165 | Tragedy Plus Time
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Today's tour of the Cabinet features a man who refused to quit, and a project that did nothing but stall over and over. You'll love the journey of each, though.
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| 0:00.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:07.2 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:13.1 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:27.9 | Mark Twain, Orson Wells, and Will Rogers were all beloved entertainers with razor-sharp |
| 0:33.0 | minds. |
| 0:34.0 | But they were also captivating raccontours. |
| 0:36.6 | They knew how to tell a story that would hold an audience's attention so tightly that |
| 0:40.2 | nothing could break it. |
| 0:41.7 | They lived fascinating lives and channeled their experiences into books, films, songs, |
| 0:46.8 | and even the occasional dinner party conversation. |
| 0:50.0 | But one man stands above them all, in more than a few ways. |
| 0:53.7 | His accomplishments would have been enough for ten men, but there was only one Peter |
| 0:57.9 | Freiken. |
| 0:59.5 | Peter was born in Denmark in 1886. |
| 1:02.8 | His average childhood was all because his father insisted on him having a normal life. |
| 1:08.0 | Peter's father had quite the influence on him, urging him to pursue academics and get |
| 1:12.2 | a medical decree at the University of Copenhagen. |
| 1:15.6 | But Peter wanted more. |
| 1:17.3 | There was a whole world out there waiting to be discovered. |
| 1:20.4 | He craved the outdoors, not a stuffy classroom, so not long after beginning his schooling, Peter |
| 1:25.7 | dropped out. |
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