From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Bear Grylls:   
   	- In the show he's dropped in remote areas with a knife and a   
   bottle of water, and he has to survive.  He's trained by British Special   
   Forces.  They do a lot of being dropped naked with a pair of boots and a   
   trenchcoat in the Alps in winter and try to flee dogs and helicopters   
   and such.  (Maybe the naked guys in boots and trenchcoats in the subway   
   are part of a survival training.)   
   	   
   	- In the show he's eaten scorpion, frogs, drank his own urine,   
   and squeezed juice from elephant dung and drank it.  Er, yes.  Well, you   
   have to get water.  People dropped without any survival training may be   
   dead in three hours ... he was in Kenya following elephants and had been   
   taught by an old ranger that elephant dung is sterile due to fast   
   digestion.  Thus ... it didn't taste nice.   
   	   
   	- How mad is a restaurant chef when *he* sends food back?   
   	   
   	- Most disgusting thing he's eaten?  Lot of snakes, sheep's   
   eyeballs in Iceland -- he'd found a bloated dead sheep with frozen   
   eyeballs.  He had thought it would be like a hard-boiled egg; it's   
   actually gristle and blood and explodes in the mouth.   
   	   
   	- Has he ever wanted to call it quits?  This past season he was   
   on the edge a few times ... in Scotland was probably the closest he came   
   to having the camera guy call in for help.  He was in the mountains,   
   little kit, had to get to the valley but a huge storm came in, night was   
   coming ... thought they weren't going to live through the night, but he   
   found a deer and knifed open its carcass.   
   	   
   	- After a day like that you want to go home, take a hot bath,   
   drink a tall glass of urine.   
      
      
   Paul F Tompkins:   
   	- 'Impersonal' is his CD.   
   	   
   	- He flew on a plane, and shares observations about Homeland   
   Security nonsense.  He questions some banned implements as belonging to   
   gangster movies of the 1930s.  He constructs the persona of a Reasonable   
   Gangster.   
   	   
   	- Those in his apartment complex all have crazy dogs.  His   
   reaction to being barked at is human; dog owners feel no shame for it.   
   Many feel no need to apologize and form their own definitions of 'all   
   right'.   
   	   
   	- He tries to understand the social dynamics of humans and dogs,   
   and apologies to friends.   
   	   
   	+ He paces rather deliberately, but is amusing throughout.  I'd   
   listen to more of him despite the achingly routine selection of   
   subjects.   
      
   	+ But why is he dressed like a minor Batman villain?  I approve   
   dressing up, of course, and approve his showing personality.  However, I   
   reserve the right to mock anything that comes up.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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