Hello, here I am. Joining me today, writer, director, producer, podcaster, entrepreneur,

Andy Astroy joins me. Very excited to have him on the show. If you want to jump to it,

it begins at 42 minutes into today's show. But I've got your headlines and a clip show as I do almost every weekday here on stand-up.

Thank you very much for pressing play, for joining me, for being here.

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And hope that you're doing okay here on a Tuesday in mid-August.

Lots to get to.

So I'm going to jump right into headlines.

Here's what I've got for you.

The big story, of course, was that yesterday our Mad King hosted a whole bunch of European

leaders and including Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, seven of Europe's most

powerful leaders to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine.

Did any progress get made?

Details were quite scarce.

Hours before Zelensky arrived at the White House. Russian strikes killed at least 14 people

in Ukraine. So that's how Putin is seeing it. The Ukrainian president's latest Oval Office

visit certainly did go better than the last one. Speaking of press during the meeting with the mad king of ours, Zelensky and European

leaders at the White House, the Ukrainian president said that they discussed security guarantees

for his country.

And he also said he had a good conversation with Trump, spoke about the sensitive points.

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