HTDE

Episodes

• HTDE: Burritos and Handshakes 2026-04-29
  Ian and Mike help a caller solve a handshake issue. Plus, how to mourn the loss of a favorite dish. You can email your burning questions to…
• HTDE: Crushes and Smells 2026-04-15
  This week: How to tell your crush you like them. Plus, do smells really linger in your nose? You can email your burning questions to howto@npr.org .…
• HTDE: Sheets and Blankets 2026-04-01
  This week: Ian and Mike help a couple figure out who exactly is responsible for stealing the covers at night. You can email your burning questions…
• HTDE: Crickets and Clowns 2026-03-18
  This week: How to tell the temperature outside without a thermometer. Plus, how clowns trademark their unique looks. Featuring Marlene Zuk and Julie…
• HTDE: The Breakfast Rule 2026-03-04
  This week: How the Wait, Wait team decides what jokes are too inappropriate for the airwaves. Plus Mike and Ian help a caller with a personal…
• HTDE: Curling Stones and Halfpipe Lines 2026-02-18
  More behind the scenes at the Milan Cortina Olympics with unsung heroes of the Winter Games. Mike and Ian talk with a curling legend, find out where…
• HTDE: Forks and Ice Masters 2026-02-11
  This week: Mike and Ian talk with an Olympic Ice Master, help a listener who keeps meeting people with their same name, and get to the bottom of a…
• HTDE: Torches and Ski Jumps 2026-02-04
  Mike and Ian are back, just in time for the opening ceremony at the Winter Olympic Games in Milan/Cortina. Olympians and Starfleet Captains share…
• HTDE: One-Liners and Free Throws 2025-12-10
  Ian and Mike help a listener lighten the mood with her clients, help another listener mess with an opponent’s free throw shot, and Peter Sagal…
• HTDE: Carsickness And Traffic Jams 2025-11-26
  Ian and Mike look to the skies to help a listener solve her problem with motion sickness. Plus, a survivor of the longest recorded traffic jam in…
• HTDE: Broadway Musicals And Best In Show 2025-11-12
  This week: A Broadway star tells us how he finished the New York Marathon and then performed in two shows back to back, a wife seeks advice on how…
• HTDE: Motivation, Secret Messages, and Stealing Your Thunder 2025-10-29
  This week: Filmmaker Alice Wu shares a clever trick to help you finally finish that thing you’ve been working on, why teenagers are taking over the…
• HTDE: Earthquakes, Dentists, and How To Talk To Your Dog 2025-10-15
  On today’s episode: a bold new way to help out when an earthquake hits, and Mike and Ian help out a listener with the help of a friendly dentist and…
• HTDE: AI, War, and Exercise, with Arnold Schwarzenegger 2025-10-01
  On today’s episode, how to get rid of Google’s AI summaries, and we help a listener who wants to exercise in her car during a long commute–with an…
• HTDE: How To Make Lasagna Without An Oven, with Peter Sagal 2025-09-17
  Today, Mike and Ian recruit the help of legendary Taste-Tester-Turned-Public-Radio-Host Peter Sagal to rate a new, unorthodox approach to making…
• HTDE: OOO Baby, with Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon, and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón 2025-09-03
  We are so back! How To Do Everything returns for a packed second season. This episode, one listener asks Mike and Ian how to write the perfect “out…
• HTDE: Study Break with Jason Isaacs of "The White Lotus" 2025-04-10
  The White Lotus season finale dropped this weekend, and we have questions. And trauma. Maybe you do too? This week, How To Do Everything 's "study…
• HTDE: Heckling, Yawning, and Imitating, with James Austin Johnson and Patton Oswalt 2025-01-15
  On our season finale, when a young listener has a question on behalf of her fifth grade class, we call up an old friend/chimp butt expert to help…
• HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg 2025-01-01
  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…
• HTDE: The Perfect Christmas Present with James Patterson and Gillian Flynn 2024-12-11
  On today's episode, Charlie needs help writing a children's book for his wife. So, Mike and Ian call up some of the greatest minds in modern…
• HTDE: The Friendliest Sound in the World, with Olympic medalist Molly Seidel 2024-11-27
  This week on How To Do Everything , a listener calls in asking how to avoid startling innocent pedestrians when she goes on runs. So Mike and Ian…
• HTDE: Yes We Pecan, with Martha Stewart 2024-11-13
  Two roommates disagree about how to pronounce "pecan," so Mike and Ian call up Martha Stewart–and others–to help. Plus, an Italian town in the…
• HTDE: Josh Gad defeats earworms, and we make a pitch to Pete Buttigieg 2024-10-30
  This week on the show, when a mother can't get her four-year-old's favorite song out of her head, Mike and Ian call up Broadway's beloved Josh Gad…
• HTDE: Maury Povich and Sleeping Between the Pretties 2024-10-16
  This week on How To Do Everything , Wait, Wait producers Mike and Ian recruit television icon Maury Povich to help a listener reveal some hard…
• HTDE: Peter Sagal the Sausage 2024-10-02
  This week, Mike and Ian recruit Peter Sagal to help a caller who's curious about mascot races – with the help of a talking sausage. A police…
• HTDE: Tom Hanks, Hot Dogs and Chimp Butts 2024-09-18
  Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! producers Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag are back with another episode of How To Do Everything . Today, the great Tom…
• HTDE: Haircuts in Space, Tutus, and the Nasal Ranger 2024-09-04
  Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! producers Mike and Ian are back with their podcast How To Do Everything . On their first episode: how to cut your hair…