HTDE: Motivation, Secret Messages, and Stealing Your Thunder
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!29 Okt 2025

HTDE: Motivation, Secret Messages, and Stealing Your Thunder

This week: Filmmaker Alice Wu shares a clever trick to help you finally finish that thing you’ve been working on, why teenagers are taking over the comments sections of old podcast episodes, and the origins of the phrase “steal your thunder”. Plus we continue in our quest to be your out of office emergency contact.

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

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