Survivorman & Son | Episode 3 | Ecuador | Les Stroud

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  @havenlew · 5 years ago

  Man, Les was smart for not selling his soul to the corporations and keeping all of his content.    Now spreading it to the masses where it will be viewed even more.

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  @Verlisify · 5 years ago (edited)

  Logan getting the Les-style commentary was really nice.<br>Also he was a lot more into it this time

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  @rottingmagikarp8784 · 5 years ago

  Les, i want to thank you for being an inspiration to me as a child and a Young adult as to im sure many others here that watch your videos. i hope you live a long and healthy joy filled life.

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  @AwesomeFish12 · 5 years ago

  When Les cut the tape off for the sake of the ants, it was funny but also showed his respect for nature and all of it&apos;s most basic elements. The dude respects nature down to it&apos;s smallest components. Those little things are why he is one of the greatest bushmen that western society has ever produced. Up there with Les Hiddins and Ray Mears. Honestly he probably knows more about global survival than either, but definitely not as much about Australia as Les Hiddins, who is a legend and THE expert on Australian ethnobotanical flora.

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  @josephfrancis5090 · 5 years ago

  Not many people can write a show, film it alone, narrator it and produce it. Les has been doing it for years in the middle of nowhere while he teaches us survival and making it ENJOYABLE! When this show came out I couldn’t wait for the next episode to come out. Now I look forward to every Friday because survivorman and son has a new episode.

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  @patrickinternational · 5 years ago (edited)

  What I think is an interesting undercurrent of this series is that while Les has a ton of knowledge about the nuts and bolts of survival, though Logan is much younger, he seems to have much more emotional intelligence. Les is kind of a hard headed guy willing to go out into the wild himself. Let&apos;s face it, Les is kind of a weird dude, which is what it takes to be that extreme - but a lot of what he says and how he sees things is based upon fear. Meanwhile Logan is more of a balanced person emotionally, he doesn&apos;t look to prove himself as much, not as much anxiety, which probably lifts them both up far more than Les acknowledges. Also while Les does have all of this knowledge now, he&apos;s almost 60, so realistically he&apos;s probably way more in danger of any minor injury or dehydration or health concern than a strong, sixteen year old. There is a bittersweet part of this, like looking at a historic pro athlete in their 40s up against the new star rookie - as much as the older guy looks down upon the rookie from experience, the rookie is going to score most of the points at the end of the season. At the same time, Logan is Les&apos; baby, he&apos;s his little boy in his mind, he really wants to protect him, but really in some way Logan knows he&apos;s protecting his own dad, who at this age could die on a solo mission. All the while, Les is saying, &quot;this is the problem with teenage boys!&quot; &nbsp;It&apos;s bittersweet and really insightful about how despite parents always thinking they know best, when you reduce it down to something simple outside of career, money, paying taxes, getting an education...down to the simplest elements of just nature -- the weaknesses of an older adult and strengths of a young adult come out much more obviously and shows us a much more stark picture of our own mortality. Les putting this out there and showing his vulnerability I feel is more insightful and even better than the original Survivorman.

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  @zachduncan7424 · 5 years ago

  I&apos;m so thankful hes putting full episodes on YouTube

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  @mikecoder270 · 5 years ago

  Evidently Logan hasn&apos;t watched his dad&apos;s old survivor man show in the Amazon being stalked by a leopard.

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  @dethlovesme · 5 years ago

  les I have to type a story out in hopes youll see it, because you probably saved my life man.<br>I used to watch every episode that would air on discovery when i was a kid, early 30&apos;s now but I never missed an episode if i could help it.<br>Well when i was 20 I became homeless and i was staying on the american river close to sacramento here in california all along the wildlife and state parks that are along there, one day i was riding my shitty mountain bike a long ways away from where we were all camping at, it was late and very stormy and incredibly shitty weather, the river was very high. I always had a multi tool with me and lighter and whatnot, but I was far from home, unfamiliar path and there was no one around within a like, 5 mile hike atleast I rode my bike slightly off the path i was following hit a log, flew over my bike into a huge muddy pool, got soaked destroyed my bikes front tire and ruined the hope of having something dry and warm, not knowing where i was at I started walking and about an hour later Freezing and shivering my bones out of my body I needed to get a fire going, I had one flashlight that was on my bike so i started searching for dry things just as you had taught. But being that it was very stormy and windy I couldnt find much, collecting wood on the dry side of a large tree I started to peel back bark from different trees and shaving old dry termite ridden cotton wood. My lighter would not spark and i thought it was broken, so i pulled out my multi tool surgically removed the flint, held it in my multi tool pliers and struck it with a small knife, got an ember on some of the dry feathery and fluffed up bark insides, got a fire going and spent most of the night collecting dryish wood and drying myself off with the heat. That was the most cold i&apos;ve ever been. and I was out there on the river for two - three years. after that experience I was the &quot;fire man&quot; to everyone i told that story too. Thank you les, Ill never get to meet you but atleast i know i wrote this down in an area you might see it? lol love ya man. <br>P.s. Please upload the father son series faster. I need to watch them all before my first son/first child is born in june.

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  @Emris223 · 5 years ago

  Survivorman and fisherson!

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  @RIGGEROY · 5 years ago

  Used to watch Les SOO MUCH in like 2007-10 soo glad I restarted watching his shows again cheers from Sudbury ON!

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  @adamduncan6513 · 5 years ago (edited)

  When Logan says &quot;but I don&apos;t think he knows what he&apos;s talking about&quot; I laughed. <br>They don&apos;t call your dad Survivorman for no reason 😂

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