Joe Rogan Experience #1897 - Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson

Joe Rogan hosts Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson to promote Hancock's Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse and argue that an advanced civilization existed during the Ice Age and was wiped out by the Younger Dryas comet impacts roughly 12,800 years ago. Carlson walks through the geological evidence of catastrophic meltwater floods, underfit rivers, channeled scablands, and the Taurid meteor stream, while Hancock connects sites like Gobekli Tepe, the Sphinx, the Bimini Road, and ancient maps to a forgotten human past. They discuss psychedelics as the root of civilization and consciousness research, including DMT studies at Imperial College. Carlson teases a secret implosion-based energy technology being open-sourced. The conversation repeatedly frames mainstream archaeology as defensive gatekeepers resisting new evidence.

• Hancock says he was banned from Egypt and from Serpent Mound in Ohio for filming because his views differ from mainstream archaeologists.
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• The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, that Earth passed through a disintegrating comet's debris stream 12,800 years ago, is now backed by over 100 mainstream scientists.
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• Imperial College researchers can keep DMT volunteers in peak state for an hour via timed drip, and they report meeting the same entities and worlds.
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• Carlson reveals a secret laboratory in the Maldives building implosion-based, Tesla-inspired prototypes that he says will be open-sourced within months.
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• Carlson claims Mazda is preparing a $25 million test of prototypes that took an engine from 30% to 80% efficiency by recycling waste energy.
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• Hancock and Carlson tie the Sphinx's water erosion to Robert Schoch's case that it is over 12,000 years old, far older than egyptologists claim.
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• Multiple impact proxies, Nano diamonds, melted quartz, and iridium, appear worldwide in the Younger Dryas boundary layer, evidence of a comet swarm.
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• An underfit river is one diminutive relative to its channel; the Minnesota River sits in a channel that once carried 4,000 times its modern flow.
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• Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is 11,600 years old, about 5,000 years older than the supposed oldest megalithic structures, and built by hunter gatherers.
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• Plato dated the destruction of Atlantis to 11,600 years before our time, matching the end of the Younger Dryas and meltwater pulse 1B.
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• Ancient Egyptians used the blue water lily, tinctured in wine, as a psychedelic; bottles were found in Tutankhamun's tomb.
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• The Great Pyramid's height times 43,200 yields Earth's polar radius, and its base perimeter times 43,200 gives the equatorial circumference.
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• The 1908 Tunguska airburst flattened about 825 square miles of forest with energy estimated at a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb.
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• Turkey's underground cities like Derinkuyu hold thousands of rooms; Hancock argues they were shelters from periodic meteor bombardment.
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• Amazonian ayahuasca combines a DMT plant with a MAO-inhibitor vine, which Hancock cites as evidence of science within shamanistic societies.
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• Antarctica, not discovered until 1820, appears on 1500s maps like the Oronteus Finaeus map, drawn from older lost source maps.
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• Archaeologist Al Goodyear dug below the Clovis layer at the Topper site and found evidence of humans going back tens of thousands of years.
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