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Joe Rogan Experience #2558 - Tyler Engle

Tyler Engle is a musician, researcher, author, and host of the "BassForge" YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@BassForge_us https://bassforge.us Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Visit https://ketone.com/Rogan for 30% OFF, or find Ketone-IQ at Target nationwide. Use code DRENCHED at https://BlueChew.com  to get 10% OFF + Free Overnight Shipping on your first order

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Sep 24, 20262h 23mWatch on YouTube ↗

At a glance

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Ancient megaliths, floods, and a radical ‘frequency-tech’ civilization hypothesis

  1. Joe Rogan and Tyler Engle use recent Mount Ararat scan claims to revisit flood traditions, arguing that ancient texts may reflect regional disasters rather than a literal global deluge.
  2. They contend that extreme megalithic feats (Kailasa, Baalbek, Giza-scale blocks) and tool-mark anomalies suggest missing chapters in human technological history.
  3. Engle presents a theory that ancient builders exploited resonance, acoustics, geometry, and plasma/cavitation phenomena for cutting stone, moving materials, and possibly altering chemistry.
  4. The episode repeatedly critiques academic gatekeeping, proposing that institutional incentives and reputational lock-in slow serious investigation of anomalous evidence.
  5. They broaden the discussion into speculative territory—consciousness as technology, ritual as ‘prompting,’ and temples/pyramids as nodes in an Earth-scale energetic and informational network.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Noah’s Ark is treated as a potentially real, local event with accumulating but contested physical clues.

They discuss Mount Ararat scans, mud layers dated near Shuruppak, and nearby “drogue/anchor stones” as suggestive—but also acknowledge the Biblical narrative (two of every animal, global flood) is likely an oversimplified, non-global retelling of regional catastrophes.

Megalithic stonework is presented as the clearest challenge to mainstream archaeological timelines and methods.

Engle argues megalithic construction (Kailasa Temple carved from basalt, Baalbek foundations, massive statues/blocks) strains “copper tools + sand” explanations; Rogan frames stonework precision, tool marks, and logistics as the strongest anomalies demanding new hypotheses.

Microspherules and microscopic cut signatures are used to argue for an unknown high-precision ancient cutting/processing technology.

They highlight alleged straight-line micro-cut marks in granite and “exotic metals” embedded in cut grooves, plus microspherules found across sites (Dashur, Baalbek, Iran, Peru). Engle interprets these as signatures of extreme heat/rapid cooling and possibly plasma-related processes, beyond standard geology in his view.

The episode advances a ‘frequency/plasma’ model where geometry and resonance do the heavy technological lifting.

Engle proposes an alternative tech path: resonance, acoustics, geometry, and plasma/“low-energy” effects (cavitation, ultrasonics) enabling drilling/cutting, material softening (“jellification”), and perhaps transmutation-like chemistry—contrasted with modern high-energy approaches (e.g., CERN).

Temples are framed as consciousness technologies—designed environments for training, initiation, and ‘state-dependent’ learning.

The conversation links temple acoustics (chanting chambers, long reverberation) to altered states and information transfer; they compare ritual “spells” to precise “prompts” that reliably navigate experiences (psychedelics, DMT motifs like serpents) and potentially encode operational knowledge.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

Okay, for real though, how much more evidence do we need? Just dig the thing out.

— Tyler Engle

The idea that we have a, we have a complete understanding of the past is just ... We should just start from there, 'cause that's foolish.

— Joe Rogan

And we're just so egocentric in our position that we are the most sophisticated culture that's ever existed on Earth. And I think there's a lot of evidence that that's not true, and the best evidence is the stone.

— Joe Rogan

Like, may- look, what we can do today is so preposterous that it looks like magic to anybody that lived 200 years ago.

— Joe Rogan

Try and explain that to somebody that doesn't. You'd be- they'd be like, "No."

— Tyler Engle

Mount Ararat scans and Noah’s Ark claimsRegional vs global flood narratives (Shuruppak, Sumerian texts)Giants/Denisovans and limits of the fossil recordKailasa Temple excavation and basalt hardnessBaalbek foundations and undocumented constructionMicrospherules, exotic metals, and anomalous tool marksPlasma physics, cavitation, ultrasonics, and ‘alchemy’ analogies

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