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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As if he were in the office rather than simply the source of telegrams piled thick on their desk.
This is what he says.
Never fear of troubling me with any suggestion concerning either the welfare of the paper or your own.
Nothing looking to the elevation and improvement of our paper is too small to mention.
And then I just love this part because it just describes this drastic change in his fortunes and his life.
When he was younger and he was homeless, he used to get kicked out of this hotel lobby.
He would like sleep outside.
23 years later, he bought the hotel.
It says the former derelict getting kicked out of the lobby now own the place.
Yeah.
Him and his wife stayed married for like 30 years, but they barely spent any time together.
Joseph is working all the time.
His wife spends a lot of time in society.
She makes a lot of news about like consumption and buying jewelries and houses and stuff like this.
But I did think there's a bunch of these newspaper reports that we have that are in the book, too, that I thought were very interesting because it just describes just how unique of a life trajectory that Joseph Polish should experience.
And so she's basically getting criticized because she has some of the most expensive jewelry in the world.
And one newspaper is actually defending her.
And as a result, gives you and I insight into Joseph Pulitzer says 30 years ago, her husband was shoveling coal and driving drays.
But his indomitable energy and active brain have placed him where he can afford to buy out half a dozen royal families.
And then we're also privy to all these descriptions of what it's like.
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