HTDE: One-Liners and Free Throws
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What humorous advice can help someone with baldness during client meetings?
This message comes from Three Questions with Andy Richter. After wrapping up his run on Dancing with the Stars, his podcast remains lively with great conversations every Tuesday and his call-in show every Friday. Three Questions with Andy Richter, wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everybody, it's Peter.
Coming up, the season finale of our sister podcast, How to Do Everything, made by WaitWait producers Mike Danforth and Ian Shalogno. This is a particularly important and wonderful episode because it features me sharing my personal trick. for comfortably falling asleep on airplanes. And I just want you all to understand that the fact that I'm telling you all about it for free rather than patenting it and becoming a sociopathic billionaire like I've always wanted to do is just one more sign of my generosity to you. So if you've enjoyed listening to How to Do Everything, be sure to follow the show in their own feed. And with that, let my generosity commence. We fly for work a lot for our other job, producing the show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
And right now we're actually in Phoenix, Arizona for a Wait, Wait taping.
Peter Sagal, the host of the show, is with us now. Peter, you say you have a new hack for sleeping on planes? Yes, although I have to give credit to the person who taught me this.
How can I use a pool noodle to sleep comfortably on a plane?
So my elderly father just turned 89, spent many, many winters in Florida. And he recently said to me, Peter, we have to go meet a friend of mine. The friend was a woman named Annie. And Annie's business is driving cars back and forth from Florida, where she lives, to the homes of snowbirds, people who come to Florida for vacation. So This woman walks in, she's there in the Chicago area to pick up somebody's car, and she is wearing a backpack with a pool noodle in it. A pool noodle. A pool noodle, although not a whole pool noodle, about, say, a two-foot length of pool noodle. And she's, like I said, all business. She's there to pick up the car, get going. She just flew in. But I say, Annie, why do you have a pool noodle in your backpack?
And she says, oh, it's how I sleep on planes. I asked her to demonstrate. She takes out the pool noodle and she sticks it in her vest so that it's pointing up right under her chin.
What funny one-liners can lighten the mood about hair loss?
Okay.
And then she mimed falling asleep with her chin falling on the pool noodle and being suspended there. As opposed to the chin falling forward and waking you up. So it's like the pool noodle makes a pedestal for your head to rest on. Exactly right. The classic Roman pose of putting your fist under your chin. Do that, but just imagine it's a pool noodle instead.
Okay, so it's like a goatee, basically.
No, I don't think a goatee provides any structural support at all. Is it more like a pedestal? Yeah, this sounds crazy, but you tried it. I did. It just so happens that we had a trip coming up, and I have children, so I have pool noodles.
So I took one of these pool noodles, and I cut one down to about a two-foot length, and I put it in my carry-on bag.
And sure enough, I got on the plane, and I was sleepy, so I took it, I put it down my jacket, and put my chin on it, completely ignoring what other people might be thinking loudly as they looked at me, and had a lovely hour nap.
How can I creatively distract opponents during free throws?
Seriously?
Wow.
It worked brilliantly. You showed me, and I love you. You looked like an idiot. I have no doubt that I look like a complete fool. But what's interesting about this is people do not look good with the airline pillows around their neck. No. Fools, right? I mean, it's not a good look either. So I think it's just because it's novel. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I mean, I think what it needs is really just to explain to other people what it is. Because otherwise they just think you're kind of insane.
What scientific insights exist about blowing air at a basketball?
Yeah. But if it had like how an emotional support dog has a vest that says, you know, I'm working. You could just say, emotional support pole. Yeah. Do not pet. Exactly.
I'm a pole sleeper.
I think if this catches on, you know, the way that they come up and down and they hand out headphones to people to bring.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What humorous advice can help someone with baldness during client meetings?
0:00–1:23
2
How can I use a pool noodle to sleep comfortably on a plane?
1:23–2:21
3
What funny one-liners can lighten the mood about hair loss?
2:21–3:21
4
How can I creatively distract opponents during free throws?
3:21–3:52
5
What scientific insights exist about blowing air at a basketball?
3:52–4:27
6
Can crowd dynamics affect the outcome of a free throw?
4:27–5:20
7
What are the emotional aspects of dealing with hair loss?
5:20–6:26
8
How can humor be used to address sensitive topics in social interactions?
6:26–28:03