Hello and welcome to Adam Ruins Everything the podcast. I am your host Adam Conover. Now if you don't know what the podcast I am your host Adam Conover.

Now if you don't know what the podcast is, say you just tapped on it because it was alphabetically first in your podcast directory.

And you're saying, what is this thing? I've started listening to it even though I have no earthly clue what it is.

Well, I host a TV show on True TV called Adam Ruins Everything.

It's an educational comedy show where I blow your mind with crazy facts.

And on the show, I talk to experts from around the world of

human knowledge just for a couple minutes and we get their point of view on whatever

the topic the day is but here's the thing they have so much to say. I am always when they leave set filled with questions

and curiosity about the field that they study

or the perspective that they represent

or the world that they come from.

This podcast is where we get to talk to

them for a longer period of time and I get to ask those burning questions and

share the answers with you find people at home. And that's what we're going to do

today with my guest Ed Ayers.

But before I tell you who he is and what he's here to talk about,

I would like to remind you that the TV show Adam Ruins Everything is coming back on August 23rd,

Tuesday nights on True TV, and you can find clips and full episodes at true TV.com

slash Adam Ruins Everything and the Watch True TV app.

We've got 14 big episodes coming at you, and you're gonna love them I guarantee and I'm also

going on tour this fall and you can find all of my tour dates at Adamconover.net

not dot com dot net please slash there is no slash it's just Adam Conover dot net you'll see a list of cities that I'm going to and if your city is one of them I invite you to come out and see me do some comedy for you we're doing a big election themed show. I'm going to be

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