WEBVTT - Introducing The Last Archive 

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin. A strange thing happened to me in the library

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<v Speaker 1>a while back. I needed to pick up a few books.

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<v Speaker 1>This was before the quarantine. A question was nagging me.

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<v Speaker 1>It had been nagging me for a long time. Who

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>and a staff writer at the New Yorker. I spent

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of time I'm trying to solve mysteries like

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<v Speaker 1>this one. So anyway, I was at the library. At first,

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<v Speaker 1>everything seemed normal. Oh hum. I swiped my card, took

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<v Speaker 1>the elevator down to the basement, and started pulling volumes

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<v Speaker 1>off the shelves. And then I saw it something I'd

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<v Speaker 1>never seen before. Down here, at the end of the row,

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<v Speaker 1>half hidden in the shadows, a dark green door. There

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<v Speaker 1>was a sign on the door, a tarnished brass plate.

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<v Speaker 1>I could only barely make out the words he read

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>What should I believe? Hello? Who who are you? No

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

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<v Speaker 1>the Women's libration root in a New York City And

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<v Speaker 1>we discovered that by just talking about our on experience

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<v Speaker 1>entire world. Herald is the discovery which assured an end

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

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<v Speaker 1>a congressional debate about the government's role in developing a vaccine.

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<v Speaker 1>Is there any other term for it? Then? As socialized medicine,

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

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<v Speaker 1>the forgotten history of the National Data Center, the Network,

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<v Speaker 1>and it is referred to as the Network is now

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<v Speaker 1>in operation, and records of records of bird songs considered

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<v Speaker 1>America's foremost songbird is a hermit thrush. All these voices

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<v Speaker 1>from the past, sounds nobody has heard for decades. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>somewhere in this vast last archive, this corridor of the mind,

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<v Speaker 1>I could find what I'm looking for, an answer to

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<v Speaker 1>that question who killed Truth? So I decided to start

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

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<v Speaker 1>stories from the last hundred years, a history of America

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<v Speaker 1>and of our arguments about truth and evidence. If you

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<v Speaker 1>want to hear what a found me me back here.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll leave the door unlocked. The last archive coming soon.

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