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Post by USCGME2 on Jul 26, 2015 21:50:39 GMT -7
Been watchin this show on Weather Channel lately and gotta say I really like it. Basically they take three bigger sized middle ages guys and this survival instructor type ned Creek and spend five days in the boonies somewhere and make shelter, fire and get water. One of the three gets a survival knife and rig for a prize. Picked up some good tips so far. The only negative is sometimes they way over complicate things but, I chalk that up to TV interest building.
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Post by Cwi555 on Jul 27, 2015 2:19:08 GMT -7
Been watchin this show on Weather Channel lately and gotta say I really like it. Basically they take three bigger sized middle ages guys and this survival instructor type ned Creek and spend five days in the boonies somewhere and make shelter, fire and get water. One of the three gets a survival knife and rig for a prize. Picked up some good tips so far. The only negative is sometimes they way over complicate things but, I chalk that up to TV interest building. I've seen one episode of that while visiting with my brother. It wasn't bad as reality shows go. The one that I watched had two white guys and one black. Two things stood out. 1) They had to kill a feral pig. It apparently had never dawned on them where the pork products in the grocer came from. 2) One of them was working hard on defeating himself. If the host hadn't come around, he'd been toast.
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Post by cajunlady87 on Jul 27, 2015 4:19:18 GMT -7
Yes, that's another one I get glimpses of now and then. Those big guys do some huffing and puffing yet encourage each other to stay on course. I can't believe these guys have little to no experience in the woods.
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Post by missasip on Jul 27, 2015 5:01:12 GMT -7
Yes, that's another one I get glimpses of now and then. Those big guys do some huffing and puffing yet encourage each other to stay on course. I can't believe these guys have little to no experience in the woods. CL I know it's seems weird but there are a lot less know there way around the woods than do. When you have folks that have never left the city much they aren't going to know squat. Guess that's why we called 'em sheeple.... The show is pretty good imho. Jimmy
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Post by Cwi555 on Jul 27, 2015 5:28:42 GMT -7
Yes, that's another one I get glimpses of now and then. Those big guys do some huffing and puffing yet encourage each other to stay on course. I can't believe these guys have little to no experience in the woods. I'll take a fat guy huffing and puffing with a never give up attitude over a physically fit but weak minded gym queen any day. The guy who won that particular episode exemplified that attitude. As for no experience, that's the majority of Americans these days.
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Post by cajunlady87 on Jul 27, 2015 6:28:53 GMT -7
Yes, that's another one I get glimpses of now and then. Those big guys do some huffing and puffing yet encourage each other to stay on course. I can't believe these guys have little to no experience in the woods. CL I know it's seems weird but there are a lot less know there way around the woods than do. When you have folks that have never left the city much they aren't going to know squat. Guess that's why we called 'em sheeple.... The show is pretty good imho. Jimmy I'll take a fat guy huffing and puffing with a never give up attitude over a physically fit but weak minded gym queen any day. The guy who won that particular episode exemplified that attitude. As for no experience, that's the majority of Americans these days. Looking at it that way I have to agree. I've lived in the country all my life and the woods were our playground. Of course strong sticks were our weapon of choice back then for four legged and two legged critters, plus snakes. Of course way back then fathers made it a point to bring their sons hunting, sadly not so much anymore.
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Post by USCGME2 on Jul 27, 2015 6:49:40 GMT -7
They have demonstrated a couple of tricks I really liked. Like how to make cordage from a plastic bottle. He also made a cot using duct tape for the slats. I justthought that was pretty cool. On one episode, they went 200ft into a cave to find water when they had snow all around them. That was sorta dumb. Overall, I like it because I had more takeaway in two shows than a whole season of B Grylls.
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Post by ColcordMama on Jul 27, 2015 9:49:00 GMT -7
I watch every episode I can and love them all. My very favorite moment was when a big funny black guy emerged from his solo overnight and as he came walking out of the woods Creek said, "Well looky here, it's Paul Bunyan" and the guy replies, "Nah, it's his slow cousin Ricky Bunyan." I bout laughed my hiney off.
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Post by thywar on Jul 27, 2015 12:36:31 GMT -7
For that much money they could just come to Camp David if they wanted to see a slow fat man in the woods. Warning. I'm not black.
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