Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Industry Standard with me, Barry Katz.

I'm really enjoying this year tremendously, and I'm sorry it's coming to an end.

It's been crazy, exciting, full of surprises, some things expected, but most importantly,

just an amazing time for comedy, an amazing time for

the entertainment business, and certainly a lot of difficult and interesting and positive changes

in the world and in our country, it's going to be interesting.

Every day, it just seems like there's something happening in the world that you just can't

believe it.

Yet every day you have hope that maybe there's a way to solve the puzzle pieces one by one, even if you only have the four corners.

And before I get started, I just want to let you know, thank you for all your support, all your letters, all your emails, all your FedExes, all your texts, all your social media messages.

You guys are amazing. And I'm very grateful. And I love doing this and I love doing something

that contributes to the comedy community. If you need to reach me, you can do so at Barry Katz

at Instagram or Twitter or as they call it X. Or you can go to my so at Barry Katz at Instagram or Twitter, or as they call it X, or you can go to my website

at Barrycats.com. But anyway, I'm in Sydney, Australia, looking out at the Bay and the

Sydney Opera House, one of the greatest places to visit. This city is amazing. I'm really, really

proud to be here and proud to see a comedian that I represent

Brad Williams sell out all these venues all across Australia, did it on his own, figured it out,

created a YouTube channel and financed a special on his own own and made it happen.

Three million views in like six months.

And to come halfway across the world and to be able to see results like this is a great segue to my guest today, Heather McMahon.

Heather just blows me away. It's so exciting to meet her, so exciting to see the

adversity that she's overcome, and it truly is an amazing, amazing story. And I hope that you

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