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How To Do Everything

Choose Your Own Adventure

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How to survive family time this Thanksgiving. Plus, the moving walkway is coming to an end.

Transcript

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Some sad news to report, R. A. Montgomery, who's the publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure books,

0:07.0

has died at 78.

0:09.0

We want to pay tribute to Mr Montgomery by creating a kind of a choose your own adventure

0:14.0

podcast. I don't know if this will work or not. Probably won't but we're going to try it.

0:18.3

Okay if you want to hear an interview with the woman who does the voice of the moving sidewalks at airports go to 112.

0:27.2

If you want to enter a spooky cave, go to 39 seconds.

0:39.0

This is how to do everything. I'm Mike. And I'm Ian.

0:40.0

It's cold inside the cave.

0:42.0

There are two doors at the other end of the cavern.

0:45.0

One has a sign that says,

0:48.0

This door is a poor choice.

0:50.0

The other door says,

0:52.0

behind this door is five seconds of Michael McDonald Music.

0:57.0

If you want to open the Poor Choice store, go to 712.

1:02.0

If you want to open the Michael McDonald door, go to 306.

1:07.0

On today's show, we'll tell you how to win at Monopoly. But first, you know those announcements you hear in airports or on the subway,

1:16.6

there's always this voice telling you instructions. It always sort of sounds like it's the same person.

1:21.8

That's because it is.

1:23.7

Carolyn Hopkins is the voice in over 200 airports,

1:26.9

the MTA in New York City, the subway stations here in Chicago.

1:30.5

She's on the line with us now.

1:31.7

Carolyn, can we start by having you show us some of the things you say in these places?

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