Hi, this Alonzo Bowden.

Welcome to the latest episode of my podcast.

Who's paying attention?

We're up to episode 83.

I am in Cleveland, Ohio, and let's go.

Hey, I want to start out with a quick shout out.

Happy birthday to Rick Salto, a fan who hit me up on Twitter.

And if you're out there and you're listening and you hit me up, I'll be happy to wish

you a happy birthday too.

Man, that's a lot of happy for one sentence, which is probably what we need right now.

Listen, we know what the big topic is in the news.

We're still all to the nation is still talking about Ferguson, Missouri and Michael Brown being shot.

And I am not going to say I'm tired of it because I can't be tired of it. It's still a horrible situation.

But it's just the same thing over and over again.

And I do not want to turn into one of these pundits that rehashes the same facts.

Thankfully, things seem to have cooled down some in Ferguson. There aren't the military, militarized police versus citizenry challenges, but I definitely want to talk about that.

In a minute, I have my own views on that and some experience with that because I have been in an MRAP.

And wow, what a vehicle.

But first, since I'm in Ohio, I want to, you know, call attention to another story

that doesn't get the same attention, but it's the same old thing. I don't know if you've heard

a John Crawford. John Crawford was a black man who had a air rifle, like a BB gun in a Walmart, and they called the police, and the police

shot him dead.

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