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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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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 best to shave her hairy companion, plus, are the lyrics to Bye Bye Birdie what we think they are?

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Peter Sengel.
0:01.1	Last time I didn't ask me anything,
0:03.2	I got asked about my first job,
0:05.4	my favorite Star Trek episode,
0:07.0	best fill-in host, and cheese.
0:10.6	So what do you want to know?
0:11.8	Call and leave us your question at 1-3-8-Wait-Wate.
0:15.0	We might answer it in a future bonus episode.
0:17.4	Sign up for NPR Plus to hear this and other great bonus content. Just go to plus.npr.org.
0:24.8	Hey guys, it's Peter. Once again, in your wait, wait feed, I am so pleased to present to you another
0:30.3	episode of how to do everything by Wait Wait producers, Ian and Mike. Now, remember, you can only
0:37.4	get these episodes of how to do everything
0:39.3	in our feed for a short while. So if you love the kind of mysteries that Mike and Ian are revealing,
0:45.2	make sure you subscribe to how to do everything at their own feed. Thanks. So I was playing the song
0:53.0	Bye Bye Birdie for my kid. You know the song? From the musical Bye Bye Birdie for my kid.
0:55.6	You know the song.
0:56.4	From the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
0:58.1	Yeah, I was playing the original cast recording with Anne Margaret.
1:01.6	Okay.
1:01.8	So my daughter, she got really into it.
1:13.1	She wanted to hear it again and again.
1:16.0	And then I heard her singing it to herself.
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