I Watched Ancient Apocalypse So You Don't Have To (Part 1)

[@miniminuteman773]

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[@silentdrew7636]

Please put all of your episodes of this a playlist eventually

[@JJamahJamerson]

Just want to ask while I might have your attention, I haven’t finished the video, but I wanted to ask would you do your own version of ancient apocalypse? Like your own video showing your own theories and evidence of the extent of ancient civilisations?

[@rocksdexebec6308]

Have graham on your show and try to have a debate with then only I will fully look his or your side

[@FPoP1911]

Milo, thanks for great videos. Congrats on the new camera. Not an audio/video expert but there's something about the audio in this one that felt like audio levels might've been a bit whacky for lack of a better word. Maybe the echo off of the walls, maybe insulation can help. Can't wait for the next video.

[@borttorbbq2556]

So if I understand this correctly there is a Milo centipede going on here unnerving.

[@itztliozelotl584]

As an Indigenous Mesoamerican, I appreciate your work in debunking these whackos. Who built the pyramids in Mesoamerica? We did. Amerindian people. The People.

[@theblackgods4699]

But what about the lizard people , and the aliens 👽...what about the giants or the Dino people

[@bushybeardedbear]

@@Rampart.X Don't be silly Sheila, we know sure as a Dingos Dingus that you don't care about no evvydence.

[@lolalaise4530]

Imagine calling someone a whacko without even listening or reading anything they have said, Hancock is just exploring a different idea of history not any “quack theories”

[@fart63]

@@lolalaise4530 exploring a different idea of history while completely ignoring all evidence we’ve ever collected about our history. He might as well be writing fanfiction

[@Dekubud]

Seriously, it makes me sad to see so many (let's not kid ourselves, mostly white) people who have such a small mind they can't just accept the diversity of knowledge, technology and cultures different people have developed throughout history.

[@carbonrick-roller7428]

My dad knows I like science so he recommended we watch the show together. I told him I knew about it and it was basically another ancient aliens. His response was “I’ve heard a podcast about it, they made some good points. You need to be open to different ideas”

[@adnap7739]

Very similar situation with my dad but he loves Graham and all the points he makes.

[@faikerdogan2802]

Careful. Don't let ur brains fall off from too much open mindedness 😅

[@crztank9298]

It's not ancient aliens so you obviously know little about Graham

[@edoardoprevelato6577]

Tell him being open minded doesn't mean not using critical thinking and not demanding substantial evidence.

[@fnansjy456]

​@@crztank9298 he is a crackpot

[@WeiHaoLong]

I do actually agree with Graham Hancock in that I don't think simple hunter-gatherers would be capable of building a volcano

[@redfonzie21]

I agree there, excellent point!

[@nemanjalazarevic9249]

What about complex ones?

[@toaster3100]

@@nemanjalazarevic9249 maybe

[@rbaxter286]

Sorry, they built a GOD, by themselves, maybe MANY GODS, so why not a volcano? Xenu would have needed the volcanoes, so why couldn't they have just sub-contracted it out to him?!

[@nkinash321]

That's the thing hunter gatherers is a waybsociety gets food. They don't have to be simple at all. I think pyramids are just a place where u can spot higher human concentration that's it

[@Seeqer6619]

I remember being a young child and finding out that there were pyramids OTHER than the ones in Egypt. Seeing for the first time, one of the pyramids in South America. I was struck by how DIFFERENT they were and questioned whether they should even have the same name of "pyramid". Having a better grasp on geometry (still not great) than I did at 8 or 9? years old, I now understand why they're called that. But to claim they're related in any significant way is still weird.

[@kevinmclain4080]

Besides them being megolithic structures?

[@frisco9568]

You mean Mexico and Central America not South America

[@YMS09D]

South america had the Inca pyramids? ​@@frisco9568

[@Seeqer6619]

@@frisco9568 Fair point. Geography was never my strongest subject.

[@timothyvolkmann8259]

Just now saw "Fingerprint of the Gods" labeled as fiction on Audible. Priceless.

[@ryanbradford6227]

There is a certain amount of irony of a man named Milo debunking Atlantis.

[@sticksnstonespatriot1728]

Yes, this guy is boring and ghayeAF

[@poikoi1530]

Give milo circle glasses and we're set in stone

[@wncboy24]

How did I not see this earlier?

[@GenericInternetter]

huh?

[@nikiabrock2733]

​@Generic Internetter Disney's movie Atlantis stars an archeologists named Milo who swears he has the way to Atlantis

[@SuzieClemme]

Hancock: Archeologists HATE ME!!!!! McCafferty: A very charming man, I wish I could’ve talked with him longer.

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

And that's after interviewing McCafferty under false pretenses. McCafferty is a classy man.

[@suh4771]

Because he accepted that Hancock can have different ideas but for them to be taken seriously then you need the evidence. All of the evidence does not lead to Hancock's theory being the truth. All the charm helps to sell his opinion and make money from it but when Hancock always makes a point of martyring himself, he is just doing a Trump. Send me money because only I know the Truth. There is a reason why majority rules and until now, the minority had to suck it up.

[@adakahless]

Honestly, production personnel will over dramatize things just to get views/rating. It's a fact of entertainment these days.

[@rockman2090]

Hancock 👍

[@johnhough7738]

Don't fret, Good People. Experts in any field hate anyone who raises reasonable doubts about the stuff their meal-ticket is based on. Expert = "ex", a was (aka a has been); "spert" misspelling of spurt (which is a drip under pressure).

[@miniminuteman773]

ADDENDUM: At 48:00 I mistakenly class the Zigurrat at Ur as a burial structure. In reality, the Ziggurat was a temple to the Goddess of the moon. In research I got this crossed with the Royal Cemetary at Ur. Thank you to all who caught this miscategorization.

[@Sqk.]

Pin this!

[@bushybeardedbear]

Should be pinned, maximise visibility. Pretty awesome that you're willing to correct yourself within minutes of the video ending.

[@miniminuteman773]

@@bushybeardedbear If I didnt have to have the sponsor pinned I would. Wish KZbin would allow for multiple pins like Instagram :(

[@JJamahJamerson]

Proud to see you correcting this.

[@bushybeardedbear]

@@miniminuteman773 Welp, guess we just gotta updoot you to keep it high in the replies.

[@SpectrumAnalysis]

The biggest hole in this claim is actually a point brought up by the Disney Atlantis movie: If this lost, globe spanning civilization conquered the world and taught everyone else agriculture, modern stellar mapping, the metric system, advanced building techniques, religion, etc, how did they do it without leaving a single *linguistic* footprint in any languages we know? If this were the case, there would be related words and phrases in every language on the planet and yet there's very little overlap between, for example, languages from the American continent and anything from Afro-eurasia.

[@MachtPlays]

Lemuria is odd, that’s for sure. If Atlantis was anything, it was Lemuria. The Greeks would have known about it, or at least the early people of the Roman Empire would know. Wouldn’t be the most shocking thing for a civilization to build on volcanos and being wiped off the map. It wasn’t some globe spanning civilization with advanced technology though lol.

[@SpectrumAnalysis]

@@MachtPlays Lemuria isn't a thing either. It's another disproven continent like Mu. From my reading, someone didn't understand continental drift or plate tectonics yet and thought the only way Lemurs could exist on Madagascar and India and not in Continental Africa was because they were connected by a big triangular continent where all humans came from. That's why it's called Lemuria, cos it's where all the Lemurs lived. This guy was a Zoologist, btw, not a geologist, archaeologist, or anthropologist, he was reaching WAY outside of his field. Also, cities built on volcanoes got wiped away all the time, there are famous examples that we call Mount Vesuvius wiping out Pompeii and Herculaneum, the eruption of Krakatoa, and the island of Thera. This last one literally dropped most of an island into the sea and made it into multiple smaller islands called Santorini, Therasia, Aspronisi, and Old and New Kameni. The Minoan Eruption that dropped Thera into the sea and broke it into multiple islands is thought to be one of the main inspirations of Plato's fictional story of Atlantis. The Greeks certainly knew about the eruption of Thera, since it happened before Plato wrote about Atlantis, damaged a sizable island in their next-door neighbour's empire and records of a volcanic winter in the middle of the year can be found as far away as China at the time. It's kinda hard for them to know about Lemuria though, since there is zero scientific evidence that a sunken landmass exists in the Indian Ocean. We have more evidence that New Zealand is the tip of the tallest mountain chain on an underwater continent. I say that like it's an outlandish theory, but we have the evidence. Doggerland, the sunken landmass connecting the UK and Europe during the last glacial maximum, as well as the lost continent of Zealandia are more likely contestants for a "real Atlantis." Still, Plato likely took this cultural memory of the sinking and breaking of the island of Thera as inspiration for a cautionary tale of hubris (basically spitting in the face of the Gods through pure pride and overconfidence.) Think of it like a pop-culture reference in the old world; like using the Fall of Rome nowadays as the basis for a story about decadence being the downfall of empires. People at the time hear the story of an empire getting too big for their boots and sinking into the sea and a bell would ring in their head, making the population would go "Ooh, just like the Minoan Empire's colony on Thera!" The Minoans of Crete and The Mycenaean Athenians were mortal enemies at the time. The Minoans were a powerful empire bullying Athens into paying them or straight up sacking their city like pirates, likely enslaving Athenians in the process, so it makes sense they'd view one of The Minoan islands exploding as a sign from the Gods that they were going too far. This is likely also related to why they said that the King of Crete pissed off Poseidon by not sacrificing a sacred bull and caused Poseidon to bewitch that King's wife to make her fall in love with and sleep with the bull leading to her giving birth to The Minotaur. In the Atlantis story, they piss off Poseidon and that's why he drops their ass into the sea. The literary connection is there. We know The Athenians saw The Minoans as "accursed by Poseidon" for some reason and it could be cos they remember the time their island fell into Poseidon's domain. People also think the story of The Minotaur, btw, is an allegory for a potentially real, historical, Mycenaean Athenian invasion of Minoan Crete. Minoans worshipped bulls irl and had a huge, complex, maze-like indoor market/palace in their capital city. Also the legendary king who fed Athenians to his step-son, The Minotaur, is named King Minos of Knossos, which is the real capital of Minoan Crete. We actually named this mysterious Cretan civilisation that we found at Knossos "Minoans" after the legend of King Minos and The Minotaur since they're from the same city, island, and time period, so this legend has been connected to the civilisation since we discovered them. The legend is that a young Athenian named "Theseus" (The legendary son of the King of Athens, or son of Poseidon so more connections there) stops the "kidnapping" (enslavement) and "sacrifice of Athenians" (stealing their shit, killing their people) to the Cretan "Bull" (The Minoan Empire) in Knossos by working his way into the "Labyrinth" (Market/Palace) and "slaying the beast" (demolishing their empire, killing their royal family). You can see the parallels, all of which is backed up by Archaeological data from Crete that after the weakening of the Minoan Empire, *Mycenaeans* inhabited Knossos for some reason and begun using Minoan written language to write Mycenaean Greek before coming up with their own Alphabet by messing around with The Phoenician Alphabet. It's likely they wrote a lot of stories about how being a big, mean, nasty empire who picks on heroic Athens will get you smacked down by divine punishment in order to make themselves seem heroic in the whole conflict. These are just two examples and are both clearly fictional but have some clear historical basis. Another example being THE ENTIRE TROJAN WAR. Plato did NOT, however, call Atlantis an advanced civilisation, say they were the origin of all human culture, call them a race of giants, or anything of the sort. He said this was a story he got from a guy who read it in Egypt and translated it into Greek, but OOPS he couldn't find the source anymore, sorry guys. Seems legit. Plus we don't even have Plato's full story, it's two small stories that kinda line up and are framed as conversations between two other guys. On top of all this, the story of Atlantis includes details like: -A warrior class in Athens that is literally just the Spartan culture because Plato liked Sparta and wished Athens was politically more like them so he head-canoned it into his story despite Athens clearly not being Spartan. -An all out war between Athens and Atlantis in which most of the Mediterranean was conquered by Atlantis which you'd think other historians would have mentioned. -The King of Atlantis being Atlas, the Titan God who holds up the sky. -The fact that Atlantis is an island bigger than Asia and Libya combined, which makes it even more baffling that we haven't found it yet. -And the fact that Atlantis' sinking made a mud shoal in the sea that stopped anyone sailing west, which we've proven false by *discovering America.* In other words, we're pretty sure it was a fictional story.

[@tetonnate1993]

@@SpectrumAnalysislegend

[@edmonddantes5099]

What about Sanskrit and the Vedic civilization? It literally ticks off all the points you've mentioned.

[@imgrindin]

I know nothing about anything, but I do know many civilizations have a similar "jesus" archetype story.

[@FernandoGonzalez-hu3id]

My favorite part about the whole "why did so many diferent people build piramids?" thing is that i have seen kindergarden kids playing with blocks reach to the conclusion of "piramid stronger than tower" by themselves.

[@ThatWitchMorri-V]

"Oh! Look! Proof that the aliens programmed pyramid building into our DNA! How else can you explain such young children knowing to do it!" (Why yes, I am fluent in sarcasm. Why do you ask? 😂)

[@samuraijackoff5354]

What is the best way to stack rocks?

[@vespernight4236]

I ‘theorize’ my local Safeway is run by aliens. They keep stacking their produce in pyramids what could it mean? 😂

[@Pillar_of_Salt]

@@samuraijackoff5354 For what purpose are we stacking them?

[@brokenbird2136]

​@@Pillar_of_Salt oh i see a pro

[@dawsonlaughren730]

Milo's set in this video: "Look at that, it's all coming together" Milo's set one year later: "I'm freezing to death in a barn!"

[@Colton-zn9kk]

😂

[@Jocka-v6f]

Its actually just a room in his house waiting for renovations/restorations which he uses as his studio.

[@Sk8Bettty]

@@Colton-zn9kk🎉🎉

[@Bob_0o0]

Milo's set a year ago: "I'm professional. I'm smart. I'm serious. Very smart looking." Milo's set now: "Oh God the squirrels that live in my gutters will drink my blood when I freeze to death, won't they?"

[@andrewbrowne7831]

@@Bob_0o0”the raccoons that I rent out the extra space to broke my shower drain”

[@AgitpropPsyop]

“Pyramids: you love them, you hate them. You can fill them with mummies, or you can fill them with bass pro shops merch.” *iconic*

[@ericktellez7632]

Or you fill them with smaller sized pyramids that covers a cenote in its hollow center if you are Mesoamerican

[@ixhilkalaskiiver792]

neither of you even know wtf the pyramids were made for, so please, stfu already haha

[@Salamandra40k]

Wow! Its almost like we watched the exact same video!! What an amazing observation

[@AgitpropPsyop]

@@Salamandra40k and it’s almost like you are an insufferable hater for no reason LMAO

[@Salamandra40k]

@@AgitpropPsyop It costs me $0 to make fun of people being redditors. "HAHAHAHAA HERES THE JOKE THE VIDEO SAID EXACTLY BUT I SAID IT IN THE COMMENTS" like I thought we were passed that base, primate-level thinking already

[@therick7445]

Milo spelling a name in a different language he's never heard.... nails it. Me crying in a corner trying to remember how many L's in actually

[@jamiejam9976]

*alctlualy

[@therick7445]

@@jamiejam9976 damn it I screwed up my joke

[@andreimoga7813]

when i saw that you brought a guest for an interview, namely Dr. McCafferty, i thought of an old saying from Romania: "a fool throws a stone in the water, and ten wise men struggle to take it out" that means it is easy to do something thoughtless, to make waves, but it's very hard to undo. it is much harder and requires a ton of effort from actually qualified people

[@dsxa918]

I heard an American say "get in the pit and try to love someone" once.

[@clarksonstestical7596]

He’s not qualified

[@stephanieknowsbest]

But then why was Dr. McCafferty IN Graham’s documentary? If he’s so qualified and he considers Graham’s theories to be mere “waves” or lies, why would he agree to be in it? All he’s done, is given academic credit to Graham’s story.

[@CapitalistDeathCult]

⁠@@stephanieknowsbest Graham literally went out of his way to mislead him on what the documentary was about, so he could be used to give a sense of legitimacy.

[@spoddie]

@@stephanieknowsbest He explained that quite well.

[@TheMadMurf]

One of the things that really annoys me about the "ancient aliens" or "super advanced ancient civilization" conspiracies is that it cheats the real civilizations out of their achievements. Like, building a pyramid is a lot of work. The coordination, engineering, artistry, and scope are all super impressive and they deserve credit.

[@landon4351]

Tell me how they built it Tell me why the inhabitants of those countries say that they never built them

[@tartarm]

@@landon4351they put stones on each other until it became a pyramid easy

[@landon4351]

@@tartarm true thanks

[@CharlesH-t9r]

If you look up the orgins of the socalled advanced aliens propaganda, it's based on Aryan Nazis Ubermensch/Supermen folklore That's why you keep seeing an obsession of Nazi propaganda throughout shows on the History channel

[@junebug313]

It really drives me crazy that people like you associate ancient aliens with what Graham Hancock theorizes. He's not suggesting aliens did anything, and he's not taking anything away from the cultures that achieved these things. He's literally praising their achievements, and proposing they had knowledge we currently do not. How is that taking away from them?

[@babydahl9424]

I want to say that Dr. Geoff McCafferty was very charming and kind. He could have taken this chance to bash Hancock but he didn't. He spoke to his honest thoughts and the charm of Hancock while still upholding that he doesn't really agree with his leap in logic. I admire him greatly for his calm and honest answers. Edit: it's been a year and I came back to this. What the actual hell happened? The top comment was wild and everyone else just dog piled. I don't think a single person commented about Dr. McCafferty.

[@0001nika]

That appoach i can respect...still his opinion. The bomb throwing child that made this video is just plain socially unacceptable and i hope this video gets removed

[@moekitsune]

​@@0001nikalol what

[@trashmann8132]

@@0001nika L Bozo

[@50733Blabla1337]

@@0001nika Take your meds and a nap you all need some grass touching

[@693iq8]

@@0001nikaoh no someone swore Call the police

[@Drewan27]

So basically Hancock is an archeological astrologist. He visits a bunch of old sites and tries his heart out to loosely connect them through non-empirical methods. The same way astrologers play connect the dots in the night sky without researching what the actual celestial bodies might be.

[@ouroboricsnake]

As much as astrology isn’t scientific, I don’t usually see astrologers lying about it being scientific or try to present it the way graham Hancock presents his BS.. and it’s based in thousands of years of religion and tradition. As a cultural practice, not as a scientific practice, it deserves more respect than graham Hancocks theories. Of course the way many of us know it in the west may seem pretty silly or superficial but it is still very important for many families across the globe

[@Mexican_Jedi]

​@@ouroboricsnakeso many astrologers do do that

[@ThatFeelBr0]

Nah, he is a recycler. He is recycling the exact same dumb arguments and conclusion methods of "Ancient Aliens" from the History channel but using just older humans instead of extraterrestrials.

[@JiggerjoggernoHGer]

He’s a curios mind idk if he’s an astrological archeologist but he’s I guess a psuedoscientific documentarian or something

[@Jmcculloughc1350]

As a person who has played lots of Minecraft and Colony Survival, I can confirm that people do in fact enjoy living on top of mountains, especially if you can get other people do a lot of the excavation and hauling of rocks for you.

[@tommsn]

Minecraft: Slavery edition

[@HaloWolf102]

@@tommsn It's ok, children yearn for the mines.

[@RobertSolt-j5m]

Facts 😅

[@Terracosm]

based colony survival enjoyer

[@Itchy__]

I'd do that, I need rocks to build random cobblestone/"and the other weirder looking stones" stone structures in random places.

[@amphilochusofmallus5070]

"No one listens to me" -The guy with the Netflix show

[@madtabby66]

Oh archeologists get shit wrong all the time. My favorite was “this culture keeps knives high up so the Gods would keep them sharp. (Sorry tried to look it up and just got ads on how to sharpen knives) Or…. Knives were kept high up to keep them away from the kids (every mother on earth) But if you’re going to debunk an archeologist, come up with something rational.

[@Shaqiliciouss]

@@madtabby66 I'm sure misinterpretations occur, but I looked into the knife story and could only find a tumblr post of someone talking about how archeologists were discussing reasons obsidian knives were kept high and that a mother among them just pointed out it was probably just childproofing (no source provided). While I'm not an archeologist myself I'm sure published that their theories, at least in modern day, are more than just them writing fanfiction about random shit they find.

[@ImAmericanFr]

​@@madtabby66 yeah ofc, its like you see a ball with a hole in it and you hear people saying "People put holes in these for a certain sport we have no data on" and then you say IT WAS MAGICAL SPACE ALIENS. when in reality it was probably just a stick or a rock

[@RevCuck]

i call it the "dave chappelle"

[@kikireno5189]

​@@ytfeelslikenorthkoreayeah you know that part where you silence someone by giving them a Netflix show, I love that part.

[@Cloutru]

I'm not living in Wales. I am living in a country sized pyramid. Thank you, minuteman, for helping me realise this.

[@elbowjuiced]

why are you living in a whale

[@catxray1603]

​@@elbowjuicedit's not "a" whale, it's multiple whales, since it's plural. This person lives in multiple whales

[@inkyboi6776]

@@catxray1603can confirm as a welsh person we are living in a pod of whales

[@Rachel98246]

Name checks out. There are few names more Welsh than Ieuan 😂

[@Cloutru]

@@Rachel98246 my name isn't Ieuan.

[@None-Trick_Pony]

Graham Hancock is like the little child that holds a grudge against the older kids but secretly wants to be their friend. He says that mainstream archaeology hates him and he thinks the establishment is bad, but it very much comes through in everything he does that he desperately wants nothing more than recognition from them. It's very bizarre to see a grown man act like this.

[@stefansekulic7903]

He thinks he's Don Quixote.

[@ethanbell6762]

I love how Graham Hancock presents himself as the archaelogy equivalent of those "Doctors HATE him..." ads on porn sites.

[@lordofnight9377]

That's a thing?

[@jaxonkohle2174]

I was thinking dr house but more wrong

[@marcushughes4697]

Archeologists HATE him… find out how he destroyed mainstream history CLICK HERE

[@felwalkr_94]

@@marcushughes4697 The “Click Here” having about 20 dozen different arrows (all in different styles) pointing towards it.

[@BruceWayne-us3kw]

@@lordofnight9377yes.

[@eldon8712]

Man, listening to Milo and Dr. Geoff McCafferty speak about archeology with such genuine passion makes me wish I had something to be evenly remotely as passionate about

[@DeathnoteBB]

Video games are cool

[@matthewcarter2683]

@@DeathnoteBBvideo games are very cool. I completely agree. I also feel D&D/Tabletop games are just as cool.

[@Orchair]

Would you like to start study music? It's pretty cool and nerdy (it seems out of nowhere but I am a musician)

[@Ben-ff6hc]

Keep exploring new things! I was pretty interested in a lot of things for my whole life but I've never been interested in something for as long and strong as I have been with chess since getting into it a couple years ago You just need to find your thing!

[@jamesgaming-kn1zz]

@@matthewcarter2683 i agree tabletop rpgs are great

[@gormauslander]

"Garfield is real, because there are so many depictions of him" The Quetzalcoatl argument

[@korosuke1788]

Same with Jesus.

[@gormauslander]

You're not wrong@@korosuke1788

[@MurasakiTsukimaru]

There's been two depictions of Quetzalcoatl being a big tiddy blonde oneesan. Therefore, Quetz not only exists, but is a big tiddy blonde oneesan

[@gormauslander]

Please seek professional help @@MurasakiTsukimaru

[@andyghkfilm2287]

I do hate mondays

[@undrline]

You missed a part of his resume: he is the father of Sean Hancock, who works in the "Unscripted Originals" department at Netflix who got him the gig.

[@Queen_Cnidarian]

For a giant, advanced globe spanning civilization, they sure did a great job hiding the fact they existed.

[@trippzy8048]

Whats crazy is that recently with the discovery about Antarctica it proves his theory..

[@mobcrusher99]

@@trippzy8048be more specific so we can prove you wrong

[@trippzy8048]

@@mobcrusher99 Ancient landscape discovered beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet. I do think alot of what GH says is BS but its funny to me that he got 1 theory right

[@3nz0m4trix]

​@@mobcrusher99 I think they found a pyramid on Antarctica....

[@mrcroob8563]

​@@trippzy8048What's crazy is that is in no way a pyramid...

[@AndrewBlucher]

I'm a retired academic. I'm halfway through this ep and enjoying it immensely. I especially like the little things that happen in real lectures, such as the equipment failing (chalk, cameras), random events such as the cat, having to tie your hair (that never happened to me because I've been bald for the last millennium), words accidentally dispelled (Hancock was dispelled, the words were mispelled. Damn "autocorrect"), ... . And the bigger things, such as thinking through the pedagogical journey you are leading. Well done. Oh, and "write this down, it WILL be on the test".

[@stuflikethis]

Is this what academia is? Strawmanning opposition and cheap one liners?

[@igorzimin2518]

​@@stuflikethis thats what I just wrote. This video is strawmanning the idea of old civ, and author behave like shmuck

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

@@stuflikethis _"Strawmanning opposition and cheap one liners?"_ So when Hancock says the Younger Dryas was overnight, it is a strawman to point out he's lying about the changes that took decades?

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

@@igorzimin2518 _"thats what I just wrote. This video is strawmanning the idea of old civ, and author behave like shmuck"_ It's pretty sad you Hancock fans only know the term strawman and can't even apply it. Do they have meeting where they just teach you to cry strawman and run away?

[@igorzimin2518]

@NinjaMonkeyPrime its pretty sad that you dont even know if I am Hancock fan or not, but still invent that and continue about it. I am not fan of anybody, I think Hancock lost debate to Dibble, and Dibble was acting like rude moron to him, and I think that Hancocks Netflix series are too exagerrated and overinflated. When I say many People are strawmanning Hancock and his ideas, I mean that making fun of somebody or somebodys idea is intellectual profanity and it means person Who does it performs like teenagers which mind is stuck in school. Everybody can do that. Its despicable when done to vast majority of People. What is lacking is honest discussion to find the truth. By the way Hancock was doing that to Dibble too, but it was a "response" to article in which flint called him racist. You see its close circle. People fight to protect their ego instead of looking for truth.

[@thebadshave503]

Hancock: I'm so fucking edgy, they don't let me near dig sites for fear I'll damage the artifacts. Every graduate program in America has a cash bounty on my head. An actual professor of archeology: He's a passionate guy and I don't agree with his hypothesis but he's fun to talk to and he was engaging.

[@LaMarcheFutilé101]

The easiest way to find the people who have no real argument to support their position is to just listen for the ones who talk consistently about how persecuted they are and how The Man doesn't want you to know what they know.

[@majortellandrus2552]

​@@LaMarcheFutilé101it amazes me how accurate this actually is, you'd think eventually one of them would actually be right considering how many of them there are but they just never seem to be able to cross the finish line.

[@LaMarcheFutilé101]

@@majortellandrus2552 Even if you have a good idea, if you convince yourself that you are The World's Most Perfect Boy and that everyone is out to get you, you're gonna lose your way. Narcissism is a trap that catches a lot of smart people.

[@St.Michael77713]

It is even more funny that people can't READ between the lines. People just believe what they read 📚. Just like how most INCOGNITIVES get their information from Twitter and Facebook. NO person alive today knows how ot can explain how the great pyramids were built. FACTS. TRUTH. HURTS.

[@reis5011]

@@majortellandrus2552it's because all the people whose knowledge is ACTUALLY being suppressed are typically more worried about passing on the knowledge first, then talking about suppression also they usually dont get deals with netflix

[@Lier_90912]

"By watching this video, you are participating in science." Me watching this while doing homeworks for my chemistry studies at university....

[@diGritz1]

Reminds me of my neighbor. He was excavating his backyard and around 3 meters down he uncovered very strange object with no logical explanation. It was clearly from a previous advanced civilization. He thought he had hit the jackpot. No one had the heart to tell him it was a stolen 71 vette that was buried by the previous resident. In hopes of digging it up after time ran out for an arrest.

[@madtabby66]

Who the fuck buried a car? It’s not going to survive.

[@UCH6H9FiXnPsuMhyIKDOlsZA]

​@@madtabby66 You don't need to have good foresight or basic critical thinking skills to come up with a dumb plan and rent a backhoe for an afternoon

[@the_lion4800]

​@@madtabby66 That's the point - cars are usually buried when they're either: 1. Used in a crime and is therefore "evidence" so it's easier for the criminal to bury it where it stays and becomes harder for the cops to retain any evidence 2. It's hanging out rusting into the ground and the soil is not so hard. It's common practice to bury them for erosion and other things (look it up- seriously). It's why they bury it for crimes, since everyone already does

[@ZoomZoomMX3]

It wasn't to retrieve it the best explanation is so that a murder or robbery tool is not discovered.

[@mnomadvfx]

3 METERS DEEP?!! Kek, that's an impressive feat.

[@roach2762]

My father is actually from Pohnpei. Said he swam around the water near Nan Madol as a kid. Whenever he would tell me about it he would talk about how he was taught about it in school and at home. Can't believe he never told me it was actually part of a twelve thousand year old global civilization that totally exists.

[@user-hj8yf3hr4i]

Illuminasty confirmed

[@skie6282]

I think mili said it was the seat of the empire of the 12,000 year old global advanced civilization ... pretty sure

[@peterwindhorst5775]

or that Nan Madol was used by Cthulu mythos as the sleeping place of their elder god.

[@dunning827]

I read Pohnpei as Pompeii and experienced mental whiplash like none other

[@witchflowers6942]

it sounds like a magical place to grow up near.

[@sweetbread9008]

“If you hear hooves think horses and not zebras.” Occam’s razor reworded. I love it. But what if I’m living in the shrub-lands of south Eastern Africa mate?

[@clairepettie]

Then please keep an eye out for giants stacking large rocks and report back.

[@MilloSpiegel]

Well, it still applys. If you are in a Nature Reserve you are more likely to See a Zebra then a Donkey.

[@sweetbread9008]

Applies? Shrublands of south East Africa? You’re funny.

[@wilhelmschmidt7240]

"insert local indigenous species here" 😂

[@daos3300]

then you would have different saying, obv.

[@zissoulander]

I'm a year late but so happy this video crossed my algo. I read fingerprints of the gods in the early 2000s and it sparked my interest in mesoamerican archaeology and lost civilizations. Being young, I initially believed every theory presented as true. But after actually pursuing my new interest, even as a different kind of social scientist (psychology), I found actual sources that debunked many of the claims that you present here. It also helped that one of my good friends became an archaeologist and helped me parse out scientifically-accepted fact and wild speculation. You've earned a subscribe and I look forward to watching the rest of the series.

[@varyolla435]

As someone who states interest in Psychology this should be of interest to you. Hancock has a background in...... = Sociology. Moral: what do Sociologists study?? Answer: among other things they seek to understand = what motivates groups of people to act a certain way....... Hence LAHT is really a business obviously and not an academic endeavor. As alluded to Hancock et al understanding how to _"motivate"_ people based upon appealing to their often pre-existing biases to then exploit that to craft narratives which do just that which they then monetize off of. LAHT as all misinformation/pseudoscience often does per what we colloquially refer to as _"propaganda"_ presents their dubious narratives repetitively so that in the minds of their adherents = assumption becomes reality - remember Watson and Behavioral Psychology. p.s. - as an aside. LAHT most readily reflects the logical fallacy Argumentum ad Ignorantiam. Yet they also often rely upon Special Pleading and as noted above Argumentum ad Nauseam. They do not educate nor really offer any real answers to the questions they feign to ask. They simply take their message = and hammer it into the ground until it becomes reality in the minds of those desirous to believe it + who naturally then assume themselves as supposedly correct for clearly subjective reasons. Enjoy your day.

[@samroof9155]

His whole speech, "the archeologists hate me for trying to find out" reminds me of the KZbin ads I see that say "the government doesn't want you to have this product" or "this engineer had his device censored by big oil".

[@diegoveloso3rd]

Or those banner ads on websites that go "Dermatologists hate her for this one simple food" then show a peeled lychee hahaha

[@Attackbow1566]

Hey now, don't joke around with the big oil censorship: it's comical, but does happen. The amount of money those people put into propaganda and information manipulation is startling.

[@samroof9155]

@@Attackbow1566 you're right. Corporations can and will control what they can to their own ends. The problem is, con artists and scammers use this fact to their advantage. Certain ads circle around online that use ai generated voices and use stock footage to advertise products that "big corporations and/or governments don't want you to know about". They advertise something unrealistic, like "this product will double your gas mileage" or something similarly fantastic, only to discover it's a blank circuit board housed in plastic with a single led light. I'm afraid it just happens.

[@Attackbow1566]

@@samroof9155 That's a very fine point, and I agree. I only made my comment because there's a startling number of people who aren't aware of the manipulations in the first place, and trust what they hear and read without inquiry. Sorry if it came off accusatory, that's my mistake.

[@samroof9155]

@@Attackbow1566 I didn't see it as accusatory. I like to add context, so it's just me being weird.

[@YerHomiePyro]

Graham: "No one listens to me." Yet he has been on the Joe Rogan show, has a fucking Netflix show, and multiple main-stream internet websites speaking about him and his work.

[@1701EarlGrey]

listening to anyone is not obligatory 😃and wasn't he had series of bestseller books in last 20+ years ?

[@chase5298]

@@1701EarlGrey best sellers mean absolutely nothing when you look at how thats determined lol

[@segueoyuri]

meanwhile over 4M people watched this guy say wrong stuff for almost an hour. Amazing huh

[@chase5298]

@@segueoyuri Crazy that even with a video spelling out how Graham is wrong right in front of you you still can't understand how you've been tricked. Some people are too dumb to have access to the internet.

[@MyBrainGlows]

i think he means "no one important listens to me."

[@mrsupaconducta]

Ancient aliens taught me how to stack charcoal in my bbq grill, which I use to honor Baal during my summer holiday feasts.

[@groovy3]

a similar experience myself! aliens went into my house and taught me how to stack pyramids made of basil and pepperoni on a charcuterie board! (which i also now roast over a firepit to honor ba’al hammun)

[@somepvpguy69]

See, those same aliens thought me how to put beans in a metal cylindrical 3 part structure to create dirty water that makes people hyperactive in large doses, while also teaching me how to use a box that creates fire with a. Strange unhealthy but good smelling liquid that then can be transferred into a wedge attached to a long bit not steep bowl to make bread into a burnt but taste treat the modern uneducated people call "toast"

[@ralek592]

.. Yall make me feel like my own mini DIY pyramid BBQ that was sherrifed by an alien feel less special.

[@Reac2]

Baal, the lord of murder, is displeased at your bbq's lack of blood, pain and brutality!

[@LaMarcheFutilé101]

@@Reac2 What if the steaks were cooked well done, would that be brutal enough for Ba'al?

[@rayaqueen9657]

Ooh Dr Geoff! I love a historian who says out the words before the common era. I find that really helpful and also it feels good to hear that there's something we agree we have in common as a planet rn. (Mapping onto the western model notwithstanding).

[@californiumblog]

53:00 "Next time you go to an art museum, remember every single thing in it is a fact." *Stares in horror at Saturn Devouring His Son*

[@nateharvey1300]

Yeah that happened to my buddy once, not pretty

[@pix.L.404]

Me looking at Andy Warhol's huge soup can. - "Giants."

[@asantaimeep]

Don't get me STARTED on cubism.

[@yeos_angel_]

it's a fact in mythology

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

Ah yes, square

[@soffren]

I used to live in Cholula. It's a common activity to hike up the pyramid to the cathedral on top of a buried pyramid. The tour of the site costs money (for foreigners) but the trail is open to the public. I miss those tunnels and that hill. As a kid it was so magical.

[@rosemadder5547]

Damn it’d be magical to me and I’m 36 😂

[@Flanneryschickens]

I visited once. You can really feel the weight of history

[@augustgurtisen]

You know what they say, everything is mystical

[@daymal2717]

Our ancestor messed up by not colonizing Baja California. Cali would look so much cooler with that tail.

[@DArtBBW25]

@@daymal2717 🤨

[@seanfletcher6703]

Props to Dr. McCafferty for coming onto the channel, I love his work and it's awesome to see you collaborate with him. Thanks for the great lesson, keep it up!

[@GrayD_Fox]

0:10 Cliff Burton is reborn to debunk theories

[@matthewwoodard9810]

Damn. That’s on point

[@maksimradomirovic7961]

LMFAO

[@glitchedoom]

THAT'S who he's been reminding me of the almost three years I've been watching him.

[@METALMAN-HellbornBand]

I just realized that’s why I like this channel so much

[@DragonMan5643]

Small thing that has nothing to do with the actual subject, but I love how he credits images discreetly and independently at the bottom of the screen. I know it's a very common thing, but it always reminds me of my favorite high school science teacher who taught us to do the same thing. If you're reading this Mr. Brown, you were one of the best teachers I ever had.

[@vibratamania]

Your welcome Christopher!

[@BigLettuce07]

@@vibratamania no way. This dudes teacher actually responded?💀 no way that’s actually Mr brown.

[@landofthelivingskies3318]

​@@BigLettuce07 ....I'm really happy for Christopher. I never got the chance to thank my favorite teacher.

[@johnshepherd6925]

​​@@BigLettuce07 I'm with you, I don't think that's his teacher 🤣

[@bend3rbot]

​@@vibratamaniaDamn, beat me to it. Like Mr. Brown beat him to IT in the materials closet!!!! Bwaaahahahahahaaa. Apologies Mr. Brown, I didn't mean to quote your sauce

[@TheLotusManFILMs.]

What I like about Graham Hancocks Netflix series is that it has inspired multiple high profile Archaeologists to make detailed rebuttals to his claims that have millions of views.

[@watermelon5896]

Well that's good

[@nicolasbascunan4013]

Gobleke Tepe still a mystery.

[@moonspirit5764]

Same!!!

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

THAT is indeed a laudable consequence of a deplorable work of ill informed mysticism.

[@goldfish1786]

@@nicolasbascunan4013what is the mystery?

[@Zinoba_]

One thing that Dr. McCafferty said stuck with me, about archeologists needing to get better at telling stories of human history (so people don't only learn about stuff from pseudoscientists). I think you are doing exactly that. You ARE good at telling these stories! I had never heard of most of these sites before, and you manage to educate in a very entertaining way. So, thanks for doing what you do. Always great to get reminded how dedicated and clever and thoughtful and amazing humanity had already been thousands of years ago all around the world.

[@claireglory]

archeology, paleontology, etc. is one of the "EXPENSIVE" branch of science there is because you always need to travel, pay for hotel, food, equipment and so many more. in a sense, archeology is a "rich man's hobby". in the past when black slavery was still present, brits, french, italians all love it. traveling to egypt, south africa and many more. seeing and discovering stuffs. there are people who didn't have a degree but became an archeologist because of their contribution in finding stuff. all you have to do is spent A LOT OF TIME researching and actual on field research about something and talk with anthropologists, linguists, philologist and the likes to translate ancient text.. and in this is what hancock did all over the world. and you can really tell hancock has an understanding about rock, ice layer formations, etc.. he is not oblivious to science. Miniminuteman should explain to us how much time he has spent and how many times he traveled and did a site research. and what kind of research he did.

[@MrSignman65]

@@claireglory It sounds like you're trying to justify his claims by playing up Hancock as a person. Hancock could have the most prestigious reputation imaginable, it doesn't contribute to the bare facts of his argument. You can take things in good faith, and place trust in reputation, but when someone tries to sell a revolutionary new idea, it doesn't matter. You need hard evidence, or 40 years later the scientific world will have to reckon with all of those years of research being based upon lies. Also, as you said, it's a rich man's hobby, but just because Hancock has a production team and the funds to travel, this doesn't make his argument better, it's still very poorly formatted. Also, Milo does actually travel to ancient sites frequently, if you'd check some of his more recent videos, you'd see a number of his videos filmed on-site. Either way, if Milo makes scientific arguments based on the information currently known, and this largely debunks Hancock's hypothesis, the ball is in Hancock's court. If his evidence is solid and worth large-scale consideration he should list his work and even write a proper research paper. In another field of science this would be more self-evident. If a researcher claims to be able to cure cancer, but never shows any definitive proof and doesn't provide any rebuttal to criticism, they don't get any credit.

[@MrSignman65]

@rustytr That's not at all what they're saying, they're saying that good storytellers get others more invested in the field. Bill Nye didn't get hundreds, maybe thousands of people interested in science through his scientific skill, he did it because he's charismatic. Fields like this need more of those people. Hancock's also a good storyteller, with a high production value too. Shame that his research isn't good though.

[@claireglory]

im talking about what milo and what hancock has done in their career. the difference between milo and hancock is that hancock has actually touched the site and relics with his bare hands and is involved with the "RESEARCH" with the original scientists that discovered it especially gobekli tepe, that proves that hancock is acknowledged by the science community even the regional director and governing staffs of that specific research site. but milo? the guy is upstairs and can't even touch anything. and this young archeologist has the guts to says such things about his senior? even if you do not agree with someone, at least know your place. its like a guy who has a car youtube channel but doesn't even ride or owns the cars that he is talking about. THEORY VS PRACTICE. if this was medicine. hancock is the unlicensed doctor and milo is a fckng freshman student who still can't do any operation or handle any patient. yes milo has the DEGREE in archeology but hancock has the ACTUAL EXPERIENCE. which in any field of study is much more important than someone who only read books. you are stuck by what you can only read. that's why i wanted to know what research has milo done. also people might think that hancock is a rich guy but he is not. he has CONNECTIONS. he knows his way to talk to people and after talking to him, people trusts him. hancock is not a crazy guy wearing tin foil hat. but these youtubers paints him as stupid tho without even listening to what he wants to say. that's why i applaud Dr. McCafferty, but milo? he is like a bitter ex-girlfriend that got left behind. @@MrSignman65 talk to hancock you can email him and have an online video call. and you'll be surprised at how knowledgeable he is. ​lastly, milo should invite hancock to have a sit down discussion with him on camera. instead of acting like a teenage boy. but with his face and voice i could really say he is a teenager.

[@MrSignman65]

@@claireglory Honestly your analogy of an unlicensed doctor being more worthy than a freshman medical student is fantastic, though maybe not in the way you intended. I would trust the med student because an unlicensed doctor has, in some way, messed up severely enough to lose their license (or hasn't been schooled at all and isn't a true doctor.) Whereas a med student clearly intends to improve and hasn't gone awry. (Frankly I'd just trust an actual, fully realized Dr., who I suppose would be McCafferty in this analogy) Milo may be inexperienced in a conventional sense, but he is still correct in that Hancock has yet to provide reasonable evidence for his sweeping conclusion. I notice that you have a bias toward on-site research, and experience rather than evidence. A vast amount of archeology isn't done on-site, but rather conducted in a lab, which actually leads to more detailed research. Milo is basing his conclusions off of this very research. Hancock's experience is more than Milo's, that's correct, but when Hancock's own peers *also* criticize his works for the same reasons Milo does, then Milo, by extension, has a point. Is he unprofessional? yes, but that isn't a failing. Milo isn't a doctor of archeology, nor a researcher, his job is to convey archaeological information to the public, a bit more like a journalist. Milo isn't trying to contest Hancock in a rigorous academic format, but rather serve as a vessel for the criticisms of other academics who do not have the media presence he has. As the original commenter said, Milo's job is telling stories from within the field. You say you respect Dr. McCafferty, but you likely wouldn't have heard McCafferty's voice without Milo conducting an interview. Not to mention McCafferty is saying the exact same thing as Milo, just more politely. Essentially, you're basing your conclusions on appearances, not evidence. Hancock and McCafferty appear academic and professional, so regardless of what they're saying, you trust them. Milo is an entertainer who tries to engage his audience rather than keep things sterile and academic? Clearly he doesn't have the experience to protest Hancock's conclusions (regardless of the evidence he presents). I would suggest cutting through appearances and getting to the heart of future arguments. You can get away with a lot of poor research by using formal language.

[@technicoloriing]

OOOOOO im so excited you mentioned Cholula in the video!! It's genuinely one of the coolest places I've visited!!

[@steel8231]

I like how he claims mainstream archeology doesn't think hunter-gatherers couldn't have built the site, then goes on to claim hunter-gatherers couldn't have made the site.

[@varyolla435]

🎯 Translation: _"do not listen to archeologists - listen to me. They are merely trying to educate you whereas = I am making money claiming this shite......."_

[@jacos133]

... what? Where? You guys just make shit up because you're too stupid to understand complex problems.

[@Dankleberrrrg]

They don't think hunter gatherers could do this. I don't either, but they don't as well.

[@YouBazinga]

Exactly. Just because of the way our ancestors obtained food does not mean that they were less sophisticated with other knowledge. It's the same when mentioning stone age. The stone age actually never ended, because it is still a much used material.

[@thendara69]

@@YouBazinga well if hunter gatherers did build all these sites, wouldnt there be shit loads more sites everywhere? i carnt remember any history lesson telling me how great hunter gatherers were at building amazing structures...they were simply hunting and gathering and moving on

[@WezelLispProductions]

Everytime my man and I pass an abandoned building, building for sale, or over all place that looks weird, he always says "huh, must be haunted". Now, thanks to milo, when ever I see something natural out of place, like a Boulder, tree, or weirdly located lake, im gonna say "huh, must be atlantis"

[@duckman6693]

Huh, must be Atlantis

[@roguewriting]

100% must be Atlantis

[@brianwalkosz9567]

Must be in a relationship with the wrong person.....your man thinking to himself

[@WezelLispProductions]

@@brianwalkosz9567 huh?

[@reneetuur1558]

@@WezelLispProductions go ask Milo

[@Phos9]

“A pyramid is any series of terraces that lead to a summit” Me, holding up a wedding cake, “Behold! A Pyramid!”

[@deaddeer7179]

Wow! That's amazing!!!! You have your own personal pyramid goddamn, wait here while I stack up my pillows to create a new, brilliant pyramid

[@amanul_2474]

Oi oi, calm down Diogenes

[@alyssumn3884]

A goddess among us! 🙇‍♀️

[@ericrowe2533]

And if you were a victorian baker, it wouldn't have been impossible to even have a little mummy in that pyramid!

[@timohara7717]

@@deaddeer7179 its for the invasion of intellegent ants in 2027

[@kelleyp1870]

“Not realizing that people like to be on top of mountains” This was so hilarious

[@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT]

I am not a professional airplane pilot, but I have some theories about how to fly airliners, mostly using magic spells & the power of thought and those prejudiced bastards in the airline industry refuse to employ me as a commercial pilot. I feel your pain Mr. Hancock!

[@coffeejunky6995]

This is the stupidest hyperbolic comment I’ve read today

[@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT]

@@coffeejunky6995 Thank you. I am British. Have we ever explained the concept of sarcasm to you?

[@PANACEA007]

😂😂😂 Classic

[@ThomasCraddock-vv7wk]

Mate I really hope this is a joke because as a commercial pilot you really should know there's strings that attach to the dome around the earth and that's what holds the plane up. Nothing to do with magic or spells 😂.

[@ThomasCraddock-vv7wk]

Mate i really hope this is a joke and i can definitely tell your not a commercial pilot cuz Pretty much everyone knows its a series of strings and pulleys attached to the dome around the earth that make the plane fly. Nothing to do with spells or magic

[@zanderford2733]

"We are a species with amnesia" would go so hard in like. Literally any other context.

[@devotedicytea]

@@TheWiseRealizer I think he means that if it weren’t linked to a conspiracy theory it would go hard, not history in general

[@lintree]

@@TheWiseRealizer ...which is another context. Like literally his whole point was in any context other than what Graham was making up

[@xXRehcaXx]

It's a great way to open a tabletop game campaign.

[@AndreaMoletta-s3c]

At least i haven't seen the monster from the Amnesia game yet.

[@stuflikethis]

@@devotedicytea Can you explain so I can understand better? I’m from the Hancock social circle Is it like an ego/tribal thing to not identify with “conspiracy theorists”? From the outside of your social bubble it seems like people get ego invested in being “better” than those stupid other lesser people who don’t follow mainstream narratives Whats it all about from your point of view? I don’t get it

[@Lh0000]

I’m reminded of that one post someone made a while back where they posted like all the pyramid-like structures people have built over the centuries and captioned it “what does this MEAN” To which another commenter replied: “it means this is the best way to stack a bunch of rocks and have them not fall down for a long time” And… yeah, sounds about right, doesn’t exactly take much effort to figure out pyramid shapes tend to be pretty sturdy, so it stands to reason and builders interested in making something of cultural importance would EVENTUALLY find this out and use it, which they did…

[@stuflikethis]

The issue is that to this day we don’t know how they made the oldest pyramids and structures

[@Lh0000]

@@stuflikethis yeah we do? Like my brother in Christ they stacked rocks on sleds and dragged them it’s genuinely not that complicated

[@stuflikethis]

@@Lh0000 It’s pretty complicated. I find it’s usually white collared Academics who have never even hung a shelf that don’t have a concept of scale or construction complexity. Anyone who’s worked on a construction site knows how tricky even simple tasks can be. Some stones in the pyramid were 80tonnes each. Possible to roll and pull on flat ground but lifting and perfectly placing is something else entirely. Not to mention we don’t know how they joined the stones so perfectly. It’s like they melted the stones together. It’s a technology we can’t replicate today. It’s a technology lost in time

[@Lh0000]

@@stuflikethis tell me you don’t understand anything about our knowledge of archeology without telling me you know nothing about our knowledge of archaeology. No the pyramids don’t seem like the stones are “melted” together, yes the stones weighed a lot, no this does not mean it’s impossible to fucking lift them. It’s people like you who have no concept of creativity and are spoiled by the ease at which significantly more complicated structures can be built to today that’s the problem here. Just because you can’t think of how they did it doesn’t mean magic or aliens or whatever nonsense you actually are prescribing here did.

[@stuflikethis]

@@Lh0000 I don’t think aliens did it. Nice strawman though. I’m just saying that it’s a lost technology. My claim is that literally no one from our current age has figured out how to construct stones in that fashion. Great pyramid, walls on Easter island, the older layers of machu piccu etc all use the same construction method that not a single person is capable of recreating today. It hasn’t been done.

[@toksiyk]

Anytime someone mentions "They had no contact with each other" in a conspiracy, the conspiracy becomes pretty much instantly dismissed because alotta people forget the fact that, humans while being very unique creatures, are also REALLY similar lol

[@charliestewartchukkers]

The issue I have with these programs is they always ask you to think for yourself while telling you that their opinion is how you should think

[@SynchronizorVideos]

The big issue - and Milo touches on it a bit - is that your average Netflix watcher will have little if any background knowledge on archeology and ancient cultures. So even if they trot out the boilerplate of “think for yourself”, pretty much any vaguely believable storyline can be presented and a viewer with no other context or opposing information will internalize it. It’s one of many cognitive biases with the human mind; we try to understand a subject and form firm conclusions out of any information we have to work with, even if that information is highly limited and relayed by someone else. If it’s all our brains have to work with, we’ll tend to run with it.

[@FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube]

@@SynchronizorVideos Of course, there is also the top % of thinkers who also have doubts with the mainstream positions. What about their questionsing? In fact, the historical evidence points toward the high likelyhood that people with profound points will be largely critized. Worrying about stupid people rising up to me seems silly. Ancient aliens did not create a new government that is holding spain hostage or something. Those extremely foolish people are losers who cannot navigate let alone control reality. It is not justification for name calling and disrespect toward people who do show a passion for learning... is not the wise or informed priority to have a vague fear serve as a foundational piece of evidence for an entire course of action. Likely couping mechanisms are to blame for the poor behavior of experts.

[@FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube]

@@SynchronizorVideos I dont want to leave a misunderstanding that i was saying you are wrong. Im just saying your tone seemed to suggest people are gullible and thats a problem, but the problem is, if people belive Milo.. they also are gullible and can be misled, so best we push all sides to refine and restate their reasoning. By relying on people to use their own minds, we enforce an accountability system on the experts rather than undermine them. Reasoning can be improved and be put up against laws of physics. Unchecked expertise naturally developes alongside psychological phenomenon. Complacency, maximization of Praise versus the maximization of collaborative truth discovery... i didnt know a single word for that one.. but yes you get the point

[@otundetchagala9560]

@@SynchronizorVideos So we should ban movies and books then, since a lot of people like to imitate fictional characters....

[@chadkingoffuckmountain970]

@@otundetchagala9560 You really pulled that random conclusion straight out your ass.

[@HeroNotFound05]

The most disappointing thing about ancient apocalypse was I thought it would be really cool, and in my head I thought it might be about the Bronze Age collapse, which really was like an apocalypse for ancient humans, but no I was met with pain and disappointment

[@shad0ish829]

Not the same time period, but can I recommend '536AD, the worst year in human history, catastrophe' if you haven't seen it yet? It's very old, so not nearly as pretty as ancient apocalypse, but easily found on KZbin. 2 parts about a catastrophic event in the 6th century and the repercussions. It's on 'chronicle medievil history documentaries'.

[@robertstull8759]

I had the same hopes. A friend told me about it, but described it very poorly. So, I honestly thought it was going to be about the Bronze Age collapse and got really excited. Imagine my disappointment. I do, however, find conspiracy theories entertaining so I was able to make it through two episodes.

[@anok4u2]

Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts is a good watch covering that subject.

[@whothefoxcares]

The modern apocalypse ends with #ChatGPT caught in an infinite loop repeating: #Thatswhythatswhybecausethatswhy.

[@PlushieBastet]

I did too. I was so hyped that Netflix, of all ppl, was stepping up to the plate to explain a real global apocalypse our ancestors went through. I was so pumped to see why Ancient Egypt and Ancient China were the only civilizations to more or less weather the devastation the best. And then... Ancient Aliens part 2. 😞

[@maianhnguyen8366]

Graham Hancock: *see lava tubes under a volcano* *inhales* “SECRET TUNNELS”

[@joyofcookies]

I meeaaannn, to be fair; they are tunnels that no one knew about. And we don’t know for sure if the volcano that made them was in on the conspiracy.

[@zzz7903]

🎶 Secret tunnel 🎶 Through the mountain 🎶 Secret secret secret tunneeeelll

[@justmo6208]

​@@joyofcookies the volcanos are working with mainstream media

[@mnomadvfx]

@@zzz7903 It's on double secret probation!

[@mnomadvfx]

@@joyofcookies Damn those conspiratorial volcanoes!😆

[@JonnyKoval-x3y]

This is great, I've seen you on reels and you really delivered in long format. Good stuff brother 🎉.

[@dogma2660]

Weird period to live in: multinational media corporation produces a major series full of misinformation and speculative history; correct history being taught by 20-something youtuber...

[@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p]

This just proves that Netflix thinks that woo sells better than reality. And, sadly, they're right.

[@jordananderson2728]

Taught by Will Turner*

[@ixhilkalaskiiver792]

he was misrepresented and proved it on rogan's show, ahem... ;p

[@tsm688]

@@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p They were televising pseudoscience from popular books as early as 1973. Netflix fell a hell of a lot faster than History Channel however.

[@stevrgrs]

It’s always been this way. It’s just that now people are actually giving the 20 something’s credit for their intelligence and tenacity :)

[@holasmay542]

I'm so happy someone finally broke down how Pyramids around the world had different purposes based on the diffrent cultures living there!!

[@Rampart.X]

No one knows what purposes the pyramids served. Everything is conjecture, nothing proved.

[@wirelesmike73]

I'm glad that someone pointed out how cynical, dismissive, belittling, and downright disrespectful it is to human ingenuity to assume that ancient peoples couldn't have figured out how to stack rocks without alien intervention. And, how different in appearance they all are from each other. Sure, some of them have levels, but their shape and dimensions are all so wildly dissimilar. If Aliens designed them as landing areas for their spacecraft, they were really poor designers, and obviously had no concept of standardization. Alien Travel Agent:😬 _Well, we'll be staying in South America for a few months before hopping on over to Egypt, so, we better take both spaceships along and schedule a layover in orbit, since Egypt has those pointy smooth tops and no steps to get up and down. I don't know why we did that. We really need to plan these things better._ 🤔

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Sure, the same structure doesn't imply the same intent, vastly different social and mythical inspirations

[@KaladinVegapunk]

What's kind of hilarious is this clown loves the whole "they don't like me because I challenge the norms" angle, same thing ex doctor Andy Wakefield said when he started his fraudulent autism study to sell single dose vaccines and spawned anti vax cultists, flat earthers use it It's just such an obvious rhetoric ignorant, uneducated morons use to excuse not knowing any of the facts

[@KaladinVegapunk]

I will say, i majored in anthro, but also as a history buff, during the interview when he says history is written by the victors that's a major pet peeve Yes, propaganda and manipulated narratives exist, it's how the clean Wehrmacht myth arose, or civil war being states rights not slavery BS But history, real history..is written by historians. It's peer reviewed, from multiple first and second hand accounts, and isn't written with a preexisting motive or angle, that's what biographies are for. They use inter office memos, supply reports, private letters, the non glorifying facts Context definitely matters, we can draw some amazing details from Caesars writing on the gaulic campaign, knowing it's through his biased self aggrandizing lens.

[@surfk9836]

There is no way the Aztecs could have developed an elaborate irrigation system. They needed an ancient advanced civilization to tell them water runs downhill.

[@pfassarella8959]

They were the advanced civilization.

[@johnhenry4844]

@@pfassarella8959 it’s sarcasm dude

[@dueldr]

How many thousand years of human advancement did it take to develop the wheel? A lot more than you may think.. hindsight is 20/20

[@t_time5053]

@@dueldr that is such a bad comparison. The one thing is a natural phenomenon that can be observed all the time. The other is unnatural and you need understanding of geometry to create it..

[@surfk9836]

@@dueldr Don't confuse round things with a rim, spokes, and axel.

[@mauriciokrebs2913]

mu grandpa was a historian and resercher. One day my father brought home von danichen "were the gods astronauts?" My granpa was pissed off. At some point he stoped the movie and said to me: "cant you see? they have not a single evidence! is all talk!" At 13 yers old i said "sure grandpa" Now i understand exactly why he was so pissed.

[@tridentfire1203]

Your English sucks

[@rubensanchezramirez7028]

I love how Hancock says that the academia hates him and meanwhile there’s this absolute sweetheart of a man (who happens to be a doctor in archeology and an expert on the pyramid of Cholula) and he is just happy that there’s a documentary about his field of study. Not only that, but he also says that Hancock is a charming man and he enjoyed talking to him.

[@Ilanawolf12]

He doesn't say they hate him, but that they dismiss him. But, this Milo character certainly seems to hate Hancock.

[@rubensanchezramirez7028]

@@Ilanawolf12 Well, the doctor in archeology definitely didn’t dismiss Hancock, he actually participated in the documentary.

[@davidwatson2399]

@@rubensanchezramirez7028 You didn't listen to the words.

[@patrickquinlan3056]

I have never heard Hancock say that academia hates him. Who told you that lie?

[@anthonyjames4247]

@@patrickquinlan3056 hancock

[@alphariusomegon3588]

I'm studying Archaeology at university, having recently started a few weeks ago. Our very first lecture opened with a statement of "Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher cultures... why they aren't simple" 16:20

[@afiiik1]

The more I learn about human history the more it sinks in that humans have been exactly as smart and "good/bad" as we are today for a long long time. They just had different knowledge and culture and access to resources.

[@wardex888]

I've noticed a recurring theme in almost every conspiracy theory: "If the evidence contradicts our belief, then the evidence must be wrong."

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Just after "Evidence, there is no evidence, if there were evidence you could SHOW me the Evidence"... you show it to them, they react "No, not THAT Evidence, that is obviously nonsense." or "well Science has to always change its story, no wonder we cannot believe anything it says".

[@user-os7pm7fj7d]

That's also common among religious nuts.

[@Blackwell755]

You’re educational and hilarious. Really love this video ❤ Edit: I wish this is what the internet was always used for- the sharing of knowledge. Education shouldn’t depend on economic status.

[@Silly_cereal]

I actually watched ancient apocalypse, only it takes me months to get through it because it really felt agonizing to hear him say the exact same things every episode

[@lrock48]

Kind of like that guy with the crazy hair in ancient aliens.

[@fuzielectron5172]

Only seen the first episode and he wasn't in it.

[@SnoW-pk9zo]

​@@fuzielectron5172 it's a very good serie. This guy is just hopping on a hate train trend to get views

[@LordSandwich27]

​@@SnoW-pk9zono its not. He has a nice voice but what he's saying is almost entirely idiotic. I also don't like how each episode is so similar to the previous ones. The only way he got that Netflix deal is because his son Sean is "senior manager of unscripted originals" there

[@dad378]

@@SnoW-pk9zo he clearly lays out why he doesn't like the series, your feeling got hurt because you believe Hancock, so this guy hurts your ideas, you are actually hopping on a blind hate train of this brilliant youtuber...

[@Omega_Orion]

A neat thing you mention around 48:15 is how the Mayan pyramids chirp like a quetzal when you clap. I've had the pleasure of visiting Tikal in Guatemala and it is not just the site you mention that behaves like that, but rather they took very precise design steps throughout their cities to ensure this would occur. It's absolutely magical to experience

[@janTesika]

I've been there and tried that, it didn't sound like anything other than a clap for me. maybe I just wasn't really listening?

[@Omega_Orion]

@@janTesika Perhaps it wasn't loud enough? Mine wasn't but our guide's was.

[@nathanielb8717]

That’s awesome, imagine crowds of clapping people…

[@minecrafttroller1000]

@@janTesika I’ve never been there, but I imagine you might have to be in a certain spot to get it like that. A lot of theatres are built like that

[@janTesika]

@@Omega_Orion that could do it? I'm not sure.

[@XxLoveMangaGirlxX]

If you married Stephan Milo you'd be Milo Milo and I think that's important

[@Fawnfreckle]

It is so important

[@hockeygrrlmuse]

You don't even have to marry someone to become Milo Milo. You can just decide it for like $400, which is much cheaper than a husband

[@Plexxis_SugarPom]

​@@hockeygrrlmuseBut then there'd be no perks from being married, like snuggling or tax purposes.

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

​@@hockeygrrlmuse thanks for the tip, gonna become Milo Milo now and start the channel Maximinuteman so I can be the more milo than milo

[@hockeygrrlmuse]

@@bobthegamingtaco6073 how many Milos per Minute, man?

[@benjaminandersson6269]

A sincere thank you Milo, as a history student i find your content especially entertaining and neccessary.

[@joshuaformanek7854]

If the advanced civilization that conquered the globe was wiped out by 4 inches of water, I don't think they were as advanced as you think.

[@Pansu1]

multiply that by 100 000

[@blakksheep736]

Amazing point, OP.

[@TheAether-kq7mq]

I think our thinking is not advance

[@Malkontent1003]

​@TheAether-kq7mq Have you a mouse in thine pocket, friend?

[@Whatlander]

They left all their ipads on the ground for spiritual reasons, and thus their wisdom was lost u_u

[@Runix1]

I love how the Dr. McCafferty talked about archeologists needing to be better at communicating - that's exactly what you're doing! Thanks for another great video

[@ixinor]

The fact they hired actual scientists, allowed them on the show but decided to sneakily film their nonsense really proves these malicious directors, teams and plans should be dismantled. It's lying, it's deceiving, it's literally to lie to the audience for clickbait. They knew what they were doing.

[@daniellove162]

- it’s entertaining fantasy. No one watching has any power to change the institution gate keepers who have an established paradigm of anthropology.

[@samuelstarrick8487]

@@daniellove162could you explain your point here please? Im not quite following what you’re trying to point out here.

[@Glaaki13]

History Channel did the same

[@ixinor]

@@Glaaki13 Yup, they did. And I've quickly binge watched the Second season of Graham's show and its atrocious. Literally KZbin content as a show/documentary. It's sickening really. Also the fact he has Keanu Reeves in it for like a Minute of showtime cutting away of every discussion he made it was plain and obvious. It was literally hilarious how useless Keanu's presence was, there was no discussion nor arguments. Just him stating a few things such as "As a KID I always thought there was more to it" etc. Almost as if he doesn't fully believe his story or the faith of their documentary. Also the discoveries he's talking about were Scientific articles of recent discoveries. So basically he reinforced their discoveries which is GREAT but KZbin is riddled with it as are News articles. But then in the Show he carefully selects words again as "I believe" and "In my opinion" etc and sprouts fantastical nonsense.

[@daniellove162]

@@samuelstarrick8487 The show is a fun/entertaining interpretation of the past and the random people enjoying it have NO POWER (or interest) to influence the academic gate keepers who define what historical narratives are allowed to be taught. People are watching fiction on TV and have no interest in changing how universities teach this subject.

[@THE_W0RLD_1S_Y0UR5]

Amazing editing! It makes everything seem so natural and real-time. Can't wait to see the video of content creators calling other content creators 'fake content creators'.

[@ther3aper561]

Its really disingenuous of Hancock to think ancient people were too stupid or didnt care about building massive structures when ... Were literally still obsessed with it, and have been throughout our history

[@alicepersson9568]

Imagine in the future, humans on Mars will send sensovideos on their fourthdimensionally mobile holophones about how "its impossible for 1000 and 2000's millenia humans to have built Burj Kalifa and skyscrapers with their primitive power tools and CATs."

[@poolhall9632]

At no point does Hancock ever claim that the indigenous peoples were not intelligent enough. This is a disingenuous interpretation of a legitimate question he’s asking - how they were able to achieve it? none of the “experts“ are able to tell him or recreate it. So if you have a hypothesis and it is not provable or repeatable it’s just a theory - and probably not a very good one. So if the only answer to Hancocks questions is to point a finger and loudly scream “racist” at him …. That’s not scientific or expert argument…. It’s an emotional one.

[@EndoftheBeginning17]

@@poolhall9632 Hancock is asking the wrong people then. He's asking scholars, have him ask a brick mason (specifically a guy who has to plan and build large stone structures from both cut and uncut stones and make walls and stuff. That guy could tell how it was all done in about 15 minutes if just a little reseacrch was done into the seven simple machines (look it up on wikipedia)

[@voice-of-the-flame]

Make another one... I'm waiting

[@dorianalexander2730]

@@poolhall9632agreed. I just recently began watching more of Hancock stuff actually from this channel leading me to him. And I don’t feel he matches any of the claims his naysayers make of him or his accolades. But more seem like gate keepers on what should be considered real history and questions and if it could have been discovered then of course they would have discovered it by now. The egos are insane. And realistically I don’t know why it matters what statements Hancock makes if their arguments are so completely sound. Maybe let people think what they want to think after they listen to both arguments. The desire to discredit one another is so unbecoming.

[@jayfindlay7793]

In fairness, fingerprints of the gods is a sick name for a book

[@VickyHong1879]

Urban fantasy mystery thriller

[@pix.L.404]

If only it was an actually good book that deserved a good title

[@madamfussybritches9630]

Or like a Norwegian alternative rock band.

[@tomdreler6528]

And a cool Name for a band

[@thedogfather5445]

Foreskin of the God's would be better.

[@AzathothLives]

Just recently I learned that they've found cities built by hunter-gatherers, entire permanent settlements where people gathered to mingle and worship before heading back out. And thinking about it, its almost obvious something like that would be a thing. We're a social species, we like to sit in one place and build shit... so yeah. Even if most of your tribe were going out to unga-bunga some caribou, having a base to set out from and to keep your more vulnerable members safe just makes sense.

[@frankpolly]

correct. one thing that is often taught is that Homo sapien went from being hunter gatherers to farmers in one step. this isn't true. it was a process of migrations to area's suitable for living in, but that didn't mean they started farming the moment they got there. there would have been a period of stable living based on hunting and gathering as well as trading with other tribes/clans as well as building up their homes from the more simple hut to more permanent structures and of course building more permanent graves for their deceased. the fact that farming was started in area's with fertile ground is pure logic as fertile ground would be found amongst rivers where there was lush nature to pick fruits and berries as well as a lot of animals that would have surrounded the area's because the river was their source of water, so hunter gatherers would have made those area's their permanent home before they discovery of farming already.

[@mssnadie]

​@@frankpolly I came here to comment because "Unga bunga a caribou" is one of the funniest sentences ever written but then I read this comment and thought "how thoughtful, shame on me. Hehe Some caribou hehe. No, seriously, shame on me"

[@San_Vito]

You can't just start farming at a medium or large scale out of nothing. The plants we eat are all domesticated species, their wild counterparts were very different and you simply got less food for your work. It was a slow process. Great comment Frankpolly, btw.

[@danielmorton1606]

Even if you can only stay seasonally, it makes sense to have sites. Even if these sites are just cultural exchange areas, it would promote genetic diversity, material and tradition exchange etc.

[@AzathothLives]

@@San_Vito Exactly. It makes sense that we would start domesticating plants in more permanent areas while still doing the whole hunter-gatherer thing. You use what grain you've planted when it is ready, or even circle back to it on harvest time. Eventually we get good enough at planting that we can stop hunting for our main source of food, and that is when cities really start taking off. But I mean we never really stopped hunting. But yeah, even in these early stages people built crazy stuff. The city I was thinking of had a tower where you could stand during sundown, and depending what time of the year it was... the sun would settle into one of several notches on a hill. And this was all done back when we were still menacing mammoths.

[@thehunt85]

I always enjoy hearing "the other side of a story" . Thank you Milo !

[@JAllenKaiser]

I’m glad Milo made a point about the timeless universal human impulse to stack rocks [cairn building] - which continues to this day. Even modern visitors in national parks just innately feel compelled to stack rocks into pointy piles, (hancockian mini-“pyramids” I guess 😂) and the park visitors’ compulsive urge drives park rangers nuts… because cairns are normally used by the park service as waypoints or official markers… and with everyone’s inborn desire to stack rocks… it obscures the park’s official markers and can lead to people wandering off trails and getting lost. (Perhaps someone should suggest to park rangers that a more distinctive waymarker design would be appropriate than a stacked pile of rocks; a “design” older than homosapiens, and signifying everything from memorials, to altars, to graves, to artesian spring signage, to territorial boundary markers, to a prehistoric version of Lego… or Jenga… etc. etc.)

[@natanprzybylko7227]

I remember at the base of Devil's Bridge hike in Arizona the was a literal small field of just small stacks of rocks each like a foot or so high, and nearly everyone passing by would add another rock to a stack or just start making a new stack. Must have been over a hundred stacks lol

[@redrix1787]

No one: Monke brain: make rocks into pile

[@lisahiselius6539]

Not the hancockian mini-pyramids hahaha

[@atlanderwrites]

D&D players make dice towers. Stack the shiny rocks!

[@addyshorhnr3544]

Honestly that peace of “evidence” feels like if there was a significant amount of evidence for people climbing trees and digging holes and someone concluded that meant that two waring societies existed one in the trees and the ones that live in the ground. These people had a Great War with each other and if you climb trees or dig holes when you are bored it’s which of these ancient people you are related to. Edit: I would like to say that this is not in the lines of the people who actually did live underground or in tree huts. That’s evidence I meant if they included that they somehow had evidence that someone just climbed a tree or like used their foot to make a small hole.

[@Ramshackle6984]

I'm extremely disappointed that Graham Hancock intentionally omitted information, pushed misinformation and mislead his readers and fans. Thank you for this series doing the due diligence.

[@wout123100]

its bad journalism and it gets him money. his fans are not going to change whatever the debunk vids.

[@Unqualifiedtake]

If he didn't lie, then he wouldn't have a job. You will see a lot of those

[@stotty117]

​@@Unqualifiedtakegot news for you most of history is a lie and writen by people who never partook in sed history archaeology is an even bigger lie they literally make shit up all the time to further there funding ohh not to mention the one sided funding for an answer that they want not that is true apparently with knolls made up or not holds power over other look at religion sienc has gorn the same way

[@stevecarter8810]

Yeah the whole series is essentially clickbait. It's fun to sit how he leads you to think stuff without him actually saying it. The number of times he asks a question that has the effect of an assertion, but it's not an assertion. Like: "I'm not saying the husband of the woman who was shot had a gun in his car, but if he did... Well, what might you do in such a situation?"

[@MTGHedgefund]

​@@wout123100it's honestly not THAT much different than what this guy does here. I'm sure most people watching this video took it all at face value, as fans of Hancock do for his work. But people who know the source material would tell you that this guy acting totally perplexed about the 24kya dating of Gunung Padang means he is either disingenuous or lazy. That date comes from the work of Danny Hilman and if this guy had bothered to read that publication, he'd understand where it comes from and WHY people like Graham AND Danny believe that 24kya layer is so important. But I guarantee everyone who watched this video immediately dismissed that work without following up and reading the literature. The work needs to be expanded on and verified or refuted with more research, but in no way can it be debunked so easily.

[@karlarden6260]

I just binged all of this series, I respectfully submit that you omitted an important detail: Graham Hancock’s son works for Netflix. Can’t help but think it might had something to do with the production of Ancient Apocalypse.

[@JCRen]

I read your comment and was very interested because you're right that would be something worth mentioning. So I will also mention that Graham Hancock son does not just work for Netflix, he is the "senior manager of unscripted originals". Which could lead one to conclude that if Graham's son Sean had not worked for Netflix the documentary would not have been made.

[@Anon999-qk3ue]

@@JCRen Underrated comment thread right here

[@Bobby-k2q]

omitted suggests he knew.

[@anboram603]

He did actually because he says sociologists who has a son that works for Netflix he’s talk about Graham Hancock and his son that works in Netflix

[@__________8997]

Slanderous to say outright perhaps and why it was left to implication, seems reasonable enough if that is the case

[@color-modotti]

just had a long conversation with a stranger in a bar all about graham hancock… it’s amazing what life will turn up for us! still, all necessary humility aside, it felt good to have a response and reference to point him to.

[@varyolla435]

If you read Carl Sagan's last book written in the 90's he opens with a conversation with a person he had whereby as you alluded to = that person was rambling LAHT nonsense as supposed fact.......... So yes = "they" are out there if you look hard enough. 🤦🤷

[@angelaboesche]

When he said "Write this down, it'll be on the test" the first time, I legit looked around for a pen and paper...I have been out of school for 10 years...and this man brought me back with one sentence. So anyway, I'm ready for the test if anyone needs to copy my notes.

[@patriciaroos9987]

I've never been excited for a test before let's open up a study group who's with me?

[@schad1738]

@@patriciaroos9987 Bet, ill bring the scented highlighters

[@danthepaninimanbreadboy9253]

I can have the staff team organize a test if you want lol

[@ROT4RYfc3s]

I'll take your cliffnotes

[@Yezpahr]

@@schad1738 You bring that, I bring the air horn and duct tape for under the teacher's seat. O ... wait .. he just stands.

[@mikeoliver3254]

1. Cannot wait for the rest of the series. 2. Can you do long form videos detailing the history of a few of the lesser known sites please. 3. Your cat is adorable.

[@samiL4332]

4. Fire your editor for splicing every gulp of water on a hot mic

[@Mikeoneal07]

​@@samiL4332 No.

[@xenos3116]

Seconded

[@ishathakor]

the pyramid thing is so hilarious actually. "why does everyone have pyramids!!!!" maybe because a pyramid shape is a very simple way to pile rocks on top of each other

[@Manigeitora]

The one other thing I keep bringing up is that so many of these whackos cite the fact that there are _naturally formed mountains_ that look _really_ similar to pyramids. They insist that this means they're actually manmade structures instead of mountains, but the obvious conclusion is quite the opposite: Mother Nature itself was showing us that pyramids are long-lasting, stable structures, because that's what mountains basically are!

[@dyamiking253]

@@Manigeitora do you know how tectonic plates work, cause if you do you wouldn't have said that...

[@julia4740]

its also just the most stable shape. did every past human look the same just because we find skeletons? no the flesh and skin just doesnt last as long lmao is the same with pyramids. house of other shape does not last -__-

[@dyamiking253]

@julia4740 a geometric perfect shape, how did humans do that with the tools we have in common knowledge, I'll wait because the entire science community is still trynna figure it out but imma let you tell me since you think you know....

[@dyamiking253]

@julia4740 Yall probably trusted faucci too, I hope you don't get a blood clot from that vaccine sheep...

[@brunopeers4330]

you should do a dedicaded series about all the places he talked about. bc they genuanly seem interesting places

[@just_a_tiny_dinosaur5014]

I absolutely love dr McCaffery’s interview, especially his point about archaeologists “telling the stories better”, in pursuing my degree i’m focusing specifically on the accessibility of anthropological research, some people have even started turning their ethnographies into graphic novels! Academic journals are just so inaccessible, but everyone loves comics, and as an artist myself I love the idea of combining my two passions

[@elizabethb4168]

That sounds fascinating!

[@sarasunshine883]

I would read the sh*t outta anthropology graphic novels.

[@maspesasmasperras5554]

What about porn as a medium? Think about it

[@stefansmits9897]

Wow, that is truly an amazing idea. Combining the popularity of comics, graphic novels with actual archeology and history would be a great way to introduce children to our shared past and an amazing way for schools and teachers to have a new way of sharing their passion and knowledge with their students

[@Gibbypastrami]

Any names for the graphic novels? I’d love to support if they’re being produced!

[@definitelynotskynet]

If it makes you feel better: the main reason I watch Ancient Aliens is because I like to find out and then do some proper reading on sweetass ancient structures I previously didn’t know existed. I think it’s a good source for stuff like that because they rely so heavily on people not knowing about these “obscure” structures and the lack of common knowledge makes the lies harder to detect. So, yeah. Even my first hearing of places like that within that context still yields some cool information.

[@nathangames1576]

Plot Twist: That's how they stoke the fire of curiosity and get people educated.

[@kennadyyoung8237]

Yes! I do exactly the same thing. They are one of the best places to find weird obscure archeological sites I've never heard of. I also like to check in on that one guys hair that keeps getting bigger.

[@bigdaddydrip4452]

The problem is that most people just believe things at face value. They dont ask questions and probe deeper into the topic.

[@definitelynotskynet]

@@bigdaddydrip4452 Oh yeah, I know. I’m not saying that. But he just stated that it was unfortunate some people’s first exposure was via that type of media. So while too many people believe it, at least a few people are using this garbage as an avenue towards actually learning about obscure sites that don’t otherwise get any attention.

[@richardtaylor6341]

I think this is most people's reason for watching, but then there are these folks with Dunning Kruger that think we must all be nuts because it'd stress free and sometimes a good.laugh

[@TheGoddamnBareBear666]

Very valid point about Gunung Padang. If those slabs weighed around 660 lbs, that really is not a difficult acheivement to be made by humans. When I was 16 years old, I could squat 360 lbs. Recently, there was a guy that was squating and he forgot to pull the pin on the squat machine. He ended up lifting the whole machine lol. He already had around 300 lbs on it and the machine itself weighed a couple hundred lbs. Getting close to that 1/3 of a ton mark there. And he did it effortlessly; he actually didn't realize he had lifted the whole machine. Imagine what a few dozen people with simple mechanisms could do.

[@loveeelana]

For sure i feel like people underestimate human strength and intelligence, and will power our species is very stubborn

[@TheIgnitionCollective]

Saw that video, the dude watching him was so happy he recorded himself doing it. Guys a beast, back then everyone musta been beasts

[@LiamSmith-r3p]

​​​​​​​@@TheIgnitionCollective i sort of suspect that most people's builds would be more like a lightweight boxer or soccer player and less like a strongman/ power lifter. Because while they certainly would have had a to do a lot of varied physical activity to survive they also might find it harder to have large calorie surpluses and might not even be interested in spending the resources it would take to bulk up like that. It might be more beneficial to have more individuals in the group, more kids, more food stockpiled, or spend more time building better shelters, tools, clothes, art ect rather than spending more and more time and resources to get bigger and more muscular. I'm no expert though, that's just my intuition. Most animals don't seem to want to waste more energy than it takes to get food and shelter. I'm sure there would be exceptions in human societies, people that intentionally trained for sport and war just like today.

[@OneFinalAutumn]

Keep in mind that he was lifting that machine using leverage, so the weight was dispersed differently than if he lifted it straight off the ground without the weight tipping backwards. Still goes to show that people don't need much to move heavy things, and can easily find the means to make the task even easier lol

[@cheesyspace]

Explain the mother stone in baalbeek 1200 tons heavy even two of the strongest cranes on earth couldnt lift him up. Wake up there was technology we lost over history or was covered up. Thats a fact by just using the brain.

[@wherethehellismiguel]

*runs to my room to get a notebook unaware that there's a test* I know I'm a year late

[@KnubbelKekz]

You can see the moment Milo went from informative gathering of research to full nerd mode archaeologist with twinkling eyes and that's what I'm here for. Science, passion and no bullshit.

[@2MinuteHockey]

this video is like, 69% bullshit filler and attempt at humor there's about 8 mins of info and 1 joke that partially hits the rest is what Americans do best--noisy layers of shitshow which is ironic bc it's exposing a shitshow

[@craigsparks1442]

It's all bullshit, he received all his training from some old guy that doesn't want to lose a grant so spews out bullshit in books and lecture rooms to keep his job.

[@ysbrann3059]

​@@craigsparks1442 you want to believe in Hancock bullshit so hard it s pathetic at this point.

[@Coinz8]

​@@craigsparks1442and Hancock spews bullshit that he made up to people like you for money.

[@smergthedargon8974]

@@craigsparks1442 bait boomer lmao

[@serenedoge9920]

Pretty sure I straightened up in my chair and had a flashback when Milo said to open up the textbooks. Those are some serious high school history teacher vibes. Can’t wait for the next part. :D

[@-Ghostess]

I had to remind myself I haven't been in highschool or college in almost a decade because I almost ran to the living room for my egyptology textbooks. It is 5:30 in the morning and there are people asleep in my living room. Why is my brain like this

[@colechristensen1909]

“If Grant Hancock can make an 8 episode series about nothing & get a Netflix deal I can make a multi-part series on KZbin & you can click through the videos” The snark omg 😂 love it

[@rogerelzenga4465]

so you dont think this kid has the same incentive to lie to you too? i mean he flat out admitted it....

[@GoodNeutralEvilChaos]

​@@rogerelzenga4465 here's an idea: if you don't believe him, look it up. He makes it very clear that doing research is very important is is going in depth about each topic to explain all his findings. This should make it very easy for you to find where the lies are.

[@GoodNeutralEvilChaos]

​@@rogerelzenga4465if you don't believe him, why don't you do your own research? He's going *so* indepth it's somewhat boring at times. No, seriously, you could easily point out things that don't make sense and research the topic to find the lies. It's not that hard.

[@omhh1986]

​@@rogerelzenga4465I wish weirdos like you were actually this sceptical when listening to other weirdos like Hancock

[@Theboxingobserver]

He is the ultimate, controlled media grifter. Cashes a 7 figure Netflix and Spotify cheque every month, yet fundamentally hates mainstream media, science and its culture. And his son is head of procurement at Netflix and personally signed this show. The odds of that happening!!

[@cir0plus]

22:15 Hancock: If you hear hooves, think of unicorns and not horses.

[@avak2101]

Pretty sure if he heard hooves, he'd think of centaurs

[@noahgraff-uw8rs]

Naw, people with goat feet

[@jacobash5904]

You never know! It could be!

[@stevrgrs]

I mean unicorns could have been real. Look at narwhals . No one would have EVER believed they would have existed if we couldn’t literally see them :)

[@divineruins]

@@stevrgrs i wouldn't have believed it either. narwhals are fucked up little things

[@PalisadePeryton]

Milo: "If you've seen the Indiana Jones movies, you know who 'Enemy Number One' is to archeologists." My last braincell: _Giant rolling boulders?_

[@Oddball5.0]

Nazis. I hate those guys.

[@michaelt.4084]

No, the saber-swinging guy on the bridge... Thank god Indy had his gun😎

[@Tommykey07]

Nazis!

[@anikirby9755]

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes

[@michaelt.4084]

@@anikirby9755 don't call it a snake, call it a rope!

[@miomire22]

Graham Hancock is me when I'm writing an academic paper for university pretending not to see that one source that dismantles my entire argument but somehow on the scale of a netflix documenatry series

[@pinkshortcomedy]

thats so surprisingly accurate.

[@GaneshPalraj1991]

Can you site that one source that dismantles his full theory?

[@pagmonreal]

@@GaneshPalraj1991 this video

[@chiefgilray]

​@@GaneshPalraj1991I would also like to see this

[@leodesalis5915]

​@@GaneshPalraj1991they're not saying there's one source that disproves his entire theory, it's what's known as a joke, what they're saying is that Graham Hancock ignores the sources that completely dismantle his argument and making a relatable joke at the same time.

[@neoneodelilibeth]

Man thank you so much for the work you do.

[@imjustdandy9799]

MY PARENTS WATCHED THIS and I literally thought “this sounds like bs conspiracy nonsense, I wish Milo would talk about it” I didn’t think you actually would! The part that I listened to from the kitchen said like 5 insane ideas, gave no evidence, and then complained about how people didnt believe him for like an equal amount of time smdh.

[@miniminuteman773]

Tell your parents I made this video specifically for them.

[@emzetkin1100]

That's how these fringe theorists work. Rather than change their ideas to conform to available data and evidence, they say they're being persecuted, that the establishment doesn't understand them, etc., when in reality it's because their ideas might as well be so much toilet paper.

[@dahken417]

I wish people would entertain the idea that persecuted people are *OCCASIONALLY* persecuted for a legitimate reason.

[@capperbuns]

​@@emzetkin1100ey, don't insult toilet paper like that. It has atleast 5 uses i can think of. Conspiracy theorist bs doesn't have any use.

[@capperbuns]

​@@dahken417yeah.

[@Prelooker]

Just found your channel and I'm having a blast. I watched Ancient Apocalypse and noticed that biased hint all over, but I don't have the actual knowledge to challenge it, so I'm grateful an actual archeologist took the time to make a series of videos to even scratch the surface of this guy's theories. Btw, loving the Turkey series! ♥ That's what made me suscribe!

[@DigitalEdward]

So the common narrative isnt biased? Graham just applies a different perspective. Nobody knows who is right or wrong

[@Prelooker]

@@DigitalEdward Exactly. I've read several of his books, and heard podcasts and interviews. And he never says there's room for doubt in his theories. He presents them as rock solid and blames "mainstream scientists" for rejecting it "because they don't like him, 'cause he threatens the status quo of their power". But it is true that he grasps at straws at some points, and doesn't offer any true, concret, irrefutable evidence of what he proposes. I'd be thrilled if he did, 'cause I actually like his theory.

[@jamisojo]

​@@DigitalEdward Graham's perspective is full of lies. I wouldn't call that something as innocent as a "perpective."

[@DigitalEdward]

@@jamisojo lies 😂😂😂 yes only lies and the mainstream does not contain any lies 😂😂😂

[@facelessdrone]

@@DigitalEdward separating things into mainstream and indie like you are doing now only serves to force you to ignore their objectivity. You automatically and intrinsically place more credence into something that does not warrant it simply because it isnt mainstream, tell me exactly how is that scientific and truthful in any way? It isnt. It is a lie, a lie you tell yourself that fuels the part of your ego that desires to be unique and to be superior to others by having hidden knowledge. Examine them objectively and you'll see how ridiculous your stance is.

[@yochva]

You make a FANTASTIC lecturer. I've loved all of your videos, but since you've structured this one as a lecture I'll comment on it. If I'd had you in university I would have been properly engaged the entire way through and gleefully retained the information. You have the right balance of "this is rote information" and "this is off-the-cuff knowledge" to blend the sharing of passion with teaching to the exam, and you used all the tools around you (your notebook, the chalkboard, the dais space) with very good pacing. Well done, and I can't wait for the next lesson!

[@Bixnoodle]

If he'd stop the little "funny" distractions like messing around with his cat and swearing for comedic effect I'd totally agree

[@redspiderlilys6]

@@Bixnoodle i think those are funny and should be left in

[@taterkaze9428]

@@Bixnoodle Lighten up, Francis.

[@Bixnoodle]

@@taterkaze9428 you'll be okay, Hanz

[@TheMasaaz]

"Oh yes great teacher please tell us more, our brain yearns for the knowledge. We want facts and science please and in bite size pieces that have already been chewed on because we have no teeth." "I can't wait for the next time I can just inject all these facts and knowledge straight into my veins, using the brain is so last century."