21 Burst results for "David Blaine"
The Tim Ferriss Show
"david blaine" Discussed on The Tim Ferriss Show
"Try something in here. Yeah. We could try something in here. You guys want to drive something live? All right. So how should we how should we begin? Can I take the x-ray, so one of the new things that I've been working on. Might be hard to see, but I'll let you hold this up. So this is an x-ray can we all make it out somewhat? Can you all see what that is? Yeah, there's a sword. That I recently learned how to push all the way inside. Like a sword swallower basically, and I learned it to work on one new trick. So if I could, yeah, good. So here's my little now you guys are seeing this when it's brand new. So and this is much bigger than the one in the picture. The one in the picture is actually pretty thin. In the esophagus is very, very thin. So I'm going to try to push this down inside and lots of people assume when sword swallows do what they do that it's a trick, but it's really not. I recently learned that in studying this I don't know if I'm going to succeed, but we'll try. You gotta come closer though. To make sure it's real..
The Tim Ferriss Show
"david blaine" Discussed on The Tim Ferriss Show
"Okay. I don't think that deserves a pause. I think that deserves like you're out of your mind. Condemnation. Office. But ironically, before I leave, I brought another thing similar that I have an x-ray of that I'll show you that I recently learned so I'll show it to before I go. A little crazy than this one I think. The only way that I can even begin to approach talking about that is let's assume that it's totally real. You actually figured out how to put that through your hand. That's the only place I can go with it. What is your self talk when you're practicing that? Houdini used to do this thing where he pushed pins through his face and then pull them all out, small razor blades from that threaded, but there are ways to do things that are real that you would assume it can't be done because you would assume that you're going to bleed. But there's a way to and I started with acupuncture needles just trying to see if you could go straight through. I had x-rays taken at Mars, you know, the whole thing so I could know where all the blood vessels and everything lie. And then I found a sweet spot and just started, you know, slowly figuring out how to go through the hammer. Is there any particular trick or stunt that has obsessed you for a long time that you have not yet been able to feel? Yeah, the craziest one. I've been obsessed with the idea of sleep deprivation. Yeah, but no, but when you do sleep deprivation like the Native Americans would do it and they would you get this really incredible hallucination. There's a new list. Yeah. So it's like, I've done like 5 and a half days no sleep and for me hallucinations start to really kick in at like 55 hours if I'm standing up the whole time and it's a really rough environment. And even though it's scary, it's also like you're having these dreams and these nightmares, but you're awake. But the North Koreans used it as an ultimate form of torture on the Americans when they were hostages and many of those hostages came back tweaked for life. So it's like there is what is the breaking point? The risk benefit. Right. Analysis could not be in your favor. I remember at one point, it's one of my favorite parts in New York City, Bryant park. Was that where you on top? Yeah. I was going to stand on this pillar for a day and a half with no food, no water, and nothing to catch me if I.
The Tim Ferriss Show
"david blaine" Discussed on The Tim Ferriss Show
"Switch twice. Like I'll do it so so you can see it. Look, here's the move. Seattle borders line up. I'll put it on the bottle. I'm teaching you right now. That's how I do it. Hold it tight, don't make it impossible. Because you know them if I have diamonds, ready? Right. Without looking at it, what would you bet on hearts of diamonds? Pretend that would you bet heart zero hearts here? Or could I impress you if the heart was on top diamonds on bottom? Because you had to turn your hand over. Go ahead and turn your hand over. Everybody thinks they're so different, but really there's also generalities among people. So you can really kind of look at a group and you can estimate which person's going to react a certain way. And you get better and better as the more you do it. It's kind of like what psychics do. So I don't like psychics basically when you walk in, they profile you right away, and they've done it so many times that they can kind of cold read what you do, where you're from, what you're looking for, whether you're skeptical, whether you're not, so it's like, you just learn to read people. Read the cues. Yeah. What are some lines or approaches that you use when you just cold approach somebody? There was a named Harvey Cohen that I used to love. He taught me so much and he would approach people when he would do magic and he would say he was very fumbly with the cards. But while he was fumbling cards, he was secretly like loading cards in your pocket and doing all this stuff. So he kind of approached with this non approach. It wasn't like, look, I'm a magician. I'm an amazing. It was almost like he couldn't hold the cards. He'd be like hoping that he was going to succeed. And then at the end when you thought everything had gone wrong and there's two cards in your pocket and one on, so it was like the approach that I always like to do magic is the opposite of what a magician would do 'cause I always imagined if somebody could really do magic. They wouldn't really have big pattern. They would kind of be fumbling, and they'd say, look at this thing and then just do something. So that was always the approach, simple. Simple and understated, I think, is the best approach. At what point did you go to acting school? You did good night. Yeah, with Brian Collins. I was amazing. I learned so much. How did you decide to go back to school? Well, you know, there's a famous quote that Orson Welles said, but it's from Robert down where he says magician is just an actor playing the part of a magician. So at that time, I was close up magician. There was really no there was no business in it. There was no way to make a living at it. So I figured I would study acting and take it seriously and maybe apply it to magic and see what happens. And it was a really valuable year because what you learn and acting schools living truthfully in a given imaginary circumstance. So it's interesting because when you apply that to magic, it's like, instead of these are just tricks. You kind of like almost believe what you're seeing on some level. Not believe it. Like, ah, how do I do that? But you kind of play into that as opposed to the silly pattern the silk trick and it I feel like the magic comes to life that way. You know, it makes a performance more interesting. One of the best things Brian taught me there. He was an early mentor to me. One of the quotes that his dad gave to him is always surround yourself with people that will inspire you or help you grow. And that was just a great piece of advice. And I took that very seriously and pursued people that I looked up to or that I admired and tried to learn things from them. Since I didn't have really father figure anything like that. Did you look for father figures going to throughout that adolescent period or was it more surrounding yourself with peers? No, well, I mean, early on, I would read about all the people I looked up to and you know, that was kind of like my college was finding people that did things that I was really amazed by and then learning as much as I could. And then what I started doing is I started finding all of the books and Nobel Prize winners. And then in literature, specifically, and then I would read what books they recommended and then I would read the books that they recommend then on the back of that book it would be what this book was influenced by. So I started going through lots of that stuff. Original hyperlinks. Yeah. When did you start fasting? And why? I've been obsessed with fasting since I was a kid. But I think it started when my mother gave me Siddhartha to read. The Herman has the book. And I read it when I was 11 years old and in it. He fast and he stands and he does these things where he sees the world in a different way and he realizes that he can control his body and with his mind. So that was the beginning of the seed of the curiosity. And then loving the way you feel when you're fast colors chains, the blues become vibrant, you notice the sky. You become more emotional. So I took everything away and it was incredible. So the fasting, so sit hard times one of my favorite books. Absolutely. And I remember have you guys read that? It's a short read. It's amazing. Short read. And I remember at least in two instances. So he's trying to court this noblewoman, I think she is. And he's also trying to get a job with a merchant at one point. And they ask him because he's effectively at least acting the part of monk at the time. They say, well, what can you give? What can you do? And he said, I can think I can wait, and I can fast. And he talks about the value of not being beholden to food and he says for, for instance, if you asked me to work for you right now, and I needed food. I'd have to say yes to whatever you offer me, but he's since I can fast. I can think about it more rationally. But I've done 7 and ten day fasts. I've never gone as far as you have. But it's incredible when you click over from carbohydrate dependent to pulling on your fat stores. I mean, cognitively, everything changes. It's very, very interesting. It's hard to go back to how it was before in terms of viewing food and so on. Yeah..
The Tim Ferriss Show
"david blaine" Discussed on The Tim Ferriss Show
"Tyson so it was fist up. He's like, you got a problem? And I was like, and I was like, holy shit. The white, you're like, favorite person? I grew up with that about, you know, so he says, jump in. It's like jumping the liver with him and we drive to the hotel he's staying at and I'm doing magic to him. It's amazing. And along the way, he says to me, he says, you know, I wasn't supposed to be the heavyweight champ. He's like, I didn't have I wasn't tall enough it didn't have long arms. He's like, but I had nothing to lose. And when you have nothing to lose, you have everything to gain. And I was kind of like that was like another great piece of information from Mike Tyson. These types of encounters just blow my mind because if I look at your chronology at 18, I think it was and I don't know if this was a milestone or not, but you I believe this is when you jump to turn style, gotten some trouble for that? Yeah. Can you tell people I was doing magic and restaurants? And it started as a waiter where I would do magic. And then I people wanted to come back and just sing me the magics. I started walking up and down, Park Avenue and trying to get different fancy restaurants to hire, not hire me, let me do magic to the people that were dining and then they would tip me. As I started doing that, I started getting hired by wealthy New Yorkers to do their parties and things like that. One night I was I jumped over a turnstile, and that's when Giuliani was sweeping everybody. I got locked up, but as I was going there, I kept breaking out of the cuffs with a cop, so they just loved that by the way. They actually did. I had to pause. They're like, hey guys, these aren't working. How do they respond to that? Yeah, no, no. They're all good. They know that I'm not really a threat, but you know, so they're just they know they just have to go through the motions. Yeah, so I get put in central booking and central booking is crazy. It's like everybody's in and out of Rikers. So it's like a tough room and you're being moved from one cell to another and there's like 40 guys in there. And I'm like, oh man, I'm going to get my ass kicked. So the four biggest guys are sitting on the ground playing spades. So I walk up to them and grab the deck of cards from them. And I'm like, let me show you something. Ready to kill me? Yeah. And I start to magic. And then what happened? Was they started to go crazy and these are the toughest guys in the cell. So then the whole cell is around me 30 guys or 20 some guys all going crazy. And then the guards come in. And everybody was reacting to me. Like they were all going crazy again. And I was like, wow, so these people on Park Avenue these super powerful people and then in prison, these guys, the reactions are so amazing and so similar, I want to show that. So that became the impetus for the first TV show, which was called street.
The Tim Ferriss Show
"david blaine" Discussed on The Tim Ferriss Show
"Brutal. Yeah. So I was lucky and just did it to my mother. That's a tough crowd. Did you want to be a magician from that point on it? Or what did you think you were going to be when you're little? What did your mom think you were? When I was 5, I said to my mom, I'm gonna be a magician one day. And she went, that's amazing. I'm sorry. So I believe you've stuck to the script. Stuck to it. How is she affected how you live your life today? I mean, I think part of it, she was so brave. You know, when I was she got sick when I was a teenager and fought cancer and she fought without a complaint. It was very tough, but the way she approached suffering and death was almost like she was so graceful about it, that I was curious, you know, the suffering that she endured and how she found so much beauty out of it. I think that was like one of the sort of planted the seed to what is there on this other side of enduring things that are not viewing it as just a bad thing. And you were with her when she passed? Yes, she died in my arm. I can't even imagine. I remember at that moment, I felt like my body was like one big twig and it was like snapped. And I became really afraid to connect like that to anybody else. How did besides the putting the armor on or not wanting to necessarily connect in that way? Did anything else change? But I think also at that point, that's when I became fearless because at that point, I felt like I had nothing to lose. So when I was 19 or 20 or something like that, I was at the airport and my bag was missing, and I saw a whole bunch of identical bags coming out, and there was all these guys dressed in identical jumpers and I was like, I think you guys have one of my bags, 'cause I have the exact same bag. It was a tuning back. They said go ask him, knock on the window, and it was a limousine, a white limbo parked out front with tinted windows, and I knocked on the window, and the thing rolls down and Mike.
Cinemavino
"david blaine" Discussed on Cinemavino
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The Adam Carolla Show
"david blaine" Discussed on The Adam Carolla Show
"Sung by a little girl. Actually in this song could song notch windows down. Okay go to grandma. It's got a groove. Is it too much to ask to look for germans. Jesus while we do tool tunes. Because i know i think dawson's having to do everything i gotcha. Okay so you tell me we can just go to the next song or dear mr books Everybody loved this sexy. What's her face. The skinny one apple an apple. This was also hurt introductory song to the world and and nobody expected that super low voice to come out of this wave model now the slowest grade. She never want to success. She may have had some mental issues. That i don't know but i do know her. Latest album full cutters. People lost their minds overweight. No idea why. I haven't heard this song is so high school and junior housing sweet might not feel down downfalls. Really isn't sure david blaine or something. She was paul thomas. Anderson had a romance for many we. Isn't he with my arruda. This is this tonight. I feel like she may criss angel one of the one of the eve. Magicians david flame So we still respect the song the way for the hook to kick in you know how many young man i made out with to this same girl. Those are good. I got no problem with this. Wow good for fiona.
Here's The Thing
"david blaine" Discussed on Here's The Thing
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"david blaine" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"Is there a state you have to enter. Is there a regimen. You adhere to get your mind. Because i would imagine you have the most intense level of concentration known to man right which is why do so few like i do such little things because when i go into something. Put everything into the movie. Houdini is It's a wonderful movie is enjoyable. But it's a little shiny. Yeah tony curtis janet lee and the whole thing but there were moments are that are thrilling. And you carry into your obsession with houdini and a man that did those kinds of things back then and there are intimations in that world of the supernatural where they've got some kind of other worldly dial tone. They're making their phone calls on there. That you that other people don't have you know that's the movies and that's the movies so in real life you do. It's all reality and is all technical and it's all your hard work and there's nothing or no that's the stuff i'm most interested in. Is i like the idea that like anything that i do. Anybody could do. You really believe that one hundred percent okay. Does your religion come into play in any way in your life. I mean that's a good question so the last thing mother said before she died was god is love and i kind of i think that that's kind of what i look at it as i kind of have blind faith in a weird way. It's funny though some so skeptical of everything but at the same time. It's like i feel my mother there when things are going really bad so that's kind of where i met him in terms of my life. It's become so spiritual but you know. I actually just thought about some i. I do think that like what you do is very like you said is it. Is it real or do you think the powers a real. And i think part of being a really good showman is a magician is similar to acting. Is i think you kind of have to believe that. What you're doing is magical while you're doing it so i think part of it. Is you play into that. That commitment to this thing actually being magical you are a solo act correctly. I never part with anyone. You've never performed with anyone. No but when. I when i was doing my tour i have A different magicians do magic while i was breathing. Pure oxygen getting ready to go into the tank. So when you're shooting project when you're making a film migrants were sitting here right now we're being filmed. What's the conflict few if any when you are being told by people. Now you have a collaborator. Whenever you start shooting. it's collaboration. Yeah did the is. Is it all worked out really really easily or do you find that. Collaborating with people is tough. I mean with him. I'm lucky because he's an amazing edition so but but if somebody well we'll know he just has a great vision so somebody has a great vision. That goes beyond what your vision is then. It works well if somebody's if you're fighting with somebody that try to like do something good then it's a nightmare but if you have somebody that's vision is. Let's do better than what you're doing or or let's do better than what you're doing. Then it's exciting..
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"david blaine" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"David blaine is always thinking about the way he can push body to the limits but for him the best delusions always have some truth to them. Try to do things. That are real. And magic's i go you know i. I do use a camera and protect things. But i also will drink you know a a a a glass full of kerosene a gallon of water light a fire on the stage and then put it out or a hold my breath for ten to fifteen minutes in the water tank on the stage and Like the ice. Pick thing the t. l. Do this. I mix it up. So it's the concept is real or magic to entertain the audience. They'd like their bartenders. Like other waiters distributing drinks to the crowd. While you're holding your breath for fifteen minutes. Now they're right right on you. The way i used to do was in the beginning. It started with an act where i would do. Add be underwater. And i would do all these magic things underwater like. I'd smoke a cigar underwater. I would have an eel. Come out of my mouth. I would do all of these things but it started taking away from that. I'm actually holding my breath the entire time so basically what we did is we took all that away and just made it about the actual feat of endurance and let them walk around and feel it and see if it's real and interact with it and that became much more effective so it was kind of like when you see a guy. That's risking his life for that entire duration and if you believe that he's really not breathing that stands on its own without the actual tricks so it was. It's playing with that line of like. How far can you push yourself before you crack. Live in front of an audience. That i'm intrigued by the daily. The daily on madison's called again ruben. Subas are you a magic castle person. Have you hung out there. I have friends friends that perform described to people. What kind of a function that service. It's a private club. Yes there's a bunch of amazing. Magicians you know that that hang out there and socialize air but so when people come they get to see these improvisational sort of improvisational magic shows. It's pretty amazing. I've i went there years ago. But it depends. You know who's there. So if it's like if people are lucky to see like derek they'll gubbio and the and garret thomas or some of these guys perform there it's kind of like whoa people who you know and the same in my business. There's journeyman actors. Who are doing regional theatre who are the great undiscovered actors. Now they they don't have careers in film and tv but but they phenomena they just they just crush big time so this guys out there who are famous amazing that you'll never know is it because there's only room for so many. Do you think there's only so many seats at a table up there at the top. No i don't think so. I just think like There's different things to work on. Like a lot of magicians complain about. Houdini showmanship skills during his lifetime. Because they say all. I could do that better. I could do this. But houdini was a showman so he was kind of thinking about the the bigger picture and certain senses so there are guys it could do much better site a hand than him or could could do moves that were better routines but he was thinking about. You know the actual showmanship of a on a bigger scale. So before you go out whether it's on oprah and he kind of endurance event you've done exhibition Any show you've done whatever you've done..
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"david blaine" Discussed on Here's The Thing
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"david blaine" Discussed on Here's The Thing
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"david blaine" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"Tickets. Would you come a review. Our show to the to the head critic of the philadelphia inquirer who went. What are you doing here. Know you go through your press agent and do this and he said why should i come. See your show. I would 'cause. I can do this. And i picked up his little spindle that he put papers on and rammed into my head and jammed into my nose. Doing a thing called block old carney trick and then took out a cigarette lighter and did a little bit of fire eating stuff instead come see our show and he was not supposed to review little shows he was the big critic but he came to see our show and then he wrote a rave review and Which pissed off everybody because other big shows are opening and then tell their said you have to call them up and thank him. So i said okay so i called him up and said. Thank you for your review. It's going to sell a lot of tickets. Were doing really well and he said. Did you like the review. And i said well. It's going to sell a lot of tickets to do really well and he goes. Wait a minute did you. Did you like the review. I said well it's selling a lot of tickets. I appreciate it. Thank you very much sir. And he said what are you saying is i'm saying it's awful. You understand thing we were doing. It's kind stuff about us. But i did this. Show some would understand it. You missed the point of everything i was saying. It broke my heart and there was a long pause. It he said. Can i do an interview with you for a few hours. And then i will write another review. I'll see the show again. And i said sure i told her he's tell us. Just take up. I said yeah. He told us views. Do what are you doing. And he Two weeks later wrote another bigger review. That said more to your liking this as a retraction of my previous rivka i said they were wonderful and they are but everything else i said was wrong. And then he went into wrote a whole other review so now people seat theater that have had to front page of the entertainment section reviews within two weeks so all of a sudden we're selling ticket was sold out you. Oh sates one hundred seats not that hard but it was huge to us and then a producer sauce there and we went out and played in san francisco for three years at a theater. There there was a hundred and ninety eight or something. I remember reading an article about. Because i'm thinking about las vegas and when i know about vegas acts and i've been a few times but not not a lot of money. Gambler i go see shows. Is that vice. Bypassed doug gamble with your background like not go and people would gamble at think and i lost. I thought i can't afford this money. It and i've see guys who do that. I mean i don't want to name names. Some pretty high friends of mine who really blow a lot of del on that and i go. God how do you do then with your response. Perished other ways to waste money. Yeah exactly like boats mccoy worse than gathering so makers you can drown. But i was reading. This article wants to this. Wonderful old article wayne newton and they said how into the the big punchline was the guy goes in any takes With a stop watch. The measure of the show in newton would come out for the encore and say hey you know we never do this. I never do this by just loved this crowd. I never play. This song is going to throw all my in my my. My preference is to the wind here and he comes in..
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"david blaine" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"They will assume drug dealer and by the way. I think you're a drug dealer back by the way i don't believe in like a drunk deny civil. No i'm really making this. He goes take the money. Don't put it in the bank. Keep it in cash walk away and when does that change meaning. Then you're doing that then. I put all that money. Well first of all totally ruined my voice. Because i work for five hundred people outside no training just scream and put chlorophyll weather put chloraseptic in a coke can and just go or your costume decry. Oh yeah my rule on street performing was you have to look so that people are embarrassed to give you less than twenty so that i wore three thousand dollar watch when i street performed. I wore really expensive suit. Really expensive pants was perfectly groomed. Much more michael. Douglas than the artful dodger slowly. Absolutely my idea was. I wanna make as much money as johnny carson. So i'll be out there looking like johnny carson. So the idea was gather a crowd and you come up and go man. He's really funny. He's really good. Juggler you'd be with your dayton. I can't give them fifty cents to twenty with. You can't do that. And then tell her would alternate with me we in the same spot which we kind of owned and the The local hoodlum children loved us. Because what i would do. Is i'd have take care of my money and buy props from me and take care of that kind of stuff. Trusted them so anybody else that came in to take that spot. The police arrested them and the local kids are asked them so we had that spot to ourselves. And i would go to all the store owners that are around there. I would go up after every show and say getting enough traffic in and out. I'm not blocking everything's okay. The police officers like desi join. The chamber of commerce has pretty much the and we did that very well them then. I really got interested in doing john. I wanted to do a full evening show. We thought that the ideas that we had were more than just the twelve minutes. So we took all the money that we've made street performing and put it into buying lights and sound and and producing first off the street and you go where our very first shows the walnut street theatre. They had a space. That would seat like seventy five people and they had put that aside with a grant for experimental theater and the.
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"david blaine" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"And i also pretty much at. That point went from straight as to failing now. Because i said to my physics teachers scientists lie. Why am i listen to you. Scientists lines bill and i hated magic. Hated magic because why would you be fooling people. It's hard enough to figure out about the world. I've hard enough. Yeah why are you doing that and my parents you know would try to console me. It's just a stupid little game ben. Cobb now it's okay. No nama juggler. I'm not a magician. I'm not all of this and it wasn't until tell her who i met when i was in high school Tell the seven years older than me and amazing randi and they explained to me the very simple thing that if you put a perceme around something. It's all of a sudden moral if robert deniro runs around new york saying he's travis bickel and he's a cabdriver. He is insane away if he doesn't in a movie given officer genus and the same thing with magic. If you come to our show all the stuff we do would be immoral if you take that preceding until you did a lot on the street. You're on the story. Yeah but but always juggler. It wasn't So we try to follow this very strict moral code in pen and elvis show. Which is what. I call the sawing a woman in half coat sawing woman and a half described. Which is we saw a woman into have halves on stage. You see that. No one leaves the theater thinking. They've witnessed a murder but nobody. That is my rule for all magic. If i'm going to do a mind reading trick you cannot leave the theater thinking that i can read minds. It must be exactly. The same is not witnessing a murder. There's a lot of intellectual and moral gymnastics that need to be done in order to to follow code intolerant. And i a big part of our writing. Tricks is trying to be intellectually honest. So what is required of the street performer. The you had over on the street and they score with my parents permission left home when i was eighteen and was essentially homeless hitchhiking around the country. Hippy and i support myself juggling on streets and juggling bars and you need to You need to gather a crowd and you need to collect the money to the minimum barker quality too. Or is it called the carney talker. I was really really good street. Performance a matter of fact teller I'm not sure how to take this patellar. Always says you know the best thing you've ever done in your career was your twelve minutes. Nothing better than that. Where is the money good. What was the place that was like. I had a rule that i would only work places that it was illegal. Because i thought that was sexy and i worked head house square in philadelphia and New all the police officers and the police officers come to my show and say the second someone can convince me that you're begging allah arrest you until then you're doing a show and i would do i. I was making so much money. I was nineteen years old. And i was making so much. Money street performing. I went to an accountant. And i said a file tax. I said i wanna file my taxes on the money. I made and he said what are you doing. I said i'm a street juggle and he said how much do you make. And i told him i said i have. You know i. I keep records of every. Had i pass and how much i make and have it all laid out here and i i have when i brought it to the bank and when i did everything and he said and you're nineteen. I said yeah and he said If you go to the irs and tell them you made this much money juggling they will arrest. You was drug dealer..
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"david blaine" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"But today we have penn. Gillette and david blaine. Wow that sounds really good. Good luck zach. Thanks alec i've always been fascinated by magicians. It's an intriguing sector of the entertainment world. That can turn an audience of any age into children is wide on the edge of their seats. Today we're revisiting interviews with two of my favorite magicians pendulum and david blaine david blades. Magic is stunning. Some of my favorite performances of his are from his street magic series. Where blaine walks up to people on the street and performs car tricks another illusion so mesmerizing people are often left. Staring in. shock is wide almost in terror. Wondering how it's possible to have witnessed what they've just seen with their own is the other side of the world of.
The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"david blaine" Discussed on The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"If you got. If i recall it was mass. And how criss angel get his hands on that thing to do the thing. David blaine do believe he was gifted all those balloons. Let's keep in mind inside. The balloons was actually thrown. Yes man age. You're going to space if it's available and is available for you can pay for that right now. You go No i would not waste the money to do it right now but i'm not against it. I'd like to try the my ears pop on takeoff going down to florida. I couldn't even imagine what it would do it. Twenty forty sixty seventy eighty one hundred thousand feet. Your head would explode head. Feel like it's gonna blow up. I would. That's what talk bumgarner. How high would it have relaxed. That looks like just like you get a thing that holds down coming down there but the obviously we did no he was down there yet. How high would that could have gone. Do we know is the internet. Said that it did it. Just go to three hundred thousand feet. What would have go to only three hundred and fifty you said stratosphere what's that the atmosphere outer space is outside of that if you get past that you got to get through the corona or whatever the hell it is you need a rocket to get through there. Because that's where they have to have heat shields and all that the you know every movie you wash they gotta ignite it to get through there and then all of a sudden boom lacking space. Everybody everybody has talked about this. But it's real. How does the sun bluetooth heat in this. Who knows how does that happen age. I got a question pat to how for that one. I i would like to answer that one first. How does this son bluetooth eat into our stratosphere. How's that happened. How does anything happen. How did somebody who's the first person that came up with. I don't know who thought of email who thought of anything darning hotmail maybe was the first email and there's some people that still haven't you go. Okay i'm never email. You have no idea what the world's like he was still had an iphone six. Or no. I knew i. I'm just saying we're talking about the same person's do hotmail. Is that saint paul. It's fucking go ahead and email okay. I don't have the hotmail. wait what what forget it. But you're right. Every time we fly every time we fly. How are we doing things no sense. The wright brothers i understand. They're able to crash a plane down on the beach or whatever and they're born in ohio and everything like that or you. There's planes though that a size a fucking buildings and they're just somehow getting up in flying for twenty hours and then just coming down peacefully. How's that happen. How i guess there's some scientists come in go where the the force the up force with the guy fawkes. How's it work though. How how do we find out. It makes no sense. How the world operates. You're right so. I guess we shouldn't just question. Just the rockets because everything else is insane. But it's only a matter of time before we're just kind of traveling out of this whole thomas beer right. It's only a matter of time. I guess so in this picture. Does it show where basis was or where richard thirty five kilometers right. He's what they said. Yeah so he's below. The you know where you see that sound in rocket and the meteors meteor which is sounding rocket. You know that the one that's over my house.
Randy Baumann and the DVE Morning Show
Kate Winslet Managed to Hold Her Breath for 7 Minutes
"Long do you think you can hold your breath. i don't know no learning sack minute. Well showy try it. Kate winslet just set a record for holding her breath underwater to film a movie scene. She was an underwater scene for avatar. Two and she held her breath for seven minutes and fourteen seconds. No way now that beats the old record set by unsurprisingly tom cruise. Tom cruise held the record for the longest breath. Hold while filming underwater previous to this for mission impossible rogue nation when he went six minutes holding his breath. That's insane kate. Winslet said it was brilliant. And i was very proud of myself and i'll probably never be able to do that again. It came at the end of four weeks of intense training and it was in the dive tank. It was in the training tank. But i loved it so neither kate nor tom will break the real breath holding record anytime soon of you ever heard what the actual guinness record is for. David blaine hold it now. Alec alexey cigarette vendrell. Whoever that is twenty four minutes and three seconds. How do you live.
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Remembering Eddie Van Halen with Steve Gorman
"Joining me now is Steve. Gorman who was the drummer in the Black Crowes who now plays with trigger hippy and before we talk about some of the Black Crowes stuff in your book I. I saw tweets even it was talking about Eddie Van Halen, which is Kinda. Why you here you say there will be many many words written and spoken about Eddie. Van. Halen, over the next few days, weeks, months and years those millions of words will never come close to expressing what he meant a rock music what he meant to guitarist and what he meant to the guitar itself that's pretty powerful statement Mr Gorman what did Eddie and remind me to rock music I. Think it's it's pretty simple. You can say that he and Jimi Hendrix of the two guys. That truly, and and only the two guys that moved the needle for the guitar itself I mean Hendrix. came out of a blue based. seem. And took the playing and the tone he could get to a new place but even hail and. Really almost came in from another country. Another planet I should say another he's like an alien life form I mean, he was a virtuosic player obviously but he He reinvented what what you could do is to guitar and the fact of the matter is this. Like Hendrix. But even to a greater degree, anybody tries to play like Eddie. Van Halen. Just sounds like a mind a mimic they. It's like rich little doing Johnny Carson okay. Yeah. That kind of sounds like him but. There's nothing nobody's ever been able to do any van. Halen. Did it make it feel a certain way? That each just the and he was that way at twenty two I mean, this is this is not a guy like it's not like David Blaine magic tricks where he gets bigger and better every year he started with card tricks that other people did I even Halen hit the ground running with Van Halen one playing an instrument that have been around for centuries unlike anybody else had ever done I mean he was on the Mount. Rushmore. Of Great Depar- players. At twenty two years old and then, and then he stuck around for another forty years still playing unlike anybody before sin. So I just think that in terms of. You know. Sheer unique. Mindset ambition combined with just. Great talent obviously. But but also phenomenal work ethic I mean he's just a complete unicorn in every sense of the word. How would you describe his guitar sound and I say that I know what I think of it but I wasn't I just messed van Halen like I came around right as you guys were blowing up honestly so that for me the van Halen was slightly classic rock slightly old rock to me as A. Kid. So as someone 'cause, you're just years older than I am but how would you describe his guitar sound someone who was in in it and living it in love and Van Halen? Well I can tell you that that was thirteen years old the first time I heard Van Halen and I remember it. I remember where I was I remember who I was with. It was going home from school in Hopkinsville Kentucky. You really got me there kinks the you know the their cover, the kinks song came on the radio. And and it was playing already and I said, Hey, mom turn that up. It was me and my mom and my friend Brooke. Lofton. The three of us in a car and she turned it up and I my first thought was. That must be like a live version of the king song and I was thinking like we don't they don't rock or do they. But when it hit that Solo and then by the time, the song ended I realized well, that does that's not ray Davey seeing this is clearly a cover version but what on earth is this and it was like making my? Hair on the back of my neck stand up. This is a time when I thought punk rock was the coolest thing in the world. and. The truth is Van Halen was more punk than the punks because they were truly breaking down a bunch of barriers if you will or they were going in their own. You know there hasn't been a band like Van Halen since led Zeppelin in terms of. Rock band hits the ground running at full steam and it obliterates everything in their path in a certain sense and. Jimmy van Halen sound it sounded like California was in my head. You know soon as I realized soon as I heard about them, they're from La, and as soon as I saw David Lee Roth and then as soon as I heard more than you know the next thing I heard was eruption Guitar Solo and you know hearing just two pieces of their first album and seeing what they look like it just. It felt brand new and it already felt like they're going to be around forever. You just knew from the jump and this is me as a thirteen year old kid who is obsessed with music. This band is one of the Alzheimer's like there's nothing like this and they all have the chops and the other thing too as long as I'm just rambling incessantly any van Halen was a great rhythm player. It wasn't just about the Solos he led the band rhythmically and he's also it needs to be noted not that it's not obvious. He's a hell of a songwriter I mean he really was. As I said before he's a true Unicorn I mean, just just nothing like it. What does this sound like do you? It sounds frequent and right in right in the zone near your your key. That's one thing because listen I played a little bit I don't play even as good as my friends who are real life musicians, but it's perfect frequency and frequency is in the tone or the, but as because it's a lot. I mean Brad Paisley plays unnoticed Brad. Paisley. Because I hear the chicken Pickin I hear a very distinct sound and again I didn't catch van Halen as it was happening in my childhood. But when I hear Van Halen Song even if I, it's I, don't know who it is. Just hear the guitar part I hear the Eddie van Halen because I how fast he shreds but the pattern that he does it, you can just tell. By By his fingers and it just kind of again it's hard to explain when you ask about music but that's what I think about and I try to. Always try to. Prepare analogies and most of the people who listen to this podcast here between twenty to forty, and if you were to make an analogy to another band, it's GonNa be tough because Van Halen was massive. But who later on had the kind of? Impact or. Reflected the mass listening that Van Halen had well. What band what yeah. What band can we look at now or in the last ten years and see? Okay. Well, that's how big Van Halen was to the people that were the kids in the eighties.
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David Blaine: Daredevil takes flight with helium-filled balloons
"Illusionist David Blaine says he didn't have control of anything for his latest stunt that took him very high into the Arizona sky. Yesterday. 80 sees Matt Gutman reports took 52 giant helium balloons to get him up and gravity to bring David Blaine back down to the Arizona desert floor. In his first major life event in nearly a decade, the illusionist soaring more than 4.5 miles in the air, hosted by all those balloons. It was a scene lifted right out of the beloved kids movie on blame, dedicating the feed to his own kid, nine year old Desa, who was right there by his side as he took off and as he floated off into the stratosphere, the temperature dropping into the single digits, the air dangerously thin, available oxygen on lied about Half the amount at sea level, putting him in a serious risk. High poxy is when you don't get enough oxygen because you go to high. You have no idea what you're doing is you're completely five. It's like you're drunk, and as he keeps climbing, Blaine is communicating with his ground team. Including Desa anything up. Um Or it's 16,000 now. We're probably gonna go up. Where the airplanes go, and as he climbs to nearly a jets cruising altitude, the oxygen shortage hits it's 95 blamed, finally pulling his oxygen tank out trying to get his wits about him for the most dangerous part yet coming back down, Finally, almost an hour after he took off as you reaches 24,900 ft, he gets the signal. Releases the safety and plummets at over 125 miles an hour for minutes straight, he free falls towards the earth, then pulls that parachute cord came down in a Gallup almost deliriously happy. And for the flight back to go see his daughter Desa. This time he took a helicopter that was actually beautiful. Top to bottom. K. Ken's a professional skydiver who helped blame prepare and talked him through it while he was in the air, revealing just how hard it was to get this right on event that requires whether to be bright wind has to be perfect. Everything has to line up. There's no stopping start. It's all live for everyone to see such an incredibly complex stunt and made more so because so much could go wrong and was complicated by the fact that originally Blaine apparently wanted to try it without a parachute, but the basic idea of a human grabbing a bunch of balloons and floating right off into space. Well, that just made for an uplifting
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
How Leo DiCaprio Inadvertently Saved Michael Blutrich's Life
"There was a night when Leonardo DiCaprio pretty much saved blue tricks life without realizing it. But back in 97, Michael blue chick was supposed to meet with the Columbo boss alley boy persica. And then we're going to meet at scores that we're going to discuss the fact that persico was looking to open up they wanted to put scores in Brooklyn as well. So that was what the meeting was for. But earlier that night, DiCaprio unexpectedly showed up with Tobey Maguire at David Blaine. And they were like, hey, Mike, come drink with us. Come sit with us. And he put the guys up in the crow's nest, a really private second floor room where you look over the whole floor with all the girls dancing and you take up whoever you want and you completely alone. It's where the real, the real, real celebrities go. So blue trick is sort of the guys up there and he's like, look, I can't stand can't stay. He was wearing what they call an F bird, all right? FBI recording device. And it was taped to his inner thigh. Now he apparently didn't want to sit with the DiCaprio Blaine and Maguire because you didn't want to get involved with, you know, if they said something embarrassing, he didn't want that to be on tape because he liked the way the movie stars felt about it. He was kind of vain. Which is kind of really fucking weird because on one hand you don't want to embarrass a celebrity, but you're okay with incriminating yourself against a mobster. Like what the fuck is you're more scared of DiCaprio than a fucking monster? But that night, alley boy persica was like three hours late. So at one point, blue trick snuck outside to the FBI van, which was down the street, and the agents took the recorder off, and they went back to their fucking precinct or office. And the night was done. Ten minutes later, Ali boy shows up. And it's almost like I think he planned it. I think he had a look at or not a guy on the inside, and he showed up. And ten minutes later, he's there, 15 minutes later. He's got blue tricks standing in a hallway naked because alley boys partner wanted to make sure a blue chick wasn't wearing a wire.