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This Is Karen Hunter

S E94: Twitter Questions (Volume 5) : Naked & Afraid?

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The question from Twitter revolves around skills Generation Z will need to survive/thrive. Karen spins the answer into a conversation about one of her favorite shows, Naked and Afraid XL.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So I watch this show called Naked and Afraid on the Discovery Channel and I'm obsessed with it because it's all about survival.

0:18.5

So they take two people, a man and a woman, they're completely naked, they don't know each other, they're strangers,

0:25.4

they only get to take with them two items, one item is always fire because you cannot survive

0:29.9

anywhere without fire.

0:32.3

And a person will have like a knife or a machete

0:34.6

or an axe and any other person will have a pot

0:36.5

to boil water in or the cooking.

0:38.3

And they throw them into the jungle or the rainforest

0:41.9

or some remote place in the middle of nowhere for 21 days

0:45.7

and they have a camera and that's it and they have to survive.

0:50.0

Now what's really fascinating is the majority of the time people tap out usually like day two or three you know but if you can get past day 12 or 15 and you haven't been bitten by a snake or a centipede or a spider or you know you haven't been attacked by a mountain

1:05.3

lion you usually will make it to day 21 but it's grueling people lose like 30

1:09.5

pounds and it's just amazing to watch people get through this or not get through it and just

1:14.0

how pressure impacts people.

1:17.3

Now in the 10th season they started something actually a couple of seasons ago

1:22.8

something called naked and afraid ex-L

1:25.6

where they would take groups of people

1:27.7

so instead of just the one man and the one woman

1:29.8

there would be maybe two men and a woman

1:32.1

three men three women and they would put them at different places

1:35.8

on this like deserted island.

1:38.2

And eventually, over a 40-day period, these groups would come together and they would find each other because, you know,

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