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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Joe Rogan Says This Guest Was His Worst
After hosting over 1,800 guests on The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan has finally named his least favorite: Dr. Zahi Hawass, the former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities. In a recent episode featuring Aaron Rodgers, Rogan opened up about his disappointing experience with Hawass, calling him 'a close-minded fellow who's been in charge of gatekeeping all the knowledge.' Rogan's comments came during a wide-ranging discussion with Rodgers that touched on everything from Elon Musk and P-Diddy to COVID-19 and ancient Egypt. 'That might have been the worst podcast I've ever done,' Rogan admitted, though he added, 'maybe a good one too.' The episode with Hawass, which ran for nearly two hours, centered on the history of the Egyptian pyramids. Many viewers noted that Rogan seemed visibly disinterested throughout the conversation. When Rodgers asked whether Rogan would consider visiting Egypt with Hawass as his guide, Rogan shrugged off the idea. 'Yeah, meh, mmm,' he said, adding, 'If I'm going, I'm going with Graham Hancock.' Hawass and Hancock have a famously rocky history, clashing publicly in 2015 over debates about ancient Egypt's past. However, the two have since reconciled, with Hancock even sharing a photo last year showing the pair enjoying a dinner in the supposed patch-up, Rogan's episode with Hawass didn't leave a good impression. He accused the archaeologist of refusing to 'entertain' alternative theories about Egypt's history and implied Hawass was too rigid in his thinking. For Rogan's loyal listeners, the revelation adds an interesting footnote to his ever-expanding podcast history. While he's known for hosting guests with a wide range of views, from comedians to athletes to conspiracy theorists, it's clear that Hawass left a lasting mark... for all the wrong reasons. Joe Rogan Says This Guest Was His Worst first appeared on Men's Journal on May 25, 2025
The Independent
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
After 16 years, Joe Rogan reveals the worst guest he's ever had on his podcast
Podcast host Joe Rogan has revealed the worst guest he's ever had on his show, The Joe Rogan Experience. In an episode that aired on Wednesday, Rogan spoke with NFL Star Aaron Rodgers, 41, about a host of topics, from Elon Musk to COVID-19, P-Diddy, and Egyptian history. The latter gave the comedian a segue to discuss his least favorite visitor. 'That might have been the worst podcast I've ever done, but maybe a good one too,' he said. Rogan has interviewed over 1,800 people on his podcast since he began it in 2009. Rogan was referencing his recent interview with archaeologist and Egyptian government minister Dr. Zahi Hawass. The pair discussed the history of the Egyptian pyramids for almost two hours. Many viewers commented that Rogan seemed disinterested throughout the entire discussion. In the conversation with Rodgers, Rogan mocked the former Minister of Antiquities and shrugged off his invitation to visit Egypt's archaeological sites with Hawass as a guide. Rogan explained that he brought Hawass on the show after the archaeologist had supposedly patched up a feud with British author Graham Hancock. 'That was one of the reasons why Zahi came on because Graham talked to Zahi and was like 'Zahi wants to do this, we're friends now', so I was like 'Bring him in, let's go bring him in, I'll talk to him.''. However, when Rodgers asked Rogan about the invitation to Egypt, Rogan shrugged: 'Yeah, meh, mmm, if I'm going, I'm going with Graham.' 'This is the guy. This is this close-minded fellow who's been in charge of gatekeeping all the knowledge,' Rogan said. The quarterback then revealed that he had asked Hancock to take him to Egypt 'a few years ago'. Hancock, who rose to fame as a British journalist, has written dozens of books on ancient civilizations. He later came under fire for inconsistencies while claiming he had telepathic tendencies. Rodgers claimed during his visit to Egypt that he had seen 'a spaceship, a helicopter, and a submarine' on an ancient hieroglyph. When the duo discussed ancient civilizations, Rogan simply said, 'There's a bunch of weird images.' Hawass and Hancock feuded in 2015 over a fiery debate about ancient Egypt. In a clip that circulated online, Hawass is heard shouting at Hancock, stating: 'Don't talk to me. Please go away. Shame on you.' Hancock revealed that the pair have since reconciled despite their conflicting positions on ancient history and scientific artefacts. 'Last week in Cairo, Dr Zahi Hawass graciously accepted my apology for my unkind words to him at a public event in 2015. We still disagree about many things, but our disagreements in future will be friendly, respectful, and constructive. The attached after-dinner photo says it all,' he wrote on X in June last year. Rogan continued to berate Hawass as someone who would not 'entertain' pseudoscience myths on Egypt.
Economist
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Economist
How Graham Hancock became conspiracy theorists' favourite historian
Graham Hancock was peeved. He had been hoping to film at the Great Serpent Mound in southern Ohio for his Netflix documentary series, 'Ancient Apocalypse', the latest adventure in his 30-year campaign to uncover evidence of a lost Ice Age civilisation. Although most scholars think the snake-shaped earthworks were constructed by Native Americans either 900 or 2,300 years ago, Hancock believes they are around 13,000 years old. But he would not be able to take viewers on a tour because he was stuck outside the car park.
Daily Mail
30-04-2025
- Science
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Tantalizing new theory about mystery city beneath Egypt's Giza pyramids... and its extraterrestrial origin
The iconic Pyramids of Giza are already one of the world's greatest enigmas. Last month the mystery deepened when a team of Italian scientists said they found a vast city stretching thousands of feet below the Egyptian structures. Using ground-penetrating radar, the scientists reportedly detected massive shafts and chambers hidden beneath the Khafre Pyramid. The controversial research, not yet peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal, has reignited a fringe theory that a now-lost civilization may have had a hand in building or inspiring the pyramids. Alternate historians like Graham Hancock, a frequent guest on Joe Rogan 's podcast, have long posited that a highly advanced prehistoric society was wiped out by a global cataclysm, possibly caused by a comet impact, around 12,800 years ago. According to this theory, the resulting floods and chaos erased most traces of this civilization, whose survivors passed down knowledge of astronomy, engineering, and sacred architecture to later cultures — including the ancient Egyptians. Now, in a new twist, a prominent geologist says there's geological evidence that Egypt may indeed have experienced catastrophic flooding linked to that very comet event. Dr James Kennett, a geologist at the University of California Santa Barbara and a major proponent of the comet-impact hypothesis, told that a highly advanced Stone Age culture in North America — the Clovis people — mysteriously vanished at the same time the comet is believed to have struck Earth. 'There is evidence of a major population decline in North America beginning at 12,800 years ago,' he said. 'That lasted a few hundred years, and then they started to come back — but as a different culture.' While Kennett can't confirm the same impact effects occurred in Egypt, he points to impact evidence found at Abu Hureyra in Syria, which is around 1,000 miles from Giza, as compelling. If debris struck that region, he said, it could have triggered massive flooding from the Mediterranean Sea and Nile River, potentially engulfing parts of ancient Egypt. The flood narrative echoes surprisingly well with ancient Egyptian mythology. Andrew Collins, a researcher of prehistoric civilizations, notes that hieroglyphs on the walls of the Temple of Edfu — some 780 miles south of Giza — reference a devastating flood that wiped out a mysterious civilization referred to as the 'Eldest Ones.' According to Collins, the temple's inscriptions (known as the Edfu Building Texts) describe a 'sacred domain' in the Giza region that was destroyed by an 'enemy serpent' plunging the world into darkness and submerging the land under a great flood. Collins believes the enemy serpent could be a metaphor for a comet due to ancient cultures using the create to symbolize celestial events. The serpent in the Edfu Texts is described as a destructive force disrupting the primeval island, sometimes linked to a 'Great Leap' or a sudden, chaotic event like. '[The text describes] them storing sacred objects in an underground structure called the Underworld of the Soul,' Collins told 'This I am sure relates to Giza's cave system and any structures it may contain.' Though Collins' interpretations are widely rejected by mainstream Egyptologists, he and Hancock argue that the mythical 'Island of Creation' mentioned in the texts may symbolize a long-lost civilization at Giza, a sacred homeland destroyed in a cataclysm and later memorialized in myth. However, mainstream scholars counter that the Edfu inscriptions are symbolic and that there's no direct reference to Giza itself. They interpret the texts as mythological, with the surviving gods migrating to Egypt after the flood, not originating there. Still, Collins insists that the sophistication of ancient cultures like the Gravettian peoples of Russia — who built rectilinear dwellings, wore tailored clothing, and possibly tracked lunar movements as early as 30,000 years ago — suggests that the official timeline of human history may be missing some vital chapters. 'Just look at the immense sophistication of the Gravettian peoples of Sungir and Kostenki in Russia,' he said. 'As much as 30,000 years ago, they were building rectilinear structures that might well have been aligned to the moon, experimenting with agriculture and wearing tailored clothing. They looked and acted like people living in medieval times.' He also sites sites like Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe in Turkey, dating back to 9600 BCE, as evidence of early post-Ice Age civilizations. 'By 9600 BCE they were creating the world's first post ice age civilizations- one that we are only now beginning to recognize as having existed back then,' he said. 'So, yes, the idea of a few lost pages of history should never be dismissed.' The discovery of underground structures at Giza was made by Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, Egyptologist Armando Mei, and Corrado Malanga from Italy's University of Pisa. Using radar pulses, the team claims to have mapped more than 4,000 feet of subterranean space — potentially rewriting the history of one of the world's most iconic sites. Whether their findings will stand up to academic scrutiny remains to be seen. But for now, they've reopened an ancient mystery — and fueled the fire behind one of archaeology's most fascinating and controversial theories.
