Ben van Kerkwyk
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Podcast Appearances
You get to fucking 6,000 BC, man.
You're just guessing.
It's a โ yes, the further back you go, the much hazy โ you can't tell.
Yeah, and it's also โ it scares them because something like that, if you really do find advanced structures that are at 6,000 B.C.
Before Gobekli Tepe, we didn't even know that that was even possible.
And that's that famous conversation that happened with Robert Shock and that really arrogant archaeologist.
Yes, which is, he's laughing.
Like, why would you laugh about ancient history, first of all?
What ancient civilizations are, is that guy still alive?
Yeah, show me the potsherds.
He must feel so stupid now.
After Gobekli Tepe, someone should show him that video and go, why were you laughing?
Because this is just human ego.
This is human ego on display for the world.
You want to be the gatekeepers of this information.
You want to be the one person or the person that represents this group of human beings that are the scholars, that have published work, that have taught at universities.
And you're the only ones.