Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden. I want to welcome you to episode 258 of my podcast, who's paying attention.

I ask that you bear with me on this recording.

It is live from New York, which is always great, but I'm doing it on my iPhone in a hotel room

and the sound isn't going to be perfect and et cetera, et cetera.

So I'm in New York for a brilliant jazz show with Robert Glasper and Esperanza

Spalding down at the blue note.

That's fantastic.

But getting into the podcast, as you know, I would love this just once to be a Trump-free zone, you know?

Just, but you can't. I mean, I posted this week on Twitter, if we could just have one day

without a scandal or golf, it would be a good day. But that's not going to happen. Well,

Glasper's at the Blue Note. It's in the village in New York. And we hung out across the street. And Michelle Wolf was in it. You know,

you know Michelle Wolf. She shut down the White House correspondent's dinner a couple of years ago,

absolutely killed it. And Baby Hands hasn't allowed a comedian back there and they haven't done.

It's all been different since Michelle Wolf did it because, you know, baby Hans can't take a joke,

him and his administration. Anyway, I was talking with her about it and she said the same thing.

It's boring. You know, people ask, I had, I was in Denver

over the weekend and someone asked me, why don't you do more Trump stuff? Because I think I did

maybe one Trump joke per set. And I say, it's boring because it's the same thing over and over.

I've said this before.

He's going to do something incompetent.

He's going to tweet something stupid.

We talk about it and then the next day it's another one.

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