2024-04-02
43 分钟The first episode of You Must Remember This tells the story of actress Kim Novak -- a top box office draw of the late 1950s and the iconic star of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo -- and her painful struggles to assert herself from the mid-20th century through well into the 21st, in a Hollywood that repeatedly sent her the message that she was only valuable for the way she looked, while also insisting that she didn’t quite look good enough. Originally released in April 2014, this episode has been “lost” for almost as long due to copyright issues with its soundtrack. Today, in honor of the podcast’s ten year anniversary, we’re rereleasing this episode with new music, largely re-recorded voiceover, and just enough of the original episode intact so you can hear how far the show has come over the course of a decade. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hello.
You must remember this listeners.
What you are about to hear is a new version of our long lost first episode titled the Hard Hollywood Life of Kim Novak.
For those who don't know, when I started this podcast ten years ago, it was fully diy and in addition to the old timey radio that I think most people see as the podcast's main reference, I was inspired by two trends from the nineties when I was a teenager, mixtapes which were always imperfect and basically existed to illegally distribute music outside of the capitalist structure and culture jamming which was an underground art movement that involved appropriating music and iconography from the mainstream in order to comment on it.
In the spring of 2014, when I was dreaming up this podcast and trying to figure out how to make it, I never thought I would make money off of it.
The most I hoped for was that a few people would listen and maybe one of them would hire me to write a book or do something else with my ability to research and analyze old movies.
So while I knew it was illegal to essentially sample pre recorded music to create a score for a podcast, I didnt really think that it mattered much because I thought this show would basically be like a basement tape and no one would sue me because it would be clear to everyone that there was no way for me to make money off of it.
That changed really quickly when, after just ten episodes, I was invited to join a podcast network that planned to sell ads.
In signing a contract with that network, I had to get my ducks in a row, legally speaking.
And so in the late summer of 2014, I sat down to re edit the ten episodes I had already released to remove the copyright music that I didnt have the right to use.
However, the original Garageband project file for this episode had become corrupted and I couldnt easily re edit it.
So that is why for the past nine and a half years, there has been no episode.
One of you must remember this on podcast apps.
So for the podcasts 10th anniversary, which is April 2024, I decided to take the time to restore the episode to preserve as much of the original as I could while re recording parts of it so that I could replace copyright music with royalty free or pod safe music.
What you are about to hear combines elements from the original 2014 episode with new elements inserted in 2024.
I resisted the urge to rewrite the original episode extensively, but I did add or alter a word here or there just to try to make sure that I am communicating what I want to communicate, which I was still clearly learning how to do in 2014.
Also, I was still learning how to speak into a microphone.
As youll hear, my voice sounds quite different now than it did then.
I wanted to leave in as much of the original episode as possible so that you could hear how far ive come over the past decade as the show turns ten.
I dont currently know what its future is going to be, but right now I just want to take a moment to celebrate how far its come since those weeks in 2014 when I was banging my head against a wall, sometimes literally trying to make this thing that would tell the world who I was and what I cared about.