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Men in Blazers 07/01/21: WGFOP: The Bald

Men In Blazers

Men In Blazers

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football, Soccer, Mib

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Rog takes listener questions on WGFOP: The Bald. On today's show, Euro quarterfinal preview. Does the passion of a national anthem impact performance, can Ukraine upset England, and more. Plus, Rog reflects on the release of his book. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wondry's American History Tellers. In our latest series, we tell the stories of four presidential assassins and their targets.

0:17.0

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0:26.0

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0:36.0

It's unbelievable!

0:42.0

It's Roch. It's Thursday. No football. Oh, where have you gone, you're a rose. Nature abores a vacuum. Nature could be said to a bore me too, but here I am.

0:55.0

With a special pre-Euro 2020 quarterfinal edition of WGFOP The Bald celebrating, well, the tournament that's given us a whole life.

1:08.0

Sure, more but work from him is Jack Greenley's flagging in there and now Harry Kane breaks his European dog and England, and in Dredland.

1:21.0

You've no doubt heard quite a lot of me over the past couple of days with the release of my book. There's been a lot of Roch.

1:38.0

And thanks to the magical girl King, possibly more Roch than you ever wanted to know.

1:44.0

Roger Bennett joins us now. And there are tears in your eyes if I'm not mistaken. Quite a lot to watch that.

1:52.0

It's like the first half of scoffey so the last evening. It's your life. That's a lot. It's a lot. It's so great. I'm so grateful for all the big deal.

2:02.0

It's so beautiful. It's so beautiful. Listen, you know, something that's not so beautiful. You're right on page 56. You were a late bloomer with a tiny child penis that looked like a ball spigot.

2:12.0

Something's don't change. That seems like that. That seems like that.

2:16.0

In all sincerity, I am so blown away by your response to my book, reborn in the USA going out into the world.

2:28.0

You know, this book, personally, was the thing that saved me during lockdown last March, April, May. The act of writing, the discipline, the structure that it gave me as sports, really my world stopped.

2:46.0

And also the mechanism, the process, the safe haven of retreating into the past, reliving times of wonder when the present, the reality of New York City, crippled by the pandemic, felt overwhelmingly full of chaos and challenge and just fear, the unknown.

3:06.0

So now, where we are now, to see your photos for a tweet, email, InstaStory by the thousand holding up the cover of the book in your homes, in your bookstores.

3:20.0

I mean, some of you have posed in front of important football bars. We got one this morning in front of Wild Buffalo, Indie Bookstores, City, Scopes across the nation, even a Schmidt House of Sausage in mighty Columbus, one of my top three houses of sausage in the world.

3:40.0

And I've got to say, it all feels unbelievably bloody exhilarating ahead of July 4th to connect to the world like this, to be able to put out so much love and a hope, a hope, a sense of optimism and belief in the good of people, which I truly feel and have it refracted back.

4:02.0

It's honestly, God, it's humbling. It's the honour of a lifetime. I want to thank the thousands of you who have brought this book. My Lord, the ones of you who are in a relationship and so purchased two copies because you couldn't agree on who would read it first. That feels, that feels amazing.

4:20.0

So please, please keep spreading the word, keep sharing the news hits. One big request. And I know this sounds crazy, but believe me, this makes a world of difference.

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