Nate DiMeo
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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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Like all these years ago, I noticed that I had become something of a history buff without wanting to claim that title.
You know what I mean?
There was something about history buff that sounded a little bit dadcore as a younger person.
And even as a dad now, and even as like a middle-aged dad, it still doesn't quite match up.
And like, I am not, you know, sort of on the couch with the History Channel or, you know, in the den with history books.
Like I mostly am reading history on the clock, but I love movies and I love novels and I love poetry and I love music.
And I discovered that when I was a younger person, that I was really starting to find a lot of what I loved in those things, like on museum tours and on tours of historic homes.
And often I found that historic stuff, historic stories matched up and broadened something that I was already fascinated with, which was just simply memory.
Starting as a young kid, became very, very fascinated
with the way that memory worked, with the way that a dream I would have would be in my head, the images from that dream would be in my head in the same way that things that actually happened to me, that I realized that one was real and one was not.
But at the same time, in my memory, they were kind of the same thing.
And I also noticed in these formative experiences of listening to my parents and my grandparents tell stories about their past,
i was noticing that their memories the things that they were sharing with me kind of like lived in my own head and there was some real magic in that the idea that the past no matter how true it is no matter that we can you know dig up the bones and and and read through the diaries and or even watch the videos of things that happened in the past no matter how real they are where they live is in our imagination there's really been this abiding fascination
that you know that exists in the memory palace that i try to articulate and the easiest way to kind of say it this is a history show that is much more about feelings and wonder than it is about facts even though it is factual what is wonder for you what does that mean because i think it's a really important piece of yeah my experience of listening to the memory palace
Let's take it this way, that it's not hard to find out stuff about the past.
It's easier all the time.
A, if you want to look something up, you can just Google it if you want to find out what happened in 1952 in Indiana or whatever.
And it's not difficult for me as a professional to think of fine things that might someday be a story.
But I learned really early on that in that chaos, in all the tabs you have open and all of the stuff that is coming into your feed, or all of the facts that you might encounter when you're on a historic home tour, or all the things that you might learn about Lewis and Clark in a seven-hour Ken Burns documentary about Lewis and Clark, there's going to be something in there
if you're lucky, that steps out and moves you.
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