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Chapter 1: Who is Dan Richards and what is DeDunking the Past?
Hello. What's happening, dude? How much? Good to see you again, man. Good to see you too, Joe. Thanks for the invite. Oh, my pleasure. Thanks for coming on here, man. I really enjoy your videos. Your website, your channel, rather, on YouTube, DeDunking, it's really great because it's so obvious.
It's one of those things where you don't need some big, crazy set or high production values to make something interesting. It's just you with a bookshelf behind you talking about stuff, and it's great.
Well, thanks. I appreciate that, Joey. I'm very passionate about this stuff. So I'm glad that people are taking notice and that I'm sitting here talking to you right now about it. It's crazy to me.
Chapter 2: How did Graham Hancock influence Dan Richards?
Well, you were one of the – you, like me, were one of the early readers of Fingerprints of the Gods. And that's sort of how you got into this whole subject, right? Yeah.
Yes, I actually had that one pre-ordered from Hastings because I'd read the sign in the seal. So I was already like, Graham Hancock's pretty cool. I like the way he's coming at these things. And I saw that there was a thing at Hastings to pre-order Fingerprints of the Gods for like $25 or something. You get like $3 off. And so I did.
I was reading it cover to cover when I had Graham sign it, and him and Santa both were just looking at how beat the hell it is, right? Because they'd been in a construction truck where we'd go on job sites for like 20 years.
That's awesome. So the sign and the seal, was that about Ethiopia and the Ark of the Covenant? Yeah. Yeah. What's your take on all that?
Chapter 3: Is the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia?
It's interesting. Anytime they won't let you see the evidence, I get like all of my alarm bells go off. Right. But I understand why they wouldn't want you to see it if it really is the Ark. I'd like to see I guess the best thing we could do to test it without seeing the Ark would be to look into the claims that these guys go blind and they show signs.
Yeah, let's explain to everybody that they believe that this one church in Ethiopia actually possesses the Ark of the Covenant, and that these priests that are supposedly guarding this, they all exhibit signs of radiation poisoning.
Yes, they all just exhibit signs of radiation poisoning. They go blind, they die quickly, and then somebody else, one priest at a time, is allowed to be the caretaker of the Ark. How long do they live? They want to say like a couple years, something like that. I can't remember. It's not very long, yeah. They die pretty quick. Imagine that job. Yeah.
You get that call. How much do I love Jesus? I'm willing to get radiation poisoning? This is kind of fucking crazy.
Yeah, but there's a lot of evidence in that book that was really interesting, like the Knights Templar statues and stuff and old Paris cathedrals that would lead Graham to Ethiopia, just all kinds of weird stuff that made it really interesting, little... Indiana Jones, man. It's like real life kind of Indiana Jones shit. And so I was just anxious for that fingerprints.
Well, something that has that much radiation that kills people so quickly, wouldn't that be something that you could measure from outside of the church?
You would think that our boys would be all over that shit with the satellites and be like, yeah, that's a spot to watch out for. Send a team. Right, right.
Because that was one of the speculations about the New Jersey drones. which was really weird, was that there was allegedly, this is part of the speculation, allegedly there was a warhead that was missing from when, what was it, from Ukraine? I think it was from quite a while ago. So there was a warhead that was not accounted for, a nuclear warhead.
And the thought was that somehow or another it had gotten snuck into the United States. And these drones had the capability to scan for gamma radiation and that they were looking for excess gamma radiation, which would indicate that this thing was there.
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Chapter 4: What are the mysteries surrounding the pyramids?
Okay, transformers at the bottom of it will have multiple plates. It'll be like a plate of metal and then a plate of silicone or something like that that's conductive, non-conductive, conductive, non-conductive. And there'll be multiples of those. And this is part of the electromagnetic system.
Because what a transformer does is it steps electricity up or down and swaps voltage for amperage, basically. So the metal plates are part of it. So the idea is that this thing would collect electricity inside the box, and then the Israelites would use it to throw lightning at the enemies. Now, there's still a lot of speculation as to how the box would work, but...
Moses was also said to, after going up and seeing God, he was said to have had to cover his face with a cloth for the rest of his life because it was shown. And Graham speculated in that book that it might be because of radiation sickness or something. His face was covered in sores for the rest of his life. So it is interesting.
So if this thing...
is radioactive like how would that conduct electricity no idea it would probably be if it was it it maybe it's the power source like we have radioactive batteries on satellites and shit right and they convert that radiation into electricity so it's possible I mean that's I'm you know I'm not really too
like big on the ancient high technology, but I'm always willing to speculate and look at the angles on it. And that's basically where they come from, the guys that are really big into the arc. Some guys even will claim that it's a capacitor. like a full-on capacitor, which a capacitor stores and discharges electricity.
It's why we were told not to, when you don't touch the tube on your TV when we were kids, because it'll zap you, the capacitor. We're old. We remember tubes on TVs. I watched a friend of mine working on an arcade machine once, and one of the leads popped off of the thing, and he was bald, and it tapped him on the top, and it fucking laid his ass right out, bam, straight to the ground.
I was like, oh, shit. You okay, man? Wow. But anyway, yeah, that's what a capacitor is. So some guys believe, like Billy Carson would say, that the Ark of the Covenant would fit inside of the sarcophagus of the King's Chamber, which it doesn't, and that it's a capacitor to power the pyramid. So it doesn't – how do you know that it doesn't?
Well, the Bible has the specifications for the size of the Ark of the Covenant, and they're not the same as – How different are they? Considerably.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of recent Mars discoveries?
Every time they just get opened and willy-nilly shit get moved around, Rockefeller ends up trading for a few of them into finance because they didn't have finances to store these things properly. So Rockefeller got some of those heads? Oh, yeah. And we don't know how many exactly he –
reportedly just four but like he gives the money to these people to like restore all these mummies and the first thing that they do is they restore a bunch of textiles that other mummies that they don't have anymore were like packed in and shit it's just even all the way up into the 60s an anthropologist opened like 70 some odd bundles and
recorded what he found in four of them, and put the rest back on the fucking shelf. They've been stealing artifacts and selling them on the open market. It's all about money.
So really rich people, like some billionaire guy goes, I want a mummy. What do I got to get? I want a mummy room in my castle.
I want one with a head. I want one with a really weird head. Which one's got the best head? Let's open 60. And that's just the Cusco tunnels. They just... This one's so fucked. They just announced this January archaeologists have discovered that there are tunnels running under Cusco and Peru. They connect the Temple of the Sun to the fortress of Sacsayhuaman and some other places around there.
Oh, this is crazy. It's going to be great, man. We did all this lidar. It's going to be amazing. Amazing discovery. Brian Forrester uploaded a video like 11 years ago of him going on a tour of those tunnels. You could pay a guide 20 years ago to go on a tour of those tunnels. The Spanish were writing about them in the 1600s and the late 1500s.
The only reason that we didn't investigate these tunnels is because in the 30s was when archaeology started becoming a thing and going down there and checking out those skulls and shit. And at the exact same time, Madame Blavatsky and Edgar Cayce was like, you know, those tunnels that are supposed to be down there, I bet they were built by the Atlanteans.
And so ever since then, archaeologists have pooh-poohed it. There was a guy in the 2000s that he's an Atlantis hunter. He did ground penetrating radar in early 2000s, found those tunnels. They rejected his work. He had a priest that witnessed those tunnels, has been down in them. He was rejected out of hand. But that's okay because 25 years later, we found it.
I promise they didn't steal or sell anything in the last 100 years, that the world knew that these things existed. Rich people were going down there and throwing money around, and there was zero safeguards. So to circle back to the UFOs, the aliens there, it's like I have a real problem with that shit in Peru because I can't – It's just so tainted. It's so corrupt.
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Chapter 6: Can genetic anomalies explain ancient skull shapes?
I think that might be part of why Kamala was so worried about the unedited thing. You know, when Hillary fainted a few election cycles ago, that video would have never made the news in the 90s. They just got bought. Right. But fucking before they nobody knew it existed before it was posted. It was just like the dude and bam. And now the Internet has it as too fucking late.
So I think the real thing that did her in was call me. Oh, yeah. I think the investigation into the emails, I think that like in the middle of the that was brutal. That was crazy.
But what I'm getting at is that I think that that's especially for an older politician, somebody like Biden. How many decades of his life was he able to buy any video footage that was going to cause him any problems? He just fucking squashed that. two or three, and now it's like nothing. You slip and fall. You're going viral, buddy. There's nothing you can do about it.
Also, who's letting him walk up that fucking stair without having a catcher behind him? Oh, come on. I would have some giant dudes. Big old fucking linemen. Because if he's going down the stairs and you've got slippery shoes on, that's a fucking precarious catch. You've got a 180-pound man who stumbles and he falls backwards. Like, yay! Yo! That's the fucking president.
Don't just let him walk up that thing on his own with slippery shoes on.
After he fell the third time, why did they let him keep doing that? Maybe some of Gerald Ford's family was hoping he'd break the record.
People don't know.
Giving away our age here. The old Gerald Ford stuff.
Boy, that's old. That is. Next you're going to do a Nixon impression. Oh, God.
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Chapter 7: How do adaptations occur in isolated environments?
The lower class, lower and middle class lost $3.9 billion or trillion. Was it trillion? What was the transfer? It might have been trillion. I think it was like $3.9 trillion over the course of the pandemic. And then that money was transferred to the wealthiest people gained that money. How? What happened? Stocks? Mutual funds? What magic are you doing? You basically stole money.
Like something happened and through your policies you enabled the wealthiest people to get way wealthier and the poorer people to get way poorer. It's like 3.9 trillion. Is that correct? The transfer of wealth.
I know. I'm looking at an article in 2022. I didn't see anything newer.
Yeah, it's a newer one. They were talking about it really recently. They were talking about it like mirrors.
Exactly. $2.1 trillion. Something in there. $2 trillion. I see. What year is that? $5.2 trillion. There you go. I don't know. I'm seeing numbers.
So either way, let's be conservative and say it's $3 trillion. That's a crazy amount of money that gets transferred, and no one is freaked out that this was by policies, and this was by keeping everybody's business shut down. You could basically just take over because people still need to buy stuff.
And then these big companies that people have stock in, the stock goes way up, and then everybody gets wealthier. This is kind of nuts. Well, the progressives aren't outraged in this idea that it was protecting your health. But are you sure? Did you look at the data? Because it doesn't seem like it was.
Over several decades, this says it was $50 trillion. This was from during the pandemic, though.
Jesus.
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