Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden. I want to welcome you to episode 162 of my podcast, Who's Paying Attention?

I hope you had a beautiful Thanksgiving or still having a beautiful Thanksgiving.

And I hope you survived Black Friday because just like every other year, sadly, a few people didn't.

You know, it's easy to joke about, but it is actually tragic that every year people get killed on Black Friday at Walmart.

It's unreal.

So this year there were a few shootings, you know, parking lot shootings over fighting over parking spaces.

And it was another kind of drive by, it doesn't matter.

The hell is wrong with us.

Killing each other at Walmart.

Walmart.

There's nothing at Walmart worth dying for.

But it happened.

And that was it.

Thanksgiving, like I say, I hope it was nice. I can imagine

there was some awkward Thanksgiving dinners in America starting with who'd you vote for? Come on,

who'd you vote for? Say it. I was going to try to lighten up this podcast. I was going to try to stay away from Trump and

the politics and so on. And then he goes and nominates Betsy DeVos as first secretary of education.

And why not? I mean, okay.

I've talked about this before.

My concern for education, and mind you, I don't have kids.

I just think that education is a good thing.

I think an educated populace is important.

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