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Talking One Leg Up with Alex Garrett on 1 World Radio on WRHU Radio · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Here's your host, Alex Garrett. So I was recovering from the hospital stay
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and I get this incredible text message and by the way, welcome into the
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Alex Garrett podcast network. And I got this incredible picture from a colleague,
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Cody Milar. And turns out the Long Island Press Club has made yours truly
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an award winner. But that's thanks to Andy Gladding and Cody and the One
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World Radio team at Hofst University. CWRT was honored. That's the radio station,
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Hofstra was honored by the Long Island Press Club and this episode had to
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be nominated and one. So take a listen as this portion of One World
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Radio where Andy, Jamie and Cody and I discuss adaptability and as any would
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call it here on his description here which I'm gonna link up using radio to
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advocate for people with physical challenges. Here's how that conversation went on One World
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Radio, as heard on w r H. You're listening to the One World
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Radio program, a collaboration between eighty nine point five FM BUSH Radio, Cape
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Town, South Africa, an eighty eight point seven f M w r h
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U Radio Hopshire University in Hempstead, New York. Broadcasting from the Bush Radio
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Salt River Studios in Cape Town. Is host Jamie Fredericks broadcasting from WRT Studios
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Radio, Housetree Diversity, The Muppets Jamie Fredericks. So they have the Muppets
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in Cape Town definitely, and I figured they would. I mean, who
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doesn't love Kermit d Frock Cody. Who's your favorite Muppet character? Goodness?
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Probably the Phantom of the muff opera. Why do you have to pick it
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obscure one? But you can't just be like, oh yes, I like
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if you want, I can be like my dad's favorite is Statlars. Okay.
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People always told me my Favre was supposed to be doctor Teeth. I
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think it's because I played a band, but I was I was always partial
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Fazzy Bear myself. Be sure about that. I think there might have been
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another reason. I don't know. Oh, thanks, thanks Cody. We
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have Alex Garrett on the line. I'm actually playing this song for him because
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Alex is a guy who is always moving right along. He's got his own
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podcast called One Leg Up with Alex Garrett, and he's going to talk about
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what I actually have learned from Alex. It's actually been called physically will be
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the correct word, Alex, you call it physically advantaged with your situation.
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Guys, thanks for coming on, buddy. You who's your favorite Muppet?
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Oh my gosh, it's gotta be Kermit. I mean, I hate to
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sound basic or whatever, but I love it. He's quite a character.
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Ed Gonzo, I guess there's two. Gonzo also is pretty damn punch.
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But you talk about physically advantage. Uh. It just I'm able to roll
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around on one leg. That's kind of the simplest thing you could say about
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it, you know, And that's how I move it right along as the
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song goes, which I think is really impressive. Alex, addition to doing
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his One Leg Up podcast, also works with us at Salem Radio, New
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York City. And he's a great guy because you can hear him all over
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New York City. He is on like co host talk shows. You hear
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him on commercials, spots liners like I Gotta I Gotta be. Can even
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catch him on random Reddit sub threads too. About a photo of him just
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randomly skating. It's amazing. And Alex, how many presidents have you taken
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a picture with? So today? I would say President Clinton, But there
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is a photo floated around with being President Carter, so I would say too.
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It's that was a fun time, you know, back in the day
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when I got to meet those different presidents. But the one I always posted
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well with President Clinton, that is for sure, at Saint Patrick's Cathedral on
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the day of Cardinal O'Connor's funeral. So I guess we could start there because
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that was kind of that was when it all started, eight years old,
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right the cardinal meeting the president, meaning George Steinbrenner. And then my dad
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said, hey, why don't you get on a rollerblade? Because he was
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a big hockey guy. My dad and I have an affiliation with Hofstra,
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which I can get into if you guys want as well during the show.
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But when I was eight years old, he said, why don't you put
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on the rollerblade? And he was an ice hockey player, so that's where
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his mentality was. He was gonna get me rolling, literally, and you
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know, it was outside Jay Stadium. I put on the roll blade.
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The only thing I had to do was jump over a curb because I was
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the first time I ever experienced a curb cut on my wheels, and I
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jumped right over it and I just kept rolling. And I've been doing that
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for what till now, so about twenty three years or so. So just
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give our audience an idea of what your situation is and why you have kind
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of an alternative way of getting around. So I was born with one leg
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and it's kind of rare, I think, and they call it vodder syndrome
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vat er. And here's my catchphrase, guys, I would say I have
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Botder syndrome, but voder syndrome doesn't have me. And I just wish people
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would get that message that they might have something, but it doesn't have them.
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Mean they can still live, they can still go out, they can
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still have fun, they can still work. I feel like sometimes when people
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get slapped with a condition or a diagnosis and they power through, but some
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don't. They just kind of succumb to it. And I'm just like you
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know, in life, you may have something, but it doesn't have you.
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It won't control you don't have to let it control you. So I've
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not letvodder control my life entirely the last thirty one years, with support from
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my parents, of course. I mean they've been a huge reason why I'm
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here today as well. That's very inspiring, Alex. You know, when
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I first met you, I remember you telling me one of the reasons why
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you didn't consider your situation a disadvantage was because you could actually move faster than
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somebody with two legs, which I've seen. I've seen you in action.
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You can fly through life at a much faster pace than I can. I
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have two legs and I like hate walking, so it's amazing to see you
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on the move. One of the things we were talking about before the show
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started was some of your advocacy. I mean, you have your podcast called
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One Leg Up, and you use your platform or your radio platform to advocate
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for people who might be challenged getting around and navigating New York City. So
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explain a little bit about how you deal with that. You know, New
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York's a big place. There's you know, obviously there's some ada and handicapped
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accessible walkways and things like that, but in other places there aren't. So
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what's the biggest challenge you find in New York getting around? Well, honestly,
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the biggest challenge is making sure my girlfriend is in a power wheelchair has
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accessibility. And I would just say in general because I am not as going
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as say, you know, to say, but I'm able to move around.
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I feel like my message now is to get it out there for those
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who have a little more difficulty, like pay it forward if you will.
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Like, if I'm able to do it, why can't others do it?
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And so that's why I created the One Like Up with Alex Garrett podcast to
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basically say, hey, you know, I'm able to do this. And
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people come in on this and what I'm doing, But I want to focus
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on those who need a little more help, who need a little more accessibility
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in the city, and so let's work on it together. Right. That's
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kind of been my main thought process on my podcast for about three years now.
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Actually, I turned into more the adaptive side than the political side and
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everything else, because I realize, Hey, that's a niche right there,
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and not many people are talking about adaptability in the city, so why not
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break ground on that? Yeah, you're talking about adaptability in New York.
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What is New York doing right when it comes to providing access and what is
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New York lagging in? What were doing better? New York is doing right.
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I think the ler has it right because they have this bridge plate and
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I love that bridge play on the LR. The conductors are always so nice.
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They just bring it out for us and my girlfriend Gabby's able to transport
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everywhere the subway system, though it seems there are only a few platforms that
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are accessible or certain angles. When they say a boarding area on our subway
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system, just for some context, every subway station has a boarding area for
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people with power wheelchairs and people with disabilities. And sometimes that boarding area still
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has a gap that's a good two or three inches apart from the platform,
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and it's like, how are you expecting a powerchair or wheelchair just wheel right
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in? There's a big gap there still. So what I've been calling for,
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actually, if I may, is that the MTA, with the raise
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of fares, as you guys know, Andy and Code, they keep raising
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the fares in the city, why not just use that and make a budget
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for the bridge plate format that you have on the larr put on the subways.
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And maybe it'll take a little time and maybe the subway is not designed
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for that. And then the kicker is they ask do what his ability to
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Hey do you have your fare today? It's like make the place accessible first
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before asking if we have our fair. You know, I don't know just
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how I see it. Not to mention the fact that the few stations that
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are accessible that have the elevators to get down not all the time do they
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work, And so you have to go like two or three steps further then
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to be able to exit and then wheel all the way back down the ten
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fifteen blocks. Oh, the elevator services, that's one too, And they
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never really tell you or they do tell you, but it's still not acceptable
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I guess, you know, like, oh, yeah, we're gonna be
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out of service. And it's not just for a day, everybody, it's
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for like three days. And how is someone who needs that station supposed to
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function for three days while that elevator is not in service. I'm just throwing
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that out there, Jamie. In your experience, what kind of transportation services
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do you see in Cape Town for people that might have trouble getting around?
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I mean, is there is there a widespread program? Is this something you
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guys have had around for a while. Is at a relatively new thing?
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Give us your perspective on this. Even if they're thinking Tom of Cape Town,
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we do need to step up our game as well, because if I'm
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just thinking about public transport, it's really hard for people that have a disability
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or yeah, they can't even take you know, public transport, whether it's
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somebody in crutches, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair. It's really difficult because
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we've got a lot of taxis and a lot of buses as well in Cape
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Town, and we don't have a section that's designated for people that have disability.
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So I was mentioning as well that even in Cape Town, we haven't
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had the railway system working in like the longest time, and now we've only
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opened like one or two train systems like to go in and out of you
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know, the main Capetown CBD area, But it's we haven't even allocated something
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that could help people in that manner, and I definitely think that we are
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behind when it comes to this. How do people generally get around in Cape
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Town or they're using taxis or buses If you don't have a car, and
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how you're getting from place to place, it's generally taxi or minibuses or the
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bus almost transfer, but if not, it will creatively be an uber and
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very seldom a shuttle really depending but I think if youse somebody that has a
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disability as well, I think a shuttle would be more convenient because a lot
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of them in Cape Town come with not as much seats, so there's more
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seats for you to technically more open space rather I would say, for you
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to then be comfortable enough, or someone's just designed differently as well. But
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shuttles can be expensive, Jamie, In Cape Town, do you have like
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a paratransit service like in America we have if you need to in your county
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get to places, you can call a number and they'll come pick you up,
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depending on what you're able to. Is there something similar in Cape Town
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that you know of? None that I know of, And I think mainly
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if we do have anything like that, we'll pay like an extensive amount of
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money for something like that just to get you from point A to point B.
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But other than that, it's stickly people rely on public transport a lot
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in Cape Town. Out listening to this, I mean, first of all,
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I mean, obviously you have transportation options available to you. If you
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don't have the ability to use public transit, how are you getting around?
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Is there a service for that? Is it something that's subsidized you paint out
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of pocket? Well, I guess for those in South Africa who may not
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be aware, we have what we call there are three tiers of accessibility transit,
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but they're not as effective, but I'll get into it. So here
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in NASA County we have able Ride. I know that you and Cody probably
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know about able Ride and the biggest can play with able ride is that yet
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it's there for Long Islanders for NASA County, but the wait is too long.
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It's delayed. People get like an hour or two to get from one
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place to another. I mean, you've probably heard of horror started with the
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able ride, But that's one form of transportation that I think can be useful.
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It's just got to be run differently or however, so long islanders with
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disabilities are not stranded. You know, from going from point A to point
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B. There is a city equivalent with accessor ride also kind of the similar
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things. And you know, navigating in the city is a little more different.
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And I think that timing for people in New York City is way crucial
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because if you gotta get from point to point B, you got to incorporate
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traffic. I don't think Access a Ride incorporates traffic. They just go however
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they feel like it. And sometimes in my experiences with that and seeing that
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the drivers are hit or missed, sometimes they're really caring and acceptable. Sometimes
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they're just very nasty about things, to be honest. So I guess the
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point is we can always work together on getting these different services. And selfk
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has a transportation service as well, so they have three different ways to get
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around. It's not always perfect. Is my point. And a radio station
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like WRGU and in Cape Down, I mean, advocating for better service is
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something that we can work on. You know. That's a cornerstone of public
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media is to identify issues that are not always popular to discuss in the mainstream,
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even if they make people feel uncomfortable or make people realize they're gonna have
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to spend some money. I might buck the popular trend, but that's what
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we're here for. Well. Yeah, and you know, people were rally
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outside of the Accessor Ride and the government MTA headquarters at two Stone Street when
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they realize, oh, not only is service going to be shoddy, sometimes
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we're going to raise your rates on the accessor Ride. And I've always wondered
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this is if the service is not well, should people with disabilities be asked
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to pay an exorbitant amount, Considering not a lot can afford exsorbitive amount to
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transport, you know, So if you're going to raise rates, make the
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service more accessible. But I want to give a shout out to Hofstreet,
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you know, because you guys every year house people competing in the Nasau County
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Games for the physically challenged. So my dad and I would always dorm in
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either NASA or Suffolk or even cunstenters a hall and all that other so hops
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has really been an arm if you will to help out people disabilities live life.
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I mean the shuttle buses run from Hostra to Mitchell Field. And if
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you're listening right now and have a child who wants to be a competitor and
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it's physically disable, check out the Nasau Games physically challenged because it's a very
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great week and Andy and Cody got to come out to see it next year.
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It's such a fun weekend. Kids compete from five to twenty one,
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wide range of puplet of disabilities and they're out there living their life. And
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Hofstra allows us to happen by allowing dorming to happen during that weekend as well.
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What kind of events do they have at the Empire State Games. I'm
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failiar with a few of them, but you could probably give us a little
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more insight. What are the different activities we could expect to see wheelchair basketball,
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actually adapted ping pong, adaptive wheelchair slalam, ambulatory slalom. The one
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I always did was the fifteen hundred, which was four times around the Mitchell
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Field track, not on my rollerblade but on my shoe, so I have
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to run and walk in the heat sometimes at early June heat. It was
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an accomplishment. But that's what kids, that's what athletes performing. They'd also
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do shot put, discus, club throw, oh in the long jump as
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well in archery. So a few different wide rings of ranging events over there.
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That's really fantastic. And Alex, your positivity towards this is absolutely unparalleled.
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I mean just hearing you talk and you can you can hear the passion
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for your advocacy and for getting involved in all different aspects of the purview of
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what you're dealing with. Jamie. Do they have something that's comparable to like
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these the Empire State Games in Cape Town or where people can compete? Firstly,
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I think it sounds super cool. I'm not gonna lie. And secondly,
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yeah, I think we do have events, but not as big as
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that one, preferably, but we do have a lot of you know,
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runs or things like that. We've got a lot of events as well.
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Today's Money for people that are disabled. I've taken part in some of that
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as well, But in terms of just having like a fun games day.
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I'll have to do my research on that. I haven't seen anything like it,
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or at least not in Cape Town specifically. Yet another thought that you
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had mentioned, Jamie, the Uber and left situation, they don't have any
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wheelchairs as our vehicle options in NASA or Suffolk County. I don't know,
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it's just kind of mom blowing that, but I'm wondering if a platform like
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WRCHU could talk to like Bruce Plagman and whatnot, say hey, you know,
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why don't we have an option for people disabilities to deal with Uber and
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lyft it Could this be legislated or is this more a private company thing?
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I've been trying to wrap my You bring up a really good idea here that
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maybe if Uber and lyft are not equipped to obviously I would assume they would
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be able to build us into their framework, But if it was something they
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were not willing to do, there could be a whole app market for this.
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If you were able to connect drivers with handicapped accessible vehicles through an app
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to consumers that were looking for that service, this could be something pretty big,
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ye know, whether that's a private app or you know, working with
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municipal governments such as NASA County to develop their own service. Like back in
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California, they're developing a lot of like in each town, those last mile
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trips from major points of transportation to areas that aren't as well covered with buses
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that you're able to take free like shuttles or cars. Maybe that's something that
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they could do here in New York to try and be more accessible. Well,
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well, you know, it's amazing because some of these drivers do give
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us their number. We have at least one or two. I mean,
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we could start branching a community here and getting people connected. And the other
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thing about transport from Port Washington is that the bus is sometimes only run once
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an hour, so we missed the bus, we're kind of you know,
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screwed for the day. So there's gotta be a better option, I think.
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And you just ignited me to do something about that as well. So
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thank you for the inspiration on that. And that's the best part about radio
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Jamie. Come on, we just were solving problems here, right international.
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It's the best. Now, Alex to your radio ventures. I know that
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you've had a couple of more than a couple of people on your podcast that
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are pretty notable. I mean, even yesterday you had Michael Harrison from Talkers
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magazine record with you, and actually, I'm not a lot of Do'm not
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even a lot to let everybody know about that yet. Oh it's published,
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it's out there, man, I got to promote it more. And WRG
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listeners probably know Michael because Talkers runs their convention right out of the campus at
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Hobstra, and I think that's a very cool connection that you guys have with
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him, and he's just a great guy. And it's fun to pick the
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radio mind right because I believe that this medium serves a purpose. What we're
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doing right now is serving a purpose, but I also believe it's evolving and
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people are stunted at just on air radio, but no, we're streaming worldwide.
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And that's a big deal to me that radio has found a way,
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through engineers like you, Andy and others, to really just branch out and
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be more than just terrestrial. We are everywhere, and I think that's an
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important note when it comes to radio. Would you agree? Yeah, No,
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I definitely agree. And I think one of the comments that I really
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hate that people always using KADIN is when they say that radio is going to
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die, like radio is going to die, and I'm like, no,
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no, it's not. It'll expand for sure, So I definitely agree with
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you. Yet people go places for the platform like this. It's very important
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to remember that radio is not radio in the way that we think of it,
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but radio is really the distribution of audio products, and audio products are
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more popular than ever between all these different streaming platforms and podcasting platforms. To
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say that radio is gonna die, it's like saying that nobody eats roast beef
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anymore, or like next year, it's not gonna rain. Just what we
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call it is evolving. But the concept of delivering audio to a mass audience
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that's alive and well and honestly making a lot of money, it's just the
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way the system works has just changed a little bit, Alex. Over the
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course of your podcasting, who's like a guest that really stands out? Like
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who is like the person you got to You're like, oh man, this
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is gonna be the best day of my life. I am so glad you
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asked that because on the podcast I have highlighted someone who's a double amputee.
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I think you might know him, Dana Bowman. He injured himself in a
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paratrooper exercise as part of the Army Golden Knights, and he lost both of
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his legs and an accident parachuting. He didn't just sit down and crumble and
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all that, you know what he did. He went out and became a
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paratrooper without legs and with two prostses. Okay, So he just adapted.
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And he's alway stood out to me because he would always jump into the games
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for the physically challenged. And I was about five or six years old at
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the time, so Andy, Cody and Jamie imagine the six year old watching
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a guy paratrope with just robotic legs in my you know, prostatic legs.
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It was just the coolest thing. So he really stood out. I saw
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him out actually a few years ago and I said, look, Dana,
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I remember you from the Games were physically Challenged. I have this podcast,
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would love to have be on. We spend an hour talking about how he
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does his parachuting still, how he travels with his prostesses. He has like
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twenty different styles for different activities. He does the scheme, he does the
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you know, paratrooping, he does other sports as well. So that's definitely
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Andy, I guess I need the onek if you want to share. But
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Dana Bowman, that's a guy you got to listen to because he's got a
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lot of experience and he's just been one of the ultimate adapters of our time.
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You know, I'm going to throw this question to Jamie too, because
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Alex your answer was really inspiring. Jamie, who is somebody that you interviewed
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or had a show that you were like, this is awesome. I'm so
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psyched. Other than of course Cody and myself obviously we know that how obvious
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you guys are the best. Oh tough one. Actually, I don't know.
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Actually, I don't think that there's one that's like, as of yet
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that stood out like yeah, amongst the others. I think there are some
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that definitely was like borderline on the version of it could be, but I
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think right now I haven't not yet anyway, but I'm open to it.
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I think your homework is going to be you have to go find a guest
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that you really want to interview, and just what we were talking last week
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about stalker fans, you have to go stand that guest, go stalk them
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until they come on your show. And I mean that like the nicest way
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possible, and well we weren't trying to stalk, but we did miss Eli
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Manning by three seconds. And that was just the toughest thing last week because
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I spent one hundred dollars to try and go see Eli Manning at the Bailey
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Center and then work kept me over for like half an hour more. We
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missed Eli. As he's driving away from the bail. He said, I
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get it going out and trying to find the school, because I know you
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have to do that. Indy and Cody and Jamie have to go out and
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find it. You guys did that with the Go Go Beach murders. Can
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I just mention how awesome the coverage was that you provided to AM nine send
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me the answer on the scene. I mean, he went out and got
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that scoop, Andy, and that's kind of I don't know. Is it
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a lost art because of the whole ability to do work from home. I
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think it is to just go out and find the scoop. I feel like
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we've lost that. There are stories everywhere, good stories. Just have to
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know when to go out and look for when Tovine, you know, I
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can tell you, Alex. Also, you know who else missed Eli Manning
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terribly. The Giants. They're probably missing Eli Manning a lot right now.
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I know. Well, Danny Jones had a nice second half and they came
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back, but it feels like it's gonna be a bit of a long season
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here week after week. So that's how my dad and I met all these
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people. We literally just stayed down places, you know. It just he
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had this way of hearing on the radio George Simmeron was going to be here
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at the stubin day parade. Boom, I get to meet George Simmon and
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there's a picture in the post with the owner of the Yankees. I mean,
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this was kind of the thing my dad and so to me, and
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I don't know, I'm inspired listening to you guys talk about getting the scoop
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to try and do it more, because that's just how you do it.
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Jamie. Just go out there and find him. And I think we can
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all agree it's not bad to write any email either because they might get back
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to you, right, I mean, or try and God like them anyway.
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Well, Jamie, you got your homework cut out for you, and
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I know what you gotta do. That's true. Thanks a lot. It
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We're gonna report back to Alex on your progress and we'll make sure that you're
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you know, you make it. Make it anyway. Here Alex s Garrett
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for the One Leg Up radio podcast. You can check him out. Alex.
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Where do we find your podcast? You can buy me on Spotify,
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Apple Podcasts One Leg Up with Alex Garrett. My flagship is Speaker as well,
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so there's a lot of different platforms. Thank god the Speaker allows me
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to syndicate like that. Can we call it a podcast? Indicase? I
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think we can. I feel like that's what's appropriate to say. We could
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call it whatever you want. Well, Alex, thank you so much for
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being on the show today. Once again, Alex Garrett advocating for folks who
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live a little bit of a different life, and he's doing a great job.
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So Alex, thank you for joining us here in One World, Jamie,
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I noticed a recurring theme here. I see another Mikasa song that you
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sent over to me today. I love because people and they are actually traveling
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at the moment. You can listen to the entire episode of the link below.
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Yes, Andy Gladding through in the nomination and through my name in it
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because I deserved it, and I just thought I was speaking the truth or
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shooting the breeze, what everyone want to call it. I just had a
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lot of fun and I loved talking about adaptability with Andy, Cody and Jamie
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and so honored that that episode got awarded by the Long Island Press Club.
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How about that. Well that's it for now, And of course it's a
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very pivotal conversation to have with the accessibility because it is July what they call
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disability prime month. I call it the Americans Disabilities Act Month. And once
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again we have to stay on this, not just in July, but every
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month because just like the medical needs, transportation needs are just as vital for
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those disabilities and cannot be ignored once July, specifically, the ADA anniversary rolls
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around and goes away. We can't just let transportation needs go away with it.
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