Roger Bennett
speaker
657 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Roger Bennett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the thing, they were not blown away by the skyline.
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They were not blown away by...
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Let's say our museums, I don't think had a great summer.
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Not that many people were blown away by the Art Institute of whatever city.
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They were blown away by the Waffle House, smothered and covered.
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I was in Atlanta by a Waffle House.
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I can tell you the line to get in, you would think the Beatles had reformed.
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They were blown away by buckies, by nuggets, beaver nuggets.
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They just, seeing these buckies was the European mind cannot comprehend in real life form.
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And they fell in love with, I think, the thing that attracted me to America, the sense of warmth and joy and hope.
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When you become American, like I did in 2018, you'll be in a room and I encourage any of your listeners to go to a swearing-in of New Citizens because anyone can attend.
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And I think it's the most energizing way to reconnect to what's really important in this nation.
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I wrote a book about why I moved here.
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It's not impressive.
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It's Tracy Chapman, The Music of Public Enemy.
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John Hughes movies.
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Growing up in Liverpool in a very dark time for that city, America felt like a place of warmth and joy.
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But you meet people who crawl across deserts to get here.
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You'll meet people who flee civil wars, harrowing civil wars to get here.
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And it reconnects you to a sense of positivity and joy and hope.
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