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HTDE: The Perfect Christmas Present with James Patterson and Gillian Flynn
11 Dec 2024
On today's episode, Charlie needs help writing a children's book for his wife. So, Mike and Ian call up some of the greatest minds in modern literature, Gillian Flynn and James Patterson. Plus, a slippery way to stay warm on your run and a cool trick to avoid saying "you guys".You can email your burning questions to [email protected]. How To Do Everything won't live in this feed forever. If you like what you hear, scoot on over to their very own feed and give them a follow.Both How To Do Everything and Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! are available without sponsor messages for supporters of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me+, who also get bonus episodes of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! featuring exclusive games, behind-the-scenes content, and more. Sign up and support NPR at plus.npr.org.How To Do Everything is hosted by Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag. It is produced by Heena Srivastava. Technical direction from Lorna White.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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It's December, and it's cold, which leads to the question, how do you stay warm? Burn something. Ed Eyestone just coached the BYU cross-country team to a national championship in freezing cold temperatures, and he has a tip. Yeah, we have a little bit of a hack.
Prior to the start of the race, there's that five minutes where you will strip down, take those sweats off, and you're just standing there shivering in your short shorts and your singlet. So the little hack that we found, and it's very old school— our trainers and coaches will just coat the runner's arms, exposed shoulders and legs with a thin little layer of olive oil.
And that tends to give them a little buffer from the cold and And particularly if it's a windy day and if the temperatures are, you know, freezing, it just kind of bridges that gap until the gun finally sounds and then they are on their way.
And is this like a special sports performance olive oil or is this just go to the grocery store?
Yeah, you know, it's just whatever's on sale that day, that particular day or whatever our trainer comes back with, you know. And, uh, it's interesting though, because, uh, I've been contacted from a olive oil company out of New York. I won't give you the brand name because we haven't, uh, inked the deal yet, but they, they want to be our sponsors. So kind of funny.
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