Memory Palace Week: How A Rock Became Plymouth Rock (1741)

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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All this week, we're joined by Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace to talk about his new book, his long-running podcast, and the art of history storytelling.

Today: Jody, Niki, Kellie and Nate discuss how the legend of Plymouth Rock got worked into US history, more than a century after the actual pilgrims stepped off the Mayflower.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia. My name is Jody Avergan.
0:11.3	Today we continue with Memory Palace Week and a Memory Palace spin on an absolute classic piece of American history, Plymouth Rock, the rock in Massachusetts that the pilgrims
0:21.6	stepped off of the Mayflower onto way back in December of 1620.
0:26.7	Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly.
0:28.6	We will get to that story in a second, but yes, our Radiotopia pal, Nate DeMaio is here,
0:33.2	longtime host of the brilliant history storytelling podcast, The Memory Palace, and now author of the
0:38.6	brand new Memory Palace book. Hopefully the last episode convinced you to go listen to the podcast
0:43.4	if you haven't or pick up a copy of the new book. And maybe it convinced you to become a member
0:48.2	of Radiotopia. So I just want to say right off the bat that as it happens, we are having Nate
0:52.6	on for a bunch of episodes right at the
0:54.5	same moment that the annual Radiotopia fundraiser is kicking off. We can only make shows like this one,
0:59.8	and Nate can only make a show like his, and all the other great independent shows at Radiotopia
1:04.6	can only exist with your support. So we're grateful for everyone who has taken that step from
1:09.6	listener to member. And if you
1:11.6	haven't taken that step, now is the time. There's a link right in our show notes. It just takes a
1:15.3	couple minutes and it will make you feel very good supporting independent media. But enough
1:19.2	business. Let's get into the Memory Palace meets Plymouth Rock. And the first order of business is
1:23.9	introducing my co-hosts here, as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter
1:28.3	Jackson of Wellesley. Hello there. And back for episode two of three for Memory Palace Week
1:33.1	is the host of the memory palace and author of the new Memory Palace book, Nate DeMaio. Nate,
1:38.1	hello, thanks for doing this. Hey, guys, excited to be here, excited to be back. Nate like if you were to Google like U S history maybe one of the top
1:45.9	10 stories that shows up Plymouth Rock um and I want to get into kind of why you were interested
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