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Death, Sex & Money

Death, Sex & Money - Why Jeb Corliss Jumps Off Cliffs

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Jeb Corliss is a BASE jumper and wingsuit flier who's learned to very carefully control his emotions. It's made him fearless and, he says, "impossible to be in a relationship with."

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0:00.0

We're not curing cancer with jumping off a cliff, not by any stretch.

0:03.5

But what you can do is inspire.

0:06.4

I know that my life was saved by seeing a person step off a cliff and fly.

0:13.3

This is death, sex, and money.

0:16.4

Those are my favorite subjects.

0:18.4

Well, death and sex anyway.

0:19.4

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:22.7

I slept with your wife.

0:24.6

How could you?

0:25.9

And me to talk about more.

0:27.6

Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money.

0:30.5

I mean a sale.

0:33.4

Four years ago, Jeb Corliss was soaring high above the earth in a wingsuit.

0:38.9

This is what he's most famous for, jumping out of planes or off mountains and flying through the air in a contraption that's like a kite mixed with a bat suit.

0:49.1

He has to keep his body at just the right angle to keep it afloat.

0:53.8

On this jump, off of Table Mountain in South

0:56.2

Africa, he miscalculated by inches and slammed into a rock.

1:05.6

When I hit that cliff, I should have died. When I hit that cliff, I didn't think I was dead. I

1:09.6

knew I was dead.

1:12.7

Jeb broke both his legs.

1:16.9

He was hospitalized for five weeks and had to relearn how to walk.

1:20.4

It was just the latest in a series of major accidents.

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