Hello, hang up listeners. This is Josh Levine. I want to tell you about an episode of a new

Slate podcast that we're going to preview for you in the Hang Up and Listen feed today.

It is an episode of How To with Charles Duhigg. It is hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist

and author of The Power of Habit, the aforementioned Charles

Duhigg, in how to Charles uses his investigative reporting skills and finds experts to answer

listeners' toughest questions. It'll be coming out every week, but there are four episodes for you to

listen to right now. Make sure to subscribe an Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

In this first batch of episodes, Charles tackles how to be funny, how to give your

mom a kidney, and how to rob a bank.

You are about to hear an episode that is sports-related.

It is called How to Withstand Pain. It's a fun and fascinating

conversation with a runner who's about to tackle a 268-mile ultramarathon and is totally freaked out,

understandably so. We introduce her to a Dutch extreme athlete known as the Iceman,

who's developed a method for pain tolerance that includes spending hours submerged in ice water. Can he help our ultramarathoner

cross the finish line? Keep listening to How To with Charles Duhigg and you'll find out.

Nobody likes to feel pain.

That's why I began to go into cold water.

Cold water is like merciless but righteous.

It brings you right there and you gotta learn one way or another.

And I thought, shit, this is it.

And now I'm able to train anybody.

This is how to, a show where we help people figure out how to solve life's toughest

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