Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1240 - Forrest Galante
Uploaded: 2019-02-06T23:53:17.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1240 - Forrest Galante' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1240 - Forrest Galante' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-06. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1240 - Forrest Galante

all right here we go five four three two one yes how are you man what's going
on joe i'm stoked
man i'm really good really glad to be here i'm stoked too yeah nice to meet you
um dude you were
on naked and afraid sure ridiculous is that sure was uh dude it's so it's so
ridiculous like to say
ridiculous is such an understatement see because they oftentimes will have like
an actual survival
expert or a wildlife expert or someone who knows how to live in the woods sure
and that was the idea
with you to get a wildlife expert definitely i mean i'm i'm kind of a combo
like i i've practiced
primitive survival for many years in a means to get closer to wildlife like i
just go back from the
amazon and we had to feed ourselves every day we had to build shelter 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
but it's got to be
a little bit of a conscious effort right like to 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 it's uh it's human nature you know like we 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
i mean you just feel it like you know that you're doing something that's like
primal human nature
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
bonkers like i've 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 piranha
every cast
and and where we were in the amazon 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 uh 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 does it make you think of what the ocean must have been like
before people fucked it
up of course i mean of course as a biologist that's like all i can think about
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 i know like
you think this should be like teeming with life you're over these reefs and you
see like three or
four fish or five fish or something like that it's so weird i mean there's
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 want to disparage anyone in hawaii but i don't think
there's
anywhere in hawaii like that because it's all so accessible yeah and um 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 yeah i mean i guess that's like what it must
be to just be in
the amazon itself as well right for sure in the jungle not just the rivers and
the lakes or whatever
is out there but the actual jungle itself it's it was incredible the jungle
there so we were in
colombian amazon and like talk about untouched by people there's been this kind
of ongoing going
conflict in colombia for many many years so we're 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 did they want to touch you
to yeah hair because
their hair was very dark and very different and like i'm not particularly fair
but just to touch like
the hair and see the blue eyes and stuff they were just lovely friendly super
friendly like
the culture was very stoic like there wasn't a lot of smiling or crying you
know there wasn't like a
lot of emotional exchange but straight away they came and greeted us like shook
hands you know said
hello um it was really cool wow that's gonna be no how do you set something
like that up do you have
like a liaison that they're like acts as a go-between between you and the
tribes um yeah so we did in
this case have one guy who communicated i speak spanish spanglish i guess um
and they they all speak
spanish from back in the day so we set it all up it's part of the wildlife
stuff that i do we we
literally flew a dc3 a world war ii cargo plane into this cocaine dealer's airstrip
what god that's how we
got there i mean like mind-blowing stuff current cocaine dealer or former
former former former yeah
well you know tbd it's still colombia right exactly wow so yeah i was that one
was really cool
really remote how crazy is it that they learned spanish from people who came
over on boats from
spain and it just stuck isn't that nuts and took over the whole like region
yeah the whole world and
and there's this tribe in the middle of the amazon that has this language from
another continent well
and brazil right from portugal right it's really incredible when you stop and
think about i mean we
it's it's incredible but it's also part of it's a little sad like wouldn't you
have loved to have
heard what their original language was oh absolutely what it sounded like well
they did so it's funny
because when they didn't want us to understand what they were talking about
they would switch to
their native indian language so they still had they were bilingual a community
of 25 people that
have never left and they're bilingual wow it's amazing now
their native language is what what is it it's an amazonian indian dialect i i
honestly don't even
they might have said the name but i don't recall what is the name of their
tribe uh also i'm not
even sure they're they're so isolated they're unaware of what country they live
in they don't even know
that they're in colombia really really they're just like to them they're amazonian
they're not
colombian ecuadorian brazilian they're they're amazonian whoa yeah
you know so they just stay like where they are they stay and the village we
were in is literally
i think it's over 200 kilometers from the next next village of 15 or so people
and they don't
have fuel they don't have motors you know they're just in this pocket and they
just substance live
and they're all barefoot right yeah do they have those crazy splayed out feet
big feet you know because they're they're not very big people they're like
small indian
people but really big kind of useful feet and the way that you know they could
run up and down trees
and climb stuff i mean it was unbelievable like so much more athletic than you
could imagine imagine
right they've they've been doing that their whole life their whole lives yeah
now when like when i say
splayed out feet what i'm talking about is that people that walk barefoot in
the jungle for long
periods of time with their whole life their toes spread out and their feet
almost look like a hand oh no
way i did not like pay enough attention that might have been the case but i
didn't look at their feet
exactly yeah it is kind of weird things stare at dude's feet yeah for sure but
um yeah steve rinella
who's a good friend of mine told me about that he was in guyana and is the same
thing and they actually
got some pictures and videos of these people's feet but look at these guys up
there whoa oh no i didn't
notice anything like that yeah um this is the uh that's uh how do you say that
whorana whorani whorani
whorani sounds right whorani you think whorani whorani indian splayed feet so
it's very strange like
it's kind of the opposite of what happens to women when they jam their feet
into those little pointy
shoes right where they get the the the toes kind of smoosh onto each other
ballet feet yeah it's horrible
instead of that they're all like crazy spread out what in the fuck is going on
there the guys
got the topest hands i think wood yeah the top's hands but the bottom is like
wood feet but that's
that's got to be like what our feet are supposed to be probably right right
yeah thick ass toes that
actually have muscles in them that move that you can use like a tool like your
hand yeah yeah so when
these guys just can climb up trees with them so they grip the the side of the
tree with their feet like
a hand oh i mean i didn't notice like i say the feet just like that
specifically but the way they
could like everything's covered in mud down there right it's all wet it rains
every day and they
could run up and down these tree trunks like to get up and down the village and
here's me and my crew
with our awkward cameras and stuff and we're slipping and sliding and falling
over and like they're
they're literally like what's wrong with these people why can't they walk we
must have looked like
infants today right and you guys probably have like boots on and of course nutty
and
up and oh totally yeah we're wearing you know muck boots and my one buddy's got
waiters on and you
know we think we're all hard and cool because we got all this gear and they're
just like running around
in shorts barefoot it is so fascinating when you see people that don't have
contact with the outside
world like um i'm sure you're aware of uh that recent story the missionary was
killed by the people
in north sentinel island absolutely which is one of the weirdest places because
they've branched off
from africa what 60 000 years ago or something like that right when when you're
around these people
like what what do they do if they get injured so funny you ask that because we
we kind of had that
same question right and they don't leave they stay in the village they have a
shaman at the village who
blessed us with a crazy green powder and that's a whole nother story but they
have a shaman and he is
their doctor however he has no access to any western medicine so it's only his
learned knowledge handed
down through generations plus jungle powders and whatnot and um and that's it
so we actually we
spent today because we had a medic with us doing like kind of village help if
you will everybody had
ringworm everybody had respiratory infections uh there were a lot of lady
problems in the village that
our medic had to deal with i mean there was a lot of health issues and you don't
even realize it
i'm gonna write something down before i forget i'm sorry it's totally unrelated
no good there's
a doctor named peter hotez that's coming on the podcast now to follow up on him
he when you start
talking about the people in the jungle he was he's an actual uh a doctor who is
uh he specializes in
infectious diseases and jungle and tropical climates and he's like everyone's
infected with something
everyone everyone he'd have a heyday down there yeah i'm sure it's probably
been yeah but um the
so when these people have ringworm and all these different infections do they
treat it do they have
like some naturopathic cure or some shit i i think it's kind of a 50 50 like a
lot of it they don't
treat because it's just part of everyday life like when i say everybody had
ringworm i meant everybody
had it so i don't think there was any kind of treatment or cure it was just
kind of part of it
part of them huh but other things you know the the the witch doctor or the shaman
was trying to
treat um and then we kind of went in and we had like medication for ringworm so
we dewormed everybody
and with the shaman's blessing and he was like super excited to have western
medicine in the village
and would you use like lamisol or something like that i couldn't tell you um i
think it was
not it wasn't topical i think it was like a vermox like a pill that you take
that kills the
kills the worms hmm the weird thing about that is like
don't you you leave and then they're going to get it again right i mean there's
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