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Joe Rogan Experience #2368 - Michael Button
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joe rogan
Good to see you, man.
Nice to meet you.
michael button
Me too, man.
Pleasure.
joe rogan
I love your channel, man.
It's really great.
You're really doing some really interesting videos.
When did you get started?
michael button
Thanks.
Well, I only started the YouTube less than a year ago.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
michael button
It's been a bit of a wild ride.
joe rogan
I don't even know how I found it.
It was like one of them YouTube recommends things.
It just popped up.
And I don't remember which one it was.
It was something on ancient history.
And I was like, oh.
All right.
michael button
Yeah, it was cool.
I mean, yeah, I started just under a year ago, but no one started watching until like March.
And then I think you see me just after that point.
And it's been a bit of a big, you know, journey since then, upwards.
But it's been very exciting and very happy to be here today.
Very excited to be in Austin.
And yeah, looking forward to talk about some ancient history.
joe rogan
So did you start off on a traditional academic journey and then sort of get sidetracked into a YouTube career?
Like, how did this work?
michael button
Yeah, basically.
So I studied ancient history at university for four years.
And I've always been interested in history.
I've done history all the way through.
Like, I was fascinated about history as a kid and got to the stage in my life when it was, you know, thinking about going to university.
So I thought, I'll do ancient history at university and study there for four years, graduated, all of that kind of stuff.
But there came a point during my degree where I was kind of, you know, a little bit, I didn't quite agree with the kind of high-level ideas regarding the timeline of history and what we're taught about our ancient past.
And it wasn't that I disputed anything that I'd been taught.
And I have like great respect for the people that I met at university and my professors.
And I don't dispute anything that we were taught actually on the course, but it was more the kind of high level macro perspective of history that I found myself having more and more questions about.
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And yeah, so.
joe rogan
Like, what were the questions?
michael button
It was kind of the big questions regarding the origins of civilization and how deep civilization goes and how complex human behavior, you know, I thought went way back further into history than what we were being taught.
And I wasn't too, I just didn't buy this idea that nothing happened for like vast stretches of time.
Because it was during my course that they found that modern humans, they made this discovery in Morocco in 2017 or 2018, I think.
And that was when I was at university.
joe rogan
Was that Dennis Ovens?
michael button
No, no, Homo sapiens.
So I can't remember this.
It's called like the Jeb Bel Irud site or something like that.
But they were modern Homo sapien remains.
They thought they were Neanderthal initially because they were so old.
joe rogan
How old were they?
michael button
They're 315,000 years old.
That's kind of like the estimate.
It goes up to potentially 360,000 years old.
So they're super old.
And yeah, they thought they were initially Neanderthal because of this age, but then they discovered a few more and they classified them as Homo sapien.
And when I saw that, I was like, how is this not kicking up more of a fuss?
Because before then, the oldest Homo sapien remains we had were around 200,000 years old.
And that had been the case for like a decade or something.
And before that, it was like 100,000 years old.
So this discovery pushed back the age of our species by another third, like 100,000 years.
So I saw that and I was thinking, like, how are we still basing our kind of idea of history around the fact that nothing happened for, you know, 310,000 years?
And then everything happened in like the last, you know, 10,000 years since the Neolithic Revolution.
I just thought that was odd because, you know, we've been in this anatomically modern form for so long.
And yet we were being taught that nothing had happened until, you know, the last 10,000 years.
And that just didn't make sense to me.
So that's kind of where I started thinking about it.
And then we did this module at university, I remember, called, it was called something like cataclysms or something and it was all about how in recorded history natural disaster had a big impact on human societies and stuff like that and how it small like tiny changes in climate could massively disrupt human civilization and bring them all crashing crashing down and the case study they used was something called the late bronze age collapse have you ever heard the late bronze age yes yeah it's when all these like powerful influential civilizations at the kind of peak of human progress around 1000
DC all simultaneously came crashing down and no one was quite sure why it was but the best theory we have is that it's um like a kind of combination of climate factors which led to trade disruption which led to societal unrest and then all these empires like the Hittite empire the Syrian empire the palaces of Mycenae in Greece uh the Egyptian new kingdom all within a 20 to 30 40 year period all came crashing down the exact same time and I remember being hooked by that I was like that's so crazy like we don't even know why this happened but it was like a half degree change in
climate and so I remember starting to research how you know bad climate had been during history and how bad it had been like these big climatic episodes had been during prehistory and I started thinking like wow if that had caused all these civilizations to collapse just a tiny half degree change in climate which caused drought which led to those civilizations collapsing some of the stuff that had been happening during prehistory was so much worse than that and that got me to think about how could we do something about it and I think that's what I was thinking about and I think that's what got me thinking like how do we know that sophisticated human culture hadn't flourished you know
10,000 years ago 20,000 years ago 100,000 years ago 200,000 years ago and collapsed due to climate change or a natural disaster volcanoes comet impacts anything like that and that's kind of what set me on the journey that along with the uh you know the discovery of the remains in Morocco and that really got me thinking about the story we've told regarding our past and how I think that's what I'm trying to do is to kind of break away from the traditional timeline that we were being taught
joe rogan
the term prehistory is weird isn't it because it's like according to what what we find yeah you know I mean how do we know what historical if there was a great cataclysm like if the younger dryas impact theory is correct what you know how much history would be written down what would be left how would you find it what would you know yeah you know we're we're that's one of the things that disturbs me the most is the arrogance that some academics have to having a definitive understanding of the
michael button
exact timeline of agriculture civilization and then modern humans yeah it annoys me I feel like academics as opposed to the alternative historians are kind of more saying we don't know but here's a potential hypothetical scenario that could be possible whereas I feel like more mainstream for want of a better word I don't really like using that because I don't think there's such thing as a mainstream it's not like there's a group of people that all collectively decide but some particularly vocal mainstream kind of historians and
scientists seem to claim to know absolute truth about the past and that's just stupid like how can anyone know about what happened a hundred thousand years ago or two hundred thousand years ago and it kind of gets gets me a little bit riled up because at the end of the day none of us know what happened back then so I think a lot more possibilities are you know possible than than what many people appreciate and yeah did you ever see there was a video documentary back in the day where a man was talking about something about the mysteries of the
joe rogan
Sphinx and there was this archaeologist that was mocking Graham Hancock's ideas and Dr. Robert Schock's ideas about the timeline saying you know talking about things that existed pre 10,000 years and he was talking about the time line and he was talking about the
years and he was saying whatever he was like laughing what evidence is there of any civilization from 10,000 years ago this was literally I think around the same time that they discovered Gobekli Tepe like that this guy was mocking Mocking it.
I think slightly thereafter they discovered Gobekli Tepe, which threw everything into a tizzy because now you've got something that was absolutely covered, they believe intentionally, somewhere in the neighborhood of 11,000 years ago.
michael button
Yeah, I think Gobekli Tepe is the biggest kind of smoking gun, at least for the idea that civilization is older and more complex than the traditional model suggests, because obviously, as you say, it's like 12,000 years old and it's massive megalithic pillars.
I mean, you know about Gobekli Tepe.
Probably most people listening to this will know about Gobekli Tepe, but it's such a clear sign that sophisticated human culture was present way earlier than the conventional timeline suggests.
And I think that at least should throw a monkey wrench into a lot of these people's ideas regarding human civilization and when it began, because clearly the toolkit for civilization existed 12,000 years ago.
So why couldn't it have existed a little bit earlier than that?
And why, if it existed then, did it then take another 6,000 years for it to emerge in ancient Sumer, which is the kind of traditional thought to be the earliest civilization.
So Gobekli Tepe is fascinating.
I love it.
It's a really interesting site.
I think it will one day be classed a civilization.
I'm almost certain that when enough time passes, we'll kind of look at that.
And because it's a whole culture, the whole Tashta Pella culture, there's like 14 sites at least.
And they all have this kind of megalithic architecture.
They all have shared symbolism.
They all are clearly connected.
Like, it's crazy how it's not defined as anything other than hunter-gatherers.
And even if you think that hunter-gatherers built Gabekli Tepe, then you need to massively update the definition of what a hunter-gatherer is, because clearly they had surplus.
They weren't just building these sites in their spare time.
And yeah, it's a truly paradigm-shifting site.
But I mean, everyone kind of knows about Gobekli Tepe now.
joe rogan
Not everyone, but also, as spectacular as what they've discovered so far is, they have only unearthed 5% of it, which is even more bizarre because you've got so much stuff that's underground.
You have no idea what's on those pillars.
You know, there's speculation that one of the pillars from Gobekli Tepe that is unearthed is some sort of a calendar of events.
And they believe that it depicts some sort of a disaster.
Like that these, whatever, how they're making these images to be associated with either an impact or something, but there's a timeline that's inscribed in these pillars.
michael button
Yeah, there's like a study that was written or a paper that was written and they think it's the pillar 43, I think it is, is kind of like a cosmic calendar and it's like almost a prediction model of an impact that could happen or already has happened and it's like a warning for the future.
I mean that is still disputed, but I mean there's been good research that's done into that that suggests that's what it is.
And it's certainly a site that has cosmic alignments and has been built with the stars in mind, which is something that we can say about so many ancient sites around the world, which is another thing that isn't really considered by, you know, quote-unquote mainstream archaeology perhaps as much as it should be.
So yeah, it's a fascinating site.
And I really think it displays a lot about how human ingenuity and civilization, I mean, people get a bit stuck with the word civilization because we have this very narrow definition of what civilization is.
And it's basically based on the old model of Mesopotamia, which is ancient Sumer.
And because that was the earliest known civilization for so long, we kind of constructed this whole idea about what a civilization is purely based on Mesopotamia.
But I don't see why that has to be what civilization is, because that was just one civilization.
And just because that was the earliest one we'd found for a long time and still is thought of as such, doesn't mean that that's the only way that humanity can flourish because humans are so adaptable.
We do so many different things and we're clever in different ways and we, you know, change the different environments.
And I think that definition has really kept a lot of people kind of boxed in when thinking about how sophisticated human culture could flourish in different places in different environments and with different pressures.
And I think that's kind of forced people to not consider what other possibilities are out there.
joe rogan
I think it's even more fascinating if you consider the fact that ancient Sumer and that part of the world from about 6,000 years ago is where they're sort of hanging their hat saying that this is the birthplace of civilization.
But if you do have this evidence of Gobekli Tepe and then we are talking about some sort of an ancient civilization that lived 12,000 years ago, like what happened?
What happened?
Like what was the gap between that and then it took 6,000 years before they started civilization back up again, sort of a reimagining of civilization, which makes you really, at least makes me really consider the possibility of a cataclysm because if the people that survived, whatever they would be, you know, I mean, they would probably be living off the land, they'd probably be barely getting by and barbaric for a long, long time.
And if it really took 6,000 years to kind of like settle down again, that is fascinating to me.
michael button
Yeah.
And it all ties into this idea that we've had that agriculture leads to civilization.
But there's that bizarre thing that, you know, agriculture appears in multiple different places at pretty much the exact same time all over the world.
And that's never made sense to me because if agriculture was such a kind of vital invention for civilization to flourish, then why did no one invent it for, you know, 310,000 years?
joe rogan
Right.
michael button
And then in South America, in Mesopotamia, in ancient China, and you could argue there's other different places that, so say there's like South America and there's Central America.
I mean, you could argue that's potentially connected, but a lot of people say it isn't.
So how can agriculture, if it's such an incredible invention, be invented by multiple people at the same time, but no one else thought of it before?
It doesn't make sense to me.
joe rogan
It doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't make any sense they wouldn't figure out seeds.
How do you not know eventually that these seeds are dropping and then you see seedlings that are coming out of the ground?
Just that seems pretty logical and an easy connection.
And then you'd say, oh, well, if we gather these seeds and go plant them over there, you know, maybe we can get some fruit trees over here.
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Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, look at that.
It worked.
Like, that doesn't, that seems like you'd figure that out in one lifetime.
michael button
I know.
I think the idea is, the idea always has been that it's because of the climate, right?
So because of the Holocene, which is, which began around 12,000 years ago, as we came out of that and we had kind of stable climate conditions that we still live in today, that's what enabled the invention of agriculture, right?
But then the question I always ask is, well, what about all the other warm periods that have come in the past?
If, as the idea is that, you know, stable climate led to agriculture, then why couldn't such a thing have happened in the Eemian period 120,000 years ago?
There's been four distinct warm periods that have lasted for like over 10,000 years while modern humans have been around, at least.
And obviously, these Morocco remains of Homo sapiens, it's unlikely they're the earliest Homo sapiens that ever lived.
They're just the earliest we've found.
So we could be even older than that.
So considering we've been through four distinct warm periods before the Holocene, and if the argument is that the Holocene was what led to the invention of agriculture due to the stable climate, then why couldn't it have happened in the earlier warm periods?
That's a question I've always asked myself and been fascinated by.
joe rogan
And the real problem is there would be very little evidence, if any.
michael button
Yeah, so this is the preservation problem.
And this is something I talk about in my videos.
So I kind of always ask the question, like, what if human culture had flourished in the Eemian, for example, which was from 130 to 115,000 years ago?
What realistically would survive?
Because it's such a vast, vast length of time that it's really unlikely, at least as far as I can tell.
And obviously I'm not a scientist.
I'm not like a materials.
I'm not any kind of, I'm just a guy.
I'm not even a historian, technically.
But as far as I can tell, it's extremely hard for these, for any materials, but even our modern materials in our huge civilization that, you know, 8 billion people, industrial society, sending rockets to space, all the crazy stuff that we're doing, even us, if we disappear tomorrow, I think it would be extremely unlikely that pretty much anything would survive when you get up to these huge time scales of like 100,000 years.
And so I've been doing quite a lot of, you know, research into this because I don't, I obviously don't want to, you know, get things wrong and put falsehoods out there and mislead people.
I don't want to look like a dickhead in front of like millions of people or whatever.
So I've been trying to like, you know, debunk myself or play devil's advocate to myself on this point because, you know, that's the best way to make your argument airtight and no one's really out there debunking me.
I don't know if that's because I'm right or because like no one knows me.
Maybe that would change after a show like this.
But I've been really looking into the kind of degradation of modern materials as much as I can and trying to work out how much would survive from a civilization like ours if we disappeared tomorrow in 100,000 years time.
joe rogan
Right, like someplace like London or Manhattan, what would be left in 100,000 years?
michael button
Yeah, of like an actual modern city.
And the scary truth is, it's almost nothing.
Like there are, as far as I can tell, and obviously.
joe rogan
Cement buildings, they would just deteriorate.
michael button
They would go like concrete would crack and you get CO2 in there and freeze-thaw weathering and over these huge time scales of like 5,000 years, 10,000 years, it would just crumble down into dust and be absolutely imperceptible.
joe rogan
That's just 10,000 years.
michael button
I think so.
Obviously, these, I mean, I'm just doing this off the top of my head.
I haven't got any notes in front of me or anything, but as far as I could tell from my research, it's going to be a few like 10,000 years, 20,000 years max.
It's not going to get up to these time scales of 100,000 years.
joe rogan
So if you do add in, if you think about what Manhattan would look like in 100,000 years, it's almost nothing.
I would say it was nothing to be just to get overrun by trees again.
michael button
Yeah, because there's just, it's just such an incredible amount of time that all these materials that we build with are just going to corrode and they're going to rust away if they're metals, they're going to oxidize, they're going to flake until they're just tiny little fragments that just disperse in the sedimentary record and they're just invisible to see.
And same with concrete, same with even things like glass.
I've heard a lot of people say that glass would potentially survive because glass is a, you know, it's a very durable material and glass would survive a long time.
But glass in the form of a human-made recognizable artifact isn't going to survive in that form.
It's going to get crushed.
It's going to break away into tiny little nano fragments, into silica grains that are just invisible in the kind of archaeological record when you get up to these huge levels of time.
And yeah, I mean, I would say almost nothing would survive that long.
And again, with the caveat that I'm just some random dude who's investigated this on the internet and researched this myself, not a scientist.
If anyone out there is a material scientist, I encourage them to reach out to me.
But as far as I can tell, there are very few things that could possibly survive that long.
I mean, we're pretty crazy fucking apes.
Like, we do crazy shit.
So things like nuclear weapons, like we test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere.
You could argue if we knew when to look and what to look for, we could see traces of plutonium in the atmosphere from our nuclear weapons testing, or you could see our nuclear waste deposits.
Or things like carved stone, because stone obviously survives a very long time.
Human carved stone, you'd be able to find that.
But we do find that.
We find, you know, stone tools.
But just because ancient humans used stone tools doesn't mean they didn't use anything else.
It's just stone is the most likely thing to survive.
And the crazy thing is, like, do you, Joe, do you know how many sites we have, Homo sapien sites from more than 100,000 years ago?
joe rogan
How many?
michael button
Nine.
We have nine sites, nine glimpses, nine snapshots into over 200,000 years of history, nine moments in time.
And we use that to extrapolate out what every single human was doing.
joe rogan
Nine globally.
michael button
Nine globally, yeah.
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And where are they mostly?
michael button
Africa.
joe rogan
And so what do they find?
Like, what is the evidence?
michael button
It's usually caves, and it's usually just, you know, remains of fire pits and stone tools.
And that's kind of it.
And so we see that, and we think, okay, they just lived in caves and used stone tools.
joe rogan
Right.
michael button
But it's nine sites, nine moments in time for 200,000 years.
joe rogan
Well, the problem is there's people that essentially live like that right now in some parts of the world, which is really weird, right?
Because we always want to think about technology and advancement of civilization being sort of universal, but it's really not.
You know, there's people that are living a subsistence lifestyle right now.
There's people that are uncontacted right now.
michael button
At the same time as Elon Musk sending rockets to Mars and shit.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
I mean, that's the weirdest ones is when you see them get invaded in the Amazon, when you see them contact these people and they're pointing bows and arrows at helicopters.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And, you know, they're naked.
michael button
Yeah, exactly.
We're so adaptable.
Humans can do so many different things.
And as you say, right now we're sending rockets to space and people are living in very traditional ways of life.
That just because we find traditional ways of life in, I repeat, nine sites to cover 200,000 years.
In my view, that's just what we can see.
That's just the only that kind of points to my point regarding what would possibly survive.
Because if you think of all the human lives, stories, cultures that have potentially existed for our whole species' existence, if we only have nine little glimpses from, and to be fair, that nine is you could say it's up to 15 because some sites are debated.
But either way, it's a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of human, you know, signs of human life.
Just because in that fragment, in that snapshot, in that slither, all we see is some humans with stone tools in caves, doesn't mean that nothing else was happening.
joe rogan
Well, a good piece of evidence to that that would point in that direction is Egypt.
Because Egypt, even if you accept the conventional timeline of Egypt, which is 2500 BC for the Great Pyramid, go look at the rest of the world at 2500 BC.
You don't see anything like that.
Nothing even close.
michael button
Yeah, they were clearly, even if you kind of look at the conventional model of history, the ancient Egyptians were wildly ahead of everyone else.
joe rogan
Everyone.
michael button
It's just so weird.
joe rogan
It's so weird.
michael button
And that's if you, and the conventional model doesn't really give us any explanations of how they were doing what they were doing.
joe rogan
And they would arrogantly dismiss any other explanations, which is really weird.
When you're talking about these immense structures that are baffling, absolutely baffling to anybody who's being honest.
What is your take on these Italian researchers that are looking at the tomography and they're looking at these things that they believe are underneath the Great Pyramid and some other structures in Egypt?
michael button
Yeah, the kind of the what's it called?
Like SARS-Topla.
I mean, I don't know.
I'm always a little bit suspicious when you make sensationalist claims with new technology.
And that doesn't mean it's wrong.
joe rogan
I just, that just kind of because it's bonkers.
What they're saying is two kilometers deep underneath the Great Pyramid, there's structures.
And there's hundreds of meters of these pylons, these pillars that are in uniform positions with some sort of a coil wrapped under around them.
What is that?
Is that real?
And they reproduce it in multiple different scans, but I don't know what they're seeing.
I don't understand the technology, understand where the errors could be, like what could possibly cause it to glitch like that.
michael button
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
I would love it to be true, obviously, because you know, I would love it.
Can you imagine?
joe rogan
That's the problem.
The problem is the same problem that I have with UFOs and everything else.
michael button
You want it to be true?
joe rogan
100%.
So it really clouds my judgment.
And then I have to get my analytical mind to say, shut up.
Let's look at this honestly.
michael button
But I mean, I think there's definitely something below the Giza Plateau.
Like, that's always been written about in ancient sources and these kind of scans and then people kind of have stories of people going down into labyrinths that aren't accepted by Egyptology.
And there's definitely massive mysteries surrounding Giza and the construction of the pyramids and what could potentially be below the pyramids.
And this kind of new pyramid scan project has the potential, I think, to make big progress in understanding what is below Giza.
But I don't know, until there's better data out there, I'm not going to jump to any conclusions and declare that this is like evidence of a lost advanced technology civilization or anything.
joe rogan
No, you can't.
But I am so excited about just the possibility that they're right.
Because if they are right, that's the greatest monkey wrench into history that's ever existed.
Because explain away that with ancient people with stone tools or copper.
Explain that away.
michael button
They probably try, mate, because it already doesn't make sense their explanation for the construction of the pyramids being wooden sledges and stone chisels or whatever they say.
It already doesn't make sense.
It's already so ridiculous that I wouldn't even be surprised if they tried to explain away these things.
joe rogan
Well, it'll discredit them.
Because the problem is, if it does indicate that the pyramid is something other than a tomb, you know.
michael button
There's not, I don't even see any evidence that the Great Pyramid at Giza.
I mean, what's the evidence that that was a tomb?
I mean, did they, I don't think they've ever found a body in there?
joe rogan
No.
michael button
It's just a chamber which they've called the king's chamber.
joe rogan
Right.
michael button
I mean, I'm not an expert in ancient Egypt by any respect, but it's always baffled me that they're so determined that the pyramids are tombs just because some later pyramids have had, you know, mummies and pharaohs and sarcophagi found inside them.
joe rogan
That doesn't mean anything.
And that doesn't mean that they built it.
That also could mean that the pharaoh decided that it was his and wanted to be buried inside of it.
And it had existed for thousands of years before they ever even got there.
michael button
And you find bodies in like, you know, buildings today.
And that doesn't mean the purpose of that building was to be a tomb.
unidentified
Right.
michael button
It's just something's buried there.
joe rogan
So someone, yeah, as you say, it's a weird assumption.
It's a very weird assumption.
And did you ever read any of Christopher Dunn?
Christopher Dunn's work.
michael button
I know a bit.
I haven't read his book, but I know a bit about it.
It's interesting.
I mean, he's like a serious guy, isn't he?
joe rogan
He's an engineer.
michael button
Exactly.
unidentified
And he has quite serious theories that he thinks it's a power plant.
michael button
Yeah, which would be crazy, wouldn't it?
joe rogan
Especially if you add into that the Graham Hancock's ideas and some of these other people's ideas that perhaps some of these structures are far older.
michael button
With the kind of Orion correlation and the Sphinx.
joe rogan
Also, the fact that the deeper you go into the sand, the more sophisticated the building techniques are.
That gets weird.
Like larger stones.
Like what happened?
michael button
The whole of like ancient Egypt and the Sahara Desert in general just doesn't make sense to me because when you look at the Sahara Desert and the fact that it was green for 9,000 years and then it stopped being green at precisely the time that we're told ancient Egypt emerged.
That doesn't make sense.
That defies how civilization works.
Why would a civilization only emerge after the climate got worse?
joe rogan
Right.
michael button
That doesn't make sense at all.
joe rogan
And so little research done in sub-Saharan Africa where they've actually gone into the ground and done like large-scale research of these immense areas.
michael button
Nothing, nothing.
The Sahara Desert is vast and obviously covered in sand and extremely hot, extremely difficult to survey, politically unstable.
And there's basically been no archaeological work done across the whole.
And the Sahara Desert is massive.
It's like the whole of North Africa, right down to, I mean, it's massive.
joe rogan
You could fit the United States in there.
michael button
You could fit anything in there, like a whole pre-seeding civilization for 9,000 years leading up to ancient Egypt.
Like it's the perfect place.
It's right by Mesopotamia.
It's right by Egypt.
And yet we have this blank spot for the 9,000 years before the development of civilization, which is kind of also the gap between, I mean, it's a little bit less than this, but the gap between Kebekli Tepe and the birth of civilization.
We have this huge area which would have been perfect for civilization, full of rivers, lakes, grasslands, perfect climate, and it's just missing.
joe rogan
Also, abundant resources where they could establish a stable civilization because they had so much food and they weren't being attacked.
So they could kind of set up shop and figure some things out over a long period of time.
michael button
Yeah.
So my theory is that things were happening in the Sahara Desert when it was green in the Green Sahara for those 9,000 years.
And then because it was really quick, that's what I don't think people realize is that when the Sahara Desert turned from, you know, green, lush paradise, whatever you want to call it, to a desert, it was like a few centuries.
It's called rapid desertification.
And it flipped, not overnight, obviously, but in a few centuries compared to 9,000 years, it's a rapid change.
And for any kind of culture that was living there, you wouldn't have noticed it straight away.
But in 50 years, you'd be like, fuck, it's getting a bit hot here.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, shit is going on.
And then I think maybe people migrated to the last stretch of green that was still available to them, which was the Nile River.
And then the kind of survivors or the migratory populations developed around the Nile River.
And using the kind of experience and knowledge that they had from their lives and the kind of history of their cultures in the Green Sahara period, that is what led to ancient Egypt.
I mean, that's just a theory.
joe rogan
It's also just an assumption that ancient Egypt didn't exist alongside that or even previous to that, which is also possible, especially when you consider what Robert Chalk thinks about the erosion, the water erosion, the Temple of the Sphinx.
michael button
Yeah, the kind of explanation away of that also never made sense to me that it's wind and sand, because when you see pictures of the Sphinx, even from when they kind of found it in Napoleonic times, it's buried in sand.
And there's records from the Egyptians themselves who, you know, took, excavated it effectively, because it was covered in sand.
So if it quickly gets covered in sand, how could it be eroded by wind and sand if it doesn't take very long for it to kind of get filled up with sand?
Then how does wind and sand erosion even count?
I've never seen anyone kind of explain that away.
joe rogan
Well, it's the walls that are the most fascinating to me because the deep fissures that clearly look like rainfall.
It looks like something that water does over thousands of years.
michael button
Yeah.
jamie vernon
You know, and when you those whales that were the whale, the valley of the whales, it's just about, I don't know how many miles south, but it's south of Cairo.
joe rogan
That's bonkers too.
That's crazy.
They find whales.
Hundreds of whales in the desert.
That's so crazy.
Look at that image.
That's so nuts.
That is so nuts.
jamie vernon
Some of them had teeth and toes.
joe rogan
So crazy.
So crazy.
And then it makes you wonder, like, how did those bones survive?
Like, why are they there?
Like, how quickly did they die?
How quickly did they get covered up by sediment that they could find them all these years later?
Because that's the weird thing about fossils and bones in general, is that most of them you're never going to find because they get eaten, they deteriorate, they're gone.
Like, it's very difficult to make a fossil.
You know, when you think about our quote-unquote fossil record, it's really weird because it's hard to make a fossil.
So, we're dealing with a very small amount of beings that get turned into a fossil.
And that is what we're using as our understanding of life.
michael button
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
It's weird.
michael button
It is weird, isn't it?
joe rogan
Because it's so limited.
michael button
I'm not sure when was the geno when the Sahara was covered in water.
I'm not even sure when that was.
I mean, some people say that there's like a mass flood during the kind of younger dryest period, which I think is I think they're talking about millions of years ago for these bones.
joe rogan
How old are these whale bones supposed to be?
But I think millions of years ago, it's assumed that it was completely underwater, right?
So, are we talking like Pangea times?
Like, what are we talking about?
michael button
But even not too long ago, like, you know, kind of 12,000 years ago, whatever, they had these massive river systems, like the Taman Russet River system.
joe rogan
Here it is.
jamie vernon
40 million years old.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
40 million years old?
jamie vernon
I don't know about the whales.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
jamie vernon
Primitive whales.
joe rogan
Primitive whales documenting, how do you say that word?
Cetacean?
How do you say that word?
Cetacean transition?
Is that how you say it?
Cetacean transition to marine life.
Sarinians and reptiles, as well as shark teeth from the Genaham Formation 40 to 41 million years ago.
The strata in.
I don't say that either.
Wad Al-Hitan belongs to middle Eocene epoch, and it contains extensive vertebrae fossils within a 200-kilometer area.
Fossils are present in high numbers and often show excellent quality of preservation.
The most conspicuous fossils are skeletons and bones of whales and sea cows.
michael button
What's the sea cow?
joe rogan
I don't know.
jamie vernon
What's that manatee?
joe rogan
You ever see the precursor to whales, like where whales came from?
michael button
No, where did they come from?
joe rogan
It was an ancient animal that was like a, almost like a hooved wolf.
michael button
What?
Sea animal.
joe rogan
No, you mean a land animal.
That's why they breathe air.
michael button
Oh, of course they're mammals, aren't they?
Yeah.
That's what it is.
joe rogan
It's super weird.
It's super weird.
It was some animal that supposedly lived on land and it was real freaky looking, almost kind of like dog-like.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that thing eventually I just like swimming.
And then one day it said, I'm never going back to the land.
It's filled with assholes.
I'm just going to live out here in the ocean.
All you have to contend with is sharks.
jamie vernon
This article calls it the God of Death whale.
joe rogan
Wow, that's what it looked like.
That's what it looked like.
But there's some images of it on land, some depictions.
Yeah, that's what it looked like.
That freaky thing was what whales came from.
That thing walked around the ground and then eventually said, eh.
jamie vernon
If it's 40 million years ago, is that what those skeletons are then?
Maybe.
michael button
Hmm.
joe rogan
Interesting.
Some of them maybe, right?
Because they do know that thing.
It was when whales walked in Egypt.
Wow.
I was watching, I think, I don't remember whose podcast it was.
I wish I could remember.
But we were talking to some guy that found definitive evidence of dinosaurs in Egypt.
So if you go back far enough, there were dinosaurs living in that part of the world as well.
What's that one image you just saw right there with the mouth open?
Yeah, that one.
That's crazy looking.
Prehistoric whale ancestor.
Look at that thing.
Whoa.
That's crazy.
jamie vernon
Here's the sea cows.
joe rogan
What?
jamie vernon
This image says a prehistoric sea cow was killed by a prehistoric croc.
unidentified
Wow.
jamie vernon
I don't know.
unidentified
Boy.
joe rogan
Life is hard where there's no doors.
That's the problem with the ocean.
There's no doors.
There's nowhere to hide.
So it's just constant chaos.
It is just constant things eating things in this 3D space where they can go up and down and side to side.
michael button
That's just nature, isn't it, man?
Everyone's just killing everything else.
joe rogan
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michael button
We made it.
joe rogan
But we figured out doors.
michael button
We did.
joe rogan
We figured out walls and doors, and that changed the game.
michael button
But when did we do that, Joe?
That's the question.
joe rogan
That is the question.
michael button
Because a lot of people would claim to think, and the kind of consensus always is that we didn't do that until 12,000 years ago.
We didn't settle down and form permanent communities until the Neolithic Revolution.
And I think that's one of the major paradigms, if you like, that we have regarding our past that simply doesn't make sense in light of new evidence.
joe rogan
What is that evidence that they found of wood construction from far longer than they thought?
michael button
Yeah, this is the Colambo structure.
And this is something I talk about a lot in my videos because I think it's a crazy find and I don't understand why it's not kicking up more of a fuss.
Like, if I'm the guy that has to kick up the fuss about it, then I'll be that guy because basically, the idea has always been that humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers that moved with the seasons and lived in caves or just kind of walked around for all of our history until the Neolithic revolution, the invention of agriculture 12,000 years ago.
And no earlier than that did we ever settle down and live in permanent settlements.
But the Colambo structure was something they found a few years ago in modern-day Zambia.
And what it is, is this these pieces of wood, and I'll get to the point about why this wood has survived in a minute because obviously, you know, wood surviving this long is crazy.
But there you go.
Yeah, so the Colambo structure is these pieces of wood that have been joined together deliberately, cut in notches and connected together, tapered and secured at right angles.
And they think it was either a kind of raised walkway, like a kind of raised platform, or a house, a dwelling, a hut, some kind of structure.
And why this is so paradigm shifting is because not only does this kind of scream that humans potentially lived in permanent settlement, so sorry, I haven't even said this, This is 476,000 years old.
So this predates Homo sapiens.
joe rogan
Allegedly.
michael button
Allegedly.
As in, what do you mean allegedly?
joe rogan
Oh, because we recently found out that they lived 300,000 years ago.
michael button
I guess, yeah, it could have been us.
But what they attribute it to is Homo hedelbergensis, who's our last common ancestor with Neanderthals.
So they're kind of the human species that came before Homo sapiens.
So I guess you're right.
It could have been Homo sapiens, and we're just not sure how old we are.
But it's kind of attributed to Homo hedobogensis.
And the only reason this structure survived at all is because pretty soon after its construction, it must have fallen into a bog.
And then that bog kind of got solidified over by the sun.
And then it was preserved in waterlogged sediment, which protected it from decay for almost half a million years until it was discovered by us recently.
joe rogan
How recent?
michael button
I think about five years ago, maybe.
Was it 2019 or something?
I'm not 100% sure.
But it's crazy.
So last time.
joe rogan
So monkey wrench.
michael button
Yeah.
I would say it's a massive monkey wrench because not only does it kind of really dispute this idea that we didn't settle down until, you know, 12,000 years ago with the Neolithic Revolution.
Because, I mean, it's a structure.
I mean, and it's just because it's so unlikely, it's so unbelievable that this would have survived.
But that kind of suggests that it's not the only one.
unidentified
Right.
michael button
There could have been loads of these, like structures everywhere.
joe rogan
But as you said, Manhattan wouldn't live, wouldn't exist in 100,000 years.
So this is 476,000 years.
michael button
It's ridiculous.
joe rogan
And it's just wood, which is less durable than all the other things that we were talking about.
michael button
And obviously people may be saying, well, look, clearly things survived.
But this is an extreme edge case scenario where it's like so unbelievably unlikely that this wooden structure would kind of sink into a bog.
And then that bog be, you know, solidified over and then it would stay in that preserve.
joe rogan
And then they would find it.
michael button
And then they would find it, exactly.
Because, you know, what are the chances?
joe rogan
You have to go 476,000 years into the sediment.
michael button
Yeah, exactly.
Because we don't dig that far and look for anything sophisticated because we think, you know, nothing happened back then.
And then you find this.
And it really suggests that humans were living in much more complex societies.
And I mean, the fact that they had the cognitive capacity to plan, structurally engineer and build a structure completely flies in the face of what we've always thought about ancient humans.
Because we've always had this idea that there's been this very popular idea in kind of mainstream historical thought that humans only got smart around 50,000 to 60,000 years.
years ago.
And that's just Homo sapiens.
We've always thought that other human species never got smart, never achieved what we call behavioral modernity.
And this has always been the kind of idea that we went through this cognitive revolution around 50 to 60,000 years ago.
And the most obvious proponent of how entrenched this is in kind of academic thought is, have you ever read the book Sapiens?
joe rogan
Yes.
michael button
Yeah, by Yuvalno Harari.
It's an extremely popular book.
It sold something like 60 million copies worldwide.
By far the most popular book about prehistory and the story of Homo sapiens ever written.
And sapiens didn't kind of do anything new.
It didn't, I think Harari himself would admit this.
It didn't, it didn't, it kind of just collected the consensus of academia and presented it in a nice, digestible way to the kind of layman audience.
But he took this idea that's always been present in academia regarding human intelligence, which is that while we've been around for quite a long time, we didn't achieve behavioral modernity until 50 to 60,000 years ago.
And that's when we started apparently displaying complex cognitive traits like abstract thinking and planning and burying our dead and art.
Yeah, exactly.
And complex language and things like that.
But this just completely flies in the face of that.
Because if we had the capability to plan, construct and engineer a structure 476,000 years ago, that means, you know, mainstream anthropology was off by over 400,000 years regarding the advent of intelligence and the advent of permanent living.
And that's, I mean, that's quite the error.
400,000 years.
Exactly.
So that kind of suggests they could be off by similar margins about other developmental claims because, I don't know, that's a big, big error.
joe rogan
Well, it's also when you think about the history of the Earth, there are times that we know that there was like there's great bottlenecks that occurred because of some sort of a massive natural catastrophe, like the Toba volcano.
unidentified
Yeah.
Right?
joe rogan
The Toba volcano, which was 70, 70,000 years ago?
Was that what it was?
Brought people down to a few thousand survivors on Earth.
michael button
Yeah, and there's loads of these bottlenecks.
And you look at our kind of genetic history.
And I mean, does that suggest that something happened?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Well, you're thinking about what evidence there is.
And then you think about, well, there's no one left except a few thousand people 70,000 years ago.
So it's possible that there's been this rise of some sort of a civilization and then massive catastrophe and a rebuilding.
Just like if we're talking about the Younger Dryas, which is in this time period, we're talking about, you know, when you're dealing with 476,000 years ago, fairly recent, right?
michael button
Very young.
joe rogan
Right.
And think about the 6,000 years it took for civilization to re-emerge from that.
Now you think of Toba and you knocked down the entire population of the planet to what did they think it was?
See if you could find out what the number was.
I think it was very low.
I think it was below 3,000 people on Earth.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
On Earth.
michael button
Yeah, just for people.
joe rogan
1,000 people.
One massive super volcano, which is, by the way, just like Yellowstone.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
There's lots.
It could all happen again.
joe rogan
That motherfucker is bubbling, too.
Here it is.
Potentially, almost all of humanity, leaving around 3,000 to 10,000 humans left on the planet.
michael button
That's crazy.
joe rogan
Wow.
michael button
And super volcano isn't the only thing.
There's so many others.
joe rogan
What time period is this, Jamie?
74,000 years ago.
michael button
So that's quite recent.
Yeah, in terms of our story.
joe rogan
Well, in terms of your theory that I thought was one of the most interesting ones that you brought up, that in your videos, you were talking about how anatomical humans, just based on what we've agreed to, based on what we found 300,000 years, like what are the possibilities that there have been civilizations that emerged and were destroyed, and then there's no evidence of them.
michael button
Yeah, because I mean, aside from the preservation problem, which we kind of already talked about when you get up to these massive time scales, you know, very little is going to survive, especially when you think about what early humans were likely building with.
joe rogan
Yes.
michael button
Like, it's probably the things they could find in their environment.
unidentified
Right.
michael button
Wood, hide, plant remains.
joe rogan
There's nothing left.
Just look at what we know about the Amazon now because of LIDAR and because of, you know, what is his name?
Percy Fawcett.
Percy Fawcett.
Because these people that made these journeys down there looking for these complex civilizations that at one point in time, now we know did exist there.
And just 100 years later, they called those people liars because they went back to the same place and there was nothing left.
michael button
That's always been, you know, thought of as myth or pseudoscience that it's kind of that most popular idea of lost civilizations was civilizations of the Amazon and it was always dismissed.
joe rogan
Well, here's what's really crazy.
Have you seen Detroit?
Have you seen the evidence of Detroit that trees are going through houses?
michael button
And that's like 50 years, less.
Or if you look at Chernobyl, the kind of exclusion zone where no one lives, it's already like trees everywhere and nature is already taking root after less than half a century.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Bizarre.
michael button
And then you 100,000 years.
That's seriously what's going to be left.
joe rogan
Very, very little.
And then if you go 200,000 years.
I mean, if anatomically modern humans, if we've discovered them at 300,000 years, what if somebody digs one up that's 2 million years old?
Then what do you do?
Then you got to go, oh boy.
Oh boy.
I think there's also this thought that Neanderthals were stupid.
They're kind of abandoning that now too.
They're thinking they had language, they had tools, they had society.
michael button
They definitely did.
There's so much evidence.
And this kind of puts into the cognitive revolution argument, which is, you know, that we were the only smart species.
Like our name that we gave ourselves, Homo sapiens, literally means smart man.
It's always been the idea that we're the smartest humans and that's why we won.
And to be fair, we did win.
joe rogan
We did win.
michael button
Win, whatever you want to do.
joe rogan
We might just be the most evil.
michael button
Yeah, we might be the most evil, or we just might be the luckiest ones, you know?
joe rogan
Well, we're the weakest, so we probably had to be evil.
michael button
That's true.
joe rogan
We had to figure out weapons that would be able to defeat the Neanderthals, who had, by the way, larger brain capacities.
michael button
I think they were just as intelligent as us, to be honest.
joe rogan
That's nuts.
michael button
Well, I mean, that's a claim that probably some people would dispute, but I think there's lots of evidence that they were very smart.
joe rogan
Well, necessity is the mother of invention, right?
And if you're physically weaker than these other things that are as intelligent as you and far stronger, like you gotta, you gotta get devious.
You gotta figure some stuff out.
michael button
But like, did we even, I mean, either, I mean, maybe they got wiped out by something like disease, or did they even get wiped out?
Because if you even look at the DNA of non-African humans, it's something like 20% in some populations as Neanderthals.
joe rogan
Yes.
michael button
They're kind of still here.
joe rogan
Well, they just sort of interbred.
Yeah.
Which is also weird because most species can't breed with other species.
Yeah.
michael button
But we're very, I mean, we're very closely related to Neanderthals.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's weird.
The whole history of humans is weird.
And for academics to deny this possibility to me seems so short-sighted.
michael button
I know.
joe rogan
It's silly.
michael button
I think we're on the brink of quite a massive shift in our perspective regarding pre-conflict.
joe rogan
I think so too.
And I think it has to happen where I don't mean to say this to be cruel, but the old people have to die.
michael button
It's that quote, isn't it?
Science advances one funeral at a time.
I hope it doesn't take that long though, to be honest, Joe.
I hope it's just in the next few years.
joe rogan
Well, the good thing is a lot of scientists don't take care of themselves.
Which is also weird.
When you see super intelligent people that are obese and eat terrible food.
michael button
Or health experts are such.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Air quote health experts, not real ones.
But it is, to me, a great disservice.
And one of the things that I find very promising is that a lot of young academics are embracing a lot of alternative ideas, whether quietly or whether they're doing it publicly.
michael button
Yeah, well, I think the advent of the internet and, you know, shows like this or the medium of podcasting has really kind of democratized the access to information and allowed people with theories that potentially wouldn't have been able to get out there in the pre-internet age where they were kind of, you had to go through a kind of academic institution to get a theory heard or debated.
Now anyone can say anything for better or worse, and that can reach millions of people.
And then, if it's an idea that's popular, then it can kind of be in the public eye and then it can be debated properly.
And I think that's only a good thing.
Obviously, there are negative aspects to that, but I think that will increase ideas regarding prehistory, for example.
I think it will increase the rate in which these things will get accepted because once the evidence is out there, and once you start, you know, talking about the Colombo structure, for example, and how it completely flies in the face of both these paradigms regarding permanent living and human intelligence, it's out there now.
People can look it up and people can see that this is completely kind of opposed to what we've always been taught regarding prehistory.
joe rogan
And isn't it kind of arrogant to assume that they know who built it too?
That's weird too, because they're basing it on this assumption that human beings didn't exist back then.
At least Homo sapiens didn't exist back then, which is also being challenged over and over and over again.
michael button
Yeah, the fact they base it on Heidelbergensis is literally just because we found some Heidelbergensis remains like 200 kilometers away.
And they're like, well, okay, well, it's.
I mean, it could have been, to be fair.
joe rogan
It could have been.
But I mean, right now, there's people that are living in Africa and 200 kilometers away from them are apes.
So if one day they found structures, you know, in the future, said, oh, these are made by chimpanzees.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's kind of crazy.
michael button
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
I mean, that's the thing about history is it's all based on massive assumptions.
It's not like a hard science.
It's interpreting evidence.
And that's fine.
Like, that's how we do it.
But that's why I don't know.
joe rogan
It's the only way to do it right now.
michael button
It's the only way to do it.
So that's why I don't get why people make these definitive conclusions and then don't allow anybody to kind of speculate or hypothesize about anything else.
joe rogan
It's gatekeeping.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's gatekeeping.
It's academic gatekeeping.
It's also these people that have been teaching this one thing forever being threatened by the fact they were wrong.
The last thing an academic wants to hear is like, you wrote this book, this stupid book, this book misled people for decades.
You were so wrong.
Like they will fight it with every ounce of their being because it's essentially their identity.
Their identity is being the gatekeeper of their understanding of human history.
michael button
Yeah, they've built a whole career around it and they've, you know, as you say, it's their identity.
They've been the knowledge, the keeper of knowledge on a particular subject.
joe rogan
But it's gross.
Because it's ours.
It's the whole planet.
It's all the human beings.
It's like do you have a few nerds who you wouldn't want to hang out with in real life?
And these are the guys that are telling us we can't explore these things.
And those are the people that are attacking Graham Hancock with every possible insult, calling it the most dangerous show on television.
But it's also, it's so revealing because it's so obvious that if you watch the show, you're like, wait, this is the most dangerous show on TV?
michael button
Asian apocalypse.
joe rogan
Yeah.
How is that dangerous?
He's like, just talking about these bizarre structures that exist that seem to defy our modern understanding of how things are built.
michael button
Yeah.
And when I, I mean, I don't agree with absolutely everything Graham Hancock says, but when I look at, you know, these ideas of, you know, human intelligence potentially stretching back 500,000 years as displayed by the Columbus structure or permanent living, and I would argue that it could go back a lot further than that.
When you look at, when you kind of take into account that these abilities could have stretched back half a million years, when I then look at someone like Graham's work, it seems so plausible.
I don't see why it's seen as so outrageous that, because 12,000 years ago, which is kind of when he proposes there could have been a, you know, a sophisticated civilization that was potentially wiped out by a cataclysm.
When you look at that from the perspective of, oh, yeah, we've been intelligent for half a million years, it doesn't seem very, it doesn't, it seems very plausible to me.
joe rogan
Not only that, it's 450,000 years after the first structure now.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
But no one's even, no one's talking about this.
joe rogan
That's what's weird, is that no one's talking about that.
michael button
It's just me.
As far as I can tell.
joe rogan
It's just you, it's like those academics as well that found it.
michael button
To be fair, the guy that found it, the archaeologist that found it, said that he never could have imagined that pre-Homo sapien, and again, it may not be pre-Homo sapien, it could be Homo sapien, but he said it's completely paradigm shifting that they had the capacity to plan and build something like this.
But again, there's no fuss about it.
It's just a paper was written and it was put out there.
And then that's it.
joe rogan
Well, these things take time.
michael button
I guess so.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, more of these conversations and more people have to understand that these things are being discovered and that we are kind of confused about so many things about human history.
And we're being told that, no, there's people at the universities that have all the answers and that it's literally not possible that they're telling the truth.
It's not possible.
And that's why I get so excited about the structures under the pyramid because it's a gigantic fuck you to all those people.
It would be the most gigantic fuck you of all time if they found out those that those scans are accurate and there's these pillars that are wrapped in coils that go down like hundreds of meters and then below them there's additional structures and the whole and they think it's all connected as well.
Yes.
Which is like if Christopher Donn is correct about it being some sort of a power plant and that reveals like how the thing worked and functioned.
That's way more advanced than us.
Like what is that?
michael button
In some ways they already are.
I mean we can't explain how they did it even based on the kind of conventional model of history.
joe rogan
I know and we lie.
I've talked to so many people like when I had Zawi Hawass here and he's explaining to me.
michael button
It's the national project.
joe rogan
It was the national project.
They're like, oh, that'll fix it.
We should make our national project to breathe underwater and fly through the air.
Like, we should make that our national project to go to other planets and live there in case Earth gets blown up.
What are you talking about, man?
What the fuck are you talking about?
michael button
Yeah, they just don't want it.
And it does kind of make me worry.
Like, I don't really delve into the kind of conspiracy side of things because, I mean, I just try and stay kind of based in not me.
joe rogan
I go right in.
michael button
I mean, I do.
I do it in my own time and stuff.
I mean, in my own head and stuff, but in terms of my videos.
joe rogan
What one do you dive into in your own head the most?
michael button
I sometimes combine the UFO one with the ancient civilization one.
joe rogan
I do too.
michael button
And I think what happens if, you know, a civilization from a million years ago got so advanced that we can't see them.
And then that's what the UFO thing is.
It's just someone from this earth that doesn't really need the space anymore.
And they're just watching us.
joe rogan
Yeah.
michael button
Sometimes think about that.
But obviously I don't talk about that in my videos because I don't need to give anyone any more ammunition to send for memes.
joe rogan
Well, there's also the genetic engineering one.
michael button
Oh, you mean like that?
joe rogan
Yeah, like why humans are so different than everything else in the first place.
Like that's weird.
The doubling of the human brain size over a period of two million years is really weird.
michael button
What does that refer to?
Is that from Habilis to Erexus?
joe rogan
I don't know.
Let's Google it.
michael button
Because I've heard people say that, and I've always thought, I guess that must be from Homo habilis to Homo erectus from just a million years ago.
joe rogan
An immense leap that is, like Terence McKenna used to say, it would be bizarre if it was a liver of an otter that doubled over a period of that amount of time.
But the fact that it's the very organ that allows us to contemplate and to understand human existence in the first place, and that that organ doubled over a period of two million years, like what happened?
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's got the wackiest theory because he thinks it's psilocybin mushrooms.
michael button
I think there could be something to that.
I mean, because, you know, ancient cultures have always used psychedelic substances and basically all the way up until Western society kind of took hold.
It's always been an integral part of human culture and human society.
And then us in our modern world have decided to outlaw that.
And I think that's a tragic mistake, to be honest with you.
unidentified
It is.
joe rogan
And I think history will reveal that one day.
And I think that is also one of the good things about discussions that are happening on the internet that are kind of unchecked and untethered by academia.
So you can talk about these things.
Bigger brains.
jamie vernon
The Smithsonian website says it's actually tripled over the time we've tracked it.
A low increase from 6 to 2 million, but a larger increase 800 to 200,000 years ago.
michael button
Wow.
joe rogan
And then the article goes-That's when the aliens landed.
Yeah.
michael button
So I don't even buy that, though, because Heydelbergensis have the same cranial capacity as us, and they go back 900,000 years.
jamie vernon
That was another thing I saw before I had to.
michael button
But maybe that's a rexis they're talking about.
jamie vernon
Brains don't fossilize deteriorate, leaving a cavity inside the brain.
That's part of how they know some of this info.
joe rogan
Sometimes sediments fill the cavity harmony and natural endocast scientists also make artificial endocasts to study like the ones above.
Fascinating.
Fascinating.
michael button
Yeah, we're a weird creature.
joe rogan
Well, did you say it's 2017 that they discovered modern humans 300,000 years ago?
michael button
I think so, yeah.
joe rogan
And where was that?
michael button
It's in Morocco.
joe rogan
And so that's Morocco, right?
You said that.
So imagine if they found something similar in China.
michael button
Well, that would fuck everything up because the out of Africa thing, and that would really fuck everything up.
But I mean, it could happen.
joe rogan
Well, it wouldn't really even fuck it up.
It would just push it back.
michael button
I guess so, yeah.
But I mean, we're not even supposed to have left Africa until this time of the cognitive revolution.
And that's always been one of the points.
Like, oh, look, we got smart.
We left Africa 60,000 years ago.
But that's never made sense to me either because Homo erectus managed to migrate out of Africa and colonize loads of Asia and parts of Europe over a million years ago.
And if they're supposedly, you know, inferior to us, then how can they make this massive leap?
And Hegel Bigensis did it 600,000 years ago.
And if they're supposedly inferior to us, how come they did this?
And so, I mean, I don't know.
I try not to delve into the out of Africa thing because it's, I don't know, it gets a little bit controversial sometimes.
joe rogan
It does.
Well, it gets controversial when you bring in aliens too, because aliens become racist.
It becomes racist because now you're not accrediting the Africans to building the pyramids.
That's never made sense to me that because it clearly wasn't white people that built Well, I watched this very bizarre discussion between some guy that was trying to claim that it wasn't Africans that built the pyramid, that it was white people that built the pyramids.
There are people that have this sort of racist idea of the construction of the pyramids, but you can't attach that to everyone who's speculating about the construction because it's too the things are too weird.
It's too weird.
And let's assume that it was Africans that built the pyramids.
But if we are assuming that, like, how were they so much smarter than everyone alive today?
How were they so much smarter?
Let's say it's 4,500 years ago.
How were they so much smarter?
What was going on?
Like, what happened?
Did they get visited by aliens?
Did they discover something that allowed their understanding of physics to be just so much greater than everybody else who's ever lived?
Like, what did they discover?
Like, what were they encountering?
What were they consuming?
What were they doing?
What were they teaching each other?
We lost so much in the burning of the library of Alexandria, right?
michael button
Yeah, yeah.
It's quite sad, really, isn't it, to be honest?
Like, there would have been a lot.
I'm not sure 100% what happened with that.
I'm not sure if it was one burning or just several burns.
Yeah, but clearly a lot was lost.
joe rogan
But then the question is, like, what did they even know?
Like, what if it's older than that?
Like, what if all that stuff, what if, you know, this is one of the things that Zawi Hawas was very reluctant to, he's like, what is this?
I was talking about the king's list that goes back 30,000 years.
michael button
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
What if that's accurate?
michael button
Yeah, it's the Sumerian one does too.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It gets real squirrely when you only want to accept some parts of history.
michael button
And that ties into the Green Sahara thing that I was talking about.
Like, I mean, they have king lists that go back this far.
And yeah, we say that some of them are myth.
And to be fair, they have kings that reign for like a thousand years, which is a bit weird.
joe rogan
It's a bit weird.
michael button
Probably not.
I mean, unless you're talking some kind of alien thing, then that probably wasn't human.
But that might just be because it would have been a long time ago for them, too, when they were writing these king lists.
Sure.
But it doesn't mean that their civilization only started with the first dynasty.
What we've decided is the line between myth and fact, because that's a modern interpretation after the fact.
They never made such a distinction.
joe rogan
Yeah, and this idea that they lived a thousand years.
Well, have you ever read the North Korea depictions of Kim Jong-un's first day playing golf?
michael button
Yeah, it's propaganda, exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, he made like nine holes in one.
He was the greatest golfer of all time.
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying?
So it's like you're writing about kings.
He lived a thousand years.
Fire came from his dick.
Like, what are we talking about?
We don't know.
We don't know what they were writing.
We don't know who wrote it.
We don't know how fantastical it was, how much hyperbole was involved.
But we do know that we accept the king's list when it gets to around 2,500 BC.
We start accepting it.
But you don't accept this possibility that it might actually go far, far, far earlier than that.
michael button
And the whole pyramids thing kind of plays into the fact that stone is one of the only thing that survives.
And pyramids are these massive stone constructions.
Like, ironically, they would be one of the only things from our, not that they really count as our civilization, but from the modern world, the pyramids would be one of the only things that could survive in 100,000 years.
So it makes you think, like, how long have they been there?
And I think the Egyptians definitely undertook some kind of construction project around the time of 2500 BC.
joe rogan
Oh, for sure.
michael button
Because there's records of them saying they did stuff, but that doesn't mean because they have all these records, but there's no records of how they built it.
joe rogan
Well, they also, the buildings that they made that were after 2,500 BC are dog shit.
michael button
So much worse.
They just immediately forgot how to do it again straight away.
joe rogan
They were trying to copy and they just couldn't do it.
They didn't have the math.
They didn't have the engineering.
The stones are smaller.
michael button
And no one's claiming, they don't claim credit for the pyramids, which is weird.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
Why would you not claim it?
joe rogan
It's all weird.
It's all weird.
It's the weirdest, right?
So it's the one thing that if you're a logical person and you think you know the timeline of history, you think you understand human civilization, you think you understand how intelligence evolved and how technology and innovation evolved.
And you see that, you're like, oh, I don't know shit.
I don't know shit.
Like, how's that statue so big and perfectly symmetrical?
michael button
They're crazy.
joe rogan
How are these just these vases that they don't understand?
michael button
Oh, is that a replica?
joe rogan
This is a 3D.
And this is a 3D model of an actual vase from Egypt.
michael button
Yeah.
They're doing some good work on this, aren't they?
People like Until I'm not sure.
joe rogan
I'll give that.
Did Christopher Dunn give this to us?
I think he did.
It's probably him, yeah.
But, you know, Ben from Uncharted X, he's done a lot of work on these things.
Like, those, just those vases are very bizarre.
Very bizarre.
michael button
And they appear right in the start of the Egyptian dynasties.
joe rogan
Yeah.
michael button
And they forget how to do that as well.
joe rogan
We have no idea how they made them.
We don't know what tools they used.
Anybody that says that they do, you're lying.
You really don't know.
You can't know.
These things are perfectly symmetrical.
They weren't turned on a lathe because they have handles.
The way they measure them, when you look at the deviation from round and it's like a thousandth of a human hair.
It's crazy.
And it's made from incredibly hard granite.
michael button
It's not the hardest stone to do that with.
joe rogan
So what are we talking about?
Like, who were these people?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
This is kind of crazy.
michael button
And then you have the statues that are perfectly symmetrical.
joe rogan
Perfectly symmetric.
michael button
And the faces are just incredible.
joe rogan
And massive.
michael button
Yeah.
Huge.
Unbelievably huge.
joe rogan
So they moved them there, and then they carved them perfectly symmetrically.
It looks like they're 3D printed.
It's so strange.
It just screams at a lost technology.
michael button
At least.
joe rogan
It screams that these people had some sort of information and some sort of education that is like on a different path of our, we went the way of the internal combustion engine and transistors and electronics.
And it seems like they went a totally different way, but maybe even further.
But we're scrambled in like our pathway to advancement is the only one that the human mind and all its infinite creativity can conceive of.
michael button
And this is another point regarding like, you know, culture that could have flourished back in 100,000 years ago or whatever.
We're always looking for ourselves in the past.
But there's so many different ways that we could have gone because why did it have to be mass farming, mass population growth, and then, as you say, kind of industrial progress.
It could have been so many different forms of human development and human lives.
joe rogan
Well, it could have been if they had enough animals, they mostly ate animals.
michael button
Yeah, or fish or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, mostly ate animals and fish, which is probably healthier for you anyway.
You know, really what grain is, is survival food.
michael button
Yeah, and we all got like shorter and less healthy when this happened.
joe rogan
Yeah, because we didn't get the right amount of protein.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
And our jaws like shrunk because people were eating gruel.
Like if you look at part of the world where people are eating a lot of like porridge and shit, their jaws get really small.
michael button
Yeah, that's not good for us.
joe rogan
No, it's fucking terrible for we're devolving because of our diets, which is really strange.
But if you think about this time and especially that part of the world where there was so much abundant natural resources that animal agriculture seems super simple.
You just corral a bunch of animals, you build a fence, and then you eat them.
And you don't really have to grow rice.
michael button
So many different ways that culture could have flourished.
joe rogan
Yeah.
michael button
And yeah, we're always looking for it.
And we just don't know where to look as well on the record.
Like one point people always make in like my comments and stuff to try and debunk me is like, oh, we would see pollution.
We would see kind of lead signals in the atmosphere or whatever if there was like a big civilization 100,000 years ago.
But that's only the case if it was someone on the scale of us now.
joe rogan
Or if they were doing it the way we're doing it.
That's the thing where we're talking about a completely different pathway.
Clearly, there's some technology that they had that we don't understand.
When you talk about the drill holes that they find or the way they had carved out these enormous massive chunks of stone and were apparently going to move them, we don't want to.
michael button
The unfinished obelisk.
unidentified
Yes.
michael button
Yeah, it's crazy.
joe rogan
The unfinished obelisks, that's bananas.
So many of these things that they cut out of the ground and absolutely moved are bananas.
So it's like, what kind of technology?
Why are we assuming that it's going to be some internal combustion engine that sprays out terrible pollution?
What if they had figured something out?
michael button
I would say it's entirely possible.
joe rogan
It's entirely possible because we're going to eventually.
If you give us another thousand years, you will not be able to recognize any of this nonsense that we use for technology today, especially when AI gets involved.
Did you see that thing where quantum, a quantum computer supposedly went one second back in time?
jamie vernon
I did.
I was reading that last time.
joe rogan
Is that bullshit?
jamie vernon
No, they discovered it six years ago, though.
It's not new.
michael button
What?
joe rogan
Six years ago, they had a lot of time.
Well, still.
2019, but still.
michael button
It went back in time.
jamie vernon
By one second and some way in quantum.
michael button
What does that even mean?
joe rogan
Exactly.
I don't know.
Exactly.
michael button
That's mad.
joe rogan
But that's us.
Now imagine that technology that was science fiction 20 years ago.
Right?
Go back to the movie Alien and look at their stupid computers that they had.
That's what they thought people were going to have when they were starfaring people.
Now, think of this quantum computer experiment where it goes back in time one second and then go forward a thousand years, which is nothing.
When we're talking about 4,500 years ago, we might be off by 1,000.
So go to 5,500 years ago, 6,000.
If you're listening to John Anthony West, he thinks it's 34,000 years.
That's what he thinks.
michael button
And that sounds so crazy, but then you look at the kind of length of time we've been around and it's still quite recent.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's still quite recent.
michael button
And that lines up with the Sphinx, doesn't it?
With the kind of that's the processional cycle.
joe rogan
How much evidence of a quantum computer from 34,000 years ago would be left?
Right.
So if we did get pelted by comets, which we know happened, that's a fact.
michael button
I saw an estimate, I think it was from NASA, but I'm not 100% sure, but it was from a kind of scientific journal that Earth is hit by what they define as a cataclysmic impact every 100,000 years.
So that's an impact that's capable of wiping out a third of today's population every 100,000 years.
And 100,000 years sounds like a long time, but again, we've been around for 300,000 years.
So theoretically, we've been hit by a cataclysmic impact three times already during our story.
And that both has the potential to completely wipe out anyone that was doing anything sophisticated, but also to wipe the record clean.
joe rogan
Yeah.
michael button
And that's not the only thing.
You've got, you know, super volcanoes, as we talked about.
You've got pole shifts.
You've got solar flares.
You've got glaciers just scraping across the landscape and just completely erasing the record.
You've got sea level rise.
Sea level rise is a massive one because, I mean, where have we always lived?
By the coasts.
And if you look at the kind of fluctuation of sea level rise over the last 100,000 years, 200,000 years, 300,000 years, it's sea levels going in and out by hundreds of kilometers at a time and nothing is going to be left.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Wild stuff.
michael button
I know, it's crazy.
joe rogan
It is wild stuff.
But again, if someone is a historian and they got into this, someone's an archaeologist and they got into this because they have this fascination for it.
For them to become professors and then start teaching and writing books about this stuff and not still be fascinated by the new stuff is to me so weird.
It's like you miss the whole reason why you got into this in the first place.
You got into this in the first place is because you're trying to figure out what happened.
How did we get to this point?
And if there's evidence that shows that we don't have the full picture and you're ignoring that or dismissing that or.
michael button
But the thing is when you go through these kind of systems and I've sort of got experience of this, obviously I was never a professional academic or anything like that.
But you know, I did history for four years.
I was kind of inside and I got to the point where it was almost, you know, it was do this as a career, become a professional academic or not.
It's very hard to kind of even think this way because everyone around you is thinking within these boxes that we've created for ourselves.
And so it's very hard to kind of open your mind.
And you kind of have to do it in private as well because no one else is talking in those terms around you and you're surrounded by people that think in quite limited terms.
And I don't say that to kind of be offensive or, you know, doubt anyone's the culture.
Exactly.
it's the culture and it means that no one is it's very hard to think outside the box when you're kind of in that culture And I think that's kind of what creates these, you know, rigid systems of thought.
joe rogan
It's also kind of fear-based because it's not just discouraged.
They'll attack you.
michael button
I mean, they attack each other even when they are with you.
Viciously.
joe rogan
Just to think about the Clovis first issue.
michael button
Yeah, I mean, that's the best example.
joe rogan
It's the best example because that guy was destroyed.
michael button
He's from the industry.
joe rogan
Yeah, destroyed.
michael button
Jack St. Mars.
joe rogan
And they were right.
They were destroyed for theorizing that human beings had lived in North America and that arrived in North America far before 13,000 years ago.
And that was the established timeline of the Clovis people.
And then when they found these footprints in New Mexico that are 22,000 years old.
michael button
And they hated that as well.
They hated that.
joe rogan
Of course they hated it.
But they hated it just because they were wrong.
It's all it is, man.
It's human ego.
It's so gross.
And this brings me back to psychedelics.
Because what do psychedelics do that's most important?
Well, the dissolving of the ego.
It's one of the most important aspects of it.
It makes you realize the folly of your ways.
And all of these people that are supposed to be the academics, they're supposed to be the enlightened ones.
They're not enlightened.
They're just, they have information and they hold that information like it's their identity.
And they're right about a lot of things because they have been studying it and they do deserve credit for that.
What they've done is amazing.
And the understanding that these academics, these archaeologists and historians can give us of our world and our history is really cool.
It's really awesome.
But there's a whole lot more out there.
And for them to pretend and dismiss people like they should embrace people like Graham Hancock, and then they should correct him when he's saying something that is wrong.
But instead of lying and then calling him a racist and saying all these terrible things about him, well, that just shows me that you don't really have an argument.
And you're trying to protect your identity.
Your identity is the gatekeeper of this information that is not yours to gatekeep.
It's for the whole human race to understand what the hell happened.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
And I wish that, you know, we've seen a surge in interest in ancient history and prehistory and, you know, the story of our species through people like Graham Hancock, who have kind of created a massive interest in this subject.
But instead of embracing that, they see it as a threat.
And I think that's really sad, to be honest.
And yeah, I think it kind of hurts the discipline in general because if you kind of like embrace that and like brought him into the table and spoke to him and kind of agreed, you know, agreed to have the discussion, then it would create a much kind of more healthy debate around these things.
And when you talk about the Clovis kind of narrative, because we think that we know what's happened and thus we know what didn't happen, it means that people aren't even looking for stuff that now we know was there.
So like they don't, they didn't dig deeper than the Clovis layer until very recently because they knew that humans weren't around until Clovis, but obviously that was wrong.
So they could have missed so much stuff and they probably did.
I mean, have you seen that?
There's like a, to be fair, I think Graham mentioned it on the show, the Saruti Mastodon site, which is like 130,000 years ago in America.
I mean, if that's human, which it kind of looks like it is.
joe rogan
That's debatable, though, right?
Isn't that debatable?
Because the way the bones are broken, it could have been from some sort of an accident or an avalanche or something, right?
michael button
Yeah, it is debatable.
But it's also, it could be human.
It could easily be human because it kind of looks like human markings on bones.
joe rogan
It looks like scrapings, like they're scraping the marrow out of the bones.
Exactly.
Or some kind of primitive.
michael button
But why couldn't it have been human?
I mean, it didn't necessarily have to be Homo sapien, but why couldn't another human species have got to the Americas?
joe rogan
Well, it seems like they certainly could have if they were here 22,000 years ago.
Like, why exactly?
What was that timeline?
Why'd they figure it out then?
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
And how'd they do it?
Right?
That's the question.
How'd they do it?
And we know that people were seafaring from what was the earliest seafarer.
michael button
You could argue that Homo erectus seafared 800,000 years ago, which is just mental.
joe rogan
Could you really?
michael button
Well, they reached places that were isolated.
And some people say, you know, they kind of floated there accidentally.
Which is possible, but it seems a bit weird that you'd then like survive and colonize a place.
joe rogan
See, that's where it gets so squirrely.
If Homo erectus made a boat, that's bananas.
michael button
I mean, Neanderthals were definitely making boats.
And this points to how intelligent they were.
They were making sophisticated boats and sailing across the Mediterranean and colonizing places like Crete well over 100,000 years ago.
joe rogan
Well, we know that the North Sentinel people, they arrived by boat from Africa 60,000 years ago.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And so at least then people were seafaring.
michael button
Oh, definitely.
joe rogan
And probably way earlier than that.
So why would we assume they wouldn't get to the Americas?
That seems crazy.
michael button
I mean, bigger journey, to be fair.
But then I guess if you go across the top.
joe rogan
That's the way you're doing it.
unidentified
Exactly.
michael button
If you go across the top and kind of hop down along the coast, then not so hard.
joe rogan
Well, when also, there's the problem.
It's like if you go back 12,000 years ago, Canada's covered in ice.
There's nothing there.
It's literally all ice.
So where are they coming from?
Well, they have to be coming from the south.
michael button
I guess.
I mean, there's the kind of theory regarding the Polynesian kind of island chain, you know, hopping across to Easter Island and then making one last hop across to South America.
That's a crazy hop going the other way.
It is a crazy hop.
joe rogan
People have always done crazy.
Just the fact that they did it in the 1400s is bananas.
michael button
That's pretty crazy.
And they did that with tech that was, you know, no tech.
They just did it with the stars.
joe rogan
Yeah.
michael button
And wood.
joe rogan
But then you get to what, how do you say that ancient Greek symbol, that ancient Greek mechanism that they found?
michael button
Oh, the antikythera mechanism.
joe rogan
I never could say that.
Antikythera.
I'll try.
I'll try to remember.
But I always forget it.
But that thing is bananas.
Like that when they first found it, it just looked like a hunk of shit.
Like, what is this?
And then when they got a better understanding, I think it was like a long time after they discovered it that they go, oh, wait a minute.
These are gears.
Like, what?
michael button
Computer, basically.
joe rogan
2,000-year-old computer.
michael button
Yeah.
At least, and also that's not the first one.
Like, no one just, someone didn't just develop that and was like, here we go.
joe rogan
fucking made a computer like it was clearly like a you know a long history of very very technical stuff in right in ancient greece and it could well have been the ancient greeks but also it could have been like well where did you come where's the what's the history of this technology and right more technical than like this modern automatic watch yeah yeah you know modern automatic watch if you look at the inside of them it's crazy there's springs and gears and it's all within like this uh seiko is like within i think it's a couple seconds a day yeah like that's crazy and
it's all these little and it moves it has no power source other than the movement of your hand yeah and there's a 72 hour power reserve so for 72 hours you let it sit there just from the power of your hand from wearing it really yeah yeah that's a cool watch nuts and then nuts but that's normal that's a normal thing for a modern watch with these little tiny gears this thing's way crazier than that and it's 2 000 years old at least what do they think it was for i
think they thought it kind of like tracked the lunar cycles and the kind of elliptical movements of i don't know have you seen the 3d ai representation of what it looked like when it was fully done see if you can find that because it's that that's the most eye-opening of it because you're bringing this back to the time of christ and someone made a computer during the time of christ like okay would it what are we missing like graham's quote is the best i love this quote we are a
species with amnesia 100 100 yeah and there's other quotes that i really love things just keep getting older and things do keep getting older they keep getting older yeah and this is something that people resist for some strange reason and i don't understand it i think it's just because it's attached to these folks like graham yeah that's the one look at it that's nuts that's what it used to look like this is a modern reproduction of it oh right but that that is what it used to look like yeah that's what it used to look like yeah that's what it used to look like
right that's off of that that yeah pieces so crazy show me the modern reproduction of what it looked like just
imagine okay someone 2 000 years ago figured that out and they have these little representations of the stars and the planets of the sun and then all the planets surrounded like first of all how do they know all that how are they seeing these planets like did they have a telescope like what are they how do they know how do they know how do they know how do they know how do they know how many planets are in our solar system what what did you base this on and no equivalent technology ever like re-emerged until like
you know like the 16th century with like swiss clockmakers right so it just makes you wonder like how old is that and what's that from and what were the pre you know was there other stuff like this that we never find when i googled uh first e fairs yeah i think that's the uh there's no i don't see the evidence that they have for 700,000 euros.
years ago I think that's the Homo erectus thing they're crossing the I googled it and crossing the Aegean Sea it says they might have been doing which there was some like islands that were protecting it from crazy weather potentially made it easier but that is that is a crazy thing to read some evidence suggests that man may have crossed the sea as early as 700,000 years ago.
Aren't you happy you were born today?
Imagine trying to gut it out, tough it out.
michael button
Take the boys and go and cross across them, see in a wooden raft.
joe rogan
Yeah, when you wind up eating your friend because there's no food left.
Yeah, it's kind of amazing that we got as far as we did, but it's really amazing when they find things like that.
The Antikythera mechanism, I said it right?
michael button
You did.
unidentified
Nailed it.
joe rogan
I'll try to remember.
But just the fact that we found one of those, and it really makes you wonder, what did they have in Egypt?
What did they have 2,000 years before that?
What did we miss?
jamie vernon
I'm digging into the stone stuff while you're talking about frequencies.
I saw a video recently that doesn't explain all the Egypt stuff, but there were frequencies coming out of these rocks that I don't think everybody is currently studying.
People have studied it.
That's very basic, but there's the king's chamber and the reverberations that happen.
I was reading from Archimedes, I think, this quote here: when the priests sing the hymns of the gods, they sing the seven vowels in due succession.
The sound of these vowels has such euphony, I think that's that word, that men listen to it instead of the flute and the lyre, the lyric from 200 BC.
michael button
There's like so many ancient sites that are all built with kind of acoustic resonance in mind.
jamie vernon
Yes, that's what I was getting into this.
I was trying to find the proof of it.
Someone made a video I saw recently where the somatic stuff shows up all over the place in some ancient sites, definitely obviously in churches and cathedrals.
But this is what happens when you put sand on a plate and hum on it or certain vibrations.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
And how you stumble across this and it just so happens to be the same thing where we're discovering now.
unidentified
Crazy.
joe rogan
What is that image of?
What is that?
That golden.
unidentified
This?
joe rogan
Yeah, what's that?
jamie vernon
It's a cathedral.
I looked at it a second ago.
joe rogan
Is that in Canada?
jamie vernon
No, the article is from Spain.
joe rogan
It's in Spain.
Whoa.
That is wild.
jamie vernon
Okay.
I was looking into the oldest doors people found.
The oldest doors are only like 5,000 BC.
It was found in Switzerland somewhere.
joe rogan
Huh.
jamie vernon
There's an act, the oldest act of doors in the UK.
It's from 900 AD, I think.
joe rogan
What are those images of sacred geometry from in that right there?
Leonardo da Vinci's original drawing of the flower of life.
What, Da Vinci?
unidentified
What drugs are you taking, son?
joe rogan
How is he seeing that?
Yeah, well, that's ancient imagery, right?
That's sacred geometry.
Those depictions have been around forever.
michael button
He was a crazy dude, Da Vinci in a good way.
He was a smart guy.
joe rogan
Bizarrely smart.
michael button
Very smart.
joe rogan
It's weird when you have these outliers, these outliers that come out of nowhere.
And he had a working model of a flying machine.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
michael button
And he had like three jobs.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
Crazy guy.
joe rogan
And he's an amazing artist.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's kind of, you know, these outliers.
That just, how many of them we never heard of?
How many of them were from 30,000 years ago?
How many just we have such a limited understanding of our history?
And I always think like if something happened to us right now, what would really be left?
The real problem is everything is either on paper and there's not a lot of it on paper anymore.
It's on hard drives.
And those things would get cooked.
If there was just a massive solar flare, something huge that took out our power grid and destroyed all of our cell phone towers and all our satellites, no more electricity.
michael button
And even if it didn't get cooked, what would you do with it in 100 or in 10,000 years?
joe rogan
Exactly.
michael button
If you found that, you wouldn't know what that was.
joe rogan
You wouldn't know what that was.
You would have to devise a new version of Windows to read it.
It would take so long.
And it would probably have been corroded and wasted away long before that.
Especially if something happened, it was underwater.
Especially if the entire world is on fire because we get hit with a comet.
There wouldn't be much left.
And this is like a really shitty way to store information.
michael button
It does feel like a bit of a risk, doesn't it?
joe rogan
It's a giant risk.
michael button
Everything we've ever learned and discovered and thought about is.
joe rogan
Well, you know what happens when your phone dies and you don't have a backup phone?
You're like, oh no, I don't know anyone's number.
michael button
And we do that with our entire civilization's knowledge.
joe rogan
Right.
And so then you would have just stories and myths of what things used to be like.
There was an all-female flight crew at Delta.
You're like, what?
What are you talking about?
What does that even mean?
You know, oh, damn, they had satellites.
What are you talking about?
Like, what is the thing is, like, I wonder how many of the satellites would still be in orbit or whether their orbit would deteriorate and they'd come crashing down to Earth.
michael button
I think they would decay relatively quickly, I think.
I mean, I'm not sure, but lots of them would, I think.
And when we're talking big time scales, yeah, let's think.
joe rogan
Let's Google that.
How many satellites that are in orbit today?
See if, put this into AI.
How many satellites that are in orbit around the Earth today will be there in 100,000 years?
Does Perplexity have an answer for that?
michael button
I think it's unlikely that anyone else was doing space travel and stuff.
joe rogan
Unlikely.
michael button
Yeah, maybe not impossible, but I don't think there's anything on the moon, for example, I I think we probably see that.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the weird one, right?
There's bases on the dark side of the moon.
They're watching us.
Are you sure?
I don't think so.
Well, then there's the weirdness of the moon itself, that it's the absolute perfect size and the perfect distance to completely block out the sun.
michael button
That is weird, isn't it?
unidentified
Real.
joe rogan
Real weird.
It's real weird because it's not kind of right.
It's perfect.
michael button
It's quite precise, yeah.
joe rogan
It's very precise.
So you would need the precise size and the precise distance.
michael button
That's weird.
joe rogan
And there's also the fact that it stabilizes our atmosphere.
It stabilizes our environment.
michael button
Yeah, I guess the argument for that is we wouldn't be here if it wasn't.
unidentified
Right.
michael button
If it wasn't the exact right.
jamie vernon
This is the best answer.
You might have to read the whole thing, but there's thousands of satellites burning up each year in the atmosphere.
michael button
Oh, shit.
jamie vernon
Is what I got to the end of.
joe rogan
Oh, so thousands of them crashed down?
jamie vernon
I mean, they...
So how long do they last?
That's why I was trying to track that down.
The first one only lasted three months.
joe rogan
So Sputnik won the Soviet Union in 1957.
Three months later, it fell out of orbit.
jamie vernon
So it seems like they worked up to about a 25-year rule where they don't expect it to last that long.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
It's not going to crash down.
So in 25 years, there's nothing left.
jamie vernon
But I was trying to Google how long until the last one, if they stop putting them up, how long until the last one crashes down?
joe rogan
It seems like 25 years.
jamie vernon
That's why then I couldn't get a good answer that way.
joe rogan
Did you put it into AI?
jamie vernon
I didn't because I don't want to.
I don't like asking questions they don't know the answer to to AI.
I like asking questions I know the answer to.
joe rogan
I just like to see how it thinks.
I like to see if it's going to just bullshit you and lie to you or if it's going to...
jamie vernon
That's what I want to know when it's bullshitting me.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
I don't like knowing when it doesn't.
Because you just have to trust it.
joe rogan
Well, it's also basing all its information on websites.
jamie vernon
Yeah, and I don't know what year it was trained on.
I was watching people talk about sports cards.
They're like, it's not updated in the last three years, so you don't even, you can't use this data.
It's not good data.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
Which one was that?
jamie vernon
I don't know which one they were talking about.
There's so many AI opportunities out there.
joe rogan
It's funny watching people on Twitter use Grok and try to get Grok to say things it doesn't want to say.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you realize, oh, there's an information blockade of what Grok is allowed to talk about.
michael button
I think you could just make it.
You can kind of trick AI to say whatever you want it to say.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've seen people do that, like trick it into saying, like, how would you make a bomb?
michael button
Yeah.
And that's almost the bad thing about it, is it kind of becomes your own little echo chamber after a while if you want it to, if you can kind of convince it to.
joe rogan
Well, we've done a really terrible job of taking care of most people.
And when then you give these people access to the kind of power that AI provides them, they're going to ask naughty questions.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because they, you know.
michael button
It's great fun, though.
joe rogan
They're not living in harmony.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
We're a selfish being.
We're a selfish creature.
michael button
It's a crazy thing, though, the kind of advent of large language models and artificial intelligence.
It's mad.
joe rogan
Well, it's also we're in the middle of it.
It's happening right now, which is real weird.
So like in our lifetimes, we're potentially witnessing the biggest change to civilization since the pyramids.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
It's, I mean, even in my lifetime, like I was born in'97, didn't really have, I had I remember when I was a kid.
And then, you know, smartphones came along.
And then obviously things like AI.
And it's just, it is pretty ridiculous.
joe rogan
I was 27 years old before I ever got online.
That was when I first got a computer and I got on ALL.
You've got mail.
It's like, I've gotten mail?
This is crazy.
Yeah.
You know, and you could go to chat rooms and read about stuff and you could download information.
So I'd print stuff about UFOs.
And I'm like, this is the future.
I'm living in the future.
And we're very fortunate, I think, that we got to see what life was like with a primitive use of the internet to what it's become now to a quantum computer can go back a second in time to, you know, what is coming next?
We don't know.
What's really weird is imagine if this has been done before.
We're assuming that it hasn't.
But imagine if the Egyptians had figured out something similar.
It kind of makes sense.
I mean, it sounds preposterous that they did, but why?
Why if we can do it?
Why if we can do it?
Maybe it's just a thing.
If you leave humans undisturbed for a long enough amount of time with food, they start figuring stuff out.
If you can keep them from killing each other.
And maybe that's the beautiful thing about the way Egyptian technology had advanced.
They didn't split the atom.
Maybe they figured out something else that they couldn't turn into a weapon.
michael button
Yeah.
I mean, they were definitely doing some pretty mad stuff.
And then if you look at those kind of granite boxes they made, the completely smooth surface, I mean, they clearly had some form of technology that we don't attribute to them.
I think that's undisputed.
I mean, it is disputed, but I don't think, I don't see how you can logically kind of look at what they were doing and not think they had some kind of technology that, you know, we don't traditionally attribute them to.
But whether that means they were like some crazy advanced civilization or it was built by some other advanced civilization, you know, that's a bit more hypothetical.
But they were clearly doing stuff that we can't appreciate today.
So that logically suggests they had something that we don't understand, right?
joe rogan
Right.
And when you find from 2,000 years ago, it makes you just really think, like, okay, what did they have?
michael button
Well, ancient Greece was very inspired by ancient Egypt.
So it could have well come from there.
joe rogan
Exactly.
Yeah.
And we, you know, we're just guessing.
We're just lost in guessing.
michael button
That's the thing.
It's all about interpretation, isn't it?
All of history is about interpretation.
It's not a hard science like, you know, physics.
I mean, physics.
This is kind of crazy too.
Although it hurts my head, man, that's too much for me, all that quantum physics stuff.
But have you ever heard of the Silurian hypothesis?
joe rogan
No.
I may have.
michael button
What is it?
It's kind of linked to this.
It's linked to this ancient civilization stuff.
It's the idea that there could have been an advanced civilization on our planet, you know, 100 million years ago, a non-human one that, you know, was advanced and industrial.
And we just wouldn't see any trace because of how long ago it was.
And they could have been here.
And, you know, we just wouldn't know because it's been so long.
It's kind of like where I come from with my kind of human idea.
Obviously, it's a further time span.
But it was proposed by two physicists is why I just thought of it just then.
It's a guy called Adam Frank.
joe rogan
Oh, I've had Adam on before.
michael button
You've had him on?
Adam Frank.
There you go.
I mean, didn't you mind putting it on?
joe rogan
We had him on, Jamie.
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
Didn't we?
Let me see.
That's a problem that happens all the time.
We're like, yeah, we've had him on.
jamie vernon
I know we have.
unidentified
I knew we have.
michael button
There you go.
joe rogan
I just wanted to check because I have been wrong before.
We talked about a guy.
I'm like, who's that guy?
And then I talked to him for three hours.
jamie vernon
I was like, uh-oh.
joe rogan
It's happened before.
But so this idea is that something else other than human beings...
michael button
Well, it's just the idea that if it had, we wouldn't know.
And because the Earth's been around for so long and complex multicellular life appeared, you know, relatively early in our four billion year history of the Earth or whatever.
I'm not sure on the dates, but we've been around, the Earth rather has been around for so, so, so long.
And we know that intelligence can emerge because it emerged with us and happened relatively quickly when you look at the kind of massive time scale that the Earth's been around and how long multicellular life has been around.
So their idea is kind of like, well, what if a civilization in the kind of era of the dinosaurs had become very advanced and an industrial society?
And they say we would see absolutely no evidence.
Like when I'm talking about a human civilization, we would see some potential evidence, like, you know, rock carved stone or whatever.
But they would say you wouldn't even see the nuclear waste deposits because it's that long ago that nothing would survive.
And then I think about that and I think, well, isn't it almost more likely that something did happen considering we know that intelligence can emerge relatively quickly?
Multicellular life has been on the planet for so, so, so, so, so, so long.
joe rogan
Limited understanding of the fossil record.
michael button
Exactly.
Like, why couldn't, why couldn't something have happened before?
And then you start getting a bit, you know, stoner about it and you start thinking, well, maybe they're still here because they have.
joe rogan
That's what I like.
I like to go interdimensional.
Because I think, like, well, if you do have these quantum computers that can go back one second in time and you move forward a thousand years from now and they're run by AI, like, what can they do?
Like, do they cease to, do these beings cease to exist in this dimension?
Do they develop the ability to be transdimensional?
Do they no longer exist in our space and time?
Is that like the emergence of this new life form and then they observe us?
Is that what's going on?
michael button
Well, I feel like if you kind of survive, you know, a lot longer than we have and you kind of get to a different like kind of level of intelligence, then why would you need the kind of physical body?
Why would you need the physical realm?
And why couldn't you kind of diverge different dimensions if such a thing is possible?
joe rogan
We certainly can imagine it taking place somewhere else on another planet with a similar atmosphere that supports life.
Maybe they live in a solar system that doesn't have an asteroid belt.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
Because there's, I'm sure they must exist.
They're not getting pelted all the time.
We're just in a shitty neighborhood.
We're basically in a neighborhood that gets shot up all the time.
michael button
A shooting gallery, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a shooting gallery.
And imagine them achieving where we are at, but then plus a million years.
And you can go, oh, yeah, well, I guess all bets are off in terms of what's possible.
You know, a hundred years ago, people were freaking out if they saw a car.
Now we're sending video from a tiny little screen on your phone across the world instantaneously.
It's all nuts.
michael button
And we don't even blink at that.
You get pissed off if it doesn't work.
You're like, what the fuck can't I talk to this guy in Australia?
And instantly, like, why is my phone not working?
joe rogan
And, you know, people are addicted to staring at it.
It's like it's pulling you into its gravity.
It's all very, very weird stuff.
michael button
Yeah, we adjust very quickly to how technology develops.
And it's just getting faster and faster and faster.
It makes you think, where will we be in 100 years, in 500 years, if nothing happens?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Where will we be?
I think we'll be somewhere really weird.
But I'm hoping that as we do advance and wherever we're going to be, it'll help us understand where we came from.
Like, you know, like if AI and super intelligence starts examining the history of the human race, then things can get very interesting.
And maybe it could give us places to look.
Like we need physical, you know, human beings or drones on the ground excavating certain areas.
This is like prime place to look.
michael button
Yeah, I kind of flip between like quite a pessimistic outlook and quite an optimistic outlook on these things.
Like sometimes I think like it's just gone and we're never going to know and we can speculate for as much as we like, but it's gone.
And then sometimes I think, no, like you never know.
There's so many places that are just completely unexcavated, completely unexplored that we haven't looked at, like, you know, beneath the Sahara or on the ocean floor by these.
Could I have some coffee, please?
Yes, that'd be all right.
Thank you.
unidentified
Of course.
michael button
And then all these places that, you know, we haven't explored.
And as you say, technology like AI.
Thank you.
Cheers.
Thank you.
You know, I think sometimes I think, yeah, maybe we are going to make like these massive discoveries that are going to completely shift our understanding of history.
And as you say, the kind of geezer, the findings beneath geyser, that could be a moment.
And I'm always looking for that.
But then sometimes I flip again and think, you know, maybe we'll never find anything.
And I just don't know.
Maybe I'm just speculating for no reason and I should just stop.
joe rogan
Have you seen Ben on Uncharted X?
He has a very recent video of these, I don't even know how you describe it.
There's these underground structures in Egypt that he says are bigger than the Giza Plateau that are underground.
michael button
I haven't seen that.
joe rogan
I love his channel, but there's a historical record of these things where people had talked about them like, you know, way back.
Even explorers had visited them and found them to be more spectacular than what is actually on the ground.
That the underground thing was even crazier.
michael button
And that begs the question, why underground?
Why do we find all this underground construction all over the world?
joe rogan
Hey.
michael button
Whoa, Amy.
Was that, and that's his theme music?
I didn't recognize that.
joe rogan
Shout out to Uncharted X. Yes, he's coming on soon to talk about this very thing.
michael button
He's awesome.
joe rogan
He's really awesome, and he spends so much time down there.
unidentified
So he did something.
Are you talking about, he did a video on the kind of unknown ancient site.
joe rogan
So the unknown age site said to be greater than the pyramids, confirmed with satellite scans.
michael button
So yeah, I haven't seen this.
joe rogan
Give us the coming up.
Just play it.
Just so many different techniques.
The GeoScan and Merlin Burrows satellite technologies.
I mean, they're vastly different techniques.
They seem to be aligned.
They're telling you the same things.
So they found something.
Like, there's something down there.
unidentified
What is down there seems to be also quite a mystery.
michael button
The central object is hard to classify.
unidentified
It appears metallic, not stone or wood.
A freestanding 40-meter-long metallic tic-tac-shaped object.
Approximately, what, 50, 60 meters below the ground in a huge, big, open corridor or an atrium?
Come on.
Like, this is a remarkable claim.
joe rogan
It's a crazy video.
And he goes deep into the history of people talking about these sites and even ancient explorers who wrote about visiting Egypt would talk about how it was even more spectacular underground.
Here it is.
This is, how do you say his name?
michael button
Petrie, yeah.
He's he's written a lot because he was like one of the first people.
joe rogan
Flanders Petrie.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
So are those the names of the sites he's talking about?
Hawara, Biamahu, and Arson, Arcion.
Yeah, Harara is definitely aux.
So it says on that space could be erected the Great Hall of Karnak and all successive temples adjoining it and the great court and the pylons of it.
Also the temple of Moot and that of, how do you say that?
Khansu?
michael button
I guess.
joe rogan
Khansu and Amenhotep III at Karnak.
Also the two great temples of Luxor and still there would be room for the whole of Ramesium.
What does that mean?
In short, all the temples of the east of Thebes and I'm sorry if I'm butchering these names folk and one of the largest of the West Bank might be placed together in the one area in the ruins of Hawara.
Here we certainly have a site worthy of the renown which the Labyrinth acquired.
So this is an ancient explorer who's talking about he actually got into this area.
The problem now is it's all submerged.
So it's been flooded and it's very difficult to do any kind of archaeological work.
I don't know.
michael button
Yeah, because he was one of the first people in.
joe rogan
Yeah, the Western people.
They're like crawling into these like holes and swimming in now.
It's real weird.
It's like you could die in there.
So someone's got to figure out how to get the fucking water out of there.
And what is that?
So if this guy's accurate with what he's talking about, again, explain that.
Explain how you've got something that's even greater than what you're seeing above the surface, underneath 50 meters down in the stone.
michael button
And why underground?
joe rogan
Why?
michael button
So much harder.
joe rogan
Exactly.
What were they doing?
Were they hiding?
Is this like what happened when cataclysms took place?
They said, well, we need to develop a way to survive these things.
Let's get underground.
michael button
There's so many all over the world as well.
joe rogan
Yeah.
michael button
People are always, well, ancient people, people are always building underground construction.
And we can't explain how they did it, who did it, or why they did it today.
And again, well, no one in the mainstream really kind of looks into that.
joe rogan
Yeah, that site in Turkey, wasn't it supposed to house like 2,000 people?
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Is that the number?
Like 2,000 people?
michael button
At least, I think.
I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's huge.
Huge.
joe rogan
I think it might be 20,000 people.
michael button
It's massive.
joe rogan
That sounds better.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Sounds more exciting.
But it is massive.
And they don't know how they did, and they carved it out of stone.
michael button
You don't know who built it?
joe rogan
There's no evidence of the stone being left anywhere.
It's not like there's a big pile of it outside of it.
It's real weird.
michael button
Yeah, 20,000.
joe rogan
There you go.
20,000 people together with their livestock and food stores.
So 20,000 people, livestock and food stores, extending to a depth of approximately 85 meters underground.
michael button
And no one knows who built that.
joe rogan
That's just so underground.
Nuts.
michael button
And their kind of argument is that they built it to kind of protect themselves from an invading army, but that's never made sense to me because if you were attacking those people, you just block the entrances.
joe rogan
Yeah, and then start fires.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that seems silly.
It seems like more likely what they were doing was escaping whatever the fuck was on the surface.
michael button
And so who built that and why?
And how old is it?
Because again, it's, you know, it's stone that could survive for so long.
joe rogan
Right.
And also, did you build it after a cataclysm?
Like, how do you do it?
Do you know it's coming and that's how you build it?
No.
You didn't know it's coming unless it's happened, unless it happens regularly.
And they realize the only way to survive it is to get underground.
michael button
Well, I guess you could, you know, it could be the remnants of an earlier culture that was wiped out and they had like a memory of maybe passed down three million.
joe rogan
Look how nuts that is.
jamie vernon
I was thinking to like, no, I know how like leafcutter ends to it.
This couldn't have been the first one they made.
michael button
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
jamie vernon
Trying to figure out how to make all those chambers to breathe and stuff.
joe rogan
That's so bananas, dude, that that's 85 meters into the ground.
michael button
That's so crazy.
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
michael button
Another great one is Long Yu Caves in China, which is just there's just zero explanation of what that is or who built it.
There's no record of its construction.
Have you seen you seen Long Yu Caves, yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah, pull that up.
Because that's nuts, too.
michael button
Absolutely crazy.
joe rogan
How old is that supposed to be?
michael button
No one knows.
They have no idea who built it.
It's just like, well, what is this?
And they don't know who built it.
There's no record of who built it.
They don't know what it was for.
There's no deposits of stone.
There's no tools found nearby.
joe rogan
Do they have a theory of the timeline?
michael button
I don't think so.
I mean, to be fair, it's in China, so it's kind of like it's not...
jamie vernon
It was founded in 1992.
joe rogan
Whoa.
A farmer.
Four farmers.
michael button
So there's 24 of them looking like that.
unidentified
Wow.
michael button
24.
jamie vernon
At least 2,000 years old.
joe rogan
Go to a video of it so we can see.
Because the caves, when people walk around it with a camera, it's bananas.
michael button
And there's 24 distinct ones that look like that.
And it's just like, who's building that?
Why?
joe rogan
Do you still visit China without going to jail?
What happens?
jamie vernon
It's an ocean people.
michael button
Oh, this is Mike Collins.
He's great.
Wandering a wolf.
joe rogan
Yes.
He's the one who does all that stuff about that wall in Montana, too.
michael button
Yeah, the sage wall.
unidentified
It's very weird.
joe rogan
That Montana thing is very weird.
I go back and forth on that one being man-made.
michael button
Yeah, that's the case for so many of these things.
It's like it could be natural, but then this is definitely not fucking natural.
joe rogan
Can you imagine in 1992, some farmers are just fucking around and they find this?
michael button
Find 24 of them as well.
joe rogan
And they're like, yo, what did we find?
michael button
I think the carvings are modern.
joe rogan
Oh, they are?
michael button
I think so.
I think they're not.
The parallel lines, they don't know what they are.
They have no idea why the parallel lines are there.
But I think the kind of carvings depicting mystical Chinese stuff is a kind of modern addition.
joe rogan
Oh, like brand new?
Yeah.
michael button
Like since they discovered it.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
Like, even those ones on the wall right there?
That's so gross.
michael button
I think so.
I may be wrong.
Might be worth checking.
I'm not sure.
joe rogan
I hope they didn't do that.
Oh, that would be gross.
Can you imagine?
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
But that site has just always baffled me.
Because again, if you look at the Wikipedia page for that site, it's just like three lines.
But it's like, what the fuck is this?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
So the carvings.
Are those really old?
Are those modern?
What made you think that they're modern?
michael button
Because I did a little video on, I mentioned this in a video during my research of that.
I saw that.
joe rogan
Oh, so in the research, you found out that they were modern?
Yeah.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
So the lines, it seems to be, the parallel lines seems to be like how they dug all the stuff out, like one layer at a time.
Would you think that?
michael button
Yeah, but like how?
And what?
Using what?
There's 24 of them.
And also, they're all so precisely identical.
It's like, what tool are you using to make sure this was so identical?
joe rogan
Right.
Like, what tool are you carving stone with to make a giant cave?
One particular cave stands out for its detailed carvings of dragons, animals, people, and figures closely resembling the eight immortals from Taoist mythology.
These depictions suggest a deep connection to Taoism.
Whether these carvings were a part of the original structure or added later after the caves were rediscovered in 1992 remains a topic of debate.
After close examining of the carvings and noticing of unique method used to chip away at the rock for these images, it seems likely that they were added later.
Perhaps turning the cave into a sacred place reflecting the religious beliefs at the time.
Oh, so some gross people carved into it in 1992.
Ugh.
That's so crazy that you did that, guys, because that's probably what people have done throughout time.
I bet that's, you know, probably the people that put their dead body in the pyramid.
michael button
Yeah, and that's the thing with all the other things in the Egypt is they've people have carved hieroglyphics onto there, but that doesn't mean that that's when the original thing was built.
joe rogan
Can you go back to the video, please, Jamie, of that site so we could see like what it looks like when you're walking around in it?
Because the fact that they don't really know who made it and the fact that these farmers found it in 1994, when you see the scope of it, it's where it really sets in.
michael button
Unbelievably big.
joe rogan
Yeah, because I think images are cool, but the way this guy's walking around it, you really get it.
michael button
And then you have to time that by 24.
joe rogan
Imagine those farmers?
Should we tell anybody?
If we don't, they're going to kill us.
They might kill us anyway.
jamie vernon
How much was added then afterwards if they did the carving?
How much like stairs?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, all the stairs were added for sure, I bet.
Right?
jamie vernon
The stairs that that guy's on.
michael button
But again, what was this for?
Like, why did they build this?
joe rogan
All that shit looks new.
Yeah, why did they?
Like, what is this?
jamie vernon
The carvings.
Maybe they're trying to make the carvings to make it seem like it was older and people would come wonder and just come look and be a tourist attraction.
joe rogan
Like maybe without art, they didn't think we'd get enough people to visit.
michael button
I think it's also to kind of connect it to kind of, you know, more like contemporary cultural China rather than because I mean, who knows how old this could be?
joe rogan
That's crazy.
michael button
Because it's stone.
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
The fact that they just found it.
Just stumbled on it.
That's what's the weirdest thing about some of the discoveries, because that's the same with Gobekli Tepe.
It was a sheepherder, right?
michael button
Someone found Gobekli Tepe in the 60s, and they didn't think it was anything, so they left it.
unidentified
Really?
michael button
Yeah, it's like that guy fucking missed the boat a little bit.
unidentified
No way.
michael button
Yeah, some American archaeologists found it in the 60s.
joe rogan
What did he find?
michael button
I can't remember, but they found like a little bit of it, and they were like, oh, this is clearly just some like, you know, contemporary Bronze Age society.
Don't worry about that.
joe rogan
That guy must have shot himself.
michael button
He missed the boat a little bit, didn't he?
unidentified
It could be historic.
That could have been the guy instead of a fucking sheepherder.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because it was a guy who just found like a stone, right?
michael button
Yo, yo, yo.
joe rogan
Yeah, here it is, 1960s.
Survey conducted by archaeologists from Istanbul University and the University of Chicago found some flint and limestone artifacts, but they didn't perceive the site as anything more than a medieval cemetery.
michael button
Whoopsies.
Yeah, that was the find of your career.
joe rogan
And you thought it was nuts.
What a slip-up.
So the sheepherder that found it, I think he just found like a corner of something.
And he like kicked it with his boot and was like, what is this?
And then started looking around and scraping it off.
And then I think once he realized it was really big, they started, he goes like, maybe I should call somebody.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Call somebody who knows how to dig.
michael button
The whole like 5% excavation thing is so puzzling at Gobekli Tepe because, I mean, to be clear, that's kind of how that's like normal practice, I think, for archaeology.
But you would have think that Gobekli Tepe is like a bit more of a special case.
That's such implications.
joe rogan
That's normal.
But it's also, they make a lot of money off of tourism, people visiting it the way it is.
And that would disrupt everything if you had a bunch of eggheads digging into the ground all around you.
I see that.
But, you know, then they started doing weird stuff, like planting olive trees above the ruins.
And everyone was telling them, like, hey, guys, if you do that, these trees are going to grow roots.
The roots are going to destroy what's underneath them.
And they're like, no, everything's going to be fine.
And then they realize, oh, it's actually destroying what's underneath it.
michael button
that's like a microcosm of the problem with a small section of very vocal kind of mainstream archaeologists.
I think the whole tree controversy regarding Gobekli Tepe is because it was Jimmy, right?
Jimmy Bright said it.
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
He can't go there anymore, you know.
michael button
I'm not surprised.
joe rogan
He might have snuck in recently.
michael button
He did a video, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But I think he's banned from the country.
michael button
From the whole of Turkey.
joe rogan
I think he's banned from the site at the very least.
It doesn't make sense because they're mad at him for telling the truth.
michael button
Exactly, exactly.
Whatever you think of Jimmy, like he was right.
joe rogan
Let's find out if he's banned.
I don't want to get Turkey mad at me.
Because I think Turkey's probably the, that's probably the birthplace of civilization.
michael button
Possibly.
joe rogan
Of what we think of as civilization.
I mean, there's so many different things that they've found in Turkey now that's starting to lean people to think that maybe that spot.
Maybe we've, you know, there was probably a bunch of places like that in the Middle East where civilization had sort of emerged from whatever had happened before.
michael button
Or the Sahara.
joe rogan
Or the Sahara.
What do you think about the Richard?
Let's get to that in a second here.
Oh, yeah.
Turkey should have banned me when they had a chance.
Jimmy's so crazy.
If my prior work on Gobekli Tepe upset them, what I will share in the coming days, weeks is going to take things to another level.
But because we were cunning around various security protocols and aided with exceptional timing, we got the footage.
Our ancient history belongs to humanity, I agree.
Anyone that opposes that has no place controlling our lost history.
Good for you, Jimmy.
michael button
Yeah, I mean, whatever you think about him, he was right about the trees.
And the fact that they had these people kind of coming out defending the trees and saying the trees were good for archaeological sites, just...
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know what Jimmy has a degree in, if anything, but he clearly knows a lot about ancient history and he's really interested in it.
And this, again, this gatekeeping.
Like, if you watch his videos, and he constantly gets smeared with all sorts of different horrible claims that he's this and he's that.
It's like, if you watch his videos, you know that's not true.
He's just a guy who is very fascinated and deeply informed on a lot of the timelines of all these different things and how interesting they are.
And he likes to make videos of them and that's a good thing.
michael button
Why shouldn't he be allowed to speculate?
He's just a guy speculating.
joe rogan
And he's really fair and balanced with how he talks about that.
michael button
And he's good at it, man.
He puts together arguments really well.
And you just mentioned the Reshot Structure thing.
I've watched his videos on that.
And like, it's interesting, man.
The way he kind of connects what Plato was saying about Atlantis and brings it all to the recipe.
It's interesting stuff.
joe rogan
It's very interesting because it's also, he talks about how Plato would talk about the mountains to the north and the river to the south.
He's like, this all lines up.
michael button
Concentric rings.
joe rogan
Concentric rings in the same size as was described as Atlantic.
michael button
And the Tamanrasa river system used to run straight through.
So it was surrounded by water.
joe rogan
Well, how come everybody's like, nah.
michael button
Well, it's because you can't prove it, isn't it?
joe rogan
Well, it's a little bit of that, but it's also because this YouTube guy is the one talking about it.
If they admit that he was right, that would drive them fucking crazy.
michael button
They had to with the trees.
joe rogan
Yeah.
michael button
You had to move them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But I think he's right about Atlantis too.
I think he might be right.
There's something about that that's weird.
It's also weird if you look at it from a satellite perspective, the satellite imagery where you get to see where it all looks like it's been washed over by water.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like the whole thing looks exactly like sand looks when the tide comes in and then pulls back.
It's all rippled and it looks like it was pommeled by water.
michael button
Yeah.
And match the sinking into the sea in a single day and night.
joe rogan
Exactly.
And also, like, how many stories from ancient history depict floods?
There's so many of them.
Like, we can't, are we going to ignore all of them as myth?
michael button
Well, the idea that myth doesn't hold any kind of use in understanding the past is just ridiculous because the myth is powerful because it's the thing we've collectively remembered as a species, isn't it?
So why would we dismiss that as a kind of you know historical record?
And then you've got examples of like indigenous cultures that remember that they remember kind of scientific information through myth.
I always go to this example of these kind of islanders during the tsunami in 2004.
And they went to the, it was the Andaman Islands and the kind of you know Western scientists or whatever went to the island after the Boxing Day tsunami and they were like, oh, everyone's going to be dead.
Like they're all going to be wiped out by this tsunami.
And they were fine because they had this myth in their culture that when the sea recedes, you get to high ground because then the waves are going to come that will eat men.
And that myth, you know, that has encoded scientific information regarding tsunamis and that saved their culture's lives.
And they had like no casualties compared to, you know, Western or modern people who were everybody else was like, wow, look at all the sand.
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they were like, I thought the beach was over here.
michael button
Yeah.
And then they all got fucking killed.
And then these people with their myths, scientific information, survived.
joe rogan
There's a guy who was hiking in Russia when the most recent tsunami hit and he was on a cliff and you see the ocean come in and like reach the top of the cliff where his dog is.
See if you could find it.
michael button
It's crazy.
joe rogan
Because he films the thing coming in.
Like this guy is way above the ocean when it starts.
And then the water is reaching where he is with his dog.
michael button
It's just further testament to the power of nature.
And we just constantly underestimate nature.
joe rogan
And that was just a little wiggle in the ocean.
That's just a little wiggle.
Just a little earthquake.
A little eight-pointer.
michael button
And then you think about some of the shit that's gone on during our time on Earth.
joe rogan
Comet impacts.
And like, watch this.
So look how high this guy is, right?
Way up, way up, right?
And so as he's up here, you know, he's seeing the waves come in.
Now, he must have known that this was going to happen because everybody knew this was going to happen.
So watch how it's coming in now.
And now it keeps coming.
unidentified
It keeps coming all the way to the top where he is.
It's nuts.
joe rogan
Look at his dog.
unidentified
His dog's like, yo, I would be freaking out.
joe rogan
I would be running out of that, man.
I wouldn't trust it.
What if it goes over the top where you're at?
You're just guessing.
Bro, look how high this water gets.
michael button
That's terrifying.
He's out of there.
joe rogan
Look at that.
The dog's about to get jacked.
I mean, if you get trapped in that, like, bitch, you are not swimming to shore.
That's your life.
It's over.
I don't care if you're Laird Hamilton.
Well, he might swim through that.
But isn't that nuts?
michael button
Yeah, you're fucked.
joe rogan
That water got all the way to the top of that hill.
unidentified
So that is like, doesn't even register in the news.
michael button
Yeah, that's just like the thing that happens all the time.
joe rogan
That's a thing that happens.
This is like a thing.
Like, no big deal.
No one will remember that in five years.
No one will remember that in 10 years.
But if a fucking comet slams into the ocean right there or slams into a glacier, a comet the size of, you know, a few city blocks, that's a wrap.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a wrap.
You have massive flooding, like instantaneous millions of gallons of water tearing through the landscape.
No more ice cap.
It's all gone.
michael button
Yeah, and just any kind of culture that was possibly around is just wipes completely wiped clean from the earth.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're Dunsville.
There's nothing left.
And that's real.
This isn't speculation.
Like that, we look at the Tunguska impact, and that was the same sort of comet storm that we passed through at the same time of year, and it flattened like this enormous chunk of Siberia that still doesn't have trees on it.
michael button
Yeah.
And that's quite a small thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And it didn't even hit.
It was airburst.
Yeah, yeah.
michael button
And if that happened over a city, that's like millions dead.
joe rogan
Millions.
So that could be happening on this planet on a regular basis.
unidentified
It is.
joe rogan
Yeah.
michael button
I mean, it just is kind of facts that we get hit by stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, we're always finding a crater.
We're like, oh, this one's three million years old.
Look at this fucking crater.
Three million years ago, everyone's fucked.
michael button
If that estimate is correct, that we're hit by a cataclysmic impact once every 100,000 years, then, I mean, what does that mean?
joe rogan
Well, that's where it gets really weird if you're talking about like an advanced civilization like millions of years ago.
Like imagine if there was some sort of advanced life form millions of years ago and then something like that hits.
michael button
Have you seen that wheel that's like 300 million years old?
Or it's like a preserve.
It looks just like a wheel.
joe rogan
Have you seen the others?
michael button
Jamie, could you please search 300 million year old wheel it will probably be.
joe rogan
Are you on TikTok a lot?
Like where are you getting this one?
michael button
I've just seen it about and like it looks like a wheel.
It doesn't mean it is a wheel, but it looks remarkably.
Just kind of looks like a wheel and they found it in a mine and then they flooded the mine, which is a bit weird.
But there's a couple better images of it.
I don't know if they'll be on this page, but yeah, there you go.
That looks like spokes and a wheel.
I mean, it could be natural, but I mean, what the fuck is that, you know?
unidentified
That looks really weird.
joe rogan
Now, what are these fossilized tracks?
michael button
Yeah, these are also super old.
They're called cart ruts.
joe rogan
Again, found in Turkey.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
Including Sofka, where they, like how I said that?
Where they cover an area approximately 45 by 10 miles.
And how do you say that one?
There's a lot of words today, but I'm not going to say it.
Cappadocia, home to several clusters of tracks.
The discovery of these ruts around the world has sparked debate regarding their purpose, age, and origins in Malta, especially due to the proximity of the tracks to megalithic structures and the fact that some are now submerged beneath the sea.
michael button
Yeah, I've seen some of them in Malta.
I went to Malta.
And they go off cliffs.
joe rogan
Many researchers suggest these fossilized lines indicate significant antiquity.
So if this was like mud that they were pulling these things through or dirt that they were pulling these things through and then it eventually fossilized into tracks.
Like what else would be the explanation for something that looks exactly like tracks?
Is there a natural explanation for those kind of formations?
michael button
I don't see anyone providing.
joe rogan
No one hasn't.
No one has a problem.
michael button
No, I mean, I didn't really know about the ones on Malta because I went there and kind of researched it.
But those ones they don't dispute.
They're definitely man-made.
joe rogan
Well, hold on.
They're definitely man-made because listen to what this says.
I first saw tracks in stone, fossilized car or terrain vehicle traces, usually called cart ruts, on neogen plantation surfaces, peneplene in Phygrian.
Phrygean.
Phrygean plain in May of 2014.
They were situated in the field of development of middle and late, how do you say that?
Miocene?
Neocene tufts and tough tuffites.
And according to age analysis of nearby volcanic rocks, had middle Miocene age of 12 to 14 million years.
michael button
Yes, this is Turkey, not Malta.
But again, I mean, you've got these cart ruts that look like, you know, some sort of track, and it's millions of years old.
And then you find that wheel nearby.
joe rogan
That's fucking crazy.
michael button
And you're like, what is this?
joe rogan
Look at what this says.
Coltepin holds, okay, the region that Dr. Coltepin has studied is relatively obscure with guidebooks offering little to no information about it.
While mainstream researchers argue that the tracks are merely petrified remnants of old cart ruts left by wheeled vehicles pulled by donkeys or camels, Coltepin holds a different perspective.
Rejecting these conventional explanations, he stated firmly, I will never accept it.
I will always remember many other inhabitants of our planet wiped from our history.
His research suggested a deeper, perhaps forgotten history of Earth and its past civilizations.
Like, what?
michael button
Because if it is, that's the Silurian hypothesis.
If it was millions of years ago, how would we just, we wouldn't know.
joe rogan
You imagine millions of years ago, people had the wheel.
michael button
Or something.
Minority.
joe rogan
Something, whatever they were, was pulling things on wheels.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they had cart ruts in the ground.
So maybe they didn't have.
This is fucking crazy.
Coltepin theorizes that the civilization responsible for driving these heavy vehicles likely built the numerous identical roads, ruts, and underground complexes scattered across the Mediterranean region more than 12 million years ago.
He acknowledges that petrification can occur relatively quickly, but points to the heavy mineral deposits on the tracks and signs of erosion as evidence of much old of a much older timeline.
He also connects these tracks to surrounding underground cities, irrigation systems, and wells, which he believes are millions of years old.
michael button
Yes, that's like Derrin Kuyu.
So what if Derrenkuyu is millions of years old and these tracks are related to it?
joe rogan
This is so crazy.
On his website, Coltepin wrote, oh, I'm not fucking his name out.
We are dealing with extremely tough, lithified, petrified sediments covered with a thick layer of weathering that takes millions of years to develop, full of multiple cracks with newly developed minerals in them, which could only emerge in periods of high tectonic activity.
unidentified
Whoa.
michael button
Pretty crazy, huh?
joe rogan
That's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life.
That's crazy, because I knew those cart ruts existed, but I didn't look into them.
I didn't know what the timeline was.
I didn't know that there's anybody that's even speculating.
That thing looks like a fucking wheel.
michael button
And it's right in the same place.
So you've got this fossilized wheel and these fossilized cart ruts from hundreds of millions of years ago.
joe rogan
The wheel was printed in a sandstone of the roof.
Guys, drifters, tried to cut away the find with the pickhammers and try to take it out to the surface, but sandstone was so strong and firm.
And having been afraid to damage a print, they have left it in place.
At present, the mine is closed and access to the object is impossible.
The equipment dismantled and the given layers are already flooded.
unidentified
Yeah, they can't.
joe rogan
Get in there.
Why would you flood that?
michael button
I think it was something to do with like just, I don't think it's like some conspiracy, like hide the wheel, hide the wheel.
But I mean, maybe it would.
But I think it's more just like the practice of what they would.
They will finish their mining thing and they found this wheel.
They weren't going to excavate the wheel because they were like.
joe rogan
Bro, if that's a real wheel, if someone can carve that out of there and realize, like, if scientists look at it, if they get a 3D scan of it and they go, okay, we have to completely rethink everything.
If something had a wheel 12 million years ago.
michael button
300 million.
joe rogan
300.
What?
michael button
Nuts.
joe rogan
Like, what are we talking about?
michael button
I mean, it would be like the Saloon hypothesis.
It would be another...
It wouldn't be human unless...
I mean, we'd have to radically rewrite everything if that was human.
joe rogan
Right, but what does that mean then?
Like, what are we talking about?
michael button
It's different intelligence.
Some other species.
joe rogan
So maybe there was something like us that lived like medieval humans.
Yeah, it was millions of years ago.
michael button
It's the same problems.
Like, if they're living on Earth, they're dealing with the same kind of physics.
They have to move materials around.
Like, why would you not come up with the same kind of thing, like a wheel?
It's a simple invention.
joe rogan
That's what's interesting, too.
And we're always finding new dinosaurs.
Like, that's a common thing.
And if these were a type of human being or something similar to human beings, they buried their dead.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What are we going to find?
Like, what are we going to find after 12 million years?
michael button
Nothing, except for maybe a fossilized wheel.
joe rogan
Yeah, or these wheel tracks.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, what is the conventional explanation of these wheel tracks?
michael button
I don't know, but all I know about the ones in Malta, they definitely say they're man-made.
I don't know about these ones in Turkey.
I haven't really looked into it.
joe rogan
Those are crazy.
michael button
I know.
joe rogan
And the fact that they go to underground structures helped me.
michael button
I know.
Well, they're near there.
I don't think they directly lead to Derekuyu or anything, but they're nearby.
So then you start to think, what if Derinkuyu is like, you know, to be fair, I think that's probably man-made, but, you know, it's stone.
joe rogan
Well, I'm sure it's man-made, but like, what kind of man?
michael button
And it could have been man-adapted.
It could have already been something there, and we kind of changed it.
joe rogan
That would be completely fucked if we found out there was another type of human that existed that did all that 12 million years ago.
michael button
It wouldn't even have to be a human.
It could be any kind of life.
It's just intelligence.
joe rogan
Right, but there's no evidence that anything other than primates have been that capable of manipulating their environment other than primates, right?
michael button
I guess so.
joe rogan
So when we also know that there's certain we're finding new ones all the time, right?
This one that they found, I keep fucking it up.
Homo juliens, is that it?
I believe so.
Antikytheria?
Antikythera.
I'm going to get that right.
I would fuck this one up too.
The Homo Juliens.
But this one was larger than us.
It had a larger brain capacity and they know that they just, I mean, this was just published in December of 2024.
So they know that they're constantly finding new branches of the human tree.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
And then you got Denise Evans or Denisovans, however you pronounce that.
And they just reclassified that Dragon Man skull as Denise Van, and that was a huge.
joe rogan
So Juluensis.
Is that how you would say that?
I've never heard of this.
Yeah, because it's really new.
A new big-headed, archaic humans.
Bigger than us, with big-ass heads and big brains.
michael button
Well, then you kind of get into the thing of like giants and stuff, and like, could giants have been real?
And you know what?
joe rogan
It seems like that's a giant.
michael button
Exactly.
And there is giant primates that have been like confirmed, like gigantopithecus or whatever it's called.
And then you have hobbit humans, like Homo florensis.
Yep, I don't know how you pronounce that.
So you have hobbit humans, you have giant primates.
Why can't you have giant humans?
joe rogan
I think they did.
I think that's why giants are always in the Bible.
And I think this thing, how old is this fossil that they found of Juluensis?
So this one existed alongside, I believe, alongside at least some versions of man.
Does it say how old it is?
unidentified
300.
joe rogan
300,000 or million?
michael button
So that would just overlap with us then.
joe rogan
300,000 years old?
Yeah.
Right.
So, but here's the thing.
They don't have a lot of this stuff.
They don't have a lot of evidence of this creature.
Right.
So they have, I believe it's one site.
Is that correct?
Is there one site where they found this?
jamie vernon
It's partly on a very large scale found in China.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So how many have they not found?
That's the real problem with us and this whole fossil record thing is that we're dealing with a very limited amount of information.
It's very difficult to become information.
It's very difficult to become evidence.
michael button
Especially when you get up to these, again, it's the preservation problem.
When you get back this far, it's so hard to find stuff.
joe rogan
You should see what this thing looks like when they do like a 3D image of a depiction.
First of all, they make it look super primitive.
They cover it with hair and give it jack muscles.
It looks like this freak.
But whatever it is, it's way bigger than us.
And it's a human and it lived alongside us.
So David and Goliath, it's right there.
michael button
And there's also the, I think it's called Meganthropus, which is.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what it looked like, supposedly.
Meanwhile, I probably had a calculator.
michael button
They make everything.
Everyone's stupid and walking around in.
joe rogan
Yeah, everyone's stupid.
Everyone has a stick in their hand.
jamie vernon
When I was looking up that wheel, I came across the London Hammer.
joe rogan
Oh, I've heard of that too.
But I heard that that was dissolved.
jamie vernon
I'm not seeing.
I mean, it doesn't make sense.
I'll just go with that.
It was found in 1936, I think, but the limestone around it is supposedly 100 million years old.
michael button
Ah, shit.
I never heard of this.
joe rogan
Yeah, someone had an explanation for that.
jamie vernon
I found it in Texas, London, Texas, not England.
joe rogan
No.
Yeah.
Someone had an explanation for that.
I don't remember what it was.
jamie vernon
I'm fucking over at mysteries, a lot of people discussing it.
joe rogan
Why don't you look up London Hammer Debunked?
jamie vernon
I mean, wouldn't someone want to debunk it?
joe rogan
I know they would, but I want to know if they're right.
You know, I'm sure someone would want to.
jamie vernon
There's lots of people saying it's real and fake, and there's just not a lot of explanation on how it was found in old limestone.
joe rogan
Okay, radiocarbon dating of the wooden handle and the geological analysis have largely debunked the idea of extreme antiquity.
More details, the artifact.
The London hammer is a metal hammerhead with a wooden handle found partially encased in a concretion, hard, compact mass of mineral matter.
The claims some have interpreted the hammer's presence in the rock as evidence of advanced ancient civilizations or a young earth pointing to the seemingly anomalous placement of a modern-looking tool in ancient rock.
Evidence against antiquity, radiocarbon dating of the wooden handle has placed its origin within the historical period, not millions of years.
Geological processes, the concretion itself is not necessarily ancient.
This is what I'd read.
Minerals and solution can harden around objects dropped or left in cracks or on the surface of soluble rock, according to Gaia.
Out-of-place artifacts, while the concept of out-of-place artifacts can be intriguing, the London Hammer doesn't meet the criteria of being considered an out-of-place artifact, as is geological context and dating suggest a more recent origin.
You know, one of the things that I always go to with Egypt is those really bizarre-looking things that almost look like a part of a machine, like that wheel thing.
Shist disc, I think it's yeah, something, I don't remember what it's called, some kind of a disc, but it looks like a part of something, like almost a fan.
You're looking at that, like, okay, what is that thing doing?
Is that a turbine?
Is that in water?
Does something spin?
Like, what is that?
The fact that that's real, that one drives me nuts.
michael button
It literally looks exactly like something.
joe rogan
I mean, that's a replicate, right?
Jamie?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie vernon
I mean, they found the pieces of it.
I've seen someone put it, they've cranked it up in water and it can, like, displace water in a very unique way.
joe rogan
Yes.
I don't know if that's the use of it, but that's a see if you can get an image of the actual one, not a recreation, because I think there's been some, some of them, they've recreated it because I think it's a very valuable thing.
So when people are looking at it, I think a lot of times they're looking at recreations.
Whatever it was, no one can figure it out, right?
And it's carved out of stone.
So how?
What are you doing?
What does that thing do?
You know?
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
That thing looks like a part of a machine.
It looks like a part.
Like if you have some ancient machine and you've got it, does a bunch of things.
jamie vernon
It's a beer mixer.
Right.
But I mean, if you go with Brian Mararescu, they need to mix that stuff up somehow.
joe rogan
That's true, actually, right?
But it's probably just one of many different tools that were missing from back then.
If that is just their stuff for making what they call beer.
Brian Mararescu is the guy who wrote The Immortality Key.
I don't know if you ever read any of his stuff, but a lot of it is about ancient Greece and the Illusinian mysteries.
michael button
Psychedelics, I guess.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Psychedelics, yeah.
But a lot of it is, you know, what we think of as beer and wine.
All their stuff was laced.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was all laced with ergot and a bunch of other stuff and different psychedelics that we haven't really identified yet.
michael button
Yeah, and they combine that with their kind of spirituality and everything.
joe rogan
And that's why they built the society that they built.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which is the craziest thing about, you know, our weirdo technological advanced society is disconnected from that because it's illegal.
michael button
Disconnected from the stars as well.
joe rogan
Disconnected from light pollution.
Yeah.
michael button
And we're just all kind of rushing around in this really hectic life of just like, you know, got to go do this, got to do this, and just not sitting back and kind of appreciating, what was that?
jamie vernon
This is from an unknown author and Reddit.
That's when they put it on a drill.
joe rogan
Oh, so they made one of it and put it on a drill?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's great if you have a drill.
So we're assuming that the Egyptians had a drill.
I'm assuming they had a drill.
michael button
I think they definitely.
I mean, they have all those drill holes, don't they?
And they find all these cool things.
joe rogan
And people are like, oh, that's normal.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
I can explain that a lot.
michael button
That's that spiral thing.
I can't remember what it's called, but what's it called?
Chris Dunn did like a, he put like a thread around it to show it was a spiral colour.
joe rogan
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
The groove code.
Yeah.
And he also estimated the revolutions per minute that it would take to do something like that.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
So you're talking about something that is going into extremely hard rock.
And looks like it has some extremely hard tip that can cut that rock.
Like, what is it made out of?
michael button
Yeah, that's it.
And these are like serious people.
These are engineers that are saying this kind of thing.
And the problem is that, you know, archaeologists and Egyptologists are all a certain type of person that don't have the expertise in recognizing machined artifacts.
joe rogan
Also, they're dorks and they don't connect with people because they're so arrogant and the way they talk about these things that it freaks people out and it makes them not want to listen.
This is, I think, the thing that frustrates them the most about alternative historians like Graham Hancock.
He's really interesting.
He's compelling.
michael button
He's a great communicator as well.
joe rogan
He's a great communicator and a wonderful guy.
And people love him and they go, oh, fuck that guy.
He's our racist.
He's a this, he's a that.
michael button
And he's more popular than them as well.
joe rogan
Yes, that's what drives them nuts.
It should be exciting to them because it's stimulating people's desire to know where we come from.
And that's supposed to be your business.
That's supposed to be what you're into.
michael button
And all he's doing is asking questions and like putting forward a thing.
I don't think Graham would ever claim to like be certain.
He's just saying this could be possible, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's got some ideas that I think are a big stretch.
And then he's got some ideas that I think are dead on the head, but he will tell you that himself.
michael button
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
He will tell you that himself.
He's just trying to figure this out.
michael button
And that's the position he always has come from.
Yes.
But they kind of see it and they're saying, how dare you claim that you have proof?
And I don't think he's ever said that.
joe rogan
He's such a nice and sensitive person that like this stuff really fucking hurts his feelings.
michael button
I can imagine, mate.
It must be hard.
joe rogan
It's not necessary.
Everybody should be working together.
They really should.
And the academics, everyone knows that you had a limited amount of information before and there's more information now.
Like your students are not going to hate you if you say, listen, I wrote a whole book on this.
This is so crazy.
But I was so wrong.
michael button
They would respect you more.
joe rogan
They were probably respecting you more.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The thing about it is like that book is still out there and academics like to point at each other and make fools of each other.
They really love to do that.
They really delivered to, I see them do it to each other on Twitter all the time.
They'll dismiss someone's credentials and say his work is shit.
And they're like, God, you're such bitches.
jamie vernon
They're brutal.
michael button
They're brutal.
To each other, let alone someone who's brought up.
joe rogan
To each other.
Yeah, like high school girls, like talking shit about each other in chat messages, you know?
Or high school boys, they do the same thing.
Or fucking grown men do it, obviously.
And these guys are just like that.
But it's also, I think some of these guys are socially stunted because they spent so much time with their head in academia and their head in books that they don't realize the rest of the world sees that behavior in a very transparent way.
If you're acting like a bitch online and all you do is say mean things about people, that's not, you're not hiding what you are.
Every reasonable person sees that and instantaneously knows what's going on.
This is irrational behavior.
You're calling people racist because they're questioning the timeline of human civilization based on evidence, based on really bizarre things that no one can explain based on water erosion on rocks.
Now you're racist.
Like, what are you talking about?
michael button
It's just a way of shutting down the ideas.
joe rogan
It's exactly what it is.
It's exactly what it is.
But it's done by people that are socially stunted.
And they don't understand that most normal, rational people who see them behave this way are never going to listen to them again.
By doing this bitchy thing, you have discounted your own participation in any true intellectual discourse because everybody knows you're a bad faith actor now.
You're a bad person.
You're saying things because you're trying to shut down a conversation instead of saying, huh, tell me what you did.
How did you get to this?
So what is he saying?
Water erosion.
Whoa.
Show me.
Show me the water erosion.
Well, fucking hell, that does look like water erosion.
unidentified
Okay.
michael button
Maybe we should reevaluate this.
joe rogan
Maybe we should bring you in to teach.
What are we doing?
We're gatekeeping.
We're gatekeeping information because it's protecting fragile egos of socially stunted people.
michael button
Yeah.
And they've always...
joe rogan
Not to say they haven't done great things.
unidentified
Exactly.
michael button
They have done great things.
joe rogan
They do deserve the credit for that.
But we should give them amnesty for fucking up.
michael button
But no one, yeah.
I mean, we wouldn't be able to talk about these things without, you know, mainstream for one.
joe rogan
I know, I don't care.
Imagine what Harry in the math department when you've been shitting on his string theory and now it finds, oh, look, look who's wrong about the timeline.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, it's Mike, the fucking genius.
Like, shitting at each other, throwing coffee at each other.
They're a bunch of animals.
They're just like any other group of men, you know?
michael button
It's just a human thing, isn't it?
We're all just human.
Sure.
joe rogan
Chess players cheat.
Yeah, exactly.
Like even genius ones.
michael button
And often like these people, this is like, you know, the thing that they've worked on and the kind of biggest success they've had in their lives.
Yes.
They don't want that taken away.
joe rogan
They don't want it taken away and they don't want to deal with those other academics who are going to stick it in their face.
unidentified
40 years, Bob.
40 years you've been teaching lies.
How's that feel?
How about all those college kids that left with a real fucked up view of human history because of you, Bob?
michael button
Come on, Bob.
Yeah, exactly.
unidentified
Poor Bob.
Poor Bob.
joe rogan
Bob is going to just like write a note and blow his brains out.
michael button
Yeah.
But I mean, I don't know.
I just, I hope that things are going to shift over time.
And over the next few decades, we're going to see a big one funeral at a time.
I guess so.
That is the Max Planck quote, isn't it?
but I hope it doesn't have to take that long.
And I wish people would shift their positions, man, because...
joe rogan
Well, again, I think new people coming in...
It's like a lot of things.
You know, new people come in, they have new ideas, and the old dinosaurs.
michael button
Yeah, but I think it's, I don't know, our adherence to these ideas has kind of distorted our understanding of history and has kind of prevented us from looking for things because, you know, we assume that these things are shit.
Sorry.
unidentified
No worries.
michael button
I almost unplugged the microphone.
joe rogan
That wheel is still freaking me out.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
It's crazy, huh?
joe rogan
It's crazy.
michael button
But we just don't look for these things.
joe rogan
Have you seen any of Jesse Michael's stuff?
michael button
He's the kind of UAP kind of guy, isn't he?
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
I haven't really.
I do kind of delve into that, but I don't like talk about or anything.
joe rogan
His latest one is to do the mummy, the tridactyl mummies in Peru.
michael button
Yeah, that's the ones.
joe rogan
Where they've done scans of them, and they have a fully intact bone structure.
Looks like an actual creature, fully intact.
Three feet, three toes, different shaped head than us, whatever it is.
And also 1700 years old.
Like, what is that?
michael button
So what's the debunking of that?
joe rogan
Well, there's some of them that people have made that seem to be a complete fabrication.
It seems to be some of them they've pieced together bones and created like a fake artifact and tried to sell it off.
But then there's these other ones that were found that don't look like that at all.
They look like they're huddled up.
One of them has a fetus inside of it.
Yeah.
michael button
What the fuck?
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And whatever these things are, show them the video when you see the scans of it.
American Alchemy, Jesse Michaels, awesome show.
michael button
Yeah, he's cool, man.
I watched his show on here.
He's awesome.
Yeah.
joe rogan
M-I-C-H-E-L-S.
michael button
And isn't there also, I might have made this up, but isn't there also like depictions of this in kind of ancient.
unidentified
Yes.
michael button
Yeah, is that true?
joe rogan
Yeah, ancient artwork.
Three-fingered, three-toed people with big heads.
michael button
Oh, that's weird then.
unidentified
Weird.
joe rogan
When you see this thing, this thing looks exactly like these.
This is it.
This is an actual scan of this mummy.
Look at the size of the head.
Look at the shape of the head.
Look at all the bones.
Look at all the ribs, everything.
That's fucking bananas.
Now, Jamie, show him what it looks like before they scan it.
So they found them encased in, I think it's dichotomous earth.
Is that what it was?
michael button
But how old do they think these things are?
joe rogan
Some of them are 700 years old, and some of them are as old as 1700 years old.
michael button
But so not that old, though.
joe rogan
But look at that thing.
So this thing.
This thing.
michael button
That is ridiculous.
joe rogan
That seems to be an actual mummy of a real creature.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
And here's the thing.
michael button
Is that Jesse there?
joe rogan
No, yeah, Jesse's right there.
Jesse is doing real journalism on this.
This is what it sounds crazy to everybody, including me, as it comes out of my mouth.
But then when you look at that scan, not crazy anymore.
That's one of a smaller one.
But the bigger one with the big head, that one right there, that one's crazy.
Like, what the fuck is that?
If that was a person, you would run for the hills with a head that shape with three fingers and three toes.
And the fact that they have artwork depicting these things that goes back.
michael button
Yeah, because if it's a fake, then how are they depicting it?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
What is this?
Like, did they have...
Look at the scans of the foot.
Go back to that?
unidentified
This is crazy.
joe rogan
It's almost like it defies the possibility of it being fraudulent.
It defies it.
It's like, make that.
You show me how you can make that, where you can scan it and you see the tissue and the ligaments and the tendons and the cartilage and the joints.
And they're not human-shaped.
Yeah, that's the same thing.
michael button
I haven't really looked into this, but this is kind of nuts.
joe rogan
If these were real creatures that existed at one point in time alongside us, and they're just now finding them.
Now then you get to, you get into ultimate weirdness because, like, okay, what's the NASCA lines for?
Because that's the same part of the world.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
And then this is.
What are there weird artwork of kind of like things that look alien and in South America?
joe rogan
Well, there's one of the Nazca lines that looks like a fucking spacesuit.
Looks like a guy in a spacesuit.
And also, like, why would you make artwork that you can only see from the sky?
michael button
Yeah, that's always puzzled me about that.
unidentified
Weird.
michael button
So weird.
joe rogan
The same part of the world where you're finding these things.
michael button
And they're like perfectly done as well.
joe rogan
Yeah.
michael button
And they're perfect lines and shapes and weird geometric.
joe rogan
And they keep finding new ones.
michael button
Yeah, they do.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's very strange.
michael button
I mean, South America is just, you know, it's, I think South America and Egypt slash Turkey are the two kind of areas that are the most kind of, you know, mysterious.
And like, there's so much going on there that I think we haven't quite acknowledged how much mystery there is still left.
And yeah, fascinating.
Especially when you throw this in.
I mean, I haven't really, I haven't looked into this at all, but I'm going to have to start watching Jesse's.
joe rogan
What is that?
michael button
Yeah, that's my mind.
joe rogan
And what if they find out that's not a human at all?
michael button
Well, I mean, it doesn't look like a, doesn't look like a human.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Right.
Like, I mean, it could be.
michael button
I guess it's kind of like a human.
joe rogan
It could be some bizarre mutation, right?
Like those ostrich feet people in Africa.
Have you seen that?
michael button
Yeah, yeah, I guess so.
joe rogan
It's possible that there's some weird mutation and this is a bunch of people with big heads and three fingers and three toes.
But it doesn't seem like it.
It seems like something different.
Also, what are you doing with three fingers?
You're operating electronics only.
Like, you ain't picking shit up.
You can't do anything.
You don't have opposable thumbs.
The idea that you have something that looks like us, it doesn't have opposable thumbs.
michael button
Yeah, that's like a big evolutionary kind of advantage.
joe rogan
What is this thing doing?
What are you doing?
Unless all you do is put your hand on a machine and you control everything with telepathy and you just control it by touching it.
And you don't need, you know, maybe it gets to a point where we stop using our thumbs and they just fucking drift away.
We only need a couple of digits.
unidentified
So what is like Jesse's theories on what oh, their fingers have an extra digit too?
michael button
What does that mean?
joe rogan
So you know how like, you know, your finger bends in a certain way.
They have what is an extra phalange?
What would you call it?
An extra little, you know, you have like one, two, three bones.
They have a fourth.
Fourth bone, so you could type quicker with the three fingers.
I don't fucking know.
But it's like, that's not us.
That's something weird.
The skull shape is weird, but it looks like a real thing.
michael button
Yeah, if that's real, that kind of, you know, changes everything.
joe rogan
Changes everything.
And you don't hear in the New York Times.
You're not seeing in the New York Post.
It's not in the Wall Street Journal, but they might have actually found a life form in mummified form that's not us.
That looks a lot like these fucking aliens that people have been talking about since the beginning of time.
michael button
And so why is no one talking about it except for Jesse?
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
Look at that.
Look at the x-rays of him.
Look at, see how it has an extra little thing at the end.
michael button
That's like an incredible fake if that's a fake.
joe rogan
That's not our fingers, man.
That's a little extra joint.
And it's not, the fingers aren't even, you'd have to be like the freakiest long-fingered motherfucker that's ever lived to have fingers that long.
michael button
Those are weird.
joe rogan
That's not us.
That's something different.
michael button
That's bizarre.
joe rogan
Very bizarre.
Again, anybody who tells you that we know it all, they're full of shit.
If that's real, you don't know anything.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
If that's real, if that becomes mainstream, if this is from Jesse, and I hope it does, and they do genetic testing on this thing, and then someone figures out what it is, and it's got different chromosomes than us and different DNA than us.
Like, now what?
michael button
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
Now what?
michael button
And what are the chances we have got everything?
Because these people seem to think that we've got it all worked out now.
joe rogan
It's zero.
The chances are zero.
michael button
It's never been the case.
And we've always thought we've had it all worked out all the way through history.
It's always like, oh, now we know the answers.
And it's always, there's always a major paradigm shift around the corner.
joe rogan
Exactly.
michael button
So what's around the corner now?
joe rogan
Exactly.
michael button
Something like this.
Or the ancient civilization thing.
joe rogan
Both.
Well, it's so fun, though.
It's really exciting.
It's a really exciting time to find things out because if this had emerged 50 years ago, 75 years ago, there's no Jesse Michaels.
There's no YouTube.
There's no podcast like this to talk about Jesse Michaels and send a bunch of people over to go watch it.
More people know, the better.
Let's look at this.
This might be real.
This is crazy.
michael button
And that's why it probably is coming out in this kind of day and age because the internet's not been around for very long.
joe rogan
But why isn't MSNBC covering this?
Why isn't CNN covering this?
They should all be covering this.
They should all be going, look at these scans that this YouTuber, Jesse Michaels, did.
If this is true, this seems like something that's not a human being.
michael button
I know, it's just too...
joe rogan
Aliens are real.
jamie vernon
This is from 2017.
Someone had found just a hand.
joe rogan
Whoa.
jamie vernon
It's obviously the same thing.
joe rogan
Bizarre three-fingered hand in 2017.
Mummified hand found in a tunnel in Peru.
jamie vernon
It said these fingers had six bones.
joe rogan
Whoa.
jamie vernon
Regular human bone has three.
joe rogan
Whoa.
unidentified
Dude.
michael button
Mummified hand is made up of bone and skin suggesting that it's not fake unless it was somehow made using real bones, flesh, and skin.
But how would you fake it?
joe rogan
How would you do that a long time ago and mummify it?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's all so strange.
And that part of the world, they've had stories about these kind of creatures forever.
That's why they have all this artwork about them.
Not only that, that is an exact replica.
Like when if you ever see the movie Moment of Contact, the James Fox movie, it's about an incident, an incident in Brazil in 1994, 96.
The Vargenia, Brazil incident, where there was a crashed UFO.
These police officers went to go and see this crash.
There was some sort of electrical storm.
And then they found this creature that seemed to have been injured from the craft.
The guy picks it up, takes it in his car.
They bring it to a hospital.
The hospital refuses to treat it.
They bring it to another hospital.
That hospital, they don't know what happened with the records or what happened, but they do know that the guy who carried it physically died of a horrible bacterial infection that they could not cure.
They said it smelled like sulfur and it had three fingers and three toes.
unidentified
It looked like that thing.
joe rogan
It had a long head.
And this, whatever this creature was that is, you know, mummified, it looks exactly like what these people were talking about from this UFO crash in Vargenia, Brazil.
Like it's a it's the entire folklore of the town.
They have a UFO when you enter into the town of Varginia.
They have like this giant statue of a UFO.
Like every, there's still people alive to this day that live in that town that will tell you the story.
And you can go across town.
You can go here.
They all have the same story.
There's multiple UFOs in the sky.
One of them crashed.
They found two creatures.
One of them was alive.
They think one of them was dead.
This, whatever this crash site was, they bring in the movie Movan movie, excuse me, movie Moment of Contact.
They bring this police officer to the site and he starts weeping.
Like if that guy's, if he's a liar, he's the greatest actor of all time.
The guy starts freaking out when he starts telling the story of what he found in the 1990s.
It like brings him back to that moment.
The women who saw the being, they're like in their 40s now.
They were little girls when they saw it.
And they all have the same story.
unidentified
And it matches three-fingered, three-toed, looked like that.
joe rogan
Looked exactly like that.
michael button
Man.
If I wasn't doing the ancient history thing, I'd love to talk about this stuff as well.
joe rogan
It might be the same thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
I mean, you never know.
You never know.
I'd love to make some connection.
But the thing is, I just don't want to give anyone more ammunition to come after me and shit.
joe rogan
They're coming after you, buddy.
michael button
They're probably coming after me today, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're going to after all the nonsense that we've talked.
But it's fun to talk nonsense, and this is definitely fun nonsense.
But that body's not nonsense.
The Varginia thing, I don't think, is nonsense either.
michael button
It's weird.
joe rogan
It's a really mad one.
michael button
That's kind of stories.
joe rogan
Exactly.
michael button
However long ago matched to the mummified bodies, that's weird.
joe rogan
Not just that, but biblical stories about creatures that are demons that smell like sulfur.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
If you're terrified of something and you think you've decided that it's a demon because it's actually an advanced life form from somewhere else and it smells like sulfur, like whatever they have that got on this guy's skin that gave him this horrible bacterial infection.
It's all documented.
The guy died.
He was a young, healthy soldier, and he's dead within like a couple of weeks.
michael button
Yeah, that's not a coincidence.
joe rogan
They're giving him antibiotics.
This is the 90s.
It's not like the 1800s.
You know, they're treating him with modern medicine and he's fucked and he dies.
What the fuck?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And this is the guy that was carrying the alien.
Are you fucking kidding me?
michael button
Man, I need to look into this.
joe rogan
And it smells like sulfur.
And it looks exactly like a thing that's a real thing.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where they have a real mummy of these things?
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
See if you can get an image, an artist depiction.
So they had these kids describe what they saw and they drew this three-fingered, three-toed little, it was like almost like a purple-looking thing.
michael button
Do you think that's linked in any way to all this kind of mysterious stone construction we find in South America that no one can really explain?
And here we go.
joe rogan
What is the image?
The thing that was curled up in the ground.
There's like an image.
Yeah, that one, that one with the red eyes.
No, yeah, that one.
That's what it looked like.
Somebody actually made a sculpture of that, what exactly it looked like and gave it to us.
We have it at the mothership.
michael button
But the thing is, if it was an alien, why would it look so human, if that makes sense?
Unless it came from this planet, I suppose.
joe rogan
Right.
But does it look human?
Maybe that's just like a con, that's a maybe that's a constant thing when you evolve from primates.
There's a thing about the alien gray, too, that's always been like this archetype of what we eventually will become.
michael button
Look at the big skinny limbs.
joe rogan
Yeah, so this is how those guys described it.
This is how they described what it looked like.
Man, that looks an awful lot like that creature.
michael button
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
The big eyes, the whole deal, the weird spindly body.
That drawing right there where it's hunched over, the one to the right of your cursor.
Yeah, that's the one that's my favorite.
Because it's like, what is it?
1996.
Like, I don't know.
I don't know what the hell that is.
But what if it's real?
And what if those things in Peru are exactly that thing?
And what if, you know, this thing has visited human beings multiple times in history.
michael button
So would you say it's from another planet?
joe rogan
Who knows?
It might be from here.
michael button
That's what I think because if it's got the kind of similar kind of like primate forms.
joe rogan
It might.
Look, if these things are, they're finding these mummified remains in Peru.
Clearly, it was here.
Why would we assume it's not from here?
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, maybe we just have a really inaccurate timeline of life on this planet.
And maybe some things went undersea, which sounds nuts.
But then there's all these fucking videos of things coming out of the water.
michael button
That's where I would hide if I was trying to hide.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, if you've mastered gravity to the point where you create like a bubble around everything you are and you travel through it without any resistance whatsoever, they've clocked things going underwater that are going like 500 knots underwater.
You have no idea how it does that.
michael button
Yeah, well, it's all kind of...
I mean, you probably know more about this than me, but my only exposure to the kind of UAP thing was traditionally through...
I'm a big fan of Blink-182, and there's Tom DeLonge...
joe rogan
Oh, I've had Tom DeLong.
michael button
Yeah, you've had Travis on as well.
You need to get Mark on.
He's the third.
He's complete the set.
joe rogan
I love Travis.
michael button
I've always, I'm in a band I always love.
joe rogan
Not that I don't love Tom either.
michael button
Tom's crazy.
joe rogan
I thought he was crazy when I had him on before.
And now I'm like, damn, I think he might be on to something.
michael button
Well, he's so cool.
He's always been an inspiration for me.
Like, I make music, and he's been, you know, a big inspiration for me.
But he always got me into, he kind of got me into the UAP thing from a while ago.
joe rogan
He's all in.
But I do have to say that if I wanted, if I was the government and I wanted to spread a bunch of crazy stories about UFOs, I'd tell them to people like Tom.
michael button
Yeah, I guess so.
joe rogan
And I'd tell them to people like me.
I mean, I think people do that on this podcast.
I think some of the information that gets shared on this podcast is probably bullshit.
michael button
To kind of like, you know, to hardy the waters.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And to prime people for disclosure.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think the if I was in charge and if I had done the Hal Putoff thing, you know what Hal Putoff was assigned to do?
So they gave him a numerical value for all these different things that would be positively influenced by disclosure and negatively influenced.
And you assign a value one through 10 to like what's going to happen to religion, what's going to happen to politics, banking, all that stuff.
And this was during the Bush administration.
So Bush essentially said to Hal Putoff, the Bush administration said, we have been working on a crash retrieval program.
We have vehicles that are not from this world.
We are not alone.
If we release this information to the general public and disclose it, what will be the negative impact?
What will be the positive impact?
Is it overall positive or is it overall negative?
And everyone, there was a bunch of different independent people that they assigned this task to.
Everyone came up with much more on the negative than on the positive.
So they decided to not disclose it.
This is Hal Putoff's story.
I can't tell you if it's true or not.
michael button
Yeah, but why did they think it was be negative?
Just because of like the shock.
joe rogan
The impact.
Yeah, the shock.
The complete lack of any real faith in authority figures.
Like, why would you listen to the president of the United States when there's fucking UFOs reading your mind and traveling instantaneously here from wherever they're from?
Like all of our systems of power and control, they all go away.
Because we don't believe, you're not in control anymore.
Clearly, the aliens are in control.
People would worship the aliens.
michael button
But do you think they're kind of like drip feeding us and then at some point it would come out?
But then isn't that going to happen anyway?
joe rogan
I don't think it's totally organized because I think most things in the government are not totally organized.
I think there's a lot of chaos going on at all levels of the government.
I really believe that.
And to think that in this top secret UFO crash retrieval world, there's not a lot of chaos.
michael button
Just humans.
joe rogan
There's chaos in everything.
There's chaos in the FBI.
They're having problems.
The CIA has its own problems.
Every organization has great people and a bunch of clowns and a bunch of nutty people that don't want to lose their positions of power and these little struggles, inter-office bullshit in every organization with human beings.
So for sure, that's the same thing with UFO disclosure.
michael button
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then I think there's also the problem with if there really is a crash retrieval program and it's been going on for a long time and it's been going on without congressional oversight.
That means you've been lying and you've been misappropriating money and guys in jail.
And everybody's fucked.
So what's the best way to like you got to slowly trickle out the information and you got to mix it up with a whole lot of bullshit.
A whole lot of nonsense and then fly some drones over people and see how they respond.
michael button
I remember that thing.
There was something recently about that, wasn't it?
joe rogan
Yeah, the New Jersey thing.
Yeah, there's giant drones over New Jersey and then they try to find them with fighter jets.
The lights would shut off and they take off.
What was the, how did they who fucking knows?
michael button
They just brush over that.
joe rogan
Yeah, they say, oh, it's ours.
Like, they didn't even tell us exactly what was going on, but it was almost like a national emergency.
It was a national story.
It was, I remember Trump saying that he was not going to go play golf in New Jersey because they were flying in New Jersey.
michael button
Was this pre-election?
unidentified
was this before he became president i think was it biden I think it was during.
joe rogan
Was it during?
Yes, I think it was December, January ish.
I think it was December.
jamie vernon
Like 2024.
joe rogan
I don't think he was the president yet.
jamie vernon
No, he became president in January.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
But was it post-election?
It was post-election, right?
jamie vernon
All I can't remember is Mike Ben saying that this has happened a couple of years in a row and they were waiting for it to happen this year.
It did.
And then he also predicted it would just disappear a few weeks later and it did.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, what was that?
Maybe it's just a grand show that they put on for us to distract us from some other stuff.
Maybe there's some banking fucking decisions that were going on at that time that we would have probably paid attention to.
michael button
Yeah, they're like, look at the drones.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
No, that's a real thing.
michael button
Yeah, of course.
joe rogan
I would do that if I had some drones.
Or maybe if I was trying to pull off some shenanigans.
michael button
Couldn't it just be, you know, like advanced weapons or technology that, you know, we have or, you know, your government has that could most certainly.
It doesn't have to be alien just for it to be like more advanced than like the kind of public knows about.
joe rogan
Most certainly.
Yeah, most certainly.
I would imagine that a lot of what we're dealing with is advanced American military craft and probably done through some top secret research that was real shady.
Probably a lot of people spend a whole lot of money doing this stuff.
And there's probably some like this is the people that have gone to S4 and talked about it.
You can't, it's all anecdotal, so you never really know if they're telling the truth.
But there's been people that have no reason to lie that say that they have technology that is 40, 50 years past anything that you can imagine right now.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they already have it.
And they've been spending shitpiles of money making the wildest things your mind could ever conceive of.
And they already have it.
And it probably looks super alien when they take it out.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
I mean, why would they tell us what the most advanced thing they have is?
That's not going to be public information, is it?
joe rogan
Exactly.
Exactly.
So even current history is confusing.
michael button
Yeah.
unidentified
So the idea of you knowing exactly what happened 5,000 years ago, shut up, bitch.
joe rogan
You don't know.
You definitely don't know if you find a 12 million year old wheel.
michael button
300 million year old.
It's all too nuts.
Yeah, exactly.
We don't know what's going on now.
So how could we know what's going on?
joe rogan
So the wheel was 300 million years, but the car tracks, the cart tracks are what?
12 million years?
michael button
I don't know.
That's what this guy says anyway.
joe rogan
Listen, it's all fun.
It's all fun, and it's very interesting.
And I'm really glad you're out there because I have binge-watched your show.
You do a great job.
It's really informative and interesting and speculative and fascinating because I just love the subject.
And I think you just do a great job.
So I hope you get a lot of views and you keep doing it.
And I'm happy that you're doing it.
And I'm really happy that you came here.
michael button
Well, thank you, Joe.
I mean, it's been a great honor to be here, to be out in Austin.
I've loved it.
It's incredible.
What an experience.
And yeah, it's been really fun talking to you.
And I'm super appreciative of the opportunity.
Yeah, so thanks so much.
joe rogan
My pleasure.
So tell everybody how to find you.
Social media stuff.
michael button
Just put my name in.
I'm Michael Button, and I'm on YouTube, I guess.
And they'll probably find me if I'm doing my job correctly.
That's me on the screen.
joe rogan
Michael Button one.
michael button
Michael Button one, yeah.
There's someone else out there who's got my name up.
joe rogan
Yeah, so don't go to Michael Button.
I'm just going to Michael Button one.
That seems so silly.
michael button
Fuck the other Michael Button.
Come to me.
joe rogan
Maybe he's a nice guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
michael button
He's got a cool name.
joe rogan
He's got your name.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
All right.
Well, thank you, brother.
unidentified
Appreciate it.
michael button
Thank you.
unidentified
Thanks for being here.
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