HTDE: OOO Baby, with Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon, and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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We are so back! How To Do Everything returns for a packed second season. This episode, one listener asks Mike and Ian how to write the perfect “out of office” message. So, they confer with the highest language authority in the land, U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.

Comedians Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon join the show to answer your couple’s advice questions, some stranger than others. Plus, a fashion tip for your post-Labor Day needs.

You can email your burning questions to [email protected].

How To Do Everything won’t live in this feed forever. If you like what you hear, scoot on over to their very own feed and give them a follow.

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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 TED Talks Daily, a podcast from TED.
0:03.7	Discover new ideas every day about stuff like finding humor in life's absurdity,
0:09.0	the existence of aliens, or what happens when your dog uses the internet.
0:13.5	Find Ted Talks Daily wherever you listen.
0:17.0	Hey, everybody, it's Peter Sagle, and I've got a true story for you.
0:19.9	Earlier this summer, there was a lovely gathering of all the wait, wait people, the extended family, and everybody involved. And my wife came, which was quite lovely. Everybody was happy to see her. And she ran into How to Do Everything, producer Hina. And Hina said, you know, Mara, this is so funny. There's this great gag that Peter's gotten going for a while now where he says that
0:39.3	How to Do Everything is your favorite show, even though, of course, your husband, Peter, hosts a pretty well-known podcast slash show himself. Ha-ha, isn't it funny? And Mara says, actually, it's true. It is my favorite show. I love it. So great news for Mara and all of you,
0:55.0	Season 2 of How to Do Everything, is finally here. Mike and Ian did everything they were supposed to do
1:00.3	to satisfy the corporate requirements and have been allowed to go back to the microphone.
1:05.8	So we're very pleased to present to you, episode one of of season two of the revived,
1:11.8	how to do everything right here in our podcast for you to make sure you go over to theirs
1:15.7	so that you don't have to bother with this other show in your podcast feed
1:22.5	when you just want to hear how to do everything.
1:30.0	Labor Day was Monday.
1:31.7	We were showered with presents.
1:33.8	And according to everything we've ever heard,
1:36.8	you cannot wear white after Labor Day.
1:40.2	What will happen?
1:41.4	Will you explode?
1:42.4	Will you be shunned by society?
1:44.0	And where does the whole thing come from?
1:46.6	Elise Taylor is the senior lifestyle writer at Vogue. Elise, what can you tell us?
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