Roger Bennett

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657 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant · Why Sports Matter Even When the Game Doesn’t with Roger Bennett · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think that's like one of the fascinating legacies of all of this. matched

But that it is, you know, the overlap between collective religious experience and at its best, the divinity, the ecstasy of sporting euphoria is very, very interesting. matched

That's why I love it. matched

I mean, that's the greatest part of it, isn't it? matched

That football, and particularly the World Cup, holds... I mean, I wrote a book about it before the World Cup. matched

We are the World Cup. matched

It holds up a mirror. matched

It's a perfect mirror to who we are. matched

It's a reflection of who we are. matched

I believe this deeply. matched

And the World Cup is the perfect expression of this, that when two teams take the field... matched

And I think this is why it caught on in America in the way it did. matched

I'm a huge American sports fan. matched

But you know, when the 49ers play the LA, it's a great game of football and it's a great matchup and there is history within the game. matched

But the political reality, when two teams take the field in World Cup play, their team's histories, their team's cultures, their team's politics, take the field alongside them. matched

And it's that depth, that multitude that gives it its human beauty. matched

And I've always loved that. matched

I've always loved that about the sport. matched

I've always thought it was beautiful, to be honest. matched

the you know with Walt Whitman it contains multitudes football World Cup football contains multitudes and the reality is as the world gets darker you know South Africa 2010 I think was it for me just a beauty I couldn't believe it was that I watched the first game this continent that had never hosted a World Cup before you know Mandela late late late Mandela and matched

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