Ben Harper

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

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🗓️ 5 July 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Lance sat down with longtime friend and multiple Grammy Award winning musician Ben Harper at Red Rocks Amphitheater outside Denver during a recent tour stop with The Innocent Criminals. Their conversation offers rare, fly-on-the-green room-wall insights on everything from Ben’s musical roots and inspirations to adventures in parenting teenagers to learning how to skateboard (like a badass) after 40.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody this is Lance Armstrong and welcome to the forward
0:05.2	podcast episode three today an episode that uh I'm excited about friend of
0:12.3	mine another friend of mine coming on. I hope you guys enjoyed
0:16.8	Doug Brinkley from last week. I know that it was fascinating talking to him. But I just wanted to catch up with a little bit of stuff that's
0:26.0	going on in the world. The last week has been an interesting week for me. Did a
0:29.8	little bit of traveling, a little moving around.
0:33.0	But before I left, there was, you know, all this drama about England deciding to leave the
0:40.4	European Union and you know, of course we're all sitting, most of us at least are sitting over here in the European Union and you know of course we're all sitting most of us at least are
0:43.3	sitting over here in the United States and you know I'd love to sit here and talk about
0:48.4	10 or 15 minutes about how this was
0:58.2	so significant for me or my family but you know as much as I read about it and saw the headlines and read more about it I still can't understand it. So I guess that's the point. We have a one of actually
1:08.5	both of our kids our littlest ones do a British soccer camp here in the summer.
1:13.2	So they, these British soccer coaches come over to Colorado and
1:17.4	tour around and they put on a week-long camp.
1:20.7	And most years we were the host housing for one of the coaches.
1:26.0	So this year we had a coach, Coach Sam, who was from England obviously.
1:30.0	And so he was staying with us when this was going down and you could just you could tell how enthralled he was and for the you know for the life of me I just couldn't figure out what the fuck was going on
1:40.0	but he wasn't too stoked on it so I guess that means I wasn't too stoked on it, so I guess that means I wasn't too stoked on it.
1:45.0	But anyhow, yeah, that's sort of my thoughts on that, which are really no thoughts.
1:52.0	And then I had a this has kind of been
1:55.6	months in the making. About a year ago I met a former Major League Baseball player by the name of Eric Burns.
2:05.0	Played many many years with the Oakland A's, played in Arizona for the Diamondbacks.
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