David Rogier
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539 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
David Rogier’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She applies by hand to every medical school in the state of New York, and she gets a no from every single medical school in the state of New York.
She keeps working the factory side by side with her mom, and the next year decides, I'm going to apply again.
I want to be a doctor.
She again applies to every single medical school in the state of New York, again gets a no from every single medical school in the state of New York.
My grandma has some chutzpah and decides to call up the deans of admissions from every school and ask, why am I not getting in?
They all hang up on her except for one who says, I'll be honest, you have three strikes against you.
You are a woman, you're an immigrant, and you're Jewish.
Hangs up the phone.
She keeps working the factory side by side with her mom and next year decides to apply again to every medical school in San York.
She gets into one and becomes a doctor.
And I'm staring at her because in second grade, this is intense stuff to be hearing from just having like been whining about math homework.
And she turns to me and she goes, look, David, the point is, is education is the only thing that someone can't take away from you.
And that put everything to perspective.
Kids are rough.
It was also hard with the adults because I clearly saw I wasn't being called upon because I stutter.
And so not only are you getting teased, but then you feel like you're not getting a fair shot to express yourself.
My mom and dad did something that was really interesting.
They basically said whenever they had friends over for dinner, their expectation was that I would join them for dinner and I would converse with them.
Wow.
It was almost like we aren't going to let
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