#359 Slippery Roads w/ Ben & Bob
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Having recently been hit with winter storms, Ben & Bob catch up to talk about the literal and figurative slippery roads all around us. The conversation covers talking politics when we don't agree, the Epstein files and more. We also talk about one of the more exciting events on the horizon: Bob's new book, America's Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick, which drops on March 10! Make sure to check out the book page at the Zando site and preorder your copy!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now. |
| 0:09.3 | How's your roads, Bob? |
| 0:10.7 | Oh my God, my roads are icy. |
| 0:13.1 | They're icy. |
| 0:15.3 | You know, Ben, I'm on a two-hour delay. |
| 0:18.1 | Are you? |
| 0:18.4 | I'm on a two-hour delay. |
| 0:19.4 | Like, with my kids were out of school for two weeks. |
| 0:22.6 | So we come back from Christmas and they're in school for a couple days and I think they |
| 0:27.5 | missed a couple days that first week and then and then they did went for like two or three days |
| 0:32.6 | the next week and then we've been out of school since the middle of January. And here we are, you know, cutting into February. |
| 0:40.3 | And they went back to school today. |
| 0:43.3 | We're recording this on Thursday for Monday. |
| 0:46.3 | And they went and they were on a two-hour delay. |
| 0:49.3 | So their first day back to school was a two-hour delay. |
| 0:52.3 | And thank God for school. thank god that there is school |
| 0:56.0 | that we have a place to put them when there is i mean this is what's crazy is like i get that you |
| 1:01.6 | got to be careful with things um but on monday here mtsu was out for a whole week and i will say this |
| 1:08.0 | got to be careful out there but i never there was never an extended period of time where I couldn't get anywhere. |
| 1:28.1 | I mean, I do have like a four-wheel drive truck and I have good tires on them. We have the same truck. We have the same truck. We have the same truck. We bought it independently. That's right. Men of similar taste. But so I was like, fine getting around. I understand you got to stay out. It was a whole week we were out, which is maddening for me. |
| 1:29.6 | But then we go back on Monday. |
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