A Story and a Song (A Memory Palace/Song Exploder Crossover Event)

A Story and a Song (A Memory Palace/Song Exploder Crossover Event)

From the memory palace by Nate DiMeo

April 10, 2026 · 29 min

About this episode

This episode features a crossover event with Song Exploder and discusses various historical and musical themes.

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org , on Amazon.com , on Barnes & Noble , or directly from Random House . Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm . The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. You can hear Rollercoaster and more of Hrishi's music at Hrishikesh.co . Pre-order his new album wherever you do that sort of thing! Music Halcyon and Photosynteses and Embryo by H. Takehashi Intro by Library Tapes The Florist Wears Knee Breeches by M. Sage Notes I found Andrew Isenberg's book, The Destruction of the Bison, An Environmental History, completely fascinating. If you want to do a deep dive on Madison Grant, I'd recommend Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant by John Peter Spiro. If you want to do a deep dive on the Catalina Buffalo, this site is a fun place to start. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

People in this episode

Host: Nate DiMeo

Topics covered

  • history
  • environmental history
  • music
  • bison
  • conservation
  • eugenics

Keywords

  • Memory Palace
  • bison
  • Madison Grant
  • environmental history
  • music
  • conservation
  • eugenics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Radiotopia, PRX

Products: The Memory Palace book, audiobook

Books & works: The Destruction of the Bison, An Environmental History, Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant

Places: Catalina

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