Memory Motel is a narrative podcast that finds the drama in what we want to remember or forget. Featured in Wired, The Guardian, IndieWire, The A.V. Club, Salon, the podcasts Criminal and Sampler, among other venues. Created and hosted by Terence Mickey, a writer and Moth storyteller.
One day Paula receives a mysterious message in a bottle that leads to a memory she'd long forgotten.
11 Sept 2021
#03: The Hidden Flaw in The Golden Rule
In Morocco, Ed Gavagan finds the hidden flaw in the Golden Rule.
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#02: Who Knew Her
When Nick Flynn decided to interview his mother's ex-boyfriends, he discovered that a memory central to his childhood was false.
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#01: Song Of Increase
When Jacqueline Freeman became a beekeeper, she needed guidance, and she found help in the most unexpected and obvious places.
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#11: The Ideal Hostage
In 1973, a bank robbery captivated Sweden and led to the first diagnosis of Stockholm Syndrome. In "The Ideal Hostage," Kristen Enmark returns to the scene of the crime to cast off the stigma of a syndrome that never made sense to her.
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#10: Not By Accident
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#09: The Right to Oblivion - Part 3
In Part 3 of "The Right to Oblivion," despite Eric's desire to forget, his past relationship with Chris returns to threaten him.
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#08: The Right to Oblivion - Part 2
In Part 2 of "The Right to Oblivion," Viktor Mayer-Schönberger reveals what's at stake when we undo forgetting, and Frank Ahearn shows us how the internet can forget our past if we're willing to use deception.
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#07: The Right to Oblivion - Part 1
If forgetting helps us forgive, how will the internet's relentless memory impact our ability to accept other people's past crimes and mistakes when we want parts of our life to be forgotten? In Part 1 of "The Right to Oblivion," when Evan Ratliff tries to erase his digital footprint and disappear for a Wired story, he realizes the fake identity he's created to mislead the people who want to find him has become part of his real life in unexpected ways.
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#06: The Wonder Years
"The Wonder Years," is not only a TV show but a time machine, and for Titi Nguyen, the series brought her back to a childhood she never had.
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#05: Court of Memory
To explore the high stakes of memory in the criminal justice system, Terence speaks with Karen Newirth, a Senior Staff Attorney at the Innocent Project, Nathan Brown, an exoneree, and Julia Shaw, author of "The Memory Illusion."
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#04: Letters To The Dead
When we choose who to remember in our obituaries, what cultural landscape do we create? To find out, Terence explores the New York Times Obituary Desk, Iceland's obsession with memorializing the dead, and a renegade obituarist who finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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#03: Glass-Bottom Boat
In his first psychedelic experience, Jim finds himself in an era he thought he'd missed: the sixties.
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#02: Everything In It's Right Place
Since objects hold our memories, both joyful and heartbreaking, how do we decide what to keep and what to throw out?
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#01: Eyes of Another
Autobiographical memories connect us to one another, but what if one of us wants to remember while the other is desperate to forget. This is Rachel's story.
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