JRE MMA Show #124 with Khalil Rountree

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Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (instrumental music plays) So just tell me that again. So you were, you were do- what were you doing in Finland in the first place?

Uh, I was there, I was there with an ex, training. But aside from that, I was just there visiting. (laughs) I was just visiting Finland. Um-

And so you decided to do a sauna in the motherland, 'cause that's, like, the home of saunas, isn't it?

Yes, it's the home of it. So, um, yeah, the people that were hosting us, they were like, "Hey, have you guys ever done sauna and, and ice lake?" Like, yeah, but never, like, in the ice lake after, and so-

So what, they have, like, a shack that's the sauna that's next to the...

It's a shack. Yeah, it almost looks like a locker room, right? Like, and you just see bunch of people, like, all age groups. Um, there's a locker room where you get undressed, and then there's this huge box. Like I said, it fits, like, easily 50 to a hun- like, I mean, 50 to 100 people. And everyone's in there just packed. There was actually a line to get in, so when somebody steps out, you step in and kind of replace them.

Oh, wow.

It's like bleacher seating. So you're in there, like, packed tight in maybe three or four rows, and it's hot as shit, (laughs) and...

How hot?

I don't remember the exact temperature, but it was the hottest sauna that I've ever been in.

Really?

Like, my skin was on fire.

Whoa.

After maybe a minute, two minutes of being in there, I was like, "This is almost unbearable."

That's probably the moisture. They probably threw a lot of water on that.

A lot of water, and then right after-

That, that makes a fucking difference.

Right after, you just walk downstairs, or you walk outside, and there's a, a set of stairs where you walk literally right into the ice lake at night. We did it, it was, like, 9:00 or 10:00 PM.

(exhales deeply)

Yeah.

And so they just cut a hole in the lake?

Mm-hmm.

(laughs)

And you just walk. There's, like, a metal, like, uh, walkway that you can't see, so it looks like you're just walking into the water when, uh, at night, but there's, like, a little walkway, like a railway underwater, and you can hold onto the rail, and-

Oh, wow.

... you know, and do your lap. And, um, yeah, I think I did it, like, maybe four times, like, four sessions, and it was the best, like, one of the best things at the end of the night. I slept like a baby.