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

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

oh god the mosquitos always look miserable

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

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.

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

They did it for the culture.

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.

gen z only knows "The Office" telling comment

Literally every one of these channels have done it

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

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

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.

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

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 😬😬

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.

And movies

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

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

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.

@@MAN_FROM_BEYOND 🎟

This is not Kate Winslet

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

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

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

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

so damn true!

Absolutely agree. Was just about to say this.

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

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

@@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

lara croft?

@@White_Night_Demon no, Meet the Kardashians duh

@@White_Night_Demon Indiana Jones!

Breadth

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

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

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.

@@scottklandl488 most wholesome correction exchange ever

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Yeah, while being a 10/10. 😍

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.

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

Get in them guts!

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?😂

What's a survival rating?

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

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

@@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 :)

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.

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

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

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

@@vacsad True!

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

@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.

Eww

Lol nice story

Jesus... that’s horrible

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.

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

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

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

The fight against corporate capitalism is still on-going

@@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

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

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.

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.

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

@ 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.

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

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

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

@@Iksvomid and real friends behaves like animals.

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

Lol

I saw what you did there, lmao.

😂😂😂

They had Les Stroud advising for that episode

I think you mean "than the"

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!

@@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.

@@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 . . . 🤣

Nice real life experience, thanks for sharing :)

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.

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.

You should watch her Naked and Afraid episodes

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

lol wolf country,.... hahahaha

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

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.

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!).

Me too!

Does she make it to the end each time?

@@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

@@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.

Definitely a badass babe.

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.

@@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!

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

@@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

@@nyalan8385 excellent comment

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

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

Yea there secretly preparing us from something😂

Okay cool, still unrealistic.

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

lol.. i can feel that

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

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

Very true

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.

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).

@@celorfiwyn8193 what do you do the pounding with?

​@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.

„Woman“, don’t be a chauvinist.

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

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

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

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

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

I think she looks like a badass Abbi Jacobson

Also wood makes surprisingly strong springs bows being a good example

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spare car as well

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

@@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.

@@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.

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

That’s not a wolf lol

Yea she said it, what’s the confusion

its just a tattoo lmao what

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

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

It’s a werewolf, a mythical creature.

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

@@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?

@@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.

They still don't know for sure what he ate. There's more than one theory on what he ate and how it reacted.

@@thenewfire That's pretty much my point. They only presented one theory in the video.

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.

@@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.

@@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.

nah. those bottles would have very easily caused him more harm than the wolves. would have been much smarter to break the biggest bottle and just hold it as a stabbing mechanism like he did the knife. more control that way.

A big part of survival is thinking outside the box and making whatever situation you're in livable/better/and to help you get to safety with whatever tools/methods you can scrounge up.

Isn't the forging thing dependent on how pure the metal is, what metal it is and stuff? Some metals if you put it in hot Cole and fire for long enough isn't it possible? Especially like soft metals. I googled it and steel can be formed when you heat it up to about 750-950 C° so, I guess it would be possible.

@@niklasahrens2969 Yes you definitely have a point there - like gold is a lot softer than what people think which is why coins and jewelry are made of mixed metals - he only ever used it to sharpen is tools not to melt them, so he would soften the steel so that he could bash the tip into being sharp again

Yes true. They don't know how to survive in the wild, and that's the whole point of the messy mistakes they made.

I love "The Edge". Great (and severely underrated) flick. BUT... I'm not watching it as a how-to guide on survival in the Alaskan wilderness or a how-to on bear hunting. Great (make-believe) action/drama, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin's a-hole character dies in the end.

She’s talking 900f, not C And wood forges are way different than an outdoor campfire.

@@imallergictobullets not really the main difference is the air intake so if you are in a particularly windy place or you compensate it with a lot more fuel and time it could work for an emergency situation . I myself started forging out of 5he fire we made for family barbecues on a piece of Tin plate hastily thrown in the ground