Hey, GapFest listeners. You are about to hear an episode of How To with Charles

DuHig. How To is a brand new slate podcast. It's hosted by Charles, who's a

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, the author of The Power of Habit, a long

time friend of the GapFest, and he's an amazing, amazing storyteller, and he is

going to create a great podcast for you. And in How To, he's going to use his

investigative reporting skills, which are profound, to enlist experts, to answer

listeners' toughest questions. So it'll be coming out every week, but right now

we have four episodes for you to listen to now. So make sure to subscribe and

Apple and Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. In the first match of

episodes, Charles tackles How To with Stand Pain, How To Donate a Kidney to your

Mom, and even How to Rob a Bank. The episode you're about to hear is called How to

Be Funny, and it features a pastor from rural Oklahoma who wants to spice up

his sermons. Charles introduces him to New York stand-up comic Gary Gellman,

and GapFest listeners, I am sure you are going to appreciate the unlikely pairing

of a red-state pastor and blue-state comedian. It's a fresh, surprising

conversation, and I guarantee that you will learn a few things for the next time

you need to work a room. So thanks for listening.

I killed my father's funeral. Really? And then the rabbi went on after me and tried to

try to do some time, and I said rabbi, you never want to follow the headline.

And back on another laugh, I mean I destroyed it my father's funeral.

Welcome to How To. I'm Charles DuHic. Each week on the show, we talk to listeners,

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

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