Shane Parrish
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20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He never stopped revering his father, though.
Years later, before a visit to his father, he wired ahead a single sentence that explains their whole relationship.
I'm not coming because I think you need me, but because I know I need you.
His mother, Setti's health, had been failing for years.
By the time the worst of the tarbell storm had passed, she was confined to a wheelchair.
She spent most of her time in bed, worn down by a list of ailments no doctor could quite name.
Her husband cared for her with a tenderness that startled those who knew only one side of him.
At dinner, he would slip a flower off the table, climb the stairs, and carry it up to her.
On their 50th anniversary in September 1914, he set a brass band on the lawn at their New York estate and had her carried out to the wedding march.
He had said the truest thing about her years earlier from a pew in the old Cleveland church, looking up at her pale face.
"'The best thing I ever accomplished, and the thing that has given me the greatest happiness, was to win Seti Spellman.'
I have had but one sweetheart and am thankful to say I still have her.
She died in 1915.
Unfortunately, when she passed, he was a thousand miles south from her in Florida.
When the two telegrams reached him, the first saying she was dying and the second that she was gone, he carried the news to the breakfast table and his son and daughter-in-law watched him do the thing they'd never seen him do.
He wept openly.
Then came the question of where to bury her, and the answer turned into one of the strangest episodes of his life.
For two years, Rockefeller had been locked in a vicious tax fight with the state of Ohio.
He had been a legal resident of New York since the 1880s when Standard Oil moved their office there, so he paid taxes there.
But Setti's long illness had stranded him at Forest Hill, his Cleveland estate, past the February date that decided who counted as an Ohioan for tax purposes.
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