How To Do Everything

How To Do Everything: Kind of an advice show. Kind of.

How To Do Everything

Show Notes

On each episode of How To Do Everything, underqualified hosts Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag find overqualified experts to answer all your life questions. How do you survive quicksand? How do you plan the perfect first date? How do you count all the hairs on your head? They can't help you. But they will find someone who can.

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

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