The Hello and welcome to citation needed the podcast where we choose a subject read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this is the internet and that's how it works now.

I'm no one I'm going to be leading this excavation but digging is hard and I don't want to do it.

So I brought along a few strong backs.

First up, two guys who assumed Exmarking the spot meant that they were going to find

porn there, Cecil and he.

Well, no, with enough lube, everything is porn. Okay. With enough porn, everything is lube?

I don't know.

Oh, philosophical, I like it.

And also joining us tonight, two men who got kicked off their last dig, cipher, screaming, bone fight every time they found anything, Tom and E.

Okay, but if you don't announce it, how will everyone know it's okay to join it?

Yeah, and we brought our own skeletons from home. It's bullshit. And before we get going tonight,

I want to remind you that

pretended to know about shit is a really hard field to break into, so if this

falls apart, we're all the way fucked.

Yeah.

Right, this doesn't help on a resume.

Which is why we love our patrons so much, If you'd like to become a patron, you should be sure to stick around to the end of the show.

And with that out of the way, tell us Eli, what person, please, think, concept, phenomenon, or event we'll be talking about today.

We'll be talking about the collapse of the Bronze Age.

Oh, all right, Cecil, you read a page 2 on Wikipedia

and are now going to summarize one of the most diffuse and complicated subjects in the entire

field of historical science, huh? I mean I'm gonna say we aren't really sure what

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