Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden. Welcome to episode 29 of who's paying attention, my weekly or semi-weekly

or do it as often as I can podcast. Listen, I want to wish you guys a happy Thanksgiving. I think

this podcast might be a short one. It's Wednesday. I have to go have turkey for lunch so I can get in line

for the Black Friday sales that now start on Thursday. Did they even remember Thanksgiving? How bad

is it to be an employee of like, I don't know, Target or Sears or Walmart? Well, Walmart is bad

to be an employee anytime, not just Thanksgiving. But I think it sucks

that they have to go to work Thursday night because the stores want to open. Like, they each want to

beat each other to Black Friday. So my car is already at the mall. I've already left it there.

I parked in advance and I'm getting ready. So, uh So happy Thanksgiving. Listen, I was going to try to

avoid politics this week. I just said, you know, maybe a break from all that nonsense. But you

can't because the stupidity, the level, it, it staggers the mind.

You know, they're still, the Republicans are still coming up with reasons they lost the election.

And what I love, not one of these reasons includes the phrase, oh, Barack Obama was a better candidate.

Barack Obama is the president and knows what he's doing.

No, it couldn't be that. So

Bobby Gendal, who is the governor of Louisiana and who is, I won't say he's as crazy as Rick Perry,

the governor of Texas, and I'll get to Texas later. But Gindal is out there. And these guys can't take a simple lesson from Chris Christie, governor in New Jersey,

who didn't like Barack Obama, didn't like the federal government.

But when the state needed it, he stepped up and said, we got to work together and get

something done on Sandy.

No, the Gindal now he's saying that Romney was wrong for saying that, you know, people who voted for Obama did it to get gifts.

You know, those crazy gifts women want, like contraception and health care.

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