Shane Parrish
speaker
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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Would have been nicer, he remarked afterward, if he had said hello, neighbor John.
The town heard about this and began calling him neighbor John, and he cherished it.
For many, he was the most hated man in America, builder of the octopus, the original trust.
He was the living mummy of Ida Tarbell's last installment, and a Florida resort town had decided he was to be their idolized old neighbor.
They thought of him as somewhere between a retired mayor and an old Sunday school teacher.
Part of it was simply time.
The so-called crimes Tarbell had documented belonged to the 1870s and 1880s—
But 40 years later, they'd faded into a half-remembered era.
And part of it was money.
The country worshipped wealth in the roaring 20s in a way that it never before.
And John Dee was its patron saint.
And part of it was the company he now kept in the public mind.
Ask an American in 1925 what the name Rockefeller meant, and the answer was likely to be a university or hookworm or the yellow fever as standard oil.
The giving machine had done slow, quiet work on his reputation, and it had taken a hold of the public.
And part of it was the dimes.
The dimes were his own idea.
For years, he had carried the shiny coins to give out as he moved around.
Dimes for adults and nickels for children.
Each one would be delivered with a small sermon.
Save it, spend it.
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