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00:01:22.000I studied for weeks and just tried to understand their behavior and worked with different Cobras and I had a team around me that taught me how to move quickly and get out of the way.
00:06:04.000And I feel like in my show in Vegas, I was jumping from the height of a nine-story building, landing in boxes, and I dislocated my shoulder.
00:07:05.000And my friend Doug, who's with the hat right there, when I jumped, he knew that something was going to go wrong.
00:07:11.000He bent over and took a heavy breath because he knew that was the one.
00:07:17.000There's a gentleman named Yuri Prochaska.
00:07:19.000He was the UFC light heavyweight champion and his shoulder dislocated during training and his trainers tried to pop it back into place and they were yanking on it and they just destroyed his shoulder.
00:07:31.000They tore everything apart just kind of pulling on it and It ripped apart.
00:07:37.000The UFC doctor says the worst shoulder injury he'd ever seen.
00:09:41.000Specifically, if you go out of the country, because they can do some wild shit that they can't do in America because of the FDA. I have some good friends that run a clinic in Tijuana.
00:09:49.000It's called CPI, and a bunch of my friends have gone down there, a bunch of UFC fighters.
00:11:05.000What they'll do is they'll do IV stem cells, they'll do local stem cells into whatever the area that's injured and then they'll use hyperbaric chambers which also accelerates the healing.
00:11:17.000They'll have you down there for a few days and I guarantee a few months later you'll feel significantly better.
00:12:46.000It's interesting because it is entertainment, but it's also entertainment and sort of educating people the boundaries of what the mind can force the body to do.
00:12:57.000You know, like the one we did where you're frozen in ice?
00:16:23.000Even my friend is running a marathon in a few days and I said for the next couple of days, reduce any food that will give you inflammation and do extreme hydration because the impact of that distance will pay its toll in the long run.
00:16:38.000Especially if you're not conditioned for it.
00:16:40.000And I think really good endurance athletes like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Tom Brady, they all are very concerned with inflammation.
00:17:01.000Yeah, inflammation is one of the biggest problems that people have, particularly in this country, because of the way we eat.
00:17:07.000I'm sure you've seen those photographs of people on the beach in, like, the 1960s versus people on the beach in 2023. No, but I can imagine.
00:17:16.000Yeah, we've ballooned, and it's because of the American diet.
00:17:24.000And even just the way they genetically modified fruit, like if you look at watermelon from the Renaissance days, like a Renaissance painting of a watermelon, as opposed to a watermelon now, it doesn't even look like the same thing.
00:17:36.000It yields such a high dose of sugar to become addictive and berries, everything.
00:17:42.000That term, genetically modified, gets thrown around a lot.
00:17:44.000A lot of it is just selective breeding.
00:18:33.000I mean, it's a reason I think even fruit, you would think fruit is so healthy, but then you get these berries when you go to Whole Foods and they're like this big and they're so juicy and you eat the whole thing.
00:18:43.000But if you're in the wild getting blackberries, they're small, they're bitter.
00:19:25.000Well, I've noticed a giant difference cutting sugar out of my life.
00:19:28.000Like, when I cut it out and just live very cleanly, eat very cleanly, it's just a massive difference in how your body feels, how your back feels, joints feel, everything.
00:23:06.000And it's also if you're a person who's very concerned about factory farming and ethics that are involved in that kind of stuff and you don't want to eat eggs because the chickens are mistreated.
00:23:18.000Chickens that you have yourself are basically pets that give you free karma-free food.
00:23:23.000Because, you know, they're not even scared of you.
00:23:26.000They wander around you and peck at the ground right near your feet.
00:25:20.000If they could kill a deer, if they could kill, you know, something that was nutrient dense that had fat on it, a pig, like that's what they treasured the most because that's what they would give them the most nutrients.
00:25:31.000You would also assume they would have like coconuts, bananas.
00:26:40.000So if you do seek out the information, there's plenty of doctors that could explain these things to you and just seek out organic foods and just eat real foods.
00:27:24.000So, we'll get your shoulders sorted out.
00:27:28.000I'd like to see what your MRI said, though, too.
00:27:30.000And I'm sure one of the doctors will want to see that, too.
00:27:33.000Yeah, I have all the MRI. So I was doing MRIs before every jump and after every jump just to make sure the blood vessels around the heart, you know, things weren't shifting because if we noticed something small, then we would stop because that way the blood, something connected to the heart wouldn't become problematic.
00:27:54.000You probably definitely did, because if it hit your neck and had the same sort of impact with what it did to your shoulder, imagine something that can blow out your shoulder like that, what it could do to your spinal cord.
00:28:25.000Like, you did a bunch of card tricks for us off-air.
00:28:29.000You did them for my kids, you did them for the security guys at the old studio in LA, and, I mean, Jamie is really good at watching that kind of stuff.
00:28:37.000I've been watching him since I was younger.
00:29:04.000But I mean, you're kind of the only magician who also does things that aren't necessarily magic, but they are extraordinary feats of control of your body and just dangerous stunts.
00:29:19.000I think part of the excitement for me is just learning something that's unique, that's not really done in the magic world, but then just the actual training and learning a new skill.
00:29:33.000So it's like a continual search to try to Figure out new things.
00:29:37.000And that's kind of what keeps me excited in a lot of ways.
00:29:41.000And I think it's like something different because I think most people that are magicians, you know, a card trick everybody can learn.
00:29:50.000But when you go and try to figure out one of those things that are Insane to learn or you're inspired by something else and it leads to the trick itself.
00:30:03.000So when I went to Africa to learn how to swallow a gallon of water and then spout it out, I didn't know it would lead to being able to hold frogs in my stomach and then produce them at any time.
00:33:34.000But my actual record with doctors and pulmonary experts on it was 20 minutes and two seconds, breathing pure O2. And my heart rate dropped to eight beats per minute.
00:33:43.000So they pulled me up because they thought I was going to go into cardiac arrest.
00:33:47.000And I actually, that one felt pretty good.
00:33:49.000But now I think the record is like 24.03.
00:35:05.000Yeah, when I was doing it, I was just, and even your brain functioning, you want to shut everything down because your brain uses a lot of oxygen as well.
00:35:14.000So the more that you can just shut everything down, the more efficient you are.
00:35:18.000And when you're doing that, like, how are you getting your heart rate to eight beats a minute?
00:35:23.000I didn't intentionally do that, it just happened.
00:35:25.000I think the body does whatever it needs to do to make sure you survive.
00:35:29.000Right, so your body's recognizing, like, this motherfucker isn't breathing.
00:37:16.000I think there's something about it that just keeps you awake and it's just nuts because you're just the drip and like it being irregular intervals.
00:40:21.000So there's a book called Swami Mantra.
00:40:25.000How are you getting it into your chest?
00:40:27.000Well, first I'll tell you there's a book called Swami Mantra, which is a collection of pamphlets of secrets of what the Fakirs are doing in India.
00:40:35.000So there was a trick that I saw a magician do when I was a kid.
00:40:40.000And he ate a thread and he pulled it out of his stomach.
00:40:43.000And I was with a bunch of amazing magicians and we were all blown away and in shock.
00:40:48.000But I cornered the guy and convinced him to teach me the secret.
00:40:51.000So then I started playing with it and then just now when I was in India meeting street magicians and finding all these performers, I went to a festival, and they do all these extreme things I have never seen before.
00:41:07.000Like they push the ice pick skewer type thing through their neck, through their...
00:41:13.000And so I suddenly had an idea, and I was like, wait, maybe there's a way.
00:42:12.000Was normally, I think I go in from this side and out, but because you were sitting here and I wanted you to push it, I think we went in the opposite direction.
00:44:53.000There was a magician named Harry Anderson that used to do needle through arm, and it was like a fake arm thing.
00:44:59.000Like, stuck it together, and it looks like it's going through.
00:45:02.000And I think I was like, that could probably really be done.
00:45:06.000So I think it began with that, and then I heard about a kid that can take a bicycle spoke and put it through.
00:45:13.000And then I started thinking, well, if you could do that as a trick but have no blood...
00:45:19.000Then it's kind of amazing and what I didn't realize was basically your blood coagulates when you so based on time so if you push this through again I don't want to give anybody lessons on how this stuff is not good to do at all but with time I think when you pull it out you just don't bleed unless you go through the wrong side and hit something but yeah But I like those things that just seem impossible,
00:49:08.000Doing things that's difficult, like with your left hand, your brain somehow or another doesn't have a really good relationship with your left hand.
00:49:17.000Yeah, but as a magician you change that because you have to work with both hands equally.
00:49:22.000You definitely rewire the way your fingers move and the way your pinky moves and you learn to do movements that are not natural.
00:50:26.000But when you do box and you throw jabs and left hooks with your left hand, and then you switch and try to do with your right hand, your right hand seems uncoordinated.
00:50:37.000It's really just your brain has this relationship with those particular movements.
00:50:42.000Hey, look at his bicep and his left arm.
00:51:36.000And he said he wouldn't train because he didn't want to reignite his ego.
00:51:41.000And then, the second time he was in the studio, he had decided to take a fight with Roy Jones Jr. And so, he was in his 50s and started training again and got fucking insanely dedicated.
00:51:57.000I think the way he described it, he said the gods of war reignited his ego and brought him back to do combat again.
00:52:05.000And he was so terrifying that when he was sitting across from me, he was so different between the first podcast and the second podcast.
00:52:52.000Francis Ngannou, who is the UFC heavyweight champion, he vacated the throne and had a boxing match with Tyson Fury, who is the lineal heavyweight champion.
00:53:03.000Dropped him in the third round and won on one judge's scorecard and lost on the other two.
00:53:09.000So he lost a majority decision in his first ever boxing match against arguably the best heavyweight boxer.
00:53:17.000Absolutely alive, but maybe of all time.
00:53:25.000I mean, you could maybe say that Tyson Fury...
00:53:28.000I mean, you could kind of see an argument that he...
00:53:31.000Maybe could have won I don't think so though when it comes to damage I looked at it.
00:53:37.000I've watched it three times and in my mind he won the fight and I I think that's one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in combat sports history a guy who's had zero boxing matches who is an MMA champion goes and fights a guy who is One of the greatest boxers that's ever lived.
00:53:56.000I mean Tyson Fury is phenomenal now Whether Tyson Fury took him seriously, whether he was overconfident, who knows?
00:54:04.000I mean, he literally said to him, time to go to school.
00:54:06.000I'm taking you to school at the beginning of the fight.
00:55:20.000And made his way to Morocco like hitched rides and all these different things made his way to Morocco and then seven times Traveled on rafts to Europe and got arrested and sent back and when they would send him back they would drop him off in the Sahara Desert That's how they would do to people who were trying to make their way to Europe.
00:55:40.000And seven times, he made his way from the Sahara Desert back to Morocco, back to the raft, and one day finally made his way all the way across, was arrested, was in jail in Spain for, I think, three or four months, and then was homeless in France for a year.
00:55:59.000Started training, and they told him to train in MMA. And so he starts training because he wanted to be a boxer, but they were like, you really should be an MMA champion.
00:57:55.000Immediately afterwards, most people were saying that Francis won.
00:58:01.000After watching it carefully, some people have said there could be an argument that Tyson Fury may have outpointed him.
00:58:09.000In my mind, Francis landed by far the harder shots, by far did more damage, and even though there's this thing that happens when you see an underdog outperform the expectations, which certainly happened.
00:59:59.000If you want to compete in combat sports, you must know how to box.
01:00:05.000A really comprehensive skill set that a true MMA champion will have is far better.
01:00:11.000And if a boxer, like an elite boxer fought an MMA fighter, they would have almost no chance.
01:00:17.000Like if Tyson Fury fought Francis Ngannou in an MMA fight and beat Francis in an MMA fight, that would be more extraordinary than Francis beating or rather than...
01:00:29.000Tyson Fury, if Tyson Fury beat Francis in an MMA fight, it would be more extraordinary than Francis beating Tyson Fury in a boxing match.
01:00:37.000Because at least a big part of Francis' skill set is his punching power in his hands.
01:00:42.000Whereas Tyson Fury has almost no experience in grappling, kicking, any of those skills.
01:00:49.000If he beat Francis in an MMA fight, that would be like the most incredible thing that anyone's ever done, ever.
01:01:24.000Once he got to the ground, it was like a foregone conclusion that Randy was going to destroy him.
01:01:28.000No boxer has ever said in the middle of their prime, as if Manny Pacquiao in the middle of his prime said, I'm going to fight MMA. That would be insane.
01:01:37.000And he'd probably get his face kicked off.
01:01:40.000I mean, probably get strangled, probably get taken down, strangled, and he would be helpless.
01:02:12.000And in the old days, in the Pride days...
01:02:14.000Well, in the old days of the UFC, there was no time limit.
01:02:16.000And then in the Pride days, which was one of the glory years of MMA... In Japan, they would have a 10-minute first round.
01:02:24.000And, you know, that was very, very hard.
01:02:26.000That really—Dan Henderson, who was in here before, was one of the all-time greats, said that was what separated the men from the boys, that 10-minute round.
01:02:33.000Because, you know— Ten minutes of straight fighting is crazy.
01:03:57.000The combinations just come like lightning, and he would be shifting side to side, be standing in front of you, throw a hook, and all of a sudden he off to the right, and he would right hook you to the body and hit you with an uppercut, and they would shift to the left.
01:05:30.000And I always say, when you talk about all-time greats, you can talk about all-time great careers, and there's people like Bernard Hopkins who had insane careers that went into his 50s.
01:07:40.000It's a scene from his documentary where he talks about it and he just, and he said, you know, he just talks about, like, what was going through his mind in the locker room, all the fears and all the worries and all the different things.
01:10:16.000I've had, like, full-blown experiences in the sensory deprivation tank while sober, where if I could give you a pill that would get you to that place, you'd be like, oh, my God, I'm on a drug.
01:10:28.000And I've come out of that, those psychedelic states, which I call...
01:10:32.000You know, I could tell someone I had a psychedelic experience.
01:10:37.000I had a psychedelic experience in the sensory deprivation tank meditating and going through these deep breathing exercises.
01:10:44.000It's not a psychedelic experience like mushrooms or like dimethyltryptamine or...
01:10:50.000No, it's like you connect to something that's more beautiful and spiritual and a heightened sense of awareness.
01:10:56.000Very heightened sense of awareness but also a completely altered state of consciousness that I don't think You would ever imagine is available to you just naturally.
01:11:09.000But what I've had in these psychedelic experiences naturally is nothing compared to what these kundalini masters have.
01:11:16.000Kundalini masters, and I have a friend who has done this, who trained kundalini yoga for many, many years, and learned how to get to a full-blown, like, hallucinatory psychedelic experience where there's geometric patterns and you're connected to entities.
01:11:31.000And the way he described it, he's done psychedelics and he's done Kundalini.
01:12:01.000So, whatever you're doing when you're getting hypnotized, there is something going on.
01:12:08.000And I mean, I think you could measure it in the brain as far as like fMRI or EEG or some sort of methodology where they would use equipment to measure your brain waves and they would find a difference in frequency.
01:12:23.000But I think more importantly than that, I believe there's an endogenous release of certain chemicals.
01:15:52.000So your body's developing these heat shock proteins from the sauna, and it's reducing inflammation, and it also increases your cardiovascular output.
01:16:00.000And that's one of the things that wrestlers, like Dan Gable, who was like one of the most extraordinary wrestlers of all time, he learned that from the Soviets.
01:16:08.000Because the Soviets in a lot of these Eastern Bloc countries, they were using the sauna as a part of their training.
01:16:12.000So he started incorporating into his training and using it for his wrestlers.
01:16:16.000And then it also sweats out the toxins.
01:16:18.000It does all this amazing stuff to you as well.
01:17:50.000There's something to extreme cold and extreme heat where your body understands that it's in danger and then it becomes stronger resisting it.
01:18:00.000And it produces cold shock proteins for the cold and heat shock proteins for the heat.
01:18:18.000So I get in the cold plunge for three minutes.
01:18:20.000Which takes out the inflammation as well, probably.
01:18:22.000It does, but it also jacks up your testosterone.
01:18:25.000Because for some reason, when you go into extreme cold for three minutes and then you work out, the effect is that your testosterone gets jacked up.
01:19:24.000One of the times my whole family got COVID and I didn't.
01:19:27.000And I think one of the reasons why I didn't is not just that I'm really healthy and I work out a lot, but I started working out and I was like, boy, I feel unusually weak today.
01:19:38.000So what I'm going to do is I'm going to stick to a light kettlebell.
01:19:42.000I stuck to 35 pounds and I'm just going to do a very minimal routine.
01:19:46.000Of like 10 clean presses each side, 10 swings each side, and just stop and relax.
01:20:15.000When you say anaerobic training, what do you do?
01:20:17.000Where you're depriving your muscles of O2. So let's say we were doing kettlebell swings, let's say with a 35 pound, you would do 50 of them or 54. But anyway, so you could do whatever high number you want.
01:20:32.000Then you take a minute and then you do it again.
01:25:56.000But, I mean, that's one of the things that people enjoy about watching your performances is that everyone knows physical limitations and everyone knows that every human being has this inherent desire to avoid discomfort.
01:26:12.000And the fact that you seek it, and you don't just seek it, but you're doing it in the cold for that frozen block of ice for 60 plus hours.
01:26:59.000So they said, okay, we're gonna cover you with a quarter million bees, you're gonna do this, you're gonna be put on fire, you're gonna have scorpions.
01:27:06.000A lot of things that you did, we did on Fear Factor.
01:27:09.000We covered people with bees on Fear Factor.
01:27:12.000We covered people with scorpions on Fear Factor.
01:27:14.000Especially those big ass dark black scorpions.
01:28:48.000So somehow or another, these local bees were talking to these bees that we brought in, and they're like, hey, what the fuck are you guys doing here?
01:28:57.000I mean, whatever the fuck they said to each other.
01:28:59.000But there was some sort of communication, and apparently it was settled to the point where the local bees were like, they had made some sort of an agreement, the local bees left.
01:29:10.000And then the other bees, and then we went back to filming.
01:29:12.000But we had a stop-down production for, I think it was like a good half an hour, where these bees had to work this out.
01:30:07.000They just take little pieces of each leaf and you see like a whole line of these ants.
01:30:12.000And I don't know if you've ever seen leafcutter ants hive their colonies.
01:30:16.000They have these incredibly complex systems that they build in the ground.
01:30:23.000And the way we've found out about these things is by Unfortunately, flooding them with cement.
01:30:30.000So they'll flood these bee things, these ant colonies, these leafcutter ants, whatever they would call these hives or whatever they call it.
01:30:53.000These little pods that they have, these areas that they have designated where they build these holes, so they dig in and they remove all the dirt, and these long tunnels, and they even have ventilation systems where some of the leaves will ferment.
01:31:08.000So they have leaves that are slowly decaying and fermenting, and they build them so that these leaves have access to oxygen.
01:31:17.000They have no idea how these leafcutter ants are communicating, how they know how to do this, how they figure this out, and how they consistently do this all over the world.
01:31:29.000Like, look how enormous this structure is that they're digging out.
01:31:33.000And this is all because they filled the entire thing up with concrete.
01:31:39.000So here they're pouring this concrete.
01:33:45.000And the reason is because the hard wiring is, you know, when we were on an elevated platform with lots of eyeballs looking up at us, those were predators.
01:33:54.000Those were lions or other tribes or whatever it was.
01:33:59.000So people, when they stand on stage, they're not at risk of getting eaten by a lion, but they still have those really uncomfortable feelings.
01:34:09.000Well, I've been told that it's because you're being judged, like you did something wrong.
01:34:13.000But I think it's more deeply rooted than that.
01:34:17.000I think if you're on an elevated platform and you have lots of eyeballs on you, you're an easy target.
01:34:55.000Like how the mind works and how many complex layers are in there, how anxiety works, how fears work, how people can trick themselves into thinking the worst case scenario is definitely going to happen and they just mindfuck themselves.
01:35:10.000Which is part of the survival mechanism.
01:35:12.000Yeah, because that's the ability to anticipate danger.
01:35:15.000But you can change that part of your brain.
01:35:27.000And people that don't have any experience with scary things, everything's scary.
01:35:33.000You don't have any experience with adversity, any experience with overcoming things, any experience with doing things that make you nervous?
01:35:39.000Boy, fucking everything's going to make you nervous.
01:36:15.000When I would get mugged when I was a kid, I didn't have a dad growing up in Brooklyn, but- I would see, like, a man across the street, and I'd have, like, five kids mugging me.
01:37:00.000But you could also find human beings that are not nice, and you can make them nice quickly if you know how to be calm and give the right energy.
01:38:06.000And then I do magic and then it's over.
01:38:08.000Well, I think also a lot of times when people are involved in an altercation, they're looking for a way out and they don't know how to get out of it.
01:38:14.000And so if you disrupt that, like, oh, now's a new thing to concentrate on.
01:38:49.000One time I was doing a one-handed shuffle and a bunch of guys that were working at the parking garage saw me doing the shuffle and they thought it was amazing.
01:40:52.000I believe it's 1584. That was one of the interesting things that I read about the invention of the printing press, that once they started making books, some of the first books were about how to spot witches.
01:41:03.000Like, I was thinking that, oh, back then it must have been amazing because now all of a sudden people could, like, write down all this knowledge and people can learn.
01:41:32.000Like, there's a book written by a guy that called himself Erdnase, the expert at the card table, and he had so many secrets in this book that are so relevant to all of the magic that any card magician does to this day.
01:41:47.000And he was using it mostly for cheating.
01:42:06.000So if you're a card cheat and you get busted, you're going to get your hands broken or worse, right?
01:42:11.000So these guys that were card cheats, their moves are technically perfect.
01:42:16.000I remember I was with a guy named Doc and we were surrounded by a bunch of magicians and he just did a cut the deck, complete the cut, switched the whole deck and none of us could see it.
01:42:26.000None of us could see the deck being switched out.
01:46:24.000But my friend has been working on a move for years and years that he's never going to use, that only, I think, one other person besides him in the world can do.
01:46:35.000And he was written up by all, every magician, not every magician, but lots of magicians were really upset, saying, that move is impossible.
01:47:43.000But I'm just saying, like, there's so many moves that are so relevant and that are so amazing if you want to be a card cheat where you do this with such precision that nobody could ever detect it.
01:47:56.000Have you ever done that playing poker just to blow people's minds?
01:47:58.000Yeah, when I was, like, 18, I went to one of my friend's, like, college games, and I cheated everybody just to see if I could.
01:53:05.000I gotta figure out what I did wrong, and then never do that thing that I did wrong again, and figure out a way to make it better.
01:53:10.000Right, and the way you play in little venues and you repetitiously do the comedy act and you keep the stuff that you like, you tweak it, you work on it for like a year.
01:53:19.000That's what I think a good magician does.
01:53:23.000It's the exact same formula as a comedy show.
01:53:26.000How many different card tricks do you think you know?
01:54:26.000That's so nuts that you have to be married to card tricks.
01:54:30.000And that's the only way to be as good as you're at.
01:54:32.000Well, I think it's also like the, you know, anybody could have access to a deck of cards and there's so much material and so much that you can learn.
01:54:58.000I'm always blown away because when I see you and you do card tricks, I always think, next time I see him, I'm going to pay attention and I'm going to figure it out.
01:55:49.000But having 12 aces, right, would be inconvenient because then you couldn't fit them inside the box, you couldn't do anything like that, right?
01:55:57.000And you end up with just the four aces.
01:56:00.000The real thing is, is if you lose track of what aces come from what card, because then you can't put them back together and you end up with this useless deck of cards, which is just full of aces the entire time, and then, yeah, you just can't put them back.
01:56:17.000Which is why it's important to do this.
01:57:01.000The first time I met Mike Tyson, I went to his hotel at the Trump International, and And I was doing magic to everybody, you know, because Muhammad Ali used to do magic and he taught Mike how to levitate and stuff like that.
01:57:13.000So Mike was kind of into the whole magic thing.
01:57:15.000And I started showing him all these things and a guy pulled me aside.
01:57:20.000And he was like, you know, I do some stuff too.
01:57:34.000And he said that when they're playing in New York, he would go to all the delis near where they were playing, and he would take the decks of cards that they sell at the deli, and he would swap them for identical decks of cards that were all completely marked but invisible.
01:57:50.000So now he would go into the game, let's say on Upper Park Avenue, and as they were about to play, he'd say, wait, I don't trust the house deck.
01:58:29.000There's even something you could do with a red back card that's called DAB, where you put some sort of like a red waxy thing that's almost invisible.
01:58:38.000But if you have a contact lens over the pupil that has a little red spot in the middle, you could see it better.
01:58:44.000I know, but there's lots of ways to mark decks.
01:58:47.000I mean, I'm not going to get into those, but there is a lot of easy ways to mark a deck.
01:59:14.000That was kind of like as a kid I had one deck of cards and when I would drop it on the subway I'd have to pick it up and I would have like a it doesn't feel right and I would carry it everywhere for years and my dream was to one day have unlimited decks and then when I started to make my own decks that was kind of like highlight.
01:59:50.000Because when I was young, I would go to the Magic store, Tannins, and we couldn't afford the marked decks, of course, but they looked really special.
01:59:58.000It was called Magic See-Through-The-Card deck.
02:05:42.000It's just so interesting to me that there's something that is so clear to you that is Yeah, but when I teach you this, you're going to be like, whoa.
02:08:51.000You think like in a lot of these high-level poker games where you get a lot of dorks that have a lot of money and they want to be high rollers and they get robbed by people?
02:12:09.000Like, I do believe you, because I've seen you do things that I can't believe you're doing, and you're just doing them right in front of me.
02:12:15.000But these guys that cheat, it's very different, because they work on three moves for years and years and years, and they are flawless.
02:14:21.000He played till like 6 o'clock in the morning.
02:14:23.000If you have the backing, like if you could back yourself over and over, then that also helps.
02:14:28.000Meaning if you're not afraid to lose a certain amount of money because you know that you can keep backing yourself, that's a big advantage.
02:16:26.000So you have to hit like a 4, then you have to close a 4 before you get a 7, then you have to hit a 5, then close a 5, then a 6, then an 8, then a 9, then a 10 before you throw a 7. So it's very unlikely that you're going to do that with all of those numbers.
02:16:39.000So it's a great bet for the casino because nobody ever hits it.
02:17:20.000The fire bet never came out at the Palms, ever.
02:17:24.000I was throwing the dice, and it was ours.
02:17:26.000And by the way, I think the Super Bowl champion table was over there, and they were all screaming, going crazy at the craps table next to us, the high stakes one, right?
02:17:35.000I kept throwing, and all of a sudden, The dealer says, I mean, the Pitbull says, stop.
02:19:35.000But I would be so tempted to just see if I could get away with it.
02:19:39.000Well, I did when I was like 18. Yeah, I would be so tempted just to like to see if I could get away with it under the scrutiny of all the cameras in Vegas.
02:20:58.000It's just so fascinating to me that people can do things right in front of your face, and they tell you they're doing it, and you still can't see.
02:21:04.000Like, what the fuck is happening here?
02:23:34.000It's only like a few days a month, because it has this magic and everything in it, but it has the physical stuff as well, so I can't overdo it.
02:23:42.000But that show isn't going to last for a long time, because physically it's not possible, so you really should come see it.