Transcript for SmartLess Media Presents: Pretty Sure I Can Fly with Johnny Knoxville & Elna Baker

There's very few times. in your life where something that means so much to you means so much to a group around you and even more rare that it means that much to the world. I still have people tell me almost once a week, I get someone that still remembers where they were at that moment. You know, my grandma and all her friends watch it. It's live on TV. My mom was crying because she had known that, you know, I'm about 75% in the phone pit, but if it comes around short, there's a really good chance of a broken knacker paralyzed or it was a really painful moment.

And the reason we're just explaining like, you always say, I'm in or I'm out. The reason this was such a tough decision for me. And I think the reason that it got built up more was because I was on the fence on this. I have an opportunity to go out there and try a trick that I've been working for for three, four years. But I'm sitting third. So I'm like, if I don't do a double back flip, I still get a medal. Yeah. I still get paid, which is going to really help everything else that I've been putting into the rally and is my goal to be a freestyle motor cross rider or is my goal to continue on in action sports and to have a career that's going to expand hopefully longer and it worked out in rally. And I said, you know what, I'm both. So I'm going to land this trick. And what out there and decided like literally last second played rock paper scissors with my redneck friend, Hubert.

What's a red paper scissors?

Can you down to that? Right before I went up there, Hubert, we went rock paper scissors. I gave thumbs up to basically salad and the guys and they're like, all right, they raised the ramp.

At that time, I had done it to a sand pile in a controlled environment that was a big step up. So if you came up short, or didn't make it, it sucked, but it was, yeah. Yeah. It was a hard surface that day, right? I was just blue group. It was, it was pretty much worst case scenario for me. We took the ramp that was already existing and then raised it on two by fours. And like it looked like something we built in our backyard for like a, you know, we were five years old. And it's like, you know, my dad's out there like strapping the ramp down and trying to get it. So it doesn't move because the ramp falls over. Then I definitely gonna

Yeah, it was one of the coolest experiences ever. Got up there and They got it that dross me and he gave me a thumbs up. I said, so on you take your time and I looked around and every single person was on their feet. Yeah. Entire sold out Staples Center. All of my heroes you had Kevin Robinson, you had Chad Keggy, they were holding hands. I had Brian Deegan, all the bullishia was all down there looking, you know, it was one of the coolest experiences and I just I remember inside my helmet smiling and when I dropped in everything kind of went to slow motion usually you get a slow motion if anyone's crashed a car been in a really bad like we think everything's going bad yeah I've never had slow motion where I took off and I can remember the the smells I can remember the sounds I can remember everything was so vivid. And, you know, I came around on the first poll, and I checked the landing, and I remember thinking, you know, it was Trevor Jacob said later, he's like, oh, you can't check. And I'm like, oh, no, now I'm short. And I whip my head back, and I see the lights. So when you practice this trick, you know, in the phone pit, you have, you know, you get the sky above you in the ground. But on this day, you've got blinding lights where you can't see anything. And then below you's kind of dark. And I just remember kind of, Just smiling again. I'm like, well, I'm all in. I can't, I can't get out of this now. And I came around and like literally hit couldn't hit better. And I was just like, what the heck just happened? I dropped down and dropped the bike and I run up. And the first person there was just some drunk guy out of the stands that just overpower this security and gave me a big hug up top and like, I don't even know you. Yes, let's go.

You think that's the biggest moment of your career or moment that the world felt what I felt.