How to Do Everything
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Spies, Patches and Bathtub Reading
This week we tell you how to recruit a double agent, spruce up your uniform and keep your books dry.
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Popcorn, Dr. Ruth and the Confidence Chamber
How to enjoy popcorn, survive the Confidence Chamber, and get a good night's sleep - with help from Dr. Ruth.
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Beer, One Night Stands and Bleeping Bleep
How to talk beer, write an obituary and make the best of a badly timed one night stand.
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Sinkholes, Water Hazards and Construction Workers
This week we tell you how to play golf without wearing any pants, fit in with construction workers and deal with sinkholes.
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Movies, Bugs, and Hands
How to keep that guy behind you from talking all the way through the movie, spy on your enemies, and get a job in modeling even if you’ve got a weird face. Plus: our March Madness winner, and a very remote Toilet of the Week!
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70 Days in Bed With Howard
How to prepare for a galactic journey.
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B2s, Basketball and Romance
How to fly a space age war plane, how to explain love to your dog and a very special toilet of the week. Plus, a March Madness update with Dick Vitale.
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Beyonce, Rihanna, and The Talent Show to End All Talent...
How to win your elementary school talent show, keep your daughter from making fun of you, and drive as dangerously as possible. Two of these are a good idea.
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McNuggets, Donkey Kong, and Drawing
How to make the perfect Chicken McNugget, celebrate the lifting of the NYC Soda Ban, and impress your three-year-old daughter. Plus the great comic book artist Chris Ware helps you learn to draw, and a very contemplative Toilet Of The Week!
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Deer, Cars, and Dogs
How to rescue a deer friend or human friend stuck out on the ice, and name your new car. Plus we listen back to an Iditarod dispatch as the great sled dog race goes on in Alaska. Plus: your Toilet of the Week, and we give you nicknames.
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Keyboards, Jingles, and Oscars
How to clean your disgusting computer keyboard at work, sit comfortably at an awards show, and Barry Manilow helps a listener write a catchy jingle. Plus: our first ever Human Toilet of the Week!
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Chips, Penguins, and Spy Planes
How to open your bag of chips easily, every time, how to keep from falling on the ice, and how to test out your new spy plane. And of course, your Toilet of the Week.
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Speeches, Speakers and Chinese Food
How to sit behind the president during the State of the Union Address and you'll never eat Chinese take-out the same again.
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Seals and Responses
This week we learn how to create a presidential seal and how to give the official response to the State of the Union Address. Plus, a Toilet of the Week just in time for Mardi Gras.
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Heads or Tails
How to cash in at the Super Bowl, camouflage your car, and a very, very special guest helps a listener learn to love baseball. Plus: your toilet of the week!
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Photos, Football, and Shrek
How to take a portrait of President Obama, how to play wide receiver in the NFL, and how to take on the role of Shrek in your high school musical. Plus: Producer Blythe goes out into the world to find our Toilet of the Week.
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Ponytails, Armstrong, and Frogs
How to make the best ponytail possible, keep your milk from going bad, and use those old Livestrong bracelets you're not wearing anymore. Plus, Saturday Night Live & Portlandia's Fred Armisen comes back to help you with another problem.
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Episode 90: Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, and Gerard...
How to remember which one's Bill Pullman and which one's Bill Paxton, how to act like a local in Russia, and an international Toilet of the Week. Also, for our Jurassic listeners, how to ride a dinosaur.
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Gum & Onions
How to keep from crying when you chop onions, how to finish that joke from Dumb & Dumber, and a childhood fear gets investigated.
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Planes, Boats, and Looking Cool
How to test out an airplane, look cool, and set up a classic joke. Plus: our toilet of the week, and the beginning and end of our new segment, "Nautical Notes."
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Crash Blossoms, Smuggling, and Standup
How to smuggle drugs across the border (or stop a drug smuggler, if that's more your thing), become a standup comedian, and root for your favorite team. Plus: our toilet of the week!
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Power & Hotels
Just a quick show this week as we're on the road, but we will tell you how to charge your phone when you forget your power adapter, and we talk to author Lee Child. He writes the Jack Reacher books, about a guy who pretty much knows how to do everything. Plus: your toilet of the week!
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Hecklers, Cheetahs, and Goodbyes
How to face down a heckler, make a movie with a cheetah, and get off the phone. Plus: our first international Toilet of the Week! http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/HTDE_121130.mp3
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The Thanksgiving Episode
How to always win the wishbone pull, and navigate Thanksgiving family drama. Plus: Paula Deen on turkey, and we talk pumpkin pie with James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins. Seriously. http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/HTDE_121120.mp3
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Bumper Stickers, Scandals, and Bugs
How to get a bumper sticker off your car, find a suitable substitute during a cockroach shortage (this is something that happens, apparently), and read a womans t-shirt without looking like a creep. Plus, Carl Bernstein, of Woodward and Bernstein, helps us put a name on the Petraeus Scandal. http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/HTDE_121114.mp3
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Skeuomorphs, Hurricanes, and Showtunes
How to stop a hurricane and win every single swing state. Plus the lovely Kristin Chenoweth helps you sing a showtune, with assistance from another very special guest. http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/HTDE_121101.mp3
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Apple, Baseball, and Halloween
A look inside the Apple Store Employee Manual, how to enjoy the World Series if youre like Ian and you dont know a thing about baseball, and how to make a good Halloween costume. http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/121026_HTDE.mp3
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Public Toilets, Debate Prep and Nintendo
We tell you how to prepare for your presidential debate, fix your old Nintendo games and begin our most ambitious project ever. http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/121006_HTDE.mp3
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Rompers, Sloshing, and Announcing
How to dress for the office, keep coffee off your pants, and take over the mic at a volleyball game. Plus: why you always lose at crane games. http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/120928_HTDE.mp3
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Episode 76: Pocket Squares, Mustaches and Secret Videos
This week we learn how to care for a new mustache, pick a pocket square and recover from an embarrassing video. http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/120920_HTDE.mp3
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Strikes and Alibis
How to lie about your secret mission and talk about strikes. Plus info about the How To meetup in Atlanta. http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/HTDE_120914.mp3
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Corn, Refs, and Ikea
How to get your corn off the cob, ref an NFL game, name your modern Swedish furniture, and more! http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/120907_HTDE.mp3
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Mosquitoes, Cider and Mythbusters
How to avoid mosquitoes, talk about hard cider and become a Mythbuster. http://traffic.libsyn.com/htde/120830_HTDE.mp3
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