Joe Rogan Experience #1927 - Forrest Galante

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music plays) What's up, buddy?

   4. FGForrest Galante0:13

      Hey, bro.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:13

      Still alive. You are still alive. This is a truthful title to this book.

   6. FGForrest Galante0:17

      That's true. (laughs) It's ridiculous-

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      (laughs)

   8. FGForrest Galante0:18

      ... but it's true. And it's catchy-

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      (laughs)

   10. FGForrest Galante0:20

       ... that's the whole point. (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       Dude, I watched your show the other day, the, uh, the television show. What is the television show?

   12. FGForrest Galante0:25

       Mysterious Creatures?

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       Yes.

   14. FGForrest Galante0:27

       The new one? Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       And you, you, you were looking for some wolf thing?

   16. FGForrest Galante0:30

       The, uh, red wolf.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       Yes.

   18. FGForrest Galante0:31

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       But they didn't think it was a red wolf. They thought it was, like, some mystical beast.

   20. FGForrest Galante0:34

       A howler. An Ozark howler.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:36

       I was like, "Oh my goodness."

   22. FGForrest Galante0:37

       (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       Which, you know, I mean, wolves do howl.

   24. FGForrest Galante0:40

       Yeah. No, that was, that was an interesting story. If you look at the timeline from when this cryptid, this, this howler popped up, it's right when the red wolf was starting to plummet in its numbers.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Mm-hmm.

   26. FGForrest Galante0:51

       And as soon as wolves plummet, they call to each other, right? They howl.

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       Ah, that makes sense.

   28. FGForrest Galante0:56

       So it's like, "Oh, we're hearing this thing and this spooky thing that we've seen running around the woods." And it's like, well, yeah. It's wolves trying to find each other.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       Oh.

   30. FGForrest Galante1:03

       And it happened to also overlap with when moonshining was, like, a big deal, so they perpetuated the rumor of the howler to keep people outta the woods.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      when I go into the woods, I literally say a prayer, and I let the, the creatures of the woods know I know them, and I, I offer no harm. I am there only to just peacefully walk amongst them."

   2. FGForrest Galante15:16

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:16

      "I am not a threat." I went, "Will you shut the fuck up, and go-"

   4. FGForrest Galante15:19

      (laughs) Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:19

      "... Just-"

   6. FGForrest Galante15:20

      "Go for a walk through the African bush for one night and see how well that does," yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:23

      Like, what are you talking about, lady?

   8. FGForrest Galante15:25

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:25

      You zig and you coulda zagged, and you run into a bear, and you're fucking dead. Shut up.

   10. FGForrest Galante15:29

       100%. Yeah, 100%.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:30

       Just shut up. They eat, they eat yoga instructors, too.

   12. FGForrest Galante15:32

       (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:32

       And this idea that you're gonna, like, "I send out a message of peace." It, it-

   14. FGForrest Galante15:38

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       We've, we've become so, uh, jaded in the sense of, like, nature is in harmony and balance.

   16. FGForrest Galante15:45

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:45

       That's like this ide- this Western idea of, like-

   18. FGForrest Galante15:47

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:47

       ... everything's so harmonious in nature.

   20. FGForrest Galante15:49

       It's terrifying.

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:50

       It's the opposite, you know?

   22. FGForrest Galante15:52

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:52

       It's, yeah.

   24. FGForrest Galante15:52

       It's such a dumb perspective.

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:53

       It is.

   26. FGForrest Galante15:53

       And it's, it's so misinformed. It's just based on idealistic perspectives. It's, uh, based on, you know, this idea of a utopia-

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:01

       Yeah.

   28. FGForrest Galante16:01

       ... that exists in the woods. It's just not. It's tooth, fang, and claw.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:04

       Correct.

   30. FGForrest Galante16:05

       It's ra-
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Still packed with sugar…

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      for you.

   2. FGForrest Galante30:00

      Still packed with sugar though, right?

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:01

      Some of them.

   4. FGForrest Galante30:02

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:02

      I mean, there's organic ones that aren't.

   6. FGForrest Galante30:04

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:04

      But the outside, that's what you want.

   8. FGForrest Galante30:06

      Yup.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:06

      You want where the milk is, where's the cheese-

   10. FGForrest Galante30:07

       Sure.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:07

       ... where's the eggs.

   12. FGForrest Galante30:08

       Sure.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:08

       It's on the outside. It's refrigerated.

   14. FGForrest Galante30:10

       Yup.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:10

       Yeah.

   16. FGForrest Galante30:10

       Yup. There's a reason you have to eat it fresh.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:12

       Yeah, you gotta eat it quick.

   18. FGForrest Galante30:13

       Yeah. Right. (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:14

       And we're, it's really, like a lot of the stuff, like especially like pasteurized and homogenized milk, there's a real good argument that that's not even good, because your body's like, "What is this weird liquid protein stuff?"

   20. FGForrest Galante30:25

       Mm-hmm.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:25

       "This is not... Like, where's the enzymes that are supposed to be available in raw milk?" But-

   22. FGForrest Galante30:30

       So what, what's your feeling on like a protein shake? Like, you're doing this carnivore thing.

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:33

       Mm-hmm.

   24. FGForrest Galante30:33

       You're obviously getting tons of protein.

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:35

       Yeah.

   26. FGForrest Galante30:35

       You're not doing a protein shake as well, are you?

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:37

       No, it's not necessary.

   28. FGForrest Galante30:38

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan30:38

       I mean, if you're eating meat, most of, most of what I'm eating is meat and eggs.

   30. FGForrest Galante30:42

       Sure.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      out there though.

   2. FGForrest Galante45:00

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:01

      You don't, I don't think you have to be that good to be a cult leader.

   4. FGForrest Galante45:03

      No?

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:03

      Like you could be pretty shitty at it.

   6. FGForrest Galante45:05

      How do you find your followers?

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:07

      That's a good question.

   8. FGForrest Galante45:08

      That's-

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:08

      I think you start off being a self-help guru.

   10. FGForrest Galante45:10

       Oh, that makes sense.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:11

       Self-help guru-

   12. FGForrest Galante45:12

       Yep.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:12

       ... and then you eventually move people into some sort of a communal situation.

   14. FGForrest Galante45:15

       Yep.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:16

       Like, "We don't need society, man."

   16. FGForrest Galante45:18

       Right. "We can do it better."

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:19

       "Yeah, and I'll be your leader." And then he's banging everybody's wife-

   18. FGForrest Galante45:22

       Everybody.

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:23

       ... and he wants all your money and eh.

   20. FGForrest Galante45:24

       Doesn't sound terrible.

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:26

       (laughs)

   22. FGForrest Galante45:26

       (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan45:26

       It does if you, if you're the guy whose wife is getting banged.

   24. FGForrest Galante45:29

       Yeah. (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan45:29

       You're like, "Honey-"

   26. FGForrest Galante45:30

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       "... what? I thought we were just gonna be peaceful out here-

   28. FGForrest Galante45:33

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan45:33

       ... living off the land. Well, you know, he wants to bless me."

   30. FGForrest Galante45:36

       Again, on Tuesday.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:07:15

   Interesting. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      they just run amok, you know?

   2. FGForrest Galante1:00:01

      Interesting.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:01

      Yeah, they're just really fertile and th- th- the ground, um, they had developed this, uh, type, what's it called? Terra preta? Terra preta? Is that what it's called? They had developed a very specific type of soil-

   4. FGForrest Galante1:00:15

      Huh.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:16

      ... that they, they actually, it's a soil that-

   6. FGForrest Galante1:00:17

      Oh, yes.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:18

      ... actually-

   8. FGForrest Galante1:00:18

      I know about this.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:19

      Yeah.

   10. FGForrest Galante1:00:19

       And we've, we've been unable to replicate it.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:20

       Exactly.

   12. FGForrest Galante1:00:21

       Yes.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:21

       Yeah.

   14. FGForrest Galante1:00:21

       I do know a bit about that. Yeah. Um, but, but I guess the difference-

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:26

       Terra preta.

   16. FGForrest Galante1:00:26

       Terra preta.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:26

       Yeah, that's it.

   18. FGForrest Galante1:00:27

       But I guess the difference being, those were all native plants, right? So while the Amazon may have been cultivated by different tribes in the Amazon, they're not getting those plants or trees from anywhere but the immediate surrounding area, right? I mean, maybe not immediate, but within the South Americas.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       I'm not exactly sure.

   20. FGForrest Galante1:00:44

       Right?

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:44

       About them, yeah.

   22. FGForrest Galante1:00:44

       'Cause it's not like they're importing olives from Spain, right?

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:47

       Right, right, right.

   24. FGForrest Galante1:00:47

       Like, they're, they're using the resources, so-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:00:49

       Yeah, I don't think, I don't think they're saying they're invasive. I'm just thinking they're cultivated.

   26. FGForrest Galante1:00:52

       But that's fascinating.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:00:53

       Yeah, it's amazing.

   28. FGForrest Galante1:00:54

       'Cause you, you certainly don't think of that. And you don't think of, at least in today's world I don't, think of the Amazon as being populous. I mean, I'm not talking about Manaus and, you know-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:02

       Yeah, right.

   30. FGForrest Galante1:01:02

       ... cities. I'm talking about the wild Amazon. You don't think of civilizations being able to impact-

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