CBS Survivor!

Styver,

Tell me it isn't true.... What is his name? I will have to check with my old head friends and find out the scoop on him. Are you sure he wasn't life support?

Since I don't watch tv... guess I'll have to wait for some tapes. Just got back from a short trip... getting ready for a Public Appearance (pro bono) for a bunch of 6th graders... Ugggghhhh.... I have to admit my curiosity is peaked... Can't wait to see some tapes.

Best to all


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Greg Davenport
Simply Survival's Wilderness Survival Forum
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Greg:

The June 5 newsweek has several interviews with contestants. Gretchen Cordy, when asked why she went, replied "I was a survival instructor for six years in the Air Force. When I got pregnant with my second child, I just kind of stayed at home. Pretty much all I do is dishes and the laundry and that business. I guess I wanted something to jazz me up"

Some folks have affairs, some buy cars, she signed up for a game show. In the rest of the interview, she doesn't come off as a ditz, but she doesn't strike me as the greatest thing since the metal match either. She did say the hardest part was voting to get rid of someone you had been working together with as a team.

OTOH, the SEAL did come off sounding like his best days were behind him. He also sounds like a rather old-fashioned and opinionated Marine.


Stryver
 
Greg,

Okay, okay, already! I'll send you a tape!
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Actually, I went out yesterday and picked up 6 new six hour tapes. I'll put episode one on early this evening, and then record episode two, tonight, on the last half of that tape. If you want the tape NOW!, please email me (Kducky@yahoo.com) your address, and I'll try to get it in the mail tomorrow
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Hmmm... so tonight they're eating grubs. Raw. Am I being silly, or is that a not so smart thing to do, given that the grubs could be carrying potentially dangerous parasites that could be killed by roasting the grubs?
 
Grubs should be OK when eaten raw....

However, if they have an aversion to doing this they can be cooked in any fashion desired....

Kirk....

I have moved my business hgtrs...

My new mailing address is

Simply Survival
Greg Davenport (that's me
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PO Box 1712
Walla Walla, WA 99362

Let me know the costs.... I can't wait to watch this stuff (However, I can wait for two on a tape
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I am going to get some good microbrew and slug a few down (maybe more than a few).... make some popcorn... sit back and enjoy the show for its entertainment value....

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Greg Davenport
Simply Survival's Wilderness Survival Forum
Simply Survival's Web Page
Are You Ready For The Challenge?
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The whole show's about personalities not survival.

A Gilligan's Island Real World.

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RICK - Left Handers Unite
 
They ate the same grubs that Ron Hood and his wife ate in the Jungle Survival video. Only they didn't remove the heads first. They ate the whole thing. I'd have to have the heads removed and them cooked in something else for me to eat those HUGE grubs. I give them credit for eating them. They did better than I would. What I don't understand is why they aren't eating any of the snakes that they claim are all over the island.
 
Yup, interesting show, but it isn't really "survivaL" as the groups are provided with water (though a hike thru the jungle) that's tested daily, they are also provided with basic first aid stuff (aspirin, antiseptics, etc), condoms, for that elusive piece o' arse, canned goods, etc...

From what I've read, when there is three people left, the ones voted off of the island will vote for the winner of the 1 million...

--dan
 
Greg..., got your tape (two episodes) ready, and now your address. I'll have it in the mail by Sat. morning. Probably 3 day mail (whichever that is..., express or priority)

I was wondering about the snakes and lizards, too. They seem to have a supply of canned fruit and veges, and rice... and there seems to be some fresh fruit available on the island. I'd want some MEAT!, and one of those big lizards would do fine. But I read, somewhere, the Borneo gov't was reluctant to allow the show filming at all, fearing damage to the island ecology. I suspect there are some restrictions on taking the island's wildlife, aside from rats and fish. A major problem..., I don't mind eating a rat (rural ones, anyway), but there's not a lot of meat there.
 
Bcaffery,

It'll probably be rebroadcast this weekend, like last week.

From what I read and heard today, it beat out Philbin's "Millionare" show, and is turning into a hit for CBS. I'd look for it Sat. or Sun. night. Last week was 10pm Sat. (in Atlanta, at least).
 
I missed most of the last show and was a bit surprised they kicked the old guy off. Seems like he did most of the work. Why was he booted? I believe I would want a good worker in the bunch even if he did piss off a few people.
 
Big Tex, Dan...

I saw an interview with him (B. B.) last night. He seemed somewhat surprised he'd been voted off.

He said, though, after watching himself in those first two episodes, that he was acting far different than he thought he was, and he'd resolved to try to be a little less "aggressive" in his future dealings with others. He also said he made the mistake of treating the situation as a SURVIVAL event, instead of a GAME SHOW event.

I was a little confused, too, by his sudden outburst, with his group, asking whether they really wanted to avoid "tribal council".. saying that he was ready to leave, and they might want to vote him off. Yet, shortly after, he said if he or Gretchen (I think it was) were gone, it would be "like a nuclear bomb went off in their group".

I suspect he was mostly "acting out", when he said he wanted to leave.., kind of hitting back when the group criticized him for washing his shirt in the cookpot, in the last of the drinking water.

I think it would have made far more sense to remove Ramona, who was sick nearly all the time, and didn't contribute anything to the group..., but, apparently, B.B. had ticked off several of his group.
 
BTW..., I heard (or read) that episode 3 will include a violent tropical storm during that episode's "tribal council".

Should be interesting to see who's shelter's survive, and who's scared of thunder!
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Just as an FYI, Survivor has an official website here.

Here's my post from the General Discussion Forum:
My biggest problem so far is with the popularity contest part of the show. Yes, the woman who got voted off had to go. (I told my wife about halfway through the show, "She's got to go.") But people were voting Rudy (the SEAL) off the island because the didn't like the way he talked to them. Hey, sorry, but he's the guy who knows what's going on. I'd want to be on his team and as much as I know, I'd listen to the old fart! The fire thing did bother me too. No one knew how to make a bow?
I like the corporate trainer guy on Rudy's team too.
The knife breaking was crap, but you've got to admit, the guy didn't look like he could handle it very well either. Even with the hatchet, he was chopping straight down into the bamboo like he was trying to squash his way through it. Some Ontario Machete's should have been on the boat. Did anyone notice the knife the trucker was cutting her hair with? Did it look like a pattern welded blade to anyone but me and the missus?

The choice of footwear was laughable. A good pair of Altama Jungle Boots (with a spare pair hidden in my body if I had too), would have been getting broken in the day I knew I was going to be on the show.

The other team's old fart and girl that went to get water would be sadly mistaken to think I wouldn't toss them just because they knew where the fresh water was. Hey brother and sister, have you ever heard of a still? Being surrounded by water, there's no shortage of raw product, and the sand is EASY to dig a pit into.

I wonder if they'll let me go live there after they are done with the show.

For the above comment on the Air Farce.....

Yes, most of what the Air Force does looks "wimpy" from the outside. But I can guarantee you that their SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) Training is nothing to laugh at. A downed pilot has little else but a sidearm, radio, a knife, and good training to come through everything ok. (My high school Chemistry teacher was an SERE instructor. I learned a lot from him. Some that has saved my life. Didja ever make a charcoal suppository to help stop your diarrhea in the jungle? Well, then you ain't lived yet!)
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Touching on the most recent episode, BB was voted off because he was a crotchety old bugger. Period. It was popularity all over again. For an old man, he did most of the work. I would have voted Ramona off the island. Too many people have problems with their egos these days to admit that they could learn something from someone else.

Rudy has mellowed out considerably since the first episode. A sign of a good survivor. Adapt and overcome.
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I am hoping that other than Richard, members of Rudy's team will start to see his value, but am afraid that they will eventually see him as a threat and toss him.
 
Well they're eating rays and rats now. What's the best way to prepare/dress a ray for eating?
 
Obligatory knife content:

What's the best knife for dressing a ray or rat?
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Don LeHue

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings...they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
 
Stacy, the bug eating lawyer, bites the dust tonite. Remember, she's the one that supposedly got the women together and they were going to vote everyone else off. Oops, didn't work very good. One of the women turned on her. Apparently, some thought she was a wimp. This if for the ones that can't or don't want to watch tonite. lol
 
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