Dr. James Fitzsimmons

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's true.

That's all true.

Well, at least it's how the Aztecs tell it.

So one of the things that happens... That's good enough for me.

Well, one of the things that happens with the Aztecs is when they get into the basin of Mexico, they essentially destroy a lot of the indigenous history that's there and then rewrite history according to their needs.

So they do the standard conqueror thing where it's like history is written by the victors.

They kind of...

they massage, they kind of massage things a little bit.

So it's unclear how much of this is true.

I think a lot of it is, but you know, yeah, the general storyline is, yeah, you go, they're wandering, they come from someplace in Northwestern Mexico, the language family that's there, it's called the Yud-O-Aztecan language family.

And the reason why it's called Yud-O-Aztecan is because the language is more or less, the family extends up into what's today Utah, from Utah all the way down into Northwestern Mexico, right?

People have been trying to find out where the origin of the Aztecs was for forever.

They've not found it in Utah or any place like that, right?

Way back in the bad old days of archaeology, people had these fanciful ideas of where the Aztecs were from.

So for example, the Aztec origin point is called Aztlan, right?

There's an Aztlan archaeological site.

I think it's in, is it in Wisconsin?

The Aztecs are not from Wisconsin, right?

Not from there, right?