HTDE: Burritos and Handshakes
4/29/202627 min
Ian and Mike help a caller solve a handshake issue. Plus, how to mourn the loss of a favorite dish.
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First 90 secondsPeter Sagal· Host0:00
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Ian Chillag· Host0:17
[upbeat music] Hey, guys. It's Peter once again in your Wait Wait feed. I am so pleased to present to you another episode of How To Do Everything by Wait Wait producers Ian and Mike. Now, remember, you can only get these episodes of How To Do Everything in our feed for a short while, so if you love the kind of mysteries that Mike and Ian are revealing, make sure you subscribe to How To Do Everything at their own feed. Thanks. Andrea is an athletic trainer. She wrote into us with a technique for stopping a nosebleed, something we'd never heard of.
Mike Danforth· Host0:53
Andrea, what's going on here?
Andrea· Guest0:54
So there's this trend in athletic training, uh, called the heel thump for stopping nosebleeds, and basically you figure out which nostril the patient is bleeding from, and then either have them lay down and, like, whack the bottom of the opposite heel with your hand- [laughs] ... or you have them stand up and you have them stomp on that opposite heel on the ground. I don't know how it works.
Mike Danforth· Host1:15
Wow.
Andrea· Guest1:16
Some athletic trainers really swear by it, and I've actually tried it once or twice. It, it works about 50, 60% of the time for me. Some people, like I said, swear by it.
Mike Danforth· Host1:23
Oh, wow.
Andrea· Guest1:24
But nobody really knows, like, how it works.
Ian Chillag· Host1:26
You said it's called the heel thump.
Andrea· Guest1:28
Yeah.
Ian Chillag· Host1:28
So if