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Hey listeners. This week we're replaying one of our earliest and one of my favorite episodes.

It's with Gary Goldman, who has a brand new comedy special on HBO.

We'll be back next week with something completely new.

I killed at my father's funeral.

Really?

And then the rabbi went on after me and tried to do some time.

And I said, rabbi, you never want to follow the

headline. And that got another laugh. I mean, I, I destroyed at my father's funeral.

Welcome to how to. I'm Charles Duhick. Each week on this show, we talk to listeners, like you,

who are trying to figure out how to solve one of life's problems, like how to withstand pain,

or how to fire a bad employee, or how to find your soulmate. Then we track down an expert,

and we get their advice, and we see if it helps.

On today's episode, we're tackling a question that all of us at some point try to answer.

How to be funny.

We got interested in this after hearing from this guy in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, named Aaron Kirkpatrick.

I'm a 35-year-old pastor at a Church of Christ in Oklahoma. You know, I get up in front of about 250 people every week to preach,

and humor is, I think, a central part of that, or at least I want it to be.

Aaron wants to know how to be funny,

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