Thrilling Tales: Queasy Rider | The Uncertain Future of Harley-Davidson
Slate Culture Feed
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Google's free tools are designed to help millions of businesses around the country adapt to a new way of working. |
| 0:07.0 | From updating their business hours to switching to curbside pickup to activating online booking, small businesses are being found online and |
| 0:16.1 | staying connected to their customers. |
| 0:18.6 | They can even receive support from their community by adding gift card and donation links in their free business profile on Google. |
| 0:26.1 | Explore Google's free tools for small businesses at Google.com slash grow. |
| 0:31.6 | That's Google.com slash grow. That's Google. dot com slash grow. |
| 0:34.0 | Paul Johnston is the curator of transportation |
| 0:38.0 | at the Smithsonian's American History Museum. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm the M guy. I do maritime and motorcycles. One thing you do if you're in |
| 0:46.0 | charge of motorcycle exhibits at the Smithsonian is you ask people to donate motorcycle |
| 0:50.6 | memorabilia. People like stunt riding legend Evil Canevil. |
| 0:54.0 | I remember we asked him once, can we have a helmet? |
| 0:58.0 | Because he also gave us one of his jump costumes. |
| 1:01.0 | So we don't have one of your helmets. Can you send us one of your jump |
| 1:04.0 | helmets? Oh, sure, I got a lot of those. So about a month later, we got a helmet that had a |
| 1:09.4 | big scrape on the outside. And he stopped jumping in the 1970s. |
| 1:15.0 | So I looked inside the helmet because it didn't look quite right. |
| 1:19.0 | I looked inside and it had a 1991 safety sticker. |
| 1:23.0 | So I think he'd taken it out to his driveway |
| 1:25.5 | and scraped it along the driveway |
| 1:27.6 | and then sent it to us as one of his jump helmets. |
| 1:37.6 | But Knievel did give the museum some genuine artifacts from his career as a stunt performer, including the 1972 Harley Davidson XR 750 on which he performed some of his most famous jumps. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

