Annie Taylor: Stunt Woman

Who, When, Wow!

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Meet Annie Taylor, the woman who defied all the odds as the first person to survive going across Niagara Falls in a barrel! Follow along the story of her great adventure with host Rebecca Sheir as we meet this adventurer who WOWed the world.

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0:00.0	Over 100 years ago, obviously there was no such thing as tick-tock challenges or YouTube
0:12.7	stars or viral internet stunts.
0:16.3	But if there had been, you would undoubtedly know the name Annie, Edson Taylor.
0:22.2	Hey, that's me.
0:24.2	But what was it you was saying about ticks and tubes and viruses?
0:28.9	And what on earth is an internet?
0:32.3	Don't worry about it, Annie. Let's just keep going.
0:35.2	All right. So in 1901, when Annie was 62 years old,
0:40.9	she found herself at a tough point in life.
0:43.6	She was flat broke.
0:45.4	I am flat broke.
0:47.6	She was penniless.
0:49.0	I am penniless.
0:51.0	She was totally bankrupt.
0:53.1	I am totally bankrupt!
0:56.5	Wait, don't tell those words mean the same thing.
1:01.0	Ever since Annie was widowed at age 18, she had bounced from city to city,
1:06.0	job to job, and, as she wrote in her rather short, but very colorful autobiography,
1:11.8	a copy of which I happened to have right here, she had bounced from misfortune to misfortune,
1:18.3	like a house fire in Tennessee,
1:22.0	an earthquake in South Carolina,
1:25.4	and a stagecoach robbery in Texas.
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