#86: I'm Watching Chess

Alonzo Bodden: Who's Paying Attention?

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Politics, News

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

1- NFL is a mess that needs a leader
2- Budweiser is going gangster, Tony Soprano would be proud
3- ESPN fumbles again and again and again
4- Drug tests, suspensions, suspensions of drug tests
5- I’m watching Chess
6- Republicans say drug test non users
7- Get your MRAP here kids
8- Scene from movie Crash becomes real life in my hometown
9- Smell your cabbie, no really g’head , smell him

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0:00.0	Hi, this Alonzo Bowden. I want to welcome you to my podcast, Who's Paying Attention, Episode 86.
0:12.0	Well, I guess let's just get right to it, because the only thing in the news, the only thing anyone's talking about right now is the NFL, which is an absolute mess.
0:23.5	We've got Adrian Peterson in the child abuse case.
0:28.1	We've got Ray Rice in the spouse abuse case.
0:32.7	We've got Greg Hardy recently convicted for spousal abuse for choking his girlfriend and threatening her life and and on and on.
0:42.2	Listen, this thing is such a mess.
0:46.2	I don't know where to start.
0:47.8	Okay.
0:48.2	Even I've been caught in it.
0:49.8	No, boy, I didn't want to.
0:51.6	But when it all started, the thing with Adrian Peterson and the switch, I had a problem
0:59.6	with the sensationalized reporting calling it a tree branch.
1:03.2	Because when I was a kid, just like so many other kids, particularly black kids, but kids
1:09.5	from my era, from the South, I don't know what it was,
1:13.5	something we had in common.
1:15.0	Your parents said, go get a switch.
1:17.3	If you came back with a tree branch, they'd think there was something wrong with you.
1:21.3	A switch is a small stick broken off of a small tree branch.
1:25.0	Okay.
1:25.8	Now, that's what I wrote.
1:27.9	So, of course, people got on it endorsing child abuse, blah, blah, blah.
1:31.7	I'm not going to get into that.
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