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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That where suddenly things crystallize, where it connects deeply with something that is in you, whether it has triggered some trauma or whether it factors into something you've already been rolling around in your head and it helps crystallize that.
And to me, those moments when something kind of reaches out of the past here and touches you, I never thought to define it before, but what wonder is, is something that snaps you into presence.
You know, it's something that like takes you out of the kind of whir and sputter of the day to day and moves you where you have learned something about your present because it's just matched up with something paired with something in the past.
Like, oh, in learning this thing about Dwight Eisenhower, I've actually learned something about my dad or something like that.
And those moments of connection are both the things that drive, you know, my work.
Like I am looking at.
you know, among the millions of different stories one could tell about the past.
I am trying to find the things that move me and then trying to find ways to move other people and share that experience of wonder, share that experience of connection, share that moment when I really do understand that the people in the past are real people, which despite, you know, the banality of that statement is also a fairly profound thing.
When you are really present with this fact, that's when wonder can kind of step into the room, I guess you would say.
The process for finding stories, whether they're in the book or whether they're on the show, is kind of the same thing all the time, which is I am just professionally open to
history stuff, right?
And so I am paying attention to it when an interesting thing comes into my feed, or I'm reading in a novel or some larger work that there's the strange detail that just kind of jumps out at you.
And I'll go off and I have a document and I'll write those things down.
So there's two things going on there.
One is that I have learned to kind of trust that if it has jumped out to me, then there's some reason.
And that if I really interrogate what that is, then I might find something within myself.
And then there's this giant list, and it might be dozens and dozens and dozens long of small things, like the first elephant arrived in the United States in 1803 or whatever.
Is that a real fact?
I'm not sure about the date, but it is a fact.
At some point it did.
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