Daredevils

It's time to look death in the eye and say NOT TODAY! Learn about Evel Knievel, Buster Keaton, Alex Honnold, and other American legends who chucked their body into death-defying situations and lived to make money from it. Unfortunately, those paychecks are typically meager - so Max and Dorian also dive into their psychology and ask: What drives a person to do this?

Click here for our episode on Terror Management Theory.

Click here to read Fran Hoepfner's essay on Free Solo, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, and men with death wishes.