00:00.00 kinkella Hello and welcome to the pseudo archeology podcast episode 138 I am your host Dr Andrew Cankela and tonight if you thought Atlantis was stupid welcome to the land of mo. Which rhymes with bow all right I'm just going to start out with an apology as per usual I'm sorry you guys I'm sorry you have to go through this with me. But as always my pain gets a little better when I turn it in to our pain and this one you know what before I even get into this I'm just gonna talk about myself I'm just talk about myself for a while. So ah. What when are we we recording this in March um I just had a birthday recently I'm still alive so that's cool and it's doubly cool because I am healing from my motorcycle accident those of you who you know only listen to this to hear how I am. 01:16.88 kinkella Um, and I do really appreciate my health because you know when you have ah when you have like a motorcycle and I'm not here to say my motorcycle accident was like insane. You know I didn't have to I didn't have to go to the hospital or anything I did go to urgent care. Um, and I didn't break anything. Although I got really close but um, it's just it's nice when that stuff kind of heals and you know if any of this kind of thing has happened to you guys at least for me I'm like man the human body is an amazing thing. You know so ah. That's kind of where I'm at I'll also say that since we're recording here in early march it's finally at least in Southern California getting a little bit sunnier. Um a little bit nicer out. Finally we had a very wet winter and and I have to say that I think I get a little depressed. You know with that like um, sad like what is it called the the daylight thing where where you know you don't have enough daylight in your life I think it I think it brings me down a little and you know you know friends because of that I think you should blame the sun. 02:32.56 kinkella You should blame the sun for what I'm about to talk about today. Yeah, it's the sun's fault for not coming up enough because man we're going to do mo and what I find in all this pseudo archeology stuff is you basically have. 2 roads to Stupidville right? and road number one to Stupidville is the stupid fun road and that road is a nice road. Some of us have been on that road. Um with me when we did things like. The mystery spot remember that one way back. We did like the thing. Um, even I would even argue even Atlantis has has has some fun to it from time to time you know, but others. 03:27.40 kinkella The other road road number 2 is not stupid fun. It's stupid stupid you know and on stupid stupid road is like my my perennial least favorite which is ancient mya astronauts. Ah, just so freaking dumb. But. 03:46.69 kinkella Along that note also comes Moo the lost I can't even ah the lost continent of moe all right? So in dealing you know this one's actually it's funny dealing with the lost continent of moo is it's one of them that's It's really easy like there's really not much to say and it's also kind of hard and um, a little difficult at the same time because a lot of things as we're going to see a lot of things kind of come together at the same time. To make this foolishness possible. Oh this couldn't happen just any time friends. It had to be a special time and place for all for the alignment of stupidity to form a huge stupid laser that hit all of us. And so it's going to bring in It's going to bring in people who we've talked about in the past is going to bring in like brassir to bo borg and Augustus Sleeplone Jean Ignatius Donelly like all these people kind of they have to come together to make the stupid stew. You know it's just not one person. It's all together. It's a community of stupid to make this. Yeah, it's like they come together and also it's so funny as I um made my notes for this. 05:14.16 kinkella I was like man I've said this before on this podcast I was like man I got to do a like an overarching podcast on mayanism because this 1 touches on that too again. Mayanism is like this new agey belief where it takes it kind of has its roots. In maya culture. But then it like twists it and bastardizes it and makes us that it this sort of thin new age bullshit thing you know, but I I've been surprised at even me as a maya archeologist right. Been surprised how much mayanism has kind of influenced a lot of these stories that I tell you guys. So that's a note to me The other note is that man I think I got to do a real podcast on cracking the maya code because. Keep coming back to kind of the translation of the my hieroglyphics and that kind of stuff and I realize I'm like man I got to tell everyone kind of the story of the cracking of the maya code because you guys the story of the cracking of the maya code is fascinating I love that story I love telling it to my students. Um the cracking of the maya code. 06:28.50 kinkella Is it's great in a lot of different ways. But what's cool is it's kind of opposite or very different from the translation of egyptian hieroglyphics right instead of sort of 1 singular person or a main person you have a series of people often those who aren't. Academics at all, you know and so that that story is just is just great. So yeah, ah, in time I got to do a podcast on mine isism podcast on cracking in the maya code um to kind of make everything. Makes sense so where does that leave us. Um, it leaves us at talking about the lost continent of moe. Um, obviously this is a counterpoint. To Atlantis right? But the difference is even though Atlantis is Fake Atlantis has a very deep history of being fake right? and we just covered that in the previous podcast in one thirty seven we went over atlantis and we talked about how it sprang out of Plato's brain you know and then it was just such a good story that it kind of kept within our kind of cultural memory right? The story just keeps getting told and told and told again and it's so interesting that people want to um. 07:59.84 kinkella They they want to know like the real basis of this and it's very um, unsatisfying when you know or learn that the basis is nothing. It's ah it's a made up story. That's just been told and retold. There's nothing real about it and so that's so. 08:18.71 kinkella Uninspiring but true and factual that that people just will never ever let it go and so one of the fallouts of never letting atlantis go since Atlantis is all about. The old world. It's all about Europe right? It's really about the Mediterranean world but there's been enough idiotic interpretations of Atlantis where sometimes they push it out into the atlantic right? So over time people have been like wait. If. There was an ancient civilization in the Atlantic. well well well friends there's one other ocean that's even bigger and if it's even bigger. It must be even better and that I'm talking about is the pacific ocean what about the ancient culture that fell under the waves in the pacific. So that's where this comes from right and so the set up the geography of mo the geography ah is if if you look at um, these made up maps of Moo and the and the idea of mo is much is much more recent. I'll I'll I'll in a minute I'll I'll give you a setup of kind of where it comes from from the 18 like the 1860 s 1870 s 1880 s the geography of mo is basically this huge continent that like covers most of the pacific ocean. 09:48.13 kinkella The idea is that Moo was this supercontinent that um, had you know, super intelligent ah group of people there who of course were the um were the ancient ancestors of all high civilization you know and. It's sunk under the waves and all that's left are the polynesian islands right? be it Hawaii be it. Easter Island be it Fiji pick your poison. Those islands are just the remnants of a supercontinent that has fallen beneath the waves now already. You're like. But Kin Keller what about this thing I like to call geology I'm like I know realize that the story of Moo comes about um it comes about in the 1890 s but it's really pushed in the. Early nineteen hundreds which is actually before modern plate tectonics is is accepted by science right? and we'll talk about that too about how um we'll touch a little on plate tectonics and continental drift and how like that didn't even really come into. Ah. Major scientific usage until the 1950 s so does modern science negate all aspects of moo yes course it does now at this point. 11:19.47 kinkella I can't even believe you're still listening because you're like kill a man like you haven't even really given me the like step by step setup of Moo and I'm like I know I haven't and I will do that. But you know what? I'm gonna do first I'm gonna take a break deal with it.