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The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Bob & Ben catch up for a conversation about 2021 and what may await us in the New Year. They discuss free speech on college campuses, the state of the workforce, and little bit about a lot of other topics. Happy New Year!
We're excited to announce that we've collaborated with Hark Audio to make Harklists of our favorite RTN moments from 2021! Hear Bob & Ben's clips and why they chose them at the following links:
The Road to Now – Bob Crawford's 2021 Highlights
The Road to Now – Ben Sawyer's 2021 Highlights
Sources Mentioned in this episode:
Harvard Youth Poll, 42nd edition, 2021.
Michael Graber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Melville House, 2011.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now. |
| 0:10.0 | Bob, our roads have led us to North Carolina. |
| 0:12.0 | That's right. |
| 0:13.0 | We're both in North Carolina, but not where you think we are. |
| 0:17.0 | Ben is in an undisclosed location, a secret bunker somewhere, and I am home and not playing |
| 0:27.3 | on New Year's Eve for just the third time in 21 years. |
| 0:32.2 | Wow. |
| 0:32.8 | 20 years. |
| 0:33.4 | Wow. |
| 0:34.0 | That's not true. |
| 0:34.9 | That's not true because we, Tim Mosberger, correct me on this because we didn't, we didn't |
| 0:42.7 | start out our career playing on New Year's. |
| 0:44.5 | But third time in over a decade, third time and over a decade not playing on New Year's. |
| 0:52.0 | And when I told one person in my household, a little boy who lives here with us, |
| 0:57.8 | who's my son, he said, this is the happiest day of my life. |
| 1:01.6 | So I'm sorry for all of you who your plans were thwarted, but just rest in your generous generous manner know that there's one little boy in |
| 1:14.3 | North Carolina who is thrilled that the concert was is not is has been postponed to a later date |
| 1:23.1 | that will be announced sometime in the next couple weeks yeah Bob that is. That is incredible because, yeah, and the other one was last year, right? |
| 1:31.1 | Yeah, last year. |
| 1:31.9 | And then the third one was when Hallie, her first year at St. |
| 1:35.5 | June 2011, 2012. |
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