#1284 - Graham Hancock

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Here we go, and boom, we're live. Graham, great to see you again.

Graham Hancock (0:07)

Nice to be back with you, Joe.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

And we were just talking about your new book America Before, that there's two versions of it. There's one version, and then there's a newer version that's a Barnes and Noble version that's specific to Barnes and Noble that has an extra whole chapter in it.

Graham Hancock (0:21)

That's correct, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Yeah, and so they can get that at Barnes and Noble. I'm just trying to keep bookstores alive, man. They're on their way out.

Graham Hancock (0:27)

I think it's really important, and that's one of the reasons that I did this because I had finished the book, and then Barnes and Noble came to me through my publishers and said they would like to do a special edition of the book, but in order to do that, I needed to write them some extra material. And I had a lot of material that I hadn't put in the book, and I thought, well, this is an opportunity to put that out there.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

Beautiful, so if people want that, it's a little bit different, and there's a small gold square.

Graham Hancock (0:55)

Okay, so first of all, my website, grahamhancock.com, has a page about America Before, and the link to the Barnes and Noble Edition is there, as well as the link to the Standard Edition, which is on Amazon and iTunes and all kinds of other places. So grahamhancock.com and the America Before page, the link to the Barnes and Noble Edition is right there.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

All right, there it is. So how is this, before we even get into the book, what is it?

Graham Hancock (1:20)

Go to talks and events.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

Okay, we're on the Graham Hancock website.

Graham Hancock (1:25)

No, go to books, go to books. Go to America Before.

Go to United States, you can see Amazon Barnes and there's Barnes and Noble.

Joe Rogan (1:36)

Special edition.

Graham Hancock (1:37)

Special edition, click on that.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

There you go, and then the ebook as well.

Graham Hancock (1:41)

The ebook is available. The audio book which I read myself is available there. Then if you scroll down, oops, that shouldn't be there.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

It's damn pop-ups, sons of bitches.

I am so happy you read it yourself. I get angry when someone else reads someone who, I'm like, come on, he can talk.

Graham Hancock (1:58)

Yeah, I enjoy reading web books myself and what I've learned from feedback I get from audiences at presentations is people like me doing that.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

Oh yeah, for sure.

Yeah, 100%. It's just weird when someone else is talking in your voice. Like, hey man, I know you're not Graham.

Graham Hancock (2:13)

You know that I write fiction as well as non-fiction. The one thing I can't read is my fiction.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

Really?

Graham Hancock (2:18)

Well, yeah, because fiction requires accents. You really need an actor to read a fiction book who can get into the different characters. But for a non-fiction book like America Before, it's very straightforward for me just to read it myself.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

I agree. I'm a tremendous Stephen King fan. But when I read Stephen King's books, where he reads them or listen to them when he reads them, they're terrible.

He's awful at it.

Graham Hancock (2:39)

I don't think a novelist should read their own novels. I think that's a job for an actor. Oddly enough, I've just been reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I'm just very near the end of the seventh volume of that.

Joe Rogan (2:49)

Yeah, I'm just a giant fan of his. But man, when he reads it, he reads it like he's just reading it.

Graham Hancock (2:54)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

It's like, oof, this is rough. It's hard to get behind. Anyway, America Before.

So there's, give us the-

Graham Hancock (3:02)

On the website, there's details about the book. There's a page where there are links to the book. And also, the other thing I would like to take this opportunity to mention is I'm in America and Canada for the next seven weeks.

And I'm going to be doing something like 25 presentations in something like 20 American cities, and then three Canadian cities in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto. And that's all on the Talks and Events page of my website. So if anybody wants to come along and meet this old man in person, I'll be doing those events.

Joe Rogan (3:33)