Name: David Blaine Kissed a King Cobra and Had is Dislocated Shoulder Set During a Show
Uploaded: 2023-11-02T22:44:48.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'David Blaine Kissed a King Cobra and Had is Dislocated Shoulder Set During a Show' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'David Blaine Kissed a King Cobra and Had is Dislocated Shoulder Set During a Show' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-02. Transcript available.

I've been working on this series for National Geographic.
So I've been traveling around the world,
searching for these people that do incredible feats
that they've passed down through generations.
And I'm trying to learn, but it's a fast learning curve.
So it is the most dangerous thing
that I've ever done in my life,
but I have the best of the best helping, so.
That says a lot, because you've done...
By far the most, yes!
Whoa.
Will you show me some things off camera
that we can't talk about, but...
Well, you can talk about them.
I just can't show them.
Okay.
Well, um...
So the scariest thing was like three days ago.
A Cobra?
A King Cobra.
Yeah.
In the wild.
Yeah.
What is...
Is there a trick to that?
Is there a...
Is it a movement thing?
Do you move slowly so you don't...
I studied for weeks
and just tried to understand their behavior
and worked with different Cobras
and was...
I had a team around me
that taught me how to move quickly
and get out of the way.
What happens if you get bit?
Well, they have enough venom
to kill a full-grown elephant in 30 minutes, so...
Is that anti-venom?
We had that there, but...
But still...
In my case, I don't trust that.
And even if you get anti-venom,
it's still a rough ride
even if you live, right?
Yeah.
Is it similar to...
But it was amazing.
It was incredible.
Is it similar to rattlesnake venom?
Because rattlesnake venom essentially...
It's a neuro...
Yeah, I mean...
Digests your body.
Well, this one shuts everything down.
So your heart, your lungs,
everything just starts to...
So were they, like, ready on standby
with a needle?
Well, they don't...
They put it in a serum.
You have to go to a hospital.
Oh, you have to go to a hospital.
Yeah.
So you have to travel.
But we had an ambulance right there and...
How far is the hospital?
It was 20 minutes away.
Oh, God.
So 20 minutes of king...
Oh, God.
So 20 minutes of king cobra venom
that can kill an elephant.
It was the scariest
and most intense thing I've ever done.
Yeah.
How many of these guys die doing this?
Well, the snake...
The two snakes we had,
one of them killed its previous owner.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
So it's scary.
And they don't kill the snake
after it kills the previous owner?
No.
This guy died, so...
That does happen.
Exactly.
Right.
That's right.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
It's...
But it is kind of incredible
because there's another guy
named Chris Sweet who...
Well, that's his Instagram name,
but he lives in Thailand
with 90 venomous snakes
and he just lets them move
through his legs, through it.
He's...
Well, he was bitten twice
on my birthday
and his heart stopped two times,
but he lets them just move.
While you were there?
No!
Oh, okay.
No, no, no.
On April 4th, I mean...
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
But he...
But he's so calm with them
and he studies their behavior
and he watches how they move
and then he gently takes them out.
And there was one...
We were outside
and the scariest thing
wasn't trying to kiss it.
Oh, my God.
And I think that's a snake
called a spire.
Yeah.
So that's one
that was slithering
through my legs
and you have to keep
your heart rate down
because if they sense,
they have pheromones.
They detect if you're nervous
or uncomfortable.
So anytime I would get, like,
super tense,
I would have to...
I'd walk away carefully.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, that's him.
And that's...
Yep, that's a snake
called a spire.
It has a man.
You're so good
at finding everything.
Wow.
Oh, my God.
It's trying to bite you
through the glass.
Why is it trying
to bite you through the glass
but won't try to bite you
when you're right there?
Well, there it's feeding.
Oh.
When it smells snake
or food,
it becomes aggressive
so you have to make sure
you don't smell
like any other snakes
or anything.
Or food.
What kind of food?
They eat snakes,
the king cobras.
They eat other snakes?
Yeah.
Not king cobras
but other snakes.
Oh, there's snakes.
Yeah.
Dude.
Okay.
Do you ever second guess
when you're about
to do something like this?
That one I second guessed.
I left and then came back
a few months later
and did it again.
I wouldn't go...
Oh, boy.
I was too afraid
to go near it.
What made you go back?
Well, I went to Cleveland
and I trained
with my friend Mike
and my other friend
Chris Gillette
who's Gator Boy Chris
who's amazing.
and we slowly
started to understand
just a little bit
of the behavior
of king cobras
and then I went back
to Indonesia
and trained with Fitz
who's unbelievable
with how he handles
the cobras
and slowly I felt okay.
But there was days
I wouldn't even
do anything.
So luckily I had a week
which is still
a really fast learning curve.
Yeah.
Normally I would train
for something for a year
but with this show
I get like a few days
and then I have to
try to do it.
Oh, boy.
So what strategies
are you using
to keep your heart rate low?
Like if you feel
yourself freaking out
how do you calm
yourself down?
I get out.
You just get out?
Yeah.
Yeah, just get out
and regroup?
Yeah.
Yeah.
David.
But that's the last
dangerous thing
I'm going to do
like that ever.
That's it, ever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like that, yeah.
Well, I'm glad
you're alive.
And I feel like
in my show in Vegas
I was jumping
from like the height
of a nine-story building
landing in boxes
and I dislocated
my shoulder
it came down
to my armpit.
But in retrospect
I think I was lucky
because that could
have been really bad.
It could have been
the neck
it could have been
something else.
Oh, yeah.
Did you get surgery?
No, I didn't
get the surgery.
Well, they did
just pop it back.
There was an orthopedic
surgeon's convention
in Vegas at that time
so I had five
orthopedic surgeons
in the audience
and one was
a shoulder specialist
and they all came
on stage
and he popped it
right back in.
So then I walked out
to do the show, Joe
but my arm
was all numb.
It stayed numb
for like two months
but I was going
like this
to see if I could
get feeling back
and it fell back out.
So I had to go
back on stage
they popped it back in
and then I did
the whole show
with one arm.
Yeah, that's 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
he, when I jumped
he knew
that something
was going to go wrong.
He bent over
and took a heavy breath
because he knew
that was the one.
There's a gentleman
named Yuri Prochaska.
He was the UFC
light heavyweight champion
and his shoulder
dislocated during training
and his trainers
tried to pop it
back into place
and they were
yanking on it
and they just
destroyed his shoulder.
They tore
everything apart
just kind of
pulling on it
and it ripped apart.
The UFC doctor
says the worst
shoulder injury
he'd ever seen.
That's crazy.
And he's fighting
again next weekend.
Got it repaired.
He got surgery?
Yep.
Got surgery.
Vacated his title
and now he's back
fighting for the title
next weekend.
Yeah.
Mine is still messed up.
Really?
Yeah.
Like in what way?
Well, I haven't
I can't really work out
or do anything
the same way.
How long ago?
Maybe March?
Did you get an MRI?
Oh, many MRIs.
What's the damage?
No, it was really bad.
What's in there?
It was bad.
It came down to here.
Right.
Why didn't they do surgery?
I didn't
I'm like afraid
of surgery
I have to say.
Like horrified of it.
Why are you afraid of surgery?
I don't know.
You're not afraid
of king cobras?
Yeah, it's crazy
but I'm horrified
of surgery.
Why?
I don't know.