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Jordan Jonas

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

You have to be, you have to be really adaptable because everything's gonna, it's always going to look different in your situation, your location. I actually had a, what I thought was a pretty good plan going into alone. And then it just, the, you know, the location didn't allow for what I thought it would. What was the plan?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Well, I thought I would just catch a bunch of fish because I'm on a really good fishing lake. I'd catch a whole bunch of fish and let them rot for a little while and then just drag them all through the woods into a big pile and then hunt a bear on that big fish pile. That was the plan. And I thought, but when I got there, for one, I had a hard time catching fish off the bat.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Well, I thought I would just catch a bunch of fish because I'm on a really good fishing lake. I'd catch a whole bunch of fish and let them rot for a little while and then just drag them all through the woods into a big pile and then hunt a bear on that big fish pile. That was the plan. And I thought, but when I got there, for one, I had a hard time catching fish off the bat.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Well, I thought I would just catch a bunch of fish because I'm on a really good fishing lake. I'd catch a whole bunch of fish and let them rot for a little while and then just drag them all through the woods into a big pile and then hunt a bear on that big fish pile. That was the plan. And I thought, but when I got there, for one, I had a hard time catching fish off the bat.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

They didn't come like I was hoping. And then for two, For two, it had burned prior, so there were no berries. And so there were very few berries, which meant there weren't grouse, there weren't bear. They had all gone to other places where the berries were. And so what I had grown accustomed to growing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

They didn't come like I was hoping. And then for two, For two, it had burned prior, so there were no berries. And so there were very few berries, which meant there weren't grouse, there weren't bear. They had all gone to other places where the berries were. And so what I had grown accustomed to growing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

They didn't come like I was hoping. And then for two, For two, it had burned prior, so there were no berries. And so there were very few berries, which meant there weren't grouse, there weren't bear. They had all gone to other places where the berries were. And so what I had grown accustomed to growing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

kind of relying on in Siberia wasn't there, there, you know, so in, in Russia, which was a similar environment, it was just grouse and berries and fish and grouse and berries and fish. And then occasionally, you know, you get a moose or something, but I had to reassess, which was part of me being grumpy at the start, like, oh, this place sucks.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

kind of relying on in Siberia wasn't there, there, you know, so in, in Russia, which was a similar environment, it was just grouse and berries and fish and grouse and berries and fish. And then occasionally, you know, you get a moose or something, but I had to reassess, which was part of me being grumpy at the start, like, oh, this place sucks.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

kind of relying on in Siberia wasn't there, there, you know, so in, in Russia, which was a similar environment, it was just grouse and berries and fish and grouse and berries and fish. And then occasionally, you know, you get a moose or something, but I had to reassess, which was part of me being grumpy at the start, like, oh, this place sucks.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And then, and then once I reassessed and, and, and, you know, right away I saw that there were moose tracks and such. So, I just started to plan for that. I moved my camp into an area that was as removed as I could be from where all the action is, where the tracks were, so that I wasn't disturbing animal patterns. I made sure the predominant wind was blowing out my scent to the water.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And then, and then once I reassessed and, and, and, you know, right away I saw that there were moose tracks and such. So, I just started to plan for that. I moved my camp into an area that was as removed as I could be from where all the action is, where the tracks were, so that I wasn't disturbing animal patterns. I made sure the predominant wind was blowing out my scent to the water.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And then, and then once I reassessed and, and, and, you know, right away I saw that there were moose tracks and such. So, I just started to plan for that. I moved my camp into an area that was as removed as I could be from where all the action is, where the tracks were, so that I wasn't disturbing animal patterns. I made sure the predominant wind was blowing out my scent to the water.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And then really, to be honest, if you want to actually survive somewhere, it's different than alone. But you do have to... be active and it has to, you're going to have to, you're not going to live, you're not going to be sustainable by, you know, starving it out. You'd have to unlock the key that is sustainability.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And then really, to be honest, if you want to actually survive somewhere, it's different than alone. But you do have to... be active and it has to, you're going to have to, you're not going to live, you're not going to be sustainable by, you know, starving it out. You'd have to unlock the key that is sustainability.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And then really, to be honest, if you want to actually survive somewhere, it's different than alone. But you do have to... be active and it has to, you're going to have to, you're not going to live, you're not going to be sustainable by, you know, starving it out. You'd have to unlock the key that is sustainability.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And I think there's a lot of areas that still have that potential, but you have to figure out what it is. It's usually going to be a combination of fishing, you know, trapping and then hunting. And then once you have some, the fishing and trapping will get you until you have some success hunting. And then that'll buy you three or four months of time

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And I think there's a lot of areas that still have that potential, but you have to figure out what it is. It's usually going to be a combination of fishing, you know, trapping and then hunting. And then once you have some, the fishing and trapping will get you until you have some success hunting. And then that'll buy you three or four months of time

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And I think there's a lot of areas that still have that potential, but you have to figure out what it is. It's usually going to be a combination of fishing, you know, trapping and then hunting. And then once you have some, the fishing and trapping will get you until you have some success hunting. And then that'll buy you three or four months of time

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

to continue and you know to keep hunting again and you just have to roll off of that but every you know depends on where you are what opportunities are there so okay so that's the process fishing and trapping until you're successful hunting and then the successful hunt buys you some more time right right just go year and then you just go around like that and that's how People did it forever.