43,528
-Jessi began to tell me
about challenges in her --
1369
01:19:43,612 --> 01:19:47,240
in her personal life
and within family and company.
1370
01:19:47,324 --> 01:19:51,703
And she was just feeling really
convoluted about this decision
1371
01:19:51,786 --> 01:19:55,874
to go forward with,
you know, setting the record.
1372
01:19:55,957 --> 01:19:58,710
"There are people
who don't want me to do it.
1373
01:19:58,793 --> 01:20:01,338
There's been points where
I'm not sure I want to do it."
1374
01:20:01,421 --> 01:20:03,590
She said,
"But then I most especially feel
1375
01:20:03,673 --> 01:20:07,135
like this is what
I'm supposed to be doing.
1376
01:20:07,219 --> 01:20:09,095
What does that mean?"
1377
01:20:11,431 --> 01:20:12,974
-This is pretty!
1378
01:20:13,058 --> 01:20:18,438
-She had had at that point
three times now the same dream.
1379
01:20:21,483 --> 01:20:23,235
She said, "You know,
I drive these cars.
1380
01:20:23,318 --> 01:20:26,530
It's like flying a rocket
on the ground.
1381
01:20:26,613 --> 01:20:30,408
So I'm always looking
at the horizon and gauges
1382
01:20:30,492 --> 01:20:31,785
and all the stuff."
1383
01:20:31,868 --> 01:20:34,704
And she said, "In my dream,
I'm in my cockpit,
1384
01:20:34,788 --> 01:20:38,583
but I feel like
I'm not in my body.
1385
01:20:38,667 --> 01:20:42,087
Like I'm just watching it
from out here somewhere."
1386
01:20:44,714 --> 01:20:47,968
She kind of got real quiet
for a second.
1387
01:20:48,051 --> 01:20:52,430
She said, "I see myself
leaving,"
1388
01:20:52,514 --> 01:20:56,017
like, leaving this plane.
Do you get what I'm saying?
1389
01:20:59,688 --> 01:21:02,440
And I said, "Well, can you die
doing this, Jessi?"
1390
01:21:02,524 --> 01:21:04,734
And she said, "Well, yeah."
[ Laughs ]
1391
01:21:04,818 --> 01:21:06,278
I said, "Okay."
1392
01:21:06,361 --> 01:21:07,862
She goes, "But I'm not afraid."
1393
01:21:07,946 --> 01:21:10,031
She goes, "I really --
I just feel so light.
1394
01:21:10,115 --> 01:21:12,701
In this dream, in this vision,
it's just this light.
1395
01:21:12,784 --> 01:21:15,287
It's the horizon.
And I just go, 'Whoo.'"
1396
01:21:15,370 --> 01:21:23,295
♪♪
1397
01:21:23,378 --> 01:21:31,469
♪♪
1398
01:21:31,553 --> 01:21:39,144
♪♪
1399
01:21:39,227 --> 01:21:47,485
♪♪
1400
01:21:47,569 --> 01:21:55,869
♪♪
1401
01:21:55,952 --> 01:22:03,043
♪♪
1402
01:22:03,126 --> 01:22:10,717
♪♪
1403
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:16,806
♪♪
1404
01:22:16,890 --> 01:22:22,771
♪♪
1405
01:22:22,854 --> 01:22:25,273
-Mile marker 4 is clear.
1406
01:22:25,357 --> 01:22:27,984
-That's good.
Press it again.
1407
01:22:28,068 --> 01:22:30,987
-Mile marker 5, clear.
1408
01:22:31,071 --> 01:22:33,031
-Mile 7 clear.
1409
01:22:36,785 --> 01:22:37,994
-Okay.
1410
01:22:43,041 --> 01:22:49,673
♪♪
1411
01:22:49,756 --> 01:22:56,388
♪♪
1412
01:22:56,471 --> 01:23:01,017
♪♪
1413
01:23:23,790 --> 01:23:28,670
♪♪
1414
01:23:28,753 --> 01:23:33,717
♪♪
1415
01:23:45,979 --> 01:23:48,064
-Yeah.
1416
01:24:09,294 --> 01:24:10,587
-Whoo!
1417
01:24:49,167 --> 01:24:50,710
Whew.
1418
01:24:50,794 --> 01:24:52,295
Whew.
1419
01:24:52,378 --> 01:24:54,631
[ Sighs ] I wish I could bring
all of you with me in that
1420
01:24:54,714 --> 01:24:57,091
just so you could feel it.
It's so rad.
1421
01:24:57,175 --> 01:24:59,969
-I heard you did good.
-It was so good.
1422
01:25:00,053 --> 01:25:02,347
You feel better?
-Much better.
1423
01:25:02,430 --> 01:25:03,515
-[ Laughing ] Good.
1424
01:25:03,598 --> 01:25:05,183
-Little stress relief.
Yeah.
1425
01:25:05,266 --> 01:25:07,310
-Okay. Ready?
1426
01:25:07,393 --> 01:25:10,814
Alright.
Jessi's top speed...
1427
01:25:10,897 --> 01:25:12,732
-Well, let's do average first.
1428
01:25:12,816 --> 01:25:14,275
-Oh, do average.
-Yeah.
1429
01:25:14,359 --> 01:25:17,362
-503.195.
1430
01:25:17,445 --> 01:25:19,489
-Average.
-Average.
1431
01:25:19,572 --> 01:25:22,033
[ Cheers and applause ]
1432
01:25:22,116 --> 01:25:26,746
-Top speed --
515 miles per hour.
1433
01:25:26,830 --> 01:25:29,290
[ Cheers and applause ]
1434
01:25:31,751 --> 01:25:33,545
-Saunders, we just
have to go faster.
1435
01:25:33,628 --> 01:25:36,756
-There you go. Alright.
I like that.
1436
01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:40,260
-And let's also consider that
was still a shakedown run, too.
1437
01:25:40,343 --> 01:25:41,427
So...
-Yeah.
1438
01:25:41,511 --> 01:25:43,680
-We were laughing
about that part.
1439
01:25:43,763 --> 01:25:45,598
These shakedown runs
keep getting faster.
1440
01:25:45,682 --> 01:25:48,226
-I like -- I love it.
-So with that said,
1441
01:25:48,309 --> 01:25:50,520
we're no longer testing.
-We're racing.
1442
01:25:50,603 --> 01:25:52,313
-We're running for records,
so...
1443
01:25:52,397 --> 01:25:53,898
-Amen.
-Let's go.
1444
01:25:53,982 --> 01:25:55,066
-Alright.
1445
01:25:55,149 --> 01:25:56,192
[ Applause ]
1446
01:25:56,276 --> 01:26:04,576
♪♪
1447
01:26:04,659 --> 01:26:12,917
♪♪
1448
01:26:13,001 --> 01:26:21,134
♪♪
1449
01:26:21,217 --> 01:26:29,559
♪♪
1450
01:26:29,642 --> 01:26:37,901
♪♪
1451
01:26:37,984 --> 01:26:45,867
♪♪
1452
01:26:45,950 --> 01:26:51,915
♪♪
1453
01:26:53,166 --> 01:26:58,421
♪♪
1454
01:27:00,882 --> 01:27:04,469
♪♪
1455
01:27:07,847 --> 01:27:09,557
-She's not shutting down.
1456
01:27:26,574 --> 01:27:34,374
♪♪
1457
01:27:46,552 --> 01:27:49,389
-Down in the bushes
and you got a fire.
1458
01:27:49,472 --> 01:27:51,808
-Fire.
1459
01:27:51,891 --> 01:27:58,356
♪♪
1460
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:00,024
[ Indistinct yelling ]
1461
01:28:00,108 --> 01:28:02,277
-Where's she at?
1462
01:28:03,569 --> 01:28:04,862
-Got to get her!
1463
01:28:04,946 --> 01:28:13,538
♪♪
1464
01:28:13,621 --> 01:28:22,255
♪♪
1465
01:28:22,338 --> 01:28:29,679
♪♪
1466
01:28:29,762 --> 01:28:38,312
♪♪
1467
01:28:38,396 --> 01:28:47,113
♪♪
1468
01:28:47,196 --> 01:28:54,787
♪♪
1469
01:28:54,871 --> 01:29:03,087
♪♪
1470
01:29:03,171 --> 01:29:11,554
♪♪
1471
01:29:11,637 --> 01:29:19,353
♪♪
1472
01:29:19,437 --> 01:29:26,903
♪♪
1473
01:29:26,986 --> 01:29:36,245
♪♪
1474
01:29:40,249 --> 01:29:42,251
-Changing the world.
1475
01:29:45,463 --> 01:29:47,965
I make a difference
in people's lives
1476
01:29:48,049 --> 01:29:49,967
by doing what I love to do.
1477
01:29:50,051 --> 01:29:56,974
♪♪
1478
01:29:57,058 --> 01:30:00,478
I think it's --
it's what I was born for.
1479
01:30:00,561 --> 01:30:07,860
♪♪
1480
01:30:07,944 --> 01:30:13,658
♪♪
1481
01:30:13,741 --> 01:30:19,205
♪♪
1482
01:30:19,288 --> 01:30:21,999
-Grief and shock today
in the racing community
1483
01:30:22,083 --> 01:30:23,835
as news spread
that professional driver
1484
01:30:23,918 --> 01:30:27,255
and TV host Jessi Combs died
in a jet-car crash.
1485
01:30:27,338 --> 01:30:28,965
The 39-year-old
was trying to break...
1486
01:30:29,048 --> 01:30:31,425
-Combs died pushing the limits.
1487
01:30:31,509 --> 01:30:33,010
There are few details.
1488
01:30:33,094 --> 01:30:35,346
Only that there was an accident,
and she didn't survive.
1489
01:30:35,429 --> 01:30:43,688
♪♪
1490
01:30:43,771 --> 01:30:46,065
-We went back
and just waited at camp
1491
01:30:46,149 --> 01:30:49,235
and I never left the truck,
1492
01:30:49,318 --> 01:30:51,863
but I got to sit with her
1493
01:30:51,946 --> 01:30:55,324
for a good hour,
hour and a half.
1494
01:30:55,408 --> 01:30:56,701
And that helped,
1495
01:30:56,784 --> 01:30:58,703
but I didn't want to let her go.
1496
01:31:01,539 --> 01:31:06,043
The next few days,
it was so sad for everybody.
1497
01:31:06,127 --> 01:31:08,462
There was so much silence.
1498
01:31:08,546 --> 01:31:11,007
[ Sighs ]
1499
01:31:11,090 --> 01:31:13,342
[ Voice breaking ] This is just
like it happened yesterday.
1500
01:31:13,426 --> 01:31:19,849
♪♪
1501
01:31:19,932 --> 01:31:26,522
♪♪
1502
01:31:26,606 --> 01:31:31,235
-For all of us that were there,
it was extremely personal.
1503
01:31:31,319 --> 01:31:34,572
The accident scene was something
that was horrific
1504
01:31:34,655 --> 01:31:37,325
and is gonna last with us
for the rest of our lives.
1505
01:31:37,408 --> 01:31:39,577
But...
1506
01:31:39,660 --> 01:31:41,787
you still have to try
and figure it out.
1507
01:31:43,873 --> 01:31:46,083
-We found the actual parachute.
1508
01:31:46,167 --> 01:31:47,960
It was pretty mangled up.
1509
01:31:48,044 --> 01:31:51,172
It was scorched like
it was in a fire.
1510
01:31:51,255 --> 01:31:54,926
This parachute was opened
in afterburner
1511
01:31:55,009 --> 01:31:58,095
or in full military
or something.
1512
01:31:58,179 --> 01:32:02,099
And so there was more going on
than parachutes not opening.
1513
01:32:03,184 --> 01:32:04,936
-Some of the team that went
1514
01:32:05,019 --> 01:32:09,106
and walked the entire length
of the -- of the track,
1515
01:32:09,190 --> 01:32:13,152
they found pieces of the nose
wheel in the 5-mile mark.
1516
01:32:13,236 --> 01:32:16,781
So we know that at some point
during that 5-mile point,
1517
01:32:16,864 --> 01:32:19,325
it impacted something
under the dirt,
1518
01:32:19,408 --> 01:32:23,996
something that was not visible
to the team when they went out
1519
01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:26,332
and walked the course
prior to the run.
1520
01:32:26,415 --> 01:32:33,130
♪♪
1521
01:32:33,214 --> 01:32:41,055
♪♪
1522
01:32:41,138 --> 01:32:42,848
-That's the one that was
over her shoulder,
1523
01:32:42,932 --> 01:32:44,976
if I think.
-I would imagine.
1524
01:32:45,059 --> 01:32:51,357
♪♪
1525
01:32:51,440 --> 01:32:57,530
♪♪
1526
01:32:57,613 --> 01:33:01,576
-Watching that video
from the beginning on this run,
1527
01:33:01,659 --> 01:33:03,202
everything was going perfect.
1528
01:33:05,788 --> 01:33:11,460
♪♪
1529
01:33:11,544 --> 01:33:17,049
♪♪
1530
01:33:17,133 --> 01:33:19,635
From start,
she went to full military
1531
01:33:19,719 --> 01:33:20,928
and then slid it over
1532
01:33:21,012 --> 01:33:22,471
and went up
into full afterburner.
1533
01:33:22,555 --> 01:33:27,226
♪♪
1534
01:33:27,310 --> 01:33:30,271
And held in at full
the entire run.
1535
01:33:40,990 --> 01:33:45,578
♪♪
1536
01:33:56,964 --> 01:33:58,841
She was in the shutdown process,
1537
01:33:58,924 --> 01:34:01,969
slowing the car down
when things went wrong.
1538
01:34:07,975 --> 01:34:09,268
She pulls the throttle back
1539
01:34:09,352 --> 01:34:12,271
and then all of a sudden,
this vibration starts.
1540
01:34:14,482 --> 01:34:17,026
You don't know
what that vibration is.
1541
01:34:17,109 --> 01:34:19,695
Now we know what it was.
It was the -- the nose wheel.
1542
01:34:26,327 --> 01:34:29,663
She went through everything
just like she's supposed to do,
1543
01:34:29,747 --> 01:34:31,082
like she's always done.
1544
01:34:31,165 --> 01:34:33,376
We know that she did
all the right things.
1545
01:34:33,459 --> 01:34:37,296
We know she did everything
that she could physically do.
1546
01:34:37,380 --> 01:34:39,673
You know, you don't know
why it wouldn't slow down
1547
01:34:39,757 --> 01:34:41,217
or why it wasn't stopping.
1548
01:35:07,201 --> 01:35:10,579
-I did -- I did watch
that footage and that --
1549
01:35:10,663 --> 01:35:12,998
And I needed to see that.
I needed to know.
1550
01:35:14,333 --> 01:35:15,501
[ Sighs ]
1551
01:35:15,584 --> 01:35:18,838
This might seem strange,
but it cleared up my mind
1552
01:35:18,921 --> 01:35:25,136
of what happened
and how she -- she left us.
1553
01:35:25,219 --> 01:35:28,347
But more importantly,
1554
01:35:28,431 --> 01:35:32,768
I was able to
tell my other children...
1555
01:35:36,313 --> 01:35:37,898
...what had --
what had happened
1556
01:35:37,982 --> 01:35:42,194
and -- and -- and that
my daughter went quick.
1557
01:35:42,278 --> 01:35:48,951
♪♪
1558
01:35:49,034 --> 01:35:55,624
♪♪
1559
01:35:55,708 --> 01:36:02,214
♪♪
1560
01:36:02,298 --> 01:36:04,925
-Okay.
What I wanted to show you
1561
01:36:05,009 --> 01:36:09,054
is I recovered some stuff,
the computing equipment.
1562
01:36:09,138 --> 01:36:11,348
This is a satellite
tracking equipment.
1563
01:36:13,309 --> 01:36:16,312
Smells like jet fuel.
Complete loss.
1564
01:36:16,395 --> 01:36:19,023
However, here's [indistinct]
1565
01:36:19,106 --> 01:36:22,443
a computer,
soaked in jet fuel,
1566
01:36:22,526 --> 01:36:25,321
burnt to a crisp.
1567
01:36:25,404 --> 01:36:29,366
So I started dissecting it,
and I pulled out this,
1568
01:36:29,450 --> 01:36:32,411
which is the pristine
hard drive
1569
01:36:32,495 --> 01:36:35,164
with all the data on it
for Jessi's last run.
1570
01:36:35,247 --> 01:36:36,373
It's a miracle.
1571
01:36:36,457 --> 01:36:39,251
-What does that mean
to the team?
1572
01:36:39,335 --> 01:36:40,711
-It's everything. Right?
1573
01:36:40,794 --> 01:36:45,382
I hope to God that I can get
the data off of this.
1574
01:36:45,466 --> 01:36:48,385
So I can't believe
that this has been provided
1575
01:36:48,469 --> 01:36:50,054
to us in this condition.
1576
01:36:50,137 --> 01:36:52,389
And there's not
a purpose for it.
1577
01:36:52,473 --> 01:36:54,725
So faith -- all I have.
1578
01:36:54,808 --> 01:37:00,856
♪♪
1579
01:37:00,940 --> 01:37:04,568
The hard drive that I recovered,
I had to bust open
1580
01:37:04,652 --> 01:37:06,570
another laptop
and replace its hard drive
1581
01:37:06,654 --> 01:37:09,073
and prayed that it was going
to boot off of it.
1582
01:37:09,156 --> 01:37:12,535
And it did, so --
And we got the entire run.
1583
01:37:33,889 --> 01:37:35,432
-Good afternoon.
1584
01:37:35,516 --> 01:37:37,101
-You have a smile
on your face.
1585
01:37:37,184 --> 01:37:38,602
-Well, you do too.
1586
01:37:38,686 --> 01:37:40,729
-Well, because you're
my favorite person right now.
1587
01:37:43,691 --> 01:37:45,442
You.
1588
01:37:45,526 --> 01:37:47,903
-You are sitting down.
-I am. I am.
1589
01:37:50,322 --> 01:37:54,201
-Your average speed,
fastest mile...
1590
01:37:54,285 --> 01:38:03,294
♪♪
1591
01:38:03,377 --> 01:38:05,421
The data was successfully
recovered.
1592
01:38:05,504 --> 01:38:07,590
-Thank God.
-Praise God.
1593
01:38:07,673 --> 01:38:08,924
-Praise the Lord.
1594
01:38:09,008 --> 01:38:13,971
Her maximum velocity
was 548.432.
1595
01:38:14,054 --> 01:38:18,684
Her average mile was 542.371.
1596
01:38:18,767 --> 01:38:20,894
-Yes.
-So she did it.
1597
01:38:20,978 --> 01:38:22,605
-She did it.
1598
01:38:22,688 --> 01:38:26,233
♪♪
1599
01:38:26,317 --> 01:38:27,610
-Thank you very much.
1600
01:38:27,693 --> 01:38:30,404
-She did it.
1601
01:38:30,487 --> 01:38:36,493
♪♪
1602
01:38:36,577 --> 01:38:42,666
♪♪
1603
01:38:42,750 --> 01:38:44,168
-Fans of the speed racer
1604
01:38:44,251 --> 01:38:47,338
known as the fastest woman
on four wheels
1605
01:38:47,421 --> 01:38:49,298
say they are just devastated
by her death.
1606
01:38:49,381 --> 01:38:51,216
-She has officially
been announced
1607
01:38:51,300 --> 01:38:57,306
as the fastest woman on Earth --
522.783.
1608
01:38:57,389 --> 01:38:58,766
-In an Instagram post Sunday
1609
01:38:58,849 --> 01:39:00,142
about her record-breaking
attempt,
1610
01:39:00,225 --> 01:39:02,811
Combs wrote,
"People say I'm crazy.
1611
01:39:02,895 --> 01:39:04,772
I say thank you."
1612
01:39:04,855 --> 01:39:10,569
♪♪
1613
01:39:10,653 --> 01:39:16,617
♪♪
1614
01:39:22,748 --> 01:39:25,834
-We have been through a lot.
1615
01:39:25,918 --> 01:39:29,505
Everybody's processing
this differently.
1616
01:39:29,588 --> 01:39:33,550
I'm trying to make
sense of this.
1617
01:39:33,634 --> 01:39:34,968
What does this mean?
1618
01:39:37,388 --> 01:39:41,058
Why did God put me here?
1619
01:39:41,141 --> 01:39:44,061
Hear the thunder.
1620
01:39:44,144 --> 01:39:49,274
The loss of Jessi cannot
be reconciled against anything.
1621
01:39:49,358 --> 01:39:55,030
♪♪
1622
01:39:55,114 --> 01:40:00,619
♪♪
1623
01:40:00,703 --> 01:40:03,914
-There was a young girl
in Burns, Oregon,
1624
01:40:03,997 --> 01:40:06,750
and she had to be
in her early 30s.
1625
01:40:06,834 --> 01:40:10,087
They had just come up from
the Alvord and then I go like,
1626
01:40:10,170 --> 01:40:14,717
"Did you hear the story about
the girl that crashed there?"
1627
01:40:14,800 --> 01:40:18,512
And she goes, "Oh, my gosh."
She goes, "Jessi was amazing.
1628
01:40:18,595 --> 01:40:21,098
She impacted
my daughter so much."
1629
01:40:21,181 --> 01:40:24,893
And I looked at her
and I said, "I'm her mother."
1630
01:40:26,520 --> 01:40:30,190
She came up to me and she took
my face in her hands
1631
01:40:30,274 --> 01:40:32,609
and she said,
"You are so blessed
1632
01:40:32,693 --> 01:40:35,279
because you got to be the mother
of a legend."
1633
01:40:35,362 --> 01:40:40,325
♪♪
1634
01:40:40,409 --> 01:40:43,287
-This bandanna is
a representation of Jessi Combs.
1635
01:40:43,370 --> 01:40:47,082
It's a banner of strength.
It's a banner of courage.
1636
01:40:47,166 --> 01:40:51,336
All the blood, sweat and tears
she put into being seen,
1637
01:40:51,420 --> 01:40:53,088
being heard.
1638
01:40:53,172 --> 01:40:56,467
That's the torch that we have
to carry for her, for ourselves,
1639
01:40:56,550 --> 01:40:58,802
for each other,
you know, collectively.
1640
01:40:58,886 --> 01:41:06,643
♪♪
1641
01:41:06,727 --> 01:41:10,814
-Look at this amazing legacy
that has come after her.
1642
01:41:10,898 --> 01:41:15,611
Women are continually inspired
to say, "I can do this."
1643
01:41:15,694 --> 01:41:18,614
And to meet the little girl
that was the first recipient
1644
01:41:18,697 --> 01:41:21,325
of her scholarship,
1645
01:41:21,408 --> 01:41:23,410
to watch this
beautiful young woman
1646
01:41:23,494 --> 01:41:26,955
have that same light
and that same strength,
1647
01:41:27,039 --> 01:41:30,292
that power is never
going to fade.
1648
01:41:30,375 --> 01:41:32,544
-Everybody wants to talk about
breaking the mold and it's like,
1649
01:41:32,628 --> 01:41:34,213
"Why is there a mold
to begin with?
1650
01:41:34,296 --> 01:41:36,965
Whoever told us to begin with
that we couldn't do this?"
1651
01:41:37,049 --> 01:41:39,092
What do you want to do?
Why aren't you doing it?
1652
01:41:39,176 --> 01:41:41,845
Do you need help? Like, what
tools do you need to do it?
1653
01:41:41,929 --> 01:41:45,682
♪♪
1654
01:41:45,766 --> 01:41:48,143
-If there is one person
that I'm doing this for,
1655
01:41:48,227 --> 01:41:51,772
it's for that little girl
that waits for another girl
1656
01:41:51,855 --> 01:41:55,025
to cross that finish line,
that I can change right then
1657
01:41:55,108 --> 01:41:59,112
and there, that she too, can do
anything she sets her mind to.
1658
01:42:02,658 --> 01:42:05,410
Fear is our number-one battle.
1659
01:42:05,494 --> 01:42:08,747
And this is just
a physical way of saying
1660
01:42:08,831 --> 01:42:10,499
"You don't have to live in fear.
1661
01:42:10,582 --> 01:42:14,878
You can live in courage and
a life that's completely free."
1662
01:42:14,962 --> 01:42:19,049
Even when doubt strikes, even
when you want to turn and run,
1663
01:42:19,132 --> 01:42:20,801
that you can live confidently
in the decisions
1664
01:42:20,884 --> 01:42:23,136
that you make
and the path that you choose.
1665
01:42:26,098 --> 01:42:27,975
And when you can live in a space
1666
01:42:28,058 --> 01:42:31,645
where nothing's
holding you back,
1667
01:42:31,728 --> 01:42:33,897
what else can you accomplish?
1668
01:42:33,981 --> 01:42:35,649
What else is out there?
1669
01:42:40,821 --> 01:42:49,204
♪♪
1670
01:42:49,288 --> 01:42:55,794
♪♪
1671
01:42:55,878 --> 01:42:59,923
♪ She's a dangerous woman ♪
1672
01:43:00,007 --> 01:43:04,428
♪ In a trance,
she will take ♪
1673
01:43:06,471 --> 01:43:10,392
♪ With a gaze like a lion ♪
1674
01:43:10,475 --> 01:43:15,022
♪ And a bite
like a rattlesnake ♪
1675
01:43:16,148 --> 01:43:20,611
♪ She's got a strange
kind of magic ♪
1676
01:43:20,694 --> 01:43:24,364
♪ The kind that don't
succumb to fame ♪
1677
01:43:26,575 --> 01:43:30,913
♪ She's a strange kind
of woman ♪
1678
01:43:30,996 --> 01:43:36,376
♪ Us mortals can't relate ♪
1679
01:43:36,460 --> 01:43:42,424
♪♪
1680
01:43:42,507 --> 01:43:46,637
♪ So dangerous ♪
1681
01:43:47,596 --> 01:43:51,808
♪ So dangerous ♪
1682
01:43:51,892 --> 01:43:58,899
♪ She's a dangerous ♪
1683
01:43:58,982 --> 01:44:05,155
♪ Woman ♪
1684
01:44:05,238 --> 01:44:11,495
♪♪
1685
01:44:11,578 --> 01:44:17,668
♪♪
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