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Richard Turner

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“Someone brought that to my attention and some questions that I was asked. And I thought, well, I guess that's kind of unusual. But yeah, I'm never, like I said, part of the dream is never that sight in prayer, nor do I see any of the CBS. Symptoms in any of my dreams. Now, if I wake up in the middle of the night, say, and I had to take some Tylenol or something from some surgery, I've had 24 surgeries from all my high impact living. And medication, when I wake up, would turn everything into a metallic colors. And usually a lot of times it's purple.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ah, very good, very good question. Because like you were saying, I see my subconscious in external space. So, you know, and it's just a constant, stagnant situation of all these colors patterns just there until I want to bring them into play. And it doesn't matter if it's day night, if my eyes are open or closed, I see the exact same thing with my eyes covered up in a vault. I'll see these vivid bright colors when there's absolutely no way of light getting in. What I dream in my dreams I'm never sight impaired and I say I dream in full color with audio and visual and I see perfectly and everybody I see in those dreams is perfectly clear.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The fact that they had to put the word blind man earns black belt, to me, it was like, I don't like the theme handicap makes good. I want the theme, okay, I just made good because I did it. And to be perfectly honest with you, I kept telling people I wanted to do it the way they did it. And people would say, but you didn't. And I go, yes, I did. And it was literally Tim within the last six months if someone said something that I understood what they said. When they said I didn't do it the way they did it, I did it the way they couldn't have done it. They weren't sight impaired when they did it. I was. I never understood what they were saying because I was so pig-headed about I wanted to do it the way they did it. But then when you flip it, I finally got the message. I did it in a way that it was very unlikely.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because they use the word blind man earns black belt. And at that time I was very stubborn I was just stubborn and probably self absorbed, and I wanted my work to stand on its own. And I wanted to earn it the way Terry Crook, John Douglas, and the other his top other black fighters did. That's why when they offered me an honorary black belt, he says, you put in your time, you put in your lumps. I said, no, I want to do it the way you did. And then that's when I started the train, like I described earlier, but took me 10 years, or 13 years and three months and five days from when I started to when I finally got it, from beginning to soup and nuts. But anyway.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's one of my critics at the time, but we became a good friend. Same with Tony Georgio. So that's what he would do is he tricked me. And it was only till years later that he told me he made them up. He just wanted to see what this obsessed kid would come up with. And that's why my work has kind of 99.9% of the gamblers and Cardman out there will tell you it's unique and separate from the way any other person handles the cards.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would take the pieces what he said, and I practice it, and he would actually tell me he'd say, feel my hands, feel the position my hands are on. I would feel his hands, okay, got it, got it. Okay, oh, okay, I got it. So I'd see the picture in my mind of what his hands were showing me, but he never did it because it's an action. I really couldn't see him do the action because my hands were getting the way of him executing the action. But I knew the action of what he was showing. So in my mind, I would see his hands, visualize what he said, this is the way it should be done. And then I would come up with it and create it. And then the next time he would see me, he'd go.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's exactly right. And he did that for, I had the privilege of being with Professor Vernon for 17 years in those first five, six, ten years. Like you said, he would describe to me. He said, Richard, this is the way it has to be done. Your hands have to be natural. You don't want this deep grip when you're going to deal a second or a bottom. Your fingers need to be on the sides because it's more natural. That's more the way you're going to see your general person in the public hold a deck of cards. And so you don't want to create any unnatural suspicion by your actions. And so he would tell me, okay, you have to be able to do it with those fingers on the side. And so, okay, fingers on the side. And you don't want any of this action here. So I'd practice with my...”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just my hands and what's in my hands. And so that's why I would take it and I turned into a subconscious habit. And that move, I would then sit there and practice it hundreds of times. I do thousands of times, tens of thousands of times, hundreds of thousands of times, and maybe two or three years later I'll look down and go, by golly, I got it. And then some of the things Werner would say, that's not possible to do. And so I would figure it out, analyze it, show it to him, and then you go, I don't understand how you can do that.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I analyze moves and break them down. And what I would do, I'm just kind of transitioning into something else here randomly, but what I would do and why I was able to put in so many hours is I would analyze the move. So, okay, I want to second deal a certain way. So I'd analyze the move. Okay, I want no leaking. And so I'd analyze what I want to do. And I'd practice it in slow motion till every exact element of the muscle memory was firmly embedded in my brain. Okay, then I would turn it into a subconscious habit. We all have habits where we're Tap you to pin, right? Tapping our feet. That's idle energy wasted. It's like an engine of a car running, going nowhere. Just idling. That's still energy expelled, right? So what I did is I turned, I learned to take all that energy and funnel it into.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Once again, it's creating mind and body together. What I did is I envisioned my arm as a fire hose, shooting out that fire hose a thousand gallons of water a minute. You can't bend a fire hose, I'm sorry. If you think about a fire hose, when the fire, when the water shooting, you've never been to fire hose. So I get that image in my mind. I'm just shooting that fire hose, and I've never had anyone ever bend my arm. And yet without that, until I show to them, they learn how to do that, then I can't bend their arm. But that's just kind of a little side note, but how I've used my CBS to create a lot of strength. And I also used it in my training with the cards.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“See, look at those bustles. Usually I put myself up against the back, so I'm pinned in. Now I'm going to have you put your arm right here, your other arm here. Okay. Not on the wrist, I wanted to put rest. And your job, this is what all you're going to do is just bend this little elbow here. Okay. Okay, go ahead. And look, I'm not using go, come on, come on. It's not going to happen. And I'm not doing any, I'm not using any strength at all. Look at my hand. Totally relaxed. Now I'll tell you how I did it.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But of course, now I have almost 66, so I don't know if I used to have a demonstration that I would do where I would bend the arm of the person and there's only one person's arm I was not able to bend and doing this demonstration for 40 years and no one has ever bent my arm. But if you want to stand up, I can, I don't know if this is, but I'm not going to try to bend your arm because of surgery. Get on this side of me.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And within a month's time, what she would do, I say, Well, look at yourself in the mirror, your reflection. And when you get to the exertion, like a military press, at the point of exertion, say you want to do, we always do sets of 52 reps. When you get to 48, then transfer that, seeing that image of that reflection, pulling those weights up, and then she got to the point where she increased her muscular endurance 30% in a month time, and she was already in top shape. And right now, I could give you an example of that. If we were to stand up.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Van would go up and it would just go wide, and that's when it's pulling the weight up. So I'd watch it, and I would see it pulling the weight up. So when I'm doing the exertion is when I'd feel at the least. Or another image, like when I'm doing a hammer, like I'm on my back doing a tricep. I would see a hammer falling, okay? And when the hammer's falling is the least amount of effort, right? Because the hammer, the way the hammer is going down, but when I'm like this, so I'd see the hammer falling. But that's when the tricep is being engaged. And I taught my wife, when I taught my wife this.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you combine mind and body together, they're not doing that. And what I would do is when I get to the point of exertion, and I would then use my CBS on a bench press, I would see a cable on the bench press. I'd see a cable going up, across of it, across two pulleys on the other end as grill a shaped thing or an Arnold Schwarzenegger and grill it together, pulling on that thing, pulling that weight up. And I would focus on that image, pulling the weight up. And during that moment, I would no longer feel the stress as my muscles continue to press. And I have exercises forever. I have a mental, visually exercise I'll use for each exercise, like the quadricep extension. You're in exertion when you're straightening your legs, right? And so what I would see in front of me is a big giant rubber band. When the brand is stretched down, when the weights are down, and then the rubber...”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was just to train my mind to be able to take whatever is being dished out. And if I could control my mind and body, then I can make it. And that triggers another thought real quick. I'm going to go back to the Chaubonet syndrome. Charles Monte? I can do tremendous numbers of reps. When I took my fourth degree black belt test, I was in my late, I was 47 or 48. I lifted 222,888 pounds using 3,190 reps. And the 24-year-old 220-pound black belt who trained alongside me could not do 50% of the number of reps or weight. And that's because I don't get athlactic acid buildup because I would combine the mind with the body. Now you see way people do this. They'll say, come on, you know, they're trying to convince their body to do it. You follow what I'm saying? Yeah.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's actually an English proverb that says a man is afraid to make a mistake is unlikely to make anything. In other words, totally worthless, fire the bomb. Fear of failure when left unchecked can actually lead to the failure we fear. And so I just started, like I said, putting myself in positions and conditions to help my mind overcome those effects. And I did things, we just talked about the physical. I did mental things like eating live cockroaches, live grasshoppers. The most absurd things, rotten fish got to sat in the sun for a week. You saw the, I chopped down on the eyeball of the Mahi Mahi. And the thing is, if you don't have it, the person would throw up. The people that were watching almost throw up. One of them when I did the guts, they did throw up”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then I'd go do my shows, then I'd go perform, I'd perform at night. And then every other day I would go rounds, you know, Murphy Douglas would have me go to five rounds, you know, five rounds building up to it. And sometimes two on one because you don't have time to rest at that. But that's that was, and I sustained that particular discipline for eight months. And Douglas said, I overtrained. I went too long, but my problem was asthma because sometimes fear can trigger an asthma attack. And that's what happened on that greenbelt that I described. And you can't fight if you can't breathe. And so I had to train my mind to not become afraid, fear can paralyze. We can be so worried about doing the wrong thing that we do nothing.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To take to lift these big muscles up in the air. And so I do that and I first I take a 10 second break, do another 100, 10 second break, 100, I do a thousand, I do it 10 times would be another thousand kicks. From there, I would do a five mile run, and I lived in San Diego, and they had big hills there, and one of the hills was a mile and a half down, a mile and a half back up, and when I got to the top, I would sprint the distance of a house and then run the distance, sprint, run, sprint. And then I would do 10 quarter mile wind sprints. And then I'd throw up.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then I do that with every muscle group. And then I would do 500 kicks on the heavy bag, you know, 10 roundhouse kicks with this thing, 10 with this one, 10, 10, do 100 of that. Do 10 sidekick with this leg, 10 sidekick with this leg, 10, another hundred, 10 back turning kicks, 10, whatever stepper cries high kick, but did five different cakes five hundred times. Then my trainer, he would have looked like a motorcycle seat with a bag, and he would hold it with his hand and then I would have to do 100 kicks in three minutes. And so simulating the three rounds. So I would just bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, punch kick, punch kick, mainly kicking, because that exhausts your oxygen supply faster than punching. That's why in kickboxing matches, they're required to throw a minimum of six kicks or eight kicks. And that's because after you start getting tired, you just want to punch. It takes a fraction.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was Greenbelt. So then Brown Belt was 10 two-minute rounds. And I managed that. And then, of course, on that one, I trained like a mad dog because I wasn't going to have that at last experience. So I made that. And then from brown to black was such a jump. It took me another 10 years before I was able to take on the 10 fighters. And just to give you a quick rundown of what my workout looked like to prepare for it, I warm up with a four-hour weight workout. Four hour. Four hour. And I would start minimum weight all the way up to maximum weight. And I'd do as many. Now I get to the maximum, I'd lift as many times as I could with a few seconds many times I could. Then I'd slowly off just five pounds at a time from 300 pounds, 395 to 295, 290 all the way down to where I had just the bar, which was a 45 pound bar.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was virtually unconscious. And then they yelled, Rosemary's wife yells, tempo, which means time in Spanish. And the second she wrote tempo is what I hit the ground. So I got it by one second. And then I was so exhausted. And have an asthma attack, now I had to stand up. I had to bow out. As soon as I bowed, I hit the ground again. Now everybody wants to congratulate me. I'd stand up again. And we weren't allowed to have water. And so I crawled to the bathroom and Chan Douglas would tell the story. Murphy's probably mad at me for telling it. And when he came to me, he says, that's not the sink you're drinking out of. That's the toilet. I'm drinking out of a TJ toilet. T-Jana toilet. And I go, I don't care. I was so dazed and I got gonorrhea.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so the first round, and I'm just casting for air. Second round, this guy watched the Bruce Lee movie of Enter the Dragon or not was before that, Fist of Fury, where he does a step-up heel hook, spins around with another heel cook. And I catch the one like, wow, I blocked that. Boom, I want to get nailed with the other one coming around the other way. And third round, this guy would like knees. I kept getting knees in the groin. Fourth round, the guys, even stanza, switched stances on me, grabbed my front hand, went right by me, and bam, right in my left eye, caught an orizu, a right-hand punch, and pretty much knocked me out. Now I see enough, I'm just seeing stars and Mervyn says, wipe off the blood. Don't think about it. Keep fighting. And I'm just holding myself up against the bathroom. And I couldn't even hold my hands up by this point. So then the fifth round was probably my best round because I was really standing. I was just a standing.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so Murphy said, now, if these guys start hitting you in the face, don't think about it, just keep fighting. And at that time, I thought, what? I thought we were going to mark our shots to the face. And within the first three seconds of the first round, bam, bam, bam, three shots, bam, bam, bam, right in my face. And I'm going, oh my God. I realized I was fighting for my life because they didn't like us. Greenos down there. Everything was just set and discriminated against. The black clam, which were the black fighters, Black Federation and the Mexican fighters and the Gringos.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was the warm up act, and so I get out there thinking, and it was because it was. I was gasping with rest. As soon as I did my first set of condos. Then I did my defense moves. I was already gasping. And then I start my first round. And right before we started, Murphy's the rule was we would respect each other's head. If you don't hit me in the face, I won't hit you in the face. Body's open target, no limit. Okay, groin shots, everything. We would respect each other's knees. No knee shots. Everything else was open. If you hit me in the face, then the face becomes an open target.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wood floor, scratched up wood floor, and whenever they would have tests, all the, it was like blood spores, like cockfights. And so all the sadistic people would come out to watch whenever they hear that the Gringos are going to be coming up and there's going to be some fights. And so John Douglas was testing for his black belt that day, and I was testing for my green belt. I was the pre-show before the big show.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, because I had no forward vision at all. And that's how I know when I'm looking at people at that time. Now I have no vision at all. But at that time, if I couldn't see anything, I knew I was looking right at you, which was, anyway, so first belt yellow was one fight. Green belt had five two minute rounds, five belts, five rounds with a fresh fighter, two minute rounds. And on a scale of one to ten, I trained, I practiced, and I thought, okay, I figure it's going to be maybe a four, five, or six. It turned out to be a 20. It was beyond my worst nightmare. And it was August 2nd, 1972. And it was over 100 degrees outside. And our dojo was in Tijuana, as I said, and it was a solid block brick, cement block building. No windows, no air conditioning, not even a fan.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Perfectly perfectly explained exactly, Tim. And so I get the cottas and all that stuff down overnight right off the bat. It was the fighting because to let you understand how I was seeing at the time because I had some vision. At that time, my teens and 20s, my vision was measured at 20 over 40 over 450 with no center vision because my macula, which is the center of the eye, was gone. Okay, so there's no macula. That's your forward vision. So if you just picture yourself, there's a hat in front of your face. Wherever I turn my head, there's a hat blocking that part of vision, okay? With me, out of the corner of my eye was 2450. So 2200 is legally blind. 2050 is you have to have at least 2050 to drive.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, to get my first belt, I had to fight one round, three minutes, and plus all the cottas. And the thing about Kottas because of my adetic memory, I could memorize them in one day. And in fact, when I got my fourth degree, I had a sixth degree black belt that I learned in one day. I went through it. And then the next thing he sees it on fail, he goes, I can't believe you did it. I just showed that to you, blah, blah, blah, just days before, you know?”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Anyway, so that's what I would drink to just boost the energy level. Anyway, so I finally put on some weight. And then I remember 1980 is when I broke 160, got to 160 pounds. And then I kept pressing and I got up to, I worked out with Doug McNoli, who was Mr. Universe at his place. I got up to 340 on the bench. That's where I topped out at. And I weighed in at 168. And today, when I got my first black belt, my first degree black belt. And Murphy wanted the hardest test, and it was considered the hardest test at the time. You had to find a 10-round bout with a fresh fighter each round, 10 three-minute rounds. Care about, he didn't want to deal with lawsuits, so most of the testing and training took place across the border of San Diego and Tijuana. So that's where his school had to school in the States and another main branch.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I'd put in chefs Bruges, which really is bad. I put half a banana for potassium and three to four to six jalapeno peppers. Blend it up and it. You had two choices. You either worked out or you just sweats just started pouring out your head. And my workout partner, Jim Blowers, who you probably saw in Delt, he was the one that was talking about riding on the back of my motorcycle telling me where to go. And he said when he first started college, I said, okay, you have to have some liquid hell. And the first time he did it, he threw up the sink. And I said, you're not wasting that liquid hell. You drank the rest of that. And so he got it down and he couldn't go through a final without having his liquid hell because it stimulated his brain and his body. Anyway, but it's not for sissies. I'll just say that.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I was world class time 15 in one quarter of the time, one-fourth and a quarter of the time to when I'd travel around with that briefcase with 120 pounds in thumbnails that would be broken apart, put together on the road, do my exercises, and so on. Anyway, so then Murphy says you need more weight. And so he said, why don't you take vitamins? Vitamins every day. So I started taking vitamins. And he said, protein powders. So I've, for the past 50 years, almost 49 years, every morning, I'd throw everything under the side, I'd even throw my vitamin tablets in the blend and blend them up with the protein powder. And then I came up with the best drink for, if you want to, you have two choices. Burn up or work out like a madman. And I call it liquid hell. And what it is, you take water as your base.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know that is a bluff on your end. Everybody out there that just listened to Tim say that Tim is an athlete. Tim is probably just as crazy as I am. He's being modest right now. I'm just telling you because he doesn't want to speak for himself. Listen to what I'm saying, everybody. Tim, I felt Tim out when we first got together. And I mean that in a nice way. Check those forearms, his forearms. Popeye, I know jealous. Popeye, you're jealous. Olive oil. He's over here.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, I gotta start getting better at this. And if that time I weighed 110 pounds and I had my full 5'9". And Murphy said, okay, I want you to start taking, you need to start lifting weights because you got to put some meat on those bones. So I started punching and pushing weights. And I went to Gene Fisher's gym. And Fisher, he held the world's record for the curl at that time, 1963, 221 pounds recorded 226 unrecorded. And of course he was in the 200 pound category. And so at that time, I weighed 130 pounds. I got to 130 pounds. And 130 pounds, I could pull down 220 and he would have to pull me down, lock me in, do my reps, lift me back up. I was about 250 on the bench at that time at 130 pounds. And then Murphy would say.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He was a year ahead of Chuck Norris. He was a class of 57 Norris started 58. And he opened up Murphy opened up his school in Tijuana in 1960. And he was the first white guy who was called white guy, Caucasian. He was Irish to get a black belt in Japan in this particular system, Wadokai, which is kind of a cross between Shotokan and Taekwondo or it combines hands and feet. where Shotokan, strict Shotokan, which is the number one style, was really mainly hands. Anyway, he said, we'll take him. And at first he told him, don't hurt him. First, and the girls, I'd get beat up by the girls. I'd get beat up by the old ladies, ladies that Noel, who would be the driver, you know, old enough to be my mother. And it was all I could do to keep from ending up on the floor. And so I realized.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My entire life savings cardplay and everything all rolled up in three bucks. And so I was so upset about that. And so that jumps forward to the martial arts, is that where we wanted to head? Anyway, so my brother was taken to karate, and so I wanted to go down. And they gave him warning, well, you know, this guy can't see, and Murphy, he didn't care if you're blind, deaf, or dumb. He beat everyone equally. He was my sin safe.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sorry, and Jim Backers called Mr. McCoo. It was this kind of this goofy side impaired person that just went through life jolly, just missing trains and planes trains and automobiles, and that was me. And so they would say that flipped the bird in front of my face and say, hey, McGu, how many fingers am I holding up? And while I was distracted, his friend picked the wallet out of my back pocket and then dangled it in front of my face said, hey, Magu got any money. And when I grabbed for my wallet, he then threw it over my head to his friend behind me in a cool game of keep weight. And they kept, every time I turned around, grabbed it, they just keep going back and forth over my head. And then finally one of them started literally slapping me across the cheeks with my own wall saying, God, I need money blind boy. And the other kid jumped on my back, drove me to the ground, kicked me in the ribs, and they ran off laughing and saying, thanks for the hot dog, Magu, because I had three dollars in there for me, three dollars was a mat.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“John Murphy. That was very, every moment in my life is like a video. I can watch and pin on every exact image or moment. That was February 13, 71, three weeks later, March 5th. My brother, who was seven years younger than me, he was nine, and he was taking karate. And I wanted to take karate because I was tired of getting beat up. I'd get off a little tangent. I entered another art competition when I was 11. And I had to have my nose like two inches from the canvas as I painted these three vases with proper shadow lights coming in. It got first place. These two boys didn't like it. This blank kid got first place. And they called me Mr. McDoo. There was a cartoon out that time.”
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“And so I realized I got to stop this. And there was something out there saying, you need to stop it or you're going to end up dead like Billy McComb. And I had half a dozen friends who have now OD and were dead. And I thought, if I don't stop this, I'm going to be next. And I realize I need some help anyway. So I went to these people at this park, Wales Park, and I asked them if they had an angel to us. They said, we have something better. I said, what's that? They said, a relationship with the creator of everything you see. I said, do you mind if I sit down and tell me what you know? And they're the ones that told me that we're not here by accident. We're here by design. And if there is a creator. And so it was at that moment that I decided. I was going to change my direction.”
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“What catalyzed that turn was? I was with some friends and they wanted to watch a movie called Fantastic Voyage, which was a movie about shrinking down a ship, a submarine, and then setting it into a guy's body to go into his heart to try to fix it. And they said, hey, the fantastic voyage is on. Let's get some angel dust and watch the movie.”
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“Made a camera. They're staring at us all over the place. God dict and made a brain. We took dirt. We made a computer. What's the chip and a hues? Dirt. Just about everything in this room in one fashion or another came from dirt. And so I thought, okay, that means I can create. And so I went another direction. I got heavily into the martial arts, started in March 5th, 1971, and my Karate instructor was a man named John Murphy.”
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“A verse in the Bible said, God created us in his image. And that always fascinated me in his image. And so I thought, okay, I'm in the image of God. What did God take dirt and made a person? God took dirt, made eyeball. God took dirt and made a brain. God took dirt and made a bird. And I remember watching an episode of Kung Fu and they said, who will teach me about the universe? The universe will teach you. And I thought, well, that's like saying the wall will teach me. But who built the wall? Who built the statue of liberty? Wasn't the statue of liberty didn't build the statue of liberty? So then I started thinking of God. Okay, God created a bird. Man took dirt and created a jet. God took dirt, made I. We took dirt.”
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“The drug crowd, we don't care if you can see, you know, come on over. And the regular students were more discriminating towards some of us in the VH rooms. And so the drug people, they didn't care, but then when it got right down to it, it was more of a tool of amusement for them. And then I met a guy. And then we get off on another little tangent here”
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“Actually, that was kind of a power, the only power that I had. The rest of the time I was laughed at, and there would be times where we would be. Doing something drugs, and then when I'd come, I come out of a stupor or blur, they'd be laughing at me. And at first they were the only people that accepted me because I was.”
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“A big question, so you can break it up into any segments. Yeah, at the time I try to just describe how I dealt with some of my anger, and that was self-destructive. And I had gone into other self-destructive behavior and I was late 60s, beginning 70s. And so for about three years, drugs was a part of that as an act of rebellion. and purposely not trying to do my best. The only thing I did worked at was cards. And I would play cards with people and I would take their money. And my drug dealing partner named Doug Ferguson, who died from hepatitis from dirty needles. And he would have me play cards against other drug dealers to cheat him or trick them out of their money. And that's how we supported ourselves. And we made our money to buy and sell. And so that was kind of.”
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“Because I was angry that I was losing my vision and losing my ability to paint and draw. And so this was just one of the ways I was being ornery and just rebelling against my loss.”
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“No breaking, there was no glass broken. So we figured the student that claimed it to be his that entered it obviously went off with it. But other projects after that. I started, I would get my A, build my project, especially the three dimensional ones I was good at. And then I purposely sabotage them because you fire them in a kiln. And if you have something that has air in it, it is completely sealed, it'll blow up. So I'd make my project, get my grade on it, and then when I'd have it fired, I'd purposely put in either a ball of clay with a hole in it. With sealed air in it or built something in it, so when it was fired, it'd blow up.”
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“Because I did a good job, but that's also an astute question on your end because there was other pieces I did. And in high school, I did a collage. And I was just rushing through my archives because I could do stuff. And if you got seven and a half points, you got an A. And I could have my art projects done within the first month of the semester. And I already got my ASO. I could mess around after that. And I did this one project. And I don't even know what was, to this day, I don't know what was so good about it. But we had his teacher was Mr. Swennis. His assistant, don't remember his name, but he went to San Diego State University. He took my art project and entered it into a statewide college competition and it got first place. And he gave me the ribbon, the blue ribbon for first place, and they just put it on display in the hallway. If the high school, those little slides where the locked door, the little lock windows. And then when I said, can I get my art project block? And they went there and it was gone.”
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“He would just scribble. He couldn't draw at all. So, and he got in the hey, look at that room and stuff good. So he got attention for just doing crap. And so I started doing crap. I started sort of showing my skills with the best I could. I started going the other direction and just scribbling, although I did do one three-dimensional project. That Dr. Sam Cumby, who is the teacher, I did a sculpture. And I still have it in my office. You can still see it today of a Buddha monk and a bald head. And anyway, and it was all... What would the word? It was all properly proportioned. And I got AMAD for that project. And that's why the few things that I do, I still have from that. But that was a three dimensional thing.”
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“But my vision was worse than hers at the time. And so she was able to get away with it. I was not. And so at the school, the best artist was a girl named Sharon Coleman. And she was the best artist where I was always the best artist at Noranka in first, second, third, fourth grade. Now all of a sudden, nobody knows who I am. Nobody cares. I'm Sharon. She's the one that does the best artwork. And so there was a guy in the VH department. There was about a dozen of us, and we go to, it was a regular school, but they had a VH department, a visually handicapped department. And one of the guys in the VH room was a guy named Reuben Corral, who, because he was from Mexico, was like twice my size and he was two or three years older than I was, but he were in St. Grade because he didn't have the opportunity to go to special school.”
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