Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine, and I am joined today. I am delighted to be joined today by Flint Dibble. He is the host of the YouTube channel Archaeology with Flint Dibble. He is a professional archaeologist who specializes in the communication of

archaeology to the public. Flint specializes in the presentation of archaeology to the public

and the debunking of pseudo-archiology. Welcome Flint Divel to the program. Hi, Nathan. Thanks for having me.

It's really good to be here and to be able to share some real archaeology with your audience

and why it really matters in today's world, yeah.

Well, I think you do just such important work.

I didn't realize how important the work that you do is.

My first entry into what we're going to be discussing here today was I, you know, I write about

politics mostly and I write about, you know, I'm a debunker of political bullshit. So I had to

watch a lot of the Joe Rogan experience. And because he is one of the leading purveyors of what I

would call half-baked takes on things that are really, really consequential and important.

And I happened upon an episode where he was talking with a guy I'd never seen before,

named Randall Carlson, who was a proponent of the idea that Atlantis is real,

that Atlantis was a real place.

And I, you know, have never looked into Atlantis,

but I always understood that the consensus among the professionals was that Atlantis was a mythical

place, not real. And then I watched this guy on Joe Rogan for like, and, you know,

Rogan is a very, you know, very fascinated interviewer. And this guy was presenting all of his

evidence for Atlantis.

And I was sitting there going, well, shoot.

I'm fairly sure that a real archaeologist would know that this was bullshit.

But I'm not a professional and I can't debunk this guy.

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