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Joe Rogan Experience #2142 - Christopher Dunn

Christopher Dunn is the author of several books, including "Giza: The Tesla Connection," "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt," and "The Giza Power Plant." www.gizapower.com

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      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music)

    2. JR

      All right. Thanks for doing this, sir. I appreciate it.

    3. CD

      Oh, you're welcome.

    4. JR

      I've enjoyed many of your videos online, so, uh, I'm fascinated by these theories that you have.

    5. CD

      Oh.

    6. JR

      And, uh,-

    7. CD

      Well, that's one.

    8. JR

      ... so I'm excited. I'm excited that you're here. Could you please, uh... first of all, could you just tell everybody what your background is? Like, what did, what did you start off doing professionally?

    9. CD

      Um, I, I started as a, an apprentice in a engineering company in Manchester, England and, uh, and worked through the apprenticeship, received my journeyman papers. I worked for a couple more years in England, and then I was recruited by an aerospace company in America and, uh, immigrated to America.

    10. JR

      And, uh, what did you do for this aerospace company?

    11. CD

      Well, I started out as a, a lathe turner. That was my specialty. So-

    12. JR

      A what?

    13. CD

      A lathe turner.

    14. JR

      A lathe turner?

    15. CD

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. CD

      Right, so I was a lathe hand, right?

    18. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    19. CD

      So I, I operated, you know, horizontal lathes, vertical lathes. Uh, in England, you know, they had what they call them vertical boring mills.

    20. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    21. CD

      And, uh, in the, in the States you have to learn a different language, right? They have... the cultural differences-

    22. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    23. CD

      ... between... right? So you pick up different, uh, terminologies for things. Like they call, over here they call it a vertical turret lathe. In England, they called it a, a vertical boring mill.

    24. JR

      Mm. And so you're working with machines, and when did you come up with this theory about the pyramid?

    25. CD

      Well, actually I'd been in the States for a while. It was, uh, I came over in 1969. And, uh, in 1977, uh, I picked up Peter Tompkins' book, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, and I started to examine, uh, that book. And one of the things that Tompkins... he asked a, a very significant question in that book, and he said, "Does the Great Pyramid enshrine a lost science?" You know, is the Great Pyramid a, uh, a product of that science? Does it reflect that science? And I took that question very seriously, and that question was in, in my mind as, as I read through the book. And then I started to explore, uh, some of the references that he provided in the bibliography, and one of them was the work of William Flinders Petrie. Uh, (clears throat) and, uh, he described, uh, lathes being used, uh, in ancient Egypt. He described very large coring drills, uh, up to 18 inches in diameter. Um, and he also, uh, claimed that they were, they were using circular saws.

    26. JR

      When he's describing this, like, what, what kind of metal would they be using?

    27. CD

      Well, that's the thing. Um, the, the question (clears throat) really demands that you explore all methods, uh, that you a- are able to... when you satisfy y- the historical record, say the archeological record, and you say, "Okay, I'm gonna try this. Well, that's not gonna work. Uh, that won't work. So we'll try this. We'll, we'll keep, uh, improving our methods and tools until we arrive at a solution to the art... to explaining the artifact."

    28. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    29. CD

      That, that was the... that's the important thing. That's basically, um, the demands on a manufacturing engineer, which I eventually became. So, you know, if, if a customer comes in and (clears throat) they bring a part, uh, to the company and says, "I want you to make one just like this," uh, what is the... what do we do? Well, we have to know what i- this is. And, uh, but... and to do that, you take measurements, uh, you determine materials, how it was manufactured, uh, you look for tool marks to see what processes may have been involved in it, uh, whether there were dyes, uh, (clears throat) whether there's machining marks in areas, um, you look at the welds. Uh, did they weld some parts? Did they braze other parts? And then, of course, the geometries. Um, and basically, that's your model. That's like saying, "Okay, I've got to make something just like this."

    30. JR

      Right, but when you're making some... like if you're looking at, say, uh, some of the stonework that was done in the pyramid where there's, uh, uh... not in the pyramid but in some of the quarries where you see these core drill holes-

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    Wouldn't... With today's technology,…

    1. CD

      and you lay it out and you explain in detail how you did it.

    2. JR

      Wouldn't... With today's technology, wouldn't it be really easy to scan it?

    3. CD

      Well, it is now. Yeah. Obviously.

    4. JR

      Yeah, yeah. And then they would... Uh, so have they d- done that? Have they definitively proven one way or the other?

    5. CD

      There... (sighs) I don't think there is a really high-quality scan that, uh, uh, would be necessary. I mean, I've learned a little bit about scanning. Uh, it was just being introduced into manufacturing, uh, when I retired.

    6. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    7. CD

      Just, just before I retired, we, uh, we started to, uh, look into it and we bought this, uh, white light scanning, uh, system and... But th- now, uh-

    8. JR

      The s- the systems now are so advanced.

    9. CD

      The systems now a- like light years ahead.

    10. JR

      And you feed it through AI. And you, you would feed it through AI and it would tell you exactly.

    11. CD

      Right. Well, you... Yeah. I mean, y- you basically... You would, uh... You could, you could slice it, dice it, examine it any way you wish.

    12. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    13. CD

      But you need to have qualified people to do it. Not- not anybody-

    14. JR

      Right.

    15. CD

      ... wi- wi- that's not qualified c- uh, uh, w- could examine that.

    16. JR

      Right. Right. So either way, this, these cores and those drill holes represent something sensational, something absolutely amazing. Some, some 4,500-year-old drill that somehow or another was more effective than drills that are being used today.

    17. CD

      Yeah. But you know the, you know the truth of the matter though, Joe?

    18. JR

      What?

    19. CD

      It's probably the... (laughs)

    20. JR

      (laughs) I wish you, I wish you could just tell me, and then we'd know.

    21. CD

      (laughs)

    22. JR

      There's so many mysteries.

    23. CD

      It's probably-

    24. JR

      (laughs)

    25. CD

      (laughs) It's, it's probably the most insignificant artifact I've looked at. (laughs)

    26. JR

      I, I'm, I'm sure.

    27. CD

      I mean, you know...

    28. JR

      Well, you... Well, you've looked at so much in Egypt.

    29. CD

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      I mean, but to me, it, it's, it-

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    Half the thickness of…

    1. CD

      Well, uh, about half the thickness of a human hair.

    2. JR

      Half the thickness of a human hair. And one of the s- the vases that's incredibly impressive is this one with a longer neck and a lip on the top, and then it bowls out at the bottom.

    3. CD

      Yeah, right.

    4. JR

      And it's, uh, again, all carved out of granite somehow.

    5. CD

      Right, right.

    6. JR

      And how? How did... What did they do to do that? Like-

    7. CD

      Well, that's the, that's the thing. I think we kind of-

    8. JR

      See if I... There's, there's some other ones, Jamie. There's one of them that has, like, a longer neck. See if you can find it online maybe.

    9. CD

      Yeah, ther- ther- there seems, we seem to be, uh, stuck in a time warp where, uh, we're t- we're trying to come to terms...... with how the pyramids were built-

    10. JR

      Want some coffee?

    11. CD

      ... with how all these artifacts were built. And-

    12. JR

      Want some of this? Here.

    13. CD

      Oh, okay. That's a nice posh cup. Can I keep this?

    14. JR

      Yes, sir. It's all yours. Cheers.

    15. CD

      Cheers, mate.

    16. JR

      Thank you for being here.

    17. CD

      All right.

    18. JR

      So, continue.

    19. CD

      Mm.

    20. JR

      So we're lost in history.

    21. CD

      So, yeah, I mean, so we have competing forces. We've got on one side you have, uh, practical engineers, practical scientists and they want to, they want to measure everything exactly. And regardless of what current theories, uh, prescribe how they were made, they want to explore other methods. However, on the other side, on the side of sci- uh, uh, engin- I mean, not engineers, archeologists or Egyptologists, uh, they, they believe that if you're examining an ancient artifact and you're a modern engineer, that you have to work under the guidance of an archeologist or an Egyptologist. Otherwise your work is not... would not be recognized.

    22. JR

      That's weird.

    23. CD

      And that's ha- and that is happening. I mean, that's a fact. And they admit it. Um, so that is, that is the situ- it's a... I think it's a systemic problem because that is certainly not a, uh, a way to, uh, do science.

    24. JR

      Well, uh, and also they're not educated in those disciplines, supposedly.

    25. CD

      Well, bingo, yes. I mean, absolutely.

    26. JR

      Yeah, so they wouldn't be able to understand what's required-

    27. CD

      Right.

    28. JR

      ... to do that. Now, what... the conventional explanation being some sort of copper and sand, if that's the conventional explanation, there's no evidence of any copper drills, correct?

    29. CD

      Um, (laughs) if you go to the, um, Cairo Museum, they have a... I think there's a tube that they describe, a small tube, that they describe as a, uh-

    30. JR

      But nothing that can-

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    Mm-hmm. …

    1. CD

      he, uh, came on the tour and he befriended my son, Alex, and they were talking about the, uh, the vases. And Alex had, uh, was a quality inspector, quality engineer, uh, to the company that I worked at. And since, he, uh, he worked at, uh, another company in Indianapolis, and now I think he's, he's a, working in the metrology lab at, at Rolls-Royce in Indianapolis. And so he's like, "Well, we should (clears throat) scan them or, or do a, do an inspection of them."

    2. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    3. CD

      So Adam brought his vase down to Indianapolis and, uh, to where Alex was working, and, uh, he got permission from the managers at the shop to do an inspection of them. And he seems like, you know, you talk to people, shop people, right, people who are a- actually out there every day making quality parts that people do, people's lives depend on. You know, if you fly on an airplane and you... (laughs) And I, I told one of the ow- there's another owner of vases, he's got a lot of them, and I told him, I s- uh, you know, I said, "You know, you're carrying in your hand an artifact that is more precise than some of the parts that were installed in the engine that was on the plane that you flew in." (laughs)

    4. JR

      (laughs) That's crazy.

    5. CD

      And he's going, and he's like, "Wow. (laughs) Okay." I mean, tha- that's where you bring it home. And so all these guys who are making these artifacts, right? And they're held to exacting standards every day, they can't slip up, they can't make mistakes, you know, there's no fudging or faking anything. Uh, otherwise you'd be out on your ear or people would be falling out the skies, wouldn't you? (laughs)

    6. JR

      Right.

    7. CD

      Right?

    8. JR

      So that's for those parts, and these artifacts were more precise than that, which is just insane.

    9. CD

      Well, not all of them. I mean, there are parts in an a- in an airplane, uh, engine or aircraft engine that are, are more precise. I mean, or features, features of the parts are more-

    10. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    11. CD

      ... more precise. And, and that's where... Uh, and can I, could I, I, I want to explain something here-

    12. JR

      Sure.

    13. CD

      ... because I think it's a very, very important point, and it has confused a lot of people, really confused a lot of people. The, uh, (clears throat) a part, any part that you, you have, you know, whether it's a, something for your car, you know, say a, uh, a crankshaft or something like that, right? You take a crankshaft, it's got, uh, very precise, uh, features on it, and then there are features that are not so precise because it's, th- they don't need to be. It all depends on what the, the customer requirements are. So they don't, they don't build precision or, or, or require precision in a product where it's not needed.

    14. JR

      Got it.

    15. CD

      That's just-

    16. JR

      Right.

    17. CD

      That's just waste of time.

    18. JR

      Right.

    19. CD

      It just makes it more expensive. But now you have, you know, people who are looking at some of these artifacts, uh, like the boxes in the Serapeum, and they're finding, uh, imprecise areas of the boxes. Um, the photograph of me inside one of those boxes with a, with a, uh, toolmaker's precision square, I mean, the- there's nothing, nothing simpler, right? You take a square-

    20. JR

      Right.

    21. CD

      ... you stick it out and you l- you check-

    22. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    23. CD

      ... check to see if the, if it's square. Are the surfaces flat? Is it, is it square? Yeah, that's fine. And now you got guys going around on the outside of the box and finding inaccuracies, uh, some are areas inside boxes that have inaccuracies.... and now they're calling me a liar. They say that I faked and fudged measurements. Right? It's like, uh, I don't know, the cancel culture they want to-

    24. JR

      So-

    25. CD

      ... get away from.

    26. JR

      W- what is their, their beef? Like, you used a square.

    27. CD

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      And you measured things and you found them-

    29. CD

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      ... to be precise.

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    Okay, so, so this…

    1. CD

      did not serve, uh, a practical function.

    2. JR

      Okay, so, so this is the image that you have here.

    3. CD

      Right.

    4. JR

      And what this image shows us is the King's Chamber, the, the various shafts, the southern shaft, the northern shaft. And these shafts have been described as portals to stars because people have looked up through there, and you go through the s- shaft, you see stars. But what you're saying is something entirely different.

    5. CD

      Mm-hmm.

    6. JR

      What do you think these shafts were for?

    7. CD

      Well, I think they served two different purposes. Um, (clears throat) actually, four different (laughs) purposes, if you will, because the... in the, uh, the theory that I propose, which is... I don't know, it's a speculation, a theory. It's more... ih-... the whole process is kind of like a heuristic, uh, process where you're grabbing information, you're moving air, you... doesn't matter what, uh, what source you're, you're, you're g-... you're getting it from.

    8. JR

      Right.

    9. CD

      Because when you are looking for answers, you know, you look everywhere. You try and find... you know, you look everywhere. So when I was going through the, uh, the process of re-... like, trying to figure it out, I was collecting information from everywhere. The, um... and one of the... you know, uh, for the south... for the southern shaft and the northern shaft of the Queen's Chamber-... that was a huge mystery to me. And, uh, I, and I tried to, to fit it into the... or what were they doing? I mean, if you look at the details, the facts of their design and what the ancient Egyptians were doing, why they designed them that way, you have two conduits coming into a chamber, but they're not connected to the chamber. And, uh, we didn't even know they existed until 1872, uh, for Wayman Dixon-

    10. JR

      Can you show me that image again, please?

    11. CD

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      So w- the... they're coming into the chamber, but they don't enter into the chamber, so they stopped-

    13. CD

      Their, their original, their original design had the m- the sh- the, the shafts ending five inches before coming into the chamber, so you had like m- five inches of limestone that was-

    14. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    15. CD

      ... that was left in the block.

    16. JR

      So did someone remove that limestone?

    17. CD

      Yes. Uh-

    18. JR

      Why did they do that?

    19. CD

      Wayman Dixon, because they were examining the chamber and they were poking around and, uh, Wayman Dixon, it is reported, so the legend goes, uh, noticed a crack in the wall and so he took a rod and pushed it through the crack. And the rod, it didn't meet any resistance, it kept going, so he, um, had his, uh, worker, a worker come in, Bill Grundy with a hammer and chisel-

    20. JR

      Ugh.

    21. CD

      ... and say, "Chisel, chisel the limestone around that."

    22. JR

      God, people are stupid.

    23. CD

      (laughs)

    24. JR

      So-

    25. CD

      Well, they, they didn't... yeah, they didn't have, uh, ultrasonic thickness checks then.

    26. JR

      No, no, but still, goddamn, to have the arrogance-

    27. CD

      (laughs)

    28. JR

      ... to go and chip away at the pyramid because you're curious.

    29. CD

      Well, you look at, look at how adv- you know, I, I, I don't care for revisionist historians because, you know, you have to consider what people were doing, uh, their mindset i- in the day-

    30. JR

      Mm-hmm.

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    That's great name. …

    1. CD

      all those shafts, the... both the King's Chamber and the Queen's Chamber. And (clears throat) , oh, actually, no, mostly the King's Chamber. They wanted to ventilate the pyramid, and so they wanted to make sure that the, uh, the shafts were clear and that, um, the... when they install their fans that there won't be any obstruction. And so he built a robot to go through these, clean, clean the shafts out, and the... and then install fans in the Que- in the King's Chamber. But it'd always been a mystery in the, uh, as far as the Queen's Chamber shafts. Where did they end? Uh, (clears throat) nobody knew. Nobody had, had explored them that far. So he proposed that, uh, they allow him to build another robot and examine the, um, the shafts in the Queen's Chamber, which he did that. Uh, he, uh, had a robot. They called it Upuautu, uh-

    2. JR

      That's great name.

    3. CD

      ... which means the opening of the ways.

    4. JR

      Oh.

    5. CD

      Right. And so, uh, with his robot, he had a, um, you know, he, he had a tether behind it and, uh, you know, it was... and ro- uh, a camera, lights, and it crawled its way. It was like a track vehicle, and there was a mechanism for the upper track that caused it to grip the ceiling, and they, uh... it was able to climb up, climb up the shaft. And they were looking for where it ended. And they found where it ended after, you know, a few, uh, kind of obstacles, one being a, uh, what they... what he called a tank trap, which was like a depression in the floor of the shaft-

    6. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    7. CD

      ... of about... a drop of about two inches, uh, which is another story entirely. I don't think... I don't think the, uh, the full truth of why that is there has, has been figured out yet or explained, but they're working on it. And so his, uh, robot went... it got so far up the shaft and they, uh, discovered that it... there was a block, uh, at the end of the shaft, and through the block are two metal fittings.

    8. JR

      Metal?

    9. CD

      Metal.

    10. JR

      What kind of metal?

    11. CD

      Uh, we don't... I don't know.

    12. JR

      So a person hasn't gone over there and gotten a sample of it, so we don't really know.

    13. CD

      Uh-

    14. JR

      It's just speculation.

    15. CD

      I, I, I don't know.

    16. JR

      So some kind of metal fittings?

    17. CD

      I... Th- They assumed that they were copper.

    18. JR

      And how far is it from the outside edge of the pyramid?

    19. CD

      Uh... Well, you do ask some awkward questions. I, I don't have that information in front of me. But I would say that if you are wanting to reach the, uh, the end of the... where that southern shaft is, the, the shortest route that you, you could take would be through a horizontal passage that goes directly out to the outer surface of the great pyramid. Just a horizontal passage.

    20. JR

      Okay.

    21. CD

      Going up, going down, or anything like that.

    22. JR

      Can I see the, uh, image again, please? So w- what we're looking at when you're seeing the shafts... hold on one second.

    23. GU

      I think we're on the wrong part.

    24. JR

      (clears throat) No worries.

    25. GU

      Well, this might help actually (sniffs) 'cause it's more helpful with that part, or do you want the whole thing?

    26. JR

      I wanna see what it looks like on the outside. Yeah, that one.

    27. CD

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      So, so say it again. What would be-

    29. CD

      So-

    30. JR

      ... the best way to access it?

  7. 1:30:001:33:33

    Yeah. …

    1. JR

      the pyramid.

    2. CD

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      And the, the hydrogen in the queen's chamber now, it makes its way into the king's chamber?

    4. CD

      Well, yes. I mean it's, uh, it flows up through the gran- the, uh ... along the hor- horizontal passage, through the grand gallery and up into the king's chamber.

    5. JR

      So all this is connected.

    6. CD

      All that's connected.

    7. JR

      So the, the hydrogen goes up, it goes in the king's chamber-

    8. CD

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      ... which is a phenomenal structure-

    10. CD

      Right.

    11. JR

      ... um, carved out of granite from 500 miles away.

    12. CD

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      Massive stones. The biggest stones in the pyramid, correct?

    14. CD

      Right.

    15. JR

      And so what happens with the vibration of the pyramid through this, this thing that's connected to the Earth and subterranean chamber constantly hitting boom, boom, boom, vibrating-

    16. CD

      Okay.

    17. JR

      ... the hydrogen flows into the great chamber, the great, the, the, the, the king's chamber rather, the king's chamber's vibrating and then you have these shafts that come from the outside of the king's chamber into it.

    18. CD

      Right.

    19. JR

      So what's happening there?

    20. CD

      Okay. Uh, well, let's, let's go back to the, uh, sub chamber.

    21. JR

      Subterranean.

    22. CD

      Right.

    23. JR

      Okay.

    24. CD

      And, uh, and let's talk about not what happens in the pyramid, but what is happening in the Earth.

    25. JR

      Okay.

    26. CD

      All right? And this is where we introduce Tesla technology and, uh, also the work of a, uh, NASA physicist called Friedemann Freund.

    27. JR

      Just keep that thing up there, Joe.

    28. CD

      So Friedemann Freund has done r- d- did research on earthquake lines and, um, his objective was to try to determine if we could detect or if we could have an early warning system for earthquakes. And he was using NASA satellites to, uh, survey the Earth and to observe for where and when-... earthquake lights, uh, show up. And his, um, his theory - it's not really a theory, it's a scientific, uh, fact - uh, is that in the, uh, in the minerals, in igneous rock, you have these positive charge carriers that when they are stressed, um, they will shoot to the surface. And the positive charge carriers are like, they call 'em holes. Uh, he describes it as a, a new physics, but is kind of related to semiconductor physics, which is a little above my head. But the, uh, but s- but still, he's talking about releasing electrons from deep within the Earth, and those electrons, when they're stimulated to move, they move very, very quickly, uh, through the pyramid. Uh, I mean (laughs) no, through the Earth, and, and they seek the highest point, uh, on the surface of the Earth. So, you have Tesla on one side, and he's saying that if, uh, if you could put a, uh, like, an earthquake machine and just drive, you know, a frequency into the planet, you might be able to release the stresses in the Earth's crust. And also reduce the, uh, possibility of, uh, an earthquake. I'm not- I'm not saying eliminate it entirely, but, uh, at least, uh-

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