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Evelyn takes us back to elementary-school science fair season, when a lack of scientific aptitude was no obstacle when it came to tackling one of humanity’s great problems: rust. Armed with pieces of metal, household...

Nick tells Evelyn about a skill his brother taught him in his early twenties that helped him move up in restaurant work, carried him through grad school, and still comes back every time there’s a bottle of wine or...

Evelyn tells Nick about the fine art of hiding: from unexpected visitors in the country, from people at the front door, and from whatever ancient survival instinct made a simple game of hide 'n seek in a house without...

Nick tells Evelyn about a financially fragile chapter of his Los Angeles years, one exciting payday, and the small gas-station mistake that immediately ate a much larger portion of that paycheck than planned. Evelyn...

Evelyn tells Nick about the worst shower she has ever taken: an already uncomfortable guest-bathroom situation that became dramatically worse thanks to one bathroom, one urgent interruption, and one deeply misguided...

Evelyn tells Nick about a Christmas gift from 2014, resulting in a beautiful homemade chocolate pie. Unfortunately, Canadian winter knocks on the door, and offered a deeply unorthodox (and unfortunate) method to let...

Nick tells Evelyn about the couples therapy dynamic that scares him most, and it is not the loud, angry pair most people might expect. For him, the real concern is the couple whose conflict has gone underground for so...

Evelyn tells Nick story of the time a full teaching day, a birthday dinner, a rainy drive home, and one badly timed traffic moment combined into a personal emergency with lasting upholstery implications for a car she...

Nick tells Evelyn about a niche skill from his theme-park past, the old-school art of winning claw-machine prizes, and the devastating modern discovery that the machines may no longer respect craftsmanship or true...

After discussing some listener feedback about the injustice of mandatory track and field day, Evelyn starts into a story about a recent visit with old friends, a beloved kid, and the painful discovery that she may no...

Nick discovers he is not the only Nick Bognar out there in the world. Apparently there is a Christian rapper named Nick Bognar , an award-winning chef named Nick Bognar , and one deeply unimpressed youth soccer...

Evelyn introduces Nick to the legend of the Fred Wedge: a high school phenomenon so powerful it created a new family phrase, a private reenactment tradition, and a lasting inquiry into the physics of fabric (like, there...

Nick tells the story of a Hungarian dentist in Los Angeles who solved the problem of having an unpronounceable name by simply acquiring a new one from someone standing very nearby. Evelyn responds with a story about the...

Evelyn tells Nick about a small-town theatre box office, a mysterious flood of complaints, and the day she and Jill climbed into a baby blue Chevy Astro minivan to investigate one man’s deeply unsettling idea of outdoor...

Nick tells Evelyn about a recent pickleball outing where a perfectly normal post-game backpack retrieval became a perfect opportunity for him to be bullied...by a small child. And his mom. Evelyn responds with high...