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Joe Rogan Experience #2185 - Bob Gymlan

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Okay, salute, Bob.
Salute.
Pleasure to meet you, man.
Pleasure to meet you, too.
How'd you start doing this YouTube channel?
I've always enjoyed talking about those things, because who doesn't?
Right.
And I was always kind of surprised at how shitty they're usually talked about.
I just saw the shooting star.
There it goes, yeah. It'll trick you.
So often you see this type of content as like, is there a monster in the woods?
Right.
And it's like, that's not the question.
The question is more complex than that.
And I often don't see it brought up that way.
There's something about these, like today I listened to the creepiest Bigfoot
story one.
That one that you had with the one where the guy wrote in the story about the
Bigfoot.
Burying stuff in the backyard.
Yeah, that one.
And there's something about those that like, even if you don't believe in Bigfoot,
because I don't necessarily believe in Bigfoot.
There's something about it that's so compelling.
There's something about things that you don't know out there in the woods that
know,
because you don't have an accurate, a real good account of everything that's in
the forest.
Of course.
You know, you look out there, it's dark.
And the mind is always looking for some weirdness.
The mind is always looking for something that other people don't know about,
or perhaps there's like a secret that the sheriffs know about,
that they don't share with everybody else.
It's like, why is that so, why does that resonate so much with people?
With Stephen King movies, like, or Stephen King books.
It's like that kind of a thing.
There's something about it that's like exciting.
Right.
I'm more of a Dean Koons fan than Stephen King.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, he's great too.
Yeah.
You don't like Stephen King?
You're trying to throw shade?
His politics ruined it for me.
That's the problem, right?
That's the problem.
His problem is his Twitter feed.
His Twitter feed's fucking brutal.
It's like, dude, stop.
Right, that's nuts.
These are like the goofiest low testosterone boomer takes I've ever heard on
anything.
Like, stop.
It's very true.
But he's such a brilliant writer.
I also think he's a different guy,
because the car accident, I think that was a big one.
You know, when you get hit by a van.
That'll do it.
Yeah, shit.
He was really, really fucked up from that.
And I also think it's getting off coke.
Getting off coke and booze.
Yeah.
That was the real Stephen King.
I mean, I hate to advocate alcoholism and cocaine use,
because I don't think either one of them is good for you.
But goddamn, they're good for writing books.
They're good for artistry, that's for sure.
There's something about his early stuff when he was off the rails.
Like, he said he doesn't even remember writing Cujo.
Doesn't even remember it.
It's my favorite book of his.
It's fucking great.
It's a fucking great book.
So is The Shining.
You know, it's another one where he was like deep in the throes of addiction
and just writing this fucking captivating book.
It just, what he captured is there's this part of our mind
that maybe we don't talk about too much,
where we always wonder if everybody really knows what's going on
and maybe something could happen that people didn't expect,
couldn't imagine is real,
and yet you're confronted by it.
You know, and that's like a lot of his stories.
And you do a really good job of finding that.
Also, you have a creepy voice.
No disrespect.
No.
I mean in a good way.
Like the way you tell the stories.
You know, like it's just something about it.
Like, it's like you're doing radio, man.
You're doing radio with illustrations, but you're doing it on YouTube.
Right.
Well, that's actually why I chose the name Bob Gimlin.
Because I, you know, Bob Gimlin's obviously the guy who was there when the
Patterson footage was shot.
Right.
And it has, so my Google account or my YouTube account name way before I
started the channel was Bob Gimlin.
Oh.
And my real name is Brian Gano.
And all I used YouTube for was Bigfoot content and like watching Bob Dylan rips.
I'm a huge fan of Bob Dylan.
Oh, cool.
So I thought Bob Gimlin was a cool name and it kind of evokes back to like just
kind of Rod Serling a little bit.
Just like a slower pace because so much of the content in that was just like
top 10 creepiest sightings.
Yeah.
It's like whatever.
It's like I like to be a little more immersed.
Yes.
You do it like radio.
You do it like old school radio, like creepy radio.
Yeah.
Like when they used to tell stories on like, you know, people would sit, you
know, before there was a television,
people would sit around the radio and they would listen.
Like that's where War of the Worlds, that famous thing with H.G. Wells where he
had a bunch of people believing that we're actually being invaded by Martians.
And you flee your state.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that, when did you start this channel?
I think like nine years ago, 2016 maybe.
And was it the beginning?
Was it Bigfoot?
Yeah.
Have you ever had an encounter?
No.
Or is it just something that's been fascinating to you?
It's just always been interesting.
But, so I think my talent, and I'm not even saying I'm talented, but my, what I
have going for me, is I am so ready to believe that everything we know is BS.
Like people don't know anything.
They just don't.
I mean, people know stuff, but so much of what has been in history books is
already wrong.
You know, so, like have you ever seen a chimpanzee?
Yes.
Like would it surprise you to learn that like, oh, there's a smarter one, there's
a faster one, there's a bigger one.
Like if someone, if a Bigfoot got hit by a bus tomorrow, like I wouldn't be
surprised.
You wouldn't be?
No, I, well, I mean, yes.
I would be terribly surprised.
Really?
Yes.
Yeah.
I don't know if they're real, but I think they might be real.
This is what I think.
I have a very strange take on this.
I know it's going to sound super stupid to anybody who's like cynical, pragmatist,
but just bear with me for a moment.
I think the boundaries between this dimension and other ones are permeable.
And I have a feeling things can cross through them.
And I have a feeling we are like, if an ant is, like I have leaf cutter ants in
my yard, pretty wild.
It's so cool to watch them.
It sucks because they kill all your trees, but so cool to watch this long train
of these incredible little beings carrying around these giant pieces of leaf
that they cut off.
And they're all going into their little house, but you wave your hand over them,
they have no fucking idea you're there.
Like whatever senses they have, it does not seem to detect threats from things
above.
They don't seem to be worried.
Right.
You know, they don't, they don't perceive us.
Well, they're mission oriented.
Yeah.
And we are too.
So if something is happening that's beyond our mission, I think it's hard to
perceive it.
I think there's things that exist that are not perceivable.
Oh, I'm one million percent in that camp too.
And I think there's heightened states of consciousness that people achieve
under duress, extreme stress, fear.
I think that's one of the reasons why a lot of them happen at nighttime.
I think nighttime, it automatically fills people with a certain sense of
anxiety and fear because you don't know what's out there when you're,
especially in the woods at nighttime.
And I think in those times when your mind reaches this unusual chemical state,
you occasionally can access these, these other realities.
And I think that's where Bigfoot is real.
I know it sounds goofy.
No, I mean, that's, and I don't think you can go find it.
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That's why finding Bigfoot is on like season 80 and they haven't found shit.
Yeah, well, but see, even if it was real.
That they, I wouldn't expect them to find it either.
No, that show's just goofy.
Or even if it was flesh and blood.
It's funny you would say what you said because when I first started my channel,
I was very flesh and blood type.
I thought it was a very real thing, like just a bear or anything else in the
woods.
A lot of commenters said, though I appreciate Bob's take on that, he will get
to the woo-woo side or the spiritual side.
And I was like, I am not.
And I'm like halfway there already.
But I don't think that the spiritualism can be separated from anything.
What do you mean by that?
I mean, we're, I think we're spiritual beings and I think that we're
interacting with, kind of like the force from Star Wars.
Like I, I, I, I believe reality is permeable to an extent.
Um, yeah, I mean, the, the things that we see with our eyes and feel with our,
that we touch, there's more than that.
It's a fraction.
It's a fraction of what's going on.
I think so too.
I think, you know, um, I think that's, that's probably the source of whatever
psychic phenomenon that is real.
That's not bullshit.
And just a bunch of people, a bunch of hucksters robbing people.
I think there's some, I think there's some sort of telepathic connection that
people share occasionally.
And I think it's an emerging aspect of human consciousness that will probably
one day be as normal as hearing.
I think we're just emerging from the primal.
And I think also in the primal, they probably have it.
They probably have it in a different way.
Like animals are tuned in, in a very bizarre way.
They just know things sometimes.
And you don't know why they know things.
It's not, you're not even saying, like my dog sometimes knows when we're going
to go for a run.
Right.
He just knows it.
I've always been fascinated by how, um, animals, so many animals seem to innately
know that we can help them.
Yes.
And I, I, they shouldn't think that.
Right.
Historically, we are not the helper of animals.
Right.
And like, you know, be it dolphins or seals or whatever.
Or deer even.
Deer, yeah.
They're just like, I'm hurt, help.
And it's like, shouldn't they be afraid of the predator?
Deer have tried to contact people to get one of their friends free from barbed
wire.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's something weird.
There's something weird going on that is not just as simple as we're the
dominant species.
We have language.
We figured out consciousness.
We write books.
No, I think there's, there's, there's another thing that we just don't, it's
not there yet.
You know, it's just like the original cavemen had some grunts and those grunts
became words.
And now those words become huge libraries filled with books that people have
written.
And I think that's what's going on with human consciousness.
And I think there's just got to be some reason why this Bigfoot thing has been
going on for so goddamn long.
I think it's an interdimensional existence.
I think whatever that thing is, I think it comes back and for