What's Chinese for...Oh Crap?
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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The tale of Lawnchair Larry's epic flight!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | What's Chinese for, oh, crap? |
| 0:06.8 | It's one more thing. |
| 0:08.6 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:10.2 | One more thing. |
| 0:14.1 | Whatever it is, I'm sure this paraglider said it, |
| 0:18.9 | as he almost equaled the world record for how high you go in the sky. |
| 0:27.5 | Paragliding or without oxygen or not motorized plane or whatever. |
| 0:31.3 | Anyway, he was a paraglider who almost equaled the world record at 28,000 feet. |
| 0:38.2 | Jesus. |
| 0:38.5 | Holy cow. |
| 0:40.1 | Really? |
| 0:40.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.4 | That's really, really high. |
| 0:44.4 | By accident, he was inspecting his gear on the ground when an updraft took him on an uncontrollable ascent five miles into the clouds. |
| 0:56.8 | That's astonishing. |
| 1:02.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | He could, well, I'll just read it as it says it here. |
| 1:08.7 | He was conducting a routine test of his paragliding equipment there in China. |
| 1:13.6 | When the draft hit him on the ground, I had just bought a secondhand paragliding harness and wanted to test it. |
| 1:21.0 | So I was conducting ground parachute practices. |
| 1:26.5 | The wind suddenly picked up and lifted me into the air. |
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