#800 - Bobcat Goldthwait

Joe Rogan (0:04)

We're live. Bobcat Goldthwait, what the fuck are you doing going to a Bigfoot convention and then a Mothman convention?

Bobcat Goldthwait (0:10)

Well, no, not Mothman convention.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

You're a smart guy, you're a grown man.

Bobcat Goldthwait (0:12)

I just went to see where the Mothman was, or had been.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Oh, there wasn't a Mothman convention?

Bobcat Goldthwait (0:19)

No, because I was at the Ohio Bigfoot Conference, which was less than two hours away from Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where the Mothman appeared. And when I was talking with some of the Bigfoot researchers, I said that...

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Do you do that with air quotes when you say that?

Bobcat Goldthwait (0:38)

The researchers, I was talking to them, and I said, hey, we're really close to where the Mothman was. And they're like, well, the Mothman is not real.

You know, that's the thing. There's different categories of Bigfoot people. There's people who are self-aware, there's people who seem pretty regular. And you know, that's the thing. You go to these conventions, and you have this idea of what a person is who believes that there's an 800-pound wood ape out there. And then when you get to know them, you realize that they're really fucking weird.

Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 (1:25)

No, I'm kidding.

Bobcat Goldthwait (1:27)

But there is that.

SPEAKER_4 (1:28)

There is a lot of that.

Bobcat Goldthwait (1:29)

There's a lot of that. But I have to say, I love them. I had a great time.

And it was really fun. It was great.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

I've had some people that I talked to. Who was the professor from?

Yes, Professor Meldrum, who's a really interesting guy. Who is, do you know who he is? He's a pretty prominent guy in the Bigfoot community. Who's a very rational, reasonable person.

And he told me he would cut his pinky off to know the truth. Oh, whole pinky.

Bobcat Goldthwait (2:00)

And you said, you know what? I can do it.

SPEAKER_4 (2:04)

I'll do it with an arrow.

Bobcat Goldthwait (2:05)

I'm more fascinated about, I mean, I'm sure your listeners are more, you know, over it, but about you going out and hunting a bear with an arrow.

Joe Rogan (2:16)

What's interesting, eating them is really interesting.

Bobcat Goldthwait (2:18)

What kind of, what is it? What does it taste like?

Joe Rogan (2:20)

They taste really good. Like, like, like the way I describe it, it's like a deer fucked a pig.

Bobcat Goldthwait (2:29)

It's kind of almost taking the tofurkey to a new level. But I, you know, my brother, he passed away, my brother was a kind of say a hunter, but he was actually a poacher. My brother.

Joe Rogan (2:46)

Oh, really?

Bobcat Goldthwait (2:47)

When he passed away, people said, hey, can I have your dough permit? And I was like, what? He's like, my brother had been getting a dough permit in my name for like 20 years. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. He had all these forged dough permits.

He shot animals all year long. He didn't really, the game warden would bust into his home with a bolt cut, you know, lock cutters, and crack open his freezer, and there'd be all this game out of season.

Joe Rogan (3:18)

Oh man.

Bobcat Goldthwait (3:19)

He, yeah, but you know, he ate it.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

Right.

Bobcat Goldthwait (3:22)

But he, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:24)

He just didn't abide by the rules.

Bobcat Goldthwait (3:26)

Well, no, no, he did not abide by anyone's rules. His funeral was, it was awesome and eclectic, but there's two things. Someone should have given me a heads up. Well, first of all, a couple of the Paul Bears were in Camo.

Really?

Joe Rogan (3:45)

So he was like a serious hunter.

Bobcat Goldthwait (3:46)

Oh, hunter, biker. Where'd he live? Central New York and Syracuse, and then Rome and around. But you know, I love my brother, but he was wild. And then the other thing, they probably should have given me a heads up that his friend, Little Ricky, was one of the pallbearers.

Yeah, he was, it's like a, I don't wanna use the word.

SPEAKER_5 (4:12)

I was gonna say he was like a munchkin, good save.

Bobcat Goldthwait (4:14)

I didn't wanna use the other M word. I mean, he wasn't, you know.

Joe Rogan (4:17)

He was a tiny person.

Bobcat Goldthwait (4:18)

He was a little person. He wasn't a dwarf, but cause you know, he was regular size, almost, I don't know. He was tiny.

But he didn't look, you know what I mean.