#59: Race to the Bottom
Alonzo Bodden: Who's Paying Attention?
All Things Comedy
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2013
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
2- Man up and shut down everything
3- Uh fellas, the heatlh care law still went into effect
4- Approval rating? Congress loses to president, of Russia
5- Race to the bottom and we all lose
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this Alonzo Bowden. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome back to my podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | Who's paying attention? |
| 0:23.7 | This is episode 59. |
| 0:26.2 | I have been away on vacation. |
| 0:28.6 | And there's only one topic this week. |
| 0:31.6 | Shut them down. |
| 0:32.8 | Shut them, shut them down. |
| 0:34.0 | That's right. |
| 0:34.5 | You know I love the philosophy of public enemy. |
| 0:38.3 | And that was one of their hits. Shut them down. And's right. You know I love the philosophy of public enemy and that was one of their hits. Shut them down and Republicans have shut it down. They have shut down the U.S. |
| 0:44.6 | government. Now here's the thing. They haven't really shut down the government because many |
| 0:49.1 | essential services keep running and I have an opinion on that but but let me start with this I was just |
| 0:55.9 | on a phenomenal cruise vacation with Dave Codz jazz cruise it was my mom's 80th birthday she'd never |
| 1:03.0 | been to Europe we took her it was beautiful loved it absolutely loved it and and I didn't pay attention |
| 1:10.7 | to the news I actually took a vacation |
| 1:13.1 | from watching and listening to the news. But I came home, well, on the way home, well, before I came |
| 1:18.8 | home, they were once again threatening to shut it down. And I was laughing because I was like, |
| 1:23.2 | well, they threatened to shut down the government every three months. This has been a Republican |
| 1:26.9 | tactic since the day after Barack Obama got elected. So imagine my surprise when it actually happened. But |
| 1:33.8 | what was interesting, I was in Greece. And we were in Athens. This cab driver gave us a beautiful |
| 1:40.2 | tour. And we went to the parliament where they have the changing of the guard, which is a great |
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