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Joe Rogan Experience #1927 - Forrest Galante

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The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
What's up, buddy?
Hey, bro.
Still alive.
You are still alive.
This is a truthful title to this book.
That's true.
It's ridiculous, but it's true.
And it's catchy.
That's the whole point.
Dude, I watched your show the other day, the television show.
What is the television show?
Mysterious Creatures?
Yes.
The new one?
You were looking for some wolf thing.
The red wolf.
Yeah.
But they didn't think it was a red wolf.
They thought it was like some mystical beast.
A howler.
An Ozark howler.
Oh, my goodness.
Which, you know, I mean, wolves do howl.
Yeah.
No, that was an interesting story.
If you look at the timeline from when this cryptid, this howler popped up,
it's right when the red wolf was starting to plummet in its numbers.
And as soon as wolves plummet, they call to each other, right?
They howl.
Ah, that makes sense.
So it's like, oh, we're hearing this thing and the spooky thing that we've seen
running around the woods.
And it's like, well, yeah, it's wolves trying to find each other.
Oh.
And it happened to also overlap with when moonshining was like a big deal.
So they perpetuated the rumor of the howler to keep people out of the woods.
Right.
So it, like, checked all these boxes to, like, make up this animal.
Is there any cryptid that you find compelling?
Just the, I think we talked about it before, the megatherium, the giant ground
sloth in Peru.
Yeah.
That's the only one.
I mean, depends what you define as cryptid, right?
Like, I'm not a Bigfoot guy or Loch Ness monster, but thylacine could be
considered a cryptid, right?
Yeah, because it was alive.
We do have video footage of it and there's been a bunch of sightings.
Yes, but now you have all these Bigfoot-esque people, right?
All these sort of tinfoil hat guys who are like, it's here, I've seen it or
whatever.
And so it's, like, started to fade into this cryptid realm.
And I still think that in Papua New Guinea, there could be an extant population.
Why in Papua New Guinea?
So they used to range, we got right into this.
This is great, by the way.
So they used to range from PNG from New Guinea all the way down to Tasmania.
And then as people came over, they brought dingoes with them, right?
And this was, like, 4,000 years ago.
And then the dingoes out-competed the thylacine in mainland Australia and, in
theory, in Papua New Guinea.
But dingoes were never introduced into Tasmania, which is why they, thylacine,
occurred for so much longer in Tasmania.
However, why in Papua New Guinea is because it's such a dramatic habitat.
There's so many, like, valleys and canyons and things that dingoes just
probably couldn't traverse.
That would mean that there's isolated, unexplored areas that the thylacine,
because it had evolved there,
could still be thriving without the competition.
And for people who don't know what a thylacine is, it's a Tasmanian tiger.
Yeah.
It's a marsupial, wolf, crazy jaw, stripes.
Crazy jaw.
Like, really wild-looking.
180 degrees.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cool-looking animal.
Yeah.
Look at that thing.
So when you talk about, you know, cryptids and blah, blah, blah, I still think
that these animals could be out there.
Didn't you go looking for one at one point in time?
Twice.
Twice.
And did you have any sightings or any, at least, I mean, amongst the people
that you were around, are any credible reports?
No.
Well, reports, yes.
I mean, there's a guy named Nick Mooney who is, like, an incredible, that's
Benjamin, the last living thylacine in the zoo in Hobart, Tasmania.
A guy named Nick Mooney who's, like, a state biologist, like, renowned naturalist
and biologist who has no reason to make this up or anything, and he swears that
he saw one in Tasmania about 25 years ago.
And he's like, you know, he's like, I know every animal in Tasmania, I am a biologist,
I work with Fish and Game or whatever their equivalent is.
He's like, why would I make this up?
He's like, I didn't even tell anybody for a year or two because I, like, didn't
want to be called a kook.
Wow.
And then he came out with it and sort of began this whole thing.
But, yeah, I mean, definitely some credible sightings.
How would one even do a survey of those areas?
If you're talking about, like, rainforests and tropical jungles and just dense
wooded areas, how would one even find what's in there?
And for the most part unexplored, too, especially when it comes to PNG and
western Papua.
Well, that's the thing.
I think that's the barrier to entry, right?
Anybody can go to Tasmania, drive down a highway and be like, oh, I looked and
I didn't find it, which is basically what I did.
But to get into those places that they could be extant requires helicopter
support, refuels, tons of local ground support, you know, like local hunters
and tribal people that know the land.
So it's a big, expensive operation to try and get into these places.
And then, that's just getting in.
Then you'd pepper it with trail cameras, baited cameras.
You'd do some scent trailing, some sound calling, you know, all these.
I mean, you're a hunter.
You know these techniques.
Well, it's interesting because we know that mountain lions are real, but most
people don't ever see a mountain lion.
Right.
And a lot of people that live in, like, these heavily wooded areas don't see
mountain lions.
Yeah.
Like, it's hard to find one, and they're everywhere.
They live in our cities.
Yeah.
There's a shit ton of them.
Yeah.
So you might get lucky and catch one, but the populations are pretty great in
terms of, like, if you're in Colorado or if you're in Utah.
I mean, they have a lot of mountain lions.
Right.
And it's very rare that you see one.
Exactly.
So imagine if there was a very small population of mountain lions or, you know,
or Tasmanian tigers, and, you know, you went looking in a much more wooded area,
much more dense environment.
Much larger, too.
You know, huge swaths of unpopulated land.
And if they were intelligent and cryptic like a mountain lion, which they
probably were because they were at the top of the food chain, they know and
they choose not to be seen.
Yeah.
Like P-22, right?
The mountain lion that lived in L.A.
We have a big photo of them out here.
The one with the Hollywood sign?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a great picture.
I love that photo.
He's dead now.
Yeah, exactly.
Did they kill him?
Did they euthanize him?
They euthanized him, yeah.
Something's wrong with him, right?
Like, he was badly injured or something?
I think he got hit by a car.
I think.
Don't quote me on that.
But, yeah, some injury.
I think it was a car strike.
And he was an old cat as well.
Yeah.
What do you think of the Orang Pendick?
I think it's interesting.
Have you ever seen that motorcycle video where the guy's on the motorcycle and
he sees the little guy run across?
Yeah.
So that's supposed to be Orang Pendick, right?
Well, let's see if we can find that.
Sure.
That one is weird because.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There you go.
So here, like, is that real?
It's so.
And is this a kid?
That looks fake.
You know?
That looks so fake.
That one looks over-embellished.
But if you watch the actual video.
Yeah.
So this is the video I've seen.
I think that we love humanoids.
Like, as a species, we love the idea.
Just play the video.
It's not.
It doesn't play.
It's all still frames.
All of it?
It's all someone talking about this.
It's not the video.
Oh.
Well, that looks so fake.
Yeah, it does.
That's a still frame of it?
But that could just be a naked dude.
Totally.
That could be a crazy person.
That doesn't even look that hairy.
But I think.
Look at the proportions.
It looks like a person.
Did they have, like, something to judge it by?
I've seen the actual video, though, Jamie.
See if we can find the actual video.
Because that's not it.
Yeah, this is the same one I've seen.
Yeah.
I think in relation to, like, the motorcycle and the guy.
Even though there's some forced perspective, it's tiny.
Right?
So it looks like a dude, but that would be, like, a four-foot-tall guy.
So here's these guys.
They're on this motorcycle racing along.
Was that the one?
I felt like it ran across before.
Yeah, that one looks fake.
This one looks fake.
That one looks like a full-on setup.
Yes.
The guys slow their bike down just in time.
Yeah, this one's nonsense.
What?
Well, that was where it ran across the road.
The one that I saw, though, I thought it was dark-haired.
And it ran, like, this way across the road, right?
And it was a very quick and brief video.
Same.
That's the one that I'm thinking of as well.
17 million views.
Well, maybe this is probably it then.
But I don't...
It's hard to remember because I've seen so many stupid fucking videos.
But I seem to remember it looking almost like an ape person.
I think, my opinion, and I'm not really...
You can't find anything, Jimmy.
I'm looking.
Okay.
I'm not really qualified to speak on, like, these humanoid cryptid things.
But, like, we have Khoisan in Southern Africa, right?
The small Bushmen.
Mm-hmm.
So, you know, in Borneo, Sumatra, and places like this, there are still very
isolated groups
of tribal people, you know?
And, sure, they're talking about proportions of small people and all of that.
But what's stopping a teenager?
Doesn't matter.
I don't care what tribe you're from.
If you're a teenager, you're going out there and you're being rebellious, right?
Right.
From going out with a spear to going on a hunt and deciding to continue going
and then
he crosses a road, you know, and now it's become a Bigfoot, an Oran Pendek or
whatever
because he gets startled.
Maybe he's doing something illegal or wrong or whatever and runs.
Somebody catches it on their helmet cam and now it's perpetuating into this big
thing.
Or they see it in low light.
They see it at dawn.
Right.
Yeah, if you think about that island of Flores, though, that's where things get
interesting.
Mia Flores, right?
Well, the Homo floriensis.
How do you say it?
I'm not sure.
I think it's Homo floriensis.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
Floriensis.
But that's the little hobbit person that they've confirmed lived alongside
people as recently
as, I forget how long ago.
It was like 8,000 or 10,000 years ago or something like that.
They think it was fairly recent.
Yeah.
Like within, you know, like after the Ice Age.
Yeah.
Which is pretty crazy.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, and there are, across the human species, there are so many
diverse looking
cultures and tribes and peoples, right?
We're all humans.
But, you know, Aboriginal people, African people, Indonesian people, Asian
people, we all look
different, you know?
And we all have these own distinct characteristics.
And so to think about, you know, imagine being a Westerner or whatever, being
an Indonesian
like in that video.
And then you see someone who looks so different than your own culture and you're
not expectant
of it.
It's very easy to let your imagination turn into this whole other species, this
cryptic thing
versus like, maybe this is someone from a different tribe who's in a different
area.
I mean, I don't know.
I'm just saying it's, it's...
And then there's also, they keep finding new extinct species of humans, right?
Like Denisovans and all.
I think there was another one that they found recently that they're trying to
figure out
what it is.
But they're very human-like in terms of Homo sapien-like, but a slightly
different branch
of the chain.
Yeah.
With different like jaw morphologies or cranium shapes or whatever.
And yeah, I think we used to up until 15, 20 years ago, only think that there
was like
two or three species of humanoid ever.
Right.
Right.
And now there's like, I want to say eight.
Yeah.
Which is pretty crazy.
Well, that leads me to Bigfoot because I think that all these stories of Bigfoot,
I think
like the Native Americans have a bunch of different names for some creature
that lives, some large
hairy creature.
And we know about Gigantopithecus.
I think that's what that is.
I think pe