798: Forrest Galante | A Wild Life of Rediscovery
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Forrest Galante (@ForrestGalante) is a wildlife biologist, conservationist, co-host of The Wild Times Podcast, and TV presenter for Extinct or Alive and Mysterious Creatures. He is also the author of Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery.
What We Discuss with Forrest Galante:- What happened when an Amazonian shaman insisted Forrest snort an unknown powder from a monkey bone to keep him safe on the journey ahead?
- How growing up as an almost feral, shoeless child on a farm in Zimbabwe prepared Forrest to survive in the wilderness (and why he doesn't have an accent anymore).
- How Forrest wound up as a successful contestant on Naked and Afraid, which led him to leave his job as an ant-counting biologist and continue his conservation efforts in a more visible medium: television.
- How does Forrest go about finding animals in the wild that have been presumed extinct?
- How did Forrest and his crew survive trudging around the mangrove jungle on Ramree Island where hundreds of Japanese soldiers had been eaten alive by saltwater crocodiles during WWII?
- And much more...
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| 0:07.3 | You know, long story short, 10 days later I was on a plane to Panama to be on the next |
| 0:12.2 | season or special or whatever it was of naked and afraid. |
| 0:15.8 | And the only reason I did that was to get a vacation because doing naked and afraid, |
| 0:20.8 | doing 21 days of nude survival in the jungle seemed a lot easier than going back out to |
| 0:25.8 | the islands and counting ants for another three months. |
| 0:28.5 | So yeah, it was just something I decided to do for fun. |
| 0:31.4 | Got through that was very, very successful on that show. |
| 0:34.8 | At the time, I think the highest rated survivalist they'd had because they give you like a little score at the end. |
| 0:40.0 | And then just went back to being a biologist. Didn't think anything of it. |
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