Boy, today was a real whirlwind of a show with both Angi and Marris taking turns showcasing their unique skills. While I'll get to Angi's in a moment as it involved the Daily Discussion Topic and she went into full "mama bear" mode, Marris on the other hand showcased his manliness (see: rugged stupidity?) during a discussion about a viral topic ironically also involving a bear. After pondering if Marris could build a fire (he can't,) Angi introduced us to a currently viral question that seems to have a very easy answer. If you're a woman and you're stuck in the woods, would you rather it be with a man or a bear? Before we start dissecting the answer to this simple question, we looked at Marris' survival skill set. Apparently, he thinks he can survive for two weeks in the woods and even though he can not make fire, he would drink the non purified water he finds and just wing it. He has seen plenty of outdoor shows so he's pretty certain he can live off the land (I need someone to greenlight a show with him being dropped in a forest yesterday.) Anyway, rounding back to the question of would a woman rather be in the woods with a man or a bear, the resounding answer was the bear. When 8 women were polled on the street (I'm assuming this is how the question began and then went viral,) 7 said they would pick the bear. Obviously, this choice is very telling about the nature of men and how women view them. Even Marris thought the topic was kind of funny and jokey initially but when considering it, understood that it really wasn't. Some people feel that there is perhaps a lack of honesty in some of this but the reality is this is firmly a discussion about how women feel about men. A bear's natural instinct is to kill and eat you but a man is a more dangerous predator because there is a good chance he would assault you (and then maybe kill and possibly eat you.) Marris understands the notion of how men behave dangerously and was once a bodyguard to a team of women in one of his 87 other jobs (I should add "bodyguard" because even though he was boss, he felt protective of them.) They even had code words and hand signals in case issues arose which all things considered, is truly a wild way to have to live. Angi was complimentary of Marris protecting women as we all should be because it's not hard to be a good guy, ego just chooses to overlook that. To add another to the "I'd rather have a bear list," HP said she wants the bear as well because she has bear mace. While Marris questioned why HP carries bear mace, Angi went back to my earlier point on how a bear would just eat you. Marris added though that isn't fully the case as most bears are afraid of you outside of polar bears. If you happen to run into a polar bear in the wild, you're pretty much done. As we started to put this topic to bed, Angi added she too would choose to have the bear in the woods but also pondered why dudes are wandering around in the woods in the first place. Perhaps Smokey the Bear could have answered these questions but he disowned us when we burned down most of the forest last year.
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