Episode 94: Numbers (rebroadcast)

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally released in August 2016

Note
* Here’s a link to watch an excerpt of the CBS news break.
* One of my favorite things I came across while reading up on the lottery was this site, which includes a remarkable page where folks send in their personal stories of their draft experience.

Music
* Elevator Song by Keaton Henson (feat. Ren Ford)
* Waves by Abby Gundersen

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace. I'm Nate DeMail.
0:05.3	Maybe you remember? I don't.
0:08.1	Because of the CBS News Special Report which follows, Mayberry RFD will not be presented
0:13.8	tonight, but will return next week at its regularly scheduled time over most of these stations.
0:19.6	The draft lottery.
0:21.8	The news came on. Maybe you were just going to watch Mayberry RFD and were surprised.
0:27.4	Maybe you had scheduled your whole week or more. Cancel plans. Got off work.
0:33.5	To be there in front of the set on December 1st, 1969. Are you listening on the radio
0:39.0	in the living room with your folks like it was 1940? Your father pacing like his father
0:44.3	might have done in 1940?
0:46.8	Your mom there with her brave face on. Ash on her cigarette growing long. Or you were
0:52.4	listening on the little transistor radio propped up on the shelf above the sink and your
0:56.6	dishwasher job. With all the guys in the kitchen, each of you hanging on every number.
1:01.9	The one older dude north of 30. Keeping his mouth shut for once.
1:06.5	Maybe you got in the car to listen. Because the reception was better, you said.
1:11.3	But really you just wanted to be out of the house away from your roommates or your girl.
1:15.7	Or everyone. Just wanted to be driving.
1:18.8	Maybe you remember.
1:20.8	I don't.
1:22.4	The news broke in and there was a reporter Roger mud from CBS. He's young and handsome
1:27.7	in the video on YouTube. I didn't realize he'd ever been young and handsome.
1:32.8	Tonight for the first time in 27 years, the United States has again started a draft lottery.
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