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  • ( music playing )

  • man: So, you'll jump successfully.

  • - Will: Successfully. - You'll-- you'll land successfully.

  • - Will: Right. - You'll get off--

  • Or-- or not. But what--

  • ( overlapping chatter, laughter )

  • You know, you say yes to things long before you actually know what they are.

  • You know, when I bungeed at, uh, Victoria Falls, right,

  • I said, "Yeah, yeah," you know?

  • So we go out, and I had never bungee jumped, right?

  • So-- but I had seen-- you know, I was like, "It's bungee jumping."

  • So we get out there...

  • Riding towards Victoria Falls.

  • Way too fast to be going to the end of falls.

  • ( chuckles )

  • Will: About to bungee jump Victoria Falls.

  • I've been wanting to come to Victoria Falls since I was about 12.

  • ( indistinct chatter )

  • There's trains going past on the bridge you're jumping off.

  • And I look at the guy...

  • man: Who's that jump master? What's your name, man?

  • - Ed. - man: Ed, okay. You look after my man.

  • And I was like, "Oh, no." This is my bungee squad.

  • This is my bungee squad right here.

  • He wraps towels,

  • 23-year-old towels, like, they're old, tattered,

  • and he puts them around my ankle.

  • And then everybody started cheering.

  • They saw me go up, I was like...

  • ( laughter )

  • And then he grabs the bungee cord,

  • turns it around my ankles and pulls it.

  • I was like, "Wait. That's it?"

  • ( laughter )

  • It's towels and just a cord.

  • And he pulls it really tight and wraps it around.

  • And pulls it really tight and then attaches it to the bungee cord.

  • And then...

  • ( laughter )

  • man: Okay, Will, this is you jumping

  • the mighty Zambezi River, Victoria Falls bridge.

  • Tilt your head up, hold your arms out.

  • ( indistinct chatter )

  • Whoo-hoo!

  • Whoo!

  • ( laughing )

  • Whoa! Whoa!

  • Ah!

  • This is gonna be a cool shot.

  • I've been wanting to do this for, like, 20 years.

  • I got high blood pressure though, so they need to get me from being upside down.

  • - Hey. - Hey.

  • Yo. What's up, baby?

  • You coming to get me. Now there he is. Hey, fella.

  • - What? You got me? - I do.

  • - That was fantastic. - That was fantastic.

  • - What's your name? - That was a good jump. My name is Fredo.

  • - Fredo? - Yeah.

  • - What's up, Fredo? - Fredo.

  • Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, man.

  • ( laughter )

  • - "Should we try to book him?" - Clearly he's the best

  • - 'cause it went very well. - If it works, right?

  • Yeah.

  • - ( laughter ) - man: Hire the towel guy.

  • Yeah. I somehow thought it was different than that.

  • Like, it's towels,

  • rip cord, strap the cord, and...

  • That bungee jump was not a good idea at all.

  • Whoo!

  • - ( laughter ) - Glad it worked out.

  • ( applause )

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