AJ, thank you for doing this.

Thanks for happening.

You've become huge for a good reason.

You want to hear my macro explanation for your success?

Honesty is always the first, you know, that's always an honesty, good BS filter, but

you expose the deepest truth of all, I think, which is there's a lot of

stuff we don't know and we pretend to know. We like things are not, especially the past is not

settled, like at all. And there's just a lot that we don't understand. And I don't understand

why we won't admit we don't understand it. Whole parts of science, archaeology, especially, but many others, medicine, won't admit we don't understand it whole parts of science archaeology especially but

many others medicine won't admit that we don't know what is that i think people don't like to admit

when they're wrong yes would be my guess um i certainly don't i try to because i'm wrong a lot

i am too um but we admit it and I there's something about the

scientific community that the so-called mainstream that just doesn't want to be wrong.

Yes. Maybe there's a financial aspect to it, grants and so forth. Maybe there's ego involved,

but I think it's nothing more than that it's just it's just a

human frailty it turns you into a liar though it does you have to like make the decision is my

pride more important or the truth more important and you have to choose truth and i don't think

that's common and if you're if you need a grant from the government, you need to put in that grant application what's going to get you paid, what's going to keep your research going, even if it's not exactly what you believe, or even what the evidence shows.

Yes.

What I don't understand is the extreme hostility against alternate archaeology.

Yeah, of course I agree, and I'm hostile to the hostility.

But I, like you, I don't actually understand what is that.

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