Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2056 - David Blaine
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2056 - David Blaine' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-02. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2056 - David Blaine

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience trained by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day hello David how are you good to see you good to see you how you
been good to see
you're still alive you're not full of visible holes that come wood what are you
up to man
spending a lot of time with my daughter number one and then number two 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 well you showed me some things off camera that we can't
talk about but
well you can talk about them I just can't show it okay well um so the scariest
thing was like three
days ago I kissed a king cobra yeah in the wild yeah what is is there a trick
to that does there
um 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 and was I had a
team around me that 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 full-grown elephant in 30 minutes so we had 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 yeah right yeah
is it so it was amazing it was incredible is it similar to rattlesnake venom
because rattlesnake
venom essentially it's a neuro yeah I mean it digests your body well this this
one shuts everything down so
your heart your lungs everything just start 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 we had 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 oh god so 20 minutes of king cobra venom it was the
scariest and most intense thing I've
ever done yeah how many of these guys died doing this well the the snake we the
two snakes we had
one of them killed its previous previous owner oh boy yeah and they don't kill
the snake after it
kills the previous owner no this guy died so exactly right that's right oh boy
yes it's it's but it is
kind of incredible because there's another guy named chris sweet who um 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 while you
were there no 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 yeah exactly yeah and i
think that's a snake
called a spire yeah so that 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 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
yeah
do you have a second guess when you're about to do something that when i second
guessed i left i left
and then came back a few months later and did it again i wouldn't go i was too
afraid to go near it
what made you go back i went to cleveland and i trained with my friend mike and
my other friend chris
gillett 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 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 you're using to keep your heart rate low like when if
you feel yourself
freaking out how do you calm yourself down i i get out you just get out yeah
yeah just get out regroup
yeah yeah david but that's the last dangerous thing i'm gonna do like that that's
it yeah yeah yeah like
that yeah well i'm glad you're alive and i feel like in my i did it in my show
in vegas i was jumping
from uh 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 so did you get
surgery no i didn't get
the surgery what they did just pop there was an orthopedic surgeons convention
in vegas at that time
so i had five orthopedic surgeons in the office in the audience and one was a
shoulder specialist and he
they all came on stage and they and he popped it right back in so then i walked
out to do the show
joe with but but i my arm was all numb it stayed numb for like two months but i
was going like this
to get like 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 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 prohaska 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 how
long ago
uh maybe march did you get an mri oh many mri what's what's the damage no it
was really bad
i read through the ligaments 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 it 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
yeah you should probably get surgery um what like specifically which which uh
ligaments i have
a lot of experience with this stuff uh i have all the scans and the whole write-up
of it so i could
show it to you and so it's just very weak and it's uh not stable it just hurts
no i can go overhead so
i'm good like that it's just hard to like push things no i can still do it but
not like i used to
have you ever gotten stem cells no you should get stem cell therapy on it that
could help a lot
i avoided surgery completely with stem cells really yeah i had a full-length
rotator cuff tear on my
right shoulder it went away the doctor said it was extraordinary he went to
look at it six months later
and the the tear was completely gone he said this is insane and this is just
yeah they can do wild
how did you rip your rotator cuff training just jujitsu like too hard i don't
know but it was a slow
or it was a one time you uh you know jujitsu is it's very addictive and a lot
of times you get
injured and you're like i still can roll i'm gonna go back in and you go back
in with like
fucked up discs and a tweaked knee and a fucked up shoulder and i know a lot of
guys that have some
pretty significant injuries and they just can't stop training they just enjoy
it so much right um stem
cells could help you a lot specifically if you go out of the country because
they can do some wild
that they can't do in america because the fda i have some good friends that run
a clinic in tijuana
it's called uh cpi and a bunch of my friends have gone down there a bunch of ufc
fighters
you can help you a lot i'd be so afraid though why i don't know why are you
talking about being afraid
of that maybe because when i was young and my mother was sick and you know that
that whole thing maybe
well this this is uh what they can do with modern stem cells is pretty
extraordinary
but unfortunately the united states is very limited in what you can get away
with here
right yeah they're constantly putting restrictions on it unfortunately for no
reason
you know it doesn't it doesn't make any sense the the there's no downsides
i feel like also just when i eat right and and and do everything perfectly the
inflammation all goes
away for sure and then the pain goes away and it's much better yeah for sure
yeah that that's definitely
a factor yeah inflammation is huge yeah and a lot of it does come from bad food
a lot of it comes from
too much sugar too much bread pasta that kind of ice cream all that all the
stuff that's good
but yeah afterwards i'll connect you with those people okay yeah i bet it can
help you a lot
and it doesn't hurt oh really no there's no downside no it's not gonna hurt you
no no you'll go there
they'll what they'll do is they'll do uh iv stem cells they'll do local stem
cells into whatever the
area that's injured and then they'll use hyperbaric chambers which also accelerates
the healing
they'll have you down there for a few days and i guarantee a few months later
you'll feel
significantly better wow yeah that is all dependent upon what structural issues
you have now if you
have something that's completely torn off the bone and it's not connected
anymore they can't help with
that i don't think it's that bad because i can already do this sometimes you
can do that even though
it's torn because there are other ligaments that compensate and other muscles
that compensate and
i still have a little bit of numbness down here by the way yeah it was really
crazy because i was
numb all the way to here for like months yeah that's generally that's nerve
damage it takes a long time
for that stuff to recover nerve damage is rough but i feel like i got off easy
yeah oh yeah it could have
been your neck yeah yeah sure right so i feel like that was a good lesson yeah
don't do that
well not every night don't do it period don't do it again the craziest thing
was we only had insurance
for the first 10 shows and the injury was on the 10th show oh boy so monday
morning the insurance
company called they said do you want to discuss uh this new condition yeah so
that that was the end of
that yeah which is a good thing yeah don't do that you're uh you've done some
extraordinary things with
yourself i mean you really have some crazy things yeah some crazy things but
all for entertainment
and not i mean it's interesting because it's it is entertainment but it's also
entertainment and sort
of educating people the the boundaries of what the mind can force the body to
do you know like the one
we did where you're frozen in ice yeah like that's basically just you standing
standing and using breathing
techniques and your mind to to deal with that situation how 