Name: Joe Rogan Experience #849 - James Kingston
Uploaded: 2016-09-21T01:43:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #849 - James Kingston' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-09-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #849 - James Kingston' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-09-21. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #849 - James Kingston

on right yeah and we're live you gotta put that put that thing down i want you
to focus
i want you to focus i gotta get into your head man i gotta find out what you're
about
your instagram's just at joe rogan right yes okay did you post it posted go go
okay turn that over
so you can't look at it that's the key silent i wouldn't think that a guy like
you'd be easily
distracted you can't be i'm like i'm just like on different things if i get on
something i'm on it
and then it's like something else and my brain is doing so many different
things at one time how did
you get to be the guy that makes people shit their pants when they watch your
videos because if you
haven't seen any of his videos stop pause this podcast for perspective go look
up james kingston
what is your youtube i just put james kingston james kingston and uh all forms
of social media
right you got instagram all that jazz and there's just ridiculous photos and
videos of you doing
shit that people watch with their friends and everybody goes jesus christ and
they cringe and
your asshole puck goes up like this one where are you out here uh climbing in
the ukraine that's in
ukraine yeah with mustang wanted is that the guy's name yep so you you hooked
up with the russians
you're out russian to russians yeah i didn't i wouldn't say i out russian them
but but that's
what they do right that's the whole thing i think only russians can out russian
russians
so he's climbing first of all how hard is it to get to this tower we're looking
at this video and i am
freaking out how high are you up here this one i think it was like just over
200 meters
this is mustang oh my god he's hanging by one hand this one is the second
tallest building in ukraine
right oh my god and you go in the bottom and it's like a shopping center and
then they took me like
through all these little doors and then we took a lift down into like the
basement and then we walked
through the basement and found another lift oh my god he's standing on the edge
here who's standing on
yeah it's you mustang again oh my he's out of his fucking mind holy fuck this
video is hard to watch
man
so and he's muscling with your hair what what led you to this and how long you've
been doing this
so i've done parkour for nine years you know parkour is sure jumping around all
that fun stuff
they have little classes for little kids now they do yeah it's really cool yeah
break their arms and
about four years ago i got to a point where i was like satisfied with what i
was able to do right
but i was still like super scared of heights so i was like okay i know that if
i want to get over
this fear of heights i need to do it face my fear so is this your stuff yeah
this is you yeah so this is
you running on trees and stuff and the whole idea behind parkour is to use the
world around you
steps and fences and all kind of crazy shit and to uh you know you're
essentially performing acrobatics
with all this stuff yeah just jumping around yeah i think the now how do you do
this and not get hurt
you just practice a lot like the whole idea isn't to go out and just do crazy
stuff and and risk your
life right start you start slow you start with small jumps and then you
progress steadily and sensibly
and then eventually you'll get to a point where you can do things that make
most people feel a bit sick
well what did you start doing did you take gymnastics in school or something no
i was like a little fat
kid when i was younger not super fat but unhealthy just played computer games
that was it how are you
able to jump so far too that's another thing that freaks me out there's one
legs you know i'm six foot
three i can jump i know but there's a lot of people that are six foot three
they can't jump from one
building to a next yeah like i've seen some of the ridiculous ones where you
jump from the top of a
building to another building like on a very small ledge that you're landing on
yeah just practice you
start how the fuck do you practice you start with a jump that's like four foot
wide right and then as
you get but you do that hundreds and hundreds of times till that becomes like
nothing right and then
you'll realize that you can now jump five foot and then blah blah blah blah and
i my peaks like eleven
eleven and a half foot standing jump eleven and a half foot yeah wow dude you
should be in the olympics
they're on another level yeah how far can like a long jumper jump
20 feet 20 feet something like that i think the record is probably 21 22
without looking holy shit
but still 11 feet in between buildings now when you're jumping and one building's
taller another
building smaller it gives you more time to to travel right yeah yeah so like
like when you're jumping i saw
this one video of you were on you were on the ledge and you leapt across from
one building to another
and i'm like this has got to be photoshop this can't even be real the one that
you posted yeah yeah
yeah yeah that one's in cambridge that one's actually a small jump because
there's quite a big height
difference right massive impact because of the height yeah and you've got a
ledge that's maybe like a foot
deep to land on and then there's a scaffolding pole right in front of it dude
that you kind of
slam into you can see it in the video i slam into that pole jesus but that that's
all
part of taking the impact you use your arms as well yeah but that's it doesn't
seem like something
you could practice a lot right slamming into something that hard those ones you
can't practice
a lot but yeah you figure it out you figure out how to take impact and yeah so
you started doing this
about four years ago right you started doing the height stuff started doing the
climbing kind of
scary stuff and when did you start releasing videos right away um
no not really i mean i'd release this is the one oh this one yeah oh this one
makes me shit my pants
this is that seems so far that seems so far how far is it not that far like you
could jump to the
lower bit there quite easily that's what other people have done right into the
pole
yeah yeah that is bananas dude yeah so how much is the distance between those
two buildings
between those probably like 10 foot 12 foot maybe it does not seem like but it
because it's because
there's a big drop as well it's more about like judging it correctly and not
jumping too far not
jumping too little right yeah i'd see like 12 foot i think run that one more
time jamie i just want to
see this one more time because this freaks me out every time i see it every
time i see it i'm like
well he's gonna die for sure there's no way he can make it so you kind of like
lean forward and then
swing your arms and then push off of it so you're you're like a standard yeah
jump yeah because you're
already committing to the jump as you're like leaning forward yeah you could
see it in your momentum
like your head because you have a gopro on yeah is above it's past the center
line of like that that beam
that you're standing on and you're you're going out there once you're gone that's
it yeah
but that's the idea like you train you train enough so that when you're stood
on the edge looking at
something like you have no doubt you can't afford to have any doubt if i doubted
myself there and i
commit to it and i lean and then i back out i'm dead i had a crazy dream last
night man that i'm just
remembering i had a crazy dream that i was climbing with alex honnold yeah you
know alex i do yeah um alex has been on the podcast before and uh
every now and then i'll think about how crazy he is about how crazy what he
does is but how like mellow
and like calm he is about it you know like you know he's describing climbing he's
like it's really
actually kind of mellow it's like if anything is like if you're really scared
something's gone
horribly wrong and it's really really bad it's exactly the same yeah people
think i'm like
like an adrenaline jumping yeah yeah it says he fell but unless he just fell on
i'm sure he pulls it out right there at the end there it is dude fuck all that
is this alex that's not him i don't think so no it looks like oh my god look at
that
oh my god see i'm not into that crazy that's that's too much trust in a
backpack
everything i do is like all on me that interesting that yeah not into that my
friend andy andy stump
he does that wingsuit shit he's got the world record and wingsuit flying yeah
he's out of his
fucking mind he just loves to do that he gets to the top cliffs of the world
and just throws his
fucking body off and has like a squirrel suit like the close proximity stuff oh
yeah just like
we watched one the other day where a guy slammed into a bridge yeah he missed i've
seen it yeah you
know yeah the sound it's rough i don't know why i didn't expect it to be so
loud the meat and there
was people on the bridge oh yeah and his family were there oh yeah that's not
good that's not good
yeah um do you worry about that when you're doing these crazy jumps no not at
all i mean it's in my
mind like if i make a mistake that's it but i don't make mistakes that's that's
what you gotta be
confident you gotta have confidence in what you're doing otherwise like if you
if you're up there
and you're scared right the chances of failing are so much higher i think yeah
i think with anything
i mean you have to be in the moment right well prepared in the moment yeah um
how much of what
you're doing or is it really you taking a chance and how much of it is just you
having a better
understanding of what your body's capable of than the average person than most
people i should
say not taking chances maybe like 10 wow that's interesting and that's that's
only
on me taking chances and trusting structures yeah like maybe jumping to
something that i i'm not able
to check first right but it doesn't happen often every time i do it i'm like
probably shouldn't have
done that it's really interesting also the that you picking this up four years
ago is sort of like
where social media it's around the time where social media really started to
take off yeah maybe a couple
years before that it did but like youtube videos of people doing crazy shit
really between like six
and seven years ago that's when it really is that right am i saying that right
yeah like 2010 ish is
really sort of take off yeah so you kind of caught you caught that wave you
know i didn't you know i didn't
really get anywhere any kind of good decent like following on youtube until
three four years ago
that was it i released my first like crane climb video that that blew up and
went super viral and that
was that kicked everything off and then because of that video i nailed a tv
show in the in the uk on
channel four and then that was everything just took off then wow now these russian
cats that you were
hanging out with in the ukraine we climbed up on that tower um there's a lot of
those guys like you
see yeah yeah i saw a lot of videos yeah like what is it about russians and
climbing on what is it
about these crazy kids why are they so nutty i don't know that's something i've
been trying to figure
out like for i've only been to ukraine i haven't been to russia but there's not
much like there's not
much going on there you know there's not much to live for in russia or ukraine
i don't want to sound
mean but i know what you're saying yeah yeah and there's so much kind of they're
just familiar
with death and violence and stuff like that like mustang he goes out i don't
know every week and
goes to like organized fights just like street fights and just beats the the
hell out of random
people like that to me is like so he does those english boy those organized
street fights where
they like five guys take on five guys like big groups i've seen those yeah he's
he does that and
i was like what so he just does everything crazy yeah wow yeah whoa and he just
does it all for the
thrill yeah i think so damn what a weird way to live i know it's a weird way to
have your brain
wired it was such an inte