Episode 619 – 2024 Recap

Virtual Memories Show

Virtual Memories Show 619:
2024 Recap

It’s the end of the year, so let’s take stock of 2024 with a big ol’ year-in-review monologue! Your intrepid/decrepit host, Gil Roth, gets personal while talking about what he’s learned from the podcast & his guests this year, how they continue to change each other’s lives, the moment he found his Spirit Jacket, his communion with a Roman sculpture, the validation of his year-long photo-book project, the joy of hiking the Catskills with an old friend, a big work-anniversary, the thrilling circumstances of his debilitating neck injury, the best non-clinical moment you can have in an oncology setting, the new addition to the Virtual Memories family, his 2025 wants, and above all, the question of whether a person can really change (and okay, above that, the question of what ‘change’ means). (Him being him, there are plenty of digressions & other topics over the course of 50 minutes.) Give it a listen!

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About our Guest

Gil Roth created the Virtual Memories Show in 2012 as an ongoing conversation about the arts, and has hosted more than 600 episodes, including ~60 daily ones during COVID lockdown. He took up drawing and painting in 2021 at age 50, the same year he got diagnosed with (dormant, nonaggressive) CLL. He has produced two issues to date of a ‘zine called Haiku for Business Travelers. Since 2022, he has mailed out a postcard every mail-day. He’s working on a book of Instax photos & prose derived from his 2024 podcast experiences, to be called GUEST/HOST.

In 2014, he launched the Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association (PBOA), a nonprofit trade association for bio/pharmaceutical contract development & manufacturing organizations (CDMOs), after previously serving as Founding Editor of Contract Pharma magazine from 1999.

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Credits: This episode’s music is Fella by Hal Mayforth, used with permission from the artist. The monologue was recorded at Stately Virtual Memories Manor on a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone feeding into a Zoom PodTrak P4. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC. Photos of me by me, except the Boxer At Rest one, which is by Amy Roth. It’s on my instagram.