četvrtak, 26. rujna 2024.

Overqualified guests. Underqualified hosts.

Based on your interests, we thought this NPR podcast might be right up your alley.

You have questions. We have pandas.

Ever wonder how to get close to a panda or cut your hair in space? Probably not, but now that we’ve put those questions out there, you want answers, don’t you. How To Do Everything, the half adviceish, half survivalish guide podcast devoted to answering life’s most important questions, is back, after spending eight years at a really long yoga retreat.

Hosted by Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag from Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, the show that originally ran from 2011 to 2016 returns in part because the hosts realize they hadn’t quite covered everything, and that failed promise was keeping them up at night.

“Sure, we covered lots of things in those first five years, from reheating cold French fries to escaping a charging rhino, but it still wasn’t everything,” says Ian. “We’re back so we can finish the deal. There can’t be that many more things, right?”

With each new episode, they’re picking up where they left off, addressing mundane and not-so-mundane listener questions. But since it’s not in Mike and Ian’s contracts to be helpful, they’re bringing in the most overqualified people possible to answer them. This season, that includes:

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks talking about the ever-lengthening standing ovations at film festivals
Soap opera star Susan Lucci helping us remember people’s names
One of the Milwaukee Brewers’ Italian sausages teaching us how to run in a mascot race

The 2.0 version of the podcast debuts new episodes on Wednesdays, with a greatest hit from the archives every other week.

Join Mike and Ian on their renewed quest to teach you everything and start getting closer to the pandas in your life. And if you have a question you’d like to have answered on the show, email it to howto@npr.org.

Happy learningish.

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