Jim Baird on Arctic Survival, Alone, and Owning Bad Decisions
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The more you don't want to do it, the more it means you should. I agree with it. Whenever you don't want to do it. It's like the most important time. Yeah, you do it. And it's incredibly, incredibly rewarding. Spartans, listen up. We need to sleep better. How do you sleep better? Never thought about it before. And so I met Jack. I met Ascentia. I had attention to the mattress to sleep on because it's |
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| 0:33.6 | No toxins, no EMFs, no BS. |
| 0:36.7 | My buddy Jack, over at Ascentia, he's kind enough to give us a code for the |
| 0:40.5 | Spartan community. That's Deca, that's tough money of all of us. Use Spartan 25, get a discount, |
| 0:45.9 | prioritize your sleep so you can sleep faster, you can do more burpees, you can train more, |
| 0:50.9 | you can get healthier. When you sleep well, you live well. |
| 0:54.1 | Jacena, CEO and founder of Spartan, hosts a Hardway podcast. I'm in a remote location. |
| 0:59.6 | Can't tell you where I am, but I got my buddy Jim Baird on, who he, he, by the way, this guy knows |
| 1:04.9 | remote locations. He's an extreme explorer. He won, you won season four of alone, Jim? |
| 1:10.7 | That's right, in 2017 2017 he goes to all kinds of |
| 1:14.7 | remote locations by himself with a backpack and a toothbrush and he gets the job done welcome |
| 1:21.8 | aboard welcome thank you for having me you think we're born with this explorers gene or you think |
| 1:27.1 | it's something we, |
| 1:30.0 | you know, have or don't have, develop? I got an opinion, but I'm curious, I'm curious, |
| 1:35.1 | your opinion. Like, were you always like this? You know, ever since I was a tiny kid, |
| 1:40.3 | I always, I remember going up, you know, into my, to my parents, my dad and my grandfather, |
| 1:46.3 | they built this cabin in the bush and you could only get there by boat. |
| 1:50.2 | And I remember thinking that this was remote. |
| 1:52.8 | And I got older, I realized, no, it's not really that remote comparatively. |
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