#293 New Year, Old Us w/ Ben & Bob
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ben & Bob kick off the new year with a conversation over some current events, including the history of New Year's Resolutions (and why Bob doesn't make them) and the 14th Amendment, and Ben shares what he learned about North Carolina history during his holiday road trip from Nashville, TN to Concord, NC to visit his family.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
Relevant links:
-"Swept Away w/ John Logan & John Gallagher Jr." The Road to Now #219
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is the road to now. |
| 0:10.2 | 2024. |
| 0:11.8 | Bob, this is the first episode after we've ever taken a break that long, I think. |
| 0:16.3 | Yes, we got several weeks off and the holidays. |
| 0:20.7 | You know, the holidays are a break point anyway. |
| 0:23.9 | It's really weird because you get up to the holiday, you get the week before Christmas, and everybody's talking like, okay, well, let's just put this off until next year or I'll see you next year. |
| 0:34.0 | But that's only like a week and a half, two weeks away. |
| 0:36.9 | But it just feels like there's a gulf |
| 0:39.1 | you know, between, you know, the end of middle of December and the beginning of January. |
| 0:44.8 | That's not the case. That's just a perception. It is. And I also want to say right now, |
| 0:50.1 | apologies for not announcing that break. We were going to do some re-airs. And then we just talked about it. Look, let's take some time off. Maybe some of you guys noticed. We posted about it on social media. We also added to the last episode description that we were taking a break off and we'd be coming back today on January 8th. And so, yeah, here we are. And apropos of the new year, Bob, we got a couple |
| 1:13.5 | segments here. It's just going to be me and Bob catching up on things. But let's kick it off. |
| 1:17.3 | Let's talk about New Year's resolutions, man. You've done some digging on the history, huh? |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, you know, I don't make them anymore because I just was never very successful at them. |
| 1:27.2 | So I, you know, I don't make New Year's |
| 1:29.3 | resolutions. I just, I just, I'm not going to change. Things aren't, you know, I'm not going to |
| 1:34.0 | change. So, but I'm really curious about the history of the New Year's resolution. It just seems |
| 1:41.0 | like a very ingrained human idea that you reset the clock to the first day of a new year. |
| 1:48.9 | And it's an opportunity to kind of fix a few things or to get things right or to make, you know, promises that are going to make you a better person. |
| 1:58.7 | And so I wondered, you know, where did this start? |
| 2:01.1 | You know, where did this start? The self-examination brought in by the changing of the calendar |
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