Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden with another episode of my podcast, Who's Paying Attention?

I want to thank you guys, whoever's out there listening for tuning in, for downloading, for listening, and even more for sharing the podcast because it's growing and I appreciate it.

Now, I'm going to tell you, I thought this was a slow week.

The way I do the podcast is during the week, I collect news stories from various sources, stories that are interesting to me or funny to me or maybe I think they affect us, you know, us being the population of the United States of America.

That's how I pick articles.

And then I do an outline and then I record and then you listen.

And that's how the podcast lives.

So this week I thought it was a slow news week.

And then I started reviewing and weird.

Not even weird.

Scary, sad, funny. so let me get started i saw the movie the butler

it stars forest whittaker and Oprah winfie Oprah winfrey how come i can't say Oprah i'm more

Oprah come but anyway Oprah's in the movie.

Ladies, you'll be happy to know Lenny Kravitz is in the movie and he is beautiful. Actually, he is.

It's amazing. And for those who don't know the story, this is the story of Cecil Gaines.

Cecil Gaines was a butler in the White House from the Eisenhower administration to the Reagan administration, a period of over 30 years.

So as you can imagine, the history involved, I mean, the movie was amazing.

Forrest Whitaker is unbelievable good actor.

Other great actors are in the movie.

But it covers everything that happened in the United States from Kennedy assassination,

Martin Luther King being killed, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, etc., etc., right?

So it's this amazing course of American history viewed by this man who's a butler,

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