The Joe Rogan Experience - #2563 - Dan Richards

Dan Richards is an independent researcher whose YouTube channel, "DeDunking the Past," examines lost civilizations and alternative history.www.youtube.com/@DeDunkingwww.patreon.com/DeDunking Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Get 30% off + 2 free gifts at https://ARMRA.com/rogan This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/JRE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Broadcast on: 08 Oct 2026
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Dan Richards is an independent researcher whose YouTube channel, "DeDunking the Past," examines lost civilizations and alternative history.
www.youtube.com/@DeDunking
www.patreon.com/DeDunking

Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan.

Get 30% off + 2 free gifts at https://ARMRA.com/rogan

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- Joe Rogan playing fast, check it out. - The Joe Rogan, experience. - Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (upbeat rock music) - Danny, hey Joe, good to see you brother. - Good to see you too man. So right off the bat, you hand me this Smithsonian pamphlet. It's like a very small book on Peruvian elongated skulls, including like diagrams. - Yeah, not Peruvian. These are from the Pacific Northwest. From Washington, this is one of the things where I wanted to really bring up to you. The majority of the elongated skulls in recorded history are from Washington state. - Wow, yeah. - Now are these manipulated skulls? - Yes sir, they were manipulated by people. As a matter of fact, when Lewis and Clark reached the Columbia River and they passed the Cascade Mountains, all of the Native Americans west of the Cascades had artificially modified skulls. Look at the title of the book is the Chinook sign of freedom. If you didn't have an artificially modified skull, you were a slave. - Wow, the Chinook sign of freedom, a study that skulls the famous chief, how do you say his name? - Concomly. - Concomly. - And he was, he met with Lewis and Clark during their expedition. And he was as famous as Sacajawea was 100 years ago, but he just disappeared. He had an artificially elongated skull, a bunch of images, talk about it. He attributed his intellect to his artificially elongated skull. - What? - Yeah, that he, they believed-- - How would you know though? - They don't. - They did it when you were a baby. - Exactly, but that's what they all believed. And there is actually something too. This is one of the things that's really interesting that I've stumbled on is, you know, Neanderthal, if you look at the difference between a Neanderthal brain case and a human brain case is a huge difference. Like I have an image, if you don't mind,

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