Why can’t men find anything?
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Why do men have so much trouble finding everyday items in their own homes? It’s a common sitcom trope, but is there actually something to it. This week, for the sake of the women in our lives, we dig into the research to find out if “male refrigerator blindness” is real, explore if it dates all the way back to our hunter-gatherer roots, and find out what we can do about it.
Our guest this week is Dr. Albert Postma, leader of the Memory & Space Lab at Utrecht University.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. |
| 0:00.9 | I'm Noah. |
| 0:01.4 | 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. |
| 0:07.1 | This week, where the hell is the damn catch-up? |
| 0:11.7 | There's no such thing. |
| 0:13.4 | No such thing. |
| 0:16.3 | No such thing. |
| 0:19.3 | No such thing. No such thing. No such a thing. touch thank you. This week. This week. |
| 0:21.1 | This week. |
| 0:21.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.2 | This week. |
| 0:28.9 | This week is very kind of a, you know, sitcom-coded episode. |
| 0:34.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.0 | Very King of Queen style. |
| 0:36.7 | It's about, I think, a common trope that men can't find |
| 0:39.6 | things, you know, in their own home where presumably they would have some sense of where the condiments |
| 0:45.2 | are, spices, or other everyday items. Do you guys relate to this? Yes, but I will, I'll add an |
| 0:53.4 | addendum here that, like, I've only run into this when I've lived with |
| 0:57.6 | my partner. So like before, when I lived by myself, it was fine because there's only so many |
| 1:03.0 | places a thing could be. But these days, yeah, there's like a learning curve a little bit |
| 1:09.2 | when you move in with someone who does things a little bit differently. Me, I'm easy. I'll adapt to your style. But, you know, might take me some time. |
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