The Memory Palace: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American

Today, we're sharing an episode of Nate DiMeo's wonderful podcast, The Memory Palace, which helped inspire both Song Exploder, and a song on my upcoming album. So today, I want to present a kind of two-part story. The first part: "The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American," from The Memory Palace. And in the second half of the episode, I’ll tell you how it ended up unexpectedly unlocking a song that I’d been trying to figure out. For more episodes of The Memory Palace, visit thememorypalace.us. To pre-order my album visit keeledscales.com. To get tickets to one of my shows on tour, visit hrishikesh.co .

You can listen to The Memory Palace: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

The Memory Palace: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American is an episode from Song Exploder by Hrishikesh Hirway.

This episode is 24:52 long.

This episode was published on Apr 15, 2026.

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