{"id":825,"date":"2012-08-07T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=825"},"modified":"2012-08-07T01:33:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T08:33:22","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e1-affinity-for-the-dead-with-nate-dimeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S2E1: Affinity for the Dead with Nate DiMeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-826\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"memory palace main logo\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/memory-palace-main-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/memory-palace-main-logo.jpg 290w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/memory-palace-main-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down at the West Hollywood Library with Nate DiMeo, public radio producer and creator of the podcast <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thememorypalace.us\/\">The Memory Palace<\/a><\/em>. They discuss American history&#8217;s unique wealth of inventors, fakes, geniuses and eccentrics, such as serial impostor Stanley <a href=\"http:\/\/thememorypalace.us\/2010\/05\/episode-30-nee-weinberg\/\">Clifford Weyman<\/a> and child prodigy turned streetcar transfer taxonomist <a href=\"http:\/\/thememorypalace.us\/2011\/01\/six-scenes-in-the-life-of-william-james-sidis-wonderful-boy\/\">William James Sidis<\/a>; the odd satisfaction of stories that arrive at &#8220;close enough&#8221; rather than classic success; the issue of the right historical moment for a creation, whether that creation is a podcast, a radio show, or the music of Slash; podcasting&#8217;s theoretically ideal function as public radio&#8217;s &#8220;indie underground&#8221; feeder system, and its failure thus far to perform that function; his own realization that <em>The Memory Palace<\/em>\u00a0probably wouldn&#8217;t take the public radio path, and the freedom that gave him; the enduring appeal, no matter podcasting advantages, of the &#8220;kismet&#8221; of radio, which can deliver unexpected information, entertainment, and delight; why a relatively high degree of public radio innovation has gone on in Los Angeles, and how a public radio producer can become the hit of any entertainment-industry party here; why the older public radio generation hasn&#8217;t yielded to the younger; and what it takes for him, as an avowed non-history buff, to draw certain feelings from moments in American history and then reconstitute those feelings in audio form.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/webpage\/s2e1-affinity-for-the-dead-with-nate-di-meo\"><em>Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em>\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down at the West Hollywood Library with Nate DiMeo, public radio producer and creator of the podcast The Memory Palace. 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