Surviorman, Season 2, Ep 2: Ecuadorian rainforest

AustinTXShooter said:
By totally miserable, do you mean miserable until the cameras stop rolling and he goes to shower, sleep and eat in a hotel? I can endure a lot of pain and hardship if I know that I only have to do it for five minutes and then I can go back to civilization for 10 hours. Les doesn't do stupid stunts and take unnecessary risks like Bear, but then again Les isn't a fraud. Also, if Bear lies about staying at hotels, do you really think that the stunts he pulls like drinking his own urine are actually true? It would be really easy to get a urine look-a-like and have him drink that. In fact, it would be par for the course.
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I duno, if what you're saying is true that sucks. I'd like to believe that Bear does truly do everything himself, except the camera work.

Is there any way to know whether either of them don't cheat?
 
Another excellent show. I could almost feel his pain watching him in his shelter. The Jaguar was interesting. I don't know enough about the big cats and their hunting techniques to know if he was BS's or not. But he certainly got the heck out of Dodge when that cat appeared at night. He was not going to use that spear unless he had too.

The Kalahari Desert show was really good too. I've commented before, so I won't now. I bring it up because of the pokes at Bear that are made here. In the Kalahari Desert he cut his stay short and mentioned he was near heat exhaustion and was going to hike the two-hours to the base camp where the crew were staying during his ordeal.

I have not seen a new Man vs Wild show since the news story broke on the internet concerning his authenticity and as a result slams his credibility. Anyone know if there will be a new show or have they canceled him because of the hotel thing and so forth?
 
my real questions are what kind of machete was it and what was his leatherman/SAK
 
22-rimfire said:
I have not seen a new Man vs Wild show since the news story broke on the internet concerning his authenticity and as a result slams his credibility. Anyone know if there will be a new show or have they canceled him because of the hotel thing and so forth?
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Season 2 aired in its entirety. As of July 24, Discovery is only "re-evaluating" MvW. This article states that so far, the only action Discovery claims it will take is to place disclaimers in front of re-airings of existing eps.

MvW is produced by Channel 4, a UK network, and Discovery licenses it in the US. I don't know what happens if CH4, which has had problems with other 'reality' shows on its schedule, drops MvW -- would Discovery take over production? They pretty much own Survivorman; I don't know if they would invest in another show.
 
The machete was probably a no-name South American machete. I have a friend that lives in Belize every summer and he says that he is always amazed that people pay so much money for machetes in America. He says that people in Belize (and presumably the rest of the people that live in the rain forest) buy cheap machetes and use the hell out of them. He says the thought of paying more than a few bucks for the blade is completely foreign to people down there.
 
Looked like a Tramontina 22" with the plastic handle they go for 6bux at eknifeworks.com I've got a few trams and they are great for light thin stuff like grasses and vines but for heavier stuff you want something like an Ontario.
 
Serrinon said:
I enjoy both shows, but Bear is the man! Les gets props for toting around all the equipment, but Bear takes the cake when it comes to attitude. The man will be totally miserable and almost always comes up with something positive to say.
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Bear couldn't keep his pants up in a herpes-ridden brothel. No common sense whatsoever.
 
znode said:
Is that better or worse? I can't tell :D.
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I just might take the urine over Coors Light. As a rule I don't drink mass produced flavorless beers, but I can stand most of them except for Coors Lite. That stuff makes Miller Lite actually taste like beer.
 
Good Episode overall. Just wondering about one thing, why did he grab the spear over the Machete when he was running from the Jaguar? I'd rather defend meself with a blade than a sharpened peace of wood.
 
Serrinon said:
...Bear is the man!...but Bear takes the cake when it comes to attitude...
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Attitude gets you killed. My best friend was a pilot. A bold pilot with an attitude that wouldn't quit. He crawled from the wreckage of his plane with two broken legs, fire, fuel and chemical burns. Evac was pretty quick and his legs were amputated after a week. He died the next week. There is an old saying... "There are bold pilots and then there are old pilots." Bill didn't get to be old.

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