I say "oh, good!" only because I enjoyed falling asleep listening both to the show and to the many debunking videos that came out on YouTube afterwards. My current favorite is the Miniminuteman analysis, which is hilarious.
I've been looking for some new long-form content to sleep to. Now I have something to look forward to!
No more wholesome keanu chungus
I want to think he's just been duped. I really want to think he's not siding with Hancock over indigenous groups.
I read some of Hancock's earlier stuff like, 20+ years ago. There were some interesting theories about the possibility of civilizations more ancient than we were then aware of having actually existed.
In the time since, as I understand things, we've discovered "evidence" that points to civilizations of some kind 20,000+ years ago, which we didn't seem to have much of back then, and some of which seems to disprove some of Hancock's atlantis-type sophisticated lost ancient civilizations theories, but it was still a moderately compelling, engaging, and fascinating IDEA at the time even if the magnetic poles flipping opposite every 12,500 years was a little hard to swallow.
I'm not sure what he's peddling now, but when he throws out ideas, he's good at making them seem cool, so it could just be keanu is honestly fascinated by whatever concepts the dude is dishing out.
(The sphinx was originally a lion statue 100,000 years ago or whatever)
Alternative voices i.e. bullshit
What did the Daily Show do?
Update: I see what you’re talking about now. https://lemmy.world/post/19904155
What's ancient apocalypse? I only watch star trek
Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A
Also, Graham Hancock is a bigot.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/01/netflix-ancient-apocalypse-canceled
And he once predicted the end of the world. When it didn't happen, he never brought it up again.
And because the first season of his most current group of lies molded into a TV show was super popular, he's doing more.
I had to Google it be cause I also wasn't in the loop. From Wikipedia: Ancient Apocalypse is a 2022 Netflix series, where the British writer Graham Hancock presents his pseudoarchaeological theories about the existence of an advanced civilization active during the last ice age. Academic archeologists describe many of the claims made as easily disproven.
That's so stupid it could be a bad episode of Star Trek
