HTDE: The Perfect Christmas Present with James Patterson and Gillian Flynn

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4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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On today's episode, Charlie needs help writing a children's book for his wife. So, Mike and Ian call up some of the greatest minds in modern literature, Gillian Flynn and James Patterson. Plus, a slippery way to stay warm on your run and a cool trick to avoid saying "you guys".

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0:00.0	Oh, ho, ho. Santa here.
0:02.4	Coming to you from the North Pole,
0:03.9	where the elves in our podcast division
0:05.5	of just completed work on this season's best gift
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0:16.6	all while supporting public media.
0:19.0	Learn more at plus.npr.org.
0:24.8	Hey there, wait, wait, listeners, it's Peter. We have a new episode of How to Do Everything
0:28.9	hosted by our very own Mike Danforth and Ian Chilog today. Mike and Ian recruit some of the
0:35.2	biggest names in literature to help a listener with the perfect
0:39.5	Christmas present for his wife. Oh, the things we do for love. If you like what you hear on that show,
0:45.2	make sure to follow them at their very own feed. But in the meantime, enjoy the latest,
0:49.5	how to do everything. It's December and it's cold, which leads to the question, how do you stay warm?
0:58.1	Burn something.
0:58.8	Ed Istone just coached the BYU cross-country team to a national championship in freezing cold temperatures,
1:05.1	and he has a tip.
1:06.7	Yeah, we have a little bit of a hack prior to the start of the race.
1:09.9	There's that five minutes where you will strip down, take those sweats off,
1:14.1	and you're just standing there shivering in your short shorts and your singlet.
1:19.5	So the little hack that we found, and it's very old school,
	...

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