Episode 72 (Run-of-the-River)

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Episode 7 of the 2015 Summer Season.

Music

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

* First up (and returning a bit later) is Mr. Reincarnation from Alexander Desplat's dope-as-hell score to the fairly dope movie, Birth.

* There's Lost Fur, Reprise from Carter Burwell's Where the Wild Things Are score.

* Then there's a Charles Ives piece called Remembrance, played by Yesaroun' Duo, Eric Hewitt and Samuel Z. Soloman.

* Then we hit Another Lifetime, dipping back in the Birth Score well.

* Finish up with Kierling/Doubt from Max Richters 24 Postcards in Full Color.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:02.5	I'm Nate de Mayo.
0:05.4	Lewis and Clark could hear the falls for hours before they came upon them.
0:09.0	Could feel their pull.
0:10.7	The quickening of the waters somewhere below felt it for miles.
0:14.8	Lewis and Clark could tell something big was coming as soon as they'd entered the
0:17.6	gorge.
0:18.8	So could the thirty other men and one woman and one baby, whose names at moments like this
0:24.5	in the story of their famous journey across the continent.
0:27.8	It washed away until they too become simply Lewis and Clark.
0:31.9	They let the current take them.
0:33.8	Faster now, down the Columbia.
0:36.1	So named by an Englishman who'd come up the river from the west.
0:39.6	No man, no American man anyhow.
0:42.4	Had come down the river from the other side.
0:45.1	So Lewis and Clark didn't know exactly where the quickening water was pulling them.
0:49.1	They'd been told to expect some rapids, some cascades, to expect salmon and exceptional
0:54.2	numbers.
0:55.2	So they'd been told by the leader of a band of Indians they'd met months back.
0:59.0	A people who'd called themselves the Nameepu, but whom Lewis and Clark called the Nez Perse,
1:04.1	the Pierce Knows.
1:05.6	And so that's what we call them now too.
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