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NEWS 401 - 16 Comments
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I'm on it!
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Well, it looks like you got to us a day late - it's on Fridays and it doesn't appear to be on next week. Looks like I'll have to look for a torrent...
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I'm downloading..........
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I have the first two episodes downloaded, will get back after watching. I did see the preview on the website of him pissing on his own headdress while out in the desert.
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Just watched a few YouTube clips and determined that I'm a gigantic marshmallow pussy...
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Exactly. This guy is making me feel like a turdlet.
I would love to know how much foreknowledge he has of his environments, because every time he says something like "I'm going to try to do thus-and-so..." he does it. Is he really that sweet? In any case, he certainly seems to be.
Also, what's the story with the camera crew? I assume they get to be outfitted with whatever they want, but can't help him?
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His film crew has all the gear they need to be relatively comfortable but they can't help him at all and they are stuck out in the wild until Bear gets himself rescued. Some would say Survivorman is gnarlier because he is alone but the production value suffers because he's filming himself with a handheld video cam. On the other hand, Bear does some shit that, like Steve Irwin, makes you wonder when he's going to get filmed fucking up and getting himself killed.
Some shit he's done: walked on lava and his boots actually caught on fire, descended a near verticle waterfall with shitty hand holds and no safety equipment, eaten a zebras ass raw right out of the dead carcass, swam from a sinking boat in an alaskan fjiord with fucking icebergs surrounding him. And what impresses me the most is despite being cold, tired, and hungry he maintains the most positive mental attitude I've ever seen. I know how shitty it is to run around for a week with no food or sleep from SERE school and it sucks.
As an SAS guy he's got tons of general knowledge on survival but he probably brushes up on each area he before he goes in.
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Yeah, I am also amazed by his constitution. I just watched him start a fire Boy Scout style, which I've heard is a bitch to do, and sure enough, it was definitely giving him the finger. It took him an hour and he's all sweaty and breathing hard, and all he has to say is "I'm very relieved to have gotten this done." Fuck!
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You also neglected to mention eating maggots straight out of a rotting carcass. Excuse me while I projectile vomit now...
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I finally caught some reruns of Man vs. Wild on Discovery, and it's probably my favorite show right now. The best one I've seen so far, I think, is the ep where he makes a "throwing stick" and kills a rabbit for his dinner. You've gotta be kidding me...
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Yeah, I was flabbergasted when he did that. He's always pulling off some fancy shit.
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Oh come on.... that shit is not THAT big of a deal.... really? He still does some crazy shit, and if they take him out once in a while for a nice rest in a hotel during filming.... so what. The main point of the show is showing you what you could and should do in certain situations.... like going UPRIVER in the African desert instead of DOWN to find settlements. It is still a TV show. I really didn't think if all hell broke lose, the crew would just sit there and watch the dude die. 'Um, how come Bear isn't doing CPR on himself? Do we stop taping now that he stopped moving?'
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"...Someone has a man-crush..."
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Dude, I have no problem admitting I have a man crush on Grylls. He's a former British SAS commando. Pulls crazy manuevers in the wild. Lives on a barge on the Thames.
So what if he sleeps in a hotel from time to time. It's a TV show for farms sake. I've no doubt that if you tossed him into hell and he'd drink his own piss to stay alive , kill Satan with a throwing stick, and eat his raw anus for energy.
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The thing I like most about him is that for being such a badass, he has the best disposition of anyone, ever. He never acts overly tough or macho, and is always optimistic about even the shittiest situations. He sucks down elephant dung juice and the worst he has to say is that it's not very tasty.
I also often find myself narrating my own mundane activities in his style after watching the show. "I was unable to install the shelf on this area of the wall. But what I can do is get out my trusty stud finder, and try again. It's really important to have a plan! Oh, and these dead flies here are a great source of protein"
That said, I think that if the allegations are true, it is a bit dishonest of him to get put up in a hotel and not tell the audience that he was doing so. As long as they say up front what he really is doing, I'd be fine with whatever.
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