Bet On It
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Dreams are tricky things. Some of them contain things we want, while others show us our biggest fears. Either way, they hold a world of possibilities.
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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 | Ask anyone to give you a list of their most sought after treasures, and they're probably |
| 0:31.9 | going to use a particular phrase about that list. |
| 0:34.9 | Everything on it would be a dream come true. |
| 0:37.6 | And that's the beauty of dreams, right? |
| 0:39.7 | They have no limits, no boundaries, and sadly, no probability of actually happening. |
| 0:45.5 | Which is why the phrase dream come true has so much power whenever someone wins the lottery, |
| 0:50.4 | or lands that promotion they work so hard for, to everyone around them. |
| 0:54.8 | Their dreams had just come true, and it can't get much better than that. |
| 1:00.1 | But not every dream come true is received well. |
| 1:03.1 | Take for example the story of John Godly, known to the history books as Lord Killbracken |
| 1:07.8 | from Ireland, because what happened to him just after World War II was both amazing |
| 1:12.1 | and at least to him, more than a little disturbing. |
| 1:16.8 | In the late 1940s, John was a student in Oxford, working hard and studying late into the |
| 1:21.8 | Knights, as most students in his position would do. |
| 1:25.0 | But when sleep did finally come to John, it sometimes filled him with the most unusual |
| 1:29.2 | ideas. |
| 1:30.4 | You see, despite the fact that John wasn't a gambling man, his dreams were filled with visions |
| 1:35.0 | of horse races. |
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