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HTDE: AI, War, and Exercise, with Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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 assist from a very overqualified exerciser and a very overqualified driver. Plus we talk about a possible connection between pizza and war with The Washington Post’s Tim Carman.

You can check out Tim’s piece here and Juan's training routine here. And you can email your burning questions to [email protected].

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How To Do Everything is hosted by Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag. It is produced by Heena Srivastava. Technical direction from Lorna White.

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0:00.0

This message comes from Hyperfixed, a Radiotopia podcast. In each episode, host Alex Goldman sets himself on a listener's unsolvable problem and explores the hidden systems that created that problem in the first place. Subscribe to Hyperfixed wherever you get your podcasts.

0:18.0

Hey, everybody. It's Peter back with another episode of our sister's show How to Do Everything.

0:23.4

This week, Mike and Ian are joined by, well, let's call him an OG fitness influencer,

0:29.0

to answer a listener question about working out in the car, which is something I do all the time,

0:35.9

if, you know, exercising your rage counts.

0:39.7

Anyway, enjoy the latest.

0:46.7

Everyone hates that Google AI overview that you get at the top whenever you try and do a search.

0:53.1

It's never what you want.

0:55.0

It's often just wrong.

0:57.6

Kyle Orland, from Ars Technica, has a tip on how to avoid it.

1:02.2

Yeah, so if you want to get rid of those AI overviews, all you have to do is put a

1:06.4

curse word into the search engine box, and you'll get that old list of 10 links instead of the annoying

1:13.8

AI telling you something that might possibly be made up. So like if I wanted information on the

1:20.5

Declaration of Independence, if I type Declaration of Independence or Declaration of Independence. Yeah yeah something like that it's the AI

1:31.0

reviews tend to come up more when you're asking a question

1:33.6

I've found so if you're like what time is the Super Bowl

1:37.0

you might get something like oh the AI reviews that the Super Bowl usually

1:40.2

starts at 4 p.m and historically it's been the pregame show

1:43.8

starts with and then if you say,

1:45.4

what times does the Super Bowl start? They will just give you a list of, you know, 10, probably

1:50.2

search engine optimized links. There's no risk, is there, Kyle, of there actually being something

1:55.0

called the Super Bowl? I never really thought of that. But yeah, you might want to have safe

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