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Crushes and Smells
This week: How to tell your crush you like them. Plus, do smells really linger in your nose?
You can email your burning questions to howto@npr.org.
How…
13 hours ago
Sheets and Blankets
This week: Ian and Mike help a couple figure out who exactly is responsible for stealing the covers at night.
You can email your burning questions to …
2 weeks ago
Crickets and Clowns
This week: How to tell the temperature outside without a thermometer. Plus, how clowns trademark their unique looks.
Featuring Marlene Zuk and Julie P…
4 weeks ago
The Breakfast Rule
This week: How the Wait, Wait team decides what jokes are too inappropriate for the airwaves. Plus Mike and Ian help a caller with a personal grammar…
1 month, 1 week ago
Curling Stones and Halfpipe Lines
More behind the scenes at the Milan Cortina Olympics with unsung heroes of the Winter Games. Mike and Ian talk with a curling legend, find out where …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Forks and Ice Masters
This week: Mike and Ian talk with an Olympic Ice Master, help a listener who keeps meeting people with their same name, and get to the bottom of a my…
2 months ago
Torches and Ski Jumps
Mike and Ian are back, just in time for the opening ceremony at the Winter Olympic Games in Milan/Cortina. Olympians and Starfleet Captains share how…
2 months, 1 week ago
Eggs and Bald Eagles
[Headphones recommended for this episode] Closing out the season with another episode from the archives: Mike and Ian learn how to clean the greatest…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
One-Liners and Free Throws
Ian and Mike help a listener lighten the mood with her clients, help another listener mess with an opponent’s free throw shot, and Peter Sagal shares…
4 months ago
Volcanoes and Roosters
This week from the archives: how to make s’mores with a volcano. Plus a barn animal sanctuary worker wants to know how to live harmoniously with roos…
4 months, 1 week ago