Istanbul University

I was living in Istanbul and, um, I was doing the kind of cultural writing that, um, you mentioned on my Instagram.

Um, and, and, and a person contacted me from, like, the, uh, Istanbul University scene, uh, sort of, uh, to say, "Would you like to come and do a TEDx?" You know, it's not the Californian TED without the x.

Right.

Right, yeah.

That would be the, what I've coined the Ararat civilization.

It is a series of archeological discoveries around Lake Van in Eastern Turkey that the archeological community, um, whether it's the, uh, Univer- It- University of Istanbul, University of Van, or any of these universities that are in there making those archeological excavations.

They have no idea what they found.

They believe that it's part of the wrong civilization by 8 to 10,000 years or more.

And then you have Saburç, the oldest narrative in the world, in Turkey, and the character that Graham Hancock thinks might be an earlier iteration of the Epic of Gilgamesh, is holding up a hand and it has six fingers.

And the lead archeologist, uh, Professor Karul, from [clears throat] Istanbul University, said, "The humanoids always have strange numbers of fingers, uh, digits.

Never five." So the book is littered with gems like that.

Like, holy shit.

So if I had an input in that manner, I just will feel myself very happy.

So basically, I graduated at 81 from the University of Istanbul.

And then I spent two years at the University of Kentucky in the U.S. And it was a nice mix because during the daytime, I was in the program.

And after 5 p.m., at the same level, same floor of the Department of Prostodontics, they had the dental technician school.