Mike Tyson on Doing Psychedelics, Going to Mar-a-Lago, Celebs Visiting Him in Prison & Turning 60

0:00 40 years ago this November,

0:01 our next guest became the youngest ever heavyweight champion of the world.

0:05 Now he's showcasing new fighters.

0:07 The Mike Tyson Invitational 2 starts July 24th in Las Vegas.

0:12 Please welcome the impenetrable, inconceivable Mike Tyson.

0:35 HOW ARE YOU?

0:36 I'm doing good.

0:37 Welcome.

0:38 Welcome.

0:39 You look like an angel.

0:41 Look at you all white.

0:42 Hey, listen.

0:43 Um, I wanted to give this a gift.

0:45 This is for my Mike Tyson.

0:47 Yeah.

0:48 Oh, wow.

0:49 Thank you.

0:49 Thank you.

0:52 Now, this is Is this what you give the champion?

0:54 Yes, it's for my Mike Tyson Invitational,

0:56 and I have all the fighters from all over the world.

1:01 What do you think?

1:03 Are you good?

1:04 This could really, you know what?

1:06 This could be I like it cuz this could

1:13 offset the the nerd thing with my clarinet this weekend.

1:17 So, you don't like my clarinet?

1:18 I'LL BEAT YOUR ASS.

1:20 It look it looks great on you.

1:22 I like it.

1:22 Thank you so much.

1:23 Oh, it's pushing into my testicles.

1:27 So, Mike, you uh you know, I grew up in Las Vegas and um I love boxing.

1:32 You know, I loved especially I got to go see a lot of I didn't

1:35 get to go to the fights because they were too expensive when I was a kid,

1:37 but I would get to go see the the great there sparring and training.

1:40 I saw Ali, I saw Larry Holmes, I saw Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard,

1:45 you name saw all of these guys that you probably got to know over the years.

1:50 Do you like you're holding this um this boxing tournament.

1:54 Are you concerned that that people are like boxing is being overshadowed

1:59 by by MMA and these and people slapping each other in the face?

2:03 Boxing is being overshadowed by bike riding.

2:06 You know, it's just that they don't do it often

2:09 enough and that's why with these young kids coming up,

2:11 we're doing this four times a year and by then they

2:14 can go to other tournaments and they can constantly get experience.

2:18 So you have to think about within within probably four years they

2:21 all they probably have 40 fights 50 fights and that's that's something

2:26 right these are teenagers right that are fighting because Roberto

2:29 Durant has a team and he challenged my team but I

2:32 haven't developed a team yet but I have a part

2:35 partially team developing then we going to go fight Panama,

2:39 Mexico um great kingdom all all over the world.

2:43 What country is dominating boxing right now?

2:45 Um, let's see.

2:46 Um, England's doing a good job.

2:48 England.

2:49 Yeah.

2:49 Mexico's kicking ass, too.

2:51 Yeah, they both Yeah.

2:52 Yeah.

2:52 But I'm telling you, we have some great American fight,

2:54 but we don't fight often enough.

2:57 And you are you've moved from Las Vegas now, right?

3:00 To Florida.

3:01 No, I live in Florida.

3:02 I have a house in Florida.

3:04 I'm I'm in Las Vegas.

3:05 Las Vegas where I'm going to live in.

3:07 Okay.

3:07 Good.

3:07 All right.

3:07 Good.

3:08 I'm glad to hear that.

3:08 I like that because I I'm imagining you

3:11 like in a retirement community playing pickle ball.

3:14 No way.

3:15 Eating dinner at 5:00.

3:17 No way.

3:17 I got to drive late at night,

3:19 get up at 4 in the morning, then go for a ride somewhere,

3:22 play my pigeons if you know what I mean,

3:24 come back, play with my pigeons, have high tea.

3:26 I can't go to sleep.

3:27 I like that.

3:27 That's what I like.

3:28 And Florida is nothing but, you know, weak weak.

3:31 You see mush rats run up by, you know, it's nothing to have alligators in.

3:35 Oh yeah.

3:35 When the alligators, when you see the alligators, do they get scared of you?

3:39 No.

3:39 But um I always call this little white guy.

3:42 He's like a 100 pound.

3:43 He comes, he takes off his boots,

3:44 he throws them in the figure four leg locks, he ties them up, he takes pictures.

3:49 I kiss on him once before.

3:50 Really?

3:50 I kissed the alligator.

3:52 You got a guy you call who does he shoeless.

3:54 He wrestles the alligator.

3:55 The guy and listen, he's not over 150 lbs, this guy.

4:00 Wow.

4:00 He's crazy.

4:00 He grabs him and gets him in a figure four leg lock.

4:03 They submit.

4:04 He ties them up and then I take pictures with them.

4:09 Do they recognize you the alligators?

4:11 Do they like, "Hey, my I don't know.

4:13 They're tied up.

4:13 I don't know." And they're in a friendly mode or anything.

4:17 Do you ever go to Mara Lago when you are in Florida?

4:20 All the time.

4:21 All the time.

4:22 Why are you going there?

4:23 What goes on there?

4:24 What could that possibly be fun?

4:25 I was there once and I've never seen older people in my life.

4:28 No.

4:29 When did you go?

4:30 Did you go a long Believe me, I'm not allowed there anymore.

4:33 Listen,

4:37 Mara Lago.

4:38 Mara Lago is one of the best place in the world to be and hang out.

4:41 Do you smoke weed there when you get to Mara Lago?

4:44 Well, I'm not going to tell you that.

4:45 I am not telling anybody.

4:46 I'm an upright citizen.

4:53 You are now like you're kind of a part of the the Trump administration, right?

4:57 You believe that?

4:58 Hey, it could I got too many felons.

5:00 That can't be.

5:02 I have a feeling.

5:04 Well, he you he's got more than you do.

5:08 I never thought about

5:09 think of it that way.

5:10 I never thought about that.

5:11 You've known Trump, I know,

5:12 since like the 80s when you would have fights at his casinos.

5:16 But, um, you're working with Robert Kennedy Jr.

5:19 on one of the few not crazy projects that he has,

5:21 which is encouraging people to eat healthy.

5:23 Hey, listen.

5:24 I lost my sister at 25.

5:26 From unhealthy to Yes.

5:30 Yes.

5:29 Yes.

5:29 Yes.

5:29 I'm very I'm very that's a trigger for me when I see somebody that may be obese.

5:35 That's just it's just a bad experience.

5:37 Yeah.

5:38 You had mentioned I saw that Super Bowl PSA you did

5:41 and telling people about you know how you discovered healthy eating,

5:44 but you at that time said you would eat a quart of ice cream an hour.

5:48 Well, I probably maybe two hours, but yeah, I ate a lot.

5:51 A lot of ice cream.

5:53 Yeah.

5:53 What kind of ice cream does Mike Tyson?

5:54 Um chocolate chip cookies and cream.

5:57 Uh-huh.

5:57 And do you have like a huge when you're eating that much ice cream,

6:00 a huge freezer just full of ice cream?

6:02 Yes, I do.

6:03 I had somebody go get it.

6:04 And when you smoke now,

6:06 you don't have the urge to rip the door off that freezer and hit the ice cream,

6:10 you know, really teach Ben and Jerry a lesson.

6:12 Well, I I I developed different lifestyle.

6:16 You did?

6:16 Yeah.

6:17 What do you eat now when you're like craving?

6:19 Like when you're high?

6:21 from from high.

6:22 We'll eat a bunch of grapes and what are those?

6:25 Sumo sumo um oranges.

6:28 The sumo oranges.

6:29 Those big juicy apples that Yes.

6:32 Oh,

6:32 go for the fruit.

6:33 Yeah, I'm a fruit guy cuz I'm doing cuz I'm doing a lot of um what you call it?

6:36 Um you know what's that called again?

6:41 Uh I don't know.

6:45 No, it's not fasting.

6:46 It's some

6:48 You eat it, you chew on it.

6:50 Drugs.

6:50 What's What is it?

6:51 Psychedelic.

6:52 Psychedelics.

6:53 Oh, psychedelics.

6:54 Oh,

6:54 I do a lot of psychedelics.

6:56 You know what?

6:59 I was thinking like I was thinking raisins.

7:03 I do a lot of psychedelics.

7:05 You've been doing a lot of what psychedelics?

7:07 Mushrooms.

7:07 Oh, mushrooms.

7:08 Yeah,

7:09 mushrooms.

7:09 Yeah.

7:09 Do you like the mushrooms?

7:11 Well, um, every now and I make a mistake and I take a little too much.

7:15 You do?

7:16 Do you hallucinate?

7:18 I feel a lot of interesting.

7:19 You do.

7:21 Is there something that comes to mind that you could

7:24 share that you've seen either recently or is mo most notable?

7:32 Wow.

7:32 I'd rather not explain that to you at this particular moment.

7:35 Have you ever seen you've been visited by aliens or anything

7:38 like that or is that kind of thing or you just seen?

7:40 Well, in my particular um fantasy, I'm particularly the alien.

7:45 You know,

7:45 you're the alien.

7:46 I'm the alien.

7:47 I see.

7:47 And I'm cruising around trying to find the right people to do the right thing to

7:54 to do the alien stuff too.

7:58 Yes.

7:56 Stuff they never heard of before.

8:00 That would make the alien.

8:01 They never heard.

8:02 Have you had any um spiritual experiences

8:04 like you've seen God or anything like that?

8:07 Well, I have I can't say I've seen God, but I felt them.

8:10 You did?

8:11 Yeah, I felt them.

8:12 What was Was that mushrooms that you felt God?

8:14 No, man.

8:16 It's not mushrooms, man.

8:17 You know, people don't do I'm a square.

8:19 I don't know

8:20 the toad, dude.

8:20 The toad.

8:21 Oh, right.

8:22 You told me about that.

8:23 The toad.

8:24 The buffo toad or something.

8:26 Aloe vera.

8:27 Yes.

8:27 That's a toad from the like the Arizona desert.

8:31 Yes.

8:30 And they they

8:32 Yeah.

8:32 No.

8:32 Nope.

8:32 Nope.

8:33 They don't.

8:33 Yeah.

8:33 They squeeze the the pimples on them.

8:35 I guess the little pus goes on the window.

8:38 It hardens and then we find it up to a little

8:41 dust and take a light and go be me up.

8:47 And you find that the experience, you're not just doing this for fun.

8:51 You feel like it's it's helping you.

8:55 Um well, listen.

8:54 Um 17 years ago, I was living I was homeless.

9:01 And look at me now.

9:04 You were homeless.

9:06 Yeah, I was homeless living with my wife and our kid, our daughter.

9:10 And you know, we did the toad and started happening.

9:14 Unbelievable.

9:15 Can you believe at 4948 I said I'mma fight

9:18 somebody after doing the to I'mma fight a mother.

9:20 Can you believe that?

9:22 Next thing you know I'm in there with Roy Jones.

9:24 Next thing you know I'm in there with the Jake Paul guy.

9:28 Next thing you know I'm in this big mansion.

9:30 You know the next thing you know I'm just I ain't Mike again.

9:35 You feel that that is related to the toad?

9:39 Huh?

9:39 Have you ever thought about having an all like

9:43 um Toad uh fight tournament where everyone fighting takes Toad?

9:49 Uh what is it?

9:50 Venom or what kind of what is in that?

9:52 That would be a very interesting tournament.

9:55 Yeah.

9:54 You do it right right after taking a toad right.

9:58 Oh, that would be

9:59 Mr.

9:59 Toad's Wild Ride.

10:00 Have you ever done that one?

10:02 Tell me.

10:02 You know the Mr.

10:03 Toad's Wild Ride at Disney?

10:06 No.

10:05 Oh, it's a ride.

10:06 Are you serious?

10:07 I'm totally serious.

10:09 Who knows that ride?

10:15 You um you know I mentioned

10:21 one I mentioned uh Robert Kennedy.

10:22 You knew his cousin John F.

10:24 Kennedy Jr.

10:25 You were actually like really good friends with him, right?

10:27 I like to think so.

10:28 Yeah.

10:29 It to the But like did you socialize together?

10:32 Was this something that you spent a lot of time together?

10:34 Periodically.

10:34 Not much.

10:35 periodically, you know, we we um you know,

10:37 like friends are we we don't have to see each other for a while,

10:40 but we see each other like we see each other every day.

10:43 That's Yeah.

10:44 And what would you talk about with him?

10:45 Would you travel together or anything like that?

10:47 No.

10:47 Um no, I only met him a couple of times in the street.

10:52 Then he came and visited me a couple times.

10:53 I was locked up.

10:55 Oh, he did?

10:55 Oh, yes.

10:56 Wow.

10:56 Is that Is that the people that visited you when you were in prison,

11:00 is that extra meaningful to you?

11:02 You remember that those people?

11:03 Oh, absolutely.

11:04 Um they were just good friend I and unfortunately they were well known.

11:10 So the people in the prison were just so happy to see them.

11:13 They were Yeah.

11:14 And they gave me so many privileges because I

11:16 had these nice um famous people coming to visit.

11:19 Oh really?

11:20 Yeah.

11:20 Not just cuz you were you.

11:21 Well I was a little bit priv but when they

11:23 saw my friends coming uh they saw James Brown came.

11:27 James

11:27 James Brown came to visit you.

11:29 Yes.

11:29 James Brown came.

11:30 He spoke to you.

11:31 What did he say?

11:31 Do you remember any of that?

11:33 Could you understand anything he was saying?

11:35 Sometimes I could.

11:36 Yeah.

11:38 Sometimes I could.

11:38 Can I got money?

11:40 I You got money going on right cuz the cops

11:42 are nice that you got money going out here, boy.

11:44 I see that.

11:46 Who else visited you there?

11:47 JFK Jr., James Brown.

11:49 This is unique.

11:50 I don't know.

11:50 I got some It's like an episode of Fantasy Island.

11:53 Who's that?

11:53 Whitney Houston.

11:54 Whitney Houston.

11:55 Who else?

11:57 Wow.

11:56 MC Hammer.

11:57 Listen.

11:57 I got so many Joe.

11:58 My man Joe Jackson.

11:59 He came to see me.

12:00 Joe Jackson, the uh dad of of Michael Jackson.

12:04 Dad of Michael.

12:07 Wow.

12:06 Sorry guys for saying that.

12:08 Yeah, that guy.

12:09 Yeah.

12:09 Yeah.

12:09 Well, there's another Joe Jackson.

12:11 I'm I'm not I'm guessing that's not him.

12:13 Tell me who's that.

12:14 He's the guy who sings Stepping Out, you know.

12:18 Yeah.

12:19 Yeah.

12:19 Play that.

12:19 Play it.

12:20 What?

12:20 It sounds like

12:23 I don't know that guy.

12:24 Yeah.

12:24 Yeah.

12:25 Yeah.

12:25 He didn't come.

12:28 No.

12:27 No, I didn't.

12:27 Yeah.

12:30 Oh, oh, oh.

12:33 You got to hear this one.

12:34 I was in I was I was in prison and um

12:40 I'm in solitary cuz you know said I'm in solitary.

12:45 I got in trouble.

12:48 And Florence Henderson, they told me Florence Henderson would like to visit you.

12:52 But I I I had to turn the visit down cuz

12:54 they I would have had to go up there like shackles.

12:57 I know.

12:58 Florence Henderson.

13:01 Yeah.

13:01 Wow.

13:01 That's crazy.

13:02 But they I would I didn't want to go with her female shaku that look like

13:06 Did you know did you know Florence Henderson?

13:11 Um not really.

13:13 No.

13:15 Were you are you sure it was Florence Henderson?

13:17 Well, listen.

13:18 That's what the guard said.

13:19 The guard said Florence Henderson is here to see you.

13:22 I think you made the right move not coming out because it

13:25 sounds like you were being set up to me in some way.

13:27 I sound set up too.

13:29 That sound like man that sound like they catching them

13:32 out in the woods and stretch them out kind of stuff.

13:35 You turned 60 years old next month, which is I know you said you never imagined

13:41 you would live to hit 30 years old, right?

13:44 Yeah.

13:44 God did a mean trick on me.

13:46 Will you be having a big party?

13:49 No way.

13:50 No, you're done with those.

13:52 periodically.

13:52 Yeah.

13:53 What's the What's the craziest birthday party you ever had?

13:56 Oh, man.

14:00 All of them.

14:03 Would you go extra for like the like your your 30th, your 40th or whatever?

14:08 You know, it's just um when I was younger and a little crazier,

14:14 it would just be a big house and nice house and people be working for us

14:19 just in case we wanted a drink or something or smoke or whatever you did there.

14:22 We had people and it last for a couple of days.

14:26 A couple Oh, the party would go on for a couple of days.

14:29 Yeah.

14:28 Wow.

14:29 And there were And was Florence Henderson at any of these parties?

14:32 Oh, no.

14:33 Don't do that.

14:34 Stop.

14:34 Stop.

14:36 Stop.

14:41 Lawrence Henderson.

14:42 I mean, if there's one thing I learned this year,

14:45 maybe it wasn't her, but God just I hope it was.

14:48 I really do.

14:49 Mrs.

14:50 Brady came to visit you in prison.

14:52 You said, "Sorry, I'm busy right now."

14:55 No, I was just in a really bad situation at that time.

14:58 Yeah.

14:58 Yeah.

14:58 Yeah.

14:58 Yeah.

14:59 Well, I was going to come up and look like a slave, man.

15:01 I'm shackled.

15:03 Yeah.

15:03 You don't want the kid there

15:04 in front of Mrs.

15:05 Brady.

15:05 For sure.

15:06 Yeah.

15:06 Well, uh, you know what?

15:08 Oh, I don't want to say what you are.

15:10 You're mean.

15:11 I'm mean.

15:12 You know what I am?

15:14 Oh, dude.

15:14 I don't want to tell these people.

15:20 I mean, every I have a thousand questions for you,

15:23 but it has to end at some point.

15:24 Well, we'll save it for the next time.

15:26 Oh, god.

15:27 Yeah,

15:27 it's over.

15:28 It's over, I guess.

15:30 Yeah.

15:30 I mean, listen, we can start planning your 60th if you want.

15:34 Time.

15:34 Who's your new guys over here?

15:36 These two.

15:37 What?

15:38 They're sitting in with the band.

15:39 That's Lauren and Bella.

15:40 Yeah.

15:40 Now, how you pick these guys?

15:41 Where do they come from?

15:42 How do you know them?

15:43 They're They're sitting here for the week.

15:45 They're just here for the week.

15:46 They're our musical guests.

15:49 Now, you know these guys.

15:49 You go out and drink and hang out with this guy or something.

15:52 Every night.

15:52 It's crazy.

15:53 Yeah.

15:53 I can tell.

15:55 Yeah.

15:55 We actually haven't even officially met.

16:00 Thank you for No, but how do you get them?

16:03 when somebody say they recommend them or you just

16:05 find them hanging on the corner Jeff or keyboard player.

16:08 Yeah.

16:09 I I was considering that too cuz I I've seen that before in movies.

16:16 Mike.

16:16 Yes.

16:16 One more thing.

16:18 Yes.

16:18 Can we go to Disneyland, take the toad venom and go on Mr.

16:22 Toad's Wild Ride?

16:25 PLEASE.

16:28 If you did the Toad, you wouldn't want to go on the ride.

16:32 All you be think All you be thinking about is let me make that decision.

16:36 No, you're not.

16:37 Listen, you're not going to listen.

16:39 You're not going to think you're the person you are once you do it.

16:42 Well, whoever I am, I want to be on that ride.

16:46 Oh, with you sitting right next to me.

16:48 Yeah, I I'll consider it.

16:49 Think about it.

16:50 For my 60th birthday for you.

16:51 Definitely for you.

16:52 That'll be my party.

16:55 Well, it's great to see you.

16:57 60.

16:57 I look forward to the tournament.

16:58 When you were 20, 60 was like, it still is.

17:01 Yeah.

17:01 Yeah.

17:01 It's still tough.

17:02 Yeah.

17:02 But I'm a heavyweight champion now, right?

17:04 And my price invitation.

17:07 July 24th and 25th at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas.

17:12 I wanted to tell you me and you've been doing this since 2003.

17:16 That's right.

17:16 You were here for us the very first year.

17:21 2003.

17:21 I know.

17:21 It's crazy, right?

17:23 Yeah.

17:23 We were just young men.

17:24 A lot of guys died since then.

17:26 We're still here.

17:29 Mike Tyson.

17:30 Everybody, we'll be right back.