Hi, this Alonzo Bowden.

Welcome to episode 171 of my podcast. Who's paying attention? And guess what? I am broadcasting from dry land. That's right. I'm home. After four cruises, the last of which was the 80s cruise, which I got to tell you, I can't do another Prince tribute. I loved him. His music was brilliant.

I can't handle another Prince tribute.

I've heard so many versions of Purple Rain that just stop it.

But it was fun.

People were fun.

We had a good time.

Done.

Back.

Back just in time for today. today is not my president's day, which is actually

president's day, but there are protests people are holding for not my president's day,

more anti-Trump protests and rallies.

And I did Adam Carolla's podcast today. I always loved doing a podcast with

Adam. And we talked about this. And here's what's going on with these protests. In my opinion,

there are too many of them. And we talked about this. What happens is the powers that be, whether

those powers be the government

or police departments or corporations or whoever's getting protested against,

protested against, all they do is wait it out because next week there'll be another

protest over something else. For example, last week there was an immigration protest, right? And day without an immigrant where immigrants were going to not go to work to protest the rounding up of immigrants by the Trump administration. I read an article last week and it was titled, What happened to Black Lives Matter? I mean, they still matter, but we don't hear about Black Lives Matter.

But the article was interesting because what happened to Black Lives Matter, and I really think this article hit it right on the head, was it was turned from a protest movement to some kind of violent anti-life, anti-white movement, which it never was.

Black Lives Matter was quite simply saying that black lives do matter, that police were

unjustly killing too many black people. They would never get charged with a crime. And they were saying,

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