I agree with WillCAD, despite his Mickey ears.
Those aren't my Mickey ears, I'm just, uh, holding them for a friend. Yeah, that's the ticket, I'm holding them for a friend...
Morgan Fairchild!Bear styles himself as a survival professional, but instead he's showing something that isn't much higher than Survival Jackass. What I've seen of him, he goes out of his way to do things that hardest and most risky way possible, and he doesn't say "this is not how you should do this, you should do XYZ, but I'm going to do it the stupid way anyway". These are not best practices, this is not dealing with your customer in good faith, these are worst practices. Maybe he has little enough self worth that putting out a sideshow, and signing his name on it, is something he can live with. In which case, I could feel sorry for him. But he relishes it, he knows he has a cash cow and he's going to milk it hard and to ghenna with everything else. So instead, I'm embarrassed by him, as he is a public face to modern survival in popular culture.
I see it slightly different; I see Bear not doing things the "stupid way" but intentionally doing things the hard way to show the worst-case scenario and its solution.
Les is less obvious about it, but let's face it, he intentionally makes things WAY harder on himself, too - what kind of person goes into the wilderness on a day hike with no knife, but carrying 60lbs of camera gear, then refuses to ditch the camera gear when it becomes obvious that it's a major liability to his survival? A person who's putting on a show, that who.
I see both of them as showmen, putting on very entertaining performances that really are at least a little educational. And hey - the scenery they've both shown us is nothing short of the most spectacular on Earth, right?
They're not really trying to teach us, they're trying to entertain us; they're the Evil Kenevils of Survival, jumping crocs and sharks instead of busses.
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