So, Hey everybody Mike here.

Mike here.

Welcome to the Vox Podcast.

So glad you are tuning in.

And we've scored just an absolute coup

to have joining with us via Skype from the great state of Florida.

My new friend David Bennett, he has just written a book called A War of Loves that I've been tracking on Twitter for a while it comes out it comes

out tomorrow by the time a lot of you will listen to this and I want to encourage you to check it out. I've read it and took a bunch of notes and have a lot of questions and so David welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us.

Thank you so much for having me, Mike.

It's a pleasure to be with you.

Now, have you found the following to be true

that having an accent when you're speaking to an American audience

gives you credibility regardless. I mean do you do you have you have you seen that

yet because I think it's very true?

Well, I actually think it's quite funny, Mike, you ask that because

there's always this sense when you're doing work in the US, especially with

your different organizations, oh, you're not American, like the American

audience won't be interested in you.

And I just think that's just not true.

I have had many compliments about my strange blend of an Australian

British accent but I have an American R I don't know how that happened you know

how do you get an American R it's just

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