Pinch hitting!
the memory palace
Nate DiMeo
4.8 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, this is not Nate DeMayo, and this is not the Memory Palace. |
| 0:04.4 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:06.0 | I am a colleague of Nate's here at Radiotopia. |
| 0:08.8 | I host a show called This Day with my pals and historians Nicole Hemmer and Kelly Carter Jackson. |
| 0:14.7 | We are part of a little brotherhood of history shows here at Radiotopia. |
| 0:18.2 | We are big fans and admirers of what Nate does on the Memory Palace. |
| 0:22.1 | And I am here and you are listening to my voice instead of Nate's for a reason that I am just |
| 0:27.4 | about to find out. He reached out to me and said, are you willing to do something for the Memory |
| 0:31.8 | Palace? And I can't tell you what it is. And of course, I said yes because you say yes when one of the |
| 0:36.9 | podcasting greats asks you |
| 0:38.3 | to do something. But also, I will tell you that one of my overarching goals in life and something |
| 0:42.2 | that I am recommitting to in 2026 is to do more cool shit with people I like. So this qualifies. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm very excited. And my task is to read what I'm about to open. Now, Nate sent this to me |
| 0:53.8 | in an email as an attachment, |
| 0:55.5 | but this feels like the kind of thing that should arrive delivered by an owl or a carrier pigeon, |
| 0:59.6 | which the Memory Palace has done an episode about. |
| 1:01.6 | So let's do a little theater of the mind here. |
| 1:03.5 | Imagine that I'm opening an envelope. |
| 1:06.0 | Maybe it has a wax seal on it. |
| 1:10.4 | Catching inside, taking this out, and I'm reading it cold for the first time. |
| 1:15.3 | Hi, Jody. I could use a favor. I grind my teeth at night. I don't at all during the day. |
| 1:21.8 | Wouldn't have had any idea I'd do it except one day, some years ago, I cracked a molar, |
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