UI #84 - The Honest Man with an Evil Eye

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2015

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Back in 1935 a man carrying a sandwich-board sign stumbles across the find of a lifetime: A wallet containing the stocks certificates from Philips Petroleum, GE, and DuPont. Find out what the press said that he did with the certificates, what really happened, and how he killed a man simply by staring at him. Also, learn about a very long chess match, a baseball-playing porpoise, and the mule that causes three car accidents. Retrosponsor: Wheatena Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
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0:34.0	Welcome to the Useless Information Podcast.
0:38.0	I am Steve Silverman.
0:40.0	Frank Griggis was one of those people had never seemed to find success.
0:45.0	Poverty just seemed to follow him throughout his entire life.
0:49.0	He was born in Sedua, Lithuania, most likely in 1868, but being a typical teenage male,
0:56.4	he decided there was no way he's going to spend the rest of his life working on the family
1:01.1	farm. So instead at the age of 20, he hopped a train of the family farm. So instead at the age of 20 he hopped a tramp steamer to see greater opportunity and fortunes in the United States.
1:10.0	Sadly that was never to happen.
1:13.0	He arrived in Baltimore, Maryland and drifted from job to job, earning very little,
1:18.0	and each job was harder than anything would have experienced if he had stayed back in Lithuania harvesting that wheat.
1:26.6	He worked on an oyster boat in the Chesapeake Bay, he built fences around wealthy estates,
1:31.1	and he even put his time in at the steel mills in Pennsylvania.
1:35.0	Supposedly, one night in Pittsburgh he discovered a woman's pocketbook lying on the dance floor.
1:41.0	Inside he found $60 and that may not seem like a lot today
1:46.4	but that'd be about $750 today adjusted for inflation. That much money would have made a huge difference in his life, but he knew that
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