Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden. I want to welcome you to episode 96 of my podcast, who's paying attention. I want to apologize in advance. The sound may be a little bit funky. I'm recording it on my iPhone at a hotel room in Bermuda. Yeah, I know life is tough, right?

I'm doing just for last Bermuda, but you may hear some background noise because there

are kids running through the hallways.

There are kids playing in the pool.

I know it's a tough gig.

Listen, my January is a beautiful thing.

I spend a weekend in Bermuda doing this festival.

I go on a smooth jazz cruise for a week. I go to Chicago

Freeze my ass off, but tape an episode of Wait Wait, don't tell me, which I love and then I do a jazz cruise. So January, good month for me.

So anyway, that's the logistics of it. Let's get right into it. This week was the horrible

terrorist attack against the French news magazine Awee Hebdo, spelled Charlie Hebdo, and pronounced

poorly by me. I apologize for that. But it and free speech

were attacked by two Muslim terrorists who came in, killed the editor, the cartoonist, members of

the editorial staff, and the two police who were protecting them, protecting the building.

Actually, one was assigned at the building because of prior threats, because we have Do,

Charlie Hebdo, the magazine, they do some controversial stuff.

And they have political and religious cartoons.

And these guys didn't like it and these terrorists felt the the

proper response was death which it which is absolute insanity and tragic and horrible

but the French authorities handled it well

They found them in two days the the guys barricaded themselves into a building. The French authorities

got them and killed them. They, of course, claimed they're going to be martyrs and blah, blah, blah.

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