HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Ringing in 2025: Mike and Ian knock out a New Year's resolution with the help of filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg, and a listener calls in to settle a high-stakes bet on the sturdiness of honeybees. Also, the world's northernmost towns are in the middle of months-long darkness. To learn how to survive it, we call an astrophysicist who spent six months in complete Antarctic darkness.

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0:00.0	The Indicator is a podcast where Daily Economic News is about what matters to you.
0:04.5	Workers have been feeling the sting of inflation.
0:06.5	So as a new administration promises action on the cost of living, taxes, and home prices,
0:11.3	the S&P 500 biggest post-election day spike ever,
0:14.5	follow all the big changes and what they mean for you.
0:17.1	Make America affordable again.
0:20.4	Listen to The Indicator, the Daily Economics podcast from NPR.
0:24.5	Hey, happy new year, you listeners, you. We are rigging in 2025 with a new episode of how to do everything
0:30.5	hosted by Wait, Wait, producers, Mike Danforth, and Ian Chilog. Now, this episode, Mike and
0:35.6	Ian sit down with actor and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg,
0:39.4	who just so happened to steal my identity about a decade ago. Whatever, it's fine. I'm clearly over it.
0:47.0	I mean, really. I mean, it's fine. It's fine. I don't mind. They have just a few episodes left
0:51.3	in this season, so make sure to follow them at their own feed and enjoy the latest How to Do Everything.
1:00.1	This is How to Do Everything. I'm Mike.
1:02.6	And I'm Ian. Coming up, writer, director, and actor Jesse Eisenberg joins us to answer all of your how-to questions.
1:12.8	But first... Hey, Maureen, what can we help you with? Well, let me take you back about two weeks ago. I'm sitting out on my back porch
1:19.3	with my husband and a girlfriend of mine, Caitlin, and she works for this hyper-local honey place
1:24.8	here in Atlanta. And she is only about a mile from my house. And she
1:29.3	accidentally left a key at her office. And she just made some offhanded comments. It's like,
1:35.0	oh, wouldn't it be so nice if the bees could just fly over my key. And I wouldn't have to go get it?
1:40.6	Yeah. And so I am thinking immediately, well, this is ludicrous because it would take
1:47.1	an insane amount of bees to do this. Yeah. So I'm imagining like a lot of bees in this huge mass,
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