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Joe Rogan Experience #2327 - AJ Gentile

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May 27, 20252h 53mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:0015:00

    (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

    1. AG

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

    2. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music) Hey, Josh, what up?

    3. AG

      Are we, we doing this?

    4. JR

      Yes.

    5. NA

      Speak to the aliens. Speak to the aliens. Speak to the aliens.

    6. JR

      (laughs) I'm glad you brought ... heckle fish.

    7. AG

      (laughs) You did not have to do that.

    8. JR

      (laughs)

    9. AG

      I appreciate it.

    10. JR

      I fuckin' love your channel, dude. I've spent countless hours watching your hilarious videos.

    11. AG

      So cool that you've even found it.

    12. JR

      Well, you know, Gino told me about it a lo- ... Your brother, Gino, who I've been friends with for years, told me about it a long time ago that you guys were doing this. And I was like, "Really? All right. Interesting." And then I watched them, I'm like, "This is fuckin' great. It's right up my alley."

    13. AG

      You would show clips all the time, and it would drive Gino nuts. And then finally, it, it got named Reggie Watts was here. And he's like, "You ever hear of The Why Files?" You guys were talking about moon landing shit. And you're like, "What's that?" And, uh, I don't know, a week or two later, Gino gets a text, "Are you The Why Files?"

    14. JR

      (laughs) He didn't tell me the name of it.

    15. AG

      But he was so excited.

    16. JR

      Yeah. It's a, a great show, dude.

    17. AG

      Appreciate it.

    18. JR

      It's like everything I'm fascinated by. Annunaki, aliens, secret bases. How did you get involved with making a show like this?

    19. AG

      (Kazoo noise)

    20. JR

      Is this something you've always been interested in?

    21. AG

      All m- ... I'm in, like, grew up Art Bell.

    22. JR

      Yes.

    23. AG

      Dad-

    24. JR

      There he is.

    25. AG

      There he is, the l- ... I mean, the GOAT. The GOAT.

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. AG

      Um, Dad was an overnight cop, so always overnight radio, and so it was always Doctor Demento-

    28. JR

      Yes.

    29. AG

      (laughs) You remember him? And, and Art Bell. So I kinda grew up with the weird stories, and it just got in the Twilight Zone. We watched as kids. It was, like, required watching from Dad, in the old black and whites, the classics.

    30. JR

      Mm.

  2. 15:0030:00

    Why do you not…

    1. AG

      Iran to know. So, I understand-

    2. JR

      Why do you not want them to know? Well, maybe we could all get along-

    3. AG

      Exhales loudly ]

    4. JR

      ... if we realize that there's actual aliens that are visiting us. I mean, wasn't that the Ronald Reagan speech in front of the UN? You've seen that, right?

    5. AG

      Sure.

    6. JR

      Yeah, the famous speech?

    7. AG

      But wasn't, uh, the SDI part of that speech, is, "We'll all get along, but we're gonna have laser weapons in space just in case we don't"?

    8. JR

      Mm.

    9. AG

      Wasn't that that same spea- ... It might not have been, but it was about that same time.

    10. JR

      Ah.

    11. AG

      And that was all smoke and mirrors, you know?

    12. JR

      Right. The Star Wars thing was fake, right?

    13. AG

      Couldn't get it to work.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. AG

      It was all fake. So, maybe we'll all get along. Boy, that sounds nice. But, you know, Iran produces brilliant people, so intelligent, great engineers, doctors, all of that. But the government is bananas.

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. AG

      So, you, I mean, you don't wanna have brilliant scientists working like that. I mean-

    18. JR

      Right.

    19. AG

      ... we had brilliant scientists working for dictators in the past and it was not awesome.

    20. JR

      Right.

    21. AG

      So-

    22. JR

      Like the Nazis.

    23. AG

      That's who I mean.

    24. JR

      Yeah, yeah.

    25. AG

      That's who I mean. So-

    26. JR

      Yeah, it's really sketchy if they get the technology.

    27. AG

      Right.

    28. JR

      Well, this is what Hal Puthoff said. He said that the government of the United States has at least 10 of these things. And I said, "Well, other governments have them?" And he said, "Yes." And I said, "Well, do they have similar numbers?" He's like, "We believe so." So, they don't know. So, w- essentially what he was kind of alluding to is that there's ... Basically, they're like a kind of Manhattan Project to try to back engineer these things. And whoever figures it out first is going to have a massive advantage.

    29. AG

      Right.

    30. JR

      And it would be nice if it was us.

  3. 30:0045:00

    Right. …

    1. NA

      was looking at a (swallows) article about the original article, and it says that the two guys na- mentioned might not have even existed.

    2. AG

      Right.

    3. NA

      There's no evidence of them.

    4. JR

      G.E. Kincaid?

    5. AG

      Right.

    6. NA

      And another guy named S.A. Jordan.

    7. JR

      Oh, so it might be just a story that someone printed, some horse shit?

    8. NA

      Yeah. I've hea-... When I was looking into one of these things before, I found a, something explaining that back in the, like, early 1900s when newspapers were a really popular thing to read, I don't know if it was, like, a, a game or if there was actual prizes people would play or, like, amongst themselves to try to get fake stories printed.

    9. JR

      Oh.

    10. NA

      You could, if you could get the craziest story printed, you'd win, like, 500 bucks or...

    11. AG

      I might be wrong, but I think Jordan was connected to the Smithsonian. At least according to-

    12. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    13. AG

      ... to the story.

    14. NA

      Well, the... I pulled this from the Smithsonian debunk, which, I mean, obviously they would if this is the way we're gonna go with it. But them debunking this and they gave two links. One to the original 1909 article, and one to a 2008 update, and that's where I was pulling that from.

    15. JR

      Hm.

    16. AG

      I don't trust the Smithsonian. They're exempt from all kinds of stuff.

    17. JR

      Yeah?

    18. AG

      Well, like, you're, there's a law passed not too long ago that if you have Native American artifacts that are important to that culture, especially burial artifacts, they must be returned. Unless you're the Smithsonian, then you-

    19. JR

      They're allowed to hold onto them?

    20. AG

      ... then you can make, you can make a case that you don't have to give it back.

    21. JR

      How do they have so much power?

    22. AG

      I- they're gar-... It's a government agency.

    23. JR

      Smithsonian's a govern-... Oh, well, I didn't even know. I thought it was a private agency. So, there's no official story as to why this area of the Grand Canyon is off-limits.

    24. AG

      For your safety, is all.

    25. NA

      The Forbidden Zone, they call it.

    26. AG

      Yeah, it's all I can find.

    27. NA

      Man, that's fucking weird.

    28. JR

      That's fucking weird that this story comes from the very area that's forbidden. That's fucking weird.

    29. AG

      I think that there-

    30. JR

      What are the odds?

  4. 45:001:00:00

    Yep. …

    1. JR

      Very, just very weird stuff. The, I, like I said, I used to think it was c- total nonsense-

    2. AG

      Yep.

    3. JR

      ... until I saw some documentaries on it where they were talking about the nodes and they were talking about some of these things are just so complex, and they appear so quickly.

    4. AG

      The nodes and the braiding, to me, was like, "Okay-

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. AG

      ... now I got to change my approach to this."

    7. JR

      What do you think it is?

    8. AG

      Prrr, uh, yeah, I don't know. I, I think, uh, I think it's beyond us. It, uh, uh, it just, we're just monkeys trying to g- trying to guess math.

    9. JR

      Mm.

    10. AG

      You know, I don't know. Uh, we, ev- ev- every time we make a guess on this show, someone's laughing at us.

    11. JR

      Of course.

    12. AG

      You know? Someone's like, yeah, they, you know, they think it's a landing site.

    13. JR

      Well, it's one of those subjects that if you even entertain it, you're am- almost immediately a fool.

    14. AG

      Mm-hmm.

    15. JR

      Which, uh, I'm super comfortable with being a fool. (laughs)

    16. AG

      (laughs)

    17. JR

      I entertain a lot of foolish ideas. But that one is particularly foolish because people always point to those guys with boards, and I'm like, "Not so fast." Yeah, those guys with boards definitely made some circles, but this is, there's some of them that are really spectacular.

    18. AG

      They are.

    19. JR

      And it d- it just doesn't ... And when you factor in the nodes and you factored in the weaving, and then these incredible geometric shapes, like, how are you even mapping that? Like, how are you doing that? How many people are involved? How long does it take?

    20. AG

      Uh, I, you know, uh, it would take people so long, it would never be that accurate-

    21. JR

      Yeah.

    22. AG

      ... with, you know, with ropes and boards. I, you know, I just don't see it.

    23. JR

      Right. But like, it leaves you with this weird mystery. Just like, "What, what is this?"

    24. AG

      I wish I knew.

    25. JR

      It's just one of those things that like, it's almost like the universe is laughing at us. Every now and then, it just shows you something that's like so goofy that you have to go, "Well, what is real?"

    26. AG

      The, uh, you know, a great, it was a hoax, but a great crop circle was the Arecibo response. Do you know that one?

    27. JR

      Yes.

    28. AG

      That was a great one.

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. AG

      That it was ... We sent the Arecibo message out-

  5. 1:00:001:10:41

    Randall- …

    1. JR

      They don't want anyone to have any information that they don't have, so even in the face of very compelling information, they dismiss, uh, uh, o- openly, quickly, without any consideration. They, they just want to dismiss it, and then they want to pretend that any archeologist that presents any kind of information that fucks up the narrative isn't immediately attacked, and they are. Their careers are ruined. Whether you go back to Clovis First or in... Any of these different archeologists that have proposed alternative theories of the human timeline, all of the conventional archeologists, all the mainstream people attack them.

    2. AG

      Randall-

    3. JR

      Dismiss them.

    4. AG

      Randall Carlson.

    5. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    6. AG

      Robert Schoch.

    7. JR

      Yeah.

    8. AG

      John Anthony West.

    9. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    10. AG

      Um, if I were advising Graham, I would have said, "Don't do that debate. Don't do it." There's no way to come off... You're not gonna convince anybody.... and you're just gonna come off not looking great. And, uh, and I've seen i- uh, his response on his own site.

    11. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    12. AG

      And he's even said that was probably a mistake, he wasn't prepared enough, but you'll never be prepared enough for a professional debunker. You just won't be. They'll have too much.

    13. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    14. AG

      So, I told him, "Don't, don't go in, don't go into the lion's den."

    15. JR

      Well, the problem was he wasn't being honest. Flint was not being honest about the information that we have, particularly about offshore shipwrecks.

    16. AG

      Mm-hmm.

    17. JR

      He was just not honest.

    18. AG

      Nope.

    19. JR

      You know? And the amount that they have discovered, not honest.

    20. AG

      And Graham didn't know that at the time.

    21. JR

      Yeah. And also, the timeline of, like, how old these are. When you get to 5,000, 6,000 years, there's no ship left. All you have is, like, the pottery and whatever is on the ground at the bottom. And if you're talking about 10,000 years, 15,000 years, who's to say that that's not completely covered by sediment by then? And it probably would be.

    22. AG

      Well, you know, I watched a little of, um, of Zahi Hawass on, on here.

    23. JR

      That's all you need, just a little-

    24. AG

      (laughs)

    25. JR

      ... for that episode. You get it.

    26. AG

      I couldn't believe he was, he's still doing it. I mean, uh, I, he, maybe he was around when they actually built the things.

    27. JR

      I think that was probably the best advertisement for alternative archeology you're ever gonna get, when you see the guy that's the gatekeeper and how closed-minded he is.

    28. AG

      He didn't mention the capstones, the f- the f- the limestone facing from Torre, he didn't even talk about it.

    29. JR

      Well, also, this just saying it was the national project, and that's how they were able to get 80-ton stones 500 miles away through the mountains on sleds. Like, come on.

    30. AG

      The Aslan Stones are from 1,200 miles away.

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