Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1284 - Graham Hancock
Uploaded: 2019-04-23T01:03:17.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1284 - Graham Hancock' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-04-23. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1284 - Graham Hancock

here we go and boom we're live graham great to see you again nice to be with
you joe um and we
were just talking about your your new book america before that there's two
versions of it there's
one version and then there's a newer version that's a barnes and noble version
that's specific
to barnes and noble that has an extra whole chapter in it that's correct yeah
yeah and so
they can get that at barnes and noble i'm just trying to keep bookstores alive
man they're on
the way i think it's really important and that's and that's one of the reasons
that i did this
because because i i had finished the book and then barnes and noble came to me
through my publishers
and said they would like to do a special edition of the book but in order to do
that i needed to
write them some extra material uh and and i had a lot of material that i hadn't
put in the book and
i thought well this is an opportunity to to put that out there beautiful so if
people want that
it's a little bit different than there's a small gold well okay so first of all
my website graham
hancock.com has a page about america before and the link to the barnes and
noble edition is there
as well as the link to the standard edition which is on amazon and itunes and
all kinds of all kinds
of other places so grahamhancock.com and the america before page the link to
the barnes and noble edition is
right there all right there it is so um how is this before we even get into
what is it go to talks and
events okay we're on the graham hancock website oh go to books go to books go
to america before bam bam
go to united states you can see amazon barnes and there's barnes and noble
special edition special
edition click on that there you go and then the ebook as well the ebook is
available the audio book
which i read myself is available there then if you scroll down um oops that
shouldn't be there it's
damn pop-ups damn son of bitches i am so happy you read it yourself i get angry
when someone else reads
someone who i'm like come on he can talk yeah i i enjoy reading my books myself
and and what i've
what i've learned from feedback i get from audiences at presentations is people
like me doing that oh
yeah for sure yeah yeah 100 it's just weird when someone else is talking in
your voice like hey man
i know you're not graham you know that i write fiction as well as non-fiction
yeah and the one thing i
can't read is my fiction really well yeah because fiction requires accents you
really need an actor to
read a fiction book who can get into the different characters but for a non-fiction
book like america
before it's very straightforward for me just to read it myself i agree i'm a
tremendous stephen king fan
but when i read stephen king's books where he reads them or listen to them when
he reads them they're
terrible he's awful at it i don't think a novelist should should read their own
their own novels i
think that's that's a job for for an actor oddly enough i've just been reading
stephen king's dark
tower series yeah very near the end of the seventh volume of that yeah i'm just
a giant fan of his but
man when he reads it he reads it like he's just reading it yeah it's like this
is rough it's hard to
get behind anyway um america before um so there's give us on the website there's
there's details about
the book there's a page where there are links to the book and also the other
thing i would like to
take this opportunity to mention is i'm in america and canada for the next
seven weeks and i'm going
to be doing something like 25 presentations in something like 20 american
cities and then three
canadian cities in in vancouver uh montreal and toronto and that's all on the
talks and events
page of my website so if anybody wants to come along and uh meet this old man
in person uh i will
be i'll be doing those events and are you doing these at theaters and do you
allow q a's like how
absolutely absolutely i allow i allow q a's i encourage that i i feel as an
author that frankly
speaking i'm nothing without my audience i owe my audience my readers big time
and what i try to do
at events is to give back as much as i can so if people want to take pictures
with me i am absolutely
up for that i don't understand why anybody would want to do that but it's fun
it's kind of fun and
when people want to come to the desk where i'm signing and ask me personal
questions i'm ready to do
that sometimes on the british book tour which i just finished i was behind in
the in the event
space for four hours after the event finished wow signing and taking and taking
pictures but it's a
joy it's a really opportunity for me to interact with with with the people who
actually make my work
matter so that's fantastic beautiful so what inspired this uh i know there's
there's always been
well you first of all we should just say for people who don't know you have
been at the front of the
line um for decades talking about these lost civilizations and from reading
your work i mean i
think i first read your work in the 90s you exposed me to a lot of these what
were at the time
controversial ideas that have now been substantiated by actual evidence
particularly gobekli tepe and
i mean the the the all the water erosion stuff on the sphinx and i've since had
dr robert shock on
the podcast to talk about that as well but all this stuff um was at one point
very controversial
and now far less yes i mean whatever traditional academics and traditional
historians that are
trying to i guess it's archaeologists that we're trying to resist they've let
go a lot of that they've
had to with things like gobekli tepe they've had to because the evidence has
has overwhelmed them and gobekli tepe
is an excellent example prior to the discovery and excavation of gobekli tepe
uh which is a site in
anatolia in turkey it was the view very firm view of archaeologists that there
had been no megalithic
architecture anywhere on earth and when i say megalithic i mean literally big
stones stone circles huge
constructions nothing like that before at the very very earliest 6000 years ago
and they would point
to sites in for example malta a site called gigantia which is about 5800 years
old that's the
oldest megalithic architecture in the world and they could understand how that
was because these
were agricultural societies they generated surpluses you could free up people
who could become specialists
in architecture in astronomy in geometry and they could apply their skills to
the construction of
these sites but what they never considered possible was that a society that was
hunter gatherers
would have created a gigantic megalithic site and then suddenly gobekli tepe is
discovered it dates to
11 600 years ago it's more than 5 000 years older than the supposedly oldest megalithic
architecture in
the world and it is in the center where there had been no previous evidence of
agriculture but the
moment gobekli tepe appears agriculture appears as well and this is just
something that's really hard
for archaeology to explain they've suddenly got 5000 years of missing of
missing history that they've just
never taken into account and what i see them doing is largely avoiding the
problem rather than getting
getting to grips with it directly and in fact there have been there have been a
great number of
changes in the last 20 years which which uh have worked generally in favor of
the arguments that i've
that i've proposed well i'm so happy for you because i know that for a long
time you were out there on
your own with a lot of these theories very very much so and and uh also
subjected to the most the most
blistering and deeply unpleasant criticism from uh from the archaeological
fraternity and from their
friends in the in in the media like how dare this uh journalist uh propose that
history might be different
or that we might have a forgotten chapter in the human story it was regarded
almost as offensive that i would
put this material out there and archaeologists felt it was their responsibility
to show the public that i
was full of shit and that was and that was the whole way my work was was
greeted and in to a certain
extent still is greeted by archaeologists but things have changed central to my
work was the notion of a
global cataclysm roughly 12 500 12 800 years ago there was it made sense to me
in 1995 when i wrote
fingerprints of the gods but there was no compelling evidence for a global cataclysm
then i just all the
evidence seemed to point to that time and a massive global event and then from
2007 onwards you know
more than a decade after i wrote fingerprints of the gods we get a group of
more than 60 major scientists
who are seriously proposing that the earth was hit by multiple fragments of a
giant comet 12 800 years
ago and that this caused a huge rise in sea level and extinctions of megafaunas
they are not saying that
it also wiped out a lost advanced civilization of prehistory i'm saying that
yeah but but what what has
changed is that we now have compelling hard scientific evidence i'm not saying
every scientist accepts
it it's the nature of science to dispute findings but we have a group of 60
major figures who have
seriously proposed this in all the leading mainstream journals and it's changed
the balance of power
in this in this argument because one thing that they used to say is hancock can't
be right because
there was no global cataclysm you know 12 or 13 000 years ago well now we know
there was
and there are various explanations for it so that's moved things along and the
other thing that's changed
a lot is the attitude of the man in the street to authority that has changed
back in the 90s
authority figures were the gatekeepers they controlled everything if an
authority figure
in a discipline like archaeology said hancock is completely wrong he's made all
this stuff up
that would generally be believed not by everybody but by the majority of people
today to have a a
mainstream authority figure say that to me is actually an advantage because
people are are so
distrustful of authority and rightly so because we've been lied to by authority
figures in all fields
for so long the bullshit has been so enormous that people are finally waking up
but we can't trust
what authority figures say and i think we can thank the internet for that we
can thank the internet for
that yeah you i'm sure you've seen the more recent evidence of a crater that
they just discovered
like fairly recently greenland yes enormous enormous it's an enormous crater uh
it's um 18 miles wide
it had not been discovered before because it's under ice it's under a lot of
ice at the end of the ice
age greenland was one area which never lost its ice cover completely whereas
north america everywhere
north of minnesota was covered in ice a mile sometimes two miles deep europe
the same northern europe but
greenland kept its ice whereas the other parts of the world lost their ice at
the at the end of the ice
age um and what's interesting about greenland is there's already evidence of uh
comet impact in
greenland which goes back to papers published in the proceedings of the
national academy of sciences in
2013 that they found what are called impact proxies in greenland in other words
nanodiamonds
carbon spherules and evidence of a lot of platinum and and iron uh was found uh
in a layer in the ice
dated to 12 800 years ago but the next development that you're absolutely right
and this was just a few
months ago was the discovery of this humongous crater in greenland and and
evidence that it was caused
by an iron uh impactor of of some kind now dating of it i would be
irresponsible to say that that crater
definitely dates to 12 800 years ago because the work has not been done to
prove that yet but what i can
say and what the specialists who have explored and excavated the crater are
saying is that it's recent
uh they can say for sure that it happened during the last ice age under it
under the crater is nothing but
massively disturbed and destroyed and co