Roman Mars

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157 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Jul

Roman Mars’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The world has bent to accommodate English speakers all around the world and English desires, like American desires. matched

And I think everyone's acting rationally in some ways. matched

That's a good choice to make for tourism and for all kinds of reasons. matched

But I imagine having that sort of cultural hegemony rolling over you at all times. matched

It has its miseries. matched

A lot of stuff gets developed in terms of design haphazardly. matched

And when it came to stop signs and most traffic signals and stuff like this, every location had their own traffic signals. matched

The octagonal stop sign was invented by a Detroit police officer. matched

There used to be a yellow square was a stop sign. matched

He didn't feel like that was like different enough from other signs. matched

So we clipped the corners off and made an octagonal sign. matched

Everyone recognized that that's a good idea. matched

But it was a yellow octagonal sign. matched

And we put that down as one of these standards that we conform to. matched

And it was spread across the world. matched

At a certain point, chemists came up with a nice reflective red color. matched

And they just thought, you know what? matched

Red would be better. matched

Red would be a better color as a stop sign because it would match traffic lights. matched

And all of a sudden, this became a better standard. matched

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