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Speaker 1: I want you to try a little thought experiment with

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me right now.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I am gay.

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Speaker 1: So wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I want

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you to just imagine waking up tomorrow morning. You open

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your eyes, you know, you stretch, you look up at

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the ceiling. But something feels profoundly just fundamentally.

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Speaker 2: Different, like a weird intuition.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. You sit up and suddenly you realize there

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is a brand new operating system running in your brain.

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Speaker 2: Wow, okay, right.

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Speaker 1: Because you went to sleep with essentially the biological equivalent.

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Speaker 2: Of ms dos right, very basic.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, your brain was perfectly capable of basic survival. You

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are highly proficient at hunting, gathering, staying warm, and maybe

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I don't know, maybe fashioning a rudimentary hand axe out

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of a piece of flint.

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Speaker 2: The basics of human survival.

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Speaker 1: Absolute basics. But overnight, completely without warning, the hardware changed.

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You wake up with a literal quantum computer sitting behind

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Speaker 2: That is a wild image.

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Speaker 1: It is wild. Suddenly you put zess the capacity for

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complex and tax and language. You have this innate ability

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to grasp abstract mathematics. You can write poetry, You can

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engineer structures that scrape the sky.

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Speaker 2: You're self aware.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you can look up at the stars and not

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just see little points of light, but you can conceptualize

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the vastness of the cosmos and honestly your own mortality,

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which is heavy, very heavy. But here's the real kicker

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of this whole scenario. It didn't take you a million

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years of slow, incremental software updates to get there.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't a gradual evolution.

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Speaker 1: No, it didn't happen through trial and error over ten

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thousand generations. It happened seemingly overnight. You just woke up

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and the new cond was already written, compiled, and executing.

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Speaker 2: Which is just I mean, it defines everything we usually

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think about human progress.

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Speaker 1: It completely does. And so what if I told you

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that when anthropologists and geneticists look back at the grand

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timeline of human history, it doesn't actually look like that slow,

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steady climb up a predictable evolutionary ladder that we all

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saw in our middle school.

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Speaker 2: Textbooks, right, the classic ape to man chart.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, what if? Instead the story of us is

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actually a series of sudden, massive, and entirely unexplained leaps, leaps.

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Speaker 2: That are almost too sudden to make sense.

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Speaker 1: Right leaps that might not be the result of random

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genetic mutations, but something far more deliberate, something potentially engineered.

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Speaker 2: Now that is a huge question.

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Speaker 1: It is welcome to thrilling threads. I am so incredibly

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glad you are here with us today because we are

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embarking on a mission to piece together a massive, mind

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bending historical puzzle.

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Speaker 2: We really have a lot to get through today.

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Speaker 1: We do. Today we are laying out a fascinating stack

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of evidence for you. We are going to examine the

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molecular DNA record, the ancient texts of the Hebrew Bible,

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the mythologies of ancient China, and the buried war torn

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sands of Iraq. It's massive scope, it is we are

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going to challenge everything you thought you knew about human origins.

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And joining me to navigate this labyrinth is our is

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it an expert who has been painstakingly analyzing the intersections

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between biology, archaeology and antient texts.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is brilliant to be here, and I have

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to say the material we are diving into today is

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nothing short of paradigm shifting.

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Speaker 1: It really is.

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genetics and ancient megaliths. I think it is crucial for

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us and for you listening to establish a framework of

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profound open mindedness.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely essential, because.

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Speaker 2: Usually when we talk about human origins, we put things

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classical archaeology goes in another, and ancient religious or mythological

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taught that these fields are opposing forces.

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Speaker 1: That they can't possibly overlap exactly.

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Speaker 2: They're supposedly inherently at odds. But when you take the

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biological record right next to the Book of Genesis, or

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you begin to see shocking, almost undeniable parallels.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this and honestly there is no better

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place to start than at the absolute beginning, the origin

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of humanity itself.

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Speaker 2: Ground zero, ground zero.

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Speaker 1: So to set the stage, let's look at one of

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the oldest and most widely known texts on the planet,

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the Book of Genesis in the Torah, the Hebrew Bible.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: It is a foundational story that theologians and scientists have debated,

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argued over, and fought about for literal centuries, endless debates endless.

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describes a creator, God making the first two humans, Adam

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and Eve. But what I really want to focus on

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is the specific mechanical language used in the original texts.

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Speaker 2: Phrasing is so important here.

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Speaker 1: It is The scripture says that humanity is formed out

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of the dust of the earth, and then God breathes

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life into this inanimate dust to make us alive. It

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is described in the Hebrew texts as the rooche, the

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breath of soul, the breath of vitality, this divine spark.

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Speaker 2: Which is a very specific way to describe consciousness exactly.

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Speaker 1: It explicitly suggests that the life force that makes the

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human machine run is an external.

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Speaker 2: Upgrade put in from the outside.

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Speaker 1: Yes. For the longest time, the scientific community understandably viewed

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this purely as a beautiful, poetic allegory for consciousness. But

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science takes a wild, almost unbelievable turn that sounds suspiciously

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like the Genesis story.

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Speaker 2: It absolutely does. And this turn happens strictly in the

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realm of hard, pure reviewed biology. We have go back

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Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 2: Okay, up until that point, there were massive scholarly disagreements

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over how and where modern humans originated. I thought we

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evolving at the same time.

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Speaker 2: Exactly the multi regional hypothesis. But in nineteen eighty seven,

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the biological community was turned upside down by a monumental

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genetic discovery. Scientists began analyzing the molecular DNA record, specifically

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looking at something called mitochondrial DNA.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so break that down for us. Why is mitochondrial

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need to briefly explain the mechanics of mitochondrial DNA or

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mt DNA. Regular DNA in your nucleus is a mix.

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Speaker 1: So it's a genetic mess exactly.

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if not entirely impossible. But mitochondrial DNA is different. It

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sits outside the nucleus and the mitochondria the powerhouses of

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Speaker 1: I remember that from high school biology well.

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Speaker 2: And crucially, it is passed down exclusively from the mother.

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my mitochondrial DNA is an exact copy of my mother's,

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which is an exact copy of her mother's and her

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mother's going all the way back exactly.

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random mutations over vast stretches of time. Geneticists actually call

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this a molecular clock.

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Speaker 1: A molecular clock.

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of people alive today from all over the world, scientists

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Speaker 1: That is genius.

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Speaker 2: And when they did this in nineteen eighty seven, the

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results were staggering. They realized that the genetic lineage of

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every single living person on Earth could be traced back

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to a single localized population, and specifically to one single

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mitochondrial Eve.

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Speaker 1: Mitochondrial Eve. They literally named her Eve.

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Speaker 2: They did. The science tells us that anatomically and intellectually

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occupy Europe, Eastern Asia, and the rest of the world.

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the only woman alive on Earth?

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scientifically accurate, this doesn't mean she was the only woman

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alive on the planet at that time. There were definitely

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on that specific genetic inheritance to every modern personal live today.

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Speaker 1: So everyone else's lineage just died out.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, every other female lineage from that era eventually dead ended.

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Speaker 1: Let's just pause and really process that for a second.

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thousands of years old, written by people who didn't even

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know what a cell was, let alone a molecule, and

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this text points to a singular female ancestor named Eve,

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from whom all modern humanity springs. It's wild. Then, thousands

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of years later, in nineteen eighty seven, highly educated scientists

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in white lab coats looking through electron microscopes that our

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molecular code come out and say, actually, yes, every human

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on Earth traces their modern genetic makeup back to one

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single female ancestor.

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Speaker 2: It is a staggering parallel.

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Speaker 1: It makes you wonder if mainstream science and the Book

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of Genesis are just using different vocabularies to point to

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the exact same moment in ancient history.

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Speaker 2: I think they absolutely are.

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Speaker 1: But here's where things get really fascinating. When you look

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at alternative historical theories, specifically the ancient astronaut theory, they

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take this parallel and push it into incredibly provocative territory.

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Speaker 2: They really take it to the next level.

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Speaker 1: They suggest a thought experiment. What if the story of

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Adam and Eve isn't an allegorical myth at all? What

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if it is a literal historical record of an actual event.

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a man with a white beard in the sky. Instead,

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they were the very first genetically manipulated human beings.

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Speaker 1: Which changes everything it does.

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Speaker 2: If you view the ancient text through the lens of

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modern biotechnology, the Garden of Eden ceases to be a

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mythical paradise. It becomes something much more tangible and frankly,

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much more sterile like what It becomes a specific isolated

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biological environment, essentially a controlled laboratory or a closed biosphere.

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area where these newly genetically modified humans were placed. They

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Speaker 1: Biology, which naturally brings us to the most famous, most

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heavily analyzed element of that entire genesis story, the Tree

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of Knowledge of good and evil. Ohkay, Because we all

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know the classical iconography. We've seen the Renaissance paintings. There

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is an apple, there is a snake, there is the forbidden.

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Speaker 2: Fruit, right, the classic symbols.

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we have to rethink the imagery. If we are talking

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about genetic manipulation. What if the Tree of Knowledge wasn't

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a literal tree with literal fruit.

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Speaker 2: Well, look at the shape of a tree. Yeah, a

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trunk that twists upward, branching out into a canopy. What

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does that remind you of?

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Speaker 1: It looks like DNA exactly.

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Speaker 2: The altar aternative theory suggests that the Tree of Knowledge

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is a brilliant, primitive symbolic representation of the double helical

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Speaker 1: That is, just my mind is blown.

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Speaker 2: The theory suggests that roughly fifty thousand to seventy thousand

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years ago, extraterrestrial or highly advanced non human entities engineered

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Speaker 1: They went in and tweeched the code.

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Speaker 2: They reached into our genetic code and fundamentally upgraded us,

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granting us the profound intellectual abilities we possess today. In

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this context, the fruit wasn't an apple, right, Eating the

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fruit was the sudden biological acquisition of immense cognitive.

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Speaker 1: Power, and adopting this technological reframing completely changes the concept

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of the serpent.

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Speaker 2: It changes everything about it.

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Speaker 1: And by extension, it changes the entire theological concept of

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Satan or the fallen angels or the demons of the

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ancient world abspletely, because in the traditional Biblical narrative, the

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soapin is the ultimate deceiver. It slithers up and tempts

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the tree, their eyes will be open and they will

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be like God.

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Speaker 2: Right, the ultimate temptation.

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Speaker 1: The alternative ancient astronaut theory recontextualizes this entirely. It suggests

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that this wasn't a story of cosmic spiritual evil tempting

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pure human innocence. Rather, it was an ancient, misunderstood account

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of a mutiny.

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Speaker 2: A literal conflict among the creators.

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Speaker 1: Yes, a severe disagreement between different factions of these advanced

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Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense when you frame it

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that way.

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Speaker 1: One faction, represented in the text by the Serpent, wanted

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to share this genetic knowledge. They wanted to initiate this

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intellectual upgrade, allowing humanity to possess advanced consciousness, self awareness,

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and the capacity for higher reasoning.

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Speaker 2: They wanted to help us exactly.

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Speaker 1: But the other faction, the commanding officers, so to speak, strictly,

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wanted to withhold it. They wanted humans to remain subservient,

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essentially acting as biological.

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Speaker 2: Workhorses, just a labor force.

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Speaker 1: Incredible you say that, because as I was looking at this,

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I realized it is essentially the exact same story as

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the Greek myth of Prometheus.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, you are entirely right.

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Speaker 1: Think about it. In Greek mythology, Prometheus disobeys the commanding

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gods on Mount Olympus. He comes down to earth and

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gives mankind the gift of fire.

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Speaker 2: In fire isn't just literal fire exactly.

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Speaker 1: Historians widely agree that fire in this myth isn't just

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literal flames to cook meat. It represents the spark of civilization, technology, metallurgy,

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and advanced thought. Yes, and what happens to Prometheus because

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he gives humanity this forbidden technological knowledge, He is severely

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punished by Zeus. He is banished, chained to a rock,

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and tortured. He is cast out fallen one, just like

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the mutineers in the alternative Eden narrative who give humanity

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the fruit of knowledge and are subsequently cast down from

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heaven and labeled for eternity as evil fallen angels.

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Speaker 2: It really shifts your entire perspectve on what original sin

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Speaker 1: Be, doesn't it. What if the sin that got humanity

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kicked out of the garden wasn't a moral failure? What

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if it wasn't disobedience to a loving creator but an

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unauthorized technological and biological upgrade that violated the protocols of

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an advanced species.

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Speaker 2: It is a profound philosophical shift, and honestly, whether you

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subscribe to the extraterrestrial hypothesis or the purely biological mainstream model,

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both forced us to ask the exact same massive question,

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which is, was our sudden intellectual leap the result of blind, random,

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natural election or was it a deliberate, punctuated.

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Speaker 1: Event because it happened so fast.

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Speaker 2: Yes, even mainstream anthropologists like you've all Knowah Harari in

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his book Sapiens, talk about the cognitive revolution. Harari notes

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that around seventy thousand years ago, Homo sapiens suddenly, inexplicably

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began doing things no other species had ever done, like

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what We started building boats, we started trading, we started

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painting brilliant art in caves, and we developed complex language.

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Mainstream science admits that this leap was incredibly sudden, and

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that we don't fully understand the genetic mutation that caused it.

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Speaker 1: So the science admits there is a missing piece.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, the alternative theorist just take that admitted scientific

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mystery and insert an intelligent designer.

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Speaker 1: I know what some of you listening are probably thinking

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right now. Okay, this is a fun sci fi thought experiment,

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but a snake. Why would an ancient text use a

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reptile to represent an advanced alien scientist.

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Speaker 2: It does sound like a stretch at first.

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Speaker 1: It does, but if you look at global history, the

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serpent has almost always been a symbol of medicine, hidden knowledge,

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and healing.

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Speaker 2: That is a great point.

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Speaker 1: Think about the medical symbol we still use today on

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ambulances and hospitals, the coducious. It is a staff with

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two serpents intertwined around it, spiraling upward.

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Speaker 2: It looks exactly like DNA.

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Speaker 1: It looks exactly like the double helix of human DNA.

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It is hiding in plain sight. But I do have

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to play Devil's advocate here, go for it. I want

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to genuinely push back on the motive. Let's say, for

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the sake of the argument, that a super advanced alien

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race capable of interstellar travel and precise DNA manipulation arrived

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on Earth. Okay, why would they have such a messy,

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chaotic disagreement about upgrading a bunch of primitive hominids?

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Speaker 2: That is the big question.

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Speaker 1: Was it an ethical dilemma like the prime directive in

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Star Trek, where the absolute highest law is that you

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must never ever interfere with the natural evolution of a

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primitive species. Or was it something.

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Speaker 2: Darker like they were threatened by us?

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Speaker 1: Right? Did the commanding faction look at us, see our aggressive,

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territorial primate nature, and think if we make them as

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smart as we are, if they become like gods, they

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won't be our servants anymore. Eventually they will become a

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threat to us.

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Speaker 2: That exact question is the crux of the debate within

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these alternative historical circles. It really comes down to the

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burden of power. How so well, if you possess the

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technological capability to accelerate the evolution of a suffering primitive

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species secure their disease, is to give them the ability

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to build shelters and communicate, do you have a moral

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obligation to intervene?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Would you leave them to suffer exactly?

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Speaker 2: Or do you have a moral obligation to leave them

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alone to find their own destiny. The faction that supposedly

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upgraded us, the Prometian faction, might have seen our latent potential.

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Speaker 1: They felt bad for us.

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Speaker 2: They might have felt empathy, wanting us to bypass millions

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of years of brutal, painful, slow evolution. The commanding faction, however,

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might have viewed us as a highly dangerous, unpredictable biological.

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Speaker 1: Variable, which, to be fair to them, humans are pretty destructive.

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Speaker 2: We absolutely are. But regardless of the specific motives of

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these theoretical beings, we have to look at this empirically.

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Speaker 1: Right back to the physical evidence.

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Speaker 2: Yes, if we accept the premise that we were upgraded,

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that we receive this massive influx of DNA knowledge, there

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has to be physical evidence of that sudden change. The

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hardware of the human body must have changed to accommodate

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the new software.

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Speaker 1: It has to be visible somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Interestingly, the most profound piece of evidence for this biological

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leap isn't hidden deep inside the folds of our brain tissue,

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and it isn't buried underneath millions of years of ancient

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dirt in the Great Riff Galley.

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Speaker 1: Where is it.

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Speaker 2: It is sitting right inside your throat at this very moment.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the sudden, radically unexplained evolution of the human voice box.

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This is where the biological mystery shifts from the theoretical

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into the anatomically verifiable.

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Speaker 2: It is my favorite part of this whole.

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Speaker 1: Theory, because when you look at the stark physical differences

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between human anatomy and the anatomy of our closest genetic cousins,

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the great apes and the chimpanzees, the throat is a

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staggering anomaly, completely different. Let's break down the mechanics of this.

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A chimpanzee cannot speak. They are incredibly intelligent. They can

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learn sign language, they can solve complex puzzles, but they

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physically cannot speak.

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Speaker 2: They lack the hardware.

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Speaker 1: They do. They can vocalize, they can screech, they can hoot,

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but they cannot produce the intricate, nuanced sounds required for

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a complex syntactical language.

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Speaker 2: Right. And why is that?

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Speaker 1: Because in a chimpanzee and in almost all other mammals,

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the larynx the voice box is positioned very high up

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in the throat. This is actually a massive evolutionary advantage

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for them.

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Speaker 2: It keeps them safe.

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Speaker 1: Because their lanynx is so high it separates the breathing

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tube from the swallowing tube. A chimpanzee can drink water

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and breathe at the exact same time without any risk.

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Speaker 2: Of choking, which is amazing.

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Speaker 1: A human infant can actually do this too for the

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first few months of life, which is why they can

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nurse and breathe simultaneously precisely.

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Speaker 2: But as a human infant grows, something bizarre happens that

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defies standard evolutionary logic. What happens the larynx descends. It

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drops lower into the throat. Now anatomically, this creates a

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shared pathway for both food and air, it creates a

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massive biological vulnerability. Because our larynx is lower. Humans are

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the only mammals on Earth that face a significante daily

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risk of choking to death on our own food.

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Speaker 1: We literally risk death every time we eat.

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Speaker 2: Yes, from a strict Darwinian evolutionary standpoint, this makes zero sense.

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Evolution favors traits that increase your chances of survival and reproduction.

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Speaker 1: So why trade a safe throat for a dangerous one.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, Trading a perfectly safe swallowing mechanism for a mechanism

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that can easily kill you over a piece of meat

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is a terrible trade off, unless, of course, the benefit

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of that lowered larynx was so overwhelmingly powerful that it

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outweighed the risk.

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Speaker 1: Of death, and that benefit was the resonance chamber. Yes,

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because the larynx drops, it creates this empty space, a

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cavern in the throat. Combined with the incredible agility of

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the human tongue, the lips, and the unique shape of

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our hyoid bone, which by the way, is the only

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bone in the human body that isn't attached to another bone.

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It just floats there, we gain the ability to articulate.

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Speaker 2: We can make fine sounds.

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Speaker 1: We gain the ability to produce sharp consonants, the hard k,

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the soft s, the rolling r. Many scientists and anatomis

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who observe the human vocal cords note that they do

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not look like a clumsy evolutionary accident.

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Speaker 2: They look engineered.

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Speaker 1: They look almost genetically designed to allow us to modulate pitch,

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to form distinct words, and to sing. There is no

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other species on Earth that possesses anything even remotely close

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to this capability. Language is, without a doubt, the ultimate

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advanced tool.

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Speaker 2: It really is.

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Speaker 1: It is the defining characteristic that separates humanity from every

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other living organism.

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Speaker 2: We also have to look at the genetics behind this hardware.

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In the late nineteen nineties, geneticists discovered something called the FOXP.

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Speaker 1: Two gene fosp two.

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Speaker 2: Yes is widely referred to as the language gene. While

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other animals have variations of FOXP two, the specific mutation

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found in humans is entirely unique to us.

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Speaker 1: So what does it do?

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Speaker 2: If a human is born with a defective FOXP two gene,

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they don't lose their intelligence, but they entirely lose their

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ability to form complex grammar and articulate speech.

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Speaker 1: Wow. So it is the literal CODEO for language.

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Speaker 2: It is the specific piece of code that allows the

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brain to control the intricate motor functions of the mouth

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and throat to speak. And according to evolutionary biologists, this

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specific human mutation of FOXP two appeared incredibly rapidly in

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our evolutionary timeline. Just boom, there it is yes, and

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language allows us to do something magical. It allows us

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to pass down accumulated knowledge. A wolf can teach its

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pup how to hunt, but it cannot tell the pupp

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a story about a great hunt from ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: It can't pass down history exactly.

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Speaker 2: It cannot warn the pup about a storm coming next winter.

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Language allows humans to cooperate in massive numbers, to build

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intricate societies, and to conceptualize the past in the future.

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Speaker 1: I always think about the profound emotional weight of language.

482
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It is easy to talk about it as a tool

483
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for survival, but it is so much more than that.

484
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It is how we connect on a soul level. Absolutely,

485
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it's not just about transferring data about where the best

486
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berries are. It is about sharing profound grief, expressing deep

487
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unconditional love, telling jokes that make a room erupt in laughter,

488
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creating poetry that moves people to tears. It is the

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human experience, all the different cultures, the thousands of gorgeous

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dialects around the world. Our ability to communicate on such

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an extensive, intricate level is the very foundation of being human.

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If we were given a new operating system, language was

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the user interface.

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Speaker 2: That is a perfect analogy.

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Speaker 1: But the question that keeps anthropologists awake at night is

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who invented it? Where did the very first word come from?

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How do you go from grunting to syntax?

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Speaker 2: And that is a mystery that is incredibly frustrating for

499
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researchers because archaeology has distinct hard limitations.

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Speaker 1: You can't dig up a word exactly.

501
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Speaker 2: We can dig up fossilized homited bones and study the

502
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curvature of the spine to see exactly when our ancestors

503
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started walking. Up right, we could dig up sharpened obsidian

504
00:24:54,079 --> 00:24:56,720
stones to see how they hunted MANETs. We can find

505
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the charred remains of ancient campfires.

506
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Speaker 1: But you cannot dig up a sp word.

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Speaker 2: The invention of language leaves absolutely no physical artifact in

508
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the dirt until the ads end of writing, which comes

509
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tens of thousands of years later. Science and history are

510
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essentially scrambling around in the dark for answers regarding the

511
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spark of speech.

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Speaker 1: So we just don't know.

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Speaker 2: Was it a slow, gradual evolution of grunts and hand

514
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gestures over millions of years, or was it a sudden,

515
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fully formed capacity instilled in us. What is fascinating here

516
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is if traditional science cannot find the answer down here

517
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in the dirt, if the fossil record cannot fully explain

518
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the sudden appearance of complex language and the biological hardware

519
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required for it. Yeah, perhaps we shouldn't be looking down

520
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for the answers. Perhaps we should be looking up.

521
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Speaker 1: There, which brings us perfectly to the next thread we

522
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need to pull. Because once humanity possessed this incredible sudden gift,

523
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of advanced language. What is the very first thing they

524
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naturally tried to do.

525
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Speaker 2: They try to use it.

526
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Speaker 1: They tried to use it. They tried to record their history,

527
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to make sense of their environment, and crucially, to describe

528
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the very events or beings that triggered their awakening. But

529
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I want you to really visualize this problem. Imagine you

530
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are a newly conscious, brilliant human being living ten thousand

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years ago. You have the exact same brain capacity you

532
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have right now. You are not stupid.

533
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Speaker 2: No, ancient people were very smart.

534
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Speaker 1: But your entire technological vocabulary consists of rocks, trees, fire, clouds,

535
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and animals. Now, imagine a modern fighter jet descends from

536
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the sky and lands in front of you. How do

537
00:26:30,279 --> 00:26:32,920
you describe it to your tribe. You don't have the

538
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words fuselage, thrust, aerospace, or titanium. So what do you do.

539
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You look to the natural world. You use the words

540
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you already possess. You look for the closest possible approximation.

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You call it a screaming iron bird that breathes fire.

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Speaker 2: This is a vital conceptual tool to grasp when analyzing

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any ancient text. It is the concept of mythological translation.

544
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Speaker 1: Mythological translation.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we have to constantly remind ourselves of what you

546
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just said. Our ancient ancestors were highly intelligent. There were brilliant,

547
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meticulous observers of the natural world. They tracked the complex

548
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,720
movements of the stars with astonishing accuracy without telescopes. However,

549
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,799
their technological frame of reference was entirely limited to the

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natural world. If they witnessed an event involving advanced mechanics,

551
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celestial navigation, or aerial flight, they didn't have the lexicon

552
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to describe it.

553
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Speaker 1: Literally, didn't of the words.

554
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Speaker 2: They had to use the imagery of animals, weather patterns,

555
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and nature to describe the indescribable. When an ancient text

556
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says a god arrived in a chariot of fire, we

557
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,480
shouldn't assume they literally meant a wooden cart pulled by

558
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horses that was inexplicably on.

559
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Speaker 1: Fire, right, because that makes no sense.

560
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Speaker 2: We should ask what advanced mode of transportation involves intense light, heat,

561
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and aerial movement that an ancient person would translate as

562
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a chariot of fire.

563
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Speaker 1: Let's apply that exact lends to some specific history. Because

564
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this is where the puzzle pieces start snapping together. Let's

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look deep into ancient Chinese mythology dating back to roughly

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three thousand BC.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's look at it.

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Speaker 1: The historical texts introduce us to the birth of a profound,

569
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legendary figure named wang D, who was universally known as

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the Yellow Emperor.

571
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Speaker 2: A massively important figure in Chinese history.

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Speaker 1: Massive now, right from the jump, the texts are explicit

573
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about his origins. His birth and arrival were accompanied by

574
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a radiance, a brilliant, blinding light from the great star Shei.

575
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Speaker 2: So immediately connecting him to the stars.

576
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Speaker 1: He didn't just wander into the village from the next

577
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valley over. His origins are explicitly deliberately tied to the stars,

578
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to a celestial phenomenon, and the story goes that the

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Han Chinese people at this time were suffering immensely.

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Speaker 2: It was a very hard time.

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Speaker 1: They were living in poverty in a land that was

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beautiful but incredibly harsh. They were disorganized, starving, and inconstant chaos.

583
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The gods, looking down from the heavens with empathy, took

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pity on them, and so wang D decides to come

585
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down to earth to intervene.

586
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Speaker 2: It is his mode of transportation that is so heavily

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scrutinized by alternative historians.

588
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Speaker 1: Yes tell him how he traveled.

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Speaker 2: According to the ancient Chinese texts, Wang D arrived on

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planet Earth and subsequently traveled around the continent in the

591
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belly of a massive fire breathing dragon. In the belly

592
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of a dragon, it is explicitly stated in the records

593
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that he had the power of aerial flight, that he

594
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traveled vast distances and be anywhere within minutes, and he

595
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accomplished this incredible speed by hopping onto his dragon and

596
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taking to.

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Speaker 1: The sky, which is wild.

598
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Speaker 2: He descends from this flying entity to become China's first

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true emperor. He acts as a divine, highly advanced energy

600
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taking human form to lead, organize, and unite the scattered people.

601
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Speaker 1: And he doesn't just unite them through speeches. He radically

602
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:52,279
technologically accelerates their civilization. The inventions and legacies credited to

603
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Wang D are staggering. He brings systematic order to the.

604
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Speaker 2: Chaos he introduces.

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Speaker 1: So much he is credited with the invention of the compass,

606
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a highly sophisticated navigational tool that requires an understanding of

607
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the Earth's magnetic field.

608
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Speaker 2: Not a simple invention, not at all.

609
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Speaker 1: He introduces acupuncture. Now, think about the complexity of acupuncture.

610
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It is an incredibly intricate medical understanding of the human

611
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nervous system, invisible energy, meridians, and blood flow. It's not

612
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,039
something a hunter gatherer just stumbles upon by accidentally poking

613
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someone with a stick.

614
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Speaker 2: No, it is a highly mapped science.

615
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Speaker 1: He standardizes Chinese writing, creating a unified, complex system of

616
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communication for a massive, sprawling empire. And he is even

617
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associated with laying the earliest conceptual and administrative foundations for

618
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,279
what would eventually become the Great Wall of China.

619
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Speaker 2: It is a period of massive advancement.

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Speaker 1: He sparks a period of massive prosperity, health, and technological advancement.

621
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And then, according to the myth, when the land is

622
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finally prosperous and his work is complete, the great yellow

623
00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:56,680
dragon returns. Wang d gets back into the belly of

624
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the dragon, and it flies off into the stars forever.

625
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Speaker 2: So let's stop and apply the concept of mythological translation

626
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to this incredible story. We have to ask a fundamental question,

627
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,119
were these dragons' biological entities?

628
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Speaker 1: Were there actual giant lizards flying around.

629
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Speaker 2: Right where the giant fire breathing flying reptiles roaming the

630
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earth in three thousand BC that somehow understood complex navigational

631
00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:23,079
commands and allowed emperors to ride inside their stomachs. Probably not,

632
00:31:23,359 --> 00:31:27,400
or is this a classic misinterpretation of a highly advanced machine.

633
00:31:28,039 --> 00:31:31,559
Think about how an ancient person completely devoid of mechanical

634
00:31:31,599 --> 00:31:35,680
knowledge would describe a modern rocket launch or an aerospace vehicle.

635
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Speaker 1: What would they see?

636
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Speaker 2: They see a massive metallic cylindrical object. It is spewing

637
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,519
tremendous amounts of fire and exhaust from its base. There

638
00:31:45,559 --> 00:31:49,599
is immense deafening noise that physically shakes the earth beneath

639
00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:53,960
their feet, just roaring thunder exactly. There is thick, billowing smoke,

640
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,319
which is often yellow or red, depending on the chemical

641
00:31:56,359 --> 00:31:59,680
propellant being used. If you have never seen an engine

642
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,880
or a in your entire life, the absolute closest biological

643
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,640
equivalent to a massive, roaring, fire spewing flying entity is

644
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:09,640
a mythical monster.

645
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Speaker 1: It is a dragon.

646
00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:11,519
Speaker 2: It is a dragon.

647
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,799
Speaker 1: It makes total logical sense when you think about it.

648
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,079
As a desperate attempt to translate the incomprehensible. A dragon

649
00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:19,920
has a belly, that's the fuselage or the cockpit, a

650
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,880
dragon flies aerodynamics, a dragon breathes fire and creates win

651
00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:25,759
Those are the thrusters and the exhaust.

652
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Speaker 2: It maps perfectly.

653
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Speaker 1: The alternative theories point out that in many Eastern teachings,

654
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dragons are frequently depicted carrying people. Sometimes the gods are

655
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riding on the dragon's back, but very often they're described

656
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as being situated securely inside the dragon's belly, looking.

657
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Speaker 2: Out, looking out of a window.

658
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Speaker 1: Essentially, it sounds exactly like a poet's desperate effort to

659
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explain an aerospace vehicle and a pilot. And what is

660
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,200
truly wild is that this narrative isn't isolated to just

661
00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:55,720
one region in China. It is a global phenomenon.

662
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Speaker 2: Exactly when you synthesize this data globally, you see an

663
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undone deniable pattern. This core narrative, a deity or an

664
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advanced being arriving from the stars in a fiery vehicle

665
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to help a struggling humanity, bringing profound gifts of science

666
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,279
and civilization, is found everywhere.

667
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Speaker 1: Give me some examples.

668
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Speaker 2: You find parallel legends among the ancient Egyptians, who believe

669
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their gods like Osiris, descended from the Orian constellation you

670
00:33:21,799 --> 00:33:24,640
find it among Native American tribes all across the Americas,

671
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:27,480
who speak of sky people or star beings who brought

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them agriculture and law. And perhaps most inexplicably, you find

673
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it deeply embedded within the traditions of the Dogon tribe

674
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in West Africa.

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Speaker 1: Oh, the Dogon tribe. That story is incredible.

676
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Speaker 2: The Dogon possessed highly specific, inexplicable astronomical knowledge regarding the

677
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Serious Star system, specifically the existence of Serious B, a

678
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white dwarf star that is completely invisible to the naked eye.

679
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Speaker 1: You literally need a modern telescope to see it.

680
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Speaker 2: Yes, the Doga knew about its orbit, its density, and

681
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its invisible nature centuries before modern Western astronomy confirmed its

682
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existence with high powered telescopes. When anthropologists asked the Dogon

683
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how they knew this, they stated plainly that the knowledge

684
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was given to them by beings called the Nomo, who

685
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descended from the sky in a vessel surrounded by fire

686
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and thunder.

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Speaker 1: It's the same story.

688
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Speaker 2: It suggests a global phenomena, a pattern of God's descending

689
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with empathy to elevate human suffering through the rapid sudden

690
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injection of technology and order.

691
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Speaker 1: I just marvel at the psychological aspect of this mythology

692
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,639
is at its core the human effort to grasp what

693
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is entirely beyond our grasp. It's our way of wrestling

694
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:37,880
with the infinite and the unknown. But here is where

695
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,440
I need to step in and push back. I am

696
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,199
trying to view this with a critical eye. I know

697
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what the skeptics are screaming at their speakers.

698
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Speaker 2: Right now, play Devil's advocate.

699
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Speaker 1: Let's do it. Yes, if I took an Apache helicopter

700
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,000
back in time to three thousand BC, landed in a

701
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rice patty, and stepped out wearing a flight suit, the

702
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locals would absolutely call it a screaming metal bird. They

703
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would call me a god who rides the wind without

704
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,239
a doubt. But does the fact that Wangde's standardized writing

705
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,239
or invented the compass actually require an extraterrestrial or advanced

706
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:14,079
ancient civilization explanation? Aren't we treading dangerously close to stripping

707
00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:15,880
ancient humans of their own agency?

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Speaker 2: That is a very fair point.

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Speaker 1: Are we vastly underestimating ancient human genius? Couldn't wog d

710
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just have been a brilliant human leader once in a generation?

711
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,039
Genius in ancient Einstein or Da Vinci, who genuinely invented

712
00:35:28,039 --> 00:35:31,480
the compass through intense observation of loadstones, who united the

713
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tribes through sheer charisma, and then over hundreds of years

714
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of oral storytelling, his purely human legacy was simply exaggerated

715
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,559
into a myth about riding star dragons.

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Speaker 2: That is the essential, vital counter argument, and it is

717
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crucial to keep it at the forefront of this discussion.

718
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:51,679
We absolutely must validate the inherent intellect, creativity, and ingenuity

719
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,000
of early Homo sapiens.

720
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Speaker 1: They weren't dumb, not at all.

721
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Speaker 2: They had the exact same cognitive capacity we do. We

722
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:03,119
should never assume that ancient people were incapable of profound innovation. However,

723
00:36:03,519 --> 00:36:07,320
the alternative theory doesn't necessarily dispute human capacity to invent.

724
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,400
What it questions is the speed, the timeline, and the

725
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,760
clustering of these advances. Clesterl Yes, to have an advanced

726
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,639
understanding of global magnetism for navigation, a standardized complex writing system,

727
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,119
and an intricate, highly mapped medical system like acupuncture all

728
00:36:24,159 --> 00:36:26,920
appear almost concurrently, all at once, and for all of

729
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,360
these complex sciences to be localized around a singular figure

730
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:34,920
who is explicitly, repeatedly associated with celestial phenomena and aerial flight.

731
00:36:35,599 --> 00:36:38,400
That is what raises the eyebrows of alternative historians.

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Speaker 1: So it's not that we couldn't invent it, it's that

733
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we invented it too fast.

734
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Speaker 2: It is the suddenness of the leap. Human innovation is

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generally iterative. Someone invents the wheel, someone else puts it

736
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,360
on a cart, someone else adds an axle. But in

737
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,039
these ancient narratives, humanity goes from zero to one hundred

738
00:36:55,159 --> 00:36:58,199
in a single lifetime. It's the clustering of miracles that

739
00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:59,199
creates the anomaly.

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Speaker 1: That's a really fair point. It's the timeline that makes

741
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,639
it weird, the suddenness of it all, and that transitions

742
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,000
us perfectly into our next major piece.

743
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Speaker 2: Of evidence, the physical evidence.

744
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Speaker 1: Yes, because I will admit, while stories of fire breathing

745
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,800
dragons and compassionate star beings from serious or fascinating, they

746
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:21,239
are still relatively easy for mainstream skeptics to dismiss. They

747
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,239
are just stories. They are folklore. They are easily chalked

748
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,239
up to poetic metaphors and the exaggerations of time.

749
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 2: You can argue with a myth.

750
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: But you know what is significantly harder to dismiss a

751
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,519
twenty ton block of solid, intricately carved limestone.

752
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 2: You cannot argue with a rock.

753
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,039
Speaker 1: No, you can't. If humanity was genuinely receiving outside help,

754
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,760
if we were being genetically upgraded, or if we were

755
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,440
being guided by a lost highly advanced civilization, there should

756
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,639
be physical, undeniable anomalies buried in the dirt.

757
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:51,519
Speaker 2: It has to be proof.

758
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Speaker 1: There should be structures that completely and utterly defy are

759
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,679
accepted historical timeline. And in nineteen ninety four humanity found

760
00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:03,159
exactly that. We are moving right now from the ethereal

761
00:38:03,199 --> 00:38:06,320
realm of myth into the hard, undeniable realm of stone.

762
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 2: We are talking about what is arguably the most paradigm

763
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,280
shifting archaeological discovery of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

764
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,679
We are talking about Go Beckley Tipe.

765
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Speaker 1: Go Beckley Tipe.

766
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,039
Speaker 2: The story of his discovery is phenomenal. It literally starts

767
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,199
like a scene from an Indiana Jones movie. It is

768
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,079
October nineteen eighty four in the San le Ufa province

769
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:25,400
of southeastern Turkey.

770
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Speaker 1: Which is right near the Fertile Crescent The region is.

771
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 2: Near the traditional borders of the biblical Garden Viden and

772
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,519
the Fertile Crescent. A local Kurdish shepherd named Sevakioldus is

773
00:38:34,559 --> 00:38:37,440
walking his field. He is plowing, working the land as

774
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,320
his family has done for generations, and he spots a

775
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,239
strangely shaped stone protruding from the dusty.

776
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,519
Speaker 1: Earth, just a rock sticking up.

777
00:38:44,639 --> 00:38:48,519
Speaker 2: He walks over, brushes away the dirt and realizes this

778
00:38:48,639 --> 00:38:51,760
isn't just a natural rock out cropping. It appears to

779
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:56,239
be a deliberately worked edge, perfectly straight, belonging to a

780
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,400
much larger object buried beneath the hill.

781
00:38:58,639 --> 00:38:59,079
Speaker 1: Wow.

782
00:38:59,119 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 2: He does exactly the right thing. He contacts the local museum.

783
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Shortly after, the museum contacts the German Archaeological Institute and

784
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,599
an archaeologist named Klaus Schmidt arrives at the site to investigate.

785
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Speaker 1: And when Klaus Schmidt starts digging into that hill, he

786
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,000
essentially breaks the history of the world. He really does,

787
00:39:16,119 --> 00:39:19,079
because what Schmidt and his team found beneath the dirt

788
00:39:19,119 --> 00:39:23,159
of go Beckley Tepe was absolutely mind blowing. As they

789
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,719
dug they didn't just find one workstone, they unearthed dozens

790
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:32,679
and eventually ground penetrating radar revealed hundreds of massive monolithic

791
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,800
T shaped limestone.

792
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 2: Pillars, hundreds of them.

793
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Speaker 1: And these aren't small decorative markers. Some of these pillars

794
00:39:38,079 --> 00:39:40,360
are almost twenty feet tall and weigh as much as

795
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:45,519
twenty tons each. They are arranged in these massive, perfectly geometric,

796
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circular enclosures.

797
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 2: It is a massive complex.

798
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: But it's not just the size that is baffling. It

799
00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:54,519
is the artistry. These pillars aren't just blank blocks of

800
00:39:54,599 --> 00:39:59,039
rough rock. They are covered in intricate, beautiful, high relief.

801
00:39:58,719 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: Carving three D cartings.

802
00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:08,199
Speaker 1: Yes, they feature stunning depictions of animals, lions, charging bowls, foxes, cranes, snakes, spiders, scorpions.

803
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,199
The level of artistry, the understanding of proportion and perspective,

804
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,880
is phenomenal. It is masterclass stonemasonry.

805
00:40:16,119 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 2: And when you sit down with modern engineers and start

806
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,320
to calculate the sheer, logistics and mathematics of this construction,

807
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,039
the implications become staggering.

808
00:40:23,639 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: Right because how did they build it?

809
00:40:25,159 --> 00:40:28,599
Speaker 2: Archaeologists and structural engineers have estimated the labor required for

810
00:40:28,639 --> 00:40:32,440
this site to simply move just one of these monolithic

811
00:40:32,519 --> 00:40:35,880
twenty ton pillars from the nearby limestone quarry to the

812
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,440
top of the hill where the site sits. Remember, these

813
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,199
people supposedly didn't have the wheel no wheels, they didn't

814
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,280
have draft animals like oxen or horses domesticated yet, they

815
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,440
didn't have pulleys. To move one stone, it would have

816
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,679
taken a dedicated, highly organized, synchronized team of at least

817
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:54,199
fifty strong men working an entire week just to drag

818
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:55,159
one stone.

819
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: Into position, just dragging it up a hill.

820
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,519
Speaker 2: Then to carve those intricate bas reliefs using only flint

821
00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:04,119
or harder stone tools because they didn't have metal. They

822
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:09,400
estimate over three hundred hours of highly skilled painstaking labor

823
00:41:09,599 --> 00:41:13,159
per pillar. That is insane at that rate. Considering the

824
00:41:13,159 --> 00:41:15,639
sheer number of pillars in the complexity of the site,

825
00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:19,119
each of the circular enclosures would have required a full

826
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:24,760
year of continuous, highly organized, heavily resourced labor to be completed.

827
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Speaker 1: Let's pause and visualize the mechanics of that. If you

828
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,760
have hundreds of men dragging twenty tons stones and carving

829
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,960
art for years on end, those men need to eat, right,

830
00:41:34,039 --> 00:41:36,280
They need a massive amount of calories. They need water,

831
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,559
they need shelter. You need an entire logistical supply chain

832
00:41:39,599 --> 00:41:41,559
to support a massive construction.

833
00:41:41,159 --> 00:41:42,760
Speaker 2: Project like this an economy.

834
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: Yes, and here is the massive, glaring, impossible mystery of

835
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,679
go beckley Tepe. Nobody lived there.

836
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 2: It's empty.

837
00:41:49,639 --> 00:41:53,760
Speaker 1: Usually when archaeologists find monumental architecture like the pyramids or

838
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,360
the Ziggurats or Mayan temples, they find a massive city

839
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,719
surrounding it. They find the houses of the workers. They

840
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,960
find domestic trash pits, They find thousands of broken pottery

841
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,719
shards from their kitchens. They find burial grounds and human remains.

842
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 2: The signs of life.

843
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 1: Klouf Schmidt searched that site for years, expecting to find

844
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,760
the settlement that supported this massive workforce, but he found nothing.

845
00:42:15,199 --> 00:42:18,719
Go beckley Tepe is clearly not a village. There is

846
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:23,920
absolutely zero domestic refuse. There are no human remains indicating.

847
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,039
Speaker 2: A graveyard, no agriculture.

848
00:42:25,079 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: There are no signs of domesticated plants or agriculture. The

849
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,400
only bones found at the site are thousands and thousands

850
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,760
of bones of wild animals gazelles, boares, deer, presumably hunted

851
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,519
in the wild and brought to the site to feed

852
00:42:37,519 --> 00:42:39,360
the workers, and then discarded in.

853
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,199
Speaker 2: The field of archaeology. There is a running inside joke.

854
00:42:42,519 --> 00:42:44,360
If we dig something up and we have absolutely no

855
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,280
idea what it was used for, we just call it

856
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,079
a ritual site, of course, and that is exactly what

857
00:42:49,159 --> 00:42:52,880
happened with go Beckley Tepe. Because there is no domestic settlement.

858
00:42:53,599 --> 00:42:57,000
The default assumption by mainstream academia is that it was

859
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,559
a religious sanctuary, a temple, world's first cathedral, a place

860
00:43:01,599 --> 00:43:05,519
of pilgrimage where scattered hunter gatherers would temporarily gather for

861
00:43:05,599 --> 00:43:08,119
rituals and then dispose back into the wilderness.

862
00:43:08,159 --> 00:43:09,760
Speaker 1: But that is just a guess.

863
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 2: It remains pure speculation. We have no idea what rituals

864
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:17,880
took place there or what the T shaped pillars actually represent. However,

865
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,719
the mystery of its purpose completely pales in comparison to

866
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,360
the absolute shock of its age.

867
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,639
Speaker 1: Oh the age. This is the best part.

868
00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:28,800
Speaker 2: Klaus Schmidt needed to know when this was built. Now

869
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:33,320
you cannot radiocarbon data piece of limestone. Stone doesn't have

870
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,360
carbon fourteen isotopes decaying.

871
00:43:35,079 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: Inside it, so how do you date it?

872
00:43:37,199 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 2: What Schmidt discovered was that ubecley Tepe wasn't abandoned to

873
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,760
the elements. It was deliberately intentionally buried. Whoever built it

874
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,760
spent immense effort to cover the entire site with thousands

875
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,519
of tons of dirt and refuse to hide it or

876
00:43:48,559 --> 00:43:49,039
preserve it.

877
00:43:49,079 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: They buried the whole thing.

878
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 2: And inside that dirt backfill there was organic material, animal bones,

879
00:43:56,039 --> 00:44:00,239
charcoal from fires. Schmidt took that organic material and had

880
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:01,719
it radiocarbon dated.

881
00:44:01,679 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: And the results of those radiocarbon tests triggered a localized

882
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,480
earthquake for the entire scientific community. The radiocarbon dating placed

883
00:44:09,559 --> 00:44:13,400
the intentional burial and therefore the construction of Gobeckley Tepe

884
00:44:13,559 --> 00:44:15,440
at roughly twelve thousand years old.

885
00:44:15,559 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 2: Twelve thousand years I.

886
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,519
Speaker 1: Need everyone to deeply comprehend how impossible that number is.

887
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,840
Twelve thousand years old. To put that in perspective, that

888
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,960
is roughly five thousand years older than the first known

889
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,280
cities of ancient.

890
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:29,639
Speaker 2: Mesopotamia, older than Sumeria.

891
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: It is seven thousand years older than Stonehenge or the

892
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,719
Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. According to the mainstream

893
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:41,039
accepted textbook Timeline of Human Advancement, twelve thousand years ago,

894
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,639
humans were nothing more than simple hunter.

895
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 2: Gatherers, just cavemen.

896
00:44:45,119 --> 00:44:47,559
Speaker 1: Essentially, they're supposed to be roaming the earth in small,

897
00:44:47,559 --> 00:44:52,159
disorganized bands, wearing animal skins, following herds of wild gazelles,

898
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,000
and living in caves or temporary stick shelters.

899
00:44:55,079 --> 00:44:56,039
Speaker 2: It doesn't fit the narrative.

900
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,599
Speaker 1: It is the historical equivalent of digging beneath a medieval

901
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,360
eelfth century castle and finding a fully functional, highly engineered

902
00:45:04,639 --> 00:45:08,559
nuclear reactor. It is an anachronism that should not exist.

903
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 2: The site sent absolute shock waves through the entire discipline

904
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:17,360
of early prehistory. It completely and utterly broke the linear

905
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,480
model of human progress that we are all taught in school.

906
00:45:20,679 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: Walk us through that broken model.

907
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,119
Speaker 2: Let's review the textbook model we all learned. It goes

908
00:45:27,159 --> 00:45:30,440
like this. In a strict order, humans are simple hunter gatherers.

909
00:45:30,679 --> 00:45:33,920
Then they discover agriculture and learn to farm wheat. Because

910
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,800
they can farm, they settle in one place. Settling in

911
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,039
one place creates a reliable food surplus because everyone doesn't

912
00:45:40,039 --> 00:45:42,159
have to hunt all day to survive. A food surplus

913
00:45:42,159 --> 00:45:45,039
allows for the specialization of labor. This means some people

914
00:45:45,039 --> 00:45:48,079
can become priests, some can become engineers, and some can

915
00:45:48,079 --> 00:45:52,519
become master Stonemasons and then only after agriculture, settlement and

916
00:45:52,519 --> 00:45:57,440
specialization do humans develop the capacity to build monumental megalithic.

917
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,079
Speaker 1: Structures and qebecy tipe ruins that.

918
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 2: Beckley Tepe reverses that entire paradigm. It proves that humans

919
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:08,239
built a massive, complex, twenty ton megalithic temple before the

920
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,920
invented farming, before they invented the wheel, before they invented pottery.

921
00:46:12,119 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: Here is where it gets really interesting. Let's unpack the

922
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,880
logic of that. If the timeline is reversed, If they

923
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:24,079
built a sprawling, mathematically precise twenty ton stone temple before

924
00:46:24,199 --> 00:46:27,440
they had the established society to support it, how did

925
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:28,320
they know how to do it?

926
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 2: That is the million dollar question.

927
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: Where did the engineering knowledge come from? You don't just

928
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,480
wake up one morning in a cave and say, hey, guys,

929
00:46:34,599 --> 00:46:37,880
let's go corey twenty ton limestone blocks and carve high

930
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:39,559
relief three D scorpions on them.

931
00:46:39,679 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 2: Exactly.

932
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:44,079
Speaker 1: This is where alternative historians present a radical, compelling alternative.

933
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,840
They suggest that primitive hunter gatherers absolutely did not build

934
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:49,239
Gobeckley Tepe from scratch.

935
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:50,559
Speaker 2: They inherited the knowledge.

936
00:46:50,599 --> 00:46:52,679
Speaker 1: They argue that it was built by the survivors of

937
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:56,760
a lost highly advanced civilization, a global society that had

938
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:01,199
already mastered complex engineering, mathematics, and social organization thousands of

939
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,360
years prior, but was almost entirely wiped out by a

940
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:05,719
worldwide cataclysm.

941
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,679
Speaker 2: If we connect this to the broader geological picture, the

942
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:13,760
timing of Gobeckley Tepe's construction is deeply, deeply significant. Mainstream

943
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:18,480
geology and climatology widely acknowledge that a catastrophic event or

944
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,599
a rapid series of extreme events occurred at the very

945
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:22,760
end of the Last.

946
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: Ice Age right the Younger dryis yes.

947
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 2: The Pleistocene epoch. The Great Ice Age lasted from roughly

948
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,960
one hundred and eight thousand BC until nearly ten thousand BC,

949
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:36,239
right around the exact time Gobeckley Tepe was constructed. Twelve

950
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,480
thousand years ago, the Earth went through a period of massive,

951
00:47:40,039 --> 00:47:41,360
violent climate upheaval.

952
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: The climate just went crazy.

953
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,039
Speaker 2: This period is called the Younger Dryas we can see

954
00:47:45,079 --> 00:47:48,000
the evidence in ice cores drilled from Greenland, the global

955
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,159
temperature plummeted and then suddenly spiked. Glaciers rapidly melted, causing

956
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:55,440
massive meltwater pulses that raised global sea levels by hundreds

957
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,199
of feet in a terrifyingly short amount of time, flooding

958
00:47:58,199 --> 00:47:59,559
coastal areas worldwide.

959
00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:02,639
Speaker 1: So if we followed this theory, Go Beckley Teppe isn't

960
00:48:02,639 --> 00:48:05,679
the dawn of human civilization as we are slowly waking

961
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,239
up from our caveman slumber. It is a post apocalyptic

962
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:13,239
recovery project, a literal reset. It is the smoking gun

963
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,559
of a lost high culture. Picture it. It is a

964
00:48:16,599 --> 00:48:20,360
group of highly educated survivors of this Ice Age cataclysm.

965
00:48:20,519 --> 00:48:23,719
Their coastal cities are underwater, their civilization is gone. They

966
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:28,199
band together, terrified, holding onto the remnants of their advanced knowledge,

967
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,000
and they say, we have to build something permanent.

968
00:48:31,119 --> 00:48:32,639
Speaker 2: We have to write this down in stone.

969
00:48:32,679 --> 00:48:36,039
Speaker 1: We have to retain this mathematical and engineering knowledge before

970
00:48:36,039 --> 00:48:39,480
it is lost to the mud. The sophisticated engineering skills,

971
00:48:39,519 --> 00:48:42,519
the complex ordering of society required to quarry and move

972
00:48:42,559 --> 00:48:46,599
twenty ton blocks. That knowledge didn't just spontaneously spring from nothing.

973
00:48:46,639 --> 00:48:51,039
It must have existed before the catastrophe. They weren't inventing Stonemasonry.

974
00:48:51,039 --> 00:48:52,440
They were trying to remember it.

975
00:48:52,679 --> 00:48:56,280
Speaker 2: That is the compelling overarching argument the alternative theories put

976
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,599
forward the builders of Go Beckley Tepe were the inheritors

977
00:48:59,599 --> 00:49:02,679
of a man massive legacy. They had the technology, the

978
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:07,800
astronomical knowledge, and the organizational capacity. But logically it raises

979
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,119
a subsequent.

980
00:49:08,639 --> 00:49:10,039
Speaker 1: Mystery, where did they go next?

981
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:14,199
Speaker 2: Exactly, a culture with that much knowledge successfully surviving and

982
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:17,320
recovering from a global disaster wouldn't just build a massive

983
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,840
circle of stones bury it and then vanish into the

984
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:20,639
wilderness forever.

985
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: No, they would rebuild.

986
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,159
Speaker 2: Knowledge needs a home to flourish. It needs a stable,

987
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:29,000
fertile environment to be recorded, expanded upon, and passed down

988
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:33,840
to the next generation. So if these survivors or their

989
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,519
descendants left the harsh mountains of Turkey, where do they

990
00:49:37,519 --> 00:49:40,679
eventually settle to rebuild society on a grand scale?

991
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,639
Speaker 1: That brings us to our final and perhaps most chilling chapter. Today,

992
00:49:45,119 --> 00:49:47,440
we follow the thread of this ancient knowledge out of

993
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,320
the mountainous terrain of ancient Turkey and we trace it

994
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,679
down into the fertile alluvial valleys of the Middle East.

995
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 2: Down into the cradle.

996
00:49:55,039 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: We arrive at the sudden, seemingly impossible birth of modern civilization.

997
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,159
Ancient Summeri area in what is now modern day Iraq.

998
00:50:02,679 --> 00:50:07,920
Sumeri emerges in southern Mesopotamia. The word Mesopotamia literally translates

999
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,800
to the land between the rivers massive Tigris and Euphrates.

1000
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 2: Rivers, an incredibly fertile area.

1001
00:50:13,199 --> 00:50:17,079
Speaker 1: Sometime around three thousand to four thousand BC, this culture

1002
00:50:17,159 --> 00:50:21,280
seemingly explodes into existence out of absolutely nowhere. They don't

1003
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,079
just slowly invent one or two things over a millennium.

1004
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,760
They arrive on the historical stage with a fully functioning,

1005
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,440
highly complex blueprint for a modern society.

1006
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:36,639
Speaker 2: The historical statistics of Samaria are baffling historians and archaeologists.

1007
00:50:36,679 --> 00:50:40,440
A tribute to the ancient Sumerian civilization over one hundred

1008
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,679
major firsts for human society.

1009
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:44,039
Speaker 1: One hundred firsts.

1010
00:50:44,199 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 2: We are talking about the sudden, simultaneous emergence of massive,

1011
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:53,280
complex agriculture and canal irrigation. They possessed advanced astronomical science,

1012
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:57,440
mapping the stars with precision. They had sophisticated medicine and pharmacology.

1013
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable.

1014
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:02,039
Speaker 2: They possess highly complex maths. In fact, they invented the

1015
00:51:02,079 --> 00:51:03,440
base sixty numerical system.

1016
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,679
Speaker 1: Wait, let's explain the mechanics of that. Because it is brilliant.

1017
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:07,880
Why base sixty we use base ten, because we have

1018
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,480
ten fingers. Why did the Sumerians use sixty?

1019
00:51:10,679 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 2: It is deeply intuitive once you see it. They counted

1020
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,400
using the joints on their fingers. Look at your hand

1021
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,880
right now, Okay, looking at my hand excluding your thumb.

1022
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,760
Your four fingers each have three knuckles or joints. Four

1023
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:25,039
fingers times three joints equals twelve. They would use their

1024
00:51:25,079 --> 00:51:27,400
thumb to count the twelve knuckles on one hand and

1025
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,119
then multiply that by the five fingers on their other hand.

1026
00:51:30,639 --> 00:51:34,000
Twelve times five is sixty. That is so smart, and

1027
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:38,239
that Sumerian mathematical invention is so perfect, so mathematically divisible,

1028
00:51:38,519 --> 00:51:41,280
that we still use it today. It is exactly why

1029
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,599
we have sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in

1030
00:51:43,639 --> 00:51:46,280
an hour, and three hundred and sixty degrees in a circle.

1031
00:51:47,039 --> 00:51:50,480
That ancient knowledge is literally taking on your wristwatch right now.

1032
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: I will never look at a clock the same way again.

1033
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 2: Beyond math, they introduced the concept of kingship. They established codified,

1034
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,719
written laws, functioning courts of justice, appointed judges, and even

1035
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:05,320
formal schools for children. It is the sudden manifestation of

1036
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:09,239
a highly structured, organized world. This region of Mesopotamia would

1037
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:11,920
eventually host four main sequential.

1038
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: Kingdoms, Sumer, a Cod, Babylonia, and Assyria.

1039
00:52:14,559 --> 00:52:17,119
Speaker 2: Yes, sumer being the oldest, followed by the Kingdom of

1040
00:52:17,159 --> 00:52:19,599
a Cod begun by the famous Sargona first, and then

1041
00:52:19,639 --> 00:52:21,960
the massive empires of Babylonia and Assyria.

1042
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 1: But the most vital invention of all, the singular technology

1043
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,920
that ensures all those other inventions, the math, the laws,

1044
00:52:29,199 --> 00:52:33,800
the astronomy survived the ravages of time, is writing cuniform.

1045
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:38,239
The Sumerians invented a writing system called cuniform. Cuniform literally

1046
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,400
translates to wedge shaped. Scribes would take a specialized wedge

1047
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,920
shaped reed stylus and meticulously impress these complex, intricate signs

1048
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:48,800
and symbols into tablets of.

1049
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,159
Speaker 2: Wet clay, very permanent medium.

1050
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: Then, in a stroke of genius, they would fire these

1051
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:57,960
clay tablets in high temperature kilns, hardening them into solid stone.

1052
00:52:58,039 --> 00:53:02,400
They essentially created an indestruct ancient hard drive that preserved

1053
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,119
whatever was written on them, whether it was a merchant's

1054
00:53:05,119 --> 00:53:08,119
tax receipt or a deeply sacred religious text.

1055
00:53:08,119 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 2: For millennia and for centuries, modern society had absolutely no

1056
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,000
idea what these tablets said. They were occasionally dug up

1057
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,280
by farmers, but they were completely unreadable. They were just

1058
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,800
considered mysterious rocks with strange scratches on them.

1059
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:20,039
Speaker 1: Nobody could decipher them.

1060
00:53:20,159 --> 00:53:24,199
Speaker 2: Deciphering Cuneiform was considered next to impossible until a massive

1061
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:28,519
watershed moment. In March of eighteen forty three, a French scientist,

1062
00:53:28,679 --> 00:53:33,000
diplomat and archaeologist named Paul Ammeilbota was excavating in northern

1063
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,119
Iraq at a site called Corsobad.

1064
00:53:35,519 --> 00:53:36,280
Speaker 1: What did he find?

1065
00:53:36,519 --> 00:53:39,760
Speaker 2: He broke through the dirt and discovered a gigantic, perfectly

1066
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:44,679
preserved subterranean Assyrian palace. He opened up this incredible sealed

1067
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:48,559
room that was filled with massive statues of ancient winged gods,

1068
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:53,679
depictions of kings, vast treasures, and most importantly, the walls

1069
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:57,199
were entirely covered in ancient Sumerian cuneiform inscriptions.

1070
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,639
Speaker 1: It must have been exactly like stepping into a time machine.

1071
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,639
The air must have felt thick with history. An archaeologist's

1072
00:54:02,679 --> 00:54:05,679
absolute dream, and that discovery by Bota opened the floodgates

1073
00:54:05,679 --> 00:54:09,400
for archaeology. Within ten years of Bota's find, other teams

1074
00:54:09,519 --> 00:54:13,239
uncovered the ruins of the legendary Sumerian capital city of Er,

1075
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,320
the legendary erth This is a massive deal because Err

1076
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:19,719
is famously known as the home of the biblical figure Abraham,

1077
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:24,119
the patriarch of the Monotheistic religions. When scientists excavated Er,

1078
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,400
they didn't just find a few mudbrick houses. They unearthed

1079
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:28,960
the Great Ziggurat.

1080
00:54:28,559 --> 00:54:29,599
Speaker 2: A massive pyramid.

1081
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: This massive, towering, multi tiered step pyramid structure that served

1082
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,599
as the administrative, scientific, and spiritual center of the entire

1083
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:42,760
sprawling city. They found royal tombs clad in solid gold,

1084
00:54:43,039 --> 00:54:46,960
They found exquisite jewelry, and most vitally, they found thousands

1085
00:54:47,079 --> 00:54:50,119
upon thousands of these fired cuneiform tablets.

1086
00:54:50,639 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 2: The discovery of Er was a monumental paradigm shift. Up

1087
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,119
until that point, much of the academic world assumed the

1088
00:54:57,119 --> 00:55:00,519
Bible was purely allegorical. But the un thing of Er

1089
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,159
proved that what was once considered mere religious mythology was

1090
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:06,880
in fact grounded in hard historical reality.

1091
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 1: The myths were suddenly validated by physical artifacts, and when.

1092
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,199
Speaker 2: Scholars finally cracked the code and learned to translate Cuneiform,

1093
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,280
what they found on the tablets in Err and other

1094
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,039
Sumerian cities was staggering.

1095
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: Wasn't just tax receipts.

1096
00:55:18,519 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 2: No, these weren't just grain inventories. They contained the deep

1097
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,800
philosophical and origin histories of the Sumerian people. They contained

1098
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:29,079
the genealogies of their gods, the inner Naki beings they

1099
00:55:29,079 --> 00:55:32,000
explicitly claim came from the sky to bring them civilization.

1100
00:55:32,159 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: There's that star being connection again.

1101
00:55:34,159 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 2: They contained detailed, sweeping accounts of a great flood that

1102
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:41,639
wiped out humanity, narratives like the epic of Gilgamash that

1103
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:44,599
predated the Biblical story of Noah by thousands of years,

1104
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:48,679
yet contained the exact same details. A chosen man, a

1105
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:53,199
massive boat, the preservation of animal life, and a devastating deluge.

1106
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:56,079
Speaker 1: These tablets were the ultimate historical record. They were the

1107
00:55:56,119 --> 00:55:59,679
original source code of human origins. Yes, which makes what

1108
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:03,719
happen in recent history an absolute gut wrenching tragedy. And honestly,

1109
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,320
it reads exactly like the plot of a high stakes

1110
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:07,880
geopolitical spy thriller.

1111
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 2: It is incredibly dark.

1112
00:56:09,039 --> 00:56:11,800
Speaker 1: Let's fast forward from eighteen forty three to April tenth,

1113
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:14,960
two thousand and three. We are three weeks into Operation

1114
00:56:15,079 --> 00:56:18,480
Iraqi Freedom the United States military forces are making their

1115
00:56:18,519 --> 00:56:21,440
way into the capital city of Baghdad, attempting to secure

1116
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,079
strategic locations and create order amid the absolute chaos and

1117
00:56:25,159 --> 00:56:25,679
fog of.

1118
00:56:25,679 --> 00:56:27,280
Speaker 2: War a very chaotic time.

1119
00:56:27,599 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: But while the military is heavily focused on securing government

1120
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,119
buildings and infrastructure, looters fill the streets the city descends

1121
00:56:34,119 --> 00:56:38,559
into anarchy. They ransack museums, destroying, smashing, and stealing thousands

1122
00:56:38,559 --> 00:56:40,280
of ancient, priceless artifacts.

1123
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:43,639
Speaker 2: And the focal point of this devastating destruction was the

1124
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:47,880
National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, which housed the greatest

1125
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,760
collection of Mesopotamian antiquities in the world.

1126
00:56:50,559 --> 00:56:52,320
Speaker 1: The greatest collection on Earth.

1127
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:56,519
Speaker 2: Looters forced their way inside and systematically emptied the galleries.

1128
00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:01,519
They stole irreplaceable ancient musical instruments, intricate gold and jewelry

1129
00:57:01,519 --> 00:57:06,320
from the royal tombs, and most devastatingly, they specifically targeted

1130
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:10,559
the cuneiform tablet archives. The archives, the very tablets that

1131
00:57:10,599 --> 00:57:14,719
recorded the pristine history of ancient Sumeria going back six

1132
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:19,039
thousand years. The tablets containing the genealogies of the ancient gods,

1133
00:57:19,559 --> 00:57:22,679
the technical astronomical data, and the accounts of the Great

1134
00:57:22,719 --> 00:57:25,360
flood were suddenly gone. They were swallowed up in the

1135
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:26,639
chaos of the black market.

1136
00:57:26,719 --> 00:57:29,079
Speaker 1: But the deeper we dig into this, the more disturbing

1137
00:57:29,119 --> 00:57:32,159
the details become. It wasn't just random desperate citizens off

1138
00:57:32,159 --> 00:57:34,960
the streets smashing a display case and grabbing whatever shiny

1139
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:36,840
gold object they could find a sell for food.

1140
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:38,039
Speaker 2: No, it was organized.

1141
00:57:38,239 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: Eyewitness accounts from museum staff and subsequent international investigations revealed

1142
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:47,280
something much darker and highly organized. Interspersed with the chaotic

1143
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,480
random looters, there were highly organized teams of professionals emmertionals.

1144
00:57:51,719 --> 00:57:54,960
These were people wearing tactical gear. They had two way

1145
00:57:55,039 --> 00:57:59,159
radios and earpieces, communicating and coordinating their movements through the

1146
00:57:59,199 --> 00:58:03,039
massive museum. They possessed the glass cutters and specialized tools.

1147
00:58:03,559 --> 00:58:07,840
These professionals completely bypassed the generic shiny displays in the

1148
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:12,719
main halls and specifically targeted the highly secure subterranean vault areas.

1149
00:58:12,719 --> 00:58:13,719
Speaker 2: The knew where they were going.

1150
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:17,639
Speaker 1: They penetrated double locked, reinforced steel doors to get into

1151
00:58:17,639 --> 00:58:21,000
the deepest archives. They knew exactly the layout of the museum,

1152
00:58:21,119 --> 00:58:23,320
They knew exactly what they're looking for, and they went

1153
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:27,360
straight for the most ancient, the most sensitive six thousand

1154
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,280
year old, untranslated cuneiform tablets.

1155
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 2: This raises a profound, deeply unsettling question, and perhaps it

1156
00:58:35,079 --> 00:58:37,760
is the most important question of our entire discussion today.

1157
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:43,280
Why Why would heavily coordinated, highly funded militants operating in

1158
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:47,000
the middle of a blazing warzone prioritized the theft of ancient,

1159
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:51,960
dusty clay tablets over modern weapons, intelligence documents, or highly

1160
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:53,360
liquid assets like gold.

1161
00:58:53,559 --> 00:58:56,199
Speaker 1: It makes no sense unless the tablets were the prize.

1162
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,559
Speaker 2: Was this simply the tragic, random consequence of war and

1163
00:58:59,599 --> 00:59:03,960
opera tunistic antiquities heist for wealthy black market collectors, or,

1164
00:59:04,239 --> 00:59:08,159
as the alternative theories powerfully suggest, was this a deliberate, calculated,

1165
00:59:08,239 --> 00:59:12,039
deeply funded attempt to obliterate forbidden knowledge of our ancient.

1166
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:13,719
Speaker 1: Past, an erasure of history.

1167
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:18,559
Speaker 2: If those specific stolen Sumerian tablets contain the irrefutable, untranslated

1168
00:59:18,559 --> 00:59:22,519
evidence of an extraterrestrial presence, or the detailed biological records

1169
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:26,440
of our genetically manipulated origins in Theodentic laboratory, then whoever

1170
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:29,440
stole them wasn't just stealing ancient art. They were stealing

1171
00:59:29,519 --> 00:59:32,719
humanity's birth certificate. They were confiscating the truth.

1172
00:59:33,039 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: The idea that human history is so incredibly fragile that

1173
00:59:37,039 --> 00:59:40,159
the true blueprint of human DNA or the absolute truth

1174
00:59:40,159 --> 00:59:43,280
of our starbound origins could be erased by a tactical

1175
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:47,119
team of thieves in a single afternoon is just a dreadful,

1176
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:51,480
awe inspiring thought. It is a profound, irreversible loss for

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the entire human species.

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Speaker 2: It is heartbreaking.

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Speaker 1: So what does this all mean? Let's try to tie

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all these thrilling threads together. We started today with the

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concept of a sudden operating system upgrade. We looked at

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the ancient texts of the Book of Genesis and placed

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them right alongside the nineteen eighty seven mitochondrial DNA discovery

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the Eve model. We explored the provocative thought experiment that

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Adam and Eve were not allegorical myths, but the very

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first genetically modified humans engineered in a localized biosphere. We

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examined the profound, sudden, and seemingly dangerous biological evolution of

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the human voice box, a descended larynx that creates a

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choking hazard but serves as a biological anomaly perfectly designed

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for the advanced world building tool of complex language.

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Speaker 2: We then traced how that newly acquired language was utilized

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to describe incomprehensibly advanced technology. This resulted in the concept

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of mythological translation, where primitive people described aerospace vehicles as

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fire breathing dragons and viewed advanced beings like the Yellow

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Emperor Wogd as star gods, bringing rapid localized civilization to

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a suffering humanity.

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Speaker 1: And we looked for the hard physical evidence of this accelerated,

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impossible timeline and found it buried under the dirt in Turkey,

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the mathematically precise twenty ton carved pillars of go Beckley, Tepe,

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a twelve thousand year old megalithic sanctuary built by the

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highly advanced survivors of a devastating Ice Age cataclysm thousands

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of years before the invention of the wheel or agriculture.

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Speaker 2: And finally, we follow those survivors down into the valleys

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of Mesopotamia to witness the sudden explosive birth of Samaria.

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We saw how the records of these ancient gods, their

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advanced mathematics, and their technologies were meticulously carved into indestructible clay,

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only to be specifically targeted and stolen by coordinated professional

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teams with ear pieces in the chaotic fog of a

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modern war.

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Speaker 1: So much history just gone.

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Speaker 2: Whether you view this expansive narrative through the traditional lens

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of theology, the rigorous, demanding scrutiny of mainstream archaeology, or

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the profound boundary pushing possibilities of the ancient astronaut theory,

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one truth remains absolutely undeniable. That our ancestors were part

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of the story far more complex, far more mysterious, and

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far more spectacular than a simple linear textbook timeline would

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have us. Believe. We are a species defined by sudden,

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explosive leaps in cognition and ability, surrounded by monolithic evidence

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that we have not yet fully understood.

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Speaker 1: That is beautifully said, and.

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Speaker 2: I want to leave you with one final lingering thought

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from all over. If those coordinated looters in Bagdad were

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in fact a specialized team hired by a shadow organization

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to steal specific Sumerian tablets in order to hide forbidden knowledge,

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where are those tablets right now, oh man? With they

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ground into dust and destroyed to protect a secret paradigm?

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Or are they sitting in a private climate control, double

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locked subterranean vault somewhere in the world, secretly guarding the true, unredacted,

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explosive story of the human race.

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Speaker 1: It genuinely gives you chills just thinking about the fact

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that the answers might exude on this planet, locked in

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a dark room somewhere.

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Speaker 2: It is entirely possible.

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Speaker 1: We started this journey on thrilling threads talking about waking

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up with a brand new quantum operating system in your brain,

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wondering where the code came from. Maybe the original source

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code isn't permanently lost to time. Maybe it's just deliberately

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hidden away in the dark.

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Speaker 2: We just have to find it.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? I want you to genuinely ponder this.

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Are we simply the product of a slow, grueling, random

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biological crawl out of the mud over millions of years?

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Or are we a genetically modified species with a magnificent

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celestial history that has been deliberately hidden from us?

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Speaker 2: Where do you stand?

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Speaker 1: Where do you stand on the sudden, inexplicable origins of

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human genius? Is it human brilliance or outside intervention? I

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want to know what you think. Drop a comment, share

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your personal theories with us. Let us know what specific

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piece of evidence we discussed today blew your mind the most,

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and let's keep this incredible conversation going until next time.

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Keep your eyes open, stay curious, and keep pulling on

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those thrilling threads.