Spy Game
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Some people change their identity to hide, while others do it to stand out. Either way, the stories about it are curious.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to AirNmenky'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. |
| 0:35.2 | What makes a great spy? |
| 0:36.8 | In the movies, it's someone sexy or swath who can blend in with a crowd or win a pile |
| 0:41.7 | of money at Bacarat. |
| 0:43.4 | It's the person who has no family waiting at home and can dash off to Europe or the Middle |
| 0:47.8 | East as soon as their country calls them to duty. |
| 0:50.8 | In reality, spies aren't like the movies at all, and throughout history they have come |
| 0:55.2 | from the unlikeliest of places. |
| 0:57.5 | In his autobiography Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Game Show host and creator Chuck |
| 1:02.7 | Barris claimed to have been an assassin for the CIA during the 1960s and 70s. |
| 1:09.5 | Moberg was another unexpected spy. |
| 1:12.2 | The third child of Bernard and Roseburg Mo grew up in Harlem in New York City around 1902. |
| 1:18.2 | When he was almost four, he started playing catch with the neighborhood policeman who |
| 1:21.5 | would patrol his block. |
| 1:23.1 | Of course, he didn't want to spend all his time playing with grownups, so Berg asked |
| 1:27.2 | his mother if he could go to school with other children. |
| 1:31.0 | Instead, his family moved out of Harlem just across the river to Newark, New Jersey. |
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