Yup! I have always loved survivorman especially when my dad was alive we’d watch it together. But now going back and watching this again with commentary is absolutely awesome!
haha I love how you talk so much shit on Bear Grylls. I knew the first episode I ever saw that his series was staged, "stunt man" bullshit. Survivorman was the only "real" survivalist show on the air ever. It inspired me to spend a year roaming around the country putting myself into dangerous situations in both urban and remote environments to test my mettle. A few stab wounds and a lot of PTSD later, I realize how hard this stuff really is. You're honestly lucky to be alive after 30 years of doing this. Fantastic content creator and visionary that was often imitated but never duplicated. You basically created the entire UA-cam "survival skills" video genre and I bet most the people watching those shows now have never even heard of you which is unfortunate because you are the real deal.
Hi Les my name is Joel and I found out you gifted a family relative of mine by the name of Rick a drum set recently! I’ve been following you for some time but just appreciated that and wanted to say thank you for being a great human
What's even cooler is meeting him. I got my picture taken with him at a Sasquatch conference in Ocean Shores WA. I wish I could of had a beer with him!
Remember watching your shows when I was a kid. Soon I'll be a dad ... Time flies! Would love to watch your director's commentary on the Norwegian episode. The one with the car. Thanks for everything Les
Please set up a Patreon- You say it feels like standing there with your hand out, but it's really not. It's like us paying for a concert. It's not money going to your yacht or the networks.. It's your fans supporting your unique form of art and creativity, expressing gratitude for all you've done and in the hopes it enables you to continue making the content we love.
I definitely second this, out of all the content I consume, Les's content is 100% something I would happily support via Patreon. I've spent countless hours falling asleep to all the commentaries and other videos. Hopefully Les is in the position to not really care about it, I assume he still gets royalties from re-runs of Survivorman and other things he's done, but Les has been making content since at least 2005, you'd think he would have taken the money and retired but he is STILL making new content, STILL teaching people new things. Hell, maybe it could be a temporary thing to fund a bigger project that he already has planned or could plan, maybe a more chill Survivorman season where he takes along a cameraman who has food and water for themselves, that way Les can focus more on teaching valuable skills and sharing his wisdom instead of spending so much time setting up and collecting camera's. It would also mean he'd have a bit more fun having someone to talk to off-camera and during more boring moments.
Every evening when I get home to my little trailer I pour a beer and watch another one of these and go to sleep. I grew up heavily influenced by you lol I used to read survival manuals during reading time at school, teachers didn't really know what to think of it.. " I mean he's reading so that's good.. but does it count?" they eventually let me do it because they noticed the manual I had contained many Henry David Thorough quotes and they steered me towards Walden's Pond. Which was perfect for 15 year old me! Thank you Les!
I live in the Mojave desert. Often times people who live in the city or in a state that is more forested have asked me " How is it you live in an ugly desert?" My initial response is always " the desert is far from ugly. Its beautiful, hot and dry yes, but beautiful. Its even more beautiful during and after it rains. And you get a very good feeling of "Freedom" When you are out in the desert"
My wife and I definitely love these Directory Commentary episodes. Hoping for more… and to the TROLLS that keep critizing you about batteries dying like during this episode, or questioning your fliming locations/adaptions to complete a show…. F them! Extremely wicked cool that you got an ultralight pilot’s license and scuba certified… that is real dedication to your work and keeping as real as possible… CHEERS!!
Love how Les keeps putting more and more production into these commentary videos. It's been awesome to see some of the other folks behind the scenes chat about the show too.
Les, I’ve watched these shows so many times on tv, and never stopped enjoying them. Once you uploaded everything on UA-cam, I watched them all over again (and maybe again). This is my very favorite episode, and it’s great seeing you relive it with us. Thank you for everything!
Me and my son watched your program ever since its first episode was released. When it first came out, my son was 2. Now he is 19 and still remembers it. :) So fantastic to be able to find your channel and be able to watch all those episodes again and now with that extra bonus! Thank you!
Thanks for making these commentaries - I can't imagine how frustrating it is to be in a survival situation while having to set up the cameras for the shot you want. If anyone gets to humble brag its you, Survivorman is the OG
Les I can't thank you enough for all you've done through the years. My Survivorman experience started in 2007 in the early days of Netflix binge watching. You easily could have left what is an excellent product sit and speak for itself, but you go the extra mile by adding to the content and making it available here on youtube. These Director's Commentaries are fantastic. Bravo 👏
Ive been looking forward to this particular episode for weeks! Absolutely love these director's commentaries Les, as well as the on-location-training footage! What a treat :D
Awesome Les. As a Aussie kid I grew up in the bush. I loved 'The Bushtucker Man' on the national tv station, there were some others as well, like 'The Leyland Brothers', but they were more to do with travelling, not surviving. As a young adult I worked as a fencer with two other young guys on, (at that time) the largest cattle station (ranch, I guess you'd call it was 4,200 sq miles, split up now into smaller sections) up on Cape York. We drank freely from whatever water-source we were camped next to (honestly, some of the best tasting water I've ever had and I'm a critic regarding water), in the months I worked out there, rarely seeing others or travelling back to the main station house to repair equipment (we used to wear out tungsten post-hole diggers teeth in some areas so quickly. A story for another day, as was the flies and heat) We never got sick from the water that we'd fill our water bags (canvas) from daily, or old food, still don't to this day. The bs I hear when I watch the 'Alone' series online about food going off or water, just does my head in. Some of the best fish I've ever eaten was, as our native population did, of just throwing the whole, ungutted, unscaled fish, on the coals of the fire. One of our most beloved songs (Waltzing Matilda), talks of a swaggie, an unfortunate bloke with a pack and travelling on foot to find work, or some kindness and food from a farm he passes... way back. That jumbuck should have been in your tucker-bag. I'm not a fan of mutton, I like lamb... but it was good food and no doubt feral. The age, predators or starvation was going to take it down; and it looked like soon. Kindest regards. I love what you've given the world with your unscripted videos. Congrats to your team as well, for their support.
I only recently found that you have the rights to, and are still uploading stuff! This is amazing! I remember watching the series as it aired on Discovery while I was in middle school. You are a legend man! ❤
Man I love watching your Survivorman episodes. Always have been since I first watched season 1 & its nice know all these tip bits to learn more about all you did then & now. It's really cool seeing your commentary & like how insightful it is to seeing you explore new places & remote areas, just so get the a feel of it to help you gain more knowledge; especially survival in nature. The Cook Islands, Australia Out Back, Sahara Desert & Mexico Parts 1-2 are my favorites. Your awesome & experienced survival expert Les Stroud, seeing you behind the scenes explaining all the content as well the events that took place during all the work you & your crew did is so much fun to watch! So Thanks for doing all this you've teached me alot & I'm still learning. 😎🤘💯
I love this show. I have for years. I got DVDs I've watched and re-watched numerous times. If it weren't for your knowledge, I don't know what would have happened to me. I was in very hard times back in 2010 and was forced to live outside. Because of this show, I knew how to build a shelter and knew what I could eat. I mostly lived on dandelions and those wild onions. I'm so glad you told us about death camas, because there was some in the area too. I picked it thinking it was onion, but it didn't smell like it, so I knew exactly what it was. Your survival shows are the most realistic over any other. I think you're the only one who REALLY goes out alone. That takes guts there. Besides the bigfoot episodes, i think the Amazon episode was the most freaky. Id freak out if a cougar was hunting me. Hearing it growl on the other side of the huts wall was terrifying. Hopefully there's more shows to come. Thanks Les.
I don't know how in the world I have never seen this episode, but I'll be watching it tonight with my family, and even better, a directors cut. CANT WAIT!!!
I think you've finally perfected the episodes Les. Have a toast. Jump into the meat and potatoes. Outro with ads if anyone wants to stay and listen to the additional merch. Nail on the head sir. Thanks!
Les, I have used that trick to split matches in half while camping and it is probably one of my favorite tricks you have ever taught, it turned my 3 matches into 6
Heck ya thanks for the video! I can’t say anything different than anyone else hasn’t said. Grew up watching you with my brother. Here I am in my adult life rewatching them with you!
May sound strange and I'm not normally driven by this but if I could pick a piece of Les' gear from a show it would be the Leatherman Wave he used in the AZ episode where he cut the tail off the Bark Scorpion and ate it, then said "I can't believe I just did that!" 😂
Koool ... yea living off grid for over half my life here in Arizonas Painted Desert region we know them high dry winds . It's an ever changing harsh but gorgeous landscape.
The commentaries are brilliant Les, fantastic insights and just so relaxing at the end of a day to kick back with. Would love some more Survivorman Bigfoot commentaries, your added commentary in those are especially fascinating and there always fun to revisit.
Awesome to see you are still going strong Les! Much love from Norway (Love the 2 part episode you did in my country) hope you have some fond memories from norway also hehe not only struggle😅 would love to see a directors commentary on those episodes🙂
Many thanks for the commentary vids...I like how you tell the behind scenes stuff...keep them coming Les...and have a Merry Christmas and happy New Year 😎
growing up we were taught to use a cup & stick to catch crayfish, scare em back into the cup basically. love that your teaching and managed to sell i t
This is some of the coolest content on UA-cam! Getting Les’ commentary on Les’ show is gold!
Yup! I have always loved survivorman especially when my dad was alive we’d watch it together. But now going back and watching this again with commentary is absolutely awesome!
Yup I hated watching dumbass bear grylls. It was just empty nonsense to fill in when survivorman wasn't on
Not cool but frigid.
haha I love how you talk so much shit on Bear Grylls. I knew the first episode I ever saw that his series was staged, "stunt man" bullshit. Survivorman was the only "real" survivalist show on the air ever. It inspired me to spend a year roaming around the country putting myself into dangerous situations in both urban and remote environments to test my mettle. A few stab wounds and a lot of PTSD later, I realize how hard this stuff really is. You're honestly lucky to be alive after 30 years of doing this. Fantastic content creator and visionary that was often imitated but never duplicated. You basically created the entire UA-cam "survival skills" video genre and I bet most the people watching those shows now have never even heard of you which is unfortunate because you are the real deal.
Hi Les my name is Joel and I found out you gifted a family relative of mine by the name of Rick a drum set recently! I’ve been following you for some time but just appreciated that and wanted to say thank you for being a great human
I've been a Les Stroud fan since the beginning. He was the only "real, honest" human giving real life survival skills. The best!!
The only one NOT to sleep in a Hotel!! Warrior!
Yes so have I been a fan since the pilot awesome guy.
@@roseandra1 Exactly! Unlike the other cupcake that pretended. Mr. Les Stoud is the real deal for sure!
On a whim I looked up the most realistic reality shows and they all list Survivorman.
What's even cooler is meeting him. I got my picture taken with him at a Sasquatch conference in Ocean Shores WA. I wish I could of had a beer with him!
Wouldn’t it be so cool if Les did a traditional episode of Survivorman again?
Remember watching your shows when I was a kid. Soon I'll be a dad ... Time flies! Would love to watch your director's commentary on the Norwegian episode. The one with the car. Thanks for everything Les
The music in this episode is my favorite of the entire series.
Growing up it's been Survivor Man, Dirty Jobs, and Mythbusters that was keeping me entertained
I remember being 8 years old watching your show on discovery!! I have recently stumbled across Youre channel ❤️👏 just finished the Bigfoot series wow!
We love you, Les! You're an inspiration to us all!
Please set up a Patreon- You say it feels like standing there with your hand out, but it's really not. It's like us paying for a concert. It's not money going to your yacht or the networks.. It's your fans supporting your unique form of art and creativity, expressing gratitude for all you've done and in the hopes it enables you to continue making the content we love.
I definitely second this, out of all the content I consume, Les's content is 100% something I would happily support via Patreon. I've spent countless hours falling asleep to all the commentaries and other videos. Hopefully Les is in the position to not really care about it, I assume he still gets royalties from re-runs of Survivorman and other things he's done, but Les has been making content since at least 2005, you'd think he would have taken the money and retired but he is STILL making new content, STILL teaching people new things.
Hell, maybe it could be a temporary thing to fund a bigger project that he already has planned or could plan, maybe a more chill Survivorman season where he takes along a cameraman who has food and water for themselves, that way Les can focus more on teaching valuable skills and sharing his wisdom instead of spending so much time setting up and collecting camera's. It would also mean he'd have a bit more fun having someone to talk to off-camera and during more boring moments.
Yeah I will subscribe to les strouds patreon for sure
I remember coming home from elementary school at my grandparents' house and watching Survivor Man
I’m locked in every time I watch these commentaries
Every evening when I get home to my little trailer I pour a beer and watch another one of these and go to sleep. I grew up heavily influenced by you lol I used to read survival manuals during reading time at school, teachers didn't really know what to think of it.. " I mean he's reading so that's good.. but does it count?" they eventually let me do it because they noticed the manual I had contained many Henry David Thorough quotes and they steered me towards Walden's Pond. Which was perfect for 15 year old me! Thank you Les!
les hiddins and les stroud ,now that would be awesome,
Perhaps, one of my favorite 3 episodes….always enjoy watching it….thanks Les.
I live in the Mojave desert. Often times people who live in the city or in a state that is more forested have asked me " How is it you live in an ugly desert?" My initial response is always " the desert is far from ugly. Its beautiful, hot and dry yes, but beautiful. Its even more beautiful during and after it rains. And you get a very good feeling of "Freedom" When you are out in the desert"
Thank you, Les!
OG Tarik from Philly salute SURVIVORMAN AKA LES STROUD smash the like button people!! 👑💰💯💪🏿🙏🏿👍🏿✌🏿👻🎃👽🛸
The show is beyond cool but the knowledge and wisdom Les shares is priceless. Thanks Les.
My wife and I definitely love these Directory Commentary episodes. Hoping for more… and to the TROLLS that keep critizing you about batteries dying like during this episode, or questioning your fliming locations/adaptions to complete a show…. F them!
Extremely wicked cool that you got an ultralight pilot’s license and scuba certified… that is real dedication to your work and keeping as real as possible… CHEERS!!
One of my happiest memories of my late Aunt was watching a Survivor Man marathon during Christmas with her.
Love how Les keeps putting more and more production into these commentary videos. It's been awesome to see some of the other folks behind the scenes chat about the show too.
Les, I’ve watched these shows so many times on tv, and never stopped enjoying them. Once you uploaded everything on UA-cam, I watched them all over again (and maybe again). This is my very favorite episode, and it’s great seeing you relive it with us. Thank you for everything!
Me and my son watched your program ever since its first episode was released. When it first came out, my son was 2. Now he is 19 and still remembers it. :)
So fantastic to be able to find your channel and be able to watch all those episodes again and now with that extra bonus!
Thank you!
Thanks for making these commentaries - I can't imagine how frustrating it is to be in a survival situation while having to set up the cameras for the shot you want. If anyone gets to humble brag its you, Survivorman is the OG
I love watching these so much when I was going through withdrawal from heroin they helped me so much you are such a wonderful person
thanks so much for all you have done and continue to do man!
thanks for another awesome commentary! "we want more, we want MORE!" 👏
Thank you😊 for doing this, MY FAVORITE EPISODE YOU'VE EVER DONE❗👍‼❤
Greetings from Ukraine!🙀
Les I can't thank you enough for all you've done through the years. My Survivorman experience started in 2007 in the early days of Netflix binge watching. You easily could have left what is an excellent product sit and speak for itself, but you go the extra mile by adding to the content and making it available here on youtube. These Director's Commentaries are fantastic. Bravo 👏
Another great commentary on one of my favorite episodes!
Hi Les, from Colorado 🇺🇸 👋
I live in Western Australia and it's harder than anyone really thinks, the Bush Tuckerman is someone worth a watch.
Love ya Les!
Hell yes directors commentary's are my favorite thing on here les just kicking back giving us the behind the scenes info and stuff so cool
Les has the best UA-cam channel there is. You can watch EVERYTHING he's done
Les Stroud is a champion in my books. We don't have crocs on leashes to clotheslines and we do look under the dunny seat for spiders in the outback.
Ive been looking forward to this particular episode for weeks! Absolutely love these director's commentaries Les, as well as the on-location-training footage! What a treat :D
Cool about the training vids coming out. thanks Les for being so generous with your content and being so open. You're awesome
I remember watching this show years ago. Thank you for your dedication
Thank you for doing what you do, Les. I used to watch your show long ago, and it's great coming back to these shows and hearing you discuss them.
Thank you for everything you do, Mr. Stroud🙌 Your material makes me so intrigued and excited💯 i appreciate everything do for our entertainment🤟
Waiting for commentary on the one where he sleeps in the car in the desert and almost gets heat stroke. Also the Norway episode.
Thank youuuu!! ❤ Survivorman and Wild Harvest. Love um. And the commentaries are just great. 🎉 A true educator and creator.
Idk what it is, but I Love the “We’ll be right back” with the elevator music 😂 It’s such a perfect transition
On my way to work, always time to watch survivorman
Awesome Les. As a Aussie kid I grew up in the bush. I loved 'The Bushtucker Man' on the national tv station, there were some others as well, like 'The Leyland Brothers', but they were more to do with travelling, not surviving.
As a young adult I worked as a fencer with two other young guys on, (at that time) the largest cattle station (ranch, I guess you'd call it was 4,200 sq miles, split up now into smaller sections) up on Cape York. We drank freely from whatever water-source we were camped next to (honestly, some of the best tasting water I've ever had and I'm a critic regarding water), in the months I worked out there, rarely seeing others or travelling back to the main station house to repair equipment (we used to wear out tungsten post-hole diggers teeth in some areas so quickly. A story for another day, as was the flies and heat) We never got sick from the water that we'd fill our water bags (canvas) from daily, or old food, still don't to this day.
The bs I hear when I watch the 'Alone' series online about food going off or water, just does my head in. Some of the best fish I've ever eaten was, as our native population did, of just throwing the whole, ungutted, unscaled fish, on the coals of the fire.
One of our most beloved songs (Waltzing Matilda), talks of a swaggie, an unfortunate bloke with a pack and travelling on foot to find work, or some kindness and food from a farm he passes... way back. That jumbuck should have been in your tucker-bag. I'm not a fan of mutton, I like lamb... but it was good food and no doubt feral. The age, predators or starvation was going to take it down; and it looked like soon.
Kindest regards. I love what you've given the world with your unscripted videos. Congrats to your team as well, for their support.
Appreciate the honesty about the money. It's not as though you were ever in for the luxury lol
I’ve bin to Australia, beautiful place, nothing beats British Columbia Canada tho 🇨🇦🙏👍
I also voted another Aussie adventure being an Aussie myself!!! Thank you Les!!!!! 👏👏👏🥀🥀🥀
Good stuff.. cheers from Alberta.
I only recently found that you have the rights to, and are still uploading stuff! This is amazing! I remember watching the series as it aired on Discovery while I was in middle school. You are a legend man! ❤
Can only hope that in 10 years we will get a Les stroud commentary of les stroud commentating suvivorman
Man I love watching your Survivorman episodes. Always have been since I first watched season 1 & its nice know all these tip bits to learn more about all you did then & now. It's really cool seeing your commentary & like how insightful it is to seeing you explore new places & remote areas, just so get the a feel of it to help you gain more knowledge; especially survival in nature. The Cook Islands, Australia Out Back, Sahara Desert & Mexico Parts 1-2 are my favorites. Your awesome & experienced survival expert Les Stroud, seeing you behind the scenes explaining all the content as well the events that took place during all the work you & your crew did is so much fun to watch! So Thanks for doing all this you've teached me alot & I'm still learning. 😎🤘💯
This is such a great comment with a lot of depth to it! 👍
I love that you do this. It brings my childhood and adulthood together as one. Thank you.
Love these directors commentary, love how you do the full disclosure. Keep them coming!
Love your director commentary shows.
My father took me on 3 fishing trips to Wawa Canada. Talk about the flies. Fishing old gold mines and two tracks for miles ad miles.
Certainly one of my favorite episodes
Yessss!
Love u long time Les
Love this. Thank you Les!!!!
I love this show. I have for years. I got DVDs I've watched and re-watched numerous times. If it weren't for your knowledge, I don't know what would have happened to me. I was in very hard times back in 2010 and was forced to live outside. Because of this show, I knew how to build a shelter and knew what I could eat. I mostly lived on dandelions and those wild onions. I'm so glad you told us about death camas, because there was some in the area too. I picked it thinking it was onion, but it didn't smell like it, so I knew exactly what it was. Your survival shows are the most realistic over any other. I think you're the only one who REALLY goes out alone. That takes guts there. Besides the bigfoot episodes, i think the Amazon episode was the most freaky. Id freak out if a cougar was hunting me. Hearing it growl on the other side of the huts wall was terrifying. Hopefully there's more shows to come. Thanks Les.
The value of the things we can learn from Les cannot be quantified! He is a precious Canadian resource! hahaha
I absolutely love these behind the scenes videos Les! Thanks man, keep em comin
Finally!!! Been waiting for this one😁
Thank you I've been waiting for this one 👍
Love the commentaries Les! Looking forward to the next one.
I remember watching Survivor man with my grandpa when i was a little kid. Digging these commentary episodes
I don't know how in the world I have never seen this episode, but I'll be watching it tonight with my family, and even better, a directors cut.
CANT WAIT!!!
Thank you
That cave painting is cool
Happy Friday. This will go great with lunch
Let's gooooo
One of my fave episodes. Particularly great tips on water for this environment and also made me want to try those grubs :)
I love this episode the best!!!
Thanks les this is Awesome !!!
Love this one thank you
My favorite episode.
Sorry work I got some les stroud to watch today haha
Damn, what a talent Les is! A true inspiration!
I think you've finally perfected the episodes Les. Have a toast. Jump into the meat and potatoes. Outro with ads if anyone wants to stay and listen to the additional merch. Nail on the head sir. Thanks!
Les, I have used that trick to split matches in half while camping and it is probably one of my favorite tricks you have ever taught, it turned my 3 matches into 6
I love these directors commentarys! ❤
Yeah man
Heck ya thanks for the video! I can’t say anything different than anyone else hasn’t said. Grew up watching you with my brother. Here I am in my adult life rewatching them with you!
Wild Harvest is an amazing watch! I love it! It’s an art piece in its own!
May sound strange and I'm not normally driven by this but if I could pick a piece of Les' gear from a show it would be the Leatherman Wave he used in the AZ episode where he cut the tail off the Bark Scorpion and ate it, then said "I can't believe I just did that!" 😂
That bear grills impression was spot on!
Damn I miss Survivorman.
Koool ... yea living off grid for over half my life here in Arizonas Painted Desert region we know them high dry winds . It's an ever changing harsh but gorgeous landscape.
Thanks man
The commentaries are brilliant Les, fantastic insights and just so relaxing at the end of a day to kick back with. Would love some more Survivorman Bigfoot commentaries, your added commentary in those are especially fascinating and there always fun to revisit.
Awesome to see you are still going strong Les! Much love from Norway (Love the 2 part episode you did in my country) hope you have some fond memories from norway also hehe not only struggle😅 would love to see a directors commentary on those episodes🙂
Many thanks for the commentary vids...I like how you tell the behind scenes stuff...keep them coming Les...and have a Merry Christmas and happy New Year 😎
I really appreciate all the effort that you take to make these episodes. I know it took a lot of effort to get all of these shots. 📹
Always great less thank you
Awesomeness.
The ultimate episode of survivorman
26:55 Greatest contact lens advertisement I've ever seen, by a mile
growing up we were taught to use a cup & stick to catch crayfish, scare em back into the cup basically. love that your teaching and managed to sell i
t
Always enjoy these directors commentaries, learn a lot more.
And yes I am in the market for contact lenses.