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April 26, 2025 47 mins
This week, special guest Brian Tyree Henry joins panelists Brian Babylon, Negin Farsad, and Luke Burbank

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This week, we're live in Durham with special guest Lewis Black and panelists Dulcé Sloan, Alonzo Bodden, and Adam Burke

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April 12, 2025 47 mins
This week, special guest Austan Goolsbee joins panelists Peter Grosz, Rachel Coster, and Shane O'Neill

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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 break" is hosting acclaimed actor Jason Isaacs AKA acclaimed Lorazepam addict Timothy Ratliff.

How to join: save this Google document. At 12:30 PM ET tomorrow April 11th, we'll drop a Zoom link. The first 10 people to click on it will be in a Zoom call with Mike, Ian, Heena and T...
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April 5, 2025 47 mins
This week, special guest Sterling K. Brown joins panelists Tig Notaro, Negin Farsad, and Josh Gondelman

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This week, we invite everyone to take a much needed break and listen to interviews with Eric Idle, Bridget Everett + Jeff Hiller, Diane Lane, and more!

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March 22, 2025 46 mins
This week, we're live in Orlando with special guest Moe Wagner and panelists Eugene Cordero, Alonzo Bodden, and Paula Poundstone

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March 15, 2025 47 mins
This week, special guest Amanda Seyfried joins panelists Fortune Feimster, Peter Grosz, and Emmy Blotnick

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March 8, 2025 46 mins
This week, special guest Lauren Graham joins panelists Shantira Jackson, Faith Salie, and Roy Blount, Jr.

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March 1, 2025 47 mins
This week, special guest Roy Wood Jr. joins panelists Tom Bodett, Helen Hong, and Paula Poundstone

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This week, we celebrate one last President's Day with special guests Mark Ronson, Billy Porter, Tara Dower, John Leguizamo, and James Marsden

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February 15, 2025 48 mins
This week, we're live in Richmond with GWAR and panelists Adam Burke, Alzo Slade, and Negin Farsad

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February 8, 2025 47 mins
This week, special guest Vanessa Bayer joins panelists Shantira Jackson, Rachel Feinstein, and Peter Grosz

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February 1, 2025 46 mins
This week, renowned taxidermist Amber Maykut joins panelists Rekha Shankar, Adam Felber, and Joyelle Nicole Johnson

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January 25, 2025 47 mins
This week, special guest mxmtoon joins panelists Paula Poundstone, Faith Salie, and Hari Kondabolu

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January 18, 2025 47 mins
This week, Rose Matafeo joins panelists Maz Jobrani, Alzo Slade, and Helen Hong

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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 her out. And Saturday Night Live's James Austin Johnson walks us through his hilarious Donald Trump impression to tend to a listener's curiosities. Plus, Mike and Ian are stressed about some (cryptic) hate mail, so they call Patton Oswalt for some words of encouragement.

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January 11, 2025 47 mins
This week, Josh Gad joins panelists Negin Farsad, Rachel Coster, and Josh Gondelman to talk being accosted by kids and ignored by David O. Russell

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January 4, 2025 47 mins
This week, we ring in the new year by remembering what made the old one so special, including interviews with Kristin Kish, Bill Cowher, and more!

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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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