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We Don't Want To Startle You

We're half advice show, half survival guide. We answer all your questions, from how to find a date, to how to find water in the desert.

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In our last episode, we learn how to drink tea, build human towers, watch the sunset forever and find the Ian inside all of us.

We learn what happened to a two-thousand year-old toe, and what to do when our voices make you sick.

Devil In The White City author Erik Larson helps us write gooder, and we tell you how to snack silently at the movies.

Mark Bittman helps us answer a very creepy question, and we learn who's helping the Obamas move.

How to talk to fish and protect your yard signs.