Rob Reid
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1,484 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Rob Reid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so at this point in his life, he's telling a friend, I am almost tired of this life.
I am aimless, homeless and loveless.
He also has no wife and family, which he wanted as well.
And so he winds up meeting a woman.
He's eventually going to marry her.
But I thought it was very interesting how he kind of warns her and is honest with her up front about the fact that he is just unbelievably dedicated to this pursuit, his professional pursuits.
He says Pulitzer was driven by speculative impulses.
Up until now, his life had unfolded as an undirected but singular pursuit of his own goals with no care for others.
And on the evening of their wedding, he's working like mad, and this is what he says to her.
It is an important opportunity.
This is perhaps a fortune, and you ought not to expect me to neglect it.
I must have business to occupy my mind and heart.
She realized her husband's attention would never be hers alone, even on their honeymoon.
His mind would constantly churn with political and business schemes.
And so finally Pulitzer hears about a paper that's going to be auctioned off.
It was called The Dispatch.
It's a struggling evening paper in St.
Louis that is going to be auctioned off at bankruptcy sale.
And then Pulitzer does something very clever.
He hires somebody else to do his bidding.
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