Hello and welcome to another episode of Stand Up.

I hope that you are doing okay here on Wednesday.

It is the 8th of January.

If you're listening on Wednesday, I have an excellent guest who hasn't joined me in a while,

but very excited to have him back.

Nicholas Grossman is my guest, and we talked for well over an hour.

It was a fascinating conversation which covered

a whole lot of ground from facebook fact checking or lack thereof how we lost january sixth and

i'm expected to turn in a conversation with professor grossman says he's really enjoyed the

conversation i've been trying to host about what it means to be a man today,

the men and boys conversation.

University of Illinois's Nicholas Grossman joins me.

For a fascinating conversation, today you can jump to it at about 25 minutes into today's show.

But I've got other things to share with you as I do every day on the daily podcast.

I've got your headlines and share with you as I do every day on the daily podcast.

I've got your headlines and audio clips from yesterday as well as the good stuff to get us started.

So let's start there right now.

I think positive feedback on the show is good stuff.

I love that.

Thank you to Mark Cunningham in Pennsylvania who emailed me and said today's show,, David Rothkoff was outstanding, opened up a whole way of understanding where things are at this point in time and where things are likely ahead in Trump's first year where Trump and co face reality once they're responsible for steering the ship.

Strap in, Donald. Thank you, Mark. I appreciate that. Kaleen also emailed me and said how much she loved

David Rothkopf. And I heard from listener Eric Anderson who texted me and said, the podcasts have been

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