Speaker 1: Pushkin. Welcome to season four of The Last Archive, the
Speaker 1: show about how we know what we know, how we
Speaker 1: used to know things, and why it seems sometimes lately
Speaker 1: like we don't know anything at all anymore yet. But
Speaker 1: we're going to pick up speed. I'm Ben Matta Haffrey.
Speaker 1: I used to produce this show, but this season Jill
Speaker 1: Lapour has given me the keys to the archive, and
Speaker 1: I've dug up six stories about truth, doubt and some
Speaker 1: of the wildest creations of the twentieth century.
Speaker 2: What the heck what that is?
Speaker 1: Where did you find this? I went looking for stories
Speaker 1: about the production of knowledge, moments when new ways of
Speaker 1: knowing things were getting created, which led me to some
Speaker 1: pretty strange places.
Speaker 3: There was a nude couple who claimed that they were
Speaker 3: Adam and Eve.
Speaker 1: Well, it's doctor Frankenstein's monster, isn't it.
Speaker 2: They were standing all together, Bring Back the Nest, Bring
Speaker 2: Back the Nest.
Speaker 1: This season on The Last Archive, you'll hear stories about
Speaker 1: the dawn of social network theory. Of course, I go, oh.
Speaker 3: My god, in terms of the history of ideas, that
Speaker 3: was really a.
Speaker 1: Breakthrough mid century songwriting machines. I'm not an industrial spy.
Speaker 1: I'm a graduate student and a party for time travelers
Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties. I do remember thinking serving alcohol
Speaker 1: to poets wasn't a great idea. All this and more
Speaker 1: on the new season of The Last Archive. The full
Speaker 1: season will drop on Apple Podcasts on June twenty second.
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