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

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Episode 242: The Handwriter

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Episode 122: Hercules

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Episode 241: Stay Gold

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Episode 240: Islanders

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Pinch hitting!

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Public Domain Theater 2026

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Nate's Favorite Episode of the Year: Emma and the Trail

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Episode 239: Blank Pages

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From The Memory Palace Audiobook: Fine New England Granite

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Episode 238: The Crypt of Thornwell Jacobs

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A Teach-In for History

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Episode 237: Vigil

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Episode 133: Antidisestablishmentarianism

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Episode 236: The Times

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Summer Reading: Two Transcendent Poems About Public Transportation

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Episode 235: The Girls, their Teachers, their Parents

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Episode 234: Looking for Parking, Late Winter, 1996

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Episode 233: Nan + Warren

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A White Horse

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Episode 232: Oh, Herbert Morrison

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Episode 231: On Dexter Avenue

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Episode 230: Helen Hulick Takes the Stand

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Episode 229: Teammates

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Episode 228: Free Time

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Episode 227: A Brief Note Written After Learning the National Parks Service Removed the word Transgender from Stonewall'

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Episode 176: The Air and the Sea and the Land

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Episode 226: A Wild One

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Episode 225: Emma and the Trail

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Stories About The Memory Palace Audiobook

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Episode 224: Two Postcards

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Nate on Atlas Obscura

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Nate DiMeo and Pablo Torre Find Out

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Sutro and the Tides

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Episode 150: Late One Night

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Episode 222: Ferminia Sarras

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Episode 221: Ken Allen

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Episode 220: The Zipper

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Episode 219: Lost Jobs

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A White Horse

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Episode 218: Olga

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Hazel, Mark, and a One-Time Juliet

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Episode 216: Awake

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Episode 215: An Eighth Wonder

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Episode 214: Newsboy

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Episode 213: The Light and the Spirits

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Episode 212: David Mills

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Episode 211: Cutting and Ned

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Smoky and Bill, a Holiday Card

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Episode 210: Smoky and Bill

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Episode 120: The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habita

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Episode 209: Wake

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Episode 208: In the Gallery

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Episode 207: The Six Triple Eight

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Episode 206: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American

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Episode 79: Artist in Landscape

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Episode 90: A White Horse

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Episode 205: Alice Ramsay

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Episode 204: Wolves

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episode 76: Mary Walker Would Wear what she Wanted

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Episode 67: Every Night Ever

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Episode 148: Safe Passage

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Episode 94: Numbers (rebroadcast)

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Nate's episode of the year 2022: In France or in Heaven

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Episode 203: The News from Thar

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Episode 202: Better Babies

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Episode 201: One Fruit

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Episode 200: Ghost Story

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Episode 199: Nee Blinky

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Episode 198: Weather Conditions Above Mount Fuji

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Episode 115: A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station

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Episode 124: Junk Room

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Episode 91: Natural Habitat

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Episode 197: Kiddo

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Episode 90: A White Horse

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Episode 152: Let it Snow

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Episode 196: In France or in Heaven

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Episode 195: A New Bronze Man

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Episode 194: Small Sample

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Episode 101: Promise

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Episode 193: Classmates (Making Trouble)

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Episode 192: Combinations

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Episode 191: Crash

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Nate's Favorite Episode of 2021: Betty Robinson

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Episode 190: The Ride

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Episode 189: New England Granite

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Episode 188: Spirits

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Episode 187: The Woods

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Episode 63: Other Bodies

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Episode 186: Shining

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Episode 185: The Life and Works of a Monumental Figure

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Memory Palace Summer Reading: The Great Gatsby, part 3

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Memory Palace Summer Reading: The Great Gatsby, Part 2

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Memory Palace Summer Reading: The Great Gatsby, Part 1

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Episode 184: Betty Robinson

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Episode 183: Goblins

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Episode 182: The Surfmen

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Episode 181: The Adventures of Pearl

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Episode 180: Tracks

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Episode 179: Keyhole

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Episode 178: Crossfade

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Episode 77: Butterflies

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Episode 177: A Brief Eulogy for Carla Wallenda

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Episode 176: The Air and the Sea and the Land

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Episode 175: One Hundred Percent a Diner

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Episode 174: The Stone

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Episode 105: Amok

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Episode 173: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

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Episode 172: The Existential Tourist

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Episode 171: Out to Sea and Back Again

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Episode of the Year 2020

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Episode 170: Reed v.

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The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe

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From a Parking Lot, a special bonus episode for the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival

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High Falls, a bonus episode for the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival

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Episode 169: Beautician

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Episode 168: The Traveling Stones

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The Wheel

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Episode 167: A Brief Eulogy for a Minor League Baseball Team

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Episode 166: The Silent Room

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A White Horse

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Episode 165: A Park

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Episode 164: Dora Salter

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Episode 163: Freds

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Episode 162: A Strange Land

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Episode 161: Stories to Wash Hands By

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Episode 160: Wong Kim Ark

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Episode 159: The Newest News

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Episode 158: Life's Work

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Episode 157: The House of Lowe

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Episode 156: That's How it Goes Whenever it Snows

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Episode 155: Lost Bulls

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Nate's Favorite Episode of 2019

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Episode 154: Dotting I's

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A Conversation About the Memory Palace with Robert Krulwich

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Episode 153: Dinner at Jefferson's

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Episode 152: Let it Snow

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Episode 151: The Story of Maria Barberi

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Episode 150: Late One Night

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Episode 149: Dance by the Ocean

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Episode 147: Shipwreck Kelly

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A Welcome! And Dreamland!

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Episode 146: Two Memorials, Last Week of July, 2019

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Episode 145: Stories about the St. Louis

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Episode 144: Nature Naturally

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A White Horse

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Episode 143: The Only One

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Episode 142: Private Robinson on Pawnee Rock

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Episode 141: This Story Climbed Mount Washington

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Rebroadcast: Origin Stories

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Episode 140: Jackie Mitchell

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Episode 139: 1,347 Birds

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Episode 138: Sixty Starlings

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A Memory Palace/Radio Diaries Crossover Event

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Episode 137: Swans

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Episode 136 (Ten Fingers, Ten Toes)

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Nate's Episode of the Year for 2018

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Episode 135: Revolutions

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2018 Fundraiser Bonus Episode!

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Election Eve Rebroadcast (In Line)

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Episode 134 (The Dress in the Closet)

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Episode 132 (Ida Lewis)

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Episode 131 (Lost Locusts)

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Episode 130 (Independence Hall 2: The Legend of Walter Knott)

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Summer Re-run: Episode 68 (White Heat, White Light)

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Episode 129: Uplift

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Episode 128 (Patience)

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A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.

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No Summer (Episode 127)

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Episode 126 (The 8th Story)

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Episode 125: Snakes!

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Episode 124 (Junk Room)

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A quick update and a bonus episode

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Episode 123: Outliers

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Big Block of Cheese - Bonus episode

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Episode 122 (Hercules)

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Episode 121 (The Nickel Candy Bar)

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Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habita

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Nate's Episode of the Year: If You Have to be a Floor

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Episode 119 (John C. Calhoun from the Opposite Side of the Line that Divides the Living from the Dead)

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Episode 118 (On the Shores of Assawompset)

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Episode 117 (Elizabeth)

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Episode 116 (Hoover)

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Episode 115 (A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station)

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Sometimes the Rain Just Doesn't Stop

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Two Small Sculptures (The Met Residency Episode 8)

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Orbes Cintilantes - A special summer episode

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"Relics": A Special Bonus Episode

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A Scavenger Hunt (The Met Residency Episode 7)

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Episode 113 (Elmer McCurdy Rides Again and Again)

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Episode 112 (The Taking of Tom Sawyer's Island)

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Episode 111 (Cipher, or Greenhow Girls)

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If You Have to be a Floor (The Met Residency Episode 6)

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Episode 110 (Lost Camels)

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Episode 109 (The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs)

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Notes on a Plaque, Still Imagined

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Episode 108, Met Residency #5: Temple

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Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds)

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Episode 106 (A Washington Monument)

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Episode 105: Amok

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Episode 104, Met Residency #4 (A Portrait)

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Episode 103 (The Rose of Long Island)

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Episode 102 (The Presidency of William Henry Harrison, or Back in the Saddle)

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Nate's Episode of the Year: Local Channels

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Episode 101 (Promise)

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Episode 100 (Peregrinar)

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Episode 99, Met Residency #3 (Full Circle)

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An odd, pre-election bonus episode: a full reading of Song of Myself

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Episode 98 (Under Our Feet)

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Episode 97 (In Line)

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The Met Residency Episode M2: One Bottle, Any Bottle

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The Met Residency Episode 1: Recent Acqusition

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Episode 96 (Canali)

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Episode 95 (Haunting)

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Episode 94 (Numbers)

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From the Vault: Dreamland

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Episode 93 (Local Channels)

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Episode 92 (Oil, Water)

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Episode 91 (Natural Habitat)

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Episode 90 (A White Horse)

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Episode 89 (Family Snapshot)

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Episode 88 (Open Road)

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From the Vault: A Special Mother's Day Re-Run

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Episode 87 (Victory)

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Episode 86 (Finishing Hold)

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Episode 85 (AKA Leo)

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Episode 84 (Homesteading)

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Episode 83 (Overland)

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Episode 82 (The Wheel)

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Episode 81 (Below, from Above)

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Episode (M): Gallery 742

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Episode 80 (Shore Leave)

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Episode 79 (Artist in Landscape)

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Episode 78 (no. 116,842)

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Episode 77 (Butterflies)

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Episode 76 (Mary Walker Would Wear What She Wanted)

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Episode 75 (The Ballad of Captain Dwight)

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Episode 74 (Craning)

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Episode 73 (Notes on an Imagined Plaque to be Added to the Statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Upon Hearing that t

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Episode 72 (Run-of-the-River)

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Episode 71 (Zulu Charlie Romeo)

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Episode 70 (Developments in the Design and Manufacture of American Menswear 1840-1860, a Fable)

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Episode 69 (Charlie: God of Rain)

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Episode 68 (White Heat, White Lights)

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Episode 67 (Every Night Ever)

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Episode 66 (The Pirate Queen)

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HIgh Above Lake Michigan: Special Platinum Edition

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Forgotten Things: A Failed Pilot

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Itty Bitty Bombs: Special Platinum Edition

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The Brothers Booth Schmancy Platinum Remaster Edition

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Episode 65 (Two-Dimensional Projectile Motion Problems)

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Episode 64 (The 7th Story)

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Episode 63 (Other Bodies)

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Episode 62 (We've Forgotten James Powell)

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Episode 61 (The Glowing Orbs)

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Episode 60 (400,000 Stars)

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Episode 59 (Harriet Quimby)

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Episode 58 (Shadowboxing)

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Episode 57 (I'm Still Alive)

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Episode 56 (The Rush of the River and the Roar of the Falls)

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Episode 55 (O, How We Danced)

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Episode 54 (Origin Stories)

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Episode 53 (Guinea Pigs)

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Episode 52 (Six Stories)

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Episode 51 (Giants in Those Days)

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Episode 50 (Fifty Words Written After Learning That the Arctic Bowhead Whale Can Live up to 200 Years)

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Episode 49 (Dreamland)

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Episode 48 (Picture a Box)

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Episode 47 (The Rise and Fall of Rising and Falling) *NOTE: semi-adult language in this one.

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Episode 46 (After Party)

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Episode 45 (Heard, Once)

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Episode 44 (Distance)

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Episode 43 (Far Below Lake Michigan)

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Episode 42 (What They Saw)

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Episode 41 (Mary, Mary, and Mercy)

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Episode 40 (Crazy Bet)

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Episode 39 (Road Trip)

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Episode 38 (A Stretch)

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Episode 37 (Natural Curiosity)

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Episode 36 (Six Scenes in the Life of William J. Sidis, Wonderful Boy)

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Episode 35 (A Brief Eulogy for a Consumer Electronics Product)

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Episode 34 (Soldier Frum)

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Episode 33 (Lost Lobsters)

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Episode 32 (Gigantic)

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Episode 31 (Looking Up)

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Episode 30 (Nee Weinberg)

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Episode 29 (OMG!!! JKP!!!)

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Episode 28 (Babysitting)

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Episode 27 (The Sisters Fox)

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Episode 26 (Citius, Altius, Fortius, Horrendius)

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Episode 25 (I Have Not Yet Begun to Rot)

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Episode 24 (The Moon in the Sun)

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Episode 23 (400 Words for 79th Street)

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Episode 22 (You Know You’re Sick)

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Episode 21 (A Gas Gas Gas)

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Episode 20 (This Ungainly Fowl)

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Episode 19 (Dam!)

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Episode 18 (Dig Set Spike)

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Episode 17 (Plummeting Approval)

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Episode 16 (Secret Kitty)

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Episode 15 (Presidente Walker)

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Episode 14 (The Messrs. Craft)

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Episode 13 (High Above Lake Michigan)

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Episode 12 (These Words, Forever)

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Episode 11 (The Brothers Booth)

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Episode 10 (International Brotherhood of Mothers)

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Episode 9 (Ben Franklin Death Ray)

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Episode 8 (The World Within the World)

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Episode 7 (Li’l Nipper)

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Episode 6 (The Saddest President)

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Episode 5 (Oh My!)

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Episode 4 (Itty Bitty Bombs)

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Episode 3 (High Societies)

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Episode 2 (Lost Pigeons)

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Episode 1 (Horrible Deaths)