Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
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1,009 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ben Nadeff-Haffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He claims that someday he's going to use these facts to prove that all the myths of the world are really one myth.
He's obsessed.
He calls it the key to all mythologies.
And he sees it everywhere.
I'm not middle-aged, and I am fairly upbeat, but I fear that last bit is me.
I see the Staten Island secession movement everywhere in our world today.
I've carried my facts about the Staten Island secession movement around with me for quite a while now.
They burn a hole in my pocket.
I go to parties and inevitably I wind up in the corner with the Staten Islander who has suddenly revealed themselves.
They look interested and then mildly concerned as I pull from memory the facts that I have stored in the pigeonholes of a document I have titled Excellent Staten Island Facts.
Did you know the towers of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge are so far apart that they had to take into account the curvature of the earth when they built them?
Did you know that Staten Island claims to have been home to the true and forgotten inventor of the telephone?
Am I Kazapon?
God, I hope not.
I caution myself against seeing my project everywhere.
Don't be the hammer to whom everything looks like a nail.
Don't try to write the key to all mythologies.
And then, I learned something like this.
Wu-Tang Clan, arguably the most important group in hip-hop history, is from Staten Island.
They made their first album, Enter the Wu-Tang, 36 Chambers, entirely during the height of the secession movement.
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