#2248 - Michael Waddell

Joe Rogan (0:00)

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Joe Rogan (0:32)

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Joe Rogan (0:42)

What's going on, my man?

Michael Waddell (0:44)

Joe.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

Is that Bigfoot on your shirt?

Michael Waddell (0:46)

That is. It is Bigfoot.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

Non-vegan?

SPEAKER_6 (0:48)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

How do they know Bigfoot's not a vegan?

Michael Waddell (0:52)

See I don't know. I mean, but I think he's got canines like us, so there's a good chance that he does eat meat.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

I think hunters are the number one argument against Bigfoot being real. I've never met a hunter who's seen Bigfoot.

Michael Waddell (1:05)

No, and his amount, especially some of your guests you've had on. And on top of, I mean, even myself, and now you spent a lot of times in some pretty desolate places.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

Yeah.

Michael Waddell (1:13)

And all the trail cameras. We should have gotten one picture.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

Yeah, trail cameras throw a big monkey wrench at that Bigfoot thing.

Michael Waddell (1:20)

I agree. And I'm always, it's still the conspiracy that I'm still every time I check, especially when you get in those deep, dark places out west and all throughout the country and even the south. I'm thinking, maybe just this time.

Joe Rogan (1:32)

It would be fun. It would be fun. But it's just, it's very unlikely. You mean, there's only like two Jaguars in the United States and they know exactly where they are.

Michael Waddell (1:42)

Well, that's exactly right. I was thinking back and even listening, you know, like you had Renella, of course, Cam, a lot of my hunting buddies and people I look up to as well, Remy Warren, all those guys. And you start thinking about the amount of time we spend in the woods and we don't even see a mountain line. Or you talk about the wolves, all these wolves are starting to be reintroducing. You still don't see them a lot of times. They're there. But then again, you capture them on trail cameras in the middle of the night. But yet, Yeti or Sasquatch, only Jack Link's beef jerky has seen them. I saw them on the Super Bowl commercial.

Joe Rogan (2:16)

Yeah, they're in a lot of commercials. They're in movies. I think they used to be real. I think it used to be a real thing. I mean, they know there's a thing called the Gigantopithecus that lived somewhere around 100,000 years ago. There was a bipedal hominid that was 8 to 10 feet tall.

Michael Waddell (2:30)

Holy cow.

Joe Rogan (2:31)

Look, in the orangutan family, I think they believe it was.

Michael Waddell (2:33)

That'd be something to get Graham Hancock on. We need to get him back to find that creature.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

But he's busy. He's busy with a lot of other shit. It's like just trying to sort out the past, trying to sort out human history.

Michael Waddell (2:48)

That was some of the most intriguing. I was dug deep into that and then went because of hearing him on the podcast and went and watched, just finished season two, watched season one soon after I'd seen him here first.

Joe Rogan (3:00)

It's pretty compelling.

Michael Waddell (3:01)

It's pretty amazingly compelling.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Well, once you realize, first of all, that there's real physical evidence that something happened around 11,800 years ago, that the earth was most likely pounded with asteroid debris, and it probably fucked civilization up pretty bad and it can happen again.

Michael Waddell (3:21)

It makes complete sense, you know.

It's, I mean, hearing his perspective on it and how he researched it, and it's from the standpoint there's, you know, as we know, politics and everything gets involved in everything, you know. And it's just almost like he was a journalistic, really smart, intellectual guy who was intrigued. It's just a good approach, the way he studied it to me, that made it even more compelling. And then the findings he did find, I don't know, I just, I was very intrigued.