Hello, live from Portland, where there are no secret cops to get me and the weather is suitably cloudy and damp.

It's Alonzo with episode 297 of my podcast, Who's Paying Attention?

I thank you for listening.

I hope you're safe wherever you are, warm wherever you are, dry wherever you are, not getting

hurricaneed on wherever you are. The weather is getting a little crazy, getting real.

Summer's definitely over. And, you know, the best tweet I've read this week came from Ava DuVernay, the director,

and she tweeted, today it's Friday. By the way, she tweeted, next week sure is exhausting.

So, yeah, as we know Tuesday will be election day right now they're still saying that that Biden's ahead in the polls I've heard numbers as high as 12 points as you know

I'm very skeptical of those numbers. I have hope, but I remember the last

election. So there's been the difference with this election is there have been so many people

voting early, whether they're standing in line. And again, thank you all for doing that.

In New York, apparently Paul Rudd, the actor, was out handing out cookies to people waiting in line

to vote. And my friend Faith Saley, who I do wait, wait, and I will be on this weekend with her

doing Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me me on NPR escorted a woman a

hundred and four years old hundred four and a half to vote and that that they let her go to

the front of the line and vote and she came out and everybody cheered for and the interesting thing she's a hundred four and a half

imagine you were in that line and you were like a hundred and three and nobody cares because

somebody showed up who's a hundred and four and a half no i think that's fantastic and faith is a

fantastic person so i'm happy that she did that and helped with that.

So, yeah, so what's going on?

Well, you know, Trumpy's out holding rallies.

And before he was just, dear leader was just trying to kill his followers by not wearing masks and not social distancing and so on.

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