Nate DiMeo
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243 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Nate DiMeo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Loved it.
It was a number of different things I was attempting to achieve.
It was a great lesson to...
to meet some of your heroes and like realize that they're just people like all these things were very important to me but there was a point where the band broke up because bands break up and like the dream would have been to be like a slightly successful indie band not to be some like big career band and um there was just a sort of moment in my life where i was like well what do you do next i was like listen like let me really think about what i love about doing this thing about being in this band
like i like making art i love hanging out with my friends i love the possibility that we might travel i love having working really hard on something and then having it go out into the world like performing the show and i'm like is there a way without just getting some other band to like achieve some of those things and i started to find over time that a lot of those things were embodied in public radio like i could travel i could make these little beautiful things that i you know could like fuss over and then it's just over you know
And I could collaborate.
And there were just a number of different things.
But I set this idea that all you can really do is you just got to like, it's like you have a flashlight.
You shine it out front, and you go in this direction.
And anything outside of this flashlight, you can't do it because it's out there in the darkness.
But you just have to cast a wide enough beam and start walking.
And hopefully, if you set your goal straight, anything that happens within that beam is probably going to be pretty cool and might lead you to that next thing.
And so I just kept like had these in the back of my head that there were just some things that I wanted, like I wanted like an art project with an audience, like I wanted to like want to do something publicly, like was important for me to like kind of test myself against the world and not be too hermetic and stuff like that.
At some point, I stumbled onto the format of the Memory Palace, that I'd always been interested in small things and pop songwriting and always wanted to have something where I could move from thing to thing and not have to be an expert in anything and get to know a lot of different stuff.
At some point, I just had stumbled, realized that I had achieved that, and that the Memory Palace itself,
Even though it's the same format every single time, it's just me talking over music or me just writing a short story for the book, finding a couple of pictures.
um that for as small as it was that it was kind of like writing songs that like whether the chorus goes on whether you repeat the course twice or whatever like it becomes a fundamentally different thing even though it's just a thing with the four four beat that lasts between two and a half and five minutes and i was doing the same thing but like i it was infinitely reconfigurable
And in the same way that like that people are still writing songs, different ways to talk about, you know, romantic love, like the past is a big enough subject and the format is flexible enough.
It is sort of like a vessel that is that I've discovered is just kind of like capacious enough to hold whatever I pour into it and like whatever I want to talk about.
I mean, I'm sure at some point I'll do it less frequently or it will wax and wane.
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