Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1403 - Forrest Galante
Uploaded: 2019-12-19T20:00:12.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1403 - Forrest Galante' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-12-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1403 - Forrest Galante' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-12-19. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1403 - Forrest Galante

and what's happening brother how are you hey joe good man it's great to be here
thanks for having
me i've been following your exploits on uh social media and uh the yellow caiman
yes dude that is a
wild looking creature isn't it it's unbelievable it was thought to be extinct
uh yeah so this one's
it's a little confusing it um it's a species that was last seen in when the
last one died in a zoo
in the 80s and because of the region that it occupies in columbia which has
always been
controlled by fark rebels nobody had been back down there to look for it and uh
myself and there's
actually this amazing columbian scientist named sergio reina we're both kind of
going and prodding
and trying to see if we could get in and we both found it within a month of
each other oh wow yeah
now it's a beautiful looking creature look at that thing right it's such a wild
green yellow color
so wild looking it's you super unique dude you're just holding that thing by
the neck
yeah we just had a little wrestling match him and i so you don't even have body
control don't
you want to take mountain here maybe get a back mount get some hooks in no he
was he was good you
know reptiles they tire out so they're not like mammals um once they expend all
their energy that's
kind of it um but yeah absolutely amazing are they similar to regular crocodiles
with alligators and
that they don't have to eat for like a year yeah so caiman i mean caiman don't
have the as slow of
metabolism as certain other species but they are they're a member of the
alligator family so to speak
and they can go very long times without food what a crazy animal like looks
like a monster yep i mean look at
it the teeth on that thing swallows things basically hold it spins to take
chunks off of things swallows
them whole it doesn't have to eat for a year can go underwater for how long
without holding it like
40 45 minutes some of them yeah some species yeah so you have no idea it's
there right it's just waiting
for you and they're fairly small right there's like a 90 pound animal when it's
fully grown uh well
these ones it's so little is known about this particular species of caiman that
it's hard to say i would
say yeah 100 pounds is probably about right there's a great photo jamie from
the nature is metal um
instagram page from yesterday that page is nuts i love it too i love that page
there's a great one of
uh a jaguar with a caiman in its mouth that one look at the eyes on that yeah
go expand look at that
thing of nightmares look at those fangs right in the throat like just death
grip and you can see that
that caiman is death rolling in that scene right it's trying to get away it's
rolling and that jag is
just locked in the eyes on that thing my god unbelievable it's like nature has
created like in
those kind of eyes that's the perfect that's the the perfect vision of terror
yeah like those eyes like
totally locked into those eyes like there's no forgiveness there's no emotions
there's just ferocity
and aggression and death it seems like nothing but testosterone is behind that
you know i mean
testosterone is probably the wrong wrong chemical but it just seems so focused
and motivated and like
you say it's just it looks like death yeah i'm sure there's some testosterone
involved in that equation
too but there's a bunch of other cat shit in there literally and they have
apparently the the thing in
the caption was saying that the caiman has one of the greatest bites per pound
of any of the big cats
and they regularly eat these the jag yeah jaguar rather has one of the greatest
bites and they
regularly eats these uh these caimans yeah no they're amazing and and you know
back to the one that we
found it's so great because like i'm the hide and seek guy right like i look
for them and now there's
the scientist sergio reina down in colombia who's going to manage that species
ongoing existence so
wow it's really cool so what is involved in that like managing their existence
what does he
i mean you know it's wildlife management so it's it's getting proper population
dynamics trying to
understand them genetically figure out what their food sources figure out how
much hunting pressure
they can take or cannot take those kind of things and that's not my department
you know i i i go in and
look for them that's someone like sergio who's in the field lives in colombia
can work with the species
it's really cool i remember there was a documentary about this guy who was a
scientist who was obsessed
it was a biologist he was obsessed with the giant sloth and he was spending all
of his time down the
amazon he'd been down there for years and the the the documentary was following
him at this stage
where he was getting really frustrated and not sure if he's wasting his career
right like there was this
feeling like this thing might not be real yeah like because they were telling
me yeah i saw it it's
over the hill and he's like you sure you saw it right and they you know they'd
bring these people
in they would speak their native tongue and they'd have this discussion of this
thing that they saw
two years ago big like a bear you know walks on his hind leg megatherium yeah
they're uh we discussed
this briefly last time i saw you i think it's funny we go straight back to the
same same wildlife stuff
um but yeah no it's who knows right who knows if it's still out there there's
definitely
ongoing reports so much so that i forget what university but some university
actually launched
an expedition to try and find the megatherium so really it's not uh i'd have to
look it up probably
10 years ago now not that long ago but but you know if an academic institution
is putting resources
behind an expedition like that there's a lot of faith and maybe even intel that
they're not releasing
publicly to say this animal's still here wow that would be crazy like how big
was a giant sloth uh well
there's a couple varieties like the there was a north american one that was
enormous like bigger
than a grizzly bear wow um yeah but so from what i've been what i've heard what
i've read you're
talking about something that stands 14 foot tall walking around the amazons
like like this 14 foot
tall like bigger than a kodiak grizzly that's what the reports say that's you
gotta take everything with
a grain of salt exactly i mean you got to take their existence with a grain of
salt like but this page
whatever this page is a bigfoot cousin what the fuck is this page and look up
there megalodon sightings
is the megalodon shark still alive yeah and straight away that's like discrediting
you're right you're
like okay what is this website you pull up there there's a article from june
about just lots of
information about them it's not even saying like it exists it's just saying
this is all the information
we have about this uh this map and gwari sightings people love finding undiscovered
or mythical creatures
that turn out to be like the tasmanian tiger right like that's a perfect
example like people
they love to try to find what is it thylacine people love to try to find that
thing like the idea
that it's out there it's like what is it about people where it's so compelling
to find a species that we
were we thought didn't exist or we thought was extinct like whether it's bigfoot
or the loch
nest monster or the thylacine which we know used to be real right right i mean
what do you think i
think that people quite you know they long for the unknown and there's this big
question mark
surrounding cryptids or surrounding extinct animals as to whether it's still
out there and
that's so much more inviting to the general to the general populace to get an
answer to than
knowing oh you know there's 700 of them left and we're trying to get them up to
1400 or whatever
the species dynamic is for some other animal as opposed to being like there
could be one out there
where is it and i personally i've been on two different expeditions looking for
thylacine really
yeah yeah yeah i did one in northern australia up north of cans and then one i
spent a couple weeks
in tasmania with a amazing biologist nick mooney who uh he's adamant that he's
seen thylacine and he's a
biologist this isn't you know someone who worked as a biologist that was out in
the wilderness going
yeah yeah i've seen thylacine and he was terrified to tell everybody and that
that tells me that it's
more credible right if you're scared to tell people because of your reputation
as opposed to like going
out there going i saw it i saw it i saw it right that becomes more credible
than the people who are
just waving their arms in the air going i told you it's here when did he come
out of the thylacine
closet like are you scared to tell people when yeah i gotta go public with this
um i'm not sure if he
told us first or if it was public uh right before then but not long ago i mean
maybe 10 years ago
that's such a cool looking animal too because it's a marsupial tiger right yeah
marsupial predator it's
like a marsupial wolf with tiger stripes it's so bizarre and it had this
amazing um jaw that would
open like like a snake's like way wider than its head should stripes on the
back um just such a cool
animal yeah and the last one died in a zoo right the last one that we think yep
in hobart in tasmania
wow but let me let me lay this on you so my next expedition um for that animal
because i'm like all
those other people that are kind of obsessed with it my next expedition for
that animal is to papua new
guinea so this species yeah that's right this this species used to range all
the way from papua new
guinea down through mainland australia and into tasmania when people came over
and settled that area they
brought with them dogs dingoes and dingoes out competed them in mainland australia
and possibly in
papua new guinea 4 000 years ago but the the thylacine remained in tasmania
where there are no
dingoes to outcompete them but in mainland australia you've got a diversity of
habitats
so there are places the thylacine could still hide but in papua new guinea the
terrain is so crazy
that the idea is that in certain regions dingoes could have never made it there
so perhaps there's
these isolated regions where very small thylacine populations continued for the
past 4 000 years have
there been sightings many but just the same kind of sightings as a giant slot
you know what i mean
it's all hearsay oh people are so full of yes they are such a problem if you're
gonna be a guy like
you actually looking for species yeah you know you gotta you gotta wade through
so much
bullshit you know it's just and it's funny because one thing can discredit the
entire story
that maybe it shouldn't because they're embellishing or or you can be on the
hook for someone's story
and be like i totally believe this guy it's it's all real and it could be
complete bs and there it's
just so hard to tell you just have to go with instinct oh god but it is
incredibly compelling i
mean if you really did get an absolute photograph of a thylacine and you knew
it was real or or
captured one yeah i think i think it would be the you know discovery of the
century and i think it would
kind of shift the scales for people that are on the fence about why do i care
about conservation
why do i care about wildlife management you know those kind of things to be
like check this animal
out something that you know last saw when we put a bounty on its head and now
it's back like it's
hung on by a thread like that's such a message of hope you know let's save it
let's bring it back
yeah well the the whole environment in australia is so strange and now because
of the wildfires
you know there's a lot of species like that was we were just talking the other
day about the koala
bears yeah that the koala bears a lot of their habitat got burnt in a lot of
these fires it's
really sad it's really sad they're on fire they're like losing their fur it's
awful but they're such
a little cute little animal they are but um and i don't h