Name: Forrest Galante on the Myth of Giant Anaconda's in the Amazon
Uploaded: 2023-01-17T18:33:51.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Forrest Galante on the Myth of Giant Anaconda's in the Amazon' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Forrest Galante on the Myth of Giant Anaconda's in the Amazon' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-17. Transcript available.

I can sort of understand that in a sense of like I'm not an adrenaline junkie
like I don't go for skydives or you know any of that stuff it doesn't drive me
but that thrill and rush I get of you know darting a bear or working with a
lion or doing you know swimming with an anaconda like that fuels me for weeks
like I get getting goosebumps thinking about some of them right now because I
get so excited by and it's not just for a personal rush but rather you know we're
doing it for work or whatever but those
moments stick with me forever and I sort of get that but not like I'm just
gonna risk my life over this climb or whatever you know so what are your
thoughts on giant anacondas like because there's always been this thing about
enormous anacondas that live in the rainforest so yeah there's fascinating so I
love anacondas I believe and I've got a colleague Brian Fry you know Australia
actually and he has a similar belief that there are 30 foot anacondas now 30s
a big anaconda but you're talking about those mysterious like 100 footers okay
so take out the Amazon and take out anacondas for a second okay all right think
about where all the largest snakes are in the world Florida
well now yes but you know we've got all these wet tropical environments that
have that house these huge stakes in Indonesia you have articulated pythons you
have Burmese pythons you have African rock pythons Indian rock pythons anacondas
all these big snakes yeah the only place
that has a wet tropical humid high density of prey environment that doesn't
have a massive snake is the Congo Central Africa hmm now interesting stay with
me these that area is home to some African rock pythons stuff and not big
monster anaconda size ones right but during World War Two there was a colonel
who flew over there and this is a well-respected colonel I'm sure Jamie you'll
be able to find this very quickly a well-respected like I forget
he had like his wings or his patch of honor whatever like very distinguished
who him and his two passengers in the plane both reported a hundred foot long
snake they flew over it once they're like wait a minute what is that they were
there Dutch Belgium in the Congo they flew over it once went what is that and
flew over it two more times to verify it and got so low to the ground that they
said the snake struck at the airplane and all three people the pilot this well-respected
colonel and the two passengers had
had the exact same story of this giant snake in Central Africa interesting yeah
and yet no big snake has ever been proven from there but it's also a very
poorly biologically explored area and most of the time when these animals get
this big snakes or otherwise they're in very low yeah here's the picture they
took a photo of it did yeah they did they're in very low densities so hmm that's
the real photo over on the left there what do they think it was they thought it
was a giant snake a 50 foot long so that's the photo right there I believe so
but the story is fascinating of these kernels they don't know like what kind of
snake they don't know if it was no condor now I thought it would be an undescribed
species because the only snake there the African rock python doesn't get that
big what is the biggest snake that we know oh it says it measured approximately
50 feet in length saw brown green with a white belly has a triangle shaped jaw
and a head three by two feet
oh my god oh my god a three foot head the photo was later analyzed and verified
to be genuine van leard uh claims that is that how you say his name I'm not
sure but that was that was the colonel remy van leard as he flew lower for a
closer inspection the snake rose up approximately 10 feet giving a warning that
it would have attacked a helicopter if it had been within striking range
but imagine flying over and having a snake sort of lunge at a helicopter three
foot snake head jesus christ so jamie do you mind going to my instagram
literally swallow you alive easily look at this one I posted a picture day
before yesterday this is 18 feet and look at the size of it compared to me and
how scary this snake is um now to think of yeah like you said two by like you're
like a you're like an m&m to a snake that size you're a tic tac you're one of
them chocolate
covered almonds yeah that are so good for you yeah whoa look at the size of
that thing that's an 18 footer and look at how granted it's not three foot by
two foot head but still that thing you know
what's the weight on something like that uh it was over 200 it broke our scale
wow yeah it was over 200 pounds
wow indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49 feet
long and weighs nearly 990
pounds i i've seen this it's not there's no it's not verified at all do they
have an image of it um there this
might be the one that's on the tractor no it's not um there's a fake one on a
tractor that that it's fake
floated around well it's just very forced perspective it's like a wide-angle
lens and the snake is right in
front but it looks massive but this is nbc this is nbc news let's see if it has
uh images this sucker
so these are all like retics and you know there's there are big snakes out
there look at the size of
that goddamn thing yeah jesus so what is the biggest snake is it a python the
biggest snake that we know of so
the heaviest is the reticulated python look at the size of the thing yeah how
big is that that's big
that's probably it's probably 20-ish so there's quite a lot of 20-foot snakes
out there and then
there's a couple 21 22s but that's it and so there's all these rumors of 30-foot
snakes and 40-foot
snakes and blah blah blah and there's nothing that's been verified outside of
one skin i believe
i want to say from indonesia that is like but skin stretch that's the other
thing it turns out to be a
tall tale it says when uh recreation park in indonesia put a huge reticulated
python on show last week
keepers insisted to reporters it was 49 feet long make it the longest ever
caught but that the fine
turned out to be a tall tale yeah so how big was it exactly i bet it was 20-ish
21 there it is yeah
21 feet still yeah crazy it's a big snake man but not 50. not 50. was it i have
no idea why the snake has
shrunk said one keeper when asked about discrepancy as the snake lounged on a
tree branch inside the cave
before but things do shrivel up when you catch them you know like fish do like
when you catch a fish
yeah well definitely when you tell people about it but it's when you show
people yeah yeah i went fishing
here in austin this morning oh did you really right downtown literally right in
front of the google building
ladybird lake ladybird lake yeah there's a lot of bass out there it was awesome
yeah it's a great
little spot yeah yeah really fun right in front of the google building that's
right in front of it yeah
yeah um so the biggest in the world is the python right so they are bigger than
anacondas so it's sort
of a toss-up the reticulated python has been clocked as the heaviest snake in
the world because they
get fatter but the anacondas have been clocked in slightly longer i think 26
feet is the longest ever
recorded did you ever see the jennifer lopez movie the documentary yeah yeah it's
great it's a corny
movie it's so good the bad like snake head if you watch it so bad it's so bad
it's so bad but that was
always the rumor is that there was enormous snakes in the amazon and that you
know you just didn't see
them i i do believe that there are some mega fauna out there that are yet to be
found that are in low
populations you believe in the sloth the giants i believe that has a and again
that's like the
thylacine it's a proven animal it's been 10 000 years but it doesn't mean that
it couldn't be extant
in certain remote areas same with some of these big snakes maybe not 50 because
maybe these things are
embellished but maybe 30 maybe 35 right and i just think that there are a few
not a lot of these big
things out there if you're one of these uncontacted amazonian tribes of which
there are still several
popular west popwin tribes whatever and you're seeing a 50-foot snake nobody in
the western world
we're not hearing about that right you know like those things can be happening
and those stories
get embellished and passed on and all of that but we wouldn't even know until
western science gets in
there and it's sort of a double-edged sword could once it does it sort of ruins
certain aspects of that
right so but i do believe that there are big animals to be found still