00:00.00 kinkella Hello and welcome back to the pseudo archeology podcast episode 137 I'm your host Dr Andrew King Kella and we are wrapping up. Thank god atlantis now when I last teased you. In the previous segment I said I would tell you friends the location of the lost continent of Atlantis now you ready you ready to write this down my friends Atlantis is everywhere and nowhere. At the same time imagine that and I think we should give plato a call Plato it's everywhere and nowhere at the same time discuss. Of course it is because well I hate to break it to you after all this, it's fake. It's a story but of course every. Crap pseudo documentary on tv on the history channel or whatever is going to deal with this how many dozens of pseudo documentaries deal with this right? It's all the time now I will say I don't mind a lot of. A lot of modern like documentaries and series. You know whether on the discovery channel or whatever they they will touch on Atlantis or talk about it first. They'll talk about the more crazy aspects of it. But then they'll wind down to a modern interpretation or they'll tell you it's just a story or whatever because people are so interested in the story. 01:33.92 kinkella Right? So I don't mind when they set up that so just because a documentary talks about Atlantis or something doesn't mean that it's ah immediately horrible or something. But um, it's only horrible if they stay with like oh yeah, atlanis is real. You know I will say one thing I really don't like. 01:53.63 kinkella About modern documentaries I'm sure I brought this up before is that they they do that awful crap trick where they end with like well there's no such thing as Atlantis or is there. Oh god like get a spine and go. There's no such thing as Atlantis let's be adults you know, have you ever been like where are all the adults like what happened to the adults are we like a nation of children I mean we we can't take that. No seriously atlantis is a bedtime story right? We can't take it so instead of being adults and just taking that. Um, we've been looking for it of course forever. What are some of the main places where people have said Atlantis is now you guys. There are so many it it literally is everywhere like every island in the mediterranean of course because ah Greece is in the Mediterranean so you're going to pick every island. Oh. It's. 03:03.29 kinkella Crete you know whatever? Um, and then onward you're going to do the azores because they're off the coast of Europe you're Goingnna. There's islands in the caribbean which again we're just flights of fancy silliness has nothing to do with reality. Um, the ones that tend to creep up the most in no particular order I'll give you these the the one that you'll hear about a lot is like the island of santaini. Yeah oh island of santaini that's one which is an island in the Mediterranean so and again the the. Geography is vaguely okay and there is a true story to the island of Santerinia and this is the ferra eruption in the sixteenth century bc so this is a long time ago, right? This is a volcanic eruption that happened over thirty five hundred years ago and this would even have been a long time ago for the greeks. Okay, when Plato was writing the thera eruption was already 1200 years old so the the eruption is its own cool true story right? It it must have really screwed up trade in the eastern mediterranean because what this was. Um, santaini is is a is a just a volcanic island right? little volcanic island in the middle of the Mediterranean and when the the volcano on it when there are like the there eruption the island just basically exploded if you look online to an image of the island today. 04:31.28 kinkella It's like it looks like a letter o right? There's like nothing in the middle there used to be stuff in the middle. You know it literally exploded what where it where is there a today outer space. You know it. It just literally I mean. For anyone living on that island I dont know I mean I guess a handful of people must have survived but good god imagine that your island is literally a volcano that that has it extreme explosive eruption. The eruption is so big that of course it it devastated trade and um. You know networks and that kind of thing in the in the eastern mediterranean this is something at that time you know sixteenth century bc that is something that that people like the egyptians would have really experienced the the fallout from that right? and some of the other cultures from that time. But. Plato writing Atlantis Twelve hundred years later is not necessarily going to even care or know about santaini now some people really do a deep dive and they go well, it's the best possibility of all possibilities like that. Plato was just kind of using that real happening as kind of a basis and I used to be okay with that like I would tell my students look if you want an atlantis then just have santerini but in my old age of anger. 06:05.52 kinkella Post motorcycle accident I'm unlike screw it now right? The chances of um Plato even thinking of that are basically nil how many things again, we're in we're in you know 2024? How many thanks from twelve hundred years ago how many things from 800 a d. Influence you on a daily basis. Yeah I'll I'll say it with you nothing right? How many how many natural events from 800 a d earlier. Are you like? Oh yeah, I might use that as part of my story now. So the answer is no right. Plato didn't use santorinia all come on. He made it up. You know as. And it's an easy thing to make up it again. Atlantis totally makes sense when you're using it as a foil against Athens. So now. Um, I'm tired of the sanarini thing it like let's not bring that up anymore. No, it does not relate to Atlantis. Okay. It's a cool story by itself. It's really great in terms of um, like ancient um near Eastern Mediterranean history it's super important but not for Atlantis ok second another one that comes up. Ah a lot is I believe you pronounce it the the. The re the reshat structure or the richet structure I always forget but people have asked me this I've even talked about this a little once on one of these shows? Um, but of course they they yeah on the show I was on because I care about you people? um. 07:37.59 kinkella We talked about that and then went to oh the realities. There's no such thing as Atlantis. So um, the reshot structures this is a geological formation in the middle of Africa so right there you're like Atlantis in the middle of Africa I know it's moronic. But. What's cool about the the the reshat structure is that it's just this circular geological formation like if you fly over it. It looks like you'll hear but like the the eye of the desert. You know it's this It's this large kind of um, um. Again, circular concentric ringed like stone outcrop basically large stone outcrop that's been weathered away so it really looks like kind of an eye like this huge geological eye looking at you. But of course since it has several um concentric rings out of it. People like oh yeah, it's Atlantis. It's just like Atlantis was structured remember how I said it had several um concentric moats around it. So just because this geological formation has some circles around it. They're like oh must be Atlantis that makes no sense whatsoever. It is a geological formation. Um, I'm not part of big archeology telling you lies although I want to join big archeology if any of you if you send me a phone number and email I I need that because I mean they owe me big archeology owes me a lot of money like a lot. So um. 09:09.21 kinkella Anyway, yeah, you'll hear about that one. You'll hear about like and of course ah if it's an article. Ah it'll start with some crappy clickbait headline like Atlantis in Africa. Ah, no yeah now. Um. Again, where do I even go from that. It's just so lame I can't even joke about it I can't be like you know there's there's nothing. It's like pathetic I think the word pathetic works best like let it go the last one they go here is the stones of Atlantis the stones of Atlantis where are they are they in the. Are they in the Mediterranean um, no, they're in the Bahamas they're in the caribbean um I'd study the stones of atlantas too because I could hang out on the bahamas you know you guys? Maybe I should say this the stones of Atlantis are real and I need to go study them right away and maybe for like a month. Um, if you can pay my expenses that'd be great. 10:05.43 kinkella So the stones of Atlantis are these square shaped again. Geological formation. That's only in like twenty feet of water or something. It's real it's real shallow it's this it. They look like these square pillows in a row. It's cool it it looks you know? From first glance, you go ooh. That's kind of interesting but it's in. Easily explainable geological formation like that's it. It's a cool geological formation. There's nothing human made about it in any any way in any way. No, it's geological. Nobody made it the atlanteans didn't make it the. Ah, modern cultures of the Bahamas didn't make it the earth made it yep and that one again is just extra stupid again if I if I was in the Bahamas I'd totally go so ah like snorkeling or scuba diving over there just for laughs just to be like look at me over at the stones of Atlantis and it's a great tourist. Attraction. You know that's cool, but the reality of it is moronic right? Yeah Plato was talking about some square stones half a world away that was ah, not um, that was connected in no way to what he was talking about I mean yeah, what can I do? What can I do people so and of course. Stones of Atlantis the Bahamas one was used by Graham Hancock our friend Graham Hancock and ancient apocalypse right? he went there and he went scuba diving and stuff and don't you get his his grift there. He got a free trip to the Bahamas good for him should I do it to I think the Graham Hancock and I should both go. 11:39.85 kinkella To the stones of Atlantis and go scuba diving and he should show me. He should show me the evidence of atlanteans I think I think I think he he needs to do this right? Graham you need to drop me line dude I'm I'm scuba scuba certified I'm ra I'm ready to roll you need to you need to. Confront me you should so. It's just I mean again, the adults ah does anyone can you give me just again a line to an adult that I can talk to um so. 12:17.50 kinkella Those are the big 3 that I hear but of course there's others always trying to attach an island that sunk under the ocean you know to this atlantean mythology which is what it is now. Why has this survived so long. It's because we want it so bad. Don't you isn't a world with an Atlantis a more interesting Awesome world. Absolutely I vote I am pro atlantis you guys I want there to be in Atlantis because it would be so interesting right? But that is the child in me. Okay, the adult who knows facts. Knows that there is no such thing and is okay with that because I'm used to living in the modern world. It would be the same as if we were so on a search for tattooine now I love star wars I love tattooine but I'm not going to search for tattooine. Because it's a story but um, do look out for me in the next documentary tattooing unveiled mysteries of the real world and with that. 13:33.94 kinkella I'll see you guys next time.