Wanted: Fresh Meat
Is it me or is this the weirdest idea ever for reality television? I saw this on News of the Weird:
Coming Soon to Reality TV: The CMT cable channel has scheduled an August start-up for “Runnin’ Wild … From Ted Nugent,” in which the rock singer, hunter and uninhibited gun advocate will spend five episodes training three novices on how to survive in the woods, and then, in the final episodes, Nugent and his 18-year-old son will go hunt them down, with the last one to avoid capture declared the winner. [Press Release from TedNugent.com, 4-2-09]
So if I’m reading this right, the man who is going to hunt you down is going to train you how to survive…..all in 5 days episodes. Somehow, I really don’t think he would be the one I would want training me……or maybe he could train me, but not be the one hunting me down. But doing both?? Does anyone else see a flaw in that logic? I can hear him now ~ “yes, if you are being hunted, you could hide here….no one will ever find you here” as he bwahaha’s at you while he walks away. Or maybe I’m thinking about this wrong…..who would sign up to learn how to survive in the wild knowing that after five days the madman training you is going to hunt you down ~ with his son no less……….’come son, time to hunt man!’ I can only assume that hunting regular animals got boring so he wanted a little more of a challenge?
I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this one. There are some strange reality shows…….and I admit I’m not the biggest fan of them. But this one is weird….yes?