Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden. I want to welcome you to episode 252. I'm sorry, episode 253 of my podcast, who's paying attention. I lost track. I'm sorry. I am in Tampa. I am finishing up a fantastic weekend at side splitters. Great comedy club here. And I get great crowds and a lot of support.

So thank you, Tampa.

And thank you,

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fans come to my shows here.

So this weekend, I was doing a lot of jokes

about race and the idiocy of racist,

and, you know, whether it be the um the hatred that trump

and his followers show for the squad in congress or the the idiots who are mad at disney for

casting a black girl to play little mermaid note mermaids't real. Can we confine our racism to reality?

And so on. And, you know, I joke about it because that's my job and it is a way of pointing out the ignorance of it.

But the truth is, I'm tired, man. This is just tiring. And the bullshit that goes with it and the the trump

supporters who support this racism and you know the the the wink and the nod and the dog whistle it's

like it doesn't even exist anymore uh believe me i was much my and my anger energy was higher earlier. The show helped.

The show has always helped. But there was a proud boys rally in Portland this weekend.

Oregon's very interesting state. I love Portland. Let me say that up front. I absolutely

love Portland. I've had good times up there. I've

had good shows up there. I have good friends up there. Portland is a very cool city. Oregon has a big

white supremacist element, especially as you travel east in Oregon. There's an area called the tri-cities where Oregon, Washington,

and I think it's Idaho or Montana. I think it's Idaho. I think it's Oregon, Idaho, Washington,

whatever. One of the most racist towns I've ever worked in, it was one of the few times where

after the show, we didn't want to go out

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