1543 Tony Box & Maura Quint + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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My conversation with Tony starts at 24 minutes and Maura and I being at 58 mins in to today's show after headlines and clips
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Tony Box is a soldier, FBI agent, and prosecutor who's dedicated his life to service, courage, and integrity—from leading troops in Iraq to putting criminals behind bars as a federal prosecutor. A lifelong public servant, he's running to be the next Attorney General of Texas to restore trust, accountability, and justice for everyday Texans.
Read Maura recap of SOTU at McSweenwey's
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Maura Quint is a humor writer and activist whose work has been featured in publications such as McSweeneys and The New Yorker. She was named one of Rolling Stone's top 25 funniest twitter accounts of 2016. When not writing comedy, Maura has worked extensively with non-profits in diverse sectors including political action campaigns, international arts collectives and health and human services organizations. She has never been officially paid to protest but did once find fifteen cents on the ground at an immigrants' rights rally and wanted to make sure that had been disclosed. She was the co founder and executive director of TaxMarch.org
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| 0:00.0 | Stand up. |
| 0:02.5 | Hi there. |
| 0:03.4 | It's very early Thursday morning, and I'm very excited to see you tonight. |
| 0:07.9 | Thursday night, 8 p.m. I'll be hosting a hangout for all paid subscribers. |
| 0:12.1 | It's been over two weeks. |
| 0:14.4 | So I hope to see you tonight. |
| 0:16.1 | Lots to discuss. |
| 0:17.6 | Joining me on the conversation today, I've got one of our favorites, Mara Quint, |
| 0:22.3 | who is talking about her hilarious, insightful, and deeply offensive recap of the State of the |
| 0:28.6 | Union that she posted at McSweeney's, which is very good. You've got to check that out. And for the |
| 0:34.1 | first time ever, I'm going to talk to a guy named Tony Box, who's a former FBI agent, federal prosecutor, former army. |
| 0:41.9 | He's now running for Attorney General in Texas. |
| 0:44.1 | The primary election is next week. |
| 0:46.3 | Tony and I have mostly focused on the FBI, what it was like, the culture there, then and now, Cash Patel's antics and his concerns as well as why he's running for attorney |
| 0:57.7 | general in texas tony box for the first time joining me then mora quint i begin with tony at 24 minutes |
| 1:05.1 | and then my conversation with mara starts at 58 minutes but i hope you'll stay here because i've |
| 1:10.6 | get your headlines and |
| 1:11.8 | the best of yesterday's clips, best moments in television, radio, podcasting, YouTube, and all of the |
| 1:19.4 | rest that I could find. Many of you send these to me if you haven't. Send me whatever you're seeing. |
| 1:24.8 | Stand up with Pete at gmail.com. It's super helpful. |
| 1:28.5 | Okay. All right. Let's get to it. |
| 1:30.7 | And thank you very much for being here. |
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