#69 Lance Armstrong on Moving Forward Without Forgetting the Past
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Lance Armstrong is one of the most recognized names in modern American sports. He's also one of the most divisive. He's a man who helped raise almost half a billion dollars to help people suffering from cancer. He's also a man who aggressively went after those who accused him of using performance-enhancing drugs. In this episode of The Road To Now, Bob and Ben sit down for a conversation with Lance about his origins, how he survived his fight with cancer, and the culture of cycling during his career. We also discuss what it's like to go from hero to heel virtually overnight, and how he decided to admit his mistakes and begin trying to move forward in life.
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| 0:00.0 | Our friend Dolphus Ramser was born and raised in Concord, North Carolina, a town so rich |
| 0:07.4 | with history that it provided the inspiration for its independent record label and management |
| 0:12.6 | company. |
| 0:13.7 | So great was the city's influence on Ramzer that he continues to live and work in Concord |
| 0:19.0 | today with a full-time staff located in both North |
| 0:22.2 | Carolina and California. He and his team always put their clients music first, work as |
| 0:27.7 | hard as they can, and have fun along the way. Visit ramsar.com to learn more. |
| 0:36.8 | Welcome to the Road to Now, where we look to the past and everywhere in between. |
| 0:40.8 | To understand the present, I'm Bob Crawford, and joining me as always is Dr. Ben Sawyer. |
| 0:45.7 | Ben, who do we have on the show today? |
| 0:48.0 | Well, today we have a guy who's real good on a bicycle, a guy named Lance Armstrong. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah, this show, I don't want to say it's controversial. |
| 0:57.0 | But when we announced we were speaking with Lance, |
| 0:59.3 | we did get a little bit of pushback from some of our listeners. |
| 1:03.6 | It's no secret who Lance is and what he's been through the past couple of years |
| 1:07.7 | and what went down with him and his career and publicly. |
| 1:11.8 | But Lance has recently began a podcast called The Forward, and he's got a few things going, |
| 1:18.7 | and he's kind of getting himself back out there. And I've known Lance for a long time from the band. |
| 1:24.5 | He's always been a big fan of the band. And so I asked him if he'd come on the show and he said he would be happy to. |
| 1:32.5 | Whatever you think about Lance, you cannot deny that 100 years from now, if anyone reads a book on the history of cycling, it's going to have Lance Armstrong in it. |
| 1:41.7 | So sometimes we cover the history. |
| 1:43.3 | I think this is a case where we're |
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