1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:08,758 --> 00:00:10,885 -[ Over radio ] Comm, video check, please. 4 00:00:12,762 --> 00:00:15,724 -Copy. Loud and clear. 5 00:00:15,807 --> 00:00:23,189 ♪♪ 6 00:00:23,273 --> 00:00:25,734 [ Static crackling ] -Attention down on track. 7 00:00:25,817 --> 00:00:27,485 Gimme a wind check down there. 8 00:00:30,196 --> 00:00:34,367 -About mile 4 here, we have a consistent wind, 9 00:00:34,451 --> 00:00:36,786 probably about 10 miles an hour or so. 10 00:00:38,037 --> 00:00:39,873 -We still got some good gusts down here 11 00:00:39,956 --> 00:00:41,416 and they're 8, 9. 12 00:00:41,499 --> 00:00:47,172 ♪♪ 13 00:00:47,255 --> 00:00:51,050 -So, this would be my first run out this whole week. 14 00:00:52,385 --> 00:00:54,971 It's time to get suited up, Jessi. 15 00:00:55,054 --> 00:00:57,390 Alright! I'm on my way. 16 00:01:06,399 --> 00:01:08,443 If it's feeling good, yeah, I'll push it, 17 00:01:08,526 --> 00:01:12,697 but I'm not gonna go for 550 to 600 on this run. 18 00:01:14,407 --> 00:01:16,034 Maybe still 400. 19 00:01:16,117 --> 00:01:18,661 [ Laughs ] 20 00:01:18,745 --> 00:01:20,663 Which is still so crazy to think about. 21 00:01:20,747 --> 00:01:25,668 ♪♪ 22 00:01:25,752 --> 00:01:27,253 -Data to comm. 23 00:01:27,337 --> 00:01:29,756 Do we have the rock pickers clearing the course? 24 00:01:31,591 --> 00:01:34,636 -Rock crew is at the 7.5, working to the 8, 25 00:01:34,719 --> 00:01:36,513 and I got crew coming back. 26 00:01:38,264 --> 00:01:39,557 -Range 3 to comm. 27 00:01:39,641 --> 00:01:42,602 We're in position at mile marker 3. 28 00:01:45,146 --> 00:01:49,317 -Driver Jessi has entered the cockpit. 29 00:01:52,278 --> 00:01:54,322 -And let's go ahead and bring the air on now. 30 00:01:54,405 --> 00:01:56,199 [ Hiss ] 31 00:01:56,282 --> 00:02:00,161 -Information prestart checklist is in progress. 32 00:02:00,245 --> 00:02:01,871 [ Controls clicking ] 33 00:02:01,955 --> 00:02:08,586 ♪♪ 34 00:02:08,670 --> 00:02:13,675 ♪♪ 35 00:02:13,758 --> 00:02:15,885 ♪♪ 36 00:02:15,969 --> 00:02:18,721 -Information. The canopy is down and locked. 37 00:02:18,805 --> 00:02:25,186 ♪♪ 38 00:02:25,270 --> 00:02:27,188 -Hey, this is mile zero. 39 00:02:27,272 --> 00:02:29,732 Are we ready down 4? 40 00:02:30,775 --> 00:02:32,026 -Mile 4 clear. 41 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,072 -Mile 5 clear. 42 00:02:38,992 --> 00:02:40,201 -Mile 6 clear. 43 00:02:42,829 --> 00:02:44,122 -Mile 7 clear. 44 00:02:47,625 --> 00:02:49,961 [ Boom ] 45 00:02:50,044 --> 00:02:53,423 -[ Speaks indistinctly ] 46 00:02:53,506 --> 00:03:02,640 ♪♪ 47 00:03:02,724 --> 00:03:10,732 ♪♪ 48 00:03:10,815 --> 00:03:18,740 ♪♪ 49 00:03:18,823 --> 00:03:26,915 ♪♪ 50 00:03:43,806 --> 00:03:49,938 ♪♪ 51 00:03:51,064 --> 00:03:56,277 ♪♪ 52 00:03:58,738 --> 00:04:05,328 ♪♪ 53 00:04:05,411 --> 00:04:12,001 ♪♪ 54 00:04:12,085 --> 00:04:18,675 ♪♪ 55 00:04:18,758 --> 00:04:24,263 ♪♪ 56 00:04:24,347 --> 00:04:25,348 -Is this 37? 57 00:04:25,431 --> 00:04:27,433 Alright, Take 37. Marker. 58 00:04:27,517 --> 00:04:28,810 [ Clack ] 59 00:04:42,532 --> 00:04:44,575 -[ Laughs ] It's a loaded question. 60 00:04:44,659 --> 00:04:51,374 ♪♪ 61 00:04:51,457 --> 00:04:55,586 For the most part, I'm just a normal girl, you know? 62 00:04:55,670 --> 00:04:57,797 But I live a life that's risky. 63 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,091 I don't live a normal everyday. 64 00:05:00,174 --> 00:05:05,054 ♪♪ 65 00:05:05,138 --> 00:05:06,389 I had a desk job once. 66 00:05:06,472 --> 00:05:08,057 It lasted six months 67 00:05:08,141 --> 00:05:11,394 because I don't know how to be something I'm not. 68 00:05:14,022 --> 00:05:16,441 And, when it comes to cars, when it comes to driving, 69 00:05:16,524 --> 00:05:19,569 I think it's what I was born for. 70 00:05:22,822 --> 00:05:24,449 Hey, guys. Sorry I haven't posted in a while. 71 00:05:24,532 --> 00:05:26,284 It's been super crazy-busy. 72 00:05:30,288 --> 00:05:32,749 I forgot what I was going to say. [ Laughs ] 73 00:05:32,832 --> 00:05:34,375 Hey, guys. Sorry I haven't posted in a while. 74 00:05:34,459 --> 00:05:36,919 It's been super crazy-busy, lots going on. 75 00:05:37,003 --> 00:05:43,092 I am going to be driving all 1,134.4 miles of the Baja 1000. 76 00:05:43,176 --> 00:05:45,386 Only a couple other women have ever attempted this before, 77 00:05:45,470 --> 00:05:47,430 so I'm pretty special. 78 00:05:47,513 --> 00:05:48,931 [ Scoff ] I'm special. 79 00:05:49,015 --> 00:05:50,933 [ Laughs ] Jesus. 80 00:05:51,017 --> 00:05:54,145 It's now 12:44 in the morning. 81 00:05:54,228 --> 00:05:55,855 You'd think I would have this done. 82 00:05:55,938 --> 00:05:58,775 You would think, after 15 years of being on television, 83 00:05:58,858 --> 00:06:00,777 that I would have this shit figured out by now. 84 00:06:00,860 --> 00:06:02,445 [ Laughs ] 85 00:06:03,821 --> 00:06:05,698 -Jessi is someone that has two sides to her. 86 00:06:05,782 --> 00:06:08,534 One side is what I think the general public sees, 87 00:06:08,618 --> 00:06:11,162 which is a very easygoing, carefree person. 88 00:06:11,245 --> 00:06:12,997 The other side to that is someone 89 00:06:13,081 --> 00:06:14,540 who sees something they want 90 00:06:14,624 --> 00:06:17,627 and they do everything they can to make that happen. 91 00:06:17,710 --> 00:06:19,378 -If I'm tired now, 92 00:06:19,462 --> 00:06:21,380 what does this mean for the 1000? 93 00:06:23,424 --> 00:06:26,969 -But to actually be around and work with someone like that, 94 00:06:27,053 --> 00:06:29,055 it's exhausting. [ Laughs ] 95 00:06:32,266 --> 00:06:33,851 Jessi and I hosted a show together. 96 00:06:33,935 --> 00:06:37,605 It was called... 97 00:06:37,688 --> 00:06:39,857 And this was everything from simple stuff 98 00:06:39,941 --> 00:06:41,567 to the most outrageous things. 99 00:06:42,693 --> 00:06:44,654 Gently, left, left, left, left, left! 100 00:06:44,737 --> 00:06:45,988 -[ Laughs ] 101 00:06:46,072 --> 00:06:47,740 [ Siren wailing ] 102 00:06:50,493 --> 00:06:52,328 You could tell like, when she was super comfortable, 103 00:06:52,411 --> 00:06:53,704 she was very confident. 104 00:06:53,788 --> 00:06:55,164 [ Tires screeching ] 105 00:06:55,248 --> 00:06:57,041 But she's a person who puts on a public persona, 106 00:06:57,125 --> 00:06:59,794 so, when she's not super comfortable, 107 00:06:59,877 --> 00:07:03,089 she's just as scared and just as nervous as I was. 108 00:07:05,591 --> 00:07:08,344 [ Laughs ] 109 00:07:08,427 --> 00:07:09,720 -Feel my pulse. 110 00:07:11,180 --> 00:07:12,348 -Yeah. 111 00:07:12,431 --> 00:07:14,809 And she lives in a specific world 112 00:07:14,892 --> 00:07:16,352 which is male-dominated 113 00:07:16,435 --> 00:07:19,147 and she dealt with a lot of shit from that side. 114 00:07:21,774 --> 00:07:24,193 [ Engines revving ] 115 00:07:24,277 --> 00:07:32,910 ♪♪ 116 00:07:32,994 --> 00:07:35,079 ♪♪ 117 00:07:35,163 --> 00:07:37,415 [ Indistinct conversation ] 118 00:07:37,498 --> 00:07:39,000 -[ Laughs ] 119 00:07:49,302 --> 00:07:51,596 -I think, finally, after all these years, 120 00:07:51,679 --> 00:07:53,389 the men are starting to believe that, 121 00:07:53,472 --> 00:07:54,724 "Hey, you know, she actually 122 00:07:54,807 --> 00:07:56,350 [ Laughing ] knows what she's talking about." 123 00:07:56,434 --> 00:07:58,519 But I am in a man's world. I work around men every day. 124 00:07:58,603 --> 00:08:02,398 All my friends are men because I am very passionate 125 00:08:02,481 --> 00:08:04,775 about driving and racing and building 126 00:08:04,859 --> 00:08:06,110 and that's what I am. 127 00:08:06,194 --> 00:08:08,821 So, as far as being a woman in a man's world, 128 00:08:08,905 --> 00:08:11,115 it doesn't really bother me, as long as they allow me 129 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:12,533 to be a woman in it. 130 00:08:12,617 --> 00:08:13,910 -5, 4... 131 00:08:13,993 --> 00:08:15,912 -...3, 2, 1. 132 00:08:15,995 --> 00:08:17,205 -Go, go, go. 133 00:08:17,288 --> 00:08:25,546 ♪♪ 134 00:08:25,630 --> 00:08:28,591 ♪♪ 135 00:08:28,674 --> 00:08:30,051 -[ Laughs ] 136 00:08:30,134 --> 00:08:33,596 Fuck yeah. We're having fun, motherfuckers. Aah! 137 00:08:34,764 --> 00:08:36,933 -With Ultra4 Racing, I'm still the only female 138 00:08:37,016 --> 00:08:38,559 to podium finish. 139 00:08:38,643 --> 00:08:39,685 So I've won. 140 00:08:39,769 --> 00:08:42,772 Like I've beat hundreds of dudes, 141 00:08:42,855 --> 00:08:45,942 but I went down to the Baja 1000 seven times 142 00:08:46,025 --> 00:08:49,362 before I actually got the opportunity to race. 143 00:08:50,613 --> 00:08:52,907 And so I have to push harder. 144 00:08:52,990 --> 00:08:54,659 I have to prove more. 145 00:08:54,742 --> 00:08:57,119 I have to do things bigger, better. 146 00:08:57,203 --> 00:08:59,288 -[ Laughs ] You're amazing! 147 00:08:59,372 --> 00:09:00,998 You're so damn good! 148 00:09:02,416 --> 00:09:04,001 -And it's like I knew I could do it 149 00:09:04,085 --> 00:09:05,419 and that's what keeps me going, 150 00:09:05,503 --> 00:09:09,257 is knowing that I have what it takes to win. 151 00:09:12,593 --> 00:09:15,137 [ Cheering ] -Jessi Combs, everybody. 152 00:09:15,221 --> 00:09:16,931 -Yeah! -Alright! 153 00:09:22,979 --> 00:09:26,482 Those are some of the most epic moments of my life. 154 00:09:26,565 --> 00:09:27,858 The cards that have been dealt to me 155 00:09:27,942 --> 00:09:30,278 are pretty fricking awesome. 156 00:09:32,905 --> 00:09:34,907 But it's like I come home and it's kind of like 157 00:09:34,991 --> 00:09:36,450 a standstill. 158 00:09:40,413 --> 00:09:41,998 That's my selfish part of me, 159 00:09:42,081 --> 00:09:44,583 because I need to fill that void. 160 00:09:46,085 --> 00:09:47,670 And it doesn't matter how many tools you get out 161 00:09:47,753 --> 00:09:49,422 and how many things you want to start creating 162 00:09:49,505 --> 00:09:51,340 and you try and fill that void, 163 00:09:51,424 --> 00:09:52,883 but you're not gonna be able to do that again 164 00:09:52,967 --> 00:09:54,135 until the next adventure. 165 00:09:54,218 --> 00:09:59,432 ♪♪ 166 00:10:16,073 --> 00:10:17,867 [ Vehicle door closes ] 167 00:10:17,950 --> 00:10:19,577 [ Door closes ] -Jessi! 168 00:10:19,660 --> 00:10:20,870 -[ Laughs ] 169 00:10:20,953 --> 00:10:22,121 Hi! 170 00:10:22,204 --> 00:10:24,957 [ Laughs ] 171 00:10:25,041 --> 00:10:26,208 Are you crying? 172 00:10:26,292 --> 00:10:27,460 Why?! 173 00:10:28,502 --> 00:10:31,213 Aww, sweetie. -Thank you. 174 00:10:31,297 --> 00:10:33,799 [ Whimper ] -I love you. 175 00:10:36,344 --> 00:10:38,304 [ Laughs ] 176 00:10:38,387 --> 00:10:39,722 Mom doesn't know I'm here yet. 177 00:10:40,848 --> 00:10:42,683 [ Laughs ] 178 00:10:45,853 --> 00:10:49,398 -Oh, you're welcome. -Hi, Mom. 179 00:10:49,482 --> 00:10:51,776 -Shit! -[ Laughs ] 180 00:10:51,859 --> 00:10:53,778 Yeah, again. -Oh, my God! 181 00:10:53,861 --> 00:10:56,238 -[ Laughs ] -Oh, my God. 182 00:10:56,322 --> 00:10:57,823 Oh, you're crazy. 183 00:10:57,907 --> 00:11:00,409 -[ Laughs ] 184 00:11:00,493 --> 00:11:03,871 -When she comes home, it's precious when that happens 185 00:11:03,954 --> 00:11:05,247 because she's so busy. 186 00:11:07,124 --> 00:11:11,295 You know, from day one, Jessi has been a goal setter, 187 00:11:11,379 --> 00:11:16,467 from even as a little girl, never fearful of anything, 188 00:11:16,550 --> 00:11:18,636 with a few tickets in her pocket. 189 00:11:18,719 --> 00:11:20,721 [ Laughs ] 190 00:11:20,805 --> 00:11:22,348 [ Siren wailing ] -Damn it! 191 00:11:22,431 --> 00:11:23,724 How does this always happen to me? 192 00:11:23,808 --> 00:11:25,142 -I don't know. 193 00:11:26,769 --> 00:11:28,229 -A few accidents in her pocket 194 00:11:28,312 --> 00:11:31,107 and maybe Mom would never notice. 195 00:11:31,190 --> 00:11:32,316 That's what she said one day 196 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,276 and I thought that was hysterical. 197 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,113 There's cat scratches on the top of my car 198 00:11:37,196 --> 00:11:40,408 as she went under a barbed-wire fence. 199 00:11:40,491 --> 00:11:41,951 "Oh, Mom won't notice." 200 00:11:42,034 --> 00:11:43,452 [ Laughs ] 201 00:11:44,036 --> 00:11:45,538 -Yes! I made it! 202 00:11:48,082 --> 00:11:49,667 There's only one speed -- 203 00:11:49,750 --> 00:11:51,001 not fast enough. 204 00:11:52,253 --> 00:11:55,798 -But I remember the day that she said to me that, 205 00:11:55,881 --> 00:11:57,633 "I need to show you this video." 206 00:11:57,716 --> 00:12:05,307 ♪♪ 207 00:12:05,391 --> 00:12:08,310 And she goes, "I need you to pay attention to this 208 00:12:08,394 --> 00:12:10,104 because I'm going to drive that car." 209 00:12:11,897 --> 00:12:15,276 And Mom starts getting this hyperventilation going on. 210 00:12:15,359 --> 00:12:16,610 [ Chuckles ] 211 00:12:16,694 --> 00:12:19,572 [ Crying ] And it was like, "Oh, my gosh! 212 00:12:19,655 --> 00:12:21,157 This is really happening." 213 00:12:22,616 --> 00:12:24,785 -Fighter planes have long been known 214 00:12:24,869 --> 00:12:26,579 for their speed in the air, 215 00:12:26,662 --> 00:12:30,291 but this one may soon be known for its speed on the ground. 216 00:12:30,374 --> 00:12:32,168 A group of men in Pierce County are converting 217 00:12:32,251 --> 00:12:35,713 an old F-104 fighter plane into what they hope will be 218 00:12:35,796 --> 00:12:37,882 the world's fastest car. 219 00:12:37,965 --> 00:12:40,176 -Oh, I think it's a thrill. 220 00:12:40,259 --> 00:12:41,677 It'd be like being the guy picked 221 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,263 to be the first to summit Mount Everest. 222 00:12:44,346 --> 00:12:46,223 -Ed Shadle is the car's driver, 223 00:12:46,307 --> 00:12:47,933 the man who'll be behind the wheel 224 00:12:48,017 --> 00:12:49,810 of the North American Eagle, as it's called, 225 00:12:49,894 --> 00:12:52,688 going 800 to 900 miles per hour. 226 00:12:52,771 --> 00:13:01,238 ♪♪ 227 00:13:01,322 --> 00:13:04,033 ♪♪ 228 00:13:04,116 --> 00:13:05,701 -At my age, there are a lot of guys 229 00:13:05,784 --> 00:13:07,286 who are already retired and they're done. 230 00:13:07,369 --> 00:13:08,829 They're laying on the couch, watching television 231 00:13:08,913 --> 00:13:11,248 for the rest of their life and waiting to die. 232 00:13:11,332 --> 00:13:13,375 That isn't the way I feel about life. 233 00:13:13,459 --> 00:13:15,836 My name is Ed Shadle, principal owner and driver 234 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:17,171 of the North American Eagle. 235 00:13:22,468 --> 00:13:24,261 The initial goal for this project 236 00:13:24,345 --> 00:13:26,305 really started back in the '90s, 237 00:13:26,388 --> 00:13:30,017 when, you know, Andy Green went out and set that record in '97. 238 00:13:34,396 --> 00:13:35,898 -The British team has established 239 00:13:35,981 --> 00:13:38,025 a supersonic land speed record 240 00:13:38,108 --> 00:13:39,276 in the Nevada desert. 241 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:40,736 The RAF pilot Andy Green, 242 00:13:40,819 --> 00:13:43,113 driving the thrust supersonic car, 243 00:13:43,197 --> 00:13:44,949 broke the sound barrier on Monday. 244 00:13:47,993 --> 00:13:51,080 -Andy Green and ThrustSSC have just set 245 00:13:51,163 --> 00:13:54,416 the first ever supersonic land speed record. 246 00:13:55,251 --> 00:13:57,586 -It's human nature to push back the bounds of what is possible, 247 00:13:57,670 --> 00:13:59,088 what has been achieved, in the same way 248 00:13:59,171 --> 00:14:00,756 that people want to, for the first time ever, 249 00:14:00,839 --> 00:14:03,342 to climb Everest, to go supersonic in the air, 250 00:14:03,425 --> 00:14:04,385 to walk on the moon. 251 00:14:04,468 --> 00:14:05,970 Today, for the first time ever, 252 00:14:06,053 --> 00:14:07,805 we created a car and made it supersonic, 253 00:14:07,888 --> 00:14:10,057 something that humankind has never done before. 254 00:14:13,686 --> 00:14:18,440 -The British came along and went supersonic, okay? 255 00:14:18,524 --> 00:14:22,111 That's a whole different chapter in the physics books. 256 00:14:22,194 --> 00:14:23,946 -When the car is driven subsonically, 257 00:14:24,029 --> 00:14:26,031 it compresses the air in front of it. 258 00:14:26,115 --> 00:14:28,784 At the speed of sound, the air parts suddenly, 259 00:14:28,867 --> 00:14:31,662 causing a shock wave and a sonic boom. 260 00:14:33,622 --> 00:14:35,416 [ Boom ] 261 00:14:35,499 --> 00:14:36,500 [ Cheering ] 262 00:14:36,584 --> 00:14:37,710 -Get going! -Go, go! 263 00:14:37,793 --> 00:14:40,004 -Go! Go, go! 264 00:14:40,087 --> 00:14:42,089 -Congratulations for Andy Green, 265 00:14:42,172 --> 00:14:44,300 whose average speed over a measured mile 266 00:14:44,383 --> 00:14:47,678 was clocked at 763 miles an hour. 267 00:14:47,761 --> 00:14:49,680 [ Applause ] 268 00:14:52,558 --> 00:14:53,475 [ Cheers and applause ] 269 00:14:53,559 --> 00:14:55,311 -At the time we thought, "Man, 270 00:14:55,394 --> 00:14:57,521 anybody that'd try to break that is crazy." 271 00:14:58,397 --> 00:14:59,857 And I don't know if Ed came up with it, 272 00:14:59,940 --> 00:15:01,900 but we both agreed that, if we could find 273 00:15:01,984 --> 00:15:04,612 a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 274 00:15:04,695 --> 00:15:08,490 maybe we could convert it into a land speed car. 275 00:15:08,574 --> 00:15:10,951 As crazy as that sounds, okay? 276 00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:17,166 The beauty of the aircraft is that you got a wind chill 277 00:15:17,249 --> 00:15:19,376 that's good at Mach 2.8. 278 00:15:19,460 --> 00:15:21,837 It has a perfect inlet geometry. 279 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,589 The aircraft itself is only 280 00:15:23,672 --> 00:15:26,592 about this much in diameter bigger than the engine, 281 00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:29,219 so you couldn't design anything smaller. 282 00:15:30,304 --> 00:15:33,098 And what allow the F-104 to go supersonic was 283 00:15:33,182 --> 00:15:36,518 a turbo jet engine that had an afterburner producing 284 00:15:36,602 --> 00:15:39,063 over 18,000 pounds of thrust. 285 00:15:39,146 --> 00:15:44,777 ♪♪ 286 00:15:44,860 --> 00:15:47,696 So, how were a couple of guys from Seattle going 287 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:48,864 to improve on that? 288 00:15:48,947 --> 00:15:53,827 ♪♪ 289 00:15:53,911 --> 00:15:56,914 -Well, it took me about a year to find an F-104, 290 00:15:56,997 --> 00:15:58,999 in an aircraft junkyard back in Maine. 291 00:16:00,417 --> 00:16:02,836 -It was a mess! It just looked nasty! 292 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,798 And I can't believe we paid 25 grand for this thing. 293 00:16:07,091 --> 00:16:10,552 But Ed started taking the paint off of the vehicle. 294 00:16:10,636 --> 00:16:13,639 The numbers started to start coming through that last layer 295 00:16:13,722 --> 00:16:16,308 and it said FG, for fighter group, 296 00:16:16,392 --> 00:16:18,227 and then 763. 297 00:16:18,310 --> 00:16:22,106 The world land speed record is 763 miles an hour. 298 00:16:22,189 --> 00:16:24,775 Now, we think there's divine intervention involved. 299 00:16:24,858 --> 00:16:29,905 ♪♪ 300 00:16:29,988 --> 00:16:32,491 -The next thing you know, you've gathered other people 301 00:16:32,574 --> 00:16:34,243 on your team that are like you, 302 00:16:34,326 --> 00:16:36,328 you know, the same mission in mind. 303 00:16:36,412 --> 00:16:37,788 -History in the making. 304 00:16:37,871 --> 00:16:39,623 -Absolutely. -Hear, hear. 305 00:16:39,707 --> 00:16:42,167 -800 miles an hour, people. 306 00:16:42,251 --> 00:16:43,627 -Yes, sir. 307 00:16:43,711 --> 00:16:45,546 It'd be nice, someday, if somebody gave us some money 308 00:16:45,629 --> 00:16:47,047 to help us. That'd be great. 309 00:16:47,131 --> 00:16:49,967 But, so far, you know, we're making it, you know, 310 00:16:50,050 --> 00:16:52,469 one nickel at a time. 311 00:16:52,553 --> 00:16:56,432 -One thing I want to point out is this is a hobby. 312 00:16:56,515 --> 00:16:58,142 It has turned into a million-dollar hobby. 313 00:16:58,225 --> 00:17:02,271 It's something that we do after work and on weekends. 314 00:17:02,354 --> 00:17:03,814 -From the beginning, 315 00:17:03,897 --> 00:17:06,275 we were looking for a female driver 316 00:17:06,358 --> 00:17:08,527 and we were looking for a female driver 317 00:17:08,610 --> 00:17:10,070 for a couple different reasons. 318 00:17:10,154 --> 00:17:11,613 We were looking for somebody that could 319 00:17:11,697 --> 00:17:13,365 bring attention to the project. 320 00:17:13,449 --> 00:17:14,950 There was no doubt about that. 321 00:17:15,033 --> 00:17:17,494 We were looking for somebody that could help us. 322 00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:23,250 -I remember the first time we met Jessi. 323 00:17:23,333 --> 00:17:25,961 She had a whole new audience, people that were following her 324 00:17:26,044 --> 00:17:29,506 and her King of Hammers and her off-road and Baja stuff, 325 00:17:29,590 --> 00:17:31,633 plus her TV stuff that she was doing. 326 00:17:32,676 --> 00:17:35,637 -Hello, everybody, and welcome to "All Girls Garage." 327 00:17:38,140 --> 00:17:40,809 -You could tell that she was in total command... 328 00:17:42,394 --> 00:17:44,271 ...and she had stage presence. 329 00:17:44,354 --> 00:17:49,818 ♪♪ 330 00:17:49,902 --> 00:17:52,988 And Ed and I are about 40 feet outside the restaurant. 331 00:17:53,071 --> 00:17:56,074 We turn to each other and say, "We got to get her." 332 00:17:58,744 --> 00:18:01,663 -When I was introduced to Jessi, I says, you know, 333 00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:03,499 "We'd like to make you the number one candidate, 334 00:18:03,582 --> 00:18:04,917 but you have to pass some tests." 335 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,002 And so there are some things we had her do 336 00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:09,463 which probably were a little unusual. 337 00:18:13,133 --> 00:18:15,636 I sent her up with a friend in an open cockpit biplane 338 00:18:15,719 --> 00:18:16,970 and did an hour's worth of aerobatics 339 00:18:17,054 --> 00:18:18,514 to see if he could make her throw up 340 00:18:18,597 --> 00:18:19,681 and she didn't. 341 00:18:19,765 --> 00:18:21,183 She, in fact, had a lot of fun. 342 00:18:23,018 --> 00:18:24,520 Took her to the Bonneville Salt Flats, 343 00:18:24,603 --> 00:18:26,772 put her in a highboy roadster, had her run out there. 344 00:18:26,855 --> 00:18:29,274 She did like 178 miles an hour. 345 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,361 And it was like, "[ Scoff ] No big deal." 346 00:18:33,111 --> 00:18:35,823 She'd make someone a really good fighter pilot. [ Laughs ] 347 00:18:35,906 --> 00:18:40,035 ♪♪ 348 00:18:40,118 --> 00:18:44,832 -When Jessi came up to do the engine test that first time 349 00:18:44,915 --> 00:18:49,628 and put it into full afterburner and it jerked up on the chain... 350 00:18:53,382 --> 00:18:55,384 ...she basically said, "Where do I sign? 351 00:18:55,467 --> 00:18:56,677 Because I want to do this. 352 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,220 I want to be part of this." 353 00:18:58,303 --> 00:19:05,394 ♪♪ 354 00:19:05,477 --> 00:19:12,568 ♪♪ 355 00:19:12,651 --> 00:19:19,575 ♪♪ 356 00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:21,827 The instructions we gave her right out of the box was 357 00:19:21,910 --> 00:19:24,204 not to go into afterburner 358 00:19:24,288 --> 00:19:26,540 and don't go over 100 miles an hour 359 00:19:26,623 --> 00:19:27,958 and so she did that. 360 00:19:28,041 --> 00:19:30,085 She did everything we asked her to do. 361 00:19:30,168 --> 00:19:33,964 She got out of that car and she was mad at us 362 00:19:34,047 --> 00:19:35,549 and she looked at me and she goes, 363 00:19:35,632 --> 00:19:37,885 "My damn Jeep goes faster than that." 364 00:19:37,968 --> 00:19:40,470 And I just said, "I get it." 365 00:19:40,554 --> 00:19:41,805 And then she went out and pulled off 366 00:19:41,889 --> 00:19:43,182 250 miles an hour. 367 00:19:43,265 --> 00:19:45,559 Then she pulled off 280 miles an hour. 368 00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:47,769 These are on back-to-back rounds 369 00:19:47,853 --> 00:19:49,396 and she went and did this stuff. 370 00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:55,110 -Our short-term goals for this vehicle this week is, 371 00:19:55,193 --> 00:19:56,945 one, get the record for Jessi Combs 372 00:19:57,029 --> 00:20:00,240 on being the world's fastest woman on four wheels. 373 00:20:03,702 --> 00:20:07,414 That record was set by Lee Breedlove in 1965. 374 00:20:07,497 --> 00:20:11,293 She did a two-way average of 308 miles per hour 375 00:20:11,376 --> 00:20:14,087 in a four-wheel jet car. 376 00:20:14,171 --> 00:20:17,049 Second is the overall women's record. 377 00:20:17,132 --> 00:20:22,638 It was set by Kitty O'Neil, at 512 miles an hour in 1976, 378 00:20:22,721 --> 00:20:24,640 in a three-wheel rocket car. 379 00:20:25,349 --> 00:20:26,850 -That is the record now. 380 00:20:26,934 --> 00:20:29,645 That's the new land speed record for women. 381 00:20:29,728 --> 00:20:31,980 -We're gonna go faster. She wants to go faster. 382 00:20:34,566 --> 00:20:36,693 -To get the record, you have to go 383 00:20:36,777 --> 00:20:38,737 over a measured mile 384 00:20:38,820 --> 00:20:39,988 and do the return run 385 00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:42,366 over the same measured mile 386 00:20:42,449 --> 00:20:44,660 and then average the two runs. 387 00:20:44,743 --> 00:20:47,120 Then we have to gather all that data with witnesses, 388 00:20:47,204 --> 00:20:49,665 present that to the authorities, and then they say, 389 00:20:49,748 --> 00:20:50,958 "Yes, you did it." 390 00:20:51,041 --> 00:20:59,758 ♪♪ 391 00:20:59,841 --> 00:21:01,843 ♪♪ 392 00:21:07,015 --> 00:21:08,642 -Yeah. -Yeah. 393 00:21:08,725 --> 00:21:10,644 -She's good to go, as long as the car's good to go. 394 00:21:12,229 --> 00:21:19,778 ♪♪ 395 00:21:19,861 --> 00:21:22,948 ♪♪ 396 00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:28,370 -I have to trust myself. 397 00:21:29,371 --> 00:21:30,706 The moment I start doubting myself 398 00:21:30,789 --> 00:21:32,040 is the moment I'm gonna fail, 399 00:21:32,124 --> 00:21:34,209 the moment something's going to go wrong. 400 00:21:34,292 --> 00:21:35,836 I have to trust myself. 401 00:21:35,919 --> 00:21:37,587 I don't think I really have a choice. 402 00:21:43,719 --> 00:21:45,345 We don't think about that. 403 00:21:45,429 --> 00:21:47,723 But there's still that factor that lingers. 404 00:21:47,806 --> 00:21:50,142 I mean, it's like, you know, 405 00:21:50,225 --> 00:21:52,352 I'm young and I have a living will. 406 00:21:53,603 --> 00:21:56,356 I don't think people my age think about those things. 407 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:03,905 ♪♪ 408 00:22:03,989 --> 00:22:05,657 -[ Crying ] Truly, the worst-case scenario is 409 00:22:05,741 --> 00:22:07,409 the car wrecks. 410 00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:09,953 We know the ultimatum there. 411 00:22:10,037 --> 00:22:11,538 There's no surviving. 412 00:22:17,961 --> 00:22:25,844 ♪♪ 413 00:22:25,927 --> 00:22:29,347 ♪♪ 414 00:22:30,474 --> 00:22:36,646 ♪♪ 415 00:22:44,571 --> 00:22:53,830 ♪♪ 416 00:22:53,914 --> 00:22:58,418 ♪♪ 417 00:22:58,502 --> 00:23:00,087 -Once that car leaves, 418 00:23:00,170 --> 00:23:03,131 then all of us have the freedom to chase down that lake bed. 419 00:23:04,174 --> 00:23:06,635 And so, here we are, flying as fast as we can. 420 00:23:06,718 --> 00:23:08,345 in our vehicles that usually govern out 421 00:23:08,428 --> 00:23:10,555 at 100 or 110 miles an hour. 422 00:23:11,515 --> 00:23:13,308 Of course, the whole time Nina and I are in there, 423 00:23:13,391 --> 00:23:15,936 we're hoping, when we get to the other end of the lake bed, 424 00:23:16,019 --> 00:23:18,271 that there's not a pile of red rubble there. 425 00:23:18,355 --> 00:23:26,655 ♪♪ 426 00:23:26,738 --> 00:23:30,909 ♪♪ 427 00:23:39,126 --> 00:23:40,877 -[ Speaks indistinctly ] 428 00:23:48,343 --> 00:23:50,303 -It felt amazing. 429 00:23:50,387 --> 00:23:53,515 It was the coolest feeling I think I've ever had in my life. 430 00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:54,850 -Ooh! 431 00:23:55,433 --> 00:23:56,893 [ Laughter ] -I was gonna say. 432 00:24:00,647 --> 00:24:02,691 -Don't tell us. -No? 433 00:24:05,443 --> 00:24:08,405 -[ Whispers indistinctly ] -[ Laughs delightedly ] 434 00:24:12,409 --> 00:24:14,536 -Seriously, I knew it was. 435 00:24:14,619 --> 00:24:16,830 -What was the number?! 436 00:24:16,913 --> 00:24:19,416 -Ah, that feels so good! -Ooh! 437 00:24:19,499 --> 00:24:21,334 -Well, what's the number? 438 00:24:21,418 --> 00:24:23,211 -Yeah, baby! -Give it to 'em. 439 00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:24,838 -440.4. 440 00:24:24,921 --> 00:24:28,008 [ Cheers and applause ] 441 00:24:28,091 --> 00:24:34,472 ♪♪ 442 00:24:34,556 --> 00:24:36,057 -Jessi Combs, known as the 443 00:24:36,141 --> 00:24:37,976 fastest woman on four wheels. -The fastest woman 444 00:24:38,059 --> 00:24:39,477 on four wheels. -We know she was driving 445 00:24:39,561 --> 00:24:41,271 her jet-powered car 446 00:24:41,354 --> 00:24:44,441 440 miles per hour. 447 00:24:47,152 --> 00:24:49,196 -I've beat a record, now I just have to turn it in 448 00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:50,906 and there's still another record out there, 449 00:24:50,989 --> 00:24:54,034 which is that 512, so this is just baby steps 450 00:24:54,117 --> 00:24:56,161 to go on to the bigger, better things. 451 00:24:56,244 --> 00:24:57,954 It was probably one of the best rides 452 00:24:58,038 --> 00:24:59,414 I've ever had in my entire life 453 00:24:59,497 --> 00:25:00,916 and I'm gonna keep going faster. 454 00:25:00,999 --> 00:25:02,250 That's the best part about this. 455 00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:03,418 This is so rad. 456 00:25:03,501 --> 00:25:10,050 ♪♪ 457 00:25:13,678 --> 00:25:16,306 -Fastest woman in the world. -Oh, I love you. 458 00:25:23,438 --> 00:25:25,440 She's a natural. 459 00:25:25,523 --> 00:25:27,651 She knows that it's her calling. 460 00:25:27,734 --> 00:25:31,071 [ Tender tune plays ] 461 00:25:33,448 --> 00:25:35,200 -Yes! Aaah! 462 00:25:35,283 --> 00:25:36,576 [ Camera shutter clicks ] 463 00:25:36,660 --> 00:25:42,457 ♪♪ 464 00:25:42,540 --> 00:25:45,043 -She's always been pretty fearless 465 00:25:45,126 --> 00:25:49,130 and we knew that pretty early on because, before she was one, 466 00:25:49,214 --> 00:25:54,803 her uncle and I would throw her across the kitchen 467 00:25:54,886 --> 00:25:56,346 and she would just laugh and giggle. 468 00:25:56,429 --> 00:25:57,847 She just had the time of her life. 469 00:25:57,931 --> 00:26:00,850 And, you know, most kids would've just freaked out, 470 00:26:00,934 --> 00:26:02,727 but not Jessi. 471 00:26:04,271 --> 00:26:08,441 -She was always hiding, missing in action. 472 00:26:08,525 --> 00:26:10,443 There were days I couldn't find her. 473 00:26:10,527 --> 00:26:14,239 We lived in this mobile home and there was a box 474 00:26:14,322 --> 00:26:17,117 sitting on the stairway like this, 475 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,995 and I had passed it three or four times. 476 00:26:20,078 --> 00:26:22,539 She was curled up in that box, sound asleep. 477 00:26:23,707 --> 00:26:26,001 -There's kind of that little mischievous stuff behind her 478 00:26:26,084 --> 00:26:29,004 of, "Yeah, I'm gonna have a little fun and do it my way 479 00:26:29,087 --> 00:26:31,006 and this is gonna turn into a good story." 480 00:26:31,089 --> 00:26:35,969 ♪♪ 481 00:26:36,052 --> 00:26:38,013 -We both loved the outdoors. 482 00:26:38,471 --> 00:26:40,015 There would be days when she and I 483 00:26:40,098 --> 00:26:41,224 would just jump in a vehicle. 484 00:26:41,308 --> 00:26:43,393 We'd drive out to the Black Hills 485 00:26:43,476 --> 00:26:46,563 and just sit out while it was snowing. 486 00:26:46,646 --> 00:26:53,069 ♪♪ 487 00:26:53,153 --> 00:26:56,364 -I lived a pretty secluded life, you know? 488 00:26:56,448 --> 00:26:57,741 We didn't have Internet. 489 00:26:57,824 --> 00:27:00,118 We didn't have access to the outside world. 490 00:27:00,201 --> 00:27:01,578 When I was a little girl, I never met 491 00:27:01,661 --> 00:27:02,829 any really badass women 492 00:27:02,912 --> 00:27:05,165 that were doing exceptional things 493 00:27:05,248 --> 00:27:07,542 and I think that's why I started so late in life. 494 00:27:07,625 --> 00:27:16,092 ♪♪ 495 00:27:16,176 --> 00:27:19,346 [ Languid rock plays ] 496 00:27:23,516 --> 00:27:25,518 As much as we loved being here, 497 00:27:25,602 --> 00:27:27,187 Jessi was like ready to -- 498 00:27:27,270 --> 00:27:29,147 she was -- she was ready to run. 499 00:27:31,149 --> 00:27:33,193 "I got to get out of here. I'm feeling stifled. 500 00:27:33,276 --> 00:27:34,486 This is not where I belong." 501 00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:37,864 -Everything she did, she did full-on 502 00:27:37,947 --> 00:27:41,326 and, when it was time for her to flee the nest, 503 00:27:41,409 --> 00:27:43,578 she did it, and she did it big. 504 00:27:43,661 --> 00:27:52,087 ♪♪ 505 00:27:52,170 --> 00:27:54,422 -She was 19, I think, 506 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:57,050 met a guy in Sturgis, 507 00:27:57,133 --> 00:27:58,301 went to Chicago to live with him. 508 00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:00,929 Like she had met him at the rally. 509 00:28:01,679 --> 00:28:04,265 [ Laughs ] Like, "Holy shit! 510 00:28:04,349 --> 00:28:06,142 What are you doing?!" 511 00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:09,979 -She does spontaneous things. 512 00:28:10,063 --> 00:28:12,690 That's just the way she is. 513 00:28:12,774 --> 00:28:17,445 -There is this desire for her to find the right guy. 514 00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:19,239 I think we all had our ideas of what that would be, you know? 515 00:28:19,322 --> 00:28:21,157 My dad was like, "He's going to be a cowboy," you know. 516 00:28:21,241 --> 00:28:23,827 [ Laughs ] "It's got to be." You know, whatever. 517 00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:31,126 -I remember when she called me up and said, "Mom, 518 00:28:31,209 --> 00:28:32,919 I know what I want to do." 519 00:28:33,002 --> 00:28:34,254 And I said, "What's that?" And she goes, 520 00:28:34,337 --> 00:28:35,755 "I want to build cars." 521 00:28:35,839 --> 00:28:37,799 I said, "Right, right." 522 00:28:37,882 --> 00:28:40,969 -She gives me a call and tells me she's going to 523 00:28:41,052 --> 00:28:43,304 go to trade school at WyoTech 524 00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:46,850 and I'm thinking, "Why would she do that," you know? 525 00:28:46,933 --> 00:28:50,019 [ Tender tune plays ] 526 00:28:50,103 --> 00:28:56,109 ♪♪ 527 00:28:56,192 --> 00:28:58,695 -I was not really for it. 528 00:28:58,778 --> 00:29:01,197 It was more of a man's world, you know? 529 00:29:02,115 --> 00:29:03,616 How do girls fit into men's worlds? 530 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:07,078 It doesn't usually turn out really well for women. 531 00:29:10,373 --> 00:29:12,000 -It wasn't even a year and a half later, 532 00:29:12,083 --> 00:29:16,212 she graduated top of her class out of 2,300 men. 533 00:29:18,089 --> 00:29:19,549 -I'm a rule breaker. 534 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,844 I'm a risk taker. 535 00:29:22,927 --> 00:29:25,180 I'm a "Say I can't, say I won't, 536 00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:27,474 I'll prove you wrong" [ Laughing ] a kind of person. 537 00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:30,518 I like getting things done. 538 00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:32,520 I like seeing things be created. 539 00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:36,149 ♪♪ 540 00:29:36,232 --> 00:29:37,775 -Watch out, everybody. 541 00:29:39,736 --> 00:29:43,490 -We're all people that are, by nature, problem solvers 542 00:29:43,573 --> 00:29:47,577 and I think fixing and inventing stuff that is so odd, unusual, 543 00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:50,914 difficult, is probably the reason why we do this. 544 00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:54,792 I built a soapbox derby racer when I was about 14. 545 00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:56,753 Then in the '50s, you know, get into drag racing 546 00:29:56,836 --> 00:29:59,380 and running around the streets, acting like a fool. 547 00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:01,132 Then at the same time, I was, you know, 548 00:30:01,216 --> 00:30:02,717 learning how to fly airplanes. 549 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,345 But when I went to the Bonneville Salt Flats 550 00:30:05,428 --> 00:30:08,890 and I got involved with racing out there, 551 00:30:08,973 --> 00:30:12,101 land speed racing has been my, you know, my main passion. 552 00:30:13,311 --> 00:30:17,065 -Someday, this is gonna be the future racer. 553 00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:19,692 Yeah. Is this Grandpa's car? 554 00:30:20,985 --> 00:30:22,195 -That car. 555 00:30:22,278 --> 00:30:24,239 -[ Tapping ] Right here. This Grandpa's car? 556 00:30:24,322 --> 00:30:26,074 -It's Grandpa's car. 557 00:30:26,157 --> 00:30:28,326 [ Thunder rumbling ] 558 00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:33,915 [ Ring ] 559 00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:37,210 [ Ring ] 560 00:30:38,253 --> 00:30:40,755 -Hey, Ed. It's Jessi. How's it going? 561 00:30:51,766 --> 00:30:52,892 Okay. 562 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,572 Really? 563 00:31:05,655 --> 00:31:08,199 [ Suspenseful music plays ] 564 00:31:08,283 --> 00:31:10,451 -And, uh... 565 00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:14,914 -[ Laughs ] 566 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,629 ♪♪ 567 00:31:21,713 --> 00:31:24,090 -When you come out here right now, it's dry. 568 00:31:24,173 --> 00:31:26,050 But if you were here in late December, 569 00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:29,345 there'd be a foot of water over this whole thing. 570 00:31:29,429 --> 00:31:33,725 ♪♪ 571 00:31:33,808 --> 00:31:36,019 The wind blows that water around, 572 00:31:36,102 --> 00:31:37,353 smoothes out all these ruts. 573 00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:39,147 All these ruts that are out here, 574 00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:40,940 these all get smoothed out and this'll be 575 00:31:41,024 --> 00:31:42,775 like a pool table when it's done. 576 00:31:42,859 --> 00:31:50,408 ♪♪ 577 00:31:50,491 --> 00:31:53,536 ♪♪ 578 00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:57,040 -Okay, so, what does that mean for our runs in September? 579 00:31:57,123 --> 00:31:58,458 -Well... 580 00:32:02,545 --> 00:32:03,713 -Okay, so, as of right now, 581 00:32:03,796 --> 00:32:07,175 we are postponed for September, then? 582 00:32:07,258 --> 00:32:08,468 -Yeah. 583 00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:20,396 ♪♪ 584 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:28,404 ♪♪ 585 00:32:28,488 --> 00:32:31,366 ♪♪ 586 00:32:31,449 --> 00:32:33,701 -South Dakota's one of those states. 587 00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:36,204 There's not a lot out here, you know? 588 00:32:36,287 --> 00:32:39,082 It's cold. It's bleak. It's flat. 589 00:32:39,165 --> 00:32:41,626 Except for where I grew up, which is in the Black Hills. 590 00:32:41,709 --> 00:32:45,254 But outside of the Black Hills, there's nothing. 591 00:32:45,338 --> 00:32:48,299 There's nothing. It's lots of 592 00:32:48,383 --> 00:32:50,593 long, straight, boring roads. 593 00:32:50,677 --> 00:32:54,889 -In half a mile, turn left onto 115th Street. 594 00:32:54,972 --> 00:32:57,225 [ Turn signal clicking ] 595 00:32:57,308 --> 00:33:01,396 -For 54 miles, continue on 115th Street. 596 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:03,731 -Fifty-four miles 597 00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:05,400 on the same street. 598 00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:07,110 [ Laughs ] 599 00:33:13,491 --> 00:33:15,618 -Maybe it has something to do 600 00:33:15,702 --> 00:33:17,704 with the lifestyle that she lived 601 00:33:17,787 --> 00:33:19,163 and there was a lot going on 602 00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:21,624 and she just needed to get some peace and quiet. 603 00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:23,167 [ Laconic rock plays ] [ Camera shutter clicking ] 604 00:33:23,251 --> 00:33:24,669 -It was just what most of the tenants 605 00:33:24,752 --> 00:33:26,170 of the Valley Hilton Hotel 606 00:33:26,254 --> 00:33:27,922 had come to L.A. to see -- 607 00:33:28,005 --> 00:33:29,549 a bit of Hollywood -- 608 00:33:29,632 --> 00:33:30,925 and, to top it all off, 609 00:33:31,008 --> 00:33:33,469 none other than Wonder Woman herself. 610 00:33:33,553 --> 00:33:37,265 ♪♪ 611 00:33:37,348 --> 00:33:41,728 -♪ Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ♪ 612 00:33:41,811 --> 00:33:45,523 Actually, it was not the TV show's star, Lynda Carter, 613 00:33:45,606 --> 00:33:49,318 but the famous 32-year-old stunt woman Kitty O'Neil. 614 00:33:51,028 --> 00:33:52,905 -This is the Mattel toy. 615 00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:54,198 Do you like it? 616 00:33:56,826 --> 00:33:59,120 -Kitty O'Neil has been totally deaf 617 00:33:59,203 --> 00:34:00,788 since she was two years old, 618 00:34:00,872 --> 00:34:03,458 but she hasn't let that slow her down. 619 00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,961 -The stunt community is pretty damn small. 620 00:34:07,044 --> 00:34:09,589 Back then, it was. Now it's huge. 621 00:34:09,672 --> 00:34:13,092 There was no women that I knew of at the time. 622 00:34:17,889 --> 00:34:19,515 All of a sudden, we got this woman 623 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:21,392 that's a heck of an athlete, you know, 624 00:34:21,476 --> 00:34:22,977 and she's deaf, on top of it, 625 00:34:23,060 --> 00:34:26,647 and she's capable of doing all these incredible things. 626 00:34:26,731 --> 00:34:30,234 -Are there any stunts that you don't like to do? 627 00:34:32,695 --> 00:34:33,905 -You don't like motorcycles? 628 00:34:35,573 --> 00:34:36,824 -Uh-huh. [ Laughter ] 629 00:34:36,908 --> 00:34:39,368 Too crazy. 630 00:34:39,452 --> 00:34:41,704 ♪♪ 631 00:34:41,788 --> 00:34:44,373 ♪♪ 632 00:34:44,457 --> 00:34:46,626 -♪ So dangerous ♪ 633 00:34:46,709 --> 00:34:48,377 -A lot of people standing around here 634 00:34:48,461 --> 00:34:50,671 were asking themselves, "Why does this pretty little lady 635 00:34:50,755 --> 00:34:52,173 do this kind of stuff?" 636 00:34:58,012 --> 00:35:00,181 Miss O'Neil says she has no intention 637 00:35:00,264 --> 00:35:02,350 of stopping her dangerous lifestyle. 638 00:35:02,433 --> 00:35:05,561 She hasn't yet decided which record she'll break next, 639 00:35:05,645 --> 00:35:07,897 but, she says, she'll keep us posted. 640 00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:12,902 ♪♪ 641 00:35:12,985 --> 00:35:18,074 ♪♪ 642 00:35:21,619 --> 00:35:23,037 -Let's see if we can get it to go. 643 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,456 Oh! Oh, my gosh! 644 00:35:25,540 --> 00:35:29,585 Now, this here's Kitty in a rocket car 645 00:35:29,669 --> 00:35:31,879 out in the desert at El Mirage. 646 00:35:31,963 --> 00:35:34,549 Boy, I was a lot thinner back then, too, I see. 647 00:35:34,632 --> 00:35:36,717 [ Laughs ] 648 00:35:36,801 --> 00:35:39,053 One day I picked up the paper 649 00:35:39,136 --> 00:35:43,099 and here I see about this young lady in a land speed car 650 00:35:43,182 --> 00:35:45,726 that was approaching breaking the men's record 651 00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:47,979 and, well, it just so happened 652 00:35:48,062 --> 00:35:50,189 I got a car right in my shop here I'm building. 653 00:35:50,273 --> 00:35:52,692 I'm building a car to go 1,000 miles an hour. 654 00:35:52,775 --> 00:35:54,318 I'm gonna see if I can get ahold of them 655 00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:56,195 and see if they'll team up with me. 656 00:35:58,739 --> 00:35:59,907 She knew that right off the bat 657 00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:02,076 that I was really gung ho about it. 658 00:36:02,159 --> 00:36:05,663 And her and I, we hit it off right away. 659 00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:11,168 We set 72 state and national and international speed records. 660 00:36:13,379 --> 00:36:16,632 But, you know, when you're deaf, you live in your own world. 661 00:36:16,716 --> 00:36:19,302 And Kitty was in her own little world. 662 00:36:21,512 --> 00:36:24,849 And she trusted too many people. 663 00:36:24,932 --> 00:36:28,436 She trusted the wrong people. 664 00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:30,229 Who knows how far she could have gone. 665 00:36:30,313 --> 00:36:33,107 Yeah. History would have been different. 666 00:36:33,190 --> 00:36:36,903 ♪♪ 667 00:36:36,986 --> 00:36:40,323 -Over the years, apparently, she's become an alcoholic, 668 00:36:40,406 --> 00:36:43,367 and she gets in these bouts of rage when she's drunk 669 00:36:43,451 --> 00:36:45,202 and she tears her house apart. 670 00:36:45,286 --> 00:36:47,288 She can't go anywhere. She can't drive. 671 00:36:47,371 --> 00:36:49,081 She got three DUIs in one week. 672 00:36:49,165 --> 00:36:51,042 She's 66 years old. She's fallen apart. 673 00:36:51,125 --> 00:36:53,419 Her liver is shot, her health is fading, 674 00:36:53,502 --> 00:36:55,212 which is one of the reasons why I feel like 675 00:36:55,296 --> 00:36:59,675 I need to come out here and I need to meet her because... 676 00:36:59,759 --> 00:37:01,260 there's not one other woman out there 677 00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:03,846 who could really understand what we're all about, 678 00:37:03,930 --> 00:37:06,307 which I don't even know if I figured it out yet. 679 00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:10,019 And maybe that's what I'm trying to figure out with her. 680 00:37:10,102 --> 00:37:12,104 What is it that really drives us? 681 00:37:22,865 --> 00:37:25,326 Here's her stuff. 682 00:37:25,409 --> 00:37:27,828 I hear her. 683 00:37:27,912 --> 00:37:29,664 Hello? 684 00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:32,667 -[ Speaks indistinctly ] 685 00:37:32,750 --> 00:37:34,877 -How are you? Hi. 686 00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:36,295 You look lovely. 687 00:37:36,379 --> 00:37:38,047 -Thank you. -Yeah. 688 00:37:38,130 --> 00:37:39,632 My gosh, you're so tiny. 689 00:37:39,715 --> 00:37:41,175 Look how small she is. 690 00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:43,886 I thought I was little. You're little. 691 00:37:43,970 --> 00:37:46,013 I thought I was little, but you're little. 692 00:37:46,097 --> 00:37:48,474 Look at you. 693 00:37:51,686 --> 00:37:54,105 That's when you crashed, right? 694 00:37:54,188 --> 00:37:56,440 -Yeah. -Yeah. 695 00:38:00,069 --> 00:38:01,654 [ Laughs ] You want to do it again? 696 00:38:03,155 --> 00:38:05,282 You are crazy, aren't you? [ Laughing ] 697 00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:17,586 Well, thank you for paving the path. 698 00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:19,630 Now I'm just trying to be like you... 699 00:38:19,714 --> 00:38:22,091 but faster. 700 00:38:22,174 --> 00:38:24,760 [ Laughter ] 701 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,181 What got you into being a stunt woman? 702 00:38:29,265 --> 00:38:31,684 Was it -- Was it because you're not afraid of anything? 703 00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:42,319 So you don't get nervous? 704 00:38:42,403 --> 00:38:43,696 -No. 705 00:38:43,779 --> 00:38:45,781 -You don't think twice. You just... 706 00:38:45,865 --> 00:38:48,909 Okay. "This is what I have to do, and I'm gonna do it." 707 00:38:48,993 --> 00:38:50,286 Yeah. 708 00:39:02,506 --> 00:39:06,552 -One thing about Kitty is she really made a mark 709 00:39:06,635 --> 00:39:08,429 with, you know, deaf people. 710 00:39:08,512 --> 00:39:09,930 To this day, 711 00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:11,599 if they find out that I was involved with Kitty O'Neil, 712 00:39:11,682 --> 00:39:13,309 they come running right up to me. 713 00:39:13,392 --> 00:39:16,312 -You've had a lot of things that you've had to overcome. 714 00:39:16,395 --> 00:39:17,688 You work harder? 715 00:39:23,152 --> 00:39:25,321 -Why did you stop? 716 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:39,251 Yeah. 717 00:39:51,472 --> 00:39:53,599 Yeah. 718 00:39:54,683 --> 00:39:56,602 Do you have any advice for me? 719 00:39:58,646 --> 00:40:00,314 [ Laughing ] 720 00:40:02,983 --> 00:40:04,568 And I have your blessing to break your record? 721 00:40:05,444 --> 00:40:06,612 Awesome. 722 00:40:12,910 --> 00:40:14,829 Okay. Thank you. 723 00:40:15,913 --> 00:40:17,248 I will. 724 00:40:20,501 --> 00:40:22,753 -Get in there, Kitty. 725 00:40:26,257 --> 00:40:28,843 [ Indistinct conversations ] 726 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:37,935 -She likes looking really little. 727 00:40:38,978 --> 00:40:40,354 [ Camera shutter clicks ] 728 00:40:40,437 --> 00:40:49,321 ♪♪ 729 00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:54,368 ♪♪ 730 00:40:54,451 --> 00:40:58,998 It's very rare to find somebody that I can relate to. 731 00:40:59,081 --> 00:41:00,624 Because there's this whole other part of us 732 00:41:00,708 --> 00:41:03,085 that it's not about us, you know, 733 00:41:03,169 --> 00:41:06,380 for her, it was -- it was the deaf children, 734 00:41:06,463 --> 00:41:08,215 you know, to show that there is no handicap 735 00:41:08,299 --> 00:41:10,509 and they can do anything that they set their minds to. 736 00:41:10,593 --> 00:41:14,221 And for me, it's girls and it's women to let them know 737 00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:17,391 that they can go fast and get dirty and have fun 738 00:41:17,474 --> 00:41:20,311 and be just as good as the boys, if not better, 739 00:41:20,394 --> 00:41:25,149 and still at the end of the day, be a girl. 740 00:41:25,232 --> 00:41:29,361 You know, when I broke my back, I had an opportunity to kind of 741 00:41:29,445 --> 00:41:31,071 connect myself with the rest of the world 742 00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:33,282 because I built a website and that was before social media 743 00:41:33,365 --> 00:41:34,867 or anything really came around. 744 00:41:36,827 --> 00:41:39,455 I freakishly had a piece of machinery fall on me. 745 00:41:39,538 --> 00:41:41,457 It burst-fractured my L3. 746 00:41:41,540 --> 00:41:43,417 My doctors call me a miracle case. 747 00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:44,752 I should be in a wheelchair, 748 00:41:44,835 --> 00:41:46,795 should be paralyzed from the waist down. 749 00:41:46,879 --> 00:41:49,089 And it kind of just pushed me to try harder 750 00:41:49,173 --> 00:41:50,424 and to try and be better 751 00:41:50,507 --> 00:41:52,009 because I had a whole new perspective on life. 752 00:41:54,970 --> 00:41:56,597 When I started hearing these people's stories 753 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,099 and the lives that I was changing, it was amazing. 754 00:41:59,183 --> 00:42:01,435 I started realizing that the things that I was doing 755 00:42:01,518 --> 00:42:04,939 was making an impact on people's life and making a difference. 756 00:42:05,022 --> 00:42:12,112 ♪♪ 757 00:42:12,196 --> 00:42:15,157 Kitty and I operate on a very similar level 758 00:42:15,241 --> 00:42:16,951 because she did it. She lived it. 759 00:42:17,034 --> 00:42:19,453 And she did it for a lot for the same reasons. 760 00:42:19,536 --> 00:42:24,333 ♪♪ 761 00:42:24,416 --> 00:42:29,046 But she was this thriving super stunt person 762 00:42:29,129 --> 00:42:31,715 that everybody knew back in the day 763 00:42:31,799 --> 00:42:33,801 to nobody knows where she is. 764 00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:36,178 Nobody knows what she's doing. 765 00:42:39,223 --> 00:42:43,936 It makes you wonder what actually broke down in her. 766 00:42:44,019 --> 00:42:46,981 There's a part of me that wants to make sure 767 00:42:47,064 --> 00:42:51,652 that one of my heroes is gonna be okay 768 00:42:51,735 --> 00:42:54,113 because maybe that will give me a sense 769 00:42:54,196 --> 00:42:56,115 that I'm gonna be okay. 770 00:42:56,198 --> 00:43:03,831 ♪♪ 771 00:43:03,914 --> 00:43:06,000 [ Wind whistling ] 772 00:43:06,083 --> 00:43:10,129 ♪♪ 773 00:43:10,212 --> 00:43:12,047 -The conditions out here at Alvord this year 774 00:43:12,131 --> 00:43:16,802 are just really very, very nice, minimal wind. 775 00:43:16,885 --> 00:43:19,179 In some cases, it just gets dead calm 776 00:43:19,263 --> 00:43:22,224 and the course is just so smooth for the first 8 miles. 777 00:43:22,308 --> 00:43:25,311 It's just beautiful. 778 00:43:25,394 --> 00:43:27,855 The number-one mission for this week of runs 779 00:43:27,938 --> 00:43:31,734 is to get Jessi that record that Kitty O'Neil holds. 780 00:43:31,817 --> 00:43:34,570 We would like to put down at least one really good, 781 00:43:34,653 --> 00:43:37,364 strong run and see if we can get it over 600. 782 00:43:37,448 --> 00:43:39,867 With only 8 miles, it's kind of questionable 783 00:43:39,950 --> 00:43:41,493 whether we can actually do that. 784 00:43:41,577 --> 00:43:43,329 But you don't know till you try. 785 00:43:49,585 --> 00:43:51,128 -I kind of like the fact that Ed is the guinea pig 786 00:43:51,211 --> 00:43:54,131 because, one, he knows the car. 787 00:43:54,214 --> 00:43:55,841 He's been building this car for 15 years, 788 00:43:55,924 --> 00:43:58,844 which makes me feel way more comfortable to be in the car 789 00:43:58,927 --> 00:44:01,722 knowing that he can do it, I can do it, for sure. 790 00:44:02,598 --> 00:44:04,183 [ Flare pops ] 791 00:44:04,266 --> 00:44:11,899 ♪♪ 792 00:44:11,982 --> 00:44:18,947 ♪♪ 793 00:45:09,248 --> 00:45:14,294 ♪♪ 794 00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:17,297 [ Indistinct conversations ] 795 00:45:17,381 --> 00:45:20,968 -Coming out your way. It's all you, baby. 796 00:45:21,051 --> 00:45:23,637 -Ed gets in a car, makes a test run. 797 00:45:23,721 --> 00:45:26,598 Right off the bat, it goes to the left, 798 00:45:26,682 --> 00:45:28,183 can't go to the right. 799 00:45:28,267 --> 00:45:31,145 The steering was -- was junk. 800 00:45:31,228 --> 00:45:34,565 Remember, we worked on this car for 50 weeks a year 801 00:45:34,648 --> 00:45:37,276 and then we test it for two weeks a year. 802 00:45:37,359 --> 00:45:39,069 We can't just go out every week, month or so 803 00:45:39,153 --> 00:45:40,320 and check the car out. 804 00:45:40,404 --> 00:45:41,864 -Ready? 805 00:45:41,947 --> 00:45:43,949 [ Indistinct conversations ] 806 00:45:44,032 --> 00:45:51,248 ♪♪ 807 00:45:51,331 --> 00:45:58,505 ♪♪ 808 00:45:58,589 --> 00:46:05,804 ♪♪ 809 00:46:05,888 --> 00:46:12,936 ♪♪ 810 00:46:13,020 --> 00:46:14,229 -There was no let-down on these guys 811 00:46:14,313 --> 00:46:15,898 trying to get this thing ready to go. 812 00:46:15,981 --> 00:46:18,317 They're out here, the wind's blowing, the sand's blowing. 813 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,444 I mean, everybody could have went and gotten in a trailer 814 00:46:20,527 --> 00:46:22,863 and hid out and nobody did. 815 00:46:22,946 --> 00:46:24,031 I'm proud of them. 816 00:46:24,114 --> 00:46:25,532 You know, as a crew chief, 817 00:46:25,616 --> 00:46:27,576 I can't be anything but proud of them. 818 00:46:27,659 --> 00:46:32,080 ♪♪ 819 00:46:47,304 --> 00:46:48,805 -Worried this time? 820 00:46:50,807 --> 00:46:53,060 Yeah, my mom seems a little bit more comfortable 821 00:46:53,143 --> 00:46:54,520 this go-around. 822 00:46:54,603 --> 00:46:57,564 Probably because I haven't gotten in the car yet. 823 00:46:57,648 --> 00:46:59,733 That's the prettiest guacamole I've ever seen, Mom. 824 00:46:59,817 --> 00:47:02,444 -Who is that girl? -What girl? 825 00:47:03,946 --> 00:47:06,406 Who's that girl? 826 00:47:06,490 --> 00:47:08,742 What is this mess going on here? You need to fix this. 827 00:47:08,826 --> 00:47:10,077 Clean up. 828 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,870 I want this all cleaned up by the end of the day. 829 00:47:11,954 --> 00:47:13,372 -See ya. 830 00:47:15,999 --> 00:47:17,709 -Whoo! It's hot. 831 00:47:22,256 --> 00:47:25,842 My mom's job is never done. Poor woman. 832 00:47:25,926 --> 00:47:27,469 She sees me do stuff like this, 833 00:47:27,553 --> 00:47:30,597 and I swear her heart is beating out of her chest. 834 00:47:30,681 --> 00:47:36,937 ♪♪ 835 00:47:37,020 --> 00:47:43,402 ♪♪ 836 00:48:36,121 --> 00:48:38,915 -Sorry. -I'm sorry for you guys. 837 00:48:38,999 --> 00:48:41,376 -It's depressing. 838 00:48:41,460 --> 00:48:42,961 You know, you finally reach a point 839 00:48:43,045 --> 00:48:45,547 where you don't have the technological wherewithal 840 00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:47,466 to solve the problems in the field. 841 00:48:47,549 --> 00:48:50,302 So it's time to go back home and lick our wounds 842 00:48:50,385 --> 00:48:51,970 and then solve the problem. 843 00:48:52,054 --> 00:48:56,725 ♪♪ 844 00:49:06,151 --> 00:49:07,527 -No, I'm praying. 845 00:49:07,611 --> 00:49:09,529 I touch the car, I pray. 846 00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:12,866 [ Indistinct conversations ] 847 00:49:12,949 --> 00:49:14,409 It just sucks that we have to wait another year 848 00:49:14,493 --> 00:49:16,453 or however long for it to happen. 849 00:49:19,623 --> 00:49:22,709 It's really difficult, you know, how long 850 00:49:22,793 --> 00:49:24,711 am I gonna have to put my life on hold? 851 00:49:24,795 --> 00:49:27,381 Like, I can't have a family 852 00:49:27,464 --> 00:49:31,259 and try and break a world land speed record. 853 00:49:31,343 --> 00:49:34,262 That, all of a sudden, makes things very real. 854 00:49:34,346 --> 00:49:42,729 ♪♪ 855 00:49:42,813 --> 00:49:50,404 ♪♪ 856 00:49:50,487 --> 00:49:52,072 -There's a really big period of time 857 00:49:52,155 --> 00:49:53,865 where Jessi and I just lost touch 858 00:49:53,949 --> 00:49:58,036 because I was raising a family and she was just out living. 859 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,498 But I remember a time where she just started communicating, 860 00:50:01,581 --> 00:50:03,709 "I'd really like somebody to come home to 861 00:50:03,792 --> 00:50:05,627 that I can consistently count on." 862 00:50:05,711 --> 00:50:07,838 And "Am I ever gonna be a mom? Am I --" 863 00:50:07,921 --> 00:50:09,923 You know, like, "How can I make this work 864 00:50:10,006 --> 00:50:14,010 and still keep following this dream of mine that is running 865 00:50:14,094 --> 00:50:17,347 and if I don't go with it, I'm gonna miss that boat." 866 00:50:36,908 --> 00:50:40,287 -It's not as glamorous as it seems. 867 00:50:40,370 --> 00:50:41,621 It's not. 868 00:50:41,705 --> 00:50:44,040 I am pulled in a lot of different directions 869 00:50:44,124 --> 00:50:46,418 between the television, between the race teams, 870 00:50:46,501 --> 00:50:48,670 between the sponsors, between the representation, 871 00:50:48,754 --> 00:50:51,465 between everything that I'm doing. 872 00:50:51,548 --> 00:50:55,051 And where is there time for other people? 873 00:50:55,135 --> 00:50:57,637 Where is there time for, like, a real life? 874 00:50:57,721 --> 00:50:59,389 Hey, guys. I know I haven't been posting 875 00:50:59,473 --> 00:51:00,974 on social media a lot lately. 876 00:51:01,057 --> 00:51:04,102 I'm sorry. It's just been ridiculously busy. 877 00:51:04,186 --> 00:51:05,729 We had Babes Ride Out last weekend, 878 00:51:05,812 --> 00:51:07,230 then I went to go test the trophy truck. 879 00:51:07,314 --> 00:51:09,649 I've got SEMA next week. 880 00:51:09,733 --> 00:51:12,444 It's not like I get to come home to, like, a dog. 881 00:51:12,527 --> 00:51:15,030 I would kill my dog. I just got a fish and I'm like -- 882 00:51:15,113 --> 00:51:17,157 I joke about how this fish is gonna die 883 00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:18,992 within weeks, literally weeks, 884 00:51:19,075 --> 00:51:22,621 because who's gonna take care of it when I'm gone? 885 00:51:22,704 --> 00:51:24,998 Who? Like who -- My plants. 886 00:51:25,081 --> 00:51:28,668 It's so hard for me to keep plants alive. 887 00:51:28,752 --> 00:51:29,836 You know what I named my fish? 888 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,046 Puppy. 889 00:51:34,633 --> 00:51:36,134 So I do have a puppy. 890 00:51:38,929 --> 00:51:40,806 -You're gonna have to choose, right? 891 00:51:40,889 --> 00:51:43,183 It's -- it's just impossible to balance everything. 892 00:51:45,393 --> 00:51:49,689 If you're going to live a life where you are chasing adventures 893 00:51:49,773 --> 00:51:52,526 and you get to do all these wonderful things 894 00:51:52,609 --> 00:51:55,529 that keep you away from home most of the year, 895 00:51:55,612 --> 00:51:57,864 you're gonna have to sacrifice 896 00:51:57,948 --> 00:52:01,535 having a solid relationship and a family. 897 00:52:01,618 --> 00:52:09,376 ♪♪ 898 00:52:09,459 --> 00:52:15,674 ♪♪ 899 00:52:20,637 --> 00:52:22,639 -Everybody, we're starting the start car. 900 00:52:25,809 --> 00:52:27,811 -Okay. Start sequence has begun. 901 00:52:31,815 --> 00:52:34,776 My information -- we have generator working. 902 00:52:43,326 --> 00:52:46,538 Okay. Information -- the canopy is down and locked. 903 00:52:46,621 --> 00:52:54,588 ♪♪ 904 00:52:54,671 --> 00:53:03,138 ♪♪ 905 00:53:03,221 --> 00:53:11,938 ♪♪ 906 00:53:12,022 --> 00:53:16,985 ♪♪ 907 00:53:25,493 --> 00:53:32,542 ♪♪ 908 00:53:32,626 --> 00:53:39,799 ♪♪ 909 00:53:56,399 --> 00:54:03,531 ♪♪ 910 00:54:03,615 --> 00:54:10,830 ♪♪ 911 00:54:10,914 --> 00:54:16,753 ♪♪ 912 00:54:26,471 --> 00:54:31,726 ♪♪ 913 00:54:31,810 --> 00:54:37,232 ♪♪ 914 00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:47,367 ♪♪ 915 00:54:47,450 --> 00:54:49,703 ♪♪ 916 00:54:49,786 --> 00:54:52,539 -Whoo. 917 00:54:52,622 --> 00:55:00,296 ♪♪ 918 00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:03,049 Holy fuck. 919 00:55:03,133 --> 00:55:07,220 [ Laughs ] Oh, my God. 920 00:55:09,639 --> 00:55:10,807 -Yeah, I saw that. 921 00:55:13,476 --> 00:55:14,978 -Both parachutes failed. 922 00:55:17,564 --> 00:55:19,232 That's why I didn't fucking stop. 923 00:55:19,315 --> 00:55:27,449 ♪♪ 924 00:55:27,532 --> 00:55:29,117 ♪♪ 925 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:30,785 ♪♪ 926 00:55:30,869 --> 00:55:32,620 ♪♪ 927 00:55:49,512 --> 00:55:50,764 -Okay. 928 00:55:50,847 --> 00:55:52,432 -Even when I saw the bushes coming, I was okay. 929 00:55:52,515 --> 00:55:55,602 I promise. 930 00:55:55,685 --> 00:55:56,853 Could you hear me? 931 00:55:59,981 --> 00:56:01,858 How did you know? Why were you freaking out? 932 00:56:11,451 --> 00:56:14,120 Okay. Okay. 933 00:56:14,204 --> 00:56:18,416 ♪♪ 934 00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:19,876 That was fucking scary. 935 00:56:19,959 --> 00:56:26,508 ♪♪ 936 00:56:26,591 --> 00:56:33,014 ♪♪ 937 00:56:33,098 --> 00:56:35,850 I fully believe that I experienced a miracle. 938 00:56:37,435 --> 00:56:39,104 Right before the bushes, 939 00:56:39,187 --> 00:56:41,606 I had to have still been going 100 miles an hour. 940 00:56:41,689 --> 00:56:45,151 It literally seemed like the hand of God just came out, 941 00:56:45,235 --> 00:56:49,906 put his hand on my windshield, and took me from 90 to nothing 942 00:56:49,989 --> 00:56:52,325 in the most graceful way possible. 943 00:56:56,329 --> 00:56:58,873 You know, there was a small fraction in there like, 944 00:56:58,957 --> 00:57:00,792 "Ahh, this might be my last day." 945 00:57:00,875 --> 00:57:02,669 Like, I -- That was the first time 946 00:57:02,752 --> 00:57:05,880 I think I've ever literally thought that thought, 947 00:57:05,964 --> 00:57:08,466 like "This might be my last day." 948 00:57:11,761 --> 00:57:16,182 I -- I'm not afraid of dying, but I'm not ready to die. 949 00:57:19,269 --> 00:57:22,313 This is something that I really want to die for. 950 00:57:22,397 --> 00:57:23,982 You know? 951 00:57:24,065 --> 00:57:27,861 Is this something I want to die for? 952 00:57:27,944 --> 00:57:34,617 ♪♪ 953 00:57:34,701 --> 00:57:36,870 -That was terrifying. It was just -- 954 00:57:36,953 --> 00:57:40,206 And to hear that she was scared, she doesn't get scared. 955 00:57:40,290 --> 00:57:41,666 So it was like -- So I think 956 00:57:41,749 --> 00:57:43,042 that's what made it scarier for me 957 00:57:43,126 --> 00:57:45,128 because it's like, "Okay, if Jessi is scared 958 00:57:45,211 --> 00:57:47,380 from what just happened today, 959 00:57:47,463 --> 00:57:50,049 that means it can get really, really bad." 960 00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:55,346 ♪♪ 961 00:57:55,430 --> 00:57:58,141 There was a major shift that we could all see 962 00:57:58,224 --> 00:58:00,476 and we could all feel. 963 00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,104 Something would have to change in the career life 964 00:58:03,188 --> 00:58:06,232 in order to make family as profound 965 00:58:06,316 --> 00:58:07,859 and beneficial as she wanted. 966 00:58:11,321 --> 00:58:12,906 I don't think depression is the right word, 967 00:58:12,989 --> 00:58:15,158 but she just -- She was lonely. 968 00:58:15,241 --> 00:58:18,369 And it was -- It was a space that not even us as family 969 00:58:18,453 --> 00:58:20,079 could have filled for her. 970 00:58:23,791 --> 00:58:26,252 Hey, everybody. I just wanted to miss you a merry Christmas. 971 00:58:26,336 --> 00:58:29,339 I know this isn't always the easiest time of year for people. 972 00:58:29,422 --> 00:58:31,257 I know it's really difficult for me, 973 00:58:31,341 --> 00:58:33,635 but at least it snowed here. 974 00:58:33,718 --> 00:58:37,096 -Christmas was always the hardest time of year for her 975 00:58:37,180 --> 00:58:40,308 because that's when her family split. 976 00:58:40,391 --> 00:58:44,812 And so she actually would go away on her own. 977 00:58:44,896 --> 00:58:52,070 ♪♪ 978 00:58:52,153 --> 00:58:53,488 -The divorce wasn't so bad 979 00:58:53,571 --> 00:58:55,698 as it was just how it all kind of came about. 980 00:58:55,782 --> 00:58:57,784 It all happened at Christmas. 981 00:58:57,867 --> 00:59:01,037 And so Christmas was always bad for her. Always. 982 00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,957 And she was 12 when that all happened. 983 00:59:11,881 --> 00:59:14,300 -Yeah, I guess. 984 00:59:14,384 --> 00:59:15,969 I mean, you know, I'd go out and mow the lawn 985 00:59:16,052 --> 00:59:18,429 and who would be out there traipsing along beside me? 986 00:59:18,513 --> 00:59:21,140 Jess. [ Chuckles ] You know? 987 00:59:22,517 --> 00:59:28,189 -She liked hanging out with him, and he absolutely adored her. 988 00:59:28,273 --> 00:59:29,565 But because of the divorce 989 00:59:29,649 --> 00:59:31,401 and because of moving so far away from her dad, 990 00:59:31,484 --> 00:59:35,905 there weren't nearly as many family moments after that. 991 00:59:42,287 --> 00:59:45,957 -Uh, just some of the poor decisions that were made 992 00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,126 along the way, I guess. 993 00:59:52,046 --> 00:59:53,756 Some of the stuff. Yeah. 994 00:59:55,758 --> 00:59:57,844 So... 995 01:00:00,555 --> 01:00:03,558 -You know, I think you kind of have this Disney-movie idea 996 01:00:03,641 --> 01:00:05,852 of what true love is supposed to be like 997 01:00:05,935 --> 01:00:07,395 and how it's your prince forever 998 01:00:07,478 --> 01:00:10,648 and it's always gonna be perfect and it's not. 999 01:00:10,732 --> 01:00:14,110 So she's seeking out something that's probably unrealistic. 1000 01:00:14,193 --> 01:00:18,031 ♪♪ 1001 01:00:18,114 --> 01:00:19,907 -I don't understand why men can go out 1002 01:00:19,991 --> 01:00:22,452 and live these wild and free lives 1003 01:00:22,535 --> 01:00:24,912 but still be able to attract partners. 1004 01:00:24,996 --> 01:00:28,374 Whereas I seem to get these assholes 1005 01:00:28,458 --> 01:00:30,668 or these people who don't fully get it. 1006 01:00:30,752 --> 01:00:34,881 ♪♪ 1007 01:00:34,964 --> 01:00:37,342 It's like this never-ending cycle of being 1008 01:00:37,425 --> 01:00:41,721 in really bad relationships or being completely alone. 1009 01:00:43,723 --> 01:00:45,016 -There's an old saying -- 1010 01:00:45,099 --> 01:00:47,310 Behind every great man, there's a woman. 1011 01:00:47,393 --> 01:00:49,771 Well, today, the opposite is also true. 1012 01:00:49,854 --> 01:00:51,022 And for Kitty O'Neil, 1013 01:00:51,105 --> 01:00:53,316 the man behind the scene is her husband, 1014 01:00:53,399 --> 01:00:54,400 Duffy Hambleton. 1015 01:00:54,484 --> 01:00:55,735 His confidence and support 1016 01:00:55,818 --> 01:00:58,488 has helped Kitty win many unusual accomplishments. 1017 01:00:58,571 --> 01:01:00,531 -The guy that she supposedly was married to, 1018 01:01:00,615 --> 01:01:02,575 Duffy Hambleton -- They were not married. 1019 01:01:02,658 --> 01:01:05,495 Their relationship was not very good. 1020 01:01:05,578 --> 01:01:07,830 I seen Duffy slap her around. 1021 01:01:07,914 --> 01:01:09,248 That was out there. 1022 01:01:09,332 --> 01:01:10,750 There was a lot of screaming in the household. 1023 01:01:10,833 --> 01:01:15,421 That's one of the reasons I moved out of that place. 1024 01:01:15,505 --> 01:01:18,841 Duffy was a schemer. Duffy was a smart guy. 1025 01:01:18,925 --> 01:01:21,844 He was a smart criminal. 1026 01:01:21,928 --> 01:01:23,262 She told me that he had 1027 01:01:23,346 --> 01:01:26,015 $1,000,000 life-insurance policy on her. 1028 01:01:26,099 --> 01:01:29,102 He was out there to take her money away from her 1029 01:01:29,185 --> 01:01:30,686 and then get rid of her at the end. 1030 01:01:30,770 --> 01:01:32,438 He was a bad guy. 1031 01:01:32,522 --> 01:01:35,441 ♪♪ 1032 01:01:35,525 --> 01:01:40,947 One day we went out to El Mirage, California. 1033 01:01:41,030 --> 01:01:43,324 We had a rocket-powered Corvette, 1034 01:01:43,408 --> 01:01:46,327 and we were gonna have her set a record. 1035 01:01:46,411 --> 01:01:49,122 But there was something going on that I didn't know about. 1036 01:01:49,205 --> 01:01:55,962 ♪♪ 1037 01:01:56,045 --> 01:01:57,713 -Whoa! She's flying! 1038 01:02:00,258 --> 01:02:01,801 She's going too fast to stop! 1039 01:02:01,884 --> 01:02:03,594 [ Yells indistinctly ] 1040 01:02:03,678 --> 01:02:06,305 End over end. 1041 01:02:06,389 --> 01:02:08,808 Wreckage is strewn everywhere. 1042 01:02:08,891 --> 01:02:11,227 [ Siren wails ] 1043 01:02:11,310 --> 01:02:13,271 -I couldn't believe that she crashed. 1044 01:02:13,354 --> 01:02:15,440 I, uh... 1045 01:02:15,523 --> 01:02:18,276 I didn't understand what the h-- what happened. 1046 01:02:18,359 --> 01:02:20,153 I couldn't believe that, you know, 1047 01:02:20,236 --> 01:02:21,654 there's not a scratch on her. 1048 01:02:21,737 --> 01:02:23,656 -I'm okay. 1049 01:02:23,739 --> 01:02:25,491 -Kitty is alright! 1050 01:02:25,575 --> 01:02:26,826 -Yeah. 1051 01:02:26,909 --> 01:02:28,911 It was fine. 1052 01:02:28,995 --> 01:02:29,954 I'm okay. 1053 01:02:30,037 --> 01:02:38,212 ♪♪ 1054 01:02:38,296 --> 01:02:41,632 -Kitty disappeared after that car crashed. 1055 01:02:41,716 --> 01:02:42,967 And at that point, 1056 01:02:43,050 --> 01:02:46,429 I knew that Duffy had something to do with it. 1057 01:02:46,512 --> 01:02:49,307 I mean, she feared for her life. 1058 01:02:49,390 --> 01:02:54,145 And even after he passed away, she was still scared of him. 1059 01:02:54,228 --> 01:02:58,357 ♪♪ 1060 01:02:58,441 --> 01:03:00,401 -This is, like, this mind-boggling thing 1061 01:03:00,485 --> 01:03:03,571 because she seems that she's very capable, 1062 01:03:03,654 --> 01:03:06,199 very strong, can handle anything. 1063 01:03:06,282 --> 01:03:10,369 She's tough. Nothing seems to phase her. 1064 01:03:10,453 --> 01:03:13,372 And yet she lives up in this environment 1065 01:03:13,456 --> 01:03:15,082 that's... 1066 01:03:15,166 --> 01:03:18,127 Like, it's empty and it's lonely. 1067 01:03:18,211 --> 01:03:22,673 And the last thing that I want is to end up like that. 1068 01:03:22,757 --> 01:03:26,802 ♪♪ 1069 01:03:26,886 --> 01:03:30,431 -Jessi is this enormous energy, right? 1070 01:03:30,515 --> 01:03:32,391 And super independent. 1071 01:03:32,475 --> 01:03:35,645 That only got stronger and stronger the older she got. 1072 01:03:35,728 --> 01:03:37,772 More independent, more adventurous, 1073 01:03:37,855 --> 01:03:39,524 more all of those things, 1074 01:03:39,607 --> 01:03:41,234 which made it even harder for a guy to be like, 1075 01:03:41,317 --> 01:03:43,069 "I don't know if I can handle this package." 1076 01:03:43,152 --> 01:03:45,238 Right? 1077 01:03:45,321 --> 01:03:46,864 But there is power in that. 1078 01:03:46,948 --> 01:03:50,910 If you can figure out how to culminate that strength, 1079 01:03:50,993 --> 01:03:54,705 it is something that will take you far. 1080 01:03:54,789 --> 01:03:56,165 People will trust you. 1081 01:03:56,249 --> 01:03:59,126 People will know they can rely on you. 1082 01:03:59,210 --> 01:04:01,379 People will turn to you. 1083 01:04:01,462 --> 01:04:04,257 There's just so much power in being yourself. 1084 01:04:04,340 --> 01:04:07,134 ♪♪ 1085 01:04:07,218 --> 01:04:10,346 -Yeeeeeaaaahh! 1086 01:04:10,429 --> 01:04:12,431 Whoo-hoo! 1087 01:04:12,515 --> 01:04:17,395 -First female Grand Marshal in Sturgis -- 1088 01:04:17,478 --> 01:04:20,022 her backyard, her hometown. 1089 01:04:20,106 --> 01:04:22,191 -My home. -It is her home. 1090 01:04:24,652 --> 01:04:27,947 -I am the Grand Marshal of the 77th Sturgis rally. 1091 01:04:28,030 --> 01:04:30,408 First female in all of its history. 1092 01:04:30,491 --> 01:04:38,624 ♪♪ 1093 01:04:38,708 --> 01:04:40,585 [ Horns honking ] 1094 01:04:40,668 --> 01:04:45,089 -For me, watching Jessi become the Grand Marshal for Sturgis, 1095 01:04:45,172 --> 01:04:47,300 shatter that ceiling, was everything. 1096 01:04:47,383 --> 01:04:48,968 It was everything. 1097 01:04:53,556 --> 01:04:58,311 ♪♪ 1098 01:04:58,394 --> 01:05:00,646 You know, it's a male-dominated thing. 1099 01:05:00,730 --> 01:05:02,690 You know, it's all of these men on motorcycles. 1100 01:05:02,773 --> 01:05:04,984 And it didn't even occur to her that she was a woman. 1101 01:05:05,067 --> 01:05:07,194 She just jumped in and thought, "You know what? I can do this. 1102 01:05:07,278 --> 01:05:10,197 I'm gonna -- I'm just going to shoot in that direction." 1103 01:05:12,408 --> 01:05:15,494 -I tried to take that whole female factor out of it. 1104 01:05:15,578 --> 01:05:17,163 Fastest female on four wheels. 1105 01:05:17,246 --> 01:05:21,876 While I'm also in the top 10 fastest people on the planet. 1106 01:05:21,959 --> 01:05:24,670 But at what point are we gonna not have 1107 01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:27,757 to make that determination of, like, male, female? 1108 01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:29,634 [ Engine starts ] 1109 01:05:29,717 --> 01:05:31,052 As soon as I grab that throttle, 1110 01:05:31,135 --> 01:05:33,554 it doesn't know if I'm a male or a female. 1111 01:05:33,638 --> 01:05:36,807 It's gonna react the same exact way. 1112 01:05:36,891 --> 01:05:39,268 I just drive, and I drive as fast as I can. 1113 01:05:39,352 --> 01:05:48,444 ♪♪ 1114 01:05:52,948 --> 01:05:56,077 [ Dog barking ] 1115 01:05:59,955 --> 01:06:03,209 -There's more coffee in this coffee pot. 1116 01:06:03,292 --> 01:06:04,627 -Alright. 1117 01:06:04,710 --> 01:06:06,837 -[ Humming ] 1118 01:06:12,426 --> 01:06:15,054 We were kind of neighbors. 1119 01:06:15,137 --> 01:06:18,307 And I used to ride my horse to see him. 1120 01:06:19,934 --> 01:06:23,437 We were only 16 and 17, too, when we started going together. 1121 01:06:25,481 --> 01:06:28,401 He always wanted to be a pilot in the Air Force 1122 01:06:28,484 --> 01:06:31,779 and then they put him into crypto, into machines, 1123 01:06:31,862 --> 01:06:34,073 and he was really good at that, too. 1124 01:06:34,156 --> 01:06:38,577 He ended up with IBM Corporation when he got out of the service, 1125 01:06:38,661 --> 01:06:40,496 and he worked there for 30 years. 1126 01:06:47,002 --> 01:06:50,005 When did he know he was sick or when did I know he was sick? 1127 01:06:50,089 --> 01:06:51,382 -Both. 1128 01:06:51,465 --> 01:06:54,343 -About three years before he really did get sick. 1129 01:06:54,427 --> 01:06:57,680 I knew it because he was slowing down. 1130 01:06:59,432 --> 01:07:02,560 Cancer is a very ugly disease. 1131 01:07:02,643 --> 01:07:08,858 And it took 13 months for him to really say, "I'm done." 1132 01:07:11,444 --> 01:07:14,447 -Ed and Elaine talked. 1133 01:07:14,530 --> 01:07:15,781 Basically what was gonna happen 1134 01:07:15,865 --> 01:07:18,617 is that they would remove the medication 1135 01:07:18,701 --> 01:07:20,619 that controls his blood pressure 1136 01:07:20,703 --> 01:07:23,247 and simply his blood pressure would drop. 1137 01:07:23,330 --> 01:07:25,291 He would go to sleep and then pass. 1138 01:07:25,374 --> 01:07:30,004 ♪♪ 1139 01:07:30,087 --> 01:07:34,550 So I hold his hand and tell him it's okay to -- 1140 01:07:34,633 --> 01:07:36,010 it's okay to go, Ed. 1141 01:07:38,387 --> 01:07:39,430 It's okay to go. 1142 01:07:39,513 --> 01:07:46,479 ♪♪ 1143 01:07:46,562 --> 01:07:49,148 Hey, first of all, I want to thank everybody for coming here. 1144 01:07:49,231 --> 01:07:50,775 Okay? 1145 01:07:50,858 --> 01:07:54,612 We had some really extraordinary circumstances 1146 01:07:54,695 --> 01:07:57,072 in the last, you know, the last month, 1147 01:07:57,156 --> 01:07:59,909 but it's actually been going on about a year. 1148 01:07:59,992 --> 01:08:05,748 Two days ago, on Friday, Ed Shadle, our leader, 1149 01:08:05,831 --> 01:08:09,627 passed away from a long illness of cancer. 1150 01:08:11,170 --> 01:08:14,673 One week before Ed passed, Jessi flew up 1151 01:08:14,757 --> 01:08:17,593 and spent the whole day with Ed on a Thursday 1152 01:08:17,676 --> 01:08:22,765 and Ed basically handed over the keys to Jessi and said, 1153 01:08:22,848 --> 01:08:25,851 "Okay, you're our driver, you got to go do it." 1154 01:08:25,935 --> 01:08:29,355 And so I think that's when the restraints 1155 01:08:29,438 --> 01:08:30,856 were taken off of Jessi. 1156 01:08:30,940 --> 01:08:33,442 And she knows she could go out and go for the record. 1157 01:08:35,820 --> 01:08:37,738 Ed made it really clear there 1158 01:08:37,822 --> 01:08:41,325 that, "Jessi, you're now the number-one driver. 1159 01:08:41,408 --> 01:08:42,743 We're going to support you 1160 01:08:42,827 --> 01:08:45,871 and make you go as fast as you want to go." 1161 01:08:45,955 --> 01:08:49,375 And then we got Eric there as a backup. 1162 01:08:49,458 --> 01:08:53,420 You know, if for some reason, Jessi decides to get married... 1163 01:08:53,504 --> 01:08:55,297 [ Laughter ] 1164 01:08:55,381 --> 01:08:58,300 ...have children... 1165 01:08:58,384 --> 01:09:00,094 Les, you want to say anything? 1166 01:09:00,177 --> 01:09:01,637 -I just want to say -- 1167 01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:03,389 -Here. Stand up here. -I'm not getting up there. 1168 01:09:03,472 --> 01:09:05,057 -Alright. -On the soapbox. 1169 01:09:05,140 --> 01:09:06,642 -I called Cam on Friday 1170 01:09:06,725 --> 01:09:09,895 and asked him if he'd bring Ed's hat. 1171 01:09:09,979 --> 01:09:12,857 So... 1172 01:09:12,940 --> 01:09:16,902 [voice breaking] it's gonna be in the car all week. 1173 01:09:19,947 --> 01:09:22,408 That's his favorite dirty 200 hat, you know? 1174 01:09:22,491 --> 01:09:23,826 [ Laughter ] 1175 01:09:23,909 --> 01:09:26,912 But Jessi's gonna take it with her on all the runs. 1176 01:09:26,996 --> 01:09:28,455 So... -Yep. 1177 01:09:28,539 --> 01:09:37,381 ♪♪ 1178 01:09:37,464 --> 01:09:38,632 -Ed's not here physically, 1179 01:09:38,716 --> 01:09:41,760 but we know he's here spiritually. 1180 01:09:41,844 --> 01:09:43,679 You know, this is his baby and it's his project. 1181 01:09:43,762 --> 01:09:45,681 And he put his whole life into it. 1182 01:09:45,764 --> 01:09:49,852 But now it's a lot of it is just resting on my shoulders. 1183 01:09:49,935 --> 01:09:53,188 That's heavy because if there's one thing that I can do for Ed 1184 01:09:53,272 --> 01:09:56,525 is really just be able to live out this legend. 1185 01:09:56,609 --> 01:09:59,111 Okay. Alright. Enough crying. 1186 01:09:59,194 --> 01:10:01,572 Let's break some records. -Let's do this. 1187 01:10:01,655 --> 01:10:07,912 ♪♪ 1188 01:10:07,995 --> 01:10:10,831 -Steve. N7STT. I am at 2. 1189 01:10:10,915 --> 01:10:14,293 -Proceed. 1190 01:10:14,376 --> 01:10:21,008 ♪♪ 1191 01:10:21,091 --> 01:10:26,931 ♪♪ 1192 01:10:27,014 --> 01:10:28,641 [ All cheer ] 1193 01:10:28,724 --> 01:10:33,771 ♪♪ 1194 01:10:33,854 --> 01:10:36,815 -Lord God, thank you. 1195 01:10:36,899 --> 01:10:38,567 Father, thank you for your hand 1196 01:10:38,651 --> 01:10:43,697 and your protection as we go forward. 1197 01:10:43,781 --> 01:10:46,825 Trust only in you, Lord, 1198 01:10:46,909 --> 01:10:49,286 as we reach the limits of our capability. 1199 01:10:49,370 --> 01:10:51,830 [ Air hissing ] 1200 01:10:51,914 --> 01:10:58,712 ♪♪ 1201 01:10:58,796 --> 01:11:01,006 -Starting engines. 1202 01:11:01,090 --> 01:11:03,092 Eagle 2, starting engines. 1203 01:11:03,175 --> 01:11:06,428 [ Air hissing ] 1204 01:11:06,512 --> 01:11:08,514 -Copy that. 1205 01:11:08,597 --> 01:11:16,981 ♪♪ 1206 01:11:17,064 --> 01:11:25,197 ♪♪ 1207 01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:32,538 ♪♪ 1208 01:11:32,621 --> 01:11:34,999 ♪♪ 1209 01:11:44,591 --> 01:11:52,016 ♪♪ 1210 01:11:59,815 --> 01:12:01,900 -I felt great. Felt so good. 1211 01:12:01,984 --> 01:12:03,318 All of it felt good. 1212 01:12:03,402 --> 01:12:05,446 And that was slow. It was. 1213 01:12:05,529 --> 01:12:07,197 It was really, really slow. 1214 01:12:07,281 --> 01:12:11,827 Like I said, your guys' steering now is so good. 1215 01:12:11,910 --> 01:12:13,996 It's really, really good. 1216 01:12:14,079 --> 01:12:15,414 All my ghosts, all my demons, 1217 01:12:15,497 --> 01:12:17,583 all the stuff that happened from the last run 1218 01:12:17,666 --> 01:12:20,419 completely gone. 1219 01:12:20,502 --> 01:12:23,088 It's the best feeling in the entire world. 1220 01:12:28,218 --> 01:12:29,970 -I was riding in the limo back, 1221 01:12:30,054 --> 01:12:31,889 listening on the radio conversations, 1222 01:12:31,972 --> 01:12:35,059 and somebody said something about the hydraulic door 1223 01:12:35,142 --> 01:12:36,268 is gone. 1224 01:12:36,351 --> 01:12:37,644 Well, at that point, we're going, "Uh-oh. 1225 01:12:37,728 --> 01:12:39,104 That's right forward to the inlet." 1226 01:12:39,188 --> 01:12:40,898 There's a good possibility 1227 01:12:40,981 --> 01:12:43,067 it might have gone down the inlet and into the engine. 1228 01:12:43,150 --> 01:12:45,819 The aluminum parts, the engine can usually ingest that stuff 1229 01:12:45,903 --> 01:12:47,946 and not get too much damage in there. 1230 01:12:48,030 --> 01:12:49,281 If there's a steel part, 1231 01:12:49,364 --> 01:12:52,451 the engine is pretty much junk at that point. 1232 01:12:52,534 --> 01:12:54,995 -And that's why we're out there sweeping the desert, 1233 01:12:55,079 --> 01:12:56,330 is to make sure that we don't get rocks 1234 01:12:56,413 --> 01:12:57,956 or anything going into those blades, 1235 01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,709 because if it fractures one of those, we're done. 1236 01:13:00,793 --> 01:13:02,795 So right now, we're -- we're thinking 1237 01:13:02,878 --> 01:13:04,129 that we're done for this trip. 1238 01:13:04,213 --> 01:13:06,131 Terry? 1239 01:13:06,215 --> 01:13:08,092 Yeah? 1240 01:13:09,718 --> 01:13:11,345 Yeah. 1241 01:13:15,057 --> 01:13:17,101 Okay. That's okay. 1242 01:13:17,184 --> 01:13:19,895 We're not gonna talk about that. It's nobody's fault. 1243 01:13:22,106 --> 01:13:25,109 -I shut that door like I did a million times, 1244 01:13:25,192 --> 01:13:28,987 and it was loose and locked and loose... 1245 01:13:29,071 --> 01:13:32,241 I don't know what happened. I apologize. 1246 01:13:32,324 --> 01:13:34,493 -I'm not blaming anybody. You know? 1247 01:13:34,576 --> 01:13:37,746 The weight of the world falls on all of our shoulders. 1248 01:13:37,830 --> 01:13:40,249 So hopefully we can lift it up off of you. 1249 01:13:40,332 --> 01:13:43,544 Because to me, that run was fucking amazing, Keith. 1250 01:13:43,627 --> 01:13:45,254 -Yeah. -It was really, really good. 1251 01:13:45,337 --> 01:13:47,673 -Yeah. -It restored my faith in myself. 1252 01:13:47,756 --> 01:13:50,050 -Yeah. -It restored faith in the team. 1253 01:13:50,134 --> 01:13:51,677 Like, everything was working. 1254 01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:54,638 Steering was working, everything worked. 1255 01:13:54,721 --> 01:13:57,850 I 100% forgive you. I don't think it's your fault. 1256 01:13:57,933 --> 01:13:59,309 -At least the steering worked. 1257 01:13:59,393 --> 01:14:00,477 -[ Laughs ] 1258 01:14:00,561 --> 01:14:02,563 [ Speaks indistinctly ] 1259 01:14:02,646 --> 01:14:04,731 Come here. Come here. Come here. 1260 01:14:04,815 --> 01:14:05,899 I love you, Keith. 1261 01:14:05,983 --> 01:14:07,484 -I love you, too. 1262 01:14:07,568 --> 01:14:10,696 -I'm not mad. Okay? -Okay. 1263 01:14:10,779 --> 01:14:12,906 -Okay, let us take some burden off. 1264 01:14:12,990 --> 01:14:19,204 ♪♪ 1265 01:14:19,288 --> 01:14:22,749 -I pulled out the top vectors for "X," "Y" and "Z" 1266 01:14:22,833 --> 01:14:24,376 and added them together. 1267 01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:27,546 And it's gonna be left or right of that number right there. 1268 01:14:27,629 --> 01:14:30,465 [ Laughter ] 1269 01:14:30,549 --> 01:14:32,384 -Really? Really? 1270 01:14:32,467 --> 01:14:34,219 You're kidding me. 1271 01:14:34,303 --> 01:14:37,055 -That's the top speed. -And that's my shakedown run. 1272 01:14:37,139 --> 01:14:41,143 -If you had gotten on it, like, at the quarter mile 1273 01:14:41,226 --> 01:14:43,395 instead of after the one mile... -Yeah. 1274 01:14:43,478 --> 01:14:45,647 -...you would have been way over 500. 1275 01:14:45,731 --> 01:14:47,524 Ahh. 1276 01:14:47,608 --> 01:14:50,652 -I always love your information. 1277 01:14:50,736 --> 01:14:52,571 -I always love giving it to you. 1278 01:14:52,654 --> 01:14:54,239 -Yes. -Wonder why. 1279 01:14:54,323 --> 01:15:03,207 ♪♪ 1280 01:15:03,290 --> 01:15:10,172 ♪♪ 1281 01:15:10,255 --> 01:15:17,054 ♪♪ 1282 01:15:17,137 --> 01:15:21,099 -3, 2, 1. Ignition. 1283 01:15:21,183 --> 01:15:26,772 ♪♪ 1284 01:15:26,855 --> 01:15:32,277 ♪♪ 1285 01:15:32,361 --> 01:15:34,738 -Kitty was supposed to just break the woman's record, 1286 01:15:34,821 --> 01:15:36,990 which was 300 miles an hour, 1287 01:15:37,074 --> 01:15:40,619 and then all of a sudden, she's gone over 500. 1288 01:15:43,038 --> 01:15:45,832 -That is the record now. -The official record. 1289 01:15:45,916 --> 01:15:47,709 -New land speed record for women. 1290 01:15:47,793 --> 01:15:49,127 -She's doing great. 1291 01:15:49,211 --> 01:15:50,796 We're gonna go faster if she wants to go faster. 1292 01:15:50,879 --> 01:15:53,507 -Yeah, I want to go faster. -You want to go faster. 1293 01:15:53,590 --> 01:15:55,676 Very good. 1294 01:15:55,759 --> 01:15:58,470 -And then the story I heard 1295 01:15:58,554 --> 01:16:02,057 is that they wanted Hal Needham to set the overall record, 1296 01:16:02,140 --> 01:16:03,934 and they yanked her out of the car. 1297 01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:11,817 It just seems to me that they could have worked that deal out. 1298 01:16:11,900 --> 01:16:13,360 But if you were to put Kitty in that car, 1299 01:16:13,443 --> 01:16:15,279 she would have put it right to the wood again. 1300 01:16:15,362 --> 01:16:16,822 I guarantee she would have. 1301 01:16:16,905 --> 01:16:19,283 -Seemed like when you want to do something 1302 01:16:19,366 --> 01:16:20,826 that's the first time ever done in the world, 1303 01:16:20,909 --> 01:16:23,328 everybody wants to stop you for some reason. 1304 01:16:23,412 --> 01:16:24,496 I don't understand that. 1305 01:16:24,579 --> 01:16:26,748 I feel very disappointed with it. 1306 01:16:29,543 --> 01:16:32,379 -It's sad. It's very sad. 1307 01:16:32,462 --> 01:16:36,091 She suffered in many ways, mentally and physically, 1308 01:16:36,174 --> 01:16:38,468 because those things were done to her, 1309 01:16:38,552 --> 01:16:39,928 you know, over the years. 1310 01:16:41,305 --> 01:16:44,016 And then she just disappeared. 1311 01:16:44,099 --> 01:16:46,184 Nobody knew where she was at. 1312 01:16:47,978 --> 01:16:49,354 All of a sudden, I get a call 1313 01:16:49,438 --> 01:16:51,606 from a mental institution in Texas. 1314 01:16:51,690 --> 01:16:55,027 And so I jumped on a plane and went down there 1315 01:16:55,110 --> 01:16:59,197 and I went to court and became her legal guardian, 1316 01:16:59,281 --> 01:17:00,699 brought her back up to Minneapolis. 1317 01:17:00,782 --> 01:17:03,702 And I thought everything was gonna be really good, 1318 01:17:03,785 --> 01:17:05,787 and she took up drinking. 1319 01:17:07,497 --> 01:17:10,792 Yeah. She -- You know, I was 10 years older than her 1320 01:17:10,876 --> 01:17:14,296 and she aged very, very fast. 1321 01:17:14,379 --> 01:17:17,090 -Kitty O'Neil, the fastest woman in the world, 1322 01:17:17,174 --> 01:17:20,052 died this week in Eureka, South Dakota. 1323 01:17:20,135 --> 01:17:22,179 She was 72 years old. 1324 01:17:25,140 --> 01:17:26,558 In December of 1976, 1325 01:17:26,641 --> 01:17:30,479 Kitty broke the women's land speed world record. 1326 01:17:30,562 --> 01:17:32,939 Her record still stands today. 1327 01:17:33,023 --> 01:17:38,070 ♪♪ 1328 01:17:38,153 --> 01:17:43,075 ♪♪ 1329 01:17:43,158 --> 01:17:47,454 -So it's, um, August 14th. 1330 01:17:47,537 --> 01:17:50,290 We leave for the lake bed... [clears throat] 1331 01:17:50,374 --> 01:17:53,919 ...in, what, six days, seven days? 1332 01:17:54,002 --> 01:17:58,298 Um... and I'm still at my mom's house 1333 01:17:58,382 --> 01:18:00,509 in Rapid City, South Dakota. 1334 01:18:00,592 --> 01:18:04,179 I never left after the Sturgis rally. 1335 01:18:04,262 --> 01:18:06,640 My back was doing so good. 1336 01:18:06,723 --> 01:18:09,351 And then... 1337 01:18:09,434 --> 01:18:11,436 And then I came home with strep throat. 1338 01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:13,271 [ Clears throat ] 1339 01:18:13,355 --> 01:18:14,981 So all the coughing has gotten me 1340 01:18:15,065 --> 01:18:18,026 to a point where my back hurts again. 1341 01:18:20,654 --> 01:18:23,365 -She was overseas filming in Italy. 1342 01:18:23,448 --> 01:18:26,451 Her -- her back kind of gave her some fits. 1343 01:18:26,535 --> 01:18:29,413 You know, she had a -- She was in a lot of pain. 1344 01:18:29,496 --> 01:18:32,999 You know, I'm sure it's as a result of the injury years ago 1345 01:18:33,083 --> 01:18:34,334 that she experienced. 1346 01:18:37,212 --> 01:18:40,841 -From then, it's, you know, 1347 01:18:40,924 --> 01:18:43,051 2 steps forward, 10 steps back. 1348 01:18:45,762 --> 01:18:49,099 -Nina and I weren't sure that Jessi 1349 01:18:49,182 --> 01:18:50,851 was even gonna go to the desert this year. 1350 01:18:52,060 --> 01:18:55,021 -Alright, guys, this is my first time driving 1351 01:18:55,105 --> 01:18:57,816 in, like, two months. 1352 01:18:57,899 --> 01:18:59,651 For some odd reason, when I put my foot 1353 01:18:59,734 --> 01:19:00,861 down on the throttle, 1354 01:19:00,944 --> 01:19:03,989 it just goes straight to my back pain. 1355 01:19:04,072 --> 01:19:05,157 So I haven't driven. 1356 01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:06,783 I haven't ridden a motorcycle either, 1357 01:19:06,867 --> 01:19:09,286 but driving is kind of a big deal 1358 01:19:09,369 --> 01:19:12,038 because I really like being able to get myself around. 1359 01:19:12,122 --> 01:19:15,375 I'll let you know in 15 minutes if it's sucked. 1360 01:19:15,459 --> 01:19:18,336 ♪♪ 1361 01:19:18,420 --> 01:19:20,005 -She stayed at our house 1362 01:19:20,088 --> 01:19:23,383 for the 10 days for the Sturgis rally. 1363 01:19:23,467 --> 01:19:25,343 We went out for dinner one night and the question 1364 01:19:25,427 --> 01:19:27,304 was posed to her, "Do you think it's wise 1365 01:19:27,387 --> 01:19:30,682 for you in your condition to get in the car? 1366 01:19:30,765 --> 01:19:34,561 You could possibly be paralyzed from the waist down." 1367 01:19:34,644 --> 01:19:36,980 Is that really something that you want to risk?" 1368 01:19:40,567 --> 01:19:43,528 -Jessi began to tell me about challenges in her -- 1369 01:19:43,612 --> 01:19:47,240 in her personal life and within family and company. 1370 01:19:47,324 --> 01:19:51,703 And she was just feeling really convoluted about this decision 1371 01:19:51,786 --> 01:19:55,874 to go forward with, you know, setting the record. 1372 01:19:55,957 --> 01:19:58,710 "There are people who don't want me to do it. 1373 01:19:58,793 --> 01:20:01,338 There's been points where I'm not sure I want to do it." 1374 01:20:01,421 --> 01:20:03,590 She said, "But then I most especially feel 1375 01:20:03,673 --> 01:20:07,135 like this is what I'm supposed to be doing. 1376 01:20:07,219 --> 01:20:09,095 What does that mean?" 1377 01:20:11,431 --> 01:20:12,974 -This is pretty! 1378 01:20:13,058 --> 01:20:18,438 -She had had at that point three times now the same dream. 1379 01:20:21,483 --> 01:20:23,235 She said, "You know, I drive these cars. 1380 01:20:23,318 --> 01:20:26,530 It's like flying a rocket on the ground. 1381 01:20:26,613 --> 01:20:30,408 So I'm always looking at the horizon and gauges 1382 01:20:30,492 --> 01:20:31,785 and all the stuff." 1383 01:20:31,868 --> 01:20:34,704 And she said, "In my dream, I'm in my cockpit, 1384 01:20:34,788 --> 01:20:38,583 but I feel like I'm not in my body. 1385 01:20:38,667 --> 01:20:42,087 Like I'm just watching it from out here somewhere." 1386 01:20:44,714 --> 01:20:47,968 She kind of got real quiet for a second. 1387 01:20:48,051 --> 01:20:52,430 She said, "I see myself leaving," 1388 01:20:52,514 --> 01:20:56,017 like, leaving this plane. Do you get what I'm saying? 1389 01:20:59,688 --> 01:21:02,440 And I said, "Well, can you die doing this, Jessi?" 1390 01:21:02,524 --> 01:21:04,734 And she said, "Well, yeah." [ Laughs ] 1391 01:21:04,818 --> 01:21:06,278 I said, "Okay." 1392 01:21:06,361 --> 01:21:07,862 She goes, "But I'm not afraid." 1393 01:21:07,946 --> 01:21:10,031 She goes, "I really -- I just feel so light. 1394 01:21:10,115 --> 01:21:12,701 In this dream, in this vision, it's just this light. 1395 01:21:12,784 --> 01:21:15,287 It's the horizon. And I just go, 'Whoo.'" 1396 01:21:15,370 --> 01:21:23,295 ♪♪ 1397 01:21:23,378 --> 01:21:31,469 ♪♪ 1398 01:21:31,553 --> 01:21:39,144 ♪♪ 1399 01:21:39,227 --> 01:21:47,485 ♪♪ 1400 01:21:47,569 --> 01:21:55,869 ♪♪ 1401 01:21:55,952 --> 01:22:03,043 ♪♪ 1402 01:22:03,126 --> 01:22:10,717 ♪♪ 1403 01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:16,806 ♪♪ 1404 01:22:16,890 --> 01:22:22,771 ♪♪ 1405 01:22:22,854 --> 01:22:25,273 -Mile marker 4 is clear. 1406 01:22:25,357 --> 01:22:27,984 -That's good. Press it again. 1407 01:22:28,068 --> 01:22:30,987 -Mile marker 5, clear. 1408 01:22:31,071 --> 01:22:33,031 -Mile 7 clear. 1409 01:22:36,785 --> 01:22:37,994 -Okay. 1410 01:22:43,041 --> 01:22:49,673 ♪♪ 1411 01:22:49,756 --> 01:22:56,388 ♪♪ 1412 01:22:56,471 --> 01:23:01,017 ♪♪ 1413 01:23:23,790 --> 01:23:28,670 ♪♪ 1414 01:23:28,753 --> 01:23:33,717 ♪♪ 1415 01:23:45,979 --> 01:23:48,064 -Yeah. 1416 01:24:09,294 --> 01:24:10,587 -Whoo! 1417 01:24:49,167 --> 01:24:50,710 Whew. 1418 01:24:50,794 --> 01:24:52,295 Whew. 1419 01:24:52,378 --> 01:24:54,631 [ Sighs ] I wish I could bring all of you with me in that 1420 01:24:54,714 --> 01:24:57,091 just so you could feel it. It's so rad. 1421 01:24:57,175 --> 01:24:59,969 -I heard you did good. -It was so good. 1422 01:25:00,053 --> 01:25:02,347 You feel better? -Much better. 1423 01:25:02,430 --> 01:25:03,515 -[ Laughing ] Good. 1424 01:25:03,598 --> 01:25:05,183 -Little stress relief. Yeah. 1425 01:25:05,266 --> 01:25:07,310 -Okay. Ready? 1426 01:25:07,393 --> 01:25:10,814 Alright. Jessi's top speed... 1427 01:25:10,897 --> 01:25:12,732 -Well, let's do average first. 1428 01:25:12,816 --> 01:25:14,275 -Oh, do average. -Yeah. 1429 01:25:14,359 --> 01:25:17,362 -503.195. 1430 01:25:17,445 --> 01:25:19,489 -Average. -Average. 1431 01:25:19,572 --> 01:25:22,033 [ Cheers and applause ] 1432 01:25:22,116 --> 01:25:26,746 -Top speed -- 515 miles per hour. 1433 01:25:26,830 --> 01:25:29,290 [ Cheers and applause ] 1434 01:25:31,751 --> 01:25:33,545 -Saunders, we just have to go faster. 1435 01:25:33,628 --> 01:25:36,756 -There you go. Alright. I like that. 1436 01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:40,260 -And let's also consider that was still a shakedown run, too. 1437 01:25:40,343 --> 01:25:41,427 So... -Yeah. 1438 01:25:41,511 --> 01:25:43,680 -We were laughing about that part. 1439 01:25:43,763 --> 01:25:45,598 These shakedown runs keep getting faster. 1440 01:25:45,682 --> 01:25:48,226 -I like -- I love it. -So with that said, 1441 01:25:48,309 --> 01:25:50,520 we're no longer testing. -We're racing. 1442 01:25:50,603 --> 01:25:52,313 -We're running for records, so... 1443 01:25:52,397 --> 01:25:53,898 -Amen. -Let's go. 1444 01:25:53,982 --> 01:25:55,066 -Alright. 1445 01:25:55,149 --> 01:25:56,192 [ Applause ] 1446 01:25:56,276 --> 01:26:04,576 ♪♪ 1447 01:26:04,659 --> 01:26:12,917 ♪♪ 1448 01:26:13,001 --> 01:26:21,134 ♪♪ 1449 01:26:21,217 --> 01:26:29,559 ♪♪ 1450 01:26:29,642 --> 01:26:37,901 ♪♪ 1451 01:26:37,984 --> 01:26:45,867 ♪♪ 1452 01:26:45,950 --> 01:26:51,915 ♪♪ 1453 01:26:53,166 --> 01:26:58,421 ♪♪ 1454 01:27:00,882 --> 01:27:04,469 ♪♪ 1455 01:27:07,847 --> 01:27:09,557 -She's not shutting down. 1456 01:27:26,574 --> 01:27:34,374 ♪♪ 1457 01:27:46,552 --> 01:27:49,389 -Down in the bushes and you got a fire. 1458 01:27:49,472 --> 01:27:51,808 -Fire. 1459 01:27:51,891 --> 01:27:58,356 ♪♪ 1460 01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:00,024 [ Indistinct yelling ] 1461 01:28:00,108 --> 01:28:02,277 -Where's she at? 1462 01:28:03,569 --> 01:28:04,862 -Got to get her! 1463 01:28:04,946 --> 01:28:13,538 ♪♪ 1464 01:28:13,621 --> 01:28:22,255 ♪♪ 1465 01:28:22,338 --> 01:28:29,679 ♪♪ 1466 01:28:29,762 --> 01:28:38,312 ♪♪ 1467 01:28:38,396 --> 01:28:47,113 ♪♪ 1468 01:28:47,196 --> 01:28:54,787 ♪♪ 1469 01:28:54,871 --> 01:29:03,087 ♪♪ 1470 01:29:03,171 --> 01:29:11,554 ♪♪ 1471 01:29:11,637 --> 01:29:19,353 ♪♪ 1472 01:29:19,437 --> 01:29:26,903 ♪♪ 1473 01:29:26,986 --> 01:29:36,245 ♪♪ 1474 01:29:40,249 --> 01:29:42,251 -Changing the world. 1475 01:29:45,463 --> 01:29:47,965 I make a difference in people's lives 1476 01:29:48,049 --> 01:29:49,967 by doing what I love to do. 1477 01:29:50,051 --> 01:29:56,974 ♪♪ 1478 01:29:57,058 --> 01:30:00,478 I think it's -- it's what I was born for. 1479 01:30:00,561 --> 01:30:07,860 ♪♪ 1480 01:30:07,944 --> 01:30:13,658 ♪♪ 1481 01:30:13,741 --> 01:30:19,205 ♪♪ 1482 01:30:19,288 --> 01:30:21,999 -Grief and shock today in the racing community 1483 01:30:22,083 --> 01:30:23,835 as news spread that professional driver 1484 01:30:23,918 --> 01:30:27,255 and TV host Jessi Combs died in a jet-car crash. 1485 01:30:27,338 --> 01:30:28,965 The 39-year-old was trying to break... 1486 01:30:29,048 --> 01:30:31,425 -Combs died pushing the limits. 1487 01:30:31,509 --> 01:30:33,010 There are few details. 1488 01:30:33,094 --> 01:30:35,346 Only that there was an accident, and she didn't survive. 1489 01:30:35,429 --> 01:30:43,688 ♪♪ 1490 01:30:43,771 --> 01:30:46,065 -We went back and just waited at camp 1491 01:30:46,149 --> 01:30:49,235 and I never left the truck, 1492 01:30:49,318 --> 01:30:51,863 but I got to sit with her 1493 01:30:51,946 --> 01:30:55,324 for a good hour, hour and a half. 1494 01:30:55,408 --> 01:30:56,701 And that helped, 1495 01:30:56,784 --> 01:30:58,703 but I didn't want to let her go. 1496 01:31:01,539 --> 01:31:06,043 The next few days, it was so sad for everybody. 1497 01:31:06,127 --> 01:31:08,462 There was so much silence. 1498 01:31:08,546 --> 01:31:11,007 [ Sighs ] 1499 01:31:11,090 --> 01:31:13,342 [ Voice breaking ] This is just like it happened yesterday. 1500 01:31:13,426 --> 01:31:19,849 ♪♪ 1501 01:31:19,932 --> 01:31:26,522 ♪♪ 1502 01:31:26,606 --> 01:31:31,235 -For all of us that were there, it was extremely personal. 1503 01:31:31,319 --> 01:31:34,572 The accident scene was something that was horrific 1504 01:31:34,655 --> 01:31:37,325 and is gonna last with us for the rest of our lives. 1505 01:31:37,408 --> 01:31:39,577 But... 1506 01:31:39,660 --> 01:31:41,787 you still have to try and figure it out. 1507 01:31:43,873 --> 01:31:46,083 -We found the actual parachute. 1508 01:31:46,167 --> 01:31:47,960 It was pretty mangled up. 1509 01:31:48,044 --> 01:31:51,172 It was scorched like it was in a fire. 1510 01:31:51,255 --> 01:31:54,926 This parachute was opened in afterburner 1511 01:31:55,009 --> 01:31:58,095 or in full military or something. 1512 01:31:58,179 --> 01:32:02,099 And so there was more going on than parachutes not opening. 1513 01:32:03,184 --> 01:32:04,936 -Some of the team that went 1514 01:32:05,019 --> 01:32:09,106 and walked the entire length of the -- of the track, 1515 01:32:09,190 --> 01:32:13,152 they found pieces of the nose wheel in the 5-mile mark. 1516 01:32:13,236 --> 01:32:16,781 So we know that at some point during that 5-mile point, 1517 01:32:16,864 --> 01:32:19,325 it impacted something under the dirt, 1518 01:32:19,408 --> 01:32:23,996 something that was not visible to the team when they went out 1519 01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:26,332 and walked the course prior to the run. 1520 01:32:26,415 --> 01:32:33,130 ♪♪ 1521 01:32:33,214 --> 01:32:41,055 ♪♪ 1522 01:32:41,138 --> 01:32:42,848 -That's the one that was over her shoulder, 1523 01:32:42,932 --> 01:32:44,976 if I think. -I would imagine. 1524 01:32:45,059 --> 01:32:51,357 ♪♪ 1525 01:32:51,440 --> 01:32:57,530 ♪♪ 1526 01:32:57,613 --> 01:33:01,576 -Watching that video from the beginning on this run, 1527 01:33:01,659 --> 01:33:03,202 everything was going perfect. 1528 01:33:05,788 --> 01:33:11,460 ♪♪ 1529 01:33:11,544 --> 01:33:17,049 ♪♪ 1530 01:33:17,133 --> 01:33:19,635 From start, she went to full military 1531 01:33:19,719 --> 01:33:20,928 and then slid it over 1532 01:33:21,012 --> 01:33:22,471 and went up into full afterburner. 1533 01:33:22,555 --> 01:33:27,226 ♪♪ 1534 01:33:27,310 --> 01:33:30,271 And held in at full the entire run. 1535 01:33:40,990 --> 01:33:45,578 ♪♪ 1536 01:33:56,964 --> 01:33:58,841 She was in the shutdown process, 1537 01:33:58,924 --> 01:34:01,969 slowing the car down when things went wrong. 1538 01:34:07,975 --> 01:34:09,268 She pulls the throttle back 1539 01:34:09,352 --> 01:34:12,271 and then all of a sudden, this vibration starts. 1540 01:34:14,482 --> 01:34:17,026 You don't know what that vibration is. 1541 01:34:17,109 --> 01:34:19,695 Now we know what it was. It was the -- the nose wheel. 1542 01:34:26,327 --> 01:34:29,663 She went through everything just like she's supposed to do, 1543 01:34:29,747 --> 01:34:31,082 like she's always done. 1544 01:34:31,165 --> 01:34:33,376 We know that she did all the right things. 1545 01:34:33,459 --> 01:34:37,296 We know she did everything that she could physically do. 1546 01:34:37,380 --> 01:34:39,673 You know, you don't know why it wouldn't slow down 1547 01:34:39,757 --> 01:34:41,217 or why it wasn't stopping. 1548 01:35:07,201 --> 01:35:10,579 -I did -- I did watch that footage and that -- 1549 01:35:10,663 --> 01:35:12,998 And I needed to see that. I needed to know. 1550 01:35:14,333 --> 01:35:15,501 [ Sighs ] 1551 01:35:15,584 --> 01:35:18,838 This might seem strange, but it cleared up my mind 1552 01:35:18,921 --> 01:35:25,136 of what happened and how she -- she left us. 1553 01:35:25,219 --> 01:35:28,347 But more importantly, 1554 01:35:28,431 --> 01:35:32,768 I was able to tell my other children... 1555 01:35:36,313 --> 01:35:37,898 ...what had -- what had happened 1556 01:35:37,982 --> 01:35:42,194 and -- and -- and that my daughter went quick. 1557 01:35:42,278 --> 01:35:48,951 ♪♪ 1558 01:35:49,034 --> 01:35:55,624 ♪♪ 1559 01:35:55,708 --> 01:36:02,214 ♪♪ 1560 01:36:02,298 --> 01:36:04,925 -Okay. What I wanted to show you 1561 01:36:05,009 --> 01:36:09,054 is I recovered some stuff, the computing equipment. 1562 01:36:09,138 --> 01:36:11,348 This is a satellite tracking equipment. 1563 01:36:13,309 --> 01:36:16,312 Smells like jet fuel. Complete loss. 1564 01:36:16,395 --> 01:36:19,023 However, here's [indistinct] 1565 01:36:19,106 --> 01:36:22,443 a computer, soaked in jet fuel, 1566 01:36:22,526 --> 01:36:25,321 burnt to a crisp. 1567 01:36:25,404 --> 01:36:29,366 So I started dissecting it, and I pulled out this, 1568 01:36:29,450 --> 01:36:32,411 which is the pristine hard drive 1569 01:36:32,495 --> 01:36:35,164 with all the data on it for Jessi's last run. 1570 01:36:35,247 --> 01:36:36,373 It's a miracle. 1571 01:36:36,457 --> 01:36:39,251 -What does that mean to the team? 1572 01:36:39,335 --> 01:36:40,711 -It's everything. Right? 1573 01:36:40,794 --> 01:36:45,382 I hope to God that I can get the data off of this. 1574 01:36:45,466 --> 01:36:48,385 So I can't believe that this has been provided 1575 01:36:48,469 --> 01:36:50,054 to us in this condition. 1576 01:36:50,137 --> 01:36:52,389 And there's not a purpose for it. 1577 01:36:52,473 --> 01:36:54,725 So faith -- all I have. 1578 01:36:54,808 --> 01:37:00,856 ♪♪ 1579 01:37:00,940 --> 01:37:04,568 The hard drive that I recovered, I had to bust open 1580 01:37:04,652 --> 01:37:06,570 another laptop and replace its hard drive 1581 01:37:06,654 --> 01:37:09,073 and prayed that it was going to boot off of it. 1582 01:37:09,156 --> 01:37:12,535 And it did, so -- And we got the entire run. 1583 01:37:33,889 --> 01:37:35,432 -Good afternoon. 1584 01:37:35,516 --> 01:37:37,101 -You have a smile on your face. 1585 01:37:37,184 --> 01:37:38,602 -Well, you do too. 1586 01:37:38,686 --> 01:37:40,729 -Well, because you're my favorite person right now. 1587 01:37:43,691 --> 01:37:45,442 You. 1588 01:37:45,526 --> 01:37:47,903 -You are sitting down. -I am. I am. 1589 01:37:50,322 --> 01:37:54,201 -Your average speed, fastest mile... 1590 01:37:54,285 --> 01:38:03,294 ♪♪ 1591 01:38:03,377 --> 01:38:05,421 The data was successfully recovered. 1592 01:38:05,504 --> 01:38:07,590 -Thank God. -Praise God. 1593 01:38:07,673 --> 01:38:08,924 -Praise the Lord. 1594 01:38:09,008 --> 01:38:13,971 Her maximum velocity was 548.432. 1595 01:38:14,054 --> 01:38:18,684 Her average mile was 542.371. 1596 01:38:18,767 --> 01:38:20,894 -Yes. -So she did it. 1597 01:38:20,978 --> 01:38:22,605 -She did it. 1598 01:38:22,688 --> 01:38:26,233 ♪♪ 1599 01:38:26,317 --> 01:38:27,610 -Thank you very much. 1600 01:38:27,693 --> 01:38:30,404 -She did it. 1601 01:38:30,487 --> 01:38:36,493 ♪♪ 1602 01:38:36,577 --> 01:38:42,666 ♪♪ 1603 01:38:42,750 --> 01:38:44,168 -Fans of the speed racer 1604 01:38:44,251 --> 01:38:47,338 known as the fastest woman on four wheels 1605 01:38:47,421 --> 01:38:49,298 say they are just devastated by her death. 1606 01:38:49,381 --> 01:38:51,216 -She has officially been announced 1607 01:38:51,300 --> 01:38:57,306 as the fastest woman on Earth -- 522.783. 1608 01:38:57,389 --> 01:38:58,766 -In an Instagram post Sunday 1609 01:38:58,849 --> 01:39:00,142 about her record-breaking attempt, 1610 01:39:00,225 --> 01:39:02,811 Combs wrote, "People say I'm crazy. 1611 01:39:02,895 --> 01:39:04,772 I say thank you." 1612 01:39:04,855 --> 01:39:10,569 ♪♪ 1613 01:39:10,653 --> 01:39:16,617 ♪♪ 1614 01:39:22,748 --> 01:39:25,834 -We have been through a lot. 1615 01:39:25,918 --> 01:39:29,505 Everybody's processing this differently. 1616 01:39:29,588 --> 01:39:33,550 I'm trying to make sense of this. 1617 01:39:33,634 --> 01:39:34,968 What does this mean? 1618 01:39:37,388 --> 01:39:41,058 Why did God put me here? 1619 01:39:41,141 --> 01:39:44,061 Hear the thunder. 1620 01:39:44,144 --> 01:39:49,274 The loss of Jessi cannot be reconciled against anything. 1621 01:39:49,358 --> 01:39:55,030 ♪♪ 1622 01:39:55,114 --> 01:40:00,619 ♪♪ 1623 01:40:00,703 --> 01:40:03,914 -There was a young girl in Burns, Oregon, 1624 01:40:03,997 --> 01:40:06,750 and she had to be in her early 30s. 1625 01:40:06,834 --> 01:40:10,087 They had just come up from the Alvord and then I go like, 1626 01:40:10,170 --> 01:40:14,717 "Did you hear the story about the girl that crashed there?" 1627 01:40:14,800 --> 01:40:18,512 And she goes, "Oh, my gosh." She goes, "Jessi was amazing. 1628 01:40:18,595 --> 01:40:21,098 She impacted my daughter so much." 1629 01:40:21,181 --> 01:40:24,893 And I looked at her and I said, "I'm her mother." 1630 01:40:26,520 --> 01:40:30,190 She came up to me and she took my face in her hands 1631 01:40:30,274 --> 01:40:32,609 and she said, "You are so blessed 1632 01:40:32,693 --> 01:40:35,279 because you got to be the mother of a legend." 1633 01:40:35,362 --> 01:40:40,325 ♪♪ 1634 01:40:40,409 --> 01:40:43,287 -This bandanna is a representation of Jessi Combs. 1635 01:40:43,370 --> 01:40:47,082 It's a banner of strength. It's a banner of courage. 1636 01:40:47,166 --> 01:40:51,336 All the blood, sweat and tears she put into being seen, 1637 01:40:51,420 --> 01:40:53,088 being heard. 1638 01:40:53,172 --> 01:40:56,467 That's the torch that we have to carry for her, for ourselves, 1639 01:40:56,550 --> 01:40:58,802 for each other, you know, collectively. 1640 01:40:58,886 --> 01:41:06,643 ♪♪ 1641 01:41:06,727 --> 01:41:10,814 -Look at this amazing legacy that has come after her. 1642 01:41:10,898 --> 01:41:15,611 Women are continually inspired to say, "I can do this." 1643 01:41:15,694 --> 01:41:18,614 And to meet the little girl that was the first recipient 1644 01:41:18,697 --> 01:41:21,325 of her scholarship, 1645 01:41:21,408 --> 01:41:23,410 to watch this beautiful young woman 1646 01:41:23,494 --> 01:41:26,955 have that same light and that same strength, 1647 01:41:27,039 --> 01:41:30,292 that power is never going to fade. 1648 01:41:30,375 --> 01:41:32,544 -Everybody wants to talk about breaking the mold and it's like, 1649 01:41:32,628 --> 01:41:34,213 "Why is there a mold to begin with? 1650 01:41:34,296 --> 01:41:36,965 Whoever told us to begin with that we couldn't do this?" 1651 01:41:37,049 --> 01:41:39,092 What do you want to do? Why aren't you doing it? 1652 01:41:39,176 --> 01:41:41,845 Do you need help? Like, what tools do you need to do it? 1653 01:41:41,929 --> 01:41:45,682 ♪♪ 1654 01:41:45,766 --> 01:41:48,143 -If there is one person that I'm doing this for, 1655 01:41:48,227 --> 01:41:51,772 it's for that little girl that waits for another girl 1656 01:41:51,855 --> 01:41:55,025 to cross that finish line, that I can change right then 1657 01:41:55,108 --> 01:41:59,112 and there, that she too, can do anything she sets her mind to. 1658 01:42:02,658 --> 01:42:05,410 Fear is our number-one battle. 1659 01:42:05,494 --> 01:42:08,747 And this is just a physical way of saying 1660 01:42:08,831 --> 01:42:10,499 "You don't have to live in fear. 1661 01:42:10,582 --> 01:42:14,878 You can live in courage and a life that's completely free." 1662 01:42:14,962 --> 01:42:19,049 Even when doubt strikes, even when you want to turn and run, 1663 01:42:19,132 --> 01:42:20,801 that you can live confidently in the decisions 1664 01:42:20,884 --> 01:42:23,136 that you make and the path that you choose. 1665 01:42:26,098 --> 01:42:27,975 And when you can live in a space 1666 01:42:28,058 --> 01:42:31,645 where nothing's holding you back, 1667 01:42:31,728 --> 01:42:33,897 what else can you accomplish? 1668 01:42:33,981 --> 01:42:35,649 What else is out there? 1669 01:42:40,821 --> 01:42:49,204 ♪♪ 1670 01:42:49,288 --> 01:42:55,794 ♪♪ 1671 01:42:55,878 --> 01:42:59,923 ♪ She's a dangerous woman ♪ 1672 01:43:00,007 --> 01:43:04,428 ♪ In a trance, she will take ♪ 1673 01:43:06,471 --> 01:43:10,392 ♪ With a gaze like a lion ♪ 1674 01:43:10,475 --> 01:43:15,022 ♪ And a bite like a rattlesnake ♪ 1675 01:43:16,148 --> 01:43:20,611 ♪ She's got a strange kind of magic ♪ 1676 01:43:20,694 --> 01:43:24,364 ♪ The kind that don't succumb to fame ♪ 1677 01:43:26,575 --> 01:43:30,913 ♪ She's a strange kind of woman ♪ 1678 01:43:30,996 --> 01:43:36,376 ♪ Us mortals can't relate ♪ 1679 01:43:36,460 --> 01:43:42,424 ♪♪ 1680 01:43:42,507 --> 01:43:46,637 ♪ So dangerous ♪ 1681 01:43:47,596 --> 01:43:51,808 ♪ So dangerous ♪ 1682 01:43:51,892 --> 01:43:58,899 ♪ She's a dangerous ♪ 1683 01:43:58,982 --> 01:44:05,155 ♪ Woman ♪ 1684 01:44:05,238 --> 01:44:11,495 ♪♪ 1685 01:44:11,578 --> 01:44:17,668 ♪♪