Dan Richards

Do you put that in the pile of artifacts to hand to Klaus Schmidt, or do you put that in the pile to sell to the antique collector that's not going to tell anybody?

Obviously.

He's pissed off.

My opinion is that guy sold a ton of fucking artifacts while that was going down.

Why wouldn't you?

Now, are there artifacts connected to Gobekli Tepe?

Yeah, they find stuff.

Like what kind of stuff?

No pottery or anything, but they have found like one of the biggest things is a bunch of chunks of stone.

Like to archaeologists, even they call a microchip, which would be like a tiny little piece you get from – that's still technically an artifact.

Mm-hmm.

So there's a lot of that kind of stuff there, a lot of bones that have been charred and things like that.

But there's nothing too terribly amazing.

Well, nothing too crazy.

But, again, that's the kind of stuff that would possibly – this is where my skepticism can get a little cynical.

I'm of the opinion if the Antikythera mechanism would have been identified as what it is and they pulled it out of the ocean, they would have never made it to a museum, that there was somebody –

I was telling Jim last night, we were having dinner, if the reports of giant bones that you see in the 1930s from guys that were over in New Mexico and then they're bringing them back to the Smithsonian and they just never made it there, if they really did find giant bones, which I'm skeptical of, but if they did, this is probably an advertisement to sell them while they're traveling these things across the country.

Oh, you know, just happened to lose them along the way because this dude came over and bought them.

This has been a problem since day one.

Especially when you think about those kind of like...