Survivorman
There’s a new show on the Discovery Channel that I’m becoming pretty addicted to, called Survivorman. The whole premise is that this guy gets dropped into the wilderness somewhere and has to live for seven days without any supplies or help. He has a couple video cameras that he uses to record everything he does, and then they put that together into a half-hour show.
I’m sure the guy probably pitched the show to Discovery, but it’s fun to think about what that job-description would look like. You’re surfing through monster.com and you find:
Required Skills
- Must be able to start fires without any matches
- Must be able to identify, catch, cook, and eat non-poisonous snails, frogs, and lizards
- Must be able to go several days without any human contact
Preferred candidates will also know how to spend the night in the wilderness without freezing to death, and how to avoid causing raging multi-state forest-fires.
Then there’s the folks who have to blur out all the scenes where Mr. Survivorman is “au natural.” That’s a job I’m really glad I don’t have…