Nicolas Cage
speaker
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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It's been, I feel like I got the best job in the country.
It educates all my parts.
I meet lots of very interesting people.
I travel around the country.
And you engage these things.
You become not an expert, but you just dive down deep for a couple years.
But then you have to spend 40 years.
You can leave it alone.
And, you know, my first film for PBS was on the Brooklyn Bridge.
You know, I can talk to you for an hour about that.
What's cool about that?
And the next film was on the Shakers.
I could talk to you for an hour about what's important about the Shakers, but I've also done 20 other films since then, Civil War and baseball and jazz, and I have biographies on Mark Twain and Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis and Clark and Jack Johnson and the war stuff.
Yeah, he could.
His name was John Roebling.
He was a German immigrant, the favorite student of Hegel, apparently.
He came, he moved to western Pennsylvania, and he saw that he could make a fortune doing wire rope instead of hemp rope because he watched these barges trying to go up over the Alleghenies break and crash and kill people.
So he moved back to Trenton, started this wire company.
He designs the Brooklyn Bridge.
He's out on a ferry and this boat comes in, I mean out on a dock and a ferry comes in and crushes his foot.
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