That's right, Joe, I'm just outside Angiocuni city limits here, where an earth-shattering discovery has just been announced by a team of archaeologists.

On this very site where I'm standing, a great civilization once stood.

But this announcement is on a whole other level from discoveries at Poverty Point or in the Maghreft,

because this civilization was not comprised of men and women, or even any of our closest relatives.

As it turns out, at least 300 million years before man walked the Earth, a species only distantly related to us, called this planet home.

Right here on the banks of Lake Anjikuni, they constructed a civilization rivaling our own in the present, not just in terms of social order, but also technology, art, and wait, just a moment now. Breaking news is coming in over the wire. Um, yes, apparently a reality television star has worn a dress that some people have thoughts about. So we're going to stop our coverage and cut down an emergency broadcast about...

Oh, we...

We already cut away.

I'm not...

I'm not talking to anyone.

Yeah, that figures.

Stupid science and technology.

I should have been a baker like my dad.

That's real work.

Featuring Joe Sweeneyaney from thinking sideways podcast and filmmaker vincent calderney

this is the shocking details

hey there welcome to another episode of the shocking details a very special episode of the shocking details oh A very special episode of the shocking details. Oh, super special. Yeah. Yeah, I am Joe, joined, as always by Vincent Caldoni. Yeah, and welcome to this very special episode. No, it's not going to be about a disease or anything crappy like that. I hate that crap. I hate that crap. But anyway, we don't do that kind of stuff here, man.

We really don't.

And no message shows either.

We don't do that either.

Okay.

So we primarily cover mysteries here at the shocking details.

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