Yeah, we are off it is Wednesday, January 24, 2024, and I am very, very happy to see you.

I can't see you, or hear you.

I'm actually at my parents as my childhood bedroom so I'm just

talking into a microphone thinking of you in your car or making your coffee or walking down

a trail wherever you are, whoever you are.

I am so grateful that you press play on today's episode of Stand Up.

And hopefully you've subscribed to the show for free.

And maybe, if I'm lucky, if we're lucky,

you sign up for a paid subscription that means you have

access to our amazing community of people and we are all getting together in Las Vegas

March 22nd and 23rd.

More about that later, but I hope that you are coming.

I am very happy to report my guest today

is the great Sam Youngman, who I grow to like more and more every time we talk. He is the co-author, co-creator of my favorite

daily news email. It's called Today's Big Stuff. We had a smart and quy witty conversation as I always do with

Sam which begins at 22 minutes after the news but before that there is

plenty of news to cover here on the news segment which I do each and every day right here at

the top of the program the best daily news segment in all of daily podcast land so

let's do it starting with of course the big story the top story yesterday which was according to my daughter

that Ken got a Oscar nomination and Barbie did not thus playing out in real life the kind of plot of the movie

We can maybe talk about that at the hangout or later how big of a deal is that to you or your kids or people who are

seeing the Oscar nominations as a real disrespect to women and the modern day

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