Neil deGrasse Tyson - Columbus Discovering America Was a Great Achivement - Joe Rogan

Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1159: • Joe Rogan Experience #...

[@leslielani1980]

Bullshit. The most significant event in the history of our species, was on April 1st, 1990. At the Sky Dome in Toronto, Canada. When the Intercontinental Champion, Ultimate Warrior defeated Hulk Hogan, for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship Belt. Becoming a double champion and holding both belts aloft!!! Undoubtedly the greatest night in mankind's history.

[@Ep0xy]

😂

[@lVltizzleCVFC]

Amen brother

[@kountvalik7997]

Its scripted so............

[@MrRinoHunter]

Ooooo yeaaahhhh

[@govindkrishnan6839]

Wrong. The greatest night in Mankind's history is when he defeated The Rock on January 4th 1999 to win his first heavyweight championship

[@joshpalmer3754]

I love it when Niel has Joe on his podcast.

[@bigfern62]

🤣🤣

[@blakepierce9442]

😂😂😂

[@nightmind919]

😭 🤣

[@ashutoshpurushdhakal4590]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@matitzarichie4415]

Who’s Niel ?

[@chuckcurtis]

I could listen to him for hours. What a magnificent story teller.

[@smol1211]

He's more an Educator then a story teller

[@jordanmartin9086]

Joe?

[@redmasamune1]

Fact teller

[@Beadfishing]

That's the by product of retaining an immense amount of information

[@nocapproductions5471]

He is a legend.

[@kaushikntupsakri5176]

When Neil speaks i am somehow able to visualize things so clearly and it gives me immense joy

[@RandomRads]

It is profound. There are many occasions I pause his podcast and marinate on the “eye opener”.

[@dougy0324]

Absolutely

[@chrishartman4132]

3:30 “Closing the land bridge. Stranding” Joe: 👁👄👁

[@zerosugarmatcha7348]

Neil deGrasse Tyson then shows his Kung Fu pose.

[@charliepeck]

Joe is like: are you gonna poke me?

[@andrewnancarrow]

If they were “stranded” then how did the Siberian’s get over there 6000 years later to become the Inuit people??

[@thesoundvault508]

@@andrewnancarrow because it wasn't 6000 years later. Like wtf bro it was a bunch of animalistic people walking the earth with no context of how big the world is. Then 6000 years later after civilization and inventions happened they were able to go there. But yea at the time they didn't have boats or anything really. Just basic people

[@michaelkeller5927]

People who believe humans came via the landbridge, between 2 glaciers in the frigid cold, then wiped out all the large predator mammals from coast to coast with rocks tied to spears as they made their way down to South America are literal retards.

[@myfunkybeats]

He talks like he was alive and witnessed everything in person

[@Xenlacasa45]

Right !! Lol one would think he saw the ice 🧊 melt first hand

[@user-yh6dq2hl2t]

He's a time traveller he did.

[@realdpkaoz]

He really needs to learn to shut up 😂

[@realdpkaoz]

@Black Noir that’s called falsified information that was implemented in a corrupted education system. There’s always 2 sides of the story.. and let me tell you.. the other side is not so remarkable.

[@xXZiiLERXx]

@Black Noir sure buddy

[@Proambler]

He isn't quite saying it was a great achievement. He's saying it was a momentous event in human history

[@mdelrroose1414]

Great moment for those who had to die of many viral diseases.

[@ltrain008521]

He also said most significant event. He didn't even give credit to Columbus to discovering.

[@isaiahjackson6649]

@@mdelrroose1414significance doesn’t necessarily mean good or bad, what he’s saying is Columbus’ voyage changed the world in a great way

[@amaramachupa6422]

​@@mdelrroose1414great moment for humanity to have the beginnings of the US

[@bethanyschreiner3139]

i watched it cuz i saw the title and i’m like iiiii don’t think he would have said that now lmao

[@drby0788]

You gotta admire the mans passion. He really is a joy to listen to

[@michaelthem3]

Indeed! I always come back to these clips and the full podcast. 🔥

[@earlgarcia6106]

I like how people say Columbus didn’t do shit, but they’re afraid to swim at the beach. Dude got on a boat without a motor and said ‘we’re going that way..’ Balls

[@PJ-oq4mo]

@Black asshol3 Leif Erikson"s achievement amounted to nothing while Columbus kicked off colonization which has had a major effect in every single large event since. Columbus unintentionally united all humans and initiated Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal to set up colonies in the Americas. Lief Erikson established a lumber colony and then abandoned it. Everyone who could easily have account of Lief Erikson's colonies in North America were wiped out in the plague. Erikson failed and Columbus won.

[@johnsanuy]

@D C You should re-listen to the video. Tyson never said Columbus was the first. He clarified it by saying Columbus coming to america was the biggest single event in human history.

[@o11o01]

@D C Vikings who came to America did not spread this information, and it was eventually lost as most advances in their technology were. Vikings were much more advanced than we realize, but were horrible at spreading, and maintaining this information. The vikings discovering America has literally nothing to do with Columbus discovering America.

[@arrfffff7455]

D C wasn’t India he was searching or not just general Asia

[@alpha_q_upppdemolition9008]

Yea he also raped and murdered thousands of innocent ppl

[@jamalbaker4423]

Joe thinking "DMT is more significant, but carry on."

[@hugoc.8534]

Exactly what he said in his mind when he responded with "not internet porn?" 😒

[@michaelackerman2660]

He just knows all this shit already and is not tryna be rude

[@joshuaquijada1894]

How do I buy dmt? I wanna try it

[@edt973nj]

lol

[@Clouderla123]

Joshua Quijada you find a friend

[@Noah-dg3ng]

I may not always agree with what degrasse tyson says like with religion, God, but I agree with him in this one. Forget the animosities. The past is the past. Move in and live on. That is history.

[@Jacob-ec9og]

Facts. Thank you Neil for educating people & Thank you Columbus for bringing us all back together ❤

[@freespeechisdead1565]

Neil: Coming to America was the most significant thing that happened to our species. Joe: Yeah, but Coming to America 2 sucked.

[@TurtleMC1993]

🤣🤣🤣

[@joeblogs5012]

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 Killer

[@travisk6221]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this was the first comment on this section that I actually laughed at

[@buttplug2162]

I liked the sequel wasn't terrible as sequels go.

[@001lightning1]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😂😂😂

[@d3showtime410]

the most significant event... to happen in our species... *silence* Joe- not internet porn?

[@alienformat9475]

hahahaha

[@mattfabz]

@The Return Of Snow Monkey most men in the porn industry are white... so maybe you have just been watching blacks on blondes or something

[@Casanova966]

@@MH-nu4ip Interracial porn (Black men + white women) is the most popular porn, and majority of porn watchers are white males. Return Of The Snow Monkey is correct. Your defensive response reeks of beta male insecurity.

[@eknowsgamenews1013]

@@MH-nu4ip I like your profile pic. What do you think is going on in the p*** industry then? You can't deny that they make it for certain people or that it is owned by people who do not like Americans having freedom of speech or it is at least owned by people who do not respect us in the least

[@XampleEditing]

I thought this comment was a joke but right as I clicked “like” joe said internet porn...

[@wfsfghthkh866]

Columbus was not the first foreigner to venture here....

[@artshahnazarianesq.6774]

For those attending school: alway try to pick courses NOT based so much on the SUBJECT MATTER but based on who the professor is. This video is an excellent example of making mundane (or boring) but important subject matters come to life. In law school, my most favorite professor taught Civil Procedure (most mundane/boring class in law school). I also took Entertainment Law (a very exciting/‘entertaining’ area of law. It was my worse experience in law school.

[@ijumaainjabulo5983]

Neil defrasse is. A white supremacist apologist.

[@P_Belle]

So much truth to this!

[@umerghaffar4686]

How would you be able to tell that online? Most of us would have never met our professors until we get to their class

[@nocapproductions5471]

​@@umerghaffar4686you look up famous scientist. Neil is famous and good. Its enjoyable for people to learn from him

[@ezgreviews6775]

@@umerghaffar4686rate my professors is a good source

[@ryanstitt4814]

3:33 When you and your buddy are super high, and he tells you a story

[@dillosavage938]

I’m fucken 💀

[@yabbadabbadoo1]

I’m pissing myself

[@jessefay4984]

Dead

[@ingrid7830]

LMAO🤣

[@jer8279]

I know in 5 months late, but this deserves 1k likes. Spot on brother.

[@alwindsor7299]

Neil: The rejoining of the human species, once separated now joined. Without that event, we would not exist today. Furthermore it's amazing... Rogan: Native Americans had Syphilis?

[@elias_xp95]

We should have stayed as 2 stranded branches. I want to see what would happen.

[@Vercingetorix.Fantasia]

EnigmaOGN the Americas would hopefully be inventing the wheel in 2018. That's how wildly behind this Coast was in some ways . If left to develop at the speed they were , never interrupted, their way of life was set to sustain for a very very long time . In other words ,eith no outside influence to their way of life, a few inventions like the wheel aside, natives would still be living the same way they were 200 years ago .

[@shangtsung1362]

We can see isolated native tribes in Brazil existing today as they would have hundreds of years ago.

[@shangtsung1362]

@@marioalosangeles , very good point. The Aztecs had a very advanced civilization established when Cortez showed up.

[@chentz2d552]

Europeans spread smallpox

[@central8448]

The expressions on Joe Rogan's face matches mine perfectly 😮. I love listening to Neil explain complex things in simple terms.

[@Starfox46]

"Only Christopher we acknowledge is Wallace" 👀

[@sheikyerbouti83]

Joe just realises he's been weed napping while his guest talks, then wakes up and thinks he should react to something being said. So he says WOAH

[@jpablocabral]

I think that "weed-napping" should be used more often.

[@shawnbixler4193]

Man I dunno, Joe can come across as a jock but he’s actually really smart. I like his perspective on things.

[@sheikyerbouti83]

Smart people have weed naps too...

[@derrickstorm6976]

That's what he looks like too 😂

[@guydutoit61]

Weed napping. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@solodolotrevino]

Neil: this was the first time in 10,000 years the human species were reunited Joe:.... Neil: and they brought back syphillis Joe: WOAHHH

[@andrewnancarrow]

WRONG! The Siberian’s came over about 4000 years ago, which would have been 6000 years after they had supposedly been “stranded”. That’s who became the Inuit people.

[@JamesLee-mp8hk]

Potatoes, Tomatoes, and maize corn.

[@abelashes2676]

@@JamesLee-mp8hk Tomatoes, corn/maize, peppers/chiles, long beans/common beans (most types of beans), potatoes, cacao/chocolate, vanilla, pineapple/pina/ananas, avocados, pinions, peanuts, pumpkin, squash, strawberries, cranberries, tobacco, nopal cactus/nopalitos/prickly pear/figue de barbary/figue de india, turkeys...

[@SimoExMachina2]

Maybe Joe was thinking: "so that's where I got it from"?

[@dgmt5]

Comment on someone’s comment, woohah

[@daveyconcrete9801]

Legend has it that Columbus included several Basque fisherman in his crew because they had already been to the East coast of America.

[@husseinalmashhadany]

He didn't say "Great", he said "significant" and that's a big difference. The implied message of greatness is goodness which is not what he said accordingly.

[@felixfarside1210]

If this guy had been my teacher, I would have paid more attention in school.

[@zakariaremane8998]

Same

[@valkor73]

no shit

[@popomomo12]

👍👍👍👍

[@buckcubmandingo6772]

That's why he gets 200k per speech--without a single theory of his own

[@fineyoungspecimen]

Many other species traveled to see before him.

[@Airestotle09]

Im sure with how high Joe was at that point, he was convinced that God was talking to him

[@CharifRocka]

Lmao.

[@aikenodubitan5256]

😁😁😁

[@sonnenrad229]

Not even funny, the kind of r*tards who follow him are all junkies who watch Inca monuments and start babbling about aliens and magick, it's beyond stupidity. Listening to these shit podcasts ruins your being.

[@superliseida]

@@sonnenrad229 ok so what do YOU babble on about? God? And his supposed existence?

[@matthewbradysmith]

AK Jay well put

[@SolidusSnapes]

Would love to see Joe and his influence tackle a discussion on YDNA. It is literally a miracle tool that has relatively gone unnoticed in his discussions. Neil briefly mentioned it in this video but its a test anyone can do and people should do.

[@jamesmcinnis208]

"literally"

[@stephenclark3247]

First 25 seconds.... *pulls notebook out 🧐"

[@ethanbender8143]

I feel like Neil had this whole thing brewing inside and Joe wad the only one willing to listen.

[@zspar123]

you feel corrrect

[@irish2772]

Of for sure. He's got this shifty look to him like "now worship me and my intelligence." It's really creepy.

[@pedestrian_0]

@@zspar123 he does feel correct

[@Kushbabu]

So do you

[@da420wizard6]

Andrew Riot Ryan nah your just an ass hat and mad a black man smarter than yo ass

[@joelemaine]

I've never heard anyone talk about science with such passion and conviction

[@robinmay8725]

Yep, but because he presents his theory with such conviction and because he's such an intelligent guy it's easy to take as fact. You can also see Graham Hancock present a completely different hypothesis about North America with exactly the same conviction.

[@Vibes.d]

@@robinmay8725 Graham handcock has better intentions and is less biased plus being who he is Neil probably is a egomaniac but I cant say that forsure his persona is very chill for the most part

[@joshuatraffanstedt2695]

Listen to Carl Sagan then. Carl Sagan is Neil's daddy. Even Neil will admit that.

[@Shaclevy]

Challenge accepted

[@rudolfsykora3505]

Try Richard Feynman

[@sebastianherring4982]

Joe's face at 3:35 😂😂😂

[@kdee267]

Why did it seem like I was on Columbus boat when Neil explaining it 😂

[@ndz9818]

“Internet porn is a matter of degree” -Neil deGrasse Tyson

[@user-sz9ux9du3p]

He didn't even say that

[@lvl7867]

@@user-sz9ux9du3p he literally just said that bro did you watch the first minute

[@_flyingcat_7527]

@@lvl7867 he watches joe rogan so he can say he watches joe rogan

[@PocketRocket_]

Big Fat Mush Imagine failing to actually listen to the first 40 seconds of a video

[@geraldballesteros3839]

Not degree meaning Baccalaureate.

[@timothykammerer7622]

3:36 I love that little cut to Joe's face "I have no idea what you're saying, but at the same time, I'm interested."

[@vmfan96]

Timothy Kammerer 😂 and only woke up again when he heard “syphilis”

[@apopheniapareidolia]

Yeah, that's exactly what he was thinking. Oh God, what a pretentious Twinkie you are. You just love half assed surface level interpretations.

[@saskk2290]

Timestamp earlier dude. Like 3:34

[@allmight5564]

Timothy Kammerer Christopher Columbus Story kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4bHXpV5m85qgqs was the greatest thing ever. This guy made it simple and funny how it should be.

[@mattwilson6553]

I believe more recent genetic research has found Native South Americans to actually be more closely related to Indigenes Australian populations. Suggesting the "land bridge" wasn't the only way early humans were coming to the Americas. We were sailors and explorers much earlier then was previously thought.

[@evascordato2673]

In a parallel universe, Arnold Schmednick discovered America.

[@hunterMH1]

Joe: ”they lived a tribal nomadic lifestyle” Aztec, Maya, and Inca empires: Am I a joke to you?

[@boxheadfrenchies]

I thought the same thing.

[@hunterMH1]

Victor Garcia Yeah people are so quick to forget that white people (and sometimes Asians) aren’t the only people to develop sophisticated lifestyles. It’s not his fault though we’re all bred to think that way.

[@hunterMH1]

Victor Garcia not to say that an empire is the only form of sophisticated living but that’s what we’re taught to believe

[@MattSalema]

@@hunterMH1 Right. For some reason we are taught to believe that advancements and civilization are objectively better. I know why though, that makes us think of a certain race as superior...

[@hunterMH1]

Matheus Salema lol you dumb fuck I said an EMPIRE do you know what an empire is? You don’t even know what you’re arguing about cuz you don’t even understand what I said 😂😂 Jesus Christ white people get so offended when they don’t get all the attention 😂

[@ljss6805]

"I was there, Joe. I was there 10,000 years ago when the human species split." --- Elrond deGrasse Tyson

[@ljss6805]

@Sre Riy Did you miss the joke? That must be it.

[@ljss6805]

@Sre Riy I don't know what you're talking about. I was making a joke referring to the Lord of the Rings, but now you've killed it.

[@melchizell]

Lol lol lol lol😂

[@neelcashyap7879]

Lol....

[@dannymartial7997]

I kinda wish the time gap was longer, so we have 2 branches of humans that are significantly different from one another.

[@ShortFuseFighting]

i like how he sounds menacing for no reason...

[@alexandreverdonck2634]

Joe’s face at 3:36 is the absolute best representation of curiosity, confusion, amazement and fear

[@SwiftSloth]

All thanks to Jamie

[@fuelthebeastNutrition1111]

I was waiting for it and hilarious

[@el_ra]

A fear boner

[@samwortham2385]

The definition of surprised pikachu

[@daveg4236]

Because he's very high

[@Berserker_4517]

Joe’s face during this is fucking hilarious.

[@FishininFunkyTown]

It cut to his face as soon as I read this at 3:34. 😂

[@boblozaintherealworld3577]

yeah. listening to someone who REALLY knows what they are saying.

[@bloodmoon4012]

No amount of mushrooms will ever be this trippy

[@cnugg007]

Charisma is half the conveyance of information

[@bryanduhart7218]

3:35 that was my face too at this point haha great storyteller my man neil

[@LimewhiteTV]

The cut to Joe's face at 3:35 is hilarious

[@nicktumia5078]

Loll that was awesome

[@NoBs927]

lol plus he's high AF

[@jaycee5243]

Hes like a little kid at story-time xD i love it

[@DChappelle27]

Neil: the natives started syphilis. Joe: 3:35

[@tyee4u]

LimewhiteTV hahahahaha. Thanks for the heads up 🤣

[@osamasbeard3781]

So we just gonna ignore the part where humans found a way to use fire?

[@te9591]

A promethean discovery.

[@tori_gundo_]

Yes, let's talk about Michael Bay's ancestors 💥

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

They saw lightning almost strike them and said "oh shit" and then saw the fire. If they had a cave they'd bring that shit back and keep it burning 24/7 and eventually tried sticking meat in it.

[@te9591]

@@A_Black_Sheep94 most likely; which is why cultures view their chief god as a thrower of bolts and prometheus comes "the smart human" to steal the fire for the others.

[@chancekeith3575]

Or how about the agricultural revolution lol

[@fellaentfeloski6938]

This is truly amazing, Neil broke it down so well I watched this 5 times. Now I am no scientist or archaeologist or a historian teacher by any account. I am a student with a question… yes what Columbus did was a great accomplishment but only after he calculated that Asia was on the other side of the Atlantic and also claimed he could get to Japan too.. the Portuguese knew he was all the way wrong, let’s start there. Ok so.. the people who crossed those land bridges during the ice age get no props, they walked it… walked!!.. and we gonna skip that to where Columbus missed his trigectories and “discovered” the Americas?? The math ain’t adding up.. mind you even after getting there he still claimed it was Asia, he probably died thinking that ( I might be wrong abt that). Let’s not get into the Mali empire, that’s a trigger for many lol.. his discription was educational but it does leave room for questions and I know he’s gonna argue to be right not correct…

[@c4l246]

Astrophysicist is not in fact a historian 😱

[@myfrestuff3453]

@@c4l246 Neil deGrasse Tyson is not merely an astrophysicist. That's just his profession. He's a science communicator and a polymath. In fact, he's arguably the greatest science communicator since Stephen Hawking, and clearly along with Sam Harris, they are the greatest American ones since Carl Sagan.

[@frakismaximus3052]

Haha man that went right over your head lol

[@lyndaek99]

This about how significant it was that both isolated populations reconnected. Who or how the Americas were found is kind of irrelevant to the point.

[@antoniodesousa9723]

no individual "walked" across the entire land bridge. That land bridge was traversed over generations. The description of that land mass as a bridge conjures the wrong idea that people had to cross it quickly. In fact people lived and hunted on that land mass (called Beringia) for thousands of years.

[@rickmcmillan2119]

Could you imagine having this dude as ur professor lol I feel like his test would be super hard hahaha

[@TheBigMan9]

“I think him coming to America, was the most significant thing to EVER happen in our species.” Joe:”woe”

[@chrisarbour]

I wish i could have asked what about fire? That's kind of the most important thing lol.

[@strika1140]

You mean "whoa"

[@TheBigMan9]

@@strika1140 woe is funnier

[@bryanramirez3909]

Woe Rogan

[@mjames4709]

Bullshit!

[@MrTREEHUNTER22]

I love how Neil goes into cinematic mode when he starts his explanation

[@stratsouldier]

That’s because he’s an ENTERTAINER!

[@andreiionescu205]

He eats alot of shit

[@jvjjjvvv9157]

my thought exactly

[@jaxoncole8132]

@@stratsouldiera knowledgeable one

[@framneck28]

I could listen to this dude talk every single day.

[@patrickjenkins6383]

Both Joe & Neil possess a generous helping of this trait we call: "Charisma." The two are so much fun to watch. 👍🏾🗿

[@karateman21874]

Man this video was like watching a guy who is an expert on astrophysics give me a history lesson.

[@zarbonthedestroyer7232]

wait a second...

[@Faustaine]

Lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@needparalegal]

I doubt he is an expert at anything except reading a teleprompter, Obama of Science.

[@captaindrywall]

I am a drywall guy turned truck driver, but I could not teach a history lesson.?

[@karateman21874]

@@captaindrywall you definitely couldn't come up with your own lesson without extensive knowledge of history.

[@bananajelly9264]

The cutback to Joe when Niel says "stranding" 🤣😂🤣

[@infamoustimes2927]

Ignore the fact that the Vikings have been crossing AND came to North America (without getting lost) 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

[@bogdanjovanovic3400]

Neil comes to this show coz Joe is the only one left who wanna hear more what he has to say and anything that Neil says just blows Joes mind....this can go forever :D

[@larryo6874]

I appreciate Rogan for having Tyson on his show.

[@MarcoMalfario]

I wouldn’t say the people of the Aztec civilization were living a “nomadic tribal existence”, neither where the Incas. Or the maya before them. Olmecs, etc..

[@avinashreji60]

They are exceptions, most of the tens of millions of people in the Americas didn’t have large civilizations like in the Eastern hemisphere, because of: geography, climate, animals, plants, etc.

[@MarcoMalfario]

@@avinashreji60 even those in small tribes outside of these civilizations didn’t live a nomadic tribal existence. Many were agricultural societies and understood hydraulic engineering. Even astronomy. And garnered unparalleled botanical know-how. The South and meso-American shamans found ways of using plants tens of thousands of years ago that scientist have understood only 50 to 70 years ago if they have understood them at all. Let’s not forget, they achieved all this without the kind of cultural exchange the rest of the world was exposed to. Complete isolation until Colombus.

[@defaultlogos2976]

@SELCOUTH BEATS Maybe, I think they would just become colonizers too though or just get into conflicts with the other traveling nations. It is also interesting to see how Europe would be affected, would the Ottomans have become the most dominant power, while Japan and China grow to superpowers too?

[@TheartofboxingMEX]

the funny thing is we’re somewhat going back to that era... banning guns, fossil fuels, people living on the streets or in vans etc.

[@user-uv3li8tk4r]

@@TheartofboxingMEX fossil fuels aren't going away anytime soon. Literally billions of people would starve if we just stopped using fossil fuels. Industrialization is the only reason we can support the huge population we do today. First world countries will be burning fossil fuels for atleast a couple more decade and third world countries for twice that amount of time.

[@StormChasersofOhio]

3:35 I laughed way too hard at Joe’s face there 😂😂😂

[@CasiodorusRex]

You need to watch Joe Rogan interviewing Joe Rogan. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6m8kHduiLKBqqc

[@sunscrave]

Lmaooooo

[@tommacari4103]

Hahaha priceless!!!!

[@SlimJimJoey]

Joe Schmoe Joe Rogan interviews Roe Jogan. 😂

[@SlimJimJoey]

Jonny Glessner Dude, I did the same friggin thing. 😂😂

[@soccer1955]

You're wrong. The Moores discovered America 500 years before Columbus was born.

[@TowerNewsNow]

I want to clarify that Vikings definitely arrived to America before Columbus (there're tons of evidence backing this up and you can easily find them), but as deGrasse Tyson said they had a limited impact on the native people of America.

[@poorwowgameplay]

The Aboriginal Americans weren’t leading nomadic hunter gathering existences though. The Inca & Maya had huge civilizations & there are reports from English ships traveling along the east coast that could tell how close they were to land by the smoke from the villages. We settled a post apocalyptic wasteland after European disease took out all the large civilizations & destroyed native trade. Please note I’m not saying those of European descent should feel bad about this. Just that viewing the aboriginals as uncivilized or primitive is false.

[@jsheriff396]

The majority were and theres nothing wrong with that

[@Username-mi9ho]

Disease is being overdramatized here, I want to make that very clear. Let's not pretend the arriving Europeans didn't deliberately give them diseases.

[@poorwowgameplay]

J S the majority were not. Massive settlements throughout California, Oregon, Washington. All along the Great Lakes, Florida, Mississippi River delta. Which doesn’t even get into Central & South America. We still have the outlines of roads to the cliff dwellings in the southwest. It was a group of multiple sprawling & competing early Iron Age civilizations. Deeply rooted in agrarian life & trade.

[@Claptonisgod33]

The Mayan civilization was destroyed by the time the Europeans got to the new world.

[@Claptonisgod33]

@@poorwowgameplay there was no metal in the new world before Europeans. They were definetly many agrarian with small settlements

[@bradylawfirm]

Joe Rogan is the greatest interviewer of all time!! When he has someone interesting on, he just gets the f out of the way. He is insatiably curious and his curiosity is contagious. Brilliant... truly brilliant.

[@TigerMeadows]

He's just a dumbass jock.

[@ghost21501]

@@TigerMeadows if you think so, then why the heck are you watching this video? Lol

[@palabrajot505]

Ron Bennington and Dick Cavett are the best. Joe is top ten.

[@joshlewis575]

Nardwaur

[@Realthugshit]

palabrajot505 they’re are as famous as him though.

[@Mattatack2008]

Columbus was a black Jew who’s name was Salvador Cordero. The Africans/ Egyptians where here before everyone.

[@roodick85]

This is awesome! I was actually thinking about this the other day,our kids mixing races is just us getting back to our roots. At some point we'll reach back to our original look.

[@lucascoval828]

😐............sure.

[@tficarra]

What a thought: Imagine a world in which the primary socio-political conflicts were driven by the fact that there were TWO kinds of humans on the planet...

[@Qwerty-ly8qk]

@Pour Baby Enlighten us

[@ngn6708]

@Pour Baby enlighten us

[@Heartbrayk.]

@Pour Baby Waiting for you.

[@jugurtha292]

@Pour Baby still waiting

[@jimmyjohnstevens3898]

Those with guns and those without guns...

[@jackquillen9120]

I heard this from someone “childhood is believing Columbus is a hero, adolescence is believing Columbus is a villain, adulthood is in knowing Columbus is human”

[@jac6547]

Well there's a lot of adults going around removing Columbus statutes. I guess Columbus continues to be a villain even into adulthood.

[@jackquillen9120]

Ancient Astronaut they aren’t adults

[@luciano9755]

A human that achieved great things, although not entirely on purpose.

[@Tepaneca]

Didn't he write in his journal how he loved 10 year old girls? Thats your hero i guess

[@ianiello]

@@Tepaneca erbody was doing that at that time.

[@andyalvarez7761]

Excellent Explanation! Love it, I always love Columbus as a hero, that had the will and the driven to do that not one were willing to do at that time.Thanks.

[@slimetime3270]

He was no hero

[@tomate3391]

He was the lucky guy from Europe who saw America first. Beside this, he was not much. He was a terrible gouverneur of the new places, so bad that the Spanish Crown revoke that title from him. He was a despot, he was in no way a scientist. He evades taxes, didn't pay the right tribute to the Crown. And the Crown was never a big fan of him. It was more a desperaded attempt to let him go 4 times to America because no one founded the promised gold. His fourth trip to America was a big disaster.

[@zoodles]

​@@tomate3391 sigma

[@hithere748]

Columbus is a great man. 🙏

[@armin3057]

@@tomate3391 you are living of the European effort . it wasn't just Columbus .

[@SeanTalksTooMuch]

Columbus also knew EXACTLY where he was on the globe, but nobody knew the size of Asia. If you overlap his map with a modern map you'll see he landed off the coast of Cepangu, modern-day Japan. Cepangu was part of the East Indies, hence the term "Indians" for native americans.

[@basemayn]

Hahahaha Joe's face at 3:36!

[@catbread2585]

LMAO when you're too high and amazed at the same time

[@bearbones7913]

Neil was like an anime character there for a second with the pose

[@tjcogger1974]

Haha Joe was clearly very high during this interview.

[@Branflakes-lq6wq]

They both look high lmao

[@davidb154]

I thought Neil was about to spit a wu tang verse

[@CorbCorbin]

Colombo was a great detective.

[@ZodsSnappedNeck]

@@MichielVanKets What a dumbass lmao

[@austrianpainterhidingfromt5920]

he was.

[@jacobholding8537]

CorbCorbin "oh, and just one more thing..." lol love Colombo

[@palabrajot505]

@@jacobholding8537 Columbo's whole "One more thing" bit would not be allowed if there was an attorney present at the time of questioning, furthermore, any confession it produces would be considered coercion and therefore not admissible in court.

[@rowland2trevino]

Sherlock was better

[@cashbyrd781]

Man I love Neil pause it makes so much sense

[@Bootes_Void]

It’s not about arriving to America the first time but the way they treated native Americans that people don’t like about Columbus.

[@Kormac80]

I had a political philosophy professor named Ben Barber at Rutgers in the 80’s and he was, like Neil, a very charismatic teacher. Took a full yr course from him, then another class Theater, Politics and Art. He was awesome.

[@tasnimulsarwar9189]

You're so lucky that I'm envious of you.

[@achildsheart4658]

Ru!!

[@lechanneldemysterieuxmante1807]

Ben politicalphilosophyprofessor was My barber.

[@bradpaton3927]

​@@achildsheart4658n

[@mohamedfaisal2243]

3:30 Joe looks at Neil like a 6 year old being read a horror story 😂😂😂😂

[@jackesioto]

Except, Columbus and his crew weren't the first Europeans in the Americas, the Vikings were! Not to mention, the Vikings actually set foot in North America, whereas Columbus's trips to the new world were restricted largely to the Caribbean and parts of South America.

[@mariogranville5740]

Too bad Arnold Schmednick couldn’t get to America first.

[@yayomejia1451]

Okay this has been bugging me for a year. They spelled “Achievement” wrong.

[@matteobertotti]

Probably a typo

[@CL-xv2bi]

JRE's way of acknowledging Columbus's achievement :p

[@JohnLewis-old]

Because it's the kind of achievement that's just wrong.

[@yeetwchybaban]

yeah

[@yayomejia1451]

Vinnie P. Irrelevant, but thanks for the info.

[@Str8FromMtl]

Neil goes on to say that him being born is the second greatest thing to ever happen to humanity.

[@victorseaton9123]

Lol. Great one.

[@d.s.5157]

Lol - he has a massive ego.

[@ProfFell]

Ha!

[@scottg9206]

Yeah he’s sniffing his own farts for sure

[@TerrorSS]

@@d.s.5157 quit projecting your insecurity

[@JO-mg6xc]

The most significant event in the world history, after the language and the printing press, was the microchip.

[@parkour267]

I was mind blown by this just a couple weeks ago looking how we ever got to America before ships since we started in Africa. This is a great explanation glad i found this video. Unfortunately we know how that went for the native americans by rejoining lol

[@Dom-gf4in]

Neil deGrasse Tyson at 3:33, is like me trying to act out lines from a play in elementary school.

[@funnynameman]

@@martyrmessiah3903 What are you basing that on? That's a very big accusation to make.

[@scumbag1731]

SOVIATMAN it’s true man, look into it

[@gordeevious]

😂😂

[@jdub8010]

"Christopher Colombus was a great Italian explorer and in this house he's a hero. End of story!!!" - Tony Soprano

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmjti]

Jordon Nicolosi literallt clicked the video to try and find this comment 😂

[@jdub8010]

@@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmjti I know right. I'm surprised nobody else said it before me.

[@stevenfernandez1521]

Yooooo i just seen that episode too wtf 😂😂😂

[@Mom_sBasement]

All of the spoils went to Spain.

[@rafadawabe]

@@Mom_sBasement to the victor belong the spoils

[@fritzco55]

I had a friend who's grandfather stated that air-conditioning and television fundamentally changed the way we interact. Forced me to re-evaluate everything.

[@nathanhiggins1438]

DeGrasse-Tyson will carry that pause to wait to be asked for an explanation for as long as it takes.

[@jacobkaye6827]

"This was the first time in 10,000 years the human species was reunited!". ... what about the Indigenous Australians who were isolated for 50,000 - 70,000 years?

[@thomastimbershed9665]

Agreed

[@onewildandcrazyguy9213]

They were reunited with other humans that they have been stranded from after Columbus landed on Hispaniola

[@Ivan-ln3wh]

Not entirely isolated. There was contact between some of the northern indigenous nations and people from Indonesia. There is evidence of some trade occuring between these two groups. Albeit the traders from either party didn't know how large the other's land mass truly was.

[@seancanova7396]

I typed into Google "How long does it take a species to speciate (or evolve) into another species and the first article that came up says it takes about one to two million years, so obviously the Indigenous Australians and Native Americans had a lot longer to go. And like Neil said, if it wasn't Columbus, it would have been someone else. It is interesting to think about and wonder when it would have occurred, if not 1492. Would it had been 1493, 1685, 1975 (there goes disco), etc. Think of every moment in human history and realize there is the butterfly effect for each action. This was one of the more significant actions. How would the world be different if Columbus hadn't done it?

[@richajivevo]

@Faggot Liberal Why are you comparing an astrophysicist with an engineer? Tesla wouldn't know shit if you asked him about space either

[@dionshaewishum4179]

Neil makes mundane matters fascinating and new. I never thought about this before but all the pieces were there for me to see. How the glaciers were formed was awesome.

[@liamadamsandler7823]

You know what mundane means right

[@dionshaewishum4179]

@@liamadamsandler7823 I used it correctly. Everything boring, he makes fascinating and new.

[@hubertflorianczyk9960]

@@dionshaewishum4179 then the order of words in the sentence is wrong. It should've said: "Neil makes all mundane things fascinating...". No coma either.

[@dionshaewishum4179]

@@hubertflorianczyk9960 you’re correct. I’ll edit.

[@alexas5260]

I really liked when neil explained how calendars were made, I knew some of it, but the way he told it, changed my perspective.

[@crisstone2000]

I can only think this man's dramatic way of speaking is what pulls people in. This is the most significant event? Please.

[@awaissalahuddin255]

Some scholars would disagree and say Egyptians travelled there as well as some east africans from Mali mainly to central and southern america though.

[@jayk8756]

3:36 me after my brother gets beat and my mom says I’m next

[@djgroopz4952]

🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂!!!

[@SplashyandDuckiesadventures]

I swear Tyson is my conscience cause I thought this exact same thing. But also as my father ALWAYS says “if you’re gonna tell a story, tell the WHOLE thing. Not just what benefits you”

[@unpopuler]

I think Neil is a liberal

[@iBloodxHunter]

@@unpopuler probably but at least he's not like the majority of them. The quote the OP wrote is the perfect example of it. Those people don't tell whole stories.

[@LittleHomieLightningtech]

@@unpopuler who cares?

[@doctorj7112]

Touche Neil, can't argue with this one. Great point

[@williamwilson6499]

Columbus didn’t discover America. People were already there thousands of years before he made it to the Caribbean.

[@Glazenbol-uo2ni]

That depends on your perspective. In his time he did discover it for the europeans. The world was very different and much more fragmented than it is today.

[@misters1r900]

3:35 Joe’s thinking I’m way too fucking high for this

[@sublime88sublime]

I want Dr. Tyson to tell me a bedtime story before i go night-night.

[@squiremuldoon5462]

He will touch you.

[@stlchucko]

I’d rather have Samuel L Jackson read bedtime stories.

[@kevindavis3234]

Hmmmm... I'd rather have Morgan Freeman read to me. "We looked and we saw him step in on the mat. We looked and we saw him, the cat in the hat... ...and sometimes I just miss my friend, Andy."

[@martenvel6449]

I’ll be woke I wouldn’t go to sleep lol

[@ramdanebenbouabdellah6597]

Astrophysics for people in a hurry narrated by himself is a close equivalent imo,

[@andrewsenf7880]

This video means so much to me. It's mind-blowing😢😮❤

[@ernestfry6034]

Look up the book, " A people's History of the United States," by Howard Zinn. It should fill in even more gaps on information that he doesn't seem to be talking about in this video

[@PressA2Die]

Vikings compared to the Europeans? But aren't Vikings from.....you know what, never mind.

[@mrnobody6447]

No they were black racist, BBC told me so.

[@justanothermick6762]

PressA2Die 😆

[@chaoscreator8143]

During the time of the Vikings, there was no Europe..

[@PressA2Die]

@@chaoscreator8143 Was there no Africa or Asia either? What was there instead?

[@chaoscreator8143]

The Vikings were not the Europeans.. That was my point.. They barely knew other civilizations existed.. As soon as they did, there goes the Vikings..

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

Still can't believe he's Mike Tyson's nerdy brother!

[@NJGuy1973]

Yeah, and he started the chicken-processing company too 😒

[@evoketheworld1]

That made me literally laugh out loud 😂😂😂

[@djcj]

Underappreciated comment right here

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

@Persie P Nope. It was all revealed on The Mike Tyson Mysteries. Look it up.

[@EtwonYoung]

On lsd anything is true

[@kennethvalentine7713]

I think you can't discover something when someone is already there

[@MayoroftheEastSide]

I wish someone would ask Neil just 1 question. How do they get to space when there is a firmament?

[@bdawg-qj9bq]

How is there a firmament if your god is just plagiarized older myths?