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Nate DiMeo
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    Episode 125: Snakes!

    2026/10/01 | 15 mins.
    This episode was originally released in April of 2018.

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    Music

    We hear Ferris Wheel by Gabor Szabo from one of his better late sixties records.

    Herman's Malt from Jeff Russo's score to Fargo Season 2.

    David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs.

    Double Portrait by Double Edge from the album, U.S. Choice.

    A snippet of Idea of Order at Kyson Point from an album Brian Eno did with Tom Rogerson.

    Bicycles and Flasks by Dan Romer.

    A bit of Il Tamoure dei Bambini from Piero Umiliani's score to Le Isole Dell'amore

    A Naga Swaram-Snake Charmers Melody from Folk Music of India

    Finishes out on Completely Gone from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything Everything.

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    Episode 248: The Last Game

    2026/09/17 | 17 mins.
    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. 
    Music

    Why, Buzzardman, Why? by the great Alabastar DePlume.

    Plantwood (Day) by Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice

    Shut Up World (Extended) from Ben Sollee's gorgeous score to a movie called Maidentrip.

    Notes

    I really enjoyed reading Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville.

    If you're ever researching old baseball stuff, you want to head over to the site maintained by the fine folks at the Society for Baseball Research. There, you can read about Frank Howard, for instance. 

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    Episode 247: Babies

    2026/09/03 | 16 mins.
    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. 
    Music

    Yes/And plays In My Heaven, All My Faucets are Fountains

    Two from Andrew Hewitt's score to Submarine: Jill Tate and Pamphlet

    Plantasia by Mort Gerson

    Steve Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood as performed by Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble

    Library Chant from Michael Andrews' wonderful score to Me and You and Everyone We Know

    Takahiro Kido's 3-Sized PF

    Notes
    If you want to dive super deep into this topic, there's a fantastic history done by Patrick Feaster for the National Park Service. 

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    Episode 246: Last Standing

    2026/08/20 | 16 mins.
    Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
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    Music

    Migratory Birds by Western Skies Motel

    Artifact 3 by Ryan Teague

    Barcelona by Alex Kozobolis

    Feel First Life by Jon Hopkins

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    A Song of Myself

    2026/08/07 | 1h 40 mins.
    Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
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    Flashing back a decade to the recording of A Song of Myself Nate did in a hotel room in Phoenix ahead of the 2016 Presidential election. 

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