Man, Women, Wild any one watch it

mistwalker said:
Mainly her constant complaining was more than I could deal with...

this ground is too hard...
It's hot out here...
can't you do something about these mosquitoes?!...
great, now I'm gonna smell like smoke...
this humidity is messing up my hair...
I have to go to the bathroom where?!...
This food has a little bit of a burned taste...
oh, I broke another nail!!!
what's with the fried bread, can't you just make biscuits like you do at home?..
I hate the sound those owls makes...gives me the creeps...
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Some classic lines right there ... funny stuff :D
 
Did I hear incorrectly or did he say that he aims to average 4 mph through swamp terrain? Maybe a really fit special forces guy could do that but I think that striving for that sort of pace would be highly counterproductive for most folks.

DancesWithKnives
 
DWK2 said:
Did I hear incorrectly or did he say that he aims to average 4 mph through swamp terrain? Maybe a really fit special forces guy could do that but I think that striving for that sort of pace would be highly counterproductive for most folks.

DancesWithKnives
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He might have misspoke, probably meant 4 miles per DAY, which is really moving in a swamp.
 
I may have mis-heard him. You are right about pace in a swamp. I once took a friend on a cross-country hike through some swampy country off of the Hyland River in the Yukon. It wasn't entirely swampy for the whole route but it still took four hours to cover four miles---and four hours back to our camp on the river. When he saw that river he tore off all his clothing and walked right in---even though it was fairly brisk. It was 20 years ago and he still refers to it as "The Hike From Hell".

DancesWithKnives
 
Were they using the TOPS Hellion survivor 2020 in this episode ?

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Yes they were, looked they each had one.

Suppose to be Myke's design.

Doesn't look like anything I would want to own.
 
Yeah he was using that thing. Is it just me, or did it look like a little unwieldy for some of the chores he was using it for? I mean, if you like it, cool. However it seems to go against everything I have ever learned about a good "survival" knife. Kinda confusing. Oh well, cant fault the guy for having a career Id like to have......And, he is a Green Beret. The fact that he even made it through selection tells alot about him, and earns my respect.... Anyone know what his specialty was?
 
I have no idea why the medic helpin Ruth out tonight didnt start an IV. Kinda strange. Cool that she toughed it out though. The desert is some hardcore terrain.
 
j williams said:
...And, he is a Green Beret. The fact that he even made it through selection tells alot about him, and earns my respect.... Anyone know what his specialty was?
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Captain Hawke is a real world Green Beret Commander (U.S. Army Special Forces Officer). He is assigned to the United Nations.

Parted with his contracting company to focus on teaching courses to people at home.

A 3rd Degree Black belt in Aikido who trained in skydiving, scuba diving, marksmanship as well as personal fitness, safety and security measures.

Trained as an Intelligence Operator with the Green Berets where he learned covert operations, "tradecraft", interrogation methods and studied multiple languages from Russian and Spanish to Turkish and Thai.

Trained in Unconventional Warfare and Clandestine Communications as an SF Communications Sergeant in subjects from Morse code and cryptology to secret technologies and Satellites, etc.

As a Sergeant First Class, was trained and qualified as a Special Forces Medic, the equivalent of a bona fide jungle doctor capable of surgery, anesthesia, dental and veterinary work, as well as specializing in trauma and tropical medicine.

Senior Sergeant in Special Forces before becoming a Commissioned Officer and taking Command of an SF Team (AKA: ODA).

CPT Hawke has served on Active Duty, in the Reserves and the National Guard. He has been in over 80 engagements defined as people shooting at him.

Has been a US Government contractor since the early '90s in numerous conflicts from Africa, South America, Eastern Europe and most recently in Iraq. Has been awarded by the State Department as Small contractor of the year for his service as a Project Manager.

Myke uses his Masters in Psychology to work with troubled teens and to strengthen families as part of his adventure business.

Myke has been rated by the military as speaking 7 languages. He received pay for 3 languages, which is the maximum number they offer pay for if test scores are high enough. He has studied many others. He considers that he currently speaks decent Russian & Spanish and still offends waiters in French.

Myke served in Afghanistan after 9/11 as a Special Forces Base Camp Commander and commanded the Afghan Militia on the South East Borders.
 
Now thats a resume!!

Comm sergant, and SF medic, and SF officer. 3 very hard diciplines, that never stop changing....plus 7 languages, and a masters in Psych. Lots of schooling this guy did.
 
kgd said:
I'd be crapping my pants with all those lions growling through the night. Botswana - no thanks boys. I'd rather be humped by the black bears of Ontario.
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ROTFL!!!! I'm with you, I'll take the bears and mountain lions in the Sierras before I try to sleep all night listening to lions growling!
 
Mike is the real deal IMHO having to down play his skills a bit on the show. when his babe hurled las night I said now there is some reality TV , good on both of them.
 
j williams said:
I have no idea why the medic helpin Ruth out tonight didnt start an IV. Kinda strange. Cool that she toughed it out though. The desert is some hardcore terrain.
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That's what I was thinking...pretty much SOP for medics when dealing with heat injuries of any type.

I'm glad to see Myke call in the medic. It goes to show that even under "controlled" conditions, anything can happen; however, in the real world, you really need to consider communication and how to identify the severity of injuries or health conditions before they go from bad to much worse. I give Ruth a lot of respect for "sucking it up", heat exhaustion is pretty rough on the body and mind. I was about to say this episode was boring, but it was probably more indicative of a “survival” situation than most shows, nothing fancy, just surviving.

ROCK6
 
No joke ROCK.......Mike said it right when he said you dont survive in the desert, you barely exist!! I enjoyed the show.

Yeah IV fluids are the best, and most standard tx for Heat injury/deyhdration. Makes me think maybe the guy was an EMT, and couldnt start a line. Or maybe they didnt have ALS protos...
 
Or maybe, just maybe, they figured the target audience would have no clue about properly starting and administering an IV, and Discovery doesn't want to get sued when some dumbass with no medical training tries to IV himself or his buddies in the boonies and dies.

This is a show aimed at John Couchpotato, not EMTs or other SF guys -- they already know what to do.
 
This show, to me, is about the best of its genre. The interaction between them is like any other married couple and it's easy to see yourself in them.
One thing I really like is if you go to Myke's blog he details their knives used and their clothes right down to socks and underwear.
Usually it's a mix of mil-spec and I kid you not Armanni.
 
OK, I just watched the Botswana episode on yoopube.

I like this show a lot more than the previous ones.

Seems Ruth is getting over the "don't kill the cute animal" thing. Hunger changes the mind.

I also like how she lost her temper a bit a few times, like when trying to cut off the wildebeest leg.

I also like how she is progressing to understand pacifism isn't going to help you in the wild places. Walking around with a spear is a good thing sometimes.

There was also a few good humor lines:

Ruth: I'm a filthy beast! And look at you, look how filthy you are!
Myke: I prefer knuckledragger.

Ruth: See now, here we are in the middle of the African bush, so he has every right to ask me if I know where my knife and my spear are. But he does this at home, too!

It also confirms a thought I've had for a long time: screw Africa. No way i want to get stuck in the middle of nowhere there.
 
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