#872 - Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Joe Rogan Experience.

Graham Hancock (0:05)

And we're live. Gentlemen, here we go again. What's happening?

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Back in the room.

Graham Hancock (0:10)

A pleasure to see you guys, as always. This is one of my favorite podcasts that we ever do.

And this is very timely, because first of all, the big New York Times article about the possibility of a comet hitting Los Angeles, the preparations for what they would do if a comet hit Los Angeles, and the comet known as Donald Trump that's hit the United States.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

He's even got the hair.

Graham Hancock (0:37)

It's just the whole thing is, I mean, if the end of the world was coming, boy, it's all on the wall. You know, the writing's all there. It's kind of crazy.

So what's the latest and the greatest?

Joe Rogan (0:47)

Well, the latest and the greatest is, I mean, last year when we sat down with you, I think it was last November.

Graham Hancock (0:53)

Yeah, it was almost a year.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Got floated in the discussion, the idea that this really important Comet research that's going on, which is just changing our whole view of history and prehistory and of the future of humanity, that it would be good to make a film about this and crowdfund it. I actually mentioned that to the scientists and they said what we really need is more funding for our research.

And so they've, inspired basically by your show, they have put out a crowdfunding campaign, which is linked on my website. It's the Comet Research Group and it's a big story right now.

Graham Hancock (1:28)

So how can people find it really quickly? It's Indiegogo, Comet Research Group.

Joe Rogan (1:33)

Much quicker way. Just go to my website, grahamhancock.com and there's a revolving banner, which is the Comet Research Group. Click on that and you're in business.

Graham Hancock (1:41)

Beautiful. Okay, grahamhancock.com and then crowdfunding for Comet Research. And so what are they trying to put together?

Joe Rogan (1:50)

Well, they're wanting to, you see the thing is these guys have actually not had any official funding. This is a group of major, highly credentialed scientists who for the last decade have been investigating the extraordinary story of a massive comet, series of comet impacts on the North American ice cap 12,800 years ago.

That is the global cataclysm that wipes out a whole civilization from prehistory. So that's why it's of interest to me.

They're not coming at it from that point of view. They're coming at it from rediscovering something that we've lost about ourselves. Something is really important to understand the role of cataclysms in the story of the Earth. And they need to do much more research. So they need to go back to Greenland and look for the nanodiamonds in the Greenland ice cores. They need, there's an ancient city which they're not revealing the name of, which they're pretty certain was wiped out by a comet impact about four and a half thousand years ago. They want to go there and investigate that. So there's a lot of field work they need to do to drive home this hypothesis.

And to, frankly, put down the opposition because there's been so much opposition to this idea from people with vested interest in other theories that, and that's why these guys have not got funding. So the only place they're going to get funding to do this further research is from members of the general public. And that's what we're hoping that will happen. It's called the Comet Research Group. There's a banner on my site and all the links are there to their crowdfunding, to their website, which is full of masses of scientific information and to their Facebook page as well.

Graham Hancock (3:20)

It is a very unusual thing, the fact that we know that comets and all sorts of various large objects have impacted the earth.

We see the craters, we know they exist, but it's so rarely discussed. It's so strange. If it wasn't for this article in The New York Times, I can't remember one of the last time it even came up. And it's such a huge issue.

Joe Rogan (3:42)

It's a massive issue. It's a massive issue. Both Randall and I have really, you know, given a great deal of thought to this. And I think, Randall, the point is that catastrophes are the untold story of our past.

Randall Carlson (3:54)

We were given a little hint of it. February of 2013, Chelyabinsk, Siberia.

Graham Hancock (4:02)

Yeah, yeah.

Randall Carlson (4:03)

Now that was just a little cosmic speck.