Episode 115: A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station
the memory palace
Nate DiMeo
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.
This episode was originally released in October of 2017 and was produced with engineering assistance from Elizabeth Aubert.
Music
Sunrise Through the Dusty Nebula by Hannah Peel
Keep by Nils Frahm
Horizon Variations by Max Richter
She cycles through: Where or When by Hal Kemp & His Orchestra, Smarty (You Know it All) by Fats Waller, Dear Mr. Gable: You Made Me Love You by Judy Garland, Hellhounds on My Trail by Robert Johnson, and The Big Apple by Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven.
Future Waves by Uther Moads.
And Vapour Trail by Ride, forever.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Nate. |
| 0:03.0 | In this summer, as I have been taking a bit of a break from new episodes, I work on a book |
| 0:07.1 | of memory-pull stories, new and old for a random house. |
| 0:10.8 | I had a chance to spend some time in my hometown of Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 0:15.4 | It is just in its glory in June and July. |
| 0:19.6 | And despite what I do for a living, I'm not as nostalgic. |
| 0:23.8 | If anything, I'm sort of anti-industologic, almost unprinciple. |
| 0:27.2 | I think a lot about the past, but I don't dwell on it. |
| 0:31.8 | But I will say that there was a moment driving down 95, Windows Down, Music On, coming into |
| 0:40.0 | the S-curve in Patucket by the husk of the old Apex department store when I was just |
| 0:44.4 | taken over that mix of bliss and longing that comes now and then as, like, on a part |
| 0:51.7 | gift and part challenge. |
| 0:55.0 | Then you are back in the place where you became you and when you're back home. |
| 1:00.3 | In the spirit of that and of giving one's health over to nostalgia, I give you now, as |
| 1:05.6 | the summer ends in my half the world anyway, what has to be the most nostalgic episode that |
| 1:11.2 | I've ever done? |
| 1:12.2 | Hope you like it. |
| 1:14.8 | This is the memory palace. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm Nate DeMoeu. |
| 1:18.3 | Brief Eulogy for a commercial radio station. |
| 1:21.2 | On hearing that 95.5 WBRU FM in Providence, Rhode Island, would cease operation. |
| 1:29.6 | We could get into the economics about how media consolidation unleashed by the Telecommunications |
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