Waking Up
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The lives we live can often leave a mark on the world. Sometimes that's due to our accomplishments, and sometimes it's all about what we've forgotten.
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| 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. |
| 0:36.7 | The games we enjoy today have evolved over time. |
| 0:39.8 | Baseball in basketball, for example, look a lot different today than they did 50 years |
| 0:44.1 | ago. |
| 0:45.1 | And soccer, or football for listeners outside of the United States, might have undergone |
| 0:49.4 | the most change. |
| 0:50.4 | It used to be a lot closer to rugby, but one man sought to change all of that when he |
| 0:55.6 | wasn't walking along the bottom of the New York Bay. |
| 0:59.0 | His name was Arthur Pember, born in Brixton, England in 1835. |
| 1:03.6 | Pember came from a wealthy family, his father a successful stockbroker. |
| 1:08.0 | He was homeschooled and didn't go to college, choosing instead to work alongside his father |
| 1:12.5 | in London as a stockbroker as well. |
| 1:15.9 | Pember eventually married Elizabeth Houghton in 1860, but after she died from complications |
| 1:21.5 | arising from a miscarriage, he remarried in 1862 to Alice Mary Greve. |
| 1:27.4 | But 1862 also marked the start of a blooming passion for Pember, the no names or NN football |
| 1:34.2 | club. |
| 1:35.2 | He could often be found clad in a knitted jersey and cap, scrambling across a field |
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