NST Mailbag: The RIGHT way to load a dishwasher (& more)
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week we settle your dumb arguments. Yup, it’s mailbag time. We’ll argue about the RIGHT way to load a dishwasher, revisit a right-wing conspiracy theory about cat litter in schools, solve an intersection conundrum involving a funeral procession and a school bus, and finally reveal how this beautiful friendship actually began.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. |
| 0:00.8 | I'm Noah. |
| 0:01.5 | This is Devin. |
| 0:02.2 | And this is No Such Thing, the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:08.8 | Today's episode is a mailbag episode. |
| 0:11.3 | We're going to be talking about dishwasher etiquette. |
| 0:13.8 | We're going to be talking about right-wing conspiracy theories. |
| 0:17.1 | And we're going to be answering a question about how exactly the three of us met. |
| 0:23.6 | There's no such thing. |
| 0:25.5 | No such thing. |
| 0:28.4 | No such thing. |
| 0:31.4 | No such thing. |
| 0:32.3 | No such thing. |
| 0:34.2 | No such thing. All right. Our first question is from a listener. I'll read it now. |
| 0:50.9 | Dear Mani, Noah, and Devin, years ago when my husband and I of nearly 25 years were in couples therapy, |
| 0:59.4 | we often discussed our dislike of how each other loads the dishwasher. |
| 1:04.5 | Apparently this argument often comes up in couples therapy. |
| 1:08.3 | We have yet to come up with an agreed-upon solution. I have had 27 roommates in my therapy. We have yet to come up with an agreed upon solution. I have had 27 roommates |
| 1:14.1 | in my lifetime and that argument came up multiple times. In fact, one roommate left because of the |
| 1:20.5 | disagreement. Thanks and keep up the good work on your show. So essentially this person wants us to find out, um, |
| 1:29.2 | the real proper way to load a dishwasher. |
| 1:33.9 | Um, and I did a little bit of digging, but before we get into that, |
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