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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Wow.
Capone...
Capone and Torrio in Chicago, they did live up to the hype for a while.
But the problem is that trope of the rain-slick Chicago streets with the Model T careening around the corner, machine gun blasting, actually clears the territory for us from a much more interesting... We've got that in the film.
It's in there, and it's fun, and it's exciting.
But the social transformations, the religious dimension, the century before of how it actually happened.
I mean, these cynical right-wing politicians who allied themselves with progressives who wanted to balance.
There was no income tax.
And the beer and liquor industries were going, there's no problem.
The government gets more than half of its revenues from our industry.
That's never going to happen.
So they go in and they say, yes, we agree in the redistribution of wealth.
Let's pass an income tax.
So they pass an income tax, and uh-oh, they don't need the tax money from the brewers and the distillers anymore.
Then World War I comes along, and who's the enemy?
The German Hun.
Who makes beer in America?
The Germans.
So suddenly, you know, they're saying, the Anti-Saloon League is saying, but the biggest enemies are Blatts and Anheuser and Schlitz and Miller.
Because you need a saloon to meet at.
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