Episode 209: Wake

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

Music

Dave Pajo/Aerial M does Plastic Energy Man
Patricia Rossborough played To a Wild Rose
Mal Waldron plays Warm Canto
We hear Muff Gets a Share from Joel P. West’s score to Band of Robbers
We hear another song I absolutely love, Turned Out I Was Everyone, by Sasami
We finish on Popcorn and Life from Ben Sollee’s lovely score to Maidentrip.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace, I'm Nate Tameo.
0:04.1	A brief note written after reading that former Major League pitcher Tim Wakefield has
0:08.2	died at the age of 57.
0:15.1	At some point the numbers stopped mattering.
0:16.8	Man don't think much about batting averages anymore.
0:20.4	All time scoring records.
0:22.2	I still talk sports a lot with my friends, but I can't remember the last time I got into
0:25.8	an argument about which player was the best, or even gotten nostalgic about some feat
0:29.5	of individual greatness.
0:30.5	Remember that night when he went off for 40 against the Lakers?
0:33.9	I think I'm past that.
0:36.4	At some point I guess I just became a man, and I didn't need to look up to other men
0:39.8	in the same way I did when I was a kid.
0:41.8	I enjoy watching them.
0:43.8	I like some of them personally, so much, despite having never met them before.
0:48.9	And some of them got to eat those guys.
0:51.3	It's fun, sports are fun.
0:54.5	But when I was younger, when we're young, a lot of us.
0:58.8	They were so much more.
1:00.4	You fell in love with athletes, tried to move like them, copy their jump shot, and they
1:05.5	wore their socks.
1:06.5	How they stood in the batter's box, back elbow up, front shoulder a little down, ready
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