Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - JRE Review of 1284 with Graham Hancock

Episode Date: May 2, 2019

Graham has a new book out and is a historian investigator of sorts. He travels the world looking at ancient sites to see if our current history knowledge aligns with what he finds. His conversations with Joe are always really thought provoking so make sure to listen to this one to the end.   Enjoy my review folks!   Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future shows :   [e-mail]

Hello guys and welcome to another episode of the JRE Review. As always, thanks for downloading, I appreciate it and today's conversation is for a really cool guest, Graham Hancock, for Joe's podcast, 1284. Graham's been on a bunch of times, Joe is a big fan of his and the guy has some fascinating viewpoint on history, which is really cool and it's always great to have him on. Very smart, dude, you know, and well thought out, chilled guy as well, and their conversation was awesome, it was super fascinating. I can't wait to hear what you guys thought about it. I really enjoyed it, and it's one that you, you you know you learn a lot from and it asks questions right he's not really like a conspiracy theory guy in that

sense but he has a very different thought process to like what his story was and how we look at it so anyway let's get going Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience Review! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. What more do you want? So yeah, Graham has a new book out. That's why he's on the podcast talking to Joe and he he did the book in the past um fingerprints of the gods I believe and in that book he just brings up a lot of questions about like ancient civilizations and you know our things as old as we say they are we've

been around longer than thought and kind of looks at different technologies and Cities that maybe now are kind of underwater and we don't really believe that they were there So he looks at a lot of interesting things and ask a lot of cool questions I think he's an important dude for The study that he's into I believe because he's just he's kind of pushing the envelope and going in different directions and not just picking like the most obscure, it's not like an ancient aliens guy, though, I guess there's kind of similarities and I think he has showed up on that show a few times I'm not sure, but he keeps what I like about him is he keeps working really hard, you know, even though scientists and like historians often discredited him, you know, even though scientists and like historians often discredited him, you know, to work through that kind of negative pressures tough. And he

stands strong and, you know, certain people are starting to really look at his work now and be like, oh shit, this guy has something to talk about, you know, he, there's something here. And I think working through that negative pressure too is another thing that Joe really likes about him because Joe preaches that, you know, hate is gonna hate. Don't listen, believe in yourself. That's a lot of the message of Rogan's podcast and you know, this guy has to push like that. And people again when it comes to like history and all the rest of it, he talks about how again when it comes to history and all the rest of it, he talks about how he doesn't get invited to these conferences, he doesn't get to hold real debates with people, he just gets dismissed almost immediately.

And that must be incredibly frustrating to feel that kind of negative pressure. His buddy Randall Carson, who's been on Rogan's podcast before with Graham Hancock, they had a really cool debate once again, another guy who was a skeptic that came on and I can't remember that guy's name, but he's pretty good too, you know And they're all friends of Joe so Joe had them all on together And if you haven't heard that podcast, it's just one of the older Graham Hancock ones Definitely check that out if you found this one interesting because there's a lot of cool stuff in there and their debates that out if you found this one interesting because there's a lot of cool stuff in there and their debates cool because you know they go back and forth and the one guy saying

he doesn't agree with this and then they give some evidence in it but it's overall it's like it's a good debate back and forth and a good time to kind of press these issues and see what the research is and listen to Round of Carsin, it's really cool, that guy is also super smart. I like the idea that when Graham talks about how ancient civilizations were wiped out, ones that we didn't know about in the past, and he doesn't have obviously a ton of evidence for it, but there are like these little snippets of things,

and it looks like we've been around doing things like well over 100,000 years, which is, you know, it's a short amount of time in the history of the planet, but it's a long ass fucking time. And that's really cool, especially because you know, when we're looking at history, we only really go back to like, you know, the Egyptians. And we don't know a lot about that about them and you know we kind of skip over it all and then we have Fairly decent recorded history from like 80 on maybe a thousand years on. It's like quite a lot better But just knowing that you know for 98,000 years before that stuff was happening we really have very little idea what was going on and you know, they found all these, this place called the Beckley Tappy

or something. And it's really, really old and was purposely buried. And you know, people aren't really sure why, but it's like, you know, all these stones and it's like leaving a bit of a message behind. And it's cool that these people like Graham Gover and ask real new questions instead of just dismissing everything like, oh this was just made by farmers or this couldn't have been made by like an advanced people even though the structure itself is massive and incredibly difficult to make. I think we're gonna see a new generation of like archaeologists that come along and start asking different questions and maybe that that'll get us more answers

Like that's the point right you want to figure out what was going on you want history that is accurate and I love that stuff He talks in this podcast or the bit that really stood out to me and I enjoyed was when he was talking about how their Pyramids were made and obviously you know that that's like a really fucking difficult thing to build clearly but when he was talking about these huge granite stones that were like massive amount of tons of granite lifted up really really high above the king's chamber and how they could have even got there and you know just the fact that we have no real idea of how they did that is still really cool I mean we think we've got so much figured out and then you hear that and it's like how the fuck did they do this shit Like what?

There must have been something else going on But we think no, just primitive. They probably just used a you know a pulley system or some ropes or I don't know a ramp and it's like hold on try and do that like we'd struggle the day to build a lot of those things to be honest even with like new tools and that's that's fun fun to think about he talked to some about the maps like old maps right so it sounded really fascinating to me I've never heard anything about that before but I, but I don't look into these things. But he talked about these really old maps. So Antarctica, he said was discovered in like 1819.

And that was it. We didn't know about it before that. But on these really old maps, it shows Antarctica. Like in these maps are like a thousand years old or maybe even older than that. And that's fucking cool I would love to see those I would love to see any image of that So it was like during the ice age and beyond that the the sea fairing folks somehow were able to make pretty accurate maps They're like they're not perfect But it's like how the hell were they even able to kind of put that together?

And the fact that they knew Antarctica was there and we didn didn't, you know, even just like, I guess just 200 years ago we found this out. That's not that long. But for another people to have known it was there way, way longer, does bring up some important questions to the hell with it. How did they figure it out? How advanced was there, shit? And it's, again, I just think it's awesome that someone is out there like really asking those questions instead of just being like, oh you know that was, that map was a guess, you know, or whatever the hell historians say about these maps, you know, at the moment, the mainstream historians, you know, dismissing these things from what Graham's saying. And then another thing that you got into was like different

human species. And Joe talks about this quite a bit. So people have come on and they've talked about how we interbred with the Neanderthals. So I guess they were the same species as us, because you can't breed with a different species. right? So it was the same species, but were there actually different ones that weren't related to us that we couldn't breed with? And Graham was talking about how they found a finger of somebody like a bone, but it was a different species.

It's actually like a totally different human. And learning more about that and where they came from and how we interacted with them, who knows if we can ever get that kind of information? Like, if there's any knowledge or writing or undiscovered kind of bit of history that will explain it, but it's still really cool that that kind of interaction happened. Like, what a fucking wild thing. You can see why this guy does this. I mean, even though he has to kind of work through all that negativity

He's just so passionate about it and so into it. I really enjoyed their conversation and I and I I would be super interested to read his book and see what it is just even if you know He even says it. It might be wrong You know, but I'm asking the questions and it's worth asking. And I love that. I love that kind of attitude. But anyway, guys, that's it for me today. Thanks a lot for listening and have a great day. Bye. you