"When you're in this aspect, this mental aspect of survival and isolation is fascinating," he says. "There was a scene for give my cinematic reference here, but in, what's that movie with it? Central Park Animals Go to Madagascar." He describes the psychological shift of what previously you would never consider eating now looks delectable.
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