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Speaker 1: Pushkin. A strange thing happened to me in the library

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Speaker 1: a while back. I needed to pick up a few books.

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Speaker 1: This was before the quarantine. A question was nagging me.

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Speaker 1: It had been nagging me for a long time. Who

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Speaker 1: killed truth? This truth problem? It isn't just bad, it's deadly.

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Speaker 1: It's also way older than it might seem. This mystery,

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Speaker 1: it's historical. I'm Jillipoor, and I'm a historian at Harvard

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Speaker 1: and a staff writer at the New Yorker. I spent

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Speaker 1: a lot of time I'm trying to solve mysteries like

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Speaker 1: this one. So anyway, I was at the library. At first,

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Speaker 1: everything seemed normal. Oh hum. I swiped my card, took

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Speaker 1: the elevator down to the basement, and started pulling volumes

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Speaker 1: off the shelves. And then I saw it something I'd

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Speaker 1: never seen before. Down here, at the end of the row,

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Speaker 1: half hidden in the shadows, a dark green door. There

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Speaker 1: was a sign on the door, a tarnished brass plate.

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Speaker 1: I could only barely make out the words he read

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Speaker 1: the last archive. I've listened to everybody on TV and radio.

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Speaker 1: I've tried, but I'm still confused. Hello, who's right? What's right?

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Speaker 1: What should I believe? Hello? Who who are you? No

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Speaker 1: one's there. It's just a voice from the past, voices

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Speaker 1: the Women's libration root in a New York City And

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Speaker 1: we discovered that by just talking about our on experience

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Speaker 1: entire world. Herald is the discovery which assured an end

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Speaker 1: one of mankind's great disease. And here cheez long before coronavirus,

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Speaker 1: a congressional debate about the government's role in developing a vaccine.

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Speaker 1: Is there any other term for it? Then? As socialized medicine,

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Speaker 1: old horror movies. They're in here too, punch cards from

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Speaker 1: the forgotten history of the National Data Center, the Network,

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Speaker 1: and it is referred to as the Network is now

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Speaker 1: in operation, and records of records of bird songs considered

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Speaker 1: America's foremost songbird is a hermit thrush. All these voices

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Speaker 1: from the past, sounds nobody has heard for decades. Maybe

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Speaker 1: somewhere in this vast last archive, this corridor of the mind,

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Speaker 1: I could find what I'm looking for, an answer to

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Speaker 1: that question who killed Truth? So I decided to start

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Speaker 1: a podcast. It's called The Last Archive. I'll tell ten

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Speaker 1: stories from the last hundred years, a history of America

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Speaker 1: and of our arguments about truth and evidence. If you

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Speaker 1: want to hear what a found me me back here.

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Speaker 1: I'll leave the door unlocked. The last archive coming soon.

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