Nate DiMeo’s Personal Memory Palace
Nate DiMeo, host and creator of The Memory Palace podcast, walks us through some of the rooms in his own personal memory palace. We visit his grandfather’s old nightclub outside Providence, a beloved ...
14 Nov 202420min
Malaria Bat Roosts
During the early 20th century, malaria was ravaging the world. We hear the story of Dr. Charles Campbell, who had a plan to cure it. But as it turns out, his big idea was… rather batty. Hosted by Simp...
13 Nov 202415min
The Sul Ross Desk
In the 1980s, a group of friends on the track team at Sul Ross State University hauled a discarded dorm room desk to the top of a mountain. They left a notebook there to keep track of their run times ...
12 Nov 202414min
San Juan Sounds (Classic)
San Juan Sounds is an iconic studio where musicians, engineers, and quite possibly a music-loving ghost carry on the island’s musical traditions, which date back hundreds of years. This episode is pro...
11 Nov 202413min
Weed Week: The International Church of Cannabis
Travel to Denver Colorado and meet Steve Berke who helped found the first International Church of Cannabis in 2015. Learn more about it here. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz....
8 Nov 20249min
Weed Week: San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club
The San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club was one of the first marijuana dispensaries in the country. Its members were people with AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses, and inside the club had stag...
7 Nov 202420min
Weed Week: Jirzankal Cemetery
An ancient cemetery in western China may hold the answer to a question asked by many a stoner: where on Earth did humans first smoke weed to get high? Learn more about the cemetery in this 2019 paper ...
6 Nov 202413min
Weed Week: Dope Lake
In 1976, an airplane carrying 6,000 pounds of smuggled weed crashed into a remote lake in Yosemite. A group of climbers had a heyday. Read John Long’s account of the crash, and check out Greg Nichols’...
5 Nov 202416min
