Confronting Alt-History Conspiracies & Propaganda with @miniminuteman773 | MILO ROSSI | Bridges #20

On today’s episode we sit down to chat with Milo, or MiniMinuteMan, a YouTuber who focuses on archaeology, pseudoscience, and science communication. In this episode we chatted about pseudoscience and distrust of the institutions, and debunking creators who peddle in disinformation.

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00:00 - Start
1:35 - Intro Skip
2:37 - What Got Milo Into Archeology
5:30 - Academia and YouTube
9:52 - What Makes an Expert?
15:29 - YouTube, PhDs, and the Language of Science
23:11 - Metascience
24:29 - How to Avoid Fighting With Everyone
29:14 - When Are People Like Alex Jones Wrong?
33:34 - Academia's Ivory Tower
36:57 - Do Your Own Research
41:15 - Accountability in Culture with People Like Trump
45:22 - Everything is Politics, Antisemitic Dog Whistles
47:39 - Graham Hancock's Theories Rooted in Racism
49:33 - "Nothing Means Anything Anymore"
52:24 - Milo on the Alt-Right Pipeline
55:20 - Misinformed vs. Malicious
1:02:00 - Getting Accused of Taking EVIL Money
1:07:00 - Milo's Favorite Topics to Debunk
1:15:03 - The Difficulty of Learning and Teaching Science
1:22:33 - Building a Strong Scientific Foundation, and How Easy It Is to Be Wrong
1:27:40 - Paradigm Shifts Are Incremental
1:32:21 - Göbekli Tepe, History, GitHub, and Crosswords
1:40:26 - Time Keeps Getting Older
1:45:55 - Graham Hancock Is Correct About Underwater Ruins
1:47:10 - Hard Truths Are Red Flags: Cerutti Mastodon Site, Gunung Padang
1:53:03 - The Runaway Train of Bad Information
1:57:05 - Favorite Person to Debunk
2:02:01 - Anxiety, Mental Illness, Bad Actors, and Conspiracies
2:18:47 - Where to Find Milo and More

[BridgesStudio]

What guests would you like to see on future Bridges episodes?

[shnorbles]

Milo less "talks fast" and more "talks like he prepared a speech beforehand and is delivering it perfectly", man has truly maxed out charisma.

[MikeTsBees]

The Google Debunker and the Wikipedia Warrior together at last

[OliveOath]

"There are assholes in every group and sometimes they're scientists and right now they're you" goes SO HARD

[janpawedwa]

This was 40% podcast discussion and 60% competition who can talk faster, Milo or Steven. I dig it.

[mjzenbar]

I'm a professional archaeologist with a PhD (so part of "big archaeology" ;) ) and I very much appreciate what Milo does.

Milo is a very good communicator of archaeological information, which most archaeologists aren't. So I can point non-archaeologists towards his channel.

He also takes the time to break down pseudo-archaeology in a way that I don't have the time or patience to do. Which is great.

And he's just entertaining.

As to the credentials, archaeology has that too, but there is also a long history of working with avocationalists in the field - at least in some regions.

It wouldn't hurt if Milo went for a masters or a PhD, especially if it was for his own benefit, but he'd have to find a program that let him keep doing what he's doing and that would except his current work as a resume and a basis for course work. There are probably a number of archaeological professors out there that would make something like that work for Milo, based on the number that appreciate what he does on forums.

[cthlhu]

Steven continuing his campaign to overlap with my entire YouTube watch history

[Sabadasz]

Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with facts, and facts make me googledebunkers... Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once...

[robf]

Maybe the best guest so far. Milo was fucking *sharp, * and Destiny's finally found someone else who also talks at 2x speed. The flow from topic to topic was also really smooth, whereas with some guests it was like, "Ok cool... Sooo next topic."

[Gottkomplex]

I'll never forget the day my father said, and i quote, "I'm not a flat earther. I'm a globe skeptic." ...I've never been at a loss of words before till that day.

[colinthompson]

I’m an older Aussie that bloody loves Milo’s stuff. He is inspiring, fresh and grounded. We need more Milo.

[JesterTheEnt]

Bro XQC should talk like this more often, he comes off so much smarter when he doesnt sound French Canadian.

[Detailedlynx]

I can’t wait for my google to get debunkered here

[ethanthibodeaux]

Thanks for all you do! I’m currently on my journey of leaving pseudoscience and history behind. Being a life long conservative, it’s been rough coming to slowly realize that my alt right views were based on clever lies. However, the truth matters and the pursuit of it led me here, so I will not waste this opportunity to turn my life around. Thanks and God bless!

[cianmccarron]

"Science is behind a paywall" is so true. Even a lot of peer reviewed papers are often behind literal paywalls on the web.

[augustb.w.]

My god why is the googledebunkers hair so perfect in this show. Great guest and an insightful podcast episode!

[Zocress]

Can't wait. I love Milo Rossi's content. Let's go googlebunkers!

[raneenah]

Milo takes breaths like he's playing a wind instrument.

[grmpf]

I find it kind of charming that he's just as loud when he's sitting directly across from someone as he is alone in a big room filming his videos.

[goldenburger]

"A jack of all trades is a master of none but still always better then a master of one" I think that's the quote.