Expert Survivalist Rates 10 Wilderness Survival Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

[@unh1nged_h3athen45]

The fact that Michael Scott has a better survival rating than Liam Neeson made my day

[@LazarusIsBackBaby]

"I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." -Liam Neeson --Michael Scott

[@zreineart7496]

As someone who's been mushroom picking for more than 15 years now and harvesting various wild plants to eat, she is right, don't risk it. Even if you have a book. It's crazy the amount of people I've seen wrongly identify a plant and mistake it for something that, to me, look nothing alike, despite having all the resources to identify it properly. Even if it's not deadly it can make you really sick and you'll dehydrate super fast, it'll just make you situation worst.

[@ryurc3033]

My mom was certified here in Missouri. Knows whats ok and whats not. And I know enough to still not chance it.

[@ronandowling4983]

I'm one of those people. I lived with the penan in the Borneo jungle. They used to pick plants and say. Good to eat, poisonous, good to eat. I literally put these plants together and holding them, could not tell the difference. They pointed to the hairs on the stem and how they were different. They also said you can tell because one grew in marshy ground and the other in dryer ground. I just realized I wasn't ever going to figure it out. I ate what they gave me and that was that. I think you need to grow up learning this stuff so you become attune to it. They just see the world differently. They'd leave messages with twigs stuck in the ground in the jungle. I'd not see it, to them it looked like a neon sign. Just incredible, Amazing people.

[@tarheelspeighty9645]

Or you could trip, have a great experience, and summon the willpower to escape.

[@tomb2289]

Yeah there was a terrible story here in the UK where a couple thought they had plenty of experience identifying edible mushrooms and put themselves and another couple in critical care. It was only because their children decided they didn't fancy it that they didn't get terribly poisoned as well 😬😬

[@fostena]

Friends of mine, real mushroom picking experts, had to rush to the ER with mushroom poisoning years ago. Some of them suffered life long consequences, none died. Amanita phalloides, scarily common here in Italy, and very deadly.

[@vivieni7920]

Props to the producers and editors who included The Office survival scene lmao

[@cheesecakelasagna]

They did it for the culture.

[@MISNM0]

Love it so much! Did you know it's a nod to Survivorman? (Les Stroud) He's got a blank ton of excellent content on here.

[@derekhettinger451]

gen z only knows "The Office" telling comment

[@noelv1976]

Literally every one of these channels have done it

[@Alsatiagent]

​@@derekhettinger451 Only if you have an impulse to "other" someone, anyone.

[@NaturesTemper]

As a Zoologist and someone who studies wolves I am so happy that she accurately describes them, she really knows her stuff! Awesome werewolf tattoo as well.

[@LagOknenonok]

Can I just mention how good she is at giving feedback in a positive and constructive way? Like if most feedback in professional environments would be delivered this way so many people would perform better with more positive experiences as well.

[@rumpelpumpel7687]

so damn true!

[@gotbrain3333]

Absolutely agree. Was just about to say this.

[@xdLaserwolf]

No she’s not, she’s super judgy and pretentious

[@LagOknenonok]

@@xdLaserwolf Huh. Can you give an example? Didn't seem like it to me.

[@Tortilla.Reform]

@@xdLaserwolf You’re calling her judgy when the producers asked to come judge things, based on her expert experience. Some people see a woman confident in what she knows and does as pretentious, but hey to each their own I guess

[@Nermander]

Learnings from Naked and afraid: It's not the predators that get you, it's the bugs.

[@hohuy1469]

Totally agree, just a small swarm of insects that flies constantly around people can drive their mental state to crazy and exhausted

[@teddykelly7199]

oh god the mosquitos always look miserable

[@fivemjs]

Right? Lions, tigers, and bears…..whatever. Mosquitoes, flies, and other pesky critters….. NOPE!

[@zakosist]

Only thing I'm truly afraid of in the forest is the insects (specifically wasp and the type of ants that bite and they are everywhere). I think I would be moderately afraid if I encountered a bear, but I full on panic if a wasp gets close or one of these ants were to crawl on me or even being too numerous on the ground. I know its not rational priority but its how it is. Instinctive fear is stronger than rational fear.

[@sandersson2813]

American accents and intonation is annoying. Everything is not a question.

[@scottklandl488]

She’s good. And one of the first to use the full breath of the scale. Not afraid to throw a 1 out there

[@palladium607]

Breadth

[@steadfast101]

Paladium lol beat me to it, I know it’s annoying to correct but the compulsion is too strong for me to resist

[@scottklandl488]

Thanks guys. I think My brain has always glanced over the proper word and it never registered

[@Julia-lk8jn]

I wonder whether that's a side effect of learning to survive in the wilderness: seeing things exactly for what they are, not for what you wish them to be, or think they should be. Maybe that carries over.

[@jtg1912]

@@scottklandl488 most wholesome correction exchange ever

[@pushing2throttles]

Is that Kate Winslet? I think that's funny she didn't find a door to float on. Absolute greatest line ever... HILARIOUS.

[@evepick]

This is not Kate Winslet

[@becool5613]

@@evepick totally missed what he said. He is quoting this survival lady.

[@fivemjs]

@@evepick I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or if you missed it.

[@brendonford3838]

It was still great no matter who missed it 😆 Laura Zerra roasted so many movies it can be hard to keep up

[@elizatoponce9375]

Lol it can’t be, we know from the water survivor video that she was too mobile in the water, this one passed out IMMEDIATELY

[@vigilantmug5028]

She doesn't only have the experience and the name now all she needs is an archaeological interest and we have an award winning game and movie franchise.

[@White_Night_Demon]

lara croft?

[@wuxiagamescentral]

@@White_Night_Demon no, Meet the Kardashians duh

[@talb.1805]

@@White_Night_Demon Indiana Jones!

[@thunderatigervideo]

Props to accurate wolf and bear info! I live in wolf and bear country. I’ve seen wolves once in the wild. Absolutely breathtaking. There were two of them tracking together. They had 0 interest in me and probably only stuck around as long as they did because there was a river between us, the furious geese squawking at them were much more distracting, and a small herd of elk (which I had also seen) had passed by earlier. No idea what the end outcome was, but it was a fantastic series of events that played like snapshots of life in the wild.

[@ivy_pahari]

It amazes me how many specialists Insider knows about

[@Casedilla73]

And movies

[@spartanical]

their name pretty plainly makes it clear that it's their business to know these people

[@wongjefx980]

same goes for GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired..

[@gpcheng87]

Also, a lot of these experts say they have advised on tv shows or movies, so they're probably not too hard for a media organization to find/get in touch with.

[@Mallenaudrix]

@@MAN_FROM_BEYOND 🎟

[@JS-fd5oh]

00:26 - The Revenant (2015) 01:54 - The office S4E11 (2007) 03:20 - The Grey (2011) 05:04 - Rambo: First Blood (1982) 06:48 - The Hunted (2003) 08:19 - The Edge (1997) 10:07 - The Mountain Between Us (2017) 11:46 - Into The Wild (2007) 13:23 - Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) 15:53 - The Way Back (2010)

[@willienganga]

In December 2022, a 4-year-old boy got lost in Kenya's Tsavo national park and survived until rescue 6 days afterwards. Watching this video and imagining how hard it must be to survive in the wild, his story is mind-boggling 😯.

[@brentnicol1586]

I am a firefighter and those two people running in that big of a surface fire would not be able to run like that, the heat alone would be so intense and probably fry your lungs on the inside and let's not even talk about all the smoke they would be breathing in containing so much toxins.

[@mariussavinescu1060]

Exactly.. i think she needs to study more the stages of a fire, and temperatures reaching.🤦🏻

[@eugenechun4140]

So, just belly on the ground and crawl away with a wet cloth towel over your mouth?

[@J4k7193R]

@@mariussavinescu1060 she did point out that she had issue with the fire

[@furthurondown]

like many of my WLFF homeys who aren't around anymore...you don't quit.

[@edwardv1255]

I remember going to watch a fire training exercise when I was a kid, where the local fire department did a controlled burning of a small house. I believe we were like 30-40 meters away (though I'm guessing, as it was a long time ago), and I remember how extremely strong the heat was even before the house was in full flame. I feel like Hollywood generally forget how damn hot fire actually is.

[@119jkwh]

Laura is Iconic. She has like a 9.8 survival rating which is nuts and she did Naked and Afraid Alaska with THE Steven Lee Hall Junior. One could say Im a fan lol

[@thenewfire]

What's a survival rating?

[@jeffreymonsell659]

@@nahadoth2087 But that suggests that she died some of the times?

[@zf5656]

@@thenewfire I'm guessing it was a score used on Naked and Afraid?

[@mehere8038]

@@zf5656 yeh, Naked & Afraid gives people a rating from 1-10 on their chance of surviving & if they complete the challenge (classic challenge is 21 days in the wilderness with nothing, not even clothes) then the rating goes up, if they fail & have to leave early to avoid death, then the rating goes down. Fans sometimes get to do a special 14 day challenge, they'll be given ratings of around 3-5, while experienced survivalists will start around 6-7. So an experienced person might start with 7, do a challenge & go up to 8, then do another challenge & fail & go down to 6. Laura is unusual in that I don't think she's ever failed. Even the best of them normally get injured somewhere along the line & get pulled out & have their rating drop, but for Laura they keep having to try to find harder challenges, cause she never fails. The last one I saw her in was when they put her into the arctic for 14 days, literally her & one other in knee deep snow & having to hike kms through that, with just a single bear skin each for warmth & I think they gave them a knife & fire starter too, but they somehow had to hike all day through that thick snow, with bare feet & legs, without freezing to death! They then had to try to make a shelter & find enough food to replace all the calories they were losing from shivering non-stop & again, they're doing it all naked! No shoes, nothing! They did have the advantage with that one of not having to make shelter before it got dark, since it was high enough in the arctic to not get dark, but they still had to get to the tundra & make a shelter & fire before they froze to death. The show's actually pretty cool for seeing what life would have been like for our assentors & seeing different challenges in different environments. Generally it's either cold, rain or bugs & thorns & burning feet can be a big one in hot areas too. You can watch any episode if you want to, no need to watch in order, except for the "XL" series, all are stand alone episodes & you'll get the idea from a single episode :)

[@johnnytable844]

It's very cute you people think that show is anything close to real. Didn't we learn a long time ago that reality TV is fake? Not to mention the massive amount of proof showing that the show is fake.

[@perennials118]

15:00 During the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria Australia 2009, someone took refuge in their water tank from the fire, after failing to defend their home. They ended up being boiled alive from the extreme heat of the fire boiling the water they were in

[@Madchemist002]

@Curiouser11 The flame isn't in direct contact with the water, and there is much more of it, so it would take longer to heat up. I think is what you were trying to say.

[@snideremark]

Eww

[@Pike737]

Lol nice story

[@matthewk2175]

Jesus... that’s horrible

[@rosehill9537]

There is also the story of 5 guys sheltering in a concrete water tank to survive a fire storm. A metal water tank would heat up.

[@luc8254]

I like how she doesn't try to sugar coat everything, when something has problems she says it blatantly. And she's not afraid to throw a 1/10 😂

[@ToolforOffice]

That's how experienced survivalist are by nature. You can't play games.

[@ericbrass3434]

Yeah, while being a 10/10. 😍

[@katiekawaii]

"The guts are really where the heat's at." Love her 😄

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Yep, why isn't he cuddling up to that lovely warm glob of bloody intestines? Then again; _maybe_ he had to create some free space for him to get in and, well, close the door behind him to keep the cold out. So to say.

[@D33Lux]

The Empire strikes back got it right when Luke was shoved in the guts of a Tauntaun.

[@nobytes2]

Get in them guts!

[@chrisharrison1708]

Forget that! why make an opening to climb in when there’s perfectly good existing holes that are like reverse birth! What’s that movie where they hide in an elephants vagina?😂

[@censoreverything8072]

Really appreciate the tips she gave along with the criticisms. Would love to see and learn more.

[@RavenG.est95]

You should watch her Naked and Afraid episodes

[@Jibba]

I absolutely love how it goes from the harsh horse guts scene to Michael Scott

[@shontaledillard4299]

The fact that the office got a higher score them they Grey 😆

[@Boom-Boom915]

They had Les Stroud advising for that episode

[@AngelicRamen]

I think you mean "than the"

[@jessehinman8340]

She probably didn't know that was his last stand and he had no where to go. It was fight or die. Is the situation unrealistic? Yeah, but she doesn't know that those wolves fed off the corpses of the plane crash victims and develop a taste for man flesh. Also that the wolves were following the survivors and picking them off one by one. That's a problem I have with these videos is that the context and setup for these outlandish situations are usually omitted. Sounds like she thought Liam Neeson's character was just out for a stroll through the woods near his house and ran into a sigular blood thirsty wolf that just likes violence for the sake of it. Of course that situation sounds silly!

[@marcwittkowski5146]

@@jessehinman8340 The entire setup is unrealistic and ridiculous. A taste for man flesh? What is this? The 1700s? Based on this alone she could have just dismissed the whole thing.

[@jessehinman8340]

@@marcwittkowski5146 Maybe you over read the parts where I stated they were unrealistic and outlandish? Stop trying to pick fights with people over the internet . . . 🤣

[@SumitSinghBhutyal]

From here we can imagine how hard is this for the actors to act like a real situation without any animal being there. Hats off to the actors who made us love movies and make our day.

[@BickyToya]

they got skills!! that's why they get paid skills much lol

[@SumitSinghBhutyal]

@@BickyToya but it's also a blessing to be skilled,

[@Iksvomid]

The real animals are the friends we made along the way!

[@SumitSinghBhutyal]

@@Iksvomid and real friends behaves like animals.

[@robertpark5992]

Thank god they get millions of dollars and fame and power to pretend.. so we can be entertained......

[@crub4906]

Evolution of KZbin Ads. 2010: No ads. 2015: Skip ads. 2018: Skip ads after 5 seconds. 2020: Video will play after ads. 2030: Video may play 2040: Video unavailable, watch ads. 2050: KZbin renames AdTube".

[@Gabagool93]

2021: video will play before, in the middle and after 2 ads.

[@Enzaio]

So there exists this thing called an ad blocker...

[@CodeKujo]

With the sponsor message taking up more and more of some videos, we might get there faster than 2050

[@Gabagool93]

The fight against corporate capitalism is still on-going

[@plumtucker9514]

@@Enzaio ad blocker is becoming less and less useful as companies rewrite thier html,playback or ad widgets that deny services to those that deny ads

[@aerynstormcrow]

Yeah...my son and I were talking about our husky's fur the other night and how resiliant is keeps him from damage. He is a "wooly" husky which has a much longer coat than what you usually see and finding his skin, even with scissors or clippers is practically impossible. you aren't cutting him with those bottles.

[@mehere8038]

Nice real life experience, thanks for sharing :)

[@Rakerong]

"The Grey" clip - It is true that wolves rarely, if ever, attack humans...but this was Liam Neeson. The pack leader knew he couldn't give up his chance to tangle with him.

[@threatassessment606]

Lol

[@monstafloppa871]

I saw what you did there, lmao.

[@morganrobinson2436]

😂😂😂

[@carldimmock]

10:20 "she didn't find a door this time to float on" that had me 🤣🤣

[@edi9892]

Good video. From my experience, wool and leather tend to keep you warmer in rain than modern raincoats. I don't know why, but after a year or two of owning that plastic garbage, they let water in very fast. If I have underneath leather or wool, I'll get wet, but I won't freeze as fast as if it was any other material I know. A neighbor of mine had a few amputations due to frostbite and that was in the middle of a city! How did this happen? In the city park, a kid broke through the ice and was in the process of drowning. Since the water was too shallow for adults to drown, he stepped in and pulled him out. Back then, mobile phones were not a thing yet and he had to leave the park and knock on a lot of doors until one called the cops... No one let them in, nor gave them blankets, thus they had to wait in the cold and wind until the cops showed up and brought them to a hospital... I'm no expert, but from what I've seen nothing is more likely to kill you in the wild than water: freezing in the rain slipping and falling drowning, especially cold water or strong currents, but also situations where you can't get out floods, avalanches, landslides... branches falling due to snow stumbling through thick fog and I probably missed a few situations... Besides water, I think that eating the wrong food, or drinking the wrong water and starting puking is the quickest way to the netherworld... (except for very cold places, or deserts, obviously)

[@jotcw81]

Never thought about that but certainly true, water in all its forms is so ever-present and can be super hostile in all its forms. You forgot falling icicles and dehydration.

[@edi9892]

@@jotcw81 I personally experience floods, a landslide, got surprised in the mountains by impenetrable fog, and once spotted snow in summer. The latter may not sound scary, but you have to realise that it was the product of an avalanche leaving such a huge pile that it lasted well into summer... moreover, when I inspected it, it was only 50cm or 2ft tall, but on the other side it was a wall well over 2m or 7ft and you were standing on ice of unknown thickness. The scariest part: it had a creek wide enough for a deer to fall in and I could only see darkness from its depths... it had certainly slippery walls and ice cold water down there and on top of the snow you might only see it in the last moment if you were running on the snow!

[@tylersizelove7521]

I like how she busted the wolf trope. I read a huge article on wolves, they really do keep to themselves, yet they are used in negative connotations.

[@djjaysky9071]

wolf attack and bear attacks are a lot more common than people think

[@mastyer0fReality]

Liam Neeson was that guy who did get attacked though, the wolves have heard of his fame. They were jealous and wanted to take him down to their wild level.

[@JH-no8sy]

A lot of the bad rep comes from people demonizing them because they are smart and opportunistic and so they will eat livestock if given the chance. Honestly, I can’t blame them. Especially with their habitat disappearing due to people.

[@CycoSven69]

She busted nothing. Try to google sometime. Look for historic wolf attacks in France, Russia and India for starters. She has zero clue.

[@keegan959]

@ djjaysky9071 bear attacks maybe, depending on who’s making the estimate. Wolves on the other hand have no record of killing people at least in the United States, and as far as I know have no recorded attacks.

[@thetaco6445]

Laura: Doesn't like myth of wolves being man eaters and it perpetuated Also Laura: Literally has a tattoo of a wolf chomping a woman in half

[@RainyDayWolf]

difference between reality and metaphor ('cause it looks like a werewolf...)

[@tubekulose]

Well, to be fair. It's the depiction of a werewolf (after a renaissance/baroque printing).

[@vacsad]

@@tubekulose Isn't that the beast of gévaudan?

[@tubekulose]

@@vacsad True!

[@Magneticlaw]

The woman in the tattoo perpetuated wolves preying on humans...

[@v.4407]

I love how she says such nice things and then just give it a 1/10

[@GAdawg2k8]

One of my former teachers died after falling through the ice in my hometown getting ready for an event. I cannot imagine how anyone could survive something like that. My teacher was in a residential area, close to help and he still didn’t make it.

[@Hydehunt]

It all depends how fast you can get out of the water really. If you hit your head or go into shock it's bad news. I've fallen into icy water and it's not fun. I can definitely see how people die falling in but there are ways out of the water too.

[@snazzypazzy]

Hypothermia is a protection against brain damage from lack of oxygen. So if you are taken out not to slowly and carefully reheated plenty of people survive. If you fall through and are able to get out yourself or with help of a friend but are not unconcious usually it's just a case of getting warmed up again.

[@Ash-zm7it]

I really wanted her to react to Peeta's camouflage in The Hunger Games 😂

[@12thDecember]

Thank you for stating facts about wolves. I live in "wolf country," and yet have never seen one in 30 years despite hiking in all sorts of remote mountainous land and forests. You would not *believe* the level of ignorance and hatred regarding wolves. OTOH, since you watched this clip from The Grays and maybe the entire movie, you probably would believe it.

[@dnmoscato92]

She said she sees one ever time she's out in the woods? I find that hard to believe

[@White_Night_Demon]

lol wolf country,.... hahahaha

[@allthingstoallmen8912]

Yeah, but they see you...all the time

[@thenewfire]

Where do you live that's wolf country? I live close to Yellowstone and have seen 2 in 10 years. I would think you should have seen a few in 30 years. I was always told there's been 1 documented wolf fatality but we hear about a grizzly mauling every couple of years.

[@huldu]

I'm a little skeptical but I guess it depends on where you are in the world maybe? A *pack* of wolves at night seems like a bad idea but they could be very scared of fire if you have that up and running. If not what would really stop them from attacking you? I'd be cautious regardless of animal out in the wild. Do you really want to be that person that actually becomes a bad statistical number? Especially when it comes to bigger animals like wolves, bears, lions, hyenas, hippos, buffalos, panthers, polar bears(very dangerous, I've heard that they're one of the few predators that actively hunt humans!) and so on(really boils down to where you live!).

[@Starkraven100]

Outstanding ...I studied Wolves in the wild for many years and had many encounters with them. Her comments about Wolves are spot on ...good job.

[@Pikepaw]

Cuddle the guts! Bacteria is where the heat is! Remembering that forever

[@jessicab8281]

I love her on Naked & Afraid. She’s amazing!

[@pluto3687]

Me too!

[@emilyb1670]

Does she make it to the end each time?

[@pluto3687]

@@emilyb1670 from what i remember she never really made a big deal about problems when other will be going thru mental break down. I think thats why i liked her she was really cool about everything and was willing to go thru it. strong lady

[@jessicab8281]

@@emilyb1670 I believe so. She’s so resourceful and smart. It’s awesome to watch her(and Jeff) in action. They did the 60 day challenge snd crushed it.

[@zazen69]

Definitely a badass babe.

[@SemperFi_EDC_Guy]

How to survive in the wild while running from the authorities after using the knowledge we taught u in several of our other videos!* *how to pickpocket. How to detect an fbi surveillance . How to rob a bank and literally never get caught. Ect. 😅😅😅😅 Oh man, I LOVE you Insider!!!!

[@nolene1821]

Yea there secretly preparing us from something😂

[@shawncouch2243]

Kate Winslet: *Hit's the Water* "Guess I'll die."

[@GoofballLOL]

As a wildlife biologist and rattlesnake wrangler, I love how she debunks the mythology of the dangerous & aggressive megafauna. Animals really don't like fighting unless they absolutely must, and they have a particularly keen interest in avoiding humans too. In my animal/wilderness info & safety presentations, I almost always reference how infrequently wolves, snakes, and bears attack compared to animals like dogs and deer

[@nickllama5296]

Great episode, Laura was awesome. There is absolutely NO way you're heating metal/steel over an open fire like that. It's just not gonna work, especially if it's wood fired. Wood fires can get a little hotter than a thousand degrees if you have the right types of hardwood (Pecan, or Oak), so it's never going to melt metal.

[@celorfiwyn8193]

Not correct. 1500 degrees is about where the "melting point" is for metal, though the name "melting" in that scale means when it starts to "turn into a liquid". It is mallable way before that. Most regular steel loses like 80-90% of its integrity at temperatures at 800 degrees and thereabout (depending on the alloy). It'll require a lot of muscle and pounding, but it can and has been done. Its not ideal, because it risks breaking/shattering the alloy and what you would need under such circumstances is a tray of pre-heated water (not too cold, cause it'll risk warping the steel).

[@thenewfire]

@@celorfiwyn8193 what do you do the pounding with?

[@singingwolf3929]

​@Celor Fiwyn sorry but, this is wrong. 1500F is towards the low end of the forging temperature of spring steel (5160) which is what was depicted in the movie, while 800F is the the temperature you would use to temper the steel. Forge Welding is done at even higher temperatures (around 2200F) none of which is near the melting temperature. Can you forge steel in a wood fire? Depending on the composition of the Steel, yes. But it requires appropriate wood, appropriately built fire, and a blower to keep the fire going at higher temperatures. Iron, on the other hand, would be far easier to work with in a wood fire (depending on thickness) but would still take a great deal of time.

[@JohnDoe-bo5yk]

The thing with Rambo is that he's meant to be a guerilla warfare expert. His trap making time might be exaggerated but he doesn't need to "test" his traps he's made them during many high stress scenarios and it's basically second nature. Among the fact that he is meant to be a war machine, at this point in the timeline they've broken him down and rebuilt him as a "super soldier" combat is just constantly on his mind. He's always scouting the area, making mental notes of the types of people around him. As a fictional character, yeah I wouldn't put too much stock into what he did on screen as something an average person could do but I'd bet my left nut there are people capable of feats similar to this, given the right circumstances.

[@thenewfire]

The main problem with a trap like that is getting the person to actually trip it.

[@nyalan8385]

@@thenewfire given enough experience and knowledge you could definitely set up a trap that's very likely to get someone. My aunt's stepfather was a Vietnam veteran who specialized in guerrilla warfare, i.e. setting up traps like rambo did just then, and he told me that 90% of setting up a trap is either finding where to put it to guarantee someone walks in, or adjusting the terrain/situation to guide people into the trap

[@zf5656]

@@nyalan8385 excellent comment

[@zf5656]

good point. Rambo wasn't out there trying to survive the wild, so much as it was war in this scene; wrong expert overall.

[@mehere8038]

Laura is actually the type of expert you would get to make & set those traps in real life. She does it all the time on Naked & Afraid. She's looking at it from the perspective of making all the trap parts from wilderness scavenged items & saying it's not possible & she is the one that knows if it is or not

[@Datamike]

You could make the case that because Rambo served in Vietnam and fought an effective guerilla-style war against the Vietnamese, who were very skilled at building devious, effective, and cruel wooden traps. So, while I always wondered the same thing, how did Rambo get the trap to swing with that much force, it is conceivable that this is something he picked up in Vietnam. Also, when he surprises the Sheriff, after taking out his deputies, if you look at the film carefully, you can actually see Rambo crouching under the tree; his back up, and until he springs it's really difficult to make him out. So the camo of leaves definitely worked. It's late and dark in the forest so conceivably you wouldn't need much camo if any, because, in reality, that forest would've been practically pitch black. If you follow the scene, Rambo clearly has a game plan in the way he behaves, so perhaps he simply did not think he needed more.

[@Satellite_Of_Love]

The Office clip would get a 10 out of 10 from me if they included the scene in which Dwight says "Watch out for snakes!". Gotta love a fellow MSTIE. His face when Michael goes to eat the mushrooms is hysterical.

[@chaoticsequence]

Probably one of the best films I've seen about survival in the woods is John Sayles' film "Limbo." They're worried about having enough food, wet clothing, lack of medicine. Nothing dramatic.

[@omnivorous65]

I will never forget when my sister and her then boyfriend came back from mushroom picking with baskets full of mushrooms. They had the good sense to put the different types into separate baskets. Three baskets clearly had edibable mushrooms in them, easily identifiable. But two types were much harder. The illustrations and the descriptions in our mushroom guide book did not clarify the issue to an extent that you could have eaten any of them with confidence. We had lively debates whether they were of the edibable or non-edibable (or even poisonous) variety. Some that might or might not be edidable looked quite similar. In the end we tossed the ones that we were not 100% certain about. No point in risking it.

[@mymatemartin]

Damn, I'm fucked. I find it hard to survive in my own kitchen.

[@JayceeR]

lol.. i can feel that

[@RianeBane]

Thanks, now I'm motivated to make dinner after sitting around for three hours

[@chrisforsyth8323]

Truth. The Bears are the biggest problem in mine...

[@triune_blades]

This was very eye-opening. She's super knowledgeable. 🙂

[@noodlebrains2689]

The wolves in the Grey were more like metaphorical demons than actual wolves, and they were that way by design. They were just there to show the guys journey from giving up on life, to fighting tooth and nail for it.

[@robert04872]

Okay cool, still unrealistic.

[@keegan959]

Either way, it shows wolves being bloodthirsty killers. Which only sways those who are impartial about them to think wolves are actually like that, and makes those who are against wolves even more set in their ways and beliefs

[@khrystynasenkiv566]

'If you wanna stay and fight, then fight', it relates perfectly to all kinds of situations

[@edwardfletcher7790]

10 points for the fainting goat reference ! lol Her fire advice is outstanding 👍

[@antonmaastricht3952]

Zerra is so cool. Loved the series, she can really talk about survival after her tough trips...

[@mc-cockpot5791]

the first one is realistic because he never claimed to be a survivalist

[@anandmongol3916]

Very true

[@thenewfire]

It's always interesting to see how a professional will rate someone that actually did it in real life. Sometimes it's the little mistakes that actually show the realism.

[@alekseishkurin4590]

Wow, that's a true professional. Amazing episode!

[@EXPATXPLORER]

OK when he takes out the guts she said he should be cuddling with them for heat. My only thought is, if any predator comes along, they want to eat the guts but he's cuddling with the guts😑🧐

[@zshakur]

"If you're gonna stay and fight, then FIGHT!" I like this chick!

[@Celisar1]

„Woman“, don’t be a chauvinist.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

I met a Wolf born in captivity. He was over 200 pounds and very smart. I can't imagine one in the wild being less than him.

[@Ronniemcnutt6990]

fun fact, frigid cold water can actually knock people out the way it did to the lady in the one scene. people have a natural gasp, or a natural moment of shock when they hit cold water, and it can put people into a state of panic, causing them to fall unconscious. moral of this lesson tho, don’t walk on frozen lakes, ponds, any kind of frozen water. it’s a bad idea

[@maryorosco1027]

or at least if you have to keep a very thick stick horizontally in your arm's to keep you from falling completely under.

[@KellenBennett]

Womansplaining really triggers me

[@TacitaSaturnia]

Wolves don't attack people. Also: hundreds of fatal attacks in eurasia in just the last century alone. Cherry picking to the north american attacks is cheating.

[@JonFloFPV]

“Is she like one of those fainting goats?” Lol

[@brianbruck580]

Rambo's leaf camo was a technique he learned from fighting the Vietcong and NVA. They had harnesses where you could strap leaves and foliage to your back easily and hide better while lying down on your stomach, or could be strapped to your chest. Cheap, light weight and great for waiting to conduct an ambush (as we see Rambo do in the film).

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

15:00 The other thing about pools of water in a wild fire is that if the water body is not large enough the water can actually heat up and eventually burn you. In the case of swimming pools they get hot enough to boil you alive.

[@bethje30]

Thank you about explaining that about wolves. Wolves are back in the Netherlands and so many people are afraid that people will get attacked.

[@burymebreathing]

i love this chick.

[@dimitri2414]

"Wolf's aren't man eaters" Also her with a wolf tattoo on her arm eating a woman. Even if it's a werewolf lol jk

[@Sean_thompson_bass]

Really bugs me when these survivalists watch a scene involving animals out of context from the whole movie, then they complain about it

[@anradhofficial4652]

@@Sean_thompson_bass Blame Insider for only showing them the scene then, though it's unrealistic to expect her to watch every movie they want a scene criticised in.

[@dimetrodonz]

@@Sean_thompson_bass they're just shown the clips of these movies, they dont watch the entire movie to break down a single scene so its not their fault they dont know the entire context of the scene, they just do what theyre told to, which is analyze and critique survival scenes based off of how realistic they are.

[@FerencKranicz]

Comments in 2025: lol jk xd nt nt lol lol jk

[@CerotheDemon]

That’s not a wolf lol

[@danseigars1983]

That spring loaded trap is entirely possible while manipulating the bendable features of green wood. If you use the right wood for the base and the right wood for the other portions to leverage the torque to avoid all the pressure on just one branch it would work. Also adding reinforcement to the structure would also help. The pants worn by the antagonists also comes into play, they aren’t durable in the least and these men are depicted as individuals who clearly don’t work out often so they may be identified with soft muscle tissue. Only argument i would see on the effectiveness of that trap is how deep the wooden spikes can go into the legs. Most often times in Vietnam they used wooden or bamboo spikes on logs or drop traps, in those cases the vietnamese would place human feces on the spikes to cause infection and sepsis

[@velazquezarmouries]

Also wood makes surprisingly strong springs bows being a good example

[@haardo]

Well. Gotta give it to her that she wasn't in the special forces. :)

[@haardo]

Also, path of least resistance. Set the trap where you would walk.

[@jedaaa]

She didn't say it wasn't possible, but expecting to be able to make one in haste while on the run and having it have to work first time in a place you have zero guarantee your persuer will even go makes it a very unreliable choice to spend your time on, by the time he made that he could have been a few miles away

[@danseigars1983]

@@jedaaa Rambo had hours to prepare the traps 🤷‍♂️

[@richardmerkel9988]

I’ve often found throwing rocks and stones at wolves make them leave quickly and not come back especially if you managed to hit it in a good throw

[@dnmoscato92]

I've found my 44 magnum really makes them go away. PERMANENTLY LOL jk I could never kill a wolf so majestic and beautiful creature

[@MZ-bl6wg]

There’s a viral video of a 22 year old college student here in utah that goes jogging up a closed canyon , several miles up he turns around as it’s getting near sundown and on the way down he rounds a corner and sees 2 mountain Lion cubs and the moron pulls his cell phone out and approaches them to film them, run run a few steps away growling and he keeps following them. I remember watching thinking oh my lord you moron, the mothers near , you see young go through opposeite direction . After about 20 feet of pursuing them he hears twigs break and looks left seeing the mother just 5-6’ from him in the trees ears back showing it’s teeth head down and kissed off. It confidently and terrifyingly creeps toward him like it’s about to pounce so we starts walking backwards but it keeps following him continueing to jump and swipe at him and growling . Several minutes in he’s still recording and starts to freak out realizing it’s pushing him back up the closed canyon miles from the entrance. It follows him for about 20 minutes and at the end he’s saying oh my god I’m going to die , he tells his parents he loves them while filming the mountain lion and says well at least someone should find my phone and see what happened to me. He was so damn scared and turns his head to see what’s behind him and in that split second it almost gets to him so he grabs 2 rocks and throws one missing and the second hits in in the head and it runs off. Then he panics becasue it runs down the trail where he has to go and it’s getting dark but made it out. It’s on KZbin and worth watching. A cannon I’m in often so i now carry my hand gun up there lol.

[@immortaldemon]

they are rating Michael in the office? lmfao

[@mountbuckekreative4044]

Those scenes from First Blood seemed to be much darker on the VHS versions and somehow more in line with the mentioned weathe conditions too. His camo would have easily worked with that.oh and btw, steel/iron starts melting or burning at 1500 C° already, you can technically forge it even cold ,depending on its brittleness and elasticity ratio, but it gets easier with increasing temperatures, so this wood fire would probably work in some way, but it seems to me that he would need to have a way to blow air into the fire to heat it up enough to get that color on his iron bar.

[@rumpelpumpel7687]

you can forge cold steel with sheer force yes. but it will become brittle and eventually break on the edges. And it needs A LOT OF FORCE. The iron rod he is working in the clip is like 1.25x2.5 inches and he does neither have an actual hammer nor an anvil. He bashes the rod with another rod and uses the rocky terrain as an anvil. looks like lime stone to me. lots of gravel around. the stone is probably rather brittle. i dont think that this scene would work in real life with this set-up. Controlled fire ventilation is one thing you already mentioned to be important. But a proper hammer and anvil are just as important i think.

[@ericbrass3434]

@@rumpelpumpel7687 Trenton Tye does it in one video - forges a knife on a rock - and if I remember correctly, he doesn't even have a proper hammer. He did that video to prove, that we don't have to have fancy equipment. He has a blower and real coal tho. I tried to forge once with coal that wasn't completely dry - dad dug it out of a construction site - the former land owner buried it there (some WW2 missiles were also buried not so far away LOL), and it completely sucked. It took me like half an hour to bend a goddamn rebar into meat hook. 😅 The coal took forever to ignite, even with fluid, and then cooled down super fast.

[@rumpelpumpel7687]

@@ericbrass3434 yes it's probably not impossible to forge a knife on a rock. I've come across a video where a dude actually casts knife blades from liquid iron that is barely above the melting point. It works, but the quality ... well - in my opinion it could be easier to create some cutting edge tool from stone or glass or a sheet metal in a survival situation. I agree, that you can do basic forging without having a blacksmith shop around and without proper tools, but it will probably cost much more time and enegy to forge and form something this way, and it will probably be of lesser quality. AND dangers of hurting yourself might also increase drastically when you work with random substitutions instead of trustworthy tools.

[@marigeobrien]

Toward the end, speaking of wet wool... wool weighs a ton when it's wet. It may still retain heat but... it's heavy. That's always one point about people falling into water in movies that drives me crazy-- they usually sink like a stone because all their clothes weigh so much when they're wet (another reason Kate Winslet never would have floated... not until after she died). Little known fact: Bell-bottom jeans were styled after the navy uniform, which was specifically designed with the wide bottoms so if a sailor fell into the water, he could take his pants off over his shoes. They didn't want to lose their shoes. But the fabric was so heavy they wouldn't survive. If a sailor can't survive I doubt an average person could.

[@curtmayer1070]

Is wet wool heavier than water? How does that work?

[@curtmayer1070]

@@whocaresguy no you won't. Do you have the foggiest idea how anything related to science works? Archimedes understood buoyancy 23 centuries ago. 'Scale' a sponge?

[@curtmayer1070]

@@whocaresguy are you for real? What is the relative density of wool and water, or sponge and water? Wool has a density of 1.3 g/cm3. Sponge has a density of .25 g/cm3. A wet sponge floats. Wet wool sinks, barely. If there are any air bubbles at all in The wool, like felt, it floats.

[@reymondmchati4379]

She looks like Marie avgeropoulos twin

[@rbubela]

"False premise" ??? Wolf attacks are common in Eurasia. Stop using North America as a barometer for behavior of species

[@user-el6my6vi7p]

@@rbubela i think you responded to the wrong comment lol

[@Treadstone2006]

She does, I had to do a double take when I first saw the thumbnail.

[@carenyourock]

@@Treadstone2006 Same I seriously thought it was her, I was like Octavia???

[@master_moose]

I think she looks like a badass Abbi Jacobson

[@levvisbalhare1780]

She is an expert? Yeah ok

[@bani_niba]

It's obvious she knows what she's talking about. I just want to say she's super hot as well.

[@beverlykeys4330]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for speaking up for wolves!!

[@steadfast101]

Yeah we have a huge problem still in the current day of killing off wolves in North America , depicting them as man eaters on top of ranchers justifying killing everyone they see really makes it hard to get the public behind protecting that species

[@alisterfolson]

The first one: he should have learned from Han and Luke with the Tauntuan from Empire Strikes Back

[@randymagnum6680]

And I thought they smelled bad on the outside

[@celeste4302]

Laura is awesome. Everyone should watch her N&A episodes if you haven't, especially the XL ones. She's such a baller.

[@Troy-Echo]

Slight correction on the running from wolves....it would not do nothing. It would just mean you die tired. About breathing in super hot air, that would likely cause a burn which if survived could cause your lungs to seep moisture and cause difficulty breathing and possible suffocation. I've not seen this as a fire reaction, but I did see this happen with a chemical reaction when someone breathed in petrol/gasoline while siphoning from a tank. They did not get a lot into their lungs, but we had to use an ambu bag to assist with their breathing and the positive pressure will push fluid back out of the lungs and into the bloodstream. I was driving the ambulance in that instance so I only really know what I heard happening in the back.

[@jameserath4192]

Chick is hot AF!! found myself not paying no mind just looking and thanking bout her. IMHO - 9-10. IM A TOUGH CRITIC 2, AHE JUST BAD! NAH MEAN?

[@aldoushuxley2107]

"Wolves do not attack humans" says the girl with a Wolfman eating the human lady on her arm. I wonder what EVA would say??

[@kylepope9795]

Yea she said it, what’s the confusion

[@dimetrodonz]

its just a tattoo lmao what

[@aldoushuxley2107]

LOL Hmmm maybe a skinwalker visiting you in the middle of the night might open your eyes.

[@doeyjiaz4798]

@@brennerc180 a mule will wait his whole life to kick you, then kill you lol anything equestrian definitely poses a threat to life

[@Celisar1]

It’s a werewolf, a mythical creature.

[@mythicalmonke8895]

Im loving this series

[@LeMayJoseph]

Not sure I see eye to eye on that scene from The Edge. The whole point of that film is that they are completely out of their element, so naturally, they're doing wrong things. Feels plenty realistic to me, given that Laura points out that the bear could potentially attack three men around a fire.

[@allengose5438]

Resume 5 seasons of reality TV i am an expert

[@siro9667]

She has a tattoo of a wolf eating a girl oh sry wolfs are no „man“ hunter mb

[@JohnOhkumaThiel]

Taking your clothes off when wet: Not a survivalist, but I love outdoor sports and so of course I’ve gotten soaked in the dead of winter. Even in NYC or easily in Los Angeles you can find yourself totally isolated with no open stores or other shelter nearby. Basically, if I can at least wring out most of the water, I’ll do that piece by piece, starting with my socks because it’s usually the lower part of the body that gets the wettest, and I’m not exposing my core. I can also use the wrung out socks like a towel to soak up water from other parts of my body, wring them out again, and repeat. I carry spare socks and gloves when heading out in Winter, even for cycling. --- It seems the greatest myth spread by film and television is, all wild animal are in a state of constant, very alert and energetic rage, and will attack absolutely anything, especially a human-because humans are a-holes who also happen to be delicious because they are so over fed with stuff that is scarce in the wild like delicious fats, battered and deep fried in more fats, topped with fatty sauces and cheese. Humans, yum! And there are so many of them; surely they won’t miss a few! --- It took years of intense actor training and experience playing cold when she’s hot and hot when she’s cold for Kate Winslett to learn how to faint beautifully on queue. Could you survive a gauntlet of hair, makeup, and wardrobe and a full SIX HOURS before a hot buffet all you can eat meal?! Some days we have no time for even a cappuccino from craft services between takes! Can you imagine…. I guess you could survive that. Please, go on. --- I think the myth that you can run across breaking ice comes from the fact that snowmobiles do it. But a snowmobile going fast enough can cross even plain liquid water like a waterski over a short distance.

[@nandisams]

There is a career in everything. Never knew that someone could be a professional wilderness survivalist

[@flightographist]

This person is pretty right on, 3 decades of bush biologist experience take it for what it's worth. Just goes to show, age, hers, isn't the only key to wisdom. Except for the knife thing, big enough to baton fuel wood ( trust me), you can still dissect a beast with a big knife, KA Bar Becker is purfect!

[@egyptwns89_26]

I love this woman.

[@jabanana2664]

Imo they should have at least given back stories to the scenes, the grey was in the den radius and they un knowingly went straight to the den, instead of away like they planned.. just sayin

[@kingtaj]

Impressed by her ability to explain these scenarios in a really clear way.

[@MerelvandenHurk]

To my knowledge the fainting goats don't go unconscious, they're not actually fainting like a human. Instead, all their muscles seize up (myotonia) so they're unable to keep themselves upright, usually because they were in the process of running away. If you use a muscle, for example to try and run away when startled, there are mechanisms that physically cause the muscle to relax again. In fainting goats and other animals that have that genetic mutation, there's a failure of the initial contraction to terminate. So once tensed, the muscle doesn't relax again. It's kind of like a button getting stuck; after pushing the button, once you stop pushing on it, it should come back up again so you can push it again. But in this case, the button doesn't come back up.

[@thesourpatchkidd579]

It is documented that wolves in human areas have evolved to fear humans and will go out of their way to avoid us. Interestingly wolves in areas that have no human population have been observed to have no fear of humans but also don’t see us as prey or a threat, if anything they’re curious. That does not mean press your luck and forget you’re dealing with an apex predator- it just means that wolves aren’t the threat we paint them out to be.

[@pitbull65taz]

Yeah, tell Grizzly Man that...

[@lauraalopez]

Why doesn’t she have her own tv show?

[@CommonCentrist82]

Things to always keep in your car for survival: Tarps, tent, medical bag, water, blankets, flares, lighters, boots, socks, warm jacket, poncho, gloves, wool hat, duct tape, knife, axe, hammer, nails, hand saw, tinder. I typically keep all of those things in the trunk of my car at all times.

[@thenewfire]

Spare car as well

[@Cinéphile9304]

5 years later : animated people reviewing animated films that how real it is

[@Glocklord2000]

I think I've watched every episode of her on Naked & Afraid I loved watching her with Jeff I think I was funny that he didn't want to share.

[@masonmaloney1972]

What about the super pack of wolfs in Eastern Europe I believe where there’s people who’s soul job is to shoot any wolfs that get to close to their town

[@MTGPringles]

A grizzly bear might be exciting, but hypothermia is downright terrifying. Read a story awhile back of this mama eho held her little boy in the freezing shower as punishment until he puked and collased. Never to wake up again. When will we truly realize our mortality?

[@jtaylor1219]

“Don’t put it in your body if you can’t identify what it is” That’s advice everyone can use right about now