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How Others Help Us Have One Leg Up 12-6-23 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Well, yesterday, December fifth, twenty
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  twenty three was one of the most divine made days I think I've had in
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  a while. I hadn't felt that as amazing like that since I actually proposed
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  to Gabby in front of my mom. That's how powerful yesterday was. Can
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  I tell you why well as you know or you listen to AM nine seventy
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  the answer. I've been covering the Joe Piscobo Show as a producer for Joe
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  Sibilia, who is recovering from some health stuff. And I think Joe,
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  Joe and Al and Jerry Crowley and Sambollino for letting me just be with the
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  guys in the morning and help them produces from what I can the morning show
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  with a lot of help from Joe Sabilia as well. Thank you, Joe.
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  But to get there from Port Washington, I have two hot choices.
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  Either I take a three forty two in the morning train from Port Wash itself,
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  or I take a four to twenty train from Mineola into the city in
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  the morning. Or I can uber but uber we know and lift as we
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  know can be fifty to sixty dollars per ride into the city in the morning
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  even and I'm not about that. I want to do as much as I
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  can to cost cut in the middle of this inflationary period, you know.
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  So yesterday I tried to get a car for Port Washington that didn't work.
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  The car in the early morning takes about ten to fifteen even twenty minutes to
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  arrive because they picked like the farthest driver. But this driver yesterday was special.
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  You know why, this yesterday was able to get me from Port Washington
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  to Mineola twenty five minute difference with the train coming at four twenty three there
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  for twenty three And how I believe God was in the works with that,
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  because every green light possible was lit for our ride over. There very few
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  stops of the red light. And it really moved me because how often do
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  you get a car ride or any kind of ride with every green light.
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  That's almost a divine miracle when it happens, isn't it. So then that
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  happened. But here's the other story about yesterday morning's travel into the city.
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  I did leave the back car door open because I had a run, literally
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  run and roll to the train which had just closed up. But someone had
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  seeing me on the platform obviously and opened the door for me one of the
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  conductors. And that's when I knew this was a godly trip. On December
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  fifth, twenty twenty three, when someone saw me on the platform just saying
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  there the doors were closed. To reopen like that felt like a miracle because,
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  as I said on my Facebook post, I said this, which got
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  a lot of traction. By the way, instinct told me to book the
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  car to Mineola's for twenty three Gabriella got me up early, and would you
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  believe it, the lift driver skillfully hit every green light and made every turn
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  possible. Instead of being on a platform wondering to do next, I was
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  on the train into the city. The conductor must have seen me because he
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  reopened the doors at Mineola. God exists and good people exist. And to
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  those that made yesterday's trip into the city possible by just opening your eyes and
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  being skillful in what you do, thank you. That meant the world,
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  I think, even beyond what you know, because sometimes when you're on the
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  platform you don't feel seen. Often sometimes I find myself literally having to stop
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  the cart of the train doors or subway doors with my crutch just to get
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  on but yesterday was a moment of being seen, and I think God created
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  that moment, and I thank God for that. But then the whole day
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  you just felt very very good. I mean, we ended up getting a
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  bunch of bagels and croissants and everything from the holiday breakfast at our work building,
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  all because I asked, can I think a few upstairs? They gave
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  me a whole tray for the office. That was blessing number number two.
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  Then the third thing was I stopped by to see my mom and my stepdad
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  Vic. You know, I live in Port wash so I go home to
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  Queen's every now and then to see them and pick up some things that might
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  still be the house. And I not only saw him, but we got
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  to talk to a family friend who was going through a loss. And so
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  to be there in that moment when our family friend called us to talk to
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  us, that also felt like a really divine intervention, and divine, divinely
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  created a moment. And so I believe every day God exists, but I
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  think there are certain days that he just shows that you for sure he does.
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  And yesterday, December fifth, twenty twenty three, was certainly a day.
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  Thanks be to God and then I got to hold Gaby tight on the
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  way home, you know, and when I got home last night, and
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  it really felt like just a really powerful day spiritually, emotionally and physically.
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  When you make the trains have a lift driver that makes every light, how
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  often does that happen, especially at three or four in the morning. So
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  thanks be to God, Thanks be to those that are skillfully working to get
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  us safely to and from. And as I said before, if you have
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  issues with the way, if the trains will managed, or even lift or
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  uber are managed, don't take it out on the drivers unless they're really awful.
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  Take them out on management, right, the people at the top.
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  Don't take it out on that innocent ticket collector that just wants to do their
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  job for you, to get you back, to get you safe and to
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  make sure you pay your fare. But the all the main goal of the
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  trains is obviously to get you to and from and those conductors are so skilled
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  and they do it magnificillenion, whoever saw me on the platform, thank you
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  yesterday morning, Thank you, and thanks be to God. Now I don't
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  often do this, but I'm kind of one new experiment here. I'm gonna
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  drop my Venmo link and if you want to feel compelled to donate just a
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  little bit. I'm not asking for a lot, but whatever, because you
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  like the programming of the Alex Garrett podcast Network, let me know. I'm
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  gonna drop the link right now in the description below, and it's gonna be
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  a test to see if anybody actually donates, and if you do, I
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  will say thank you so much. But the truth is, the truth is
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  I'm only getting about ten bucks a month from this podcast, and that's a
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  little love that I like. The listeners are there, but something feels like
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  I gotta try something else, try something new. I only asking for donations
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  is the worst thing in the world. And if I put up a page
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  of precription, I would never do that though, but I would put up
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  a link to say, hey, if you like the work, feel free
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  to donate just because speakers. Monetization is great, but we are not at
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  on the and god Bles issue this Christmas season,