Hi, it's Alonzo Bowden, and I want to welcome you to episode 238 of my podcast, Who's Paying Attention?

Now, I am recording from the beautiful Celebrity Infinity Cruise ship.

We are wrapping up the jazz crews, which is straight ahead jazz, and moving into the Blue Note

Jazz Cruise, which is a lot more contemporary jazz, which I actually like better.

Don't tell them, But yeah, I like the

contemporary stuff. So doing the best I can. There's a little noise in the background. It's the

air conditioning, which can't be shut off in the room. But that's it. So let's get right to it. It is

Friday. It is January 25th and the shutdown is shut down. Yes, the government

shutdown is over and there is no wall. There is no wall. The wall did fall. I'll get to the rhymes

in a minute. Trump's idiotic plan holding the country hostage, etc., it just didn't work.

So Trump lost.

That's what everyone's saying.

Trump lost.

Yeah, the idiot lost, but also, you know, government employees who didn't get paid, they lost.

Passengers delayed at airports, they lost.

One of the big, I think, tipping points in this was the fact that

Northeastern airports today, like LaGuardia and Newark, and it was just going to be more of them,

were delaying flights because the flight controllers were driving Ubers. You know, they got bills to pay.

I know Trump said that you just go to the grocery store and tell

him to work with you. Just go in and say, hey, work with me. I'm going to have some money one day.

He actually said that because he's never been to a grocery store and he thinks that it's, I don't, what,

1927, you know, when you went down to the grocery store and said, hey, Ed,

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