Hi there, welcome to episode 1208 of stand up. I am joined today by the always awesome and brilliant David Rothkopf.

You will love this wide-ranging conversation talked about all of his latest and the latest and I was

up the latest because I was participating in the open to debate debate for comedians on the presidential election.

It was Fox News is Jimmy Phela versus me.

And well, I wasn't great.

Not in terms of the debate, but in terms of just my attitude. I just get very emotional

and shrill in these situations. They are not tailor-made for me. I just care too much. that a thing I can't be light-hearted about it and I think I

struggle to come across as how do you say likeable emotional and shr, you'll be able to hear when it comes out, but I kind of hope

that you don't.

As a result of so many things happening in the last couple of weeks and that I'll be traveling four hours

up to my parents tonight where tomorrow I'll attend the services for one of my best high school

mates.

That's right, I said mate mate come on my best friends Australians his dad passed away and I

Want to be there for him tomorrow I'm gonna take a couple these last two days of the week I think off I think I'm going to

take them off the show's not here tomorrow don't worry it means I'm hanging out with my

parents supporting my friend and his family and serving a really important role to others and for myself. So I hope you don't mind

but don't be surprised if I show up you know me I can't stay away for too long.

All right well let's get to yesterday's headlines.

Obviously, the big story today is the hurricane.

Hurricane Milton, Florida's authorities are issued dire warnings Tuesday and today and every hour to residents in Hurricane

Milton's path telling them time is running out to flee the potentially

historic storm that's set to make landfall tonight that's that would be Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. The

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