HTDE: Carsickness And Traffic Jams

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Ian and Mike look to the skies to help a listener solve her problem with motion sickness. Plus, a survivor of the longest recorded traffic jam in history shares how she got through it.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Peter Sengel.
0:01.1	Last time I didn't ask me anything,
0:03.2	I got asked about my first job,
0:05.4	my favorite Star Trek episode,
0:07.0	best fill-in host, and cheese.
0:10.6	So what do you want to know?
0:11.8	Call and leave us your question at 1-3-8-Wait-Wate.
0:15.0	We might answer it in a future bonus episode.
0:17.4	Sign up for NPR Plus to hear this and other great bonus content. Just go to plus.npr.org.
0:25.5	Hey, it's your old friend Peter. Coming up, we've got a special Thanksgiving-themed episode of
0:30.0	how to do everything made by Wait Wait producers Mike Danforth and Ian Chilog. Now, if you're
0:34.3	currently listening to this podcast while, say, driving somewhere for the
0:38.0	holidays and you're starting to feel car sick, then make sure to keep listening. Once again,
0:42.8	everybody, how to do everything will not live in this feed forever, whether that makes you happy or not.
0:47.6	So be sure to follow them at their own feed. Okay, Mike and Ian, take it away.
0:53.0	Hey, Ellie. What can we help you with? So, as a kid, I remember
0:56.9	riding roller coasters. I remember my parents had a Volvo station wagon where the backseat you
1:03.0	could face backwards, riding the subway, everything. I never got motion sickness, never got
1:08.9	car sick. Now, as I've gotten older, like I'm 26, but I
1:14.3	noticed, like, I can't do roller coasters the same. Like, I remember one time going to Disneyland as a
1:19.7	kid and doing California screaming like six times in a row, and I could have done more, but we
1:24.9	had to go to dinner or something. And I guess my question
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