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The Michael Steele Podcast

If It Wasn't Real, It Would Be Hilarious: With Guest Alonzo Bodden

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What's funny about our current political situation? What ISN'T? Michael and Alonzo Bodden discuss the comedy of Donald Trump, the Space Force, the Democratic field, and imaginary black Republicans. Alonzo Bodden won Season 3 on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, is a regular on NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” and “Comedy Congress,” and was a panelist on the Game Show Network’s “Mind of a Man”. In August 2019, Alonzo starred in his fourth stand-up special, Heavy Lightweight.

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0:00.0

I can't out Trump Trump. I will be writing a joke and he'll just win. I was writing, I was doing my job, my work writing jokes. I'm writing some kind of White House Stormy Daniels porn star joke.

0:23.0

I always have the news on in the background, right? And all I hear is space force. Space force. We fighting shit from outer space. Space force. Like who let him watch Star Wars unsupervised?

0:43.0

And whenever he goes on one of those tangents, right? My favorite thing, I don't even watch him during this speech. I like to watch the grownups behind him. Right? Because they have to keep a straight face.

0:56.0

So he's talking about space force, but behind him you have the leaders of the army, the navy, Marines, the Air Force, and they're standing at attention like space force.

1:09.0

What the fuck? Are you kids space force? Right, they're looking at the Air Force guy like, good luck. Have fun in outer space. We're only going to the border.

1:28.0

Hey, what up, what up everybody? That was the historical musings on our upcoming space force, but none other than Alonzo Bowdoin who season one, season three on NBC's last comic standing. Yes, I'm Michael Stillin. I'm hanging with Alonzo Bowdoin today.

1:48.0

He's a regular MPR's weight, weight, don't tell me and comedy Congress as well as being a panelist on the game show networks man of man, man of a man.

1:59.0

In August 2019, Alonzo started in his fourth standup special. Have you, have you, I love this one, heavy lightweight and given my connections to boxing. That makes a lot of sense.

2:09.0

In the special he touched upon a range of topics from slavery, cell phones and the Me Too movement to millennials Kanye West and Taco Bell that that's a combination for you.

2:19.0

As he says quote, he likes to mix it up in hopes that audiences will join him for a laugh and a think or two. We gonna do that today with Alonzo. Welcome to the podcast brother.

2:31.0

Thank you Michael. Thank you and you know there's been a space force development since then. I don't know if you saw the logo for space force.

2:40.0

It's surprisingly like the logo for the USS Enterprise. I know. I know that's why I picked that because I figured you have some thoughts on that one.

2:50.0

Well, I know whoever did it. They did it on purpose. They were like we're gonna draw him to enterprise. He'll never know.

3:03.0

And they were right. He don't need. I don't know.

3:07.0

Nothing. No clue.

3:08.0

There.

3:08.0

Oh, man. I love it. But just so right. I mean, we saw that I tweeted that out. I just went really.

3:11.0

All the money in our federal budget and this is what you come up with. Yeah, yeah, Starship Enterprise.

3:18.0

Man, you have you have I've watched a lot of your stuff and thoroughly enjoy it. You know, for you know, I'm old school in the sense I look at what you do the way you do it.

3:27.0

And it's sophisticated. It's funny. It does like you say it makes you think.

3:39.0

How do you put it all together, particularly given the material you have to work with any given day, we're in a 24 hour reality TV programming session.

3:46.0

There must be days where you said, I just got to walk away from the shit for a while. I can't deal with this.

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