Hello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Welcome to Who's Paying Attention, Episode 30. That's right, 30 episodes, well, with this one, 30 episodes in the books. So I think that's great. And thanks for all your support. And I want to give a shout out to Bob Cochran, who has done a review of the podcast on Cultural Perveyor.

It's an online magazine.

And apparently Bob likes it.

So thanks, Bob.

And if you want to check out the review, just go to my Facebook page or follow my Twitter

feed and you will see a link to it.

It was a good review.

He likes what I'm doing.

And I'm having fun doing it.

And I hope you like it it and I know there's always

debates about the music. So one time soon I'm going to try it without music, but this one I think I'll have music.

Anyway, let's get to it. What the hell is going on? Happy holidays. We are in the midst of the season right now. I know it's a holiday season because it's raining in L.A. today. So that's like, that's as close as we get to Christmas snow. But anyway, let's get to it. We got a lot to talk about some good, some not so good, and hopefully all of it funny. Let's start with the fiscal cliff and we all know what the

fiscal cliff is. We're about to fall off of it, right? It's when the quote Bush tax cuts end and taxes

will go up on everyone, you know, particularly the middle class.

They said middle class families will pay about 2,000 more a year in taxes.

And big spending cuts in areas like defense and, you know, numerous cuts.

So it's a fiscal cliff, right?

And everyone says that if we're allowed to fall off of it, it's going to stop the growth that's been going on in the economy, et cetera, et cetera. Obviously, we have the two sides, basically, and this is very basic. The Democrats, the left wing, says, okay, we'll cut Medicare and Social Security and so-called entitlement programs,

but you have to raise taxes.

And Republicans are like, we can't raise taxes.

We all signed a pledge.

That's right.

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