Bear Grylls's "Man vs. Wild" = Phony
tags:I always had my suspicions about his show. I can see one guy goin' out in the wild like on "Survivor Man", but who takes a camera man with him. Well this goes to show that "Man vs. Wild" is as real as professional wrestling.








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It's dangerous to Cross the Road! Especially if you don't look both ways
Remember a few seasons ago that girl Stephanie was "all alone" at her camp and she was going on and on about how scary and lonely she was out there by herself. I'm like...um....there's 3 or 4 cameramen and soundmen standing around you. You're hardly alone.
There is an entire wiki dedicated to the discussion of why the show is fake and dangerous:
http://www.daughtersoftiresias.org/bearwiki/Main_Page
Some pretty damning accusations on that site; ranging from evidence that Grylls spent the night at a hotel when he was supposedly roughing it out in the wild to an expose on how the encounter with a wild bear on the show was really just the producer in a bear suit.
Though I always felt the show was clearly "fake" in the purist sense. The show is really a Jason Bourne style fantasy set in exotic locations where we get to see Grylls perform some bad ass stunts (sometimes with the help of some unacknowledged aid). Its really quite entertaining.
RE the drinking of the urine...if he actually did that it's quite dangerous, as Les Stroud aka Survivorman pointed out 92% of urine is water however the rest contains very harmful toxins that can easily make you very ill or become deadly in a survival situation. Distillation is the only proper way to drink urine.
This show has really let me down, however the new season of Surivorman is coming out soon!
This dude is the striving definition of a poser.
i've seen worse tv than watching this dude catch a salmon with a stick and eat it raw and still alive (... because he was just that hungry... i.e. it made good tv).