Bonus Episode: The New Season of You Must Remember This!

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On this special bonus episode, I'm introducing you the wonder that is Karina Longworth's You Must Remember This. With an introductory episode to her new season, "The Old Man is Still Alive," which covers the late careers of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Vincente Minnelli and ten other directors who began their careers in the silent or early sound eras, and were still making movies in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, in spite of the challenges posed by massive cultural changes and their advanced age. In this mini-episode we’ll discuss the parallels between this history and today, from the tech industry takeover of Hollywood to the late work of Coppola and Scorsese; the interview with George Cukor that inspired the title of this season; the Orson Welles-Peter Bogdanovich-Quentin Tarantino connection that informs the way we think about “old man” movies, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hey, I am doing something different today. There's a new episode coming out next week.
0:04.9	If you're new to the show, or honestly, if you've been listening forever, I never quite put this together.
0:10.9	I wouldn't be able to blame you. But in a typical month, new episodes of the Memory Palace come out at the end of the first and third weeks of that month.
0:18.7	And this year, I think I'm going to put in other stuff into the feed
0:21.3	during the off weeks now and then. This will almost always be memory palace stuff. Maybe it'll be
0:26.6	an interview with me that aired somewhere else. Or honestly, I've been watching the news here at the end
0:30.6	of January and have realized that there have been a number of episodes in the archives that fit these
0:35.1	times rather well. And then I think I might re-broadcast and see how they
0:39.9	kind of play in this context. It's a little bonus. Today is something different. I am delighted
0:46.2	to present to you a preview episode of the new season of You Must Remember This, the Cinema
0:51.9	History podcast from my friend Karina Longworth. Her show was kicking
0:55.4	off its 10th year with a series that I find completely fascinating. This is so up my alley as the guy
1:02.2	who does the Murray Palace is about a number of directors who were giants of the 20th century
1:07.3	American cinema and the work they did after their heyday. I love stories
1:12.5	of lions in winter. I love thinking about and telling stories about the lives that people
1:17.3	live after they do the things that make them famous. I could not be more excited as a listener
1:22.0	for this series. And so I'm happy to share it with my listeners. But moreover, I wanted to seize this opportunity to say that one of the things at the heart
1:30.2	of my personal connection to my friend Karina isn't that we both like history and both like
1:34.8	movies or live near each other in L.A. or like the same spots for lunch.
1:39.7	It is that Karina is out in these streets doing the thing that I might admire most among artists.
1:45.6	And it's the thing that I am most proud of when I think of my own career.
1:49.2	She has started this thing, her podcast, you must remember this, to do the thing that she is
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