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This show exists because of direct listener support.
The ad market rises and falls, sometimes often, honestly,
wildly, and as it does, the single most important thing.
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is the stable foundation provided by your donation, your tax-deductible donation.
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There are no corporate backers.
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This is the Memory Palace.
I'm Nate De Mayo.
Ponce de Leon was born to a time of blank pages.
His first breath was drawn in a Spanish village called Centervas de Campos at some point between 1460 and 1474.
which means that at the time of his last breath, which was drawn in July of 1521,