#2192 - Raanan Hershberg

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_3 (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

What's up?

Raanan Hershberg (0:13)

Hey, how's it going? Thanks for coming in.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

My pleasure. What's going on?

Raanan Hershberg (0:16)

It's an honor. Good to be here. The cold showers, what we were talking about before, those are the hardest.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Oh, well, New York City cold showers in the winter are brutal.

Raanan Hershberg (0:28)

Because it doesn't get your whole body, so you actually have to constantly move around and re-freeze your ass off.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Well, it's hard to breathe, too.

Raanan Hershberg (0:38)

I used to do them for a while, though.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

When I was a kid, when I used to do martial arts, there's this dude I used to work out with named Bob Caffarella, and he was like a real psycho, and Bob used to always take cold showers. He said it was good for the spirit.

Raanan Hershberg (0:49)

It is.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

We would all be sitting around going, what the fuck is wrong with him? This guy's in the shower. It was January in Boston, and this guy's in the shower, just fucking freezing.

Raanan Hershberg (0:59)

But I feel like when you do it, it's like you feel afterwards this awakeness that you only get with drugs, like that fucking like, oh, you never realize how not present you are until you take a cold plunge, and then you're like, oh, now I'm fucking in the world.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

Right, because your body's trying to protect you from dying.

Raanan Hershberg (1:15)

Yeah, which is a real rush.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

But it really is, though. It's norepinephrine, that's the big one. Dopamine kicks up, everything, and it lasts for hours. That's what I tell people, even though they don't want to do it. I'm like, I know it sucks. I don't think it's good. I don't get in and go, this is amazing. I'm the best. I get in and I go, oh, this is fucking Jesus Christ. Just keep it together. And I just try to stay calm. But I know when I get out, I'm gonna feel great for hours.

Raanan Hershberg (1:40)

Exactly.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

Hours and hours.

Raanan Hershberg (1:42)

Except for the time I did it. On your instruction, and fucked up. But it was like jackass doing it at home and getting a nut ripped off. I did the, I saw you do it, it looked great. Put the ice in the bath, and I was just cold for like two days straight. It was crazy.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Yeah. I wouldn't recommend doing it for 10 minutes the first time. You went a little crazy.

Raanan Hershberg (2:02)

I went a little crazy.

Joe Rogan (2:03)

Yeah. But kudos to you for doing it. It's fucking hard to do 10 minutes.

Raanan Hershberg (2:07)

Well, I don't like, I used to do a lot of drugs. I don't really do drugs anymore. I mean, I'll do edibles and occasionally create them. So I guess I do some drugs. And I'll do cocaine and heroin, but I'm pretty clean other than that.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

I mean, I eat processed foods, a lot of dessert, but fuck it.

Raanan Hershberg (2:24)

Yeah, I mean, crystal meth, but that's it.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

And I drink whiskey, no rocks.

Raanan Hershberg (2:28)

But I don't do like the big drugs. So the cold plunge is really the closest to get to that high.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Yeah, if you could get that in a pill, it would be a very popular pill. People would be taking it all day long.

Raanan Hershberg (2:37)

I know, but part of it is probably going through the pain, right?

Joe Rogan (2:40)

Yeah, this is better for your brain, because there's a thing, there's a part in your brain, Andrew Huberman has talked about this, I forget what it's actually called, but there's a part of your brain that actually grows when you force yourself into do difficult things, like say if you're a person who likes to run, and you force yourself, I'm going to run five miles every morning for 60 days. Like, you can actually do that.

Raanan Hershberg (3:03)

So an asshole.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Yeah, this is my friend, Cam.

Raanan Hershberg (3:06)

I'm trying to imagine myself running.

Joe Rogan (3:07)

I have a buddy of mine that was doing a marathon every day.

Raanan Hershberg (3:11)

Oh really?

Joe Rogan (3:11)

Yeah, he's a psycho. He does these ultra marathons.

Raanan Hershberg (3:14)

Oh my God.