Dr. Flint Dibble Interview: Our Resident Expert for Málaga to Nice!
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Mediterranean archaeologist Dr. Flint Dibble will be our resident expert on the real history (and the fake history) at our ports of call when Skeptoid Adventures sails from Málaga, Spain to Nice, France this April. He is perhaps best known for his 2024 destruction of pseudo-archaeologist Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan Experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Brian Dunning with Skeptoid and Skeptoid Adventures and I'm here today with Flint's |
| 0:08.0 | Dibble who is joining us on our 2026 adventure to Malaga, to Nice in the Mediterranean, aboard the world's largest sailing ship. |
| 0:19.0 | How you doing this morning, Flint? |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, I'm doing great. I'm glad to |
| 0:21.9 | have signed on for this. I'm really excited. Yeah, the timing was weird. It was like super late in the |
| 0:27.4 | process that we ended up adding you, but we're absolutely delighted that you can join us. I don't know |
| 0:34.9 | how much my audience knows about you. I don't know how much your audience knows about me, but really quickly about myself is I'm the host of the Skeptoid |
| 0:42.2 | podcast since 2006, which is really kind of sad. That's 1,020 episodes over 19, going on 20 years. |
| 0:51.2 | We have started doing these Skeoid adventures we're a nonprofit and |
| 0:54.8 | these adventure trips are a fundraiser for us as well as great content so we |
| 0:59.7 | try to go to places in the world where there are mysteries where there's |
| 1:03.8 | misinformation but that are also really kind of fun amazing trips so we've |
| 1:09.0 | done death valley we've done the Bermuda Triangle this one I'm gonna let you talk about this trip and they kind of fun, amazing trips. So we've done Death Valley, we've done the Bermuda Triangle. This one, |
| 1:12.6 | I'm going to let you talk about this trip and the kind of stuff that we're going to find here. |
| 1:16.9 | So tell my audience who you are and what you bring to this trip. So my name is Flint Dibble, and I'm an archaeologist, and I specialize on the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. So that's up the alley here because we're going to be hitting up a bunch of different places in the western Mediterranean between Spain |
| 1:31.6 | and the Western Mediterranean between Spain, and I specialize on the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. So that's up the alley here because we're going to be hitting up a bunch of different places |
| 1:29.8 | in the Western Mediterranean between Spain and France and the Balearic Islands. |
| 1:34.7 | And so for me, one of my, well, okay, so I'm an environmental archaeologist |
| 1:39.9 | and I'm an archaeological scientist for my day job. |
| 1:42.4 | But I also host a YouTube channel, |
| 1:44.5 | and I sort of aggressively, not aggressively, |
| 1:46.8 | assertively combat fake archaeology |
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