How To Do Everything

Ian and Mike help a caller solve a handshake issue. Plus, how to mourn the loss of a favorite dish.<br/><br/><br>You can email your burning questions to <a href="mailto:howto@npr.org"target="_blank" >howto@npr.org</a>.<br/><br/><em>How To Do Everything</em> is available without sponsor messages for supporters of Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me+, who also get bonus episodes of <em>Wait Wait Don't…Tell Me!</em> featuring show outtakes, extended guest interviews, and a chance to play an exclusive WW+ qui

This week: How to tell your crush you like them. Plus, do smells really linger in your nose?<br/><br/><br>You can email your burning questions to <a href="mailto:howto@npr.org"target="_blank" >howto@npr.org</a>.<br/><br/><em>How To Do Everything</em> is available without sponsor messages for supporters of Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me+, who also get bonus episodes of <em>Wait Wait Don't…Tell Me!</em> featuring show outtakes, extended guest interviews, and a chance to play an exclusive WW+ quiz game

This week: Ian and Mike help a couple figure out who exactly is responsible for stealing the covers at night.<br/><br/>You can email your burning questions to <a href="mailto:howto@npr.org"target="_blank" >howto@npr.org</a>.<br/><br/><em>How To Do Everything</em> is available without sponsor messages for supporters of Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me+, who also get bonus episodes of <em>Wait Wait Don't…Tell Me!</em> featuring show outtakes, extended guest interviews, and a chance to play an exclusive W

This week: How to tell the temperature outside without a thermometer. Plus, how clowns trademark their unique looks.<br/><br/>Featuring <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691264240/outsider-animals?srsltid=AfmBOooUjhGJwoe9qr9YuyDmiPs1r3JqycuH3hOzhaeW61p2w0P5ZUme"target="_blank" >Marlene Zuk</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/proctor_art/"target="_blank" >Julie Proctor</a>.<br/><br/>You can email your burning questions to <a href="mailto:howto@npr.org"target="_bl

This week: How the <em>Wait, Wait</em> team decides what jokes are too inappropriate for the airwaves. Plus Mike and Ian help a caller with a personal grammar problem.<br/><br/><p dir="ltr">Featuring author <a href="https://shadycharacters.co.uk/books/"target="_blank" >Keith Houston</a>.<p dir="ltr">You can email your burning questions to <a href="mailto:howto@npr.org"target="_blank" >howto@npr.org</a>.<p dir="ltr"><em>How To Do Everything</em> is available without sponsor messages for suppo

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 those big stones come from and meet a guy snowboarders couldn't land without.<br/><br/>You can email your burning questions to <a href="mailto:howto@npr.org"target="_blank" >howto@npr.org</a>.<br/><br/><em>How To Do Everything</em> is available without sponsor messages for supporters of Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me+, who also get bonus episodes of <em>

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 mysterious survey glitch.<br/><br/>You can email your burning questions to <a href="mailto:howto@npr.org"target="_blank" >howto@npr.org</a>.<br/><br/><br><em>How To Do Everything</em> is available without sponsor messages for supporters of Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me+, who also get bonus episodes of <em>Wait Wait Don't…Tell Me!</em> featuring show outta

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 to carry the torch, fly through the air, and mentally prepare for the big games.<br/><br/>You can email your burning questions to <a href="mailto:howto@npr.org"target="_blank" >howto@npr.org</a>.<br/><br/><em>How To Do Everything</em> is available without sponsor messages for supporters of Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me+, who also get bonus episodes of