Joe Rogan Experience #2192 - Raanan Hershberg

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music) Um, what's up? What's going on, man?

   4. RHRaanan Hershberg0:13

      Hey, how's it going? Thanks for having me.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Thanks for coming in. My pleasure. What's going on?

   6. RHRaanan Hershberg0:16

      Hell yeah. It's an honor. Uh, good to, good... Yeah, good to be here. Um, the cold showers, what we were talking about before.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      Yeah, yeah.

   8. RHRaanan Hershberg0:23

      Tho- those are the hardest.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:24

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

   10. RHRaanan Hershberg0:28

       Because it doesn't get your whole body, so you actually have to constantly move around-

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       Mm-hmm.

   12. RHRaanan Hershberg0:31

       ... and re-freeze your ass off. You know what I mean?

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       Well, it's just, it's hard to breathe too. You're like, "Ah, ah, ah."

   14. RHRaanan Hershberg0:36

       Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       "Ah, ah, ah."

   16. RHRaanan Hershberg0:38

       I used to do them for a while, though.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:40

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

   18. RHRaanan Hershberg0:49

       It is.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:50

       And we would all be sitting around going, "What the fuck is wrong with him?"

   20. RHRaanan Hershberg0:53

       (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:53

       This guy's in the, the shower. It was January in Boston and this guy's in the shower just fucking freezing. Ah.

   22. RHRaanan Hershberg0:59

       But I, I feel like when you do it, it's like you feel afterwards this awakeness-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       Oh, yeah.

   24. RHRaanan Hershberg1:03

       ... that you only get with drugs. Like that, like fucking, like, "Oh, I'm..." Like, you never realize how not present you are until you take a cold plunge.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:10

       Right.

   26. RHRaanan Hershberg1:10

       And then you're like, "Oh, now I'm fucking in the world." (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:13

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

   28. RHRaanan Hershberg1:16

       Yeah, which is a real rush. (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:18

       (laughs) It's, it... Well, it really is, though. It's norepinephrine, that's the big one.

   30. RHRaanan Hershberg1:21

       Yeah.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   I said the worst-…

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

   2. RHRaanan Hershberg15:00

      I said the worst-

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:01

      How many years are you in now?

   4. RHRaanan Hershberg15:02

      17.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:03

      Okay, g- ... That's great.

   6. RHRaanan Hershberg15:04

      Yeah. Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:04

      That's great. Yeah. You-

   8. RHRaanan Hershberg15:05

      I've said horrible shit, but it's not on film, so-

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:07

      But you also, you got in p-... I think ... The filming thing is fucking strange, right? Because some people want to get filmed, 'cause you can get some clips-

   10. RHRaanan Hershberg15:16

       Right.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:16

       ... like interacting with the audience.

   12. RHRaanan Hershberg15:18

       Right.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:19

       But it's like, you, you have to have an opportunity to work out stuff.

   14. RHRaanan Hershberg15:23

       Of course. Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:23

       Because there's times when you're on stage and you're saying things and you, you have a new bit, and you don't know where you're taking it while you're taking it there.

   16. RHRaanan Hershberg15:31

       Of course. Yeah. And you have to like ... That's why when they looped the Louis thing-

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:34

       Yeah.

   18. RHRaanan Hershberg15:34

       ... it was ... Any comic who had like criticized him should lose their comedian badge right away.

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       They have to me.

   20. RHRaanan Hershberg15:39

       Because like-

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:40

       Yeah. They-

   22. RHRaanan Hershberg15:40

       You, if you release something when they weren't planning for it, it doesn't matter what they said in it, you're at fault for releasing something, you know?

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:46

       Well, it's y- ... Obviously it was an audience member that released it, but the comics that criticized him, I'm like, "Hey, man, fuck you." Like y- you pretended ... First of all, the guy didn't do comedy for 10 months.

   24. RHRaanan Hershberg15:55

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:55

       And then second, the stuff that he was saying, if you know him and you know his act, and I guarantee you fucking do, 'cause a lot of those people are just haters.

   26. RHRaanan Hershberg16:03

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:04

       If you know him, you know given enough time, he would make that horrible premise really fucking funny.

   28. RHRaanan Hershberg16:10

       Yes. And frankly, it was pretty funny then. (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:11

       Pretty funny then. Pretty funny.

   30. RHRaanan Hershberg16:12

       Like ...
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   That's true. (laughs) Well,…

   1. RHRaanan Hershberg30:00

      the meshuggeneh geysims."

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:01

      That's true. (laughs) Well, the thing about Lenny was th- no one had ever talked like that publicly.

   3. RHRaanan Hershberg30:06

      Right.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:07

      So this was a totally unique thing, that you have to take in the context of 1963.

   5. RHRaanan Hershberg30:12

      Some of the most groundbreaking stuff feels the most dated later.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:15

      Yes.

   7. RHRaanan Hershberg30:15

      'Cause it is so groundbreaking that everyone, the model changed.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:19

      The whole world changed the way they think about things, and then talking about things openly the way he did became normal.

   9. RHRaanan Hershberg30:27

      Right, right.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       So he's doing normal things to us.

   11. RHRaanan Hershberg30:29

       But it seems... Yeah, no, it's like that musical Oklahoma! seems like such a standard thing.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       Right.

   13. RHRaanan Hershberg30:34

       But at the time it was super experimental. It was the first one where they, they, uh, they had, like, uh, not a chorus on stage right away, or someone singing. A- and a narrative, like a narr- Like, musicals before that were reviews. And, uh... You like how I switched it to musicals? (laughs) You're like-

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       Yeah.

   15. RHRaanan Hershberg30:48

       You're like, "Go back to comedy."

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:49

       No, musicals are cool.

   17. RHRaanan Hershberg30:50

       I love musicals. But it was like, it was groundbreaking at the time.

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       Right.

   19. RHRaanan Hershberg30:53

       A narrative story. Most shit before that was, like, reviews. And they broke a lot of rules, but now it's just Oklahoma!

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:59

       Right.

   21. RHRaanan Hershberg30:59

       You know? But it was, like, an experimental thing at the time.

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:02

       Like The Wizard of Oz.

   23. RHRaanan Hershberg31:03

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:03

       The Wizard of Oz was monumental when it came out.

   25. RHRaanan Hershberg31:07

       Oh, yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:07

       Like, it was something that everybody saw. It was one movie that you would guarantee everybody you talked to had seen The Wizard of Oz.

   27. RHRaanan Hershberg31:14

       Yeah. No, it was, it was, it is the most watched movie. I read a book about the making recently. It was interesting. Yeah. It, uh, did you know that... So, Judy Garland was, like, uh, groped by a lot of the little people on the movie.

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:28

       Oh.

   29. RHRaanan Hershberg31:28

       It's like a whole thing. She got groped. And I read it, apparently they were mad. All the little people were, like, very drunk and wild, you know.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:37

       (laughs)
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah, they were like-…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      I would've given everything to see the look on their face when that thing touched the top of the bars.

   2. RHRaanan Hershberg45:06

      Yeah, they were like-

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:07

      When the paws hit the bars, and the body starts going over, the flood-

   4. RHRaanan Hershberg45:13

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:14

      ... of chemicals that must go into your mind.

   6. RHRaanan Hershberg45:16

      That's a high.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:18

      Off the charts.

   8. RHRaanan Hershberg45:19

      That's a high.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:19

      Probably like nothing else you'll ever experience in life.

   10. RHRaanan Hershberg45:21

       That's like a cold plunge times 10,000.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:23

       Well, it's like undeniable, you're dying right now.

   12. RHRaanan Hershberg45:26

       Right.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:26

       Like it's coming for you. It's a 600-pound super predator.

   14. RHRaanan Hershberg45:29

       But one kid survived, right? I think-

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       One kid survived. I think the kid who threw the pine cones unfortunately survived. I think his, his buddy got taken out.

   16. RHRaanan Hershberg45:36

       Oh, that's how fierce tigers are, right?

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:38

       I think it's-

   18. RHRaanan Hershberg45:38

       "I'm not gonna fuck you up, I'm gonna fuck your friend up."

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:40

       I think his buddy went to help him.

   20. RHRaanan Hershberg45:42

       Oh my God.

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:42

       I don't know the whole story. I mean, who knows? It was probably just chaos.

   22. RHRaanan Hershberg45:47

       But I think about that bit every time at a zoo. They always make it look like the tiger can jump out. I'm like, "Why don't you, you, why don't you just not make it look like that?"

   23. JRJoe Rogan45:54

       Put a roof on the box.

   24. RHRaanan Hershberg45:55

       (laughs) Monster on the box.

   25. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       You keep the monster in.

   26. RHRaanan Hershberg45:57

       Or the box on the mon-

   27. JRJoe Rogan45:57

       Yeah.

   28. RHRaanan Hershberg45:57

       Yeah. Um...

   29. JRJoe Rogan45:58

       Why don't you have a roof on the box?

   30. RHRaanan Hershberg46:00

       (laughs)
5. 1:00:00 – 1:00:18

   How hot is it…

   1. NANarrator1:00:00

      still going.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      How hot is it today?

   3. NANarrator1:00:02

      106.

   4. NANarrator1:00:03

      ... nine, seven.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

      God, didn't feel like it.

   6. RHRaanan Hershberg1:00:05

      The, uh ... You ever be at a, at, at a club where the lights go?

   7. NANarrator1:00:08

      Oh. I don't (laughs) know what to do. Uh, we might wanna stop for, like, five minutes to make sure this doesn't keep happening while we have the opportunity, before it fucks up more. I don't know, your call.

Episode duration: 2:43:36