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Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm INCA Josh, and

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Speaker 1: there's INCA Chuck and INCA Jerry's over there. So this

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Speaker 1: is an INCA cast. Stuff. You should INCA short stuff,

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Speaker 1: you should INCA. Do you like that one? Huh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised. Just dumb enough. Wait what do you mean, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I mean dumb in a good way. A dumb joke

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Speaker 1: is what my one of my biggest compliments. You know,

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Speaker 1: we have really been hit with the accusations of dad

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Speaker 1: jokes a lot more frequently lately. Have you noticed, well

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Speaker 1: more than we did ten years ago. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're getting older and that's when dad jokes start creeping in.

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Speaker 1: So these people are right, they are correct. Man, never

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Speaker 1: would have thought I'd live to see the day. Literally,

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Speaker 1: that's right. We we we still stopped before we hit puns. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're no strickling. Nope, that's ageless. That's just some sort

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Speaker 1: of mental defect. Has nothing to do with age. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Not ageless is in timeless and you could do that

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Speaker 1: anytime and it's great, right, Yeah, the opposite of that.

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Speaker 1: So Chuck, speaking of um opposites of that, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about whether or not the INCA actually ever created a

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Speaker 1: written language of any sort. Yeah, this was cool, and

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Speaker 1: I would love to do a longer form show on

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Speaker 1: the Inca period the Inca people, because, man, when you

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Speaker 1: when you start poking around a little bit, uh, the

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Speaker 1: things that they achieved and when it happened, it's pretty striking. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we did an episode called how did a

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight Conquistadors bring down the Inca Empire?

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Speaker 1: Did we Really? That was a good one, But I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there's still plenty more to talk about with them.

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Speaker 1: We could do one just on the Inca I'll bet yeah. So, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's here's a couple of things in the

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Speaker 1: way of an overview. Uh, they had the largest pre

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Speaker 1: columbia An empire in the America's a lot of people

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Speaker 1: during the Bronze Age. And you're not successful as a

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Speaker 1: people that that that can grow and thrive like that

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Speaker 1: unless you're doing some of these things like building roads

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Speaker 1: to the tune of twenty five thousand miles of highway, right,

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Speaker 1: that's amazing. Yeah, there was something like twelve I saw

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Speaker 1: ten to twelve million people in the Inca Empire who

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Speaker 1: which by the way, cut through the Andies. It was

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Speaker 1: largely in the Andes, up in the Andes, which was

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Speaker 1: not a hospitable place to form a civilization in the

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Speaker 1: first place, no man, but they did. They thrived where

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Speaker 1: it was dry and harsh and steep, and they were

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Speaker 1: able to engineer like the kind of farmland at the altitudes,

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Speaker 1: like millions of acres of high altitude terrorist farms. And

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Speaker 1: the way that I saw that the whole thing worked

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Speaker 1: was there were clans and villages and groups that all

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Speaker 1: kind of um. They did their own thing, and they

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Speaker 1: paid tribute to the what you would call kind of

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Speaker 1: the federal government, the Inca chiefs, the people um who

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Speaker 1: were who had the whole empire together, and then the

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Speaker 1: Inca who were running the show, would in turn provide

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Speaker 1: these these people, like the farmers and the villages and

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Speaker 1: the clans with stuff they needed. It bore a striking

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Speaker 1: resemblance to like Soviet communism. Yeah, and they kept it

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Speaker 1: going for about a hundred and fifty years again until

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Speaker 1: the Spans showed up. They were they were very powerful

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Speaker 1: empire But the weird thing about the Inca is that

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Speaker 1: They appeared to have done it without any written language whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: That's been basically the way that people have viewed the

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Speaker 1: down and uh, it appeared and we're still not super sure,

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Speaker 1: it is sure starting to look that way, all right,

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Speaker 1: So let's let's get to the sort of the heart

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Speaker 1: pronounced keep who right. But if you look this up

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Speaker 1: on the internet, if you can pull your car over, whatever,

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Speaker 1: people thought that these were just like art, right arts crafts,

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Speaker 1: they were bored, you know. And a lot of them

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Speaker 1: were lost because there's the Spanish. When they showed up,

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Speaker 1: a long time people, yeah, they just had them in museums.

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Speaker 1: But it wasn't until the nineteen twenties that a guy

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Speaker 1: I think these actually are symbolic. I think they encode information,

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Speaker 1: sounds like a good cliffhanger, my friend. Okay, I should

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Speaker 1: take out that he was right part then? But was he?

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Speaker 1: Well find out right after this he was okay, so

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Speaker 1: he was right. Yeah, he was to right. Leland Luck

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Speaker 1: was correct. And what he found was that these uh

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Speaker 1: Sure they probably make cowbrains, right, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I think that's how rumors get started. Chunking. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: Uh So it wasn't just like you know, eight beads

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Speaker 1: So he cracked the coat a little further over spring break.

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Speaker 1: it out and passed me the beer bong, right, which

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Speaker 1: She she found that there different symbols encoded in these

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Speaker 1: Thanks man, it's fantastic, Chuck, I appreciate that. I don't

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Speaker 1: this one, agreed. If you want to know more about

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Speaker 1: the Incas or keep you there's a lot out there

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