re: Naked and Afraid Observations and Questions

I love how OP is starting to wonder if this reality show on TV is staged or not.

To the OP's questions:

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1) How come I never see a large bonfire? It's always a small little smoke fire. If I am freezing my arse off, I am going to make a big arse fire. In addition, I would be wanting body heat from my partner - Have never seen this happen once on the show.

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They're there for 21 days. You know how much wood you'd have to have for a large fire for that long?

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2) How come they never get large food? Of course the camera men see large animals and food but the couple does not?

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Large food with the weapons that are always laying all around? Not to mention that even if you could fashion a spear you'd still have to catch/get close to an animal to kill it, and even that is a long shot if you're just throwing a spear at it.

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3) How come not one single couple has never made some type of protective covering (like shoes) for their feet? If I am walking through that shite, I am at least going to get layers of leaves and somehow attach it to my feet.

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I rarely ever watch the show...have seen maybe 3 or 4 episodes, but at least once or twice I've noticed they had "shoes" on their feet.

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4) How is it that their teeth are still white at the end of the 21 day journey? 21 days of eating shite and not being able to brush your teeth for 21 days would definitely cause some tooth decay/tarter build up

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Just because you're stranded somewhere doesn't mean you can't clean your teeth. shite, just water and your finger can clean them pretty well if that's all you have.

OP seems like he's never been in the wilderness in his life.


Now to TP's:

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WHat else do they have to do out there? hunt and gather wood, that's all there is to do all day.
i think its a lot more wok to maintain a small fire all night. someone has to stay awake to watch it.
I'm not talking about keeping a big fire all the time. Make a big fire first so you have an enormous and hot coal bed. Once you get a large hot coal bed, you can put anything on it and it will burn, and it can rain on it as well and it will most likely stay hot, unless its a ridiculous downpour for hours, so put some kind of high safe cover over it to limit the rain on it.

I remember camping in Aspen, all we had was a hand held ax, between two guys chopping and collecting, we had a big fire going for hours that night, was still hot when we woke up 7 hours later. We had enough wood to last us 2 more days easily. We took the Survivorman saying "when you think you have enough wood, go get 4x more" a little too serious i guess. It took us no more than an hour to collect all that wood.

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Okay, so you had two guys (not a guy and a girl), as well as an axe (which they may not have a lot of times), and you got a couple of days' worth of firewood.

Do ya'll not realize that a) this thing lasts three full weeks? Or that b) it's about survival? It's not about feasting on deer and wildlife because you'll almost never be able to catch/kill one. It's about surviving, and part of that is expending as little energy as possible since you aren't gonna be getting your normal dose due to lack of food/water.

And A big fire to start to have coals isn't the worst idea, but it's still just as easy to get fire going with a small amount of coals as a large coal bed. So again, all you're really doing is wasting firewood that first day/night.