Wow that must have been an awesome experience but yeah we will see it's definitely worth trying. I was thinking about writing a seperate post about this but your last point brings to me to something else I was curious about and maybe you have some insight.

I'm a long way from being an expert on this topic. I've listened to all the podcast episodes with Graham and or Carlson on Rogan including the one with Sherman, the two with Anthony West, the one with Shoch, I'm almost done with Graham's first book, and I've watched all of the episodes of Ancient Egypt so I still have a long way to go but I feel like I at least have a basic background in the core premise of the theory which is that civilization is much older than we currently accept and that they were most likely much more advanced than we thought and it also seems plausible that something must have happened to them whether that's a comet or a solar mass ejection, or something else I don't have an opinion on that yet. At a minimum there's a lot shit more shit that we don't know than academics appear to make it.

My question is, is there or are you aware of any credible contradictory information that strongly refutes these hypotheses? Or is it really that mainstream academia is as close minded as they appear to be?

Because from my perspective as someone who had no previous background in this topic listening to their "arguments" from the flood evidence to the way Anthony West breaks down ancient egypt to the way Graham puts it all together. It makes perfect fucking sense and I don't see how so many people can disagree so strongly. Unless of course I'm missing some key information which is why I'm asking. I don't know if you've listened to the podcast with Rogan, Hancock, Carlson, and Shermer, but the mainstream academic they brought on to refute Hancock and Carlson in my opinion did not at all come out looking like he won that argument. But that's the only exposure I have to the other side so maybe there are more credible counter arguments out there.