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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He also became their financial partner.
And so for the last decade and a half of his life, and at this point in the story, Pulitzer is in his early 40s, he's been pushing himself so hard.
He has insomnia.
He has indigestion.
He has terrible anxiety.
He has depression.
He's also likely a hypochondriac.
But he works so much that he had reached the limits of his physical and psychological endurance.
And then the most devastating thing happens to him.
He is going to go blind at the apex of his power.
He is in his early 40s.
This is devastating because he would insist on reading every single line of copy before it was published.
So he says, when I picked up the newspaper, I was astonished to find that I could hardly see the writing.
Let alone read it.
It was as if a dark curtain had been pulled entirely across his right eye and partially across his left.
Having long suffered from bad eyesight, frequently aggravated by reading late into the night under harsh gaslight, Pulitzer decided that it was simply a temporary affliction.
But by the next day, when it didn't improve, he goes to see the doctor.
When the doctor peered into Pulitzer's eyes, it was clear in an instant what had gone wrong.
The retina in the right eye had become detached, and the left retina was in danger of detaching.
Now, the crazy thing about this story is he's going to spend the last two decades of his life
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