Maci is a superfan and a self-proclaimed bad ass. Maci says watching the show, she hates when people tap out too early. Foreshadowing? She said she has been practicing making fire and has gotten good at it. Her PSR is 4.3. Justin is also a superfan. He’s a big guy, 6′ 5″ and 300 pounds. He’s Hawaiian. He’s trauma nurse. His PSR is 5.3. They are in Nicaragua.
There are thorns everywhere. Maci has an insane amount of tattoos. They find some papayas along the way. Maci’s feet are torn up right away. Justin tries to be supportive, but it’s just been a few hours. He gives her a piggy back ride. Eventually, they find a river for water and started fire with a fire starter. Justin is really nice to Maci. They make a sleeping rack so they can sleep off the ground. Day two, they have to find something to make shoes with. Maci is already wanting to tap on day two. Holy crap. She totally taps on day two. Her PSR is dropped to 1.3. Pathetic. I am truly shocked.
Nathan fights a possum and the possum wins. Nathan’s feet are killing him too. I think their mistake was making shoes too late. They should have made them much sooner. Night two, Nathan was ready to tap as well. The next day he made an awesome fish trap and left it over night. He caught nothing. On day five he found a few very tiny crabs. He is really struggling with the lack of food. He’s light-headed and having trouble focusing. His coordination is off and he accidentally hit his foot with a machete. It’s a very serious, very deep cut. He has to be medically evacuated..He could easily lose his foot. He lost ten pounds in seven days. We see his foot surgery to close the wound. The doctors were not exactly plastic surgeons and his healed foot when we see it weeks later still looks pretty gnarly.
That was an interesting recap. It almost makes me want to watch the show. Or not?
I don’t think they’ll go back there!! I’ve never seen a location that was TOTALLY THORNS. The dude wasn’t sure he wasn’t lightheaded because his thorns had pus (gross) coming out! They couldn’t move! #taketwo ?
Maci, the badass. I was embarrassed for her.
I was so anxious to see this episode. When she was proclaiming that she is a badass, and criticizes those who tap out early, I thought ut oh, your not even a top athlete who do tap out.(Your a super fan) Don’t compare yourself to professional survivalists, lol.
I enjoy sitting on my couch, watching in comfort.
But her reasoning was, her partner was worse off if she stayed. How nice and considerate of her.?
I fear nakedness. And anything resembling a fire ant near the crack of no return. How the hell did an opossum win?
Haha hilarious response all around
The very idea of doing this makes me itch. There are bugs, worms and all sorts of things you don’t want crawling up your hoo ha. Are you saying the nakee woman rode the nakee man’s back? Then their feet are torn to ribbons? Maci may not be a badass but she is not a dumbass either. She got her PR and a little money and got out while she could walk and not die of emancipation. She is thin to begin with and 10lbs every 7 days might have killed her. Luck to the other guy though.
The only naked and afraid I’ve ever seen was a parody on SNL with Leslie Jones and Peter Dinklage, which was hilarious, but I have no interest in the actual show. I’m glad Maci got to live out her dream, though. She’s probably my favorite Teen Mom.
Same here. I have never watched the show but did watch the SNL parody which i found hilarious.
My house loves the show. We are not fervent watchers sometimes we tap out for a few seasons. We’ve ambled back on the reruns.
I’m like we can do this let’s watch we live in Florida so Florida residents duh. Then the ass cracked and the vagina bug bites and shitting outside your campsite made it clear my family would not make it.
The baked aspect is stressful but truly wipes out typical awkwardness. This is me I see you let’s do this shit. I’m a struggling eating disorderd chick so I got the starvation down the fkn pat.
Sadly I do not eat eggs,fish or seafood nor my roomies. I think the bugs would do me in on my clothed ass riding in the truck to the drop off. I love the show we watch and silently say a few Hail Marys that shit won’t go down in our world so that us being survivalists we’d be dead by day 5.
Maci, I like her haven’t watched MTV teen mom shit in mannnny years but I always thought she had it. It’s ok no judgy shit for fix sake the girl was a single teen mom on national tv with deep rooted shit to work through. No harm no foul.
* oh god I meant naked not baked.!stupid iPhones ?
I kinda liked baked!
I have to give her credit for attempting to be on Naked and Afraid, but no amount of money or publicity in the world would have convinced me to get dropped off in circumstances like that. The thirst and hunger would be bad enough, but then add in all the biting bugs, dangerous snakes, predatory animals, lack of sleep, and it becomes an impossible situation. The thing that did them in was the ground being covered in thorns. Why would Production choose a location like that? There’s a limit to how much people can deal with when their feet are in agony from the first few minutes. It seems almost like they were doomed to fail. Maci didn’t seem like she was nearly as tough as she thought she was – camping isn’t the same as survival training, but, like she said, you have no idea how awful it is until you’re actually there. At least she tried.
I’ve never been to Nicaragua, but I would imagine the entire country is not covered in thorns. I didn’t see the point in continuing to walk through the thorns. Either stop and make shoes, or GET OUT OF THE THORN BUSHES or both. You can’t walk through thorns for hours on day one.
They had to walk out in the end so they had to go through thorns.
Yes, shoes would seem top priority but with the howler monkeys and the huge carnivorous felines, they had to find a camp (and fresh water) and make fire to stay alive. And their bed was also full of thorns.
Maci must have been desperate to ride bareback while naked, but modestly flies out the window, I imagine.
I do think Maci had come through as one of the most successful teen moms. She seems to have a good husband and her batch of kids are doing well. They are considering adoption in the future.
She protects Bentley from his druggie father, deluded grandparents and fame crazy new wife.. as best she can.
So you thin the whole area was thorns? I don’t.
I do not blame Maci one bit. She is a sporty girl from Chattanooga. None of us know how hard it really is until you are in that situation. The fact that she even tried is amazing!!
We used to watch this when the first few seasons aired, there was a lady from Flagstaff a few seasons back too so we followed for a bit.
Protect your feet and your hoo ha’s people! First order of protection!
I waited for this episode forever and then I fuckin forgot it was on. Never did get to see it.