What is up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew coming to you with another episode of The Founders Journal, my daily audio diary, where I talk about the biggest wins, losses, moments, and lessons behind the scenes at

Morning Brew. As always, I am joined by my co-pilot, Mr. Josh Kaplan, and today we are talking about anxiety of the unknown let's

hop into it. Oh this is not a eight minute conversation the anxiety of the

unknown. It's not an eight minute conversation

and no pressure, but you're talking

in front of 90 people right now.

Why today?

So yeah, I'm gonna start with a little story.

This morning, I was doing a favor for our friend. I'm up in Vermont and what that means is when you want to get things done in Vermont, it's not like a three or five minute drive to get things done.

So our neighbor has a big pickup truck. or five minute drive to get things done.

So our neighbor has a big pickup truck,

he's having car issues, and he had to bring his car

to the auto shop.

The closest auto shop is in Brattleboro, Vermont,

35 minutes away.

So 645 in the morning, I'm following behind him to go to the auto shop in Brattleboro.

And I have a serious radio in my car and I decided for the first time and a long time I was going to put on Howard Stern because partly because you know

Morning Brew is very much in the world of podcasting and audio now and when you ask people who are some of the best interviewers of all time in

radio or podcasting Howard Stern always comes up in that conversation and

I've never understood the allure because I've never listened to Howard Stern.

And what I will say is beside the content being absolutely vulgar,

the guy is unbelievably talented. And if I had to call out like two things that he is

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