Nate DiMeo
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243 appearances
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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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There'll be this list of things that just sits there.
Sometimes I'll be like, oh, what am I going to do for this episode that's coming up?
I will look at that list and there might be dozens and dozens of things that at one point said, oh, that's cool, but they won't mean anything to me.
I will say that elephant thing is ridiculous.
Who cares about the elephant thing?
And so what often I'm doing is I'm waiting for this factoid, this scenario, this person's biography to allow me to articulate something about the present, where suddenly this story about the first elephant might allow me to just explore something that is about the wonders of animal cognition, of living with your dog and knowing them so well, but truly not knowing what's going on there.
Like, let me really think about what it meant to, you know, for the person that brought the elephant, why did they choose to bring this creature, you know, all across the world?
You know, when they are bringing this Indian elephant to the United States, like, what are they not doing?
What are they not loading their cargo hold with?
What is the economic calculation of like, okay, I could have brought this, all this tea, but instead I'm going to bring this elephant.
Like, let's take this thing seriously.
Not only do you find a story, you'd find something with characters and motivations and stuff like that.
But you start to find, you know, resonant things.
And one of the themes that comes up over and over again, but one of the things I'm just always interested in is the way that novelty wears off.
And it becomes this kind of mundane thing in the same way that your phone with its, you know, when you first learn how to make a bitmoji, you're like, oh, cool, get a bitmoji.
And then after a while, not only do you not care after a while, you feel kind of dumb for even having done it.
You know, it's not just that these are historical stories and they are, but they are stories about the past and they are stories about the wonder of like living with the past and living through time, living with time.
I think one of the reasons why I'm excited to be on this podcast is that I think that there is something about just, I think of doing The Memory Palace as a way that allows me to live better.
In that- Tell me more about that.
I basically have a story, a new story every couple of weeks.
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