Ben Falcone On Fatherhood

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 15, 2017

Director, writer and actor Ben Falcone joins us to discuss his new book Being a Dad Is Weird: Lessons in Fatherhood from My Family to Yours. Falcone writes about raising his two daughters with his wife, Melissa McCarthy, and what lessons his own dad taught him about parenting.

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