Story of the Pygmy Who Was Kept in the Bronx Zoo w/Forrest Galante | Joe Rogan

That's super dicey. Didn't they do that with an African man in the Bronx Zoo in like the turn of the century? They put an African man in the Bronx Zoo? Yes, they did. Yeah, they had an African man, I believe it was the Bronx Zoo, in like the 1800s or the early 1900s. A pygmy? A pygmy? Yeah, a bhata bhanga. What year was it? 1906. Oh, God. Wow. Yeah, they had him in the zoo, man. It's insane. Look at that. Wow. Dudes in the zoo. Yeah. Well, you know what, man, people were just figuring life out back then. Right, right. This is the reality of human beings is that we have not been alive that long and we have not been civilized in terms of how we view the world today with inclusivity and objectivity and care and kindness towards others like this compassion and altruism. This is, on a global scale, this is fairly recent. Yeah, we're figuring things out as we go. I mean, history is a perfect, it can show you how we've progressed. It's a documentation of how we've progressed. But yet still. That was still 50 years after slavery, right? That's crazy. Yeah, 40, 45 years after slavery, what the fuck, guys? So Bronx Zoo, speaking in our weird cryptid realm, reminded me of something. So get this. Chubacabra has been attributed to the possibility that there are thylacine in North America. And here's what supports that. There is documented proof that however many years ago, I don't remember the dates, there were two breeding pair of thylacine bound for the Bronx Zoo. And the boat crashed into the shore and most of the animals escaped, including the two breeding pair of thylacine. Fast forward 10, 15 years, you start having these Chubacabra sightings pop up in the Northeast. And these animals were adapted to living in Tasmania, which is a pretty similar climate to the North American and Northeast. And so there's people that have kind of drawn these parallels and said, oh, the Chubacabra that we've reported running around the United States is actually a tiny remnant population of these thylacine that were brought here for the Bronx Zoo that escaped. What? You buy into this? No. Not personally. It's an amazing story. Boy, you had me. If you said yes, I'd really go on an expedition. Quick question off of stuff you've talked about. If someone could get one for the Bronx Zoo, then would a rich person have been able to buy one like a rich guy in Texas, for instance? A thylacine? Been able to purchase one privately. Yeah. Back then. Texas, you could probably get one today. If you want to find a thylacine, go to Bubba's house. But especially back then, there were no import-export laws about wildlife. You could just bring in whatever you liked if you had money. Everybody was in a race to collect stuff for zoos and museums. What's to say somebody didn't bring some in? Texas and their exotics, it's so strange. I had a bit about it in my act in 2016, my Netflix special, that there's more tigers in captivity in Texas and private collections than there are in all of the wild of the world. Isn't that insane? Just Texas. And that's like in guys' living rooms in a cage. Yee-haw. Feed a mistake. It's nuts. Yeah, it is nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts.