Xander Budnick Tries to Survive on an Island Alone 🌴🥥🐟 @Xander Budnick

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0:00 Hey guys, what's up? Seeing as a lot of you liked the video that I reviewed of Joe Fazer surviving alone on the island, I'm going to be doing another one today. This one was created by Xander Butnik. This guy probably knows what he's doing, seeing as he does these kind of survival videos more often. Could be interesting.

[video] 0:46 I'm on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, 50 miles off the coast of Central America. I have no food, I have no water, I have no shelter and only limited tools in my bag.

1:03 The first thing that I notice is that there's still geoengineering going on even though he's pretty far away from the mainland, although it's not that far.

[video] 1:13 Lots of camera equipment. Rescue comes in five days. Lots of work to do.

[video] 1:21 I found a nice place to set up camp and call home, but it's a real hot day so I should probably find something to drink.

1:35 Alright, he's already a pro. Much different than Joe Fazer. Yeah, very interesting because people who live in tropical climates, even subtropical sometimes, really oftentimes live off of coconut water when it comes to hydration this has been reported in many different places it's very understandable because what else are you gonna drink in such a place on an island honestly i don't think this one's right a little bit of water in here It would be interesting to put Darko Velchek on an island. Then he would try drinking seawater and give up after like two days. It's not even funny. It would be like a horror movie, the dehydration.

[video] 2:35 Water that one. These ones feel heavy, but I don't know if they're quite ripe yet.

[video] 2:48 Oh, yes, that is delicious. Check it out. I don't know if you can see in there, but you can definitely hear it. And this is what's going to keep you hydrated for the next five days.

3:01 Yeah, exactly. It's not just plain water. There's electrolytes. It's awesome. It's one of the best drinks on earth besides blood, obviously. But how much blood can you get from an animal?

[video] 3:15 Just purely coconut water.

[video] 3:21 I need to be drinking a lot of these.

3:30 That's sort of beautiful, just the geoengineering really destroys it.

3:38 Still.

[video] 4:05 okay that's a hermit crab he's eating a little bit of coconut oh and same with all the ants they smell it they're all over this place ah that's funny

[video] 4:31 I'm really concerned with how many coconuts are around that are easily harvestable. In fact, I think I got the only tree that was relatively easy. I gotta look a little more tomorrow.

4:42 Yeah, you can drink the coconut water, eat the coconut meat, maybe the first few days even, but the hunger is gonna get crazy. Gotta get some real food.

[video] 4:50 No shortage of snails. Need those.

[video] 4:57 That's good.

5:03 Usually you can eat snails rolls, but not always. It's not really something that humans ate, unless there was really no other food around. It is kind of like starvation food. Slippery.

[video] 5:15 Be careful. This here is what I'm looking for, limpets. Ooh, suctioning itself to the rock.

[video] 5:27 That is one...

5:28 That reminds me of how in the Netherlands I always used to go and get the oysters from the rocks. There must have been thousands of oysters all the time. Any time of the year, sometimes more, sometimes less, you could just go and eat oysters. The only good thing about that country. Yeah, but this is very similar. Just removing... Every time I come here, the rocks are full of them.

[video] 6:06 Come on, come on.

6:21 I would think that you could eat these raw just like oysters, but I've never had them. But why wouldn't you be able to accept if there's some kind of pollution problem? That would be the only reason.

6:36 They look really nice, like the color looks really edible. Somebody let me know if you've had them raw. I'm curious.

[video] 6:51 All right, tide's coming in. Time to head back.

[video] 6:56 Holy moly.

7:10 Wow, that's a lot of birds. Are there some kind of laws that he's not allowed to hunt them or what? Because obviously this is what I would try to do.

7:41 Yeah, it just all looks like potential food to me.

[video] 7:45 Alright, it just hit me how hungry I am. Let's go cook those limpets. We need some coconut. Bunch of limpets. Limpets.

8:15 When you cook food, you do get a lot less nutrients and when you're really trying to survive, it is pretty wasteful, borderline dangerous to do that because you could actually die just because you cooked your food. Depending on how much you cook it, you can destroy over 50% of the nutrients.

[video] 8:39 Alright, here we go. Here's the inside of the limpet. It's the little back part you don't want to eat. It's kind of like the gross sack of garbage and poop. So you cut that off. Chunky piece of meat.

[video] 8:53 Quite chewy.

[video] 8:55 Mmm. I quite like that. Definitely shellfish. I think the samplies are up today. Okay. Okay. I could eat these. These are pretty good.

[video] 9:18 Not bad. And what's nice about them is they're salted well because they're from the ocean.

[video] 9:25 I did that again. Not bad.

9:28 Oh, that's interesting. He means from the outside, because shellfish and fish themselves don't even have any seawater inside of them, which is pretty interesting, because even the beings that live in the ocean, in seawater, don't even have seawater inside of them. Seeing as no living organism on the surface, as far as I know, maybe there is some kind of crazy exception, some mutated being has salt inside of them. No living organism.

9:57 Not that I've ever heard of one. Because even all of these beings filter it out, don't let it get inside. All the shellfish, none of them. It's pretty interesting when you think about it, how bad salt for you is. That even the beings that live in the salt water, don't let the salt water inside of them.

10:20 The video has a great atmosphere, pretty chill. You could just put this on a big screen, just lay down and watch it. Ideally go and experience it yourself, but if you don't... Yeah, I like his style of filming, editing or whoever does the editing.

[video] 10:46 No point in being hungry. The tide is low and there's limpets all around those rocks.

[video] 11:03 Hello!

11:09 Right on. But the fish you can 100% eat raw. Okay, I don't know this specific fish, but if it would be poisonous, then you would poison yourself whether it's raw or cooked anyway.

11:29 Yeah, when it comes to some shellfish, if I wouldn't know them, maybe I would even try to cook them a little bit. Just because you don't know what you're eating. And mostly only because of the pollution, seeing as it's not that far away from the mainland. There's also lots of plastic on the island. But when it comes to fish, I would just eat it like sashimi. Cut it open and just eat it. Just like any animal.

[video] 11:56 Maybe I have to fillet it. So with these two little small fish, I think they're groper of some sort, I was able to get all the scales off them, gutted them out. But this triggerfish, I can't get the scales off it. I could fillet it the way I would fish back home, but I think that would get rid of too much of the meat and it'd be a little wasteful. So I'm going to just cook it as is and figure out the whole scale thing a little later. And the reason this fish is called a triggerfish is because it has this spike here. And as hard as you press on it, it won't go down until you press this little secondary spike and it just pops right down how do you get it to go back up come on come back up it could go back up but anyways that's why they call it a trigger fish oh yeah the fish is dead obviously it's not gonna go up anymore because it has a little trigger on it all right let's go

12:53 This reminds me of the show Alone also, but they also always cooked everything, although... I think there was one guy who tried eating some raw meat also. What was it? Rabbit or something? I don't know anymore. I watched it years ago. yeah okay it's kind of the conditioning more so people just believe that they need to cook it but as I said as far as survival goes it could be life or death just because you cook the food or ate it raw if you have a lot of food and you cook it you're gonna survive yeah because you're still getting

13:31 maybe most of the nutrients out of the fish but in some cases you could also lose most of them and then if you don't have a lot of food it could really be life or death for you because of how little nutrients you get i thought i left it on there for like 20 minutes but um around the spine is a little undercooked i'm not going to eat that part what is up with this guy 20 minutes is already insanely long. Yeah, then he destroyed most of the nutrients already. Probably like 70-80%. So that's stupid, essentially. And then he doesn't even want to eat the part which is undercooked. Ah, disappointing. Really brainwashed, I guess.

[video] 14:14 I don't really feel like eating raw meat out here and figuring out what happens. We'll leave that one for the birds.

14:20 I could understand it if the water was polluted. Yeah, then I could. If the fish shows some kind of signs of being unhealthy, something. Maybe it's something we didn't see.

14:35 Does this guy eat raw meat in other videos sometimes? Let me know if you know his videos. Maybe he's really just concerned about these waters here. I just don't think so. It seems like he's generally brainwashed.

[video] 14:48 And the ants. Last one. Might as well finish her off, you know?

14:53 The meat of fish should not look white. You know how raw fish looks like. It's not the natural state of the fish.

[video] 15:11 Can't have enough coconut coffees.

[video] 15:15 that was pretty good honestly being able to put some fresh meat into my belly feels really good those limpets last night were surprising i actually quite enjoyed those but just having real fish real fresh fish can't beat it the heat of the day is coming up my sun's looking pretty high in the sky i have a few tasks it's interesting how people call cooked food fresh nowadays even though it's the opposite of fresh oh my god there's a lot of them

15:44 I wonder why he doesn't eat the crabs. Joe Fazer also didn't eat them. He was kind of scared of the crabs, but never even thought of eating them. Maybe there's a reason? They do have strange purple claws.

[video] 16:07 Get out of my bed!

16:17 Do the crabs just take it with their claws and just eat it like that? It's funny to see, I've never seen that before.

[video] 16:23 Just titled it in here.

16:31 It's like he's little friends there. Yeah, the one thing that's gonna in the end make it really difficult is just being alone. You would go completely nuts there. You'd probably think that those are your friends.

16:52 That's funny to see. I've never seen a crab eat something before in general, let alone some coconut. That's cute.

[video] 17:10 my pretties feed getting those coconuts out of those trees was a pain in the butt and i'll admit i think it was uh the morning of day two where i thought that maybe this wasn't possible i started climbing those trees or at least attempted to and it's just i wasn't getting my myself up any of those coconut trees so finding that big stick really helped procure water from coconuts and once i got a big stash of them I felt a lot more comfortable being out here. And boy, was it ever a lot of work to crack open coconuts to drink, just sometimes just a little sip of water. That was tedious, tedious work. I know I'm going to go back home and just appreciate the fact that I can just drink water right from my tap using a glass, as opposed to... Well, from the tap, you shouldn't drink any water.

17:51 It's bad in every country.

[video] 17:52 Lots of food. Food was in abundance. I don't feel too hungry. Rescue boat's gonna be here in about an hour. Pretty excited to be picked up. But, you know, honestly, I really, really like it out here. Like, this place just has such beauty and so much life. It's remarkable. Definitely excited to have a shower, clean the gunk from under my fingernails, all the crap out of my hair, and get rid of all the scratches and itches and cuts and nicks and sand flea bites on my legs. Amazing trip. I'm really grateful for this one. Time to tear down camp and get ready for pickup. Hope you guys enjoyed them as much as I did. Thanks for watching. Have a great day. 94 coconuts that were here. That doesn't even include all the ones that I ate out when I was harvesting them. So that's well over 100 coconuts. Wow.

18:40 A pretty good video overall. I liked watching it. I didn't fully understand his obsession with cooking the food, especially so much. Maybe there's something that I missed. Maybe the waters are pretty bad there. As I said, if you know if he cooks his food in his other videos, then let me know. Surely, if you catch some deer, birds, whatever animals, you could eat the meat raw. That he's maybe cautious about the shellfish is somewhat understandable. The fish themselves, I don't understand. I would have just eaten them raw. Or at the very least, try a small piece. That should be a rule in general, even in this system that we live in, not on some island.

19:31 If you're not sure about any kind of meat, there's something off about it looks-wise, smell-wise, taste-wise, whatever the case, you just try a little piece and then you wait some hours and Pretty much in an hour or two you should already notice if you got food poisoning. It should be a slight sign of nausea, just an off feeling in your stomach and then you will know that you ate something slightly poisonous maybe and then of course you can cook it to destroy and neutralize the toxins. That's why people cook their food nowadays. Because the factory farmed animals are not really edible raw. Maybe some lean muscle meat, but for the most part it's too toxic to be eaten raw. And if the waters were somewhat polluted, then I could understand why you would not do that.

20:30 That's why you can't eat polar bear liver raw, seeing as it's full of cadmium and other toxic heavy metals. There are some animals which for sure, because of where they live, should not be eaten raw. sometimes even cooked when they are really poisonous of course this is something that we understand in nature for the most part you can eat most animals normal herbivorous animals that eat grass sticks and whatever of course you can eat them raw and when you see a snake which is bright yellow you don't even think about getting close to it anyway because usually the colors indicate poisons. It means stay away from it. This animal is dangerous. I didn't really see that in the shellfish or the fish, maybe the crabs, because they had these purple claws. They looked kind of strange.

21:26 I would still try them, smell them, put my tongue to the flesh and see if there's anything off. If there isn't, I would just eat them the way they are. Other than that, He seems like a cool guy, just somewhat brainwashed, still a lot better than Joe Fazer. Hopefully he didn't go back and just eat a pizza covered in seed oils right away. I think that he is at least somewhat more connected to nature. Yeah. All right. Thanks for watching.