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Welcome to Invention, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Invention. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Joe McCormick.

You know, humans are aware of history.

That's one of our key attributes.

Not always, though.

Well, to varying degrees, we're aware of history, or we have awareness of what we think history to be.

And not just our own personal history, but history across generations, across decades, across centuries, millennia even.

We're aware of what came before via oral traditions and the evidence of the world around us, even as we continually change in anticipation of the future.

And then, of course, we have recorded history as well.

And we have a concept of history that goes beyond a concern for literal accuracy about what happened in the past.

I think about everything from ancient mythologies in which people tried to construct a, you know, not literally existent version of their past, but something to sort of explain the present.

Right.

All the way to the kinds of mythical histories that people still like to engage in today, you know, ancient aliens and all, you know, half the stuff on the history shows on TV.

Oh yeah, inevitably, history ends up history shows on TV. Oh, yeah.

Inevitably, history ends up melding with myth.

And you really don't have to go too far back in history for that to take place for

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