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283. Wim Hof’s Methods are Killing People: Cult Leader Exposed

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Cult specialist Scott Carney is back to expose one of his heroes: Wim Hof. It turns out his methods of breathing and ice work...have been killing people. Scott Carney's Links: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/igu8vkJnYAb https://www.youtube.com/@sgcarney Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok https://www.patreon.com/andrewgold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Wym is now so famous. He is such a big deal that people look at him as if he's infallible. People just see the profit.

0:06.8

You don't realize your profit's also mad, you're going to end up in trouble.

0:13.0

You are on the edge. This are on the edge.

0:14.0

This is on the edge with Andrew Gold.

0:15.0

Today's episode is with Scott Carney, who you may remember from a few weeks back he was talking

0:20.5

about the meditation cults that kill. He's really into cults and things as a journalist and he's also taking part in a lot of meditation he kinds of things and he's into all that sort of world that is is very distant from me but has given a lot of people a lot of

0:35.5

happiness and hope and helped them. I'm talking about breath work and breathing and

0:39.9

meditation and all that stuff but he is also also, you know, he is the person

0:44.1

apparently who broke the story about Wim Hof,

0:47.1

like in the first place.

0:48.0

Wim Hof is a very famous breath work and ice man who is known for being underwater, freezing water for, you know,

0:56.4

ridiculous amounts of time, setting all kinds of ridiculous records,

1:00.0

injecting himself with E. coli and curing himself just with his mind, although that was a little bit exaggerated.

1:06.0

But he can do pretty amazing things, but Scott, despite being a huge proponent of the

1:12.2

Wim Hof method, and if you don of the Wim Hof method.

1:13.6

And if you don't know Wim Hof is, go look him up.

1:15.9

He's bonkers, this big ice man guy,

1:18.2

and hugely popular and a fascinating, clearly impressive person. And I say bonkers in a nice way and we have

1:28.4

this discussion now Scott and I about the dangers of the Wim Hof method because a lot of people have gotten in touch

1:34.1

with Scott who feels a little bit guilty about pushing women to the world.

1:39.1

A lot of people got in touch to say that their family members, their friends have died through drowning because people are trying to do this

1:45.8

breathing method which is separate to the ice stuff but they're doing it underwater or in the ice or under the ice

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