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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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David Cay Johnston 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 read
David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author.
The Washington Monthly called him as "one of America's most important journalists." The Portland Oregonian 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 Trump's 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 the Making of Donald Trump, published around the world in English and German on August 2, 2016, by Melville House.
The San Jose Mercury recruited Johnston when he was just 18 years old because of his reporting for two small weekly newspapers in Santa Cruz, Calif. At age 19 The Mercury 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, the Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and 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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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to today's very special episode of stand-up. Why is it so special? |
| 0:06.4 | It's not, but I do have David K. Johnston joining me, and he is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter, who's one of the all-time greats here on the show, and he does not disappoint. |
| 0:16.6 | If you want to jump to my conversation with David, it begins at 29, 30 minutes in today. |
| 0:23.1 | But I do have your headlines and a clip show for you. |
| 0:27.4 | And it is ad free. |
| 0:29.5 | No ads on this show, but I can't do it without your paid subscription. |
| 0:33.2 | Go to patreon.com slash Pete Dominic or substack at Stand Up with Pete, where I am live most days and will be today at some point. |
| 0:41.8 | Not sure when, but yesterday I spoke with David K. Johnston and the president of the Florida Education Association, the biggest teachers union. |
| 0:50.0 | My friend Andrew Spar, join me. Both those are on Substack and YouTube forever. Well, how are you doing? |
| 0:56.1 | I've heard from a few people who are not doing great for any number of different reasons. |
| 1:01.9 | I, too, have been struggling, been sluggish, been feeling a little down. I'm doing okay. |
| 1:08.1 | Not deeply depressed or anything. I'm not in a crisis or spiraling. But man, it is, it's been a little bit dark, a little bit gray. I'm not sure exactly what it is for you, what it is for me. But just know that you are not alone. You are never alone, especially if you're a member of the stand-up community. |
| 1:28.1 | Then you've got friends everywhere. |
| 1:30.5 | I've got friends everywhere. |
| 1:32.5 | And it makes me feel great whenever I can do something to help folks as a reminder. |
| 1:38.2 | Try to get out there and do something good for others. |
| 1:41.1 | And there's plenty of good that needs to be done. |
| 1:43.6 | And make sure you take care of yourself |
| 1:45.0 | get outside journal meditate write read all of the things and i'm usually talking to myself as a |
| 1:51.1 | reminder when i say that so just wanted to mention that little mental health check-in i know people |
| 1:56.8 | are struggling right now for any number of reasons and if you are a woman over 50, listen to Jillian Anderson, who has some great advice. |
| 2:04.6 | I saw this video yesterday. |
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