Secrets Hidden In Ancient AI Worlds (ALLEGEDLY)!

🚀 Episode 23 of the Vale & Mark Podcast 🚀

(Ancient Trails Part 2)
🔱 Ancient Trails: Innovations Lost To Time

What if the greatest technologies humanity ever created… have already been forgotten?
In this second chapter of Ancient Trails, Vale and Mark dig deeper into the ruins — and the riddles — of civilizations that once defied the limits of their age. From Incan engineering that rivaled modern precision, to Mayan astronomy that predicted cosmic patterns centuries ahead, this episode explores how brilliance can vanish, and why rediscovery always comes at a cost.

👉 Discover:
🌎 How LiDAR is revealing lost cities in the Andes and Amazon — rewriting what we thought we knew about human innovation
🪶 The ingenuity behind Incan roads, aqueducts, and architecture that outlasted earthquakes
🎭 The myth of Orpheus and the “27 Club” — the eternal dance between creation, loss, and legacy
🔥 Why the Mayans’ mastery of time and sacrifice may hold clues to our obsession with progress
🔮 Whether forgotten technologies are waiting to be remembered… or better left buried

As always, expect wit, wonder, and Vale’s trademark cynicism.
Because sometimes, to understand the future — you have to excavate the arrogance of the past.

Chapter:

00:00 Cold Opening

01:42 Intro

01:55 Unceremonious Beginning

02:13 What is LiDAR exactly?

03:19 Where can you find lost cities discovered by LiDAR?

04:27 How does LiDAR work?

05:31 LiDAR drones

06:42 Andean cultures

09:47 How do we learn from the past?

11:09 AI is unlocking ancient secrets

12:13 The Mayan mirror

13:00 Why were Mayans once believed to be peaceful philosophers?

14:29 The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice

15:49 Hendrix, Joplin, and Morrison

16:51 The archetypical artistic lost soul

18:30 What can we learn from Orpheus?

19:10 What does Vale think about the 27 Club?

19:58 Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues

20:55 The Legend of Rock and Roll

22:00 ChatGPT and a soul for sound

23:05 Didn't stick the landing

24:00 Cold Closing

24:50 Outro

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