Episode 77: Butterflies

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

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

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

This episode was originally released in 2015. Sometimes you’re working on an episode (and when I say “you’re” I mean, “I’m,”) working on an episode and you realize it’s just all wrong. That there’s a good episode in there but you need to take a few days and go at it again. Because you (and, again, “you”=”I”) think it, and you (this time I mean you, the listener) deserve better. And you put out a re-run. It’s a good one, though.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:02.6	I'm Nate Demet.
0:04.6	There was a mysterious knock that kept men and vast mansions up in the dead of night.
0:10.7	Disturbed by this sound, the defied explanation, and the deviled scientists.
0:16.7	And so a man named Thomas Midgeley, who looked like a man named Thomas Midgeley, kind
0:21.7	eye, balding, round face, round glasses, was put on the case.
0:27.2	And I'll tell you right up front that he cracks it.
0:29.9	For the case of a mysterious knock has a solution.
0:33.4	Thomas Midgeley will follow a series of clues and draw a conclusion, and it will be the
0:38.1	crack one.
0:39.1	And I'll strip out any of the red herrings in false leads he may have stumbled on during
0:43.2	his investigation.
0:45.3	Because that part of the story, the mystery, that is the part that is noble, with a straightforward
0:52.0	chain of cause and effect.
0:54.5	And you'll forgive me if I cling to that little bit of comfort.
0:57.7	Anyway, to the beginning.
1:00.7	Thomas Midgeley was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in 1889, to an upper middle-class
1:05.3	family.
1:06.3	There's an anecdote from the life of young Tom that I like to share.
1:09.8	It seems to have some bearing on the rest of his story, and how the boy makes the man.
1:14.0	I can't say I'm entirely sure that it does.
1:17.8	Because how can we say with any certainty that there's a direct line between one experience,
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