![]() Maybe you heard about the Aztecs or whatever, but apart from that it was just Indians hanging out in the woods not doing much with the space. If you grew up like I did, I grew up as a white kid on Long Island in the nineties, taking history class, what you learned (what I learned) about the ‘pre-history’ (I’m using scare quotes there) of the Americas is that before Columbus there were a couple civilizations in Central and South America. It is so enormous that it changed the way that I think about the place I live in, the continent that I live in, the way I relate to other people, the way I think about my society. This revelation to me, I still marvel at when I think about. Well, today, I would like to tell you about one of the most mind blowing things I ever learned. I learn something that changes the way that I see the world in fundamental ways and knocks me off my chair going ‘What the fuck? Everything is different now.’ And then I try to tell it to you through comedy. ![]() You know, when I think about what I do (which I do often) I sit there going, ‘What the hell do I do? What do you call this fucking job?’ Here’s what I think it is. ![]() ![]() Speaker 1 Hello there, welcome to Factually, I’m Adam Conover. ![]()
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