Podcast appearances and mentions of justin fornal

In this episode, we're joined by Justin Fornal, an international explorer, cultural detective, filmmaker, award-winning writer, and the host of Unexplained and Unexplored on the Discovery and Science Channel. Listen in as he shares the incredible story of completing the first long-distance swim of the Nares Strait in history.

If These Walls Could Talk with Wendy Stuart & Tym MossHosts: WENDY STUART & TYM MOSSSpecial guest: JUSTIN FORNALWednesday, May 18th2pm EST LIVE from PANGEA Restaurant, NYCWatch LIVE on YouTube at Wendy Stuart TVJustin Fornal is an international explorer and an award-winning writer and television host. He has written and researched for National Geographic and currently hosts Unexplained and Unexplored, a program that uses ancient maps and cutting-edge technology to solve historic mysteries. Unexplained and Unexplored airs on the Science Channel and Discovery Channel in over 170 countries. Justin's fieldwork focuses largely on vanishing cultural traditions and the returning of stolen relics. He is the Co-Founder of HASAN (History, Arts, and Science Action Network). In 2016 he tracked down the lost skull of enslaved rebellion leader Nat Turner and repatriated it to the Turner descendants. Justin is a lover of open water swimming. On August 14th he will attempt the first-ever human-powered swim from Canada to Greenland across the Nares Strait. In 2021 Justin co-found Fornal Forests, a spirit company that specials in alcohol made from birch trees.Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style, of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstories of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their audience along for a fantastic ride.Wendy Stuart is an author, celebrity interviewer, model, filmmaker and hosts “Pandemic Cooking With Wendy,” a popular Youtube comedic cooking show born in the era of Covid-19, and TriVersity Talk, a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community.Tym Moss is a popular NYC singer, actor, and radio/tv host who recently starred in the hit indie film “JUNK” to critical acclaim.

"Don't sell your soul because you can't buy it back. Selling out is something I just can't do."My guest this week is Justin Fornal and I'm incredibly lucky to have him. He's someone who has lived and continues to live such an exciting and technicolour life that he very much resists categorisation. To describe Justin as an international explorer, cultural detective, award winning writer, filmmaker, culinary celebrity, and extreme athlete is about as close to the mark as you'll get. In 2018 Men's Journal simply ranked him as the #3 most adventurous person in the world. As a cultural detective, in search of secret societies, lost rituals and ancient talismans, he has travelled to the far corners of the earth, living with hunter-gatherer tribes, meeting with witch doctors who (still to this day) believe in human sacrifice, and taking part in ritual exorcisms, so just be aware that some parts of our conversation are not for the squeamish or faint-hearted.   Everywhere Justin goes, he always sets off with a deep respect for each culture that he interacts with, and sharing whatever he finds with integrity and a real commitment to the truth of a place, not adherence to institutional narrative. He is the Co-Founder of the History, Arts, & Science Action Network (HASAN) a non-profit organization that focuses on relic repatriation, historic justice, and documenting vanishing cultures. He's also the co-host of TV show UNEXPLAINED AND UNEXPLORED, alongside one of my previous guests Emiliano Ruprah, a show that has been airing on the Discovery Channel and Science Channel since 2019.Justin has also written extensively for National Geographic, VICE, The Explorers Journal, and Parts Unknown. I strongly recommend you read some of his articles which I've linked to below. He is also an extreme open water swimmer and having swum 100 miles around the Whisky Island of Islay on Scotland's freezing West Coast, he is currently planning the longest unassisted swim in history for Summer 2022.  The GREAT ARCTIC SWIM will be the first attempt to swim from Canada to Greenland across the Nares Strait. Truth is, unless there's a documentary made about his life, I'm not sure one CAN do Justin Fornal justice. The sheer depth and breadth of his experience makes keeping pace with him an impossible, yet very very enjoyable and joyous task. He truly is larger than life and a real polymath in every sense of the word. We start the conversation with him lighting up one of his rare pipes collected on his travels, before journeying through his culinary, cultural, and sporting adventures in that order. I hope that you find this conversation as interesting as I did.Links:https://justinfornal.com/articlesIG: @justin_fornalhttps://greatarcticswim.com/Weird Homes, Atlas ObscuraHome of the podcast:Coaching & Speaker Profile: www.michaelxcampion.comLinkedIn: @michaelxcampionIG: @michaelxcampion

My guest today is Justin Fornal, a self-made tv personality and content creator, international explorer and guerrilla filmmaker. Justin is a renaissance man who is best known for his shows on food, travel and exploration. Justin has gone from playing the local- turned- national eccentric character, Baron Ambrosia for Food Network’s Cooking Channel to uncovering hidden treasuries and ancient mysteries on Discovery’s Science Channel. His penchant for guerrilla filmmaking and being extremely diligent and unafraid to create his own lane , has garnered him an Emmy award, feature articles and network success.

Learn about how you can discover history by going low-tech, from explorers Justin Fornal and Emiliano Ruprah, hosts of “Unexplained and Unexplored” on Science Channel. Then, learn about how nuclear explosions work in space. Learn more about Unexplained and Unexplored: UNEXPLAINED AND UNEXPLORED First Look | Discovery — https://www.discovery.com/exploration/unexplained-and-unexplored-first-look-pictures UNEXPLAINED AND UNEXPLORED: Investigating the Legend of California's Gold Laden Ghost Ship | Discovery — https://www.discovery.com/exploration/investigating-the-legend-of-california-s-gold-laden-ghost-ship Like Science Channel on Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/ScienceChannel/ Follow @ScienceChannel on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/sciencechannel/ Follow @ScienceChannel on Facebook — https://twitter.com/ScienceChannel Follow @Justin_Fornal on Twitter — https://twitter.com/Justin_Fornal Follow @EmilianoRuprah on Twitter — https://twitter.com/EmilianoRuprah Additional sources: Nuclear Weapon Effects in Space | NASA — https://history.nasa.gov/conghand/nuclear.htm The Unexpected Effects of Nukes in Space | SciShow Space — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRhStl7SQnM  9 JULY 1962 'STARFISH PRIME', OUTER SPACE | CTBTO — https://www.ctbto.org/specials/testing-times/9-july-1962starfish-prime-outer-space Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing! Just click or tap “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing. 

Explorers Justin Fornal and Emiliano Ruprah from the Science Channel’s “Unexplained and Unexplored” discuss the surprising roles that maps have played throughout history. You’ll also learn about why people fidget. We're nominated for an award! Please vote for Curiosity Daily for Best Technology & Science Podcast in the 2019 Discover Pods Awards: https://awards.discoverpods.com/finalists/  Learn more about Unexplained and Unexplored: UNEXPLAINED AND UNEXPLORED First Look | Discovery — https://www.discovery.com/exploration/unexplained-and-unexplored-first-look-pictures UNEXPLAINED AND UNEXPLORED: Investigating the Legend of California's Gold Laden Ghost Ship | Discovery — https://www.discovery.com/exploration/investigating-the-legend-of-california-s-gold-laden-ghost-ship Like Science Channel on Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/ScienceChannel/ Follow @ScienceChannel on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/sciencechannel/ Follow @ScienceChannel on Facebook — https://twitter.com/ScienceChannel Follow @Justin_Fornal on Twitter — https://twitter.com/Justin_Fornal Follow @EmilianoRuprah on Twitter — https://twitter.com/EmilianoRuprah Additional sources: The surprising science of fidgeting | The Conversation — https://theconversation.com/the-surprising-science-of-fidgeting-7752 Single-trial neural dynamics are dominated by richly varied movements | Nature Neuroscience — https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0502-4 Nonexercise muscle tension and behavioral fidgeting are positively correlated with food availability/palatability and body weight in rats | Physiology & Behavior Volume 79, Issue 2, July 2003 — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938403000866

Justin Fornal has an appetite for the unknown. He's an explorer and cultural detective (how's that for a LinkedIn title) and investigates indigenous traditions and historical mysteries. Needless to say, he's got a passion for adventure…especially those that involve food. From the open air markets of Hanoi to the remote shores of the Arctic, Justin's best meals deepen his connection to history, tradition, and his core purpose. Prepare for some of the most interesting meals of the season!

Our second live podcast recording! This time around we're in New York City at the 7th annual Whisky Jewbilee. The boys, in front of an audience of 40 people, have a conversation with Justin Fornal and Chad Anderson (two of the three swimmers of The Great Islay Swim), and Simon Brooking (remember him from Season 2, Episode 7?) of Beam Suntory. The topic? Well, if you must know, The Great Islay Swim and the bottling Single Cask Nation is releasing to commemorate the swim! So, as usual, have a seat, have a pour, and listen in. Unless you're driving. If you're driving, be smart and stay sober but be sure to listen into the conversation! Special thanks to: - Weigh Down for allowing us to use their song "Wooden Monsters" as our theme song- Moana McAuliffe for designing our Podcast Logo- RØDE for making *really* great microphones- Focusrite for making awesome USB receivers- Olympus and Tascam for making fine mobile recording devices- Joshua Hatton for producing and editing

The rough, cold waters off Scotland's Isle of Islay are a challenge for even the best sailors, and one might think it madness to try and swim around the island. A year ago, three men did just that and collected whiskies from each of Islay's eight distilleries along their journey in the "Great Islay Swim." Veteran explorers Justin Fornal and Chad Anderson were joined by Beam Suntory brand ambassador Johnnie Mundell, who brought his own open-water swimming background and his connections on Islay to the challenge. We'll talk with Johnnie Mundell about his life-changing experience on WhiskyCast In-Depth and taste the whisky that's been bottled from that challenge and is being sold to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. In the news, the ringleader of Kentucky's "Pappygate" thefts has been released on shock probation after serving just 30 days of his 15-year prison sentence, while a judge's ruling is all that remains before the stolen whiskey seized as evidence in the case can be destroyed. Meanwhile, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society whiskies seized from four British Columbia bars last January are still locked up as evidence, but a provincial review panel has recommended policy changes that might lead to those whiskies being returned to the shelves. We'll have that story, along with details on the week's new whisky releases and as summer temperatures soar, we'll have tasting notes for a whiskey-flavored ice cream to beat the heat!

What do you get when you mix two guys from the world famous Explorer's Club, a love for Scotland, and Islay, and whisky? A crazy idea to swim around the island of Islay, that's what! Too often pronounced as "Iss-lay," or "Eye-Lay," Scotland's wonderful whisky island, Islay (actually pronounced "Eye-Lah"), is about to have two crazy American adventure swimmers give it a big 'ol swimmy hug!Listen in as the boys talk with Chad Anderson and Justin Fornal (aka Baron Ambrosia, yes, THE Baron Ambrosia) about their plans to undertake the 100 mile swim around the island of Islay (aka The Great Islay Swim) Because Joshua and Jason believe in these boys as much as they do, they decided to sponsor their entire trip, which includes their film crew, and have designed a 7 person party WhiskyGeek Tour to follow them along the way. We're not sure which group is more crazy!So, as usual, have a seat, have a pour, and listen in. Unless you're driving. If you're driving, be smart and stay sober but be sure to listen into the conversation! Special thanks to: - Weigh Down for allowing us to use their song "Wooden Monsters" as our theme song- Moana McAuliffe for designing our Podcast Logo- Blue Yeti for making great microphones- RØDE for making *really* great microphones- Olympus and Tascam for making fine mobile recording devices- Joshua Hatton for producing and editing

This is part two of our interview with Justin Fornal. In this episode, he discusses conceptualizing different characters, travel, and the Culinary Adventures of Baron Ambrosia. He also leaves us with a taste of things to come. Hope that you dig it. [audio  https://whatbringsustogether.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/episode-19_-baron-ambrosia-pt-2.mp3%5D

Justin Fornal is someone you should know. He is a filmmaker, actor, writer and his alter ego, Baron Ambrosia, is one of the most energetic and unique characters to emerge from the culinary world.  This episode is the first of a two part discussion with a mind that you might want to familiarize yourself with. … Continue reading →