Joe Rogan Experience #1527 - David Blaine

this is a great collection yeah this is these are all from plastisol look even the sunglasses come off on wow yeah it's pretty dope john wick john wick and his pitbull bull awesome yeah i got kanye bruce lee but the glasses are biggies i know well this guy's amazing shout out to fong from plasticile he makes some dope [ __ ] yeah he's amazing but not as amazing as that [ __ ] you did in the green room man david just did uh some card wizardry that uh it's one thing that you see when you see that [ __ ] on tv like if i was there i'd see some [ __ ] i know what's going on but when you see it in real life you're like what is happening here yeah it's way better like uh in person than oh yeah well at the end i don't give anything away but the end literally a man is holding one of his wrists and another guy's holding the other wrist and he still does the card trick and we still can't figure out what happened when did you get started how old were you um so i i was about five years old when i started playing with cards but i didn't know what what they were for really so i just had a deck of cards that i carried everywhere but i liked the way it felt you know just like it felt like something cool so eventually a librarian was like oh we got this like magic self-working card trick booking do you want to learn something and i was like yeah of course and she shows me the that silly self-working mathematical trick that's a long process to do but it's still a cool outcome like oh i found your card right right and my mother i used to wait for her at the library and she'd come get me when she was done and when she came i said can i show you this trick and the librarian was excited for me to do it to her which is what i do to my friends kids i teach them a trick and make them really good at it and i'm so excited to see them do it you know right okay so my mother comes and i do the trick and my mom goes crazy like it was like it was the best thing ever and so like but that began the love of wanting to learn new tricks because i wanted to keep making her you know react you know happier so that was basically the fundamental start of it and then also she would take me to coney island all the time and um you know on the side on the boardwalk there there's those weird freak show performers stuff so i'd watch those guys and it to me it was all like magical so that that was kind of the beginning of it so isn't it funny how one positive experience when you're young can ignite this chain of events yeah that changes your whole life by the way and also so then the librarian when i would come she would give me books and i would start looking at that little magic section that was between like games and puzzles i thought i always wished magic would be like not there like it should be like an art or so you know just it was always like when you want a magic book it's always like that silly like kids jokey thing but there's like so in that section i pulled out a book and i was like six years old and i see a guy chained to the side of a building staring out looking like death is upon him and that was her dealing and i didn't know anything about what that all meant i looked through the pictures and he was hanging upside down and stuff like that but when i went to sleep i would have these dreams of this guy chained to the side of a building and that began my curiosity and love of of houdini and then that began my curiosity of like not just like the magic trick stuff but like this stuff that's to me it's more like real yeah how do those two worlds collide because some of the things you're doing they're they're just insane endurance and mental exercises and then other things you're doing are what you would consider magic right so so i love both separately 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 were like you know we're young we're like six seven and all the kids like ah you know i'm afraid they were gonna cut their feet on glass 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 wanting my feet turned in and stuff like that so i felt like this i could do these things so then i learned how to hold my breath and the reason i learned to hold my breath was simply because i was on the swim team at the y also and the other kids would swim back and forth and they'd destroy me because my feet didn't function perfectly well and what i learned is that if i didn't breathe if i just swam it would save me time because i didn't have to move my head dip it out and you know right so i would just swim and the coach would yell at me but suddenly i was no longer in last place i was like now second and sometimes first and that began my like oh god you can actually do what the coach doesn't think is possible you could swim there and back without breathing and then the older kids would come to see me do that and i would like challenge them i'd be like um let's see you could stay under the longest and you can go up and down five times i didn't understand the physiology of it that like going up and down doesn't help it's more effective to just sit through the pain and just kind of chill but i would just sit there and they'd go up and come back down which makes it worse that they'd be out and i just doesn't make it worse because uh the breath holding thing is all about like a co2 buildup in your bloodstream and it's about a tolerance level to it so if you relax and efficiently keep your oxygen and not make this co2 build up more extreme you can actually hold more efficiently so when you have that feeling everybody has that feeling where you need to breathe that's it's not an o2 deprivation it's a trigger from a co2 buildup which is giving you an alert that for example in 20 minutes from now you will not recover and i didn't believe that either some a magician friend of mine who's amazing um and one of my like heroes in life uh he he told me a story as i was doing like buried alive i was saying he said you know you know the navy seals you know they black them out under water so they're not afraid of drowning and i'm like that can't no way like because it seems so abstract to me you know so but it stuck in my brain and then when i wanted to do the water tank stunt and i started learning about free diving and stuff like that i suddenly realized blacking out is pretty straightforward like you black out and then you get your head above the water and if you're supervised you're fine so when i went to san diego with the seals i watched what they do and i actually did it but i didn't black out it went back and forth a few times and pulled 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 and when this when the seals black out they cut the rope bring them up to the top and they're fine but what that teaches you is that you do not need to worry about being underwater because if you're with a team and you but by the way nobody should try this you know there is extreme dangers to shall water blackouts which lead to death but if you are in somebody that's training and you have a team and you want to push it as soon as you black out it's like getting knocked out it's it's but it feels better it's not like getting knocked out with a punch it's like you're getting choked it's your four no but no yeah but choked out as euphoric right yeah exactly except this one's even better and then you have all these dreams no no it makes it sound exciting that part of it whenever i wake up from a blackout i'm like whoa that's how people wake up when they get choked out really the same yeah when people get choked out they wake up almost like they were dreaming like sometimes they think they're at a disco yeah yeah yeah it's amazing and they're like what yeah wow and it's not the best thing in the world for you but it's way better for you than getting knocked unconscious yeah yeah it chokes the head yeah choked out is just a it just shuts off the blood to the brain right and the brain shuts off yeah and then it comes back online but there's no trauma right yeah but it's not yeah so it's like a [ __ ] yeah blacking out under the blacking out underwater thing probably not a good idea to do too many times though right no you could do it i mean i've blacked out underwater a lot i mean by the way so okay times i don't know like between 20 to 30. i mean i have like wow by the way you guys were talking about me on the thing about the breath hold thing yeah so yeah one time i went 20 minutes and two seconds i almost did what you were talking about the length of a show but i did 20 minutes in two seconds and i had telemetry there and i had pulmonary experts and everything like that and my heart rate dropped to eight beats per minute holy [ __ ] and they pulled me up because they were freaked out that's why you were dying yeah but back to what i'm 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 a kid was under an icy river for 45 minutes yeah with nothing blacked out unconscious underwater for 45 minutes they rescue him out pull him back recover him in full recovery so there's something that the body does that we don't understand it but if you actualize so because he blacked out and because it was so cold the blood shunting occurred we're all like the same as when you get cold the blood rushes away from the extremities and protects the vital organs and because he didn't inhale the water because he was completely out of it when they recovered him they didn't even 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 certain levels of of what the body can tolerate that we have no idea so you in in learning how to swim and learning how to go all the way back and forth and holding your breath this started this idea of holding your breath for an extreme long period of time like what had been the record before you would like 20 minutes and how many seconds two seconds yeah that's what you did yeah but that's what happened what have you done before that would have been your record okay so when i was a kid i heard as i start reading about houdini his like proud record of his lifetime and he's the underwater escape king for a hundred years ago and he had he was around the best swimmers and he had access and he got up to three and a half minutes so by the time i was like a teenage early teenager i got to three and a half minutes and did you think that that was a barrier that couldn't be crossed well i came i blacked out as i came out but i didn't know what that all meant right so i blacked out was that so i was like okay that 330 seems like the edge but then when i started working on the actual concept of like how long can you hold your breath for then i started looking into it i'm like oh wow there's like people that can do five minutes six minutes seven minutes and then there was a hypothetical record of um of uh a hypothetical 13-minute record but no evidence of it and that was on pure02 so it was a hypothetical bureau two record of 13. when you say on too what's your process that flushes everything out so you start pure o2 yeah hold on to pure too yeah and yeah i purge really hard on pure tusa which is like hypervent which gets rid of the co2 and gives you more room for oxygen and by the way i just went up to 25 000 feet in an airplane ascending at 500 feet per minute doors open and everything no oxygen and i was with luke akins who jumped from 25 000 feet with no parachute landed in that he was with me and two other the pilot and two other guys we just right under 25 those are 24 7 whatever and um he's i said let's see who goes hypoxic first right so no no but we have no but you have to take the ox the o2 you have to take the o2 monitors you have to be on the right so and i was already in a hypobaric chamber with the fa at oklahoma city and i started purging just to see what it would do and my levels my oxygen levels shot up which nobody believes is possible so i get into the airplane and we put the monitors on and everybody's around the same i was actually lower than luke i was like at 90 whatever 596. he was at like 97 he's like oh i'm going to go you know joking with me and as soon as we cross 15 000 feet his slowly is starting to come down and i start doing the breathing technique the purging out like i said right my oxygen levels and we filmed all this shot up to 98 and then 99 is i went up to 23 plus thousand feet now these guys think i'm a magician so they're like yeah uh-huh like fake news that's what he wrote on the paper next to the levels because he was recording it so i took his monitor off of his finger and he took mine i put his monitor on my finger put mine on his bang his was dropping around 70 and mine was 98.99 then i switch with day i switch with everybody on the plane and the oxygen levels with the breathing all the way up to that altitude and i'm not recommending this because i haven't tested enough and but they did stay up at 98.99 and so my evidence for that was you hear about all the sherpas that go up to the top of everest up to 29 000 feet and they're not bringing oxygen i get it they're acclimating six but they're still at 29 plus thousand feet so they're doing something that's allowing them to rewire their ability to not go hypoxic so this breathing technique you're essentially exhaling more than you're breathing in so you're breathing a small amount in and then i fill up everything for full but i mean full like top to bottom hold for a second and then exhale slowly and i like for example if when when we're done here if you have 20 minutes i'll get you up to a four and a half minute breath hold in 20 minutes and this is just through these breathing techniques yeah when we're done with this i'll show you how to do it and you will get up to four plus minutes for sure and how did you so you you've learned that you could go three and a half minutes or three minutes plus right and yeah and and blackout and then how did you have it in your head that you were going to eventually get to 20 minutes okay so you really ought to hear all that yeah yeah it's a long i'll go let's go okay and i forget where i'm going okay it's okay so you might have to remind me where we're going yeah okay i just want to know the process because okay yeah but it's a little magician by trade well but first of all i like houdini so i love magic but i like houdini and houdini was like king of cards as well but he's a guy that's doing real things right and then i like guys that are like as i go i go to the museum of broadcasting because there was no youtube or whatever so i'd look at like these magic you search magic and i'd find like guys that would like drink a gallon of water drink a liter of kerosene he would float all the kerosene on top of the water and then he would spit out kerosene out of his mouth look like a human dragon and then put the fire out with a gallon of water so it's that it is magic but it's it's art it's mind-blowing it's an art it's a performance p it's not like it's incredible now look there's guys that are card guys that are like that also like lots lots of people i love and they do the cards in a way that's like but but that act to me was what pressed a button it was like whoa like how is he converting his body to do a trick and there's a guy today performing called stevie star who's called the human regurgitator but he swallows crazy things like so he combines magic with his abilities so like he went on jay leno or one yeah i think it was leonard carson he takes you know the little film canisters that used to drink so he puts a film canister empty closes it for the you know you get the 35 and then he goes and then he swallows it so it's in it's yeah it's gone and he goes like that's gone then he would take a bunch of water drink that and then there'd be a cup with a goldfish in it drinks the cup and the goldfish and then you have jay leno sign the cap the the lid thing to the thing with a piece of tape and sign it right then he'd take that and go now everything is gone then he does these weird sounds and movements which is part of his show right and then he brings it up spits it out and the film canister is sealed and it is the water and the fish and it's sealed with the signature so to me that's like the coolest magic because your take because when you see a trick you know like oh that's cool but it's a trick so it's like you're being removed from being able to like absorb but when you see somewhere somebody's doing something crazy and it seems like a trick but it's also like wait this is real because he's really doing this it's just way more exciting you know i understand i understand it's just do you know how he did that one obviously yeah i talked to him yeah i talked to him all the time yeah i love steve stevie star you know how it was done but you can't reveal that right yeah he and and okay there's another guy tom mullika who he passed away and he was this guy he's the first magician ever so he did a simple card trick and i was crying i was like in tears i was like oh my god but he and he passed away and i filmed that and and he's i'm gonna do a really amazing piece about him because he is incredible but he also was on like uh johnny carson shows what he would do is he would take a pack of cigarettes throw them into his mouth one at a time light them on fire bring them back out and then throw them into his mouth one time eat all the cigarettes yes there he is so and watch he eats the cigarettes wow that's great how fast they pulled that up it's not day it's young jamie oh it's you he's a wizard yeah he's a wizard of mine look so he takes by the way this act killed him so that's how dedicated to his craft he did it really yeah look he he was eating a pack of cigarettes every night on stage and swallowed a yeah and then but wait he also throws him into his mouth like oh my god so now he's chewing him watch what is he chewing he's just amazing but hold on i get to where he's throwing them into his mouth too oh boy yes he throws him into his mouth one of the time they're lit he chews them up swallows them his mouth is lighting look at the ladies what the [ __ ] am i doing here oh my god look at that stack in his mouth and then look the whole thing goes in by the way he also throws him one at a time does all that puts the paper in oh jesus christ and swallows it all that's it oh my god yep he he's so so how did this kill him every single night just 20. he shows a night at a bar doing cigarettes in your mouth on fire eating them swallowing them right but what killed yeah yeah boy yeah but wait so um so he spits them out eventually or he just swallows him i'm not gonna give away his genius right in the video do they ever come out no no they're gone they just yeah yeah yeah see that's the thing it's like this is a guy that died for his art legitimately yeah wow but so another the guy was telling you about that's like my favorite card the guy that taught that showed me the navy seal but just an amazing just as a library he um he's like this genius that if he came here which he never would because he would never show anybody anything but if he did and he showed you a couple of moves like the first move he showed me was actually a card move called ascension where he makes the card float right through the deck and like the greatest magician of all time the card magician said it was one of the greatest tricks ever done you won't be able to find it anywhere because it's not a video but he um he only does it to a couple of magicians so he performs for like you know a handful of his friends he shows a move and it's mind-blowing and luckily he showed me stuff when i was young but he'll never ever perform he's like does a painter paint so he can show people or does a painter paint to paint but whenever you're on the phone with him you just hear cards like he's like and he's doing no and he's doing it he's doing i'm telling you like 13 day long 13 hours a day he's doing card moves alone and i said but i was like bill what do you do do you like do the trick to yourself and be like ah how did i do that you know what i mean but he said he doesn't believe that it's not to him it's not a performance to him it's it's just about the technical love and feel of of that well that's that there's a japanese phrase for that about doing something over and over and over and over the exact same thing over and over again until you achieve a level of perfection that is almost physically unattainable to mere mortals you you bypass what a person thinks the the body would be capable of doing yep yeah that that's that's it that's it yeah that's what he's doing that is the thing like if you can you know james nestor is yeah of course he wrote the book d yes yeah deep is amazing uh i don't know deep but that's the book yeah breath is the one that i read and i had him on the podcast he's amazing he was talking about this monk that uh was literally meditating and doing breathing exercises all day long for 30 years and could do these insane things with his body like vary the temperature from one hand to another change the blood flow to change it literally from one finger to this for sure and that yeah you're 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 and most people just aren't willing to do that but if you do do that there are some levels that you can reach that are just unattainable to a normal person and even if you would talk to but i agree with the scientists and the doctors no but it is attainable to normal people because when somebody gets paralyzed or something right i've seen people that the doctors say you're done you have no shot and they spend all day of every single waking moment trying to get like a little mo just like a tiny bit of movement in their little toe and eventually if they do what you're saying yes so it it is that yeah it is that it's but most people are not willing to get to that place most people are not going to sit there shuffling cars 13 hours a day like your friend yeah but there's people that can do that like when i was watching you move the cards around well it's interesting like you ever watch a movie where a guy smoking a cigarette you know that guy doesn't really smoke you can kind of tell by the way he's holding the cigarette it feels good that's good you're moving these cards around like your your edge detection like your understanding of where the edge it's very interesting to watch your fingers move because they're so they're so educated you know um because of uh all the commentary that i do with martial arts and my years in martial arts it's i'm fascinated by how different people move and they do the same thing they it looks different when other people do it there's certain people that will throw a punch and you just walk into you you go jesus there's something about the the fluidity of the motion that's stunning even to this day and that was just when i was watching you move your fingers and watching you move the cards like this [ __ ] i shuffled a lot of cards there's a weirdness to the the movement of your hands but i think it's what you're saying it's like the punch thing it's like there's yes yeah yeah but it's uh it is but it's it's the you you the mind forces the body into moving over and over and over again you know you do it to this level of perfection that you d for a person like me who doesn't know anything about cards i don't know anything about car tricks i don't know how they work i can't shuffle if you watch me shuffle you'd [ __ ] laugh at me but i watch your your hand movements i'm like oh this is amazing it's amazing but now there's guys that i'm around that i wouldn't even pull a deck of cards out of my pocket if they're near me because they're that guy that does it 13 hours yeah like yeah like like the guy just that's what he's done fascinating though but yeah but there's also different aspects of it but so like you know there's also guys i can't i'm not gonna go with the details okay but i met i feel like i shouldn't even say this but it's fine because it's fine so i met a kid once who moved to las vegas when he was this is a crazy story to tell damn but it's a good story okay i won't go into details so he moved to las vegas when he was 12. he moved there because he wanted to meet a specific person who was considered the best card sheet ever meaning the guy this is a guy that the reason that vegas has those instead of like the dealer peeking the the down card they have to put it into a machine and push a button he's the guy that the movie casino was built around with the computer in the shoe like he was the the best card she ever but among magicians he's like a phenomenon because he's working on moves not to entertain anybody he's working on moves so he doesn't get his hands smashed up against the wall binions right so he's working on moosa he's not going to get killed survival yes yeah so right so this kid at the age of 12 knows about him moves to las vegas and buys a crap stable he puts the craps table it's him and his mom right it was my the single mother and him they live in this small apartment very close to the man i was telling you about and this kid throws dice 15 hours a day on this craps table by the way their little bed is like under the table you know i mean it's a small space and it's a real crap stable like a nice one the only thing he does is repetitiously throw that and he can helicopter spin the dice so you can't see them doing this they have such force going around this way that when they hit the wall one die won't break the number and he can throw it exactly to this part of the of the table missing this from across the table so that one guy locks and every time he can guarantee that number he did that every day for almost a decade until he could throw dice better than any other human being in the world then he went and got a job at one of the casinos that texts for car cheats and worked in the craps tables it's all he did and as soon as he turned 21 he went out travels the world and wins the exact amount of money that he should when playing craps where you're not detected but but you can what is the exact amount i mean i under you know probably under a million yeah probably a few million a year so if i'm saying it's not like he's going in and getting really it's it's very smart and structured yeah and that's going to different places and he can throw dice like i've never seen anybody throw dice it's crazy i know that they take people that are really good at cards like my friend dana white has been barred from casinos because he wins at blackjack he's probably just counting i don't know what he's doing yeah he's counting but they've they've kicked him out of casinos because he's won a lot of money but he's also lost a lot of money which is bizarre to me that you can go to a place and do really well and they're like you're doing too well you got to get out of here well they also it says mine everything we have the right to refuse anybody which is important because do they do that with dice is the question i forget that how they would do that okay do you want to hear a dice story but this isn't me doing magic this is luck okay okay so i don't believe you it is i don't like the way you paused but but i'm serious i know but i'm saying that because i'm trying to be convincing okay okay so because i'm telling the truth but anyway i go to the palms you know the yeah okay and um they had a bet on the crabs table called the fire bet and it was like a a game where you have to hit all the numbers open and close without but crapping out so when i walk up to the table right away the the pit boss and everybody they make a big deal like you can't touch the dice and they're like i said you can call up i can touch the dice because you know they invite me so i can touch the dice and uh because i i wanted to throw right i don't want to just gamble on a rant so anyway i um because even though i'm not cheating i still feel like you know maybe i'll get i have a little bit of an ability that's giving you know what i mean right not a cheating ability but maybe i'm a little better than a random person i don't know right got it so the pit ball they make a joke and then the woman pitbull comes out she says well if you take your shirt off we'll let you throw the dice joking right so anyway what i do is i bet for everybody at the in this i go to the low stakes table always so the high stakes able's that super bowl team right over there and they're like ah they're all crazy right like all excited with these big bets over here with this table we all have little bats right that i say let's put a fire bet down for everybody so i put the fire bit down for every single person at the table including the dealers the i mean the pitbull you know the you know with the dicing and uh i'm throwing the dice throwing the dice this goes on for two and a half hours i keep throwing the dice i didn't hit us i didn't crap out i hit sevens in between each number which you can craps work so you have to roll like a five let's say and then i'm like oh no i need to roll another five which is statistically much more difficult than a seven because seven is the most common number to come up so if you roll a five you're like uh oh that's hard because you can only get a two three or a three two on both dice or a one four or 4 1. so you have a 4 out of 36 so it's a 1 and 9. so you're probably going to crap out before you get the number that's why the game is to their favor so i'm throwing the dice and it's two and a half hours later and they stop everything and they're like your fire bet just hit and the table goes what does that mean they go well you all just won like 10 grand each and they'll go ah like everybody's go they gave me the taser everybody's going nuts and we hit the fire bet which they've now removed from the palms by the way but it was it was a pretty unheard of like the 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 so do they but the the question is i'm lucky for some reason i'm light i'm lucky with dice right but i'm not i but i can tell you i would be if i was great with dice i'd tell you i was good by the way i actually have a thigh on me i didn't even hear this story for this reason but i do have a die on me have you practiced with dice um no yes but i'm terrible at it so or do i do i do have a diet but it does make sense that if you look at what that is that that's a physical thing and then if you develop a touch you develop a feel you do something over and over and over well this is different but here look take the die okay and and uh can you like uh put it between your hand or whatever like uh and can you mix it like that and then squeeze it when you're done or no keep it hidden but put it on the table but make sure you can't see it and i can't see it you agree like no one could see that right are you sure 100 do you want to do it again try it again just know because it could be weighted so just or you're done you're good yeah you're good yeah okay uh say a number between one and six like pick a number up to six okay that five is what i said on the craps table right but but i already know that it's a four and the five is here basically how do you know that that's uncomfortable can you do that again probably not so you know what we'll do stop but stop whatever you want yeah because it could be like a way to die by the way that's how people cheat with dices they also take the dye and they flip it and they want it to be you know so it's like you throw the numbers so you said you wanted a five right yeah go ahead yeah it's five get that voodoo away from me man the [ __ ] is that that's so weird that must be a rush for you though just to blow people's minds like that all the time but see so it's not you don't i don't think of it so what happens is the digital fixation part of like the love of just like learning something new and exciting that's that's like really the the stimulus is like that that fixation almost it's like the meditative thing that you're talking about but but as a magician that is performing and trying to make tv shows it's really difficult because you have to like keep coming up with new things which is that's hard to do how did you first get on television how did you convince someone to let you try this on television well so back in those days the only magic that you could see and like i said it was pre you couldn't go watch it or get it or any so there's no way to see magic and if you were me with a single mother in brooklyn or whatever how you gonna go there's no magic i never went to a magic show so what happened was all those world's greatest tv specials were playing and they were called world's greatest men and i would watch them and they were like the opposite of that they were like not they were like hard to watch you know it was like glossy big like dynamic and illusionist is so far away from the whole thing so i'm like there's nothing magical about all this and then um so okay i i i think about it and i'm like i go through up so but i'm doing magic everywhere all the time so one of the ways i'm making money is i'm going into those fancy restaurants in new york city like those upper park avenue and i do magic to the you know to the manager to this and i'm like if uh can i do magic to the table and it's like what i did to you there like do the magic like oh that's great i was like could i do magic to the people eating and i won't ask him for anything i bought like a nice suit at century 21 like a hundred dollar jacket was tattooed but anyways i go up to these tables and that's a hard situation because it's very difficult to approach people that do not want you near them and try to figure out how to win with magic it's a com and it's like even on the street wherever you do it it's like a complicated scenario once the camera comes up it changes it because now they're like oh he has a camera it's fine right but you'd have to walk up to a table of a people a bunch like us we're sitting there and some like you know sketchy magician kid comes up to us like hey can i show you a card trick and you and i are gonna be like nice to him probably but not really whatever out right so what i had to learn quickly was like little things that are so important like distance like how close should you be to the table or how far and then you start to really understand the psychology of the magic is way more important than the tricks right so if you're too close you're like over you're they don't want you near them so you're right you get you're like they're 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 a balancing point just on where you stand and then who you do the first trick to and then what the first trick is and so by doing all this i started to really figure out how to get reactions from anybody really fast so i could walk up to anybody anywhere and just do magic like one time i was in um central booking because i jumped the subway thing they were sweeping everybody up and there was four guys sitting in the middle playing spades the only other like kid that looked like me that was in there got the [ __ ] kicked out of him right and i'm like i'm gonna get my ass kicked right because i was with a button-up shirt like you know anyway so the guys are sitting in the middle uh that were playing spades i grabbed it i go let me show you guys something i take the come on i grab the deck of cards and i start doing magic to the four toughest looking guys in the cell right within two minutes they're erupting and once they're erupting the whole everybody because central books are moved here everybody's standing around going nuts and then all of a sudden the guards are there and now everybody's watching together and i'm like this is what the magic show needs to be like whether you're like here or this whether you're this that whether you're young old witch poor black white whatever everybody wants to see it no no everybody's got a good side like there's i want to show the that people are all the same you know like sure there's some that are horrific and do horrible but at the core of everybody there's like an innocent kid somewhere maybe he got really far lost and magic just pulls that out of people you know and that's why and the people say oh well how could you do magic i do magic to anybody because whether it's like visiting underage kids in prison that like you don't know what happened to them and you see them come walking up with their eyes down they don't want to look at you because they don't like anybody there that's authority right that's what ruined their lives and then as soon as you do these tricks suddenly they're like little happy sweet kids ah you get the you get that and that's what and that's what magic did originally 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 like this made her happy wow that's that's a cool origin story that and it makes sense that that feeling that you get like when you show so many like in you like the card trick you did in the other room and everybody's like oh that that oh the oh that you get out of people that that rush that's that that is because at that moment no one's thinking of anything else at that moment they're like what the [ __ ] how did you what oh and by the way i've walked many times when people were fighting about to erupt into big fights i walked into the middle of those fights started doing magic and those fights no i know but and then the fights were done and everybody's like what do you want to hear the funniest non-magical magic story sure okay so after the tv show comes out stuff like that i get more known by the way it's a world's greasy but then i was like okay let me do the opposite of that so i called it street magic because i was trying to come up with the lowest name like i was trying to come up with center expectations as low as possible right because the world's greatest like so i come i'm doing like card tricks right but anyway so i'm like driving with my friend at his uh one of those those smart cars in new york and it's like the coldest day in new york it's like freezing like a february like 12 degrees out type situation and um we're stuck at a red light and there's a car with these four people outside of it and there you could see they're like struggling like they couldn't get the door open so they realized they and they didn't they lost their keys they couldn't figure it out they couldn't get into their car right but i know that that's not what's going on like it's freezing so i understand the situation so i go doug stop one second and i walk up next to these this group walk up to the car pull the door open but i like it made it look like i'm just pulling but i was giving it for the door opens up and it looks like i did nothing it did i get back at the card leave and i hear they go down steve they got it was like the best trick i ever did but it was just opening up a door in a frozen night because i knew that it was just frozen but that's the same as what magic is it's like it's like and when yeah so the and the whole so that there's a book called magic and showmanship which is all about like what makes magic effective and it's called like the ham sandwich he says if you just said reach in your pocket right now there's a ham sandwich that's a good trick but if you were like man i'm hungry i would love a hand sandwich and i'd already put it there and i'm like reaching your pocket and then there's that's real magic so it's just context that's where it's so baffling because then people walk away how the [ __ ] did he know i was going to say a ham sandwich like the folded car that you somehow another shoved into jeff's wrist into his below his watch we're all like okay what i mean i know there's something to it i don't know what you're doing but that oh the result the o is uh pretty pretty phenomenal but in that moment no one's thinking of anything else uh yeah but it's sure no but there's also a lot of people that are trying to figure it out they're skeptical but they're still going ah they're not even if they're trying to figure it out they're not thinking of anything other than that trick that moment something yeah they might be trying to figure it out but they're still they're not thinking about oh i gotta feed the dog you know they're they're thinking about that they're like good friends of mine they're doing magic they're like okay yeah we can all get uh too accustomed to things yeah so you you first get on television you first do these things and then your magic evolves and your magic goes from being just magic to some of the more insane things you've done like standing in a block of ice for how long did you do it for seven days like 63 hours i'm always late so i showed up late so i missed like what i the length of time i was supposed to do so that's all but i'm always late i made it here on time though didn't i you were early yeah 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 decide to stand in a block of ice okay 60 plus hours well so i'll tell you that so you were saying how do you go from the magic tricks like to these extreme physical endurance and so studying houdini and all that stuff and then there's a poster of houdini that i loved where he was it was he was buried alive but he never did the stunt he died before he got to do but he was gonna get buried alive underground in a coffin so i i stare at i love that poster since i was a kid it's like in the magic books you see that poster yeah in any way so bill again the guy i told you about bill kalush comes up to me and he's like what about this and he shows me an image of a indian fakira that was buried alive for a month he's like what if you pretend to be buried alive in central park we'll sneak you out and you'll come back a month later and i was like i always wanted to do like houdini-like things but i never wanted to copy but that one he never did so i was kind of like well that's interesting 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 so what if i was really just buried alive like it can't be that hard he's like yeah you can't do that and i was staying at his place so we got a coffin from queens where actually houdini was buried i bought a coffin we brought it back to his house and then i would just practice sleeping in the coffin then suddenly yeah i know but then suddenly i realize you don't eat food and then if you have a little thing to go to the bathroom i did four days like nothing so i'm like okay i can do a week and that was it and then then i pushed the idea of doing the bird alive and and convinced people to let me do it publicly and what's funny is like firemen and stuff like would come to the stunt in the middle of the night and they would shine like holograms at me and their lights and stuff and they oh that's the ice but and then they would assume that i wasn't actually in there okay so here so back to this one well well let's go but but let's let's not jump around the so the buried alive thing yeah where did you do it physically where um that was in new york city on the west side uh trump had like this uh bunch of properties that he was developing and i was like uh i want to be buried alive on one of your properties is that possible he's like sure he just sent me his driver and i went around and that's where i did my first thought and it was how could they see you though and then jimmy who i do who like oh there you go yeah so it was see-through but right and then we put six tons of water on top of it so that's basically it and then so i was there and how are you getting that there was hal see those two big holes so the oxygen was being see the holes above my head right there so the air was being blown in and out but it's pretty straightforward like that one's not to me not that impressive like if i said to you you just laid there for a week yeah that you know what the harder the hard part i mean sure you body and you lose right now but the hard part of it is um and you wouldn't you would never anticipate this being the hard part but if you're not used to like peeing while standing in front of lots of people staring at you it's actually really hard so so i'd be buried alive and i had the trucker's tube on and all that stuff which is like a con with a catheter or whatever and um and people are there the whole time like it suddenly became like an event and so there was never like and i was they were like oh we'll cover it so no one can see i'm like no then people are going to think i'm sneaking in and out so i had to learn so i would close my eyes like when you were a kid sleeping and you would have those dreams i'd have bachelors and it would take me hours and i'd finally be able to pee right but that and by the way i didn't eat for a few weeks before so i had no foods that was the other wasn't an issue but um what happened by midway through the stunt people i'd be waving and smiling and like and it was like nothing you know but these are things that you don't consider when you're practicing in your coffin in your house so you you didn't eat for how long two weeks before yeah yeah but i i was always into fasting i read sid artha as a kid and i had done like uh a week with just water and you know knew all that knew the body is really good with that so you were comfortable with the fact that you were able to fast and that that wouldn't be an issue yeah and you were comfortable with the fact that you were getting air and where are you drinking water from how you getting water oh i had like a little bit of water in there that i could suck to a thing like that and that was fine it was like it was enough how much water do you think you drank over the week that you were in there uh i i don't know they always say it was like just a little bit but it was a good amount it was like uh i don't know probably probably three liters a day or something oh okay yeah that's real yeah they say he did tablespoons of it but no it was it was it was like a normal amount so by the way i did 44 days with nothing but water and i did nothing but pure h2o so it's not even like it had minerals in it and body was full recovery and my starvation expert who's like one of the top guys in the world in london my doctor at the end thought that i was cheating so they put me on and i distilled water it was a company called h2o and they're things it's just pure yeah just exactly distilled right so right which which is irrelevant by the way but so i had nothing but pure h2o for 44 days lost 60 pounds bmi bone mass index dropped 33 percent yeah people that's what i was getting yeah no no it was bad no it wasn't yeah it wasn't good but doctor thought i was cheating because he's a magician by the way my friends that were with me that are you know magicians and the guy building they're like you need to take these vitamins and they hand me a handful of sugary vitamins and i'm like no it's just because i if i'm gonna do it i want to like actually do it right right and um if i would have taken those vitamins i feel like my metabolism wouldn't have gone into starvation and i might have had irreversible damage from it so the fact that i actually did it i went into starvation mode and the body protects itself but what i was saying is the starvation expert that now i have a paper published in the new england journal medicine with him which i'm pretty proud about but um he he didn't believe me so he put me on an iv and right away the phosphate levels reacted and i almost went into shock so i almost actually did die when they refit fed me so his paper is called the refeeding syndrome they say like after world war ii when they rescued the from the from the camps the jews and everybody was starving the camps and they a lot of soldiers gave them like candy bars and stuff and all of a sudden their systems went into shock and they died from not being refed the right way so what is the correct way to re-feed someone if they haven't eaten you have to slowly bring them back so that you don't have what happened to me which is phosphate levels go all crazy so very small amounts of food yeah but then two days later i somebody sent me a trunk from harrods full of food in london like a friend and uh and i was giving it to all the nurses and doctors because i knew i shouldn't eat it and i was trying to do it right then like in the middle of the night i woke up and had like a bag of potato chips right and then um a bagel a creature and i was wrecked it was like the most i also didn't go to the bathroom for a month and a half what think about that so how long does it take you to recover from one of these things that one i feel like i never fully recovered from but i don't know i wouldn't recommend anybody does that like goes like super super long with no food but but by the way so there's no you don't think you ever recover yeah my body always goes like this now it's always confused when i like train i go up down really quick really easy and it was since that sorry because you thought your body freaked out because it wasn't when you started yeah i feel like that yeah you know but there's no way to prove that but um that's a common thing though with people who cut weight for fights really yeah they get to a certain point they have kidney failure and yeah yeah and then that's why right exactly that's what happened to me and i keep having problems with my kidneys yes yeah yeah and i have a spot on my kidney right now mm-hmm yeah yeah yeah that's uh that's a real common one with guys uh daniel cormier actually had to drop out of the olympics because of that i didn't know that his kidneys failed yeah kidney failure is a big one with uh fighters kidney stones too for a lot of guys wait so you're that was probably in your opinion the one that damaged you the most or left the most residual so the most difficult one was the ice by far the the ice was a monster and the reason why was because and now there's also something great about it so it was a warm november so the air coming through was like you know it happened to be a 68 degree three-day spread which led to the ice keep dripping the cold on me and it's radiating this way but i'm also standing up in one spot completely still and you can't sleep because if you fall asleep when you're present to ice you get frostbite you have to cut your skin off right so i'm staying completely awake the entire time and it's a difficult situation on hour 55 exactly if i look back at all of it my friends knew my eyes just go out and i'm now hallucinating like you could never ever there no hallucinogenic drug will ever give you those kind of hallucinations like what was it first of all it's amazing but it's also when it goes into that nightmare part it's scary but there's also that amazing part of it and if you have people after that stunt now whenever i hallucinate on stunts i have friends there that i say i'm gonna start hallucinating just talk me through it but so here's when i started realizing that i was hallucinating because you don't know when you are right um and by the way the one stunt i never did was sleep deprivation if you remind me i'll explain that whole thing but i'll forget but so um so what happens is when i start realizing it is i need to know uh like what time it is because i'm done at 10 p.m because it was live on abc so i'm like i need to know how much longer i got to go through this right because it's getting tough so and it's there the by the way and my doorman would come in like news or whatever fox news said david blaine um is not really the i they did a special on it a an hour-long special on fox saying that i was never in the ice and i had a double of me that was in the ice i'm switching up and down with the eating burgers and readings stations oh yeah yeah so they did but they did a one-hour special that i was never in there so my dorm how do they get away with doing that i don't know i don't care but listen so my doormat my doorman who comes to this is the funny part though so my doorman that comes to see me he he's um he knows me so well he's buried alive and he's so nice right so he comes to visit me in new york and uh he he walks up to the ice and he sees me and he's looking at me all weird i wasn't hallucinating it looked at me all weird then he leaves and then when i go back i was like what's up he's like that are you sure that that was you and ice could that have been you i was like what do you mean eddie he's like okay well it's you know so he we go on that special heirs now he's convinced that it wasn't me and i especially is why you're still no no that's after but he already thinks because he doesn't believe it my friends my best friends when i was buried alive they didn't think i was really doing it they thought it was a trick right so so he he asked me he's like there's was that really you because they said that you were a double of yourself and you were switching and i was like eddie but you looked at me like how could if i have a twin brother like where is that identical twin brother and why why would i switch up so anyway but so back to the um back to the when i get to 55 hours so i'm looking around and i need the time so i go like this like what time is it and the guy goes 402 yeah so he shows me 402. so i'm like okay that means we have like another six hours or whatever it is right and by the way my time estimations are so i'm like okay wait it might have been too way way way and i wait and i'm indoor it's hard i'm like things are moving everything's weird spiders are walking up people are like sitting in the ice i'm waiting waiting voices are talking to me that i'm talking back to right but i'm waiting i'm waiting and i wait for like a few hours before i ask anybody the time again and i see somebody and i'm like and the guy and the guy goes four oh three oh no and that's when it all crashed out it was like when that went up that connection and then the hallucinations were just rampant and my eyes were all crazy when the drill was when the chainsaw was coming through i tried to grab it yeah so yeah see look at that oh you're gone but okay but sudden but now that i've learned that sleep deprivation is one of the most amazing ways if it's controlled to go to another place it's like that but i want to get to that before we get to that like while you're in there what are you doing to occupy your mind like how are did you have were you using meditation were you just thinking were you just winging it like so okay so for some of them what i do a big first of all yeah a lot of things you get to you have free time to think like there's no phones no distractions so aside from the physic but but the one thing that i use with everything is kind of like a breakdown of numbers i'm like okay this much i have to get to this point then when i get 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 point and i'll consider that when i'm holding my breath i do the same thing like okay i need to get to 15 minutes so let me get to seven and i'll start at seven then at seven i'm like okay i'm at seven left i have to get to another three and a half then three and a half and then what i always do is whenever i'm training i always go past it so it's the same thing so like when i'm running a treadmill i'm like if i have to do let's say like you know 3.1 whatever it is i set that as my target but then i always go like another half a mile past it because i won't you can't quit before because then you'll be in the mindset that okay i can stop before so like anything that i do i use numbers to get there i get halfway and then i push the goal further every single time no matter what which is so it's a mathematical system ironically so you're you're you don't necessarily have any sort of meditative techniques you're just concentrating on the numbers meditation for breath holding all the time right every time i do a breath now the ice was kind of like there was like a breathing thing and i didn't really know much about it back then but i was like more like fighting it like what is it like on your ankles or your knees and your back everything swells up like edema really bad and all that stuff and the pain is excruciating and unbearable but yeah it's i mean you're waiting and you didn't have any residual effects of that just my ankles and legs were really small just for a few days or so longer than that but yeah yeah now has anybody ever tried to break that uh i don't know i hope not not because i want i don't care about how i just don't want anybody hurt themselves but i would imagine like someone does something so high profile like you did that that people be like i'm gonna try that i mean i think it's too weird so people aren't really like oh i want to do that but there's billions of people i would imagine that someone would step in and try to emulate that obviously it was saying i pray not and that's why i pray my daughter never becomes a magician even though she's so amazing at it because if she started doing these things i like if she's gonna bump her knee up like i have a heart attack you know well that's the problem with being a parent right yeah the things that make you amazing are your ability to overcome adversity and then you shelter your children from adversity you know it's all my favorite people are all they all came from a very tumultuous childhood they all came from like turmoil and no one wants that for their child you want to protect your children yeah weird it's very weird so what other ones have you done where like while you were doing it you were thinking what the [ __ ] have i done because you're committed there was one that don't don't pull this one up don't pull this one it was called the dive of death and i started to get cocky i'd done like the thing in london i'd done like the water tank i'd done so i started to get too cocky right i didn't have time and abc won the show really quick i was like okay i'm going to go upside down for 60 hours three days whatever right i was gonna be upside down and then um and then i some guy was in a parachute upside down on a tree in italy and he was in the hospital because he was three days upside down in the tree and i was trying to speak to him but he was like not he didn't want to talk at all and then they were like it's his situation's really bad so it kind of like set the tone before i did the thing the situation's really bad like that from being upside down for that long what happened to him i i think he's the blood i think it i think it does i i don't know because he didn't i didn't get to ask they wouldn't tell me but he wouldn't also engage in a it was bad that i know it was like in the news it was bad um i don't know what the permanent repercussion but so when i did this thing upside down in new york i didn't practice it i thought i could just wing it my stunt guy who taught me to jump off the pole he's like you can never ever just go wing something and not dial it in and rehearse and figure it out you can't just go do it it's a you'll you can't hope for luck and that was the first one ever and last one that i was like okay let me just hope that i can do this as soon as i went upside down remember i said you could never prepare for certain things yeah i had that catheter hooked up and the first time i peed it just went upside down all over me so this way and i was like i'm done so the whole stunt went down over there that was like that was a great learning lesson because i learned you never just dial it though did you make it through that one yes but it was terrible it was a garbage stunt yes but you were asking me like what things so that was one that was like oh yeah you're but all the others they were amazing the team that working with the best people all of it and this one is the most amazing like i have a team that's the one you're doing right now i have the most amazing i've never been able to have a team like this ever balloon one yes okay explain this okay so i went to youtube with crazy idea who by the way this is youtube and they've been a blessing beyond beyond so i'm like okay here's what i want to do like i want to grab a bunch of balloons and go floating up into the sky and disappear like okay great okay sure right but so now i need it to ascend this is all hypothetical i'm not like a skydiver like that has a thousand or ten thousand or twenty thousand jumps i'm not a balloon pilot i have no experience in any of this stuff i just know that i want to do this and i've wanted to do it forever but i i had drawings of it made 15 years ago but now you have to get for real so there is a guy that flies balloons and there's a guy like lawn chair larry that went up on balloons with like a lawn chair and a bunch of beer that was his ballast and he like popped balloons with a gun so there are examples so it's not like a complete hypothetical this one has like okay so what if i could take the balloons that idea and just have the innocent image of a kid like we all dream of just holding the balloons and drifting up and into the sky here i'll show you a picture what's that what's that one from their website from whose website is that jamie balloon company right so that's that's my balloon is that you up there yeah we yeah we did um we did short flights not big in public we kept it small can i show these to jamie no i don't know yeah to him and i can show you sean can you show it i feel like i'm not sure all right then don't wait that's my balloons yeah oh well that's on but that yeah that's the end of it i'm doing it yeah it's just right so this is but i i i i think maybe maybe not because but anyway so so okay so it starts with just the idea of that but now i have to go get a hot air balloon pilot license so i go meet with the best hot air balloon pilot instructor and also flyer but isn't that the different situation than a hot air balloon because you don't have the ability to control you have to first get your hot air balloon pilot license so you have to learn how to fly and land the bloom which is amazing right it's like so app and then you have to take that written test and i don't have time because i'm trying to do so much so i had to cram study the whole written test in eight hours with a guy helping me i studied the whole thing went to the airport took the test got that then you need to go get your gas restriction lifted which means because and very few people even ever bothered to do this because who's flying hydrogen or helium nowadays so i went and met this guy bert pidelt who's the best gas balloonist in the world he's the one that built around the world in 80 days he's built every balloon that's done the longest fights and you fly now a hot air balloon you're like right you have to control it and it's helium and hydrogen you're just part of the wind you're literally just floating away and it'll keep going up to 84 000 feet until they pop there like you are just floating like i can't explain that feeling of floating anyway so i had to go learn how to fly and land hydrogen balloons and use hydrogen because helium is more expensive and stuff like that now we have to go test the whole rig so now and and at the same time i have to also try to get as close to 500 jumps out of an airplane because i need to be really comfortable in the air if i have to jump out and land i need to land safely right and when you're up at 25 plus thousand feet you don't know where you are right so yeah so now and by the way the video did you see the video i made for you you didn't see it no you made a video for me yeah because when you did the thing with post and and you in post was like he's not real and you were defending me i was like um hold on i made a video i sent it to matt i texted him i didn't get a video he didn't show you the video no hold on i made you this video so this is me yelling from the plane and by the way this is after the wingsuit guys jump out of the airplane so remember i'm also crushing lots of jumps really fast this one i ran into a fence and almost killed myself and the 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 i saw that yeah so he's the guy coaching me so he's the one filming this and he landed at the state troopers patrol thing because we were so far lost and i ended up trying to make it back almost hitting the trees really really close and then crashing into a fence my legs were all bloodied up rip through the thing flipped over landed i was fine that was recent i was like and the reason why is because i was making you this video a complete truth but i'm gonna explain it to you so to make the video i had to wait till the wing suits were out of the plane because they're last right but that means and by the way the conditions you'll see what they were like in a second so the plane's moving really really far away right because it's still going that means the drop zone is way over there and i made the video and it was longer than i said it was going to be and then when we jump we're like lost in the clouds and i see the only hole so i fly through the hole and now because i flew through that hole we're so far away from everything and i should have followed luke and went to the state patrol thing but i was like no i'm going to make it just back and but so here's the video i gave you though can we play it for other people yeah okay why don't you air drop it to jamie oh yeah okay hold on so let me uh isn't that funny though it's pretty wild but you don't bumped out that i didn't get this before oh well yeah so i was going to like post it or something i asked him if i should and he's like well wait because maybe he'll just do the show so i think that's why he didn't maybe or something like i don't why i don't know hold on maybe it got lost in the email or something it might have gotten to one of those that the email dumps get pretty big sometimes the point where i can't keep up is it young james young jamie young james okay so that's that one but then i'm gonna show you the rest of the shop but you might have to scroll through it to get to it but um i'll show you but by the way it's the most amazing so i'll show you the rest of that shot and then you'll see where he landed and where i landed so i'm going to send you first the pretty version of it you guys can like cut through or whatever sure okay yeah so i'm gonna edit i'm gonna just send you like the full and then go look through so here's another one when is this one supposed to be in two weeks in two weeks yeah and do you have to take into consideration the wind the like what with the current oh yeah temperature and that's why we can't like confirm a location because winds determine everything so even though now i'm at like you know almost 400 jumps the winds still decide where you go oh here so all right here we go did you get that other one i i've only got one okay i'm just gonna make sure this is what you want me to play all right well that's the first one so we i can do this airdrop come back sure okay okay check this a little bit out it watch my last youtube video the show i hope to come show you in person because that might actually save my life oh jesus christ okay but so you see the clouds now hold on this one's going to come so you're hanging on to a plane how high are you there no that was just i don't know like 13 000. oh nothing no but i went to speak no but i went to yeah yeah but still you're still 13 000 feet off the air hanging onto a plane and you jump off maybe it's another one maybe it's this one it's hilarious that you're like oh it's only 13 000 feet hanging onto the wing of a plane and then i let go on video i know but you need to see i can i can't play it here though right and show you like this we have to air drop it because it's going to air drop is better because it's going well i just want to send this one that shows like how spectacular but i could just say that which explains what's going on so hold on no which one because there's three young james uh the macbook pro jamie but there's three mvp doesn't matter it's click one and it should work now when you decide to do something like this do you get an inspiration and then you consult people to see if it's feasible like well so that's where i was lucky so what i was saying is i come up with the idea and then i find a guy his name is jonathan trapp he's the one that tried to cross the atlantic with healing for balloons and but i mean he has it's like a full system he has a basket so it's like a real balloon like a hot air balloon system with so nobody's ever done it where they just float where their bodies are the basket you know what i mean so he had the whole system and then he came and tested out and i was like could i go try it like this and he's like no we're not ready you'll kill yourself or whatever you're hanging on to the rope yeah but i'm gonna make sure that i'm not gonna have a parachute on and i'm gonna i'll i'll have a system so i'm completely secure so i'm not gonna fall off but i'm not gonna wear the parachute because i don't want to be i want it to look like a kid just holding on to balloons so like that visual is the important part so the parachutes up in the balloons but once i get above like uh a thousand feet or so i'm gonna put the parachute on so you're going to put the parachute on while you're up there yeah and then i want to see if how high i can go you see how do you think you can go well so the highest thing on earth is mount everest right so that's kind of my goal but i have to be careful because if you if you're if you don't come back down you're dead so if you can't get down from there that's that zone is like the death zone so from like 25 000 to 30 000 is very very dangerous you can black out like this so i'm gonna do a couple more hypoxic tests and see if i'm right i'll have emergency stuff up there like oxygen if i need it but i don't want to floating around with you up there in the balloons yeah we have like the the way it's not dude your loved ones panic when you start plotting things like this my daughter asks questions how old is she nine and she asks great questions and um the the plate the tail number the plate is for me and her so it's n for number but nine for her age 47 for my age and then db for me and her were both desa and david blaine but um which is the balloon that has i made this has to be a registered aircraft so we had to get it registered we had to fly it up we had to prove that it's completely safe we had to land it with nobody on it so the body one time that i went wasn't me it was sand that weighed exactly what i weighed we had to remote dump the sand we had to use squibs to remote pop the balloons fly it over and this is it twenty two thousand feet what is what is control possibly but is it radio yeah yeah yeah exactly okay and i i have the whole team helping me that did like alan used this when he jumped and felix baumgartner when he jumped from the edge of space so we have don day the best meteorologist do they have to weigh you before you get on yeah it's precision and then so we had to fly it all the way up to 22 000 feet as proof that this aircraft is actually completely doable and then remote it exactly where donde predicted we were going to land it and we've done that multiple times we've flown it we've deployed the the imitation massive amount of time involved in constructing one of these things and orchestrating it time and team and team is everything so it'd be like you when you have like the best trainers if you had like your five best in the world like tweaking you before fights like that so when when you plan on doing something like this did you bring this up to to these folks these are the first people the people you're doing it with these are the people you brought it up to the first time yeah nobody said get the [ __ ] out of here with this nope went straight to youtube and i was like i have this he went through these guys and did they hesitate at all no they're they're amazing that that's crazy right it is all so crazy because it is just a hypothetical idea that's insane that's true and they did let me like but there were stages i had to prove each step so i had to prove that number one the balloon is doable number two i'm not gonna hopefully kill myself number three i can actually get the oh and then for the skydives by the way because i had to get 500 jumps really quick and this is all during the last year right um so insurance wouldn't cover that i mean they would cover but it's not affordable so i had to do five almost 500 400 jumps or so with no insurance and so that's a whole separate thing that's not related so i had to go do them for my own as fun and do everything through my own you see so it's crazy it's all nuts because because you think of skydiving think like oh you have the best coach it's fine but there's still like when you're trying to do 15 jumps a day it's like you can do what i did which is try to avoid hitting an airplane in a hangar and turn too low and come whacking down when did you come up with this idea uh i mean i think it was like inspired when i was a kid i think like the idea of like the little boy drifting around balloons i think it was like but i never really thought of it as a reality but then 15 years ago or so i had drawings made of it so i started having i'll show you the drawings i can't open it on there or whatever so when did you put it into motion um like it was never even possible until youtube said okay we'll back this because the idea is like all of my other stunts there's like the budget's pretty very you know not you couldn't afford to do something like this this is to build test a flight build an actual aircraft fly it land it get all the jumps learn how to do everything get all the skill set having so this is but that's the first drawing oh wow yeah so you drew this when you were i didn't draw it oh someone else did yeah mark stutzman who's an amazing artist that did my poster for this thing which i'll show you so can i send this to jamie yeah it's not working but you can try airdrop's not working uh i noticed something weird was happening when he's trying to do it i can but maybe the picture will go if not i can restart the phone and maybe it'll work was it showing up for you jamie no right let me restart the phone there's a lot of uh okay now it says it's waiting there's like so many macbook pros you got it yeah there's three oh when yeah someone went through okay then i'll also send oh but wait so should i also show you the poster that i had made okay um so you you come to youtube powerful youtube they come up with the side i mean they agree with that's the original but this is the latest one so did you send that one to him too yeah i'll send it to you jamie it's coming through right now supposedly i think it's like i have to accept them for some reason it doesn't just go is it showing up for you no i think i should restart the phone because those videos too i want to send there goes okay how did you get it to go though which one did you press i don't know there's so many of them doesn't make any sense your phone is being monitored by the government they're cloning hold on i want to try to send this video so i could explain making your video if that's possible but then when you oh now it's preparing it so now okay beautiful now it's going through you have it coming right now because it says it's converting so it might be coming we're waiting for an accept on this so okay as soon as i get that so you bring this to youtube and how long ago was it uh like a year and a half ago or something like that they say yeah let's do it we're [ __ ] crazy yeah and also it's probably going to have 100 million people watch it so it seems like i don't know i don't know about that oh i do yeah i don't know i'm gonna float around in a [Laughter] but this one by far is my favorite that i've ever done it's the most visual the most colorful it's the first one that i've ever done where my friends are like i want to do that right they're not like why do you do that you're holding on but you know all the other since i do people are like like that's it's great that you're doing it but that's crazy or why are you doing it this one they're like i want to ride the balloons because it's such a childhood yeah they're they're yeah like this so it'll be like that wow that's pretty cool so it'll look just like that how is it are you harnessed it's like a yeah it'll be like a little thing that connects at my wrist which like the way the um aerialists have a connection connected to your body your torso somehow yeah it'll be connected somewhere crotch yeah hopefully like a nightmare something yeah because when you get up to like minus you know 20 degrees or whatever you you'll be non-functional up there so right you can't just rely well you can't really rely on your hand no i could no no no no i was practic if i had to do this up to like you know two to three thousand feet i could because holding on yeah yeah you can a sand you can also do what you know just put something around your foot like the the wires could come down okay so something around your foot would just be so just it takes like i mean it's really hard to hang for more than a couple of minutes it's hard to hang for more than a minute i think like the record is like two minutes but what with one second yeah with one hand okay but this has to look the whole that this has to look like the one-handed advantage of the person flying it has to be exact so right you'd have to have some freaky forearms popeye yeah so i'll have assistance built but so i won't have a parachute or any of that stuff that'll be above me so it'll look really clean but i'll be supported now if there's a balloon failure or something like that obviously i'm in trouble um obviously but once i get the parachute on once i get to 5 000 feet then we know okay he's not going to die he has a parachute on i can get away and now the big challenge is how high can you go so once you get how are you going to know do you have an altimeter on the i'll have an altimeter but i'm also going to have a communication okay full everything okay i'm going to have cameras with me are you using a watch for the altimeter or like what are you using i'm using this one called the kunu right now but it's big sure no but i was i've been jumping with suntoes and things just to check how accurate they are and they're not bad they're like off by like 200 feet or something like that but on the landing you don't want to be off you know especially if you're like me you don't even you only have 400 jumps not even right right so and you're landing in dicey areas because you don't know where you are right so gust of wind can throw you here or there yeah anything but you also have to like not hit a power line or a building or an obstacle or anything wherever you are right if you if you come down into a mountain you're going to whack into that it looks flat from here but if you didn't adjust you're going to come in hard and that's it you'll eat it right if you hit a power line you're dead so yeah those types of things we have to like and which is why when i'm controlling the balloons and going up and up and up and up and up um i'm gonna hopefully be fine hopefully you're scaring the [ __ ] out of me already so at 5000 feet you how do you get the parachute um it's up there and the balloons and i'm going to pull it down it's on like a fishing wire thing i pull it down and then i put it on that's the only like really difficult thing as well have you done this already you've practiced that aspect i've practiced it and that's like really scary to everybody around oh like they they're asking me why won't i just wear the thing like everybody yeah they're like you have to wear it and you don't want to wear it and my brother's really obsessed with it my daughter's new question is how come you're not wearing the parachute but um but i'm telling her it's fine but you haven't have you done this transition yet where you go from floating to putting the parachute on no that'll be done live the first time oh jesus this whole thing will be done the first time live and i've never done it in completion i've done all the elements of it so i've done the jumps i've done the balloon flights i've flown the rig but i've never put it all together that's all going to happen for the first time live on youtube and so once you get the the vest on once you get the the parachute on then the goal is to see how high you can get on yeah and once that's the part that i'm obsessed with when you get to the area of 30 000 plus feet no no you can't cross there i mean i i just want to get the goal is i if i get up to like 25 000 feet i'm i'm excited okay because that's where the ice i want to disappear like i actually want the visual to be that i disappear into the sky okay so you get up to 25. i'm not going to kill myself doing it hope not i won't okay i believe but this one is different than i'm gonna have the o2 things by the way you can't send the o2 pulse oximeter signals down so they won't know if i'm hypoxic but i'm going to have the o2 monitors in my pocket i'm going to put them on i'm going to show them to the camera they can still communicate with you yeah now if they can't that's a big issue so if communication fails then this is for me communication is done through what uh rf this this incredible guy that builds all of the communication for every skydiving stunt movie so he's the same way that a plane can communicate with the ground yeah yeah it's something yeah and i have i have a transponder up here i have everything so the planes i'm visible everybody knows where i am okay we're clearing everything with the fa the atc so everything is going to be you know completely organized as it needs to be we have a wind path in every location that we're going to possibly do this in of course new york is a dream and there's some other dreams that we have so you know this is still we have a couple of key points that we're dreaming about doing this and uh depending on wind and weather that's where we'll do it and how do you get how do you descend um just let go of some you're just gonna just completely just release myself yeah so you're gonna skydive at 25 000 feet yeah by the way when i did that when i did the i told you when i did that uh test when i went up to 20 almost 20 24 7 or whatever i had the uh the helmet on the first breath i took the entire thing was ice right away so and i was flying down looking through like a little hole in the helmet yeah i couldn't see jesus christ and so when you land you have to land i mean you're from 25 000 feet you have to make sure that you're conscious you have to make sure that you can see that's right but usually by the way even if you are hypoxic and you're dropping you clear up at like ten thousand feet so luke aikens the who you watch he did a jump once where he was jumping with felix baumgarten who he trained and he was um out of he was hypoxic he was blacked out but when he got to about 9000 feet or so he woke up and then from yeah but from 9000 feet down you have you know 40 seconds to figure out where you are and what you're doing okay it still seems [ __ ] terrifying um and so then you're you're floating down and you have to find a good spot to land and when are you going to do this like what's the the official launch date is it august 31 100 depending on winds depending on when so if the winds are [ __ ] on august 31st yeah exactly and that's the other thing youtube's been amazing on there it is david blaine ascension youtube originals august 31st yeah that's basically what it is i love that youtube stepped up to do this but yeah it is amazing it is amazing look at you floating above the cloud in that image and that's literally what you're going to be doing yeah that's so [ __ ] but also the thing about this one aside from like the the technical part of it is like the visual on it so far is my favorite one yeah it's like up like when they did it but when i look at the balloons i become like giddy like and all these adults are working we're all like laughing because we're like little we're like kids playing with balloon you know it's like it's iconic it's something that every kid has kind of thought of yeah yeah grabbing a balloon and flying like mary poppins yeah yeah yeah wow man and that was my daughter's nickname when she was growing up but we called uh mary the real mary poppins if she was a real very popular we'd put a balloon up and we'd always watch it and dream and talk about where it goes and stuff like that what is it like for her to when you discuss things these things she's so amazing i run ideas by her she's amazing yeah she's amazing by the way the reason there's pink balloons in this one is because i was showing her all the balloons and she went is there going to be pink and i was like of course there's going to be fake good now there's fake yeah that's the lens wow now you have you been doing live shows this whole time or are you are you able to with cope not during covet no but right up to code i was doing live and that i i haven't been promoting or anything but it's like my favorite thing because i've been working on the live show for 20 some years and i've never done one until like the last few years like started like three years ago the first time i didn't i which is crazy right because yeah but i finally felt like i had the right material to make a good show and the show is so it was it's so it's like i open it with the mouse sewing so the first thing is like but i bring people up so it's also comical it's like funny right like joking around and stuff that you see people like ah yeah when you say mouth sewing you actually sew your mouth shut yeah yeah and you do that how many nights a week one uh no so i so i would do two days on one day off but every day of a show means you can't eat for 36 hours before the show because i also have to put a gallon of water in my stomach i have to put a cup of kerosene but now i don't swallow the kerosene i put it in my mouth now and spit it so i don't swallow but on jimmy uh jimmy kimmel i drank this stuff and it's like really really that's how the guy died how glee that i told you so now um i just put it in the mouth spit it but see i and then i do the frogs in the stomach i put the hanger all the way down the throat to fetch somebody's ring i um i do the breath i do the breath hold every single night and um and then and then and then i have them push an ice pick through my arm every night which is like you don't want to hit a brachial you know anything a nerve yeah or an artery or anything of course so but i and i let them choose a spot by the way i also brought the ice pick if you do do want to see because i i know that you know it's real but i should if oh i believe it's real but i still want to see it i haven't done it i haven't done it since my tour really yeah are you itching to do it i mean i'd like you to do it i'd like you to do just to see that it is like pretty straightforward oh i believe it's straightforward but i brought one with me and i got the alcohol from them so here is uh look at that girl poor girl and so you're stitching your mouth exactly but so see so what i was able to do with the stage show is i bring people up on stage and i have the cameras with the big screen so you see people reacting to this stuff so it's the magic plus the reaction so you get that whole and this girl's really into it look at her so you you do this all the time the stitching the mouth shut i would imagine you would accumulate some scar tissue no that one's easy but this one's legit this one i used to do it through the hand this is the ice way this one i used to do through the hand and i developed so much scar tissue that like when i move my fingers a certain way i get a shooting pain so i stopped doing my hands and i switched to here that makes sense yeah i would i would imagine that would really [ __ ] your hands up alcohol so wait but so i might have to sit next to you or something do you want me to do this to you is this what's going on here yeah i can come over to your side okay okay okay all right but wait don't you need the or you can put those on i'll just come walk over so should i take the thing off you can if you like we'll both be uh basically talking into the same mic no but we can do it sitting yeah but can you put those ones on yeah okay this mic work one second okay jamie will turn this mic on and i'll crank this thing over to here okay so you choose the do you want the left or the right uh let's do the right since it's right next to me okay do you want them to come in and see it as well no okay good enough okay so now this is not a new ice pick and usually i do it with new ones which means this isn't as sharp as it needs to be so it means the push is going to be a little more difficult i guess why do you like to do this you seem to be or are these ones that you give us at least pure alcohol yes yes i mean they're just the standard ones that you get that's fine i'm sure yeah yeah yeah oh you want to make sure there's no scent in it or anything no no i want to make sure that there's no bacteria right but i mean on the alcohol strip oh yeah exactly yeah um why do you enjoy this you seem you're you're excited about this no well first of all it's amazing that you can actually do something like this like it's nothing so there's a guy named miranda can you pull up miranda you think so miranda it's this guy and nobody believed he was doing it for real and he would take rapiers and he would have them push through right through the middle of his body through his lungs and everything he would show on all sides and then they would pull him out and he'd be perfectly fine he and every every doctor and saying oh you can't do that but 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 and he pulled it out right crocodile so if he's kept it in there he would have lived right after that a 70 year old man was on his boat and a stingray jumped up out of the water stung him in the heart and then stingray was gone but though i didn't even yeah oh my god look at that isn't that crazy but the fact that you can actually do this is what's crazy like the body can you with your mind you can override it and then the thing is he got so cocky though that he thought he could do anything and then he ate one of these things he swallowed it and he killed him he died internally and died but see he got really cocky because he was like i could do anything that is [ __ ] insane so he's is he going through his liver he can go through anything and that's what i'm saying so the seven-year-old guy that got the stingray to it stabbed him in the heart instead of pulling it out which it's like a corkscrew he waited till they with doctors till it beat out the other side and he was fine you see wow so instead of pulling it out he waited until what happened the doctors waited with the heart they let it beat out the other side and they slowly let it come out it went through his whole body if they would have pulled it it's like a corkscrew it would rip him apart he would die how long did it take for it to beat through no but i know that the doctors what they did is they let it go through [Laughter] guys how many times this guy gets stabbed like i've done that one by the way right there that's a safe place that's like not an issue but when you go through the lungs and stuff it's crazy look it's crazy but this is too much i wouldn't show it it's too like too much [ __ ] sword man but that's what i'm saying that one listen but so what happened was he started to get too cocky he started to think he was fine oh jesus christ but okay so joe but you have to listen to the origin of this trick though that's not a trick no but i know but listen the origin of this is as a kid there's that trick where they do needle through arm yes right and it's like the rubber you know the stuff and it sticks your skin together it looks perfect it looks like it's really through your arm and then they like squeeze blood out of the thing they so i saw that and then i was like but maybe that's like actually doable like maybe that trick could really be done so like the same exact trick but for real right so that's this okay okay so you take that okay like i said it's going to be a little tricky to push through just because the it's usually sharp and this time it's not as sharp but how do you know where to do it we're gonna pick there's no particular spot you know you're gonna how do i know i'm not gonna hit an artery though i don't know i can't kill you bro so you want me just right here anywhere sure what's where do you prefer wherever you want like right there wow sure i don't know but yeah do it there where you want do it where you want when you say well sure like where do you like it to go through the bottom no i liked where you were going right like you're you're too i mean that's that's fine like so you have to go like through well what do you want me to do yeah you're gonna push through okay so hold on you here yeah keep like a straight path okay like that no it goes straight like that yeah i'd go straight through yeah okay ready slowly and go slow you're lifting my see that yep see so it's hard to believe that it's real keep pushing keep going keep going wait uh oh hold on what happened i hit a nerve oh jesus no no no no no no no come on man you got to do another spot you were hitting the nerve yeah but what if i [ __ ] your arm up man and then you can't hang from the balloon and then youtube's mad at me [Laughter] okay again jesus bro okay so by the way honest to god i'm never go in this direction which way to go i always go this direction from inside to out i'm just saying of like the of the all the times i did it i've always gone this direction do you want me to go that direction i'm just telling you i've never experienced that better no so what's the difference i'm just saying i've never done it this way oh okay so it's the groundbreaking no i'm saying it's nuts well it's definitely nuts okay good no but from the bottom like this like that yeah and then i go again and i would i would try to go like a straight path through like right there no i would go like lower and in like just right there ready yeah okay yeah i'd like that and keep hold on wait wait push yeah like that like that that's good yep we're on a clean path we hit something but it's fine now what i use is this i use the skin here and i push so you can see it come through push that's it see alrighty super unnecessary but uh but it does seem like a magic trick like it definitely doesn't seem like a magic trick but hold on there's blood vessels and everything yeah there's no blood well it's a very small hole in comparison to it now it's a good sign there is blood on the other hole oh okay yeah that's because it's it's that you hit something and your body is healthy so it's clotting out pretty quickly okay all right should i put it out yeah okay here we go slowly go ahead pull pull and that's it okay so here this is for you to keep i can't say i enjoyed that that was very uncomfortable but what's weird to me more than anything is that you seem to enjoy it you enjoyed the freak out part of it no i i like what i said i like that you can override your body with your brain to do things that seem like they're not real yeah it doesn't see you know it's real because of what you do to your body but most people see all the things they're doing think it's a magic trick right they think it's a trick like okay it's a trick like he's not holding his breath and you've done that thing with a sword well you've gone through your body yeah but it was not very thick and it was through right here i didn't go okay she didn't go through the organs like this guy did no but i but i think you can oh well obviously he did it right and swallowing this is what killed him so he got really he thought he could do anything yeah so he's like i'm gonna swallow this type of thing and then i'm gonna bring it up he swallowed it and he couldn't bring it up and then he fell asleep and it ruptured his heart died he woke up they found him cold oh boy internal bleeding jesus christ that is the thing about these extreme feats right is that you you possibly might be pushing the boundaries of what's physically possible which means you could die like houdini like houdini died from getting punched yeah in the stomach yeah how does a punch to the stomach kill you well so normally like i had kimbo slice punching the stomach did you really yeah ouch yeah and then he i had him do it again and then i felt bad i didn't want to make him keep doing it because it wasn't you know right because you as you know you can train to take a punch that's yes obviously so i basically had my trainer rich beretta throw heavy balls kick me in the stomach do everything and i trained for a long like a year just to take a punch from anybody and oh yeah comes kimbo boom oh and then i was like and then i said to him do it again so and by the way i'm not even in top physical so i said do it again and then i but i could have obviously could have kept going so boom and i did that based on houdini right right so but here's the thing so houdini would do this on stage every night and it's a it's a great thing in the show it's like look every any ten strongest people in he's come punch him and uh so the and these kids think he's invisible invincible right like he could like this is houdini man of steel whatever right so he's sleeping in his dressing room these two college kids one kid's like watch out strong and they punch houdini in the stomach really while he's asleep yes and as you know that's dangerous because you don't have a wall up so he ruptured something but he's a workaholic so the guy is in a lot of pain whether he might maybe it wasn't related maybe it's something different maybe he had you know panda who knows right he's in a lot of pain but he wouldn't let the audience down so he wouldn't quit his show so he did his showing at the end of show he's upside down in the water tank everything else when he shouldn't have been he should have been in the hospital but instead he did the show that night collapsed on the stage was not from the water tank but right after the water tank was rushed to a hospital and then died in the hospital and what was the diagnosis what did he die from well it was you know 1926 right little voodoo they died from voodoo [Laughter] yeah wow so when you i mean that that's the thing about someone who does something that pushes it to the edge like that i mean when someone sees you hold your breath for 20 minutes what's fascinating about is not just that it's hard to do but that you might die yeah right yeah yeah or some people say oh what what's how's he doing right what's the trigger you know so there's all different interpretations but the the worry the thing that thrills people yeah it's like the you know that well yeah the the idea that something could go wrong that's why everybody watched the evil knievel because he might and he often did wipe out the spike yeah yeah what do you this thrill of getting to that edge is very dangerous right because you keep pushing there's a danger but i feel like if you rehearse and practice and put the best team and don't just do crazy things without like a plan then i feel like the danger is like sure the danger's there but i also rode my motorcycle here which is also extraordinary i've lost a lot of friends on bikes yeah right so sure i get what you're saying and i i understand all that you seem to like thrills well i mean i like adventures like riding a motorcycle trailer adventure that is an adventure yeah it's i i mean i look at people that do it every day and i go that's a braver california you're allowed to like weave dudes so that's that's kind of amazing in california like go ahead give it a shot [ __ ] it you're here you know how where do you see this do you have like a grand vision of your life in terms of like these stunts that you do like do you have like some ultimate threshold that you'd like to get to wait we have to take a break i want to make sure that i'm okay okay hold on are you bleeding yeah yeah we'll take a break we'll be right back so we got to clean up your wound yeah it was fine yeah you're you seem to enjoy it you really do you you were laughing while they were cleaning it up and checking it and you're like it's good we're good it was just uh what was it the blood what was it that was bothering you he's drinking all the water to prepare for swallowing a frog i just felt uh you know too much uh of the magic becoming real it's the magic how much water do you have to drink uh well probably to do what you want to do well we'll see [Laughter] [Laughter] what's up how do you have to drink it at a certain speed because i've seen people that can chug these they just shove the whole thing down their face it's almost like a magic chicken itself they can drink it yeah those guys are just i had like the guy that was the fastest work on it with me but how many do you have to drink um you've drank three so far yeah plus the two out there but yeah so fives you have to drink eight total do you need a bucket or anything to throw the frog up in do we have a bucket ice bucket that doesn't seem like enough fluid though bucket cam there's a american flag bucket in the back that big one oh perfect oh look at that how convenient this poor frog has no idea because he's a magical frog how do you know he's real hmm he's real well you don't know that could be a magic trick well if it is it's uh amazing you should sell these to people that don't want biological frogs because that's a [ __ ] live frog i mean he's looking at me he's moving around he's bobbing his head he's trying to get the [ __ ] out he's making the thing with the throat look at him he's trying to get out that's a real frog kids no doubt when did you uh start doing this the frog thing is that enough what if it overflows there's a guy there was a guy called the human aquarium and so the thing about most of the acts that i'm doing by the way like night after night usually the people that did them it was like they're one act so there's one guy called the human aquarium and he was a guy that could swallow frogs and bring them up but he would do it you'd see him swallow them and then you'd see him bring them up so it wasn't magical it was like a skill set i would usually what i'd do is i'd put them in my stomach keep them in there for like two hours and then bring them up and freak you out right and i'd have a gallon of water in my stomach so i have an aquarium that baking soda gets rid of the acid no food 36 hours and then once i drink this we're at a gallon or four liters so just under a go so so did you not eat for 36 hours in preparation for this yes that's a lot of not eating for this poor frog's worst moment of his life this poor little dude jaime just in case you don't think he's real he's real he's real oh there's more than one in there no that's just him it's just an i illusion there was a little one in there that's a decent-sized frog too by the way you wouldn't want to swallow a frog that large mark twain has a quote he says eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse can happen for the rest of your day by the way back to the james nestor book the one you're saying deep or something he talks about that's really amazing which is in one of my favorite parts in there he talks about how coral communicates can i read this thing okay yeah sure so he talks about it's one of my favorite things um that he talks about it's so amazing so let's see we're deep okay so i have like a bunch of notes what app are you using to read from uh ibooks just because you could keep all the books there and you highlight things yeah with ibooks yeah of course i didn't know you could have oh yeah yeah yeah and then you keep all of your books here right oh no i do that on my phone but i didn't know you could highlight i rarely read on the phone too i usually use a kindle yeah i don't i only use this is the thing i like live by so it's like ruined my life but also also had it helped it somehow i guess some way let's see hold on it'll take me a second to pull it up i just like the kindle because it looks like paper you know the paper white ones yeah and they're yeah and they're easier on the eyes yeah tricky on the eyes as well okay so can i just read it yeah yeah okay so it's part of what the aquanauts and aquarius are trying to find out they're also trying to crack the more mystical marine riddles like the secret behind coral's telepathic communication this is so crazy when you write to it every year on the same day at the same hour usually within the same minute corals of the same species although separated by thousands of miles will suddenly spawn in perfect synchronicity the dates and times vary from year to year for reasons only the coral knows stranger still while one species of coral spawns during one hour another species right next to it waits for a different hour or a different day or a different week before spawning and synchronicity with its own species distance seems to have no effect if you broke off a chunk of coral and placed it in a bucket beneath a sink in london that chunk would in most cases spawn at the same time as other coral of the same species around the world which is crazy like you could take a piece of coral break it off put it in london and another coral the same species will in synchronicity spawn at the exact same time they have no idea why the synchronous spawn is essential for coral survival coral colonies must continuously expand outward to thrive expand outward to thrive to remain healthy and strong they must breed outside of their gene pool with neighboring colonies once released to the surface the coral sperm and eggs have only about 30 minutes to fuse any longer any longer and the coral eggs and sperm will either dissipate or die off researchers have found that if the spawning is just 15 minutes out of sync coral colony's chances of survival are greatly reduced coral is the largest biological structure on the planet and covers 175 000 square miles of the sea floor and it can communicate in a way far more sophisticated than anyone ever thought and yet coral is one of the most primitive animals on earth coral has no eyes no ears and no brain is that crazy that's insane yeah that's what i thought it was well it's fascinating too that you just have no idea why or how i mean what is the what's the mechanism for their communication the fact that if something's under a sink in london it syncs up with coral the same species on another side of the planet like what is it i think like one of the most futuristic minds of our lifestyle is jim cameron i think like avatar and terminator 2 and like the machines taking like i think we're going to look back and be like wow he really predicted a lot he knew some [ __ ] the trees all communicating with each other yeah yeah well you've have you read about the mycelium and the the fungus underneath the soil that actually the the trees utilize it through their root structures and they communicate through that yeah there's some sort of a there's some sort of a mycorrhizal relationship that fungus has with with these trees and they they actually somehow or another communicate through each other as well they're like using the soil like this that's crazy yeah we think of soil as being dirt right just but it's there's life in there yeah yeah all sorts of biological life living in that soil yes and these trees and different plants actually through their root structure communicate and use the use the the fungi that live in the soil and it's very very paul stamets who's a wizard when it comes to mycology and and talking about fungus and he's got some amazing work that he's done just his whole life studying mushrooms it's like so advanced when he talks to you about it like you you just really get this feeling like there's something going on that we don't totally understand like the largest animal but fungus is kind of an animal it breathes oxygen and it breathes out carbon dioxide so the the crate is crazy yeah so the relationship that fungus that mushrooms have with the earth is in some ways more similar to us than it is to plants because plants are breathing in carbon dioxide obviously and breathing out oxygen so the functions are closer to function yeah then they're living with these things and there's uh a group of fungi i guess in the pacific northwest that's the largest living creature other than i guess like biological organism you'd say was a coral reef but there's something in the pacific northwest that's [ __ ] enormous and it's just one interconnected mushroom structure wow it's very heavy yeah and obviously the right ones can bring you to god the right ones can connect you to alien life and yeah you know the future and tell you what you're doing wrong with the planet yeah yeah so there's some there's something going on with these things into a different part of your consciousness well we're just very egocentric and arrogant in our ideas about what the human race means to the rest of the planet because we have this ability to manipulate things and send texts and emails it's just about our proportions basically just because our fingers and our ability to like yeah but we think that's so important because it's so important to us because it's so significant like the ability to watch a television show or not be able to the ability to fly in a plane or not those things are so significant that we think of them as being the most significant things in the world but meanwhile there's some animals like like when you see a flock of birds fly in synchronicity in some sort of strange dance and you're like how the [ __ ] are they doing that and no one knows they really don't know there's all this guesswork they're not really sure exactly what's going on how do they know how to travel thousands of miles every season and go back to the place where they spawned like they don't know they don't know like how does salmon salmon figure out a way to get all the way back to where they were born they they make their way all the way through the river to the ocean and then when it's time to rock and roll they get all the way back and they have to get back to that one spot they can't get just any old river they won't they won't make it they won't survive they won't spawn they won't do it they have to get back to the place where they belong and something in their little salmon brains are in their salmon biological system no and we don't know what it is we don't know what it is but we [ __ ] up and we damn these river structures and then they die and they die off the pacific northwest has it they had a huge problem with that and they did they didn't understand it when they first put these dams in place these salmon would just pool up and they try to redistribute them to other places and then they're like nope i need to go back to where i'm from it's weird man biological life is weird and amazing it is amazing and it's funny right like we think we're so because we can do things that other ones can't do but they can do things we can't do yeah we just don't put a high priority on what they can do yeah for whatever ego centric reason yeah but i was i was like i was swimming in a tonga in the pacific northwest and uh it was it was with humpback whales and i was with my daughter and we looked at the mother and the calf you know i mean you know swimming we were watching them and um it was it's it's the most beautiful overwhelming moment i i'll show you after uh some footage 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 they're happy to be around you and um free diving and swimming with the mother and the baby and i'm looking at the mother and i'm certain certain that she's just looking at me but in the nicest way like in the most peaceful it was just it's not like a shark eye that's like whoa this thing is like you know so i'm like certain that she's like being trying to communicate something like that saying i'm still on the same breath i'm communicating and i i go like this i open my arms up and turn to the mother like this or something i go like that and the mother mimics the the humpback mimics me and turns right towards me and goes like this right so now we're swimming together and i'm like this like kicking at fins on and the the humpback is doing the mother is doing that to me and i'm swimming in synchronicity with with the mother and and the babies following her and then as soon as i'm like done from here and i go back down she goes back down and it was like i wanted to cry but yeah it's like you think like something but also their brains are so much bigger than our of course they're so yeah i still have all this water in my stomach so if i'm gonna do this i might let's do it so you need another one of those what is the reason why you need so much water to do this is it so that the frog has a place to be so the frog is safe you know i've never injured a frog or anything i'm sure he feels very comfortable knowing that here he goes oh jesus did he hop right out yeah he's like i know what the [ __ ] is happening here oh hey buddy hold on let me just okay so okay i just usually like to give him a little get him a little bath oh yeah good okay so this is basically the technique and i've put up to 10 frogs inside look so i could come anymore and now we could hang and talk for you know as long as so how long does he stay in there um what's the lungs you've kept them in there and they live like three hours or so and none of them have ever died nope wow that's pretty mean how bad you have to pee right now on a one to ten anytime anybody complains about needing to pee i'm going to show them this video 10th tenth water and what are they eight ounces sixteen it's more than a gallon of water yeah now it's the magical parts i got mouth empty then i have to like get him to swim up to the how do you do that i don't know i just like did it and had fluoroscopies and looked where they were and then saw that then and figured out how to sort i did sword swamp it's like do you feel them moving around inside you when there's a lot when there's 10 jamie your face here he comes no no i got it no first i like to get a little bit of you forcing them out now you can't talk just get some more water when's the first time you did this one um i i worked on it i started like three or four years ago and it's been uh you know it's the first time you put the frog in your mouth i got that no i didn't swallow the first thing i just wanted to get comfortable with the food salmonella yeah and then i got it again after i tried it the second time and then i built up a resistance to salmonella i hope it makes that's good if you like sushi mouth empty right here he comes this is obazar here it comes it's because i drank so much so it's like i have to like locate them you have to locate it kind of the sound would you call this jamie asmr this is so strange so for people that are just listening i highly recommend you go to the video because you're gonna have to no no no no no we're going to keep this up exactly the way it is people need to say oh take out like a liter of water oh my god so strange oh i spit on biggie it's called the water spout that's how i usually put out the fire oh my god hold on the frog is probably like what the [ __ ] did i do deserve this i bet that frog was just like an [ __ ] person in another life that's a gallon of water do we need another bucket maybe go get that plastic bucket in the back i don't know if that's good enough but for now we'll just use that for now it is uh quite preposterous to watch the amount of water that's coming out of you oh it's just good better where is he at right now boy you got him in there put him in my hands okay there he is oh boy here little fella little fella you've had a rough life you're not a road you've had a road buddy so that's the frog trick he's alive and perfect yeah he seems fine don't lose him i don't want to lose him hey you want to put him back in the jar hold up let's get some a little bit of water fresh okay i think i'm gonna need more than paper towels jamie yeah i'm gonna wash my hands eventually oh there is handcuffs here oh you have a pair yeah jamie real ones i don't know but is that just coincidental no no no there's a guy uh ed calderon he's uh a guy who used to uh work with the mexican police at the border may take a few paper towels too and he uh he brought us some handcuffs to teach us how to get out of them right just noticed that they were there random that seems planned yeah but that's really they were just here well he gave him to me and uh he gave me like a little tool to show me how to uh yeah how to open them what's this plastic thing i have no idea but he gave you tools to show you how to open them like cow i don't remember i have to go back and watch the video if you ever get handcuffed yeah how they get the [ __ ] out of the show like how to pick on me how to shove it through the thing to kind of like go past the teeth of the lock to make it open up so i had to pick them yes exactly is it not going to work i don't know what are you trying to do there so let's see like what are you physically trying to do oh i just want to see if i can actually break them break them yeah like break the metal so like really break them for real how do you usually do that i don't know you don't know no it's like really hard to break that was it usually easy to break them no it's always very difficult to break handcuffs because you're breaking the handcuffs right but you're trying yeah because there's some sort of technique to it or something using leverage that's what i'm hoping how many days of your life do you think you've spent [ __ ] with handcuffs you could just boil it all down to time 50. yeah this is probably boring for like anybody that's that they so you're just trying to use the way the attachment as a leverage point yellow thing yeah that thing might be weird that yellow thing but yeah i'm trying to use like uh it's like what is the yellow thing how do we know oh this is just how ed brought him to us yeah i don't know if i can get these things broken hmm you want to keep we could keep talking like now i'm like going to be stuck on this yeah but you'll be so preoccupied yeah that frog's like what the [ __ ] just happened look at him he's just sitting there breathing yeah imagine them being a frog you're like well this is it i knew it was coming one day that's why i'm so scared of bass by the way they're yeah these are the the ones i get are like normally they would be like used for bait you know sorry first i asked the guys i could give me some beer and uh they became my daughter's pets i've never never ever injured or heard a frog ever but how did you know that that was gonna be the case when you first swallowed one the first one you swallowed you probably had to be like no i didn't start the fire it started with like bingo balls and things like that i would put inside come out i started playing around so it started with like you know um how much water could i put in then how could i spout the water out to use it to put out the fire then could the kerosene float on top then i went to be so bad for what is kerosene like inside your body do you feel it burning no but like the problem is all that's no the problem is all that stuff has a residue what does this guy do in general it's oil based this is the kerosene it's water spout thing [ __ ] ali egyptian fire eater and human fountain do you know of this guy yeah that's the guy i'm talking about oh there he is there it is yeah he's an old boy there's a really funny clip of see he's spitting the kerosene and then he puts it out with the water which is underneath because it floats on top yeah look how much control he has i saw that act and wanted to like figure that out what year is this did it um like almost a hundred days 1925. this is almost done almost a hundred years ago i mean that guy yeah he was called the human fire hydra that had to be a rough way to go however he died because he probably did that every day oh so let me get back to the question that i had before you ran off because you got you were worried about your arm do you do you have like you've done so many insane stunts and so many really of these uh bizarre things that require so much of you do you do you like have a thing in your mind that you have to keep ramping it up and that do you have a place that you would ultimately like to get to with me with these things no i just constantly like kind of try to figure out like what things have been done in the past historically and then i try to figure out how to make them interesting and then i figure out how to make them kind of modern so it's it's not like uh you know it's like it's a it's a small step-by-step process and i think about each thing and then i try to put them all together do you feel like you have to keep pushing the envelope um well i have like a few things that i've been trying to work on to get to that place so there is like a it's not a push the envelope it's just i have a bunch of things i've been trying to how many do you have like on the back burner in the back your head i have two more crazy ones that i'm trying can you share them uh i the the thing i will tell you is that if you put them all together the the letters all equal out like my name so that [Laughter] and that's yeah that's all you can say but yeah i think that's i don't want to go too into it what do you what do you enjoy most do you enjoy i feel like if you talk about something too much and then you talk it away i understand yeah yeah you take away the magic of like what he's getting he's gonna do what yeah like when it gets announced yeah yeah do you enjoy doing these big things or do you enjoy the live shows or do you enjoy freaking people just random people out there like all of it like so it's not like one specific thing i kind of love doing card tricks i love doing magic i love doing things from history i love looking like the the human aquarium guy uh you know the the frogs and goldfishes some of that came from houdini writing and miracle mongers all about his act so it's like you look into the history of things that have been done like [ __ ] ali the human fire hydrant and you find these there's a great book that ricky j wrote who is an amazing magician where he discusses and explains everything you learn all these things put them together and then what i do that ricky thought was amazing is and insane is like actually take these ideas that that seem impossible but magical and that's what the amazing part is taking them from a hypothetical image and then learning how to do them so that's like what's amazing about the whole process to me and ricky's book called learning pigs and farpo there's so many bizarre but amazing acts that exist in there so it's like you look at them like no that can't be real but it was real if you believe it was real how many of their how many of you are there out there like this must be of like i always think of stand-up comedians as being a very small group of people that kind of only understand each other there's a good amount of amazing magicians how many a thousand on the planet no there's a lot of guys that are at me yeah and there's different categories but the stuff that you're doing is not just magic what i'm saying is like this sort of like the crazy bizarre like you're mixing at all you're transcending magic into you go into this weird realm of what i like all these videos i like to use the body as the prop so i like to figure out how to do things where like your body is magic and i think that comes from like i didn't have like you know a lot of many resources to like oh go get which is lucky because then i was like okay so what can i do with like what's around okay an ice pick or a bunch of water or of course you'd be industrious yeah yeah not again but like you have to figure it out but you also have do you balance it out with like i mean you obviously develop some problems from not eating at one time and you know you've you've got these stunts where they have this possibility of physically injuring you permanently yeah yeah sorry the risks and the rewards yeah there's not that many of those people out there i hope not no that's what i'm saying like the people i wouldn't worry about them but you don't worry about yourself well i think i'm careful you know yeah i'm still like so we did one two three four five six seven eight nine ten ten five five liters basically so that's like a i think that's in one shot i think that's a record i don't think i've actually ever done that many you never drank that much water i don't think so i think i usually cap it a gallon well it's dangerous right you can die from drinking too much water water intoxication yes yeah but i think that's if you like flush it out too much but but when you combine that with other things then it's dangerous so that's what kids have done like in the like for tor fraternity when they have to do those hazing rituals right they've died from drinking too much water and there was a woman in san jose yeah it is possible of course it was san jose where she was on the radio and there was a thing like how much water can you drink and she wanted to win an xbox for a kid and she died yeah yeah i think that's when your electrolyte levels get messed up is that when your heart stops working yeah because yeah so you your water becomes just too much water in your system and your body doesn't know what to do with it and yeah that makes sense yeah yeah and it flushes out and to puts the imbalance off on your electrolytes so when you do something like this do you make sure that you you consume a lot of electrolytes beforehand because i couldn't eat or do anything if you're going to do the frog and why is my friend told my friend told me do not do the frog out here sounds gross i don't want you to have to do that because i'm gonna have to listen to it it definitely does sound gross but you you feel okay after drinking all that water that quickly yeah but i spouted it out that's true most of it right there's got to be a lot more inches on purpose yeah jesus you're a weird man david blaine you really are that's what i was getting at like what i'm saying there's not a lot of people like you out there i'm glad you're there i really am i'm glad you're out there first of all because i think you're very entertaining but also because i i love when there's a new type of person that i meet you know and you're there's not i've met a lot of people but you're you're in this new like oh and then there's this guy you know this is like a totally new frequency of human or just freak take out the quincy both but i mean it's it's a a very strange path that you're on i mean ultimately it's like at the end of the day it's it's trying to just figure out how to make things that seem as as close to magic as possible and the process is really difficult and tricky and laborious to get to but eventually you start to figure oh this could look magical what's this or this could you know but you seem like a very joyful person because of all this you you clearly love what you do yeah yeah yeah look at that you sparked that yeah yeah that's why i do it no you love it yeah that's what's interesting it's like such a strange thing to love to do stand no it's crazy you fight take care down a long time but that but i'm saying that's crazy like it is maybe but that's the same it's the same you're pushing your body to do things that most people but you're basically you're living in a place where you have to override discomfort and you have to override what your body's trying to tell you not to do and you push yourself you know it's and then and it's that whole journey of pushing yourself to do things that you physically don't think you can do or to set a goal that that's the best part i think i i'm just i'm fascinated by people that are really far down on a path that seems really dan you have we ever brought up that woman stephanie millinger on the podcast before i follow her on instagram and i know i've posted some some of her stuff on instagram but she's like a contortionist and um she has like an incredible balance and and and core strength and she's this very small woman who does insane things with her body like she did this one she's on a handstand and she bends her back so that her butt touches her head like her spine is so flexible that you look at some of the things that she does and they don't seem to be like watch this look at this yeah watch how she does this and look and also she's balancing on these posts right so but look what she does with her back wow look at that that is amazing amazing yeah and then she stands with one hand and she does by the way she does this like off the side of cliffs and she's incredible like look at the way her body is contorting yeah that's incredible she's pressing her butt against the top of her head in the craziest way like it doesn't seem like a person should be able to do that and the amount of physical strength that it takes to move your body like this and balance while you're doing it it's just it's the the years yeah this is what i'm saying like she's so far down the path see if you can find the one where she bounces on the plates that one the middle where you see the the plate watch this so she takes a this is like a standard olympic weightlifting plate right so she puts it down so it's on its edge and then she stands it on top of a bar right so you got this like this bar that was it's like a like a small chin balancing yeah so it's a round thing bouncing on another round thing it's amazing and then she lifts her whole body all the way up and over and does a handstand on this [ __ ] thing i mean she's amazing it's and again always smiling always like joyful loves loves this but the physical strength that it takes to do something like that and the kind of balance that's what i'm talking about like someone who's on this crazy path where if you you asked someone could someone do that you'd be like no but your body doesn't do work like that that's not how body works but it does you just have to take these little baby steps for years and then you look back and you're in a different place and then also you find a version of it and then you figure out how to make it your own yes she's like taken something and then made it like a whole yes new art right poetic yeah yeah she's or like cirque du soleil like when every time i go to see i've seen most of the cirque du soleil shows every time i go i'm like what the f how the [ __ ] is that what do they do what are they they're aliens like yeah but they're on a path they're just really far down on this path of extreme dedication extreme focus and that's what you're doing you're just doing it with bizarre physical feats and magic it's very interesting it's very interesting i'm really happy that you're around i really am i enjoy the fact that a person like you exists oh thank you and uh i want to thank you for being here too man i really enjoyed the [ __ ] out of it it's very cool very cool to talk to you too wanting to meet you for a long time oh my pleasure thank you my honor thank you very much thank you so one more time this will most likely be taking place august 31st whether it's we will let everybody know we'll put it on instagram we'll put it on twitter and if there's any sort of a change let me know and we'll let everybody know great thank you brother appreciate you man goodbye everybody

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Keywords: Joe Rogan Experience, JRE, Joe, Rogan, podcast, MMA, comedy, stand, up, funny, Freak, Party, Joe Rogan, David Blaine, JRE #1527, comedian, magician, Ascension

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Length: 141min 52sec (8512 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 18 2020

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Summary (spoiler warning):

0:01 Looking at Joe's different action figures (Joe: "It's pretty dope". David: "It's awesome")

1:03 How David got started with "magic" / illusions

3:46 How the worlds of "magic" and endurace collide (David: "I love both separately"). (Includes how David learned to hold his breath from 4:30, and practical tips)

6:28 David talks about blacking out under water (Joe: "You make it sound exciting"). Also: getting choked out vs. getting knocked out.

13:50 Talking about David's breathing tecnique, which builds up the ability to hold your breath. (David: You'll get up to 4+ minutes for sure"). Continues into a long talk about how David learned to hold his breath for so long.

21:03 Achieving perfection at something. Joe mentions James Nestor, who has previously been on the podcast (David: "He's amazing")

27:38 Joe mentions that Dana White has been banned from casions because he wins so much at blackjack. David thinks he's just counting the cards.

31:53 David does a dice trick (Joe: "That's uncomfortable"... "Get that voodoo away from me, man)

33:07 Why David likes illusions/magic so much, and how he got on TV

41:39 How David's magic evolved, and his famous ice trick

44:05 David's trick which involved getting buried alive

50:26 David talks about the difficulty of performing his ice trick (David: "The ice was a monster"), and the hallucinations he experienced.

1:00:56 David talks about his idea for a new balloon trick that he is going to perform live.

1:08:16 David's video where he addresses Joe and jumps out of an airplane (Joe: "That was pretty f...ing spectacular")

1:16:59 Joe does a long stretch

1:29:32 Joe sits next to David for a painful "trick" that involves stabbing David's hand with an ice pick(!) (Joe: "How do I know I'm not gonna hit an artery?" David: I don't know, you're smart. You'll figure it out")

1:37:53 Joe appears to be unimpressed with the trick (Joe: "I can't say I enjoyed that. That was very uncomfortable").

1:42:54 David has to check on his arm after the ice pick "trick", and Joe pauses the podcast.

1:43:48 David drinks a looot of water for his "frog swallow and regurgitate" trick (Joe: "It's a decent sized frog... You wouldn't want to swallow a frog that large")

1:51:17 Joe "trees can communicate through fungus" Rogan

1:58:20 David swallows the frog (thanks to u/sugemchuge for the timestamp)

2:01:04 David tries hard to regurgitate the frog (Joe: "This is so bizarre")

2:02:51 David spits out a looot of water. (Don't watch while eating). Joe: "The frog is probably like: 'what the f... did I do to deserve this?"

2:04:01 David finally gets the frog out (David: "That's the frog trick")

2:11:23 Joe asks David what he enjoys the most about his illusions/magic tricks (David: "All of it")

2:18:02 Joe talks about the gymnast Stephanie Millinger (Joe: "I follow her on Instagram")

Bonus: Jamie can be heard laughing at 7:37

Note: You can find my summaries and "freshness ratings" for every episode here.

[u/smiling_politely__]

All the crazy shit Blaine can do and the guys blown away by how quickly young Jamie can pull that shit up about the cigarette eating guy.

[u/ragical]

Its not they its young jamie

[u/BubbaBlount]

It’s so weird seeing this guy with emotions. Everything I’ve ever seen with him he’s had the face of a World Series of poker player

[u/SixxSe7eN]

Joe Rogan: “Oh. Look, I have some handcuffs.”

...

Joe Rogan: “What are you doing...?”

David Blaine: “Trying to... *ugh*... break them...”

[u/dantzbam]

I idolise David Blaine so much. I was hardcore into card magic for a few years as a teen. Would spend roughly 3 hours a day studying magic books and learning through DVDs from well known magicians. Then when I performed in front of strangers I'd become a different person, not the shy person I usually was. Helped so damn much with my confidence. If I had the effort I'd start practicing again but it's an amazing hobby to have.

[u/bgetz]

Whoever recently suggested Blaine as a guest is either a prophet or the JRE version of qanon. Tim Dillon would want me to believe there is a JRE version of qanon and that that man is Jamie.

[u/ASIWYFA]

Joe seems frustrated at Blaines inability to stay on topic and finish a thought.

[u/Lemonjello23]

David Blaine? What the eff???