SUPD 1047 Headlines Sam Youngman and Dan Becker
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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10 mins I adore Sam Youngman and his daily newsletter, Today's Big Stuff which is my favorite!
Sam is a veteran political campaign reporter and former White House correspondent. Youngman covered the presidential campaigns of 2004, 2008 and 2012, countless U.S. House and Senate races, and the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama while working for The Hill, Reuters and other news organizations. A native of Kentucky, Youngman has a BA in journalism from Western Kentucky University and now lives in Los Angeles.
Today’s Big Stuff is a Monday through Friday newsletter for progressive Americans who want to save their democracy while making fun of people like Donald Trump Jr. and Lauren Boebert who might actually be the same, really dumb person. .
Today’s Big Stuff (TBS) was founded in early 2019 by “Ready for Hillary” creator and Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko and former White House correspondent and veteran campaign reporter Sam Youngman. What started as a small clip service for six people, quickly expanded as thousands of stressed out Americans searched for a news source that tells it how it is — with lots of sick jokes and cuss words.
In 2020, the more than 75,000 members of the Big Stuff community — also known as Sexy Patriots and Big Stufferinoes — mobilized along with 81 million other Americans to send Donald Trump crying back to Mar-a-Lago leaving a trail of urine along the way. And we’re just getting started.
If laughter is the best medicine, then TBS is like an injection of bleach right to the fucking face.
31 minutes Dan Becker, Director of the Safe Climate Transport Campaign
works in the Climate Law Institute. Dan began his career at Environmental Action, MassPIRG and Public Citizen’s Congress Watch and fought in Congress for the Clean Air Act, CAFE standards, Superfund and other responsible energy policies. He led the clean-car fight, beginning in 1989, as director of Sierra Club’s Global Warming and Energy Program and then as director of the Safe Climate Campaign. He helped win and defend the Obama Clean Car Standard and has been named one of the world’s 28 “Climate Heroes” by Rolling Stone magazine and Salon.com. Dan is a graduate of Northeastern University Law School and Hamilton College.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and happy Thursday welcome to today's episode of Stand Up. I am |
| 0:05.5 | broadcasting taping today's podcast from my childhood bedroom in upstate New York |
| 0:11.0 | where I arrived at after taking Julia skiing yesterday |
| 0:14.8 | then we're dropping her off with her sister to party for the night. Oh yeah |
| 0:18.8 | we're gonna be partying too because it is Thursday so hang out with me tonight at 8 East. |
| 0:25.0 | Look for that email reminder in case I'm going to be a little bit late dropping Julia off |
| 0:30.1 | but I'm really looking forward to seeing you this evening. |
| 0:33.0 | Today's show has two guests. It's like the old days. |
| 0:35.0 | How about it? I've got Dan Becker from the Center for Biological Diversity |
| 0:40.0 | to talk about the new potential new rollback of clean car rules. Very important |
| 0:45.3 | issue I mentioned I may get him on and before that I've got the brilliant and |
| 0:49.2 | hilarious Sam Youngman of today's big stuff. |
| 0:52.6 | Always a fun and thoughtful conversation with Sam. |
| 0:55.6 | He and I begin at about 10 minutes in, |
| 0:58.2 | and if you want to learn about these clean car rules |
| 1:01.1 | and a little bit of the history around cafe standards, the regulations |
| 1:04.8 | that prevent tailpipe pollution, then you can skip up to 32 minutes where my conversation |
| 1:10.9 | with Dan Becker begins. |
| 1:12.6 | But I do have your headlines, so let's get to it. |
| 1:15.9 | Well, here it is that big headline yesterday that the Biden administration sent out emails |
| 1:20.0 | to more than 150,000 people announcing at least some of their student debt would be forgiven. |
| 1:26.0 | Their student loan debt would be forgiven. |
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