#279 Warren G. Harding and Other Affairs w/ Ben & Bob

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Ben & Bob have been on the road for most of the summer, so in this episode they catch up to talk about the 100th anniversary of the death of Warren G. Harding, the feedback they got from their conversation on ai, chat gpt and the future of tech w/ Roger McNamee, and their responses to the recent Congressional hearings on UAP (formerly known as UFO) sightings. This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher. Warren G. Harding Sources: Jordyn Phelps, "Ex-President Warren Harding's Love Child Confirmed Through DNA Testing," ABCNews.com, August 13, 2015. "President Warren Harding's Love Letters Open to the Public," News from the Library of Congress, July 29, 2014. Megan Gambino, "Warren Harding's Love Letters Finally Give Us Something to Remember Him For," Smithsonian.com, August 29, 2014. Daniel McCarthy, "Warren Harding's Read Scandal was his Conservatism," New York Post, August 1, 2023. Bryan Pietsch, "Exhume the Body of Warren G. Harding? A Judge Says that Won't be Necessary," New York Times, Dec. 1, 2020. Jordan Michael Smith, "The Letters that Warren G. Harding's Family Didn't Want You to See," New York Times Magazine, July 7, 2014.

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0:00.0	I'm Ben Sawyer.
0:06.5	I'm Bob Crawford, and this is the road to now.
0:10.1	Yep.
0:10.6	And the road smells like chocolate because I'm at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania.
0:18.7	That's right.
0:19.3	Bob is on the road to there. I am actually here. I'm in a parking That's right. Bob is on the road to there.
0:21.3	I am actually here. I'm in a parking lot. Yes. This is, Bob and I were just talking about how cool it is, at least from my perspective. I've got, I've got friends who do pretty amazing things. And it's cool to be like, hey, Bob, what are you doing? He's like, I'm on a bus. he's like, I was like,
0:37.1	where are you playing a show tonight?
0:38.1	He said,
0:38.3	we're playing with Willie Nelson.
0:39.9	And I was like, hey, Bob, what are you doing? He's like, I'm on a bus. He's like, I was like, where are you playing a show tonight?
0:38.1	He said, we're playing with Willie Nelson. And I was like, cool. And it's just amazing that Bob's band, David Brothers, has been so good and worked so hard that they just do this kind of stuff all the time. Like, that's a mind-blowing thing. and we're like, oh, playing with Willie Nelson again.
0:54.9	Okay.
0:57.4	Yeah, Ben. this kind of stuff all the time. Like, that's a mind-blowing thing. And we're like, oh, playing with Willie Nelson again.
0:54.9	Okay.
0:57.3	Yeah, Ben, it's good to be reminded of how unbelievable this is, right, that we do get to play.
1:05.8	I mean, multiple shows a year with Willie Nelson and his family.
1:09.7	And it does become normalized, right? It becomes for us,
1:14.1	but it's not normal. It's not normal. And, you know, I'm here. I'm like, oh, man, I can't get the
1:20.2	Wi-Fi to work. I've got to record this on an iPad. This picture looks funnier than normal.
1:30.4	You know, like, you know how iPad, the cameras over here. And yeah, you know, it's just, it's just awkward, um, the idea that, oh, let's do a
1:37.7	podcast when I'm on the road, because it's called the road to now. But it's just not, it's kind of
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