HTDE: Josh Gad defeats earworms, and we make a pitch to Pete Buttigieg

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🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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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 to help. Plus, Ian has a formal request for the Secretary of Transportation, and the guys find a tip to quell those pesky election mailers.

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0:00.0	Who's claiming power this election? What's happening in battleground states? And why do we still have the electoral college?
0:09.0	All this month, the Thruline Podcast is asking big questions about our democracy and going back in time to answer them.
0:17.2	Listen now to the Thru Line Podcast from NPR. podcast from Wait Wait Wait Wait Producers, Mike Danforth and Ian Schilog.
0:34.6	It's a very special episode today because they're featuring Secretary of Transportation
0:39.2	Pete Budajajaj.
0:40.1	Now, some people credit Pete Budajerges rise in national politics to his appearance on
0:46.0	Wait Wait Wait Don't Tell Me in 2017. By some people I mean me. Now if you hate hearing this show in the Wait Wait Feed, I've got good news for you.
0:55.8	Pretty soon it's going to disappear from here and people will have to go over to its own feed on how to do everything,
1:01.4	to listen to how to do everything. And you love hearing the show I got great news
1:05.0	It's got its own feed you don't have to worry about my dumb show just go listen to them whenever you want
1:11.4	So enjoy this week's how to do everything.
1:14.4	Election day is just days away.
1:18.8	Maybe your mailbox is full of election mailers.
1:21.0	Maybe it's even overstuffed with mailers. Maybe you're
1:24.3	considering just setting fire to your mailbox so you don't have to deal with it but
1:28.6	there's a better way. Douglas Herman is a political strategist. He was lead
1:32.3	male strategist for Barack Obama's presidential
1:34.7	campaigns in 2008 and 2012. So Doug, we hear there's a way to cut down on all these
1:40.5	mailings. Can you tell us about it?
1:42.1	Absolutely. There's a way to do this and it actually works in your interest and in the campaign's interest.
1:48.0	I'll tell you how it works.
1:49.0	The campaign mailers are expensive and you get on the list by registering to vote and the campaigns
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