Why does it have to be Naked and Afraid?

LOL! I like the way you think!

Thanks. : )

Haha…because, the whole premise is to put 2 humans out into the great wilderness of wherever as primitive man lived and see of they have the balls and breasts to survive for 3 weeks. It gives us regular folks a vicarious adventure that most of us would be too soft, flabby and domesticated to undertake. haha
The sex drive is the first thing to go when in survival mode because lust uses up vital energy that needs to be conserved for important things like ripping Iguanas heads off with your teeth. lol
Two naked people sitting around in lawn chairs drinking Shock Top and roasting weenies would not capture audience attention.

I would rather watch naked strangers on tv hanging out, socializing and having fun for a few days, but that’s just me. As for how it is now I don’t think I would even watch it at all if they weren’t naked.
They’re basically just pretending to be starving homeless people living in the jungle for the fun of it and they don’t even get a million dollar prize at the end like on Survivor.
They suffer and kill animals for nothing when they have perfectly good homes with warm beds and meat already in the freezer.
If they had clothes on it could just be called Ungreatful and Afraid.

What is this? I’ve never heard of this. Is this really a reality TV show? It sounds like a parody… please say it is parody.

The camp includes the obligatory burning stick embers for keeping warm & cooking purposes.
Maybe they should call it Great Balls of Fire

@Pineapplebush The participants want to challenge their survival skills and savvy, they all have a passion for some sort of survival skills and athleticism.
They aren’t in it for money and they are not killing animals for nothing, they are killing them to eat. It’s not any different than someone that wants to climb a mountain or jump out of a plane, it is an extreme survival challenge with no intervention by the film crew or medics unless there is a medical emergency. Humans like to challenge themselves, and push themselves to the limit.

@cazzie Yes, it is a reality show, you can find episodes on youtube. The premise is two people with varying survival skill backgrounds that are put out in some remote wilderness environment to survive off their skills and wyles for 3 weeks. They are allowed one or two choices of survival objects like a machete, fire starter, water pot, etc.
The locations are all over the globe form the Amazon jungle to the Canadian wilderness and all points in between.

Coloma- That show is bulls_it like just about everything else on TV.
They are not really surviving, they can tap out at anytime they want.
Pretending to be desperate and killing animals while some camera crew sits on their asses 6 feet away eating Snickers bars is disingenuous in my opinion.
They should grow up, be thankful for what they have in reality and find something better to do with their time like helping people who are actually starving.

Yep. There they are, gasping their last breath, on the verge of DYING…right in front of 50 people with cameras, cars, helicopters, cell phones…..

@Pineapplebush Well what is the camera crew supposed to do? They are filming the show not participating in it.
It is about people that want to challenge themselves and having a camera crew around doesn’t change their struggle. Yes, they can opt out if it gets too hard but that doesn’t mean they haven’t pushed themselves to their limits.

It’s just not that complicated and not disingenuous IMO. Is a camera crew filming a marathon disingenuous because they haven’t run alongside the runners the whole course?
Yes, it’s a reality show intended to draw an audience but that doesn’t change the participants struggles and challenges.

I have engaged in hardcore white water rafting and ridden endurance horses and whether or not someone was filming my challenge has nothing to do with being disingenuous just because they aren’t getting pummeled on the water or sweating like my horse and I climbing a steep mountain.
If you don’t like the show, don’t watch it, simple, but your opinions are not ultimate truth.
Personally if I were 30 years younger I’d have signed up myself, I’m older now but always loved a good physical and mental challenge.

If they are really dying, or really have a life threatening emergency, the camera crew will, of course, step in. So will the paramedics who they probably have on stand by, 10 feet away. That’s the point. They are never in any real danger.

@Dutchess_III It may seem that way but even if a medic steps in doesn’t mean they still couldn’t succumb to dehydration, a venomous snake bite, an injury or any number of things. They have a safety net but it is not fool proof. They are still miles from a medical facility.

“Naked and Afraid”?!

Sounds like my first time having sex.

Like I said they are ungreatful.
People who were ever actually poor, starving or homeless probably wouldn’t play games like this. It’s for the privileged and egotistical.
Animals share the planet with us and they do help us survive, but I know in my heart that we should never abuse that or play games that involve killing other living things.
I do eat meat, but I think we should have more respect for animals than to kill them for entertainment.

Just like people who are actually poor, starving or homeless don’t turn their noses up at fast food or gluten or any other kinds of food based on societal fads. Being able to pick and choose what you eat means you’re privileged.

Right…. sounds like ‘Horrible First World Games’. I’ve never seen it and I doubt I will be able to watch an episode through, but perhaps if I get really bored and have a glass of wine, perhaps I could try to watch it.

” Horrible First World Games’”....that would be a good name for it.

thanks, at Dutchess_111

@Pineapplebush I agree with respecting animals, I am a major animal lover and have all kinds of rescue farm pets in my life, but, to play devils advocate, whether someone wants to challenge their survival skills in the wilderness or climb a mountain or shoot the rapids or own a race car or a boat, could all be argued as only things privileged people pursue.

@Dutchess_III Agreed.

@cazzie I am not a TV person nor a reality show person either, but, I have seen a few episodes of N&A and it does, vicariously, appeal to my adventurous and risk taking personality. I can see why people want to push themselves to their limits, regardless of the playing the privilege card.

I wonder how much time they spend under a make-up artist’s brush.

Coloma- I’m glad you see it my way.
I too thought survival shows were interesting, you know being out in nature, making a fire, swimming, meeting new people.
Naked people always have my undivided attention, LoL.
Naked and Camping should be the show.
They could just enjoy the beauty of nature and each other and then take their asses home before they have to start killing things.
I would like it better.
Thanks.

@Dutchess_III Zero.

@Pineapplebush Well, I don’t see it entirely your way.
Like I said, humans have a need to challenge themselves once their base survival needs are met. I think the whole idea is the opposite of privilege. It is taking people whose needs are met and challenging them in a serious and primal manner. To be stripped of clothing, forced to build shelter, find drinking water, food, well….it takes a lot of balls to do that when it would be easier to just stay home with your coffee and electric blankets and a cupboard full of food. haha

Like I said they’re also egotistical.

Don’t you think the real challenge comes in when their survival needs are not being met? What’s the challenge if their survival needs are met?

The production crew picks the locations, not the actors. Here are the requirements (short for “all of their basic needs and safety will be ensured.)

Production selects locations that are in the United States and around the world. So what does the ideal location need? Rankin identified the criteria:

“Obviously, it has to be remote in order for the survivalists to have that sense of isolation.
“the resources that are available,” including “the means to procure drinking water”

“temperatures have got to be in a range that is not going to cause too many problems for them”

The production must be “able to put in a robust evacuation procedure, should the need arise. We’ve got to have access to urgent medical care, in terms of a trauma room”

@Pineapplebush Then so are race car drivers, all sports figures, competitive runners, other athletes, etc. Anyone that wants to push themselves to their physical and mental limits could be argued to be egotistical. Same rope, different ends.

@Dutchess_III I meant that these are people used to all the comfortable amenities of living and to choose to undertake an extreme mental and physical challenge of something they do not have to do. As far as the rest, well. the participants often risk hypothermia and extreme heat, need to find a way to make fire to boil potentially unsafe water sources, I think one episode was 108 degrees with 70% humidity in some jungle somewhere. The POINT is, these participants are undertaking great mental and physical challenges regardless of whether they might make it to a trauma unit in time if something really serious unfolds.

Hey, a challenge is a challenge even with some measure of monitoring.

Well, I still agree with @Pineapplebush. Obviously they can’t be too afraid with all the help they have all around. It should be called Naked and Camping or something.

I might participate in “Underdressed and Mildly Annoyed”.

@Dutchess_III I dunno, they do have people around sure but, they are still sleeping in the weeds, covered in bugs, naked, hot /cold, sitting in pouring rain, walking barefoot over inhospitable terrain, and grubbing around for creepy things to eat. Nobody is handing them a Ham sandwich on day 7 of virtually no food. Have you ever watched an episode? It gets pretty intense and one primary factor is how compatible and well the two, complete strangers can work together as a team and partnership. Some put together couples totally clash and others sync up beautifully.

Here’s a clip of some real hardship moments.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTXwL24RFgM

@cookieman LOL

Well, they can stage all they want. I mean, that’s what TV is all about. You don’t see what’s going on between cuts.
I’d rather watch NOVA.

I don’t get why the don’t the very first thing that modern humans did, and get animal skins to protect themselves.

Coloma- obviously from what you’ve posted previously you feel that it takes a lot of balls for people to challenge themselves by leaving their homes and going out into the jungle or wherever to live as if they have nothing.
What you see as pushing themselves to their mental and physical limits even though it’s unnecessary and detrimental to the wildlife that they destroy I see as immature, privileged and egotistical behaviour. I think the show is using nudity to mask and sell an American made, fake survival show that’s disrespectful to animals and people who actually have nothing in this world.
This is my personal opinion and
I’m sure we can agree to disagree.

@Dutchess_III I prefer NOVA as well, but I have no reason to believe anything is staged. Nobody stabs themselves in the foot with a stick or cuts their finger on a machete trying to cut open a coconut on purpose. lol To get animal skins you have to find the animal first, so far I haven’t seen anyone take down a leopard. haha

@Pineapplebush Oh yeah, no problem agreeing or disagreeing, just the sake of conversation. Entertainment is entertainment and i Is a foot ball player that makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year an insult to a teacher, yep. It is also not necessary to play foot ball or ride motocross bikes or eat big macs either. It is not necessary to drive a Mercedes or a Hummer or live in a 10,000 sq. foot house, but people do so I don’t think participating in a reality survival show makes anyone any more or less evil than all the other things I have mentioned.

Anyway, we chewed the lizard fat enough on this topic, it was fun.

From your own link, @Coloma, you had a medic on the spot, telling the guy he needed professional medical treatment for an injury on his foot. And then it showed some girl squeezing the hell out of that same injury for some reason, and he’s screaming bloody murder. That isn’t staged?

@Dutchess_III The medics are on standby, if you want to call it “staged” instead of just the precaution it is, well..okay. Medics are on standby at sports events and race tracks too, as a precaution. What’s the difference of a medic is on standby at a football game or for a survivalist show in the jungle?
As far as the girl squeezing the wound, seemed to me she was attempting to see if she could extract a foreign body from the puncture wound, clearly the guy was not enjoying that but not sure I;d call it “staged.”

The bottom line is that having medics on standby has nothing to do with the real challenges the participants face.

But the show likes to pretend that they’re all alone. No one playing football, or racing, pretends like they are doing it all alone.

@Dutchess_III Well, by all intents they are alone. They are alone in their experience. Being filmed doesn’t change that. Being cold, covered in bugs and bug bites, hungry & thirsty is not something the film crew or medics are experiencing all cozy in their digs with food, bug repellent and mosquito netting. Even the crew is hardly comfortable by usual standards, all things considered.