Joe Rogan Experience #1185 — Kelly Slater Transcript

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0:00 four three two one kelly slater we've been talking about doing this for how long a couple all breaks at once, I just pulled in the thing because I was going to sort of wash in on the rocks right where that was and change boards. Like usually you either ride those out and stay on your board, or you jump off, Like immediate. Why is it called the Liz Frank joint?

2:07 But normally what happens is those toes, those two bones right there, destroyed. Yeah, the third one displaced. The fourth one shattered into about eight pieces. So I got to kind of like figure out how to. Oh, God damn. So I had to watch it. broken foot, but I've never broken it like this. Usually it's like, let it heal for four weeks feet. But normally what we do is we're when you're

5:49 One guy on tour broke his foot pretty bad requiring surgery this year. wave kind of competition if the waves are small i wouldn't have surfed since it's bigger it's a little easier because you take off and Now, when you are healing, is there anything they give you that can accelerate bone healing? your arteries so no blood's going in you push all the hand all the blood out and then you let it go

8:24 energy healer well i'm just saying That's what I was told by my doctor on this last one because I asked every question possible. Did you try that at all? It was like his left leg was literally twice the size and purple. his prime and he didn't see those kicks you couldn't see his kicks coming he was just like Now, how bad that is? And it just shows you a compilation of him landing leg kicks on people.

11:18 Oh, no. Down. Is he a surfer? Yeah, he surfs. He was the victim of the worst slam I've ever seen in my life. And I let him go. It was a guillotine or something? I don't know if it was, anyways. I went to, was it a K-1? fight and then Hoyler got knocked out, man. He fought him he fought a bunch of people Sakuraba there's no way somebody could tap him out

14:27 I'm sure necks or guillotines or whatever. Wow, that's insane. Go above that right there on the far right. Oh yeah. And he would come to 10th Planet and he could move in ways. Oh, was he? Yeah, yeah. You know, most people in their tires are like, ah, ah, ah. Yeah. And it's like, it's freaky. Fire breathing or something? Yeah. Yeah. They're all on the beach,

18:16 It's crazy. Like the dexterity they have with their feet Yeah. Boom. I reposted somebody else posting it. He's the best cricket player of all time. as good as you could possibly ever have because it was, like, I mean, and it looks like these perfect shots, It sounds like they made it out of like a rock and some fucking duct tape. I mean... they have, oh, that's what it's called?

21:27 then jumping roundhouse kicks this guy in the face and KOs him with his left. Oh, that's not San Chai. He'd fuck him up so bad. I mean, that's all it is. everybody's like, I could do it. Not the average fighter. And he ate some humble pie. Yeah. He's really good. There's nothing freaky about him. He doesn't have crazy Yeah, he's so freaky. it was all theatrical wrestling it was all entertainment you know you would think though

24:51 The guy, I mean, give the guy some credit. Logan Paul like actually knows how to fight. He had a boxing match with that other YouTube I was watching him punch this guy. I was like, But Dana's like, have him fight in the UFC, he would get killed. they might get a little bit angry I mean, I started working for the old company in 97. Yeah, that's the thing I enjoy watching the fights

27:12 But if I see something, and I've watched, I mean, I've called at least 1,000 fights. If there's some aspect of fighting that maybe I'm not exactly sure about, I can defer to Dominic Cruz was And Stipe was like, I mean, that was such a great match. I think the real smart money is on Tony Ferguson fighting Khabib next. apart. Six months later, comes throw he apparently got

29:32 Yeah. He sets it up himself. I meant it complimentary. I'm a huge fan of that guy. gets fucking tired it doesn't even make sense. Tony laps everybody and keeps going. Maybe. Diego, yeah. Julio Cesar Chavez would just wear guys down. Because that starts wearing on the other guy like, And this heat ended up sort of being like a world title heat for me.

32:39 and i could feel him just for half a second kind of let up on his paddle like okay i'm getting It was just, but it was, I didn't have that in me. You know? That's a big thing with Ferguson, that pressure that he puts on guys. It was three to one strikes in the last couple rounds. They are, right? Fantastic fight. he's asking for forever, and it will be for the light

34:48 I mean, if you look at the rankings, it's not. Well, he's the number two contender. Staying in the pocket fighting out with 30 seconds to go when he's clearly winning that fight well He got hurt he got hurt a couple times in that fight. Did he just yeah? oh, Jesus. if he didn't have a bad back. Yeah, yeah well Ngannou you know Stipe just fucked his head up yeah he really did stipe just

37:09 Didn't he fight again after that against Curtis Blades? It didn't matter because he gassed himself out in the first, I was going to ask you, do you have your I can tell when you talk about it, you When I retire, you know, I've been, look, I've been on a pro tour pretty much since I was 19. Wow. Right. athletes, you know, they're kind of people who didn't burn themselves out too much.

40:06 I think there's a number of factors. I didn't have, I had to be tough and fast. And there was always that. you know each child has a different dynamic whether the first i'm in the middle of three Oh, wow. It's more like gliding on the wave, looking like you're not trying hard. It's more of a dance, if you will than it is like a some kind of an athletic

42:59 we always try to get him to surf and when he he was about 8 or 10, I took him surfing one day at our local break at Sebastian in Florida. And this guy, he really respected this kind of older guy. And it was something unique for him because we didn't longboard. uh he became the quarterback on our football team he was a baseball player It was putt-putt golf.

45:24 Really? And he's like, you meet me at the beach. We're going to play some horseshoes. And I called me out one day, and he's like, He's like, I don't have the money. lost Drew shows up in my house with a ping pong table and he says it was like my birthday gift it's out of hand i'm scared yeah ping pong is one of those games where i was like if i ever got into

47:37 That is crazy. I don't know. I think there of like elite killer ping pong players yeah like most people aren't even thinking about it yeah That's a funny thing that stay in your lane thing. at this fucking guy probably never trained a day in his life. Have fun with that one. Yeah, so to me, I'm such a fan of that guy. And I remember when he fought Dennis Alexio.

50:01 He was like one of the first guys that punished Alexio with leg kicks. I mean, that's the thing about a And he used to do these surf video clips, and he would walk downstairs. doing hand actually right before i broke my foot i started when i was a kid i used to be able to you know what? Like, Like, I mean, I probably should have kept with it because then I could have walked around for a while and kept my foot high.

52:02 He was just saying to strengthen your wrist. doing handstands and doing that well because we built this wave up like a up Is that it right there? Is that a... ago and that's we changed the wave since then and uh we remodeled we had to rebuild it but it's just this foil shape it's almost like the shape of a fin or a wing straight up and down in She's like six-time world champ.

55:28 This is Felipe Toledo, who's number two in the world right now. It's like the fight game, you know. I don't know if he got complacent or what happened. relatively good surfers, maybe not ex-pros, but like whose style did I like? It's awful. leads me back to like you asked why guys didn't have the longevity like people get married have So it's like boxing.

58:21 to eight is like really good. remember that wave forever kind of thing you know it's like the perfect knockout and but then they as opposed to scale up because then you if if you're surfing in really great waves which makes How did you maximize your time in there by slowing your speed? It's horrific. Like, he's had wipeouts that he came close to dying he probably talked about the vest

1:01:24 hurricane like the eye wall is the worst but if you're in the center you're fine you know i always with wiping out. So you understand that energy. It's like a tornado or like a hurricane. The If you had a really good GPS system. sucked right into the wall of that and you get pitched in the lip, and then escape under it into blue water. And, I mean, I'm going to put my arms there before I take it on my head.

1:03:10 You just don't want to hit your head. And when the waves come crashing down on you, And he used to wear a helmet. Yeah. him in the ear and it broke, it broke the helmet and broke his eardrum. Jesus Christ. So we were and I just came up and stopped diving. That's a really crazy story. There's no rudder. So this guy wiped out his leash broke. Wow. It was a real, those things are really, like, sobering in the surf community because we all know each other.

1:07:10 Yeah. But anyways, this wave breaks when it's really big, and Shane's been out there. Like it's thousands and thousands of feet deep that, you know, over the whole Pacific. So there's no continental shelf to slow the wave started and this break. Like it's thousands and thousands of feet deep over the whole Pacific. hour when they hit. So it's a lot faster than a normal wave. So there's all this energy in the

1:09:22 And then he pulled another one, and it didn't work. And he pulled it a third time, and it didn't work. it you got a good breath you're like i'll just i won't pull it but he pulled three times and then And got him back to the heard everyone kind of i heard another friend screaming luckily the waves kind of stopped and they were able to get to him pull him up on a jet

1:11:39 And I just I held on the jet ski and kind of I just squeezed on behind. That's very lucky. i mean anyone in the world i meet is like oh oh, I'm scared of sharks. Tell me about sharks. And then that story doesn't ever end. Completely. You know, my parents let me watch everything. But so Jaws, I wouldn't even go in the deep end of a pool. Wow. They put these courses together a couple times a year specifically to train for the situations that we could be in.

1:15:26 You know, they train the SEAL Team 6 guys Do you live in Florida? intercontinental. I'm a nomad. On the roads. My old roommate and I talk about it now. They have every dangerous shit. Fuck those things. at. No, no. Like, they keep a track. the surfboard in the way from the underbite you know they're gonna there was a horrible story these two guys were going to do a first descent down this thing.

1:18:45 and the river was real slow and wide and as soon as they got there all the river all the crocs came He was just kind of like, you know, His backpack floats up. And then his stuff's floating downstream. The other two guys get out of his kayak, disappears. They never see him again. His backpack floats up. And the boats were all dry docked. Yeah. Brutal.

1:20:28 And the next day they found a giant snake, a giant rattlesnake strolling across a golf course. Here's the thing. Why would you do that? Australia's are so crazy. Why is he doing that? Look at the heads on these things. That guy's an asshole. Like, I'll grab them by the tail. But this guy's not even worried. To a certain point, there's like this dam and they don't go past that.

1:23:02 he falls out of it and the guy was about 250 pounds or something like a big dude, He's like, knock him out and calm down and they they couldn't punch this guy like they were they were trying to Because we've seen 15-foot crocs like every 20 minutes, bite that thing or whatever and anyways we started asking the guy what's the biggest one you ever saw

1:24:56 this one would be he said if it was under our boat it would be sticking out about four to six feet on So if you see a 15 or 20-foot, 18-foot great white and you measure their girth, it's pretty much their length. Oh, Jesus. I know. What's that? Make that larger. Yeah. ratio and the size it's like one point right what does it say number one why does it say number one

1:27:35 Oh, it doesn't? i had a friend who was a commercial fisherman in south Africa and he told me, he's like, bro, the biggest sharks 20 miles off of Port Elizabeth where there's this But he's saying it's bigger than that. But I don't know. Yeah. fucking skull. This guy's basically How come? And then there's like, you know, the girl. Jurassic Park style? The hot girl in the bikini, and she has to take off her wetsuit because it's rubber.

1:30:00 He goes, you know what? Good movie. How big do you think— And, like, no one saw it during that time. How many people are out there looking for them? This thing's face and nose look small because its body's so huge. God! But see the girth? That's another thing. The shark feeding freaks me out. So scary. And a killer whale is just a dolphin. This is a seven-gill.

1:32:50 I think that was a twig. Freaky, yeah. They have them in Texas. I mean, that would be, I'd love to go take my friends and just go noodling sometimes. That's one of the scariest things. Yeah, taking your fucking arm off. Oh, I mean what how often have you encountered orcas? not, That's just so gross. logical thinking adult did get the information but a lot of people

1:35:01 And they need to have interaction with other animals. Can I get some fish? okay, I've got to conserve my energy. And he was a walrus trainer. And this is walrus I think there's no more breeding allowed in America. he took like extreme liberties with his scientific research, He thought they were going to be literally, he thought they were as smart as human beings.

1:37:55 There's a way that they have of communicating that we don't understand. To be able to speak a language, you need to know, like, 150 words. Yeah, we have no idea. I don't think they know what to do with them. Because the idea is that, and I had a debate with this trainer. I believe this guy was actually in the movie. He said they're more healthy. Exactly.

1:40:27 And I felt like. At all. Kangaroos, you know, they get fed well. Yeah. Yeah. Motherfucker's got a giraffe. He can come up and eat out of your hand. My friend lives in Topanga Canyon, and he came home. What? fuck those things man shark dive I didn't want to bring As soon as they park the boat, boom, the sharks are on you. But the great whites pop up.

1:43:40 A couple friends of mine, like, grew up in that area, you know, breed out there. okay, where's the beach? Can you imagine, like, fish smell? Well, that's what all alpha males, like in the wolf packs, when they kill a thing, the alpha male always eats the liver. Well, so what I don't like is that sharks, I believe, are equating, okay, I see a boat, I think they're educating the sharks

1:46:00 grizzly bears have gotten so used to So they run towards gunshot sounds. Yeah. Yeah. I no bears. Yeah. Not even last week. That picked it up and dug it. And so they were terrified when they got there. They found that the moose and he just decided it was his. And so they were terrified when they got there. I mean, nothing comes back or smells you. this one might be that

1:48:10 The whole moose is buried. Okay, I don't like this. You ever hear that story of the guy, the kid who was getting attacked by the bear, the grizzly, and he sees a couple bear cubs or whatever, and then, oh, no, there's mom. Whoa. Yeah About two feet away I had a question for you. I know, like, little scattering little things. Yeah. Did you become friends with him?

1:51:17 I love it. Just to wrap up that foot thing, because I didn't, and it'll be super short. But, um, so yeah. I'm going to start competing in December again. Nice. So, yeah. December. Really? My friend Dustin Barker is fighting on it, though. No, not December 26th. No, no, I can go. McFarlane. No, you can say it. Go ahead. Man, Lyoto was great. That's a good fight, too.

1:53:47 Website. Oh, okay. I think it would be cool. I don't drink much, but I was in Paris the week October started. Last year we did 15 days of hot yoga. like 80% of your max heart rate, 70% of your max heart rate is less. I'm not bullshitting. How many minutes... 80% of my max heart rate. It had to be But I mean, I've literally It says Intergalactic Champion Sober October.

1:56:28 929 points every day right now Jesus Just because you get all the stuff out of your colon that looks like your colon. in like two days, Wow. 30, And you poop it out. Let me see. It's like weird stuff starts... So that's what comes out after you're done. So I kind of like it. you do a saltwater flush every day, every morning. Yeah. But I got that stuff coming out after about five days because I was really aggressive with the, you do a saltwater flush every day, every morning.

1:58:41 I watched that. It's basically that water coming out of my ass. Bang. It was basically water coming out of my asshole, but it probably cleans up a lot, right? I don't think I'm participating in that one, but I want to do a fast soon. Yeah. Wow. so I'm like, At least Google it and look. Today I burned, I mean, this doesn't even seem real, but I burned 4,217 calories during this workout.

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