Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Stand Up with Pete Dominick is a classroom where we laugh and learn together. I will interview the smartest people I can find about how to save the planet, our democracy and ourselves. We will talk about the issues that matter to you,your health,the health of your family, community, country and the environment w experts who know the best. And we will laugh while we do it. New episodes upload every weekday usually by 7am ET Support the show with a paid subscription at patreon.com/petedominick

1647 Christian Finnegan makes me laugh and think 08/06/2026

1646 Glenn Kirshner + New & Headlines 08/05/2026

1645 Celeste Headlee + News & clips 08/04/2026

1645 Celeste Headlee + News & clips Celeste and I start at 19 mins Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Pre Order Celeste's new book Celeste Headlee is an internationally recognized journalist and radio host, professional speaker and author of bestselling book , , and You’re Cute When You’re Mad: Simple Steps for Confronting Sexism. Her TEDx Talk, , has been viewed over 34 million times. Close to 50,000 talks have been given at 10,000 events since the TED program launched in 2009, and Celeste’s talk is one of the 10 most-watched talks posted on TED’s homepage. In her 20-year career in public radio, Celeste has been the Executive Producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Broadcasting and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, Here and Now, All Things Considered, 1A, and Weekend Edition. She also served as co-host of the national morning news show, The Takeaway, from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel. Celeste is a regular guest host on NPR and American Public Media, serves as an advisory board member for and The Listen First Project, and received the 2019 Media Changemaker Award. She is the host of a podcast from the Conferences for Women, the largest network of women’s conferences in the nation, drawing more than 50,000 people to its annual events. Celeste is also the president and CEO of , a non-profit that works to bring racial justice and equity to journalism and media through targeted training and interventions, and she serves on the board of the National Center for Race Amity. Celeste is the granddaughter of composer William Grant Still, known as the Dean of Black American Composers and she is a trained operatic soprano. She lives in the DC area with her rescue dog, Samus Aran. Gift a Subscription Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo /episode/index/show/standupwithpete/id/42312165

1644 Bill Boyle stops by 08/03/2026

1643 Run For Something's Amanda Litman 07/31/2026

1642 Dr Rob Davidson + News and Clips 07/30/2026

1641 Jared Yates Sexton + News & clips 07/29/2026

1640 Dr. Wil Jeudy + news & clips 07/28/2026

1639 Prof Jeff Jarvis + News & Clips 07/27/2026

1639 Prof Jeff Jarvis + News & Clips Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Get Jeff’s new book is a national leader in the development of online news, blogging, the investigation of new business models for news, and the teaching of entrepreneurial journalism. He writes an influential media blog, . He is author of “Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News” (CUNY Journalism Press, 2014); “Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live” (Simon & Schuster, 2011); “What Would Google Do?” (HarperCollins 2009), and the Kindle Single “Gutenberg the Geek.” He has consulted for media companies including The Guardian, Digital First Media, Postmedia, , Burda, Advance Publications, and The New York Times company at . Prior to joining the Newmark J-School, Jarvis was president of , the online arm of Advance Publications, which includes Condé Nast magazines and newspapers across America. He was the creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine and has worked as a columnist, associate publisher, editor, and writer for a number of publications, including TV Guide, People, the San Francisco Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Daily News. His freelance articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country, including the Guardian, The New York Times, the New York Post, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and BusinessWeek. Jarvis holds a B.S.J. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He was named one of the 100 most influential media leaders by the World Economic Forum at Davos. Gift a Subscription Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo /episode/index/show/standupwithpete/id/42224780

1638 Wajahat Ali and the News 07/24/2026

1637 Nicholas Grossman on the current clusterfuc* 07/23/2026

1636 Susan Demas + News & Clips 07/22/2026

1636 Susan Demas + News & Clips My conversation with Susan begins at 42 minutes Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls I am a writer, editor, ghostwriter, speechwriter and researcher. I’m also an avid hiker, a mom of two, and a lifelong Midwest resident. While working as a journalist for the last 25 years, I’ve gone through a lot of upheavals in the industry. But I learned that always means new opportunities — if you’re willing to assume some risk. That’s never been a problem for me. As the CEO and Executive Editor of , I run one of the fastest-growing independent political publications in the nation. Each week, I host two shows, The Weekly Assignment, where we discuss the latest headlines and what we can do to fight back against authoritarianism, and First Draft, where I talk to journalists and authors about their important work and the stories behind them. As an expert on Michigan and national politics, I’ve also appeared on C-SPAN, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, NewsNation, the Australian Broadcast Corporation, Sky News, Jyllands-Posten (Danish TV), WKAR-TV’s Off the Record and more. Previously, I was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the nonprofit Michigan Advance for over six years. I also served for five years as the Editor and Publisher of Inside Michigan Politics, the most-cited political newsletter in the state. And in a past life, I worked as a Democratic campaign strategist during the 2018 campaign cycle (which was a pretty darn good year for the party). My award-winning political analysis has run in more than 150 national, international and regional media outlets, including the Guardian U.K., NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, RealClearPolitics, Salon, HuffPost, and The Detroit News. And you’ll find me trekking in the mountains whenever I can break away. Why I Write Writer. Entrepreneur. Mother. Public Speaker. Political Analyst. Those are all just words to describe me. What you need to know, most of all, is what drives me to fulfill those roles. I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was seven, scribbling down observations about people and events in ratty spiral notebooks. My mother always told me that my unique ability to understand people and feel what they were going through was both a gift and a curse. I struggled for many years to make ends meet, especially before my first child was born. I wondered if I’d ever be able to contribute anything of value, something to make the world a better place. I found my calling in journalism, honing my craft for the last 25 years. Being a writer has always been who I am. But now it’s also what I do. I have an insatiable curiosity to investigate what’s going on in America and the world. I believe in speaking truth to power and following Mencken’s rule to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” I’ve taken on the Old Boys Club in politics (and political journalism) and won, always preserving my integrity. All this has given me a distinctive voice and fearless style to communicate with people why things are happening and what can be done. /episode/index/show/standupwithpete/id/42179675

1635 Bill B in DC + News and Clips 07/21/2026

1634 JL Cauvin Returns + News & Clips 07/20/2026

1633 Tim Wise Returns and Burns! 07/13/2026

1632 Lizz Winstead 07/10/2026

1632 Lizz Winstead Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soul is one of the top political satirists working today. As co-creator and head writer of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” she forever changed the way people get their news. In 2004, Winstead also co-founded Air America Radio, while also co-hosting “Unfiltered” every morning with the Rachel Maddow and Hip Hop legend, Chuck D. Her book of essays, Lizz Free or Die, was published by Riverhead Books in 2012. The New York Times called it “Searching and lively … and moving. … Ms. Winstead writes with a feel for the sound of words.” Winstead also writes satirical commentary for The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post. Her talents as a comedian and media visionary have been recognized by The New York Times, The Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly’s 100 Most Creative People issue. She continues to make numerous television appearances, including Comedy Central Presents, HBO, and CNN, as well as her regular commentary on MSNBC Winstead is a prominent abortion rights activist, and one of the founders of Abortion Access Front (formerly Lady Parts Justice League), a team of comedians, writers, and producers that uses humor to destigmatize abortion and expose the extremist anti-choice forces working to destroy access to reproductive rights in all 50 states. With her work with AAF, Winstead has taken her satirical brilliance one step further, combining it with her passion for reproductive rights to expose anti choice hypocrisy and inspiring a whole new model of activism. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout! Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE Gift a Subscription Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo /episode/index/show/standupwithpete/id/42037170

1631 Christy McGillivray "Voters Not Politicians" + News & Clips 07/09/2026

1631 Christy McGillivray "Voters Not Politicians" + News & Clips My conversation with Christy starts at 29 minutes Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : In July of 2025 Christy McGillivray joined Voters Not Politicians as the Executive Director. She has over twenty years of experience across the fields of education and non-partisan political and policy advocacy. Her past roles as an advocate include working as the Legislative and Political Director for Sierra Club Michigan; Organizer with the American Federation of Teachers, Michigan; and Campaigns Director and Field Manager for Michigan Clean Water Action. Christy taught Earth Science, Chemistry, and Physics at Eastpointe Highschool, outdoor STEM education at the Farmington Hills Nature Center, Early American History and Literature at Lawrence Technological University, and Comparative Education Policy at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Christy is committed to spending the rest of her life ensuring the people most affected by policies have a voice in shaping those policies, and preserving an accountability pathway for elected officials based on the policy decisions they make. In short, Christy is here to fight for our democracy. Decades of experience have made it clear to her that a healthy, functioning democracy is the best way to deliver for all Michiganders. If she’s not spending her spare time hiking and paddling in the Upper Peninsula with her partner, daughter, and two dogs, Christy can probably be found in Wayne State University’s Reuther archive combing through primary documents from the 1930s. Gift a Subscription Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo /episode/index/show/standupwithpete/id/42019230

1630 Prof Jeff Jarvis . Allison Jaslow + News & Clips 07/08/2026

1630 Prof Jeff Jarvis . Allison Jaslow + News & Clips My conversation with Jarvis starts at 26 minutes and Allison Jaslow and I begin at 1:06 Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : Get Jeff’s new book is a national leader in the development of online news, blogging, the investigation of new business models for news, and the teaching of entrepreneurial journalism. He writes an influential media blog, . He is author of “Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News” (CUNY Journalism Press, 2014); “Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live” (Simon & Schuster, 2011); “What Would Google Do?” (HarperCollins 2009), and the Kindle Single “Gutenberg the Geek.” He has consulted for media companies including The Guardian, Digital First Media, Postmedia, , Burda, Advance Publications, and The New York Times company at . Prior to joining the Newmark J-School, Jarvis was president of , the online arm of Advance Publications, which includes Condé Nast magazines and newspapers across America. He was the creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine and has worked as a columnist, associate publisher, editor, and writer for a number of publications, including TV Guide, People, the San Francisco Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Daily News. His freelance articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country, including the Guardian, The New York Times, the New York Post, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and BusinessWeek. Jarvis holds a B.S.J. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He was named one of the 100 most influential media leaders by the World Economic Forum at Davos. grew up in a working class, union household and much of her early days were defined by her father’s alcoholism that ultimately claimed his life when she was a teenager. Around the time of his death she also felt a call to service, and while visiting a military base on a recruiting trip she was inspired to first serve her country in uniform in the United States Army. Alllison ended up earning an ROTC scholarship to college and joined active duty during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in 2004. She served two combat tours in Iraq, including a deployment during the surge, and achieved the rank of Captain. She served honorably and earned a Bronze Star Medal for service, and also earned an Army Commendation Medal with a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster before leaving active duty. She then continued her service on Capitol Hill, in the White House and in leadership roles in the nation’s leading post-9/11 veterans advocacy organization. In her role as CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, she drove conversations about the issues that the nation’s newest generation of war veterans care about, including the need to modernize the VA, put an end to the veteran suicide crisis, and for Congress to reclaim it’s War Powers’ authority. Now, Allison is running for Congress so that everyday North Carolinians have a voice they can count on in Congress to represent them in Washington. She knows what it’s like to live on the edge and is ready to fight to help make life a little bit easier for families like hers that continue to be squeezed by the cost of basic needs like healthcare and housing. Gift a Subscription Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo /episode/index/show/standupwithpete/id/42005730

1629 Journalist Jonathan Larsen + News & Clips 07/07/2026

1628 Amanda Nelson, Dr Jason Johnson + News & Clips 07/06/2026

1627 David Rothkopf + News & Clips 07/02/2026

1626 Prof Eric Segall + news & clips 07/01/2026

1625 Dr Christina Greer + News & Clips 06/30/2026

1624 Kristen Crowell "Families Over Billionaires" + news & Clips 06/29/2026

1624 Kristen Crowell "Families Over Billionaires" + news & Clips My conversation with Kristen starts at about 37 minutes in to today's show after headlines and clips Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soul Families Over Billionaires supports the movement in the states and nationally to make wealthy individuals and the most profitable corporations pay what they owe so that all of us can thrive. We are a groundbreaking, federal and multistate initiative focused on building long-term civic engagement and political power to deliver lasting tax justice. Executive Director comes to this role with over twenty-five years of experience in the progressive movement. Most recently she was the Founding Executive Director of the State Revenue Alliance where she led a team to support state campaign infrastructure across over thirty states and with over 280 state based partners. Crowell was the General Consultant that won the Massachusetts Millionaire’s Tax on the November 2022 ballot, resulting in over $2B annually in new investments. She has worked as the State Campaign Director for CBPP, worked alongside the Labor Movement as Executive Director of United Working Families and We Are Wisconsin. Crowell has deep expertise in developing legislative, electoral and ballot campaign strategies, all originating from the perspective of a state based leader. Before Kristen began her organizing career, she was a single mom and leader who organized for school funding reform. Her public and professional journey is a testament to building effective campaigns that center the everyday people who drive our economy and our democracy. Gift a Subscription Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo /episode/index/show/standupwithpete/id/41860450

1623 Anya Kamenetz is the smartest 06/26/2026

1623 Anya Kamenetz is the smartest Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Anya Kamenetz speaks, writes, and thinks about generational justice; about thriving, and raising thriving kids, on a changing planet. Her newsletter on these topics is She covered education for many years including for NPR, where she co-created the podcast Life Kit: Parenting. Her newest book is The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now. Kamenetz is currently and the , working on new initiatives at the intersection of children and climate change. Anya Kamenetz speaks, writes, and thinks about generational justice; about thriving, and raising thriving kids, on a changing planet. Her newsletter on these topics is She covered education as a journalist for many years including for NPR, where she also co-created the podcast Life Kit:Parenting in partnership with Sesame Workshop. Kamenetz is currently and the on new initiatives at the intersection of children and climate change. She’s the author of several acclaimed nonfiction books: Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006); DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Chelsea Green, 2010) ; The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed With Standardized Testing, But You Don’t Have To Be (Public Affairs, 2016); The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (Public Affairs, 2018), and The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now (Public Affairs, 2022). Kamenetz was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post, received 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, won an Edward R. Murrow Award for innovation in 2017 along with the rest of the NPR Ed team, and the 2022 AERA Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research Award. She’s been a New America fellow, a staff writer for Fast Company Magazine and a columnist for the Village Voice. She’s contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and Slate, and been featured in documentaries shown on PBS, CNN, HBO and Vice. She frequently speaks on topics related to children, parenting, learning, technology, and climate to audiences including at Google, Apple, and Sesame, Aspen Ideas, SXSW, TEDx, Yale, MIT and Stanford. Kamenetz grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, in a family of writers and mystics, and graduated from Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters. The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform. Join us Monday and Thursday at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout! /episode/index/show/standupwithpete/id/41814205

1622 Glenn Kirschner + News & Clips 06/25/2026

1621 Maura Quint + News & Clips 06/23/2026

Monday Clip Show not to be missed! 06/22/2026

1619 Bill Boyle + News & Clips 06/19/2026

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