Nicolas Cage
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1,245 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jun
Nicolas Cage’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it may just be counterintuitive.
But look, the point about the steroids is not trying to legitimize that we should all be taking them and maybe the next generation of baseball players should be seven feet tall and three feet wide and whatever it is.
But that what's, you know, the players and the players association made this terrible decision to permit some to not test and therefore permit some people to advance because they did take it and others perhaps to fall back because they didn't want to ruin their bodies.
And that's kind of a Faustian bargain they made.
He's the typhoid Mary of it, and he made it happen, and that's what happened.
We're also in an age, we sort of isolate the baseball players and see them in a vacuum and permit our moralization to take place.
But in fact, these guys are in the same culture in which we advertise, you know, Levitra and Viagra on daytime TV.
We think that we can take a pill to make ourselves better in the bedroom.
We can give our kids pills so they'll be better at school.
And in the film, in the 10th inning, Chris Rock looks at me and says, if they made a pill that would have you be paid like Steven Spielberg, you'd take it.
You would.
You know, and that's the dilemma that those middle infielders were facing.
It's not just the big stars.
It's the guy who says, man, if I do this, I might get that five-year contract that will put me through until I'm 40.
My family will be set.
And, you know, I'll be okay.
Otherwise, if I don't do it, I might fall back to the AAA and I'm making nothing and I've got to, you know.
Duh.
And when you say what's the difference between a 275 hitter and a 300 hitter, it's just a couple of bloop singles a month.
Right.
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