Mike Danforth

How to Do Everything is produced by Skylar Swenson with technical direction from Lorna White.

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I'm Ian.

And I'm Mike.

Thanks.

The Winter Olympics start this Friday in Milan, Cortina.

We would play the Olympic theme right now, but we're not allowed, so you're hearing this.

Did you ski it today?

So if you have a gold medal, they just let you go down the slope whenever you want?

Is that how it works?

Yeah.

It's funny because I like skiing, but when I watch Olympic skiing...

I never think, it looks like they're having fun.

It doesn't look fun the way you're doing it.

I don't know quite how to ask this, but one thing I'm curious about when I watch competitive skiing is it seems like the way you win is by pushing as close to the limit of failure as possible.

At any given time, how close are you to crashing?

That feels like good slang for me when I'm watching over the next couple of weeks.

He burritoed himself in the fence.

So you competed in the 2018 Games in Korea, where it was unusually cold.