This week on London Real, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner,

Jared Diamond.

Why on earth did you and you a dopey society invent metal and we didn't?

Instead he asked, why is it that you white people have all the cargo and we black people don't.

They're all people.

They're all people.

They're all dealing with the same universal human problems that you and I deal with.

That question, why the difference in technology was in the back of my mind and led to my book

Guns Germs and Steel. Historians didn't discuss the question because it was too big a question.

It's a matter of life or death for us to understand why these past societies

succeeded or failed.

On Sunday, London Real presents

Jared Diamond, guns, germs, and steel.

Once you've been to New Guinea, the rest of the world is boring.

I am Brian Rose from London Real and this bad motherfucker behind me is known as

The Monument. me is known as the monument. It is the single largest freestanding Doric column in the world. How do I know that? Well, I used to touch the monument every morning

before I went to work at ICAP when I got here in 2002. I'm going to go touch it now and I used to touch it for luck.

And I can't explain why, but it was just some kind of connection I made and I used to

just touch this thing right around here. I'll show you right around here.

Boom. On my way to work in the morning and I don't know just gave me some luck and some

grounding or something like that. This structure was built after the Great Fire in

England in 1666. And if you just think about that year, it sounds pretty demonic and everyone was just like oh shit

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