#2143 - Tulsi Gabbard

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Here we go. This is the second time we've ever worked out together.

SPEAKER_1 (0:22)

I know.

Tulsi Gabbard (0:22)

I feel great.

SPEAKER_1 (0:22)

It was awesome, right?

Joe Rogan (0:22)

It was great.

Tulsi Gabbard (0:22)

It's a great way to get the day started. It was perfect, actually.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

We do these, the comedian boot camps.

So we did it today, we did it with Asan and Derrick and Shane, Shane Gillis, and we have fun. So you get the workout in and you talk a lot of shit and you get silly. It's really fun. It's just like real silly.

Tulsi Gabbard (0:41)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

You know, we have a good time.

Tulsi Gabbard (0:43)

Yeah.

I, yeah. Thanks for the invite. It was my pleasure. I've been on the road for, I don't know, for weeks.

And so, you know, if you're lucky, you get a decent hotel gym, right? You got to be really creative. Yeah. Most of them, the best, they'll have our dumbbells and, you know, that's it.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

I just realized you're the second celebrity to do that with us and the second Hawaiian.

Because the Rock did it. There's something going on.

Tulsi Gabbard (1:11)

Samoan pride here.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

Something going on with the Hawaiians coming here.

Tulsi Gabbard (1:16)

We'll have to figure out, you know, Max Holloway is Hawaiian and Samoan, too.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

He didn't work out, though. Max, last time he was here, he was just off of his, his wind.

Tulsi Gabbard (1:23)

He gets a break after that, man. Yeah, it takes some time off, bro. I was telling you, like, the sauna, I am definitely, like, from the islands because I'm okay with heat. So 20 minutes in the sauna, it was good, it was challenging, but it was good. The cold, however.

That ice bath. I've done that, like, a quick polar plunge briefly, jumping in, jumping out.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

And that one was at the lowest setting in terms of the jets of water. So what we have is called a blue cube, and blue cube is the type of cold plunge that has a, it has an engine in it that you can turn on to higher levels of waves.

So if you turn it, like, to the highest level, it's just rushing at you like a river.

Tulsi Gabbard (2:13)

Is that better or worse? Horrible.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

It's horrible because you never develop a thermal barrier. Okay, so if you can just, like, cold, all cold water immersion is very good for you. It's good for cold shock proteins, norepinephrine, mood stabilization, makes you feel better. All those things are good. But the still cold is much more tolerable for whatever, I don't know what's better for you. See, that's the question. Like is it better?

Is it just as good and more tolerable?

Or is it better to be more, to suffer for the full three minutes? Because if you turn that bitch on-

Tulsi Gabbard (2:47)

Suffer more. Is the benefit proportional to the suffering is really the question, right?

Joe Rogan (2:52)

I'm not sure if you suffer more if you get more benefit or if there's a point where you're actually hurting your body. Like maybe there's a point, I mean, obviously if you stay in the cold water too long, you'll die. That's what hypothermia is. But there's a level where if you just get a few minutes in, it's really good for you.

So I don't know if it's better if you're miserable.

Tulsi Gabbard (3:12)

Yeah, right.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

I don't know.

But if you want to test your mind, that blue cube is the one to do because that sucker gets fast. That sucker gets like a river. So you're just laying in there and it's like, shit.

Tulsi Gabbard (3:24)

An assault of cold water.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

The moment it sucks when you climb in, that moment never changes. That's the difference. Because in a regular cold plunge, after a while, you develop this thermal barrier. And even though it sucks, it only sucks like 80% of what it sucked when you first got in. With the blue cube, it's 100% sucked.

Suck this, suck, suck, suck. It just sucks.

Tulsi Gabbard (3:44)

So it sounds like you gotta try it at least once and figure it out.

Joe Rogan (3:48)

Just doing it the way you did it, for three minutes. Like I said, the first time I did it, I did it like a minute and 24 seconds, I was like, whoa!

Tulsi Gabbard (3:54)

I couldn't chicken out in front of all the guys, you know what I mean? When Hassan says, well, I did it three minutes to show up for the Rocks, like, okay, I'm not going to be the one who chickens out at a minute.