The Latest Casual Friday with Andrew Walsh and Phil Burton This week… An outage from Amazon Web Services messed up a bunch of apps and websites. A big fall storm will be rolling through. And getting a cup of coffee in Seattle is getting much more expensive. Too Beautiful to Live Co-Host Andrew Walsh and Comedian Phil Burton are here to break down the week. Vaughan Jones Arts & Life Boo to spooky chocolate prices! It's the year of chewy, fruity Halloween treats Sales of non-chocolate candy are growing faster than those of chocolate. With cocoa in shortage, manufacturers are changing pack sizes, adding fillers and dipping candy in "white creme." Alina Selyukh Arts & Life Here's what experts say 'A House of Dynamite' gets wrong (and right) about nuclear war Some praised realistic elements like the depiction of the White House situation room. But others said parts of the plot didn't ring true. Geoff Brumfiel Politics It's supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they're getting nothing Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay. Andrea Hsu Remembering Susan Stamberg, one of NPR's most recognized voices Known as a "founding mother" of NPR, Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a national news program in the U.S. She died Oct. 16. Originally broadcast in 1982, 1993 and 2021. Terry Gross Politics As strikes on alleged drug boats grow, so do questions about their legality and goal President Trump says he has authority to carry out the strikes, but international experts are asking if the attacks are truly about countering narcotics or instead toppling Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro. Franco Ordoñez Health Not sure how to support a friend with cancer? Survivors have advice To help a loved one with cancer, think about what you're good at — and what they need. Are you organized? Plan their meals. Detail-oriented? Go with them to appointments. Survivors share ideas. Marielle Segarra National Morning news brief Thousands of federal workers miss Friday paychecks as government shutdown drags on, more than 30 arrested, including NBA stars, in FBI's illegal gambling probe, Russians play down President Trump's new sanctions. A Martínez Politics Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen on the stalemate in Congress Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland introduced a bill that would have paid all federal workers. It didn't pass. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Van Hollen about the stalemate in Congress. Steve Inskeep National Air traffic control trainees brace for impact of government shutdown The FAA's training academy in Oklahoma City is operating in spite of the government shutdown, but air traffic control trainees are still feeling its impact. Joel Rose Prev 797 of 1650 Next Sponsored
Casual Friday with Andrew Walsh and Phil Burton This week… An outage from Amazon Web Services messed up a bunch of apps and websites. A big fall storm will be rolling through. And getting a cup of coffee in Seattle is getting much more expensive. Too Beautiful to Live Co-Host Andrew Walsh and Comedian Phil Burton are here to break down the week. Vaughan Jones
Arts & Life Boo to spooky chocolate prices! It's the year of chewy, fruity Halloween treats Sales of non-chocolate candy are growing faster than those of chocolate. With cocoa in shortage, manufacturers are changing pack sizes, adding fillers and dipping candy in "white creme." Alina Selyukh
Arts & Life Here's what experts say 'A House of Dynamite' gets wrong (and right) about nuclear war Some praised realistic elements like the depiction of the White House situation room. But others said parts of the plot didn't ring true. Geoff Brumfiel
Politics It's supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they're getting nothing Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay. Andrea Hsu
Remembering Susan Stamberg, one of NPR's most recognized voices Known as a "founding mother" of NPR, Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a national news program in the U.S. She died Oct. 16. Originally broadcast in 1982, 1993 and 2021. Terry Gross
Politics As strikes on alleged drug boats grow, so do questions about their legality and goal President Trump says he has authority to carry out the strikes, but international experts are asking if the attacks are truly about countering narcotics or instead toppling Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro. Franco Ordoñez
Health Not sure how to support a friend with cancer? Survivors have advice To help a loved one with cancer, think about what you're good at — and what they need. Are you organized? Plan their meals. Detail-oriented? Go with them to appointments. Survivors share ideas. Marielle Segarra
National Morning news brief Thousands of federal workers miss Friday paychecks as government shutdown drags on, more than 30 arrested, including NBA stars, in FBI's illegal gambling probe, Russians play down President Trump's new sanctions. A Martínez
Politics Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen on the stalemate in Congress Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland introduced a bill that would have paid all federal workers. It didn't pass. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Van Hollen about the stalemate in Congress. Steve Inskeep
National Air traffic control trainees brace for impact of government shutdown The FAA's training academy in Oklahoma City is operating in spite of the government shutdown, but air traffic control trainees are still feeling its impact. Joel Rose