![]() ![]() On the eve of July 4, it seemed the perfect time to discuss the special relationship between the U.S. Back then, we mostly discussed other countries, places like Portugal, the home of Cristiano Ronaldo’s nipples, and Morocco, which Bennett called the sporting equivalent of “second cousins at a bar mitzvah.” Now, Bennett’s written a memoir, Reborn in the USA, detailing his youthful fascination with America in hilarious detail. I first interviewed Bennett back in 2018, when I used his expertise as co-host of the soccer pod Men in Blazers to explain the World Cup. citizenship as a teen, it felt like I had been granted entry into an exclusive, underground club. (They felt a similar way about me, which led two of them into the unfortunate habit of becoming Philadelphia Eagles fans.) When I got my U.K. To me, Britain was a place where the bands were all just slightly cooler, where an anxious mumbler like Hugh Grant could be a sex symbol, where cousins I’d never met lived in exotic towns like Nottingham and Macclesfield. ![]() Meanwhile, I grew up in the sunny Clinton-era suburbs, the son of an American mom and a dad from the U.K. To him, America appeared like a beacon of light from across the sea, and naturally, he moved away the first chance he got. ![]() It is a strange experience to meet your mirror-image self.Īuthor and podcast host Roger Bennett is a child of ’80s Britain - a land of economic decay, industrial unrest, and shocking violence. A scene from Love Actually that has many clever and insightful things to say about the relationship between the U.S. ![]()
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