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Music

• Peri Banu vid Sjon (VERSION) by Dungen

• In a Landscape by John Cage

• Quartet for Four Percussionists IV: Fast by John Cage

• Dream by John Cage

• Completely Gone by Ludwig Gorannson

• The Introduction and Chi C’e Per Farmi i Rici from The Girl of the Golden West

• L’approche Du Nuage by Sylvain Chaveu

Notes

• The story of John Cage in the anechoic chamber was first told to me maybe twenty years ago by my friend Dave Panosky one night while walking around Providence. It was precisely the type of story that I wanted to one day make a show to tell. You can find it in a lot of places including in Cage’s own writing.

• I first came across the second silent room in Alex Ross’ wonderful, The Rest is Noise.

• I also tapped into Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of Girl of the Golden West by Annie Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis.

Question: Who is the most dominant athlete of all time? It's an interesting question and one which has started endless pub debates. Is that a basketball player like Michael Jordan, a baseball player like Babe Ruth, or a soccer player like Lionel Messi? Or maybe it's an athlete in an individual sport like Tiger Woods, or Serena Williams. My answer to the question of who is the most dominant athlete of all time might surprise you.

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How a man born 230 years ago still has living grandchildren in the year 2020.

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The Byzantine Empire was one of the greatest empires in world history, yet at no point was there ever an empire which went by that name.

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Notes and Reading:
* Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from “Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation’s Second Oldest Gay Bar” by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse’s website.
* “Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco’s Gay Bars, 1950-1968,” by Christopher Agee.
* June Thomas’ series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back.
* Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse’s 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com
* Michael Bronski’s A Queer History of the United States.
* Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay’s writing.
* Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30’s multiple times because it’s amazing.

Music
* We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero.
* Hit Anne Muller’s Walzer fur Robert a couple of times.
* Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church.
* We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating.
* We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Music

• We hear Armellodie by Chilly Gonzales

• And All Now Vibe by Tara Jane O'Neil

Notes

• The Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson

• Trouble in Lafayette Square by Gil Klein

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Music

• Illusion Perdida by Juan Bautista Guido y Su Orquesta Tipico

• Manny Returns Home and Fingerprints from Bernard Herrmann's score to The Wrong Man.

• Niggun for Solo Bassoon Phillipe Hersant

• Rearranging Furniture by Gabriel Yared

• Viona's Lullaby by Peter Sandberg

Notes

• The archives of the Kansas Historical Quarterly were very useful, particularly this article. 

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Music

• We hear a couple from Alabaster DePlume’s To Cy & Lee album, Whisky Story Time and Not My Ask.

• Bibio’s CAPEL BETHANIA.

• The Sage, by the Chico Hamilton Quintet.

• The Last Tears of a Deceased by Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou.

• Too Small for Eyes by Mothers.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Music

• Ruth and Sylvie from Daniel Hart’s score to Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

• The Walk from Bernard Hermann’s score to Tender is the Night

• Reflector by Bing and Ruth

• Requiem from Nico Mulhy’s score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties

• Under Siege from Warren Ellis’ score to Mustang

• Spaces in Time from Per Nargard and the Stavenger Symphony

• Theme de l’eau from Hikaru Hayashi’s score to The Naked Island

• Bus Ride from the score to Wildlike

• Duke Ellington playing Single Petal from a Rose

Notes

• There’s quite a bit written about Isaac Israel Hayes. You can find his own account of his trip to find the non-existant, open polar sea here.

• I owe the Detroit newspaper quote to this excellent article by Albin Kowaleweski.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

20 stories, each 20 seconds, to accompany you in the proper washing of hands.

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