How To Do Everything is BACK!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Peter Sagal's wife's favorite podcast is back. On each episode of How To Do Everything, underqualified hosts Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag find overqualified experts to answer all your life questions. How do you survive quicksand? How do you plan the perfect first date? How do you count all the hairs on your head? They can't help you. But they will find someone who can.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt
0:05.2	through the Schmidt Family Foundation working toward a healthy,
0:08.8	resilient, secure world for all. On the web at the Schmidt.org.
0:14.0	Hey guys, it's Peter, and I am a wife guy.
0:19.0	It's really true, I'm not just going along with a whole Tim Walz trend. My wife, Mara, is great in every way. I am the luckiest
0:24.9	guy in the world. One of the things that's so great about her is her enthusiasm. For example,
0:30.8	you should hear her talk about her favorite comedy podcast from NPR.
0:36.2	It's called How to Do Everything, and it's made by two of the producers of Wait, Wait,
0:40.4	Don't Tell Me, Mike, Danforth, and Ian Chillogg. Sadly for her, how to do everything went off the
0:46.2	air a few years ago, but despite certain promises made to me by NPR executives, it's come back.
0:54.5	Mike and Ian will be bringing you new episodes
0:56.6	as well as updates on some of their classic episodes
0:59.4	right here on the Wait Wait Feed.
1:01.7	If you would like to get a taste of what makes me stare at the ceiling at night
1:04.9	and wonder what I could have done better,
1:06.5	listen to this preview.
1:08.5	Hey there, it's Ian and Mike. We are the host of How to Do Everything from NPR's Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me.
1:17.5	We're the podcast that is going to change your life for the better.
1:21.0	That is over-promising, but we are going to take your questions about
1:25.6	how to do everything and we are going to find people to answer them because we are
1:30.1	incapable of helping you ourselves. Yeah, have no fear.
1:33.2	We're not the ones who are going to offer you advice.
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