..... has a 2 hour premiere coming up Sunday [season 2]. Now I know the title sounds like something from CashInFist's latest relationship derailment but it's actually a pretty interesting wilderness survival show [granted that too could also be the storyline for CiF's latest relationship ]. Plus they don't censure out the hiney shots for those of you on pron restrictions, Paul.
hey, I find it fascinating to watch how dependent humans have become on technology to the point that survival experts emotionally crack while enduring 30 days of what our race was initially meant to spend a lifetime doing.
I've been watching it since it started this summer... lets just say most of the girls make us AFRAID because they are NAKED. Although a couple of them aren't half bad. The disappointing thing is they do an "uncensored" show... so I recorded it thinking I was going to see everything.. alas... it's just more censored video with tweets and stupid facts. It is kind of hilarious though because most of the guys on the show can't handle being out in the wilderness that long. The girls are the ones carrying them by the end...
Biggest laugh I had was at the "Recon Marine" whining and crying like a b**** over the sun burn after the dumb SOB tried to impress the surfer chic he was with. She ended up saving both their asses.
Just started getting into this show. It is fascinating. If you went on the show, what would be your one item? I thought about this a lot, and I think I'd go against convention and bring a big *** tarp. The biggest issues that break people are #1 biting bugs, #2 cold, #3 rain, and a tarp solves all three of those. Plus you can use it collect rain water, catch fish, drag larger supplies, a sail if you have to raft, potentially a hammock, keep tinder dry, etc.
Clearly my one item would be Bear Grylls.... or a lactating Kate Upton... still unsure. (Tarp is a good one though outside of knife and firestarter, depending on the environment theyre going into)
.... and Tony suffocates himself and his teammate on the first night. I was thinking about this a couple weeks ago and I decided on the longest lasting canister of bug repellant I could find. Sleeping like a baby would be my priority numero one. F*** all those sleepless nights, body covered in welts, and toxic build up. I'm a miserable a**hole if there's just one mosquito loose in my bedroom, let alone a thousand the size of small birds..... and the no see ums that are even worse. Plus a good night's sleep should mean less energy/calories critically expended. Or what about just a bug suit. How hilariously selfish would that be?! She brings a machete while you show up with a bug suit that sleeps one. Or bring something that makes no sense whatsoever. like toenail clippers.
A can of bug repellant would do nothing against the bugs in the rainforest. A tarp is the answer, no question. You make a teepee and use the tarp as the wrap. The only hole would be up top where your fire smoke is coming out. Seriously, a big *** tarp is probably the second most important thing you can bring besides a machete.
A fully staffed, fully functioning Bob Evans.... I like the guy that brought duct tape. That was unique... he made a two piece bathing suit for the girl... although Spoiler he didn't make it to the end I'd bring a bail of hay, but it would have to be sealed in a plastic bag, for a jungle climate.
They didn't vet that guy good enough at all. There's no way you can be a legit survivalist AND be smoker. Also, duct tape would be super useful......IF you could bring more than a single role. He was still better than the obnoxious twat hammer that brought a ****ing magnifying glass to the effing desert. She was like you can use it to get the UV rays to purify the water, and the guy was like you mean the UV rays from the sun that's already shooting down on this water...here in the desert?
What about a gun. Then hold the camera man hostage in the middle of no where until the producers give you whatever the hell you want. Seems legit.
It only takes one bullet to hold someone captive or kill them you liberal anti gun tree hugger haha Anyways, no I wasnt being serious.
I know you weren't being serious. However, doing that get's you thrown in a foreign prison for longer than 21 days.
I'll run with it. If you are a survivalist... and the crew didn't buy into your demands. Over half these places you could disappear and no one would know different. Unless youre an albino ginger on an island.
Knife, break the magazine open use the aluminum sides.... if you have plastic pieces (Glock etc, grind it down).... use the firing pin as a punch. Water, plug the barrel, stock... hell find a way to make the slide in a glock work. If you're really surviving you can pretty ingininuitive with a bunch of random metal parts. If you have a relvolver I guess it kind of limits you, but I could still figure out a way to use the cylinder to hold something. Or atleast file down the grip. And use the metal to carve out a rock to boil water. Thats all assuming its a pistol. Have a scoped rifle and life just got infinitely easier.
In a rain forest environment your "knife" will rust in days. As for water carrying, whatever you've used to carry the water will not rust out even quicker since you'll be using it to boil, but the gun oils will need to be 100% removed first which isn't likely. A gun with a lot of ammo would be extremely useful for hunting and protection only and nothing else. Take away the ammo and you've then made the gun even less useful...especially when you could have chosen umpteen other things. Like a tarp
You take your healthcare... I'll take my gun haha nah, I know it's not practical to the show or as one tool. But I like the idea of the tarp in a rainforest. Even though I could make a hell of a shelter with a machete.
Big part of it would be if you were on the move... I think the tarp would be a lot more important if you were constantly on the move... which isnt the case for the show.
Honestly, I don't think it matters. The bugs, the cold and the rain would matter whether you're on the move or not and those issues need to be solved with or without a tarp. Every minute and calorie spent on solving that problem is another minute and calorie spent not collecting food and tinder.
