How To Do Everything - "Study Break" with Mayor Pete

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

"Study break" is back with a special guest! This Friday at 12 PM CT, you can hang out with former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. (And us!)Save this Google document. At 12 PM CT on Friday, we'll drop a Zoom link. The first 10 people to click on it will be in a Zoom call with Mike, Ian, Heena and Pete (am I allowed to call him that?). Come with all your questions for fmr. Sec. Buttigieg, silly or serious, from "what's your skincare routine?" to "no, seriously, how is your skin so clear?"In the meantime, if you want your question answered in season two, email us at [e-mail]. No question is too weird.See you soon!Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

A lot happens in Washington every day, from the White House to Capitol Hill and everywhere in between. That's where we come in. On the NPR Politics Podcast, we keep you up to date on what happens inside Washington and what it means for you and your community. The NPR Politics Podcast. Listen wherever you listen. Hey, everybody. It's Ian and Hina is here too. Hey, everyone. We still don't know where Mike is. At this point, we're just, we're not going to worry about it.

We assume he'll come back. This is, this is his home, but we do have some exciting things happening. One, we're doing another study break. This is the thing we do where at 1pm Eastern on Friday, we post a Zoom link, and the first 10 people in join us and we hang out for a little while. This week is special. Tina, do you wanna say why? Yeah, this week we're going to have a special guest.

It's former Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. Yes, the man they call Secretary Pete, or Mayor Pete, will be joining, he'll be hanging out, just like the rest of us. You can ask him questions. He might have questions for you. That'll be weird, but it'll be a lot of fun. It'll be an interesting kind of experiment that you can be a part of. Just check the show notes of this very thing you're listening to right now. There's a link to a Google Doc, and at 12 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Eastern, this Friday, the Zoom link will appear there. Be one of the first 10 in and you'll join Mike Heena,

former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and we'll have a good time. Also, we are hard at work on the next season of How to Do Everything, and we need your questions. Anything you want to know how to do, anything you want to understand better, no question is too small or silly, no question is too huge and profound. We will try to answer it for you. Yes, please send us your questions.

You can email those to howto at npr.org. We are hungry for them. Please let us know what you want us to figure out for you. We're excited to see what you need. We're excited to help you. We'll see you Friday with former Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. Bella DiPaolo is glad if you're happily married, but she is perfectly happy being single.

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