Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of I Heart Radio and

Grim and Mild. Our world is full of the unexplainable. And if history is an open book, all of these

amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities. Leo was not a musical child.

Since he was born in 2009 to Orange Farmers in Fullerton, California.

His earliest memories were less harmonies and melodies

and more sun, dirt, and citrus.

He did take a few piano lessons as he grew up,

and he would try to play the saxophone, but all that was

soon left behind once Leo discovered his true passion.

Electronics.

When he was 14 years old, Leo's uncle brought him to his auto shop.

While the engines and complicated mechanics fascinated Leo, the thing that truly caught his attention

was his uncle's hobby project, a radio made out of spare parts.

The second he saw it, Leo was hooked.

That's why the saxophone and piano lessons had never stuck.

He didn't want to create sound.

He wanted to broadcast it. As Leo the kid grew into Leo the young man, his passion for

machines grew with him. He found jobs around Orange County as a delivery man and then

as an accountant, but he always carved out time to

tinker with his radios. When the Great Depression put him out of work as a

bookkeeper, Leo decided to finally follow his dreams. He borrowed $600 and in 1938 opened his very first

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