Shark Week Host Reveals Moment That Scared the @#$! Out of Him

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**Forrest Galante** (1:50)
And I'm cruising down this dirt road with the Savannah and the Baobabs of Africa behind me. I'd been in this filthy, filthy water filled with crocodile poop the day before, and some had splashed in my mouth. Anyway, we set up this whole thing and we're going to do this amazing show open. I'm Forrest Galante, and I've come to the Zambezi Valley to study blah, blah, blah. And so we're all set, everybody's in place, and I start driving. And now my stomach's going, blah, blah, blah. I go, I'm Forrest Galante, and I am going to shit my pants and jump off of the motorcycle and run into the bushes and pull my pants down.

**Dan Bova** (2:27)
Hey, everyone, I'm Dan Bova, writer and editor at entrepreneur.com. Welcome to How Success Happens. So today's guest has been described as a modern day Charles Darwin with a little dash of Indiana Jones for the animal world. Well, whichever it is, there is a 50-50 chance he just crawled out of somewhere very gross and very dangerous. Forrest Galante is a biologist, TV host, producer, and all around crazy person who you will see a lot more of on Shark Week, which kicks off July 26th on Discovery.
Welcome our old pal, Forrest, how are you?

**Forrest Galante** (3:10)
Dan, I am so good. Thanks for having me and you're not wrong. You are not wrong. Seventy, not even, 55 hours ago, I was covered head to toe in Humboldt, squid, slime, and ink in the Sea of Cortez. I drove, I swear to God, I drove all night, got here around midnight last night, woke up frazzled and here we are. So you are not, you know, the introduction was very apt.

**Dan Bova** (3:33)
So what do you do to get the slime off? Is there a special soap you use or is there no hope?

**Forrest Galante** (3:40)
It depends who you ask. If you ask me, it's gone. If you ask my wife, I smell disgusting still. So it really depends who you ask. I take a lot of hot showers and, you know, my clothes are ruined, but the smell, I believe, is gone.

**Dan Bova** (3:54)
Well, we are recording remotely, so there are blessings.

**Forrest Galante** (3:59)
What can I say?

**Dan Bova** (4:00)
Exactly right.

**Forrest Galante** (4:01)
That is success for me.

**Dan Bova** (4:05)
So last time you and I chatted, you texted me a video of you doing something. I believe the technical term for it is bat shit crazy. There was this video of you swimming with like a hundred sharks swarming around you.
Are all your toes and body parts accounted for?

**Forrest Galante** (4:27)
I mean, for the most part, there are little bits and pieces missing here and there. But for the most part, yeah, I mean, we've made some amazing programming this year between an upcoming project that I can't talk too much about yet, that is going to be a Discovery Channel project and Shark Week, as you mentioned, it has been go, go, go on the road. Not to mention the incredible stuff I'm doing in Vantara and India with that world's largest rescue and rehab. And it's been go, go, go. And some of the animal encounters in the last 18 months have been the most astonishing things I ever thought I would do. So everything's here, all the bits and pieces, but yeah, it's been amazing.