43 - The Lost City of Atlantis! So Many Crazy Theories...

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Atlantis! Did a highly advanced civilization sink into the sea tens of thousands of years ago? Can the cultures of the Romans, Maya, Incas, Mesopotamians, Greeks and more all be traced back to it? Or is Atlantis just another myth? An oceanic metropolis invented by the Greek philosopher Plato to teach a moral lesson to ancient Athenians? Find out in the wild and crazy ride we have to take to unravel the mystery of today’s Timesuck. Today's Timesuck is sponsored by Mack Weldon! Go to www.mackweldon.com and use the promo code TIMESUCK at checkout to get 20% off your fantastic purchase! Get some cool fine art and support a fellow Timesucker by going to www.etsy.com/shop/vaid and use the coupon code of shesaidyes for 20% off at checkout!

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0:00.0	The last city of Atlantis, a highly advanced civilization that existed tens of thousands of years ago,
0:05.4	and then suddenly disappeared into the Atlantic without a trace.
0:08.4	Can the cultures and architecture of the Romans, Maya, Incas, Mesopotamians, Greeks, and more
0:13.4	all be traced back to a single source?
0:15.4	Would discovering this island change our understanding of world history?
0:19.0	Do the ruins of Atlantis still exist somewhere out in the ocean's depths?
0:23.6	If so, finding them would be the single, biggest, archaeological discovery of all time.
0:28.0	Or, are there no ruins to be found?
0:30.4	Is the lost city of Atlantis just another myth, an oceanic metropolis invented by the Greek
0:34.7	philosopher Plato, to teach a moral lesson to ancient Athenians and thanks to a few
0:39.0	wackadoodle pseudoscientists, and a lot of fiction presented as fact, a fictitious place
0:43.5	explores still search for to this day.
0:46.2	Find out in the wild and crazy ride through thousands of years of history that we have to
0:50.0	take to unravel the mystery of today's time suck.
0:58.0	Welcome to the cult of the curious everybody.
1:05.7	Welcome to the suck in a wasis of sarcasm in a reverent TED talk of sorts.
1:10.2	An example of an attempted actual truth in this age of spin.
1:13.2	It's time suck.
1:14.2	I'm Dan Cummins, aka the master sucker, aka Lord of the Suck, aka a prophet of Nimrod,
1:19.4	aka I didn't come up with any of those, but I love it when you time suckers done in my
1:22.2	way.
1:23.2	Happy Monday, time suckers.
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