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HTDE: Forks and Ice Masters

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🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:17.2

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0:25.4

I am so pleased to present to you another episode of How to Do Everything by Wait, Wait, Wait, producers, Ian and Mike.

0:28.4

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0:33.5

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0:41.4

Thanks.

0:42.9

At this very moment, the hockey prelims at the Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina are happening.

0:51.2

And I think it's fair to say the man that made it all possible is Don Moffat.

0:55.7

Don is the chief ice maker for ice hockey at the games. That means he's in charge of

1:00.2

building the rink and making sure the ice is perfect. He's done this at five Olympic

1:06.3

games. He's joining us online now from Milan. Don, what gives you the magic touch with ice?

1:14.0

You know, I don't know that there's a magic touch.

1:16.8

It's just kind of a passion for the sport of hockey that, you know,

1:21.7

I just want to create the best surface I can for the, you know,

1:25.7

for the best athletes in the world to be able to do what they do

1:29.4

without them having to worry about ice conditions or problems with the rinks.

1:34.6

Yeah.

1:34.8

And now I have, you know, a vast amount of experience dealing with the Olympics, which are

1:40.2

very difficult.

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