How To Do Everything

How much money is there on the planet? We investigate.

Ian visits a corpse flower, a stinky jungle plant which has been waiting 12 years to bloom.

We talk about the weather, but not in a boring way. We hope.

How to send secret messages, heal your wounds, and more.

How to stay cool in the summertime, and salt your food without salt.

This week we tell you how to choose the best name ever for your baby and investigate an old outhouse mystery.

A listener wants to know how not to get startled. Ian and Mike either help or make it worse.

This week we tell you how to get a fancy free hat and freak out your entire town.

We listen back to our interview with Sonia Sotomayor, we cure brain freeze, and the Fonz himself helps you look cool.

Ian and Mike are out of the office. They talk about it, then they change the world, then they play some old segments.

How to defeat your winged enemies and prove how good you are at the bongos.

How to take beautiful photographs of your cat, and how to digest your food. Plus, we say goodbye to a beloved colleague. Not Gillian. We already said goodbye to Gillian.

How to conduct yourself around pie, and how to name your bird.

We help you relax, and help you become a fossil. Plus, some words of encouragement as you enter the final days of the exclamation point fast.

How to make sense of what your computer is saying, make an uneasy pengiun comfortable, and use up old newspapers. Plus we have a tip to get you through the last week of our Exclamation Point Fast.

We help endangered penguins carry on their species, and we help you make small talk with kids. Plus: our Exclamation Point Fast continues, with catastrophic results.

How to make a mountain shorter and a new use for bacon. Plus, we check in on our exclamation point fast.

How to find alternatives for the f-word, cook your chicken in the most spectacular way possible, and stop using exclamation points! That was our last one.

How to celebrate without getting everyone else sick and the fastest way to get published in the New York Times.

How to make your pregnancy more exciting and the Olympics more competitive.