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The 12th Planet

by Zecharia Sitchin · Recommended by 5 people on 3 podcasts

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That's a fascinating take on the ancient Sumerian texts.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2020 Listen at 2:20:32

What they say about it

Grouped from 9 mentions
  • Interpretation of Sumerian texts“ancient Sumerian texts”
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  • Gold mining and human creation“gold mine workers”
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The best things said about it

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So what this this book is trying to say is the reason why humans are obsessed with gold is cu like the aliens designed us to mine and get the gold and then they would use that gold to protect their atmosphere so they impregnated us with this idea that gold has value.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2023
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His book was all about planet Nibiru and that the Sumerian texts were when you when you decipher them correctly they all describe this ancient race that came from this other planet.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Dec 2017
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How we've been colonized for 400,000 years, starting in South Africa, where they took apes and genetically made them into like gold mine workers.
Al Jourgensen Monday Morning Podcast · Mar 2026
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The Sumerian tablets talk about how their atmosphere was eroding.
Kurt Metzger The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2025
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Sitchin's idea that started with The 12th Planet and continued on again through so many books where there's other details more complications all kinds of stuff.
Ben Bowlin Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · Aug 2025

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Why people recommend it

The 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin explores alternative human origins and ancient astronaut theories derived from Sumerian texts. On the Monday Morning Podcast, Al Jourgensen spoke with Bill Burr about how ancient alien narratives suggest humanity has been colonized for hundreds of thousands of years, referencing how beings manipulated apes into becoming gold mine workers. Stuff They Don't Want You To Know hosts Matt Frederick and Ben Bowlin discussed the book in relation to the Anunnaki narrative, noting that Sitchin's breakout work established the foundational theories and subsequent complications of these ideas. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Kurt Metzger, Sam Tallent, Tim Pool, and host Joe Rogan frequently brought up Sitchin's book. Rogan highlighted the premise that humans were genetically designed by extraterrestrial visitors to extract gold, which the aliens allegedly needed to protect their eroding atmosphere, and noted how this concept planted the enduring human obsession with gold. The speakers collectively referenced Sitchin's alternative interpretation of ancient Sumerian texts to explain conspiracy theories surrounding human creation, ancient colonization, and extraterrestrial intervention in early human history.

Every mention

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Joe Rogan first of all the the story of this the the Fantastic story is told by Zacharias hin so zecharias sitchin wh… 4
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“first of all the the story of this the the Fantastic story is told by Zacharias hin so zecharias sitchin who wrote the 12th Planet and he wrote uh several other books”
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“so what this this book is trying to say is the reason why humans are obsessed with gold is cu like the aliens designed us to mine and get the gold and then they would use that gold to protect their atmosphere so they impregnated us with this idea that gold has value”
Discussed
“that's all zecharia sitchin yes it is I've heard the name and stuff he wrote a book called the 12th planet that's a fascinating take on the ancient Sumerian texts”
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“but it was based on Zecharia Sitchin's book the 12th planet and his book was all about planet Nibiru and that the Sumerian texts were when you when you decipher them correctly they all describe this ancient race that came from this other planet”
Al Jourgensen and it was written by l ron hubbard which is basically the same thing that this ancient aliens guy Zecharia… 2
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“It was written by Elron Hubard, which is basically the same thing that this ancient aliens guy Zachariah Sitchin wrote in his book, The 12th Planet, about how we've been colonized for 400,000 years, starting in South Africa, where they took apes and genetically made them into like gold mine workers because they needed gold dust to protect their uh”
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“and it was written by l ron hubbard which is basically the same thing that this ancient aliens guy Zecharia Sitchin wrote in his book the 12th planet about how we've been colonized for four hundred thousand years”
Ben Bowlin So if we go along with Sitchin's idea that started with the 12th planet and continued on again through so m… 1
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“So if we go along with Sitchin's idea that started with the 12th planet and continued on again through so many books where there's other details more complications all kinds of stuff”
Kurt Metzger this is in Zechariah cens the 12th Planet and so what he said is that the Sumerian Tablets talk about how t… 1
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“this is in Zechariah cens the 12th Planet and so what he said is that the Sumerian Tablets talk about how their atmosphere was eroding”
Matt Frederick is the 12th planet. Uh and he says this story or this narrative is readily apparent to anybody who has half… 1
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“is the 12th planet. Uh and he says this story or this narrative is readily apparent to anybody who has half their jimmies about them”

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