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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ian and Mike help a listener lighten the mood with her clients, help another listener mess with an opponent’s free throw shot, and Peter Sagal shares his secret for falling asleep on an airplane.

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0:00.0	This message comes from Bayer.
0:02.3	Science is a rigorous process that requires questions, testing, transparency, and results that can be proven.
0:09.5	This approach is integral to every breakthrough Bayer brings forward.
0:13.0	Innovations that save lives and feed the world.
0:15.8	Science Delivers.com.
0:20.1	Hey, everybody, it's Peter.
0:21.8	Coming up the season finale of our sister podcast, how to do everything made by
0:26.5	Wait, wait, wait producers, Mike Danforth and Ian Schillach.
0:28.7	Now, this is a particularly important and wonderful episode because it features me sharing
0:33.6	my personal trick for comfortably falling asleep on airplanes. And I just want you all to
0:39.9	understand that the fact that I'm telling you all about it for free rather than patenting it
0:44.9	and becoming a sociopathic billionaire like I've always wanted to do is just one more sign of
0:49.6	my generosity to you. So if you've enjoyed listening to how to do everything, be sure to follow the show
0:55.4	in their own feed. And with that, let my generosity commence. We fly for work a lot for our other
1:05.0	job producing the show, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. And right now, we're actually in Phoenix,
1:10.0	Arizona for a wait, wait, wait, taping. Peter S now, we're actually in Phoenix, Arizona for a wait, wait,
1:11.8	taping. Peter Sagle, the host of the show, is with us now. Peter, you say you have a new hack for
1:18.3	sleeping on planes? Yes, although I have to give credit to the person who taught me this. So my
1:25.3	elderly father just turned 89, spent many, many winters in Florida.
1:29.7	And he recently said to me, Peter, we have to go meet a friend of mine. The friend was a woman
1:33.3	named Annie. And Annie's business is driving cars back and forth from Florida, where she lives,
1:40.1	to the homes of snowbirds, people who come to Florida for vacation. So this woman walks in,
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