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Guest host Scott Pierce introduces a special Halloween-themed episode from the archives. First, Oxford-educated mortician and Ask a Mortician host Caitlin Doughty joins Mike Pesca to discuss her memoir, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, demystifying funeral rituals, and transforming how w ...  Show more

Mike Pesca is back to introduce Great Question with Tony Dokoupil, a new show he’s spent the past few months working on with CBS.In this debut, host Tony Dokoupil sits down with author Malcolm Gladwell to tackle a controversial question: Does America actually have too few police ...  Show more

The self-deprecating stand-up comic discusses having a magician for a father, the challenge of mainstream comedy and his aspirations to build the next Disneyland. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made availab ...  Show more

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh's competing testimonies before the Senate Judiciary Committee grip the nation, and America Ferrera discusses "American Like Me." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener fo ...  Show more

Best buddy comedies, getting drugged, and an all-time Will Smith story with Bert Kreischer.