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Episode 254 - Jeb Corliss

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Society & Culture

4.911K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 201 minutes

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Summary

In 20 + years, Jeb Corliss has made more than 2,000 jumps, from the likes of the Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Falls in Venezuela, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and into a half-mile deep cave in China. He hasn’t simply leapt off and pulled his parachute, though. To add an extra layer of challenge, push the bounds of his ability, and further slice the razor slim margin for error, he has performed acrobatic maneuvers – twists, somersaults, and gainers – during freefall.

More recently he discovered the thrills and challenges of BASE-jumping with wingsuits, flying along some of the most stunning and dangerous mountain terrain. In the nearest approximation of human flight yet, wingsuits (which are more flying squirrel than bird or plane) allow the best pilots to trace the contours of cliffs, ridges, and mountainsides at high speed. All of which makes for an incredible spectacle: In July 2011, Corliss flew feet from the ground in the Swiss Alps, an event captured on camera and broadcast on ABC’s 20/20. Two months later, in September, Corliss swooped through an arch in the side of China’s iconic Tianmen Mountain, in front of a live television audience of millions.

Corliss’s stunts and his unyielding approach to life never fail to fascinate. He has been the subject of profiles published in The New York Times, Outside, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Air & Space, Men’s Journal and Rolling Stone. He has been featured on television in the United States and abroad, including 60 Minutes in Australia, ESPN’s E:60, Real Sports on HBO, Today, The Colbert Report, Good Morning America and Conan. Corliss has been featured in popular BASE documentaries such as A Year in the Life, Journey to the Center, Fearless, The Human Bird, Heavens Gate and The Flying Dagger to name a few. He also hosted the first season of Stunt Junkies on The Discovery Channel and was a technical advisor on the remake of Point Break. When he is not traveling the world, Corliss lives in Vista, California.

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0:00.0

Good morning everybody. I hope your week is starting off well. You know the best way to probably start your week off

0:05.9

Coffee. Yeah, I agree. You know the best type of coffee you can possibly get on planet earth

0:10.4

That's right black rifle coffee where can you find it black rifle coffee dot com is the best place

0:16.0

I'm looking at their web page right now and the first thing I'm seeing is your ability to join the coffee club

0:20.6

So instead of ordering multiple times you can just put yourself on an ordering matrix for as many bags as you want as often

0:26.6

If you want and then right next to that they have their exclusive shirts action clicking through right now there are other gear

0:34.0

And then just below that all of the different

0:37.0

Blends of coffee that they make from a light to extra dark they even have dcaf on there, which is ridiculous and if you drink dcaf

0:44.6

Well, you know drink dcaf if you want to it's 2022 almost 2023, but I don't recommend it

0:49.8

Why do I like black rifle coffee so much one I know the founders and they're awesome people

0:56.9

And two, I love the fact that they are doing everything they can to support

1:02.3

veteran veterans individuals organizations and businesses

1:07.2

So I think those are amazing things and that's all I have to say about that enough on the business side of the house

1:12.6

My guess today is a man that I

1:15.7

I have known of since very very early on in my jumping career his name is Jeb Corleis and

1:23.9

He was off in the backcountry doing gnarly shit

1:28.8

Long before there were social media platforms of the modern era

1:33.3

That would allow people to get or achieve

1:37.2

Notariety in the way that many people do by pushing the envelope for views and likes

1:42.8

Jeb Corleis is

1:46.8

I'm not gonna say he's a madman because he's not I think he's actually totally sane he is an

1:52.5

Absolute savage

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