Discussing Raiders of the Lost Ark and Conspiracies - The Movie Rant Break Podcast

[@miniminuteman773]

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[@cornenthusiast6406]

Ok

[@uselessism]

Hi

[@ZerglingLover]

@@cornenthusiast6406 misread your name

[@ground_news]

It was great working with you again, Miniminuteman!

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Oh, OK, the thing the long-haired dude is talking about in Canada and the Lost Ark is about the Lost Ark being with the Templar Treasure(tm) on an island in Canada, lots of documentaries about 'Treasure Island' (yes, they call it that), how it's referenced in Shakespeare, all sorts of Masonic shit mixed in. ON the island, there's a bog with a deep hole with sides of rock, and possibly some non-ferrous metal at the bottom, etc., and the believers are sure it's the Templar Treasure(tm) brought over from England by the Freemasons after the Templars took it from a hidden vault under Jerusalem.🤷 As far as conspiracy theories with bad crypto-archaeology goes, it's actually pretty entertaining, and would make a cool-ass National Treasure movie.😅

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Obviously, Milo's "vacation" is actually him looking for the lost Ark himself.

[@2degucitas]

Just ask Ethiopians. My reply was a response to the question "where's the Lost Ark" not sure how it ended up here.

[@firstletterofthealphabet7308]

@@2degucitas "Yeah I have it. You can't see it though." (I'm not bashing on Ethiopian Orthodox nor Ethiopians themselves, just a little funny that that's the case)

[@Alexander-VI]

yeah the big video he mentioned is literally proving god’s existence with physical proof

[@jonacker6991]

Spoiler alert: he found it.

[@neva_nyx]

What if, stay with me here, what if there is a club just for archeologists. Milo graduated, he's one of "them" now. He visited all the aliens and the ark and etc. Lol!

[@1gochisox]

One thing I heard about Indiana Jones that blew my mind is if he was a real archeologists then the second he stepped on a pressure pad dart trap from a thousand year old temple he would ignore everything else and spend the rest of his life researching it.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

That's something I never really thought about but makes a lot of sense, it would probably be one of the greatest recent archeological finds of the time, it shows that the people understood complex mechanical contraptions, made them durable enough to last years without upkeep or maintenance, it's all still perfectly functional, it's in sitiu, although he probably wouldn't have been able to get it because of the indigenous tribes that attacked him

[@Iknowtoomuchable]

Which wouldn't be all that long, since he just got hit by a poison dart.

[@benthomason3307]

exactly. That's much more interesting than some random gold trinket.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@benthomason3307 but less expensive, fr indy plays around the line between grave robber and archeologist like it's a tightrope

[@P4rz1va1]

And yet he's more concerned with like... A gold statue.

[@abbeyl]

I just gotta say - this is some masterful conversation Milo. You did a great job of acknowledging these guys concerns without belittling them, respectfully reframing tough topics, and bringing in some super interesting educational material in an accessible way. Respect. That takes a lot of skill and patience and you hit the ball out of the park.

[@ebreshea1337]

Agree. I think it's worthwhile to sit down with people who maybe aren't 100% on the same page. Reminds me of this quote from neil tyson kzbin.info/www/bejne/goPMpaVuh76mnpY

[@brookb5890]

100% this, great job, Milo!

[@AlishaHerbiederbie]

I completely agree. It's a skill that is needed in a science educator. Being able to condense and modernize information, while making it accessible to as many people as possible, is an incredible talent

[@miniminuteman773]

I've seen too many science and social justice educators alienate people who don't have the same views as them and with each conversation like that it drives people away from science. I want to do everything I can to break that mold.

[@unclebuck6250]

@@miniminuteman773 The way you judoed then from 'there's too much representation' to 'yeah character development and depth' was great. Thanks for that

[@brookb5890]

The way you brought back that bit about representation in films was masterful. Chef's kiss. And then the guy's like "or they just kill her" 😂😭

[@miniminuteman773]

I’m glad you appreciated that! I was proud of that subtlety.

[@BWinDCI]

Honestly it was a great way to disagree while at the same time not create conflict within a conversation/podcast

[@GeezNutz]

100% this. Love Milo even more now.

[@danielled8665]

I saw that too, I was like "criiinge" then Milo brought up the history and I was just "Thank You." Like strong bad ass male leads don't outnumber strong badass female leads at least 20 to 1.

[@brookb5890]

@@danielled8665 Milo did a really good job of navigating a tricky situation and referencing the fact that "strong character" doesn't equal badass. It just means interesting/engaging. Kathleen Turner's character in Romancing the Stone shares a lot of characteristics with the woman in Temple of Doom, but she's not bad representation just because she cares about ruining her shoes or losing her clothes. Milo deftly alluded to this by talking about giving her a character arc, but the point might have been a little too subtle for some. 😅 And you know, that's okay. We got it and the hosts weren't offended and everyone had a good time.

[@ground_news]

It was great working with you again, Miniminuteman! It's been awesome watching your growth this past year. 600K subscribers is well deserved. Fun fact: Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the few movies where the main character doesn't drive the action in the finale - in fact, that finale would still happen even if he weren't present.

[@hiddeluchtenbelt6440]

The ending would be a little different though. If Marion was tied up alone, she wouldn't have been warned about eye contact with the spirits and would likely have died too

[@AfricanLionBat]

Had no idea you had a KZbin channel

[@dyscotopia]

I try to avoid news in general these days, but you've got a cool app that serves an important need... Now if only the people who need to look outside their bubbles were to use it.

[@Hudson316]

I'm sure you guys appreciate that when Milo does the ad read for you, you can be sure that it's a sane and levelheaded ad read... unlike the entertaining-but-better-run-it-past-legal-to-be-safe acid trips Lazerpig keeps doing for you.

[@miniminuteman773]

Great working with you as always! Thank you for helping support our community and helping bring the world of fact to our fingertips

[@jurgenvonjessica4656]

Really liked the point Milo makes about how bad schooling experiences/treatment by teachers can really turn people off from their natural curiousity. All kids start curious and it *is* very sad when that gets crushed out due to bad experiences with those they are looking to for knowledge and answers.

[@asmodahlia]

Yes, I can't agree more! I feel that especially here in the states we seem to have lost the point of education, especially primary education. :(

[@maxwellstevens4383]

Note about U-boat discussion at 39:40 ish: U-boats generally didn’t travel under water. If they were cruising and there was no threat, they’d travel on the surface. They’d only submerge if they expected to fight or needed to pass through an area particularly discretely.

[@nietzchepreacher9477]

These guys unfortunately say a lot of fairly dumb ignorant to the truth stuff in this. Mostly enjoyed it though.

[@YellowTailHorse]

Additionally their surfaced speed was faster than their submerged speed.

[@boejudden9011]

Pretty sus comment thread tbh

[@danieldyson1660]

@@baronvonslambert some people have it in their heads that if you have anything more than a surface level understanding of WW2 German equipment and technology that must also mean you’re a Nazi.

[@b127ritter2]

@@boejudden9011 how sus

[@samh9528]

I'm an elementary ed major, and the whole conversation y'all had about education is, in my opinion, so so important. So many teachers don't realize just how big of an impact they have on every child they teach. They can help, but they can also harm if they aren't careful. Thank you for having these conversations, you're amazing 💛

[@tinabean713]

That part of the discussion reminded me of way back when my sister told me I would make a horrible math teacher because I just do math, I don't know how to explain it. She was right. I've had those teachers and I respect her for telling me a few times. She wasn't as good at math, but she did a better job helping my son because she related on that level and knew how to explain things. We both ended up majoring in languages and she did go into education for a while. It takes a certain kind of person, and not everyone has the skillset to impart knowledge and be patient and understanding with kids. Respect.

[@jadedragon1406]

Yeah, and not trying to be to rude to these guys (they were genuinely trying to learn), its just- teachers *need* to get kids interested in learning. And not just in school. An introduction on how to critically break apart information and text, as well as where to *find* such things as well are fundamental to creating a well rounded adult. I feel a lot of kids grow up and loose interest in learning as they see it as some "classroom only" activity. Individuals who refuse to learn is how we end up with bigots, learning needs to be *more* than just something you do in school.

[@captain_birdfaced]

i love seeing milo without his youtuber voice, i never thought i’d hear an archeologist say “dope”

[@miniminuteman773]

I’m glad you like the more casual video! I suppose this is the first time I’ve filmed without the “camera voice”

[@AurmazlZudeh]

The voice stays the same, it's the presenter/host element which is lost, which is natural given the circumstances.

[@Puppy_Puppington]

I like all of Milo’s vernacular modes. He’s a chill intellectual ❤

[@remuskane8684]

Real talk, while I kinda tapped out of the discussions with the average guy who sounds like he’s blazed out of his mind, I loved your discussions with John. He actually seemed interested in what you were talking about, and not how to turn it into a joke

[@FeeshUnofficial]

My favorite evidence for plate tectonics is the fault line in Iceland. It is observably splitting apart. If you went there and measured the width, and then measured it a year later in the same place, it would have grown by about 2.5cm

[@stephanie22345]

I think I heard a story of geologists using a curb splitting in California somewhere to observe tectonic movement and the government accidentally ruined it by fixing it

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

There is a place in Vermont where you can SEE the slip fault - one plate moving over top of the other. Two layers of rock, one on top of the other, that don't line up properly at all.

[@xxxnapoleon69]

Australia is moving so quickly that they have to replace their gps software every couple of years

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

Nothing about Iceland having a few hundred active volcanos though

[@claypigeon7063]

Oh, I’m going to need to get some popcorn, because þis is going to be a GOOD one!

[@eggplant4367]

Why the þ?

[@miniminuteman773]

@@eggplant4367 I read it as “piss.”

[@captain_birdfaced]

@@eggplant4367 it’s the letter thorn, read as “th.” if you already knew that and you’re asking why they wrote thorn instead of th, then uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@eggplant4367]

@@captain_birdfaced I did know what the þ meant, I was just wondering why it was there

[@mimkyodar]

Kudos of using thorn, it's my favourite letter

[@Burner-B]

This is the perfect illustration of why good pop culture science communicators are of such value. A good, charismatic writer/performer can easily do more good than most dedicated "hard" academics in their entire career. And good that easily transcends the annoying categorisation of science. I almost wish I had the talent, desire and time! In the absence of that, I am glad I can pass the task on to Milo and be assured it is in good hands.

[@gazeboist4535]

I think this is a special case of a more general problem: our society has very little second-order information infrastructure, and what we do have isn't viewed as a coherent kind of thing. What I mean by that is, every information platform (newspapers, journals, cable channels, whatever) is assumed to be the only intermediary between the audience and the original source of the information. In the case of academic journals, the platform is tightly focused on the source, and very little is done to enable more distant audience members to understand what's going on.

[@maximilian672]

@@gazeboist4535 I'd go further and say there is a gap between your typical science bubble and the rest of the world, that your average person cannot easily get across. And re-using Milo's argument, even academics are average persons - nobody majors in every field after all. And almost nobody (including the science communities at large and associated publishers/press) feels obligated to try and bridge that gap. (looking at MSM here, who could easily reach out and try to properly connect all the communities, if they weren't so focused on scandals, creating panic and political manouvering)

[@gazeboist4535]

​@@maximilian672 That's what I mean, though. Standard news sources are only concerned with passing along information that can be understood almost completely without context, in order to maintain the broadest possible audience. Then you have specialist sources like academic journals where you may need a couple of textbooks worth of context to make sense of the most recent information. Second-order information infrastructure would be anything in between those two extremes. Science journalists and other professional science communicators sort of fit here, but they don't have an acknowledged social role, and often their material isn't constructed to enable their audience to dig deeper. (The number of articles I have sifted through in the past few months that quote judicial orders without linking these *public documents*...) Of course this situation isn't helped by paywalls, which often actively disrupt the process of digging deeper, as Milo himself has mentioned in the past.

[@benthomason3307]

"annoying categorization of science?"' what do you man by that?

[@gazeboist4535]

@@benthomason3307 "Siloing" might be a better term - techniques and ideas tend to sit in particular subfields and only slowly percolate outward. This is one way to look at the recent replication crisis in social psychology, for instance: better techniques were available and known to statisticians, but there was very little crossover between statisticians and psychologists, so those techniques never spread, and the result was embarrassments like Daryl Bem, Amy Cuddy, and Brian Wansink getting elevated over their more competent but less exciting colleagues.

[@moleperson]

22:33 I think this issue stems from the same issue: not writing women like real people. Where it used to be women were helpless, now (SOME of them) are written to be very flatly badass. Like, there isn’t much character to them other than the badassery. It all stems from not writing women like people.

[@SamSphinx]

Exactly.

[@bettschwere]

this kind of podcast isn't exactly my cup of tea but i actually really enjoyed listening to you just sort of casually answer questions from "average" (lol) people who seemed to really want to hear what you had to say. (for the most part at least.) i thought some of the discussion you and the guy with the long hair had were really enjoyable and he seemed genuinely curious. the bald guy was funny too but i think he was a bit too stoned to get too into it, lol. it's always fun to hear layman's thoughts on archaeology, it's a good reminder that people usually don't have... as much knowledge about it as i tend to kind of assume they do.

[@janibii_608]

Ye I'd honestly watch a whole podcast of Milo and the long haired dude talk about science and archeology, I found the bald dude kind of annoying tbh

[@mandolinistry3207]

Watching the split screen of Milo and the dude with long hair is hilarious. Its like seeing Milo and his musclebound meathead doppelganger. Like Milo before and after roids.

[@admiralyi8673]

I can’t unsee it now and am forever cursed with this knowledge.

[@JohnXSmithMG]

Lmao 🤣

[@janibii_608]

I mean this in the kindest way but dude kind of looks like a neanderthal

[@mandolinistry3207]

@@janibii_608 cave-milo.

[@admiralyi8673]

@@mandolinistry3207 Yes

[@bigchubb5268]

When he says "women in Hollywood get respect, look at that princess leia strongest bitch" I spat my tea out from the layers of unintentional irony. Poor Carrie Fisher rip

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

I didn't get it

[@Jacob-ge1py]

What do you mean?

[@bigchubb5268]

Calling a woman bitch is not respect

[@bigchubb5268]

He also didn't even know her real name ffs or mention she recently passed, there was litterally no respect given

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@bigchubb5268 oh okay that makes sense, kinda fucked up that they could call most actors by their names except her, the bitch part was respectful in a joking manner but doesn't bode well with the rest

[@FoxDusk]

Paleontologist here: Tyrannosaurs and Triceratops actually lived in the same area at the same time. We have evidence that they commonly interacted with each other (bite marks on toes, bones, ect.). The animal he was thinking of was Stegosaurus. They lived in the middle of the three periods in the "dinosaur times", which was about 145mya whereas T. rex lived 65mya. The gap between these animals existing was about 80 million years, which is a larger time gap between those dinosaurs than humans and the T. rex (and Triceratops).

[@Jacob-ge1py]

Looking at Milo's face in the moment, I think he knew but was too polite to say anything.

[@astridhannestad8323]

Isn’t there even a fossil where both a triceratops and a tyrannosaurus who died fighting, and died locked in battle

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

@@astridhannestad8323 Yes, you beat me to it. Looked like they fell into a tar pit in an eternal conflict. I think the guy was thinking about Stegosaurus which lived in the Jurassic period and T Rex which lived much later in the Cretaceous

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

​@@astridhannestad8323 The fighting dinosaurs fossil depicts a Velociraptor and Protoceratops fighting. We might not have Tyrannosaurus vs Triceratops but at least we have the mini version

[@astridhannestad8323]

@@CHRB-nn6qp ah, thanks. I must admit my dinosaur knowledge is very subpar

[@AlishaHerbiederbie]

"Genuinely, what do we have here that another planet doesn't have?" "Biiitches!" "We do have bitches. That's honestly very fair." I full-on cackled, great podcast Milo!

[@GeezNutz]

Milo; Thank you for having the emotional intelligence and academic professionalism to steer touchy conversations in healthy directions. I also appreciate that you're personable enough to bond with seemingly anyone. Lastly, thank you for paring the podcast down because I wouldn't want to listen to the whole thing but I enjoyed hearing your takes.

[@DneilB007]

Talking about the car chase: it works because it’s written as a story, with rising action, complications, setbacks, climax-a full 3-act structure. It’s not just an action scene, it’s its own story.

[@MuriKakari]

Yes, Jackie Chan structures every beat of every fight this way; that's why his fights are so amazing.

[@hannahbrown2728]

Another fun thing about the Atlantis story, is that in that story its said the story came from this guys uncle who heard it from another guy while in Egypt.

[@SoulfullyUnaware]

Yea and some people still believe Atlantis was based in water, but a lot of others believe Atlantis was just a continent/island above sea that sunk, like also with Lumeria. Idk how people think it’s a underwater city, like there are many Greek cities that were plunged under by just rising tides. Doesn’t mean it still functioned as a city if it existed

[@Purplesquigglystripe]

@@SoulfullyUnaware like Miami in a few decades

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

​@@SoulfullyUnaware Actually, in the original texts they don't say the city was submerged but that it became inaccessible due to soil liquifaction. Sieged in by unstable ground. Some people use that to say it was where modern day Lake Chad is and that they'll find the remains in the lakebed. Ignoring that Lake Chad is extremely well studied and where we found the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, but no ruins.

[@neoqwerty]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio Clearly the sahelanthropus tchadensis ate atlantis and died of indigestion.

[@ptrinch]

Determining the composition of an exoplanet's atmosphere is surprisingly simple. We know what wavelengths of light are filtered by different gases. If you document the wavelengths of a distant star, then look again when one of it's planets passes in front of it (you may have to wait a while), then you can see which wavelengths are missing and determine what gases are present.

[@arnor398]

yeah, that dude's approach was basically "i dont understand how to falsify this claim, so it cant be falsified". yes, there are still developments in science (and always will be) but there's also things we know for sure. its not a contradiction at all. for example, we certainly will discover new fossils that will change our understanding of evolution of many species, but there wont be "wow, turns out earth is flat after all". its sad that most of ppl will never understand this difference just because mainstream media are so shitty at presenting science to the public.

[@professoroak7545]

And you just believe that because you read it in a book? You can't see it! 😂😂

[@ptrinch]

@@professoroak7545 Not sure what you mean by 'can't see it'. Sure, if I look up, I can't tell. But we do have space telescopes. This has been measured by the Hubble telescope and the data are publicly available. Soon, we should be getting data from the James Webb Space Telescope at a wider frequency band and higher resolution. I'm quite excited to see them when they come out.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

@@professoroak7545 I can accept that, but it is still annoying af when people call it "bullshit" because of that. Like we don't need to be incredulous cavemen about anything that isn't intuitive.

[@asmodahlia]

@@professoroak7545 like I said in my diatribe about this, we test this over and over again on a huge array of chemicals here to verify that our instruments work before trying them out on light frequencies far away. We do the same for every other tool we use for exo-measutements to make absolutely sure they work. It should also be said that we never just take a single measurement and call it a day - to perform legitimate scientific tests, we have to observe these objects many times, oftentimes over many years, to ensure that we have accurate data before making conclusions.

[@MotherOfOwlbears]

This interview is a great example of how good conversation can be when you meet people where they are. Not just talk down to them because of their lack of education or difference of opinion.

[@audreyanderson5931]

Came for Milo, and stayed exclusively for Milo. I hope you had a good time and you're absolutely brilliant as always but your hosts were not my cup of tea, to say the least.

[@tylerthompson7461]

I agree the way he spoke about women was very 😬😬😬😬…gross

[@admiralyi8673]

Yeah the hosts were…interesting. Milo was beautiful at interacting with them though. I probably would have vibed out of their conversation and cringed uncomfortably while contemplating how they think they are funny with their kinda misogynistic jokes. At least the hosts were willing to learn knew things despite their immature humor. Literally only stayed for Milo perfect insight on the film.

[@AFishNamedBob]

Right?? I couldn't do it. I'm shocked Milo knew these meatheads let alone agreed to do this.

[@Hudson316]

@@AFishNamedBob These guys seem like pretty average dudebros, so being able to reach out to them is important to educate. They weren't spouting anything consciously misogynistic but more sort of the general level of misogyny that's permeated American culture at this point, and were vaguely willing to be corrected when they said something dumb.

[@ebreshea1337]

@@Hudson316 agree. I know Milo says he isn't really trying to persuade anyone with his debunking videos, but these guys who are on the fence but interested and willing to listen are probably the best target to try to reach

[@DneilB007]

46:41 - the Pacific Northwest tsunami story was dated to 9:00pm, January 26, 1700, based on Japanese records of the tsunami hitting their coasts. That agrees with oral traditions, some of which dated the tsunami/earthquake by the number of generations from when it happened to when the story was recorded (giving a date of around late 1600s to early 1700s) and that the tsunami/earthquake happened when everyone was sleeping, meaning that most of the people were killed and only a few survived.

[@Akasha6915]

Fun fact, the PNW is over due for that Earthquake, the Cascadia plate has about a 300 year cycle that can be match up with other tsunami's and various petrified forests and ground changes. There is a great New Yorker article on this that will make you terrified for the whole thing with how unprepared we will be.

[@DneilB007]

@@Akasha6915 Overdue is an alarmist way to look at it. Yes, the mean spread between mega quakes in the PNW might be 300 years, but it’s better science to talk about a quake window of 300-500 years, meaning that we are barely into the likeliest window for a mega quake. Not only are we not currently ready for a mega quake, we’re still actively building key infrastructure projects (schools, arenas, etc) well inside the potential danger areas in the tsunami zones.

[@blowingbubbles5554]

I love the inclusion of the folklore and oral history around the 1700 Cascadia earthquake! However, a slight correction, the earthquake was not on the San Andreas Fault but the Cascadia subduction zone or the Cascadia subduction fault. It’s actually a really cool tectonic environment where the Juan de Fuca plate, which is a remnant of the Farallon Plate, is subducting under the North American plate. The subduction zone might look like it is a continuation of the the San Andreas Fault on a map because they meet at the Mendocino Triple, which is the point where the Juan de Fuca, Pacific, and North American plates meet, but coming off the triple junction are three different fault systems. The triple junction will continue moving northward until the entirety of the Juan de Fuca plate has subducted under the North America plate, when there will not longer be a triple junction. It’s this subduction zone that is also responsible for the active volcanism in the PNW!

[@fossilfighters101]

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[@af9162]

Just yes. Over an hour of this. Abso-fking-lutely. 2:00 I downloaded it from your last video and honestly I love it. Definitely recommend! 3:54 the epitome of my interactions with my best friend

[@anthonythetophatter2834]

it do be like that

[@AJMansfield1]

39:30 That's actually accurate: WW2 German U-boats usually didn't dive unless hiding from something specific. They were more than twice as slow submerged and could only travel about 80 nautical miles at a time before surfacing to run their diesel engines to recharge their batteries.

[@nlenglish9056]

As an educator, the idea that conspiracy theorists may come from a place of trauma is immensely saddening. However, that perspective gives me pause and causes me to think about my approaches to students.

[@barrelracer12]

Fellow educator! I came up recently with a great analogy. We must open the doors for our students but we can't force them through it. It is our job to be welcoming and to make the content accessible. But we can't force kids to learn.

[@GleeChan]

I love you Milo and love your content. That said, I can't watch over an hour of this dude stumble his way through hosting this podcast. Maybe everyone else is more forgiving and is made of sterner stuff than I am, but I can't be wasting my time wishing this guy would let Milo talk.

[@joanthompson5606]

Agreed!

[@admiralyi8673]

Agreed, Milo was literally holding the topic together on his own. The host kept zoning out obviously bored while Milo exposited really intresting views and topic which they were like, “Yeah, I was thinking that” or “I totally loved that” not contributing much to conversation.

[@Aaron_J619]

Agreed. On a side note, referring to women as bitches for me became upsetting. I couldn't listen for longer than 20 minutes.

[@arnor398]

@@Aaron_J619 yeah, that was so awful and cringy. and seems like thats his default way of speaking about women? i think i heard "bitches" dozens of times during this podcast and other words like 2 times, which was "chick" and "a female". yiiiikes. he also said the n word at least once

[@Lemniskaten]

@@Aaron_J619 Same. I only made it 19 minutes into the video.

[@slateslavens]

Hey guys, the biggest lie I was ever sold was that math is something you either get or you don't. There's _no such thing_ as "just being good at math". Math is a skill you learn through practice. I failed Algebra in high school for four years. In community college, I was finally paired with a 'squirrel on meth' math instructor that could finally explain it to me in a way I understood it and I got an A in the class. Similarly, I failed Business Statistics and Calculus three times each before I met a prof that could explain it to me in a way I understood it. Math is an abstract thing that 90% of us have to _study and practice_ to 'get gud'' at. Never let someone shit on you because you didn't 'get' something the first time through. I have no doubt that my high school algebra teacher could have done well on a NASA team sending a probe somewhere, but she sure as hell wasn't qualified to teach it to an idiot. I gave up on my dreams of being an engineer because of her, only to discover two decades later that I would have been just fine. Where science teachers (or any others) need to 'step it the fuck up' is teaching students that science is a profession where 'fantastic claims have to be backed up with fantastic evidence'. Meaning that discoveries have to be backed up by peer-reviewable evidence or experiments that any other scientist can verify by re-performing the experiment or re-reviewing the data. What _has_ to be taught is that: A: We don't know everything B: The more we know, the more we're aware of what we _don't know._ C: If scientists say we know it, then we fucking know it. _And we can back it up_ D: While peer-reviewed articles are usually correct, every now and then something slips through the cracks. Be prepared for science to change it's mind. Because 'science happens.'

[@kristenmackenzie2937]

fucking love this

[@xerozx2]

the “hole” in canada is actually a huge thing. they found some stones at regular intervals and basically said “holy shit the templar”

[@someguycalledCh0wdah]

Oh the Oak Island thing?

[@HEALORDER]

yeh, i live in nova scotia where oak island is located and my father watches the show religiously but like,,,, if they found literally anything of interest it’d be on the news months before the show premiered it

[@xerozx2]

@@someguycalledCh0wdah yea it’s a shitshow. they don’t know who put some stone slabs there so they said “fuck must’ve been templar”

[@willmfrank]

@@HEALORDER My dad was born and raised in Mahone Bay; the one and only time he EVER mentioned Oak Island was when we were watching a rerun of the "Money Pit Mystery" episode of "In Search Of." He said, "Whatever's buried on Oak Island got dug up and carted off ages ago."

[@PaperSeraglio]

@@willmfrank Pretty much, except nothing was ever buried on Oak Island. It's just 95% slightly weird geology and 1000% wishful thinking.

[@TawnyLani]

Have you considered doing a collab with the Tasting History KZbin channel? Like maybe y’all try to recreate a meal based off the burned remains in an ancient clay pot? I feel like there could be some cool synergy there

[@Burning_Dwarf]

I'd die of excitement if Max and Milo do a collab

[@TheWastedAccount12]

Those two Bro hosts successfully icked me. I'm glad you gave pushback to their sillyness, but i'm certain that flew right over their heads.

[@mattshelton7423]

That Iron Man analogy at roughly 36:00 is perfect! Definitely right about how we lose out on some potentially amazing shots because producers push for too much. Part of what made me LOVE Iron Man so much as a kid was watching Tony build the suit and the suit up scenes, and I feel like we really lost that after Iron Man 3. Of course this idea is applicable to other movies and franchises, but Iron Man was a great example!

[@GarageBandKing012]

Fantastic vid. You guys had great chemistry! Also on the topic of annoying archaeological things: The Easter Island Moai statues. Was apparently a mystery how they were moved into place until like 2017, however allegedly when they initially asked the locals how it was done they told them that they "walked them" which was exactly what they did, but the researcher at the time just put it down to primitive mythologies.

[@taiyoqun]

"yeah, man, you know how the quarry is up the mountain? They are balanced to stay up, so we just move them a bit and they kinda pivot and go downhill pretty easily. You wanna see?" "No, no, thank you, that won't be necessary" * writes down: the old lady is absolutely crazy, remember to burn the thousands of pages she just told me about their history *

[@Naveen-tx8be]

The face melting scene was created by speeding up footage of a gelatin face being slowly melted by hair dryers!

[@Unterrifieddragoncat]

That scene scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid.

[@puddingwaffles7]

I actually really liked the education discussion. The classism of education is massive and it’s really cool that you’re working to make information more accessible Milo, and the guys made some very good points about it as well.

[@DellenoftheDell]

This was so great! I love having a window into a more casual archeological discussion because it branches out to so many other fields. It’s also always cool to be able to branch out and talk to people who may be less well-versed in our fields, because it helps make knowledge so much more available to those who otherwise may not have exposure to it.

[@FractalParadox]

The black panther scene is actually good in an archeological context, now that I think about it

[@angelicdemon5396]

Oh man I was so worried when they were saying all that stuff about women saying that there's bad rep in films and how we're making it up and stuff but you brought it back around so well I was so worried I'd have to stop watching my favorite chanel!!! Thank you Milo!!!!

[@classicambo9781]

This whole thing was still problematic as hell.

[@sammskiles2890]

I love everything about this podcast except the host, which is important. It's a film podcast and he doesn't know what decade ET was released? But This whole thing proved to me that you need your own pod, Milo. You're a natural and I'd listen to that way more than I would watch a video. I treat your videos like a podcast as it is. I pop in my ear buds and throw my phone in my pocket while I'm washing dishes. Youre such a natural at describing and explaining things that I can enjoy just the audio of your videos and still understand what you're talking about. long comment just to say I would listen to a weekly podcast from you and I wouldn't even skip the ads 😉

[@theblackkittie13]

Yep, you know you are doing a show regarding this movie and have done zero research beforehand? Plus the main host seemed stoned as well, so hardly conducive to a varied and informed discussion 🙄

[@Malkontent1003]

Damn, dude, I have literally spent years of my life playing one single video game, and know way more about it than is reasonable. I still forget stuff. Just because you enjoy something doesn't mean you can remember everything about it- and also, that was about an entirely different movie, more specifically the YEAR a movie released. I can't even tell you what year the movie 2012 released, just that it isn't what you'd expect. Give them some credit, at least they had fun.

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

I was waiting for him to say the original Star Wars film was released in 1990 Doing a podcast on a film. Do some research. And if he werent born when the film was released is no excuse What a dumbass

[@Mistform]

​@@Malkontent1003 but if you knew you were going to do a podcast about it next week would you not look up some dates and names related to it?

[@stephenholt6956]

I really like how you're all coming at this discussion from a different perspective but all made the effort to meet each other in a solid middle ground. Liked this a lot!

[@scottyrobot]

you were amazing, the host was baked out of his mind

[@Unterrifieddragoncat]

15:54 you can hear that hit 💨😂

[@imjustdandy9799]

The idea that aliens mightve perfected ftl travel but not the stripper pole was so fucking funny

[@JohnXSmithMG]

🤣🤣🤣

[@yuin3320]

I felt bad about how the one dude was taking the "average" thing like a personal attack. I don't even understand why it would be taken as an insult, lol Amazing how well he played it for laughs, but I swear he actually felt insulted, which is just so weird to me I don't even know how to explain that it's not an insult.

[@CamiFL593]

*Sees minuteman notification* "Please be a 30 min video" *>1 hour video on indiana jones* "Fuck yeah get the Baghdad Battery and popcorn ready"

[@geminico61]

those guys annoyed the hell out of me the whole time and it’s really cool to see milo being the literal voice of reason

[@anitabath8315]

I’m pumped for that ghost town you mentioned. I’ve been playing the heck out of Luigi’s Mansion as of recent, so I’m in the mood for some mild spookiness.

[@sarahcoleman5269]

Have you watched Ghost Files? Ryan and Shane have put out three new ghost-hunting videos recently. 100% spooky mood with no real scares and all the comedy. XD

[@jillkutrosky4623]

i typically would NEVER sit and listen to a podcast of men calling women “bitches” and “females” but goddamn i love Milo and he’s fighting the good fight here. no guarantees i’ll finish the podcast tho

[@jadeeliss]

i feel you🥲can i just enjoy content in peace without being reminded constantly of my oppression

[@lisve]

I was surprised to see this amount of misogynistic language and that Milo still decided to post, even an edited, video of this podcast to his own channel. I genuinely thought he wasn't this kind of person. Very disappointing.

[@notapplicable6985]

@@lisve It's part of trying to communicate scientific ideas to different people

[@lisve]

@@notapplicable6985 but he could've so easily left out the misogyny and spared lots of people that discomfort - that was the point I was trying to make.

[@ghostlyhousehorrors]

I feel like it was said jokingly and not malicious intent. Listening them talk, they don't come across as actually perceiving women that way, the context makes shows it used in nonseriousness. I'm not a guy and I don't see actual misogyny here. But every one have different taste in jokes and what they tolerate as ok or not ok, so what do i know.

[@elliem6251]

These guys should really get an astronomer on their show. They seem really interested in that stuff! It would be cool to see someone fuel that interest :)

[@RamenDenominator]

That was fun. I'm a bit shook by how skeptical of science the host was. What would anyone gain by lying about science? For me, most conspiracy theories fall apart when trying to assign a motive.

[@Hudson316]

For anyone curious who hasn't heard it before, the thing about the T-Rex and deep time is actually the time between the T-Rex and the Stegosaurus being longer than the time between the T-Rex and us, rather than the Triceratops which was from the same general era as the T-Rex

[@anonyarena]

oh, I just commented on that same thing before I saw your comment. Thanks for also correcting that.

[@fossilfighters101]

+

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

Yes, well it's just mis-informed artists that illustrated Dinosaur books for kids put Dinos that would never meet together in one picture.

[@Illogical.]

Your videos are very good. It's nice to see someone make interesting subjects easier to consume and understand. edit: Ok, this is a slightly different video than most of your videos, so I do not know if this applies to this video specifically, but regardless, I think it applies to most of your videos.

[@GwydionFrost]

I was hesitant for this interview, not because of the topic, but the dichotomy of energy. The hosts were very laid-back and sedated, and Milo had all the energy of an espresso shot chased by a Red Bull. Fortunately, the energy was infectious so before the 10-minute mark the excitement had spread to everyone, lifting the vibe of the podcast nicely.

[@yensid4294]

The Ark of the Covenant was either an ornate golden box or a simple wooden box that housed the 10 Commandment Tablets. Or it contained the tablets, the rod of Aaron & a golden jar of manna. The sources ie stories vary like most biblical accounts. It was considered super holy so it was kept behind a curtain & nobody was allowed to gaze upon it. I assume that was the inspiration for the "melting scene" in Raiders.

[@Burning_Dwarf]

It is described as an acacia wood box covered in golden decoration. Said to house all those items. The arc itself existing i believe, because surrounding cultures had simular boxes which acutaly have been found. To what is inside; idk The powers it is said to have; just in Indiana Jones

[@bretmaples]

I loved the video and the commentary. The only complaint I have is the use of the word "Bitches" to describe women, but turning around and talking about the female characters being backward and sexist. I find it disrespectful and distasteful, but that's just my opinion and I'm just one asshole.

[@joanthompson5606]

It's a bit sad that guys, who are great otherwise, can use off-the-cuff remarks that make them seem a tad misogynistic....

[@admiralyi8673]

Agreed. It’s more infuriating when their tone and context suggest they think their use of the word is progressive.

[@Aaron_J619]

Totally agreed.

[@jadeeliss]

@@joanthompson5606 “make them seem” more like helps the rest of us realize they are

[@oBCHANo]

What is with the whiny regressives in these comments? Gtfo.

[@CleverMonster101]

“Science isn’t for the average person to understand” 😂😂

[@DarkAngel6554]

i’m not as the under 24 demo say “tiktok” hip but among favorite old dead things explainers Trey the explainer and Ben g Thompson i’m so glad i found you everytime you post im always on that shit the long videos are king💜💜💜

[@miniminuteman773]

It’s an honor to even be in the same sentence as the greats! Glad to have you here dawg

[@DarkAngel6554]

@@miniminuteman773 just made my day 😭 but dawg you’re one of the goats already keep it up 💜

[@georgemen]

@@miniminuteman773 my dude, yes! Damn, everytime you, Trey and Ben G upload something, it's gonna be a chill end of the day (your uploads come in late at night, here, usually). Been watching you since I've somehow stumbled on your first video a year ago and I have to say I'm really proud of you, my dude (weird as it sounds coming from a stranger) - you managed to get a pretty good thing going.

[@JayTorin]

My first exposure to Atlantis in relation to conspiracy theories was a friend from my last work place bringing it up and me gradually going from thinking we were talking about this cool fictional legend to realizing he was starting in on some leaps of logic that I just could not get behind. Watching how you handled that and similar topics with your cohosts was oddly inspirational. Living in an area where I am *far* to the left of the Overton Window I often feel like I have to be really careful what I say at work & such, and often just avoid speaking at all. I feel like this was a really great example of how to handle a topic where you and the other person differ on some things that you might fundamentally important truths

[@bestbi3587]

wow! you are awesome, but the rampant misogyny of the hosts was absolutely astonishing. I was completely floored when i heard him say that about Carrie Fisher. Like, no shit a 'strong woman' is going to be a bad character if you don't let her BE a character. the stoic 'badass' woman *is* overdone because they still dont treat women as people in those characterizations! when I say i want strong female characters I mean that i want female characters with strong emotional throughlines and interesting relationships and important decisions to make. I don't just mean that i want her to kick down a door.

[@slome815]

But she has a personality, and it's not one dimensional, and she's likable but strong and independent. Some recent attempts at good female characters are way, way worse (admiral Holdo and Galadriel in rings of power come to mind).

[@Jaydee8652]

Milo talking about Atlantis reminds me of a certain movie.

[@JonasGreenFethr]

Perhaps he heard about it from his grandfather…

[@bigchubb5268]

When the guest is more prepared than the host lol. I hope to dear God those two are stoned and not always that spaced out. Hard job well done milo

[@andrewstepanek8933]

I'd honestly prefer that they were always that spaced, because it's way more disrespectful for them to get too fucking high to hold a conversation before having a guest on their podcast.

[@bigchubb5268]

@@andrewstepanek8933 the mind boggles

[@mattburgess5697]

Love these long form videos. Very excited!

[@mightychicken7774]

Wish I could get that high and be as coherent as these guys are (bet this place smelled super dank - though serious props on how clean this place was! bravo). Polly Shore could take come notes on how to do this kind of podcast. This was fun to watch! - Miniminuteman, love your work. Keep this up!

[@MySkydawg]

Note: The Hanging Gardens are my personal favourite of the 7 ancient wonders! ☺️ I had a massive fascination when I was little with ancient history and it has never left Also, this entire conversation did not at all go the way I was expecting - there was much less Indiana Jones film gushing and a lot more intellectual discussion and educational tangents… I love it👍

[@Joyride37]

14:40 isn't it theorized that the bronze age Theran Eruption that blew a hole into Santorini and destroyed a Minoan settlement (and kickstarted the decline of Minoan civilization) was a possible partial inspiration of Atlantis? Like it's main function was a hocus pocus analogy for Plato to make his argument, but could it have not been inspired by a distant cultural memory of something that was destroyed by natural disaster + combined with some divine flood myth motifs? The Iliad and tales of the Trojan War function similarly as distant memories of the Bronze Age Collapse and whatever war(s) happened around Ilium and western Anatolia

[@aurhiaseelund]

No, not really. Some people have made some good money or gotten some PR hype for suggesting the connection (as a way of making the layman interested in the sites) but there's zero evidence to suggest it's anything but allegory. Modern believers like to look around for things that might create a parallel to give themselves the cover of legitimacy, but their primary proof is "well you can't prove it WASN'T an inspiration so therefore it must have been." It's about as likely to have been the eruption of an island as it is to have been Europeans stumbling on the Americas thousands of years earlier than we have evidence for, which is another one I see a lot.

[@r0seg0lden._15]

I have so much more appreciation for Milo for how he handled explaining the differences between a layman and an actual scientist's awareness and maintaining the point that strong women characters were underrepresented in media, despite these two characters. They were slightly unsufferable and clearly unaware (I mean, host didn't even rewatch the movie he wanted to discuss)...but he was very enjoyable.

[@KeKe-bv8qv]

I've never heard the theory on another sentient species existing before us before and I think it's really freaking amazing. It reminded me of the uncanny valley predator theory. Fun fact, animals also experience the uncanny valley effect. Apparently there's been tests done.

[@bloodredrage3894]

Holy over an hour? What a treat!

[@miniminuteman773]

Every teacher I've ever had would tremble at the idea of me rambling for an hour being described as "a treat."

[@andrewstepanek8933]

@@miniminuteman773 That's because your teachers are cowards.

[@grene1955]

Awesome video, lot's of great questions and opinions... I love your honest but considered and diplomatic responses. That said, they asked some great questions! On the subject of science teachers, I had a a fantastic sci teacher in high school, Doc Culligan! He was mostly a chemist as I remember, but his love of all science was infectious. That's what we need more of!

[@Rick-cx1yr]

"I'm not Anti-Pangea" This needs to be a t-shirt

[@magnusgreel275]

Milo is smart and eloquent, and it really shows when he's talking to two idiots.

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

Agree. Please Milo, dont do this again, you're far above it.

[@kitsune.963]

I really struggle to listen to podcasts (too many people talking at once and too much arguing) but I’m thoroughly enjoying this one. It feels like a regular pace conversation where no one is heated or taking anything too seriously which is so refreshing. But it still is interesting and informative. In general this channel is so refreshing, it’s slower pace but still entertaining. Genuinely really interesting topics that aren’t really talked about and of course some good old making fun of young earth creationists. Keep up the awesome videos dude (please I need more to binge watch instead of doing homework)

[@monckey44]

I love seeing people with different thoughts and opinions have cool enlightening conversations and I really loved both the questions they asked and how you answered them. I really look forward to you joining them again!

[@HeckMurr]

Ngl these guys teetering on sus.... I appreciate you trying to shut down things when you could.

[@alexcrane1397]

The dopamine rush I got when I saw he posted is like no other. Today is a good day

[@miniminuteman773]

If an hour of me talking is what gives you dopamine I'd be happy to start a podcast of my own.

[@alexcrane1397]

I can’t speak for everyone but I would definitely watch it if you did

[@atomf9143]

@@miniminuteman773 Please do, literally everyone who watches you would watch one.

[@alexcrane1397]

@@atomf9143 I second that

[@DellenoftheDell]

I would absolutely watch you host a podcast! You’ve got so many interesting pieces of knowledge on all sorts of archeological happenings, and it may be really neat to have a more casual, discussion-based setting!

[@yeasstt]

I think it's crazy that the Indiana Jones movies were PG13. Temple of Doom had people submerged into magma, had people's still beating hearts ripped out, had a man hung by his neck from the ceiling, and had the whole Nocturnal Activities scene yet it's still PG13

[@wyguyjones6328]

PG-13 didn't exist at the time, the first two Indy films were PG. Temple of Doom was a major reason why the rating was created in the first place.

[@toketsupuurin]

The thing that made the first three Indiana Jones films work was that it was *mysticism/supernatural* not sci-fi. Aliens just didn't mix with ancient sacred relics filled with supernatural power.

[@wolfiemuse]

As others have said, I think the way you’re addressing these topics with these guys is very respectful. While I think that is ultimately the most important aspect: I do think your sort of NSFW, “if you are undermining science you’re an asshole” kind of attitude is still very valuable in other videos. It brings some humor as well as a sort of… understanding to those who may be on the fence. Even if it’s hurtful in some ways, I think that honesty is valuable too. It may not be pleasant to hear, but I think it’s beneficial (and deserved) to be criticized when some of these people are influencing hundreds of thousands of people, sometimes they need a reality check.

[@paulloveless4122]

Love your work dude! I feel your genuine excitement about the topics at hand! I had little to no interest in archeology BUT was definitely a conspiracy bro. Despite being 10 years younger than me - I learn SO much from you AND I feel the excitement you bring to the topics!! Thank you for waking up the hardcore skeptic in me!

[@gl15col]

One thing I have learned since watching the original Indiana Jones is how evil he was. He stole the idol from it's owners, because "it should be in a museum". Yeah, no it shouldn't. There were still people of that civilization alive and it belonged to them. Still pisses me off, like the Elgin marbles in the British museum. And of course their excuse is a very condescending; "They can't take proper care of them, so it was acceptable to "remove" (steal) them and refuse to return them". I would love to see how they'd react to someone taking a stone from Stonehenge, because the road being built right next to it is causing vibrations that might damage them, so "they can't take proper care of them".

[@DaddyWarlocks]

This is great, love your vids. Has anyone mentioned that the Ark, if it was real, was probably stolen by one of the other minor kingdoms in the Iron Age Levant and melted down or something. Like, everyone's looking for a wood box plated in gold that was probably parted out as soon as whatever kingdom (Philistines probably) got it back to their city.

[@gyro4250]

About 15 years ago i was doing dirtwork for a small time excavation outfit. When putting in his new driveway on the downhill side of the house we ended up discovering an old buried tennis court we didnt know was there. Got to chatting with the home owner and it turned out he was a amateur archeologist and anthropologist. Dude invited me into his house to show me his collection. Blew my fucking mind. He had roman and viking artefacts. He had amazonian headresses. He had all these crazy cultural wood carvings. All presented with full on bachelor pad vibes. Whole house was glass, chrome, black marble, and white carpet. Then the dude started telling me the stories. He said this piece was from this place, that piece was from that place. Im all nodding along, in one ear out the other. He probably got scammed a bunch on ebay or something, but the stuff all looked legit, you know? "Heres some roman dice I dug up along this old fortress wall in serbia. Heres this stone axe head I found Turkey" What? This guy is out there doing archeological digs?!? "Yeah i got kicked out of Turkey, haha! I found this temple out there but before I could start digging, the military came after me cuz I didnt have permission". Oh, I see whats going on here. Hes fucking roleplaying Indiana Jones. "Heres a picture of me and this headhunter tribe deep in the Amazon." Showed me a pic of him and some indigenous tribe. Headhunters my ass. "Then I killed the giant anaconda with my knife" Got to give him points for storytelling at this point, but dude is absolutely shameless. "Its in the vault" he says, then proceeds to open up a heavy ass steel bank vault door. He went in and came out with a rolled up giant snake skin. He unrolled in onto the floor and it was fully 20 feet long. Do snakes really get that long? He let me peek into his vault but wouldnt talk about anything in there. The vault was divided and I could only see into the first section. He had one wall of shelving and a few boxes on the floor. I honestly cant even tell you what all kinds of interesting things were in there because one shelf stole all my attention. There were seven shrunken human heads of various sizes. All displayed in their morbid glory. Was that guy actually telling the truth? What other crazy illegal shit was in his vault? I dont know, but any time i think about an indiana jones type character, I remember this guy.

[@thecomentingcat6280]

That's a freaking crazy story

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

Yes, sounds good to me. the Anaconda was probably longer; Lost some length in drying out. Sounds like alot of stuff there was, ahem, not completely 'legal' Showed it to you because if he showed it to anyone else who would be in the same field they would have flipped. Looks like you got a good look at some black market stuff there

[@iammattc1]

55:00 ...people who've never taught... If you've got 30 kids in a class, and 28 are getting it and 2 aren't, you can either keep up the pace for the 28, or stop moving the class forwards until you drag the other 2 up to where everyone else is, if that's even possible. And then a week later, you're having to do the same thing again. At the end of the year, either 28 pass and 2 don't, or none of them pass. If no-one passes, you get fired.

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

I've seriously soured on Indiana Jones after someone pointed out Marion 15 and Indy was 27 when he slept with her. He was her dad's teaching assistant. And when she calls him out on it he tells her to shut up and that "she knew what she was doing". I'm pretty sure that's straight up illegal and victim blaming. And of course stealing artifacts from cultures because they "belong in british/american museums" is all sorts of wrong. I like adventure movies but they have so much baggage. (Lucas and Spielberg wanted her to be 13 when she had her "affair" with Indy, they talk about it in a podcast.)

[@quinbee_creates]

I'm pretty sure Raiders was the movie that ignited my love as a kid of all things adventuring/tomb raiding but you're right. When I watched it again before the fourth one came out, I realized Indy was a straight-up unrepentant asshole. Amazing what you miss as a kid. The rest of the movie is still fun though.

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

​@@quinbee_creates Indiana Jones, The Mummy, King Solomon's Mines... Adventure movies are amazing because they give kids the excitement for adventure and learning. But sadly I think you can't separate them from things like colonialism and grave robbing. The Mummy is one of my favorite movies and it still holds up, but they get EVERYTHING wrong about egypt. The entire premise of adventure movies like these is "americans and brits go to foreign lands and steal stuff". And these foreign cultures are always portrayed as inaccurate and usually barbaric. I wanna check out some older classic adventure movies like King Solomon's Mines, but I'm scared they're gonna sour my experience even more.

[@joanthompson5606]

That bothered me alot too, and the thing about wanting her to be 13 is disgusting and downright evil!

[@AZbyNite]

This was pretty great, the dynamic here 👌🏼 honestly thought I wasn’t gonna enjoy this but their honestly curiosity was awesome and your style of teaching Milo was very entertaining. Hoping for something similar in the near future 👍🏼👍🏼

[@JohnXSmithMG]

Epic af! Love the vibe. Glad we got to link up! Looking forward to the next one!

[@user-hj8yf3hr4i]

Dude you and your homie were fucking hilarious. Reminded me of when my best friend (a very well educated evolutionary biologist) and myself (an averagely intelligent skate rat) smoke and chill.

[@JohnXSmithMG]

@@user-hj8yf3hr4i 🤣🤣 love it fam. It was hella fun. Milo is great. And trust we’ll go even deeper next time haha

[@1upwhatupTV]

@@user-hj8yf3hr4i 👊🍄

[@kingofdefense]

The internet has poisoned me, I thought the shroom stickers on the laptop were among us

[@FreyasArts]

Wouldn't it be fun if someone had an indiana Jones inspired birthday all prepared complete with a treasure hunt and map and then the apocalypse hits and like a thousand years later, some archologist finds the treasure map and they painfully dig through all the documents to reconstruct what the city had looked like before it was burried. And then when they finally are able to decipher all the hints on map, expecting some great lost treasure, all they find is a Box full of chocolate coins

[@balrogdahomie]

“Clearly this was a ritual sacrifice to a deity of some sort. We hypothesize this to be some form of supplication rite to one of this cultures many mysterious gods of wealth and prosperity. These include the cruel and unfeeling “Economy” (occasionally referred to instead by the epithet “Hand of the Market”), the obscure hero twins “Hustle and Grind” (lit. “Speed and Effort”), and the frequently-invoked “Maiden China””

[@FreyasArts]

@@balrogdahomie ooh, I like that 😃 (plus it makes capitalism sound so much cooler than it actually is 😆 (it's already ominous enough)

[@FreyasArts]

@@balrogdahomie the map was propably written in code in an effort to protect the location from thieves and let only the initiated know of it. There was no evidence of the dangerous traps the map speaks of, so this was propably another effort to deter potential thieves in case they were able to decipher the code.

[@andrewhinz8909]

It's awesome that Milo is branching out and getting so many other people involved in his content. I really like hearing him talk on someone else's podcast about things he's really passionate about. That being said this particular podcast has got to be the lowest common denominator. These guys sound like they got high too many times and their voices stayed that way, and their commentary sounds like it's coming from middle-schoolers that just learned how to cuss. I really hope he gets invited to a different show next time because this was hard to sit through.

[@ebreshea1337]

They're not lowest common denominator, they're "an average person".

[@noora1142]

yeah the bald guy especially is so high it's annoying. I managed to watch the whole video but it was really irritating

[@rafalolz1]

Hey, in relation to the talking about aliens around 15:30 , just a little extra fun fact from a physics enthusiast to share next time you're talking about it; light-speed travel is often misinterpreted slightly when discussed, saying things like "oh you travel for 200 years just to see a planet", and suddenly the whole theory of relativity is forgotten. If you travel at let's say 90% of the speed of light, and you travel let's say 100 lightyears, you actually only experience approximately 10 years of time passing (you experience time 90% more slowly). This is because of relativity; the closer you get to light speed, the slower you experience time relative to a stationary (or pseudo-stationary) observer. So yes, traveling at light speed to a planet 200 or more lightyears away may not have any benifit to your current ecosystem (because by the time you get back more than 400 years have passed), but you will not yourself experience 400 years of travel time, but only a fraction of that.

[@brookb5890]

Came back to view some replies that were left and wowee a lot of hate for the hosts of this podcast. I just want to say that I personally appreciate you sitting down to talk with people that don't agree with you 100% and that you handled everything absolutely masterfully. I was fully engaged and enjoyed the whole thing. If a similar opportunity comes up again, don't let the comments discourage you from taking it, if you want to! Maybe you were able to interest/educate an audience you might not normally reach. And if nothing else, you're allowed to have a good time without thinking about views.

[@tedparkinson2033]

Around 39:00 they mention U-Boats and going underwater. Well, the funny thing about the U-Boat style of Submarine was it was made to travel on the surface most of the time and usually only submerged to attack or evade! Ergo, since this is pre-WWII, its very realistic that it didn't bother to submerge!

[@KeKe-bv8qv]

I really loved this video and I loved the way you approached talking about education, bad experiences with it, and issues around belief, trust and the different approaches and ways that people to understand the world around them. Like blind belief is terrifying to me. I just really loved how you interacted with these guys and they seem really chill and cool. They weren't looking to pick a fight over something they had a different understanding or knowledge of. They just seem like really cool people for you to chat with. When talking about Atlantis I'm surprised you didn't talk about the Minoan civilization, which was only excavated in 1900, since it's such a great example for how easily a civilization can be lost and that there is precedence for lost civilizations.

[@Veeekna]

4 mins in and good lord I hate the interviewer dude. Love your stuff tho obviously Mini, but god damn, this is a hard watch right off the bat.

[@admiralyi8673]

Stayed only for Milo.

[@Nonnavlis]

The fact that the host seems to want to refer to all women as "bitches" is...yikes. I think it's interesting and valuable that these two individuals who don't have a scientific background wanted to have a scientific discussion with you, but I think the host definitely wasn't intending to have anything other than a male audience, I'd assume. Watched it for the support (and there were some very interesting bits!), but it was a little alienating! (I do assume they meant no harm of course). I would love to hear more of your thoughts on films though, Milo! That idea in and of itself is a great one! I also so appreciate the speech in favour of accessible education!!

[@danvinci9669]

Thought I was gonna get a hilarious deep dive on the do's and dont's of archeology in Indiana Jones... Turned out to be a podcast with two dude bro's circa 2010 with outdated jokes and theories that don't seem to know much of anything about movies or science. But, thanks for keeping it as professional as you could Milo, you're a trooper. Left the vid on mute so I could at least give you a full view for your analytics.