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The Road to Now

#113 War on the Banana Skin

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8629 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bob and Ben sit down to talk about the current events and historical questions that have been on their mind lately. They cover the GI bill delays that student veterans are currently facing, the one war that Teddy Roosevelt didn't win, the tragedy of the 1970s and why Ronald Reagan is the Godfather of punk rock. They also talk about all the times and places that they've seen J. Mascis.

For more on the GI Bill delays, check out this piece by WPLN's Sergio Martinez-Beltran on how missed payments are affecting students at Ben's home university, MTSU. Bob and Ben encourage you to contact your elected officials and ask that they do what it takes to ensure that those who have served our country get the education they've earned.

We're also excited to announce a new partnership with Libro.fm, which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You get the same audiobooks, at the same price as the other one (you know which one), but you'll be part of a much different story, one that supports community. Road to Now listeners can get a 3-month membership for the price of one (3 audiobooks for just $14.95) w/ promo code RTN. Get started by checking out our libro.fm playlist, which features books by past RTN guests!

To see the articles and pictures discussed in this episode, check out our episode page.

The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Osiris.

0:03.2

Hey, this is Brendan from Umphreys McGee.

0:05.5

This podcast is part of the Osiris podcast family.

0:08.8

Osiris is a growing community of music and culture podcasts, connecting music fans with

0:13.7

conversation, commentary, and of course lots of music.

0:17.2

Osiris works in partnership with Relics Magazine.

0:21.0

We are here with Dolf Ramzor, who you may know is the sponsor of our podcast, the original sponsor of our podcast, the godfather of North Carolina music.

0:31.0

Doff being a sponsor of our show literally helps us keep the lights on, keeps batteries in the Zoom recorder, keeps the microphone cables working.

0:41.7

Doff, we appreciate all your support over the past year.

0:44.6

Well, thank you.

0:45.4

I'm glad to be a part of it.

0:46.7

We've been running an ad for the Ruin Brothers, which is one of the new albums that came out that you guys put out but was produced by Rick Rubin, correct? Correct. Correct. I texted off after like the second time we ran it and told him that I've never seen a more effective advertisement because it had worked on my entire family. Because after I heard that ad on my own podcast a couple times when I was editing it, my wife listens to the Ruin Brothers all the time now and I've listened to that album several times. It worked on us, man. Well, that's great to know. That's great. And they're such talented guys, and they're sweet fellows as well. They're from the north of England, Scunthorpe, which is a very working class area, but they're really good guys. Dauph, you have a few newer groups on your roster. Is there anybody that you'd like to tell us about?

1:29.1

Well, we just signed a band called Sammy Miller in the congregation, and that's a unique one because it's a jazz band.

1:38.5

And this is the first jazz band I have worked with, but they're a very unique band because it's kind of joyful jazz.

1:48.8

They do a lot of comedy bits within the jazz that they play. It's really unique. It's almost

1:56.4

very much like early Avet brothers when you had to go see the band to sort of get it so yeah so we're

2:04.7

grateful we had you as sponsors and um as i said the first time we had you on the introduction

2:09.1

maybe over a year ago and i said that i've known doth like over a decade and he's only ever

2:14.7

sponsored really good things and put his name behind really good things and i didn't know if this was going to be the one that broke him and i didn't want to be a part of it but a year later we're still going and we're thankful for it well again glad to be a part of it and uh you'll keep rocking i'll keep rocking and uh having some fun doing it big team little me yes that's right So check out the Ruin Brothers album and all the other albums

2:36.0

and the bands on Ramser Records. You can go

2:38.1

to ramsarrecords.com and you can, if you're interested in any of the

2:41.8

albums there, you can enter the promo code history

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