Grizzlies Are Real-Life Superheroes (w/ “Man Vs Bear” Host Casey Anderson) and How People Really Pick Gifts
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
“Man Vs Bear” host Casey Anderson explains why it’s important to put grizzly bears on TV. Then, you’ll learn about the real reason why people choose gifts — and it’s not to satisfy the giftees.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about how most people pick gifts to wow rather than to satisfy: https://curiosity.im/2YLp9mh
More about Man Vs. Bear:
- Man Vs. Bear on Discovery — https://www.discovery.com/shows/man-vs-bear
- Get to know Bart, Honey Bump, and Tank, the grizzly athletes of Man Vs. Bear [VIDEO] — https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/man-vs-bear/full-episodes/bart-honey-bump-and-tank
- More about Casey Anderson on Discovery — https://www.discovery.com/profiles/casey-anderson
- Casey Anderson’s official website — http://caseyanderson.tv/
- Follow @Grizanderson on Twitter — https://twitter.com/Grizanderson
- Follow @grizzlyguy on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/grizzlyguy/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:06.8 | Today you learn about why it's important to put Grizzly Bears on TV from Man |
| 0:10.6 | versus Bear Host, Casey Anderson. |
| 0:12.6 | Then you'll learn about the real reason why people choose gifts. |
| 0:15.8 | And it's not to satisfy the giftee. |
| 0:18.3 | Let's give the gift of some curiosity. |
| 0:20.2 | Putting grizzly bears on TV could help save their lives. |
| 0:24.0 | That's according to Casey Anderson, one of the hosts of the brand new show, Man versus Bear on Discovery Channel. |
| 0:30.0 | Yesterday on our podcast, you heard how passionate Casey is about |
| 0:33.2 | grizzly bears after all he's been working with them for more than 25 years |
| 0:37.6 | so we asked him straight up why is it okay to have bears compete on a TV show? Is it ethical to turn bears into TV stars? |
| 0:45.0 | And Casey gave us one of the most amazing answers basically ever. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, I know I think that's a really good question and when we should always challenge any show like this that comes out because you know there are times that just for the sheer sake of entertainment where people exploit animals. |
| 1:00.0 | In this case, you know, this is obvious been vetted in my heart, you know, to be part of it and the answer to that is yes. Bears do need to be on television in a way that's different and outside of the box. |
| 1:14.4 | I go a little deeper there. |
| 1:16.2 | You know, let's look at like, you know, you just look at ratings of movies, you know, you |
| 1:19.5 | like, like the Marvel movies and all these superhero type movies and you know the |
| 1:24.1 | popular culture is gravitating toward that stuff and it's big and sensationalized |
| 1:28.8 | but then you know a show like the ones I make as a wildlife filmmaker is kind of your blue chip, you know, |
| 1:34.8 | it was a grizzly bear in the woods, it weighs 600 pounds and eats this much. |
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