WEBVTT - Coming Soon: Season Two 

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin. There's a place in our world where the doubtful

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<v Speaker 1>things go. Lies and hoaxes and conspiracy theories. Boxes of

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<v Speaker 1>this stuff, tottering, stacks of files full of dubious claims

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<v Speaker 1>and facts that don't check. This spring, in the second

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<v Speaker 1>season of my podcast, The Last Archive, I'm heading down there.

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<v Speaker 1>My name is Jill Lapour. I'm a historian at Harvard

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<v Speaker 1>and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Over the

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<v Speaker 1>last few years, I've been troubled by some pretty big

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<v Speaker 1>questions about our present. Why is it so hard for

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<v Speaker 1>us to agree on what's true? Why does it feel

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<v Speaker 1>so impossible to know anything anymore? So I started this podcast,

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<v Speaker 1>The Last Archive to find answers to trace a history.

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<v Speaker 1>Last season, the podcast took the form of a murder

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<v Speaker 1>her mystery, Who Done It? An investigation into the question

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<v Speaker 1>who killed truth. A lot of history has happened since then,

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty the year to end all years, and now

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty one, with an insurrection and impeachment and a

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<v Speaker 1>mass vaccination campaign. Everything just keeps seeming so unbelievable. So

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<v Speaker 1>this season, I'm taking on a new mystery. I'm investigating

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<v Speaker 1>the rise of doubt over the last hundred years of

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<v Speaker 1>American history, starting with the Scoops Monkey Trial in nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five, all the way down to now. We'll meet

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<v Speaker 1>hypnotists and parapsychologists, Nazis and Soviet propagandists, and voices too

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<v Speaker 1>of reason. Come by and knock on the door of

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<v Speaker 1>the last archive. You can find it anywhere you get

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<v Speaker 1>your podcasts. Just past the shadow of a doubt,