Episode 232: Oh, Herbert Morrison

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Natedimeo, History, Publicradio, Radiotopia

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.

On June 13th, 2025, I'll do a special, one-night-only live show at the Tribeca Audio Festival in New York City, joined by two of the audiobook's readers: Carrie Coon and Lili Taylor! www.thememorypalace.us/events.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com.

Music

Pale by Akira Koresuma
The Things Left Unsaid by Caleb Burhans
VIII. Juliet by Matthew Bourne
Dream House III: After Dust from Mary Ellen Child's beautiful album, Ethel.
Here I Am, Two Warships, by Spirituals

Notes

You can listen to the whole, original recording here, and an enhanced, speed corrected version, here.
One of the best places to learn about Herb's life is this documentary.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, if you are going to be or want to be in the New York City area, on June 13th, I'm going to be doing a special live show to close out the Tribeca Audio Festival, me reading stories from the Memory Palace with animation and slides and music, including reading a story that is in my audiobook that only exists in my audiobook that I will only perform once at this very special event.
0:24.3	And I will also be joined by two of my audiobooks readers,
0:27.9	the wonderful actresses, Carrie Coon and Lily Taylor.
0:31.8	Couldn't be more excited about this and hope you will join me.
0:34.7	You can find a link to tickets at thememorypalice.us slash event.
0:43.6	This is the Memory Palace.
0:45.4	I'm Nate DeMayo.
0:47.1	It wasn't live.
0:48.9	It was never going to be.
0:50.7	It could have been live theoretically.
0:52.9	It was 1937.
1:07.4	Bigger stations at that point could manage the technical and logistical hurdles to broadcast from places other than radio stations. They could do a remote broadcast from an important event, a presidential speech. But this wasn't that. How'd you do, everyone? We're greeting you now from the Naval Air Base at Lakehurst, New Jersey, from which point
1:11.6	we're going to bring your description of the landing of the mammoth airship Hindenburg.
1:14.6	You can hear it in the recording.
1:16.6	Here Herbert Morrison attempting to puff up the significance of the event he was sent to New Jersey
1:21.6	to cover.
1:22.6	With just one year ago today, May 6th, that the Hindenburg made its first regular passenger
1:26.6	flight to America,
1:28.0	the flight that inaugurated the first air service across the Atlantic. So this occasion is
1:32.3	doubly significant. It is the first anniversary of the inauguration of the service and marks the first
1:37.3	flight of this year. And so Herb Morrison, a 31-year-old Chicago radio host, will in roughly 20
1:43.4	minutes time from that moment become not just
	...

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