Joe Rogan Experience #1527 — David Blaine Transcript

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0:00 This is a great collection. Richard Pryor. He makes some dope shit. It's way better in person than in the hallway. what, what they were for really. So I just had a deck of cards that I carried everywhere, And my mother, I used to wait for her at the library, and she'd come get me when she was done. wanted to keep making her you know react you know happy or whatever so that was basically the

2:52 little magic section that was between like games and puzzles i thought i always wished magic would And then that began my curiosity of like not just like the magic trick stuff, but like this stuff. Like independently, like I always love, like I had a karate teacher at the YMCA that used to make us all run barefoot in the snow in the winter in Brooklyn. And all the kids, you know, we're young, we're like six, seven and all the kids like, ah, you know, and afraid they were going to cut their feet on glass or whatever. And I would run in it. And I felt like I could do this because I wasn't good at other things physically. Like I was born, my feet turned in and stuff like that.

4:45 swam, it would save me time because I didn't have to move my head, dip it out and you know, right. I didn't understand the physiology of it that like going up and down doesn't help. doing like buried alive and i was saying he said you know you know the navy seals you know they But they have that viewing pool and they rope the seals up to some 45-pound weights and they have to walk across the bottom of the pool and the instructors are swimming above them.

7:27 No, but no. No, no. Like sometimes they think they're at a disco. Yeah? Yeah, but it's not. How many times? I don't know, like between 20 to 30. I mean, I have like two out underwater a lot. How many times? By the way. How many times? But I did 20 minutes and two seconds. But back to what I was saying is the reason besides the Navy SEAL story that I knew that it was it made sense was because you hear about the kids in the news like in 1984 or whatever it was.

9:39 have to get water out of his lungs and he was perfectly fine. Wow. So, but, but that just shows you that there's like a Yeah. and a half minutes. for then i started looking into and i'm like oh wow there's like people that can do five minutes which gets rid of the co2 and gives You have to take the O2 monitors. I was like at 90, whatever, five, 96.

12:55 That's what he wrote on the paper next to the levels because he was recording it. but they're still at 29 plus thousand feet. So they're doing something that's allowing them to rewire their ability to Yeah. Okay. Well, but first of all, I like Houdini. on top of the water and then he It's not like – it's incredible. So he went on Jay Leno. And then there'd be a cup with a goldfish in it. Drinks

16:59 oh, that's cool, but it's a trick. I talk to him all the time. I was like, oh, my God. It's not they, it's young Jamie. Yeah. What? swallows them his mouth is like look at the lady she's like what the fuck am i doing here oh my Just cancer Right Yeah. Yeah. Wow. mind-blowing and luckily he showed me stuff when I was young but he'll never ever perform he's like

20:54 but he doesn't believe You bypass what a person thinks the body would be capable of doing. Yeah, of course. Breath is the one that I read and I had him on the podcast to talk about it. And that the only way you could get to that place is you have to be that guy who sits in a cave and does breath work all day long for 30 years. what you're saying if yes so it it is that yeah it is that it's but most people are

23:11 like your understanding of where the edge. And that was when I was watching you move your fingers and watching you move the cards like this motherfucker has shuffled a lot of cards. The mind forces the body into moving I'm like, oh, this is amazing. So, like, you know, there's also guys. was 12 he moved there because he wanted to meet a specific person who was considered

25:51 So he's working on moves so he's not going to get killed. craps table. By the way, their little bed is like under the table. a decade until he could throw dice better than any other human being in the world. I know that they take people that are really good at cards like my friend Dana White has been barred from which is bizarre to me that you can go to a place

28:09 But this isn't me doing magic. I know, but I'm saying that because I'm trying to be convincing. And it was like a game where you have to hit all the numbers, So I said, I can touch the dice. Right. crazy right like all excited with these big bets i'm here with this table we all have little bets I hit sevens in between each number. the dice and it's two and a half hours later and they stop everything and they're like your fire

31:05 But it's just luck. odds of hitting that bet is pretty rare but it's just luck nobody should hit that bet i mean statistically it's unlikely and i wasn't cheating so yeah No. And can you like put it between your hand or whatever? it could be weighted so just or you're done you're good yeah you're good yeah okay uh say a number all the time but see so it's not you know i don't think of it so what happens is the digital

33:50 any so there's no way to see magic and if you were me with a single mother in brooklyn or whatever And then. I was like, can I do magic to the people eating? Right. like no thank you if you're too far away it's easy for them to say no thank you right so there's like Like, you know, anyway. the whole, everybody, because Central No, no. And that's why.

38:00 to my mom like i would do it to her and she'd be like reacting and even if she had a terrible day you know she was working three jobs it was this made her happy wow that's that's And by the way, I've walked many times when people were fighting about to erupt into big Sure, sure. set the expectations as low as possible, right? They couldn't get the door open,

40:05 And they go, ah! And it's called like the ham sandwich. He says, just said reach in your pocket right now there's a ham But that O, the result, the O, is pretty phenomenal. Even if they're trying to figure it out, they're not thinking of anything other than that trick. Yeah, we can all get 70? You were early. yeah perfect but I rode the motorcycle here and was flying because I had to make I wanted to be on time so I flew you were on time yeah um the the ice thing why what made you

42:44 Yeah. love that poster since I was a kid. It's like in the magic books, you see that poster. And anyway, But what if instead of doing it the way he did it, what if I did it and everybody could see that I was buried alive? Then suddenly I realized you don't eat food. and they would shine like holograms at me like this a bunch of properties that he was developing and i was like uh i want to be buried

44:34 So that's basically it. Like if I said to you. with a cath or whatever. And, um, and people are there the whole time. Like it suddenly became like But then – and by the way, I didn't eat for a few weeks before. Yeah. Uh, I don't know. They always say it was like just a little bit, but it was a good amount. So it's not even like it had minerals in it

47:12 Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no, no, it was bad. Right. They say like after World War Two, when they rescued the from the from the camps, the Jews and everybody was starving the camps. And then a bagel with cream cheese. but but by the way so when you say you don't think you ever recovered what do you mean by that Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. So it was a warm November. So the air

51:14 My friends knew. And if you have people after that stunt, now whenever I hallucinate on stunts, I have friends there that I say I'm going to start hallucinating. By the way, and my doorman would come and like news or whatever, Fox News said David Blaine is not really in the eye. But they did a one hour special that I was never in there. So he comes to visit me in New York, and he walks up to the ice, and he sees me, and he's looking at me all weird.

53:26 No, no, no. And I was like, Eddie, but you looked at me. whatever it is right and by the way my time estimations. So I'm like, okay, wait. Or it might have been too old. I'm waiting, waiting. When the drill was – when the chainsaw was coming through, I tried to grab it. Before we get to that, while you're in there, what are you doing to occupy your mind?

56:01 to this point even when i run on a treadmill i'm like okay i have to get to this point which means let me get to the halfway, even when I run on a treadmill, I'm like, okay, I have to get to this point, which means let me get to the halfway point. target, but then I always go like another half a mile past it because I won't, you can't quit Meditation for breath holding all the time.

57:22 Just my ankles and legs were really swollen. But there's billions of people. The things that make you amazing are your ability to overcome adversity and then you It's very weird. I'd done like the thing in London. And I was trying to speak to him, but he was like not – didn't want to talk at all. I thought I could just wing it. hooked up. And the first time I peed, it just went upside down all over me. So this way, and I was

1:00:47 I have the most amazing, So I'm like, okay, here's what I want to do. I have no experience in any of this stuff. Here, I'll show you a picture of it. Yeah, we did short flights, not big in public. No? It's just a picture of the balloons. So you have to learn how to fly and land a balloon, which is amazing, right? He's the one that built around the world in 80 days.

1:04:07 helium is more expensive and stuff like that. it. No. You made a video for me? Yeah. Because when you did the thing with Post and Post was Did you get a video? And Luke, who's the best in the world that has 25,000 more jumps, jumped from 25,000 feet without a parachute and landed in a net. and the reason why is because i was making you this video a complete truth but i'm gonna explain

1:06:07 And now because I flew through that hole, we're so far away from everything. Okay. Hold on. can we play it for other people yeah okay why don't you airdrop it to jamie oh yeah okay hold on so let me uh airdrop isn't that funny though it's pretty wild but you don't just bummed out that i didn't get this before oh well yeah so i was gonna like that the email dumps

1:07:27 You guys can cut through or whatever, right? In two weeks. Well, that's the first one. Now, hold on. Yeah. we have to airdrop because it's going airdrop is better because well first i'll say low well i just MVP. it's like a full system he has a basket so it's like a real balloon like a hot air balloon system I don't want to be, I want it to look like a kid just holding onto balloons. So like that visual

1:11:20 You can black out like this. Do your loved ones panic when you start plotting things like this? We had to land it with nobody on it. Felix Baumgartner when he jumped from the edge of space so we have Don Day the best meteorologist Time and team. the people that you're doing it with. I have this idea. It is also crazy. And this is all during the last year. Right.

1:14:28 It's fine. So I started having, I'll show you the drawings. Yeah. It's not working, but you can try. There's a lot of... Sure. Yeah. There it goes. They're cloning all the text messages. I don't know float around in a fucking balloon and what how is it are you harnessed it's, yeah, it'll be like a little thing that connects at my wrist, which like the way the aerialists have a connection.

1:18:47 So you can't just rely. Okay, so something around your foot would be just to help yeah so it's doable right and then and then how Obviously. I'll have full everything. They're like off by like 200 feet or something like that. not hit a power line or a building or an obstacle or anything wherever you are right if you if you It's on like a fishing wire thing.

1:21:51 But you haven't, have you done this transition yet where you go from floating to putting the parachute on? That's all going to happen for the first time live on YouTube. 25,000 to the camera they can still communicate with you stunt movie so he's I have everything. So, you know, this is still, we have a couple of key points that we're dreaming about doing this.

1:24:35 you have to land, I mean, you're from 25,000 feet. You have to make sure that you're conscious. And when are you going to do this? Exactly. I love that YouTube stepped up to do this. It's like up, like when they did it with the animated movie. Grabbing a balloon and flying to the air like Mary Poppins. the balloons and she went, is there going to be pink? And I was like,

1:27:16 And I've never done one until like the last few years. means you can't eat for 36 hours before the show because i also have to put a gallon of water in frogs in the stomach. I put the hanger all the But I still do want to see it. Oh, I believe it's straightforward. So you get that whole. This is the ice way. your hands up. Is that okay? Yeah. ice pick and usually I do it with new ones

1:31:02 I mean, they're just the standard ones Why do you enjoy this? And every doctor would say, oh, you can't do that. So remember when Steve Irwin died? Do you know why he died? No. Because he pulled the stingray thing out of his heart. The stingray He swallowed it and it killed him. of pulling it out which it's like a cork strew he waited till they with doctors till it beat out the

1:33:13 I don't know, but I know that the doctors, what they did is they let it go through. It's crazy. So what happened was he started to get too cocky. Right? Like the same exact trick, but for real. We're going to pick. So you want me to just right here?'m not going to hit an artery there i don't know you i can't kill you bro what if you die so you want me just right here anywhere sure what's where do you prefer wherever you want like right there well sure i don't know but yeah do it there where

1:35:29 so it's hard to believe that it's real I hit a nerve Fuck your arm up man So, by the way, honest to God, I never go in this direction. No. so you can see it come through. Push. How come there's no blood? Well, it's a very small Should I put it out? Yeah. is that you seem to enjoy it. that seem like they're Like, okay, it's a trick. Oh, obviously. He died.

1:39:21 which means you could die like Houdini. Ouch. And I trained for a long, like a year just to take a punch from anybody. And then I, but I could have obviously could have kept going. So he's sleeping in his dressing room, these two college kids. Maybe it wasn't related. But instead, he did the show that night, collapsed Yeah. That's why everybody watched Evil Knievel because he might wipe out on it.

1:42:18 But I also rode my motorcycle here, which is also extraordinary. Yeah, it was an adventure. Give it a shot. you're you seem to enjoy it you really do You were laughing while they were cleaning it up and checking it and like, He's drinking all the water. It's the magic. I had the guy that was the fastest work on it with me. Ice bucket? He's a magical frog.

1:45:04 He's moving around. He's bobbing his head. I mean, he's looking at me. He's moving around. When did you start doing this? So there was one guy called the human aquarium, that's a lot of not eating for this poor frog's worst moment of his life. I thought there was a little one in there. He talks about how choral communicates. and you highlight things with iBooks yeah of course i didn't know you could oh yeah yeah

1:47:56 this is the thing I live by, They're also trying to crack the more mystical marine riddles, like the secret behind corals' telepathic communication. same species will in synchronicity spawn at the exact same time from they have no And yet coral is one of the most primitive animals on Earth. Like, what is happening? Well, have you read about the mycelium and the fungus underneath the soil that actually the trees utilize it through their root structures

1:51:50 Yeah. who's a wizard when it comes to mycology and talking about fungus, Like the largest animal. Because plants are breathing in carbon dioxide, obviously, and breathing out oxygen. It's very heavy. Well, we're just very egocentric and arrogant in our ideas about what the human race means But meanwhile, there's some animals like like when you see a flock of birds fly in synchronicity and some sort of strange dance

1:54:36 And they have to get back to that one spot. We don't know what it is For whatever egocentric reason. but, um, then I was alone and I was like holding my breath and kind of free diving next to them. And, and, you know, when you're not on scuba, it's not. So I'm still on the same breath. and the baby's following her are so much bigger than ours, So the frog is safe.

1:58:01 Oh, hey, buddy. Oh, yeah. And now we can hang and talk for You know as long as we want That's pretty mean It's not water, bro. how do you do that Here he comes. I worked on it. and then I built up a resistance to salmonella. this is so bizarre here it comes it's because I drank so much so it's like I have to like locate them you have to locate kind of the sound what would you call this jamie asmr

2:02:48 Hold on. I don't know if that's good enough, but for now, we'll just use that for now. And there he is. You've had a road, buddy. I'll give him a big little, hold on, let's give him a little bit of water, fresh. I don't know. Random. What's this plastic thing on them? Yeah. I don't know. How do you usually do that? Because there's some sort of technique to it or something?

2:07:13 So you're just trying I don't know. That frog's like, what the fuck just happened? That's why I'm so scared of bass. And I would put them inside and see if they'd come out. Haji Ali Egyptian fire- fire eater and human fountain. which is underneath because it floats on top. Haji Ali, yeah. ran off because you got you were worried about your arm do you do you have like you've done so

2:10:33 it's a small step-by-step process, How many do you have like on the back burner in the back of your head? I don't want to go too into it. Yeah. goldfish and some of that came from houdini writing and miracle monger is all about his act there out there like this must be a like i always think of stand-up comedians as being a very small because then I was like okay so what can I do with like what's around okay an ice pick or a bunch of

2:14:06 There's not that many of those people out there. I'm still like, so we did one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. You can die from drinking too much water. And there was a woman in San Jose. Is that what it is? Yeah, because because i couldn't eat or do anything if you're going to do the frog There's got to be a lot still in you.

2:16:11 I really am. Both. Yeah. No, you love it. crazy like it is maybe but that's the same it's the same you're pushing your body to do things and she bends her back so that her butt touches her head. Wow. Look at that. That is amazing. Amazing. Yeah. And also she's bouncing on these posts, right? So look what she does with her back. And she's incredible. Like look at the way her body is contorting.

2:19:20 Like, she's so far down the path. So it's a round thing balancing on another round thing. That's not how a body works. How is that possible? It's very interesting. It was very cool. But we will let everybody know. Goodbye, everybody. man goodbye everybody