#1698 - Neill Blomkamp

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Neill Blomkamp (0:13)

Nice to meet you.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

It's a pleasure. I've enjoyed your movies immensely. Thank you. So it's very cool to meet you in person.

Neill Blomkamp (0:18)

Yeah, thank you for inviting me down. It's awesome to be here.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

It's awesome to have you. And we were talking just before we started about this T-shirt, which is a design, it's Bob Lazar's sketch of what he allegedly saw inside a hanger at Area S4.

Neill Blomkamp (0:34)

Yeah.

So, and what I was asking you is whether you think what he is saying is in fact true or not. Do you believe what he is saying?

Joe Rogan (0:44)

The problem is I want to believe it.

Neill Blomkamp (0:47)

It's causing a bias.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

Yes, for sure. Whenever anything comes with UFOs, I want to believe far too much.

Neill Blomkamp (0:55)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Not far too much, because I've had people on here where in the middle of talking to them, I'm like, this sounds like horseshit.

Neill Blomkamp (1:03)

It's so strange because I watched that whole interview and I read a whole bunch of articles around Bob Lazar as well. And I want it to be true incredibly badly.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

It's so hard.

Neill Blomkamp (1:15)

I need it to be true. Yeah, right. But I also, if I have any rationality, some rational element of my brain is saying it is not possible.

And which is strange. I mean, you know, I don't know why I'm just not believing it, but I believe him. But I don't know if there is an aircraft from another galaxy in a hangar in the United States somewhere.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

See, it's not necessarily from another galaxy. The thing about all this stuff is we're assuming that we have an accurate understanding of what's currently possible with technology.

I don't necessarily know if that's correct, and it is possible that they were experimenting with some really wild shit.

Neill Blomkamp (2:05)

So you think it could be human-made?

Joe Rogan (2:06)

It's a physical thing. If it's real at all, it's a physical thing. If it's real and it isn't a hangar, it's a physical thing. Let's assume that they would tell this guy who has a questionable education background, who obviously is brilliant and obviously has a deep understanding of propulsion systems. He strapped a rocket engine to the back of his Honda.

Yeah, he's a wild dude. Clearly a super, super intelligent guy. But, you know, doesn't have the best credentials in terms of like his education background, his accomplishments, published papers. Like, why would they pick him?

Like, why would they pick him? Why would they pick him? Well, he thinks they picked him because they were running their... they were just banging their heads off the wall, trying to figure out how to back engineer these things or what these things were. And they said, let's think outside the box and let's get this genius guy who worked at Los Alamos Labs. Yeah, clearly a super, super intelligent guy. But maybe they'd fabricate this horseshit narrative to him.

You know, we found this in an archaeological dig. But maybe what this is is there's some understanding of propulsion systems or of some sort of...

Neill Blomkamp (3:28)

Anti-gravity.

Joe Rogan (3:29)

Gravity, yeah. Some gravity system that supposedly operates on this element, element 115 The thing about his story that's fascinating to me is that it's never changed. It's remarkably consistent. If you go all the way back to, like, 1989...

Neill Blomkamp (3:45)

There's that interview with him.

Like, isn't there an interview with him in a... He's sitting in a car somewhere in, like, the late 80s talking about it.

Joe Rogan (3:52)

Just George Knapp's interview.

Neill Blomkamp (3:54)

Right, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:54)

Yeah, it started out with a silhouette. They had a fake name for him. And then I believe his story is that they were threatening his life, and he was really worried, so he just decided, look, I'm just gonna release my full name. I'm gonna tell my full story, and that'll offer me some level of protection. Because if I don't tell the story, then they could kill me, and the story just dies.

Neill Blomkamp (4:14)

I don't know if that would work today.

Joe Rogan (4:16)

Yeah.

It's hard to know. You're hoping the guy's telling the truth, which is a real issue for me, because I 100% would like it to be true.

Neill Blomkamp (4:29)

Same.

Joe Rogan (4:30)

There's no part of me that wants it to be fake. So then I have to say, how much bias am I inserting into my interpretation of his story?