#1240 - Forrest Galante

Joe Rogan (0:00)

All right, here we go, five, four, three, two, one, yes. How are you, man, what's going on?

Forrest Galante (0:10)

Joe, I'm stoked, man, I'm really good, really glad to be here.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

I'm stoked too.

Forrest Galante (0:13)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Nice to meet you. Dude, you were on Naked and Afraid.

Forrest Galante (0:17)

Sure was.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

How ridiculous is that?

Forrest Galante (0:18)

Sure was.

Dude, it's so ridiculous. To say ridiculous is such an understatement.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

See, because they oftentimes will have an actual survival expert or a wildlife expert or someone who knows how to live in the woods.

Forrest Galante (0:30)

Sure.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

And that was the idea with you, to get a wildlife expert?

Forrest Galante (0:34)

Definitely. I mean, I'm kind of a combo. Like, I've practiced primitive survival for many years in a means to get closer to wildlife. Like, I just got back from the Amazon, and we had to feed ourselves every day. We had to build shelter, blah, blah, blah. And I don't do it, like, for fun. I do it as a means to be out further and stay longer kind of thing.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

But it's got to be a little bit of a conscious effort, right? Like, to have fun, like, fishing for your food and, you know, putting up shelter and stuff. I mean, it's got to be, like, kind of cool to live like that for a little bit.

Forrest Galante (1:04)

It's human nature, you know? Like, we intrinsically want to hunt things and fish things and build a shelter and survive. And so it's totally fun. I think it's, like, to your core, it's fun. You know what I mean? You just feel it. Like, you know that you're doing something that's, like, primal human nature.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

Yeah, the Amazon fishing clips that you have on your Instagram page, it's crazy. Like, you just throw a cast out there and you're catching a big fish, like, instantly.

Forrest Galante (1:26)

Bonkers. Like, I fished a lot of places. I'm really into fishing and spearfishing, and every, Joe, I'm not kidding, every single cast was a fish. A peacock, bass or a piranha, every cast.

And where we were in the Amazon is super remote. Like, not a lot of people go there. I'm sure those fish have never, ever seen a lure, never seen a hook before.

And it wasn't, like, sport fishing. It was like, okay, let's go catch 10 fish. In other words, take 10 casts and we have enough food, and that was it, and it was amazing.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

Does it make you think of what the ocean must have been like before people fucked it up?

Forrest Galante (1:56)

Of course. I mean, of course. As a biologist, that's, like, all I can think about.

Joe Rogan (1:59)

Because I was in Hawaii recently, and we did some snorkeling, and when you're swimming around with the goggles on, looking down at the ocean, one of the things that's kind of shocking is how few fish there are.

Forrest Galante (2:10)

I know.

Joe Rogan (2:11)

Like, you think this should be, like, teeming with life. You know, you're over these reefs and you see, like, three or four fish, or five fish, or something like that.

Forrest Galante (2:20)

It's so weird. I mean, there are these pockets left in the world that are completely untouched, and it's like, as soon as you get into one, you can see it. You're like, this is what it used to be like everywhere. And it's like, humans haven't had an impact. I don't, you know, I don't wanna disparage anyone in Hawaii, but I don't think there's anywhere in Hawaii like that, cause it's all so accessible.

And it's just, you know, I've been fortunate enough to see a couple of these pockets and they're just booming with stuff. And it's like, this is what it could be.

Joe Rogan (2:46)

Yeah, I mean, I guess that's like what it must be to just be in the Amazon itself as well, right?

Forrest Galante (2:52)

For sure.

Joe Rogan (2:53)

In the jungle, not just the rivers and the lakes or whatever's out there, but the actual jungle itself.

Forrest Galante (2:58)

It was incredible. The jungle there, so we were in Columbia and Amazon and like talk about untouched by people. There's been this kind of ongoing conflict in Columbia for many, many years. So we were the first Westerners to go there in over 60 years.

So the village we flew into, they'd literally never seen white people before. And then we went 200 kilometers from that. So like middle of nowhere.