Episode 135: Revolutions
the memory palace
Nate DiMeo
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia.
Music
We start off with an absolute banger from my old friends in Lightning Bolt, their track King Kandy.
Then an old favorite, Blues to Elvin from the unstoppable, Coltrane Plays the Blues.
We move to Everything is an Illusion by Kaada
Hear Rolling by Collectress
And finish out on The Dog by Group Listening.
Notes
- I read quite a bit for this one but nothing was more helpful (or more charming) than Save Womens Lives History of Washing Machines by Lee Maxwell, who bills himself on the cover as "Collector of Old and Unusual Washing Machines." God bless Lee and his patient wife.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the memory palace. I'm Nate Demet. |
| 0:03.0 | Is there any sweeter sound than a washing machine? |
| 0:06.5 | The washing machine, mean your factories do everything in their power to |
| 0:09.2 | silence it. To tame the rumble to suppress the |
| 0:12.0 | sudsy slosh and the hiss of an open valve, they undertake |
| 0:15.7 | herculane or euclidean efforts of engineering. |
| 0:20.0 | The inner barrel in today's front loading high efficiency washing machine |
| 0:23.1 | spins 1200 times per minute or more as it flings the water and soap |
| 0:27.1 | off her clothes, forcing it to those little holes to collect in the fixed exterior |
| 0:31.1 | barrel and then drain. 1200 revolutions per minute isn't |
| 0:34.4 | jet engine fast but it is crazy fast considering it's |
| 0:37.5 | happening inside that smallest metal box in your basement or your |
| 0:40.5 | mudroom or the closet in your apartment. Jammed in there with the wires and the |
| 0:44.3 | springs and control panels and heating elements and hoses and stoppers and |
| 0:47.8 | LED screens and dials and gizmos aplenty, whosits and what's its galore. |
| 0:52.4 | All the things a modern washing machine needs to do all the things the modern |
| 0:55.9 | washing machine does, modulating for fabric type and color and relative |
| 0:59.8 | delicacy in the weight of the load, just innovation after innovation, |
| 1:04.0 | incredible feat of mechanical engineering upon incredible feat of mechanical |
| 1:07.8 | engineering all in that small box. And all kept remarkably quiet, all those little |
| 1:13.0 | parts that can shake and clank and sputter just when they're doing their own |
| 1:16.0 | thing never mind when it's largest part that inner barrel does its many things |
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