From a story on esquire.com by Michael Sebastian headlined “How Does Jake Tapper Find Time to Write So Many Books?”
Jake Tapper was bellied up to the bar at his good friend Jimmy Kimmel’s Idaho lodge with the late-night host and another pal, P.J. Clapp, aka Johnny Knoxville, shooting the shit. Tapper noticed that all around them were images of Evel Knievel. There were posters, an Evel-themed pinball machine, an autographed picture of his Rolling Stone cover, and, hanging above the urinal in the men’s room, a New York Daily News cover from 1974 touting Knievel’s failed attempt to jump Snake River Canyon.