Hi, this Alonzo Bowden. I am back and welcome to who's paying attention. Now I haven't recorded in a couple of

weeks. I got to tell you, I was on some cruise gigs. And if you've ever been on a cruise ship,

you know that internet speeds match early dial-up. So the idea of recording a podcast and

sending it out from there just unfortunately wasn't

going to happen.

So I apologize for that.

I am back and, you know, a few things have happened since I've been gone.

I was talking to my producer, Roddy, from Side Show Network.

He does a great job and he had a good idea he said you know you should have a theme for

each podcast something we can put up that'll give people an idea what you're talking about and and

maybe give it some legs so so here it is here here's my theme for this podcast have a plan yeah before

you take action have a plan now Yeah. Before you take action, have a plan.

Now, you know what I'm talking about.

The shutdown.

The waste of time, the waste of billions of dollars, the damage done to industries like tourism,

or maybe the lack of inspection,

some food had and on and on and on.

Everything from national parks being closed

to help lines being shut down to now the IRS says

the tax season is gonna be backed up

because they couldn't do the work

that they normally do at the end of the fiscal year and on and on and on why because the

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