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How To! with Mike Pesca

How To Withstand Pain

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

How To, Education

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sophie is a typical mom … who runs ultramarathons in her spare time. She's pretty tough but an upcoming 268-mile race across the loneliest parts of England is freaking her out. So we turned to Wim Hof, aka "The Iceman" for advice. Because when you are worried about pain, you should definitely consult a Dutch extreme athlete who sits in freezing water for fun. (Really!)

(This episode first aired on July 30, 2019)

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0:00.0

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Coming to headphones near you on can agree not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures.

0:21.8

Talk about genius.

0:22.6

Talk about generational talent.

0:23.7

Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss.

0:27.8

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.3

Hey listeners.

0:31.5

This week we're playing one of my favorite early episodes of how to,

0:35.0

featuring an incredible badass mom and a one-of-a-kind expert.

0:39.7

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0:42.8

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0:45.0

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0:47.6

And we love it if you would tell your friends and family to check us out.

0:50.3

They can always write us with their problems at how-to at slate.com. Thanks.

0:56.5

Nobody likes to feel pain. That's why I began to go into cold water. Cold water is like

1:03.7

merciless but righteous. It brings you right there and you got to learn one way or another.

1:09.7

And I thought, shit, this is is it and now I'm able to

1:13.9

train anybody this is how to the show where we help people figure out how to solve life's

1:21.4

toughest problems I'm Charles Duhnick and this is Sophie I'm my name's Sophie power and I'm an ultra-runner and mother.

1:31.4

I've got two boys, age one and four.

1:33.9

Oh my gosh.

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