#1687 - Jimmy Dore

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

I know, I know, this is the most extreme, though. This is the closest I've ever come to dying, I think, doing one of these things. I just don't know why, I just...

My friend Jocko Willink, he sent me a video of his kid doing 20 minutes in the ice bath. Because the first time I did it, I bailed it like a minute and a half.

And I was like, oh my god, this is so cold. And then last night I did it, and I got to four minutes. And I was like, I think I can go further. And so today, what I decided to do is set a timer. So when I set a timer, like I had my phone timer on, so I could look at the timer. And when I did that, I could stare, and I knew exactly how much time was passed. And so I got to five minutes. That was my goal, to get to five minutes. I was like, fuck it, let's go for ten.

I got to ten, I was like, fuck it, fifteen. And I got to fifteen, and then I was like, we're gonna go for twenty. And I got to twenty minutes, thirty-three degrees, too. I'm fucking freezing in there. And then when I got to twenty and I got out, like, I could barely walk. And then I was shivering, the entire, shivering, like hardcore shivering in my house. Shivering all the way over. It's ninety degrees in Texas, I'm driving, no AC on, windows rolled up, freezing.

Freezing. Normally I'd be like sweating like a pig in there. I was freezing, shivering, like all the way over here. I got here. I'm wearing this sweatshirt.

I had it laying around here. I put it on because I was freezing.

Jimmy Dore (1:32)

Yeah, while you were doing that, I was hitting my snooze button. I swear to God, that's what I was doing. Joe's right now in an ice bath trying to do another five minutes. I'm going to do another five minutes too.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

I don't know who's doing the right thing. You might be doing the right thing. I might be torturing myself.

It's probably like a point of diminishing returns. It's probably like five minutes or something.

Jamie (1:52)

You're very close to hypothermia.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

Oh, look at that.

Mild hypothermia, 35 to 32 degrees. But is that your body?

Jamie (1:59)

I'm just looking up the symptoms was the first couple of things you were saying.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

Shivering, yeah. Let me see what the symptoms are. Exhaustion, no. I'm definitely not exhausted. I'm confused as to why I did it. Fumbling hands, no. Memory loss, no. Sword speech, no. Drowsiness, no.

What's the difference between exhaustion and feeling tired or drowsiness? They're redundant.

That seems a little, right? The thing is the breathing exercises. If you deep breathe, I deep breathe through it. In the beginning, I was just kind of breathing normal, and then once it got real rough, I started doing these deep breathing exercises, like six seconds in and six seconds out, and then it was more tolerable.

Jimmy Dore (2:39)

Yeah, it's amazing what people do to... I was just hanging my thumbs for six hours. I'm like, I could do it. Let's just do it. Let's see if I could do it.

Because my friend sent me a video of his kid hanging by his thumbs, and I was like, I bet I could do it longer.

Joe Rogan (2:52)

I don't know. I don't know what I do.

Jimmy Dore (2:57)

All this stuff, you guys, it's always like, you can't eat, but once every 36 hours, you got to breathe through your nose, and then your mouth will expand, and you'll have the right bite. And I'm like, all this crazy shit I never knew about.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

Yeah, I've gotten this accidental education on this show, just wanting to talk like James Nestor, the breathe guy.

Jimmy Dore (3:16)

The guy who makes the palate bigger, literally makes it... Did you do that?

Joe Rogan (3:20)

No, I didn't do that.

Jimmy Dore (3:21)

I didn't do that.

Joe Rogan (3:22)

No, I didn't do that. I do do the breathing exercises, but that's like a type of breathing. I think you're supposed to do something as you do... What is that called? The mewing? Isn't it called mewing? There's like a thing that they say that people do to sort of expand your palate. It changes the inside of your mouth somehow or another.

Well, apparently our mouths...

Mewing is the placement of the tongue on the roof of the mouth, which proponents say can reshape the face and help correct orthodontic breathing and facial structural issues. It was developed by an orthodontist named John Mu in the 1970s.