Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden.

I'd like to welcome you to episode 262 of my podcast. Who's paying attention?

It is December 4th. Happy holidays. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah.

Happy Kwanza. As I always say, happy whatever gets you to the mall, even though we don't really go to the

mall anymore, right?

We buy it online.

But whatever, set the holidays.

And it's about more than buying.

It's about giving and et cetera, et cetera.

You know.

So let's get into it.

One thing I want to say, I had a blast yesterday. I was in church. I was in the church, the church of what's happening now, which is a great podcast with my boy Joey Coco Diaz. So look it up. Me and Joey talked about comedy and our early days of comedy and how it related to

the Joker movie and all that. I love Joey D. If you're familiar with him, you know, he's one of

the most raw, honest comics out there. That's what I love about Joey. Joey's raw. There's no filter.

He's just going to say what's on his mind. I don't even know if he writes

this stuff down or if he just literally, it's the equivalent of freestyling and hip hop and just

thinking out loud, whatever it is. I love Uncle Joey. So please check out that podcast. It was a lot of

fun to do. Thanksgiving weekend, I was at the Arlington Draft House

Comedy Club theater just outside of D.C. I always have a great time there, and I do that every

Thanksgiving. And this year, I got to go to the African American History Museum while I was in D.C. I'd heard tons about the museum. You probably have too. It is absolutely fantastic. I am glad it was built. I can't imagine the amount of work it took to get this thing together. The exhibits, the history, the education, the story.

It really is something to be experienced. So it's a huge museum. It is, I believe they said

eight floors. You go in and you go down, you take an elevator or escalators down, and you start three floors below the ground.

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