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getting publicity. Nobody cares that you did something well. You can't get publicity because you did something really well. I did a good job, right? Unless it's like extraordinary. Here's how you get publicity. You do something that other people have been doing forever but you do it a different way that looks like it could work. That's what Trump could do. You could say well the first time I ran f…

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t long ago. That was a surprise to archaeologists.

Now if somebody knew that stuff 12,000 years ago and then there was a big disruption which also people agree with. So the two things that he doesn't have pushback on I think is that there was that knowledge that somebody had, at least one civilization had the knowledge 12,000 years ago and then there was this long period and then suddenly farming just sprung up in one little era and all of these groups seem to have an origin myth about some kind of smart strangers who knew how to do things that came from the sea and then taught them things and then went away like missionaries. Yeah. And there does seem to be some evidence that there was a massive flood. So it could be that the stories of Noah maybe are based on ancient stories that actually had something to them.

So here's what I believe. I believe it's very likely there were more advanced civilizations and that some members of them shared their knowledge and so it did make some hunter-gatherers kind of quickly evolve. I think that's likely because I don't think we know much about the past. I think we know about like five percent of the past. That's about it. So could lots be hiding in the 95 percent? Yeah sure. But what are the odds that the exact era that humans were in was the good one? Probably it was good and then it got bad. Maybe it got good again in terms of civilization. That wouldn't be surprising at all.

So I think his basic idea that there was something that may or may not have been called Atlantis that may or may not have been an advanced civilization is proven because they found it. They didn't find Atlantis but they found a place with building construction that was thousands of years ahead of what happened later. So I think the case is made. I just don't think, I think he added a lot more speculation than maybe I would have. Yeah. So I think his basic theme sounds pretty solid but a lot of the specific details he forced into it.

Now what did the media say about it? Can you guess? Just a wild guess without looking. Don't do any Googling. What do you think the critics said about it other than whether it's true or false but beyond whether it's true or false what do you think the critics said about it? Super racist. Do you know why? Because those smart strangers from that advanced civilization were a little bit too white. So apparently the various myths about these smart strangers they were not brown. The smart strangers were not super brown. Like nobody apparently nobody has a story where like a black guy showed up and taught them how to farm and build stuff and then left. But several of them have like a mysterious, you know often they're giants they're tall and stuff but they feel a little not brown enough for what would make sense for the time. So apparently it's all just racist. Yeah they're all bearded men who weren't brown enough.

What do you think of this story you're seeing all over the internet but not in the major news of these weird rubber-like clots and people who got the vaccination and then died from some reason or other? Have you seen those? You see the doctors like they're taking the blood clots out of the veins and like it's clearly something you've never seen before. It's almost like an alien was in the body. Have you seen that? You've seen that right?

How many of you believe that this is a real thing and that there are massive discoveries of rubber-like blockages in people's bodies? I saw a doctor on Twitter debunk this in one sentence and then I never thought about it again. Do you want to hear the one sentence? Here's the one sentence debunk. I don't know if it's true by the way. I don't know if the debunk is true but here's the one sentence from an actual doctor. Every doctor knows that dead people's blood looks like that. That's exactly what a dead person's blood will look like. It's all like this rubbery cloudy stuff. So basically it's just every dead person just the way it looks, right? Now I don't know if that's true but that would be the only reason it's not in the major news, right? You only see it on Twitter and then smaller publications. Yeah the reason it's not in the major news is it would only take one doctor to say well that's the way it's supposed to look. It always looks like that. Yeah I don't think the videos where the doctor is taking those are not, I don't think those are real. I don't know why they exist but I don't think it's based on anything real.

So even Kim.com, famous internet guy, he believes that this should be looked into because he saw a documentary called Died Suddenly. How many of you watched the documentary called Died Suddenly? I guess that's where this claim is made. And I'll bet if you watch the documentary you were completely convinced it was true, right? Because you saw it in a documentary. I'll bet if I watched the documentary it would look completely convincing. So I'm not going to watch the documentary because do you know what you've learned if you watch a documentary that's completely persuasive? Nothing. Nothing. Yeah if you watch a documentary there's lots of facts and it's very persuasive you've learned nothing. Nothing. Documentaries are not to teach you the truth. They're giving you a narrative and that's what they do. So if you accepted the narrative that was presented in a documentary you're not doing a good job of being a good consumer of information, right?

If you haven't seen the whatever is the debunk, how hard would it be to debunk that? All right let's do a live experiment. So I haven't done this yet but if you, here's a good thing to do. If there's anything in the news that looks sketchy type that thing into a Google search followed by the word debunk and you'll find it. I'm going to do that. So this is called Died Suddenly and I'm going to say blood clots. Blood clots. What do you think I'm going to find? And then debunked. Do you think that there will be a real good debunk from a doctor saying that this is what? Do you think? Make your prediction because I haven't done this. I've never done this so I'm going to find out the same time you do.

Forbes debunks it. Let's see BBC. All right. Did embalmers find vaccine-induced blood clots? So here's a fact check. Now I'm not saying that the person fact-checking this is necessarily believable either. So it goes, let me just skim it. Yeah that these blood clots exist. They say it's fake news. Number fact number one embalmers do not conduct autopsies and embalmers do not know vaccination status. Well I don't know they might have asked it. Most of his data is not linked to vaccinations. Blood clots are common in refrigerated bodies. There it is. There it is. Blood clots are common in refrigerated bodies. That's the whole story right now. If you didn't know that I could Google this in one minute and find the debunk. Yeah the rubbery ones right. If you didn't know that the debunk would pop up that easily then maybe you learned not to trust documentaries, right?

Now I want to be really clear what I'm telling you. I'm not telling you that vaccinations are safe. That's not what I'm saying. How would I know? The only thing I know for sure is I don't trust any information about vaccinations now. I don't. Not the pro not the con. I just don't trust any of it. So I don't know. So I'm not even sure I have a, like I just don't have a dog in tha

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t race at the moment either way it goes. If I could find out for sure I would accept it, right? I wouldn't have cognitive dissonance because if you told me the vaccinations were hurting people I'd say well not totally surprising. So that there's no trigger for cognitive dissonance. If you told me that they actually work great I would say excellent not totally surprising. So neither of those would…

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