Why We Risk Our Lives
Published April 15, 2024 · 9:03 · 108,292 views
About This Video
Why we risk our lives: a question that adventure content usually answers with adrenaline and most philosophy answers with abstraction. Van's answer is neither. We risk our lives because the experience of genuine risk produces a quality of attention that safety cannot. The risk isn't the point; the attention is the point. The risk is the price of the attention.
Transcript
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[Applause] [Music] n [Music] undefined undefined [Music] undefined undefined [Music] it takes about a month of riding every day before synchronizing the controls feels
automatic I'm on Isabelle's husk varness of art peelin 401 because my BMW is
broken broken and old man I love that 650 but maybe I
should just sell it and get an r9t undefined undefined
I need to ride about once a week or else I go crazy and I do really like this
husar there's an old motorcycle joke how many motorcycles is enough the answer is just one
more the tow truck driver was named Israel he was from Salvador which of course means the
savior in Spanish riding a motorcycle is a lot like cutting wood with a jigsaw oh [Music] undefined undefined
this is the beginning of my favorite part of this ride sometimes I listen to music
[Music] undefined undefined I found out why Yogi Bara said when you see a fork in the road take it he lived
at a fork in the road his house was between the two fork tines and his driveway went from one time to the other
time so I guess when he was giving directions to his house he'd tell people when you see a fork in the road take
it Yogi was such a good poet that everyone forgot that he was one of the greatest baseball players of all
[Music] time and that he was a part of the Normandy [Music] undefined undefined invasion there's a line in this novel so great that I bought the book two more times so I could find it again one
paperback one ebook she says I'd always thought of these types of machines as toys for uneducated people who didn't
care about the environment but made maybe they weren't maybe this was a kind of meditation I felt connected to everything and the motor volume held me
at a level of alertness I wasn't used to I kept waking up and then waking up from that and then waking up even
more was everything redneck actually mystical you bet your ass Miranda sometimes riding a motorcycle feels like floating this is 343 per
[Music] speed when friends who ride visit me from out of town I take them on this route so they'll say nice things about
California nice things about Los Angeles sometimes riding a motorcycle feels like
floating [Music] if I hadn't been operating a GoPro and a drone and a motorcycle during this shot I definitely would have remembered to
turn off my blinker there's this documentary called undefined undefined
love the Beast about Eric bana's love of his Ford Falcon Coupe he bought it when he was 15 and kept it through all his
Fame and Fortune he put hundreds of thousands of dollars into it entered a rout and wrecked it he was so distraught he
thought he'd sell it but Dr Phil told him no Dr Phil said I mean come on it's a car right no it isn't it's a symbol of
your history it is a thread of continuity from when you came to where you
[Music] are Dr Phil may have been wrong about bad Barbie but he's right about bana's car and my 07 BMW cost be damned I'm getting it fixed undefined undefined
Products & Tools Mentioned
- BetterHelp essential — sponsor, online therapy
- Husqvarna Svartpilen 401 uses — motorcycle ridden (auto-caption: 'husk varness of art peelin 401')
- BMW R nineT mentions — motorcycle considered as replacement (auto-caption: 'r9t')
- BMW 650 uses — Van's broken motorcycle, 2007 model
- GoPro uses — camera used while riding
People Referenced
Yogi Berra, Eric Bana, Dr. Phil
Books Mentioned
- unknown novel with character Miranda
Films & Media Referenced
- documentary about Eric Bana's Ford Falcon