
Simone Vitale
Senior Engineering Manager at Amazon and Italian-born immigrant who left Sicily at 25 to build a career and family in America.
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Sep 7, 2026
#214 - Choosing America: A Life Built on the American Dream
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3:43MitchHOST
Why America? Yeah.

Simone VitaleGUEST
So it's interesting, and I will not go into any history that I haven't lived myself or neither my parents.

Simone VitaleGUEST
But, you know, after the Second World War, with the American helping us to get away from, you know, the tyranny that we had with the fascists and so forth, Italy became... kind of an American loving countries.

Simone VitaleGUEST
They've always seen the Americans are the people that came and liberated not just Italy, but the entire Europe by something that wasn't very much culturally fitting into that part of the world, if you know what I mean.

Simone VitaleGUEST
And so there is a sentiment of loving American people above all, of course, presidents and politicians and trying to come and go.
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24:58MitchHOST
Well, I mean, because you talk about pursuit, but is there other ways that you think potentially the American, you know, Americans get it wrong when they say the American dream is dead? I, for one, don't believe the American dream is dead, but many do.