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Speaker 1: Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of

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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild. Our world is

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Speaker 1: full of the unexplainable, and if history is an open book,

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Speaker 1: all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

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Speaker 1: just waiting for us to explore. Welcome to the Cabinet

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Speaker 1: of Curiosities. A lot of great accomplishments have come out

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Speaker 1: of compromises. The Magna Carta is a powerful example. Drafted

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Speaker 1: in the year twelve fifteen, the document made a compromise

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Speaker 1: between King John and his barons, setting the stage for

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Speaker 1: many elements of the modern democratic process. Marriage is another

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Speaker 1: of those moments of compromise. What else are the vows

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Speaker 1: of the bride and groom but a promise to work

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Speaker 1: hard and stay together, no matter the cost, two sides

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Speaker 1: coming together to set aside differences and work together building

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Speaker 1: something that's better than the two individual pieces. Clearly, when

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Speaker 1: we compromise, we can make great things. But compromise didn't

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Speaker 1: look possible when the players arrived at Fenway Park back

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Speaker 1: on September eleventh of nineteen eighteen. It was Game five

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Speaker 1: of the World Series, and after a long season and

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Speaker 1: a lot of hard work. The Red Sox were feeling

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Speaker 1: pretty proud of their accomplishment, so proud, it seems that

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Speaker 1: they wanted more. Specifically, they wanted a bigger payday for

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Speaker 1: their championship games. For context, the entire payroll for the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox organization that year was around ninety thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: roughly one point five million in modern dollars. Last year,

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Speaker 1: their payroll was over two million, so it might be

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Speaker 1: fair to agree that the nineteen eighteen Red Sox were

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Speaker 1: a bit underpaid. Justified or not. The team disgusted amongst

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Speaker 1: themselves and decided that if their owner, Harry Frazy, didn't

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Speaker 1: pony up a little extra dough, they weren't going to

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Speaker 1: take the field. And with a little over ten thousand

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Speaker 1: people waiting in the stands, dozens of whom were wounded

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Speaker 1: World War One veterans, there was a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: to make a decision quickly. It took about an hour,

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Speaker 1: but finally the players and Phrasey came up with a compromise. No,

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't get a pay raise for their performance that day,

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Speaker 1: but they would take a moment to honor those veterans.

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Speaker 1: And how would they do it? With a song? Of course,

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Speaker 1: Phrasey approached the band that played at each of the

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Speaker 1: games and leaned in towards the musicians. There was a

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Speaker 1: brief conversation, and then the men nodded in agreement. A

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Speaker 1: moment later, the notes of a song rang out, and

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Speaker 1: everyone in attendance stood up and took off their hats.

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Speaker 1: At first, the people they're just listened, hypnotized by the

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Speaker 1: beauty of it all. Slowly, though, more and more of

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Speaker 1: the millitary service members began to sing along, and others

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Speaker 1: followed them. By the time the last verse came around,

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Speaker 1: the entire crowd was bellowing out the words as best

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Speaker 1: bar song about getting drunk and flirting with the ladies,

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Speaker 1: which might sound right if you've ever been to a

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Speaker 1: baseball game, Except those weren't the words the crowd was singing. No.

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Speaker 1: The song had been used in America for nearly a

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Speaker 1: century before that day, with a whole new set of lyrics,

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Speaker 1: a poem really written by a guy named Francis Scott Key.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be until nineteen thirty one when the Star

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Speaker 1: But at that game on September eleventh of nineteen eighteen,

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Speaker 1: it became a fixture of another American institution, baseball. You see,

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Speaker 1: in the years that followed, and inspired by the impact

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Speaker 1: the song had on the audience that day, Crazy had

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Speaker 1: it played before each and every Red Sox game, and

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Speaker 1: in the process did a tradition that's still taking place

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Speaker 1: today in a wide assortment of sporting events. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: Star Spangled banner is a wonderful way to honor our

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Speaker 1: military before each game, but it's important to remember that

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Speaker 1: it almost didn't happen at all. Today, it's an essential

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Speaker 1: part of the ballpark experience, and yet in nineteen eighteen,

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Speaker 1: it was nothing more than a bit of compromise, a

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Speaker 1: way to get the players out of the dugout and

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Speaker 1: onto the field. And in the end, though, it's also

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Speaker 1: a reminder of an even older baseball tradition arguing about money.

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Speaker 1: Everyone put a lot of hope in Patrick. His father

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Speaker 1: was a young widower, having lost his wife just a

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Speaker 1: boy among his siblings, which at the time meant that

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Speaker 1: He was a gifted artist, producing paintings and illustrations that

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Speaker 1: And he had a way with words that most kids

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Speaker 1: just didn't, which led the poems and stories that hinted

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Speaker 1: of money, and he knew as a single parent, looking

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Speaker 1: somehow managed. Art school was supposed to be the key

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Speaker 1: that would unlock Patrick's genius, but not long after arriving

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Speaker 1: he was headed home. There's even rumor that he didn't

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Speaker 1: even attend classes, but instead tried his hand at teaching

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Speaker 1: others how to paint and not me that. But the

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Speaker 1: process had used up all of the funds his family

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Speaker 1: a lot of time to socialize, which was good. Patrick

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Speaker 1: was an outgoing guy, and he happened to live in

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Speaker 1: an area that was frequented by an artistic crowd musicians, writers, artists,

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Speaker 1: even show them his most recent work and they loved

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Speaker 1: it all. It had to have honestly been incredibly encouraging

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Speaker 1: imagine how his family felt about it all too. Sure,

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Speaker 1: art school hadn't panned out, and the boy had lost

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Speaker 1: all their efforts had been worth it after all. But

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Speaker 1: its sadly wouldn't be. Aside from a few pieces that

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Speaker 1: got published in small time magazines, Patrick just couldn't seem

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Speaker 1: Not long after, he got a job as an administrative

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Speaker 1: assistant at the local public transit. No, it wasn't an

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Speaker 1: artistic job, but it paid real money, and that could

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Speaker 1: world if he treated the job with respect. Instead, he

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Speaker 1: used it as an opportunity to steal. After all, having

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Speaker 1: price was even higher, he lost the job entirely. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: Patrick's story doesn't end well for him. After all those

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Speaker 1: he got sick. His father did the best to care

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Speaker 1: for him, but at the young age of just thirty one,

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Speaker 1: Patrick passed away, and in doing so, he took all

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Speaker 1: the hope his father and sisters had placed on his

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Speaker 1: the same hobby their brother had writing, and amazingly, despite

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Speaker 1: their challenges and social obstacles, each of them succeeded. In fact,

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Speaker 1: each of them wrote and published entire novels of their own.

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Speaker 1: Anne wrote a book called Agnes Gray, while her sister

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Speaker 1: Emily became known for her own story, one she called

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Speaker 1: Wuthering Heights. And there are other sister Charlotte might have

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Speaker 1: written the most famous of them all, Jane Eyre Patrick

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Speaker 1: might not have lived up to the hope and hype

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Speaker 1: his family placed on him, but we can all be

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Speaker 1: thankful that his sisters far surpassed it all to become

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Speaker 1: literary legends. Le Bronzes. I hope you've enjoyed today's guided

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Speaker 1: And until next time, stay curious. Ye