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I've been working on this series for National Geographics I've been traveling around the world searching for these people that do incredible Feats that they've passed down through generations and I'm trying to learn but it's a fast learning curve so it is the most dangerous thing that I've ever done in my life but I have the best of the best helping so that says a lot cuz you've done by far the most yes whoa well you show me some things off camera that we can't talk about about but well you can talk about him I just can't show it well um so the scariest thing was like three days ago i k a king cobra yeah I saw in the wild yeah what is is there a trick to that is there um is it a movement thing do you move slowly so you don't I studied for weeks and just tried to understand their behavior and worked with different cobras and and was I had a team around me that that taught me how to to move quickly and get out of the way what happens if you get bit well they have enough Venom to kill a full grown elephant in 30 minutes so we had antivenom we had that there but but still in my case I don't trust that and even if you get antivenom it's still a rough ride even if you live right yeah is it similar it was amazing it was incredible is it similar to rattlesnake venom cuz rattlesnake venom essentially like neuro yeah I mean digests your body this this one shuts everything down so your heart your lungs everything just start to so were they like ready on standby with a needle well they don't they put it in a serum you have to go to a hospital we go to hospital yeah so you have to travel but we had an ambulance right there and how far is the hospital it was 20 minutes away oh God so 20 minut pink oh God so 20 minutes of King Cobra Venom scariest and most intense thing I've ever done yeah how many of these guys die doing this well the the snake we the two snakes we had one of them killed its previous previous owner oh boy yeah and they don't kill snake after it kills the previous own this guy died so exactly right that's right oh boy it's it's but it is kind of incredible cuz you there's another guy named Chris sweet who um well that's his Instagram name but he lives in Thailand with 90
venomous snakes and he just lets them move through his legs through he's well he was bitten twice on my birthday and his heart stopped two times but he lets him just while you were there no no no no on April 4th I mean oh okay yeah but he but he's so calm with them and he studies their behavior and he watches how they move and then he gently takes them out and there was one we were outside and the scariest thing wasn't trying to kiss it exactly and I think that's a snake called a Spire yeah so that that's one that was slithering through my legs and you have to keep your heart rate down cuz if they sense they have phermones they detect if you're nervous or uncomfortable so anytime I would get like super tense I would have to I'd walk away carefully oh boy yeah that's him and that's yep that's a snake called a Spire it has you're so good at finding everything wow oh my God it's trying to bite you through the glass why is it trying to bite you through the glass but won't try to bite you when you're right there well there it's feeding oh when it smells snake or food it becomes aggressive so you have to make sure you don't smell like any other snakes or anything or food what kind of food they eat snakes the king cobras they eat other snakes yeah not not king cobras but other snakesnakes yeah dude okay do you have a second guess when you're about to do something like this that one I second guessed I left I left and then came back a few months later and did it again I wouldn't go I was too afraid to go near it what made you go back I went to Cleveland and I train with my friend Mike and my other friend Chris Gillette who's gator boy Chris who's amazing and we slowly started to understand just a little bit of the behavior of king cobras and then I went back to Indonesian trained with Fitz who's unbelievable with how he handles the cobras and slowly I felt okay but there was days I wouldn't even do anything so luckily I had a week which is still a really fast learning curve yeah normally I would train for something for a year but with this show I get like a few days and then I have to try to do
it oh boy so what strategies you using to keep your heart rate low like when if you feel yourself freaking out how do you calm yourself down I I get out you just get out yeah yeah just get out and regroup yeah yeah David but that's the last dangerous thing I'm going to do like that ever that's it ever yeah yeah yeah like that yeah well I'm glad you're alive and I feel like in my I did in my show in Vegas I was jumping from uh like the height of a nine-story building Landing in boxes and I dislocated my shoulder it came down to my armpit but in retrospect I think I was lucky because that could have been really bad it could have been the neck it could have been something else oh yeah so did you get surgery no I didn't get the surgery what they did just there was an orthopedic surgeons convention in Vegas at that time so I had five orthopedic surgeons in the off in the audience and one was a shoulder specialist and he they all came on stage and they and he popped it right back in so then I walked out to do the show Joe with but but I my arm was all numb it stayed numb for like two months but I was going like this to get like to see if I could get feeling back and it fell back out so I had to go back on stage they popped it back in and then I did the whole show with one arm yeah that's it yeah that's a bad one I think that's the one I got injured yeah and my friend Doug who's with the hat right there he when I jumped he knew that something was going to go wrong he bent over and took a heavy breath cuz he knew that was the one there's a a gentleman named Yuri prasa he was the UFC light heavyweight champion and his shoulder dislocated during training and his trainers tried to pop it back into place and they were yanking on it and they just destroyed his shoulder they tore everything apart just kind of pulling on it and it ripped apart they the UFC doctor said it was the worst shoulder injury you'd ever seen that's crazy and he's fighting again next weekend got it repaired he got surgery yep got surgery vacated his title and now he's back fighting for the title next weekend yeah mine is still messed up really yeah like in what way
well I haven't I can't really work out or do anything the same way how long ago uh maybe March did you get an MRI oh many MRIs what is what's the damage no it was really bad I ripped through the ligaments I it was bad it came down to here right why didn't they do surgery I didn't I'm like afraid of surgery I have to say like horrified of it why you afraid of surgery I don't know you're not afraid of King Cobra's view yeah it's crazy but I'm horrified of surgery why I don't know