1433 David Cay Johnston from #FarmJam
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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šļø 9 September 2025
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Summary
Today's show is my interview with David Cay Johnston from Farm Jam at Slate Hill Edible Forest
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David Cay JohnstonĀ Ā books are as important to my understanding on American Tax Policy, economics and how our system is rigged by rich elites for rich elites as anything else I have readĀ
David Cay JohnstonĀ is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author.
The Washington MonthlyĀ called him as āone of Americaās most importantĀ journalists.āĀ The PortlandĀ OregonianĀ said his work equals the original muckrakers: Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair and Lincoln Steffens.
Johnston met Donald Trump in 1988 and in April 1990 revealed that Trumpās was no billionaire. When Trump announced his latest run for the White House in June 2015, Johnston was the only nationally-known journalist who immediately said Trump was serious this time and might get the GOP nomination. His reporting over the next year led to theĀ Making of Donald Trump, published around the world in English and German on August 2, 2016, by Melville House.
TheĀ San Jose MercuryĀ recruited Johnston when he was just 18 years old because of his reporting for two small weekly newspapers in Santa Cruz, Calif. At age 19Ā The MercuryĀ hired him as a staff writer. Within weeks his byline made the front page.
Over the next four decades his award-winning investigations appeared in that paper, theĀ Detroit Free Press,Ā Los Angeles Times,Ā The Philadelphia InquirerĀ andĀ The New York Times.
Since 2009 Johnston has taught the business regulation, property and tax law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law. He previously taught writing, reporting and magazine writing at the University of Southern California and UCLA Extension. He has lectured on four continents about journalistic techniques, ethics, legal theory and tax policy.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and thank you for joining me in today's show. |
| 0:04.6 | I have a very special conversation with one of our all-time favorite guest, David K. Johnston, the one and only taped in front of a live audience of stand-up listeners, subscribers, and friends from this past Saturday night at Slight Hill Edible Forest and a gorgeous evening, gorgeous Saturday in central New York |
| 0:23.9 | here at the end of the summer. |
| 0:26.3 | That's right. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's conversation taped at our first ever farm jam event this past weekend. |
| 0:32.1 | We had an amazing time this weekend. |
| 0:33.6 | I, along with so many others, still so very high from it, Kevin Richberg and I are so |
| 0:39.0 | grateful to all of you who joined us. Thank you, everybody who came and contributed. We'll have a lot |
| 0:44.2 | more to say about it, and we'll talk about it and have lots of laughs with lots of folks that |
| 0:49.5 | were there this Thursday at the Thursday night, 8 p.m. Happy Hour Hangout. But for today's show, I don't have the |
| 0:54.8 | news segment. I should be getting back to the regular format on tomorrow's show, but I'm going to get |
| 1:00.6 | right to my conversation with David from Saturday night. He is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative |
| 1:06.9 | journalist, a best-selling author, a business and law professor now with the |
| 1:10.9 | Rochester Institute of Technology. I was so excited. We were so excited that he and his lovely |
| 1:16.2 | wife, Jennifer, came and joined us. I just can't say enough about how generous he was and how |
| 1:21.1 | he handled everybody in person. He was like a statesman, like a diplomat. He was walking around |
| 1:25.4 | and so friendly putting everybody in his light saying hello to almost everybody and anybody who wanted to talk diplomat. He was walking around and so friendly, putting everybody in his |
| 1:27.8 | light, saying hello to almost everybody and anybody who wanted to talk to him. He took pictures. |
| 1:32.3 | It was a great night. And I think a really great conversation. I'm so glad that we didn't get |
| 1:37.8 | rained on and that it all recorded okay. And thanks again to everybody who helped and who is there and I'm so excited to talk more |
| 1:46.2 | about it but right now I want to share with you my conversation very hurt felt very thoughtful |
| 1:51.6 | serious at times obviously moments of levity the great David K. Johnston right now so I am very |
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