501 - Evel Knievel

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Fact, History, Facts, Comedy

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

How much do you know about the life and career of famed daredevil, Evel Knievel? We look at the man behind the stunts, along with our guest Nick Mason!

This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 08:03 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2007/12/06/evel-knievel

https://evelknievel.com/pages/the-man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2XUESyXsI

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is David Warnocky and as always I'm here with Jess Perkinsella, Jess. Hello, David. I have nothing more to say to you. Fantastic. Well,
0:26.4	that's fine with me. God, trouble in paradise over here. And joining us this week to complete
0:31.5	the trio of Paradisio, it is Nick Mason. Hello. It's great to be here. Trio de Paradisio. That is nice. Yeah. I think he just
0:40.3	rifted that because there was a, there was a flash of something across his face that was kind of like,
0:44.0	what the fuck was that? What are I saying? But in my head, I was like, oh, that's nice. Yeah, no,
0:48.7	there's a flash of got away with that one. You can imagine us all in sort of, you know, leaning back in lounge chairs and we've got a tropical drink.
0:54.9	And not that it's 11 in the morning.
0:56.9	No.
0:57.2	You know, we're both, we're all barely conscious.
0:59.9	But we're on holiday.
1:00.7	So you can have a tropical drink at 11 in the morning.
1:03.0	That's so true, actually.
1:04.0	That's fine.
1:04.6	Yeah.
1:05.1	There's no rules.
1:06.0	That's true.
1:06.4	Yeah, pinoclata with breakfast. That's living. Oh, that would actually be probably a good breakfast cocktail.
1:11.9	Yeah, pineapple.
1:12.6	Mimosa's good as well.
1:13.8	Yeah.
1:13.9	I won't turn down a mimosa at breakfast.
1:15.8	That's nice.
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