Joe Rogan Experience #2577 - Gregory Forth
Anthropologist Gregory Forth tells Joe Rogan why villagers' reports of small humanlike 'ape men' on the Indonesian island of Flores might point to surviving relatives of Homo floresiensis, the so-called hobbit species.
The gist
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Forth first heard of small hairy humanlike creatures on Flores in 1984, and got eyewitness reports months before the 2003 hobbit fossil discovery.
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Forth recorded about 32 encounter reports among 120 to 130 people in the Leo region, and a 1933 Leo-German dictionary already named the creatures.
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Two British hikers who say they had never read Forth's work described seeing one in March 2019; a Dutch colleague plans a search using camera traps and drones.
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Forth says he chewed betel nut regularly on Sumba in the 1970s and found it pleasant; Rogan calls civet coffee remarkably smooth.
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Forth does not find Bigfoot credible, arguing Flores differs because fossils match local descriptions and villagers gain no fame from their claims.
"They would regularly, habitually chew what's called betel nut... and this is mildly narcotic. I consumed it regularly when I was on Sumba in the 1970s. It was pleasant. It turned my teeth black as it does with the local people."
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"Yeah, I've had that. Very remarkably smooth coffee. But... it's disconcerting to think that you're drinking coffee that came out of a civet's butt."
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"They would regularly, habitually chew what's called betel nut... and this is mildly narcotic. I consumed it regularly when I was on Sumba in the 1970s. It was pleasant. It turne..."
"Yeah, I've had that. Very remarkably smooth coffee. But... it's disconcerting to think that you're drinking coffee that came out of a civet's butt."
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"They would regularly, habitually chew what's called betel nut... and this is mildly narcotic. I consumed it regularly when I was on Sumba in the 1970s. It was pleasant. It turne..."
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"Yeah, I've had that. Very remarkably smooth coffee. But... it's disconcerting to think that you're drinking coffee that came out of a civet's butt."
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