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 TH-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.
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!
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
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
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!
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 👏
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, I’ve watched these shows so many times on tv, and never stopped enjoying them. Once you uploaded everything on TH-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!
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.
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
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
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"
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.
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! ❤
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!!!
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.
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!
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. 😎🤘💯
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
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 😎
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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🙂
Very nice! Looking forward to this. 👍 Any chance for a new Bigfoot episode, Les? Love your videos. Showed them to my Dad and he is on a binge right now.
This is some of the coolest content on TH-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 TH-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.
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!
The music in this episode is my favorite of the entire series.
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
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
I’m locked in every time I watch these commentaries
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!
One of my happiest memories of my late Aunt was watching a Survivor Man marathon during Christmas with her.
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!
Perhaps, one of my favorite 3 episodes….always enjoy watching it….thanks Les.
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 👏
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!
Thank you, Les!
Les, I’ve watched these shows so many times on tv, and never stopped enjoying them. Once you uploaded everything on TH-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!
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
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.
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
thanks for another awesome commentary! "we want more, we want MORE!" 👏
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
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"
I remember watching this show years ago. Thank you for your dedication
Another great commentary on one of my favorite episodes!
Les has the best TH-cam channel there is. You can watch EVERYTHING he's done
I remember coming home from elementary school at my grandparents' house and watching Survivor Man
Same. And now we’re fuckin grown ups like Les was back then!
thanks so much for all you have done and continue to do man!
Wouldn’t it be so cool if Les did a traditional episode of Survivorman again?
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
Cool about the training vids coming out. thanks Les for being so generous with your content and being so open. You're awesome
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 doing this, MY FAVORITE EPISODE YOU'VE EVER DONE❗👍‼❤
Thank you for everything you do, Mr. Stroud🙌 Your material makes me so intrigued and excited💯 i appreciate everything do for our entertainment🤟
I live in Western Australia and it's harder than anyone really thinks, the Bush Tuckerman is someone worth a watch.
Thank youuuu!! ❤ Survivorman and Wild Harvest. Love um. And the commentaries are just great. 🎉 A true educator and creator.
Damn, what a talent Les is! A true inspiration!
Growing up it's been Survivor Man, Dirty Jobs, and Mythbusters that was keeping me entertained
I remember watching Survivor man with my grandpa when i was a little kid. Digging these commentary episodes
I love that you do this. It brings my childhood and adulthood together as one. Thank you.
Idk what it is, but I Love the “We’ll be right back” with the elevator music 😂 It’s such a perfect transition
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
On my way to work, always time to watch survivorman
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! ❤
Certainly one of my favorite episodes
Love these directors commentary, love how you do the full disclosure. Keep them coming!
Love ya Les!
Good stuff.. cheers from Alberta.
I also voted another Aussie adventure being an Aussie myself!!! Thank you Les!!!!! 👏👏👏🥀🥀🥀
Love this. Thank you Les!!!!
les hiddins and les stroud ,now that would be awesome,
Hi Les, from Colorado 🇺🇸 👋
OG Tarik from Philly salute SURVIVORMAN AKA LES STROUD smash the like button people!! 👑💰💯💪🏿🙏🏿👍🏿✌🏿👻🎃👽🛸
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’ve bin to Australia, beautiful place, nothing beats British Columbia Canada tho 🇨🇦🙏👍
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.
Can only hope that in 10 years we will get a Les stroud commentary of les stroud commentating suvivorman
I love this episode the best!!!
My favorite episode.
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.
Love your director commentary shows.
Greetings from Ukraine!🙀
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.
Yessss!
Love u long time Les
Awesomeness.
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!
Thanks man
Happy Friday. This will go great with lunch
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! 👍
Love the commentaries Les! Looking forward to the next one.
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
Thank you
Wild Harvest is an amazing watch! I love it! It’s an art piece in its own!
I absolutely love these behind the scenes videos Les! Thanks man, keep em comin
Always great less thank you
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 😎
Thanks les this is Awesome !!!
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.
Love this one thank you
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!
I love these directors commentarys! ❤
Yeah man
Always enjoy these directors commentaries, learn a lot more.
And yes I am in the market for contact lenses.
Appreciate the honesty about the money. It's not as though you were ever in for the luxury lol
Waiting for commentary on the one where he sleeps in the car in the desert and almost gets heat stroke. Also the Norway episode.
When will season 2 of Wild Harvest be on youtube? I can't watch your stuff anywhere else.
That bear grills impression was spot on!
Would have loved to have been in the room the first time you saw Naked and Afraid!
Forever fan I wanna make Les Stroud a painting
Finally!!! Been waiting for this one😁
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.
The ultimate episode of survivorman
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
That cave painting is cool
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
Keep this coming! I would love to see a video on survival firearms.
Best survival channel bar none.
So glad this video finally came up,why did it take so long to bring out? also what is that triangular piece that was on the wall behind your couch?
YES!
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🙂
Les is more, baby 😎
Great commentary as always, Les! By the by, how's Logan doing these days? Still in remission, I hope? Best to you and your family, mate. Take care!
Very nice! Looking forward to this. 👍 Any chance for a new Bigfoot episode, Les?
Love your videos. Showed them to my Dad and he is on a binge right now.