Wooly Mammoths, Getting Bit By A Shark, and Joe Rogan! (Forrest Galante)
Lightweights Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
I am a MASSIVE fan of this man's work and am so stoked to have him on! Forrest Galante is a world renowned wildlife biologist, TV show host, and fellow podcaster of the WILD TIMES podcast .. hosting shows on Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, history channel, guested on the Joe Rogan Podcast 3x, and blew up from his appearance on Naked and Afraid
Forrest talks about swimming with hammerhead sharks, world record for spear fishing, discovering an extinct leopard, television shows, shark week, and escaping the government with AK-47’s.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, no, no, no. I want to. Yeah. Sweet. Cool. Ready? Ready. Let's go. What's up, lightweight? |
| 0:05.0 | Today's guest is Forest Galante. He is a world-renowned wildlife biologist TV show host and fellow |
| 0:10.4 | podcaster of the Wild Times podcast. Yeah. He's hosting shows on Discovery Channel Animal Planet |
| 0:15.9 | History Channel, guested on Joe Rogan and blew up from his appearance on Naked and Afraid. |
| 0:20.3 | True story. That's, that's crazy. You're just lucky I'm wearing pants today. I mean, take them off. |
| 0:25.0 | I don't know. Recently, you posted a video of you swimming with the hammerhead shark. Yeah, |
| 0:30.2 | from El Nino 2015. Yeah. So you find a shark in the water, throw out the fish that you just caught |
| 0:36.0 | and jump in. Well, not only that, but it's a shark that was out of its natural range by like 500 |
| 0:41.2 | miles. So this was at the Northern Channel Islands right out here in front of my house in Santa Barbara |
| 0:46.5 | and to see a hammerhead cruising around the Northern Channel Islands is like utterly bizarre. |
| 0:51.9 | It does not something that happens regularly and that was a freak phenomenon because it was |
| 0:55.2 | during the El Nino. And so we had to play with it. So yeah, we fed it up. We were cleaning our |
| 0:59.5 | fish. We had a bunch of yellowtail that we caught that day. We were cleaning them and all of a sudden |
| 1:03.1 | there was a shark circling the boat and I was like, we got to get in, we got to go check it out. |
| 1:06.4 | But he was pretty fired up and trying to eat us. Is, um, you have the, what world record do you have? |
| 1:13.0 | In spearfishing? Yeah. I'm not sure how many are current, but at one point in time I held six. |
| 1:18.4 | That's crazy. Yeah. And you go down there and just try and catch the fish. Yeah. So I held six |
| 1:24.4 | free dive spearfishing world records for a pole spear and a pole spear. Some people know it as a |
| 1:28.7 | Hawaiian sling. It's basically like a stick with a rubber band on the end. And so it's not like the |
| 1:33.0 | gun. It's literally like a hand spear. Um, and, uh, yeah, at one point in time I had white sea bass, |
| 1:40.0 | yellowtail, cabria, humphead, uh, speckled flounder and Malibar group are six different spearfishing |
| 1:48.0 | world records. How do you just figure out that you're good at that? I mean, you know, it's like any |
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