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Joe Rogan Experience #2362 - Ralph Barbosa

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
So, let's go. What are you doing?
We playing with magnets?
Yeah, man. I'm checking out all your toys.
What'd you say this guy's name is? Travis?
That's Travis Walton.
And he's a guy that got abducted, allegedly,
by some sort of a UFO in the 1970s.
And the story was so crazy that it became a movie.
It's called Fire in the Sky.
And I don't know, like I said, I don't know if he's telling the truth,
but it's very compelling.
He doesn't seem like a liar.
And he's been telling the exact same story for 40-plus years.
I think he's telling the truth.
You think so?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know anybody.
I mean, personally, I don't know anybody who's kept up a lie for that long.
There's got to be someone.
There's got to be someone that's like,
I think people can make a story up and then only keep that lie.
Usually, generally, when people lie about stuff,
they'll lie about a bunch of stuff, especially something that crazy.
They took me aboard a UFO and they fixed me.
So this is the story.
The story was these guys were all loggers in Arizona.
And so they're driving down this logging road and they see some crazy light in
the sky and it goes into this area.
They pull off to the side of the road.
They walk towards it.
And there's this disc that's hovering, this glowing disc.
He walks towards it and he got really close to it and he got hit with a beam of
light.
And he falls back.
Like, that's supposedly what it looked like.
That's the art.
The art depiction of it.
What these guys saw.
He gets hit with this beam of light and they take off.
They're like, fuck.
And they did jump back in the truck and take off.
He's lying on the ground.
And they get like five minutes away and they're yelling at each other.
We got to go back.
We got to go get him.
They were scared.
And they're like, fuck it.
Let's go back.
So they go back to go get their friend and he's gone.
So five days later, there's, you know, there's a manhunt for him.
Nobody can find him.
Five days later, he shows up, walks into town.
He's fully, it doesn't look like he's starving to death.
He's not out of water.
It doesn't look like he's been living in the woods.
It just looks like he just like a normal day.
And he tells this crazy story.
He tells this story that he got abducted.
They took him aboard this craft and fixed his body because the beam of light
that came out of the ship from whatever, whatever it was, whatever energy
source it was, fucked his body up.
They repaired it and they communicated with him telepathically while they were
on the ship.
I forget all the details of it, but this is the film of it.
But this is supposedly what he said the experience was like.
He said it was terrifying.
And he described, the thing that's crazy is that they all describe the same
exact creatures.
They describe these little...
Who is they?
People that get abducted.
Oh.
People that have had UFO experiences.
Anybody that's had direct contact.
Did you ever see that movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
I saw that movie, The Fourth Kind, when I was in middle school.
What's that one?
Is that an abduction one where they come get you?
Yeah.
It's like, man, I only watched it once.
It scared the shit out of me.
I think people go on their hypnosis and they remember what their abduction was
like or something like that.
Yeah.
Yeah, don't quote me on that.
Well, the third kind, I think, is contact.
I think Close Encounters of the First Kind is like you see it.
I don't know what the second kind is.
This is like a list of the kinds.
The fourth kind, derived, explanation is J. Allen Hynek's classification of
Close Encounters with Aliens.
The fourth kind denotes alien abductions.
Dun, dun, dun.
Yeah, yeah, that one.
I like how we talk about aliens like it's like feeling on the girl, like second
base.
Like, yeah, did you get to the fourth kind?
Get to the fourth base.
She takes you home.
Yeah.
Nah, but his friends, they, like, his friends that left him, I mean, they saw
it.
Yeah.
They all have the same story.
That has to be real.
I don't think he's going to convince these guys.
Probably not, but maybe you could.
It's like, it's not impossible.
It's not like the, it's like breathing underwater, that's impossible, right?
Okay.
Flapping your wings to the top of a cliff, you fly away, that's impossible.
Keeping a lie is possible.
It's not likely.
It doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense.
One of the reasons why it doesn't make sense is Travis and one of the guys in
the truck had gotten into a fist fight that same day.
Like, they didn't like each other.
They hated each other.
They were workers.
They were just coworkers.
You know, logging is hard fucking work, man.
You're cutting trees and carrying trees and it's backbreaking, brutal labor.
And you get hard men.
Loggers are bad motherfuckers, man.
My friend Evan, his whole family is from loggers.
And they're just, he's like, they're the hardest fucking people you've ever met
in your life.
Just hard men.
Like, doing this shit deep into their 60s and 70s, carrying logs.
Just, just a different breed of human being.
So, uh, they fucking didn't get along.
And they got in a fist fight that day.
So why lie for him?
Why would you lie for him?
Exactly.
Why would you lie for him?
Yeah.
These are hardworking men, Joe Rogan.
They don't need to lie.
They're savages.
Yeah.
Hey, did his friends get any money from that movie?
What friends?
His friends.
His friends?
Yeah.
That's a good question.
It's a good question.
Right?
Because then it would be a reason to lie.
Yeah.
But the movie was a long time after the actual event.
What year was the movie, Jamie?
93.
93.
And this happened when?
In the 70s.
In the 70s?
Yeah, there's no way.
Like, bro, any day now you're getting paid.
I got D.B. Cooper lied.
Who was the guy that was the actor?
D.B. Sweeney?
D.B. Sweeney.
That's right.
D.B. Cooper is the guy that stole the money and jumped out of the plane.
D.B. Cooper?
Confused.
Yeah.
You never heard that story?
Was he the guy wanted by the FBI?
Yes.
Yeah.
Like a top 10 wanted or something like that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He stole a bunch of money and then hijacked an airplane and then jumped out of
the airplane with the money.
And he died?
Like, they found the body and everything?
Probably.
Or was it like a mysterious, like...
It's a mysterious thing.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
You never heard that story?
Nah.
It's an interesting story, but the area the guy skydived into was heavily wooded.
And the problem with that is, if you're a skydiver and you're in a parachute
and you're going to a heavily wooded place, you're going to land in the trees.
Yeah.
And then you risk, like, getting impaled.
Well, just cutting yourself loose, also, cutting yourself loose out of the
trees.
What if you're 30 feet up?
How are you getting down?
Yeah.
What if you fall getting down?
People go missing in the woods all the time and no one finds them, ever.
You don't find nothing.
What?
Yeah.
Why don't we hear about this more often?
Well, you do if you pay attention, but...
I don't pay attention.
You know, there's only so many things you can think about.
There's a recent update on the Cooper story, but this is just the brief for
those who never have heard of it.
Okay.
D.B. Cooper is the moniker given to the Skyjacker, a dapper, dark-haired man,
apparently in his mid-40s, who called himself Dan Cooper.
The mystery man passed a flight attendant a note while on a Northwest Orient
Airlines flight in Portland, Oregon, bound for Seattle, November 24, 1971.
The note contained, claimed, rather, that he had a bomb in his briefcase, which
he opened to show a large tangle of wires and red sticks.
When the Boeing aircraft landed in Seattle, the man who became known as D.B.
Cooper freed 36 passengers in exchange for a mountain of cash and four parachutes.
The plane took off with several crew members aboard bound for Mexico City on
his orders.
Wow.
So he just made them fly him somewhere with a briefcase with a bomb in it.
They were listening to him.
So at an altitude of 10,000 feet above Seattle and Reno, he jumped from the
back of the jetliner with a parachute and the ransom money vanishing into
history.
The case remains unsolved despite a manhunt the FBI tenaciously interviewing
hundreds of people in a cottage industry of true crime buffs pouring through
the ovens.
Nah, I do got a way.
There's no way that, like, he thought all of this out and then was like, ah,
once I get in the air, I'll just wing it.
Like, the man knew he was going to jump over those woods.
He knew that the minute he landed in Mexico, they'd have some sort of, like,
dog day afternoon.
Right, but he wasn't in Mexico.
He jumped outside of Portland, right?
Yeah.
It was in the Pacific Northwest that he jumped, right?
Yeah.
Like, they just took off and, like, 20 minutes in, he's like, all right, I'm
out.
Yeah.
That's the biggest curveball to throw them because they're going to – their
plan is to –
Go to Mexico.
Go to Mexico.
Right.
Right?
He thinks he's going to land safely and then they're going to figure out a way
to –
Yeah, but the thing is, have you ever been in the Pacific Northwest?
You ever been in the woods up there?
Not in the woods, but I've been – I've seen them from the highway.
Tall-ass trees.
Okay, yeah, tall-ass trees and real dense, like this, like a box of Q-tips.
That's how I always describe the trees up there.
Like, they're really close to each other.
There's not a lot of open space up there at all.
It's all just trees.
So, if you're landing into that mess, you're not going to find a spot to land.
And then here's the other problem.
If you do find a spot to land, where are you?
Do you know where you are?
Do you know how to get out of there?
I think that dude –
You could walk for days in any direction and not find shit.
Nah, I think he planned that part.
I don't think he did.
I bet he was on meth.
For real.
Probably.
All right, that sounds more like –
I bet he was – that's a meth move.
The whole thing's a meth move.
I'm going to get a fucking bomb.
I'm going to get on the plane.
I'm going to tell them, I got a fucking bomb.
I want some money.
And I want some fucking parachutes.
And I'm going to get the money.
And I'm just going to parachute to safety.
It sounds like a terrible idea.
You think so?
I mean, I think for a second there, it can –
Like, if the guy was sober, I think he's genius.
I think he's a sober genius.
You think he's just a meth head.
Yeah, I think he's a meth head.
I think he studied the woods for, like, months.
No way.
Because how are you going to know you're going –
10,000 feet above the earth, you're going 500 miles an hour.
And you're going to jump.
So, I want you to imagine that.
So, here is this.
You're going 500 miles an hour.
And then you jump.
Where are you going to land?
You're going 500 miles an hour.
You have to fall 10,000 feet.
Where the fuck are you going to land?
You have no idea where you're going to land.
You should make tests.
Like, you should be in charge of creating the SATs.
It's like question number eight.
Where the fuck are you going to land?
Well, here's the thing.
Back then, there was no GPS.
Okay?
Yeah.
So, back then, all you had is a compass.
So, even if you have a map, like, how big is your map?
People were smarter back then, though.
No, they weren't.
Trust me.
I used to live back then.
I feel like people had to, like, I feel like the further back you go in time,
maybe not
too far back, right?
But I feel like 70s, 60s, 50s, 40s, like, people were forced to, like, learn
maps, learn
their directions.
That's true.
How to utilize a compass, like, people were better on their feet, you know what
I mean?
That's true.
They definitely knew more phone numbers.
They definitely knew how to get around more without any sort of GPS.
I'm addicted to GPS.
That shit runs my life.
If I want to go somewhere, I always put it in my phone.
Yeah, because it gives 