: Episode 1271 – Eva Rupert, survivor of Naked and Afraid, discusses her epic adventure, restoring our primal relationship with nature, becoming an outdoorsman, and more on this fantastically interesting Friday podcast!
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EVA RUPERT
- She and Vinnie met through Ross and Kara – owners of the F Bomb product that both Vinnie and Eva love
- Eva was a participant on Naked and Afraid
- Spent three weeks naked, on national television
- Dropped in the middle of nowhere with stuff to make a fire, and that’s about it
- Film them basically to watch how they survive
- A true survival test
- The camera crew genuinely gives them nothing
- Watching you starve and watching how you deal with this survival process
- They were respectful about eating/drinking around the two adventurers
- Didn’t get too uncomfortable with being naked in front of all of these people
- Just felt primal
- Crazy facing the elements in the nude
- Learned lots of survival skills prior to going on the show – especially regarding living more primally
- Now when we are in nature, we are like astronauts walking on the moon in our space suits
- With a guy from Idaho in Madagascar – she has a knife, he has a fire starter
- He had a good head on his shoulders
- Down to earth and in it to make it to day 21
- He had a good head on his shoulders
- Checklist: shelter, fire, food
- Started her interest in survival skills in her early 20s with rock climbing in a gym in NYC
- Vinnie used to love rock climbing
- Shows like this are so popular because they’re so foreign to people
- But it’s weird that people would rather watch this on their couches than actually connecting with nature themselves
- We should all be able to adapt outside of our comfort zones
