Hello, happy new year and welcome back to my podcast, who's paying attention.

This is Alonzo Bowden.

This is episode 33 and I am recording from my hotel room in New York.

So if it gets noisy, you know why.

I'm back in the big city and this is a great weekend.

I am celebrating 20 years in the comedy biz this weekend.

I'm working at Carolines.

Things are going fantastic.

I wish I could tell you everything was right with the world.

But after a great Christmas break, I hope you had a great holiday.

We're back and I don't know if things have changed and if so how much why don't we start

with the fiscal cliff people we have survived the Mayans were wrong the world did not come to an

end and we did not go over the fiscal cliff yeah you remember we were going to fall over the fiscal cliff, which extended back to

the debt ceiling, which extended back basically Congress doing nothing and the president

that, I'm sorry, we're just right back where we began.

If you're just joining us, ladies and gentlemen, what was going to happen was on January 1st, there were going to be all these major cuts in government spending and these tax increases or the Bush tax cuts were going to go away.

Basically, you were going to pay 100% of your money into taxes and you were going to get nothing back. We were going to sh away. You were, basically, you were going to pay 100% of your money

into taxes,

and you were going to get

nothing back.

We were going to shut down

Medicare and Social Security

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