‘Cause the wilderness forces you to toughen up," Joel unapologetically says in atrailerfor the reality show.

“My initial reaction when I saw them I said some derogatory s***.

[That’s how I saw them],” Malik said in our exclusive interview.

Joel Graves posing

That’s normally the worst thing for me; I don’t like that.

At first, it definitely was hard to take them serious[ly].

“Joel, definitely, he 100% will go for anything,” Malik continued.

Snowflake Mountain’s Sunny Malik

“He’s very spontaneous.

I really liked watching that, and I definitely took some of that from him.

Matt, he’s an emotional guy.

I feel like we had some deep talks.

We had some good, nice emotional conversations.

They’re both really solid guys.

My first impression was wrong.

They’re not [alpha types who would] spit [in] your face.

They’re genuinely sweethearts.”

“Snowflake Mountain” is now streaming on Netflix.