I'm a White Kid on Long Island, Hearing the Same Stories as Everybody Else

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"I hope that by, you know, engaging on a voyage of discovery and publicly modeling it ... I can help draw other people from ignorance to knowledge," he says. "There's an incredible store of hundreds of thousands of people out there with just amazing stories." He adds: "It's a privilege to be able to listen to them when they let me!"

This week Adam welcomes an author whose book blew his mind more than perhaps any other. Americans are typically taught that prior to the arrival of European settlers, indigenous communities were sparsely populated, lacked technology, and did little to shape the natural landscape. But as this week’s guest Charles C. Mann’s 1491 tells Adam, the most recent research reveals that the American indigenous civilizations were sophisticated, dynamic, and massively populated. Purchase his books 1491 and 1493 at http://factuallypod.com/books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.