Hi, this is Alonzo Vodin. I want to welcome you to episode 286 of my podcast, who's paying attention.

And I will tell you this, and this is funny. For the long-term listeners, they're probably like,

wow, you're doing the podcast every week like you're supposed to. I know, I know. This is unusual,

but I'm home and I figure I'll even try to stick to a schedule. I guess don't worry. I'll

skip a week or two or do some short ones. Just something to mix it up. But right now,

we're on a roll. So thank you for listening. The best headline I have seen in a newspaper in a

long time came from New York and it said, think it was a daily news pretty sure it was

a daily news not to post three men and a baby and they showed presidents Bush Clinton and

Obama as the three men and Trump in the corner is the baby of course course, they were talking about John Lewis's funeral.

Now, again, I'm one who, I'm glad Trump wasn't there.

I think his presence would have been an insult, but he certainly wasn't invited.

Bush gave a speech, and you remember W.

Remember when W was like the president who couldn't talk,

who made no sense? Now we're listening to him because the bar has been lowered so much. So anyway,

we had W gave his speech and then Clinton gave his speech. And then of course, the headliner,

Barack Obama.

Barack Obama gave a intelligent, moving, eloquent eulogy.

Here's the thing about listening to Barack Obama.

And of course, the next day everyone talked about what it was like to hear a real president speak and how much we're reminded. It's almost, I have mixed

feelings about it. I'd be honest. I mean, it's phenomenal. I love Barack Obama and I especially

love hearing him speak. But the downside is it reminds us of how low we have sunk

to listen to this idiot Trump with his, you know, any one of his uninformed, rambling, paranoid,

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