Man, Women, Wild any one watch it

Looks like Lynn Thompson Supports this show :p Her CS SRK & His CS Khukuri Machete. The show has some good stuff in it once you get past the drama.
I will watch this show again:thumbup:
 
Wasn't her knife today a Trailmaster? It looked bigger then the SRK.. that is for sure.
 
My 9 year old son and I enjoy watching all these survival shows. It gets him interested in something other than video games and we have a great time practicing some of the basic stuff in our day hikes. I also get to take advantage of some "teachable moments" when someone does something off the wall for dramatic effect ("Son, see what Bear just did? Don't do that.)

Man, Women, Wild is the only survival show my wife will watch with us. I think it's because she can identify with Mrs. Hawke. My wife is a very kind, soft-hearted girl who grew up in NYC. She's not into turtles, but if something small and fury ever wondered into our camp, she'd be right there pleading for its life. She was very much the city girl when we were first married. We live in a semi-rural area with 200+ acres of forest behind our home. We often get all kinds of critters around our house that she wasn't all that familiar with at first.
This should illustrate my point. One day, not long after we first moved into our house, my wife and I were in the kitchen. She was cutting up some stuff for dinner and I was at the table reading the mail. Suddenly I hear her shriek and I jump to my feet reacting like she's under attack. There she is, knife on guard to protect herself in case whatever horrible thing she had just seen lunged at her, pointing with the other hand towards the floor near the dishwasher and trying to get some word out that sounded like "mau...mau...mau." When I finally got her calmed down, she said she had seen a mouse, but a really strange one.
"It had racing stripes," was the way she described it.

"Honey," I replied, "that's called a chipmunk."

Regards,
Bill McGrath
 
OwenM said:
...I think a show set up like "Alone in the Wild" was, presumably with no production crew, director, and all that stuff(see Man vs. Wild behind the scenes vids), with just the main character/s, maybe even an extra person to do the filming that has to survive with them, would be a lot more watchable.
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I don't know. It is sort of a tossup. Without a cameraman, director and a script, the films are sort of a hodge-podge with dodgy photography and what seems to be a lot of senseless talking (drama). Also, anytime you have more than one person in the scenario, group dynamics come into the picture whether intentionally scripted or not.


Personally, I don't think any of them have found the "magic combination" yet. That doesn't mean they aren't all entertaining in their own way, and sometimes actually informative.

I'd like to see a Marty Stouffer production of this genre. I think he has the experience and credentials to put together a series that is both believable and informative without a lot of the errors that we tend to complain about. And Marty is an old Arkansas boy who cut his cinimatic teeth with a winter trip to Alaska at age 18, IIRC.
 
Anybody catch the part on the Botswana episode where Myke checks the boiled water he poured into his water bottle and says its cool enough to drink. He had a glove on. Gave me a chuckle.

I do like the show though. There's some good stuff, like the trick with the thumb string for friction fires. Maybe Dave Canterbury should have watched this episode and saved a hole in his hand.
 
All in all I thought this one was pretty good too. I think they should have built there wall a tad higher though. and made some type of gates too. Putting there meat up higher would have been better too I think.
I like the way they stayed with there truck and put a grass mattress in the back.
I think they could have stayed for some time if needed. Plenty of water and crocs too eat it looked like.
I think Ruth acted better and not so sqimish too.

Looking forward to the next one too.

Bryan
 
I think this is a great show. I wasn't sure how I felt with the first episode but last nite's show was great.
Scott
 
I got the wife to watch two episodes last night.
She likes it...she said "maybe we can do something like that".

I just laughed and rolled my eyes...(2 hours without ac she would be ready to find a hotel) :D
 
Great entertainment and some fun edutainment as well. The wife and I will be watching regular.
 
RHobson said:
I got the wife to watch two episodes last night.
She likes it...she said "maybe we can do something like that".

I just laughed and rolled my eyes...(2 hours without ac she would be ready to find a hotel) :D
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Ohh hi Bear, I did not know you posted on this forum :D :D :D
 
We definitely liked the Botswana episode better than the Amazon episode. It was funny on their first night I kept wondering why they weren't building a Boma with some acacia or other thorn bushes. The family was asking me what the heck I was talking about, then poof, the next night they're building one just like they'd been listening. It could have been taller with more coverage but I'm sure they're a good bit of work and energy.
 
zoltan said:
Anybody catch the part on the Botswana episode where Myke checks the boiled water he poured into his water bottle and says its cool enough to drink. He had a glove on. Gave me a chuckle.

I do like the show though. There's some good stuff, like the trick with the thumb string for friction fires. Maybe Dave Canterbury should have watched this episode and saved a hole in his hand.
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Funny -- those are exactly the same things I noticed. I actually rather enjoyed the show, although I've only watched the one episode. More importantly, my wife and kids watched it with me and enjoyed it too.

I was a little leery of the show, after reading about Myke Hawke and some of his shenanigans. He's pretty decent from what I can see, and his wife actually seems to want to get into the spirit of the whole thing.

I liked that thumb string trick, too. Dual Survival came on after the Myke show, and Dave sure coulda used something for his hands. Seems like he's just too impatient -- Cody didn't have much trouble coaxing a flame out.

What's with Dave's facial hair? He's got mascara looking jet black hair, but as the show wore on it got a lot more sandy colored. Maybe he should just admit he's outside, and not worry about how old he looks.
 
Codger_64 said:
I don't know. It is sort of a tossup. Without a cameraman, director and a script, the films are sort of a hodge-podge with dodgy photography and what seems to be a lot of senseless talking (drama). Also, anytime you have more than one person in the scenario, group dynamics come into the picture whether intentionally scripted or not.


Personally, I don't think any of them have found the "magic combination" yet. That doesn't mean they aren't all entertaining in their own way, and sometimes actually informative.
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I guess that's true, and that I'll watch whatever the next episode was online. Hard not to. Hardly anything else is worth watching.
Except for having a HD antenna and ESPN buying ABC(got almost all the Bama games last year) my TV would only get used for movies.
 
Here's my take on it ( cause I know everyone was holding their breath, waiting for me to comment). If you filter out the Bs it's not so bad.

The woman's easy to look at ( and I've always liked an english accent).

The dude's not as bad as his rep, ok he took his shirt off but he had a reason for it ( he didn't want snake guts on his shirt when he was trying to sleep).

I saw a couple of things that were cool, fire on the platform in the hut, sideways bamboo pot for boiling. I've boiled in bamboo but I've never thought of making the boiling pot the way he did. Now that I've seen it, I can see the benefits of it and I'll give it a try.

Botswana episode, that fence wouldn't have kept my two year old out but they had the camera crew and what not there to help keep the boogers off them so I guess it worked for them. Scavenging from a fresh lion kill ( I think ) makes them even above and beyond the infamous Bear Grylls for stupidity, but it worked out for the hyenas. Also, after they went to so much trouble to build a fire, why do the keep letting it go out ( or almost out). If it were me, I would have at least made sure to keep a good coal bed the whole time. The rest of it was pretty cool, especially the scenery.

David
 
I like the show, but I sure would not carry water in the plastic radiator over flow tank or anything that had antifreeze in it. They had water bottles, so why take the chance.

If I had to use the battery tray to boil water, the first few batches of boiled water would have been dumped. I would not use the water source as a kitchen sink and call the tray clean enough for me to drink out of, but that's me.
 
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