the memory palace

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Music

• A couple from Quincy Jones' score to The Mirage: Turtle's Last Leap and Boobie Baby.
• The Jeweler from Bernard Hermann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still.
• Topsy from the might Chico Hamilton Quintet.

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This episode was originally released in April of 2018.

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Music

• We hear Ferris Wheel by Gabor Szabo from one of his better late sixties records.
• Herman's Malt from Jeff Russo's score to Fargo Season 2.
• David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs.
• Double Portrait by Double Edge from the album, U.S. Choice.
• A snippet of Idea of Order at Kyson Point from an album Brian Eno did with Tom Rogerson.
• Bicycles and Flasks by Dan Romer.
• A bit of Il Tamoure dei Bambini from Piero Umiliani's score to Le Isole Dell'amore
• A Naga Swaram-Snake Charmers Melody from Folk Music of India
• Finishes out on Completely Gone from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything Everything.

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Music

• Why, Buzzardman, Why? by the great Alabastar DePlume.
• Plantwood (Day) by Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice
• Shut Up World (Extended) from Ben Sollee's gorgeous score to a movie called Maidentrip.

Notes

• I really enjoyed reading Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville.
• If you're ever researching old baseball stuff, you want to head over to the site maintained by the fine folks at the Society for Baseball Research. There, you can read about Frank Howard,for instance.

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Music

• Yes/And plays In My Heaven, All My Faucets are Fountains
• Two from Andrew Hewitt's score to Submarine: Jill Tate and Pamphlet
• Plantasia by Mort Gerson
• Steve Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood as performed by Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble
• Library Chant from Michael Andrews' wonderful score to Me and You and Everyone We Know
• Takahiro Kido's 3-Sized PF

Notes

• If you want to dive super deep into this topic, there's a fantastic history done by Patrick Feaster for the National Park Service.

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Music

• Migratory Birds by Western Skies Motel
• Artifact 3 by Ryan Teague
• Barcelona by Alex Kozobolis
• Feel First Life by Jon Hopkins
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Flashing back a decade to the recording of A Song of Myself Nate did in a hotel room in Phoenix ahead of the 2016 Presidential election.

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This episode was originally produced in July of 2015.

Music

* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.

* The opening loop is from Mr. Knight from Coltrane Plays the Blues, which you should own.

* The violin piece is Occam II for Violin, a piece by Silvia Tarozzi, played by Pauline Oliveros.

* Next up is Mikuro's Blues from the mighty David S. Ware' mighty Go See the World.

* The amazing orchestral pieces is Triumph by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Nino from Fill the Heart- Shaped Cup

* Finally, there's 13 Ghosts II by Nine Inch Nails from Ghosts I-IV

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This is a special episode commissioned by Aspen Ideas: Health and originally performed at the 2026 festival in Aspen, Colorado.

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Music

• The Barr Brothers play Static Orphans

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This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.

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Music

• The Barr Brothers play Static Orphans
• Resavoir plays Facets
• We hear Le mort de l'enfant from Hikaru Hayashi's score to The Naked Island.
• South Seas by David Pike
• Trust in Me from Sould Flutes
• Flowering Jasmine from Gidon Kremer
• Tesko Mi Je Zabrovit Tebe from Branko Mataja.

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Music

• Two (Duvet and Correspondences) from Laurie Torres' gorgeous album, Après coup.

Notes

• I implore you to get lost in the interactive map at livingnewdeal.org. And then go out in the woods.

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Music

• The Skydiver from the great Lalo Schiffrin's score to the quite poor, The Mask of Sheba.
• Charlie Megira plays The Girl Who was Frightened of Ashtrays
• Ellen's Image from the great Lalo Schiffrin's score to the quite excellent, The Fox.
• What if... from Keegan Dewitt's score to the quite charming, Heart Beats Loud.

Notes

• There was a very good article in Cabinet Magazine by Christopher Turner about the Switzer Brothers that includes excerpts from an unpublished autobiography from Bob.
• I also really enjoyed this one from Liz Stinson about the science and art of Day Glo.

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You can hear Rollercoaster and more of Hrishi's music at https://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.

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Music

• Drywall from Johann Johannson's score to Sicario.
• Castle Song by Green-House
• Tea by Resevoir
• La Valse du Progres by Delphine Dora
• Arrival by Domenique Dumont
• Sarah in Bath from Kryzystof Komeda's score to Fearless Vampire Killers
• Thread of Light by Golden Retriever
• In Some Spirit World by Geotic

Notes

• This one was pulled together with tiny threads of information, much provided by the NCRA'swebsite itself.
• You can find links to three fascinating (really!) studies on the brains of transcribers here, here, & here.

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This episode originally dropped in 2018.

• We start with Facing the Obstacles, from Robert Simonson's score to The Final Member.
• Nice Breeze Isn't It? by Simon Rackham
• The Things Left Unsaid, by Caleb Burhans.
• View from a Balcony by Isorinne.
• 1979by Deru.
• The Julianna Barwick remix of This Will Destroy You's The Puritan.

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Music

• Marisa Anderson plays He is Without His Guns
• Bing & Ruth play Broad Channel (Solo Piano)
• Greg Haines plays Peter's Advice

Notes

• You can listen to the full recording here.

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Music

• Unseen Forces by Justin Walter
• Peperomia Seedling by Green-House
• Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey
• Little Miss Echo by Raymond Scott
• Stellify by Francesco Albanese
• Chain Home by Rogerson and Eno
• Luna by Digitonal
• Caroline Shaw plays The Orangery from Plan & Elevation

Notes

The place to start with all of this is here. It'll lead you out to the Bishop Museum's work, the lovely documentary produced by Hawai'ian Public Television, everywhere where you'd want to go.

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With Nate surprisingly sidelined, his friends and fellow Radiotopians at This Day save (This) day.

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In our new series "50 Weeks That Shaped America," we're headed to January 1920 and the first night of Prohibition. Hide your booze! Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the long road to prohibition, going back decades, and the political forces that led to the ban of alcohol.

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Starting off the year with a new tradition: the first annual Public Domain Theater, in which Nate reads an important work of American literature that entered the public domain on January 1st of a given year. First up, the first Nancy Drew mystery, The Secret of the Old Clock.

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Music

• Sincerely Yours by LLLL
• Across the Other Side by Infinite Scale
• Sunset by Resavoir
• Mammoth by Golden Brown
• Unassigned by Vernon Spring
• Swimming by Explosions in the Sky
• Pure (Ride the World) by The Brendan Eder Ensemble
• Le Tunnel by Sylvain Chauveau
• Floating Away by Lullatone

Notes

• There's a ton written about Emma Rowena Gatewood but so much of it, including this story, owes a huge debt to Ben Montgomery's book, Grandma Gatewood's Walk, which excavated the story of her life with her husband. Besides that, it is wonderfully written. Totally recommend it.

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