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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She would lay beside his mother, Eliza, with a space left open between the two graves so that one day he could lie there too.
That was all so beautiful, so lovely, he said.
It was just as Mama would have wished.
He never forgave the city for the insult.
Cleveland ought to be ashamed to look herself in the face when she thinks of how she treated us.
The town where he had built the whole machine, refinery by absorbed refinery, had chased his wife's coffin to its grave.
When they inventory Setti's wardrobe, it told its own story of their lifestyle.
The wife of the richest man on earth had owned almost nothing of value.
The costliest thing in her closet was a seal-skin coat appraised at $150.
By the mid-1910s, the Standard Oil Empire was scattered into 34 separate entities, and the money Rockefeller had made had built a giving machine that was running on rails he no longer had to touch.
The public hatred had peaked and began, ever so slowly, to soften.
What was left was the man himself—old, bald under shifting rotation of wigs, and lighter than he had been in decades—
Rockefeller turned his sights towards the one thing money could not buy.
He decided he wanted to live to be 100 years old.
Sometime around 1918, a small boy in Ormond Beach, Florida, called out to the old man walking past.
Hello, John D. The old man was not offended.
He just thought it could have been done better.
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.
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