Cradle Will Fall
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
On today's tour through the Cabinet, you'll meet an object that didn't want to be caught, and an individual who desperately needed to be.
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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. |
| 0:27.7 | Hollywood has its fair share of iconic automobiles, the winged race car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, |
| 0:34.4 | the General Lee from the dukes of Hazard, and perhaps the most famous car ever to grace |
| 0:38.8 | the silver screen, Doc Brown's Delorean Time Machine from Back to the Future. |
| 0:43.8 | But there is another car. |
| 0:46.3 | Its story is one tragedy and horror, more like something out of a Stephen King novel than |
| 0:51.3 | reality, but oddly enough, we've never seen it in a single film. |
| 0:57.4 | The 1955 Porsche Spider was built as a racing car, meant for the tracks rather than the open |
| 1:03.3 | road. |
| 1:04.3 | Its design was iconic. |
| 1:06.6 | Its sleek aluminum body sat low on a steel frame, hugging the ground as 110 horses pulled |
| 1:12.5 | it along. |
| 1:13.5 | Two large round headlights stared straight ahead, almost in surprise at just how fast that |
| 1:18.8 | tiny car could go. |
| 1:21.4 | In 1955, only one star had the audacity to drive such a machine outside the confines |
| 1:27.1 | of a closed track. |
| 1:28.6 | He was a cultural icon, a legend, a rebel, James Dean. |
| 1:34.5 | His story is one of misfortune, a young man taken far too soon, his legacy lives on in |
| 1:40.2 | his films, which are still regarded as some of the most influential in all of cinema, |
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