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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A theme that comes up over and over again is I often do wonder what it is like after people do the thing that they're known for.
What was the next 30 years after they invented that thing?
What other inventions did they try to invent?
What was it like to live with the knowledge that one time I walked on the moon and now I'm just a guy?
i'm very interested in that and part of it is like because that's the kind of thing that like i try to figure out for myself all the time like what is it like to be you know an artist what is it like to have an audience what will happen if the audience goes away like who will i be then or whatever like those are just i i'm sure i write those stories because i'm interested in it life is always more complex than we think of like than the stories tell us like there is life beyond the story that i want to hint that there's even life beyond the story that i'm telling you and
that there's a thing in my audio book that only exists in the audio book that is about Scott Carpenter, the astronaut, you know, who is famous for for spending about six hours in space one day in 1962.
And you know what?
And it's a little bit about his life afterwards and the things that he chose to do, like while other people chose to continue to fight to go to the moon, while his buddies are like, you know, from the space program are like doing that and are being fed it is as you know, we're able to walk on the moon.
or able to be fetid in the White House yet again or have another ticker tape parade.
He had this dream of exploring the ocean, which he was sure was going to be just as big of a deal.
He went and became a part of the sea lab thing and lived under the water for 100 days or something like that.
When you start to really think about him,
in his totality and start to think about these other dreams that he had you know some that are failed and some that aren't you know these other romances that he had you know many that failed not only do you get a fuller picture of this person i'm kind of hoping that you just get this sort of sense that like god it is all more complicated and more beautiful and more life is more
you know, mysterious and strange than the stories that we often receive with Let Us Believe, that there's life that exists between the plot points in everybody's life.
And in fact, that might be where life really is.
There's a story that's actually a pretty good illustration of kind of like my whole deal and some of the things we've been talking about.
So some years ago, I was in Santa Barbara for a wedding and walked across the street to the hotel bar in Santa Barbara, beautiful old hotel bar.
And at the bar, there's an aquarium in the bar, so you can look at the fish while you drink.
Your cocktail is delicious and fantastic.
And so on the wall of this old bar from the 1920s or 30s,
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