Joe Rogan Experience #2185 - Bob Gymlan

Joe Rogan hosts Bob Gymlin, the YouTuber behind a long-running Bigfoot and cryptid storytelling channel, who explains his on-air name comes from Bob Gimlin of the Patterson-Gimlin footage. The conversation roams from whether Bigfoot is flesh-and-blood versus interdimensional, to predators like sharks, crocodiles, grizzlies and mountain lions, with a long thread arguing shark and gator attack statistics are deliberately downplayed. They dig into ancient mysteries (the Montana sage wall, Sumerian tablets, the Anunnaki, human origins) and UFO disclosure, debating whether sightings are advanced human drones or aliens who view humans as containers for souls. The back third turns political, covering the 2024 Harris-Walz ticket, the Minnesota flag change, free-speech arrests in the UK, COVID and vaccine skepticism, BLM, and praise for RFK Jr.

• Bob Gymlin's real name is Brian; he chose the channel name after Bob Gimlin of the Patterson footage and his love of Bob Dylan.
  00:03:57
• Rogan argues Bigfoot may be interdimensional, crossing between permeable dimensions, which is why no physical specimen is ever found.
  00:11:57
• Guest claims shark attack statistics exclude many cases and mislabel 'provoked' attacks to downplay the true numbers.
  00:26:06
• Discussion of the Montana 'sage wall,' 275 ft long and 24 ft high, presented as possible evidence of unknown ancient North American civilization.
  00:44:50
• Rogan theorizes 50-foot crocodiles existed before guns let explorers kill off the oldest, largest specimens.
  01:30:46
• Bob Lazar's claim that a classified document describes humans as 'containers for souls' and religion as rules to avoid damaging them.
  01:40:06
• Rogan names RFK Jr. as the only candidate who makes sense to him and credits 'The Real Anthony Fauci' for changing his mind.
  02:02:27

• Burmese pythons in the Everglades trace to escaped pets and a research center destroyed by a storm; mammal populations there have collapsed.
  00:34:23
• The Quetzalcoatlus pterosaur, with a 40-foot wingspan, likely leaped at least 8 feet into the air to take off.
  00:38:35
• The leading hypothesis for how primates reached South America is rafting across the ocean on floating vegetation.
  00:43:49
• The human brain roughly doubled in size over about two million years, fueling Terence McKenna's 'stoned ape' theory.
  00:57:49
• Rogan cites a successful monkey head transplant that regained consciousness but was paralyzed and died days later.
  01:07:42
• Doctors have rebuilt a woman's bladder from her own stem cells and implanted it, avoiding rejection.
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• 'Henry' the crocodile, caught in 1903, is estimated to be roughly 135 years old and around 1,500 pounds.
  01:35:26
• Horses originated in North America, went extinct there, spread to Asia and Africa, then were reintroduced.
  01:53:38
• Roughly 4,000 people have reportedly been arrested in England for online 'thought crimes' versus about 200 in Russia.
  01:58:17
• The 'Calvine' UFO photo, taken by hikers in the Scottish Highlands, was hidden from the public for over three decades.
  02:16:32

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