Ep. 966: Surviving Naked and Afraid - Na'im McKee
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Wilderness Survival: Na’im McKee on Naked & Afraid Season 9 – 21 Days Bare Survival, Boy Scout Skills, Star Navigation, Hunting, and 50+ Ultra Races Prep. In today’s episode we sit down with Naked & Afraid contestant, Na’im McKee, who bared it all on the most recent season of the show. Join us as we delve into the raw and unfiltered behind-the-scenes experiences of surviving in the wild with nothing but their wits and determination, not even their skivvies.
Na’im, a former boy scout, has the ability to hunt, navigate based on the stars, and previous survival experience, which proved to be strengths during his 21 days in Season 9 this past year.
Na’im’s go-getter attitude, drive to assert his place in the outdoors community, and history of completing over 50 long races seems to set him up for success in the survival challenge of a lifetime.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today we are doing something a little unique. We're hearing from |
| 0:22.1 | Naime McKee, who was on the show, Naked and Afraid. The show is out right now. It came out |
| 0:29.2 | kind of around the middle of last month, the most recent season of Naked and Afraid. And, you know, |
| 0:35.5 | if you're at all in touch with television or reality TV, |
| 0:39.8 | you've probably heard of that show over the years. They're in like their 20th season or something. |
| 0:44.5 | It's a wild concept. It's people literally being naked, thrown out into the wilderness, |
| 0:50.8 | having to survive on teams, and they can bring like one or two items and the show |
| 0:56.4 | just captures their experience. So Naim has been on twice and we're going to hear about this |
| 1:02.3 | most recent trip. What it was like, some of the misconceptions, how much an adventure it really |
| 1:09.3 | is, a little behind the scenes. |
| 1:11.6 | So this most recent episode, nine challengers were abandoned in a remote tropical island with no maps or tools, miles away from civilization. |
| 1:20.6 | They were in teams of three, and they swam to different ecosystems on the same island, sunscorched beaches, twisting, difficult mangrove swamps to navigate |
| 1:30.9 | through dense jungle, and they had to all basically go on their own survival journey. They got to use |
| 1:37.7 | orientation and navigation skills, survive off debris and wreckage that they come across, No knives, no pots, no fire starters, no |
| 1:46.6 | anything. They got to scavenge for things and find their own food. It's something a lot of us might |
| 1:52.3 | daydream about surviving and maybe doing ourselves, you know, get dropped off on an island. |
| 1:58.0 | I've actually know plenty of people that do that yearly as like their |
| 2:01.9 | retreat. I've never done it. I've obviously, you know, when you're out there camping and backpack and |
| 2:07.3 | whatnot, you've got to a certain degree survive, but usually can bring a lot with you. I've never |
| 2:13.0 | just been dropped off somewhere and said, hey, survive. I'm sure that is an amazingly profound and unique |
| 2:20.9 | experience. Well, Naim is awesome to talk to. This was a great conversation. And if you'd like, |
| 2:26.5 | you can check out this season of Naked and Afraid Castaways on Sundays at 8 p.m. on the |
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