I had to share this...I stumbled upon it on YouTube.
I don't know who the interviewer is. I appreciate the interviewer at least sitting down with someone like Tony Jones and trying to figure out what makes us run rather than just making up damning and "truth-telling" websites (like this one). Although the "I'm sorry" comment was pretty cheap.
Anyway, Tony does well during this "litmus test" interview. His comments are much my own.
I saw a portion of this video a while ago when someone posted it on Facebook. While I consider myself a pretty adventurous guy...I'm not sure I could do this. I guess I better start with regular old sky-diving...
My favorite part:
"At the beginning of wing suit base-jumping, we were trying to get as far from the wall as possible...and now it's getting boring so we 'play around.'"
PLAY AROUND!?!? Are you kidding me?
If you don't have 3-4 minutes to watch the whole thing, be sure and check out 0:28, 2:03, 2:20, and 3:10. Forget it...just watch the whole thing.
I want to see them do the flips on the skis, soar for a while with the wing-suits and then find a landing spot with the skis on. Then I'd be impressed.
(Can someone explain why they wear helmets at all?)
It's a couple-of-years-old tradition now for me to watch MLK speeches on the morning of today, the federal holiday in his honor. I'd love to spend paragraphs commentating on the speeches, but I think I'll just post them and invite you to watch them (again). The first is the whole of August 28, 1963 ("I Have A Dream"). The second is a very short segment of his last public speech, the day before he died. If you've watched either of these and think along the lines of "I've already heard that," I challenge you to listen/watch again. It's akin to listening to a song again because you liked it so much the previous time.