The Joe Rogan Experience - November 05, 2012


Joe Rogan Experience #280 - Philip Coppens


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 44 minutes

Words per Minute

175.69208

Word Count

28,834

Sentence Count

2,104

Misogynist Sentences

28


Summary

Brian and Tom Segura and Tony Hinchcliffe join the show to talk about Hurricane Dorian and how to deal with it. Joe also talks about his upcoming show in Columbus, Ohio with Brian and the Red Cross and how they're doing their part to help Florida in the wake of the super storm that's hitting the east coast this week. And of course, Joe talks about how he's doing his best to keep up with all the craziness that's going on in the world right now and what he's looking forward to in the next few days. The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast comes at you again with laptop on, old school old school retard moves. We're brought to you by several things, but before we even get to that, we got Brian, Tom, and Tony on the pod to talk a little bit about what they're up to and what they've been up to the past weekend and what's coming up for the rest of the week. We also have a bunch of other stuff going on, so stay tuned to the pod for all of that! -Joe Rogan and the Joe Rogans Experience Podcast. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Hosted and produced by Riley Bray. and edited by Chase Gray. Thank you for listening and supporting the pod. -Jon Sorrentino and our sponsor, Ting. Thanks to Pale Fire Records. for sponsoring the pod! and for making this episode great and for supporting the podcast and all the work they do to make it great and making it so good. we can't thank you enough. , and we appreciate you so much, thank you for making it better than you can do it, we can t help it, you're amazing, we really appreciate you, we're making it, and we're so much more than you, and you're awesome, we love you, so thank you, you deserve it, so we're not even better than that, you can make it, thanks, we appreciate it, enough, we'll send you, more than we can we do it. Thank you, thanks you, bye bye, bye, good vibes, bye. XOXO, bye -JOE ROGAN! -KIM, JOE JORDAN - THE JOE RAGAN Experience.


Transcript

00:00:03.000 The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast comes at you again.
00:00:09.000 With laptop on.
00:00:11.000 Old school.
00:00:12.000 Old school retard moves.
00:00:13.000 That's me, fuckers.
00:00:15.000 I can't get it right, ever.
00:00:16.000 We're brought to you by several things, but before we even get to that, we got Brian and Tom Segura and Tony Hinchcliffe have some fucking shows coming up in Ohio that are awesome.
00:00:28.000 One of them is sold out already.
00:00:30.000 The Columbus one is sold out, right?
00:00:31.000 Yeah.
00:00:32.000 Yeah, the first show, Columbus sold out.
00:00:33.000 Second one's almost sold out.
00:00:34.000 And then you're also doing Dayton, Ohio, Thursday.
00:00:39.000 And then Cincinnati, Friday.
00:00:41.000 And we decided to put out a coupon code there that will give you two-for-one tickets.
00:00:46.000 It's Red Cross, and 10% of the proceeds go to Hurricane Relief for Florida.
00:00:50.000 That's beautiful.
00:00:54.000 And on top of that, well, it's not Florida, right?
00:00:57.000 I know.
00:00:57.000 Wouldn't that be fucked up if it was like, yeah, we're collecting hurricane money and we're just going to send it to Texas.
00:01:02.000 Yeah, there's a couple people that lost their fences.
00:01:05.000 How far did it go in?
00:01:07.000 It went pretty deep.
00:01:08.000 I know Ohio got jacked by it.
00:01:09.000 But it started up north, right?
00:01:11.000 Yeah, it's up super north.
00:01:13.000 Well, it was in the Caribbean, though, but then when it touched down in America, it touched down north.
00:01:17.000 Yeah, like Jersey.
00:01:18.000 Yeah.
00:01:18.000 It killed so many people in the Caribbean and we're not even paying attention to that.
00:01:21.000 Did you hear about the super storm they're going to get Wednesday?
00:01:24.000 What?
00:01:24.000 Yeah, they're getting a super storm Wednesday that supposedly it's going to have winds up to 65 miles per hour that's just going to hit New York again.
00:01:30.000 And so it's going to just fuck everything up again.
00:01:33.000 Oh my god.
00:01:34.000 Fuck that, man.
00:01:35.000 Fuck living on the East Coast.
00:01:37.000 Yeah.
00:01:37.000 Fuck all that hurricane nonsense.
00:01:39.000 That stuff's nuts.
00:01:40.000 For tickets, though, go to deathsquad.tv or brownpapertickets.com and search for Death Squad.
00:01:46.000 And in other show news, I'm at the Balboa Theater this Saturday night in San Diego with Joey Diaz, a.k.a.
00:01:54.000 Mad Flavor.
00:01:55.000 So are you coming?
00:01:56.000 What are you doing?
00:01:56.000 What, Thursday?
00:01:57.000 No, Saturday.
00:01:58.000 Saturday.
00:01:59.000 I'm in Columbus, Ohio.
00:02:00.000 Oh, that's the same date.
00:02:02.000 Okay, so if you're on the West Coast, folks, and you're trying to stay alive, not freeze your dick off, Balboa Theater, San Diego, Columbus, Ohio, Dayton, and Cincinnati with Brian, who's fucking killing it lately.
00:02:16.000 Brian killed it this weekend.
00:02:17.000 In San Francisco and you killed it in Seattle even better, man.
00:02:21.000 You're really getting funny, man.
00:02:22.000 It's fun to watch.
00:02:24.000 It's fun to watch you add new shit and growing and stuff.
00:02:26.000 Well, you give me great advice.
00:02:27.000 Just be more silly.
00:02:28.000 Just be yourself.
00:02:29.000 Yeah, I'm just being...
00:02:30.000 It's hard trying to be yourself 100%.
00:02:32.000 You're almost like, I just want to get through this joke and make it perfect instead of just being like you telling a friend a joke or something.
00:02:38.000 Yeah, you're just getting more comfortable on stage.
00:02:42.000 They already like you, so it's a different sort of a scenario.
00:02:44.000 You're learning stand-up in front of a bunch of people who already like you, which is a huge, huge advantage.
00:02:50.000 But the crowds are awesome, so thanks, San Francisco people, Seattle people.
00:02:54.000 It was fucking awesome.
00:02:55.000 We had an amazing weekend.
00:02:57.000 Oh, he's so funny.
00:02:59.000 Oh, he's hilarious.
00:03:00.000 He's much funnier even than I've seen him lately.
00:03:03.000 I mean, he's always been great, but he was on fire this weekend.
00:03:06.000 And it was like the perfect kind of crowd for him.
00:03:08.000 They were all savages.
00:03:10.000 So thanks for that before we even get into any commercials.
00:03:13.000 Yeah, look at this real quick, Jed.
00:03:14.000 This is from, just to show you, you going on stage.
00:03:20.000 This is in San Francisco.
00:03:46.000 These crowds are nuts, man.
00:03:49.000 They're getting bizarre.
00:03:52.000 Soon we'll start the cult.
00:03:54.000 But not yet.
00:03:56.000 The Joe Rogan Experience is sponsored by Ting.
00:03:58.000 Ting, what is Ting?
00:03:59.000 Ting is Philip Coppens is sitting here going, what the fuck did I get myself into, man?
00:04:04.000 I was hoping I was just going to go here and promote my awesome book.
00:04:07.000 I've got to deal with these assholes and that nonsense.
00:04:10.000 Ting is a cell phone company that uses the backbone of Sprint.
00:04:15.000 It is an excellent cell phone company.
00:04:17.000 What they're doing is they're giving you the same service as far as your reception and everything that you would get with a major provider, but they're doing it in what I believe a very ethical and fair way.
00:04:30.000 First of all, they're offering their service with no contracts.
00:04:32.000 You don't have to have a contract that you have to cancel and pay a bunch of fucking money back for.
00:04:37.000 That shit's gross that you've got to Pay them to get out of your cell phone contract.
00:04:41.000 That's ridiculous.
00:04:43.000 That's a competition issue.
00:04:44.000 That's all that is.
00:04:45.000 I mean, could you imagine if that was the case for any other service?
00:04:48.000 Like if ever you wanted to get a gallon of milk, you had to continue to give these people money and buy their milk.
00:04:55.000 Or if you didn't do that, you would have to pay them because you're not going to buy their milk anymore.
00:04:59.000 You'd be like, what the fuck are you talking about?
00:05:01.000 Guess what?
00:05:02.000 It's the same thing with a cell phone company.
00:05:04.000 It's nuts.
00:05:05.000 We just accepted this silly, stupid fucking way.
00:05:09.000 And the way they get away with it is they trick you into thinking you're paying less for a phone than you are.
00:05:13.000 So they sort of like roll the money that you would have spent if you bought the phone for a full price.
00:05:19.000 They sort of roll that into your bill.
00:05:21.000 And that's how they justify giving you a cancellation fee.
00:05:25.000 But really what it is, is it's like a way of strong-arming you into sticking around.
00:05:29.000 They got you, bitch.
00:05:31.000 You don't want to give up that 300 bucks.
00:05:32.000 Well, that's not the case with Ting.
00:05:34.000 And with Ting, they're so fair, in fact, that...
00:05:37.000 If you only, like say there's different tiered programs, but if you use one program and you use like half the minutes you thought you did, well they discount you on the next month.
00:05:46.000 I mean it's like the coolest setup you could ever hope for.
00:05:49.000 They have awesome devices.
00:05:51.000 If you go to rogan.ting.com, they have it set up so that you save fifty bucks off of your first Ting device.
00:05:59.000 You just click that link and check out all the different devices they have.
00:06:01.000 They have top of the line Android phones.
00:06:03.000 I have the Samsung Galaxy S3. That's the only one that I can talk about that I've actually used personally.
00:06:08.000 It's the only one I've actually used since the...
00:06:10.000 I had an old Droid and it was a piece of shit.
00:06:12.000 It was terrible.
00:06:13.000 It had like a keyboard.
00:06:15.000 It was whack.
00:06:16.000 But this thing is badass.
00:06:18.000 This is a very, very good phone.
00:06:20.000 Everyone has it too.
00:06:21.000 I noticed in Seattle, everyone had that phone.
00:06:23.000 I saw that more than iPhones.
00:06:25.000 It's a killer phone.
00:06:26.000 There's no denying it.
00:06:27.000 That thing's the shit.
00:06:29.000 It's legit.
00:06:30.000 There's been some phones in the past where people are like, my Windows phone's just as good as your iPhone.
00:06:37.000 No, it's not.
00:06:38.000 It's just not.
00:06:39.000 The Android is the first time I've ever seen a real solid argument for it actually being better.
00:06:45.000 It has a way bigger screen.
00:06:47.000 The screen is amazing.
00:06:48.000 The Galaxy S3 screen is incredible.
00:06:50.000 The pictures are beautiful.
00:06:51.000 It's way better for doing online shit.
00:06:55.000 If you want to go online and check out websites, there's no denying that that bigger screen is fucking way better.
00:07:00.000 It's just better.
00:07:01.000 So then it comes down to texting and phone calls, and it's great at those.
00:07:05.000 So what else do you need?
00:07:08.000 I'm seriously thinking about not using iPhones anymore.
00:07:11.000 Especially with all this nonsense.
00:07:14.000 Calm down.
00:07:14.000 I'm not kidding.
00:07:15.000 This nonsense with the fucking maps.
00:07:17.000 And the one guy quit because he didn't want to apologize for maps.
00:07:21.000 And they took YouTube off the...
00:07:23.000 You don't just automatically get YouTube.
00:07:25.000 You've got to go get it as an app now.
00:07:26.000 Yeah, but it's a nicer app.
00:07:28.000 And the Google Maps app is going to be...
00:07:31.000 Out any day now, so that's going to be better.
00:07:34.000 And once that happens, then it's back to normal.
00:07:36.000 I'm telling you, we need to get ahold of you.
00:07:37.000 Ting, if you're listening, we need to get Brian a Samsung Galaxy S3. Because, how come I've never figured this out?
00:07:44.000 How can we talk about this in the beginning of every podcast?
00:07:46.000 I don't get you a fucking phone.
00:07:47.000 I don't know.
00:07:48.000 Jesus fucking Christ!
00:07:49.000 What kind of show is this?
00:07:51.000 No, no.
00:07:51.000 You'd break it down immediately.
00:07:52.000 Look what I did with the iPad this weekend.
00:07:54.000 Well, you do it with everything.
00:07:55.000 You're a fucking...
00:07:55.000 You're weird.
00:07:56.000 You're a weird dude.
00:07:58.000 You really love it.
00:07:59.000 But look, I firmly endorse Ting.
00:08:01.000 It's a fucking badass company.
00:08:03.000 You can split a plan.
00:08:05.000 You can split the minutes with your girlfriend or your wife or your buddy.
00:08:08.000 Whatever you want to do.
00:08:10.000 There's a lot of different flexible options.
00:08:13.000 It's just an excellent company.
00:08:14.000 And that's the only things that we're ever going to support on this podcast.
00:08:18.000 Whether it's Audible.com or Onnit.com or anything we support, we are 100% into supporting ethical companies that are cool, that sell products that we believe in.
00:08:30.000 That's really it.
00:08:31.000 You know, when we sell AlphaBrain or we sell Shroom Tech Sport or any of the products from Onnit, I use all that shit.
00:08:38.000 I've used all that shit way before I ever had any sort of a business connection to it.
00:08:46.000 I've always been a fan of, first of all, healthy food.
00:08:50.000 I mean, that's just like a duh, you have to say that.
00:08:52.000 But it is something that's super important to constantly reinforce.
00:08:56.000 The more nutrients you take in your body, the better your body works.
00:09:00.000 The more water you drink, the better your body works.
00:09:02.000 I'm not saying only eat perfect.
00:09:05.000 I will fuck off and have chocolate cake.
00:09:07.000 I like to have a Diet Coke every now and again.
00:09:11.000 I'll give myself like one or two Diet Cokes a week.
00:09:14.000 It's not eliminate all this shit from your diet, but if you have a diet that is rich in nutrients, especially phytonutrients, plant nutrients, strong stuff like kale and spinach, it's just better for your fucking life, man.
00:09:29.000 It's just better.
00:09:30.000 Taking nutrients, taking vitamins, like AlphaBrain, which is a cognitive-enhancing Supplement formula.
00:09:37.000 The idea is that we've taken all the best food and nutrient, all the ingredients that enhance cognitive function and put it into a vitamin form.
00:09:45.000 The key with all the products at Onnit, one of the big keys is there's a 100% money back guarantee without even returning the product.
00:09:52.000 If you buy Alpha Brain and you try it, and you go, that didn't do shit for me.
00:09:56.000 Just, you get your money back.
00:09:58.000 There's no questions asked.
00:09:59.000 It's not like we want you to send the pills back and throw them up or something.
00:10:04.000 No one's trying to rip you off.
00:10:05.000 We're selling you things that I 100% believe in, that I use, that I've had definite positive benefits from, and we want it to be a positive experience for everybody that orders.
00:10:16.000 So if you order it, we want you to order more because you enjoy it and because it benefits you.
00:10:22.000 And if it didn't benefit you, it wouldn't be something that we'd sell.
00:10:24.000 We're not interesting.
00:10:26.000 The fitness equipment that we sell is all shit that I use.
00:10:29.000 Kettlebells especially.
00:10:31.000 Huge proponent of kettlebells.
00:10:33.000 Between kettlebells, bodyweight squats, and chin-ups, you can get fucking ferocious workouts in.
00:10:39.000 Like, unbelievable, heart-exploding, ferocious workouts.
00:10:43.000 The idea that you need a bunch of different equipment to get an incredible full-body workout, it's really a myth.
00:10:49.000 You need...
00:10:50.000 I believe you need a couple different weights of kettlebells and a chin-up bar, and you can get almost anything done.
00:10:55.000 There's so many different options as far as exercises.
00:10:58.000 There's a million free videos that you can get online off of YouTube and watch various workouts that people have put together.
00:11:05.000 Just put kettlebells, just throw that shit into YouTube and you'll find it.
00:11:09.000 And we also have an accumulating supply of different things that are to enhance health and different things that are to enhance physical performance, mental performance.
00:11:22.000 We're trying to stay on the edge of everything that we hear about that has any benefit.
00:11:27.000 That's one of the reasons we're going to start carrying Dave Asprey's MCT oil.
00:11:32.000 We're going to sell it through on it as well.
00:11:35.000 And his coffee.
00:11:36.000 He's got an amazing coffee and amazing theories on coffee and why a lot of us feel sick when you drink it.
00:11:43.000 You don't realize that there's actually toxic mold in a large percentage of the coffee that's sold in America.
00:11:49.000 Dave Asprey is a fucking brilliant guy, and having him on the podcast was so eye-opening when it came to how food is stored, mold and funguses that can grow on food, how important it is to avoid that, how much mold and fungus grows on corn.
00:12:04.000 Crazy.
00:12:04.000 So we're going to try to start carrying his stuff as well, just because it's the best.
00:12:07.000 Have you had these buffalo cranberry bars?
00:12:09.000 These are amazing!
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00:12:15.000 Tonka!
00:12:15.000 That's what they used to call the buffalo.
00:12:17.000 That's what you used to call my cat.
00:12:19.000 Tonka.
00:12:19.000 They're amazing.
00:12:20.000 They're made with cranberries and buffaloes.
00:12:22.000 And it's buffalo jerky.
00:12:24.000 And super healthy.
00:12:25.000 Super lean.
00:12:26.000 And you get to feel like you're Davy Crockett and shit.
00:12:29.000 Like you went out and ate a buffalo.
00:12:31.000 We can eat buffalo again.
00:12:32.000 For a while we couldn't eat them I think.
00:12:33.000 I think they're like endangered.
00:12:34.000 Really?
00:12:35.000 I think.
00:12:35.000 So let's get him back on that list, guys.
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00:13:01.000 Alright, folks.
00:13:02.000 Philip Copens is here.
00:13:04.000 Am I pronouncing it correctly, sir?
00:13:05.000 Well, close enough.
00:13:06.000 And we're fixing to get busy.
00:13:08.000 We're going to talk about ancient civilizations, ladies and gentlemen.
00:13:11.000 My personal favorite subject of all time.
00:13:14.000 The Joe Rogan Experience.
00:13:17.000 Train by day.
00:13:18.000 Joe Rogan Podcast by night.
00:13:20.000 All day.
00:13:23.000 Powerful Philip Coppens.
00:13:25.000 How are you, sir?
00:13:26.000 I'm doing good.
00:13:27.000 That's a long, dragged-out ending.
00:13:29.000 Thanks for coming, man.
00:13:30.000 And you're here about your book.
00:13:32.000 Your book is The Lost Civilization Enigma.
00:13:35.000 And I got into the subject...
00:13:39.000 Through Graham Hancock, who I'm sure you're familiar with his work, the Fingerprints of the Gods.
00:13:45.000 Before that, I had no idea that there were so many mysteries in terms of how ancient structures were constructed, who the people were that actually designed them and built them.
00:13:57.000 It's an amazing part of the history of the human race that really doesn't get enough attention, in my opinion.
00:14:05.000 And I don't understand why.
00:14:07.000 Well, I think we've somehow kind of like, you know, we have this 4000 BC wall in there.
00:14:13.000 And anything before that, people just don't seem to be interested in.
00:14:16.000 And it doesn't get into textbooks.
00:14:18.000 It doesn't get into official kind of anything.
00:14:21.000 And anything before that is just treated as if it's sporadic.
00:14:25.000 We've been around for 35,000 years.
00:14:28.000 And we're led to believe that for 30,000 years of that existence, we did nothing.
00:14:33.000 We sat on our bum.
00:14:34.000 Is it because of the fact that the information wasn't available when the people who are professors right now were teaching, and they've been teaching for 20 and 30 years, some of them, and they don't want to rewrite what they've already taught?
00:14:47.000 There's an ego thing to it.
00:14:49.000 They've taught you that this was built in 2000 BC, and that's where it ends.
00:14:54.000 Absolutely.
00:14:55.000 I mean, there's one example in the book, and the opening chapter is called The New Inquisition.
00:14:59.000 And it's about several cases, but one of them is from the 1920s.
00:15:03.000 And basically, in the 1920s, the discovery was made in France, Glozelle.
00:15:08.000 And if this was true, early indications were that writing was thousands of years older than everybody had been writing about.
00:15:17.000 All of these professors were going to be proven wrong.
00:15:19.000 And they just couldn't let that happen.
00:15:21.000 So what they did was he had a 16-year-old farmer boy who just found a hole in his field who said, like, hey, look what I have found.
00:15:29.000 And they threw him in jail.
00:15:30.000 And they pretended that he was thrown in jail for fraud.
00:15:34.000 And ever after, science could say, like, well, he was arrested on fraud, wasn't he?
00:15:37.000 We don't have to look at this guy because he was arrested on fraud.
00:15:40.000 And he was completely vindicated.
00:15:42.000 There was no evidence whatsoever that he had made fraudulent claims about the artifacts which he'd found.
00:15:48.000 But ever since the 1920s, according to the free rules of academics, this is a complete thing which they don't have to look into anymore because they have labeled it a fraud.
00:15:58.000 Wow, so you think there was a conspiracy to label it a fraud and him a fraud just so that they didn't have to address it?
00:16:06.000 Yes.
00:16:06.000 How is that possible?
00:16:08.000 Isn't it weird that academics are supposed to be the leading lights of thought?
00:16:13.000 They're supposed to be the people that are at the forefront of knowledge, but for the most part they are.
00:16:19.000 For the most part they are, but there are exceptions and there are issues.
00:16:23.000 The Egyptologist, that guy who was arguing with Robert Shock and Graham Hancock in that famous video, where they're dealing with this obvious water erosion on these stones, and all these geologists are saying,
00:16:40.000 like, you've got a problem here, because this was cut at like 9,000 plus BC. There's no other way around it.
00:16:47.000 If you look at climate change, you look at that it had to be thousands of years of rainfall to create these erosions, and the way he reacted was so egotistical and non-scientific.
00:16:57.000 It was really infuriating.
00:16:59.000 He was laughing, like, what evidence of this civilization from 10,000 years ago do you have?
00:17:06.000 And it was so infuriating to see a guy who's supposed to be the man out there at the forefront of knowledge when it comes to this particular subject.
00:17:14.000 He's a guy who's a professor at a university, a highly respected one, and here he is.
00:17:20.000 He's carrying the flag for knowledge in this particular subject.
00:17:23.000 And if he could see how gross it looked to watch that reaction, like, why don't you tell me what the fuck you think would be around from 10,500 years ago, dude?
00:17:33.000 Because I don't think it's going to be much.
00:17:34.000 I really don't think...
00:17:36.000 We barely can find shit from 2,000 years ago.
00:17:40.000 We barely find shit from 2,000 B.C. Barely.
00:17:44.000 We find like a little pottery.
00:17:45.000 Oh, we found some place where everybody got killed by mud.
00:17:48.000 Quick, get over here.
00:17:48.000 Let's clean this shit with a paintbrush.
00:17:51.000 But you want to go more time back from that.
00:17:56.000 Than it is from us to the construction of the pyramids.
00:17:59.000 Than it is from the established 2500 B.C. Which is insanity.
00:18:03.000 That's an insane amount of time.
00:18:05.000 You're talking about 8,000 years before that?
00:18:07.000 You're supposed to know or have any evidence whatsoever other than giant stones?
00:18:13.000 What the fuck do you think would be left, right?
00:18:15.000 Yeah, I mean, the great Dr. Zai Hawass, and just to kind of come back on the conspiracy angle there, he, in the 1980s, had actually found evidence that the pyramid, the Great Pyramid of Giza, carbon dating results were in, uncontested, 800 years older.
00:18:29.000 Now, that might not seem much.
00:18:31.000 2400 would make it 3200 BC, but it's 800 years.
00:18:36.000 It's a fucking long time, man!
00:18:39.000 And they don't want to do it, so what do they do?
00:18:42.000 For the last 30 years, they haven't published these findings, because for them to play the game...
00:18:47.000 It has to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
00:18:50.000 And so by not publishing this, they can pretend these carbon dating results don't exist, and they can pretend that everything is fine, that the Great Pyramid is built in 2400 BC. They set the rules, they play the game, and then they shout at everybody else, as you're pointing out when, you know, Robert Schock and everybody else comes to the Sphinx and say,
00:19:08.000 you're idiots.
00:19:09.000 It's clear that there's ego involved, which is very, very disturbing when it comes to knowledge, when it comes to something that is obviously a work in progress.
00:19:19.000 The uncovering of ancient civilizations is clearly a work in progress.
00:19:24.000 So to be arrogant about what the results are just based on the fact that you've taught these to students for so many years and you don't want to admit that you were wrong when you're talking about the time, the construction, the Sphinx, whatever it is that it is that starts getting controversial.
00:19:42.000 There's a weird thing where you see their ego flare up and it's so gross!
00:19:47.000 And it's so transparent.
00:19:48.000 It's really weird to watch them argue like little girls.
00:19:52.000 Like the way they talk about it, it's so egomaniacal.
00:19:56.000 It's like, what are you talking about?
00:19:58.000 You know exactly what the fuck happened?
00:20:00.000 No, you don't.
00:20:01.000 No, you don't.
00:20:01.000 And you need to take this into consideration.
00:20:03.000 You've got a real issue.
00:20:04.000 Because if this guy's right, then you're way off.
00:20:07.000 If this guy's right and the Sphinx enclosure was cut 9,000-plus BC, then you've got a real problem on your hands.
00:20:14.000 Because you've established this whole timeline.
00:20:17.000 It doesn't work anymore.
00:20:18.000 So then we have to figure, what the fuck happened that we had this incredible sophistication at 10,000 BC, and then there's obviously been some declines here and there.
00:20:32.000 There's a really obvious system if you if you really pay attention like Gobekli Tepe or all these really 14,000 plus BC things it's like this isn't like a linear graph it doesn't like go straight up there's like probably some fairly sophisticated cultures wiped out fairly sophisticated wiped out and other places just like today you can go to Africa today and there's a lot of people that if you you didn't if Western civilization didn't go in there and give them things.
00:21:01.000 They wouldn't have radios.
00:21:02.000 They wouldn't be wearing underwear.
00:21:04.000 They would be living exactly the same way they lived thousands and thousands of years ago.
00:21:08.000 At the same time, on other parts of the world, people are dropping bombs on people.
00:21:13.000 People are doing nuclear tests.
00:21:14.000 People are, you know, they're doing the Large Hadron Collider.
00:21:17.000 That's all taking place at the exact same time.
00:21:19.000 I suspect it's always been like that.
00:21:21.000 I suspect that there's been some super duper sophisticated cultures where for whatever reason these people were ever able to figure out how to use agriculture earlier, figure out how to use societies, figure out how to be calm enough to start breaking things down and thinking it through and trying to figure out how to improve things.
00:21:42.000 And then it's this exponential process in these groups.
00:21:45.000 And some of them get better at it than others.
00:21:47.000 And it seems to be like, who wasn't attacked by hordes of barbarians?
00:21:51.000 Those dudes seem to figure out how to get it.
00:21:54.000 All you need is a couple of decades to get ahead.
00:21:57.000 If you look at what we've accomplished in 100 years, it's really a staggering thing.
00:22:03.000 That's the most staggering thing about whether it's Baalbek, the stones in Lebanon, or Egypt, or anything.
00:22:10.000 The most staggering thing is how far we've come in 100 years.
00:22:14.000 And to think that this shit was all going on thousands and thousands and thousands of years ago.
00:22:20.000 Those numbers are just bullshit to us.
00:22:22.000 You start telling someone 7,000 years ago, it's like blah blah.
00:22:26.000 I hear noise coming out of your mouth.
00:22:27.000 I really don't, I can't see it.
00:22:29.000 I don't know what it means.
00:22:31.000 But I think it's the problem because the way history is thought, and it is like, you know, for 30,000 years we sat on our butt, then we stood up and we scramble around for some food, and then all of a sudden in 4000 BC somebody finds a light switch, and all of a sudden it's civilization.
00:22:45.000 That's the standard view, and it doesn't work like that.
00:22:48.000 And then when you confront them with things like Gobekli Tepe or Cattle Ewok or anything like that, they'll say, Well, you know, they were very close.
00:22:56.000 They're like a few thousand people in a city somewhere who were doing this, but it was all isolated.
00:23:01.000 And it just doesn't work.
00:23:03.000 You know, great empires exist, great empires fall.
00:23:06.000 Our ancestors were saying about this as well.
00:23:08.000 They're basically saying about Atlantis, you know, this civilization existed, then it disappeared.
00:23:13.000 And we kind of go, no, [...
00:23:16.000 Because we were sitting in the butt-sitting phase of civilization 10,000 years ago.
00:23:21.000 Nobody was building anything.
00:23:22.000 Nobody was doing anything.
00:23:23.000 And it is just ugh.
00:23:27.000 Because you can't argue with them.
00:23:29.000 They know for sure about how this was.
00:23:32.000 We were sitting on our butts for thousands of years, then we scrambled around a bit, and then all of a sudden in 4000 BC we finally see the light and here we are.
00:23:39.000 And it is very much like an evolution of mankind taken to the absolute extreme.
00:23:46.000 It's a weird sort of cognitive denial.
00:23:48.000 It's very strange.
00:23:49.000 It's very strange that it's like labeling something a conspiracy theory.
00:23:57.000 Like, oh, are you a conspiracy theorist?
00:23:59.000 Like, automatically.
00:24:01.000 Or even how the new one is, truther.
00:24:03.000 That's hilarious.
00:24:04.000 The 911 people, like, 911 truth, they became truthers.
00:24:09.000 Like, somehow or another, it's an insult to be a truther.
00:24:15.000 That shit's ridiculous.
00:24:16.000 Well, I mean, I was doing something for my blog, which is going to be on somewhere in the next few days.
00:24:20.000 And it's about the Kennedy assassination and the single bullet theory.
00:24:24.000 And the single bullet theory was invented by Arlen Spector, who was a very junior lawyer at that time.
00:24:29.000 And he basically saw the Zapruder film, which basically is a guy shooting a film of Kennedy.
00:24:35.000 And they thought that the man like a Kalkano, which was what he was using...
00:24:44.000 We're good to go.
00:24:58.000 We need to try and explain it away.
00:24:59.000 So comes Inspector, junior lawyer, who basically gets to solve this problem, and he comes up with a single bullet theory, which basically says a shot goes into the back of Kennedy, somehow travels up, goes down, jumps up again to go into Connolly's back, kind of like keeps traveling up a bit,
00:25:15.000 goes down again into his wrist, and then up again.
00:25:18.000 And he calls it, you know, the magic bullet theory.
00:25:20.000 And when he goes public with this, he basically says, like, I don't expect anybody to leave this shit.
00:25:26.000 This is going to be contested in a year, five years, a hundred years from now.
00:25:29.000 Nobody should believe this.
00:25:30.000 And guess what?
00:25:32.000 Academic history has taken this on wholesale.
00:25:36.000 Wholesale.
00:25:36.000 And everybody who says, but the magic bullet theory is just crap, they're labeled conspiracy notes.
00:25:42.000 Yeah, it's not just crap.
00:25:44.000 It's like, you're almost, it's almost unexcusable to believe it.
00:25:51.000 It was invented because of the guy in the underpass who got hit with a ricochet.
00:25:54.000 They had to attribute—that was another reason for it—they had to attribute a bullet to this one guy hitting a curb, and it ricocheted him, and he had to go to the hospital.
00:26:03.000 So they knew that one of the bullets missed, and one of the bullets hit this curb.
00:26:07.000 And the bullet they found was in the gurney of Governor Connolly when they brought him— To the hospital.
00:26:16.000 So the idea is that this fucking bullet came out of this dude's body in like perfect form.
00:26:21.000 It was just laying around there and no one ever noticed it.
00:26:23.000 Like he got shot and it was like in his pocket or something.
00:26:26.000 It went through his body and landed in his pocket and then fell out Conveniently, right where they were looking around to see if there's any evidence.
00:26:34.000 Oh, look!
00:26:35.000 We found the bullet that did all the damage.
00:26:37.000 It looks to me, when I watch the Zapruder film, I've never heard anybody say this, but there's a scene, part of it where it does look like, I mean, his head definitely goes back and to the left, but the spray looks like it's going forward.
00:26:53.000 I wonder if he was hit more than once by different snipers at the same time.
00:27:00.000 I mean, I wonder how many actual shots went into his body.
00:27:04.000 Because they know that there was the one that went through the front that they tried to disguise as a tracheotomy.
00:27:10.000 They know there was definitely an entry wound in the neck, and that's when he grabs his neck.
00:27:14.000 Just that alone, the fact that that was deceptively labeled as a tracheotomy hole, why would you do that?
00:27:20.000 The only reason is because you don't want to show an entry wound in the front of his neck.
00:27:24.000 An entry wound looks so much different than an exit wound.
00:27:30.000 Everybody knows that.
00:27:31.000 So they had to come up with something, a fucking round hole in the middle of this guy's neck.
00:27:36.000 So they decided to make it a trach scar, which is just deception.
00:27:39.000 Just that alone.
00:27:41.000 But, you know, we are led to believe that it's all official history.
00:27:45.000 It kind of like is rubber stamped.
00:27:46.000 And so much is rubber stamped, which is absolute BS on so many things.
00:27:50.000 And, you know, that is 50 years ago.
00:27:53.000 Yeah.
00:27:54.000 And when we're coming back to trying to find out what really happened 8,000 years ago, you know, when we can't even do it 50 years ago.
00:28:00.000 The rubber stamp.
00:28:01.000 Those motherfuckers.
00:28:02.000 It's those rubber stamp people, man.
00:28:04.000 It really is.
00:28:05.000 That really is what it is.
00:28:06.000 And the notion that certain things make you a ridiculous person if you discuss them.
00:28:12.000 Whether it's Sasquatch or whether it's UFOs or whether it's anything.
00:28:16.000 The idea that human beings even exist and exist in this form with cell phones and fucking space travel and airplanes.
00:28:25.000 That is so crazy.
00:28:27.000 Just the reality of people is so crazy.
00:28:30.000 I don't know why anybody would argue any ridiculous proposition about aliens or the possibility of life that we haven't discovered on other planets.
00:28:42.000 Just think about how fucking weird we are.
00:28:45.000 The fact that we even exist is so mind-blowing and exists in this form.
00:28:51.000 For sure, there could be UFOs around us all the time that we can't see because they know how to hide.
00:28:58.000 There could be easily some way where you just are completely invisible.
00:29:03.000 It doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility that they could deceive us.
00:29:08.000 That they could figure out a way to be a tree, you know?
00:29:13.000 I mean, and who knows if...
00:29:15.000 The idea of cloaking devices, all the shit that we're coming up with, where we project an image of...
00:29:23.000 Who knows what the fuck is up there that we can't see?
00:29:25.000 Maybe they're Asians.
00:29:29.000 Brian, you need to just jump in front of a train today.
00:29:32.000 Well, one of the questions I get asked, Brian, is whether cats are aliens, whether there are aliens in disguise.
00:29:38.000 Aliens, cats?
00:29:39.000 No.
00:29:39.000 What if Chinese people are more alien than human, and when the Nibiru people came, when the Anunnaki came, they just added a little more alien, a little more chimp to my people, the Italians, to give them a little more chimp?
00:29:52.000 I believe that.
00:29:53.000 More than a tree.
00:29:55.000 You'd believe that more than them being a tree?
00:29:57.000 Yeah.
00:29:57.000 Well, what about if they were the wind?
00:30:00.000 Well, I mean, Paul Davis is a guy who's an astrobiologist from University of Phoenix, and he's basically writing a paper on non-material technology, which he basically kind of goes like, I'm going to talk about this, but I have no idea what I'm talking about because it's so out there.
00:30:15.000 But he's basically saying that alien beings, if they were to come here or if they came here, their technology might actually not be physically real.
00:30:23.000 That it might be something kind of like, you know, some kind of energy cloud in front of them, which they can direct with thought and can do stuff with that.
00:30:31.000 And you kind of think like, well, we're almost there.
00:30:33.000 Because a few days ago there was some headline whereby, I think in Japan...
00:30:38.000 Asians again.
00:30:40.000 Where they somehow have been able to map if somebody's thinking about, I think it was a tomato or something like that, the computer could pick up the pattern that this guy was thinking about tomatoes.
00:30:50.000 So we are rapidly moving in directions of really being able to pick up what we're thinking and computer technology being able to identify what we're thinking.
00:31:00.000 Yeah, and who knows whether they're going to be able to enable consciousness to exist inside of computers or consciousness to exist inside of a signal.
00:31:10.000 If they can get consciousness to exist inside of a computer, think about how much energy and how much information is distributed just through wireless internet.
00:31:18.000 Just flying around all around you constantly as fucking videos and ones and zeros.
00:31:24.000 Who knows if one day they'll be able to do that with consciousness.
00:31:29.000 Broadcast consciousness like a Wi-Fi signal so that you essentially are everywhere all the time if you choose to be.
00:31:38.000 So the aliens are here without even physically being here.
00:31:40.000 Yeah, well you said that aliens were wind and that Wi-Fi is in the air so the internet is aliens.
00:31:46.000 Dude, what if the hurricane's an alien?
00:31:48.000 What?
00:31:48.000 I just smelled an alien.
00:31:50.000 Did you do something?
00:31:51.000 No.
00:31:52.000 It's a child.
00:31:53.000 I apologize for that.
00:31:56.000 Fucking serious author here, dude.
00:31:58.000 You're just messing this whole thing up.
00:32:02.000 When you tell people that you're on that show, Agent Aliens, isn't that like automatically one of those things where they go, oh, okay, you believe in aliens?
00:32:11.000 Like, oh, you believe in UFOs?
00:32:12.000 You know, it's amazing.
00:32:14.000 In America, there has been a complete change.
00:32:17.000 The answer is no longer no.
00:32:19.000 Really?
00:32:19.000 Yeah.
00:32:20.000 People kind of go like, wow, interesting.
00:32:22.000 This is being explored.
00:32:23.000 This is being discussed.
00:32:25.000 You know, it's got phenomenal ratings and it's got an attraction from 5 to 95. And all of a sudden, and I think this is largely due to the format of the show as well, really people are into this.
00:32:37.000 People are beginning to question things.
00:32:38.000 I get feedback from university professors and specifically high school teachers.
00:32:45.000 And the high school teachers are saying, you know, We used to say something like, very dogmatically, something like, let's say water is liquid.
00:32:52.000 They can still get away with that, but some of the other claims they're making, students are now challenging.
00:32:58.000 They're saying, well, where did he get that from?
00:32:59.000 And before, there was this acceptance of, oh yeah, the teacher says so, so we have to accept whatever this knowledgeable person says, and we will just write it down.
00:33:09.000 And all of a sudden, high school teachers, even university students, are basically...
00:33:15.000 Saying, no, we're not going to do that.
00:33:17.000 We're going to ask where this came from.
00:33:19.000 Why do you come to that stance?
00:33:21.000 And I think that's interesting.
00:33:22.000 And it's definitely something which is happening in America.
00:33:25.000 Because the series is also in different countries.
00:33:29.000 I kind of like don't follow it in all countries.
00:33:31.000 Definitely in like Europe, it's definitely still like, oh, you believe in aliens?
00:33:34.000 Well, here's the thing that's happening in this country especially.
00:33:37.000 And it's a thing that you can call intellectual wealth.
00:33:42.000 And financial wealth might still be locked down by the elite, but intellectual wealth is no longer.
00:33:50.000 Intellectual wealth is, look...
00:33:52.000 You don't really have to have any sort of formal education, and you could educate yourself just by reading the internet.
00:33:58.000 You literally, any subject, you could find forums where virtually any topic that you wish to engage in and want to figure things out about could be discussed.
00:34:09.000 You could go to...
00:34:10.000 You could download virtually every book that's ever been written about it, and it's not like it used to be.
00:34:17.000 So it's not like...
00:34:19.000 When they go into a college, the professor is intellectually incredibly wealthy, and the children are intellectually poor.
00:34:26.000 No, the children have fucking smartphones, and they could Google anything.
00:34:31.000 Like, no, that's not why.
00:34:32.000 It was 1726, and they found it this way.
00:34:35.000 And that professor looks like an idiot now, because he's got some old, outdated information.
00:34:40.000 It's not easy to just run a bunch of kids, tell them lies.
00:34:46.000 Well, you know, what do you do with kids?
00:34:48.000 These fucking kids these days and they're aliens.
00:34:50.000 But the idea of aliens has always been sexy.
00:34:54.000 It's always been, you know, it's daunting.
00:34:57.000 Like the idea like, wow, what could you imagine if it is real?
00:34:59.000 What would it be like?
00:35:00.000 And that's why there's a thousand fucking movies about it.
00:35:02.000 I was going to say Hollywood Down the Street.
00:35:04.000 Yeah.
00:35:05.000 Just look.
00:35:07.000 It's one of those things where I don't know what would happen if it was proven to be real, but I don't think it would be good.
00:35:16.000 If they could prove that there are aliens and aliens exist, I think people are too stupid.
00:35:22.000 I think they would just start jumping off buildings.
00:35:24.000 I don't think they'd be able to handle it.
00:35:27.000 Yeah, there's various scenarios there, definitely.
00:35:29.000 I mean, you know, the War of the Worlds thing from the 1930s with Orson Welles is kind of like the classic thing of the panicky situation.
00:35:37.000 Then there are those who say that was exaggerated.
00:35:40.000 That it was really isolated.
00:35:41.000 That it were the headlines of the newspapers who invented this kind of thing.
00:35:44.000 I don't know.
00:35:46.000 I mean, I... Depends how sexy the alien is, I think.
00:35:50.000 If it's an attractive alien?
00:35:51.000 Yeah, if it's an attractive alien, we might not panic and jump off.
00:35:54.000 We might try to...
00:35:55.000 Right, like what if they arrive and they're all hot as fuck?
00:35:57.000 Like Natasha Hendricks in Species, remember that?
00:36:00.000 Maybe this is a conspiracy.
00:36:02.000 Maybe everything about UFO cover-up has happened because they were ugly and they were not photogenic.
00:36:07.000 It's too insect-like.
00:36:09.000 And the government is just waiting for beautiful aliens to come and then there will be disclosure.
00:36:14.000 Meanwhile, there's going to be a new movie about that very same subject.
00:36:18.000 Now that they've heard this, someone will write a movie about it.
00:36:20.000 It'll be awesome.
00:36:21.000 Is the show copyrighted?
00:36:23.000 No.
00:36:24.000 Damn it, we forgot.
00:36:25.000 We forgot to copyright that.
00:36:27.000 Yeah, I think for whatever reason, I think people are barely able to handle this reality, you know, for whatever reason.
00:36:37.000 Whether it's they're not living the life they want to live, they're not around too many people that think a lot, they don't have much education, they don't have a strong mind, they have a lot of phobias, they have addictions to substances, whatever the fuck it is.
00:36:50.000 There's a lot of people that are barely hanging on to this life as is.
00:36:55.000 It's an awful lot of framework.
00:36:57.000 People love to have a framework.
00:36:58.000 And going back to children, children need a framework.
00:37:01.000 They need structure in their life.
00:37:03.000 And so many adults need to do that as well.
00:37:06.000 And once that framework is in place, and I think this is tying it back to, like, the academic professors, it's really hard to break out of that.
00:37:13.000 And it's like, you know, whether it is things like hallucinogenic substances, whether it is things like near-death experiences, life after death, all of these things, aliens, lost civilizations, they all somehow are pushing this cardboard thing of the framework,
00:37:29.000 saying, help, we need to get through, because there's something outside of this framework.
00:37:33.000 And basically people saying...
00:37:37.000 Yeah, the Ancient Aliens one is one where I've had the conversation with people where I sort of described the Zechariah Sitchin thing, the Sitchin scenario, what could have happened, and they look at you like they're trying to find a way to get away.
00:37:53.000 They look at you like, what the fuck kind of stupid conversation am I locked in with this idiot?
00:37:59.000 If you've never read any of Zacharias Hitchin's stuff, I'll just summarize it very quickly.
00:38:03.000 Hitchin believes that we were engineered by these alien beings and that it's all in the ancient Sumerian text.
00:38:10.000 His translations of it are all that these people came down and did genetic experiments on human beings and created us to mine for gold, which is really a trip.
00:38:19.000 It's really a mindfuck when you start thinking about how gold has always been valuable.
00:38:23.000 And you're like, why?
00:38:24.000 You can't even make a sword out of it.
00:38:25.000 Why did people back then...
00:38:27.000 Why was anybody willing to take a bag of gold for your donkey?
00:38:31.000 That doesn't make any sense.
00:38:33.000 Why did it have so much value?
00:38:36.000 The Zachariah Sitchin scenario is that they, these aliens, had ruined their environment and they needed gold dust to suspend their atmosphere to protect them from the radiation.
00:38:48.000 Well, what's really fucked up is scientists didn't figure that, like when they were started to discuss possible climate change, erosion of the ozone layer, what would they do to protect the United States if we lost all of our ozone, our atmosphere?
00:39:02.000 And the number one solution was to suspend Reflective particles in the atmosphere.
00:39:09.000 And so Sitchin had actually translated this in the 70s.
00:39:13.000 This is like far before scientists had even proposed that.
00:39:17.000 So it's really kind of interesting.
00:39:18.000 Like that's one little piece of that Sitchin thing that makes you go, whoa.
00:39:23.000 Like, who the...
00:39:24.000 How did he figure that out?
00:39:26.000 Was that...
00:39:27.000 I don't know.
00:39:27.000 I'm not smart enough to know about the environment and the climate change and how much they knew about the ozone layer back in the 1970s, but...
00:39:37.000 Well, he was a very controversial man.
00:39:40.000 He was very adamant and set in his ways.
00:39:44.000 He wasn't a warm character, but he definitely was an interesting character.
00:39:49.000 Towards the end of his life, together with Inner Traditions, his publisher, he began to push for the DNA analysis.
00:39:55.000 He wanted to do some DNA testing, and unfortunately, he died before Any of that could have happened, but it would have been interesting to see where he was going to take it, because he really was pushing his reputation and his legacy on the line there, and again, it didn't happen because he died.
00:40:13.000 The DNA evidence he was trying to find was that we were genetically manipulated and created.
00:40:18.000 The idea is that that's why we're so different from every other monkey that's here.
00:40:21.000 I mean, it's so clear that we're different.
00:40:23.000 We're so much different than all the rest of them.
00:40:26.000 And people are like, well, we are apes.
00:40:28.000 We're from a different branch.
00:40:30.000 How the fuck did this one branch just take off?
00:40:34.000 This one branch has cars.
00:40:37.000 Everybody else is the same.
00:40:41.000 They're all just throwing their own shit.
00:40:43.000 Even the chimps.
00:40:45.000 They're the baddest, smartest motherfuckers, the closest to us.
00:40:49.000 But look at them.
00:40:50.000 Oh, they're using a tool.
00:40:52.000 They're sticking a stick to fucking get ants.
00:40:55.000 That's as close to a tool as they get.
00:40:57.000 Like, whoa!
00:40:58.000 Woo!
00:40:59.000 You know, call me when they figure out a bow and arrow, okay?
00:41:02.000 The difference between them and us is so gigantic.
00:41:06.000 I've never heard that adequately explained.
00:41:08.000 Never.
00:41:09.000 Never heard it.
00:41:10.000 The fossil record is baffling to a lot of biologists when it comes to doubling the human brain size.
00:41:16.000 I've read all these different theories of why the human brain size doubled over a period of two million years.
00:41:22.000 And they're all fucking...
00:41:23.000 It's all like, who knows, man?
00:41:26.000 Who knows?
00:41:27.000 If we really found out conclusively that there was some sort of genetic manipulation by some sort of an outside force, that might be too much for people to handle.
00:41:41.000 Yeah, I mean, you know, again, it's the framework.
00:41:46.000 It's like if we somehow were to be able to change time.
00:41:49.000 And I did an interview for a DVD which is going to come out, I think, in a few months from now.
00:41:54.000 And it's about the Marcel family, the ones who were involved with Roswell.
00:41:58.000 And two generations of them, specifically the grandson, Jesse Marcel III, grew up with the absolute conviction that ET existed.
00:42:06.000 The family is absolutely convinced that what grandfather found was extraterrestrial.
00:42:10.000 The dad, at the age of 10, saw some of these artifacts, and they raised his son and the grandchild, I, III, In this absolute conviction that E.T. existed.
00:42:20.000 And his mindset is completely different from the rest of us.
00:42:24.000 It's like, you know, at the age of five, he's not questioning whether what he sees on television about Battlestar Galactica could be possibly real or anything of the science fiction thing.
00:42:33.000 He just grew up with this complete acceptance that it is there.
00:42:36.000 Just like shamanic cultures believe absolutely that there are other entities out there, that there is a larger framework out there.
00:42:42.000 You know, so many people.
00:42:44.000 But the majority of us, the majority of the normal people get raised in religion.
00:42:50.000 They kind of like, you know, grow up with that and then they continue to endorse it or they break away from it and sometimes completely throw the baby out with the bathwater.
00:43:00.000 And that is very interesting, kind of like, you know, how two billion people Right now are in this Catholic tradition all by themselves already of having this framework which is created for the last 2,000 years and everything where you look around you in this Western world is basically the cardboard box of the last 2,000 years.
00:43:23.000 Yeah, the Catholic one, that's where I started out when I was a little kid.
00:43:28.000 I was a Catholic.
00:43:30.000 Same here.
00:43:30.000 I can't believe there's so many people that are still in that.
00:43:34.000 That one's a tricky one.
00:43:36.000 How much abuse do you have to take?
00:43:39.000 How many kids have to get molested by priests and how many times they have to cover that up?
00:43:44.000 How many people have to live these horrible, guilt-laden lives because of that wacky-ass fucking religion?
00:43:52.000 But you see, this is what the Catholic religion doesn't give any shit about it because this is what they think about.
00:43:59.000 You are baptized.
00:44:00.000 That's all they care about.
00:44:02.000 For the rest of your life, whether you live good, whether you murder people...
00:44:07.000 Because once you're baptized, you are going to die, you do the rituals and all of that stuff, and then they believe in a physical resurrection of the dead at the time when Jesus comes back.
00:44:17.000 Living right, or whether you are a pedophile or a mass murderer, they don't care.
00:44:21.000 It's all about being baptized, and that's all good, and the rest is all pretty much make-believe and entertainment for the masses.
00:44:27.000 Well, I don't think that's the case.
00:44:29.000 I think they care if you're a pedophile or a murderer.
00:44:32.000 I mean, people don't want that in their community.
00:44:34.000 But I know what you're saying, that if you follow the dogma, if you follow the actual word of the religion, the most important part is that they're baptized so that they can possibly come back or go to heaven.
00:44:49.000 What do they have to say?
00:44:50.000 They love Jesus right before they die?
00:44:52.000 They have to say that they accept Jesus into their heart.
00:44:55.000 Do they have to say it?
00:44:56.000 Nope.
00:44:56.000 Do they have to say it?
00:44:57.000 I have to say it.
00:44:58.000 Do you always have that in the back of your head?
00:45:00.000 Like, just in case.
00:45:01.000 I'm like, what is it again?
00:45:02.000 Okay, I gotta do that.
00:45:05.000 No, but this chick I used to date, her roommate, used to say shit like that.
00:45:10.000 It's just in case.
00:45:11.000 Just in case.
00:45:12.000 I accept you to my heart.
00:45:13.000 Just in case it's like it's always good to better be safe than sorry.
00:45:18.000 What the fuck are you talking about?
00:45:19.000 Put on those purple Nikes.
00:45:22.000 Yeah, it's just ridiculous how big it is.
00:45:28.000 And those stories are far more ridiculous than the Zacharias Hitchin tale of humanity.
00:45:35.000 The Zacharias Hitchin tale of humanity is like, hmm...
00:45:39.000 We know what we can do.
00:45:41.000 We got a rover on Mars right now.
00:45:43.000 We're collecting soil.
00:45:45.000 We know we can do that.
00:45:47.000 And we know that we used to be able to do that a hundred years ago.
00:45:50.000 So why wouldn't we think that someone could have been here a few thousand years ago?
00:45:54.000 This is a young ass planet.
00:45:56.000 This planet's only been around like 4 billion years or something like that, right?
00:45:59.000 4.6?
00:46:00.000 Yeah, 18. Yeah, if you look at the Earth in comparison to the rest of the universe, there's planets that are billions of years older than us out there somewhere.
00:46:10.000 Yeah, and, you know, again, as you were saying earlier, it's like, give 100 years in the future, and if they came here 8,000 years ago, how would you tell?
00:46:21.000 Yeah.
00:46:22.000 And statistically, there are like, you know, people have been doing the statistical analyses, and there would have been two or three of these incidents happening.
00:46:30.000 Now, first of all, you know, if a spaceship does crash in, let's say, 15,000 BC, somewhere in America, good luck finding evidence of that.
00:46:39.000 Right.
00:46:40.000 You know, there's hardly anybody living here at that moment in time.
00:46:42.000 Wouldn't spaceships last longer, though, than like iPhones?
00:46:45.000 No.
00:46:45.000 You know, like your iPhone wouldn't be around for 10,000 years, but a fucking spaceship?
00:46:49.000 That shit is pretty durable, I bet.
00:46:51.000 It'd be around for a while.
00:46:52.000 You would hope.
00:46:53.000 You would hope.
00:46:54.000 You're gonna travel through, you know, galaxies with one of those fucking things.
00:46:59.000 Our planet's so young it hasn't even started its period.
00:47:03.000 Brian, these are not good.
00:47:05.000 These are not good lines you're interrupting this important conversation with.
00:47:12.000 I apologize.
00:47:14.000 See, the problem with those, Brian, is they're train wrecks and they ruin the flow of the conversation.
00:47:19.000 And now I don't even remember what we were saying.
00:47:21.000 The planet is...
00:47:23.000 Shut up.
00:47:23.000 Shut up, Brian!
00:47:28.000 It is an issue with people when they talk about the origins of humanity.
00:47:33.000 They talk about the origins of civilizations and how far we've come over this short period of time.
00:47:40.000 It is an issue with people where there's no clear beginning.
00:47:44.000 It's like, mmm, it gets foggy, Mesopotamia something, you know.
00:47:49.000 It gets real foggy.
00:47:51.000 It gets real foggy about 5,000, 6,000 years ago.
00:47:53.000 And those guys were all talking about people that lived before then.
00:47:57.000 Mm-hmm.
00:47:58.000 They all had stories of ancient civilizations that were more advanced and greater.
00:48:02.000 They all have these catastrophe stories.
00:48:05.000 And they also all have these stories about being visited.
00:48:10.000 Yeah, and I mean, you know, the ancient Egyptians are probably the best example of this.
00:48:13.000 They have stories which basically say that they go back 25,000 years ago to a time when the gods, whatever they are, ruled and were present amongst us.
00:48:23.000 Then they disappeared.
00:48:25.000 Then there were some kind of demi-gods and then dynastic rule of Egypt.
00:48:28.000 And that's kind of very much something which you find everywhere.
00:48:31.000 Whether you go into Arizona and you hear the same story of the Hopis, this period when the gods were amongst us, that they still can be contacted.
00:48:38.000 And in the case of the ancient Egyptians, you have this other very interesting scenario that they speak about Atlantis.
00:48:46.000 And, you know, these wonderful Greek who have for so many generations dominated our education as the cradle of civilization.
00:48:55.000 Well...
00:48:56.000 They themselves say they weren't a cradle of civilization.
00:48:59.000 Pythagoras says he studied in ancient Egypt.
00:49:02.000 All of them went to ancient Egypt to study these things.
00:49:05.000 Yet we keep calling them Pythagoras this and Euclid this and all of that stuff.
00:49:09.000 But they all say it came from Egypt.
00:49:10.000 So all of this knowledge came from Egypt.
00:49:12.000 And what happens is that in the 4th century, when Plato starts writing about Atlantis, he says, you know, this is history.
00:49:21.000 He writes about it in a history book.
00:49:24.000 He has his critics because nobody in Greece is believing that somehow Athens is thousands of years older than they believe.
00:49:33.000 They are talking about lost civilization somewhere in what seems to be the Atlantic Ocean and that there's this continent behind it.
00:49:39.000 What kind of nonsense is this?
00:49:41.000 So as soon as he's written it, basically a few guys jump on a boat, go to Egypt, hope that they can get confronted with evidence which shows that Solon and Plato are absolute morons who've invented this.
00:49:52.000 And they arrive in the temple complex and the Egyptian priest kind of like points and says, yep, that's the column over there which has this story.
00:49:59.000 And they jump back in the boat, arrive in Athens and basically say, oh yeah, sorry, you know, yeah, Plato was right.
00:50:06.000 The ancient Egyptians have this information about this lost civilization.
00:50:10.000 Now that doesn't mean necessarily that ancient Atlantis is real, but definitely that the ancient Egyptians believed that it was real.
00:50:17.000 And all of that is kind of like factual.
00:50:21.000 All of this is identified as being real.
00:50:24.000 We know that this guy jumped on a boat.
00:50:26.000 And that his column was there up until the 4th century BC. And what we have right now, again, this cardboard box which we're trying to maintain, we have the likes of Ken Fetter, who, you know, I'm all about the fact that there should be debate, but it also has to be informed.
00:50:41.000 And this guy basically says, well, you know, Plato invented this.
00:50:45.000 This is an idealized state.
00:50:46.000 And when you ask him, but it's about history, he says it's history.
00:50:51.000 Well, that was a literary device.
00:50:53.000 He invented the literary device.
00:50:54.000 He was very upset with the way Athens was, you know, being run.
00:50:59.000 And so he pretends that it is history.
00:51:02.000 And he really wants to expose Athens for...
00:51:05.000 And it's like, oh, shut up.
00:51:07.000 You know...
00:51:09.000 Again, right now there is no evidence that Atlantis was real, but we should get to a point to say that there is some validity that it might be real.
00:51:18.000 And guess what?
00:51:19.000 10,000 years ago, we know that the water levels were lower.
00:51:22.000 We know that there was ice above things like Great Britain, two miles of ice sitting there.
00:51:27.000 That begins to melt at the end of the last ice age.
00:51:30.000 The sea levels begin to rise.
00:51:32.000 What's the story of Atlantis, of a low-level plain somewhere near water, which all of a sudden is...
00:51:37.000 Submerged by water which comes out of nowhere apparently and submerges this civilization.
00:51:43.000 It's what we have found.
00:51:45.000 Haven't they discovered what they believe is the concentric circles that made up of Atlantis in Spain?
00:51:52.000 Well, they have found so many things.
00:51:53.000 The answer is that our ancestors built in concentric circles everywhere.
00:51:58.000 In the book Lost Civilization, there's actually the work of a Belgian historian, Marcel Mastak, who finds that these circles also existed around Stonehenge, Avebury, but also in France.
00:52:10.000 Why did they do that?
00:52:11.000 Why did they build like that?
00:52:13.000 We don't necessarily know.
00:52:16.000 The indications are that our ancestors were very much aware of water technology.
00:52:21.000 They realized that they wanted to do certain things with water, that they could purify it somehow, that they could get more quality out of this.
00:52:30.000 It's somehow that they understood the qualities of water.
00:52:34.000 And we're only beginning to touch that.
00:52:36.000 So those concentric circles may have been filters?
00:52:40.000 Potentially.
00:52:41.000 I mean, over the last 10 to 20 years, people have been beginning to look at this, most of it in Russia.
00:52:46.000 It is slowly coming back to us and kind of like the results of what they're doing.
00:52:51.000 But yeah, you know, like Emoto with his water and memory and all of that stuff.
00:52:56.000 It's also probably a good way to have buildings set up and if you had it in these concentric circles and the water was inside of each circle, everyone would have access to water.
00:53:06.000 Yes, and there's also something about the proximity to water, how this was somehow important and beneficial to health, that water healed.
00:53:15.000 Up until a few years ago, everybody went to these spas across the world to partake in the waters, which were...
00:53:21.000 meant to cure everything and it definitely made our ancestors feel better and that seems to be a tradition which existed for thousands of years to take this path somehow that this water was important but also of course they had to make sure that water was pure that the water was clean that it didn't contain you know things which would rather kill you rather than heal you well water has always been something that makes people feel good too right I mean it's got to be helpful for you playing in the ocean and just My wife is a big supporter of saying,
00:53:50.000 if you have a problem, take a shower.
00:53:51.000 And there are people who actually say that the physical fact of what's getting on your head makes your brain think better.
00:53:59.000 She's an example of this.
00:54:01.000 She will sometimes go into the shower and come back and say, this problem, I have the solution.
00:54:06.000 I think I found this.
00:54:07.000 She's not alone.
00:54:08.000 It definitely feels good.
00:54:10.000 That's one of the great pleasures of being a civilized person.
00:54:14.000 Take a hot shower, man.
00:54:16.000 I went camping recently, and I was camping for five days.
00:54:19.000 We wore the same clothes.
00:54:21.000 It was cold out, so no showers, no nothing.
00:54:24.000 And then finally, we checked in in a hotel room on the fifth day, and I took a shower, and I took a shower for like an hour.
00:54:30.000 It felt so good.
00:54:32.000 We have so many awesome things like that that we don't even appreciate.
00:54:37.000 So it's very likely that these people that even in Atlantis probably weren't as sophisticated as us when it comes to a lot of things, but they did have different methods of running their society, different methods of employing natural resources.
00:54:55.000 They didn't have a gas and oil-based society.
00:54:59.000 So we have to look at that as well.
00:55:01.000 When you're dealing with people that didn't have machines and combustion engines and a gas and oil-based society, you've got to wonder, how does this superintelligence of the human mind manifest itself in a physical form?
00:55:16.000 Well, it seemed like it did with stone.
00:55:18.000 It seemed like that was where all the intelligence went.
00:55:22.000 All the thought and innovation went to structures and building these incredible...
00:55:30.000 Well, our ancestors, I think, had far more knowledge than we do.
00:55:34.000 And this is to some extent also visible, I think, in the work which Jeremy Narby is trying to do with the pharmacology industry.
00:55:40.000 Far more knowledge about what, though?
00:55:42.000 Knowledgeable about various things, like whether it is plants, plants, how they can heal, how we can use them.
00:55:49.000 You know, today we kind of like say, okay, pill X is made out of this and this molecule and it'll do this in your body.
00:55:56.000 And it is this pill which we can give you, which we have created through lots of machinery.
00:56:01.000 And in the Amazon, it doesn't work like that.
00:56:04.000 They'll say, what's wrong with you?
00:56:05.000 They'll do the analysis and they'll say, oh, if we boil plant Y for five hours and we mix it with plant Z, The end result will be something which will help you with this.
00:56:15.000 It's knowledge-based, but the preparation is so easy.
00:56:18.000 You either boil it, or you take it in its native form, or you mix and mingle it.
00:56:21.000 It's this very basic thing of working.
00:56:24.000 But you need to have the knowledge.
00:56:25.000 You need to know that all of these plants work.
00:56:28.000 And today, we have the big physical approach of, like, you know, like, we have machines and power plants which are able to produce this pill.
00:56:35.000 But the end result is the same.
00:56:37.000 You get better from taking this.
00:56:38.000 My take on it is that they knew a lot more back then than we think they did, but they knew a lot about the natural world.
00:56:49.000 They knew a lot about healing, but I don't think they had internet.
00:56:52.000 I don't think they had Google.
00:56:54.000 They didn't have cars.
00:56:55.000 We know way more now.
00:56:56.000 And we know about them.
00:56:57.000 They didn't know about us, so they can go fuck themselves.
00:56:59.000 They didn't even see us coming.
00:57:00.000 We're here, bitch, and you're not.
00:57:02.000 I think computers and laptops, what are the odds that they had all that shit?
00:57:07.000 You'd have to have oil to make all that stuff.
00:57:10.000 The one component that people have to recognize in the construction of almost every modern piece of technology is plastic.
00:57:18.000 And plastic can be made from plants.
00:57:22.000 It can be made from hemp fiber.
00:57:24.000 But for the most part, it's made from fucking oil.
00:57:26.000 And there's a lot of the shit that's in there that's made from oil.
00:57:28.000 And you've got to burn oil to fire up engines to fly over the fucking sky to carry these things from China.
00:57:33.000 You know, it's a really...
00:57:35.000 I mean, there's no way around it.
00:57:38.000 You need to figure out a way to mass manufacture things in order to have a society like this.
00:57:44.000 This is a completely different sort of society than they had back then.
00:57:47.000 Oh yeah, I mean, definitely.
00:57:49.000 But I think there's this interesting thing.
00:57:51.000 The more academics deny the existence of Atlantis, the more extreme some people make this civilization as well.
00:57:58.000 And I think the truth is somewhere in the middle.
00:58:01.000 They were more advanced than what you were talking about before.
00:58:05.000 They were more advanced than the people who were running around doing nothing whatsoever on the various other continents.
00:58:11.000 Which is why the likes of the ancient Egyptians spoke about them.
00:58:14.000 Of like, hey, these guys did something.
00:58:16.000 Hey, these guys lived there.
00:58:17.000 This was, you know, if you ever find something in your neighborhood of Athens, this might be related to these guys thousands of years ago.
00:58:24.000 But it's not going to be a spaceship.
00:58:25.000 It's not going to be something which is going to be so wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
00:58:29.000 But it is still wow in the sense that it was a large civilization if we take...
00:58:34.000 Plato's word for it.
00:58:36.000 It was pretty much unified before Europe was ever unified.
00:58:40.000 And it was also a civilization which gave its information to other civilizations.
00:58:46.000 There seems to be this handover of information.
00:58:49.000 Even though the civilization died, not everything died.
00:58:53.000 Some of their knowledge seems to have gone over, which is what the stories of the ancient Egyptians are about and how they somehow preserve this information from their ancestors.
00:59:03.000 The most shocking thing to me about Ancient Man is the ability to move giant stones.
00:59:10.000 That one is the real mindfuck.
00:59:12.000 Well, it wasn't the only thing to do back then, so you probably got really good at it, you know?
00:59:16.000 You got a lot of things to do, dude.
00:59:18.000 You had to hunt, and you had to gather, and you had to make food.
00:59:21.000 You had to make shelter.
00:59:23.000 There's always shit to do, just being a human being.
00:59:26.000 And back then, it was probably way more stressful to get your food than it is today.
00:59:30.000 So, I don't buy that.
00:59:32.000 Or rocks just weighed way less back then.
00:59:34.000 Could you imagine if that was the case?
00:59:36.000 Yeah, because there was no way for us to judge that.
00:59:38.000 Oh, please.
00:59:39.000 We know how much rocks weigh, you silly fuck.
00:59:41.000 Maybe after years of rain, it starts soaking it in and getting some kind of mold.
00:59:45.000 Yeah, like a wet towel effect for rocks.
00:59:49.000 Some of the stones, like the Lebanon stones in Baalbek, how old do they think those are?
00:59:56.000 Nobody knows.
00:59:57.000 You can't date rocks.
01:00:00.000 So many of these structures you can't date.
01:00:04.000 Trying to answer the Baalbek thing via Stonehenge, the traditional explanation of Stonehenge is that it is 3000 BC. But there's one guy, Robert Langdon, who's actually showing that these stones are probably 8000 BC. And he's doing it by basically saying the holes which were found are 8000,
01:00:23.000 bicarbon dating results.
01:00:25.000 Some of the stones which are used elsewhere, specifically the blue sarsens, are found in these holes 8000 BC. So he's basically saying you are constantly putting Stonehenge in this 3000 BC framework.
01:00:40.000 But actually, the evidence suggests that it is 8000 BC. He's trying to push it out.
01:00:44.000 He's basically trying to do the reinterpretation of this.
01:00:48.000 And in the case of Baalbek, in the case of so many things, it's always circumstantial dating.
01:00:53.000 You know, this building has been repainted, what, a year, two years ago?
01:00:58.000 And imagine if somebody, you know, five years ago says, like, oh, this building, you know, dates from seven years ago.
01:01:05.000 Because the paint is seven years ago.
01:01:07.000 Well, that is circumstantial.
01:01:09.000 In the absence of, you need to go further.
01:01:12.000 You need to be able to find out more.
01:01:14.000 And in the case of this building, you will probably find land registries.
01:01:17.000 You will find so much information, which shows that it is probably 30, 40 years.
01:01:21.000 But in the case of things like Baalbek, you don't have anything.
01:01:24.000 You have a bit of plant life or some kind of discarded wood from an ancestor.
01:01:29.000 It's like trying to date Baalbek or Stonehenge or whatever monument by a Twix wrapper, which a tourist has left there 3,000 years from now.
01:01:37.000 That's funny.
01:01:38.000 That's a funny way of looking at it.
01:01:40.000 How big are those stones, the Baalbek stones?
01:01:43.000 They're big.
01:01:44.000 Some of the stones in the foundation of the platform are 800 tons.
01:01:49.000 There is one in situ which wasn't completely excavated, which was 1200 tons.
01:01:54.000 It is absolutely gigantic.
01:01:57.000 So, how tall is that?
01:01:59.000 Is it like 8 feet tall, 9 feet tall?
01:02:01.000 I think the 1200 one is...
01:02:04.000 What about the ones that actually got moved?
01:02:08.000 Those are about 8 to 12, I think, yes.
01:02:11.000 Jesus Christ.
01:02:13.000 Meters and feet.
01:02:14.000 And so what would be the theory?
01:02:17.000 What is the standard academic theory about how those people who were basically hunter and gatherers, how they figured out how to do that?
01:02:25.000 Largely, they don't address it.
01:02:27.000 Largely, it's somehow like, oh, look, they're there.
01:02:29.000 The Romans did this.
01:02:31.000 And to a large extent, Baalbek is like that as a whole.
01:02:35.000 It is the second largest temple complex which the Romans built on top.
01:02:39.000 And parts of that haven't been explained by traditional scientists either.
01:02:44.000 They kind of like will go like, well, you know, some of these stones are 200 tons and we know that the The ancient Romans were able to work with cranes of five tons.
01:02:54.000 And so they kind of go like, so we need 40 of these cranes.
01:02:57.000 And you kind of go, okay, so where are you going to put them?
01:03:00.000 It's kind of like saying, you know, we need 40 people, but your room can only hold five.
01:03:05.000 Where are you going to put the 35 extra?
01:03:06.000 You have to fit them somewhere, these cranes around this piece of rock.
01:03:11.000 And so they do this all the time, whether it's the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
01:03:16.000 Any pyramid theory about how they are built, as proposed by an archaeologist, is ridiculed by a project manager in the building industry because they basically go like, you can't do that.
01:03:27.000 You can't build anything like that.
01:03:29.000 You know, it's kind of like saying, how many people do you need for the building of this?
01:03:33.000 And some archaeologists will say, oh, 10,000.
01:03:36.000 Okay, fit them around this pyramid.
01:03:38.000 Put them all in line.
01:03:41.000 They play with some of these numbers.
01:03:43.000 And in the case of Baalbek, when it comes to the foundation stones, some will say, well, we know in the case of Jerusalem that the ancient Romans constructed this and they were using things like 200 or 400 tons.
01:03:56.000 Great.
01:03:58.000 800 tons is pretty much double of that.
01:04:01.000 And we don't really know even how the ancient Romans did this.
01:04:06.000 They clearly did, but how they did it in the case of Baalbek is unknown.
01:04:12.000 We can speculate.
01:04:14.000 Wooden rollers are a great device.
01:04:17.000 Levers, wooden rollers, massive amounts of slaves pushing it, but still...
01:04:21.000 But if you put a big stone on top of a wooden roller, the wooden roller basically gets destroyed.
01:04:26.000 It gets incinerated through the weight.
01:04:28.000 So if wooden rollers were used, somehow our ancestors were able to do something to that wood to make something happen with that wood, which would be able to sustain the weight on top.
01:04:41.000 Doesn't seem right though.
01:04:43.000 No, and here's the thing.
01:04:44.000 This is what bugs me so much.
01:04:47.000 It is the fact that so much of what our ancestors did remains unexplained on a very mundane level.
01:04:56.000 You know, the most basic things as to how Stonehenge was built, how Avery was built, why it was built, how this moat was dug, Baalbek, Jerusalem, so many things.
01:05:06.000 It doesn't get explained by scientists and the reason why is that archaeologists dig these things up and then somehow treat it as if it's their bailiwick and they're going to come up with Wow.
01:05:38.000 What have you...
01:05:39.000 Now, have you seen...
01:05:40.000 I'm sure you've seen that video, Ancient Aliens Debunked.
01:05:43.000 I did.
01:05:44.000 And you wrote a piece about it.
01:05:45.000 Have you seen his theory about the interior ramp of how they constructed it?
01:05:51.000 I saw that.
01:05:51.000 I thought it was fascinating, but it's still...
01:05:53.000 The Great Pyramid is still so bananas.
01:05:56.000 It doesn't help.
01:05:58.000 Just knowing that they made a ramp doesn't help.
01:06:00.000 For folks who don't know the numbers, this is because I used to do a bit about the pyramids.
01:06:04.000 The Great Pyramid of Giza has...
01:06:06.000 What is it?
01:06:07.000 2,600,000 stones?
01:06:10.000 And if you cut in place 10 a day, it would take you 664 years to build.
01:06:18.000 I read that somewhere.
01:06:20.000 10 of those monster fucking stones a day, it would take you 664 years to make the pyramid.
01:06:27.000 That's such a crazy accomplishment, that building.
01:06:31.000 Well, I mean, a great friend of mine, he's unfortunately having to take care of his dying wife, is Joseph Davidovich.
01:06:38.000 And Joseph Davidovich is a French professor.
01:06:41.000 He's called the father of his own science, geopolymers.
01:06:43.000 And basically, in the 1970s, what he was looking at was he looked at rocks and he said, like, okay, I know how rocks are created, geological process, volcanic activity, but is there a way I can recreate rocks in my laboratory?
01:06:56.000 And the answer was yes, he was able to accomplish this, and he called this a geopolymer.
01:07:00.000 And basically a geopolymer is a natural rock, sorry, is a man-made rock which looks almost identical to a natural rock.
01:07:07.000 Now there are certain differences.
01:07:09.000 In limestone, for example, you know, you see these little mollusks and all of these other things which are in there, and they're all neatly aligned because the water came in and the wave came out and they're all perfectly aligned.
01:07:21.000 In a geopolymer, that's not the case because basically somebody has tossed it in in some structure and has basically over a period of 24 hours to 48 hours So he went to Egypt on a holiday in the late 1970s with his wife, family, looked at the Great Pyramid and said,
01:07:39.000 shit, this is a geopolymer.
01:07:41.000 All of these blocks are made in what I have just discovered.
01:07:45.000 And he began to point out on the Giza Plateau 40 easily identifiable features about these rocks, which anybody who goes there with his book can see for themselves that this isn't natural stone.
01:08:00.000 That's been disputed though, right?
01:08:01.000 Hasn't that?
01:08:02.000 I mean, the geologists are not agreeing with him.
01:08:05.000 There's certain ones that have actually put up a stink about that.
01:08:09.000 What do you think about that?
01:08:10.000 The great first one, Dr. Zahi Hawass, who we mentioned early on, he basically said, he is an idiot.
01:08:18.000 This is not cement.
01:08:20.000 And it isn't cement.
01:08:22.000 Hawass has no idea what he's talking about.
01:08:24.000 Since then, the likes of Michael Barsoom, who is a professor...
01:08:28.000 I think in Detroit University or somewhere in American University, he has taken pretty much the role up there from Davidovich.
01:08:38.000 They have submitted samples of geopolymers to some of the ancient Egypt, sorry, to Egyptian departments, laboratories, and they basically said, oh, this is natural limestone, to which Barsoom and Davidovich said, no, it's not, we created it a few weeks ago.
01:08:53.000 But the basic problem is this.
01:08:56.000 We have a professor, a father of a science, a guy who has medals left, right and center, and the archaeologists basically say, go away.
01:09:08.000 This is our playground.
01:09:09.000 We're not even going to listen to what you're going to say.
01:09:12.000 Instead, we're going to pretend that what you were saying is that the Great Pyramid was made of cement, and we know it wasn't made of cement.
01:09:18.000 And that is kind of like the sad thing.
01:09:21.000 And when it comes to project management, when it comes to all of these disciplines, they basically say, F off.
01:09:28.000 We don't want you here.
01:09:29.000 It's our playground.
01:09:31.000 It's our sandpit.
01:09:32.000 So there are, actually, I'm looking at this, there are many people, very, very intelligent people, that believe that this is made out of concrete.
01:09:40.000 So the propaganda may actually be the people that are disputing it, because some scientists from MIT, it seems like they believe, I'm trying to read this as I'm doing it,
01:09:58.000 Yeah, they believe that it's very possible that this was what they're calling a limestone concrete, and that they just made powder and mixed it there.
01:10:06.000 And that's why they're all perfect, because they were poured into a mold, which is far easier to do, because then you're just carrying bags of shit up there instead of actual pyramids.
01:10:16.000 Pyramid stones, rather.
01:10:17.000 I mean, there's one stone which he points out again.
01:10:20.000 His books are mostly in French, but he has self-published one in English.
01:10:25.000 And basically he points out one stone where there is weathering in the middle.
01:10:30.000 Now, weathering of a stone in the middle of a stone doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
01:10:33.000 How is this possible?
01:10:35.000 And the only reason why it's possible is because at one point in time, probably at night, they mixed or they poured one stone to a certain level and the following day they completed it to the next level, as a result of which the weathering occurred both at the top and in the middle of the stone.
01:10:51.000 But again, Throughout the pyramid complex, he's able to show you and guide you around potential evidence because, again, there needs to be more research done.
01:11:02.000 But 40 points is more than one to do an indication that this might be the case.
01:11:10.000 The sad fact to me, the thing which abhors me is that the scientific establishment just basically says, fuck off.
01:11:18.000 This is his actual position.
01:11:19.000 This makes it actually even more interesting.
01:11:21.000 His position is that only 10% or 20% were cast and that most of the blocks were cut.
01:11:30.000 This is what he believes.
01:11:33.000 He said most of the blocks were carved As suggested by archaeologists, but 10 to 20% were probably cast in areas where it could have been highly difficult to position the blocks.
01:11:42.000 So that's why they can show you blocks that haven't been cast and say, see?
01:11:47.000 See, these unquestionably were cut.
01:11:49.000 This guy's a fool.
01:11:50.000 But actually, it makes a lot more sense.
01:11:53.000 Like, they figured out both.
01:11:54.000 They figured out how to cast blocks and move them into positions where it would be much more difficult to cut them.
01:11:59.000 And they also cut them as well.
01:12:00.000 Yeah.
01:12:01.000 That's fucking, really a mind-blowing civilization.
01:12:06.000 You really try to wrap your head around where did they get all that information from, and then you look at their own history and it says they were hanging out with gods.
01:12:14.000 Fuck, man.
01:12:15.000 It sounds so stupid if you buy into it and believe it and bring it up at a dinner party, but if it was real, what a mindfuck that must have been.
01:12:27.000 If human beings really did coexist in the same place as aliens, and they really were teaching us, and they were big giant dudes, like the guy in Prometheus.
01:12:40.000 Is that possible, man?
01:12:42.000 Do you think that's possible?
01:12:44.000 I think that there definitely is something to be said that our ancestors were absolutely in communication with non-human intelligences.
01:12:50.000 I don't think that in a number of cases it was physical presence, but definitely that they were in communication with something and that they could establish this link.
01:13:00.000 It's not like some contact which, I should put this, an intermittent phone signal.
01:13:05.000 It's a constant line.
01:13:06.000 They can go to whatever, a statue or something in a temple, and this uplink, downlink thing works.
01:13:12.000 And there's also something to be said.
01:13:15.000 All of these cultures across the world, they always say that the offspring of the gods somehow became the rulers.
01:13:23.000 And that is definitely something which is another universal constant.
01:13:30.000 Again, genetic memory is one of these things.
01:13:34.000 It's been pooh-ha-ha in the 19th century.
01:13:37.000 The ideas of Carl Jung and all of these things have been pushed aside.
01:13:40.000 But we have...
01:13:42.000 Hundreds, thousands of primitive cultures elsewhere who basically say they can access this pool of information on a regulated basis.
01:13:52.000 I am a firm believer that certain hallucinogenic substances really take you outside of this cardboard box, outside of this framework.
01:14:01.000 And that they take you into a world of intelligences and that our ancestors were given the tools and the techniques to basically establish this link.
01:14:10.000 And once this link was established, they could pretty much ask these intelligences whatever they wanted.
01:14:16.000 And then it was up to the intelligences, I guess, whether to say, yeah, we'll tell you this or no, we won't tell you that.
01:14:21.000 And I think that is, to a large extent, what our ancestors were saying about this link of the gods being present amongst them.
01:14:29.000 That somehow they were able to sustain a presence.
01:14:35.000 In a number of occasions, it seems to be specifically in kind of like the...
01:14:41.000 What I would say the non-traditional societies, some of them which have escaped most attention, remote tribes in China and things like that.
01:14:50.000 There might have been a physical alien creature running around there for a while.
01:14:55.000 But in most societies, specifically the famous ones, it somehow seems that these gods were non-human intelligences, not necessarily physical, but definitely present and somehow in communication with our ancestors.
01:15:10.000 And how that went, very few people knew back then.
01:15:14.000 Do you think that's from psychedelics, that was the communication method for the non-physical entities?
01:15:20.000 I think it's definitely one possibility.
01:15:22.000 I think it's something which we can go and say, this is how it could have happened.
01:15:27.000 It sounds so stupid to anybody who's never done mushrooms, but if you have, or if you've done...
01:15:32.000 Joe, did you see that new study about mushrooms?
01:15:34.000 How they're saying that what they thought happens when you do mushrooms is totally wrong?
01:15:39.000 Yeah, it shuts off your brain.
01:15:41.000 Whatever the mushroom's doing to you, it's almost like it flips your switch and it runs the show with mushrooms.
01:15:51.000 Well, you know what mushrooms are is very closely related to human neurochemistry.
01:15:57.000 When you take a mushroom, mushroom is like, I forget the chemical way to describe it, but it's 4-fox, 4-ol-oxy, N-N-dimethyltryptamine.
01:16:07.000 I'm not saying it right, but N-N-dimethyltryptamine is a part of human neurochemistry.
01:16:12.000 So this stuff, this psilocybin, it's like human neurochemistry with a little added something to it.
01:16:18.000 And when it hits you, it basically takes over the show.
01:16:21.000 It's crazy.
01:16:22.000 It's fucking really crazy.
01:16:24.000 That's even scarier.
01:16:24.000 Well, it is scary.
01:16:25.000 The idea that McKenna always had was that it was an artificial intelligence and that we were eating it and that's how it was communicating with us and that it came here from other planets.
01:16:34.000 Yeah.
01:16:35.000 That's why it's so different.
01:16:36.000 Apparently, there's no other organism on this planet with the phosphorus in the four position, according to McKenna.
01:16:42.000 I don't even know what that means.
01:16:43.000 But like psilocybin.
01:16:46.000 And he believed that it probably came here as spores on an asteroid.
01:16:50.000 And that's why it has such an unbelievable impact.
01:16:54.000 It's like when you have a mushroom experience if you haven't had one before, it doesn't seem like it could ever be possible.
01:17:01.000 You're like, this is no way.
01:17:03.000 How did I not know that this was a possibility?
01:17:08.000 To folks who haven't had psychedelic experiences, the idea that a psychedelic experience could somehow be otherworldly intelligence.
01:17:14.000 Like, I hear Richard Dawson, who I'm a huge fan of.
01:17:18.000 I think he's a brilliant guy.
01:17:22.000 Richard Dawkins, rather.
01:17:24.000 And all his breaking down of fundamentalist religions, I think it's fantastic stuff.
01:17:30.000 But then when I heard that the guy had never had a psychedelic experience, I'm like, my God, you have to know.
01:17:36.000 There's so many books and so much work written on the connection between what they call entheogens or psychedelic substances and higher states of consciousness, revelations, religious experiences.
01:17:52.000 Why would you as an intellectual not want to experience that?
01:17:55.000 It's not like you'd never come back or it's not like it fucking red lines your brain and sends you into a mental tree.
01:18:03.000 But I think it's because the definition of a psychedelic is that it puts you somewhere which isn't real.
01:18:10.000 So it's of no interest to explore that.
01:18:12.000 Why do you want to explore that stuff?
01:18:14.000 I think that is a very silly way of looking at reality.
01:18:18.000 I think that the idea that we even understand what that's doing to you...
01:18:24.000 All that means to me is you haven't done it.
01:18:26.000 That's all it means to me.
01:18:27.000 If you really feel like you have some concrete definition as to what's going on in that state, I most likely say you probably haven't done it before.
01:18:34.000 Because if you have done it, you'd come back very humble about your opinions on what's going on there.
01:18:40.000 It's too weird.
01:18:42.000 And that's what our ancestors are saying.
01:18:43.000 They had this entire system of initiations.
01:18:47.000 What we're discovering is that through a series of fasting, sleep deprivation, psychedelic drugs, whatever it is, and all of it together combined, they basically pushed you out of your comfort zone.
01:19:01.000 And it was the high level.
01:19:02.000 You were going to experience your ancestors.
01:19:04.000 You were going to experience the gods.
01:19:06.000 You were going to really find out that you were not alone in the universe.
01:19:09.000 And this is pretty much everything which our ancestors are saying.
01:19:13.000 In the book, I say...
01:19:16.000 At some point, relatively early on, 30,000, 25,000 years ago, we figured it out.
01:19:23.000 We figured out that this cardboard box, the things which we see with our senses, is not everything there was to reality.
01:19:30.000 We figured out that there was something larger there, and we began to speculate and think about as to why we were here.
01:19:36.000 What was this?
01:19:38.000 Why do we run around here?
01:19:39.000 What is this thing in the mind?
01:19:41.000 And then...
01:19:43.000 They didn't have computers, they didn't have all of that stuff, but they were thinking about it, and they were experiment-based.
01:19:50.000 And to a large extent, we're back to where we are, because right now...
01:19:54.000 You have, you know, surgeons in hospital environments who are pushing little axes or little weird things on top of machinery where the patient will never see it.
01:20:04.000 But when the patient says, like, hey, doctor, why is the little thing on top of this thing there?
01:20:10.000 The doctor will kind of go, like, how did you know?
01:20:13.000 You had a near-death experience.
01:20:15.000 You had an out-of-body experience.
01:20:17.000 You somehow were able to pick this up through non-sensory means.
01:20:23.000 And, you know, we're back there.
01:20:25.000 But as a whole, again, jumping on my horse here, science isn't interested.
01:20:31.000 Science basically says, like, it's nothing to do with us.
01:20:34.000 It's religious.
01:20:35.000 We're never going to look into these things.
01:20:37.000 And what you have is this standoff or this stalemate or whatever situation we're in, whereby...
01:20:44.000 People hunger for information.
01:20:46.000 Nobody who has the tools and, to some extent, the schooling to give us the answers is interested.
01:20:53.000 And so at the other end of the perspective, you have wild theories.
01:20:57.000 You have the fact that the Ancient Atlantians must have had helicopters, machinery, and all of these things.
01:21:04.000 And guess what?
01:21:05.000 You know, I actually don't care too much.
01:21:08.000 I don't believe it, but I don't care too much that it's out there.
01:21:11.000 Because it seems somehow...
01:21:12.000 You know, Eric von Däniken had to say that the NASCAR lines were a spaceport.
01:21:17.000 Before a few scientists went to Peru and studied them and tried to preserve them.
01:21:23.000 Before 0.001 was interested and it was a lone woman basically trying to convince the locals not to drive over in their trucks over the NASCAR lines.
01:21:34.000 She was the only one interested.
01:21:36.000 Nobody else was.
01:21:37.000 It took a guy to say Hey, maybe the gods have landed here.
01:21:41.000 Maybe this is a spaceport before they were pushed into action.
01:21:45.000 And so, you know, the fact that people are making up sometimes extremely wild claims might hopefully push these people, these scientists, off their butt into the field and do actually some kind of research.
01:21:56.000 Even to disprove things.
01:21:58.000 Just to do something on it.
01:22:02.000 Do something.
01:22:03.000 And, you know, in the case of the Nazca Alliance, What they have been discovering since is so great.
01:22:07.000 They have discovered pyramids.
01:22:09.000 They have discovered that these people had a high civilization.
01:22:12.000 There are even people out there who really began to realize that what was happening there had to be seen from the sky.
01:22:20.000 For folks who don't understand what the Nazca lines are, just fill them in because some people might be ignorant to it.
01:22:25.000 Well, the Neskalines are basically gigantic geoglyphs, some in the shape of monkeys and other animals.
01:22:30.000 Quite often and mostly famous are the lines, which just crisscross.
01:22:34.000 They've basically been made by sweeping off a top layer of surface of sand, and below it there's quite often a whiter surface.
01:22:42.000 So they stay visible for hundreds of years because it's a desert condition.
01:22:46.000 It hardly rains at all.
01:22:48.000 On that plateau.
01:22:50.000 And, you know, it's come to a point where people have said, okay, they have to be seen from the sky.
01:22:55.000 And there are a few scientists out there who've actually seen that some of the rocks near some of the lines were exposed to extreme height.
01:23:05.000 They also began to see that some people were actually buried with...
01:23:09.000 Extreme height?
01:23:10.000 Is that what you said?
01:23:11.000 Or heat?
01:23:11.000 Sorry.
01:23:12.000 There were also people who were buried with basically what we would describe as hang glider material.
01:23:21.000 What?
01:23:46.000 And so, you know, it took somebody to say, hey, this thing needs to be seen from the sky before people are really beginning to say, oh yeah, there is something to this Nazca civilization.
01:23:59.000 There were pyramids there.
01:24:00.000 You know, this is not an important civilization which was there.
01:24:04.000 That is a crazy concept that they might have had some sort of air travel.
01:24:10.000 They figured out some sort of plane or something.
01:24:14.000 Now, if it was just hand-gliding, would that be enough?
01:24:17.000 Is that possible?
01:24:17.000 There is definitely evidence that there was some kind of hand-gliding.
01:24:20.000 Obviously, the environment was allowing for that as well.
01:24:24.000 I would think people would try that shit.
01:24:26.000 If you get to the top of a big cliff and the wind is blowing like crazy and you see a bird doing it, you know there's some crazy motherfucker that's going to try to make a wing.
01:24:34.000 I mean, that's probably always been people.
01:24:37.000 People probably always try to figure, put some animal skins and strap it down.
01:24:41.000 I mean, it's like you're just mimicking what you see right in front of you that already works.
01:24:46.000 Wow, that's crazy if they figured out some sort of rudimentary air flight.
01:24:52.000 I mean, actually, I believe the latest Boeings, the 737 and all the 800 series of that, they have these little things at the ends of the wings which stick up now.
01:25:02.000 And it's the Boeing engineers who looked at some of the birds, specifically the birds of prey, and they realized that these birds had little feathers at the ends as well.
01:25:09.000 And so they began to test in the wind tunnels whether putting this thing at the end of the wings of planes would help, and it kind of like improved stability and all of that stuff, like percentages which really were kind of like out of the norm.
01:25:24.000 Like nature, birds are superb flyers, and we just mimic them when we are designing aircraft.
01:25:30.000 One of the most fucked up things about that area around the Nazca lines is those skeletons they find with the elongated heads where these people, they took their heads of the babies and they smushed them to form...
01:25:47.000 They tried to get them to look like aliens.
01:25:51.000 You would think...
01:25:53.000 If you think of an alien, you think of someone with a really big, long head, and they did that on purpose to their heads.
01:26:01.000 I mean, again, these are the same people like you and I. Your child.
01:26:06.000 Would you subject your child to wooden planks and years of basically, you know, probably not, you know, like, abuse in the school by having these elongated skulls?
01:26:18.000 And they say they did it because somehow these children were special or going to be special in the sense that they were going to resemble the gods.
01:26:26.000 Brian, have you seen that shit before?
01:26:27.000 Pull it up.
01:26:28.000 Google elongated skulls.
01:26:30.000 Just Google that and you'll see.
01:26:34.000 I bet Peru is even more specific.
01:26:40.000 It's a very, very strange practice.
01:26:44.000 And it was really common.
01:26:47.000 It's not like they found one or two of these.
01:26:49.000 They found like fucking burial grounds filled with these fucking things where they stretched out people's heads.
01:26:56.000 Do you know the number of how many of these different skulls they found?
01:27:01.000 It depends.
01:27:02.000 I mean, we're talking about hundreds when it comes across the world.
01:27:05.000 And it is a worldwide phenomenon.
01:27:07.000 Like, you know, one of the images there...
01:27:09.000 I had to do with one from Egypt.
01:27:11.000 They are found in North America.
01:27:13.000 They are found across the world.
01:27:15.000 And didn't Tutankhamen have a very elongated head himself?
01:27:18.000 It seemed natural, but an oddly shaped head himself?
01:27:22.000 Well, in the depictions, him and his dad were depicted as such, yeah.
01:27:25.000 He had a normal skull as a human being, but he was depicted as this weird creature.
01:27:33.000 Now, of course, his dad, which we all assume is Akhenaten, he's Really depicted weirdly, apart from a weird hat, all of his joints are weird as well.
01:27:45.000 And again, they're trying to explain it the way he had morphellans or something like that, some kind of disease, which basically means that you have deformities of your fingers, your bones.
01:27:55.000 But they haven't found his body.
01:27:58.000 Akhenaten's body is missing.
01:28:00.000 And I find it interesting that one of the potentially more interesting bodies is missing in action.
01:28:06.000 If anybody knows the whereabouts of Akhenaten's body, please help.
01:28:10.000 Because he was an interesting guy.
01:28:12.000 He absolutely took over a system of ancient Egypt and basically said, you're all mistaken.
01:28:18.000 You can experience the gods in certain other ways, and I'm going to push forward my religion and basically tell you how it is.
01:28:25.000 And I think what happened was that in his case, Again, this trepanation of elongating skulls, it has to happen from birth.
01:28:36.000 And I think his revelation happened.
01:28:39.000 Obviously, he was a teenager or an adult when he had it.
01:28:43.000 He couldn't travel back in time and do it to his own skull.
01:28:46.000 And Tutankhamun, I think, was already too old as well, this is speculation, to have it done to him.
01:28:54.000 So it would have been the next generation, basically Tutankhamun's children, where they could have performed it on if they so wanted to.
01:29:00.000 But definitely in art they were depicted as such if they could Well, it seems like in art it might have been exaggerated, but it does seem like there's people that are saying that the skull itself of Tutankhamen was elongated,
01:29:15.000 and the skull of his family, apparently.
01:29:20.000 Other members of his family.
01:29:21.000 Who else of his family was alive?
01:29:23.000 I think Tia or Tai was his wife.
01:29:27.000 I think he had a sister.
01:29:30.000 I think he had some deceased people who were...
01:29:34.000 Dying before him.
01:29:36.000 Again, the great controversy is, you know, did he die naturally of what he murdered?
01:29:41.000 Robert Boval and Ahmed Osman have written about it in their recent book, and it's a great controversy which doesn't want to go away.
01:29:50.000 Yeah, that's the most recent one, is the National Geographic saying that he was not murdered violently.
01:29:57.000 That CT scans show.
01:30:00.000 Huh.
01:30:02.000 What a fucking nutty find that must have been.
01:30:04.000 They found that in 1926, huh?
01:30:06.000 Can you imagine just digging and you hit that thing in the middle of that sandy-ass desert where there's nothing going on and you all of a sudden hit this incredible treasure trove of artwork and just this insight into what it was like back then.
01:30:24.000 How many of those tombs were there that just got found and raided and just stripped of all their wealth?
01:30:31.000 So many of them, the majority.
01:30:33.000 What a huge, huge loss for history.
01:30:38.000 Because just what we found makes you just go, what the fuck was going on back then?
01:30:44.000 When you look at the sarcophagus and the gold and the guild work, these people were living so much differently than anybody in Europe.
01:30:54.000 Yeah.
01:30:55.000 And I mean, just, you know, like in the New World, in Coricanco, in Cusco, you had an entire temple made out of gold.
01:31:01.000 You had golden animals.
01:31:03.000 The entire courtyard was made out of gold.
01:31:05.000 And the Spanish came, they melted it all down, put it on ships to sail back to Spain.
01:31:11.000 And English pirates basically sang the ships and all of that gold is sitting at the bottom of the sea.
01:31:19.000 And so, you know, it's kind of like...
01:31:22.000 Double sad, because it was first melted.
01:31:25.000 There are stories that some of it has been secreted away.
01:31:31.000 About one every 50 years, there's a guy who comes forward and says, I was let into certain aspects of Yeah.
01:32:04.000 Yeah, because Tutankhamen was just one guy.
01:32:07.000 He was a minor god.
01:32:08.000 He was a minor pharaoh.
01:32:10.000 Nobody cared about him.
01:32:11.000 Ramses was so much more important.
01:32:13.000 Just imagine what he would have had.
01:32:15.000 It's crazy.
01:32:16.000 It's really crazy when you think about what they could have discovered.
01:32:19.000 We know so much just because of Tutankhamen's discovery.
01:32:22.000 It's saying that the examinations of his skull, though, that he did have an elongated head.
01:32:28.000 It probably wasn't as exaggerated as the images, but he had impacted wisdom teeth as well, and he had a cleft palate.
01:32:37.000 So they know that the The medicine was not up to par.
01:32:42.000 So that's at least good evidence that if this guy was a pharaoh, they didn't understand basic dentistry, they didn't know how to fix cleft palates.
01:32:49.000 So they weren't ahead of us with everything.
01:32:52.000 No.
01:32:54.000 Again, they were very good at certain things, but they were crap at others.
01:32:59.000 I mean, the ancient Egyptians, for example, As much as they built things, they never built things like arches.
01:33:05.000 They were able to build bridges, but they never built arches.
01:33:08.000 Now, it's possible that they could build arches, but they basically didn't think they were aesthetically pleasing.
01:33:14.000 But certain things like what we would think they would have been able to do, they might not have been able to do.
01:33:22.000 But at the same time, building structures with hundreds of tons of stone in there, whether it's the Valley Pyramid Complex, Or the Great Pyramid.
01:33:31.000 They were able to do.
01:33:32.000 And people often say when it comes to the Great Pyramid, oh, like, you know, okay, it was the Eiffel Tower last century, well, two centuries ago now, which rivaled it.
01:33:44.000 That's King Tut's actual skull.
01:33:46.000 That is indeed somewhat elongated.
01:33:49.000 Yeah, that's his actual skull.
01:33:51.000 That's the actual CAT scan of his skull.
01:33:53.000 You can pull that up, Brian.
01:33:54.000 We can take a look at that.
01:33:57.000 But that's nothing compared to the images.
01:33:59.000 He's got a fucked up head, for sure.
01:34:01.000 He'd made fun of in high school.
01:34:03.000 But he doesn't look like an alien.
01:34:05.000 That's probably why they put him in private education.
01:34:07.000 What if he did have a fucking giant brain?
01:34:09.000 What if the pharaohs were more...
01:34:12.000 What if they originally had some alien in them and eventually got bred out?
01:34:17.000 Is that possible?
01:34:18.000 Well, I mean, again, it's possible if somebody were to do research into it, to explore it.
01:34:23.000 What we know is that our ancestors said that all of these kings were partly human, partly divine, and that they were here to make a bridge between our world and the world of the gods.
01:34:33.000 That was their job.
01:34:35.000 And if they were unable to do that, they were quite often kicked out and basically told, okay, we'll find another one, a substitute for you.
01:34:41.000 The ancient Egyptian pharaohs, specifically when they became older, were quite often told to perform a Habsat festival, which was basically a fitness test whereby they physically and mentally had to prove that they could somehow communicate with the world of the gods.
01:34:59.000 You know, that is clearly a job specification.
01:35:02.000 They were told to do this, and clearly it means that this communication with the gods for them somehow involved a physical aptitude thing.
01:35:13.000 It wasn't that they were simply inventing certain things.
01:35:16.000 You know, they were basically told, you need to be physically fit to do these things, whether it is through hallucinogenic substances, some kind of, you know, other means which we haven't been able to identify.
01:35:26.000 But across the world, The job of a king was to be an enabler, a bridge between us and the world of the ancestors, the gods, whatever you want to call them.
01:35:35.000 I think it's very difficult for people in this day and age to wrap their heads around the idea that at one point in time the whole reality of human beings was very, very different than it is now.
01:35:48.000 But if you stopped and thought about it and if there was some introduction or some intervention rather of some sort of alien consciousness, physical alien forms, and then they weren't there anymore and they weren't there for thousands and thousands of years,
01:36:05.000 How much would we know?
01:36:06.000 How much evidence would be left?
01:36:08.000 What would be around that we could point fingers at?
01:36:11.000 Well, there would be stone carvings that show giants holding small people.
01:36:15.000 They have those.
01:36:17.000 They really do have those.
01:36:18.000 I mean, there is a lot of ancient art.
01:36:22.000 The ancient Sumerian stuff is the weirdest stuff.
01:36:26.000 Where it actually has double helix DNA. The ancient Sumerians, I've had conversations with people that try to deny that they had some knowledge of the workings of the solar system.
01:36:38.000 You look at what they left in stone tablets.
01:36:43.000 They knew where the stars were.
01:36:45.000 They knew where the planets were.
01:36:46.000 They knew the constellations.
01:36:47.000 They knew, for sure, they knew what was going on in our solar system.
01:36:51.000 They knew where the planets were.
01:36:52.000 They had them in the right order.
01:36:54.000 And people would try to say, no, that's not the planets.
01:36:57.000 Those are just some stars.
01:36:59.000 Why is there the right amount?
01:37:01.000 Why are they the same size?
01:37:02.000 Why is it in proportion?
01:37:03.000 The big ones here and the smaller ones there.
01:37:05.000 That looks like the sun and the solar system.
01:37:07.000 It looks like our planets.
01:37:09.000 And, you know, very basic things like Nabra's sky disk seems to be this Metal plate, which has a moon and a sun on it, and then some kind of like bars.
01:37:17.000 And you kind of think like, oh, how sweet.
01:37:19.000 Our ancestors were trying to depict the sun and the moon.
01:37:21.000 You know, how clever of them are little ancestors.
01:37:24.000 And then some people start to analyze this for real, and they realize that if you hold it in front of you, and you direct it to the horizon, these little bars, which you might think are of no significance whatsoever, mark on the place where these were found in Germany,
01:37:40.000 The position of the rising of the sun and the setting of the sun on things like the solstices and the equinoxes.
01:37:45.000 And all of a sudden you kind of go, oh shit, it looks stupid, but actually, you know, it's a very clever device.
01:37:52.000 What's the name of this device again?
01:37:53.000 It's the Nebra Skydisk, N-E-B-R-A. There's that one thing that you talked about in your book that we've talked about on this podcast before because it's always fascinated me, that device.
01:38:03.000 How do you say it again?
01:38:04.000 The Antikatera device.
01:38:06.000 Explain that thing, because that's a mind-fucking-a-half.
01:38:09.000 Well, the Antikatera device is basically a piece of metal which was heavily corroded, found in the shipwreck of the coast of Greece in 1901 or 1902. It was put in a museum where it sat for several decades, and in the 1950s and 60s,
01:38:26.000 a guy called Derek DeSolo Price became interested in this, and he began to look at it, he began to study this, and he felt that this somehow was a scale model of our solar system.
01:38:39.000 Thrown in some kind of constellations, throw in obviously the moon, throw in some zodiacal signs.
01:38:46.000 And he began to experiment with this.
01:38:49.000 He pushed the theory forward, which was attacked because we all know that the Greeks are stupid and were not able to do this because, you know, the earth was flat, wasn't it?
01:38:58.000 Until somebody in the 16th century proved otherwise.
01:39:02.000 He was attacked, but in the last 10-15 years, and specifically with computer modeling techniques, what they have found is basically that That Derek Price wasn't 100% right, but that he definitely had the right frame of mind,
01:39:20.000 that this was basically a scale of our solar system.
01:39:25.000 Now, what they've been able to show is that the Greeks were using Babylonian things, like metonic cycles about the moon, that basically this device was taking in astronomical information from ancient Babylonia, the Greek, native to Greek things,
01:39:41.000 general information about it.
01:39:43.000 You know, how the Earth...
01:39:45.000 It has 365 days to go around the sun and all of that stuff.
01:39:49.000 That they made this device, which basically would have had the sun at its middle and then all the planets going around it.
01:39:56.000 That this device actually worked.
01:39:59.000 That this was put in motion and then continued.
01:40:02.000 So it's like a watch for the universe.
01:40:04.000 Yeah.
01:40:05.000 Or the solar system.
01:40:07.000 And they think, because they don't know, this device was found.
01:40:10.000 So they go into ancient Greek accounts and trying to find out Whether anybody is talking about it.
01:40:16.000 And they have found sporadic references to people basically saying this would sit in a temple.
01:40:22.000 So somehow our ancient Greek ancestors were creating these devices, were putting them into temples to basically show how the universe worked.
01:40:31.000 Imagine that, you know, imagine going into a Christian church right now and finding a scale model of the solar system in there.
01:40:37.000 But for the Greeks that was apparently what they wanted.
01:40:41.000 And we have, what is the idea of how old this thing is?
01:40:45.000 The device is probably 2nd century or 1st century BC. And that is what remains of it.
01:40:52.000 So it's at least 2,000 years old.
01:40:54.000 Yes.
01:40:55.000 Jesus fucking Christ!
01:40:59.000 What's the academic response to that?
01:41:02.000 What do they believe it is?
01:41:03.000 They are silently accepting.
01:41:08.000 Really?
01:41:11.000 They basically realize they can't contest its origins.
01:41:15.000 It's found in the shipwreck.
01:41:17.000 They can't contest that it's 2,000 years old.
01:41:20.000 So they have to accept for what it is.
01:41:23.000 They have to accept that there are gears.
01:41:26.000 Where they rebel at is if somebody would push the boat out too much.
01:41:30.000 So right now they kind of say, well, you know, it's a representation of the solar system, but it has some errors in there.
01:41:38.000 And to some extent they can get away with that because basically what we have is a piece of material which was in seawater for 2,000 years, and it is painstakingly being kind of like, you know, how many...
01:41:51.000 What wheels does it have here?
01:41:53.000 How wide is this?
01:41:54.000 All of this is reconstruction, which is going to take decades more before we have a completely accurate representation of what this device was.
01:42:02.000 Because it's sort of corroded and mushed together.
01:42:03.000 It's completely corroded.
01:42:05.000 Obviously, it sits in a museum, which basically means...
01:42:07.000 That they're very reluctant to do destructive testing or anything of taking apart.
01:42:12.000 So it relies on technology to go through this piece of corroded material and come up with better images, better imaging software and all of that stuff to identify what the wheels precisely were.
01:42:24.000 But basically the overall picture is this, that the ancient Greeks were able to do certain things which we didn't give them credit for.
01:42:31.000 And very slowly You know, the academics are kind of going, yeah, okay, that's fine.
01:42:37.000 Because it's safe.
01:42:38.000 It's ancient Greece.
01:42:39.000 We've credited the ancient Greeks with an awful lot of these things.
01:42:41.000 And even though it sits somewhat outside of the Bailiwick, we don't really want to credit them with a machine.
01:42:47.000 I mean, people actually refer to it as the first computer.
01:42:50.000 Yeah, and spell it, folks, because I know people are scrambling right now to figure out.
01:42:54.000 How do you spell it?
01:42:56.000 Antikatera, anti as in we don't care about them.
01:43:00.000 Antikatera, K-Y-T-H-E-R-A. So, go check out that if you really want to get your fucking...
01:43:06.000 It looks like there's an eye in the middle almost, like a third...
01:43:08.000 I think that's just a screw or a bolt or something like that.
01:43:12.000 The whole thing is fascinating, though.
01:43:13.000 Look at that.
01:43:13.000 That's 2,000 years old.
01:43:15.000 They were making something so complicated.
01:43:17.000 It's like a steering wheel.
01:43:19.000 It looks like...
01:43:20.000 Yeah, it could be...
01:43:21.000 It could be like a really ancient clock.
01:43:25.000 2,000 years ago, and that obviously was from some technology that we don't understand.
01:43:31.000 We don't know where they got the information from.
01:43:34.000 We don't know anything about it.
01:43:36.000 Nope.
01:43:37.000 But what we do know about it is that, you know, again, our ancestors were more We're more clever than we standard give them credit for.
01:43:47.000 And it's also a good representation of what happens to something just after 2,000 years.
01:43:52.000 Now, if you think about what 2,000 years is to human history, and then go back and say, well, this guy, the Egyptologist, was like, where's the evidence of this 10,000-year-old culture?
01:44:02.000 Where would that stuff be?
01:44:04.000 Eight more thousand-plus years?
01:44:06.000 That's not going to exist anymore.
01:44:08.000 It's obviously corroding away after 2,000.
01:44:10.000 And if you come to the last ice age, 10-12,000 years ago, you know, parts of Britain were under an ice sheet two miles thick.
01:44:17.000 It washed away everything.
01:44:19.000 It changed the layout of hills.
01:44:22.000 Any hut which we would have had there, any peace would have just been completely obliterated by the power of the ice.
01:44:29.000 Yeah, that's another thing that people have to take into consideration when you think about how long people have been around.
01:44:34.000 We had to move around a lot.
01:44:35.000 There's spots where people were around that were erased by miles of ice, slowly crushing everything in its path, literally like a giant eraser.
01:44:45.000 You know, a lot of people on Twitter are freaking out about the Tutankhamen thing, showing me all these images of how they get babies to stretch their heads out.
01:44:53.000 It doesn't mean that he's an alien.
01:44:54.000 I'm not saying Tutankhamen was an alien.
01:44:56.000 What I am saying is, and I think it's fascinating, and I don't see how it could be disputed, That all of these people who are stretching their babies' heads out are trying to get their babies' heads to look like what we consider the classic image of aliens.
01:45:11.000 That, to me, is very weird.
01:45:13.000 It's very weird that you would want to do that.
01:45:16.000 I know that there's weird things that people do culturally.
01:45:19.000 They stretch their necks out, they put plates in their lips.
01:45:22.000 There's a lot of wacky shit that people do.
01:45:24.000 But that one to me is really interesting when you consider the fact that you're dealing with some culture that may or may not have had something to do with space flight or air flight.
01:45:36.000 And they do it because they say to resemble the goats, to resemble the ancestors.
01:45:40.000 That's why we do it.
01:45:41.000 Like, you know, nipple piercings and all of that stuff, which might be considered weird in some cultures.
01:45:45.000 We know why they do it.
01:45:46.000 We know why women do it.
01:45:48.000 There's always a reason which we can identify.
01:45:50.000 And in this case, the reason is because they want to resemble the gods.
01:45:53.000 And there's another thing that I saw you touched on in this book is how many different pyramids and structures they're finding in South America.
01:46:01.000 Yes.
01:46:03.000 It's really bananas, isn't it?
01:46:05.000 Well, I mean, you know, I wrote a previous book called The New Pyramid Age five years ago, and that book is now actually completely out of date because up until 1994, when Robert Beauval wrote The Orion Mystery, we had this idea that there are pyramids in Egypt and there are pyramids in the Mayan culture,
01:46:21.000 and that's pretty much it.
01:46:23.000 But now, and specifically around 2006 and 2007, every single week some pyramid was found somewhere.
01:46:30.000 And we're in a situation right now whereby...
01:46:34.000 The academics agree that the oldest pyramids in the world are in Peru, Corral, 2,800.
01:46:42.000 Now, the Egyptians could be older.
01:46:44.000 We have carbon dating results, as we were saying, but they refuse to publish them.
01:46:48.000 But, you know, officially accepted, Corral pyramids are older.
01:46:51.000 The largest one, volume-wise, are La Cholula in Mexico as well.
01:46:55.000 And then, height-wise, there is a new contender in the Bosnian pyramids, which might actually be 220 meters, i.e.
01:47:02.000 660 yards high, Which is pretty much quite a bit higher than the Great Pyramid.
01:47:08.000 All of this thing is really changing the pyramid landscape.
01:47:12.000 And also what is happening is that we're beginning to understand why the pyramids were built, why these structures were there.
01:47:21.000 And there is this kind of like uniform template which basically says that our ancestors somehow built pyramids because they were linked with kingship.
01:47:28.000 And somehow enabled our ancestors, and specifically the king, to once again be this bridge from one world to the other.
01:47:37.000 What is the controversy about the Bosnian pyramids?
01:47:39.000 Because I know even Robert Schock from Boston University doesn't believe that it's a man-made structure.
01:47:46.000 The controversy is that there is very much a divide between Western science and former East Bloc science on this.
01:47:54.000 It is very much maintained, you know, by a small group of people within the archaeological establishment.
01:48:01.000 Anthony Harding is one of them.
01:48:02.000 He was the former president of the Western, sort of, European Archaeological Society.
01:48:09.000 And he basically said that if he found any archaeologist digging on the Bosnian Pyramid site, he would forever make sure that this guy or woman never had any other job.
01:48:20.000 The reason I think why it is so controversial is because they are not in control.
01:48:25.000 The license went to Samoz Manigic, who has three PhDs, one in history, mine studies, one in business.
01:48:34.000 And another one who's I've forgotten.
01:48:36.000 I think it's in anthropology.
01:48:38.000 Actually, no, sorry, in economics.
01:48:40.000 And they realized that they were too late.
01:48:43.000 They realized that, you know, this was going to be run differently than traditional archaeological digs.
01:48:49.000 And they made up some incredible, you know, BS about it.
01:48:53.000 Like, what happened early on was that Samoz Managic wrote to Zahi Hawass, and basically wanted a geologist to come and study these pyramids.
01:49:06.000 He sent Dr. Ali Barakat.
01:49:08.000 Barakat stayed there for roughly two months.
01:49:10.000 He did the analysis and he said that these pyramids were man-made.
01:49:17.000 He was then attacked by Hawass, basically saying, I never sent Barakat there, to which Osmanikov basically showed the letter signed by Hawass, saying, like, you know, what is this?
01:49:29.000 I was there in 2008. I've been there on a number of occasions, but I was there in 2008 when the first international conference on the Bosnian pyramids was being held.
01:49:38.000 You had the people who were in charge of the Chinese pyramids, Who are basically doing the excavations in Siam, involving such things as the emperor who unified China.
01:49:49.000 There were 30 of the leading Egyptologists there.
01:49:52.000 The current Minister of Antiquities, Mohammed Ibrahim Ali, was one of the The people present there.
01:49:58.000 He was, at that moment in time, the Dean of Archaeology of Ain Shains.
01:50:03.000 Another Dean of Archaeology of Cairo University was there.
01:50:06.000 In short, 30 of the leading Egyptologists and geologists from Egypt were there.
01:50:12.000 When you go on to things like Wikipedia, however, the opening sentence will be that the pyramids are natural phenomenon.
01:50:19.000 But I would invite anybody to click on the talk page of Wikipedia when it comes to the Bosnian pyramids, and you will see a guy called Dog Weller who's constantly over there.
01:50:28.000 And he gets asked the question somewhere on the talk page, basically saying, well, in 2008, this Remember, they were discovered in 2005. First excavations happened in 2006. 2008 was the first time when all of these scientists gathered.
01:50:46.000 They have since gathered in 2011 and 2012 as well.
01:50:49.000 But in 2008, the recommendation of all of these scientists was that they should continue digging and that there was evidence to point out and to suspect that these were more than likely man-made.
01:51:00.000 Since then, there has been more evidence there.
01:51:03.000 When Doc Weller is asked why can the conclusions of the International Conference on the Bosnian Pyramids in 2008 not be mentioned on the front page of the entrance of the Bosnian Pyramid, he says...
01:51:16.000 Well, people who believe in creation have these semi-pseudo-archaeological conferences as well, and Wikipedia should not adhere to these things.
01:51:25.000 Sure, but in this case, when it comes to the Bosnian pyramids, the leading lights of archaeology signed off, physically signed off with their signature on these conclusions from 2008. But there is this idea,
01:51:41.000 you know, that we should not look at it.
01:51:43.000 And again, it has to do with...
01:51:45.000 What about Robert Schock, though?
01:51:46.000 Because he's not a...
01:51:47.000 Well, Robert Schock went there in 2007, when very little was uncovered.
01:51:53.000 So much more has happened since.
01:51:55.000 And I would actually invite him to go back.
01:51:58.000 I would invite everybody to go back.
01:52:00.000 What have they found since?
01:52:01.000 It's so convincing.
01:52:02.000 They have done pretty much more excavations.
01:52:05.000 They have found at that moment in time of the tunnel complex, pretty much what you had in 2007 was roughly 75 yards of tunnel complex.
01:52:13.000 It looked like going in one direction for 40, 50 yards and 25 yards in another direction.
01:52:20.000 Since then they have found a thousand yards of this.
01:52:23.000 They have found that it loops back.
01:52:25.000 They have found exposed areas where they didn't have to even scrape anything out, where it just is.
01:52:30.000 They have found underground rivers.
01:52:32.000 They have found gigantic stone boulders weighing eight tons lying in the middle of these things.
01:52:39.000 Of these tunnel complexes.
01:52:40.000 They have dug up elsewhere.
01:52:42.000 They have found how, for example, three pyramids are perfectly, the tops of them are perfectly equidistant.
01:52:48.000 They have found how, on certain dates of the year, the Pyramid of the Sun casts a shadow precisely on the top of the Pyramid of the Moon.
01:52:56.000 All of these things are things which have been discovered since 2007. And what Shok was looking at in 2007 was very little.
01:53:07.000 It's almost kind of like going into your garden and saying, hey, I've hit this patch.
01:53:13.000 It's 10 inches wide and it's a stone and it might be something completely else.
01:53:18.000 And you ask a guy about the 10 inches.
01:53:20.000 It seems to me that Gobekli Tepe was the first real significant monkey wrench that they had to discover.
01:53:28.000 They had to admit that this fucking thing was 14,000 plus years old.
01:53:34.000 There's no getting around it.
01:53:35.000 At this point, I believe it's 5% has been excavated.
01:53:40.000 Is that what it is now?
01:53:42.000 Yes, I mean, they keep going, so the percentages go up.
01:53:45.000 It's a slow process, the excavation.
01:53:49.000 So 5% of it has been uncovered, and it was purposely covered up 14,000 years ago.
01:53:55.000 Yes.
01:53:56.000 And it's so incredible.
01:53:57.000 I mean, like, you know, they'll kind of like tell you, oh, you know, T-shaped columns, blah, blah, blah.
01:54:02.000 But look at the images.
01:54:04.000 This is three-dimensional carving of animals.
01:54:08.000 How did they do that?
01:54:10.000 Say if you had a flat wall and you wanted to carve a monkey into it, you would just draw the monkey like you would on a two-dimensional piece of paper.
01:54:19.000 That's not what they did.
01:54:21.000 They actually made it larger and then cut the monkey.
01:54:26.000 It wasn't a monkey, but they cut a lizard...
01:54:28.000 They cut different animals out of it so that they stuck out and then the rest of it was flat and smooth.
01:54:34.000 So it all came from one giant piece of stone and they had the technology to trim everything else straight around it, get to that one spot and then construct this little relief animal.
01:54:45.000 It's really weird.
01:54:47.000 Yeah, absolutely.
01:54:48.000 And, you know, I think it's on something on par, which we, again, don't see for thousands of years.
01:54:53.000 The ancient Egyptians did it somewhat, but I think really it takes us to Gothic times and cathedral building when you see some of these intricacies once again on display.
01:55:02.000 And it's all built at a time where they believe people were just 100% hunter-gatherers.
01:55:09.000 When you go back to 14,000 years, the standard academic model is that people were really unsophisticated back then.
01:55:17.000 Sitting on a boom.
01:55:18.000 Yeah, just chasing animals and throwing sticks at them and shit.
01:55:21.000 Meanwhile, these people, and they found this because the dude was just like sheep herding and he found a rock.
01:55:27.000 He like kicked this rock and was moving it around.
01:55:29.000 What the fuck is this?
01:55:30.000 So he starts digging around it and realizes, what was it, 9 feet, 19 feet tall?
01:55:34.000 How many feet was the column?
01:55:36.000 Yeah, I don't know the exact dimensions.
01:55:38.000 Enormous.
01:55:39.000 But basically, somebody in the 1960s had looked at it and the thing was like, oh, this is a medieval Byzantine cemetery of no interest whatsoever.
01:55:48.000 And then everything happened in the early 1990s.
01:55:51.000 There are now people who are actually beginning to do...
01:55:55.000 Investigations into it and are coming up with stellar alignments and the fact that these ancestors who built Gobekli Tapi had knowledge of the stars and what is interesting is not simply that they had knowledge of the stars and the constellations but that the kind of stars and constellations they were interested in happens to be the kind of constellations which other cultures like ancient Egypt and the mines were interested in as well.
01:56:17.000 So you have this continuity of knowledge and the more research is going to happen there in Gobekli Tapi, the more It's going to be exposed.
01:56:26.000 And there are actually pockets of other structures near Gobekli Tapi, which are actually slightly older.
01:56:34.000 But again, it's going to be piecemeal given to us as to how we are older and more interesting than we really think we are.
01:56:42.000 The whole thing's crazy.
01:56:43.000 They're 10 feet high, these giant T-shaped monolithic pillars.
01:56:49.000 They're limestone, and another bigger pair of pillars is placed in the center of the structures.
01:56:57.000 It's craziness.
01:56:58.000 And again, it's an enormous site.
01:57:01.000 They're just slowly starting to piece it together.
01:57:04.000 What do they use?
01:57:05.000 Do they x-ray the ground or something?
01:57:07.000 How do they find out how big it is before they uncover it?
01:57:10.000 Yeah, they're doing basically geophys.
01:57:13.000 And this is just one of them.
01:57:14.000 This is just one of them that might exist and we could easily stumble upon one in a year that's 10,000 years older than that.
01:57:22.000 Yeah.
01:57:23.000 Oh, I mean, you know, Corral, the pyramids which we were talking about just now in Peru, 40 years ago people looked at them and said like, They look like shit.
01:57:32.000 They don't even look like anything man-made.
01:57:34.000 And guess what?
01:57:36.000 Erosion destroyed these things.
01:57:37.000 It's like looking at the Antica Terra device and thinking this is just a piece of crap that's 2,000 years old.
01:57:46.000 Things change.
01:57:48.000 Put a long play record in the sunshine and we know what happens to it as well.
01:57:53.000 But we need to recognize that sometimes we misidentify it and then we go back and we say, oh shit, this is so much more interesting than Than we originally thought it was.
01:58:02.000 And that is happening relatively a lot.
01:58:05.000 Quebecli Tappi is an example of that.
01:58:07.000 Corral pyramids is another one of them.
01:58:08.000 It's fascinating that the more a culture advances, the more easily its records are destroyed.
01:58:14.000 Because in the beginning, you're just carving shit on rocks, and then when it gets to us, we got, you know, micro USB cards in your fucking cell phone, and, you know, you lose that little fucker, or, you know, it's gone, or, you know, leave it around, it gets stepped on a couple times, it's done,
01:58:29.000 you know?
01:58:29.000 Leave it in the ground, the ground will eat it and absorb it in a few years, it'll be gone.
01:58:34.000 It's fascinating to think that if we had some sort of a reset button, like you look at this hurricane that just hit New York and New Jersey and the massive amount of devastation that it did, And just on a purely practical level, like how all of a sudden these people are unable to survive, we really need to send very basic things like clothing and food out to them.
01:58:53.000 It just shows you how reliant we are on technology to keep our food fresh, to keep our food frozen, to keep us warm.
01:59:02.000 And when that isn't there anymore, we are unable to cope.
01:59:07.000 These people really need help from the rest of us because we have become so over-sophisticated that We can no longer survive in certain conditions.
01:59:15.000 And we out here in Southern California, until we get an earthquake, we don't even know what the fuck weather is.
01:59:22.000 We are completely detached.
01:59:24.000 That's why some of the most clueless people live here.
01:59:28.000 Some of the people that are the most detached from nature and from the concept of the fact that we are a part of a...
01:59:34.000 An ecosystem and we're in fact on a planet.
01:59:37.000 Because when you live in Florida and one of those motherfuckers come through and you realize that this is possible, that the earth can possibly have this sort of a crazy, violent and powerful reaction.
01:59:49.000 It's very humbling.
01:59:50.000 It's very humbling and it makes you like, oh, we've got a plan for this, okay?
01:59:55.000 We might have to dig holes deep in the ground and cement them in and build some kind of a shelter that you can survive through this because being on the surface is not an option.
02:00:05.000 Yeah.
02:00:06.000 Here in California, we don't have that.
02:00:09.000 Every now and then, the ground moves, but we forget about it.
02:00:11.000 It only moves like every couple decades.
02:00:13.000 Everybody freaks out, moves to Colorado, and they slowly creep back in, and everybody pretends it never happens.
02:00:18.000 It just keeps on going on building houses on the side of hills with stilts.
02:00:22.000 Have you seen those fucking things?
02:00:23.000 Oh, yes.
02:00:24.000 How hilarious are those?
02:00:25.000 Coming from what you know about ancient history, like, what are you doing with this temporary house you have, you silly bitch?
02:00:31.000 Yeah.
02:00:32.000 And, you know, but here's the difference, I think.
02:00:35.000 You know, our ancestors were just like us.
02:00:37.000 They wanted to build that beautiful house.
02:00:39.000 They wanted to have that beautiful view.
02:00:41.000 But they made sure it wasn't built on wooden sticks.
02:00:44.000 They made gigantic foundations in stone.
02:00:47.000 This is the reason, like, you know, like, Baalbek is, you know, Seismically active, but definitely not as much as things like Cusco, where the Earth shakes every five seconds.
02:00:58.000 And the Inca civilization built for this.
02:01:00.000 They built gigantically weird-shaped stones in old shapes, whereby we know they withstand earthquakes.
02:01:08.000 Is that why they had things that were curvy and they fit in like jigsaw puzzles?
02:01:12.000 Absolutely, because what happens, the Sherman Oaks was an epicenter in, I think, the 1994 earthquake.
02:01:19.000 And basically, two plates kind of like made houses jump up.
02:01:22.000 And then from the other side, they basically gave them a different seller, so to speak.
02:01:27.000 And so, because we built so linearly, you know, houses, I mean, I'm slightly exaggerating here, jump up and jump down again.
02:01:35.000 But because all of these stones kind of go, okay, we can't jump up, we can't jump down.
02:01:41.000 We're stuck because we're so wedged with these other stones.
02:01:44.000 They're earthquake-resistant.
02:01:46.000 And our ancestors understood this.
02:01:47.000 They employed this.
02:01:48.000 But somehow, despite some of these billion-dollar houses, In Los Angeles, the architects don't seem to be willing to borrow from our Inca ancestors when it comes to design.
02:02:01.000 Planned obsolescence.
02:02:03.000 That's what it is.
02:02:03.000 No one's making a house that's going to live for 10,000 years.
02:02:06.000 They just want a house that's good for like a couple of hundred, insulate it, make it eco.
02:02:10.000 How long are your solar panels good for?
02:02:12.000 Is a solar panel even good for 100 years?
02:02:14.000 I think it...
02:02:17.000 I think they're mostly outdated by the ability to get, like, they want to be replaced because they constantly keep doing better ones, which get more power out of them.
02:02:26.000 Now, you wrote a rebuttal to the dude who made that video, which was the, yeah, Chris White, who made the, it was Ancient Aliens Debunked, and essentially, he pointed out errors that existed on the television show, and then you made,
02:02:42.000 you rebutted his video.
02:02:44.000 What did you feel like was wrong about his video?
02:02:47.000 Well, there are several things wrong.
02:02:49.000 And, you know, one of the things is that even though he's not your traditional skeptic, he does betray some of those things.
02:02:56.000 He will go and read something on the Internet and will say, well, on the Internet I found something else.
02:03:03.000 And some of the sites he references, like rational wiki, Which is basically a skeptic Wikipedia.
02:03:11.000 And he'll kind of like say, look, this guy shows you how, when it comes to the people in Mohenodaro, how they were, you know, like...
02:03:21.000 On Ancient Aliens, it is said that these people are lying hand in hand in the middle of the street.
02:03:29.000 And this guy says that they were buried.
02:03:32.000 Well, this guy's article is actually online.
02:03:34.000 And this guy actually says, when they were doing initial excavations in Moheniodaro, They were done so crapply that you don't know.
02:03:44.000 It is open for speculation.
02:03:46.000 They might have died in the street.
02:03:48.000 They might have been buried.
02:03:49.000 Nobody knows.
02:03:50.000 And this guy says that himself.
02:03:52.000 He then goes on to basically say, but in my opinion, they were buried.
02:03:56.000 So he's basically siding purposely towards the skeptical thing when it's still an open point of contention.
02:04:05.000 Yeah, I mean, on a number of occasions, I agree with him.
02:04:07.000 Like, you know, there are certain things which people hold dearly and will say on camera, which I don't agree with.
02:04:16.000 You're fucked whenever Giorgio Suclos goes, is it possible?
02:04:22.000 Oh, you motherfucker, you got me.
02:04:24.000 Because as soon as he does that, dude, it's fucking, everything's aliens.
02:04:27.000 Is it possible?
02:04:30.000 But I mean, that's like, you know, my biggest beef with him is to do with Crystal Skulls.
02:04:36.000 He makes it appear as if he comes up with this name and says, Anna Mitchell Hedges, she always tried to sell the crystal skull, and she never allowed for scientific dating.
02:04:47.000 And I said, well, she did.
02:04:50.000 She gave it to Hewlett Packard, and she gave it to the British Museum.
02:04:56.000 And he then comes back and says, like, well, I know about the British Museum analysis.
02:05:00.000 In 1936, I even mentioned it in the documentary, and he kind of goes, no.
02:05:05.000 You're actually referring to...
02:05:07.000 You yourself claim to have read this article.
02:05:10.000 In this article...
02:05:12.000 There is a photograph of Anna Mitchell Hedges in the British Museum when she was doing the dating.
02:05:18.000 By the way, there's an entire video of it, which the BBC made in 1980 or 81. And you can see Mitchell Hedges in the British Museum with the British Museum skull and her skull there.
02:05:28.000 I'm talking about the 1980s dating.
02:05:30.000 But that is...
02:05:33.000 Chris is, again, he's not your typical skeptic, but he does this thing of like, I have found something on the internet which says something differently.
02:05:41.000 Therefore, you have to be wrong.
02:05:43.000 But there was definitely a lot of shit that he was right about, right?
02:05:46.000 There was a lot of errors that he pointed out.
02:05:49.000 He makes some clever misdirections, though, with some of it as well.
02:05:54.000 Kind of like, yes, Giorgio is wrong when he says diorite or whatever the other one is.
02:06:01.000 But it doesn't change anything to do with the density or the hardness of that material.
02:06:07.000 He also comes up with kind of like what I think is sometimes the misdirection of like, he'll kind of say like, why is David Hatcher Childress talking about levitation when it comes to the Easter Island statues when they could have been put on wooden rollers?
02:06:21.000 Well, the reason why David Hatcher Childress is talking about it is because the locals say that they walked, that they were Floated into space.
02:06:28.000 So Ancient Aliens is discussing the possibility, whether it is possible, that there was such a thing as levitation.
02:06:35.000 It's a question mark.
02:06:37.000 You know, we're exploring the possibility that our ancestors might be wrong.
02:06:41.000 Our ancestors actually don't say that they were put on wooden rollers.
02:06:45.000 They might have been put on wooden rollers.
02:06:47.000 You know, that might have happened.
02:06:49.000 Our ancestors might have complained and speculated and said like, oh, well, wooden rollers sound so boring.
02:06:54.000 Let's say they levitated.
02:06:56.000 But it is about the exploration of the possibility.
02:06:59.000 And this is what ancient aliens does.
02:07:01.000 It's saying, should we take our ancestors' word for it?
02:07:04.000 Is this possible?
02:07:05.000 And then, you know, it's up to the viewer to decide whether or not it's the case.
02:07:09.000 But the biggest beef I have with Chris White is the following.
02:07:14.000 And it is very clever what he does.
02:07:16.000 He says, no matter how many mistakes I have found...
02:07:20.000 By default, I know that the ancient alien theory is wrong.
02:07:24.000 So even if he finds nothing wrong with the ancient alien theories, he basically says in his opening and in his closing, I know that this is impossible.
02:07:35.000 And he does a very clever trick as well, which is basically he says, you know, okay, I have found one evidence here, I have found, sorry, one error here, I have found another error there, the third one there.
02:07:46.000 Great, that's 50 hours of television, you know.
02:07:49.000 If you find 50 errors in there, it's quite good.
02:07:54.000 But he sees every evidence as evidence of somehow there's a vast conspiracy by us to misdirect them.
02:08:04.000 Well there's certainly, let's be honest, there's certainly a confirmation bias that's involved with almost every fringe subject, whether it's ghosts or Bigfoot or aliens.
02:08:15.000 There is an unquestionable confirmation bias where people who really want to believe in it find ways to believe in it.
02:08:23.000 But it's the same with traditional archaeologists.
02:08:25.000 Dr. Zahi Hawass will find clues in there to kind of like explain certain things away as well.
02:08:30.000 It works on both sides.
02:08:32.000 You're totally right.
02:08:32.000 I absolutely agree.
02:08:33.000 Especially when Mr. Hawass, he's famous for it.
02:08:36.000 He's funny.
02:08:36.000 Isn't he in trouble?
02:08:37.000 Isn't he going to go to jail?
02:08:38.000 He cannot leave the country.
02:08:40.000 What happened?
02:08:41.000 What did he do wrong?
02:08:42.000 Some corruption shit?
02:08:43.000 Yes, basically certain money disappeared.
02:08:46.000 Whoopsies!
02:08:47.000 Who would have thought that guy was crooked?
02:08:49.000 Most people are like, what dorks are these guys?
02:08:53.000 They're gossiping about Egyptologists.
02:08:56.000 Certain guys, bitchy Egyptologists.
02:09:00.000 I thought that what he did was a very brilliant take on mistakes and he was very time-consuming and tedious and I thought it was very well done and I can't wait to talk to him about it.
02:09:13.000 But my problem is that there's still a lot of Craziness to that stuff.
02:09:20.000 Saying that, you know, they had done and moved larger stones before, and that somehow or another, because it was a part of a foundation wall, wasn't that?
02:09:30.000 That it wasn't so impressive.
02:09:31.000 Like the Baalbek.
02:09:33.000 That's kind of crazy.
02:09:35.000 There was a lot of where you're trying to find some reason why it's not fantastic, and it's obviously fantastic.
02:09:43.000 And this is probably a sign of our times, but Ancient Aliens is a TV show.
02:09:50.000 It tries to put forward into the public mind, is this possible?
02:09:54.000 Here's a bit of graphic information for you.
02:09:57.000 And by default, The Ancient Aliens, the series, is not identified with whether or not we have been visited in the past.
02:10:07.000 I mean, the best evidence was put forward by the likes of Carl Sagan.
02:10:11.000 And Joseph Strzofsky in the late 1970s.
02:10:14.000 Carl Sagan, who was very much a skeptic.
02:10:17.000 He didn't believe in anything like crop circles and all that stuff.
02:10:20.000 And he basically said, you know, of paleocontact, whether we have been visited in the past or not, the best example is Oanus, this creature which comes out of the sea and teaches man the arts of civilization and various other things.
02:10:34.000 Oanus disappeared, another creature came up.
02:10:37.000 Basically took off where, you know, began to instruct the people.
02:10:41.000 What is this from?
02:10:42.000 This is from Babylonia.
02:10:43.000 It is actually, it's a Babylonian rendering of a Sumerian mythology as well.
02:10:50.000 So basically the Babylonians were repeating.
02:10:52.000 What they got from the Sumerians.
02:10:54.000 And basically they were saying that from the Persian Gulf thousands of years ago, it's not too clear when precisely, this creature came.
02:11:02.000 He came out of the sea.
02:11:04.000 He took off his kind of like fishy outside and underneath was a human hat.
02:11:09.000 And he began to instruct our ancestors on the arts of architecture, mathematics and art and all of these sciences.
02:11:18.000 Maybe that's a good way for aliens to go in the water first and pop out, hey, we were here all along.
02:11:23.000 It's better than coming from the sky.
02:11:25.000 You're like, I was right behind this tree.
02:11:27.000 Instead of I came here from another fucking galaxy.
02:11:29.000 I'm a mermaid.
02:11:30.000 But I mean, in the eyes of Carl Sagan and many people who are looking into this from a scientific point of view, this is kind of like amongst the best evidence that we might have potentially been visited by ancient aliens.
02:11:44.000 Chris White doesn't even mention it.
02:11:46.000 And it's kind of like, okay, you should really try to negate this if you want to pretend that you have completely destroyed the ancient alien theory.
02:11:55.000 You know, you can try and attack the ancient aliens, the series.
02:12:00.000 But as long as you don't go for the best evidence, like the honest story, and you do it on a scientific level, you argue why Carl Sagan thought this was interesting, why other scientists thought this was interesting, then really you can make a documentary and pretend that you have completely destroyed the possibility that we were ever visited in the past by I
02:12:35.000 see what you're saying.
02:12:37.000 He's not considering all the evidence.
02:12:39.000 He's trying to prove a point.
02:12:41.000 And there is a possibility, no matter how many mistakes you guys make, there is still a possibility that the human race has been visited and, in fact, maybe even engineered by advanced life forms.
02:12:54.000 It's absolutely a possibility.
02:12:56.000 Well, you know, when it comes to such things as astrobiology, it's one of my great...
02:13:02.000 Passions.
02:13:03.000 In the Ancient Alien question, I write about it, and I thought when I was going to write that chapter, it was going to be boring.
02:13:10.000 It was going to be, at some point in the past, there were some scientists who thought that life came from elsewhere in the universe, riding on a comet or a meteorite, and then it crashed here, and then all of a sudden, we had life on planet Earth.
02:13:22.000 And it's so different.
02:13:24.000 What we have right now are astrobiologists who are working for NASA who are saying that the building blocks of life are created spontaneously in interstellar space, that as a result, life like us is potentially everywhere in the universe.
02:13:39.000 You know, they have been saying that viruses are more than likely, some of them more than likely are coming from outer space as well.
02:13:48.000 Did you see that one, I think it was from Harvard, the astronomer that said that it's very unlikely that we'll ever find life and there is probably no life anywhere but Earth because we've looked at 500 planets and we have found no life.
02:14:04.000 And I looked at that and I said, no, no, no, no.
02:14:07.000 You've looked at 501 planets and 1 out of 500 has life.
02:14:12.000 What did Edison say?
02:14:13.000 I have found 200 ways of not making a light pop.
02:14:16.000 I mean, I just find that fascinating that someone would be so arrogant when life does exist on this one.
02:14:21.000 That's so dumb.
02:14:22.000 Just because you looked at 500 other planets, if it's 1 out of 1,000, that's pretty amazing when you consider the hundreds of billions of stars.
02:14:32.000 Yeah.
02:14:34.000 I don't know who you're referring to, but if he was the traditional satire guy who looks at radio astronomy kind of stuff, NASA is abandoning that.
02:14:43.000 They realize you're looking for a needle in a haystack.
02:14:45.000 It's built on so many assumptions.
02:14:48.000 You know, the bandwidth where they would be able to broadcast this.
02:14:51.000 NASA has basically abandoned this.
02:14:53.000 They're looking at astrobiology.
02:14:55.000 And they're basically saying that, you know, there is now more than substantial evidence that indeed life didn't originate on this planet, but that it arose somewhere else in the universe.
02:15:07.000 It came here, this theory of panspermia, which Francis Crick, who was the guy who identified the structure, the double helix of DNA, he always said it didn't originate here, that it came from somewhere else.
02:15:19.000 And NASA, guess what?
02:15:20.000 The greatest astrobiologists in the world can't get published in peer-reviewed journals because the peer-reviewed journals are still so adamant that life originated on planet Earth.
02:15:31.000 So NASA is doing science by press release.
02:15:33.000 They do the findings.
02:15:35.000 They get them peer-reviewed amongst their peers.
02:15:38.000 They know they can't get published, so they publish them on the Internet, and everybody can consult them on the Internet.
02:15:43.000 And the guys who do the peer-reviewed journals, they're now saying that NASA is involved in a conspiracy to convince the world that life exists elsewhere in the universe as well.
02:15:53.000 It's kind of like, okay.
02:15:56.000 It seems like shades of what Galileo had to go through.
02:15:59.000 Just a more advanced form of arrogance because we have more information now to back up our claims and we can make these big grandiose You know, statements like, well, we've examined 500 planets, we're pretty sure we're alone.
02:16:13.000 Like, that is so silly!
02:16:14.000 If you think of how many fucking planets there are there, this guy's examined 500 of them, they think they got it fixed.
02:16:21.000 You better get back to work, bitch.
02:16:22.000 You know, you better go do your homework, because that's bananas.
02:16:26.000 It's so silly that you could even say that.
02:16:27.000 Like, the numbers, again, it's like, we talked about how 7,000 years is impossible for people to think about.
02:16:33.000 Well, that ain't shit compared to the number of stars just in this galaxy.
02:16:38.000 When you start getting into just the phrase, hundreds of billions, and then think about each one may have who knows how many goddamn planets, you can't do it.
02:16:49.000 It's too crazy.
02:16:50.000 It's too hard for people to...
02:16:52.000 So when a guy comes out and says something like that, I'm like, are you just trying to get attention?
02:16:56.000 What do you think of when you see a press release like that?
02:17:00.000 Yeah, I do see an awful lot of kind of like headline-grabbing type of people who try to...
02:17:06.000 And specifically, you know, scientists has become about this scramble for money.
02:17:11.000 We need to be in on it.
02:17:13.000 And on a completely different level, like, you know, this was very much in evidence with Jesus' wife controversy, which hit, like, you know, like somebody found this scrap of material...
02:17:23.000 Which basically only could ever prove that in the 3rd century AD there were people who believed that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
02:17:32.000 And all of a sudden you have this enormous stampede of scientists saying,''No, this can't be true.
02:17:37.000 I have found this.
02:17:39.000 Let me do research.'' And they're basically kind of saying, give me money, and for the rest of five years, I will debate endlessly about this, and I will create this controversy about that.
02:17:49.000 And it just escalates.
02:17:51.000 Because it's Jesus, and we know Jesus is more than controversial, the likes of National Geographic actually pulled the initial documentary, which wasn't done by some kind of crazy person.
02:18:02.000 It was a Harvard professor who basically came up with this.
02:18:06.000 But it is like...
02:18:09.000 Basically, it's in private possession.
02:18:11.000 She had made this deal with the guy.
02:18:14.000 That she would take all the slack.
02:18:17.000 She had done the analysis.
02:18:18.000 This was old.
02:18:20.000 But she wasn't going to reveal who the owner was.
02:18:22.000 Fine.
02:18:23.000 Is that so controversial?
02:18:24.000 But then all of a sudden you have scientists saying, no, we need to know who the owner is because if we don't know who the owner is, we're going to completely not believe anything you're saying.
02:18:32.000 And it's like, oh, come on.
02:18:33.000 Is this kindergarten or is this academics?
02:18:36.000 And unfortunately, it's kindergarten.
02:18:39.000 It's really fascinating that at the highest levels of intelligence the highest levels of knowledge the place where you're actually supposed to go to get that stuff that things are withheld just on the basis of ego.
02:18:54.000 Just completely on the basis.
02:18:55.000 There's things that are not considered because people don't want to look ridiculous.
02:19:00.000 And there's certain subjects that you're not even allowed to study or consider because they can be bad for your career.
02:19:06.000 They can ruin your career.
02:19:07.000 Just even study them.
02:19:10.000 You have to be a very brave person to admit to having a fascination with psychedelic drugs if you're a scientist.
02:19:17.000 If you're an archaeologist and you suggest the possibility, just the possibility, that there may very well have been ancient civilizations that we're unaware of, that immediately throws you into a certain fringe category, right?
02:19:31.000 Oh, I mean, I was around John Mack, Harvard professor of psychiatry.
02:19:35.000 He created the Psychiatric We're good to go.
02:19:59.000 These people are not making this up.
02:20:00.000 These people are describing it as if this has reality to them.
02:20:05.000 This is something which they relate as a real event to me.
02:20:08.000 That's all.
02:20:09.000 He wasn't saying it was real.
02:20:10.000 He was basically saying everybody who I've interviewed is relating it to me in wording, which suggests to me that it is something which has happened to them.
02:20:20.000 He went a little further than that in his second book.
02:20:22.000 I read both of his books.
02:20:24.000 In his second book, he was basically relaying the message that these aliens had told these people about the consequences of human destruction and what we're doing to the planet.
02:20:36.000 It's all pretty fascinating stuff, but what always killed me about the John Mack stuff is that everything happens at night.
02:20:44.000 All these people are abducted at night.
02:20:46.000 We know during the nighttime the brain releases endogenous bursts of dimethyltryptamine, which is an incredibly powerful hallucinogenic drug.
02:20:55.000 Why don't we get these people who have had these alien abduction experiences and introduce them to intravenous dimethyltryptamine and see if it recreates the same thing?
02:21:04.000 Because if it does, then you know what you got going on.
02:21:07.000 You know that you have...
02:21:08.000 It doesn't mean it's not a real event.
02:21:09.000 And exactly that's the point he was making.
02:21:12.000 Well, we have this idea that something is only real if you could pick it up and weigh it.
02:21:16.000 Yeah.
02:21:16.000 You know, if you have this and you can, you can saw it in half, well then it's real.
02:21:21.000 It's very possible that there's chemical doorways that exist, and something goes through them, something returns, or the resonance in which you interface with the universe changes because of the introduction of these alkaloids and these chemicals into the mind.
02:21:38.000 The resonance of the universe changes.
02:21:40.000 You tune into something that doesn't exist, or it doesn't exist without it.
02:21:45.000 And that's something that until we consider that possibility, until we really wrap our heads around what exactly is going on there, we're ignoring a pretty profound experience.
02:21:58.000 We're not even using it as a part of the equation.
02:22:02.000 We're not even throwing one of the most profound and life-altering things that can happen to a person, a psychedelic experience, a real truly profound experience.
02:22:11.000 And we're not even introducing it into the conversation.
02:22:14.000 We're pretending it doesn't exist because we don't want to look silly.
02:22:17.000 It's a hallucination.
02:22:18.000 It's something which your mind makes up and therefore we can ridicule it and it's unimportant.
02:22:26.000 And there are people absolutely out there who are absolutely convinced it's not real.
02:22:30.000 Sure.
02:22:31.000 Well, again, you know, Richard Dawkins.
02:22:33.000 Dawkins has had no psychedelic experiences and talked about how maybe you would consider doing LSD in a clinical setting.
02:22:39.000 Like, oh, this is like talking to a child.
02:22:42.000 Like, you're scared.
02:22:42.000 You don't need to go do mushrooms, Bish.
02:22:45.000 If Richard Dawkins went and did an ayahuasca ceremony or Richard Dawkins went and smoked DMT... He would come back with a completely different view on this whole fucking thing.
02:22:57.000 A brilliant mind, an incredible academic, a guy who's just so good at busting through the bullshit of religion that, you know, especially in the waning years of his existence on this plane, he's really cheating his consciousness of not just crossing over at least once just to say,
02:23:15.000 wow, that's available?
02:23:17.000 How did I not know that was available?
02:23:20.000 But also the attitude of, like, I don't need to do that.
02:23:24.000 Exactly!
02:23:25.000 It's so silly.
02:23:25.000 I know it doesn't exist, so I don't need to do that.
02:23:29.000 It's like, okay, just say you haven't done it.
02:23:32.000 That's fine.
02:23:33.000 Yeah.
02:23:33.000 Well, they have to justify it, because then people will bring it up.
02:23:36.000 It's like someone who's never seen combat before, and they say, well, you don't know about war unless you've seen combat.
02:23:41.000 Well, I don't need to see it.
02:23:43.000 I know what's going on.
02:23:44.000 The fuck you do?
02:23:45.000 How could you possibly understand what happens to a person in the grips of war if you haven't been there?
02:23:50.000 It's pure speculation.
02:23:51.000 You don't know.
02:23:53.000 There's many, many things in this life that are like that.
02:23:55.000 I think very few are as profound as the psychedelic experience as far as how alien it is to normal, everyday consciousness.
02:24:04.000 And I think that has to be considered when you stop and think about The idea of alien interjection, alien altering of our world.
02:24:19.000 The idea of the psychedelic experience being a gateway to some other form of consciousness or some other form of intelligence that has to be considered.
02:24:28.000 Let me tell you something that happened to me after one of my first DMT experiences.
02:24:33.000 I stopped caring about UFOs.
02:24:35.000 Completely stopped caring.
02:24:37.000 As did Terence McKenna.
02:24:38.000 I remember him in 1905. He was at a UFO conference and you kind of like, it went down the line and you had Bud Hopkins there and Jacques Vallée and they were like physically first.
02:24:47.000 And then it came to him and said like, I can tell you.
02:24:50.000 I mean, I can't do his accent.
02:24:51.000 It was very specific.
02:24:53.000 I can tell you, I have spoken to these people.
02:24:57.000 You don't have to go around wondering whether or not UFOs are possible because something is possible that's a billion times crazier than that.
02:25:06.000 The way I always describe DMT is mushrooms times a million plus aliens.
02:25:10.000 It really is like that.
02:25:12.000 So for someone to interest me with some flying space disc, I'd be like, why don't they just come down here and talk like the DMT guys do?
02:25:22.000 Because the DMT experience brings you into a completely different dimension.
02:25:27.000 I just completely got bored with the idea of flying saucers.
02:25:31.000 You know, like, ooh, look, there's a little light.
02:25:33.000 It's spinning around in a circle.
02:25:35.000 Really?
02:25:35.000 Is that what that is?
02:25:37.000 You know, who knows what the fuck that is?
02:25:39.000 Who cares?
02:25:39.000 It's not even doing anything.
02:25:41.000 If there's aliens and they come here and they just fucking spin around the sky and then go home, you know?
02:25:46.000 This could be like Earth is the high school parking lot.
02:25:50.000 Remember when you were kids and there's dudes who already graduated and they come back and do donuts in the parking lot?
02:25:56.000 You've got an English accent, right?
02:25:58.000 Was it Australian?
02:25:58.000 What is your accent?
02:25:59.000 I'm originally from Belgium and I speak three languages and I sound like a foreigner in all of them.
02:26:04.000 Ah, that's what it is.
02:26:05.000 I've lived in England for about ten years, worked in England for about ten years, and I've been...
02:26:10.000 Partly European, partly in Los Angeles for the last four years.
02:26:15.000 When in American high schools, there's this phenomenon where this leaving the nest thing, where a lot of guys, they graduate, but they still come back to hang out.
02:26:22.000 They're thought of as losers.
02:26:23.000 And they usually have cool cars because now they work.
02:26:25.000 So they come back and they would do like donuts in the parking lot.
02:26:28.000 So maybe that's what the aliens are doing.
02:26:30.000 They're just coming back to show off.
02:26:32.000 Joyriding.
02:26:32.000 Yeah, only the douchebag aliens come back.
02:26:37.000 But that's why there's a conspiracy, because we're covering those up.
02:26:40.000 Exactly.
02:26:41.000 Do you buy into any of the stuff when you hear about UFOs interfering with launch commands and missiles and UFOs cutting power over military bases?
02:26:56.000 Do you buy into any of that stuff?
02:26:58.000 Have you ever seen anything that's compelling?
02:26:59.000 Well, I know somebody has written a book about it.
02:27:02.000 I read the book.
02:27:03.000 And, you know, when you take UFOs as an unidentified flying object, then it is possible.
02:27:10.000 Because it doesn't mean it's not earthly.
02:27:12.000 Yeah, exactly.
02:27:13.000 And if I was a human power...
02:27:16.000 I would be interested in atomic missiles, I think, more so than if I was an alien power.
02:27:23.000 I mean, you know, if I was an alien, okay, I mean, making science fiction scenarios here, either they say, okay, they can blow them to smithereens, let's do it.
02:27:32.000 Or, well, we have this thing whereby we can pick up this nuclear device anyway in mid-flight and then take it out of there.
02:27:38.000 But when people tell me weird things happened on a military facility involving top-secret things, and there's a UFO sighted, then to me that UFO is probably of terrestrial origins.
02:27:52.000 And there is probably a very good reason why, whoever power it is, you know, we probably blame the Russians first, but it doesn't necessarily have to be them, There's a good reason why they're going to keep this secret, and they probably want to pretend.
02:28:07.000 And I think to a large extent, the American government has an active promotion of, hey, we are covering up certain things.
02:28:15.000 Well, that whole Area 51 thing put a lot of questions into people's minds because they denied its existence until, what year was it, 94 or something like that, where they want to expand its boundaries?
02:28:25.000 Yeah.
02:28:25.000 Yeah, and then in Independence, they make a big thing about Area 51, and then at the end you see with the active participation and help of the Departments of Defense, and you're telling me they didn't read the script?
02:28:37.000 Yeah, you're telling me that they're okay with pretending there's a fucking flying saucer tucked away back there?
02:28:42.000 Yeah.
02:28:43.000 What do you think about Robert Lazar?
02:28:46.000 Do you know his story?
02:28:47.000 Yeah, I mean, you know, again, I think he might have seen something which people told him was alien.
02:28:56.000 And I think that's a form of protection.
02:28:58.000 Like, you know, if I tell you here's a light, you know, it's alien technology, you're not going to say, oh, Philips, oh, that must be a cover-up thing, kind of like, you know.
02:29:11.000 There are known instances, and I think it was Bill Moore who found some stuff there.
02:29:16.000 In 1953 or 1952, all of a sudden America was okay again, I think, with Hungary.
02:29:22.000 And there was a very important relic across of St. Stephen or something like that, which was somewhere displaced after the Second World War, and the American government was going to give it back.
02:29:33.000 But it was so secretive that nobody knew on this flight what it was.
02:29:38.000 And the official cargo of what was being transported was described as a UFO, basically a crashed saucer which was being transported.
02:29:47.000 They didn't want the people on board to know what it was.
02:29:51.000 They said it was a crashed saucer.
02:29:53.000 It wasn't.
02:29:53.000 It was a relic of...
02:29:56.000 Of, you know, some saint which was being transported back to Hungary.
02:30:00.000 So...
02:30:00.000 So they just freak people out just to put a stupid story out there for disinformation.
02:30:04.000 Yeah, and, you know, if you can then convince these soldiers that there's a big cover-up, you're going to probably die if you say that, you know, when you're going to speak out about crashed sorcerers.
02:30:15.000 These guys are going to be kept quiet.
02:30:18.000 Yeah, the Robert Lazar story, I'm sorry, the Robert Lazar story was so compelling because he's so fucking intelligent.
02:30:23.000 And he doesn't sound like a liar when he starts talking about the base and talking about reverse engineering the aircraft and how they would take them out for test flights where they couldn't exactly figure out how to work them.
02:30:35.000 That's fascinating shit.
02:30:36.000 So it is possible that it was Russian or something and then that Robert Lazar was told that it was an alien just because they did want to admit that the Russians had figured out some fucking incredible shit that we hadn't.
02:30:47.000 I mean, you know, I agree with you on Lazar.
02:30:50.000 I don't think he made this all up.
02:30:52.000 He was told something.
02:30:53.000 The government might have told him the truth.
02:30:56.000 But I think on balance, the government told him a lie.
02:30:59.000 Hmm.
02:31:00.000 Look at that, Robert Lazar.
02:31:01.000 You just got debunked by Philip Coppens.
02:31:05.000 Well, I actually think I support him because most people just say he's a liar.
02:31:08.000 Yeah, that is.
02:31:09.000 That's true.
02:31:10.000 You are supporting him in some sort of a way.
02:31:12.000 You're just letting him...
02:31:13.000 You're giving him an out like you didn't know.
02:31:16.000 That is possible.
02:31:17.000 Yeah, when you see these things like stealth bombers and stuff that we know the government did design that actually look like aliens and look like some UFO... And as you point out, he's an intelligent guy.
02:31:27.000 He came to these conclusions.
02:31:28.000 He felt that this was alien.
02:31:30.000 And I'm more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
02:31:34.000 I'm just saying on balance, our government lies when it tells you this is something alien.
02:31:39.000 When they tell you that...
02:31:42.000 Here's the point.
02:31:43.000 If it's alien, they would probably tell the guys involved that it was terrestrial.
02:31:47.000 That's a very good point.
02:31:48.000 That's a very good point.
02:31:49.000 Why would they tell this four-eyed motherfucker from the middle of nowhere, Albuquerque, New Mexico, wherever he's from, yeah, yeah, yeah, we got an alien.
02:31:57.000 I wonder if they did tell him.
02:31:58.000 I don't think his story is actually they told him.
02:32:00.000 I think his story was that they didn't explain it at all.
02:32:02.000 They just told him to back engineer it.
02:32:03.000 And he deduced, with his own intelligence, that it was an alien craft.
02:32:11.000 But yeah, who knows what the fuck they're making out there, right?
02:32:13.000 I mean, they have this gigantic facility out there, or at least they did.
02:32:16.000 I think they've moved things now, because so many people are aware of it, and because of Google Earth, I believe they've moved stuff to Utah now.
02:32:25.000 That's the new place where they test out crazy shit.
02:32:28.000 Well, I mean, again, I was talking about that Roswell documentary, and there's some very interesting things, how...
02:32:35.000 And actually, skeptics in this case are great.
02:32:38.000 I mean, there are some great skeptics in the sense that they stick with it.
02:32:41.000 They've done research for 20 years, and that's great.
02:32:44.000 The skeptics I hate are these 24 hit-and-run guys.
02:32:47.000 They see something, they write something, they've seen it on Google.
02:32:50.000 But like the likes of Carl Flock when it comes to Roswell, he's got great material in there.
02:32:57.000 It can be interpreted in two ways, but he's got great material.
02:33:00.000 And some of the stuff which he's also kind of like confirmed, Is that you had this tiny cabal of like Jesse Marcel, the base commander, which was called Blanchard.
02:33:11.000 They somehow knew the likes of Barry Goldwater.
02:33:15.000 And when Goldwater starts talking about, hey, can I see what's in Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson?
02:33:23.000 It's a big scam.
02:33:24.000 It's a scam of these guys who are absolutely convinced that there is alien material being covered up in Wright-Patterson, who are trying to get it on the record and who are trying to push the government basically into kind of like coming up with an answer.
02:33:40.000 And the answer is like, fuck off, you're not allowed to say this.
02:33:43.000 You know, like Goldwater was basically told he was not allowed to ask such questions.
02:33:47.000 The government was never going to say anything of the kind.
02:33:50.000 Hangar 18 didn't exist.
02:33:51.000 And it's like, okay, that's interesting.
02:33:54.000 These people were working behind the scenes and like the base commander spoke to Goldwater, was trying to push something out there.
02:34:02.000 And again, it's not as such evidence of the fact that something extraterrestrial landed in Roswell, but that there were more things happening behind the scenes than quite often are being credited for.
02:34:14.000 There's a clear evidence of conspiracy at Roswell, and one of the big pieces of evidence is the fact that they flew the wreckage out to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in two separate planes because they were worried if one of them crashed.
02:34:25.000 They wanted to make sure that they could not lose this...
02:34:28.000 The amount of trucks which...
02:34:29.000 They separated the stuff, yeah.
02:34:31.000 And they said it's really light material, so it wasn't done for weight considerations.
02:34:35.000 No.
02:34:35.000 Because they claimed that it was material from a weather balloon, which is nothing.
02:34:39.000 They could throw that in the back of a plane, no problem.
02:34:41.000 And I mean, kind of like hanging out with Jesse Marcel and having him talk about his grandfather.
02:34:46.000 His grandfather was the chief of intelligence for Roswell.
02:34:51.000 Roswell Air Force Base, at that moment in time, was the only airfield in the world where there was constantly an atomic bomb being sent in the sky.
02:35:01.000 America wanted to have an atomic presence in the sky.
02:35:03.000 As a result of that, B-52 or whatever kind of machinery went and landed at Roswell constantly.
02:35:10.000 There was always one in the sky.
02:35:12.000 He knew that.
02:35:13.000 He had briefed people on atomic missions of dropping nuclear bombs.
02:35:20.000 At one point, he was one of five people in the world who knew where a certain bomb was going to be dropped.
02:35:26.000 He was Declared a national hero.
02:35:28.000 He was, you know, when he went into Fort Worth and was going to make that announcement, he was absolutely convinced that he was going to tell the world about the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
02:35:40.000 And when you see this story through his family, you see that afterwards he apparently trampled on his He hated what the American government had him do.
02:35:52.000 He basically killed thousands of people by, you know, sentencing them to death, by briefing this officer where to drop an atomic bomb.
02:36:00.000 And at the same level, he was absolutely convinced that what happened in Roswell was extraterrestrial and that he somehow had to say on air, live, that he was an idiot.
02:36:12.000 And he hated what the American government made him do.
02:36:15.000 He trampled on it.
02:36:16.000 He got out of The government basically began to repair televisions and radios to occupy his mind and do something else.
02:36:25.000 But in 1947, he was a guy at the top briefed kind of level.
02:36:31.000 Whatever he saw shook his mind.
02:36:34.000 It wasn't a weather balloon.
02:36:35.000 It's a fascinating thing to me that it all occurred, the majority of these UFOs, and even the term flying saucer, it all occurred once we started fucking around with nuclear power.
02:36:46.000 When we started fucking around with nuclear bombs, that's when they seemed to start arriving.
02:36:51.000 That is really fascinating to me.
02:36:54.000 And if it really did exist and it was just some sort of an isolated instance where they came down and said, alright, listen, you crazy pink monkeys, you can't do that.
02:37:03.000 You can't just go fucking blowing things up with nuclear bombs.
02:37:06.000 You're going to ruin your whole planet, alright?
02:37:08.000 Stop.
02:37:09.000 Man, that would be interesting to know.
02:37:12.000 Well, and I mean, you know, again, complete speculation.
02:37:14.000 Yeah, of course.
02:37:15.000 Our ancestors always say that the gods were there to help us, that they're somehow, these helpers, these kind of like, we're trying to do it all by ourselves, but if we run into trouble, all of a sudden they kind of go like, okay, well, have you looked at this problem?
02:37:30.000 It's like a parent looking at his child and kind of like knowing that 4 plus 4 equals 8, but after a while you kind of go like, okay...
02:37:36.000 Count them on your hands.
02:37:38.000 You get to it like that.
02:37:40.000 And if this is the case, then if we can somehow self-destruct completely, more than likely to, idiocy or computer failure of pushing whatever buttons, then you might actually say,
02:37:56.000 okay, they would step in there.
02:37:58.000 They would stop This from happening.
02:38:00.000 That's a constant theme with people, right?
02:38:02.000 That somehow or another the alien overlords are going to step in and stop us at the brink of disaster.
02:38:06.000 Yeah, and there is no evidence for it whatsoever.
02:38:10.000 But there is logic to it.
02:38:12.000 If we are monitored.
02:38:14.000 If we are the children and there is an alien intelligence who's slightly brighter than us, who means well, then they're going to look out for us.
02:38:24.000 So how do you explain worldstarhiphop.com?
02:38:28.000 Well, how are they letting that happen?
02:38:29.000 It's probably innocent in the larger scheme of things.
02:38:32.000 In the larger scheme of things.
02:38:33.000 In the great scheme of genetics moving forward to our ultimate destiny of being...
02:38:37.000 Or they just have chocolate fever.
02:38:39.000 Could be.
02:38:41.000 Philip Kopens, listen man, this book, I can't wait to read it.
02:38:44.000 I just got it today or otherwise I would have already read it because this is one of my all-time favorite subjects.
02:38:50.000 And this is a fucking awesome podcast.
02:38:52.000 Thank you very much.
02:38:53.000 Thank you for having me.
02:38:54.000 The book is called The Lost Civilization Enigma.
02:38:59.000 I'm sure it's available at Amazon.com.
02:39:01.000 It's available everywhere where books are sold.
02:39:03.000 And is there an e-book version of it?
02:39:05.000 Because I just got one of those Barnes& Noble nooks.
02:39:07.000 There is an e-book version.
02:39:08.000 There's even an audio book version for people who don't want to read but listen.
02:39:12.000 And they can hear your sultry voice?
02:39:14.000 They can't hear my sultry voice.
02:39:15.000 What?
02:39:15.000 Not you?
02:39:16.000 Who reads it?
02:39:17.000 An actor.
02:39:18.000 Motherfucker!
02:39:19.000 That's bullshit, dude.
02:39:20.000 Why don't you release your own and just fucking put it out as a torrent and ruin the market?
02:39:25.000 Do an Easter egg version of you.
02:39:27.000 Yeah, how can...
02:39:28.000 You got a great voice, man.
02:39:29.000 Why didn't they let you do it?
02:39:30.000 I know.
02:39:31.000 It's the way these things work.
02:39:32.000 Publishing companies is their idea.
02:39:34.000 Some cunty, stupid-ass actor saying a bunch of shit he doesn't even know what he's talking about.
02:39:39.000 Goddammit, just reading your work.
02:39:41.000 They wouldn't let you do it?
02:39:42.000 Nope.
02:39:42.000 We need to talk to those people.
02:39:44.000 What is the public...
02:39:45.000 You don't want to get in trouble.
02:39:46.000 Don't get in trouble.
02:39:47.000 It's a great book.
02:39:48.000 It's good to give you a deal.
02:39:49.000 I hope you make some money.
02:39:50.000 So folks, go out there and buy this shit.
02:39:51.000 The Lost Civilization Enigma by Philip Copens.
02:39:55.000 And philipcopens.com, I believe, is the website?
02:39:57.000 Absolutely.
02:39:58.000 P-H-I-L-I-P-C-O-W-P-E-N-S. Two Ps, ladies and gentlemen.
02:40:01.000 C-O-P-P-E-N-S. And you can also find him on Twitter under the same name, Philip Coppens.
02:40:07.000 So please follow him and pay attention because this is some fascinating stuff.
02:40:11.000 Like I said, I can't wait to get into this.
02:40:13.000 Thank you very much for a fascinating conversation, my friend.
02:40:16.000 If you ever want to come back again, we'd be more than happy to...
02:40:18.000 We could do this a hundred times, I'm sure.
02:40:20.000 It will be my pleasure to return.
02:40:22.000 Thank you.
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02:42:04.000 Or you can just go to brownpapertickets.com and search for Death Squad.
02:42:09.000 And Brian has a bunch of new podcasts, too, that are kicking up.
02:42:12.000 Yeah, Ian Edwards now just joined us.
02:42:14.000 Yeah, I saw that.
02:42:15.000 Preposterous, one of my favorite words.
02:42:16.000 That's the name of his.
02:42:17.000 Beautiful.
02:42:18.000 And Kevin Pereira also has a new show called Pointless, which has put out three awesome episodes so far.
02:42:26.000 Two.
02:42:26.000 Did he have a third?
02:42:26.000 Oh, the third one's coming up, right?
02:42:27.000 We're supposed to have a third one today, but he has a sinus infection and he's sick at home.
02:42:31.000 Who's it, Bobcat?
02:42:31.000 Yeah, it's going to be Bobcat, but he's hopefully going to be rescheduled either later this week or next week.
02:42:35.000 Bobcat, we wish you well, brother.
02:42:37.000 Get better.
02:42:37.000 Well, it's Kevin that has it.
02:42:38.000 Oh, Kevin has it?
02:42:39.000 Yeah.
02:42:40.000 Well, Bobcat, I want you to be healthy, too.
02:42:42.000 Okay?
02:42:44.000 Kevin, you get better, too, you fuck.
02:42:46.000 Go get yourself some kombucha tea, son.
02:42:48.000 Yeah.
02:42:48.000 This weekend, Joey Diaz and I will be in San Diego at the Balboa Theater.
02:42:54.000 And we're going to have a show here Wednesday night at the Ice House.
02:42:56.000 We just decided, like, ten minutes ago to do it.
02:43:01.000 So this Wednesday night, not sure who's going to be.
02:43:04.000 As soon as I get off this podcast, I'm going to call Dom Irera and see if he's going to do it.
02:43:08.000 Greg Fitzsimmons, I would love him to do it if he's going to be around because he was fucking unbelievable this weekend.
02:43:13.000 And I know Callen's in town too, so that's most likely going to be the lineup or at least part of it.
02:43:18.000 So we will see you guys tomorrow.
02:43:20.000 Brian Callen is our guest.
02:43:23.000 Then we have Peter Dewsburg on Wednesday.
02:43:28.000 That's the AIDS guy, right?
02:43:28.000 Yes, the AIDS guy.
02:43:29.000 And we're going to do something Thursday.
02:43:31.000 And thanks to Hamilton Morris, who sent me a lot of information on Deuceburg and Deuceburg's theories.
02:43:36.000 So this is going to be a fucking awesome week.
02:43:39.000 And we'll do something on Thursday.
02:43:41.000 Brian's not going to be here, but maybe it'll be me and Joey at my place or something.
02:43:44.000 Yeah, you've got to get Joey back.
02:43:45.000 Yeah, for sure.
02:43:46.000 Alright, you fucks.
02:43:47.000 We love you.
02:43:47.000 We love the shit out of you.
02:43:48.000 Thanks to everybody that came out to Seattle.
02:43:50.000 It was awesome.
02:43:51.000 Seattle was like one of the greatest shows I've ever done in my life.
02:43:53.000 It was so warm.
02:43:55.000 And San Francisco was amazing, too.
02:43:57.000 I just, I love, it's better north, man.
02:44:00.000 There's something about going up there.
02:44:01.000 They're smarter up there.
02:44:02.000 Alright.
02:44:03.000 Asians, I think.
02:44:04.000 You have to fucking ruin it.
02:44:05.000 Alright, we'll see you guys tomorrow.
02:44:06.000 We love you.
02:44:07.000 Thanks.