#2185 - Bob Gymlan

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_3 (0:06)

Shrain by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Brian Gagneau (0:16)

Salute.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Pleasure to meet you, man.

Brian Gagneau (0:20)

Pleasure to meet you too.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

How'd you start doing this YouTube channel?

Brian Gagneau (0:26)

I've always enjoyed doing, talking about those things because who doesn't? Right. I was always surprised at how shitty they're usually talked about. I just saw the shooting star.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

There it goes. Yeah, it'll trick you.

Brian Gagneau (0:44)

So often you see this type of content is like, is there a monster in the woods?

Joe Rogan (0:48)

Right.

Brian Gagneau (0:49)

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.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

There's something about these, like today I listened to the creepiest Bigfoot story one. That one, yeah, the one where the guy wrote in a story about the 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.

But 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. Why does that resonate so much with people? With Stephen King movies, or Stephen King books? It's like that kind of a thing. There's something about it that's exciting.

Brian Gagneau (1:56)

Right. I'm more of a Dean Coons fan than Stephen King.

Joe Rogan (2:01)

Oh, okay. Yeah, he's great too. You don't like Stephen King? You trying to throw shade?

Brian Gagneau (2:08)

His politics ruined it for me.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

That's the problem, right?

Brian Gagneau (2:10)

That's the problem.

Joe Rogan (2:10)

His problem is his Twitter feed. His Twitter feed is fucking brutal. It's like, dude, stop.

Brian Gagneau (2:16)

Right. That's nuts.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

These are like the goofiest low testosterone boomer takes I've ever heard on anything. Like, stop.

Brian Gagneau (2:23)

That's very true.

Joe Rogan (2:24)

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.

Brian Gagneau (2:35)

That'll do it.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

Yeah, shit. He was really, really fucked up from that. And I also think it's getting off coke.

Getting off coke and booze. 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.

Brian Gagneau (2:53)

Good for artistry, that's for sure.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

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.

Brian Gagneau (3:02)

It's my favorite book of his.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

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. 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.

Brian Gagneau (3:58)

Right, well, that's actually why I chose the name Bob Gymlan, because I, you know, Bob Gymlan's obviously the guy who was there when the Patterson footage was shot.

Joe Rogan (4:07)

Right.

Brian Gagneau (4:08)

And it has, so my Google account or my YouTube account name way before I started the channel was Bob Gymlan. And my real name is Brian gagneau. And all I used YouTube for was Bigfoot content and like watching Bob Dylan Rips. I'm a huge fan of Bob Dylan.