Bear With Me
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
It's amazing what you can find if you just stop and listen for a bit. And the stories that simple act can reveal are often curious.
Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Join our Patreon for ad-free episodes!: https://www.patreon.com/grimandmild
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm |
| 0:08.7 | and Mild. |
| 0:13.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:16.3 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:22.2 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:36.9 | Everyone wants to be first. |
| 0:38.6 | The first in line, the first to tweet about a popular movie, the first to leave a comment |
| 0:43.4 | on a YouTube video, usually by simply typing the word first. |
| 0:48.4 | But there's a smaller club of people who found themselves in the right place at the right |
| 0:52.7 | time, giving them a chance to be the very first to experience something foundational, something |
| 0:58.4 | most people take for granted, and George was one of those people. |
| 1:03.8 | Now I could tell you that George was born in 1865 in Michigan. |
| 1:07.9 | I could tell you that he graduated from the United States Military Academy and received |
| 1:12.2 | a PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1893. |
| 1:15.9 | I could tell you all sorts of biographical details, but honestly, none of those will be |
| 1:20.8 | as exciting to you as what happened to him in 1908. |
| 1:24.9 | A year earlier, in 1907, George was part of a small group of military officials who |
| 1:30.2 | established the Aeronautical Division of the US Signal Corps. |
| 1:34.4 | It was a branch of the military that focused entirely on heavier than air flight, and naturally |
| 1:39.6 | they were very interested in the work of the Wright brothers, who had managed to succeed |
| 1:43.8 | at powered flight back in 1903. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.