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  @TonyAlmeida-qk3uu6 күн бұрын

  This is amazing, I brought your book about 6 years ago at a "Thrift shop" in Stoughton Ma. And it brought back so many memories of me hanging out in the "Combat Zone" in the early and mid seventies when I was a teenager hanging out with friends doing things I shouldn't have been doing but the "Zone" was so exciting and fun it was a "must stop" for alot of us teenagers who grew up in the City of Boston!!! It was our "Times Square" no doubt!!! (great book brother)

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  @michaelbaldwin5495Ай бұрын

  Shined shoes 👞 there in late 1960’s

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  @eddiereece5050Ай бұрын

  Ben Zander is the PAUL BEAR BRYANT of the musical world. Massive Respect for his teaching of music, and this profound lessons for life included within the former.

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  @thetrainguy1Ай бұрын

  Good Stuff 👌🏾 Build more trains. Let's Go!!

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  @unPlanned_podcast6 күн бұрын

  Thanks. Yeah, more trains!

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  @1aikane2 ай бұрын

  A grand Federal home.

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  @unPlanned_podcast6 күн бұрын

  Indeed. Beautiful location. Worth the visit for sure.

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  @stephenmadison34013 ай бұрын

  Chris was born in Vienna Austria; just FYI.

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 ай бұрын

  Thank you for the comment. Appreciated.

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  @kayausiu80903 ай бұрын

  ' what deep understanding of music and humanity !

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  @user-zy9dc9ss6n3 ай бұрын

  Leonard Nimoy did not fly out to California, he took a train, from what he had said it took him 3 days. He was 18 or 19 at the time. If you're going to include Leonard (which you should, nobody would know about the West End, except Bostonians, without him.) in your talk you really need to study Leonard's history more. Contact his son, Adam or daughter, Julie, I'm sure they would give you the correct information on Leonard's life in the West End. You could also listen to his interviews; he talks about the West End in a lot of his interviews. They weren't trying to settle on a Vulcan Salute, Leonard suggested it. Get on You Tube and listen to his interview titled "Leonard Nimoy On Growing Up in The West End, Keeping..." There are more interviews similar to that if you surf it. LLAP

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 ай бұрын

  Thanks for the comments. Helpful info and appreciated.

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  @user-dr6yh9eg6k4 ай бұрын

  Love this guy.

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  @user-uo7fw5bo1o4 ай бұрын

  At least one tenement is left! It deserves landmark status so that no one would ever dare tear it down. In fact, it could be surrounded by a modern apartment house of the same scale and mass as its extinct neighbors. 😢 It's a beautiful little building now, but back when I still lived in Boston I would ride the Green Line out to Lechmere and the trolley would slowly screech its way past what were then the last three tenements and I didn't think much of them.

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 ай бұрын

  I know the one you're talking about. Quite a little landmark to a time gone by. That whole area has changed significantly over the past few decades.

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  @Robberbarron274 ай бұрын

  first

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  @IanSLX5 ай бұрын

  It’s a great interview and great work! Benjamin is such an inspiration 😊

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 ай бұрын

  Glad you enjoyed it!

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  @Railoffroader25 ай бұрын

  Still not as nice as Grand Central Terminal.

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  @unPlanned_podcast5 ай бұрын

  Yeah, that's a tough one. I know what you mean, but as a retrofit, Moynihan Train Hall is pretty darn good. But there's nothing like that early 20th century architectural grandeur. Oh for the old Penn Station.

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  @Railoffroader25 ай бұрын

  @@unPlanned_podcast Moynihan is really nicely done, it’s like a modern mini GCT. 😁

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  @khusheeagnihotri21776 ай бұрын

  Just found your channel via the Design is Everywhere: Urban Planning podcast episode. Great podcast and very excited to dive into your content as I love Urban Planning, but there isn’t as much thorough content as yours online!

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  @unPlanned_podcast6 ай бұрын

  Awesome! Thank you!

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  @michaelfitzgerald4056 ай бұрын

  Sam, good to talk with you. Thanks for asking about those two stories, in particular.

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  @unPlanned_podcast6 ай бұрын

  It was great having you on and I really appreciate you taking to the time to tell us about Harvard Public Health, and also to share those stories about murals in Philadelphia and about structural racism as it's seen in Milwaukee. Great reporting. Really interesting.

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  @pcatful6 ай бұрын

  Uneven mics is a drag. Sound test: 15 sec. Like for further insight into C.A. Look at the book "Patterns of Home" how this is carried forward in residential design.

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  @unPlanned_podcast6 ай бұрын

  Thank you. I appreciate the feedback.

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  @allwayseventsphotoboothgib60966 ай бұрын

  Hey guys, nice channel. is there any chance I could get in contact with you? email or chat? thanks

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  @nevertheless1236 ай бұрын

  Thanks for this but wish the sound recording was more professional.

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  @unPlanned_podcast6 ай бұрын

  Thank you for the comment. I continue to work on my audio production quality. Someone once told me there is a reason it's called Audio-Visual. It's because audio is the more important part. I reinterviewed Benjamin Zander here, with better sound: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fq1rvJORYLrcfcY.html

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  @leonardmsl687 ай бұрын

  That is pretty sad. They're cleaning the bike lane. But the h*** with the people that are walk in the snowy sidewalk.

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  @unPlanned_podcast7 ай бұрын

  You make a reasonable point! And all that unshoveled snow has turned to ice now.

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  @danastolzgen31858 ай бұрын

  Thank you for this interview. I hope very much that designers, architects and planners will one day actually work with Christopher Alexanders ideas. It would make the world more beautiful.

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  @unPlanned_podcast7 ай бұрын

  Thank you. Yes, Alexander is beguiling and compelling at the same time.

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  @darkhorse74608 ай бұрын

  Pink Chicken hypothesis is probably falsifiable! I'm just here for the holograms, Thank you.

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  @unPlanned_podcast7 ай бұрын

  Fair enough. Holograms are pretty cool too.

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  @backbay22428 ай бұрын

  I recall the murder of a Harvard football player named Andy Puopolo in the CZ was a major major news story in the 70s. I think this case plated a hand in tge demise of the CZ.

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  @unPlanned_podcast7 ай бұрын

  Yes, the Puopolo case is a very important case from back then. I want to revisit the CZ in some future episode to look at all the issues.

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  @gregbowden1552Ай бұрын

  I'm from the south shore mass. and I will never forget that name.

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  @stephenlan5450Ай бұрын

  I’m 66 now, and that happened when I was in HS. A prostitute grabbed his buddy’s wallet, he chased her down and a pimp stabbed him. Killing him.

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  @karlschneider9479Ай бұрын

  That was the beginning of the end of the Combat Zone.

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  @gregbowden1552Ай бұрын

  @karlschneider9479 Me and my buddies Chinese restaurant bar hopping on Christmas night ended up at one of the strip joints in the zone. I'm sure my parents would have been proud.

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  @karaDee23638 ай бұрын

  It should be noted that, if it wasn't for Leonard Nimoy, this Museum wouldn't exist today

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  @unPlanned_podcast8 ай бұрын

  Thanks for that information.

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  @jkgou19 ай бұрын

  Have a wonderful holiday Thank you very much for great interview

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  @unPlanned_podcast8 ай бұрын

  Thank you. I hope you have a happy holidays.

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  @JudgeFredd9 ай бұрын

  Great instructive interview

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  @unPlanned_podcast9 ай бұрын

  Thank you for that comment.

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  @raghavendras40979 ай бұрын

  253 patterns

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  @unPlanned_podcast7 ай бұрын

  Thank you for that.

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  @DougGrinbergs11 ай бұрын

  Inconsistent audio levels between speakers ☹️

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  @unPlanned_podcast10 ай бұрын

  Thanks for these comments and sorry the audio isn’t better.

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  @sagittarius_a_starr11 ай бұрын

  When I moved to Boston in 2014, everyone said how much better the city had become since the 70's... Now, in 2023, it certainly feels like we're sliding towards more violent crime, homelessness and drug addiction--even though the stats I checked seemed to indicate a drop in violent crime between the Pandemic and now. idk if we really are, or we're just seeing it more. The numbers I read on crime and the rates were reported per 100,000 residents, which can still allow for a gross increase in crime, even if the normal person is less likely to be a victim: perhaps, it's a dilution of more violent criminals, in a larger pool of people. The perception of an increase in violent crime is likely the media (mainstream and social). If there are 100 murders a day, each murder is less news and less ratings than one before. Whereas, if you only have 10 murders a year, each one is a big story... Eg: These days there are two school shootings a week (on average), and 250 gun-deaths in the US everyday... but that's not a gripping--it's depressing, people tune-in to gripping events, people turn-off depressing events... myvintagemap.com/is-boston-safe/#:~:text=Violent%20crime%20in%20Boston,-According%20to%20Neighborhood&text=Violent%20crimes%20include%20rape%2C%20sexual,a%20total%20of%2041%20murders). I was homeless in Boston for a few short spells: I was living on Long Island when the bridge closed--I was evacuated rapidly... I stayed briefly in Woods Mullen, a short stint in the Pine Street Inn, almost a year in the Gavin House, some times in a few other halfway houses, and sober houses which admitted the indigent... The first job I got (while trying to rebuild my life) I walked about an hour from Dorchester/Roxbury to the Whole Foods at Ink Block in the South End--walking through Mass & Cass everyday, at 5:00am and 4:00pm; it was MUCH smaller, and very different. It was a spill-over of people who couldn't find beds at shelters (Mass & Cass is proximal to a women's shelter, two homeless shelters, BMC hospital... i'm not sure if the methadone clinics are still there...). In bad times, I would walk a lot of the more dangerous places, late--well into the early morning. The only time I was the victim of violence, was when a woman--an older woman--at a bus stop asked me for a cigarette, and I said I didn't have any. As I walked by, she kicked me in the behind, mumbling "Stupid ass, white boy..." It was pretty funny. I hope they do re-open Long Island. The Mayor of Quincy, Koch, is opposed to re-building the bridge, because he doesn't want "dangerous elements" passing through his precious Quincy neighborhoods--even when that element is in a shuttle that transports the homeless directly from the Woods Mullen boarding point, to the island, with no stops... like they did for years before. Mayor Koch's real hypocrisy is that he used his political connections to get his heroin-addicted nephew into the Gavin House for addiction treatment, and now, he wants to deny addicts access to treatment... The Gavin House is a "prestigious" halfway house in South Boston, with a storied history of "rehabilitating" the addicted. Former Boston Mayor, and former Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh, is an "alumnus" of the Gavin House; he spoke at it's yearly anniversary dinner when I was there.... How did I get into a place normally reserved for unions, politicians and their families? 2 reasons: (1) I had a political connection, my uncle is a former State Representative, & currently on several state councils, so I was on the wait-list to get in... (2) I was waiting in a transitional treatment "holding," on Long Island when the island closed, and the Gavin House was forced to accept an overload of addicts, and to take in people early--people they wouldn't necessarily accept otherwise. I'm rambling... Idk what the Red Light district was like... I'm sure it wasn't Amsterdam.

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  @iaaljabary224711 ай бұрын

  Microphone is too close to your mouth. Hard to tune in

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  @unPlanned_podcast10 ай бұрын

  Thanks for these comments. Audio is always challenging and I appreciate the feedback.

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  @JudgeFredd9 ай бұрын

  Very frankly who cares if you have ADHD ?

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  @gideonengelhard4754 Жыл бұрын

  Was he in a group called the Cufflinks?

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  @unPlanned_podcast10 ай бұрын

  I don’t honestly know. I don’t think so. According to Wikipedia, the Cufflinks were around in the late 1950s, no? Rick is not that old. But long story short, I’ll ask him.

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  @unPlanned_podcast10 ай бұрын

  Here is Rick’s answer: “I’m still playing bass. But I’m not the Rich Dimino that was in the Cufflinks. “

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  @raymondhummel5211 Жыл бұрын

  There's so much to say about Maestro Zander that I don't know where to begin! He represents so many things! Such a magnificent motivator. I like the fact that he plays the cello too! Such a wonderful sounding instrument. One comment I read from one of his videos mentioned that he should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and I definitely agree with this person. He is so much more than a musician, conductor etc. In my eyes, he loves people and wants to see them succeed in life The idea of shiny eyes, to see if people are responding to you is so great. The idea that the conductor never makes a sound, that the power of sound comes from the orchestra he is directing, so it is very important that he helps them to create those wonderful sounds!

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  @unPlanned_podcast Жыл бұрын

  Beautifully said. Nobel Peace Prize, now that's something!

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  @robertjones2221 Жыл бұрын

  @@unPlanned_podcast i want youi need you so bad d

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  @cliffordthompson9458 Жыл бұрын

  Great work here, will be wonderful for walking on the plaza

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  @unPlanned_podcast Жыл бұрын

  Yes, that was a very exciting bit of news to hear that the pedestrian zone was expanding in Downtown Crossing. Looking forward to that.

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  @wisdomgametv4594 Жыл бұрын

  May 4-23 i'm about two thirds through A Timeless Way of Building and now my house and yard are starting to unify and come alive. The meaning of life is to be surrounded by Nature and to understand emergence in Spirit through being in beauty.

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  @unPlanned_podcast Жыл бұрын

  Yes, that's a very nice way of putting it. Well said.

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  @tylerwhitney Жыл бұрын

  Love you Benjamin Zander! You're a big inspiration to me! ❤

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  @unPlanned_podcast Жыл бұрын

  Thank you for your comment.

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  @MrLambdaMan Жыл бұрын

  Great video

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  @unPlanned_podcast Жыл бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @johncrwarner Жыл бұрын

  I came here via searching for "Christopher Alexander" following reference to him in a software book and it was illuminating - thank you.

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  @unPlanned_podcast Жыл бұрын

  John, thank you for your comment. I'm glad you found the video and I'm glad you found it illuminating. He was a fascinating guy from many different angles.

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  @edisonwang5647 Жыл бұрын

  Amazing tour! Thank you!

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  @unPlanned_podcast Жыл бұрын

  Thanks Edison. Feel free to share with your friends. It was amazing to have the director of the museum John Durant walk us around. Fascinating place, and what a tour guide!

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  @DraperLab Жыл бұрын

  This is a great recap. Draper is lucky to be a part of the Innovation trail. We look forward to the future and tackling even more "impossible" challenges!

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  @unPlanned_podcast Жыл бұрын

  Thank you Draper!

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  @EpicThe112 Жыл бұрын

  One thing I see with the greenline extension it is cleaner than a New York City Subway station and cheaper basically you are saving $2.10 for a group of 6 $14.40 $2.40 base fare vs $16.50 NYC Subway base fare $2.75.

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  @unPlanned_podcast Жыл бұрын

  As you know, it's been years, which really means decades, to get this public infrastructure transporation project completed ... and it's not complete yet. But its overall impact on ridership and urban redevelopment can already be seen in full swing in Somerville's Union Square, which is transforming before out eyes. Thanks for your comment.

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  @34bg132 жыл бұрын

  Keep up the good work - woo woo

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 жыл бұрын

  Thank you, and yes, baseball in Worcester is worth a "woo woo," for sure!

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  @ingerhayman4582 жыл бұрын

  Christofer Alexanders thoughts on architecture are so overwhelming and at the same time so easy to understand if you make the effort . Thankyou for this video that I’m watching from Sweden, aug 2022 , where beauty is drowned in concrete and glass, all architects imitatating each other.

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 жыл бұрын

  Thank you for that comment. Yes, Alexander is beguiling. So simple and yet so deep. Brent did a wonderful job of helping us understand him better.

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  @lizvalente58172 жыл бұрын

  thank you, thank you, reading Alexander has been comforting for me

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  @unPlanned_podcast Жыл бұрын

  Yes, Christopher Alexander is strange that way. He says things that are at the same time very "obvious" but also profoundly insightful.

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  @Mohsenyazdani2 жыл бұрын

  Thank you for this awesome conversation and for talking about a great man.

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 жыл бұрын

  Thank you for that nice comment!

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  @joegaito7022 жыл бұрын

  Buy them a ice tea or something they deserve alot of credit your service is deeply appreciated thanks take care. Joe

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 жыл бұрын

  Agreed! 100%!

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  @paulrefici58082 жыл бұрын

  are you going to teach like the videos i see on the utube hope you continue to teach your students like you did on the utube

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 жыл бұрын

  Yes, he should teach. He's a very perceptive and thoughtful man.

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  @peterfireflylund2 жыл бұрын

  Could you plan a better microphone next time?

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 жыл бұрын

  Thanks for your comment. I am always trying to improve the quality of the videos, which absolutely includes good audio. I appreciate the feedback.

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  @wendelljoseph78552 жыл бұрын

  This is a great recap, Sam. Thanks for putting in the time to pull this together!!👏🏾

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 жыл бұрын

  Thank you Wendell! I really appreciate it.

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  @improperbostonian67222 жыл бұрын

  Years ago we got a morning Boston Record American news paper delivery and then one in the evening.

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 жыл бұрын

  Yes, it's hard to remember that there used to be "an evening paper," to catch us up on the news of the day. Now we just get a constant feed of news on our devices, some of it newsworthy, a lot of it not, but we don't get the pleasure of sitting down with a cup of coffee and an actual paper newspaper and taking a brief pause from our daily grind. Stunning to think that a person can no longer buy a newspaper in Harvard Square anymore.

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  @improperbostonian67222 жыл бұрын

  Need I say a smoke with a evening cup of coffee and the Newspaper.

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  @rbond24775 ай бұрын

  They have newspapers now at C'est Si Bon the Lebanese Convenience Store.

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  @trashmonster262 жыл бұрын

  Very insightful! As far as collecting trash goes, Cambridge is one of the toughest places in America to do it. For all the reasons you showed, from the density of the trash, narrow streets, big barrels, it is back-breaking work. Thanks for sharing!

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 жыл бұрын

  This was a fun video to make, and unPlanned really enjoyed learning about and highlighting the essential workers who don't get a lot of credit for the crucial and back-breaking work they do every single day. Thanks for the comment, trashmonster26.

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  @PeterPiperNYC2 жыл бұрын

  Thanks for this most interesting video.

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  @unPlanned_podcast2 жыл бұрын

  Thanks!