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Alex Blissfully Unaware of a 4.8 Magnitude Earthquake while on LIRR 4-5-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Well, if you haven't heard already,
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  on again with the bron Zoo and everybody Kenny Albert, Dave Popkin, all
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  those along the way, sports and non sports that have continued to grow this
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  this is the main bit I'm talking on right now, So continue to follow
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  this one as I'll make sure every podcast we do, no matter what the
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  feature is, gets podcasted here as well. Now, one thing I've not
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  had the chance to do is talk about the incredible time we had at Saint
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  John the Divine honoring my dad on Easter Sunday, honoring the fact that he
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  Christ has risen. And as I mentioned, Easter Sunday morning, I felt
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  that Dad's spirit will be everlasting. That is the point of Easter Sunday,
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  that life is everlasting. And for my dad, Paul Winter it took time
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  to see us and that was so special and my mom got this interaction with
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  Paul Winter, the music director and the just incredible musician. He is filling
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  the halls of Saint John the Divine every year. Now keep in mind this
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  was from last year to start out, when Paul actually wished my dad a
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  happy Easter, even though we couldn't make it, Paul made sure to make
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  my dad's presence included while he was at Suny down State Hospital. Hey John,
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  it's Paul here. We miss seeing you so we want you to be
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  back here next year for our annual reunion photo and I wish you well and
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  I hope to see us soon. All the best, brother Big Huggson hap
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  Easter, thank you so much. I don't make his name. And so
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  this eas year, we unfortunately had to break the news to Paul that,
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  you know, my dad had passed. But it is true that when I
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  played Paul's message stand last year, he lit up. And I told Paul
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  that this past Sunday, take a listen to that, because I got that
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  busy, I got that audience like light. Oh. So it was emotional.
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  It was incredible to you keep the faith going that my dad had instilled
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  in me, and my mom did too. You know, Saint John the
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  Divine is a place where my mom and dad prayed for the seventy seven days
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  I was in the n queue right across the street at Saint Luke's Hospital.
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  So for them to instilled in me at a very early age, and the
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  belief and the faith in me, and here we are thirty two plus years
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  later, and the faith continues even while my dad watches from upstairs. Then
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  later an it was great to have Gabby with us up there as well,
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  including her in the first Easter with her as a fiance up at Saint John
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  the Divine. That was special. But but now I come back and all
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  of a sudden, I realize there's an article on yet to Read Read that
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  was left behind for me to read, and it was from Vivek from the
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  Swami. Now, Vivek wrote this last year and I'm going to post it
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  in my description below, But it's about faith in the US. Are we
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  losing it in ourselves? And he talked about ways we could build it up.
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  Man on a day we just finished a very faith based full day of
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  Easter, to find this article proves that it's not a long way to go
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  instilling faith in our country again, we really do And I think, to
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  me, the way we do that, and I'll tell you what he says,
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  but the way we do that is not so much of the polls.
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  Yes, November is gonna be huge, Yes it's a presidential election. But
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  we've got to instill faith in our country by instilling faith in ourselves, by
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  being better towards each other in communities and neighborhoods and protecting one another. So
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  when I see homeowners fighting against squatters, And when I see other homeowners rallying
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  around those who are trying to bend their homes, that gives me hope that
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  there are people that don't want to take this nonsense anymore. So I believe
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  that, yes, there is a huge swath of faith that still exists.
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  Just go to Saint John the Divine on Easter. But the faith in ourselves,
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  the faith in our country can use work. You know, if the
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  vec around was swimming in his article said that the military is in a twenty
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  five percent drop in enrollment, and I can correlate that too well. Is
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  there also faith in our Do the cops have enough faith in our those in
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  power to make the right decisions for them? Because if they don't, moral
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  will will turn it in their badges. That's just the reality we're dealing with.
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  That's just the reality we're dealing with. So if those are don't want
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  to go into service because they have no faith that their government's doing right by
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  them. Image on a local level, when you don't have a police department,
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  that's faith in what those we're supposed to be supporting them are not.
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  I mean, if I can get on the street with twenty one priors kill
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  officer now detective custhumously Diller and kl just shows up expecting to be welcome there.
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  It's no wonder if the family asked her to leave is wouldn't you say?
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  It's no wonder that the rate of resignation in the force is increasing because
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  there's no faith in those who are in charge right now. Little and so
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  I look at the twenty five percent drop that Martin Mswamy talked about, don't
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  and I correlate that too well. On a very local level. We're seeing
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  that here and we'll continue to see that here if we don't watch it,
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  if the leaders of our state especially don't watch it. Simply, but the
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  correlation of losing faith in America is very much so correlating to losing faith in
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  our own cities. Even justice system that bail reform is so easy, I
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  called it bail decorm So restoring faith in our city and state is restoring faith
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  and returning to a system that doesn't let a twenty one priorrest criminal back down
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  on the streets with ease? Would you agree? And by the way,
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  as I'm recording this on the train, a four point eight earthquake hit New
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  York City in the triced area originating from Lebanon, New Jersey, after shots
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  and tremors felt across the Trisity area, building shaken in New York City and
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  then from Philly upwards. Really, so, I hope you're doing okay as
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  you're listening to this podcast. Hope the rest of your day's been a little
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  more grounded, if you will. Luckily, I was on the train.
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  I did not feel anything. That's I was been on this train with you,
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  talking to you on the Alex Garratt podcast network. But yeah, I
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  encourage you to read the DEVICTI from the Swami piece about the USA needly gained
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  faith in itself. It is from last year. It's so worth it.
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  And and I hope after Easter we can restore faith in our own country,
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  and the city can restore faith in it's cops, and this cops faith can
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  be restored as well. That's all I gotta say now. On the Alex
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  gart podcast networks a bit later today, Joe Murphy on lyft driving and how
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  he's encountered so many different people over the years. This earthquake, by the
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  way, ranging from Boston to Philadelphia, So be safe out there. It
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  has been quite a day, you know. It's another thing we're gonna have
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  to get through and survive and process, and I just pray that those in
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  those buildings are okay. My fiance Gabby told me her chair was moving,
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  and I want to he's It wasn't even on That's how powerful earthquake was.
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  But that's it. From my l R edition of the Alex Garrett podcast net
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  work, Garrett on the Golf. We'll talk to you soon on one Leg Up.