After a few weeks of research and weighing the pros and cons, I believe that what we call the temple mount today is actually a Roman fort and that the real temple was 600 feet away in what is called the City of David. You can see a documentary about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKTO8YYs29c&t=2298s. In this podcast, I discuss the theory and talk about some of the arguments against it.
You can see this podcast as a video here: https://youtu.be/VnrzCRXmu0c
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