Hey there, this is not Nate D'Ameo and this is not the Memory Palace.
My name is Jody Avergan.
I am a colleague of Nate's here at Radiotopia.
I host a show called This Day with my pals and historians, Nicole Hammer and Kelly Carter Jackson.
We are part of a little brotherhood of history shows here at Radiotopia.
We are big fans and admirers of what Nate does on the Memory Palace.
And I am here and you are listening to my voice instead of Nate's for a reason that I am just about to find out.
He reached out to me and said, are you willing to do something for the Memory Palace?
And I can't tell you what it is.
And of course I said yes
because you say yes when one of the podcasting greats asks you to do something.
But also I will tell you that one of my overarching goals in life and something that I am recommitting to in 2026 is to do more cool shit with people I like.
So this qualifies I'm very excited and my task is to read what I'm about to open.
Now Nate sent this to me in an email as an attachment.
This feels like the kind of thing that should arrive delivered by an owl or a carrier pigeon,
which the memory palace has done an episode about.
So let's do a little theater of the mind here.
Imagine that I'm opening an envelope.
Maybe it has a wax seal on it, touching inside, taking this out.
And I'm reading it cold for the first time.