@zpstl
Best analysis of the situation I have read anywhere! I am sure you are right. It was Cody's show from the start, he was doing stuff for Discovery long before Dual Survivor, he actually had a piolt or two about coaching a group of survivors that didn't go anywhere and did guest spots like "digging for truth". Combine that with the fact that his politics were correct and he spouts the enlightened conservation agenda that show producers hold dear with their liberal buddies at cocktail parties. He couldn't take being shown up time and again. There is a video on youtube called Cody Lundin Jungle party, it is very revealing, it shows him taking questions in a school in his hometown after the completion of the first season of Dual, the audience kept asking him about Dave and you can see his ego being brusied. At one point he tells them to "get rid of this kid" because the young boy asked him another question about Dave, you can hear gasps of astonishment from the audience that he would dismiss the young kid like that. Cody's blog comments are very disparging about Dave , as well as his remarks in the interview videos about his new partner and the thinly veiled allusions to his former partner's dishonesty. Those comments he has made about Dave since Dave was fired make me think he had a large coercive role in getting Dave fired. Probably giving Discovery a passive agressive ultimatum in the form of walking out if Dave stays.
Best analysis of the situation I have read anywhere! I am sure you are right. It was Cody's show from the start, he was doing stuff for Discovery long before Dual Survivor, he actually had a piolt or two about coaching a group of survivors that didn't go anywhere and did guest spots like "digging for truth". Combine that with the fact that his politics were correct and he spouts the enlightened conservation agenda that show producers hold dear with their liberal buddies at cocktail parties. He couldn't take being shown up time and again. There is a video on youtube called Cody Lundin Jungle party, it is very revealing, it shows him taking questions in a school in his hometown after the completion of the first season of Dual, the audience kept asking him about Dave and you can see his ego being brusied. At one point he tells them to "get rid of this kid" because the young boy asked him another question about Dave, you can hear gasps of astonishment from the audience that he would dismiss the young kid like that. Cody's blog comments are very disparging about Dave , as well as his remarks in the interview videos about his new partner and the thinly veiled allusions to his former partner's dishonesty. Those comments he has made about Dave since Dave was fired make me think he had a large coercive role in getting Dave fired. Probably giving Discovery a passive agressive ultimatum in the form of walking out if Dave stays.
