The Iceman vs The Beast: Wim Hof & Eddie Hall

**Wim Hof** (0:00)
At that moment, a diver grabbed me by the ankle, brought me back to the 50-meter hole, and then...

**Eddie Hall** (0:07)
Are you telling me you experienced death?

**Wim Hof** (0:10)
That was the experience, absolutely.

**Wim Hof** (0:13)
A happy man doesn't go to war.

**Wim Hof** (0:15)
A happy man is not into greed.

**Eddie Hall** (0:17)
Are you happy, Wim?

**Wim Hof** (0:19)
Oh yeah, I'm bloody happy and f***ing crazy too.

**Wim Hof** (0:23)
We just bring something that is for free, air and the breath.

**Wim Hof** (0:28)
And with that, we get to our soul. The breath is the spirit.

**Wim Hof** (0:33)
This is the way we were born.

**Wim Hof** (0:35)
It's the last thing we see when we die.

**Wim Hof** (0:38)
If you have made love to your wife, and you like to go again, and it's not really there, do a little breathing.

**Wim Hof** (0:47)
Because then all the hormones, they get back.

**Eddie Hall** (0:49)
I'd rather just go to sleep or be on a swim.

**Wim Hof** (0:51)
Yeah, yeah.

**Wim Hof** (0:52)
Me too.

**Eddie Hall** (1:01)
Welcome back to The Good, The Bad and The Beast.

**Eddie Hall** (1:03)
Today's guest is known around the world as The Iceman. He's climbed frozen mountains in shorts, he's sat for hours in ice, and he's taught millions around the world how to control their bodies through breath and cold. He's challenged science and shown what humans are capable of. Please welcome to the podcast Mr. Wim Hof.

**Wim Hof** (1:25)
Thank you for having me.

**Eddie Hall** (1:26)
How are you doing, sir?

**Wim Hof** (1:27)
Yes, great, Eddie.

**Eddie Hall** (1:29)
Good.

**Wim Hof** (1:30)
Thank you.

**Eddie Hall** (1:30)
We've had a good morning. We've been ice swimming. We went to an icy lake this morning. We went to a dip and we did the breathing and it was a lovely day.

**Wim Hof** (1:40)
Yeah, it was amazing. It's even more amazing when a man who is at such a altitude of a level of performance is seeing, performing even better.

**Eddie Hall** (1:57)
It is.

**Wim Hof** (1:58)
That is a good morning.

**Wim Hof** (2:00)
Therein lies a message to the world.

**Wim Hof** (2:05)
I like to talk about that.

**Wim Hof** (2:07)
I feel honored for you having me invited. Thank you for your hospitality and your family I met.

**Wim Hof** (2:15)
Yeah, it's beautiful.

**Wim Hof** (2:17)
It's beautiful.

**Eddie Hall** (2:17)
Thank you, Wim. It's an honor to have you on the show, an honor to be in your presence, an honor for the UK to have you here in the lands. How old are you now, Wim?

**Wim Hof** (2:26)
66

**Wim Hof** (2:27)
66

**Eddie Hall** (2:28)
Do you feel 66?

**Wim Hof** (2:29)
Yeah, I feel up for my eighth child.

**Eddie Hall** (2:34)
Are you going to say that again? You're trying for your eighth child?

**Wim Hof** (2:39)
No, I'm a family, I'm alive, I'm kicking. And I tell my grandchildren, who are older than my newborn children, that yeah, that life is amazing.

**Wim Hof** (2:57)
Good.

**Eddie Hall** (2:57)
So there I am.

**Wim Hof** (2:59)
And so I am every day.

**Eddie Hall** (3:03)
How many grandkids have you got? You got seven kids then.

**Wim Hof** (3:05)
I got seven kids myself.

**Eddie Hall** (3:07)
Seven kids?

**Wim Hof** (3:08)
I got only three grandkids.

**Eddie Hall** (3:10)
Oh, that's nice. That's not very good, Wim.

**Eddie Hall** (3:12)
They need to...

**Wim Hof** (3:13)
Probably they don't know how to do it, so I show it.

**Eddie Hall** (3:17)
So you're...

**Wim Hof** (3:17)
Yeah, you see.

**Eddie Hall** (3:18)
So you're just having more kids instead of having grandkids.

**Wim Hof** (3:21)
Yes. And I tell them, hey, listen, if you guys think I'm getting older, I will outlive everybody of you.

**Eddie Hall** (3:29)
Fair enough. I always ask my guests to bring in what I call the piece of the beast. And this can be something, an artifact or a picture, it can be a memory, it can be anything. Have you got that said artifact with you, all that memory or picture with you?

**Wim Hof** (3:44)
Yeah, there's so many pictures, so many experiences.

**Wim Hof** (3:48)
I come here to a man like yourself. I look at Britain right now.

**Wim Hof** (3:55)
It's a kind of a mess in there mentally.

**Wim Hof** (3:59)
I think it needs sanity.

**Wim Hof** (4:02)
Sanity being brought by common sense.

**Wim Hof** (4:05)
That is what I bring here because you are the man to bring it out.