Ben & Bob catch up for a conversation about bad Ai textooks, new discoveries about precolonial American societies and a new take on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

Make sure to catch Bob at his endless book tour for America's Founding Son! Dates available by following him on Instagram at @bobcrawfordbass.

Sources discussed in this episode:

·      John Green, Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection, (Penguin, 2025).

·      Pärssinen, M., Kalliola, R., Ranzi, A. et al. "Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia."Nature (2026).

·      Robert Sapolsky Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst (Penguin, 2017).

·      Adi Schane, "'Venecky' instead of Kentucky," WDRB.com, July 29, 2026.

This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer.