Big Ideas

This episode, we decided to delve into some of the more serious, thoughtful, and future-thinking topics Popular Mechanics covers. In keeping with the theme, we interview iceman Wim Hof about how he changes his own autonomic nervous system so he can hang out in freezing temperatures for hours. (If you want to learn even more than what Wim explains in the segment, check out Not in keeping with the theme, we also test out a soda called kvass, which is sort of like Russian kombucha. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Big Ideas is an episode from Most Useful Podcast Ever by Popular Mechanics / Panoply.

This episode is 47:34 long.

This episode was published on Aug 17, 2018.

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