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#375 The Road to Venecky w/ Ben & Bob
Ben & Bob catch up for a conversation about bad Ai textooks, new discoveries about precolonial American societies and a new take on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Make sure to catch Bob at his endless book tour for America’s Founding Son! Dates available by following him on Instagram at @bobcrawfordbass. Sources discussed in this episode: ·      John Green, Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection, (Penguin, 2025). ·      Pärssinen, M., Kalliola, R., Ranzi, A. et al. “Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia.”Nature (2026). ·      Robert Sapolsky Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst (Penguin, 2017). ·      Adi Schane, “’Venecky’ instead of Kentucky,” WDRB.com, July 29, 2026. This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer.
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