00:00Valentina might be gone.
00:01She disappeared.
00:12Wow!
00:14That looks so good!
00:16First of all, I want to know if, do you consider yourself a modern wizard of Oz?
00:22In Paolo Sorrentino's movie, The Great Beauty,
00:25the main character says that life is all a trick.
00:29I want to know if, in your opinion, life is more complicated or a good trick is more complicated.
00:35Thanks.
00:36That's a great question.
00:37So, no, I consider myself just a student at all times.
00:42I'm a student of magic or all things magical.
00:44But I don't think life is really that complicated.
00:47I think it's the opposite.
00:48I think it's things that are the most simple, that are the most astounding or the strongest.
00:53So, it's like, we think we need all these things to give us this feeling of happiness,
00:58all these gadgets and all these things.
01:00But really, it's like you see the sunset and suddenly it's the most incredible emotional
01:04feeling that you can experience.
01:05Or you see your child smile or laugh.
01:09Or you see that you've learned something that you didn't know was possible.
01:12To me, even though that is simple, fundamentally, it's just, it's something anybody does have
01:22the ability to find.
01:24Therefore, it's not the complicated, difficult, although in the process of what these masters
01:33have learned, they have put the thousands of hours in and the repetition, but it did start
01:39at a very basic, simple level.
01:44And it was a simple idea.
01:45And they just continue to grow.
01:47And I think whether it's a kid learning how to play the guitar, at first, it's simple.
01:52But as you start to learn, oh, you can also do this.
01:55And then you master the skill.
01:57You're a student.
01:57You learn it.
01:58And then you break the skill apart.
02:00You unwire everything that you've put into your system.
02:03And then you reinvent yourself.
02:05And that process never ends.
02:07And that's what I love about all the people that I've met is I've been inspired continuously
02:11by them because they're constantly masters, but they're constantly students.
02:17And to me, anybody that has that kind of a passion, it's nice to be able to even against
02:26the noise to pursue it.
02:27And the reason I called the show Do Not Attempt, though, was because these specific things have
02:32been passed down for generations or they've developed.
02:34So I don't want kids to think, oh, I need to copy that because that's not part of the
02:38process.
02:38The idea is Do Not Attempt was in the middle of the night.
02:41So I don't want anybody to try these things because they are dangerous.
02:44But if you have something that you want to do that you believe in, practice it, learn
02:49it, find the best teachers, read the best books, and dedicate the time, even though
02:54most people may say, oh, why are you doing that?
02:56Come out and do this, come to a party.
02:58So that's kind of what this is.
03:00So it was three years.
03:01And I didn't want to go to Thailand and find, oh, where's the most beautiful beach?
03:05That wasn't the goal of this series.
03:07The goal was, how do I find the most incredible people doing the most incredible
03:11things?
03:11So in Indonesia, I found Fitz, who has the ability to dance with king cobras and kiss
03:16them and react in a way that I never even knew was possible.
03:21So yeah, I know I went all over the place.
03:27Is there a particular trick or number that you are really proud of and maybe it's related
03:35to something important in your life?
03:38If you can say something about it.
03:41That's a great question.
03:43So I'd say all the things because even just as a kid, my biggest fear was bugs other than
03:52cockroaches because I grew up with them around me.
03:54But all the other bugs, I used to freak out.
03:56So being in Thailand with Gan and having a quarter million bees around, you know, it
04:02looks insane.
04:04But when you're in the middle of this beehive and they're all vibrating on your body, it's
04:08you can never explain that feeling.
04:11And yes, I got a few things here or there, but it was one of the most amazing experiences.
04:16But also, if I was a kid thinking I was one day going to do that, I'd be like, get
04:20out
04:21of here, right?
04:21And then, but then the other thing, you know, as a kid growing up in Brooklyn in the middle
04:25of the winter, I would walk around with a t-shirt on.
04:28I had a karate teacher that used to teach us to run barefoot in the snow.
04:31I love Tudini.
04:32So I started holding my breath at the YMCA and I was like five.
04:35So going to Arctic Circle, being in Finland with Miron Sala and their incredible team and
04:40having them work with me and teach me how to be under, you know, this much ice that
04:46you couldn't even, you would never assume that you could be under there holding your breath
04:52while swimming and do these incredible things and experience.
04:56And when you look around, it's also like, it's the most overwhelmingly beautiful experience.
05:01It's counterintuitive to anything that you know.
05:03So lots of the things throughout the series, it was a culmination of many of the things
05:09that I loved, that I read about, that I respected, that I always wanted to feel and experience.
05:14So, yeah, so everything did kind of come full circle.
05:19Yeah, that's a, thanks for that question.
05:21I never even thought of that.
05:23Yeah.
05:44Yeah.
05:44Ya.
05:46Grazie a tutti
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