LARRY WALTERS - Interview with David Letterman (1982)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- A rare interview with Larry Walters, the man who launched himself into the sky on a lawn chair with weather balloons attached.
Full story here: en.wikipedia.o...
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(C) 1982 Carson Productions/NBC Productions.
On a lighter note, I don't know how the balloon went up with those heavy balls.
I love it how everyone is constantly laughing at him yet deep down inside we all know that this man will forever be a legend and those laughing people are just dust in the wind. this man achieved inner peace by accomplishing his long life goal, I dont see whats funny about that. just makes you see how no matter what, people will laugh at you so might as well ignore them. complete your dreams people!!!
Well, they're laughing because it's a crazy idea and a funny image. No need to get all offended.
He shot himself in 1993.
All that inner peace he achieved, ole Larry committed suicide in 1993
איזה בן קיקי אתה
Desperate for fame
Anybody end up here after drunk history episode?
We've already covered this, ROBERT
Me
Yess😂
Totally!
No one should "Be here" because of drunk history!
They SHOULD be here because of:
Mysteries at the museum!
props to Letterman for not making this guy look like a fool on his show. He treated this guy with respect. Nice
Letterman is the consumate host, never changes one bit.
Can you imagine Fallon stumbling his way through this interview?
Drunk history brought me here 😂
Me too. He reminds me of Tom Green with a mustache.
Stella Luna omg! He’s dose!! 🤯🤯
Same.
Same
yup
Just saw this story on Drunk History. Looks like they got it pretty accurate.
No they did not, they got almost all of the facts wrong
Mysteries at the museum was MORE accurate! (And a BETTER show!)
I'd love to hear what the airline pilots who saw him had to say about it.
Being that pilots typically love aviation, I imagine that they told anyone who would listen, and that awe and respect entered into what they said.
RIP Larry. Fly high.
I love that- "why a lawn chair?"
"Why NOT a lawn chair"
The answer to "why" is its very light weight.
This dude is my hero!
This guy rocks. What takes more guts -- testing an engineered aircraft or sitting in this guys lawn chair?
Sad he killed himself about 10 years after this.
What was the reason?
Life sucks shit.
@@pag3309he probably realized he had achieved in his dream all the happiness he thought he would have ever needed again. What else was there left to live for? He even said he wouldn’t do it again, it was a 20 year dram realized. He went out on his own terms
I wish Letterman would have at least asked him what the view was like up that high. Mr. Walters also respectfully thanked David for being on his talk show at the end and Lettterman completely clowned on him.
Props to this guy. It must have been an experience!
What a legend. So sad he killed himself. Very grim.
This is the Tom Green Show. It's not the Green Tom.. no wait! It's Letterman.
This guy gives me faith in humanity
That’s a hard ending. Did he really achieve inner peace? Completing life long goals are so bitter sweet. Sweet in the feeling of satisfying a hunger in your heart. Bitter in the feeling of not having that thing to look forward to.
Car talk brought me here
Smithsonian Air & Space magazine brought me here. Had to hear more about his story.
On October 6, 1993, at the age of 44, Walters committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart in Angeles National Forest.
that sucks
Marek Intergalactic At least he ain’t suffering anymore. Everyone should have the right to self determination.
@@efilwv1635 what was making him suffe?
EsperKing 508 He clearly didn’t want to be sentient anymore. Why does everyone tend to think that you’re suppose to “love life” and if you don’t, something is “seriously wrong with you”?
@@efilwv1635 there's nothing wrong with people who commit suicide? Um, if there wasn't anything wrong with him, he wouldn't have committed suicide. He needed counseling and or meds to help cure whatever had him depressed or whatever the condition he had was called. Nothing wrong with him? C'mon man geez...
Where are his glasses?
they fell in some brush and started a major wildfire
I’m here after watching Drunk History 🤣🤣
Y’all are here from infographics or drunk history, but the real ogs came from PRETTY GOOD
Great video man
Houston, we have a problem! I lost my glasses!
Copy that, Lawnchair. Switch to your backup.
Roger that, Houston.
Heroes never die, but Legends live forever.
George herman Ruth...aka "the babe"
What a legend.
So, Richard branson was living about the whole story in his book.
"I had complete control of the aircraft" Apart from when you departed (tether snapped), altitude (went much higher than anticipated), direction (intended to go over the desert), rate of descent (lost the gun and was descending too quickly anyway), and landing site (landed in power lines). Sure. Complete control.
Legend *wait for it* ary!
I have a feeling he had no idea what He was doing he just decided to send it
no shit, Sherlock :D
imagine being the airline pilots seeing a dude in a lawn chair floating by.
I've heard this story so many times. I had no idea it was REAL.
This is going to be hilarious!!!
American Ingenuity 👌👏👏🌼
David Blaine from the Joe Rogan Experience brought me here! What a story :)
An American Hero
I knew what I was doing...last words.
Who’s here from the Crabfeast?
funny how in 1982 it was a guy in a balloon, but now it would have the CIA checking for spy's
Qxir brought me here
Who here from infographics?
Me
I think he knew what he was doing
Bois brought me here
How many of the guys laughing have had the guts or even the balls to go after there dream! and make it come true! He unfortunately did not live for long and committed suicide.
Call a man like this a moron if you like, but I call him a hero for following his heart, even in the face of danger, while not harming anyone else.
Would he not have been harming any other aircraft he cudda been flying into the airspace of
Whos here after watching infographics? 🙂👍
@Kobayashi respect! 🙂
@AK - 05SN - Ingleborough PS (1491) respect! ✌️
Me
@@acherest2768 respect! ❤️
Me
Dude had brass balls. Unbelievable. Sadly, he committed suicide at age 44.
I'm wondering if Larry inspired the writers on making the movie "Up"
100% for sure.
You do realise this was 15 years before up
But there’s a musical inspired by this story called “The Flight of The Lawn-chair Man”
@@nafis9465 so cool! I'll definitely check that out. 😄
There's a truly wonderful quirky Aussie film called "Danny Deckchair" inspired by this guy
Legend
Overnight Drive he killed himself. Didn’t know God
@@Bradmhj did he really
meow yes you can fact check it for yourself if you want. Maybe he though if he finally fulfilled his dream it’d help his depression
Apparently he was an enlisted US Army cook in Vietnam after being rejected for USAF for poor eyesight. His dad was a WW2 bomber pilot in Pacific so he had a family history he attempted to uphold. In an interview with New Yorker magazine he said dreaming of this type of flight kept him going in Vietnam, even after getting a D on a high school paper on this plan.. Dude had high drive and guts for sure.
What a great fellow.
He had a dream, he made the dream come true.
RIP
Great clip. The good old days. If this guy was on Fallon, the actual interview would’ve lasted 3 minutes with Jimmy fake laughing and slapping the desk after which point he’d say “Were gonna play Lawnchair Pictionary!”
Spot on mate... I’ve clicked a few Fallon interviews to see folk like *John Cleese* and such and he is the most vapid, superficial, ignorant, grating and spectacularly unfunny person I’ve seen, quite literally unwatchable. It’s as if *The Family Guy* and it’s laugh track were made human... a horror show.
Jimmy Fallon is honestly the worst interviewer. He's constantly interrupting his guests' stories with his own similar experiences. It's really annoying.
Yea, who cares. Quest could do that job better. It'll be a girl next. Hopefully a funny lady. Nikki would be awesome.
Agreed
Letterman was the first late-show host who succeeded.
Before that, Alan Thicke tried, but he said it was simply impossible to have a late-night show-- not that he just SUCKED.
A man with a dream, a girlfriend with a credit card!
Lol, good stuff!
I remember when this happened. I was a teenager. You can listen to the entire audio of this if you do some googling, including the pilots of the planes that spotted him. Larry had a sad ending. He had quite a few mental health issues, and in the 1990's committed suicide by self inflicted gunshot. Very tragic.
Don't spread fake news.
@@mrpc3 Fuck. You.
@@mrpc3 look it up dummy
Tragic as that is. How many ppl can genuinely say theyve fulfilled their wildest dreams before they died. Unfortunately he coule not live to fulfill more crazy dreams
@@idonotconsent y did he do that
Who else is here after infographics show?
UNiCoRn PeGaSuS me
UNiCoRn PeGaSuS mE
UNiCoRn PeGaSuS me
Me
Yes
They're laughing but this was actually a great achievement by him. 👍🏾
They're laughing for good reasons.
@@jonhohensee3258 and what's the good reason?
@@mr.frenzy7304 - He was a goofball.
@@jonhohensee3258 so they made fun of him for achieving his dream how low is that
@@mr.frenzy7304 - They didn't make fun of him. They laughed because what he did was funny and crazy.
This man deserves a statue. He followed his dreams, and became a legend.
No
Drunk History got me curious what man can convince his gf to spend 4000.00 on her C.C.
Mysteries at the museum should have got you more curious! (It's a way better show!)
I love how he calls the lawn chair tied to balloons a "craft".
It wasn't just a lawn chair tied to balloons. He has ballast, a means of descent, an altimeter, a radio, and a parachute.
The fact that he walked away from this stunt is fairly compelling evidence that he really did know what he was doing.
Yes, but it wasn't a stunt, it was a fulfillment.
I am trying to imagine an commercial airline pilot calling into the control tower telling them that there is a man in a lawn chair at 16000 feet with a BB gun in his hand.
This guy would have been fun to barbecue with
I absolutely love his confident, completely unapologetic attitude.
Larry's chair is lovingly displayed in The National Air and Space Museum.
Haha
screw drunk history, watch Jon Bois' video about Larry Walters, its one of the best things you'll ever watch
A mix of wonderment, inspiration, amazing insanity and, beautiful tragedy.
You can't make this shit up
Paul and the band blew it -- at the break, they should have played The 5th Dimension's "Up - Up and Away [in my beautiful balloon]".
I'm curious if anyone's willing to do a 2.0 on this.
It's been done again already: ua-cam.com/video/2GLrr_Xp0qc/v-deo.html
It's sort of unofficially a sport.
He seemed like such a genuine person
Infographics show anyone?
Just got done watching that video. And here I am
I'm proud of Larry. Lucky man. Fulfilling his 20yr dream
If you were flying a commercial aircraft and saw a guy floating by in a lawn chair you would seriously think you'd lost your mind
This is the greatest story ever!! Glad he got to reach his dream!!
Like if Drunk History brought you here ❤️
Unlike for Drunk history!
LIKE for: Mysteries at the museum!
@@sergiogalindo3024 unlike for mysteries at the museum! LIKE for: THE inforgraphics show
Life is about having a dream and making it happen, he did that.
Jon Bois brought me here
You gotta admit this was quite badass, I was only 4 I dont remember it but yea.
If only i could take a balloon to Mars
You can son you can ,if it's your dream u fullfill it
In 1993, Walters shot himself in the heart in Angeles National Forest and died. He was 44 years old.
Rip ♥️
Whoa!
Oh Boi
That’s cap
Why??
Oh god, that smile when he says he knew what he was doing. Legend. xD
On one hand it was a stupid way to fly. But every other thing is saying this was a great way to fly. And he gave the finger to the FAA medical (his eye sight was bad) so he is a homegrown aviation hero.
Here because of 42 Balloons!
I’m here from HAI
That’s a bird! That’s a plane
No that’s a guy sitting on a lawn at around 16,000 feet
I’m here from the Infographics show..
What a fantastic story. Grinds my gears that the audience seems to be laughing at him but I can only assume it's due to the ludicrousness and rarity of such an experience. At the end of the day, this story should inspire us all to go after our dreams and never take no for an answer. Anything is achievable.
Why did he even get in trouble? It was a victimless crime.
I’m here because of QIXR!...... no? No one else? Lol
I am from Qxir!
infographic brought me here :D
Me too I thought it was such a crazy story I had to search it up
Sad. The poor guy shot himself in the heart at 44.
Thank God for guys like this. Actually doing stuff.
He watched to much of Mary Popins
We should petition the FAA to remove regulations prohibiting this type of flight. How can the American FAA ban such an American act of engineering ingenuity. Americans have always been pioneers in flight, and this makes flying accessible. for the common man. It is undeniably un-American to prohibit lawn chair flight. However, the FAA will need to establish some form of safety regulation. I suggest prescribing the following:
1. Operators, henceforth known as “balloonists”, of lawnchair balloon craft must have successfully completed a parachutist course.
2. Balloonists must have a lawnchair that complies with the “Larry Test”, to be documented from expert opinion consultation of Larry.
3. Balloonists must have an altimeter, means of controlling descent and ascent, and radio.
Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing
Pinback - Walters
Great song, great story. RIP 🙏
ua-cam.com/video/vQ9S5icM_Qg/v-deo.html
That's one small Lawn Chair for a man, one giant leap for Lawnkind.
I read that he committed suicide in 1993 by shooting himself in the heart.
After fulfilling childish dream...no sense in being.grownup.
This is why what this guy did was so dangerous. He did NOT notify the FAA airline industry when the balloons took off because of the gust of wind. Any airplane could have been in the path of the balloons and he could have been sucked into one of the plane engines which would have killed him instantly AND the plane would have most probably gone down killing all on board in a commercial flight. Also, people on the ground would have also been killed when the plane fell on them. This could have really gone tragically wrong.
He did notify the FAA. His plan was to notify them half an hour before takeoff, but that came unexpectedly (he apparently neglected to consider the effect of his momentum on the force applied to the tether).
Agreed.Self indulgent theatrics.