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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He dies of tetanus because he's hydropathous, which means he only does water cures.
And so he wouldn't treat it.
And his young son, Washington Roebling, who'd gotten his only training as an engineer in the Civil War when he's building military bridges, takes over the greatest construction of the era.
Now, I mean, and I haven't even brought in Boss Tweed and all the shenanigans of bad politics that would make today look kind of clean.
What?
It would probably cost a lot more than it costs.
I mean, I lived on two cents an hour.
That's why I moved from New York to this little village, because I knew I had just taken this vow of anonymity and poverty by becoming a documentary filmmaker for PBS.
focusing on American history.
And then I'm happy that it didn't turn out that way, but I've used the sort of economic Spartan model of working to make it happen.
Yeah, and the other thing is that there's a fire that takes place down in the caissons, these great wooden boxes the size of a city block, where they're down, men are in there excavating the river bottom, and then they're piling rocks on top of it, and then they get to bedrock and they fill this thing, this caisson, with cement.
And that's what the tower is going to be on.
But they have to use compressed air to keep the water out.
So when they come up, they get the bends.
So it's this hellish thing.
And there was a fire in one of them.
And that takes like 18 or 30 seconds in this original documentary I made.
Like today, I know so much more that I could turn that fire into five minutes.
No, no, no, no.
I don't know why.
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