Memory Lane Podcast sample
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question. Have you ever heard the name Josh Billings? Yeah, No worries. I've never heard of him, either. He was 1/19 century American humorist, and he was overshadowed by a more famous 19th century American humorous named Mark Twain. So, anyway, back to Josh Billings, I came across a quote of hiss, and it made me think, Here's the quote. There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory, whom I'll buy that, as a matter of fact, I will buy that so much that this is the entire purpose of this podcast. So come with me. Let's differentiate between memory and imagination. And with that, we began the memory lane podcast with me, your host Chris Brinkley thing. Okay, here's a basic explanation of how the memory lane podcast works. It's kind of a combination between a nostalgic trip back down memory lane and a episode of Scooby Doo theme that Scooby Doo, the one that's always solving mysteries. And that's what we do on the memory lane Podcast. Solve the mystery of memory memories, air, strange things. They change over time. You forget certain things about the member. You add things to the memory that never happened. The memory becomes more than a memory, just like Josh, Billings said. Part of it is imagination. So if you told me your memories, memories that you weren't even really sure about, how could we find out what really happened? Well, we could find other people that experienced what you are remembering and get their version of your memory or your version of their memory and put the two versions together to come to some kind of conclusion. And that's basically the concept for the memory lane podcast. I thought with this being the very first episode, I would be selfish, and I would take one of my memories and see how much of it happened and how much other is down my imagination. So come along, jump in the car with me. Let's drive over to memory Lee, the first ingredient of the memory lane recipe is my memory. So let's stop and take a look around inside of the place called My Memory. Okay, so I was a kid. I was either in the third grade or the fourth grade, and I really think that I was in the fourth grade and here's why. I remember this because this memory involves school. And I remember the hallway, the hallway of this memory, and that was the fourth grade hallway at the Martin Elementary School. So let's back it up. So it was a Sunday. I'm 10 years old. I'm hanging out with my mom, and I realized that I've got a whole Mork assignment that's due that Monday. It's a history assignment, and it's probably the biggest assignment that we've been assigned all year. And I tell my mom, Hey, Mom, we've got this big project that's due where we have to take some kind of historical event and we've got to make something like a model or something that matches the historical event in my very sweet, loving, caring mom, who never raised her voice, said, When is it due? And I said, Oh, Mom, no units due tomorrow on She did what all moms do whenever moms aren't happy. She called me by my first and middle name, Christopher Russell Brinkley. I can't believe that this is due tomorrow, and I think Mom had something going on and she said, Call your uncle, call Uncle Ralph, which was my mother's brother, Ralph and he'll help you do this, so I did. But let me explain something quickly. Ralph was more like a brother to me than an uncle and older brother. He was 11 years older, so he was 2021 years old at the time. And prior to that, my mother had worked nights at the hospital, 11 to 7 as an LP and at the hospital. So I would spend the night at my grandparent's house where my uncle lived my mother's brother. So again, I mean, my uncle was more like an older brother than an uncle, so I don't really remember what happened after that. But I remember calling him, and for whatever reason, we decided to make a historical replica model of the John F. Kennedy assassination site in Dallas, Texas. Here is a bulletin from CBS News in Dallas, Texas. Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded. Five shooting, and I don't really know why we I chose this other than I kind of had a weird fascination with John F. Kennedy, because my grandfather had passed away a year earlier. and for some reason in my mind, I thought my grandfather looked a lot like John F. Kennedy. Now that I'm older, I realized that that's not so much the case, but they kind of had the same hair. You know, the kind of wavy, like the John F. Kennedy, my grandfather, Andy Griffith Shoney's big Boy look. And I don't know, I thought John F. Kennedy was cruel because he reminded me of my grandfather. So my grandfather was, was truly a carpenter. He built houses, and my 20 year old uncle, Ralph, also was becoming a carpenter. The next part of the memory is we're in like a workshop and my Uncle Ralph as a piece of plywood and its long in my mind it's It's two feet by two feet and it's good size and he's taking two by fours and he's cutting them, and I just kind of standing back watching him do my project, and he takes the two by fours and he makes them into the building and he's got He's got the encyclopedia. Four Google people looked at the encyclopedia, and he has the encyclopedia opened, and there's a diagram in a map and he's creating the book depository building in the grassy knoll and the motorcade and and it's brilliant. He's painting windows on the buildings and he's got a model car and he's creating everything to scale. And we spend the whole afternoon together building this replica of the site where John F. Kennedy was assassinated and that stand and watch and realise Monica was talented and I will be the coolest kid in school tomorrow. So we finish and we showed what he's built to family members, and they're amazed there in all. And then there's that moment. There's that moment when you know Chris, you can ride the school bus tomorrow, we'll take you to school because you've got this fantastic replica that you're taking the school. And then something happened. That doesn't happen very often in life where you put together something or create this big project, and that, you know, soon you will show people and, you know, without a doubt, with without any shadow of a doubt, they're going to be impressed and amazed by what you have accomplished Now again, you know, most of the time when you're turning in an assignment or you're doing a project at work. You don't have that kind of confidence in what you did that night when I went to bed as a 10 year old boy. I knew the next day I would be the coolest kid in school without a doubt. Now that I was back at it, I probably shouldn't have taken credit for it because my uncle did all the work, but but still, I knew that we represented together by me would have the coolest project of anyone in the fourth grade. And here's where you probably think On the way to school, I dropped the replica and broke it, or I got to school and everyone made fun of it or didn't like it on. No, I mean, this story has a happy ending. I walked into the school my 10 year old self, in the fourth grade hallway at the Martin Elementary School with my project and teachers looked in, students looked, and it was an amazing moment, and the teacher took the replica and of course I got in a. But she put it on display in the classroom, and it was the model that she showed to all of her other classes, and the entire fourth grade class was talking about me and my John F. Kennedy assassination project. And that is my memory now to the second part of the memory lane podcast verifying my memory with Uncle Ralph's memory if he even had one.