We've started tivo-ing Man vs. Wild on discovery after a recommendation from a friend. Oh. My. Gawd. He is a nut. The premise of the show is they drop this guy off in desolate areas and he has to "find" his way to rescue. Ok, so his name is Bear, which one can shrug off as soon as you watch his show. First of all, nobody else is there to actually say, "Bear," which helps. Secondly, you see how, um, talented (?) he is and realize his name could be Sunshine, but you can respect that. He's half way between the half-brained, craziness seen in Irwin or Grizzly Man and someone you'd respect and trust enough to actually want him to survive in the wilderness.
Some of the crazy things he's done has been eating a fish straight out of the stream (i think it's heart was still beating as he bit into it...it was definitely moving) and really enjoying it, drinking his own urine in the outback to fend off dehydration (not enjoying it), trying to wrangle a wild horse to ride. Some of the respectable, amazing things: starting a fire with his bare hands, building shelters that are sturdier than some i've seen in s. st. paul for one night's rest, and scaling cliffs without any climbing gear.
I'm almost certain his filming crew will watch him die one of these episodes...I wonder how his wife can sleep at night.
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I've seen previews... seems a bit nutty. I had a friend named Bear who referred to himself as "Bear" - as in, "Bear had a good time. Bear went skiing this weekend."
Yeah, sort of like watching a train crash.
Bear...I had never heard this name before. I would guess your bear's funny 'joke' would get very old very quickly.
Did you happen to see the episode where he got literally dropped into a high mountain lake and then proceeded to sort of crab walk down the extremely steep and smooth face of a mountain to get down into a valley area? I was getting that sort of sick vertigo feeling in the pit of my stomach just watching it....
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