ooooh, Naked and Afraid Brazil!!!
When I think of Brazil, I think of rainforests. But tonight’s Naked and Afraid ventures to an ecosystem that I had no idea existed. Let’s dive right into the Season 3 finale, and meet this week’s survivalists.
© Discovery NetworksMatt Strutzel24 years old from Portland, Oregon
Occupation: Blacksmith, Primitive skills instructor
Survival Skills: Plant identification, fire making, shelter building, tracking, and traps.
Matt developed a passion for the outdoors at a young age. As a teenager, he adopted a vegan diet and honed his primitive camping skills while camping near the Florida Everglades with an environmental activism group. Matt moved to Portland, Oregon, and began teaching outdoor education to youths and adults. He currently teaches blacksmithing while pursuing a degree in Urban Studies with the goal of becoming mayor of Portland.
© Discovery NetworksHonora Bowen28 year-old from Eastern Sierras, California
Occupation: certified massage therapist, herbalist, and college student
Survival Skills: Plant identification, cultivation, and weaving; Primitive fishing and hunting techniques; Building shelters; Land and water navigation; Water sourcing.
Honora is an outdoor enthusiast and athlete and modeled for her third “Stone Nudes” calendar. When adventuring throughout the mountains, she often collects natural plant materials for her herbal body product business.
3 days before her insertion, Honora tells the camera of her dad’s recent death and how Naked and Afraid was her last connection to and the topic of her last conversation with her father before his death.
Matt is a recovering drug addict who has taught primitive skills for a long time. He’s looking to put his skills to the test.
Matt is a big guy. He loves being naked and likes to ride his bike naked. If he ever asks to borrow my bicycle, I prefer that Matt wears pants.
Honora is worried that her partner can’t keep up with her stamina.
Each survivalist brought a survival item. Matt brought a machete that he made (he’s a blacksmith)
Honora brought a magnifying glass. Because there’s sleuthing to be done.
© Discovery NetworksThis is the most amazing location ever! The landscape is sand dunes crisscrossed by lagoons. It looks like the moon — if the moon had beautiful ponds willed with water. But who knows what they’ll find to eat? Maybe some of the area’s Sidewinder snakes? Or some tasty12-inch tarantulas.Day 1
How are their feet not burning? I’ve walked across the beach on a hot day and it is toasty! Oh, it’s because a chyron just revealed that the weather is in the 60’s. Their insertion must have been later in the day so their don’t fry their feet from the get-go.
The sun sets quickly, and once the sun sets, it gets child and windy.
Honora boasts that she’s going to sleep like a baby. But later, after sand fleas are eating her, she realizes how wrong she is, “I’m definitely no sleeping like a baby… Waaaaaah.” And she reveals a pretty clever tattoo of a tear on the inside of her finger. Hilar.
Day 2
Honora wishes that she could cut off Matt’s love handles and put them on her own hips because she is cold. And rude.
Before they began their adventure, Matt and Honora were assigned a Primitive Survival Rating (PSR)
Matt- 7.1, Honora 7.6
Matt is a Vegan and isn’t going to eat the ants that Honora offers him.
While Honora tries to use UV rays to purify water, Matt works on their shelter. His strategy is to keep out of the shelter and he’s already sunburned.
Matt looks over and sees Honora lying in the blistering sun. She was actually passed out waiting for the water to purify. She basically lies in the sun all say and gets so sunburned that her nipple is blistered. While she was tanning, Matt builds the shelter and finds fruit.
Day 3
Matt catches the world’s biggest locust. Huge!!! He gives it to his partner and she cooks it with her magnifying glass. She says it tastes like chicken, and I’ll take her word for it. Nasty locusts will never be on my menu.
The next few days, Matt and Honora basically cuddle in their shelter. Honora says she doesn’t like Matt’s privates being so close to her privates and that his smell makes her gag. Geez Honora, tell us how you really feel! I’m sure you smell April fresh after eating a locust and frying in the sun without a bar of soap or a toothbrush.
Day 7
Matt and Honora are hungry and Honora is bitchy. Matt is avoiding the sun and she thinks he’s lazy. She makes some low blows and tells Matt that he’s the “fat kid” and tells him, “You smell, you’re stupid and you’re lazy.” What a loony bitch!
Day 8
Honora decides to divvy up the building materials and move her camp. Matt, “this is totally like a divorce.”
A massive storm arrives and since neither really has much of a shelter, Honora freezes, shivers and whines all night.
Day 9
It’s still raining…
Matt is so calm. This isn’t really fazing him, his personality is pretty stoic. Honora’s cries emit from a quivering pile of palm fronds. I wonder how her tear tattoo is feeling…
Day 10
The rain stops.
Day 11
Matt is digging a giant hole. Matt wants to prove to his students that he can succeed. Honora has brought her magnifying glass because her deceased father taught her to use it when she was a child. Too bad he didn’t teach her manners.
Day 12
Honora searches for food. And she keeps bagging on Matt by calling him lazy. But she hasn’t eaten in days. Matt however, enjoys cactus every day.
Day 13
Honors wanders aimlessly in the sun in search of food.
Day 14
Honora is despondent and lightheaded. She’s lying in the sand boo-hooing about the nutrients she needs: “I need salt, I need sugar. I need Potassium and Magnesium. “ Waaah (but where is her ironic tattoo now?)
Day 15
Melodramatic Honora begs the universe for help. She crawls through a pond and finds a coconut. She weeps from joy. And borrows Matt’s machete to open it. Matt could have been a jerk and not allowed her to use the machete, but Matt isn’t a jerk.
Honora decides to apologize to Matt. Matt forgives her. And she gives him a hug.
Matt keeps hanging in his shade. I feel like he could live in this environment forever.
And hour later, Matt finds Honora lying unresponsive in the sun. He calls for a medic and they start and IV and medevac her unresponsive body to the hospital. She’s absolutely unconscious and thankfully a hospital isn’t far.
After getting IVs and nutrients (like potassium and magnesium), Honora spends 3 days in the hospital before being released. Even after leaving the hospital, her brain is incredibly slow. She sounds like she did some damage to her body and brain, and I wonder how long it took her to feel “normal” again?
Day 17
Back to cool cat Matt in the Brazilian dunes. He’s still chilling, hanging, keeping mellow and surviving. He’s not thriving, but he’s not dead either.
Day 18
The weather is over 10 degrees, and Matt is getting goofy to stave off boredom
“Day 72, I have learned to speak the language of the spiders.”
“Day 182 I no longer remember my human name.”
Day 21
Matt faces a ridiculous extraction. He faces a mega-long hike over the dunes. Then he needs to wade three miles downriver to a helicopter zone.”
Nice-guy Matt brings Honor’s magnifying glass back to her.
The hike is of course through the hottest part of the day and I don’t think that Matt made any preparations to transport water with him. How will he survive?
Once Matt reaches the river (Which is nasty and stained red due to tannic acid) he is completely exhausted and I don’t think he stops to drink. As he walks, he mentions that his stomach is in excruciating pain, but he says it with the calmness of someone shooting the breeze. This guy is incredible! Eventually, the helicopter lands and he is relieved to hop aboard.
Over 16 days, Honora lost 18 pounds and her PSR fell from 7.6 out of 10 to 7.2
Over the 21 days, Matt lost 28 pounds and his PSR rose from 7.1 out of 10.0 to 7.7
Matt gave the magnifying glass back to Honora. She’s grateful to have the gift from her father back. Matt proves that he’s the nicest guy ever.
Like Naked And Afraid? Check out these recaps:
Season 3, Episode 1: Namibia, Episode 2: Andros Islands, Episode 3: Cambodia, Episode 4: Nicaragua, Episode 5: Argentina, Episode 6: Dominica, Episode 7: India, Episode 8: Nicaragua, Episode 9: Botswana
Season 2, Episode 1: Peru, Episode 2: Madagascar, Episode 3: Fiji, Episode 4: Belize, Episode 5: Malaysia, Episode 6: Bolivia
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I can’t figure out why this chick’s ‘PSR’ isn’t negative. Or is that “parasitic survival rating” ?
Very dangerous girl. She should be on medication and is a danger to herself and others. Her behavior in the second series is 100 times worse than this little show. I would be she killed her dad or had something to do with his death so she could get his money, she is really sick and twisted.
See you next Tuesday
I’m totally comfortable judging people from the comfort of my chaise lounge. Matt, is a babe and total survivalist. Vegan guys are sexy. Blond girl has the IQ of a monkey.
Honey that is an insult to monkees! This is an evil frightening person who is a danger to herself and others. Her family and circle of friends(?) need to get her to a psych ward asap. My ex husband showed these signs when angry and confronted about lying. This is a mold of a psychopath 100%! They come in all shapes and sizes as this girl is lucky she wasn’t thrown into swamp. I cannot imagine treating other humans the way she does. If I saw g er on the street I’d call police first and avoid contact. She is severely sick and a danger to all around her she needs to go back to daddy and let him deal with the lil Rockstar on his own. I consider myself a kind person but I would defend myself around her by all means. To think she might actually breed is a HORRIFYING thought. Honora needs more attention and money to disappear from humanity before someone gets hurt, by her ofcourse, whewie. Memorable if s to small a word to explain her performance, I’m scared!!!!!!! 😉
totally agree, she is 5150 and will hurt someone. In the next season she steals all the knives and throws them in a lake, she is a complete lunatic. Anyone in her life is in danger. She will be in the news and in criminal court soon.
Purifying water by focusing sunlight over a cup of water is not at all effective! That is not how a UV water purifying system works. Not only is Honora rude, self involved, overly dramatic, impractical, she has an inflated ego and her “survival skills” are nonexistent. Matt however is a survival genius. Put on some extra body fat before the challenge, provide for water and shelter, then hunker down and conserve your energy for the next 21 days. Exactly what any real survival expert would recommend! This guy really has the RIGHT STUFF. People like Honoria make me wonder if the contestants are coached to act ridiculous.
It is no act for this girl, read her facebook and other pages is really a lunatic that is dangerous to those around her. Anyone sleeping in the same place as this whackjob is in danger. In the the next season she freaks out and throws all the survival gear in the river because she wants to quit and she wants the others to fail too. She is seriously metally ill.
I watched the show again. The girl was a lost soul from the start! I was in the Military for a few years, two different Countries. I was with Special Ops, they need a bell to ring if your heart and soul has left you. We ate what ever we could find, we drank from water you would not step in. I was living in hell, satan’s bounty hunter! she needs to venture into my realm, and follow me into the real world of survival. I find her very insecure, don’t lay down on my watch! You need to cover my Sixx. “SINE PARI”
Omg.. I would have let her lay there for a couple of days before I did a damn thing for her! She’s just the little princess we all dealt with in high school! Just a dramatic little bitch!
After this she will never marry. Whoever gets close to marrying her will see the episode and will wonder how many minutes into their marriage she would lash out at him in complete irrationality and stupidity. Good luck finding a husband Honora and god pity the poor should that dares to match up with you. I’d rather marry a donkey.
It is really amazing to me how all of these experts sit around in their recliners discussing the failures of the people that actually went out there and did this. If I was you I would save the terrible complaints until you have done it yourself that just shows you don’t really know anythng because it is usually critical people like you all that couldn’t do it in the 1st place.
Yeah that old excuse of “until you’ve done it yourself you cant comment”. Horse crap. People have different life experiences esp those of us in the military and other jobs, which even though not identical to these situations many of them are very similar and or required skills these people were s Plus its just common sense to realize people can have a opinion on something whether they have been there or not. The idea that someone doesn’t have the right to criticize someone else is absurd. You’ll spend your whole life being criticized, you’ll just have to grow a spine and get used to it. Honora is a whining cry baby who was in no way qualified for this challenge. The ridiculous statement that her “superior intelligence” Was one of the most ridiculous things Ive heard. I saw several things that just don’t support that position. But Im sure that’s what someone like her- a arrogant princes- who thinks she’s just so damn smart, would tell the producers makes her so much better than her partner. I could tell you that wasn’t true after day 1, and the end result proved it to be false.
Matt was a selfish, lazy jerk. Did he ever offer cactus to her? Did he ever offer to find food for her? Did he think about the fact that unlike him, she doesn’t have 50 extra pounds of fat to get her through this? That maybe as a team player, he should tell her to conserve her energy, explain to her why he’s conserving his, and do something to help her? I sure didn’t see it. He basically let her waste herself away and sat there and watched.
That’s HER problem John. If shes going to sit around and cry and whine about how people “don’t smell good” while on a survival challenge, then she’s not likely to get much help from them if shes going to be rude and critical when hasn’t proven herself to be any better. Anyone who opts for a magnifying glass for “sentimental reasons” on a survival mission is n’t qualified to be on that mission. we had people with her mentality in the Corps. we called them wash outs. Team player BS goes both ways. She was taker and didn’t want to give if it didn’t fit her agenda. Its not his fault hshe didn’t think ahead and add the weight beforehand like so many other people on the show said they did. Sorry the “coddling male syndrome” she expected doesn’t work in survival.
OMG, Mike, stop with the making sense!
I missed this episode one of the other 5 million times it aired so just saw it before the new episode. Gawd I’m hoping they stop casting these girls in their early 20s. It seems the vast majority of them lack the maturity and intelligence to survive AND get along with another human being for 21 days. Most of the men, because of their competitive nature, view this survival stuff as something that has to be beaten. This has made some of them also compete with their partners, but most have gone into the experience seeing it as a problem that must be solved, then triumphed over.
Many of these young girls, on the other hand, seem to come into this trying to prove that they are strong and don’t need other people. My guess is they don’t have a lot of friends in the real world and are looking to escape that not by looking inward and seeing why nobody likes them, but by following solitary pursuits and taking those antisocial attributes right along with them.
Honestly, how many times have we seen this type of ridiculousness out of these kids this season? Too many go into this looking for problems with their partners before they’ve even met them. This genius pre-decides that Matt is going to be useless because of his fat. Something she becomes OBSESSED with. She literally cannot look beyond that to what he was actually doing and that he was surviving far better than she was. This show needs to start casting more Manus and fewer Cassies!
I think Honora faked being I’ll. So she cleared her conscious with Matt before she left cause she knew she was wrong.
Honora Was easily the biggest bitch I’ve scene in a long time! And, how many times did she mention “daddy” during the show? That chick has daddy issues, and with her obvious mental issues.
The first thing she does is take a nap on the beach (while doing the STUPIDEST thing she could have done in getting a sunburn) then walks up the hill and within 3 seconds of Matt politely disagreeing with her, she turns into that spoiled brat 7 year old we all HATED in the 6th grade.
And btw, those little meltdowns were SO FAKE! (Especially the final one, which was just her way of quitting and trying to get the audience to feel sorry for her) – I wanted to barf during everyone of her meltdowns.
– The first rich guy that buys into those “poor me” meltdowns, she try and marry him. Guaranteed.
A 7-year-old in 6th grade? Must be a pretty genius 7-year-old!
At least it wasn’t just me. That girl was such a bitch I couldn’t stand to look at her. Covering up the coconut to hide evidence of cheating him? Trash
Ok this is the best. Love all the commits, I have been vindicated. Honora was my step-daughter, she has always been a selfish B**CH. That magnifying glass was bullshit. Chris her father was very smart. Toss him out naked and into unknown place to survive a magnifying glass would never be his choice.
I’m so sorry you had to ever deal with her! What a little bitch!
Watched XL on DVR 2day. You are serious? She was your stepdaughter? Anymore advice for future suitors of hers? Tips for survival?
Wow her PR rating should have been very low she ended up higher than what he started with… she’s didnt even help build shelter she sat out in the Sun getting blistered ..he asked her to come back in out of the sun and not get further blisters … He found fruit and bugs for her.. She brought some palm frawns to the shelter while he built it… She did nothing
. she was rude unhelpful ..downright disrespectful… Tore apart his shelter and they have her a PR rating of 7.2… Ha…rediculas 5.4 at most
…Matt should have raised to at least an 8.3… Common guys I like the show but I Dont know now….. The producers should apologize to Matt for putting him with a spoiled little snotty brat.. And for the way they gave out the PR rating in the end..
SHOCKING and Disappointed…,
Lost faith in the show now…,
Better fix or I’ll stop watching
Honora. What a loser. Producers? Same.
It’s always the ones shown bragging at the intro who tank out fast.
This chick’s utter childishness was such a turn off. Matt was amazingly kind, mature, and tough-minded.
Go Matt! You did so well! I’m sure his students are very proud of him.
But!! WTH is up with the producers of this crapfest???
Are they joking?? Honora runs in circles all day long in the hot sun, accomplishing nothing at ALL, screeches at her teammate in offensive and juvenile fashion that it’s all his fault that she cannot STOP RACING AROUND IN CIRCLES IN THE HOT SUN. Screeches, sobs, waiiils! It was embarrassing to watch her over-emote.
Matt saved your special glass your dead dad taught you to “use”.. “Look through it.” Lol Sorry. Couldn’t resist. 😉
Honora is a sun-maddened chihuahua! Did NOTHING to aid either of them. Hyper little useless hump your ankle biter ball of screeching uselessness. And thought she was All That. Daddy said so. That works, if you’re four.
And by the way.
Where’d that coconut come from? Hmm? Coconuts grow on trees. They float in water, so perhaps it uhhh floated ummm over allll those dunes and other water holes, up n down, allll around lolol in some tsunami wave eons ago, right into the one place poor leathery Honora happened to face plant, huh? All green & fresh! Sure! …
Back to these show runners/producers.
The chick from Texas in Ecuador or El Salvador recently lasted 16 days ALONE. Honoooooraaaa (“Hilaaaariaaa!”;) lasted what a few days, bitched & moaned & lashed out at the ONE person she should’ve relied on, refused to share her coaaacoaaanutttttt but politely yet bitch-like requested his machete to whack it open…
And you show runners stated she is of “high intelligence”, or was it “super duper smart”? Is that code for gives good um… Faceplant??
Dumbass Honoraaawahhwahhwahhh scores a higher score than the Texan?? By far?? Done. Bye, Felixia.
This show, right then, turned into a joke. A laughingstock.
Matt, you go on with your cool self. Awesome!
Honora, honey? You keep telling yourself you’re simply amazing.
Wow, I cannot believe how Honora acted. Here I thought she was nice but boy did she turn into bitch-o-rella in a matter of days. Good for Matt for divorcing her and keeping his composure.
Wow this woman was unbelievable…both literally and figuratively.
She was easily the most self-centered, passive-aggressive player in this series yet and her suddenly unconscious act was one for the ages. Yeah SSSOOOO ill that she can’t even respond (laying in producer’s lap on way to hospital?!?) but just 3 hours and a couple of IVs later and she’s all chipper. Gross.
Honora was absolutely horrible as a partner and I can’t believe her PSR didn’t fall more. I have seen people who have finished the challenge and had their PSR drop more. She was reckless and stubborn (hey the water is fine without your magnifying glass) and she was expending as much energy as someone getting three meals a day, not smart. Matt on the other hand was the coolest cat ever, he didn’t even seem to be doing the challenge. Must have hidden a joint and a veggie burger in his machete handle somehow.
Great summary.
Honora is easily the most undesirable and despicable partner on the series. Congrats to her for winning that challenge.
For whining that challenge you mean