#2502 - David Paulides
5/20/20262 hr 26 min
David Paulides is a writer, investigator, filmmaker, and former law enforcement officer. He is the author of the “Missing 411” series, which explores unexplained disappearances in North American wilderness and national parks, as well as several books about Bigfoot. His latest films, “American Sasquatch” and “Missing 411: National Parks - Washington State,” are available on most streaming platforms.www.youtube.com/@canammissingprojectwww.canammissing.comwww.davidpaulides.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at https://ziprecruiter.com/rogan Get Visible for just $20/mo for 1 year. Use code FRESHSTART. Switch & see terms at https://www.visible.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsNick Diaz· Soundbite0:01
Joe Rogan podcast, check it out The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day.
Joe Rogan· Host0:09
[upbeat music] David, welcome to the show.
David Paulides· Guest0:13
Thank you, sir.
Joe Rogan· Host0:14
Pull on up to the microphone. Get it, get that sucker up like a fist from your face. Uh, I first heard about you from that guy, Art Bell, the GOAT.
David Paulides· Guest0:21
The greatest.
Joe Rogan· Host0:24
Yeah. He was, uh [laughs] I used to love listening to his show, uh, coming home from the Comedy Store. I would come home at, like, 1:00 in the morning and the, "Coast to Coast with Art Bell from the kingdom of Nye." It was awesome. And, uh, that's when I, I first, uh, got turned on to your work. So tell everybody, you, uh, you started off in law enforcement.
David Paulides· Guest0:44
Right.
Joe Rogan· Host0:45
That's your background.
David Paulides· Guest0:46
Correct.
Joe Rogan· Host0:47
How did you get involved in this mystery of people going missing?
David Paulides· Guest0:52
So I'd already written a couple of books. And I was at Yosemite National Park doing some research on another topic. And two rangers are following me around. And I went back to my room that was at the park. And about an hour and a half later, one of the rangers comes to my room and he's in plainclothes. And he knocks on my door and he says, "Hey, Dave. I'm ranger so-and-so. I'm here off duty. I wanna talk to you about some missing people." I said, "Come on in." So we start talking and he says that he knew about me probably the way you