Brothers of the Serpent

We read some listener emails and comments, which are always great, and discuss those. Then Russ reads an article about Alien Abduction Insurance. After we laugh about that, Russ reads an article from the excellent website ancient-origins.net, about enormous ancient stone mesoamerican sculptures that have areas of anomalous magnetism embedded in them, and we talk about how the standard model picture of ancient civilizations, with no access to iron, would have no way of figuring out there was magnetism in the stone.... so how did they know it was there? Kyle talks about the diagrams of ancient mounds and geoglyphs, and how they seem to be attempting to "square the circle" in some of these structures. We also speculate on what it would be like for ancient people to have tried to comprehend the night sky, and what things they may have noticed without all the modern understanding about stars and planets getting in the way.

This is part 2 of our deep dive into the excellent book, "The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America" by Richard J. Dewhurst.

We dive into the excellent book, "The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America" by Richard J. Dewhurst, reading excerpts and discussing as we go. One of our favorite topics.

This is part 2 of our two-episode megapodcast on "The Sign and the Seal" by Graham Hancock, about the lost Ark of the Covenant.

We start working our way through "The Sign and the Seal" by Graham Hancock, about his initiation into ancient mysteries by way of his search for the final resting place of the lost Ark of the Covenant.

We interview Dr. Brian Keating about his book, "Losing the Nobel Prize", and we talk physics, the Big Bang, the Multiverse, inflation, gravity, cosmic microwave background, Antarctica, and more. Russ gets pretty much everything wrong, while Kyle publishes his first physics paper. "Dr. Brian Keating is a professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe's oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. Keating is a pioneer in the search for the earliest physical evidence of the inflationary epoch,[1] the theorized period of expansion of space in the early universe directly after the Big Bang." Find out more about Dr. Keating and his projects at his website, briankeating.com Follow him on Twitter @DrBrianKeating Find his book on Amazon, Losing the Nobel Prize, and on Twitter, @L_TheNobelPrize SpaceWeatherNews: Fuzzy Sun Losing the Nobel Prize The BICEP Telescope, Antarctica Duck and roll, Dr. Keating! We'll pick you up at dawn, six months from now Polarized CMB light

We have a fantastic discussion with the one and only Randall Carlson about vulcanism, ancient mysteries, extinction events, the Younger Dryas, the Missoula Flood, Drumlins, Carolina Bays, the Great Chicago Fire, and much more! We also discuss the upcoming Contact at the Cabin event with Randall and the guys from Grimerica in late May, which we will be attending, to go on field trips to sites of geological and archaeological interest. Enjoy! Glaciers carrying thick sediment layers Isostatic Rebound causing multiple shorelines Isostatic Depression and Rebound Fossil Shoreline of Lake Bonneville visible on mountains in Utah Fossil Shoreline in Utah Enormous volcanic ash layer Non-uniform volcanic ash layers, indicating catastrophic change interspersed with massive eruptions Diagram of Wisconsin Glaciation The Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the Wisconsin Glaciation Modern day glacial outburst flood Modern Glacial outburst flood Outburst Flood Outburst flooding 1980s Mt. St. Helens eruption St. Helens Cloud St. Helens Cloud St. Helens Cloud from far away Mt. St. Helens just before the eruption Mt. St. Helens from the same spot as above, four months after the eruption Helens explosive blast effect on nearby forests Destruction from Helens Helens forest devastation Forests destroyed Helens Aftermath Car buried in Helens ash fall Shattered tree trunk, Helens aftermath Mt. St. Helens today, forest and ecosystem recovered Carolina Bays LIDAR Carolina Bays Carolina Bays Original survey collage that showed Carolina Bays Lunar crater chain, possibly from disintegrating comet Lunar Crater chain Lake Superior, with Lake Nipigon possible impact crater to the north Lake Nipigon Nipigon southern boundary flood zone Nipigon flood zone empties into north lake Superior Isle Royale in Lake Superior, with clear flood flow etching of the basaltic bedrock Terrain view of Isle Royale Chicago Fire, Artist rendition Chicago fire, art Chicago fire, Art Chicago fire aftermath Hinckley fire,"The Suicide Express" Hinckley Fire Memorial Hinckley Fire paper Peshtigo Fire, art Peshtigo fire, survivor's testimonies Peshtigo fire, well marker Peshtigo fire cemetary marker Peshtigo fire mass grave marker 2017 Napa Valley fire 2017 fire aftermath

We spend some time on listener comments and correspondence, reading them and responding in kind. Kyle then reads some fascinating news stories about ancient CMEs, and advanced mathematics describing why hipsters are the first to be annoying, anywhere. After that, we read excerpts from Graham Hancock's book Underworld about the mysterious Jomon people of ancient Japan, whose culture survived for at least 12,000 years. Jomon pottery is by far the oldest pottery ever discovered, by many thousands of years, and they had some oldest known organized planned settlements in the world. Dragon Aurora More sky dragons Definitely a dragon Drip painting on canvas by Nathan J Taylor, artist's impression of Ezekiel's Wheel Another artist's impression of Ezekiel's wheel Jomon site of Sannai-Muryama, reconstructed Interior of reconstructed Jomon longhouse at Sannai-Muryama Kuromata Yama in the distance, a sculpted 'pyramid' mountain Kuromata Yama Very ancient Jomon stone circles Jomon circle Jomon stone circle Very ancient Jomon pottery, with "rope" impressions Examples of Jomon pottery Jomon "incense burner" Jomon pottery vessel Ancient fragment of Jomon pottery, with cord marks Very ancient Jomon pottery Highly stylized Jomon vessel Jomon pottery Jomon maze pattern vase Tiny birdpoint arrowhead we found, with a dime for relative size Jomon "Dogu" figurine Dogu Another example of strange Dogu figures Dogu with characteristic giant slit eyes Dogu figure Very old dogu figurine Dogu Showing the relative size of the average Dogu figurine

We speak with Sheldon from the C-Word podcast and mine his brain for valuable nuggets of geological data. He has a degree in geology and has experience in using his degree in the field for oil, gas and mining industries. We talk about uniformitarianism, catastrophism, the Younger Dryas, plate tectonics, the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, vulcanism, rock formation and dating technologies, and pirates at strip clubs. Thanks very much to The C Word for letting us borrow their geologist for one show! Check them out on Twitter @cwordpod and on iTunes. Enjoy! Exposed mantle material at Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland "Ultramafic" rock, Gros Morne Subduction of oceanic crust Back-arc Basin and volcanic result of subduction The Mid-Atlantic Ridge Standing on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge exposed in Iceland Oceanic Gyre currents

We focus on mysterious ancient codices and untranslated written languages and texts from around the world, leading to all manner of discussion on a wide range of subjects. We also deliver the weekly SpaceWeatherNews update, a few interesting news articles, and some listener correspondence. Dragon Aurora Fire Falls Humpback whale in Amazon Cretan Hieroglyphs on Phaistos Disc Wadi el-Hol script Sitovo inscription Olmec writing Singapore Stone Rongorongo Proto-Elamite Indus Valley script, with Unicorn Mohenjo-daro