Name: Joe Rogan Questions Everything #2 - Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Duncan Trussell (Audio Only)
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Joe Rogan Questions Everything #2 - Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Duncan Trussell (Audio Only)

This episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast is one of the episodes that we
filmed during the sci-fi program
Joe Rogan questions everything it is brought to you by Ting
Ting is a cell phone company that
Gives you cell phone service that makes sense for you. They allow you to cancel
at any time. They don't have contracts
They use the sprint backbone. So you're getting dependable reliable
Excellent cell phone service, but you're getting it in a way that you probably
wouldn't get from a big company
Like for instance if you don't use all of your minutes if you use less minutes
than you thought you would
Ting will actually knock you down to the lower level and then credit you the
difference on your next bill
That shit is unheard of. No company does that and I think that's an awesome way
to do business
They're not trying to rob you. They're just trying to sell you something that's
really good
And it's an excellent exchange and even exchange. You give them money. They
give you good cell phone service at a reasonable price
Ting has on their website a lot of examples that people have sent to them about
how much money that they have saved by using ting
But I can tell you personally
I have spoken to many people on Twitter and social media that have sent me a
thank you saying that ting saved them a ton of money
And it gave them excellent service with really high-end cell phone devices
They use the Android phones and they have all sorts of other different kind of
phones as well
But the high-end Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S4 the HDC one all the
really top-end nice devices that you can get I
recently just got a
One of these galaxy note threes is a fucking ridiculous phone. It might be too
big
I don't know if I'm gonna keep it, but right now I got it and I am very
impressed with the Android operating system
I haven't fucked with this in a long time. I got one a long time ago like maybe
Three years ago or something like that and it was like a drunk iPhone it was
such a hunk of shit
But boy have they caught up in a big way in this screen is magical
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Give you awesome cell phone coverage and make you feel good that you're
connected to a reliable
But but ethical company that's not trying to fucking rip you off
So go to rogan.ting.com and save yourself twenty five dollars either off
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It's your choice and enjoy and I guarantee you if you're looking for some
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Before this podcast airs. I just want to say thank you to the fine folks at sci-fi
and Arthur Smith the production company that
Made my my show Joe Rogan questions everything. Thank you to Tim and Wayne from
sci-fi also for allowing us to put this on the air
As a podcast one of the things that we did when we were filming the show
Is we wanted to incorporate the podcast into the show because first of all
It's the best method that I know of for discussing an issue
There's one one of the things that I found about the show that was kind of
awkward. I really enjoyed doing the show
I really enjoyed the opportunity to explore all these different topics. It didn't
come out perfect
There's a lot of things that I wasn't happy with but that's all just a part of
the growing pains of creating a show
But one thing that I did find is that having conversations in front of people
standing up in weird circumstances
like in a hallway or you know in a laboratory or whatever the many
Many different scenarios that we had conversations on the show is very awkward
The best way to have a conversation is on a podcast sitting down across each
other in a comfortable chair in front of a big oak desk
Where you're relaxed you feel confident you're comfortable rather you feel
comfortable you feel it's quiet the room is
You know, it's it's it's a fun place to be it feels good. There's there's good
energy here
And we control that for the most part by having it in a podcast form and my
favorite aspects of the show
were actually
Duncan and myself
Talking to these people on the podcast and it was kind of a revelation in a lot
of ways
It's like my favorite part of doing this show is the stuff that I was already
doing before I was doing this show
but
I want to thank thanks sci-fi for allowing us to do it that way because it
really it came out great
Those parts of it and so now you're going to get the full unedited podcast.
This first one
is
from the Bigfoot episode and it's dr. Jeffrey mel meldrum dr. Jeff meldrum is
in my opinion the most credible of all the Bigfoot believers
I shouldn't say the most credible because maybe there's some out there that are
just as credible that I haven't met
He's the most reasonable guy that I communicated with
And I really respect him for his first of all is his
stepping out and saying that he really thinks this is a big
Real undiscovered primate living in the pacific northwest, which takes a lot of
balls for someone who's a legit professor
Uh, you know because people immediately think you're fucking crazy if you tell
them there's an unknown monkey living in the woods
He doesn't just do that. He does that from an academic point of view
He's a very very bright guy and he also does that as an expert in human
movement and I found his theories on the sasquatch
Combined with this knowledge that he has about human movement to be very
fascinating and his analysis of footprints and what
What's unique about these footprints and why it mimics actual real real primates
and not human beings?
In fact, I thought was also incredibly fascinating
He's a brilliant guy and a very nice guy and I appreciate very much that he
took the time out of his busy schedule to come on the show
So enjoy this is dr. Jeff Meldrum and once again, thanks to everybody involved
in the show everybody from the cameraman on down
It was a amazing cool place, uh to work for a few months
So, uh, big kiss to you all and now enjoy a podcast with powerful duncan trussell
and dr. jeffrey meldrum
The joe rogan experience
Train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day
Tell me we're ready
Dr. Meldrum, first of all, thank you very much for coming here and talking to
us about all things squash
Duncan and I are very excited about this how many years first of all have you
been involved in this were you in that?
Leonard nimoy in search of bigfoot
Show no that predated me that predated you. Okay. That's the og of bigfoot
shows, right?
Yeah, I remember seeing that when I was a kid and being so
Convinced and excited that there was a big hairy man living in the woods
Obviously back then I didn't realize that it could be a species it wasn't just
like one individual dude
but a whole species and
I've been fascinated by it since I was a little child
I don't know why I don't know what it what is it about bigfoot?
Maybe you could tell us what is it about bigfoot that speaks to man?
There are different levels. I mean, there's the just simply the mystery
something that's undiscovered unresolved
I think there's an added mystique because it's so human-like I mean
that's been a an icon and an archetype
of the human experience
since the beginning of history some of the earliest heroes hung out with wild
men whether it was beowulf and grendel or
Gilgamesh and Enkidu you know there there were these
denizens of the forest that maybe represented our
Our sort of lost connection to wilderness into wild places
Do you think there's a certain amount of arrogance in assuming that we have
full detail of the entire fossil record of primates
when you know you see things like homo florensis the hobbit man in indonesia
and
the evidence of gigantopithecus which is only you know the 1920s they found
that right
Yeah, this is this is a thing that it really is placing sasquatch in a very
different context and one that I keep
pushing because I I can see this unfolding
with every new discovery of a hominid like homo floresiensis
the the tree of of hominid radiation gets bushier and bushier
and then discovery after discovery shows that some of these lineages have
persisted to
much more recent times in the past than has ever been acknowledged previously
so
you know homo floresiensis 13 000 years old a new neanderthal site maybe 10 000
years old really
yeah and so the the notion that we're the only hominid on the planet contrary
to all experience in the past
when there were multiple hominids coexisting on the landscape
may be a real misnomer a real misrepresentation of fact and
these relic hominoids may be the rule rather than the exception
it's it's a real tricky subject the bigfoot sasquatch subject i have brought it
up with people
that i love and respect and they have mocked me right in front of my face
join my friend dana dana white dana white mocked me the other night at dinner
right in front of my
face for believing in bigfoot i tell you i was pretty disappointed when i heard
you were going looking
for bigfoot well i was like how dare you sir what do you know about bigfoot man
it's one of those
things bigfoot is like ghosts or flying saucers or crop circles it lumps you in
a weirdo category
it does but there but that's because there is a lot of weirdos that believe in
bigfoot that's right you
must know that oh sure you probably experience more lunatics than psychiatrists
do and that's what uh
that's what uh warns off a lot of my colleagues is they they don't want to
navigate try to navigate
that morass of of the lunatic fringe and so you don't have the luxury of just
simply going out and
collecting data you have to winnow through all this chaff to find find the
kernel and it's very i'm
sorry it's very it's like when they lump you in like it's a stain it really is
a stain on your career
on your credentials they can say oh he's that bigfoot guy absolutely well there
was a moment as i was
sitting here contemplating these footprints that sort of pulled me into the
subject when i i was familiar
with grover krantz i knew the grief that he'd suffered at the hands of his
colleagues because of
his pursuit of this subject you know in his career uh stalling his career and
uh i contemplated for a
moment do i really want to go down that road or not but how could you not when
you have 35 45 fresh
footprints laid out in front of you that are so clear so compelling so persuasive
i mean for me
that's what science is about it's going after those interesting even if they're
anomalous uh data
points what was it that got you started on this well it was that i mean i i you
could we could go
clear back to my childhood when i was born and and uh in the pacific northwest
and knew of bigfoot
knew of roger patterson and his film he came to spokane where i lived as a as a
youngster and showed
his documentary showcasing that that film clip but my academic interest began
in 1996 when i was
shown a very this the same line of tracks i just referred to in the blue
mountains outside of walla
walla and i tell you that the hook was set
is there ever been a moment where you stepped back and said hang on am i
wasting my time on
some hooey sure oh sure is there a lot of hooey involved in this subject there
is yeah and you got
to get past that uh but i tell you what i have seen what i've experienced
firsthand uh be it you know
finding tracks in very remote areas myself hearing vocalizations having rocks
thrown at me and what have
you tell us about your experiences you've seen tracks where there's no people
like deep in the woods yeah
what'd you say on several occasions well one one was in connection with a kind
of an interesting
possible interaction we never actually saw something or anything but uh when
you eliminate uh you know
when you eliminate the the uh likely uh scenarios uh then the unlikely is what
you're left with and in this
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