Robert Siegel
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539 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Robert Siegel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think those those three catastrophes, uh nine eleven, the Great Recession, and uh the COVID uh pandemic, uh d went a long way toward undermining any confidence uh in in in American life and the sense that uh as as you say, that the world for for kids who grew up at that time isn't this warm, comfortable place.
I'm I'm reminded of
of being about five or six years old and learning in Sunday school, this is Jewish Sunday school, uh about the holiday of Purim and that there had been Haman, an evil guy who wanted to kill all the Jews.
And the principal told us actually there was a man who wanted to kill all the Jews, uh his he was Adolf Hitler.
And uh when I asked my mother about that, I don't know, I was a little I don't remember being terribly shaken, but um I never h heard this, uh she said, Well, you know, the that's why Daddy's picture
uh shows him in uniform.
He was in the he was in the army.
And the army went, uh he went to Europe and they defeated Hitler.
And and uh you know and I felt very good about that.
I felt they they've made the world good for me.
And and and COVID, I'm a j I was one of the kids who got the experimental SOLK vaccines, you know, the p part of the huge trial.
Uh so I rather than see some new incurable illness.
strike, I saw some terrible uh illness we'd lived with for for for s for years and centuries, uh be defeated by by American science.
So I think the the optimism that baby boomers
had every reason to to to grow up with.
just seems to be gone and and uh to me it's evident in a
Innate.
an attitude that begins with throw the bums out.
That's the first option.
And uh uh and a sourness and a uh discomfort with the way things are.
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