By George
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Some folks create things that are difficult to believe. Today's tour features two such tales. Just remember: seeing isn't always necessary for believing.
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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. |
| 0:28.0 | Friends come to us in unexpected ways. |
| 0:30.8 | Their timing can seem strange, but oddly appropriate as they weave themselves so deeply |
| 0:35.8 | into our lives that we couldn't imagine life without them. |
| 0:40.2 | Friends can illuminate the best in us, or amplify the worst in us, and sometimes we don't |
| 0:45.7 | know what kind of friend they are until it's too late. |
| 0:49.2 | But no matter what, a good friend is there when we need them the most. |
| 0:53.2 | George P. Burdell was that kind of friend. |
| 0:57.8 | And Ed Smith met George Burdell in 1927 that too hit it off immediately. |
| 1:03.6 | Both men attended George's attack, a university that claims among its alumni, former president |
| 1:08.9 | Jimmy Carter and golf legend Bobby Jones. |
| 1:12.2 | George and Ed took all of the same classes and often completed assignments together. |
| 1:17.7 | They even took the copy in each other's homework on more than one occasion, changing the |
| 1:22.1 | answers just enough to make it look like they'd done the work individually. |
| 1:27.0 | The two men were inseparable, but eventually George started to gain notoriety around |
| 1:31.4 | the campus. |
| 1:32.4 | He played varsity football from 1928 to 1930, and upon reaching his senior year, he was |
| 1:38.2 | offered membership into the ANAK Society, a secret honor society founded in 1908. |
| 1:45.1 | Ed however continued his education as intended, and in 1930 he and George earned their bachelor's |
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