Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden, and I want to welcome you to my podcast, Who's Paying Attention?

This is episode 109.

I appreciate you listening out there.

And I'm going to start out.

Sorry about that.

Dropping stuff while I'm recording.

I'm going to start out by saying Barack Obama may have had his best week ever.

I think Barack Obama is going to have to say nigger more often.

As I'm sure you know by now, Barack Obama was on Mark Marron's WTF podcast, and yes, WTF

stands for exactly what you think it does. And he used the word nigger on the podcast. And

of course, he used it in a historical context and talked about racism and the fact that the word's still there.

And the news picked up on it and went crazy.

You know, I mean, it's not as if Barack Obama was sitting around saying, yo, me and my

niggas was up on the East lawn kicking.

It was some hoes, you know, because that would probably be bad.

No, but it's our crazy news, as you well know, and people got upset.

I don't know if Fox News got to say, nigger, but I know they wanted to.

Anyway, that's how the week started, and Barack was from there, he was just on a roll.

Now, tonight, I had an interesting experience.

I performed at the LA Press Club Awards dinner, and I've done this gig a few times, and the last time I did it, they were presenting an award to Quincy Jones, and that was a blast.

And the time before that, it was Carl Reiner, who loved my comedy.

And it's fun.

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