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ARCTIC BLISS with Arjan Van Der Schoot · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: All right, once again returning to the airwaves here in
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: this Memorial Day, A very very happy Memorial Day. Yes
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: it is. It is Monday. It is Memorial Day, at
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  Speaker 1: least on the calendar. And I was chatting with Ron
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Tolman over at the VFW last night and he once
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: again reminded me that the parade, the Memorial Day parade,
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  Speaker 1: is going to be this coming Friday morning, which is
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  Speaker 1: the apparently the true Memorial Day, which I think is boy,
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  Speaker 1: it's slipping my mind what it's called. But anyway, it
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a Friday morning, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that you know that and spread the
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  Speaker 1: word on that will be there. We'll be streaming live
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  Speaker 1: and just like we did last year, and I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a great day. Hopefully mother nature
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  Speaker 1: is going to cooperate. She did a little bit yesterday
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  Speaker 1: for about thirty forty five minutes the sun came out
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  Speaker 1: and then it was right back to the the clouds
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  Speaker 1: and the cold and even some rain. But man, it
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  Speaker 1: is beautiful out this morning. The sun is shining. It
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  Speaker 1: is a gorgeous day, at least here in the Granite City.
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  Speaker 1: And to drive in this morning and see that huge
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  Speaker 1: American flag flying high and pry proud above North Main
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  Speaker 1: Street here and Barry was just awesome. Awesome. So, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of the cold, you have probably heard me on the
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  Speaker 1: air in the past talking about Arctic Bliss and what
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  Speaker 1: they do the ice baths, and you've probably heard me
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  Speaker 1: give testimony to this not only at the Green Mountain
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  Speaker 1: Reggae Festival last summer, but also just recently within the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. It seems probably a little bit
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  Speaker 1: longer than that over at Washington County Mental Health's Wellness
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday on Summer Street, where Arctic Bliss showed up with
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  Speaker 1: this huge trailer with this portable ice bath set up
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  Speaker 1: and did this right on Summer Street, and myself had
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  Speaker 1: a slaton and a few others partook, and once again
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  Speaker 1: there were new people that I was able to witness
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  Speaker 1: not only get in the ice bath, but also I
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  Speaker 1: got to witness and experience them open their eyes not
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  Speaker 1: just from the shock, but open their eyes to the
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  Speaker 1: medicinal benefits to ice bathing. And I got to see
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  Speaker 1: them see the light and say, oh my god, this
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  Speaker 1: is something that I may need to explore a little
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  Speaker 1: bit further. This is something I may want to consider
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  Speaker 1: incorporating into my life in some way, not necessarily every day,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the wow factor and it was huge.
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  Speaker 1: Our young Van der Slut is my guest this morning.
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  Speaker 1: He is the owner. You're the man behind Arctic Bliss.
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  Speaker 1: You are everything behind Arctic Bliss. Brother. Welcome to aired Out.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, JD. It's wonderful to be here. It's great
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  Speaker 2: to see you again. It was so nice to meet
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  Speaker 2: you at the at the Reggae festival. It was last summer,
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  Speaker 2: last summer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it was last summer, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't remember what month it was, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, and Matt does a great job
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  Speaker 1: bringing in some, for lack of a better term, non
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  Speaker 1: traditional type of vendors.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: And when I saw you, I was first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know really anything about you or Ice. Or
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  Speaker 1: Ice met we had never met, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what is this all about? And I came up to
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  Speaker 1: you and and I think I was watching Bessie do it,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I was intrigued right off.
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  Speaker 2: She did great as well, she did was right. She
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  Speaker 2: went into the zen mode and quickly, yeah, quickly, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was great, But you got there.
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  Speaker 1: I did it great, I did, but it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fantastic, believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, you know I was not in any in any
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  Speaker 1: way prepared to do something like this. It wasn't anticipating
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  Speaker 1: in any of it. And when I got into that
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  Speaker 1: ice water, it, I mean, it took all of my
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  Speaker 1: breath away. But there was this this hesitation beforehand where
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  Speaker 1: I said, oh my god, I'm not sure if I.
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  Speaker 2: Can do this, and that doesn't really go away. I
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  Speaker 2: still have that, after having gone in hundreds of time.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I stand in front of the ice bath,
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  Speaker 2: I go, eh, maybe i'll do it tomorrow, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's an ice bath, not a hot tub, so it's
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  Speaker 2: but then overcoming that thought and saying all right, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just gonna go in and I know it's gonna be fantastic,
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  Speaker 2: And then just going in and that overcoming that voice
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  Speaker 2: in your mind that says I'm not gonna do this,
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  Speaker 2: this is gonna be great, but then saying all right,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be fantastic and it's gonna be really good
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  Speaker 2: for me. And just that act of overcoming that initial
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  Speaker 2: inside voice is already so powerful that it's alone is
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  Speaker 2: already worth it.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's you just said it all right there. In
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, that that's the key right there, because look
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  Speaker 1: at how many things in our lives, yes exactly, that
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  Speaker 1: we dread exactly whatever whatever they may be. It could be.
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  Speaker 1: It could be the dread of you know, we got
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  Speaker 1: an impending surgery that's coming up. We have we have
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  Speaker 1: an impending breakup that's that's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: It's a million things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what's it going to be? What's it going
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  Speaker 1: to be like?
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  Speaker 2: Yep?
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  Speaker 1: On the other side, what's it going to be like.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, it's the it's the well, that's the thing would worry, right,
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  Speaker 2: You worry about things in your head, and it's like
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  Speaker 2: a fraction of the thing that you all worry about
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  Speaker 2: is actually going to come to pass. Sure, And it's
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  Speaker 2: the same here you worry about you know, it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: suck it, it's gonna be cold, and it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: and then you get in it, right and you know,
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  Speaker 2: like with you I I guided you through it with
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  Speaker 2: with the with the breathing methods. Yes, and then after
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  Speaker 2: twenty thirty seconds you literally calm down in the freezing water. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you go like, ah, you go, man, this is it's
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  Speaker 2: still cold. But you can you You go like, I
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  Speaker 2: can do this, I can do hard things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The first time I did it. The first time
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  Speaker 1: I did it, I had a smile on my face.
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  Speaker 2: Because I was do we have footage of that we
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  Speaker 2: do somewhere somewhere?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's I think it's what. I had to smile
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  Speaker 1: on my face because I was like, because I was thinking,
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  Speaker 1: son of a bitch, this guy is right. I am.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't in the ice the whole time going No,
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  Speaker 1: it was literally thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: You calm down, you come right down. It's then it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's That's one of the reasons why it's
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  Speaker 2: so wonderful to do it is why to introducing people
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  Speaker 2: to the ice bath and seeing how they respond that
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  Speaker 2: moment where they go from out of breath and then
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  Speaker 2: listening to me making them breathe in deep and out
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  Speaker 2: long and calming themselves down and that moment where they
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  Speaker 2: go that is that is is really magical. It's really fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Donna wants to know, is it dangerous to be in
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  Speaker 1: that cold of water? And when we say that cold,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about a ten air freezing Yeah, right around
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  Speaker 1: a freezing right around thirty degrees.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably it's probably thirty three thirty four. All right,
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  Speaker 2: it's right right around it's freezing.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Dangerous's super cold water?
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  Speaker 2: Bro it is?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's dangerous. Dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: It's dangerous. If you have let's say, if you already
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  Speaker 2: suffer from really high blood pressure, you shouldn't probably do it.
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  Speaker 2: If you have serious heart issues, you should probably not
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  Speaker 2: do it. Okay, but save those things. It is it
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  Speaker 2: is safe to do, uh, provided you do it under
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  Speaker 2: the guidance of somebody who knows what they're doing for
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  Speaker 2: the first time. Don't go by yourself, because if you
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  Speaker 2: freak out in water, that can be very dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, if you're just joining us up. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: Happy Memorial Day, Our young vanderslut is our guest this morning,
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  Speaker 1: our young.
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  Speaker 2: Very young vander Shoot.
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  Speaker 1: All right, yeah, all right. You know, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to know what about your name?
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  Speaker 1: Because after I had met you, I had met someone
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  Speaker 1: who said to me, have you met this crazy you
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  Speaker 1: got German bastard just down in Woodstock or White River
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. This guy is freaking batshit crazy?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, I take that as a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, when people say that, first of all, you're not German.
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  Speaker 2: No, it ain't much of it, ain't Dutch.
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  Speaker 1: That I love that like, you know. That was the
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  Speaker 1: thing is like, if this ice bath was just sitting there,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way in hell I would have just guided there.
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  Speaker 1: But you saying to me, hey man, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: not only right with you, but I'm gonna be talking
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  Speaker 1: you through every second of it. And to see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: grown men in there and they're like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they need to hold your hands. Yes, most
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  Speaker 2: times I hold people's hands, literally hold their hands, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter what. Well, and I got a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: rubber duckies in the bath here you need to which
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  Speaker 2: you know also mentally they help because your your eyes
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  Speaker 2: are looking at the duckies and that's not really scary, right,
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  Speaker 2: So mentally it already sort of puts you more at
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  Speaker 2: ease for the crazy thing you're going to go through.
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  Speaker 1: I when when I first met you and everything, of
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  Speaker 1: course I had followed wim Hoff right, who tell.
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  Speaker 2: Us another crazy Dutch guy, crazy Beard, a Dutch guy.
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  Speaker 1: For folks that you that don't know who wim Hoff is,
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  Speaker 1: please explain and.
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  Speaker 2: So shall I shall I explain how I got into it.
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  Speaker 2: So I was doing obstacle course races, okay, because at
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  Speaker 2: a certain age people start doing obstacle course racist to
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  Speaker 2: sort of prove that they still got it right. So
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  Speaker 2: I was doing that and then one Christmas, uh, my
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  Speaker 2: wonderful wife Charn gave me the book Breath by James Nestor.
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  Speaker 2: In that book, I did a short version of that
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  Speaker 2: book is that you should really breathe through your nose always,
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  Speaker 2: except when you're eating or talking, because that's so much
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  Speaker 2: better for you. But in that book it also mentioned
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  Speaker 2: vim Hoff, who is this crazy bearded Dutch guy who's
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  Speaker 2: pretty famous, and me being from Holland, you would have
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  Speaker 2: thought I would have heard of him as well, which
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  Speaker 2: I hadn't. So then I bought his book The vim
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  Speaker 2: Hoff Method, and he has a method that's part breathing,
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  Speaker 2: part cold exposure, part meditation I would say mindfulness, and
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  Speaker 2: there are three separate components. So I read his book
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  Speaker 2: and I thought I had this this cold exposure thing.
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  Speaker 2: I got to check that out. So I started to
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  Speaker 2: do cold showers and then I started to do ice bath.
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  Speaker 2: I just got a watering troth filled it with water
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  Speaker 2: and ice and hopped in. And then I had friends
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  Speaker 2: and family come over and they hopped in and everybody
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  Speaker 2: liked it. And it was really that got a got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of traction. So I thought, oh, it's just
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  Speaker 2: this is pretty cool pun intended, but I don't want
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  Speaker 2: everybody to come to my house all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought, I got to take this show on
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  Speaker 2: the road. And I called a friend of mine, Mike Welch,
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  Speaker 2: who's really great at building pizza trucks and such, and
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  Speaker 2: I see it. I want a trailer. It has to
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  Speaker 2: have a changing room, a big container of water, a
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  Speaker 2: big freezer to keep ice in, and some room to
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  Speaker 2: keep my tubs. He said, yeah, I can do it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll call you back tomorrow. So he called the next day.
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  Speaker 2: We agreed on a price, and he said, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: haven't done in three weeks. And three weeks four weeks later,
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  Speaker 2: I had a big trailer and I started to go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to de Green in Woodstock, for instance, and
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  Speaker 2: I would set up and I would have an ice
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  Speaker 2: bath and people would walk by and look at me,
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  Speaker 2: what is this crazy mofo doing right? And I would
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  Speaker 2: talk to them about why I'm doing it. What the
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  Speaker 2: health benefits are, what the mental benefits are, And slowly
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  Speaker 2: I started to convince people to try it, which is
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  Speaker 2: not an easy thing to do. No. I always say,
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  Speaker 2: if I can make money off of people that say
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  Speaker 2: hell no, yes, I'd be all set, be all said.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the exact number, but ninety five percent
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  Speaker 2: of people will probably never do it. So it's it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to convince people to get in a bucket of
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  Speaker 2: near freezing water.
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  Speaker 1: But then you give them the tools, not not only
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  Speaker 1: the knowledge but through it, yes, but but also an
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  Speaker 1: ice bath yes, that they can take home and and
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  Speaker 1: do on their own schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. And it's and it's so again, it's really hard
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  Speaker 2: to convince people to try it. Yes, but practically everyone
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  Speaker 2: that tries it, yeah, becomes hooked. Yes, because of you know,
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  Speaker 2: it has it has all these health benefits which are numerous. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: But the main thing is is that it instantaneously makes
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  Speaker 2: you feel fantastic. It does like you can conquer the
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  Speaker 2: entire world.
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  Speaker 1: I was just having a conversation before we went hot
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  Speaker 1: this morning, telling you about the very Heritage festival, and
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  Speaker 1: we already have a comment this morning that says this
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  Speaker 1: could be a big hit at the Berry Heritage Festival.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we got to see if we can if we
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  Speaker 2: can get a spot there at the Bury Heritage Festival
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  Speaker 2: in July, right.
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  Speaker 1: In July, the end of July. You roll this trailer in.
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  Speaker 1: You've got everything in there, You've got a changing room,
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  Speaker 1: you even have you have eliminated every excuse.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well and now I've eliminated I've eliminated another excuse
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  Speaker 2: because people say, oh, I hate the cold. So now oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's the trailer. Look at that. Ye now I have
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  Speaker 2: my friend Mike again has converted the changing room into
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  Speaker 2: a sauna. Come yes, sir, so.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute so you can freeze your ass off.
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  Speaker 2: And then you can warm up afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I feel that it's it's easier to convince people
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  Speaker 2: to get into freezing water if they know afterwards they
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  Speaker 2: can warm up again.
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  Speaker 1: Aha. And when people say to you, oh, I would
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  Speaker 1: love to try this, and I don't have any I
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  Speaker 1: don't have any shorts or a baby, I don't have
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  Speaker 1: any dry clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Everything they can get changed. I have shorts, I have
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  Speaker 2: towels there there, it's all self sufficient.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. You you walked me through it. When I
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  Speaker 1: got into the ice bath with you, you walked me
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  Speaker 1: through it. You explained everything that's happening to me, which
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  Speaker 1: I found fascinating and comforting. I'm assuming and very comforting.
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  Speaker 1: But I joke around all the time on the air
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  Speaker 1: about all of my orthopedic issues. I've got a body
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  Speaker 1: that's full of arthritis in every joint. I have inflammation
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  Speaker 1: problems up the wazoo. I was working out in the
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  Speaker 1: yard yesterday and I wanted to tell you this. I
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  Speaker 1: have been waiting to tell you this on the air
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  Speaker 1: working out in the yard yesterday. Afterward, bending over the wheelbarrow,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. Afterwards, I can feel the lactic acid
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  Speaker 1: building up in my joints if I sit down on
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  Speaker 1: the couch, even twenty minutes getting up off that couch,
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  Speaker 1: you should hear.
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  Speaker 2: Me creaking everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's Charlyn's looking at me like, really, dude, seriously.
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  Speaker 2: The ice bathist the solution. Well, it's not a fix all,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a it's a it's a fixed a lot
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  Speaker 2: without drugs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're using your natural drugs that you already have
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  Speaker 1: in your body, which a lot of the time are
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  Speaker 1: kind of just sitting there on reserved.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have a I have a good story about.
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  Speaker 2: So we're in the in the Woodstock area, Wide River Junction.
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  Speaker 2: So there's one time we were having lunch in White
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  Speaker 2: River Junction and Charn says, you should get a haircut.
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  Speaker 2: There's a barber shop right up there. Go check that out.
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  Speaker 2: It's all right. So I went to the barber shop
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  Speaker 2: in White River Junction, Bouchard's barber Shop, and Denise Bouchard,
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  Speaker 2: whom I had never met, h was cutting to cut
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  Speaker 2: my hair and we started talking and you know, naturally
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  Speaker 2: we get the ice bath and everything, and she goes, well,
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  Speaker 2: I've always been kind of curious, but I've never never
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  Speaker 2: done that, and I want to do a polar plunge.
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, is it happened to me? I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be And this was in December, So December two years
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  Speaker 2: ago now or a year and a half ago, let's
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  Speaker 2: call a year and a half ago. And I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be in White River Junction tomorrow with
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  Speaker 2: my trailer and an ice bath, so you can just
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  Speaker 2: come by and give it a try. So she said, okay.
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  Speaker 2: The next day I went to White River Junction. We
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  Speaker 2: set up and the niece came by and her business
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  Speaker 2: partner there, Sandy, and they're both in their sixties. I
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  Speaker 2: would say they went in and they loved it. A
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  Speaker 2: couple of days later was January. First, we had a
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  Speaker 2: polar dip at the Moscoma Lake. They went in there
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  Speaker 2: and the niece was hooked. She got a tub, put
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  Speaker 2: it on her porch and it was so it was December, January,
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  Speaker 2: so it got cold, the water got cold naturally. She
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  Speaker 2: started to go in every single morning, and she has
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  Speaker 2: arthritis in both her knees, and she said after a
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  Speaker 2: couple of months of going in consistent, consistently, she used
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  Speaker 2: to go to the hospital every three months to get
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  Speaker 2: shots for her knees, right Cortizon shots or whatever you
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  Speaker 2: get for that. She said. After doing ice bath regularly,
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  Speaker 2: she canceled her appointments. She's not doing him anymore, she says,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't need him anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It is so amazing, it's fantastic, so amazing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you said to me, I don't know if you remember,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you said to me, gd wh when you hurt something,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you fall, you hurt. There's the injury, but it's the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: inflammation around that injury that causes the pain. So we're
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: all taught since whenever an ice pack, you've got to
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: ice it. If it's if it's a burn, if it's
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a sprain, ankle, whatever it is, get ice on it
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: right away because that reduces the inflammation, which symptom right,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: which symptomatically reduces the pain. So you get ice on it,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and then you got to get the injury fixed whatever,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: or it needs to heal. But the ice is what
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: reduces the inflammation. And then you said, imagine your whole
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: body being on an ice pack, literally every millimeter of
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: your body being covered by thirty something degree water.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: And it's a it's it isn't. It isn't. But it's
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: a relative simple thing to do, right, Just sit in
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: a bucket sure of really really cold water. You know.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Actually it's a simple thing to do, but mentally it's
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: not right. Mentally it's a hard thing to do, which
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: is oftentimes when you ask people, right, they would rather
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: take a pill than do something that will make him
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: better or feel better. And the ice pat is the
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: same thing. It's a simple thing to do, but it's
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: you know, it's a nice path. It's not super easy.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: You said to me, it's and I found this to
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: be striking. You said to me, it's actually more difficult
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to be in a nice, comfortable, warm shower and then
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden it changes to cold.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so the cold shower, there's always a debate
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: because a cold shower is easier to do, right, because
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: you take a shower in the morning anyway, just got
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: to turn it all the way to cold. And here
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: in Vermont, clearly the water gets really cold when you
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: turn it to cold. Sure, but like we said before, right,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: it's the initial shock that's the hardest part, right, and
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: then after in the ice bath, and then after twenty
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds you get past that and you calm down
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and you're okay with the shower. It hits your front,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: you have the initial shock. Then you turn around, hit
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: your back, you get the initial shock again. You turn around,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: it's initial shock again. So you you get that initial
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: shock over and over again. So a lot of people
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: tell me that they find that hopping in an ice
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: bath is easier than doing a cold shower.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Isn't that something else?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's but a cold shower is easier accessible.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So I also do.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: It sometimes if I if I know I'm not going
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: in the ice bath and I'm taking a shower. Then
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I turn it to cold at the end and it
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: still gives you.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: That cold and then back to the warm.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: No, the best thing is cold and on cold. That's
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: the best thing to do.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you guys something right now. If
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: you're if you're joining us, this is our young vander
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: shoot yes, from Arctic Arctic Bliss, which is out of woodstock. Okay,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: you travel all over the place with your your trailer.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I'm going to show it again. You've you've probably seen
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: it on the interstate.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: We can go. We can go anywhere. I've been to
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: New Jersey. Uh, we can go anywhere as long as
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I can drive there.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: It is you. You said something, and you you make
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: this very well known. What happens to your body when
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you get into the ice bath. And it's not just
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: this guy is different from that guy. If you have
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a human body, correct, and you get into an ice bath,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: something profound happens chemically, physically, yes, to your your brain
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and your body. And I'm telling you wait until you
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: hear this.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Please you explain, Well, when you get cold, when you
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: get really cold, like an ice bath, your brain goes
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: into survival mode, right, fight or flight, Yeah, it goes
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: we're gonna die. We need to stay warm. We got
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: to do something. And there's two ways that you can
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: stay warm. One is brown fat. Brown fat is different
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: from a white fat. White fat is you know at
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: your belly that you don't really want. White fat is
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: energy storage. Right, if we eat more than we consume,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: we get white fat because it's energy storage for later.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Brown fat is fat that's more inside of us. It's
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: around our organs, I think, and in the back of
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the neck. Brown fat gets activated when we get into
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: the cold, and brown fat burns energy. It's an energy burner.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: So when we get in the cold, your brown fat
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: gets activated and it starts burning glucose and fats from
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: your bloodstream, which keeps you warm. The brown fat is
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: your internal stove. When we're little, we have percentage wise,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: way more brown fat than when we get older. As
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: we get older, we lose it unless you start doing
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: ice bath or cold showers, cold exposure, then it starts
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: building back again. If the brown fat cannot keep up
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: anymore and you get colder, then you start shivering and
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: your muscles. Right, if you if you exercise, you use
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: your muscles and you get warm, right. Shivering is an
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: involuntary muscle twitching to create heat. So you know, if
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: you're in an ice bath and you start shivering uncontrollably,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: then you have to get out because then you're getting
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: too cold. But unless that is happening, which I've never
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: had anybody that I had to take out before a
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: couple of minutes, so it's wo and that that keeps
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: you warm for a certain amount of time. What your
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: body also does it releases a lot of adrenaline and dopamine,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: like two hundred and fifty percent, which are the feel
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: good chemicals, and there's you can't have your body not
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: do that. When you get in an ice bath, your
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: body automatically goes, we gotta survive its flight or fight.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: We gotta we gotta do this, so it dumbs all
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the adrenaline dopamine, and when you get out, you feel
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: fantastic because of that increase in the dopamine and the adrenaline,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: and that stays with you for like four or five hours.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: They say, So if you do an ice bath in
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the morning, it really sets you up to have a
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: great day because you're you're just feeling great because and
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: it's impossible not to do that. So that's that's the
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: beauty of doing ice bath events. It makes everybody feel great.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: It's not a friend of mine says it always delivers.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: There's not. You know, when you have a massage, you
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: can say, ah, that was okay. That's with the icebath.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: That's not the case. It's always wow. Yeah because of that,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: because of that big dump of adrenaline and dopamine.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: And I remember when I had my first ice bath
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: right at the Green Mountain Reggie Fest. Right, Uh you
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you said to me, you're gonna feel You're gonna feel
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: great for like four hours, right, And son of a bitch,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: it was four hours almost to the minute before. And
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I even looked at my watch and I'm like, I'm
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: starting to feel a little stiff again, and I look
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: at my watch exactly four hours. Oh my god.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: We had a We had a White River Jian White
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: River Junction. We set up on a sidewalk fairly often
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: and we try to convince passerbys to try an icebath.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: And we had this, uh, this this wonderful woman, a
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: larger woman, and she was walking with a cane and
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: she went in and it was that was spectacular. It
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: was like a gospel moment. And she got out and
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: she said her legs always always.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Her her always Yeah, and they weren't hurting.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Said, it's fantastic. And I saw her like a couple
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: of months later and she had indeed incorporated cold exposure
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: into her health regime.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Is amazing.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fantastic.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Comment here, the best sleep that I've ever had.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: There, you go, yep, exactly, that's exactly right. I hear
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: that a lot.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Why is that.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: So? It It greatly boosts your metabolism, and I think
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: it just it just takes so much energy too, that
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: you just leap really well. Okay, I'm just I've heard
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: this more often. I had somebody trying icebath who said
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: she had she notoriously slept really really bad, and she
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: also said afterwards that she had the best night sleep
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: she'd had in years.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Reducing inflammation is something, my god, we all need. Man.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: It's like, look at don't don't get me started on
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: just the foods that we eat here in America and
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: all of the ship that's in it that contributes to inflammation.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're eating foods here in the United
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: States that are Arctic glacier.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: The ice company just goes by.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: See that.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Wow, how universe works.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: You know. I was having a conversation with with some
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: friends yesterday about the foods that are that we're consuming
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: here that are banned in Europe, and we're walking around
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: with a lot of inflammation. You don't, You don't have
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: to have an injury to have inflammation. All you have
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: to do is eat a lot of the stuff that right,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: that is available to you here in America.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Correct, And all you gotta do is have an ice
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: bath every day?
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, So are you do you do the ice
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: bath every day?
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Well? I wasn't doing it every day. I was probably
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: doing it three two, three, four times a week. They say,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: they whoever studies these things, say that optimal, whatever optimal means,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: is eleven minutes per week, broken up in different sessions.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: So we usually go to three minutes. So if you
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: go like four times three minutes, that should be good.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: But it's it's it's the same thing, right, One time
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: a week is better than none at all. So it's
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: just it's all very personal how much access you have
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: to it and.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: What about testosterone and what about male issues? So and
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: some Mark Mark Mark Vandershoot is asking this, Yes.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: That's my son. Of course he was. Of course he
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: was asking about male issues. Yes, Mark, but no, definitely.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: But they say that if you have an ice bath
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: before a workout, So oftentimes the general knowledge is right,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: have an ice bath after workout, like after a marathon.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Your muscles are inflamed.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: And right, testosterone wise, for males, you should have an
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: ice bath before a workout. So have an ice bath
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: then do your workouts, and that is really testosterone boosting.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Really Okay, what about getting intimate.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: In the ice path? I see your point there.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Having the ice path before you're getting you're planning on
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: getting intimate maybe you know, only to find out maybe
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: like you know, several hours before.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: It increases your adrenaline and dopamine, so.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: You'll be ready and you're you're what's the word I'm
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: thinking of it?
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: And it increases blood flow, blood flow because when you
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: get into the ice circulation, yes, your blood circulation, So
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: when you get into the ice, your body goes in
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: survival mode and it goes we got to make sure
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: that there's enough blood for our vital organs, So it
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: shuts down blood circulation to your extremities like your your arms,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: your legs and uh, there's another extremity that we males have. Yes,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: when you get so it closes your arteries in veins.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: That's why you feel cold in your feet, in your
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: hands first, because it decreases blood circulation there. When you
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: get out, your arteries in veins open up again, and
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: that closing in an opening is sort of like exercise
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: for your arteries in veins, and that increases overall blood circulation.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Is great vascular yep, exactly. So, yes, shrinkage definitely happens
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: when you're in the ice bath. But when you come
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: out and blood resumes, you're good to go.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: And that's something that's why we say shrinkage.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: That's right, shrinkage is real.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I jumped in, I jumped into the into we were
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: at the beach in Maine, right and I jumped into
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the ocean and came out. And my wife had all
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: kinds of jokes about shrinkage exactly.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: But it's a good thing because it increases blood circulation
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: at a later point.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: So is it safe to do this every day? Should
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: we talk to the doctor first?
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: You should talk to a doctor first. That is always
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: the best thing to do, because, like I said, if
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: you have serious heart issues, you should probably skip an
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: ice bath. In general, it's it's safe to do, but
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: I would definitely do it under the guidance of somebody
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: who knows what they're doing for at least the first
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: couple of times. Never do it by yourself in case
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: something does happen. Right, Right, you're in a body of waters.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Right, you'll always be always be with with someone. And
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and I say be with be with you, I mean
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: be with you and learn this, and you'll you're not
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: gonna you know, you're gonna encourage someone, but you're not
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: gonna put like a no goodly amount of pressure on them.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: You're gonna encourage, You're gonna explain the benefit.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: It's a delicate it's a delicate line encouraging people to
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: go in because everybody has hesitant. Nobody wants to do
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: it because it's an ice bath.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: The last time we were together doing an ice bath,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: it was snowing out. It was a very cold day.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: We had a guy that was there. This was over
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: on on Summer Street here and Barry.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: At the Washington Mental Health Yes, place.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: There was a guy that was there. There were two
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: guys that were there that were absolutely not planning on
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: not at all, and they.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Both went in. They both went in and they both
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: loved it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: But you brought them there and you you, you brought
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: them over to the edge of the ice bath and
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: you explain the benefits.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: And it's a again, it's a and you know, you
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: got to put some pressure on the credits. No, they didn't.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: They loved it. The one guy, I don't know what
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: his injury was. Was it his leg? He had something,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: but he was also yeah, Mark, that's right, Mark, Mark.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: He had some injury. I forgot what it was. But
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: he came out of the changing room afterwards and he
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: goes his back, his back, he goes, I feel fantastic. Yeah,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: back feels great. Never felt this great.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And look at heaven. I mean she was
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: she was hesitating and felt like a million bucks.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean she did great.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Literally feel like you're eighteen years old.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: But you got to you gotta push people a little bit. Yeah,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: a little bit, because if you don't push them at all, Right,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: So I try to do it in a in a
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: in a I try to push people in a somewhat
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: comical way. Yeah, you know that, they laugh, but I'm
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: still saying, sure, you know, you should really do this. Yeah,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: I know it's hard, but you should do it. And
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: it's it's interesting to see them because I've put hundreds
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: and hundreds of people through this. Yeah, and it's very
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: interesting to see the different how different people reached ponds.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: In general, women do better than men. A lot of
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: women say that the breathing methods are the same as
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: giving birth, so it's the same calming down with the breathing. Interestingly,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: the really strong, big guys do the worst.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: That's so interesting.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, and I figured out why they see it as
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: a conquering thing. They're going, oh, I'm gonna conquer this.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: I'm strong, I'm tough, waw. And it's the exact opposite.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: It's a surrendering. It's the exact opposite. Somebody who does
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: meditation a lot will have no problem with this because
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: it's all calming yourself down. We had a guy again
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: in White River Junction. We had a guy go in.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: He was a big guy, young guy, but you know, strong,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: big guy. He went in, gut outs, went in, gut outs,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: went in, got out. It took him five times of
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: jumping in and jumping out immediately, took him five times
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: to finally calm himself down and be okay. And then
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: he lasted a couple of minutes and he did great,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: but it took him five times. When he got out
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: and when he got dressed again, he thanked us and
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: as he walked away he said, Man, I've been shot
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: at in Afghanistan, but this is something else. And it was.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: And that's that's typical. It's oftentimes the big, strong guys
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: that see it as a conquering thing that take more
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: time to calm down, yeah, and surrender to it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: You've also had people that can't get past that first
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: thirty thirty seconds.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: That happens and they bail.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: It's fight or flight. It's flight.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that happened. Not that often though it it happens,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: but rarely. But the most people, most people do really well.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: There's this transport is transformative.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Experience the second and it's beautiful to see on people's faces.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: You see mind, yes, you see once they go from
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: because in the beginning you can't catch your breath. No,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: it takes it literally takes your breath away. But then
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: I talk to you, and I tell you to breathe
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: in deep as deep as you can, and out long.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: And if you just focus on your breathing in deep, outlong,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: do not hold your breath. Then after twenty thirty seconds,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: you literally go like a and you see people calm
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: down and you see the realization in their eyes, like, oh,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, I can do this. I'm okay, I'm okay,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: I can do this. I can do hard things. Yeah,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: And that's really that's fantastic.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: You know, so many of us when we're gathering around
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the ice bath and our friend or our husband or
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: wife or relative is getting in there, and we see
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: how much hesitation they have and what it takes them
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: mental toughness to commit to doing this. I'm talking opening
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: the door to this trailer and going in and putting
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: on a bathing suit number one. Number two, coming out
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: and standing in front of the ice bath and the
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: crowd of people that are there. Okay, there's that number three.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Listening to your instructions and getting lifting your leg and
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: getting your first leg in the bath and then the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: second leg. These are all stages. And then once you're
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: standing in that water waist deep, your brain is saying,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: there's no way in hell that I can get pass this.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: There's no way I can sit down right exactly.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: But you can and you can do. And you know
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: what the beautiful thing is about this is that once
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: you start doing it, and or or even the first time,
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: when you do it and you get you sit down,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: you calm yourself down and you come out and you
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: feel great. You realize that you can do things that
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: you never thought you could do, which is really empowering.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: And you know, if you do it in the morning,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: and let's say you afterwards, you're driving traffic, somebody cuts
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: you off, You're going, ah, whatever, I just did an
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: ice bath, whatever you do is fine. You can you
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: can handle so much more after you start your day
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: in freezing water.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a level of reset, Yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: You but when when you as a spectator, when you
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: or your friend or your loved one comes out and
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: you can see the hesitation on their face, You see
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: what happens to their face, in their eyes when they
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: put that first leg in, You see what happens to
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: them when they sit down and they lose their breath.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: You feel like you need to cheer them on with
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: as much enthusiasm as possible, but you actually encourage not
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: to do that so that there can be a sense
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: of focus that that person has on your voice.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Correct, because it's it's you know, it's it's very duplicitous
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: because anybody can do it, and it is relatively easy.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: But on the other hand, it's also really hard, right,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: It's a really hard thing to do, and to get
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: through it, you really need to focus on your breathing
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: and you need to listen to me telling you how
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: to breathe, and you're gonna be okay. And if everybody
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: around you is yelling and stuff, then you get distracted
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: and you look more at Freddy or Henrietta or whatever,
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: and then you then it's going to start to feel
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: colder again, and it's.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: And then it's more it's more of trying to conquer.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I always ask everybody to be quiet while
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: the person goes in, and then the second they come out,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: So I like to have people end with a head dunk,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: and then when they come up from the head dunk
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: and come out, then everybody goes crazy and everybody is cheering,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: and the person that comes out is filled with the dope,
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: meaning adrenaline, and then it's a real it's a real victory.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: I saw your latest thing here the Saturday morning commandos.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: What in that?
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: What the hell is going on here? Buddy?
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: What?
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: It's fantastic, less thread, more skin, better benefits.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Better benefits. It takes you to another level. If you
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: go commando, it's fine. However you go in right, A
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: lot of people wear a T shirt or and that's
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: all fine because it's still it's still freaking cold. Yeah,
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: but the less you have on, the more direct contact
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: the water has with your skin, the more intense the experiences.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: What do you do afterwards? When you get out of
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: your ice bath? Do you?
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: I walk around a little bit.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: You don't run for the hot shower.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: I do not run for the hot shower. No. Well,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: that's also a misconception because when you get out of
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: an ice bath, it doesn't really matter how cold it
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: is outside. It can be freezing outside. If you get
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: out of an ice bath, whatever the air is is
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: not going to feel cold because water conducts way more
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: than air. Right, water draws the heat out of you
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: way more than air can. So if you get out
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: of an ice bath, unless it's like minus twenty or
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: zero degrees or something, then yeah, it's going to be
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: cold out. But unless it's that when you get out
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: of an ice bath, you're not going to feel.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Cold, especially if you don't have a shirt on. I G.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: See that.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Really you're drying faster and you.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Would drive faster without a shirt on. Yes, yes, and
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: moving if you get out, moving is really good because
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: moving will get your heart pumping and that will get
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: your blood circulation back again, which will warm you up again.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: You can feel your body warming quickly. You can. It's
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: really odd, but.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: You have to be careful because you know it's also
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: the longer you stay in, the longer it takes for
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: you to warm up. And there is so when you
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: get out, your art reagion veins open up again, right,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: your blood starts pumping the blood everywhere. So the blood
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: goes through your fingers right, which are cold. It cools
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: the blood down that goes there, and then the cooler
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: blood goes back to your heart and then warms up
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: again and goes back again. So it takes a little
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: bit for you to really warm up. It's not just
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: when the blood reaches you sure that you're warmed up,
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: so you should be. You should be cautious when you
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: get out. You shouldn't really drive a trailer tractor or
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: something the minute you come out. Okay, wait like a
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: half an hour or so until you're really warmed up.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Throughout you're doing events, you do weddings, private events, yes,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: running races, Yes, you're going to be corporate.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Great for team building. It's great for because if you
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: go through this together and you see your friends or
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: your peers or your your you know, your wedding guests
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: go through it, it is really a very empowering and
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: team building experience.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: What about you're going to be at the Covered Bridges Race, Yes,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: next Sunday.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Next Sunday, Yeah, June first, Covered Bridges Half Marathon in Woodstock.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Usually there's about two thousand plus people running that. We
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: were there. Last year we had almost one hundred and
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: forty people go in the ice bath, which was the
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: weather was great. It was fantastic. This year it really
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: is weather dependent, right, but we're expecting a lot of
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: people to hop in, especially now that we also have
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: the sauna available.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, very important, sure.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: M Yeah, we're set up to have lots and lots
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: of people go in. It's great for recovering after a marathon.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: And the great thing is with the ice bath, you
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: have to sort of get past the point of being uncomfortable. Right, Yes,
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: runners of a marathon or half marathon can only finish
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: that if they know how to get past the point
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: of being uncomfortable. Right, they say, you run, You run
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: ten percent with your legs and ninety percent with your mind.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: So all these runners already have the know how how
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: to be okay with being uncomfortable. So it really fits
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: them all and they all do spectacularly.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, yeah, you you have. You have a pond
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: in your backyard.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: We do.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: And you go into that pond I do in the
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: middle of the winter.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: It's all the same thing. Ice bath, frozen pond, the
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: water is all the same thing. What makes it the
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: interesting is like a frozen pond is cold, right, an
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: ice bath is cold. It's all the water is all
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: just about freezing. If you go into a stream. I
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: remember the first time I went into a stream. So
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: you go into a stream and the water is rushing
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: past you. That makes it feel so much colder, even
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: because it's you know, the windchill factor. You when you're
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: in the cold, you build a tiny layer of warmth
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: around you, which is also when you have a T
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: shirt on or something that that helps retain the heat
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: a little bit. But if you're in a a in
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: a river or a stream being swept away, it's being
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: swept away, so it feels really so much colder. I
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: remember the first time I went into a stream. It
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: was after I've done our pond for many many times,
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: and I'm going, it's gonna be the same thing. And
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: I went and I was going, whoa, this is this
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: is cold.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: There's a video of you with a guy and your
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: looks like a real tough guy too, and you're bringing
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: him out to the middle of this.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I think that was Jake.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, and yeah you got him in there, and yeah.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah it was. That was the That was his first time.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: And he did the dunk too, he did he did.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: So I was gonna have coffee with him in Woodstock
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: to talk about cold exposure and ice bath and stuff,
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: and he said, well can I can I try it?
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: And I go, yeah, sure. So we just did the
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: stream there near the coffee shop. And that was That
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: was the hardest way you can be initiated, because first
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: of all, it was cold outside. Yeah, the water was
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: streaming fast. It was hard. We didn't have a really
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: great spot, so he had to not only fight the
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: cold but also make it so he wouldn't be swept away.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: So he did great though, and he loved it as well.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: But that that was the hardest part. I wouldn't recommend
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: that for a first time.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: But somebody who's who's not like what you do are young.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Is you're laughing and you're bringing You're bringing joy and
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: laughter to the experience, not hesitation and a little bit
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: of fear. But the laughter and the positivity that that
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: you inject is comforting on so many different levels. I'm
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: going to be okay.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Right, that's the whole thing, right, yeah, exactly, I'm gonna
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: If I go, oh, be careful, that only freaks him
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: out more. Sure, so you where And again that's why
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: in the rubber duckies right right, they seem silly, but
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: they they really help because your mind goes, oh they're
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: silly rubber duckies. Here, it can't be that bad, right
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: do you?
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been referred to as the wim Hoff
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: of New England?
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: I have been. I sometimes say, when you come to
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: an ice bath with us. It's the the closest thing
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: to vim Hoff you can get without actually getting vim Hoff.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Have you ever met him?
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: I have not.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Do you want to?
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Sure? Just be great? Fairly? Certainly will at some point.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but yeah, yeah.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: And he does something that's a little bit next level
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: where he's and I don't know, is it superhuman? I don't.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is that he's doing. But
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: he's able to control his breathing and go underwater.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: Right. So his method is has three components to it.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: One is that a specific breathing method that includes basically
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: hyperventilating for a little bit and then holding your breath
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: for a long time and then doing that like two
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: or three rounds, which is supposed to be really really
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: great for you. The other component is the ice bath.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: The dangerous part is is that people that don't research
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: it enough they combine the two so they think that
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: the breathing method that he does is used for the
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: ice bath, which it is absolutely not. Because his breathing
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: method you can sort of pass out with, So if
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: you're sitting in a chair, or if you're laying down
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: on a couch or something that is Okay, I.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Saw it with Brian Rose and he was explaining exactly that, right.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: But if you're doing that in the water, that's very
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: dangerous because you pass out into and people have passed
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: away from that. So that is one of the reasons
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: why we only do the ice bath part of it.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: We do not do the the breathing part because it's
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: it's very easy for people to think that you that
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: that is the breathing method you should do while going
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: in the ice bath, which it's absolutely not. They should
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: be kept completely separate. So that's why I only we
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: only do the only do the ice bath, and I
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: guide them through with breathing, but specifically tell people not
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: to hold their breath.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: We're we'll see this this this next Sunday at the
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Covered Bridge is half marathon in Woodstock.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, the finish line is in Quichi.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: But where and that's where you'll be.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, We'll be at the Polo Field in Quicci at
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: the finish line of the Covered Bridges half Marathon.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Where else can we see you in the coming weeks
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: and months? Hopefully we'll see.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: You at the Yeah, the Heritage Festival, Yes, but but
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: where where?
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: When are you going to be in White River Junction next.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: Any pop up I do, and I oftentimes so people
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: can uh follow us on Instagram at the moment at
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: Arctic Bliss events on Instagram, or they can follow me
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: on Facebook or on vander Shoot. It's if you see
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: my picture, you know immediately.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: No, there's no confusion there.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Our website is under construction at the moment. A fantastic
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: team at Haystack Needle is working hard on that, so
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: that will probably be be up in the in the
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: next couple of weeks. And usually we on Instagram I
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: announce where we will be with our next pop up,
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: but we haven't. I haven't really planned any things yet.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: And people can always book me, right, they can contact
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: me and they can book me for their event, be
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: it bar Mitzwah, graduation, a wedding, corporate event. Like I said,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: it's it's really great for weddings and corporate events because
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: it's it's so memorable. Once you do it, you'll always
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: remember this specific event. It takes great pictures, right. People
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: always want for their weddings, They always want things to
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: be instagrammable. Sure, everybody going into the ice bath, like
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: the wedding couple going into the ice bath together is unforgettable.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: And then listen, you got some problems with your joints,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: you're going to be on the dance floor for the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: rest of the damn exactly.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, mental health, it's great for mental health, depression,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: mental health. I've been two a couple of places that
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: do great things for young adults that deal with anxiety
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: and depression, also great success. Many of them have incorporated
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: cold exposure into their health routine. Yeah, it's really, it's
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: really quite amazing what a simple thing like getting into
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: a bucket of really cold water can do for you.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: And I can talk till I'm blue in the face,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: pun intended, but you will not get it until you
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: try it once. If you try it once, then it's
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: literally like a light bulb going into your mind, going
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: on in your mind, going, oh, this is what it's like.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: And then and then most everybody that that has tried
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: it sees how fantastic it is and either does incorporate
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: it into their daily, weekly, monthly routine or really wishes
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: they did.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: So many of us want to be able to get
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: off of this medication or that medication. Yeah, we, like
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: you said earlier, we want to find an alternative to
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: an injection of cortison into our joints or whatever it
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: may be. This is this is your answer.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. There's a guy on Instagram that we follow. I
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: forgot his name, Camden, Camden something, maybe it's ice cold
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: Camden or something. He is he was since he was young.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: He's been on a plethora of mental health medications since
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: he was nine, I think, and ever since he's been
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: going into cold water. He documents his journey of tapering
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: off most of those medications because of the cold exposure
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: that he's doing, which is quite remarkable because you know
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: those mental health medications I don't know their names, but
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: they are they are heavy duty.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah they are.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: So if you can you can lessen those or somebody
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: eliminate them, it's like spectacular.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: You know, they may provide some benefits in some areas,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: but then they create a whole bunch of problems in
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: other areas.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: Right exactly what quickly? Look, I've been told that I
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: can do this here on this podcast because there are
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: no rules, no rules, it's the best podcast rules.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: We're showing a video of this of this lady that
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: that is is getting in the ice bath right now,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: and it's just shows so many of us in the beginning.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: We we want to we want to hold our breath.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: We want to hold our breath.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so hang on. I founded this guy, uh
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: cold plunge Cam c am Cold Plunge Cam on Instagram.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: He has like look at this. He has three hundred
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: and sixty thousand followers, and he documents his here using
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: ice bath and cold exports to address mental health. Tapering
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: off antidepressants for the first time in twenty five years.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's pretty spectacular twenty.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Five years so for antidepressants. Yeah, yeah, look at this
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: and I'll show him on I'll show him on the monitor.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: There you go, Yeah, there he is. Yeah.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Wow. Man.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know him, but i'd see his his
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: posts all the time and how he's really explaining how
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: much he's tapered off all these medications and stuff, and
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: how the cold exposure is really allowing him to do that.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: How many how many times do you hear people say
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: to you, oh, man, you're.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: Crazy cert that since the minute I was born the
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  Speaker 2: word yeah, yeah, I hear that a lot. But I
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  Speaker 2: take that as the biggest compliment I can get because wow,
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  Speaker 2: being average and boring is the alternative to being crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Is this amazing? Right, the wide range of SSRI withdrawal symptoms.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's fantastic. So it can do it can
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  Speaker 2: do so many things. But again it's it's a hard
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  Speaker 2: thing to do. You gotta say, you gotta say yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try this, and you'll become uncomfortable for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of minutes, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: And just be as committed to it, yeah, as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Like the Nike commercial says, just do it. Man.
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  Speaker 1: It's and and your your slogan of just let's go,
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  Speaker 1: let's go, let's go. And man, it's like, uh, so
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  Speaker 1: many of us are like, yeah, I'm gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. We get
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  Speaker 1: we get the bath, we fill it with ice. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: go let's go, and then we're like we start. But
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  Speaker 1: it's natural. It's ok give yourself a break because it's
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  Speaker 1: okay to tap the breaks.
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  Speaker 2: It is okay. But that's why it's good to to
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  Speaker 2: do it in a guided environment. Yeah right, contact us,
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  Speaker 2: book us and get a group of friends together and
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  Speaker 2: all do it together. It is it's really It's a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic thing to do with a big group of people.
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  Speaker 2: You can all cheer each other on. Sure, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get each other over that hump of hesitation.
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  Speaker 1: What's the best way? What's the eastest way for folks
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  Speaker 1: to reach out to you right now? Is it? Is
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  Speaker 1: it through social media?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? At the moment, Instagram is the best way.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a phone number?
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  Speaker 2: There is no phone number you, all right, so them
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  Speaker 2: me on Instagram. Once the website is up and going, uh,
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  Speaker 2: there will be more ways to uh contact me, all right,
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  Speaker 2: So in a couple of weeks, we'll we'll get those.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a website that's under construction right now?
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  Speaker 2: Correct?
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  Speaker 1: And it will be up and running soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two three weeks, I'm guessing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, But but get on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Instagram is the best way. Go to or Facebook, okay,
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  Speaker 2: just under my regular name Arian vander shoot yep on Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: And Arctic Bliss events.
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  Speaker 2: Arctic Bliss events on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: And let's let's let's show your let's show your Facebook
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  Speaker 1: page here as well so that people can uh can
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  Speaker 1: see that.
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  Speaker 2: There we go, look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there it is right there, or even LinkedIn.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm on LinkedIn.
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  Speaker 1: Too, okay, and just discover this.
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  Speaker 2: Or contact you. They can contact you. Yeah, yeah, right,
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  Speaker 2: because everybody knows how to contact you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well many.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But man, it's like, we would love to see you
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  Speaker 1: more here in the Granite City. I would love to
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  Speaker 1: see you at the very Heritage Festival.
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  Speaker 2: If I can get there, that would be.
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  Speaker 1: So if you secure that, please let me know right
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  Speaker 1: away because I'll be pushing that here. Man. You're you're
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  Speaker 1: you're such.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to be set up outside?
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  Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, You're just going to be walking around everywhere. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you're not gonna have a booth or anything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know yet at this point. If I get
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  Speaker 1: a if I get a booth, that kind of limits
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  Speaker 1: me a little bit to being stationary.
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  Speaker 2: But right, true, walking around probably a good thing to.
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  Speaker 1: Do, and I love it. Yeah, but I want to
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  Speaker 1: know the second you land that. If you do, I
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  Speaker 1: want to know. I want to know about it.
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  Speaker 2: On that today or tomorrow. All right, I'm sure to
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  Speaker 2: have spaces available.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure. Yeah, there's a lot of people here in
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  Speaker 1: the Grandit City.
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  Speaker 2: Man, listen in great and July is a great What
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  Speaker 2: do you know the exact date, July.
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  Speaker 1: It's the twenty third through the twenty fifth, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so so mid middish July. Yeah, so the wedd
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  Speaker 2: should be fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Towards the end.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be great. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you getting on here with me pleasure on
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  Speaker 1: a on a Memorial Day, on a holiday. This is
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  Speaker 1: really really cool that you're here and you're you're doing
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  Speaker 1: this with me.
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  Speaker 2: A pleasure entirely. You're great, greatful.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we've been talking about this for the longest day
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  Speaker 1: of time.
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  Speaker 2: Forever, since we met last I think it was an
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  Speaker 2: August it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was at the festival. Yes, please come, please come
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  Speaker 1: back anytime you want, for sure, anytime, and I would
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  Speaker 1: I would love to to do something with you outside
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  Speaker 1: of this studio where we can bring our cameras. We
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: both have go pros, where I can bring a live
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  Speaker 1: stream to you, and.
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  Speaker 2: Then we can do we can do set up an
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  Speaker 2: icebath right outside on a we can do a you know,
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  Speaker 2: a nine o'clock podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I would do that.
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  Speaker 2: We can set up and we can invite listeners to
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  Speaker 2: come by and try it.
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  Speaker 1: I'd do it in a second.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be fantastic in a second.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's try to make that happen. All right, Thanks brother,
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  Speaker 1: all right, And you're just you're such a great guy.
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  Speaker 1: You're such an you're such an inspiration. You do a
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  Speaker 1: lot for people, and you're you're much appreciated. Man. What
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  Speaker 1: you're doing for people, helping people is extraordinary.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. It's so much fun to do. And it's
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  Speaker 2: so great to see the change in people really when
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  Speaker 2: they when they embrace.
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  Speaker 1: It, and it's transformative.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: Really is it really is?
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  Speaker 2: And people say that I have you know, they say
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  Speaker 2: it's just unprompted, right exactly, really really life changing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's really fantastic. Here. I had a guy call me Carl.
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  Speaker 2: He's in his seventies, maybe late sixties. I saw him
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  Speaker 2: at a he saw me at a mountain bike event
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  Speaker 2: where we were set up in Woodstock. He hopped in,
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  Speaker 2: loved it, got one of our tops. He lives in Maine,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: put it outside, and I talked to him the other
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: day because he ordered another tub, and he goes, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's so nice that I've met you and that I'm
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  Speaker 2: starting to do this. My wife is doing it now,
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  Speaker 2: my kids are doing it now. He said it was
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  Speaker 2: really really life changing, so so fantastic to hear that
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: that a chance encounter like.
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  Speaker 1: That and just that's your biggest reward, I think, oh
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  Speaker 1: for sure, for sure by light years.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, oh by light years. Yeah. Fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: You you you embody this. This is something you you're
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  Speaker 1: so passionate about. You love it so much. You can
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: see it in your eyes. It's so obvious, man, And uh.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's just what and it's it's so easy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm not performing brain surgery or I'm not
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: putting anybody on the moon. I'm just putting people in
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: a bucket of cold water. Yeah, but even that has
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: so much effect on people, which is fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Our young Vandershoot from Arctic Bliss, my guest this morning.
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  Speaker 1: It has been a true gift meeting you and getting
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  Speaker 1: to know you, buddy. I'm honored to call you my
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  Speaker 1: friend likewise, and we'll do something again real soon together.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Brother, You're very welcome. This was absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks buddy.
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  Speaker 2: H