Episode 453: Roger Bennett

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Roger Bennett is a co-host of Men In Blazers and the author of (Re)born in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home. “So much of my work is about human tenacity. That value of perseverance, of driving onwards. I believe life is about darkness and happiness. I believe that nothing is given, you fight for everything. And how you operate in moments of doubt and darkness ultimately define you. So I talk a lot as a professional about tenacity. What I've never linked that to before was my own biography. What did surprise me when I read the book as not being about me, but just read it as a book, was how bloody tenacious I was in fleeting moments of real awfulness.” Show notes: @rogbennett 23:30 "The Men in Blazers Show with John Stones and Alex Caruso" (The Men in Blazers Show • March 2021) 29:30 Men in Blazers 29:30 NHL Now 29:30 Band of Brothers podcast 29:30 HBO's Succession Podcast 33:30 "Pat Maroon" (Men in Blazers on Ice) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.2	Hello, welcome to the Longform Podcast.
0:45.4	I'm Max Sonskin here with my co-hosts, Aaron Lammer and Evan Ratliff, gentlemen, hello.
0:49.8	So, joy to see you both.
0:52.2	Greetings, greetings, Max.
0:53.6	Who do you have on the program, Aaron and I genuinely uninformed about this fact.
0:57.7	The fact is, I talk to Roger Bennett, who is probably best known as the host of Men in
1:03.4	Blazers, which is a soccer podcast.
1:06.1	It's also now a TV show, but he is also a writer and he just wrote a memoir.
1:11.7	It's called Reborn in the USA and Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home.
1:17.4	Roger is from Liverpool and he grew up a young Jewish boy in Liverpool dreaming of America,
1:24.8	wanting to be American, being obsessed with everything American, particularly sports.
1:30.1	And he manifested his dreams.
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