Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "Thoughty2" channel.

There were hens, eggs, and starches (taro I think is the name of that fruit) from the former farmers, plus the fat from coconut. And meat from fish if they were fishing (but eggs are better or getting chicken meat). They built chicken scoops, so they caught some. That is enough to survive - it is not a very varied diet (it depends if there were any berries, plants that were edible and that they knew. So if they knew them, a little more variety). Not a lot of choices, but enough. And they were healthy teenage boys with plenty of workout, and enough to eat, so you bet they were in good physical shape.
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The convincing guy that got them into trouble went on to become a realtor in California .....
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@lesleyewen-foster3629 It is interesting that they got help from the natives. Who btw had no problem to "settle" the continent. They took their time - and if they looked for new regions they just were not so arrogant as to venture into the unknown with so little information.
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And the fraudster that made money by posing on experts for trails went on to write a how to book about settling in Brazil. He had just made up the shortcut to California - maybe to sell his book easier.
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Plot twist: Boys got grounded for running away ;) - For real: the skills they learned from their culture PLUS the discipline and the affinity to having a schedule which they learned from the (hated) Catholic school may have contributed to their survival. Time outs, 2 persons with rotating shifts (so all developed all skills and had skin in the game. They could not blame one person if things went wrong with one project. They likely intentionally set the forest on fire because that would be visible if a ship came by. Drinking the blood, they were right about the nutrients - however there is a chance to catch parasites and diseases, so heating up the blood would have been better. Did they have matches or how did they learn to make fire ? Humans can figure that out, but with a lot of blisters and elbow grease, it is not that easy. Advantage, two persons could do the twisting stick and one person seamlessly taking over when the other slowed down. You have to keep the pressure and rotating up, not one second pause or you can start over again. And it helps if the other person can strategically blow and feed fuzz to the tiny ember that emerges. A single person also can make fire from scratch, but their technique has to be good (so a desperate castaway might find out, but it will cost them. Tom Hanks learned to do it in a survival camp when he had the lead role in Castaway). (People used the blood when they butchered animals - pigs - back in the day for blood sausages and baked savory "cakes", it was a good source of iron that can be well absorbed by the body).
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Well narrated ! I disagree with the explanation attempt of 15:01 People ALSO like ship wreck stories with good outcomes. An underdog / survivor makes it against the odds. Bonus points if they are teenagers and there is an exotic setting BUT: they were not picked up by the large international media networks for whatever (* cough * colored * cough * )reasons. In the 1960s if Reuters, and international media did not cover it, it had not happened so to speak. I think if the protagonists would have been 6 white boys holding up so well under extraordinary circumstances, with skills, luck and cooperation - the story WOULD have gotten more attention. The connection to Western media was with Australia, but it ended there AND except for people who remembered seeing it in Australia when it aired, it might not have gotten traction in other nations. Usually such documentaries are sold - it would have been natural to show it on TV in Canada or UK - I wonder if that happened. In the 1960s ! mind you. I seem to remember that one olympic athlete from Australia supported the Black Power movement by showing the fist. he got into MAJOR troubles for that, in racist 1960s / 1970s Australia. And such old films / documentaries are not shown anymore, they are considered dated so the attention was not high to begin with (considering the potential of the story to grab attention globally) and if fizzled out.
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