Naked and Afraid XL (2015–…): Season 7, Episode 4 - Gary Eats All the Things - full transcript
- yeah, baby! - We did it.
- This is what it's all about.
- We got our gator.
What a win today.
Everything out here,
we worked for. We have earned this gator.
And we have worked so hard
together as a team and a community,
it makes my heart smile.
All right, well,
let's gut her here on the side.
We're going to gut it here because we
have such a bad fly problem where we're at,
and this is where we're gonna use
some of the bait anyways to hook this.
If you start from the side,
we can dump her out from the side,
so we don't touch the skin.
Okay. You've done this before?
Uh, I've only done it twice.
Okay, well,
you've done it twice more than I have.
Take the head off,
you can carry the head and
we'll carry parts of the body.
The tail is the heaviest part,
too.
So we can either go one,
two, and three.
- Just cut her in lengths?
- Yeah.
Amber's just making the calls.
Being a general,
just letting us know what to do.
I'm willing to jump on it and
follow amber through this process.
This is a dinosaur, guys.
It's a huge accomplishment.
This is a 200-pound
8-foot alligator.
This is a dream meal.
The guys are doing a great job.
They're stripping
out the membrane.
They're about ready to pull
everything out. It's going really well.
- There's the intestines.
- Like it wants to spill out.
- It's a lot.
- There's a lot of guts here.
Nicely done.
When you get a kill that big,
it's a huge morale booster.
Our skills are being implemented
precisely perfect together.
We should get this meat back
and start processing
as soon as possible.
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna cure the tail and start heading back.
Yeah,
I'll work on getting the hook.
It's in the belly.
So proud of you, max.
Yeah!
Alligator day, baby.
And this will last us for about five
days if we process this meat correctly.
I'm going through the guts,
and I'm searching
for the armadillo head.
We not only ate the armadillo,
but we used the head as bait
to hit this alligator up.
That would be one less
thing to catch another gator.
You don't just use
that hook once.
That's more opportunities.
We're here for 60 days.
We're back in business.
- You see that jelly roll?
- That's the jelly roll.
That is the tenderloin
of the alligator.
It's the freshest white meat and
it's just like eating a fresh tenderloin.
It just like falls
apart. It's so good.
- The hook's rebaited with the same head.
- Nice, dude.
- Good job, gary.
- The same armadillo head?
- No way.
- So we're still hunting for gator.
Nice.
How are we gonna set the meat?
We gotta cut the meat in strips,
- but we have to smoke a lot of it.
- Yeah.
This is just something
that we're so grateful for.
Just doing the right thing. Working
together as a team and making it happen.
Hey, max,
will you give me a hand?
Yeah, no problem.
What? dude!
What the heck is that?
Oy vey.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
As one team
relishes their success,
six miles away, jeff and steven
have eyes on their own big prize.
- See that?
- Oh, yeah.
- That's gotta be eight plus.
- He's a monster, dude.
Oh, my god!
- We gotta get a gator, man.
- Yes.
Now, that is the priority.
- Totally.
- We've got to get a gator.
We need a solid meal.
This will be day three that me
and jeff haven't eaten anything.
We need protein. We need food.
- We've got limited bait.
- Yeah.
Steven and I,
we're splitting up this morning.
Uh,
we're both taking our fishing poles.
- Good luck, buddy.
- Thanks, man.
Yeah. We need this...
...After a very,
very rough first couple of weeks for us.
I'm gonna experiment with this
new fishing resource on this big log
that jets out into the main
river here that I cleared out.
We need new bait to put
on these alligator hooks,
because of the old deer hide that's sitting
on there now, it's not working. Clearly.
I'm feeling good today.
Positivity breeds success.
We're gonna get out there,
we're gonna rebait those alligator hooks,
and fingers crossed, we're get a dinosaur
on the dinner plate here pretty soon.
Come on, bite it.
Bite it.
Come on, it's yours.
Yes! Oh, please.
Please, lord. Please,
lord. Don't fall off.
Don't fall off, please, lord.
Please, lord,
don't fall off. Please, lord.
Please, lord.
Yes! Yes!
This is what I live for!
This is what I
live for right now!
- - yes!
Hey,
I heard like a light whisper.
- What?
- Did you catch something?
- - I don't know what you heard.
- Holy. -
- yeah! - yeah, baby!
Holy, that's awesome!
- Yeah. - Yeah!
- This is enough to bait the hook...
- and eat!
- Give me a hug, man.
- You're the best partner, dude.
- That's awesome.
- You're the best partner.
- That is awesome. -
- dude.
- Man! Just when I was starting to lose hope, too.
That's when it happens.
That is awesome.
Ten miles to the west,
ej and sarah carry
on as a twosome,
after cold sleepless nights led
suzanne to leave the challenge.
And then there were two.
These are great for the apex.
- We can climb up there and put 'em up. Once we...
- all right.
A new beginning
at chateau de la swamp.
The extra hands for
survival tasks will be missed.
On the other hand,
now sarah and I have one less
mouth to feed at the moment.
- I gotta climb up.
- All right.
- You gotta spot me.
- Okay. You going up now?
Let's do it.
And sarah and I will
take care of each other.
We're gonna do everything we
can to keep ourselves in this fight.
- Perfect. Yeah, that did it.
- Awesome.
Ej and I have an
excellent camaraderie.
I think we balance
each other out.
And there's nobody in the world
that I would rather be stuck out here
in the cold swamp with than ej.
- Ah, I'm slipping.
- Dive off, dive off.
I got you. I got you.
I got you. I got you.
- cool. - Down to earth.
- Thanks, ej. - You're welcome.
I'm ready to score some food.
Heading down to
check my fishing line.
As far as roles go, sarah,
she's the homesteader.
Damn good at it.
She's good at fire.
Sure could use
a hot meal this morning.
I'm pretty much the hunter.
I'll do whatever I have to
do to get food on our table,
and be a good teammate.
Wow, the water level is so low!
Man! I'm gonna have to reset all
this stuff when the tide gets back in.
This is awful.
All right. Something
got the bait on this one.
Go down to the end of the
point. Check that last line.
We burned through
a lot of firewood...
...In the cold,
so I'm reorganizing the firewood here.
Stockpiling wood here.
And I'm just trying to make it as
organized and clean as possible.
Came into this challenge knowing
that the cold was going
to be a serious challenge,
but I'm a fire master.
And I just need to try to stay
vigilant about managing it.
Keeping the fire at a good
level to be able to stay warm
and not freeze to
death every night.
Nine miles to the north,
ryan, rylie and matt
gorged on their first
gator kill of the challenge...
Who knew survival would be so filling,
huh?
...And are feeling at
home in the swamp.
It's team work to
make the dream work.
Seen any gators
swimming around today?
- So far I've not seen any cruising.
- No.
The gator jerky is running low.
We know it's dwindling.
We need to have
a big success soon.
And the colder it gets,
the fewer chances at gators we'll have.
Oh, maggot galore.
My lord!
I mean,
you almost can't see the meat,
there's so much maggots on it.
That's perfectly brewed.
Ugh!
I'm gonna grab this rotten,
maggot-covered alligator intestine
and feed it on there.
There we go.
The stinkiest bait
I've ever worked with.
All right. I think it's all it
needs as far as stankiness.
Out here,
you cannot brush your teeth,
which leads to a lot of dental
problems after the challenge,
and so, just take a piece
of char coal from the fire.
Rub it in.
Rub it around.
Crunch on it.
And then I take some water.
We definitely got a little spoiled
with our hordes of fresh meat.
I know that we're
running out of jerky,
so hopefully we'll have another
gator soon.
Until then,
it's kinda gross and it's not fun,
but it makes your
teeth feel kinda clean.
Every day,
small wins. That's how you get to 60 days.
All right.
- Piece of the intestines are covered in maggots.
- That'll do.
I think it's time for some fresh
gator meat and jerky, you know?
- Mm-hmm. Looks smelly enough.
- Yeah.
What do mean it
smells? It's not bad at all.
Dude,
I don't know how you do it.
Made me nauseous.
- It's bad. - Bad.
It is real bad.
Sure would be nice to
have some fresh gator meat.
Yeah, it would.
- I think this is the perfect spot.
- Heck, yeah.
If it worked last time,
it should work again.
- Yeah, I think it looks pretty good.
- Yeah.
I think so's the tide. I think
tide's gonna be sitting here,
might come up a little bit,
might go down. But I think it's...
It's in the zone for either way.
- Come get dinner, guys. - Yep.
I think easy bait, smells that good.
I think they're gonna have to take it.
- I'll take a big piece, if you don't mind.
- There you are.
Oh, here we go. Cheers.
Thanks for cooking.
- Good job. - Mm, wow.
Mm.
Oh, man. When I
take my first bite of that gator,
it's heaven. There's parts of it that
are just sweet and a cross between
chicken and fish.
- Wow. - Absolutely delicious.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm...
We're cookin' butt now.
- mm! - Woah.
Ugh, I'm havin' hunger pangs
for the first time in days.
Because now,
my stomach knows it's gonna eat.
Yeah, I know, right?
This is big,
man. We needed this bad.
Yeah, we did.
- Cheers, buddy. - Cheers, man.
Mm.
Oh!
- Oh! - Just can't even...
- Oh!
- Well, can't even describe it.
- Oh, and the hot oils...
- mm-hmm.
This is one of the best
meals I've ever had in my life.
I feel my body literally absorbing it,
like, right now.
I have goosebumps right now.
To have a nice, big catfish in our
bellies is just the biggest blessing ever.
Not only that, we're gonna take the catfish
head and rebait our alligator hooks.
So, I'm hoping either tonight or
tomorrow, we'll have lizard on the hook.
- first food burp? - Fishy burp!
Mm.
The fire master!
- Ej...
- The tide is way down.
- Okay.
- And it was messing with the lines.
Too bad.
But here's some stuff
to put in the back side.
Cedar grasses.
Awesome! That's really good stuff,
ej. Thank you.
You're a beast.
It's pretty cold again.
We've got the fire going.
Feels like another
cold front is moving in.
It's gotten substantially
chillier tonight
than it was at the
beginning of the night.
Even the fire is doing not that
much to warm my chilly, chilly bones.
Oh, my god! Holy crap! Look out!
Oh, my god! Holy crap! Look out!
We almost lit our
shelter on fire last night.
That sucker went up like...
put a few of the logs out,
let the others burn.
- That was pretty crazy, huh, sarah?
- Yep.
It's nuts out here, man.
It's really, really crazy cold.
Let's do it. Let's get this cold
out of the way, shall we?
Yeah, let's.
Pack 'em and stack 'em.
We're collecting more palm
fronds for thatching our roof.
The palm fronds are from the
heat of the fire in the openness,
they're starting to cook.
- so to replace that amount of stuff...
- Ow!
...On our shelter,
immense amount of work.
Yeah.
Holy, sarah.
There's my little
110-pound tank.
Ugh!
Keep going.
Sarah, she's got a great
attitude and she's pretty tough.
- -But it will get colder.
So we gotta continue to improve
on the shelter as much as possible,
to try and stay warm.
Yes, chateau, sweet chateau.
Welcome to our world.
So far, there is an a frame that max
built together, which is pretty amazing.
We have about a total of
35 pounds just from the tail.
Not including the rest of the body,
a 200 pound gator at 8 feet almost.
We're dripping in meat.
Just dripping in meat.
It's hard to beat.
This is pretty special.
Meat management 101.
Aww, some of those are already going bad.
Like many reptiles,
alligators contain a high number
of parasites and worms.
Making such diseases as salmonella
and botulism a serious threat
if not properly
handled and cooked.
There are many risk
factors when it comes to gator meat.
And gary over here
will eat anything.
There are so many times I look
at what he eats and I'm like, eh-eh.
I can't do that. I don't want
to risk getting sick out here.
Phew. We're gonna eat real good.
- Seriously? - Yeah.
Can't share what nobody wants.
In a survival situation,
the smartest thing you could possibly do
is to not let one single
thing go to waste.
Mm-mm...
I don't understand
people that won't eat everything
when it comes to this,
this isn't restaurant time.
No, you eat what you got and
you eat as much as you can.
Cut it all up.
Cut it all right there.
- See, that's a lot of meat.
- Yeah.
- Thank you. - Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna cut
this fish head in half.
- Yeah.
- Put half on this one, half on the other one.
Dude,
you're the gator man, I trust you.
It's gonna be a nice piece
of gator bait right there.
If that's not good gator bait,
I don't know what is.
With the raw hide,
it was good but it wasn't fresh.
It wasn't meat.
It had a rank smell to it,
but this is something they're gonna be
more used to. I mean,
they swim with these every day.
Got the new bait set up.
Lotta gators caught come
in here and chill and rest,
we've seen a couple
in this exact spot.
Oh, my god!
Looks like we got
mondo over there.
He's at least eight feet.
- I saw mondo...
- no way!
- ...Upstream about 300 yards.
- Get outta here.
- Yeah. -
okay.
I'm gonna go
rebait that other one.
- Cool, buddy.
- All right, buddy. I'll be back.
The winter's coming.
And with winter,
especially with the food sources out here,
majority of them
are cold blooded.
And once that cold
weather really hits,
all those alligators
are gonna go dormant.
So, it's essential that we jump
on this as soon as possible.
Get an alligator on the line,
and get as big of a meat bank as we can,
coming into these colder months.
He's close to shore right now.
My heart is already beating.
Just the thought
of taking him down.
That's a large gator.
This is the closest I've
seen him to shore yet.
I'm wondering if he's already
smelling the fish head on the hook.
Here comes another.
We've got two
gators right here in the river.
Oh, my gosh.
We need this.
We have our bait hook out here
on the big willow tree where
we caught the first alligator.
There is nothing on this hook,
and the fish head is still
hanging above the water.
Recently, the water has
completely receded from our area,
taking all the bowfin fish,
all the alligators,
and all the wildlife.
Our strategy for finding
another food source
is to spread out.
So, matt,
he is out there hunting,
so hopefully he comes
back with something.
I haven't seen
an alligator swimming
for three or four days now.
Our best bet is to
expand our horizons a bit,
try to find food
wherever we can.
I've always said on
my past challenges
that every river
has a heartbeat.
And there's a heartbeat to this bayou,
I know it is.
I am trying to follow
something that beats to
a whole different drum than
any place I've ever been.
And because of that
these game animals
are very hard to pinpoint.
You can definitely tell
there's a little bit of a
trail right through here.
It doesn't look like...
Like any constant traffic,
just looks like
one walk through.
I'm looking, you know, real hard
for tracks and signs of things moving.
I've seen some deer tracks.
I haven't seen any hog tracks,
really no raccoon
tracks or nutria slides.
One more time,
I'm gonna have to just cross the water.
The problem is,
this is not the
first time in my life
I've actually feared the water.
You know, I've swam with sharks.
Up! Go up!
It's coming right at us.
I have literally been
in the amazon waters
where who knows what's in there.
This is some caiman
looking territory here.
But right now, I fear the water,
because it seems like
every single time I go in
there and try to cross it,
I seem to come
out with nutria itch.
It's a risk. But,
every day we go without food,
sets us back a little bit.
All those animal tracks are
on the other side of the water.
- Mm-hmm.
- But every time I get into this water,
every time, pretty much,
I come out with something bad.
Wind's blowing pretty,
pretty steady.
We got the fire going,
but the wind is so strong,
and it's blowing in all the cold
and blowing out all the heat.
This is not a very good omen
for the rest of this challenge.
It's gonna be very,
very, very cold.
Oh, god,
I can't even get my brain straight,
it's so cold.
This place sucks.
Bone-chilling.
It's gotta heat
up at some point.
Hopefully, that point is today.
Poor sarah,
she's so skinny, so thin.
So, I'm going to try harder.
Getting ready to go real savage,
real primal,
and get after these
creatures before us
'cause I need it for
me and my partner.
We have to eat.
Got my knife, throwing stick,
and taking the bow.
Better have and not need
than need and not have.
Oh, my god.
I have been working
hard on the shelter
to try to retain any
amount of heat.
Just trying to find some water.
The cold has kinda
messed with me a little bit
psychologically, because
it's been just brutal.
Okay,
this is just... It's just how it is now.
And there's nothing
you can do to escape it.
There it is. All you
gotta do is get there.
Yeah.
There's just one little fire,
one little light
in this expanse of a
swamp surrounded by
frigid everything.
It's just world right now. Okay.
I just hope to be
able to center myself.
Mission accomplished.
Son of a.
All right.
Did the thing.
Oh, man, it's disappointing.
Bait's still there,
you can tell.
The difference in tide is now, like,
three-and-a-half feet above water.
Look, the best height above
the water for these gator hooks
is about 12 inches.
The problem is,
is when you set it for 12 inches
but then the tide
drops three feet.
Now you're four
feet above the water.
And, unless you find, like,
a 12-foot alligator out here,
you'll really not get anything,
so,
it really makes it difficult,
almost impossible to gauge 'cause
the tide has changed so drastically,
differently every single day.
Gotta lower that bait
in the water a little bit,
get it nice and
wet and saturated,
get those juices flowing.
Oh.
- nothing, dude. - Nothing, man.
Tide dropped so much, man,
the bait was, like,
four feet out of the water, you know.
Oh, jeez...
- Yeah, so I set it in the water.
- Yeah.
We had high hopes for that last night,
we really did.
I'm gonna go, uh,
check out the other gator hook.
A whistle and a holler like hell
- means there's a gator there.
- Yes, sir.
Nothing.
Damn it. Same thing
as the other one.
It's trial and error,
but, uh,
tired of trial and error.
I want food. I
want an alligator.
But, can't get discouraged.
You gotta stay positive.
If you don't stay positive,
it will kill you out here.
So gotta keep truckin'.
Just make victory
that much sweeter.
What do we have here?
This is the penis
of an eight-foot alligator.
Oh,
his penis. You're gonna eat that?
- It's just a.
- Come on.
I will puke watching you do that,
so I don't think I should.
No.
Oh, my god, no.
Not in a million
years would I eat that.
I'm not scared of a little.
It's a... It's a golden delight.
Who eats a penis?
Classic gary.
He's doing his gary thing.
He will scavenge the
earth whether it's dead, alive,
half-dead, maybe breathing,
he will eat it.
Have you ever, uh,
eaten alligator penis in the
middle of a louisiana swamp?
I don't think you have.
It's juicy.
- nice. -
I'll take a bite of the balls.
Well, oh. Max is going in.
He's gonna share some
berries with me. Some testicles.
Oh, my,
gosh. It's bleeding still.
There's still blood
coming out of the penis.
- - mm.
Tastes almost like a...
- A little salty.
- ...Like a salty porridge.
Like, almost like rice pudding.
No, no, no. Walking away.
We just tag
teamed some testicles.
Gary's pretty ballsy. Literally.
Waste not, want not.
Revenge of the nutria itch.
- Feels worse.
- It does.
Oh, dude, way worse. It's like
- that's not good. - Nope.
Had it, went away.
Stayed out of the water for five
days. Got back in the water. Got it.
I think I'm actually getting
nutria itch on the back of my leg.
On the back of my knee,
even, now. Look at that.
That has gone all the way
up. That didn't look good.
- -dude,
you gotta stay out of the water.
- -I don't think
there's any question or not,
you're calling the
medic for that one.
Matt now has nutria itch in more than
one place. On multiple places actually.
On the backs of his knees, in his crotch,
and it just really looks miserable.
He's got more nutria itch.
I didn't... I didn't really
notice it before. But back on my...
That has definitely progressed
to something different here.
Yeah.
- Just feels raw.
- Raw?
Like most dangers
on these challenges,
we're some of the biggest
predators in the world,
but it's often the
smallest things
that take us out
and hold us back.
It's crazy to think
something as small as
a tiny little parasite
that gets in your skin...
It really can. It can take
you out of the challenge.
Okay.
Mm-hmm. Okay.
Damn, for such a big guy,
a little wound can take you...
- Can take anyone down.
- Damn little...
This, honestly, probably will
not withstand you swimming for...
Not being able to go
in the water is huge.
It can impact mentally because
I know what I'm capable of
and I know what I can give the team
by getting in the water and doing things.
That, to me, is like taking my hands
and just handcuffing them to a tree.
Hunting in these environments
reminds me of when I was in the army
because you have to be looking all
around so you don't miss that opportunity.
A lot of animals blend into the
surroundings so well, especially the snakes.
I have concerns about being bit by
a venomous snake that I don't see.
However, sarah has some cold issues
and she's losing a lot of weight fast.
So,
to get some food really will help out.
I am going to braid a
tie string for my pelts
so that I can keep warm
and keep my hands free.
Getting a little bit of
work done because
I feel a little traumatized from these
last few days. They were so cold.
This is like moccasin central.
I can smell them. Musky smell.
This may be hard to get
on that log with this spear.
He's got the advantage.
Ah,
you just get your ass
in there. You're dinner.
People think of hell as fiery.
I think of hell as icy,
barren. Bare and icy cold.
It's gonna flop
around my shoulders.
- ej. - Hey, sarah.
- How're you doing, buddy?
- Long and arduous tip.
- Yeah?
- I knew you'd like this.
- Ooh, a little snakey, snakey.
- Yep.
Mm. Yum, yum, yum.
Super excited to have
this guy right here. Look at that.
Me and sarah needed it so bad.
- What do you think, sarah? What do you think?
- I am really excited.
Oh,
yeah. This is just what we needed.
- Mmm.
- It's yours. For the chef.
Mm.
- Oh, look at this.
- Oh, my god.
Man, oh,
man. That snake was on point.
Look at this.
Oh, yeah.
The trek out and back, man,
I was gone a long time.
It kind of wore me out. But
to have that snake now...
I hope that's a big morale
boost for sarah. I hope it'll work.
And then, we can move forward.
Whoo! Awesome.
Great job, ej.
- Glad your hunt was successful.
- Me too.
So, what're you about to do?
We have very little time though
because the flies are gonna
start making their mark.
The flies,
they're pretty aggressive right now.
They're landing on the meat even
though there's some smoke around it.
Right now, we're going into
the shell of the actual gator itself,
cut about three days' worth
because everything's rotting
away really quick out here.
And we've smoked a g...
pretty much a good quarter of our meat
that we haven't eaten so
we can preserve it for later.
Smoking this meat out here
is absolutely necessary because
maggots will get in and
just start writhing, eat it up.
That's why we're paying a lot of
attention to it and just doing it right.
Smoke it and you get a
thin crust on the outside
and a protective layer.
Kind of like that.
The flies can't get in
there and lay their eggs.
And it's imperative to do so
if you wanna keep your meat.
Fly central over here, man.
You just can't escape 'em.
Oh, my god,
these horseflies are eating me up.
Aah, you son of a bitch.
There's these damn flies.
- Oh, jeez louise, these bugs.
- They're biting us.
These flies are no joke.
I even got blood on me.
Whenever the flies bite me, I bleed.
They always leave a little
blood and I get a little infection,
a little white pimple
thing on top of it.
It's pretty gross. They
bite me pretty hard.
These little I hate them.
God, there are always a few
that gotta get their last bites in.
And there's nothing you can do
about it except for try to swat them away,
get in the smoke,
or get in the water.
- Damn flies.
- These flies are no joke.
They ain't playin' around.
I'll go check that rod,
and, make sure that bait's kind
of in the water a little bit more.
Yeah, we need this man.
So,
my line's been in the water all day long,
and having that fresh, bloody, smelly
catfish head hanging above the water,
fingers crossed, I'm super hopeful
we're gonna have a dinosaur dinner.
Ah, man. I'm
pretty sure I've got a fish on here.
No way.
- Oh, yeah, there's a fish on here, baby.
- No way.
- Yeah, there is. - Oh, dude.
- Not an alligator, it's a fish.
- Get it, brother.
Oh, yeah.
Oh!
Look at this!
- Oh, my god! - Whoo-hoo!
Stephen lee hall jr.!
Yeah!
Yeah!
That's a catfish, baby!
Ahhh!
- Look how big it is!
- So big I can't even handle it.
Steven caught a massive catfish.
Steven and I,
we don't stop at mediocrity.
We're not just here
because we're legends,
we're here to prove that we
are the greatest of legends.
- Oh, my god. - Dude!
Mondo's right there.
Oh, my god.
Dude, we're gettin' in.
Oh, he's big.
Yeah.
Oh, he's big.
He wants that bait, dude.
Look at him,
he is just creepin'.
This is the day, right here.
Okay.
Here he comes.
Steven...
We're gonna kill mondo today.
We are gonna kill mondo today.
We're gonna catch
a record catfish,
and a freakin' dinosaur.
- Okay. - Come on, swallow it.
Oh, my god.
Okay.
Let him swallow it.
He's gonna pull it a little bit.
He's gonna do a
couple of big gulps.
He's probably gonna
drag it a little bit.
Yeah.
Okay.
He's takin' it.
He's taking it.
He's takin' it...
come on.
Come on. Okay.
Hook yourself. Come on.
Hook yourself.
He's swimming
the perfect direction.
He needs it in his gut.
Oh god, dude.
Let him just kind
of find a spot.
- Yeah.
- To where it feels like he can...
you want him to sink.
Sink to the bottom
and just swallow it.
- There you go. - Yes
that's a big gulp.
Another big gulp.
This is crazy.
Yes.
Did he let it go?
I think he let it go, bro.
Yeah, I think he let it go.
Yep. He let it go.
Oh, man.
That was intense.
Hey.
- It's okay, dude. - Yeah?
It's okay.
We proved it works.
- Proved it works! - Yeah.
He knows food's here,
he's a lizard.
He's gonna be back.
Yeah.
Don't be too sad.
It's okay, man.
It's all right.
Dude, watchin' dinner swim away,
it never gets easier.
Yeah.
Remember we got 15
pounds of catfish in there to eat.
Yeah.
And we got plenty
of days to catch him.
We're gonna get this guy.
- Let's get out of here.
- All right.
Get up.
Feels like death.
See what we got here.
It's kind of a haul.
That may shore
us up right there.
Well, hello again.
This is sarah, reporting from
exactly the same spot
where I've been
sitting for three days.
Tired of this.
Why?
Louisiana?
Stop being cold, already!
The only thing that's going on right now,
right now,
is me trying not to
die from the cold.
Ugh.
Just for the record,
it's not fun.
It really sucks.
Please make it stop.
What a cold night last night.
Another frigid one.
- Yeah, frigid but...
- it got cold quick last night.
Yeah, it did.
You gotta shut that.
That's a sign of the times.
To power through
these cold nights,
we need to continue working on our shelter,
constantly.
That good, max?
Yeah.
In the process creating,
basically, a log cabin
around our shelter
to prevent any sort of wind,
and to help deflect whatever
weather storms come in here.
So I'm preparing ribs for breakfast,
for my...
...For my team.
Oh, gosh.
Can you see my ribs?
Can you see 'em now?
They're deliciosso!
Since we got this gator,
we're able to snack when we want to.
We've been really conserving the meat,
by smoking the whole carcass,
and just stripping pieces of meat out,
and then boiling it.
It softens up the meat,
it's preserved.
It's a smart way to take that...
...That meat an
extra couple of days.
To sustain us.
And here we are!
- Good jerky, man.
- Wow, look at those!
- Ribs for brekkie! - Oh, wow.
Preparing breakfast,
like I have done the last few mornings,
I am more than happy
to do this for my team,
because they're putting
themselves out for me, as well.
That is delicious.
Man!
I literally feel like mother
nature's provided for us.
We have fish,
we got snakes, I mean...
The hardest thing out here is
not having everything try to eat us.
Um-hum.
Doin' all right?
My fat reserves,
whatever little there
was in the first place,
seems... Depleted.
And now my body's
burning the muscle.
And that's bad.
I think I'm maybe six
or seven pounds lighter,
and it's just about two
weeks I've been out here.
My body's literally
deteriorating.
Just go out there, and just...
Kill whatever I can kill,
and bring it back.
Couple of moccasins,
maybe a nutria would be great.
You'll be okay.
I umm...
- Think I'm gonna head out.
- What?
Yeah.
That cold last night just...
Beat me down.
It's been like, what,
seven... Seven nights?
Almost half the time we've
been out here has been, like,
- freezing cold.
- It's been brutal.
See, if we could just... One more
night wouldn't... Make a difference.
I feel like...
I would end up
being a burden to you.
We're just gettin' started.
I really don't want to feel
like I'm abandoning you.
You're not.
I don't want to feel like...
Sarah, this is your journey,
and if you say this is
where your journey ends,
then you're at peace with it.
But I understand. You've been
getting beat up by the cold so much.
It'll get you on your way,
so you can get some
warm clothes on.
Come on.
Sarah,
she's a rock star in my book.
Thank you, sarah.
Go on. No more cold for you.
I'm disappointed in myself.
With the cold in the
louisiana swamp,
I would not try to do
this challenge again
at this time of the
season. No way.
I knew from the beginning
that the cold was going to be
a fierce and
formidable opponent.
I did not know how
bad it was going to be.
This challenge,
it has taught me a little
something extra about survival.
You gotta tough through
in whatever way you know,
and respect and appreciate
what it takes to
make it 60 days.
I know from experience
that tapping out
can be a really,
really difficult thing
for your mental health.
But I'm just not equipped
to deal with the cold.
Nature got the best of me.
Whew!
And then there was just one.
Here I am again.
I've been here before.
But it's not gonna be easy.
I'm only a quarter
of the way through,
and I've got 45 more
days ahead of me.
And now,
I have to do it by myself.
It's a daunting task ahead.
Who knows how this
journey is truly going to end?
I think it's manger time bro.
- Cheers, buddy. - Cheers, man.
Steven caught the
largest freakin' catfish
I've ever seen
in my entire life.
This catfish is
probably 25 pounds.
It's massive.
I don't know about you,
I like some of the skin on it.
And it's smoky.
What do you think would happen
if we took, like,
some of the skin
and put it on the
hook with our bait?
It's worth a shot.
- Couldn't hurt, right? - Yeah.
Because, I mean,
I know it's cooked,
but... You're tellin' me if you
hung a fried chicken out there,
that a gator's not gonna
eat it because it's cooked?
- I don't buy that. - Yeah.
I think it might help.
I'm cuttin' the skin right now
and I'm gonna go bait that.
Now that is a
well-baited gator hook.
Oh, hell yeah.
Steven!
Come over here!
Yeah.
Is that him or is
that a smaller one?
It looks smaller.
Yeah it's
definitely a smaller one.
Yeah.
Oh, there's mondo right there.
There's mondo.
He's gonna push this
little guy out of here,
because this is his territory.
That's his food. He's
gonna feel threatened.
Yup.
And he's gonna come in.
The competition could be good.
It could cause him to
swallow it immediately.
Dude,
we have two gators on our bait right now.
I know.
He might be waiting
for after dark too.
Yup.
They are nocturnal predators.
Yeah.
I say we let 'em be.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll just keep a low profile.
Yup.
This morning I woke up
with the nutria itch.
Now I also have
this parasitic worm
growing inside of me in
different areas of my body,
my genitals,
the backs of my knees,
and it's nothing...
Nothing to take lightly.
It's a true extra handicap
to the challenge for sure,
'cause, you know,
it's tough enough, but now it's...
Now part of our... Part
of what we're good at.
Swimming, sneaking through the water,
and you know, getting stuff.
That's at least five
days to a week without
- water submersion.
- Really?
I'm the only one left.
And so for me,
I will not be another
casualty around here.
Mm-mm.
Our jerky is running out.
I'm building the fish basket
so that we have another
shot at getting food.
Any time you can
get better odds out here for survival,
for food,
you should definitely do that,
and that's what we do
on this level of survival.
Let's see if we catch a fish.
Well, it would be perfect
if I could shoot one
and retrieve it somehow.
Man, it's worth a shot.
We know we have to stay out of the water,
so...
It is the only option.
So for the first time ever,
I have to figure out
how to bowfish these fish
without getting in the water,
and we're gonna have to be
able to retrieve these arrows.
Looking back on our
first ten days of this challenge,
we were on such a high.
We had no reason to think that we
wouldn't be able to continue on that level,
and we have reached a low,
a very low point.
I'm going to take
my toggle bowfishing setup
and try to attach line
to this arrow safely
and try to see if I can
shoot one of these mullet.
Now we gotta
improvise yet again.
But you know what,
that's what we've been
doing this whole time.
We'll see if we can make it work,
hopefully.
This is
one of the biggest gators
I've ever seen in real life.
- This guy is big...
- He's at least eight feet.
Oh, baby.
Oh, my gosh!
We've gonna give mondo a baby.
Look at the line,
look at the line.
Look at him.
He's deep in, dude.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah!
Oh, my god,
swallow it all the way.
- There it goes. There it goes.
- Right down.
All the way down in your gut.
Down the gullet.
Dude,
it's happening. It's happening right now.
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
We're gonna give mondo a baby.
We're not gonna
get any sleep tonight.
No,
we're not gonna get any sleep.
He swallowed it
one hundred percent.
He saw it,
picked up its head and everything.
Multiple times.
He gulped it all the way down.
We just hooked mondo, baby!
- Mondo! - Yeah!
My god!
It's dark right now.
We can't do anything.
It's gonna be a long night,
but it's smart.
If we try to pull him out
of the water right now...
Uh, one of us would be hurt.
I mean, this is a... This is
not a three or four foot gator.
This is a man-eater.
It is. It is.
And so we gotta
wait till sunlight.
And tonight,
we send up a prayer to god.
And we ask him to please
ensure that that gator
does not come off that hook
throughout the night.
If we do get this gator
tomorrow morning,
it's gonna be something special.
I'm now a lone wolf out here.
On our first night alone,
just me and my buddy fire here.
Both suzanne and sarah
kept the fires burning,
but now it's just gonna
be a big test for me.
Making sure they don't
burn the shelter down.
I'm gonna make the best of it,
keep going,
keep pushing forward and
just see what comes of it.
- I'm praying he's still on that line.
- Yeah.
There it is.
- I can see him.
- You can see him?
- Oh, my god! - Yes!
See,
he's threatened right now...
you see how
he's opening his mouth?
Oh, yeah. He's comin' to us.
All right. Okay,
so game plan. So, if you wanna
- start reeling him in...
- Okay.
- ...Nice and slow.
- Yeah, that's the plan.
Once he gets
a little bit closer,
- I'll throw the treble, and I'll get a second hook...
- Yeah.
- ...In the back end around his tail or back legs.
- Yeah. Tail or back leg.
Yeah. So, once he gets on land,
you're gonna mount him.
- Yeah, I'm gonna mount him.
- You're gonna jump on the back of him.
Yeah.
We want his whole body up on shore,
nothing in the water.
An alligator can turn on a dime.
And its bite force
is one of the strongest
bite forces in nature.
When you're doin' that,
I'm gonna come
in with the noose.
And, uh,
if that gets ahold of your arm,
and he decides to death roll,
you're losing your arm.
- I'll hold his mouth shut.
- Yeah.
- Okay? - Yeah.
- Then you come in...
- I come in with the kill shot.
- With the kill shot.
- Put the knife right through
- the back of his neck.
- Right here. Yeah.
- And you just dig in till...
- And I'm not gonna stop until...
- ...His head's almost cut off.
- ...I feel his neck... Yeah.
- Seriously.
- Yeah. I'm not stopping.
Okay.
- okay? - All right.
I'm gonna try and get him
more broadside towards you, okay?
Yeah. All right. All right.
Our order of operations,
who does what, is very calculated.
Especially,
when it's me and jeff on our own,
competing against a
300-pound alligator.
- Okay.
- Okay. Try to snag him here.
One...
Two...
...Three!
Okay. I've got a good grip here.
One, two, three!
- It came out.
- Do it again right now.
- It's going back. It's going back.
- Yeah. All right.
- All right. - It's going back.
- All right. Be careful.
- Yeah.
- One... - One, two, three!
All right. Okay.
- Okay. Okay.
- I got him. I got him.
All right.
No, no. I got him,
baby. I got you, steven.
I got you!
- Okay. - tie it off.
Attaboy. Okay.
Might want to get a stick,
push the bag off his face.
He's eating the bag.
- Yeah. There we go.
- Okay. Right.
- Couple more wraps.
- Yeah.
Yeah! Oh!
- Yes! - I got it.
Yeah!
All right, baby.
- All right. You got him.
- Okay.
Go down a little bit. Put your
finger on it, you can feel it.
- Yeah. - Okay.
- yes! -
- there it is! - Yes.
Textbook.
- Bring him to the gut log, right?
- Yeah.
Ah, this is beautiful.
- Yeah, bro. - We did it, bro.
- good job. -
this gator is more than food.
Giving your life so we
can continue ours out here.
- We got to get on building a smoker.
- Yeah.
- This changes the entire challenge for us.
- Everything.
- Legends. - Legends.
If this isn't legendary...
I don't know what is.
We're on top, baby.
- We are on top. - Yes.
Whatever comes in,
and can't figure its way out,
works for me.
Well, the cordage is really nice,
actually.
That's the one thing
this place has to offer,
is good cordage.
But the issue is...
It takes so much for
something this size.
Ugh.
This is a process.
A long process.
Look at that school out there.
Just need to
get a little closer.
Whoa. Look at 'em all.
Can't get in the water
because we're gonna get this
roundworm parasite again.
So,
I'm trying to figure out a way to bow fish
from the shore
so that we don't have
to go in after the fish.
So, when I go to shoot,
you'll actually hold it,
like, next to my bow,
- as close as you can get to it.
- Yeah.
And we'll see how she flies.
All right. I'm just gonna take a shot,
see how this works.
- no. - Almost.
- If there was...
- That got tied up there.
Ryan and I set up
some of the white cord
that's inside of
the 550 paracord.
Well,
that doesn't quite work right,
it's a little bit too light,
ends up tangling in mid-flight.
And...
This arrow's light.
Made for shooting
high-speed at big game.
Hollow.
By filling it with water,
it'll make it heavier,
make it actually have
a neutral buoyancy in the
water instead of floating.
- It's about 20% heavier.
- That's perfect.
This time,
do little figure-eights,
kinda like this, maybe.
We'll see if that helps.
All right. Ready?
Wait. Ready, okay.
Ah! See, now it came off.
Son of a bitch.
It's just the way that the
line comes out so fast,
it whips backwards, forwards,
like it's...
- there's so much velocity coming out on that reel.
- Oh.
So frustrating not
being able to get in the water.
This is.
Arrow breaks off.
Now the arrow's out on its own.
It's only 30 feet away or so,
but it might as well be 100.
We'll go fishing
for our arrow now.
Right now,
it's super-frustrating.
I don't think we've had a
day where we don't work on the shelter.
I know. It'll be nice
when it's finished.
I'm just glad we got that gator.
Yeah. For sure.
- Oof.
- All right.
Bones. I save 'em. I call
'em nature's tupperware.
'cause there's nutrients
locked inside of 'em.
I don't let anything
go to waste.
So you got marrow in there.
That's edible.
That's the tongue right there,
gary's gonna eat it.
I'm trying to cut this away so I
can salvage the head for max.
That head's huge.
I would like to keep it forever.
I say, let's do it.
It's gonna be your
trophy gator right here.
- There's your gator head.
- Hell, yeah.
And maybe one of their teeth,
so I can give it to my son.
Of course.
Max and amber, they want to
keep the head for memories.
But I'm in the zone of
devouring it for survival.
I'm gonna be honest with
you guys. The feet, the head,
I don't want that
saved and taxidermed.
Like, I'm here to eat,
that's, like, my food.
That's how I really feel.
I'm, like,
everybody's taking my food away.
The brain already went to waste,
the feet already went to waste.
- Nobody said no to the feet.
- Yeah.
- No one said no to the feet.
- I wasn't sure what was up,
so, I'm just telling you
where I was coming from.
- No, for sure. I understand.
- I'm a guy that'll definitely eat the feet.
I still might eat those feet.
I probably would
not recommend that.
Oh.
And then you'd watch me do it?
Kick-ass.
I ripped out all the
meat I possibly could
and gave it to gary in a pile,
and he still wants more.
See,
I don't give a I'll roll that way
out of spite and eat maggot-y
food in front of you guys.
- Give it up.
- Give what up?
- I ain't givin' up, dude.
- Give it up, man.
You don't tell me to give it up,
bro.
I'm a hard-headed!
- I ain't givin' up, dude.
- Give it up, man.
You don't tell me to give it up,
bro.
I'm a hard-headed!
Yeah,
we're gonna use every ounce of that gator.
It's what needs to be done
right now. This isn't camping.
This is survival.
We're here eating all the parts.
That's right.
I actually thought
about eating my share,
just eating it
in front of you...
You know?
I don't want to see gary leave
on some stupid shenanigans.
He's putting himself
on the line for every bite.
It's not like we don't
have enough food to eat.
This is no pipe dream,
this is the realest deal.
True survival style.
I roll like that.
We have different
thought processes,
and mine is truly in the
deep primitive mind of...
The human living off the
land and the caveman.
Everything is to be
used for nourishment.
It's a no-brainer.
Gary gets so frustrated. Like,
he wants
to push the envelope of
being a scavenger/ survivalist.
And by him taking the risk,
he's hurting the team,
essentially.
Tongue time.
Oh, god. How is it?
Kind of buttery.
- There's, like, a yolk taste.
- Yeah?
I might have a stomach
that stomachs it where others can't.
I'm truly in the mode...
Of a human being
living off the land.
I'm really, really in that zone.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
- Starting to see some changes and some ribs.
- Oh yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
- Some ribs popping through, losing a lot of fat.
Yeah, you can feel it.
We definitely got a little spoiled
with our hoards of fresh meat.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, we did. We really did.
Getting leaner.
It's been about eight
days since we got a gator.
And obviously food is
necessary for survival.
It does suck that we got this
damn... This damn roundworm.
- I know.
- Situation all over our body.
This parasite is
spreading over my butt,
like, I've got them in the back
of my knees now like you did.
I mean, you guys can't get in the
mud or the water, and this is a swamp.
Come on. There's gotta be something
that the environment gives me
to help me make a smoker.
Because we have to
smoke this gator meat,
otherwise it's
gonna go to waste.
I'm looking for something
in the environment that will
give me a blocked off
area or an enclosed area,
something that might
trap in heat and smoke.
I'm in the process of field
dressing this alligator here.
So I'm starting with the head.
Some of the best meat is right
here in the cheeks, soft and tender.
I'm gonna get his head off
and I'm gonna cut him
right down the middle.
Then I'm gonna go right
down all four quarters here.
The alligators, their skin is
attached to their meat super hard, so
I'm gonna have to come by and just
slowly peel away a little bit at a time
until I get down to
that bare scaly skin.
But it's really important not to
rupture the intestines or the guts,
it can spoil the meat,
so it's a very delicate process.
And you gotta do it the right way,
because if you don't do it the right way,
you're gonna miss out on a lot of
meat and you're gonna ruin the animal.
Wow.
Okay, this is interesting.
This entire tree base,
from here all the way down to the ground,
is completely hollow.
I mean,
this is almost like a smoker already.
I should be able to cut a
hole in the base of this tree
in order to feed sticks in
to keep the hot coals going.
And I can actually put a grate
in here that holds all of our meat.
This is a huge find.
Yes!
I'm gonna be able to open
that hole up with my knife blade,
that's where I'm gonna
feed in the green sticks
and then that's gonna cause the smoke
to go all the way up through the chimney.
And we're gonna have meat layered
on racks all throughout the smoker.
We're gonna be able to smoke
pounds of meat at a time in this thing.
This smoker is a considerable
distance from our shelter,
but I'm not worried
about critters coming in
and getting any of our meat
because it's entirely enclosed.
There's no way in this smoker,
except through where
we're gonna be
feeding in the green logs.
And the top. There's no predators
that can get our meat in here.
They might smell it, they might want it,
but this thing's protected.
All our meat's gonna be inside here,
in the trunk.
I love it when mother nature
helps you survive out here.
Alright.
I'm putting in this in there.
Just gonna clean off all that meat.
That way when jeff puts it in the smoker,
it's gonna be nice and clean,
we won't have dirt and bark.
Building the meat racks.
This is the grill structure,
where we're gonna stack our meat
on levels one, two, three, four, five.
This is gonna sit
inside the smoker.
And all the meat that's on the
grill here is all gonna be smoked
from bottom all
the way up to top.
Alright, looks pretty good.
I'm gonna go grab
some hot coals now.
Bring them on over.
I think this is gonna allow us to smoke
all of this gator meat without wasting
a single nugget.
This tree trunk here is
completely hollow inside.
And as you look down in,
I've created this lattice structure,
this grill that we're gonna be placing
the meat on layer after layer after layer,
five layers high.
I can let this sucker
run for hours by itself.
It's a major win.
Check my line here.
Nothing.
Stupid water so far out.
Holy.
Gator right there. Wow.
I've seen them in the water,
but I haven't...
This is the first one
I've seen on the land.
All the animals act within
what's going on in the ecosystem
and the weather.
It's cold so they like
to sun themselves.
I got this channel
between me and him.
I could swim over there,
cross the channel real quiet, like,
walk along the bank,
take his ass out.
Risk versus reward,
risk versus reward.
Cold swim,
dangerous alligator equals food.
I like the odds.
Do not drown.
Oh!
Look at this!
Yes! That's a catfish, baby!
Throughout the
ultimate legends challenge,
each team's status will
be evaluated using the xls,
or excel success metric,
which calculates their likely percentage
of completing the 60
days together as a team.
Over two weeks
into the challenge...
One, two, three!
Yes!
Jeff and steven finally
landed the big score they needed.
Oh, this is beautiful.
This changes the
entire challenge for us.
If this isn't legendary,
I don't know what is.
As a result,
their chance of reaching day 60 as a team
soars from 35 to 63 percent.
With their food
reserves dwindling...
Yeah.
...And nutria itch spreading...
Matt,
rylie and ryan are in uncharted territory.
We were on such a high...
Ah. It came off.
...And we have
reached a very low point.
Their team xls
drops from 71 to 42 percent.
For max, gary and amber...
- Yeah! - Yeah, baby!
- This is what it's all about!
- We caught a gator!
A successful gator hunt
brought much needed protein...
- Ribs for brekkie. - Oh, yeah.
- That is delicious. - Dang.
But also conflict.
The feet, the head, I don't want
that saved and taxidermied.
I'm here to eat,
everybody is taking my food away.
Give it up!
And gary's risky decisions
could pose a threat to the team.
Tongue time.
I don't wanna see gary leave
on some stupid shenanigans.
Still,
their team xls rises from 51 to 67 percent.
And after the unrelenting cold
took out his second teammate...
- I think I'm gonna head out.
- Then there was just one.
...Ej now faces 45 days alone...
It's a daunting task. Who knows
how this journey's truly gonna end.
...And is desperate for protein.
Risk versus reward.
I like the odds.
His xls is
recalculated for solo survival
and he's given a 29 percent
chance of reaching day 60.
Let go of me. Let go.
Dang it.
As soon as I was getting ready to go out there
and grab him by the tail and pull him up,
he's gone.
Oh yeah. It's good and warm.
Right here is where
he went in there.
The swamp just keeps kicking me.
No pun intended,
I got bogged down.
Damn.
That's a good meal. Damn it.
That's disappointing.
Dude, we've been non-stop since
we tackled that guy this morning.
We've got a smoker,
it's working right now,
it's smoking,
all the meat's smoking.
We've got meat here over
the grill that we're about to eat.
Oh,
my god. It's gonna be so good.
- Oh.
- Juicy back strap from gator tail, that's what that is.
I mean,
these are big pieces, baby.
And that's nothing. That is,
like,
a twentieth of the
meat that we have.
It could bring us into day 30.
Especially now there's two
mouths to feed instead of three.
Alright, let's do this feast.
- Whoa! - That's drippy.
Dripping juice.
- Alright. Cheers, bro.
- Cheers, bro.
- Alligator. - Oh, my gosh.
- It tastes like a giant piece of ham slash bacon.
- It does.
Bacon-wrapped ham.
I thought last night's
catfish was fine.
This makes that
catfish look like garbage.
And that's saying something.
- Great job!
- Hey, good job today, dude.
- We've got one of the best partnerships ever.
- Ever.
- Making gold left and right.
- Oh, my god.
The jerky's good enough for what,
four big meals, five meals?
Yeah. Wait till
you see that tail.
All this tail is fat.
It's just fat right here.
Ooh, fat. Look at that.
Very careful. If we were to
get sick from that, we'd be out.
The grease coming off
gator fat is so delicious
but if you're not careful
and eat too much fat,
it could really mess you up and
make you sick a lot of the time.
If you guys are that picky,
I'll be chowing down like a king.
It's not being picky,
it's being safe.
Alligator fat. Delicioso.
Ain't too much of that.
I don't want gary to go out making
these choices to get a reaction.
Because me personally,
it's not a safe move as a survivalist.
Yeah.
I'm feeling nauseous.
I ate too much alligator fat.
That's right, I did that.
Oh.
Oh, god.
How are you feeling?
Oh, god.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
- This is what it's all about.
- We got our gator.
What a win today.
Everything out here,
we worked for. We have earned this gator.
And we have worked so hard
together as a team and a community,
it makes my heart smile.
All right, well,
let's gut her here on the side.
We're going to gut it here because we
have such a bad fly problem where we're at,
and this is where we're gonna use
some of the bait anyways to hook this.
If you start from the side,
we can dump her out from the side,
so we don't touch the skin.
Okay. You've done this before?
Uh, I've only done it twice.
Okay, well,
you've done it twice more than I have.
Take the head off,
you can carry the head and
we'll carry parts of the body.
The tail is the heaviest part,
too.
So we can either go one,
two, and three.
- Just cut her in lengths?
- Yeah.
Amber's just making the calls.
Being a general,
just letting us know what to do.
I'm willing to jump on it and
follow amber through this process.
This is a dinosaur, guys.
It's a huge accomplishment.
This is a 200-pound
8-foot alligator.
This is a dream meal.
The guys are doing a great job.
They're stripping
out the membrane.
They're about ready to pull
everything out. It's going really well.
- There's the intestines.
- Like it wants to spill out.
- It's a lot.
- There's a lot of guts here.
Nicely done.
When you get a kill that big,
it's a huge morale booster.
Our skills are being implemented
precisely perfect together.
We should get this meat back
and start processing
as soon as possible.
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna cure the tail and start heading back.
Yeah,
I'll work on getting the hook.
It's in the belly.
So proud of you, max.
Yeah!
Alligator day, baby.
And this will last us for about five
days if we process this meat correctly.
I'm going through the guts,
and I'm searching
for the armadillo head.
We not only ate the armadillo,
but we used the head as bait
to hit this alligator up.
That would be one less
thing to catch another gator.
You don't just use
that hook once.
That's more opportunities.
We're here for 60 days.
We're back in business.
- You see that jelly roll?
- That's the jelly roll.
That is the tenderloin
of the alligator.
It's the freshest white meat and
it's just like eating a fresh tenderloin.
It just like falls
apart. It's so good.
- The hook's rebaited with the same head.
- Nice, dude.
- Good job, gary.
- The same armadillo head?
- No way.
- So we're still hunting for gator.
Nice.
How are we gonna set the meat?
We gotta cut the meat in strips,
- but we have to smoke a lot of it.
- Yeah.
This is just something
that we're so grateful for.
Just doing the right thing. Working
together as a team and making it happen.
Hey, max,
will you give me a hand?
Yeah, no problem.
What? dude!
What the heck is that?
Oy vey.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
As one team
relishes their success,
six miles away, jeff and steven
have eyes on their own big prize.
- See that?
- Oh, yeah.
- That's gotta be eight plus.
- He's a monster, dude.
Oh, my god!
- We gotta get a gator, man.
- Yes.
Now, that is the priority.
- Totally.
- We've got to get a gator.
We need a solid meal.
This will be day three that me
and jeff haven't eaten anything.
We need protein. We need food.
- We've got limited bait.
- Yeah.
Steven and I,
we're splitting up this morning.
Uh,
we're both taking our fishing poles.
- Good luck, buddy.
- Thanks, man.
Yeah. We need this...
...After a very,
very rough first couple of weeks for us.
I'm gonna experiment with this
new fishing resource on this big log
that jets out into the main
river here that I cleared out.
We need new bait to put
on these alligator hooks,
because of the old deer hide that's sitting
on there now, it's not working. Clearly.
I'm feeling good today.
Positivity breeds success.
We're gonna get out there,
we're gonna rebait those alligator hooks,
and fingers crossed, we're get a dinosaur
on the dinner plate here pretty soon.
Come on, bite it.
Bite it.
Come on, it's yours.
Yes! Oh, please.
Please, lord. Please,
lord. Don't fall off.
Don't fall off, please, lord.
Please, lord,
don't fall off. Please, lord.
Please, lord.
Yes! Yes!
This is what I live for!
This is what I
live for right now!
- - yes!
Hey,
I heard like a light whisper.
- What?
- Did you catch something?
- - I don't know what you heard.
- Holy. -
- yeah! - yeah, baby!
Holy, that's awesome!
- Yeah. - Yeah!
- This is enough to bait the hook...
- and eat!
- Give me a hug, man.
- You're the best partner, dude.
- That's awesome.
- You're the best partner.
- That is awesome. -
- dude.
- Man! Just when I was starting to lose hope, too.
That's when it happens.
That is awesome.
Ten miles to the west,
ej and sarah carry
on as a twosome,
after cold sleepless nights led
suzanne to leave the challenge.
And then there were two.
These are great for the apex.
- We can climb up there and put 'em up. Once we...
- all right.
A new beginning
at chateau de la swamp.
The extra hands for
survival tasks will be missed.
On the other hand,
now sarah and I have one less
mouth to feed at the moment.
- I gotta climb up.
- All right.
- You gotta spot me.
- Okay. You going up now?
Let's do it.
And sarah and I will
take care of each other.
We're gonna do everything we
can to keep ourselves in this fight.
- Perfect. Yeah, that did it.
- Awesome.
Ej and I have an
excellent camaraderie.
I think we balance
each other out.
And there's nobody in the world
that I would rather be stuck out here
in the cold swamp with than ej.
- Ah, I'm slipping.
- Dive off, dive off.
I got you. I got you.
I got you. I got you.
- cool. - Down to earth.
- Thanks, ej. - You're welcome.
I'm ready to score some food.
Heading down to
check my fishing line.
As far as roles go, sarah,
she's the homesteader.
Damn good at it.
She's good at fire.
Sure could use
a hot meal this morning.
I'm pretty much the hunter.
I'll do whatever I have to
do to get food on our table,
and be a good teammate.
Wow, the water level is so low!
Man! I'm gonna have to reset all
this stuff when the tide gets back in.
This is awful.
All right. Something
got the bait on this one.
Go down to the end of the
point. Check that last line.
We burned through
a lot of firewood...
...In the cold,
so I'm reorganizing the firewood here.
Stockpiling wood here.
And I'm just trying to make it as
organized and clean as possible.
Came into this challenge knowing
that the cold was going
to be a serious challenge,
but I'm a fire master.
And I just need to try to stay
vigilant about managing it.
Keeping the fire at a good
level to be able to stay warm
and not freeze to
death every night.
Nine miles to the north,
ryan, rylie and matt
gorged on their first
gator kill of the challenge...
Who knew survival would be so filling,
huh?
...And are feeling at
home in the swamp.
It's team work to
make the dream work.
Seen any gators
swimming around today?
- So far I've not seen any cruising.
- No.
The gator jerky is running low.
We know it's dwindling.
We need to have
a big success soon.
And the colder it gets,
the fewer chances at gators we'll have.
Oh, maggot galore.
My lord!
I mean,
you almost can't see the meat,
there's so much maggots on it.
That's perfectly brewed.
Ugh!
I'm gonna grab this rotten,
maggot-covered alligator intestine
and feed it on there.
There we go.
The stinkiest bait
I've ever worked with.
All right. I think it's all it
needs as far as stankiness.
Out here,
you cannot brush your teeth,
which leads to a lot of dental
problems after the challenge,
and so, just take a piece
of char coal from the fire.
Rub it in.
Rub it around.
Crunch on it.
And then I take some water.
We definitely got a little spoiled
with our hordes of fresh meat.
I know that we're
running out of jerky,
so hopefully we'll have another
gator soon.
Until then,
it's kinda gross and it's not fun,
but it makes your
teeth feel kinda clean.
Every day,
small wins. That's how you get to 60 days.
All right.
- Piece of the intestines are covered in maggots.
- That'll do.
I think it's time for some fresh
gator meat and jerky, you know?
- Mm-hmm. Looks smelly enough.
- Yeah.
What do mean it
smells? It's not bad at all.
Dude,
I don't know how you do it.
Made me nauseous.
- It's bad. - Bad.
It is real bad.
Sure would be nice to
have some fresh gator meat.
Yeah, it would.
- I think this is the perfect spot.
- Heck, yeah.
If it worked last time,
it should work again.
- Yeah, I think it looks pretty good.
- Yeah.
I think so's the tide. I think
tide's gonna be sitting here,
might come up a little bit,
might go down. But I think it's...
It's in the zone for either way.
- Come get dinner, guys. - Yep.
I think easy bait, smells that good.
I think they're gonna have to take it.
- I'll take a big piece, if you don't mind.
- There you are.
Oh, here we go. Cheers.
Thanks for cooking.
- Good job. - Mm, wow.
Mm.
Oh, man. When I
take my first bite of that gator,
it's heaven. There's parts of it that
are just sweet and a cross between
chicken and fish.
- Wow. - Absolutely delicious.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm...
We're cookin' butt now.
- mm! - Woah.
Ugh, I'm havin' hunger pangs
for the first time in days.
Because now,
my stomach knows it's gonna eat.
Yeah, I know, right?
This is big,
man. We needed this bad.
Yeah, we did.
- Cheers, buddy. - Cheers, man.
Mm.
Oh!
- Oh! - Just can't even...
- Oh!
- Well, can't even describe it.
- Oh, and the hot oils...
- mm-hmm.
This is one of the best
meals I've ever had in my life.
I feel my body literally absorbing it,
like, right now.
I have goosebumps right now.
To have a nice, big catfish in our
bellies is just the biggest blessing ever.
Not only that, we're gonna take the catfish
head and rebait our alligator hooks.
So, I'm hoping either tonight or
tomorrow, we'll have lizard on the hook.
- first food burp? - Fishy burp!
Mm.
The fire master!
- Ej...
- The tide is way down.
- Okay.
- And it was messing with the lines.
Too bad.
But here's some stuff
to put in the back side.
Cedar grasses.
Awesome! That's really good stuff,
ej. Thank you.
You're a beast.
It's pretty cold again.
We've got the fire going.
Feels like another
cold front is moving in.
It's gotten substantially
chillier tonight
than it was at the
beginning of the night.
Even the fire is doing not that
much to warm my chilly, chilly bones.
Oh, my god! Holy crap! Look out!
Oh, my god! Holy crap! Look out!
We almost lit our
shelter on fire last night.
That sucker went up like...
put a few of the logs out,
let the others burn.
- That was pretty crazy, huh, sarah?
- Yep.
It's nuts out here, man.
It's really, really crazy cold.
Let's do it. Let's get this cold
out of the way, shall we?
Yeah, let's.
Pack 'em and stack 'em.
We're collecting more palm
fronds for thatching our roof.
The palm fronds are from the
heat of the fire in the openness,
they're starting to cook.
- so to replace that amount of stuff...
- Ow!
...On our shelter,
immense amount of work.
Yeah.
Holy, sarah.
There's my little
110-pound tank.
Ugh!
Keep going.
Sarah, she's got a great
attitude and she's pretty tough.
- -But it will get colder.
So we gotta continue to improve
on the shelter as much as possible,
to try and stay warm.
Yes, chateau, sweet chateau.
Welcome to our world.
So far, there is an a frame that max
built together, which is pretty amazing.
We have about a total of
35 pounds just from the tail.
Not including the rest of the body,
a 200 pound gator at 8 feet almost.
We're dripping in meat.
Just dripping in meat.
It's hard to beat.
This is pretty special.
Meat management 101.
Aww, some of those are already going bad.
Like many reptiles,
alligators contain a high number
of parasites and worms.
Making such diseases as salmonella
and botulism a serious threat
if not properly
handled and cooked.
There are many risk
factors when it comes to gator meat.
And gary over here
will eat anything.
There are so many times I look
at what he eats and I'm like, eh-eh.
I can't do that. I don't want
to risk getting sick out here.
Phew. We're gonna eat real good.
- Seriously? - Yeah.
Can't share what nobody wants.
In a survival situation,
the smartest thing you could possibly do
is to not let one single
thing go to waste.
Mm-mm...
I don't understand
people that won't eat everything
when it comes to this,
this isn't restaurant time.
No, you eat what you got and
you eat as much as you can.
Cut it all up.
Cut it all right there.
- See, that's a lot of meat.
- Yeah.
- Thank you. - Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna cut
this fish head in half.
- Yeah.
- Put half on this one, half on the other one.
Dude,
you're the gator man, I trust you.
It's gonna be a nice piece
of gator bait right there.
If that's not good gator bait,
I don't know what is.
With the raw hide,
it was good but it wasn't fresh.
It wasn't meat.
It had a rank smell to it,
but this is something they're gonna be
more used to. I mean,
they swim with these every day.
Got the new bait set up.
Lotta gators caught come
in here and chill and rest,
we've seen a couple
in this exact spot.
Oh, my god!
Looks like we got
mondo over there.
He's at least eight feet.
- I saw mondo...
- no way!
- ...Upstream about 300 yards.
- Get outta here.
- Yeah. -
okay.
I'm gonna go
rebait that other one.
- Cool, buddy.
- All right, buddy. I'll be back.
The winter's coming.
And with winter,
especially with the food sources out here,
majority of them
are cold blooded.
And once that cold
weather really hits,
all those alligators
are gonna go dormant.
So, it's essential that we jump
on this as soon as possible.
Get an alligator on the line,
and get as big of a meat bank as we can,
coming into these colder months.
He's close to shore right now.
My heart is already beating.
Just the thought
of taking him down.
That's a large gator.
This is the closest I've
seen him to shore yet.
I'm wondering if he's already
smelling the fish head on the hook.
Here comes another.
We've got two
gators right here in the river.
Oh, my gosh.
We need this.
We have our bait hook out here
on the big willow tree where
we caught the first alligator.
There is nothing on this hook,
and the fish head is still
hanging above the water.
Recently, the water has
completely receded from our area,
taking all the bowfin fish,
all the alligators,
and all the wildlife.
Our strategy for finding
another food source
is to spread out.
So, matt,
he is out there hunting,
so hopefully he comes
back with something.
I haven't seen
an alligator swimming
for three or four days now.
Our best bet is to
expand our horizons a bit,
try to find food
wherever we can.
I've always said on
my past challenges
that every river
has a heartbeat.
And there's a heartbeat to this bayou,
I know it is.
I am trying to follow
something that beats to
a whole different drum than
any place I've ever been.
And because of that
these game animals
are very hard to pinpoint.
You can definitely tell
there's a little bit of a
trail right through here.
It doesn't look like...
Like any constant traffic,
just looks like
one walk through.
I'm looking, you know, real hard
for tracks and signs of things moving.
I've seen some deer tracks.
I haven't seen any hog tracks,
really no raccoon
tracks or nutria slides.
One more time,
I'm gonna have to just cross the water.
The problem is,
this is not the
first time in my life
I've actually feared the water.
You know, I've swam with sharks.
Up! Go up!
It's coming right at us.
I have literally been
in the amazon waters
where who knows what's in there.
This is some caiman
looking territory here.
But right now, I fear the water,
because it seems like
every single time I go in
there and try to cross it,
I seem to come
out with nutria itch.
It's a risk. But,
every day we go without food,
sets us back a little bit.
All those animal tracks are
on the other side of the water.
- Mm-hmm.
- But every time I get into this water,
every time, pretty much,
I come out with something bad.
Wind's blowing pretty,
pretty steady.
We got the fire going,
but the wind is so strong,
and it's blowing in all the cold
and blowing out all the heat.
This is not a very good omen
for the rest of this challenge.
It's gonna be very,
very, very cold.
Oh, god,
I can't even get my brain straight,
it's so cold.
This place sucks.
Bone-chilling.
It's gotta heat
up at some point.
Hopefully, that point is today.
Poor sarah,
she's so skinny, so thin.
So, I'm going to try harder.
Getting ready to go real savage,
real primal,
and get after these
creatures before us
'cause I need it for
me and my partner.
We have to eat.
Got my knife, throwing stick,
and taking the bow.
Better have and not need
than need and not have.
Oh, my god.
I have been working
hard on the shelter
to try to retain any
amount of heat.
Just trying to find some water.
The cold has kinda
messed with me a little bit
psychologically, because
it's been just brutal.
Okay,
this is just... It's just how it is now.
And there's nothing
you can do to escape it.
There it is. All you
gotta do is get there.
Yeah.
There's just one little fire,
one little light
in this expanse of a
swamp surrounded by
frigid everything.
It's just world right now. Okay.
I just hope to be
able to center myself.
Mission accomplished.
Son of a.
All right.
Did the thing.
Oh, man, it's disappointing.
Bait's still there,
you can tell.
The difference in tide is now, like,
three-and-a-half feet above water.
Look, the best height above
the water for these gator hooks
is about 12 inches.
The problem is,
is when you set it for 12 inches
but then the tide
drops three feet.
Now you're four
feet above the water.
And, unless you find, like,
a 12-foot alligator out here,
you'll really not get anything,
so,
it really makes it difficult,
almost impossible to gauge 'cause
the tide has changed so drastically,
differently every single day.
Gotta lower that bait
in the water a little bit,
get it nice and
wet and saturated,
get those juices flowing.
Oh.
- nothing, dude. - Nothing, man.
Tide dropped so much, man,
the bait was, like,
four feet out of the water, you know.
Oh, jeez...
- Yeah, so I set it in the water.
- Yeah.
We had high hopes for that last night,
we really did.
I'm gonna go, uh,
check out the other gator hook.
A whistle and a holler like hell
- means there's a gator there.
- Yes, sir.
Nothing.
Damn it. Same thing
as the other one.
It's trial and error,
but, uh,
tired of trial and error.
I want food. I
want an alligator.
But, can't get discouraged.
You gotta stay positive.
If you don't stay positive,
it will kill you out here.
So gotta keep truckin'.
Just make victory
that much sweeter.
What do we have here?
This is the penis
of an eight-foot alligator.
Oh,
his penis. You're gonna eat that?
- It's just a.
- Come on.
I will puke watching you do that,
so I don't think I should.
No.
Oh, my god, no.
Not in a million
years would I eat that.
I'm not scared of a little.
It's a... It's a golden delight.
Who eats a penis?
Classic gary.
He's doing his gary thing.
He will scavenge the
earth whether it's dead, alive,
half-dead, maybe breathing,
he will eat it.
Have you ever, uh,
eaten alligator penis in the
middle of a louisiana swamp?
I don't think you have.
It's juicy.
- nice. -
I'll take a bite of the balls.
Well, oh. Max is going in.
He's gonna share some
berries with me. Some testicles.
Oh, my,
gosh. It's bleeding still.
There's still blood
coming out of the penis.
- - mm.
Tastes almost like a...
- A little salty.
- ...Like a salty porridge.
Like, almost like rice pudding.
No, no, no. Walking away.
We just tag
teamed some testicles.
Gary's pretty ballsy. Literally.
Waste not, want not.
Revenge of the nutria itch.
- Feels worse.
- It does.
Oh, dude, way worse. It's like
- that's not good. - Nope.
Had it, went away.
Stayed out of the water for five
days. Got back in the water. Got it.
I think I'm actually getting
nutria itch on the back of my leg.
On the back of my knee,
even, now. Look at that.
That has gone all the way
up. That didn't look good.
- -dude,
you gotta stay out of the water.
- -I don't think
there's any question or not,
you're calling the
medic for that one.
Matt now has nutria itch in more than
one place. On multiple places actually.
On the backs of his knees, in his crotch,
and it just really looks miserable.
He's got more nutria itch.
I didn't... I didn't really
notice it before. But back on my...
That has definitely progressed
to something different here.
Yeah.
- Just feels raw.
- Raw?
Like most dangers
on these challenges,
we're some of the biggest
predators in the world,
but it's often the
smallest things
that take us out
and hold us back.
It's crazy to think
something as small as
a tiny little parasite
that gets in your skin...
It really can. It can take
you out of the challenge.
Okay.
Mm-hmm. Okay.
Damn, for such a big guy,
a little wound can take you...
- Can take anyone down.
- Damn little...
This, honestly, probably will
not withstand you swimming for...
Not being able to go
in the water is huge.
It can impact mentally because
I know what I'm capable of
and I know what I can give the team
by getting in the water and doing things.
That, to me, is like taking my hands
and just handcuffing them to a tree.
Hunting in these environments
reminds me of when I was in the army
because you have to be looking all
around so you don't miss that opportunity.
A lot of animals blend into the
surroundings so well, especially the snakes.
I have concerns about being bit by
a venomous snake that I don't see.
However, sarah has some cold issues
and she's losing a lot of weight fast.
So,
to get some food really will help out.
I am going to braid a
tie string for my pelts
so that I can keep warm
and keep my hands free.
Getting a little bit of
work done because
I feel a little traumatized from these
last few days. They were so cold.
This is like moccasin central.
I can smell them. Musky smell.
This may be hard to get
on that log with this spear.
He's got the advantage.
Ah,
you just get your ass
in there. You're dinner.
People think of hell as fiery.
I think of hell as icy,
barren. Bare and icy cold.
It's gonna flop
around my shoulders.
- ej. - Hey, sarah.
- How're you doing, buddy?
- Long and arduous tip.
- Yeah?
- I knew you'd like this.
- Ooh, a little snakey, snakey.
- Yep.
Mm. Yum, yum, yum.
Super excited to have
this guy right here. Look at that.
Me and sarah needed it so bad.
- What do you think, sarah? What do you think?
- I am really excited.
Oh,
yeah. This is just what we needed.
- Mmm.
- It's yours. For the chef.
Mm.
- Oh, look at this.
- Oh, my god.
Man, oh,
man. That snake was on point.
Look at this.
Oh, yeah.
The trek out and back, man,
I was gone a long time.
It kind of wore me out. But
to have that snake now...
I hope that's a big morale
boost for sarah. I hope it'll work.
And then, we can move forward.
Whoo! Awesome.
Great job, ej.
- Glad your hunt was successful.
- Me too.
So, what're you about to do?
We have very little time though
because the flies are gonna
start making their mark.
The flies,
they're pretty aggressive right now.
They're landing on the meat even
though there's some smoke around it.
Right now, we're going into
the shell of the actual gator itself,
cut about three days' worth
because everything's rotting
away really quick out here.
And we've smoked a g...
pretty much a good quarter of our meat
that we haven't eaten so
we can preserve it for later.
Smoking this meat out here
is absolutely necessary because
maggots will get in and
just start writhing, eat it up.
That's why we're paying a lot of
attention to it and just doing it right.
Smoke it and you get a
thin crust on the outside
and a protective layer.
Kind of like that.
The flies can't get in
there and lay their eggs.
And it's imperative to do so
if you wanna keep your meat.
Fly central over here, man.
You just can't escape 'em.
Oh, my god,
these horseflies are eating me up.
Aah, you son of a bitch.
There's these damn flies.
- Oh, jeez louise, these bugs.
- They're biting us.
These flies are no joke.
I even got blood on me.
Whenever the flies bite me, I bleed.
They always leave a little
blood and I get a little infection,
a little white pimple
thing on top of it.
It's pretty gross. They
bite me pretty hard.
These little I hate them.
God, there are always a few
that gotta get their last bites in.
And there's nothing you can do
about it except for try to swat them away,
get in the smoke,
or get in the water.
- Damn flies.
- These flies are no joke.
They ain't playin' around.
I'll go check that rod,
and, make sure that bait's kind
of in the water a little bit more.
Yeah, we need this man.
So,
my line's been in the water all day long,
and having that fresh, bloody, smelly
catfish head hanging above the water,
fingers crossed, I'm super hopeful
we're gonna have a dinosaur dinner.
Ah, man. I'm
pretty sure I've got a fish on here.
No way.
- Oh, yeah, there's a fish on here, baby.
- No way.
- Yeah, there is. - Oh, dude.
- Not an alligator, it's a fish.
- Get it, brother.
Oh, yeah.
Oh!
Look at this!
- Oh, my god! - Whoo-hoo!
Stephen lee hall jr.!
Yeah!
Yeah!
That's a catfish, baby!
Ahhh!
- Look how big it is!
- So big I can't even handle it.
Steven caught a massive catfish.
Steven and I,
we don't stop at mediocrity.
We're not just here
because we're legends,
we're here to prove that we
are the greatest of legends.
- Oh, my god. - Dude!
Mondo's right there.
Oh, my god.
Dude, we're gettin' in.
Oh, he's big.
Yeah.
Oh, he's big.
He wants that bait, dude.
Look at him,
he is just creepin'.
This is the day, right here.
Okay.
Here he comes.
Steven...
We're gonna kill mondo today.
We are gonna kill mondo today.
We're gonna catch
a record catfish,
and a freakin' dinosaur.
- Okay. - Come on, swallow it.
Oh, my god.
Okay.
Let him swallow it.
He's gonna pull it a little bit.
He's gonna do a
couple of big gulps.
He's probably gonna
drag it a little bit.
Yeah.
Okay.
He's takin' it.
He's taking it.
He's takin' it...
come on.
Come on. Okay.
Hook yourself. Come on.
Hook yourself.
He's swimming
the perfect direction.
He needs it in his gut.
Oh god, dude.
Let him just kind
of find a spot.
- Yeah.
- To where it feels like he can...
you want him to sink.
Sink to the bottom
and just swallow it.
- There you go. - Yes
that's a big gulp.
Another big gulp.
This is crazy.
Yes.
Did he let it go?
I think he let it go, bro.
Yeah, I think he let it go.
Yep. He let it go.
Oh, man.
That was intense.
Hey.
- It's okay, dude. - Yeah?
It's okay.
We proved it works.
- Proved it works! - Yeah.
He knows food's here,
he's a lizard.
He's gonna be back.
Yeah.
Don't be too sad.
It's okay, man.
It's all right.
Dude, watchin' dinner swim away,
it never gets easier.
Yeah.
Remember we got 15
pounds of catfish in there to eat.
Yeah.
And we got plenty
of days to catch him.
We're gonna get this guy.
- Let's get out of here.
- All right.
Get up.
Feels like death.
See what we got here.
It's kind of a haul.
That may shore
us up right there.
Well, hello again.
This is sarah, reporting from
exactly the same spot
where I've been
sitting for three days.
Tired of this.
Why?
Louisiana?
Stop being cold, already!
The only thing that's going on right now,
right now,
is me trying not to
die from the cold.
Ugh.
Just for the record,
it's not fun.
It really sucks.
Please make it stop.
What a cold night last night.
Another frigid one.
- Yeah, frigid but...
- it got cold quick last night.
Yeah, it did.
You gotta shut that.
That's a sign of the times.
To power through
these cold nights,
we need to continue working on our shelter,
constantly.
That good, max?
Yeah.
In the process creating,
basically, a log cabin
around our shelter
to prevent any sort of wind,
and to help deflect whatever
weather storms come in here.
So I'm preparing ribs for breakfast,
for my...
...For my team.
Oh, gosh.
Can you see my ribs?
Can you see 'em now?
They're deliciosso!
Since we got this gator,
we're able to snack when we want to.
We've been really conserving the meat,
by smoking the whole carcass,
and just stripping pieces of meat out,
and then boiling it.
It softens up the meat,
it's preserved.
It's a smart way to take that...
...That meat an
extra couple of days.
To sustain us.
And here we are!
- Good jerky, man.
- Wow, look at those!
- Ribs for brekkie! - Oh, wow.
Preparing breakfast,
like I have done the last few mornings,
I am more than happy
to do this for my team,
because they're putting
themselves out for me, as well.
That is delicious.
Man!
I literally feel like mother
nature's provided for us.
We have fish,
we got snakes, I mean...
The hardest thing out here is
not having everything try to eat us.
Um-hum.
Doin' all right?
My fat reserves,
whatever little there
was in the first place,
seems... Depleted.
And now my body's
burning the muscle.
And that's bad.
I think I'm maybe six
or seven pounds lighter,
and it's just about two
weeks I've been out here.
My body's literally
deteriorating.
Just go out there, and just...
Kill whatever I can kill,
and bring it back.
Couple of moccasins,
maybe a nutria would be great.
You'll be okay.
I umm...
- Think I'm gonna head out.
- What?
Yeah.
That cold last night just...
Beat me down.
It's been like, what,
seven... Seven nights?
Almost half the time we've
been out here has been, like,
- freezing cold.
- It's been brutal.
See, if we could just... One more
night wouldn't... Make a difference.
I feel like...
I would end up
being a burden to you.
We're just gettin' started.
I really don't want to feel
like I'm abandoning you.
You're not.
I don't want to feel like...
Sarah, this is your journey,
and if you say this is
where your journey ends,
then you're at peace with it.
But I understand. You've been
getting beat up by the cold so much.
It'll get you on your way,
so you can get some
warm clothes on.
Come on.
Sarah,
she's a rock star in my book.
Thank you, sarah.
Go on. No more cold for you.
I'm disappointed in myself.
With the cold in the
louisiana swamp,
I would not try to do
this challenge again
at this time of the
season. No way.
I knew from the beginning
that the cold was going to be
a fierce and
formidable opponent.
I did not know how
bad it was going to be.
This challenge,
it has taught me a little
something extra about survival.
You gotta tough through
in whatever way you know,
and respect and appreciate
what it takes to
make it 60 days.
I know from experience
that tapping out
can be a really,
really difficult thing
for your mental health.
But I'm just not equipped
to deal with the cold.
Nature got the best of me.
Whew!
And then there was just one.
Here I am again.
I've been here before.
But it's not gonna be easy.
I'm only a quarter
of the way through,
and I've got 45 more
days ahead of me.
And now,
I have to do it by myself.
It's a daunting task ahead.
Who knows how this
journey is truly going to end?
I think it's manger time bro.
- Cheers, buddy. - Cheers, man.
Steven caught the
largest freakin' catfish
I've ever seen
in my entire life.
This catfish is
probably 25 pounds.
It's massive.
I don't know about you,
I like some of the skin on it.
And it's smoky.
What do you think would happen
if we took, like,
some of the skin
and put it on the
hook with our bait?
It's worth a shot.
- Couldn't hurt, right? - Yeah.
Because, I mean,
I know it's cooked,
but... You're tellin' me if you
hung a fried chicken out there,
that a gator's not gonna
eat it because it's cooked?
- I don't buy that. - Yeah.
I think it might help.
I'm cuttin' the skin right now
and I'm gonna go bait that.
Now that is a
well-baited gator hook.
Oh, hell yeah.
Steven!
Come over here!
Yeah.
Is that him or is
that a smaller one?
It looks smaller.
Yeah it's
definitely a smaller one.
Yeah.
Oh, there's mondo right there.
There's mondo.
He's gonna push this
little guy out of here,
because this is his territory.
That's his food. He's
gonna feel threatened.
Yup.
And he's gonna come in.
The competition could be good.
It could cause him to
swallow it immediately.
Dude,
we have two gators on our bait right now.
I know.
He might be waiting
for after dark too.
Yup.
They are nocturnal predators.
Yeah.
I say we let 'em be.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll just keep a low profile.
Yup.
This morning I woke up
with the nutria itch.
Now I also have
this parasitic worm
growing inside of me in
different areas of my body,
my genitals,
the backs of my knees,
and it's nothing...
Nothing to take lightly.
It's a true extra handicap
to the challenge for sure,
'cause, you know,
it's tough enough, but now it's...
Now part of our... Part
of what we're good at.
Swimming, sneaking through the water,
and you know, getting stuff.
That's at least five
days to a week without
- water submersion.
- Really?
I'm the only one left.
And so for me,
I will not be another
casualty around here.
Mm-mm.
Our jerky is running out.
I'm building the fish basket
so that we have another
shot at getting food.
Any time you can
get better odds out here for survival,
for food,
you should definitely do that,
and that's what we do
on this level of survival.
Let's see if we catch a fish.
Well, it would be perfect
if I could shoot one
and retrieve it somehow.
Man, it's worth a shot.
We know we have to stay out of the water,
so...
It is the only option.
So for the first time ever,
I have to figure out
how to bowfish these fish
without getting in the water,
and we're gonna have to be
able to retrieve these arrows.
Looking back on our
first ten days of this challenge,
we were on such a high.
We had no reason to think that we
wouldn't be able to continue on that level,
and we have reached a low,
a very low point.
I'm going to take
my toggle bowfishing setup
and try to attach line
to this arrow safely
and try to see if I can
shoot one of these mullet.
Now we gotta
improvise yet again.
But you know what,
that's what we've been
doing this whole time.
We'll see if we can make it work,
hopefully.
This is
one of the biggest gators
I've ever seen in real life.
- This guy is big...
- He's at least eight feet.
Oh, baby.
Oh, my gosh!
We've gonna give mondo a baby.
Look at the line,
look at the line.
Look at him.
He's deep in, dude.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah!
Oh, my god,
swallow it all the way.
- There it goes. There it goes.
- Right down.
All the way down in your gut.
Down the gullet.
Dude,
it's happening. It's happening right now.
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
We're gonna give mondo a baby.
We're not gonna
get any sleep tonight.
No,
we're not gonna get any sleep.
He swallowed it
one hundred percent.
He saw it,
picked up its head and everything.
Multiple times.
He gulped it all the way down.
We just hooked mondo, baby!
- Mondo! - Yeah!
My god!
It's dark right now.
We can't do anything.
It's gonna be a long night,
but it's smart.
If we try to pull him out
of the water right now...
Uh, one of us would be hurt.
I mean, this is a... This is
not a three or four foot gator.
This is a man-eater.
It is. It is.
And so we gotta
wait till sunlight.
And tonight,
we send up a prayer to god.
And we ask him to please
ensure that that gator
does not come off that hook
throughout the night.
If we do get this gator
tomorrow morning,
it's gonna be something special.
I'm now a lone wolf out here.
On our first night alone,
just me and my buddy fire here.
Both suzanne and sarah
kept the fires burning,
but now it's just gonna
be a big test for me.
Making sure they don't
burn the shelter down.
I'm gonna make the best of it,
keep going,
keep pushing forward and
just see what comes of it.
- I'm praying he's still on that line.
- Yeah.
There it is.
- I can see him.
- You can see him?
- Oh, my god! - Yes!
See,
he's threatened right now...
you see how
he's opening his mouth?
Oh, yeah. He's comin' to us.
All right. Okay,
so game plan. So, if you wanna
- start reeling him in...
- Okay.
- ...Nice and slow.
- Yeah, that's the plan.
Once he gets
a little bit closer,
- I'll throw the treble, and I'll get a second hook...
- Yeah.
- ...In the back end around his tail or back legs.
- Yeah. Tail or back leg.
Yeah. So, once he gets on land,
you're gonna mount him.
- Yeah, I'm gonna mount him.
- You're gonna jump on the back of him.
Yeah.
We want his whole body up on shore,
nothing in the water.
An alligator can turn on a dime.
And its bite force
is one of the strongest
bite forces in nature.
When you're doin' that,
I'm gonna come
in with the noose.
And, uh,
if that gets ahold of your arm,
and he decides to death roll,
you're losing your arm.
- I'll hold his mouth shut.
- Yeah.
- Okay? - Yeah.
- Then you come in...
- I come in with the kill shot.
- With the kill shot.
- Put the knife right through
- the back of his neck.
- Right here. Yeah.
- And you just dig in till...
- And I'm not gonna stop until...
- ...His head's almost cut off.
- ...I feel his neck... Yeah.
- Seriously.
- Yeah. I'm not stopping.
Okay.
- okay? - All right.
I'm gonna try and get him
more broadside towards you, okay?
Yeah. All right. All right.
Our order of operations,
who does what, is very calculated.
Especially,
when it's me and jeff on our own,
competing against a
300-pound alligator.
- Okay.
- Okay. Try to snag him here.
One...
Two...
...Three!
Okay. I've got a good grip here.
One, two, three!
- It came out.
- Do it again right now.
- It's going back. It's going back.
- Yeah. All right.
- All right. - It's going back.
- All right. Be careful.
- Yeah.
- One... - One, two, three!
All right. Okay.
- Okay. Okay.
- I got him. I got him.
All right.
No, no. I got him,
baby. I got you, steven.
I got you!
- Okay. - tie it off.
Attaboy. Okay.
Might want to get a stick,
push the bag off his face.
He's eating the bag.
- Yeah. There we go.
- Okay. Right.
- Couple more wraps.
- Yeah.
Yeah! Oh!
- Yes! - I got it.
Yeah!
All right, baby.
- All right. You got him.
- Okay.
Go down a little bit. Put your
finger on it, you can feel it.
- Yeah. - Okay.
- yes! -
- there it is! - Yes.
Textbook.
- Bring him to the gut log, right?
- Yeah.
Ah, this is beautiful.
- Yeah, bro. - We did it, bro.
- good job. -
this gator is more than food.
Giving your life so we
can continue ours out here.
- We got to get on building a smoker.
- Yeah.
- This changes the entire challenge for us.
- Everything.
- Legends. - Legends.
If this isn't legendary...
I don't know what is.
We're on top, baby.
- We are on top. - Yes.
Whatever comes in,
and can't figure its way out,
works for me.
Well, the cordage is really nice,
actually.
That's the one thing
this place has to offer,
is good cordage.
But the issue is...
It takes so much for
something this size.
Ugh.
This is a process.
A long process.
Look at that school out there.
Just need to
get a little closer.
Whoa. Look at 'em all.
Can't get in the water
because we're gonna get this
roundworm parasite again.
So,
I'm trying to figure out a way to bow fish
from the shore
so that we don't have
to go in after the fish.
So, when I go to shoot,
you'll actually hold it,
like, next to my bow,
- as close as you can get to it.
- Yeah.
And we'll see how she flies.
All right. I'm just gonna take a shot,
see how this works.
- no. - Almost.
- If there was...
- That got tied up there.
Ryan and I set up
some of the white cord
that's inside of
the 550 paracord.
Well,
that doesn't quite work right,
it's a little bit too light,
ends up tangling in mid-flight.
And...
This arrow's light.
Made for shooting
high-speed at big game.
Hollow.
By filling it with water,
it'll make it heavier,
make it actually have
a neutral buoyancy in the
water instead of floating.
- It's about 20% heavier.
- That's perfect.
This time,
do little figure-eights,
kinda like this, maybe.
We'll see if that helps.
All right. Ready?
Wait. Ready, okay.
Ah! See, now it came off.
Son of a bitch.
It's just the way that the
line comes out so fast,
it whips backwards, forwards,
like it's...
- there's so much velocity coming out on that reel.
- Oh.
So frustrating not
being able to get in the water.
This is.
Arrow breaks off.
Now the arrow's out on its own.
It's only 30 feet away or so,
but it might as well be 100.
We'll go fishing
for our arrow now.
Right now,
it's super-frustrating.
I don't think we've had a
day where we don't work on the shelter.
I know. It'll be nice
when it's finished.
I'm just glad we got that gator.
Yeah. For sure.
- Oof.
- All right.
Bones. I save 'em. I call
'em nature's tupperware.
'cause there's nutrients
locked inside of 'em.
I don't let anything
go to waste.
So you got marrow in there.
That's edible.
That's the tongue right there,
gary's gonna eat it.
I'm trying to cut this away so I
can salvage the head for max.
That head's huge.
I would like to keep it forever.
I say, let's do it.
It's gonna be your
trophy gator right here.
- There's your gator head.
- Hell, yeah.
And maybe one of their teeth,
so I can give it to my son.
Of course.
Max and amber, they want to
keep the head for memories.
But I'm in the zone of
devouring it for survival.
I'm gonna be honest with
you guys. The feet, the head,
I don't want that
saved and taxidermed.
Like, I'm here to eat,
that's, like, my food.
That's how I really feel.
I'm, like,
everybody's taking my food away.
The brain already went to waste,
the feet already went to waste.
- Nobody said no to the feet.
- Yeah.
- No one said no to the feet.
- I wasn't sure what was up,
so, I'm just telling you
where I was coming from.
- No, for sure. I understand.
- I'm a guy that'll definitely eat the feet.
I still might eat those feet.
I probably would
not recommend that.
Oh.
And then you'd watch me do it?
Kick-ass.
I ripped out all the
meat I possibly could
and gave it to gary in a pile,
and he still wants more.
See,
I don't give a I'll roll that way
out of spite and eat maggot-y
food in front of you guys.
- Give it up.
- Give what up?
- I ain't givin' up, dude.
- Give it up, man.
You don't tell me to give it up,
bro.
I'm a hard-headed!
- I ain't givin' up, dude.
- Give it up, man.
You don't tell me to give it up,
bro.
I'm a hard-headed!
Yeah,
we're gonna use every ounce of that gator.
It's what needs to be done
right now. This isn't camping.
This is survival.
We're here eating all the parts.
That's right.
I actually thought
about eating my share,
just eating it
in front of you...
You know?
I don't want to see gary leave
on some stupid shenanigans.
He's putting himself
on the line for every bite.
It's not like we don't
have enough food to eat.
This is no pipe dream,
this is the realest deal.
True survival style.
I roll like that.
We have different
thought processes,
and mine is truly in the
deep primitive mind of...
The human living off the
land and the caveman.
Everything is to be
used for nourishment.
It's a no-brainer.
Gary gets so frustrated. Like,
he wants
to push the envelope of
being a scavenger/ survivalist.
And by him taking the risk,
he's hurting the team,
essentially.
Tongue time.
Oh, god. How is it?
Kind of buttery.
- There's, like, a yolk taste.
- Yeah?
I might have a stomach
that stomachs it where others can't.
I'm truly in the mode...
Of a human being
living off the land.
I'm really, really in that zone.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
- Starting to see some changes and some ribs.
- Oh yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
- Some ribs popping through, losing a lot of fat.
Yeah, you can feel it.
We definitely got a little spoiled
with our hoards of fresh meat.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, we did. We really did.
Getting leaner.
It's been about eight
days since we got a gator.
And obviously food is
necessary for survival.
It does suck that we got this
damn... This damn roundworm.
- I know.
- Situation all over our body.
This parasite is
spreading over my butt,
like, I've got them in the back
of my knees now like you did.
I mean, you guys can't get in the
mud or the water, and this is a swamp.
Come on. There's gotta be something
that the environment gives me
to help me make a smoker.
Because we have to
smoke this gator meat,
otherwise it's
gonna go to waste.
I'm looking for something
in the environment that will
give me a blocked off
area or an enclosed area,
something that might
trap in heat and smoke.
I'm in the process of field
dressing this alligator here.
So I'm starting with the head.
Some of the best meat is right
here in the cheeks, soft and tender.
I'm gonna get his head off
and I'm gonna cut him
right down the middle.
Then I'm gonna go right
down all four quarters here.
The alligators, their skin is
attached to their meat super hard, so
I'm gonna have to come by and just
slowly peel away a little bit at a time
until I get down to
that bare scaly skin.
But it's really important not to
rupture the intestines or the guts,
it can spoil the meat,
so it's a very delicate process.
And you gotta do it the right way,
because if you don't do it the right way,
you're gonna miss out on a lot of
meat and you're gonna ruin the animal.
Wow.
Okay, this is interesting.
This entire tree base,
from here all the way down to the ground,
is completely hollow.
I mean,
this is almost like a smoker already.
I should be able to cut a
hole in the base of this tree
in order to feed sticks in
to keep the hot coals going.
And I can actually put a grate
in here that holds all of our meat.
This is a huge find.
Yes!
I'm gonna be able to open
that hole up with my knife blade,
that's where I'm gonna
feed in the green sticks
and then that's gonna cause the smoke
to go all the way up through the chimney.
And we're gonna have meat layered
on racks all throughout the smoker.
We're gonna be able to smoke
pounds of meat at a time in this thing.
This smoker is a considerable
distance from our shelter,
but I'm not worried
about critters coming in
and getting any of our meat
because it's entirely enclosed.
There's no way in this smoker,
except through where
we're gonna be
feeding in the green logs.
And the top. There's no predators
that can get our meat in here.
They might smell it, they might want it,
but this thing's protected.
All our meat's gonna be inside here,
in the trunk.
I love it when mother nature
helps you survive out here.
Alright.
I'm putting in this in there.
Just gonna clean off all that meat.
That way when jeff puts it in the smoker,
it's gonna be nice and clean,
we won't have dirt and bark.
Building the meat racks.
This is the grill structure,
where we're gonna stack our meat
on levels one, two, three, four, five.
This is gonna sit
inside the smoker.
And all the meat that's on the
grill here is all gonna be smoked
from bottom all
the way up to top.
Alright, looks pretty good.
I'm gonna go grab
some hot coals now.
Bring them on over.
I think this is gonna allow us to smoke
all of this gator meat without wasting
a single nugget.
This tree trunk here is
completely hollow inside.
And as you look down in,
I've created this lattice structure,
this grill that we're gonna be placing
the meat on layer after layer after layer,
five layers high.
I can let this sucker
run for hours by itself.
It's a major win.
Check my line here.
Nothing.
Stupid water so far out.
Holy.
Gator right there. Wow.
I've seen them in the water,
but I haven't...
This is the first one
I've seen on the land.
All the animals act within
what's going on in the ecosystem
and the weather.
It's cold so they like
to sun themselves.
I got this channel
between me and him.
I could swim over there,
cross the channel real quiet, like,
walk along the bank,
take his ass out.
Risk versus reward,
risk versus reward.
Cold swim,
dangerous alligator equals food.
I like the odds.
Do not drown.
Oh!
Look at this!
Yes! That's a catfish, baby!
Throughout the
ultimate legends challenge,
each team's status will
be evaluated using the xls,
or excel success metric,
which calculates their likely percentage
of completing the 60
days together as a team.
Over two weeks
into the challenge...
One, two, three!
Yes!
Jeff and steven finally
landed the big score they needed.
Oh, this is beautiful.
This changes the
entire challenge for us.
If this isn't legendary,
I don't know what is.
As a result,
their chance of reaching day 60 as a team
soars from 35 to 63 percent.
With their food
reserves dwindling...
Yeah.
...And nutria itch spreading...
Matt,
rylie and ryan are in uncharted territory.
We were on such a high...
Ah. It came off.
...And we have
reached a very low point.
Their team xls
drops from 71 to 42 percent.
For max, gary and amber...
- Yeah! - Yeah, baby!
- This is what it's all about!
- We caught a gator!
A successful gator hunt
brought much needed protein...
- Ribs for brekkie. - Oh, yeah.
- That is delicious. - Dang.
But also conflict.
The feet, the head, I don't want
that saved and taxidermied.
I'm here to eat,
everybody is taking my food away.
Give it up!
And gary's risky decisions
could pose a threat to the team.
Tongue time.
I don't wanna see gary leave
on some stupid shenanigans.
Still,
their team xls rises from 51 to 67 percent.
And after the unrelenting cold
took out his second teammate...
- I think I'm gonna head out.
- Then there was just one.
...Ej now faces 45 days alone...
It's a daunting task. Who knows
how this journey's truly gonna end.
...And is desperate for protein.
Risk versus reward.
I like the odds.
His xls is
recalculated for solo survival
and he's given a 29 percent
chance of reaching day 60.
Let go of me. Let go.
Dang it.
As soon as I was getting ready to go out there
and grab him by the tail and pull him up,
he's gone.
Oh yeah. It's good and warm.
Right here is where
he went in there.
The swamp just keeps kicking me.
No pun intended,
I got bogged down.
Damn.
That's a good meal. Damn it.
That's disappointing.
Dude, we've been non-stop since
we tackled that guy this morning.
We've got a smoker,
it's working right now,
it's smoking,
all the meat's smoking.
We've got meat here over
the grill that we're about to eat.
Oh,
my god. It's gonna be so good.
- Oh.
- Juicy back strap from gator tail, that's what that is.
I mean,
these are big pieces, baby.
And that's nothing. That is,
like,
a twentieth of the
meat that we have.
It could bring us into day 30.
Especially now there's two
mouths to feed instead of three.
Alright, let's do this feast.
- Whoa! - That's drippy.
Dripping juice.
- Alright. Cheers, bro.
- Cheers, bro.
- Alligator. - Oh, my gosh.
- It tastes like a giant piece of ham slash bacon.
- It does.
Bacon-wrapped ham.
I thought last night's
catfish was fine.
This makes that
catfish look like garbage.
And that's saying something.
- Great job!
- Hey, good job today, dude.
- We've got one of the best partnerships ever.
- Ever.
- Making gold left and right.
- Oh, my god.
The jerky's good enough for what,
four big meals, five meals?
Yeah. Wait till
you see that tail.
All this tail is fat.
It's just fat right here.
Ooh, fat. Look at that.
Very careful. If we were to
get sick from that, we'd be out.
The grease coming off
gator fat is so delicious
but if you're not careful
and eat too much fat,
it could really mess you up and
make you sick a lot of the time.
If you guys are that picky,
I'll be chowing down like a king.
It's not being picky,
it's being safe.
Alligator fat. Delicioso.
Ain't too much of that.
I don't want gary to go out making
these choices to get a reaction.
Because me personally,
it's not a safe move as a survivalist.
Yeah.
I'm feeling nauseous.
I ate too much alligator fat.
That's right, I did that.
Oh.
Oh, god.
How are you feeling?
Oh, god.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.