Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
Very Bad Wizards
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What's the Difference Between the Old and the New Testament?
Ted Chang is the author of a new book about Native American culture. He talks to tribes who are trying to unify by looking at their ancestors. The Europeans didn't want to deal with all these separate tribes as independent units so they wanted to unify them in one way or another. In this story Ted and his tribe get into an argument over which ancestor should be chosen for unification.
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