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When Rust in Peace was released in 1990, the future of Megadeth was uncertain. Fresh off their performance at the record-breaking Monsters of Rock festival, and with knockout new albums from Slayer, Anthrax, and Metallica dominating the charts, the pressure to produce a standout statement record was higher than ever.

The Memory Palace is a collection of tiny, crystalline historical tales that come across like luminous short fiction, and, like Nate DiMeo’s acclaimed podcast of the same name, conjure lost moments and forgotten figures who are calling out across time to be remembered. For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo has turned to the past to make sense of the way we live today, finding beauty and meaning in history’s dustier corners, holding things up to the light and weaving facts, keen insight, wit, and poignant observation into unforgettable tales.

“We’re a small town with a football problem,” says a coach from the Massillon Tigers. It’s been fifty-three years since the town of Massillon, Ohio, had a State Championship to celebrate. On November 30, 2023, Head Coach Nate Moore led his Tigers to their first State Title in the playoff era. Scott Ryan, author and lifelong Tiger fan, and Becca Moore, administrator and wife of Nate Moore, interview the coaches and take listeners through the adversity, the controversy, and the obsessive fan base that is Massillon, Ohio.