Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to my podcast, Who's Paying Attention? This is episode 15. I am Alonzo Bowden and who knows, I may finally have this podcast thing

figured up.

First of all, I want to thank a couple of people.

I want to thank John Fuglesang and Hal Sparks for having me on the Stephanie Miller show

this week.

That was a blast and it got me a lot of Twitter

followers, which you know is the judgment for good entertainment these days. How many Twitter

followers do you have? So thanks and welcome to the new followers and the new listeners. I am recording

this on the 4th of July, which is fitting because I am a great American as are you what

does that mean what does it mean to be a great American hell if I know it as

diverse as this country is it means whatever you want to meet so congratulations

happy birthday America and let's celebrate but let's be careful with those

celebrations not too many fireworks actually many and let's celebrate, but let's be careful with those celebrations.

Not too many fireworks.

Actually, many cities across America canceled their fireworks celebration for various reasons.

Colorado, you know, there's been no rain. There's no water. It's too dry.

So a lot of cities in Colorado not setting off the fireworks

because as one mayor said I'd rather be remembered as a mayor who didn't set off

fireworks than the mayor who set fire to the town Monterey say they don't have the

money which I find kind of hard to believe you know Pebble Beach golf course is in Monterey and they don't have the money, which I find kind of hard to believe. You know, Pebble Beach golf course is in Monterey and they don't have any money? Yeah, okay, whatever. Monterey,

no fireworks, but the best one I've seen, and I fully agree with this one, Narrowseburg, New York,

Little Town and upstate New York, Narrowsburg canceled the fireworks

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