Edward Norton
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884 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Edward Norton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Frank said he had the worst instincts about color.
And the funny thing was, I always thought he was eccentric.
He would wear like green pants and a Modris jacket.
And you might have thought it was preppy, but he was like the furthest thing from preppy.
He parked cars and hustled pool to pay for night school, played really serious poker and never took his Navy pay because he won so much money playing poker.
And he was one of those people who had an edgier life, I think, than the life that he became now.
You know, where he became respected.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, he'd go to like a serious meeting and he'd have lures in his hat.
And I think people thought he was sort of being intentionally folksy or homespun.
And it really, really wasn't.
It was genuine.
Yeah, he was really, really funny person.
But he was this incredibly accomplished kind of visionary thinker about cities.
He was on the cover of Time magazine in the 70s or early 80s.
for his ideas about cities, which is wild.
This is an interesting digression.
Who knows if there are more than 10 people interested in this, but we'll go there.
In the 50s, he was on Eisenhower's housing commission, and I am told he was one of the first people to predict
that the interstate highway system, which was being built in the 50s, would encourage low density development outside the cities and that the middle class would sort of leave the cities for what became the suburbs and that this would lead to kind of an economic hollowing out of the cities.
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