Eddie Wilson
The Forward
Lance Armstrong
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Eddie Wilson is the owner of Threadgill’s restaurant and founder of the legendary music venue: The Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas. During it existence, the Armadillo held such legendary acts as ACDC, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa, Van Morrison and helped give birth to Austin’s music renaissance. Eddie hosted Lance at the restaurant where they caught up on everything from: owning a music venue, Willie Nelson, hosting music royalty, starting an advertising agency at a music venue and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the forward podcast. I'm Lance Armstrong, your host each and every week. |
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| 0:22.1 | Before I get into the intro of my guest this week, |
| 0:25.0 | I want to just a couple things I want to send a shout out. |
| 0:28.0 | Well, let me back up. |
| 0:30.0 | I have never been around Alzheimer's before. |
| 0:37.0 | Never had a family member, never really seen the extent of that. |
| 0:44.0 | But Anna's dad was diagnosed about a decade ago and got to the point where |
| 0:50.0 | we could no longer care for him. |
| 0:53.4 | So we found him an excellent facility, an assisted living memory loss specialty place in Denver. |
| 1:02.0 | So first of all, I just want to say to anybody that's dealing with it or dealt with it or has a loved one. |
| 1:10.0 | Hang in there. |
| 1:12.0 | That's some of the toughest stuff I've ever seen. |
| 1:14.0 | Secondly, I want to say a special thank you to Ken Yeager and everybody at Morningstar |
| 1:19.0 | Assisted living in the Denver area for being so professional, so compassionate, so caring for Anna and her |
| 1:29.4 | father. |
| 1:31.4 | Just a big thank you for that. On the way up and back to Denver we went for a day, |
| 1:38.0 | but on the way there we watched two movies and I don't want to bring these up because they were both excellent. |
| 1:43.9 | On the way up there we watched this new Annette Benning film, 20th century women, and growing up in my generation, |
| 1:51.9 | you know, it reminded me of, remember the old movie, The Breakfast Club? |
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