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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Appearances
He played blind man's bluff with his kids with real cunning, with feints and sudden turns and always whooping around the room if he won.
He taught the children to swim and skate and ride horses.
He had a telegraph wire run between his office and his house so he could spend three or four afternoons a week at home, planting trees and playing with his kids, all the while he kept one of the largest companies on earth humming along down the road.
It was a warm home, but an insulated one.
The children had no school friends because there was no school, only governesses.
Visitors were the carefully screened children of fellow church families.
The Rockefeller children were being raised inside a fortress of certainty, and the world outside its walls was depicted as a place of saloons, card games, and sin.
Two more figures completed the household picture.
The first was Rockefeller's mother, Eliza, who spent her summers with the family.
The woman who had once held the farm together while her husband vanished for months now sat next to her son at the table.
And Rockefeller would hold her hand lovingly throughout the meal.
Grandmother trusted father absolutely, Junior remembered.
The second figure appeared less often and without warning.
Once or twice a year, an old man with a red beard and a diamond stick pen would turn up behind a fine team of horses and ride grandly up Euclid Avenue.
Rockefeller's father, Big Bill.
His grandchildren adored him.
He gave them rifles and taught them to shoot.
He played the fiddle and told tall tales.
But after a few uproarious days, he would vanish again, giving no hint of where he was going or when he would be back.
The children had no idea that their jolly grandfather was now living under a false name in Illinois with a second wife who knew nothing of their existence.
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