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Flowers’ own introduction to survival blades as a boy was much more American—err, Australian. “I watched Crocodile Dundee way too much as a kid,” he tells Amber. His parents had the movies on VHS, so he could watch the movie’s machete-wielding hero over and over again. “Here’s this dude with a big knife, outside in the Australian outback with a bunch of reptiles,” he says. “Basically, I do that today.”

When it comes to self-preservation, book smarts are just a small part of what you need to survive, Joe Flowers of Bushcraft Global tells Amber Hargrove in this episode of ASGTV. What’s more important is hands-on practice, Flowers says. A machete also comes in handy. Joe Flowers leads a bushcraft expedition in Colombia.