The Producer

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Not everything ends up the way it started out, and that includes the lives we live as humans, as well as the inventions we make along the way.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Erin Mankie'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.
0:30.0	Some of us don't know what we want to be when we grow up until… well, we're grown
0:40.6	up.
0:41.6	Many of us start out wanting to be a lawyer or a doctor or a firefighter until we realize
0:45.6	we're better suited as mechanics or sales reps or acrobats.
0:50.0	Melvin Kaminsky knew what he wanted to be.
0:52.4	He just took a little longer getting there than most, but he had a good reason.
0:56.0	He had a war to fight.
0:58.2	He was born in 1926 in a Brooklyn tenement.
1:01.2	He literally popped out on the kitchen table.
1:03.8	He didn't get to know his father though who died at the young age of 34 when Melvin was
1:07.5	only two.
1:08.5	Instead, he was raised by his mother, three older brothers, and his uncle Joe.
1:13.4	Joe was a cab driver who would often shut all the dormant at Broadway theaters back to
1:17.5	their homes in Brooklyn and exchange for free tickets to the shows.
1:21.6	Melvin saw a performance of anything goes, starring Ethel Merman, and he was hooked.
1:26.1	He knew he didn't want to work in the garment industry like other young Jewish men at
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.