Episode 137: Swans

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia.

Music

Sarah in Bath from Krysztof Komeda's score to the Fearless Vampire Killers.
Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K617a as performed by Vienna Glass Armonia Duo.
Mr. Death Angel Flanders from John Barry's score to Boom!
And a bit of Imaginary Building from Elana Katz-Cherwin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska

Notes

There's a great American Heritage article on the history of Delmonico's.
There's a nice write up on the Swan Dinner in American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, by Sarah S. Kilborne
Society as I Have Found It, Ward McAllister's memoir of the Gilded Age is appropriately bonkers.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:01.6	I'm Nate DeMoeu.
0:04.0	Edward Luckmire wasn't expecting the $10,000.
0:07.2	He was in the import export business, European textiles.
0:10.9	So he was used to taxes and tariffs,
0:13.4	and would surely grumble about paying them.
0:15.5	But still, they hadn't prevented in from becoming
0:17.4	a millionaire many times over, there in the early 1870s.
0:21.2	When being a millionaire many times over really meant something.
0:24.3	But in those times, not long after the Civil War,
0:26.6	and just before Mark Twain would look around,
0:29.4	take in those times with his writer's eye,
0:32.3	and proclaim them the gilded age.
0:35.2	In those times, in that gilded age,
0:37.0	the government that collected those taxes
0:38.5	and set those tariffs seemed determined
0:40.4	to silence even the most necessary grumbles
0:42.9	of America's multi-millionaires.
0:45.5	Thus Mr. Luckmire got a check.
0:48.7	He had a NAS for it.
0:50.0	He wasn't expecting it.
0:51.3	Every other time he just paid the tax,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nate DiMeo, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nate DiMeo and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.