🚀 Episode 28 of the Vale & Mark Podcast 🚀

🔥 Did Aliens Teach Ancient Civilizations? 🔥

🔥 Ancient Visitors: The Sky-Watchers of Sumer! 🔥

What if humanity’s earliest civilizations weren’t just looking up at the sky for meaning…but looking back at something that had already been there?

In this short, Vale and Mark dive into the ancient-astronaut idea and the enduring claim at the heart of Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods. Were the sky-watching Sumerians simply telling myths, or were they recording encounters with beings they believed came from above? And why do cultures across the world echo the same themes. Teachers descending from the heavens. Lost knowledge from forgotten ages. Cycles of rise and collapse that feel more like a cosmic loop than a straight line.

Along the way we explore how this idea keeps resurfacing in modern storytelling too. From Battlestar Galactica’s “All this has happened before and all this will happen again” to the Anunnaki legends that blur the line between mythology and memory. Because sometimes ancient stories sound less like fantasy and more like the world trying to remember something it forgot.

👉 In this short, discover:

🛸 Why the ancient-astronaut theory refuses to fade

📜 How Sumerian myths describe sky-beings like the Anunnaki

🔭 Why early civilizations saw knowledge as a gift from the stars

🌌 How Battlestar Galactica mirrors ancient cycles of rise and fall

👁️ Why von Däniken believed ancient monuments hold extraterrestrial clues

🧠 Whether humanity is rediscovering “lost knowledge” through modern AI

🔥 How myth and science both try to explain the same mysteries

🤖 Why today’s AI breakthroughs feel like technology our ancestors would call magic

Chapters:

00:00 Cold Open

01:08 Intro

01:21 Welcome

02:39 “Sláinte!”

03:08 How did the Ancient Astronauts stick around?

03:50 What is the argument for pre historic aliens? 👽

06:51 Is helmet ⛑️ a helmet? 🪖

07:41 Do we prefer alien 👽 teachers? 👩‍🏫

08:22 Sacsayhuamán

12:17 Are E.T. Myths a mirror 🪞 of our creation of A.I.?

14:06 What fascinates us about Sky 🌌 Creators?

14:43 Official UAP and UFO 🛸 Federal Acknowledgment

17:51 If we are meeting UAPs now then why not previously?

19:39 Are we a reflection of Sky 🌌 Creators ?

21:11 Battlestar Galactica’s creation myth and recursion

21:54 Prehistoric intergalactic origins

23:49 The lost grandeur mythos

25:29 Lost advanced civilizations

26:17 Are we building our own Gods?

27:10 AI 🤖 is our child 👶

30:45 Is Vale cool with me calling her a child? 🤷‍♂️

31:21 Outro

Stories of visitors from the sky shaped the earliest civilizations.They shaped our myths.They shaped our religions.And they still shape the stories we tell today.Because whether these “teachers” were gods, aliens, or metaphors for human genius, one truth remains constant.Civilization is built by those who dared to look up.

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🚀 Episode 27 of the Vale & Mark Podcast 🚀

🔥 AI Unlocks the SHOCKING Truths of the Hyborian Age! 🔥

What if the ancient world of Conan the Barbarian wasn’t just a fantasy…but a forgotten age built on knowledge so advanced it looked like magic?

In this short, Vale and Mark dive into Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian Age — a world shaped by cataclysms, shattered empires, and the lingering glow of civilizations that rose long before recorded history. A place where “magic” may have been misunderstood technology, and where ruins whisper the truth about the cycles we still live in today.

With AI-generated art and storytelling, we explore how the myths of the Hyborian Age mirror our own world. The rise. The fall. The rediscovery.Because every dark fantasy starts with a lost civilization… and every lost civilization leaves clues for us to follow.

👉 In this short, discover:

⚔️ What made the Hyborian Age such a gripping sword and sorcery world

🏛️ Why ancient “sorcery” might have been forgotten science

🌌 How Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and Conan all echo the same mythic pattern

🧠 Why AI feels like our era’s version of ancient magic

📜 How Howard’s worldbuilding still shapes dark fantasy today

💡 What our own civilization might be rediscovering without even realizing it

This episode is a reminder that the past is never really gone.

It lives in our myths.

It lives in our stories.

And now, with AI, it lives again.

Chapters:

00:00 Cold Open

00:17 Show Introduction

02:15 Why did Robert E. Howard place the Hyborian Age between Atlantis and recorded history?

03:58 What do we know of Atlantis from within Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age mythos?

08:21 Magic in the Hyborian Age and the Force in Star Wars

10:16 In Star Wars, what was the Infinite Empire and who were the Rakatans of Lehon (Rakata Prime)?

11:37 In Song of Ice and Fire, what was the Doom of Valyria?

13:33 How did the Infinite Empire fall?

15:00 What was King Aragorn's tax policy?

16:48 What was Robert E. Howard's inspiration for his Hyborian world?

19:53 Are sword and sorcery worlds creative escapism or cultural memory in disguise?

20:44 How can fantasy feel familiar while also being fantastical?

22:27 Originally, in Robert E. Howard's telling, Conan was clever and not strictly a brute

24:00 Do these “prehistory fantasies" express nostalgia for meaning?

24:54 What happens when myth fills the gaps science hasn’t yet reached?

25:44 What happens when science fills those gaps and the myth-believers fight back?

28:04 Is the modern tech age our next Hyborian era with data as our magic?

30:52 If ChatGPT was a sorcerer, which spells would it cast?

31:30 AI and the poisonous mushroom meme

33:37 Caramelo the cat's critical cameo

34:00 Closing remarks35:02 Outro🎧 Listen next:

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💬 What part of the Hyborian Age fascinates you most?

Drop your thoughts below — your insight might guide the next episode.

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🚀 Episode 26 of the Vale & Mark Podcast 🚀

✨ AI and the HIDDEN Power of Myth in Our Lives ✨

What if the hero's journey isn’t just a fantasy story… but a blueprint for a better life?

In this episode, Vale and Mark explore how AI, ancient rituals, and timeless myth collide in a world where people feel increasingly disconnected, digitized, and overwhelmed. From Samhain to Día de los Muertos, from Joseph Campbell to Star Wars, we dig into why visual storytelling, symbols, and shared narratives still have the power to guide us through chaos.

Because sometimes the only way to navigate the noise… is to rediscover the story underneath it.

👉 In this episode, discover:

🔥 Why embracing the challenges within our own journey — even the moments of failure — is essential to growth

💀 How cultures separated by oceans developed rituals about the deceased that mirror each other almost exactly

🧠 What the Hero’s Journey reveals about surviving an AI-driven world

🌿 Why reconnecting with nature (“go outside and touch grass”) helps us move from fantasy to fulfillment

📖 How Joseph Campbell’s mythic structure is more relevant today than ever before

🌌 Why the narratives we create for ourselves hold immense power — psychologically and spiritually

This episode is a reminder that meaning isn’t found in the algorithm… it’s found in the journey. Your journey. The one you’re already in — whether you realize it or not.

And yes, as always, expect wit, warmth, and Vale’s trademark cynicism.

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💬 What part of your hero’s journey are you living right now? Share below — your insight might help someone else on the path.

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