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One Leg Up 8-10-24 - A Reminder That Invisible Disabilites Are Disabilities, A Watershed Moment on the LIRR · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't be, let me say, early in the morning
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  Speaker 1: here on Saturday morning, on one leg up with Alex Garrett,
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  Speaker 1: the train collector I had just ran into, messed with
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  Speaker 1: the wrong podcaster, messed with the wrong person with disability.
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  Speaker 1: I don't every day identify as someone with disability, but
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  Speaker 1: it's just seene right. It's obvious I rolled back on
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  Speaker 1: one leg with crutches. But now what the train collector
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  Speaker 1: today on the Port Washington LRR line did is so
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  Speaker 1: egregious I have to talk about it. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: listening another train collector from traincar seven four nine five
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  Speaker 1: zero on the five thirty nine from Port Washington, listen up. Pal.
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  Speaker 1: I could have confronted you face to face about this,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to do this on a bigger platform
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  Speaker 1: because what I witnessed today is something worth talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be dumb to have this platform all like up
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  Speaker 1: with Alex Garrett if I didn't discuss these everyday adventures
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  Speaker 1: that I sometimes go through, and this one, this one
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  Speaker 1: is beyond the pale. So I'm sitting down, maybe scrolling
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  Speaker 1: through TikTok during my commute in to do some radio
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: this train collector collects a disability ticket from someone who
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  Speaker 1: I talked to after this whole incident happened, who had
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  Speaker 1: an invisible disability. And what does he tell the person
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  Speaker 1: with the invisible disability? Oh, you're not disabled, No way,
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  Speaker 1: you're disabled, basically is the premise of this. So he
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  Speaker 1: calls the transit cops on this guy who has a
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  Speaker 1: senior disabled ticket, who tells him I'm disabled, and this
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  Speaker 1: train collector says, no, you're not. And here's where I
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  Speaker 1: get involved. He looks at me and says, oh, see him,
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  Speaker 1: I know he's disabled. See him, I know he's disabled.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry. This is in writing. I wrote that to
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  Speaker 1: the LAR, this message that in train cars seven four
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  Speaker 1: nine five zero, I witnessed harassment of someone with disability,
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  Speaker 1: and ironically it wasn't me, but I was thrown in
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  Speaker 1: the mix here. So to that train collector who thinks
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  Speaker 1: they got away from this, you did not. I may
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  Speaker 1: look meek and mild or whatever you want to say,
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  Speaker 1: or weak, I'm not. I have a voice, I have
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  Speaker 1: a platform, and I'm gonna use it right now. To
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  Speaker 1: the LR. Remember, not all disability is visible. Let me
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  Speaker 1: say that again, not all disability is visible. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: rolled it on one leg and crutches. Yes, I might
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  Speaker 1: look so, you know whatever, But I'm not. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: fastest mother eff out there. And let me tell you something, folks,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you this guy messed with the wrong person.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just some commuter. I have a podcast, I
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  Speaker 1: have a platform, and I will be tagging the LR
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  Speaker 1: in this experience because they should know that what I
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  Speaker 1: witnessed on the five point thirty nine from Port Washington
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  Speaker 1: to New York City today is unacceptable. To tell someone
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  Speaker 1: who says to you you have a disability, to tell them, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: you don't, is is egregious. And then to throw me
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  Speaker 1: in the mixing say see he has a disability. I'm stunned. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I can't get over it. And I was honestly just
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  Speaker 1: trying to get my ticket out myself, or I would
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  Speaker 1: have rolled on this guy because the interaction I saw,
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  Speaker 1: and then the post ride effect as well, when this
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  Speaker 1: elector called six cops for a three dollars extra fare.
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  Speaker 1: There are illegals running through the city for free, Yet
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  Speaker 1: this guy gets sicked done for three dollars. A hard
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  Speaker 1: working American gets sicked done by the way. I often
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  Speaker 1: feel like all train commuters should get a free ride anyway,
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  Speaker 1: because we're giving everybody else free things, right, disability or not.
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  Speaker 1: The LR should be free at this point because there's
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  Speaker 1: fury evasion anyway, and and puel disabilities shouldn't even have
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  Speaker 1: to pay. Do I sound radical? Not? When you have
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  Speaker 1: thousands of people in this city here illegally living off
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  Speaker 1: our dime, that's not radical anymore. So if you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell me and loop me in and say, oh see
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  Speaker 1: he's disabled to another passenger with disabilities whose disability is invisible,
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  Speaker 1: shame on you. You and the l R. I can't
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  Speaker 1: fault them entirely because you know they're not all there.
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  Speaker 1: But it just shows me the institutional problem of not
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  Speaker 1: all of these collectors being educated. So you know how
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  Speaker 1: they shut down Starbucks for a day after the sensitivity
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  Speaker 1: training bull crap. Do that for the l R. Shut
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  Speaker 1: it down for an entire day if you have to
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  Speaker 1: to retrain every collector and every conductor that people with
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  Speaker 1: disabilities matter too seen or unseen. Because I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to have to go through what I went through today.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to have to be singled out for
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  Speaker 1: having crutches on one leg, as see he's disabled. That
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  Speaker 1: collector should be either sensitively trained or fired for the discrimination. Really,
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  Speaker 1: to tell a passenger, oh, you don't have a disability
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  Speaker 1: is the most out rageous thing I've ever heard. And
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  Speaker 1: I have a platform, and I'm gonna tell you about this,
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  Speaker 1: and I will tell you what the LR says, because
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  Speaker 1: I message them directly about this. The argument was why
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have proofect disability. Well, you know what, You
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  Speaker 1: know what, not every disability is seen or unseen. Not
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  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna carry their profet disability. Actually, every fricking person
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  Speaker 1: wants to live their day and not be harassed by
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  Speaker 1: an LR train collector. Wuldn't that be nice? And there
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  Speaker 1: are always good collectors and good people on the LR.
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  Speaker 1: I acknowledge that, but this one incident where I'm looped
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  Speaker 1: into this now really threw me for a loop this morning,
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  Speaker 1: because for every amazing collector out there and conductor out
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  Speaker 1: there who actually puts the bridgeh plate down for Gabby
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  Speaker 1: and make sure we're on the train safely, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize there were still those that are ignorant, and that
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  Speaker 1: ignorance not be we pay millions of dollars to the
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  Speaker 1: lr and a three dollars extra fare is worth calling
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  Speaker 1: six cops on someone who had a disability card, an
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  Speaker 1: unseen disability. Do better be more tolerable, be more tolerant,
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  Speaker 1: because these incidences should not go unnoticed. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: letting this one slide here on the Alex Scatt podcast network.
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  Speaker 1: I'll keep you updating what the lr R says. But
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  Speaker 1: imagine we pay billions of dollars to this institution and
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  Speaker 1: they come back and one of their collectors has the
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  Speaker 1: goal to say, look at this guy, he's disabled. I
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  Speaker 1: know he's disabled. What about you? You have no disability?
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  Speaker 1: To the other passenger with disabilities, invisible disabilities matters. To
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  Speaker 1: my friend Alyssa Lewis Bailey points us out a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and she's right on the money with it. Two unseen
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  Speaker 1: disabilities are a thing. And this is why we can't
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  Speaker 1: just honor Disability Pride month just once every twelve months.
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  Speaker 1: It's gotta be every day because there are guys like
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  Speaker 1: this passenger with a bad back who go to work
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  Speaker 1: still through the pain, and you're gonna harass him the
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  Speaker 1: hardworking American. Yet let thousands of illegals come here and
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  Speaker 1: be here for free. I've been wanting to talk about this,
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  Speaker 1: but I hadn't found the right angle. And now it's here.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's here cause I don't want to say I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting resentful or resentment, but I have to say every
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  Speaker 1: time I have to pay six point fifty for a
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  Speaker 1: train ride, yeah it's half fair or whatever. But I
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  Speaker 1: look at the bigger picture, and the bigger picture is
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  Speaker 1: American's disabilities are getting screwed. A regular Americans who are
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  Speaker 1: able bodies are getting screwed too. Why because we're not
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  Speaker 1: coming first in this country. We're not you know who
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  Speaker 1: is those crossing the border illegally and now we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: give amnesty. It's all connected in my view. It is
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  Speaker 1: because the negligence of the American people, exemplified by this
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  Speaker 1: today and exemplified every day, is a reason why we
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  Speaker 1: should also vote in twenty twenty four. It's all connected
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  Speaker 1: to me because as an American disabilities, who pays taxes,
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  Speaker 1: who works hard, and now it's the being looped in
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  Speaker 1: as see I know he's disabled. I'm fed up, I'm
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  Speaker 1: fired up. I've been doing the online radio thing and
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  Speaker 1: the radio thing for fifty fteen years as of October fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty oh nine, and in my fifteen years, I've never
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  Speaker 1: been looped in like this. But you know what, it's
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  Speaker 1: a blessing because now I get to really open the
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  Speaker 1: forum on this. You've opened this can of worms LRR.
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  Speaker 1: You've hired someone that clearly thinks someone with disability should
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  Speaker 1: be in a power chair or uncretchable one leg, when
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  Speaker 1: really we all could have some kind of disability seen
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  Speaker 1: or unseen. And then, to further the point, it's another
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  Speaker 1: reason why I'm getting fed up with having to pay
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  Speaker 1: six fifty because they typically just come right over and
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  Speaker 1: say where's your ticket? Or they hover over you. Ken,
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  Speaker 1: you have your collectors ease up on us a little
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  Speaker 1: little bit, especially when I know that thousands of illegals
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  Speaker 1: are running rampant in this country taking up all our benefits.
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  Speaker 1: Can you ease up on people with disabilities and specifically
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  Speaker 1: Americans who just want to get to him from work.
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  Speaker 1: This feels like a watershed moment, and you might think, well, Alex,
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  Speaker 1: this is you know, it's just an experience. No, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just an experience. I was looped into this, and
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  Speaker 1: I have a platform to speak about it. So if
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  Speaker 1: you don't like that I'm bringing in the illegals aspect
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  Speaker 1: of this and the fact that we are paying way
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  Speaker 1: too much considering that everybody else getting free crap, then
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Tune off then tune off then, but maybe
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  Speaker 1: you should join the fight as well and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: guess what l I R tag them today? Why did
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  Speaker 1: you loop in one leg? Up? Alex to this passenger
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  Speaker 1: with disabilities who sas invisible disability, let's blast the LR
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  Speaker 1: handle and call for this collector's absolute disregard for bid
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  Speaker 1: with disabilities that are invisible disabilities? Can we do that?
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  Speaker 1: Can we do that? I'm Alex Scarrett. We will be
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  Speaker 1: going to the Aggies game later today. So if you
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  Speaker 1: see someone rollerblading on one leg and you know Gaby
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  Speaker 1: and her paracher, come on buy swing by and say hello,
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: excited to be at the one oh five game. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's a doubleheader. Why they even rained out yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea, but these moments, and this moment
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  Speaker 1: sticks out like a sore thumb. Can you imagine Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine if you were looked at and said, oh
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  Speaker 1: see he's disabled or she's disabled. It's not right and
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  Speaker 1: it should be corrected immediately. I don't care if you
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  Speaker 1: have to have a day where there are no trains running.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like people in Paris are cutting the train
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  Speaker 1: lines for this reason alone, and so that's where I stand.
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  Speaker 1: On the Alex Garret Podcast Network, l IRR do better
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  Speaker 1: for people disabilities, for people with non disabilities, and don't
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  Speaker 1: ever point to me again and say, oh, see he's disabled,
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  Speaker 1: because that's just not cool, because A I don't identify
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  Speaker 1: as that nine nine percent of the time, and be
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  Speaker 1: so what, you can't use me as a reason to
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  Speaker 1: charge someone three dollars more because they have an unseen disability.
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  Speaker 1: A great Saturday on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network.