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Wow, some people think Gates is whitty and chrasmatic?


I must be watching some other show. He comes off as a douche half the time, and an ignorant sleaze the other half. I watched a few episodes on netflix and lets see the charming things he did
- Goes out of his way to insult local cuisine, yea we get it you cant handle bugs, yet he still tries to script in every episode where he samples some bugs and then its like that's nasty
- I mean in one episode he says it to the women's face, that her bowl of caterpillars are disgusting, stay classy josh.
- In Thailand he goes to the market and shows the same bug fair, has he ever gone to a Thai restaurant. They have fantastic food, every try pad thai. Not every country subsists on bugs
- he jumps at every shadow and noise, hell half his team does; if I am investigating something I wont shout to the high heavens and then run after it like a madman, ever heard of stealth
- he always quits midway in all of his investigations, like the one about the fish in the river, oh a lighting storm, yea its dangerous but arguably half the stuff you search to find is dangerious and it should come with the territory; or all of his dives, oh a saw something, and bam everyone is concerned about his safety so he comes up immediatley; if the explorer's of old cried to momma every time they scrapped there knee, we would get no where
- this moron cant identify jack, like when they went to investigate goblin thing in Madagascar, and he saw something on the thermal cam; the blind could tell it was some sort of quadruped, probably a cat or something, yet he was making it out to be some sort of unknown
- and of course my favorite is the mokemebe embeme episode; he misidentifies hippos, anyone with half a brain could have thought thats what it was at first glance, yet this dimwit has to go take it and have it analyzed and cleared before hes like yea its hippos
- and here is the kicker, because the great Josh Gates is an idiot and misidentified hippos, he has conclusively proved with a days worth of searching a lake the size of a state that it doesnt exist; clearly the locals cant have more common sense then gates and discern the differences
-this would not even be a fraction of the things I find wrong with the man, oh and those jokes you guys love so much suck, oh look Gates pulled out a bra from his shirt to get free drinks, I can stop laughing

- I will give the guy credit that he somehow suckered Sy Fy channel into paying his way to go to pretty every part of the world for free; but honestly if I had a degree from Tufts id almost have to burn it knowing this guy graduated from there

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This guy is a utter tool, only is the host because he is good at narrating, their research is just pathetic.

Josh is also terrible with the heat vision camera, he sees something hot and immediately runs towards it screaming somebody is there, instead of keep filming and let the camera set the correct heat level.

When you do research, you dont stay there for one day and when you find nothing you dont conclude there is nothing there!

But what i hate even more is that something absolutely nothing happens and they add loud music to it and go to the commercials and after commercials you see its nothing.

The start of the show they always show the team mocking around like they are being tourists, we dont care if someone buys souvenirs or doesnt like the local cousine, show them going to the country and go on investigation.

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Really like your writing style! Very funny how you call him a different name every sentence ( moron, douche, sleaze dimwit! hahaha)
Don't take it so serious, I think he's extremely funny and of course they never find anything it's just an entertaining travel comedy show ;)

That was real? I saw that movie, I thought it was bullsh*t

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lets see your show..

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Personally, I've been wondering how he hasn't had a sexual harassment suit filed against him yet.

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