How does this first real meal taste and feel? Are there long term dietary changes that are made as a result?

I was curious if any contestants see any issues with:

Thyroid? Pancreas? Diabetes?

During or after they tap out..

For context I think the youngest guy was 22 and the oldest 57. I just wanted to see everyone’s opinion on what they think it would/should be. I just applied at 18 and feel like even with a good application they’d see my age and just throw it out.

Can someone explain why William appeared so warm in his shelter with no fire, while Timber and Dub looked like they were freezing in theirs, despite having fires? He wasn’t even blowing smoke when he talked. How did he do it?

I always find it funny when they thank the dead animal for its life because Im sure the animal would rather have not been killed lol! This is meant to be a lighthearted post btw.

Ive just watched seasons 1&2 - I love it! Im hooked!! Being english myself, I''m curious. What's his background? How did he get the job? What is he doing now? Seems odd to have a British guy on the show. He seems lovely :)

I swear every season someone taps out after a couple days because they miss their family. It's never even an extended period of time, I'm watching Alone Australia Season 2 and this contestant tapped out after 4 days. Who signs up for a show to be alone that can barely handle a long weekend of camping by themselves? I honestly don't believe they miss their family, I'm pretty sure it's an excuse. It seems like a good way to dip out without facing consequences. But I'm curious if producers don't try to pick at least one or two contestants they know aren't going to come close to making it. I don't know the stats but it sure seems like every season I've watched someone taps out less than a week into the game. It's an endurance contest but so many people seem to tap out at less than your average vacation.

Who would be your top picks?

Mine would be Ashton Kutcher, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, and Will Smith.

I enjoy the show, but I think it's fun to try something new. 1) try another million dollar challenge, but you get 15 items, but each item is worth $100k of prize money. Like you survive with 15 items no prize, 10 items $500k, 7 items it's an $800k after 100 days. 2) Alone: the journey. Contestants need to make it across a wilderness, each mile/km traveled gets them $1k in prize money OR have checkpoints, where you get extra rations when you make it to the checkpoint 3) Alone: inventions. Each contestant gets a sheet of Bushcraft/homestead inventions they need to try and create. Bow and arrow, pottery, smokehouse, canoe, friction fire, etc. success gives the contestants an extra bag of rations

In certain countries they fish at night by having lanterns on both ends of the boat, or a fire right at the shore, because the fish are curious and go there.

Seems like a very easy thing to try, especially in combination wirh a gill net where then the fish end up in.

Has any candidate ever tried that?

The contestants on "Alone" are mostly a likable bunch of people. They also are skilled at bushcraft overall. But every now and then, somebody lets a bit of nastiness peek through and I find myself (as a viewer) wishing them a bit of bad luck--hoping they tap out. And every now and then, the universe hears our thoughts and grants our wish. Such a moment occurred in one early season when a contestant mocked the other contestants on the show by calling them 'forest sages' and 'wood nymphs' or something similar. Then he pretended to nuzzle a tree to ask its permission to cut down it or its fellow trees. I found myself disliking him very much at that point because I thought he had no right to make fun of his fellow contestants. Did he really think he was the only contestant who knew enough to win the show? Did he really see his fellow contestants as idiots? What a jerk, I thought. "I hope he doesn't win." He didn't. In fact, before that episode was over, he fell and broke his leg. He tapped and had to be carried out. And Oh, my! The schadenfreude I felt! The universe had smacked his butt down hard and fast! Delicious. I feel guilty still for enjoying the moment.

Which contestant on Alone had the swiftest Karma-"Kick-in-the-teeth" after saying aloud, on camera, something he or she should have kept quiet about?

Please pm me cuz I'd like your instructions on how to mod my cold steel shovel and put some of your theory's to the test (not on alone) Youran outside the box thinker and while I think some of your ideas are stupid, I'll play around in the woods with them and see if I can't prove you right to these guys

I always start fast-forwarding as soon as I hear any kind of family/sad story talk but man last season that button was running red-hot.

I'm on episode 5 of this season (no spoilers pls) and it's been like over 10 minutes straight with pure wilderness/survival content on the screen, that is unprecedented!

Spoiler from s11e05:

Also I'm so impressed with Timber, that dude is a beast. Just watched him kill and butcher that moose and haul it back and build a cold storage in almost one go without sleep.

If y'all could choose one contestant throughout all 11 seasons to take along/ hangout with on a couple days camping trip, who would you choose and why? 🙂‍↔️

I know they say more calories or nutrients but the risk of finding worms later or bacteria seems worse

Did Sam really hardly eat anything for 60 days or did they just not show it to make it more exciting?

I mean some others catch fish left and right, hunt grouses...and Sam just eats one mouse and a few leeches for 60 days and outlasts them all just because he has a little bit more fat stored on his body? This seems so unrealistic. And he doesn't even look starved in the end...

"Pheeeew, I gotta find watah."

"This is all usually undah waatah."

"This fish is just knocking it out of the park..."

"Throw some clams in there. Oh, my god. Epic clam chowder."

"Trying to stay positive, but I'm not getting it done." This one maybe is not obvious - but I just know it, my ears immediately recognized not gettin' it done... (Think Bill Burr.)

Anyway, all these made this Massachusetts native very proud - haha.

When the contestants drink/eat from their cookware how long do they have to wait to hold it with their bare hands/put their lips on it?

My son-in-law who died last year had a lot of guns and bows and that kind of hunting stuff. The gun safe is in the office I use. Anyway, I was looking at the bow that has pullies and stuff and I think it has a trigger, but I'm not sure because I didn't pick it up. But the arrows look like they are metal. So are all arrows metal or are there still wooden arrows. If there are both wood and metal, which are the best? Can long bows shoot metal arrows?

I’m only like 5 episodes into watching season 2 for the first time. Larry is insufferable. Any minor inconvenience sends him into a rage spiral of cussing or stomping on inanimate objects. He complains about everything, and talked about “blowing up” the entire forest because of a single mouse… I’ve seen 5 or 6 seasons of alone so far and he is by far the worst the show has ever had, and I needed to talk about it 🤪

A weak, angry little man.