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“The Atlantis Puzzle” and the Richat Structure: African Atlanteans Won’t Leave Me Alone - Pseudo 149
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On yet another special edition of this podcast, I’ve been asked to review “The Atlantis Puzzle,” so I did. Is it the same old pseudoarchaeological nonsense we usually get complete with a retread of the tired and utterly debunked Richat Structure, or have they actually found Atlantis? You be the judge.
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Introduction to the Podcasts
00:00:00
Speaker
You're listening to the Archaeology Podcast Network. You are now entering the pseudo-archaeology podcast, a show that uncovers what's fact, what's fake, and what's fun in the crazy world of pseudo-archaeology.
Enter Dr. Andrew Kinkella and Episode 149
00:00:23
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the pseudo archaeology podcast, episode one hundred and forty nine. I'm your host, Dr. Andrew Kinkella.
The Atlantis Puzzle: Fact or Fiction?
00:00:30
Speaker
And tonight the Atlantis puzzle and the Rishat structure. Haven't we already solved the Atlantis puzzle? Apparently not, but we actually kind of have.
00:00:49
Speaker
OK, so. Tonight, tonight's kind of kind of weird, everyone. And check this out. So a couple of weeks back, I got contacted by the kind of producer director star of a show like a like a one off, you know, TV show that's that can be, I think, found on probably Amazon Prime, you know, and and so on.
00:01:18
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called the Atlantis puzzle. Now they got in touch with me, little old me of the pseudo archaeology podcast. You know, and they wrote wrote an email to me outlining their their movie, write this movie, the Atlantis puzzle, and they wanted me to review it. And they're like, hey, I know there's a lot of pseudo archeology out there, but this takes a scientific bent on looking at Atlantis.
00:01:49
Speaker
And we think you should check it out. And it felt I could feel the cheesiness at the gates. You know what I mean? But I did want to act in good faith. So I said, I said, hey, OK, I would. And I will say this, that that the person who who made this film was always very professional to me and like, like straightforward in terms of just telling me what was what was up. And he's like, hey, I'll send you a ah link so you can watch it for free. You don't have to pay for it.
00:02:19
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And just if you could talk about it on your on your show. And I was like, OK, then I watched it. And I was torn. Right. I'm like, should I review this or not? And not for any like sort of not for any virtue signaling over the top. Oh, I'm so dirty if I review this movie. It's not like that.
00:02:43
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But there's definitely some big problems with it. And I was initially like, gee, should I even do that? Should I just not say it? I actually asked my class. I'm like, you guys, what should what should I do? Should I do this or not? should i Should I review this movie that I didn't think was very good? And most of them said, yes. One student said, no, I really don't don't think you should. And this was a student who had once been really into pseudo archaeology and had sort of awoken out of it. And so I took his view really seriously. I'm like, oh, man, that's a good point.
00:03:14
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Maybe I just shouldn't because, of course, in in our society these days, the idea, I think, is any publicity is good publicity, you know.
Reviewing the Atlantis Puzzle Movie: A Debate
00:03:24
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And but I am not afraid, you guys, you know, of oh, oh, my God, I've secretly platformed someone. Oh, right. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Look, we're just you know what?
00:03:34
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We're going to be adults and we're just going to go through this movie. And and as we go through it, I'm also going to talk about the Rishat structure, which is going to going to come up. And that has its own interesting side story. So, OK, the Atlantis puzzle, it starts out with a quote. So this is again, this is a show I think it's like an hour long. It's just kind of a ah documentary, I guess you'd say on Atlantis. It starts with this quote from Epictetus that says, it is impossible for anyone to learn what he thinks he already knows.
00:04:05
Speaker
right away, you know where this is going, right? The idea of like, well, the respected history and archaeology on this. Well, that's all wrong. You've been looking at it the wrong way. You close minded scientists, right? That is the setup, but okay, whatever. They you know they talk about as archaeology as frustratingly incomplete, which is you know which is, there is truth to that, but archaeology while being incomplete is actual also factual for what we find. I got to bolster my my own precious archaeology.
00:04:46
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They go onward quickly talking about that, you know, oh, the idea of floods, right? This comes really early. Floods are those. Oh, are those cultural memory or not? And you're like, oh, no. OK, this is where this is going to write this set up of like, maybe there was a real flood. That that these people are referring to you like, oh, boy. And again, we you know, we're talking about Atlantis, you know, and I will say in sort of in the defense of the person making this show that he talks about ah Plato and he does a fine job of like the setup of Plato. Oh, Plato was this guy and in ancient Greece and hey, man, maybe that maybe the Atlantis was just an allegory for the dangers of hubris and bad government and military aggression and this kind of stuff, which yes, that's what it is. He does set up
00:05:44
Speaker
the truth, you know, in in the beginning, like that's it in the first 10 minutes in, he's like, hey, hey, Plato, you know, maybe Plato was just when he brought up the Atlantis idea, maybe it was just an allegory, you know, maybe it's just a warning to us. Hey, man, don't have so much hubris around here for bad things happen, you know, and that is what it is.
00:06:08
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But then he flips the script hello and he's like, hey, but, you know, don't you think there's more here?
Plato, Translations, and the Atlantis Narrative
00:06:15
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No, no, I don't. And then and then goes onward. But hey, here goes the show. He does make fun of Ignatius Donnelly, basically.
00:06:24
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which is a fair ball, but then he intros this guy, George Seren Titus, who is telling us that, look, the translations of Plato are a bit incorrect and we need to retranslate, right? We need to do new translations. Now, the idea of doing an updated translation of Plato or looking at the original source material and redoing it, there's nothing wrong with that.
00:06:53
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You know, that can be a good thing. I've seen like, like re translations of things like the Popol VU in the Maya area, white right, which is the Maya religion, my maya creation mythology. And and that's that's always encouraged and worth doing.
00:07:10
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And so that's what he he's doing, although he's also listed as a quote unquote independent researcher. Right. And whenever you see that, that is a red flag. Now, I know as soon as I say that, you're like, oh, can kill a look. You're just so stuck up in your academic tower. You need someone to have a PhD. Real people are people, too. You know, and look.
00:07:38
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You don't need a PhD or a master's thesis or any kind of degree to research something. And even to make breakthroughs from time to time, you know, people without degrees, but that's OK. Go for it. But. When you're an independent researcher, there are also like no regulations, you know, there's no buffer.
00:08:02
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And so you can very easily just spin anything you want ah with with no foundation. And, you know, you're you're playing sort of outside the system. And I know that sounds edgy and cool. ah That's what we need.
00:08:21
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more people outside the system. But in this case, in the system, archaeologists know what they're doing. They've gone to school and are serious about really unraveling the story of the past. It's that basic, right? Archaeologists are not there to make money. the The independent researchers, the reason why they're independent researchers is usually because they have plenty of money because they did something else. I think I think this guy um seritus was like a was like a Engineer or something like that and and it's like yeah, so he's made real money so you can do this in his free time, right? Most archaeologists don't we we do this because we're passionate about it and it it is we're all in you know, so By playing by the rules mean it's meaning we play by the rules of science history and good sense You know and these guys don't have to so already. I'm like, oh boy, although Hey, man
00:09:14
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ri rigo over tomaus and critia all you want which are kind of the two of plato's stories that have to do with atlanti so right do some do some new translations that's cool but don't like paint outside of the line so much where you're just in la la land and You'll never guess what happens. The reason for the retranslations is they're kind of moving the locations of they're moving the locations of some of the places that are in the Atlantis myth. Right. And of course, the myth of Atlantis is is taking place around Greece, you know, and they they have this thing about the the pillars of of Heracles, which is vaguely thought of as Gibraltar.
00:10:00
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just depending on the mythology and depending on what you're thinking about. But honestly, that you know, the the pillars of Hercules could be
Atlantis in Africa? Exploring the Rishat Structure
00:10:07
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anything. There's just this thing you go between. And they're they're basically trying to move it over to another spot in West Africa. Right. A spot a bit closer to Greece, but still just outside of the kind of Grecian sphere of the time, you know?
00:10:31
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And at first, you're like, why are you moving this to just sort of a a spot in West Africa on the coast of the Mediterranean? And it doesn't quite make sense. And ah they kind of leave it for a moment and then start to talk about the history of the Sahara in Africa. And they do bring in some real science at this point and talk about how, look, Africa was green. The Sahara was green at certain times, you know, between, oh, God, the last, you know, 20,000 years. I'm sure this has actually happened for millions of years.
00:11:02
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But in the last short amount of time, the last thousands of years, there are times when the when the Sahara was a bit greener, more of a savanna kind of thing, and you know, when it was wetter. That is true. And it did act as a pump in a way for people all throughout Africa, where during times when it's a bit more green, people will kind of move inwards into the interior of Africa. And then as it dried out, they would move out to the coast and people will kind of come in and come out and end up in completely different spots, obviously, as the millennium moved by. So because of this change in climate, it does very much add to the movement of populations of people throughout Africa through time. That's true. And that's fascinating in its own way. That is neat.
00:11:47
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So the point is you can find like human settlements in super dry areas of the Sahara that make no sense. You're like, why were people here? This is just all dry. It's like, oh, it didn't used to be so dry, you know. And so that's that's cool. And so I'm going with them on that. I'm like, yeah, that's true. That's true. That's a good point. Africa did have times in the last. Oh, you know.
00:12:07
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12,000 years or that where where it was was green here and there. Now it's been a while. You know what I mean? This hasn't happened recently, but what we're trying to set up is that the Atlantis myth is somehow true and they want a greener app, a slightly greener Africa for the time. It doesn't quite make sense to me yet. You know, I'm like, OK, greener Africa Atlantis. What? OK, how do these go together? Well, you're going to see how these go together in a moment.
00:12:38
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Hello and welcome back to the pseudo archaeology podcast, episode one hundred and forty nine. And I've been discussing the show The Atlantis puzzle. And when I left off, I was talking about a greener Africa of like, you know, 10,000 years ago in the Sahara, slightly greener. And what does that have to do with Atlantis? Right now in the show, they start talking about like ancient vessels, right? Right. Like like ancient ah seafaring vessels.
00:13:08
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And they talk about that like there was a canoe found in in Africa, like like in interior, a little bit from the coast ah where there would have been a little like a little river or creek. They find this canoe at 6500 years old and it's in the interior. And then they say, well, this is evidence of seafaring. Now, it's kind of not. And they and they have this idea of like there was that somehow there was a seafaring trade network at like 12,000 years ago or 10,000 years ago, right? The same time we always talk about on this podcast, the time of the great flood, the time of the you know of the ancient super civilization. It always goes back to this time. They're always doubling down on this time, like at 10,000 BC, give or take.
00:13:53
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So they're trying to say there was there was much more advanced trade network than we know of. And and no, there wasn't. This doesn't mean that people didn't trade 10,000 years ago, but having like a network of sea trading. No, because you found a canoe. That's that's an interior waterways thing. There's a huge difference between having a little canoe or raft to go down like a river.
00:14:20
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Versus full on open sea trade in the Mediterranean. Those are two hugely different things. And obviously you need much, much better watercraft to go across the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean can be super hardcore out there. Now you're going down a river or a creek that's different, so much easier. So the the canoe thing doesn't really.
00:14:42
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say anything in terms of ancient, ancient trade. It just shows you that, yes, there were some slightly more interior, very small you know waterways than there used to be in Africa. OK, right. they They also talk about that on the island of Crete, they may have found some artifacts that date way back to 130,000 years ago. Now, that's now that's possible. I saw I saw some photos of some of these artifacts. And a couple of things I would say is first, the artifacts didn't. It looked that great to me. Again, they were just photos. I couldn't see them in person. There are two things there. They could be nothing. I'm not here to poop home, though. they They could be.
00:15:18
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But we we want to we want to make sure. But if they are actual artifacts from 130,000 years ago, there are many other ways where peoples of the ancient past could have got there rather than huge sea craft. It only would have been like 40 miles out from the coast. Now, if when I say only 40 miles, that's still that's far.
00:15:37
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But that's doable with not a super great raft, if that makes sense, right? That's not cruising all the way across the Mediterranean. That's much closer. There are ways for people to get out there. And and when you find that, that doesn't equal massive sea trade of 130,000 years ago or something like that. That's ah that's like a false jump you know off the data. It's it's not reasonable.
00:16:00
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But as I got went through this, I'm like, what are they doing? Why do they keep talking about, OK, this green around Africa, OK, this waterways, what that why? How does this go with Atlantis? And then, friends, it came to me. I figured it out about 30 seconds before they said it. First, they showed this huge piece of West Africa that they said was Atlantis. Their argument is West Africa is Atlantis.
00:16:30
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and so specifically the Rishat structure. And when they showed that, I was like, oh Oh, my God. What's so funny? I didn't even talk about the Rishat structure when I did my last podcast on Atlantis, because it's so stupid. like like But luckily, at the same time, I didn't know about this until.
00:16:55
Speaker
I learned about this, the Rishat structure on one of the very first times when I ever did an interview for one of the TV shows that I was a part of. It was for what on earth? It was for the show What on Earth and What on Earth does this great thing of where they show you satellite imagery? And then they talk about the more like crazy out there ideas about whatever they see on the earth. It'll be like geologic features or sometimes it'll be archaeological features, all these different things.
00:17:26
Speaker
They talk about the more crazy ideas, but then they ultimately go down towards what the structure really is or what the object really is that they see from space. So one of the ones I got interviewed on was the Rishat structure, so I had to learn about it. What the Rishat structure is, is it's a natural geological formation and it's big. It's like 25 miles wide. When you see it from space, it looks like a big bullseye and it's really cool. It's just like in the middle of the Sahara.
00:17:55
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And it's this geologic outcrop. And it's just a spot where different types of stone you know have outcropped through the Earth's processes of many millions of years. So it just looks really unique and really awesome. But since there's a concentric circle thing to it,
00:18:15
Speaker
Fringe theorists have ah have said like, oh, this is Atlantis, which is the only reason they say that is because when Plato talks about Atlantis, he talks about like sort of these so the island as sort of has these circles, this this concentric ring aspects to it. So of course, people who want to prove Atlantis look, just look around the earth for anything that has concentric rings. And since the Rishat structure is concentric rings, they're like, ah, must be Atlantis.
00:18:41
Speaker
And so when I saw this, this is this is where this show just took a huge, insane dump. You know, it was like the rush. You're you're selling me Rishat structure. Good God. Didn't you have anything better to do that Tuesday? So I saw that I'm like, ah damn it. and And that's that's a moment where I'm like, should I even do this? So.
00:19:05
Speaker
Do you have evidence of people at the Rishat structure? Yes. So the real evidence here is of like of like hunter and gatherers in the Paleolithic. You you have Ashland hand axes that you find around there. So this is people did visit hunters and gatherers did visit this area like a million years ago or 500000 years ago, which is great. That's real archaeology. And it totally makes sense because like Homo erectus or early Homo sapiens They would have come to this area because of the stone. That stone, it being an outcrop, has good toolstone. So this is a place where ancient peoples would come to grab good stone to make stone tools out of. And it makes sense. They found a bunch of broken ashland hand axes you know in this area. So you have great evidence of early, early
00:19:56
Speaker
Hunters and Gathers, but do you have evidence of any kind of sort of complex civilization like Atlantis would be or any evidence of some sort of Atlantean set up? No, not at all. Not even a little bit. And there's a moment. Where I thought.
00:20:16
Speaker
that the producers of the show were super disingenuous. Because I had to do research on the Rishat structure for my television thing, I know that there are a bunch of structures kind of around the Rishat structure in in that area. right A bunch of human made structures. It is true. If you look on like satellite imagery, you'll see like these really obvious like square structures. It's like the remains of foundations and stuff. like You'll see these.
00:20:44
Speaker
And in the show, they they they were like, well, yeah, you know, there's some structures there that, well, we were not sure they still need to be looked at further. No, they don't. These structures have been looked at a lot. They're all like from much more modern context, right? Of the last the last like 2000 years, this kind of thing way, way, way after anything that that has to do with Atlantis or something like that. These structures are are known historians and archaeologists can tell you what they were, what people build them. There's even stuff out there. Again, sometimes things in the desert will last a really long time because they won't be covered with new dirt or something because of the
00:21:24
Speaker
erosional characteristics of the desert. Some of these can even be huge like sheep pens and this kind of thing. You know, there's all kinds of varieties of interesting structures of interesting historical peoples that have made stuff around the Rashad structure.
00:21:38
Speaker
But there's nothing zero that goes with Atlantis. And so to say that, oh, we just don't know yet, you know, oh, more more research needs to be done. No, it doesn't. The Rishat structure is not Atlantis. It has nothing to do with Atlanteans. It has nothing to do with Plato. It's completely in the wrong spot of the earth to deal with this. Like the idea that West Africa is Atlantis is just dopey as hell. I don't know what else to say.
00:22:08
Speaker
You know, it's it's it's a waste of everyone's time. What happens here is, of course, the researchers who want you to believe this double down and start trying to add, quote unquote, science to this. So but they'll also talk about Oh, was there an earthquake here that started a tsunami? You know, whatever. This is the same old stuff you hear. But to make it seem more sciencey, they switch away from the chat structure and interview like a ah real scientist at a university who has like a tsunami generator. So they spend a minute like in the lab watching the tsunami generator work. And that's cool and all. And you all actually have the scientists are saying some stuff about, oh, yeah, you know,
00:23:01
Speaker
Sami's can happen after earthquakes, but there's there's nothing honest about that. I think their idea was like, oh, a tsunami came and wiped out all evidence of Atlantis, you know, from the chat structure you're like, oh, good God, man.
00:23:17
Speaker
really, you know, because you have to do that, right? You have to you have to construct this because at the end of it, they want the Rishat structure to be Atlantis and it's just not so they have to come up with some sort of idea as to well, it's Atlantis, even though you can't find anything there, but it just is. why Well, well, well, dude, they flood came, wiped it all away.
00:23:43
Speaker
Oops, you know, I mean, I wish I could find some Atlantean stuff there, but just the floods, dude, what can I do? Why didn't the flood wipe away all the Ashland hand axes? I guess it was one of those floods that only hits the complex civilization stuff. It leaves the older stuff in there, though. See what I mean? Terrible. The fact that the Ashland hand axes are still there just destroys the argument like right off the cusp. But again, we're We're wasting our time. This is this is crazy, right?
Logical Fallacies in Atlantis Claims
00:24:12
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But we just keep doing it, don't we? And you're going to do it more when I come back. Hello and welcome back to the pseudo archaeology podcast, episode 149. I'm your host, Dr. Andrew Kinkella, and we have been talking about the Rishat structure and the Atlantis puzzle. And so we come to the point here
00:24:33
Speaker
Of course, the Atlantis puzzle ends up on sort of doubling down all but on all this and sort of saying that, you know, you need you need to you need to look at every detail. Don't underestimate anything. Yeah, this is this sort of idea that we just we need to be open minded about this. And it's like. Look. One of the quotes they do say is, look, we do not underestimate any detail.
00:25:01
Speaker
No, you can underestimate details that don't mean anything. Right. You need to have you need to figure out what's significant and what's not. This is another way of saying when they say don't underestimate any detail, they're saying, let's cherry pick. Let's pull the stuff that we need. Oh, don't underestimate this. No, I'm going to let it go because it's meaningless. No, the Rashad structure has nothing to do with Greece.
00:25:26
Speaker
You know, period they'll say things like I think this is a quote from it. You know, we need to leave linear thinking behind. ah No, we don't. Linear thinking is good. See, linear thinking is like you have facts and then you linear think.
00:25:47
Speaker
to a solution based on the facts, right? You don't do this. Oh, hey, man, you just need to broaden your mind. You know, you're so you're so in the box, man. Well, I'm going to be in the box, you know, the one with all the facts in it. I'm going to be in there. So ah you can be out of the box. you You are out of the box, actually. But you're just telling me a story that has nothing to do with reality. You know, at at this point,
00:26:17
Speaker
What what I can I think what I can do is talk a little about the logical fallacies that are used here and are used a lot. And I just I feel I feel bad through this, you guys, because it's like the guy who made this was a nice guy and getting his professional to me and stuff. But I have to be honest, you know, and and I do think he knows exactly what's coming. And I also wonder, I'm like, OK, is he using this? You know, somehow it's it's either like, is he going to get some quote where where you can piece it all together? And I'm like,
00:26:47
Speaker
The Atlantis puzzle was a good movie, you know, like i'll do something like that or to be like, oh, look. Another typical archaeologist telling us that our real ideas of truth are just foolish. Oh, so hurtful. But but let's deal with the logical policies. What are they doing? So I so I saw three and I'm sure that sure there's more. First, what was interesting when they cut to the actual scientists with their little tsunami generation device, that was what's called an appeal to authority, where they're like, look, real science, which is
00:27:25
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OK, but it didn't have anything to do with anything. Right. So that they're sort of shoving in the idea of like, look, we're doing real science, although they're not. You know, this is just sort of a side story. The the idea being that like, oh, a tsunami could hit and wipe out the Rishat structure. ah So so there's that.
00:27:46
Speaker
But that's almost a lesser one. The other two that they use that I see so often in pseudo archaeology world is first they use burden of proof. That's their main one. That's a logical fallacy where it's the idea of where you force others to disprove you. You come up with a stupid pointless idea and then you just go, hey, you need to disprove this. You know that this logical fallacy is coming whenever somebody says, well, you know, it just needs further study.
00:28:17
Speaker
Well, you know, you need to prove me wrong. That kind of stuff. That's when you when they use that, you know, it's a waste of your time. You know, and that's, of course, what's going on here. They're like, well, I'm saying that Western. Africa is Atlantis. You just need to prove me wrong. You just need to do more research. Yeah, I need to go walk out into West Africa and like dig more for Atlantic and crap. Yeah, I'm going to do that.
00:28:44
Speaker
You know, it's it's talk about a waste of time, you know. and And also, hey, let's look at the real data like at the Rishat structure where there's a bunch of other things that human beings made around it that all have nothing to do with Atlantis. Oh, that's also cherry picking. That's another logical fallacy, right? Where there they don't they specifically don't talk about all those structures and that everyone knows what they are. They sit there and go, we don't know. There needs to be more research. Right. So they do both cherry picking.
00:29:16
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not looking at the real data, just taking that the research structure is a circle. And burden of proof at the same time, so they do that. It's like it's like they they cherry cherry pick their data for for trying to tell their fake story and then force you to disprove them. Here's my fake story that I cherry picked. You need to disprove this. No, I don't. I don't need to waste my time. The other thing they do, which I love, this is a new one that a lot of people do and it and it And it's kind of a bummer because it shows that our society in some ways is almost in decline. It's appeal to the underdog. Now, the one I talked about before, appeal to authority is the old school classic where you're like, oh, I i have a somebody with a PhD. They're a scientist. They must be right.
00:30:02
Speaker
But now we're so distrusting of institutions. It's appeal to the underdog, right? It's like, look, we all know the system is rigged. We all we all know archaeologists like Andrew Kinkeller are just out there to make money.
00:30:19
Speaker
And so we need to be outside of the box and it's the underdogs, it's the outsiders, it's the fringe.
Comparing Atlantis to Fictional Worlds
00:30:27
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They're the ones who know. They're the ones doing the real research. They're the ones who are being snubbed. Right, Graham Hancock uses this all the time.
00:30:37
Speaker
And that is unfortunately, you know, what's happening here, too, because you have to knock my legs out, you know, and in order to tell your story based on stuff that just isn't as unfortunately has nothing to do with with the truth. And well ultimately, you know, what I thought about a lot as I was watching this. I thought about what if it was 5000 years from now And somebody saw Star Wars. And they were trying to prove the existence of Tatooine. Same thing, you know, it's in a story. It's a story that she is, you know, to teach us, it's sort of a hero's journey. It's it has deep themes and it's very important in and of itself as the story of Atlantis is, too.
00:31:32
Speaker
But 5000 years from now, you're going to want to try and find Tatooine. Where was Tatooine? Was it based on a real place? What is this? You know, right. And you could go on and on. You could be like. I think I think it's in Africa, right? Which some of Tatooine was shot in some of Star Wars rather was shot in Africa, although some of it was also shot in California. So it's actually two different deserts.
00:31:55
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And you could look for it, right? Where is Tatooine? What do you mean you don't believe in Tatooine, right? While Tatooine may be vaguely based on some real deserts and stuff, it is, but that's not what's important. you know they George Lucas made Tatooine based on where he could shoot, right? Where it looked good for the place in his mind.
00:32:19
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Tatooine is a made up place. Sorry, Star Wars fans. Right. It's a made up place just like Atlantis. An attempt to find the real Tatooine is ultimately a pointless journey. Right. It would be the same. Look at any other sci-fi classic. It's the same as trying to find ah a real schematic to the Starship Enterprise. Right. We can go on and on. These are all trying to focus in on on something that is intrinsically it's made up.
Production Quality and Podcast Conclusion
00:32:53
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Right. So. As you find Atlantis, you find Tatooine and it gives you the same thing, which is a massive waste of time. And. In our waste of time, I will say that the show was shot well, it was narrated well, it was pieced together pretty well. So, you know, I always say
00:33:17
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having a film background, too, that it's just as hard to make a crappy movie as is to make a good movie. So the the work they did in it in terms of the look, hey, you know, they they definitely put some time and effort into it. But unfortunately, they they made a ah big cake of pseudoscience for everyone to enjoy. And with that, I'll talk to you guys next time.
00:33:45
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Thanks for listening to the pseudo archeology podcast. Please like and subscribe wherever you'd like and subscribe. And if you have questions for me, Dr. Andrew Kinkella, feel free to reach out using the links below or go to my YouTube channel, Kinkella teaches archeology. See you guys next time.
00:34:06
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This episode was produced by Chris Webster from his ah RV traveling the United States, Tristan Boyle in Scotland, DigTech LLC, Cultural Media, and the Archaeology Podcast Network, and was edited by Rachel Rodin. This has been a presentation of the Archaeology Podcast Network. Visit us on the web for show notes and other podcasts at www.archpodnet.com. Contact us at chris at archaeologypodcastnetwork.com.