Cody Lundin

{{Short description|American reality television survival show star}}

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|name = Cody Lundin

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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|3|15|mf=y}}

|birth_place = Yavapai County, Arizona, US

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|known_for = Former co-host of Discovery Channel's Dual Survival

|occupation = Survival instructor, TV personality, motivational speaker

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Cody Lundin {{cite news | author=Stanley, John | date=June 10, 2010 |url=http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/2010/06/10/20100610arizona-man-on-reality-show.html |title=Discovery Channel's 'Dual Survival' show features Arizona expert |publisher=The Arizona Republic |accessdate=2012-08-08}}{{cite journal|title=Meet Cody Lundin|journal=Bushcraft & Survival Skills|issue=50|page=56}} (born March 15, 1967) is a survival instructor at the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, which he founded in 1991. There he teaches modern wilderness survival skills, primitive living skills, urban preparedness, and homesteading.{{cite web |url=http://ecosainstitute.org/faculty-and-speakers/ecosa-faculty-biographies.html#lundin |title=Ecosa Faculty Biographies: Cody Lundin |publisher=Ecosa Institute |accessdate=2012-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120807175754/http://ecosainstitute.org/faculty-and-speakers/ecosa-faculty-biographies.html#lundin |archive-date=2012-08-07 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.bk.psu.edu/Information/News/Archive/33859.htm |title=Cody Lundin from Dual Survival shares adventures |publisher=Penn State Berks |accessdate=2012-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630225324/http://www.bk.psu.edu/Information/News/Archive/33859.htm |archive-date=2013-06-30 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/dual-survival/bios/ |title=Dual Survival Experts: Cody Lundin |publisher=Discovery Channel |accessdate=2012-01-23}} Lundin was also a former co-host of Discovery Channel's reality television series, Dual Survival.{{cite web |author=Dawn, Randee |date=June 10, 2010 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65A0FG20100611 |title=Odd couple battle elements in Dual Survival |publisher=Reuters |accessdate=2012-08-07}}{{cite web |author=Newman, Eve |date=October 8, 2010 |url=http://www.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2010/10/08/outdoors/doc4caeabe383a49768119313.txt |title=Laramie grown wild: Taking survival to the extreme |publisher=Laramie Boomerang |accessdate=2012-08-07 |archive-date=2020-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616001203/https://www.laramieboomerang.com/news/outdoors/laramie-grown-wild/article_a728fc60-1ef8-5017-92fc-ddaeb42131d7.html |url-status=dead }}

Lundin is an only child whose father was in the military. He spent his early childhood moving around until finally settling in Laramie, Wyoming, where he attended junior high and high school. After graduating from high school he lived on the streets, in a commune, in the backyards of friends, and then in a brush shelter while he attended college in Prescott, Arizona. Lundin holds a B.A. in Depth Psychology and Holistic Health from Prescott College.{{cite web |url=http://www.ecosa.org/#!cody |title=Cody Lundin |publisher=Ecosa Institute |accessdate=2012-08-07}}

Lundin is the author of two books on survival and preparedness: 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive and When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes.{{cite web | title=Bios: Cody Lundin | url=http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/dual-survival/bios/cody-lundin.htm | publisher=Discovery Channel | accessdate=14 April 2014 | archive-date=24 June 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624022223/http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/dual-survival/bios/cody-lundin.htm | url-status=dead }} Lundin has also provided a foreword for Steve Hart's Citizen Survivor's Handbook, a parody of British wartime propaganda focusing on the importance of psychological endurance in times of crisis.{{cite book |last1=Denham |first1=Richard |title=Citizen Survivor Tales |publisher=BLKDOG Publishing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSyiEAAAQBAJ&dq=Citizen+Survivor%27s+Handbook+Cody+Lundin&pg=PA163 |language=en}}

In 2004, Lundin hosted the Discovery Channel show, Lost in the Wild.{{cite news |author=Nellans, Joanna Dodder |date=May 9, 2010 |url=http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?TypeID=1&ArticleID=80915&SectionID=198 |title=Local survival teacher gets Discovery Channel TV series |publisher=The Daily Courier (Arizona) |accessdate=2012-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060822/http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?TypeID=1&ArticleID=80915&SectionID=198 |archive-date=September 21, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

Lundin was a co-host of the television series Dual Survival from 2010 until 2014. On the show, Lundin demonstrated various survival skills while wearing shorts in all weather and going barefoot. On February 17, 2014 Lundin announced on his Facebook page and on his website that he had been fired from the series due to differences of opinion on matters of safety.{{cite web|last=Lundin|first=Cody|title=Dual Survival Update|url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=759248614087344|work=Facebook|accessdate=6 March 2014}}{{cite web|last=Lundin |first=Cody |title=Dual Survival Update |url=http://www.codylundin.com/wordpress/dual-survival-update/ |work=Cody Lundin Blog |accessdate=6 March 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306190003/http://www.codylundin.com/wordpress/dual-survival-update/ |archivedate=6 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}

Lundin says that he lives off-the-grid in a self-designed, passive solar earth home in the high-desert wilderness of northern Arizona, collecting rainwater, composting waste, and paying nothing for utilities.{{cite news |author=Stanley, John |date=November 1, 2007 |url=http://www.azcentral.com/travel/arizona/features/articles/1101cody1102.html |title=Survival guide aimed at complacent urbanites |publisher=The Arizona Republic |accessdate=2012-08-07}}{{cite web |author=Lundin, Cody |title=About Cody Lundin |url=http://www.codylundin.com/bio.html |accessdate=2012-08-07}}

Lundin created, produced and hosted The Survival Show with Cody Lundin. Season One of The Survival Show with Cody Lundin was launched in February of 2024. Season Two of The Survival Show with Cody Lundin was launched in March of 2025. Part parody, part variety show, The Survival Show with Cody Lundin is his rebuttal to corporate TV survival shows which often showcase inaccurate survival information.