Joe Rogan Experience #2056 — David Blaine Transcript

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0:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. I come with. Yes. I kissed a king cobra. quickly and get out of the way. What happens if you get bit? Well, they have enough venom to kill You have to go to a hospital. So 20 minutes of King. Oh, God. So 20 minutes of king... one of them killed its previous Oh, boy. On April 4th I mean oh okay yeah but he but Yeah, that's him.

4:18 Well, there it's feeding. Yeah. I left and then came back a few months later and did it again. but there was days I wouldn't even do anything so luckily luckily I had a week, which is still a really fast learning Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. it yeah that's a bad one I think that's when I got injured. Yeah. And my friend Doug, who's with the hat right there,

7:32 They tore everything apart just kind of pulling on it, and it ripped apart. and now he's back fighting for the title next weekend. Did you get an MRI? Right. But I'm horrified of surgery. It just hurts. It could help a lot. you know jiu-jitsu's it's very addictive and a lot of times you get injured and you're like And a bunch of my friends have gone down there, a bunch of UFC fighters.

10:04 No, maybe because when I was young and my mother was sick and, you know, that whole thing. I feel like also just when I eat right and do everything perfectly, the inflammation all goes away. And a lot of it does come from bad food. Oh, really? And I guarantee you a few months later, you'll feel significantly better. by the way. It was really crazy because I was numb all the way to here for like months. Yeah,

12:14 Don't do it again. Which is a good thing. You know, like the one we did where you're frozen in ice? But my brain tweaked at 55 hours. Wouldn't you imagine? How long did it take you to recover from that? Yeah, see how happy I am? Like what? Wow. Time will tell. Yeah. Yeah, because now that I have a daughter, I want to live long. Yeah, I believe it's possible.

15:59 that your body is essentially made out of what you consume. Yeah. It's the only thing that it has to regenerate. And that is the majority of Americans, unfortunately. And I think that allows you to continue much longer. It's sugar. It's sugar. And the process, the bad sugars. That term genetically modified gets thrown around a lot. i've never i don't think i've ever seen it side by side renaissance painting of a watermelon yeah

18:42 they're so juicy and you eat the whole thing. I would doubt it is. Yeah. Right now my brain is on a lag because I've been not eating properly. Yeah, because they're so extreme and so focused and all of a sudden it's like. And a giant percentage of our diet Jamie had to take it away from me. Yeah. satiety rate. And so people try to eat them. It makes you crave these things that are ultimately detrimental to your health.

22:18 They're good, but you do have to be concerned with salmonella. They're like orange. are mistreated. Yeah, it's a perfect cycle. Liposomal? Yeah, those ones. It's like 75 different vitamins and nutrients. They sell little travel packs. And then, you know, you really should supplement with vitamin D. Well, their most treasured and their prized food was meat.

25:58 Exactly. They destroyed it. Yeah. I don't need as much sleep. Yeah. problematic so yeah i feel like i got lucky on that you probably definitely did because if it Really? You did them for the security guys at the old studio in LA. He didn't always know how to do it. He couldn't wait, though. So it's like a continual search to try to figure out new things.

30:12 But it ended up leading to that. No. Like pregnancy maybe? I mean a gallon of water is – It might be 8.34 or 8.34. Just a mass in there. And then spit it all out. for the length of the show, pretty much. It's insane. I could do it every night, Here comes another night. Wow. and then had to apply magic to them, like how to make the trick part. I did 17.04 on Oprah.

33:53 And you're breathing pure oxygen before you do it? They have a total lung capacity that's much greater than mine. of it has to do with accepting the pain like mind over matter so generally like taller longer people Makes it much harder. Yeah. Maybe the ice. The brain, yeah. I tried to mess with that. It's scary. It's horrible. I don't think so. I would love to see this trick.

37:50 Or you can come here. Which is just like this. So this is the trick version. So that's the trick version. Pull it down. So you just essentially use a needle and shove it through the bottom of your jaw and people think it's coming out of your mouth. which is a collection of pamphlets of secrets of what the Fakirs were doing in India. and finding all these performers, I went to a festival

41:23 But you're seeing the early phase of it. Okay. Yeah. And then it becomes a magic trick. But you're seeing the early phase of it. Yeah. to push it i think we went in the opposite direction oh and i think it that's what went We started again, didn't we? Luckily, we had an EMT here. yep and I always go in the other direction what is the difference though if it's the same spot

43:56 How many times have you stuck an ice pick through your arm? Yes. And then I did it with like acupuncture needle. what makes you comfortable like i think i'm gonna stick an ice pick through my hand But with time, I think when you pull it out, you just don't bleed unless you go through the wrong side and hit something. And I think what happened was he became very overconfident and thought he could do anything.

46:58 They thought it was a trick, so it took forever for them to even think it was real. What about do no harm, fella? because, you know, And look at the holes Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, there's, I mean, there's real danger in a lot of the shit you do. What's the dexterity of the fine mobile skills, motor skills of your fingers? yeah but as a magician you change that because you have to work with both hands equally so

50:00 they used to call him Captain Hook because he was so fast and so extraordinarily talented that he would throw a left hook the way most people would throw a jab. And that left hand was a lethal weapon. i mean in his prime he was a just a freak it's funny because nobody would think of the jab as Oh, yeah. And then the second time he was in the studio, he had decided to take a fight with Roy Jones Jr. And so he was in his 50s and started training again and got fucking insanely dedicated.

52:22 so, it was so, like, confusing. Oh, man. Dropped him in the third round and won on one judge's scorecard And I thought he won the decision. Now, whether Tyson Fury took him seriously, whether he was overconfident, who knows? And Francis is 6'5", a natural 272 pounds, and built like a Greek god. 23 seconds. His story is so insane, it is like something from a movie.

55:36 that's how they would would they would do to people who are trying to make their way to Europe and Four years later, he's the UFC heavyweight champion. So there's where he drops them. But look, it's 12 seconds, 13, 14. I mean, he didn't really totally turn. I mean, I don't think he's going to have a rematch. including myself, felt like he did enough to win the decision. I felt he won by at least one round.

59:04 But Conor McGregor fought Floyd Mayweather. But Conor McGregor fought Floyd Mayweather literally like a legendary combat sports performance it'll go down in history when It's an excellent, it's a must know. ever even like at an elite level competed in MMA was James Toney fought Randy Couture. Randy was going to destroy him. To me, it's more exciting to watch.

1:02:09 It's like— that was what separated the men from the boys, that 10-minute round. But just the endurance training that goes into that. That's the top. he had a fight coming up he was so fast he was so fast for a heavyweight he was so even for then Oh, man. He reignited people's interest in heavyweight boxing. That Tyson was? There's a certain level of performance that a fighter can only maintain for a certain amount of time, right? Is exactly dedication and drive it's so extraordinary

1:05:39 But when you look at when they burned the hottest, who was the best during that time? Even when he would just stare at his opponent right by his side. And just built like a brick shithouse. just like noise it sounded like the clanging of steel and it was like did you ever see the they're more scared of me than i am 100 you know so once i found that out i almost stopped training

1:08:03 While I'm in the dressing room, on the Everlast boxing gloves. The closer, the more confidence I get. No one can beat me. And then I know I have him. I'm punching him. When I'm punching him, I know he's not able to take my punches. One, Amazing. I've had them. sense of awareness. it's no no no he said they're indiscernible there's the same experience exact same experience

1:12:22 waves. They would find a difference in frequency frequency but I think more importantly than that I That's the best. But you know why? Because your brain ramps up dopamine outside. When you get out of the cold plunge, Do you do the sauna also? We both do it. It also sets your mindset. my friend, Matt, that used to always wear a t-shirt in the winter. And I thought that was

1:14:54 And I would never get sick, by the way. Right. But I don't understand it. You're making your body stronger. And everybody that was all bundled up all the time, they were always getting sick. Right. I do too. I have it here. Heart attack, stroke, cancer, everything. so he started incorporating into his training and using his for his wrestlers and then it also

1:16:38 Oh, I've heard of that. Then we stayed in these igloo things. You've never seen that? Oh, you'll cry. Yeah, I bet. Yeah, it's insane. Amazing. It's all green, right? Oh, you'll cry. Yeah. Wow, look at that. Yeah. Well, it certainly makes you more resilient for other things too. If you can But overall, health and wellness is just amazing. It's an amazing thing. And I very, very, very

1:19:19 So you have a deeper relationship with your body. And I did that for two days, and then on the third day, let's say we were doing kettlebell swings. Let's say with a 35 pound, you would do 50 of them or 54. Even if you're just doing lunges, and doing it properly. when you get out of it you build a resistance quickly yes you do well that was the thing with

1:22:11 I go, now let's get in the sauna. time i did it i couldn't even do a minute and a half i think i did like a minute and 24 seconds How do you get it to be 33? It's on my Instagram. There's this little bitch. Here it is. And I'm still just as cold, That's one of them, but there's another one that was even more ice. I don't want to do it. yeah but if it is there's there's a limit but you have to figure out what that limit is and get to

1:25:49 Exactly. how many days has he been in that fucking block of ice? And they said, oh, we're going to find this. We covered people with scorpions on Fear Factor. Yeah, and people got lit up by those things too. I was stung by the first. I don't recommend it, but it is incredible. So somehow or another, these local bees were talking to these bees that we brought in.

1:29:16 where these bees had to work this out and i was saying to the guys are so incredible and i was so And how do they know? they know how to make that yeah what kind of communication are they having and they also these leafcutter ant, whatever they would call these hives or whatever they call it. So they have leaves that are slowly decaying and fermenting and they build them so that

1:31:43 You see the surface area. how big that is that's akin to like manhattan like what the fuck are they doing more yeah it's Yep. hardwired yeah hardwired for that yeah yeah because like kids aren't necessarily born afraid Cats are nocturnal. whatever it was. So we had to be fearful. So it's hardwired. So people, when they stand on stage, lots of eyeballs i think it's you're being judged and most most of the time i think in tribal

1:34:51 Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Because that's the ability to anticipate danger. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And dangerous. If you live. How many times did you get mugged? Yeah. Yeah. uh, You just defused it with a card trick? Well, I see people like about to fight like in Union Square and I just walk right in the middle. really simple mathematical tricks, but then I started to learn more and more. And then,

1:39:18 kid magic i say do it to your friends parents not to your friends not at school because one bad Like whenever I do magic, I'm still thinking and processing and adding little tweaks. So it doesn't And a guy wrote all these secrets of methods that like witches were using and they were being burned alive. that once they started making books, some of the first books were about how to spot witches.

1:41:46 this day. And he was using it mostly for cheating or to explain how people were cheating. Yeah. guy needs it to survive whereas magicians using it to, so you have room margin for error, right? Right. So if it was a red deck right here, he cuts the deck in half, completes it, and it's a blue deck. He does have some money in his hand. I think he was like 15, he would just go to watch, right? To see, because he was a magician,

1:44:16 Because it's invisible. he went to prison. And he had a little few all blown away beyond and it's just simply practicing something to the point where your hands are moving so quickly and so smoothly. Wow. And it's just a move, though. But that's used in magic. and then you do that, and then it's there. that he's never going to use, He put the cards away and I never saw it again.

1:47:06 In a little bit? Okay. It's actually my favorite move, though. It's just a move. Even I went through the silly phase of like trying the ridiculous tricks, like an appearing cane. And it's essentially learning a movement It's like, I want you to watch everything that I do. And I want you to pick apart everything. how many hours you think you put it on that simple trick oh my oh that's my whole that's

1:51:06 You have to search hard for the good stuff. And then eventually it becomes something I'm happy about. you can still go. Right. To just keep turning. Well, or it's all part... everything is like a disaster that's always the biggest learning curve and then usually i get That's what I think a good magician does is It's the exact same formula as a comedy show.

1:53:50 the shape. No. Yeah. and there's so much material and so much that you can learn. Cheers. I think I forgot to switch the camera, He's amazing, right? I'll do it. Yeah, four aces. is just full of aces the entire time. the first time i met mike tyson i went to his hotel at the Trump International. And I was like, what do you do? He's like, call one of the local delis and the delis would

1:58:43 But if you have a contact lens over the pupil that has a little red spot in the middle, you could see it better. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But by the way, I never use it in magic. and magicians would have them Okay. Yeah, that'll do. This has the contact lens one, so when you put the lens on, you can see it. Okay, I'm going to see if there's anything I can see.

2:01:25 Oh, God. Do you trust him? Well, it reads... Yep. Well, I feel like there's a way I can stare at it long enough. No chance. Nope. Yep, even from here. Jesus Christ. Three of diamonds? a little hint. no, Really? Okay. Hold on a second. You've left. Hold on a second. I'm going to bring this over. absolutely won't but you but you oh yeah give him the deck i don't know really okay

2:04:33 I see nothing but patterns. see things that other people can't see i can't really unfocus my eyes though but yeah i don't So you go in the other room and talk about it and come back. I actually, I'm sure you would, but still, I would feel weird. No, I'm not going to give the hint now. Yes. And you're going to lose it right right away i can see a very specific there's very specific lines that go up and down like this that i see that that are clear

2:07:09 Nope. Okay. I'm doing all kinds of weird things with my eyes trying to pick up patterns. They go at an angle. But, God, you have to look at it. god it just makes me so i mean i don't play cards but cards, but if I did, I'd be so uncomfortable. And they get robbed by people. And he made millions of dollars and they wanted to take the money back. I think you can adjust.

2:10:08 But I do detect that there's something going on. No, I won't tell anybody. He's not going to tell anybody. So you didn't have a podcast to- No, he'd find it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He think so? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jamie can find anything. So you didn't have a podcast to- By the way, the deck is called the White Lions. No, you're not going to see a lion. Yeah.

2:11:54 Oh? You know what I'm saying? And he's doing it on camera. and a good cheat won't win oh like a pool hustler you'll'll have that person win. Oh. Yeah, good cheat's not going to win. No, you always lose. Like a pool hustler. Like, crazy. helps. Yeah. But you have to play as though there's no money. to feel it. You know, football player Taylor Lewin was with him.

2:15:43 anxiety you're sitting there watching. I got really lucky once. And they had a bet on the craps table, which was called the fire bet. So it's a great bet for the casino because nobody ever hits it. But yeah, pull your sleeves up, you can throw the dice And by the way, I think the Super Bowl champion table was over there and they were all screaming, going crazy at the craps table next to us, the high stakes one, right?

2:18:19 and then everybody had to fill out a w-9 and then everybody got paid. But it was pretty amazing. Did they stop you from playing? Yeah. I got lucky. You surely could. But if you went to a card game, people would immediately be like, what? under the scrutiny of all the cameras in Vegas. They banned Dana White from the Palms because he won too much money playing blackjack.

2:20:14 Yeah. But I was told in most casinos the profit is from slot machines. But that's also this weird human instinct to just keep pressing the button and hoping it wins. had a video camera right so you could just do whatever and not worry about the angles this that yeah now when you do So the eye doesn't really see. have to you have to think about all angles at all times and be hyper aware of everything

2:22:36 Yeah, but it's not a trick. it's always a thrill to talk to you you're a fucking amazing person and uh what you do is so I think it's interesting. Well, just the clips you show it's it's it has this magic and everything in it but it has the physical stuff as well so i can't it's very possible i don't want to no but yeah i know but i know but that's the part that's the

2:24:32 All right, bye, everybody.