Episode 67 (Every Night Ever)

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Music

* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.

* Then, we have the most obvious crickets/summer night song ever: the fantastic, perpetually delightful Green Arrow from Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, which has soundtracked many crickety summer nights for me over the years.

* The cops roll in to a loop of the very beginning of the epic Ptah, the El Daoud, the title track to Alice Coltrane's album from 1970.

* Then we have a mix of two improvisations from Charles Cohen's Brother I Prove You Wrong: Cloud Hands and The Boy and the Snake Dance.

* There's a brief dip into Dorian, by Fang Island.

* The jaunty accordion, typewriter thing is Biking is Better on Wintergatan's eponymous album.

Notes

I researched this one primarily through old newspapers. The easiest place to find a number of them is to read the excellent site, The Museum of Hoaxes' page on this event. Also: if you're in the Atlanta area and ever want to have yourself a day, you can see the actual monkey. It's preserved in a jar at the Georgia Bureau of Investigations museum in Decatur Georgia.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:02.2	I'm Nate DeMail.
0:05.7	It was the same night, over and over.
0:09.6	Tom and Ed would close up the barber shop, grab a couple of six packs in the way home.
0:14.6	The room mate, buddy, would show up at some point, clean up after a day at the butcher shop.
0:19.8	And they'd all get back, pop some tops, turn on the radio.
0:25.8	They probably didn't have a TV.
0:27.4	It was 1953.
0:29.2	In whatever the penetration of television ownership in Lithia Springs, Georgia was back then.
0:34.2	I'm gonna assume it didn't extend to these three dudes in their 20s.
0:38.1	The two buddies from the barber shop.
0:40.2	And their friend, buddy, the butcher.
0:43.1	So they just hang out, like always.
0:45.9	The air thick with humidity, cigarette smoke, cricket song.
0:50.7	Some fire hazard electric fan fights a losing battle against the July heat.
0:55.5	And the moths and summer bugs loiter by the bear ball on the porch.
1:00.1	The same night, over and over.
1:03.0	You come home from work, you play some cards, drink some beers, hit the hay.
1:09.4	You get up, and you do it all again.
1:14.0	Unless you don't.
1:17.4	On the night of Wednesday, July 8th, 1953, a police officer named Shirley Brown and his partner were on patrol.
1:24.4	Driving the back roads of Austel, Georgia, when their headlights caught a pickup truck, stopped in the middle of the road.
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