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jakke:

Walking up to November’s midterm elections, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) pitched Discovery on the idea of recording them as they spent six days and nights on an island.  They swore to find common ground through compromise - I know, we’ve heard that gag before from Congress.

But in Rival Survival, which is set to premiere October 29 at 10 PM ET/PT, the two political enemies spent six days together on Eru, one of the Marshall Islands, which Discovery describes as an utterly unforgiving deserted destination where the reefs are fraught with venomous stonefish, lionfish and scorpion fish. It’s also home of the largest shark sanctuary in the world - more than 2,000,000 square miles of Black Tip Sharks, Oceanic White Tip Sharks, Grey Reef Sharks, Bull Sharks and Tiger Sharks, among others.

So we can promise you a happy ending — even if it’s only two fewer senators.

Using only their wits - and three modest items of their choosing - the senatorial adversaries foraged around seeking ways to survive. You know, like a week of fundraising.

Hey so a fairly right-wing Republican and a fairly left-wing Democrat (neither of whom is up for re-election) have shot a Survivor-type show together which they themselves pitched to the network. This is not a parody article - this is literally a reality show about two US Senators taking a week off from running the country to wander around some deserted atoll together. This would sound hackneyed and contrived it if was happening in some kind of science fiction mildly-dystopic political satire, but actually it’s a very real thing that’s happening in very real life.

I remember hearing some interview with Flake (on NPR or something?) where apparently this is an actual hobby of his. He just gets dropped on islands with nothing and survives for a week and gets picked up later. I just.