Naked and Afraid XL (2015–…): Season 7, Episode 6 - EJ's Bait and Pain - full transcript
it is morning
of day...
Twenty four?
Still haven't seen
any alligators
in like four days.
that's a nice haul.
yeah.
But hoping in
the next couple days,
that changes up.
I'm gonna
check these lines.
We need to catch catfish.
We need to keep fishing.
We need to keep scavenging.
We're gonna do
what we have to do
to cross that finish line
in 60 days.
nothing.
This is nuts, dude.
Oh... *bleep*
nutria.
Hey, jeff.
Get a stick or something.
okay, he's coming
towards you.
Should be over here.
I see him.
You can get in front of him.
There he is.
He's going out to the swamp.
I lost him
in the lilies.
so I finally
see a nutria.
Uh, we try to corral it,
and he ended up
swimming away.
Damn. That was close.
Yeah. Put out some snares.
Maybe we'll get lucky.
Haha!
I am stoked.
Because this is
the first rat I've seen.
I thought this was
some bayou myth
that somebody
keeps talking about,
these giant rodents
that look like
beavers out here.
It looked delicious,
honestly.
Oh yeah.
I'm gonna eat him.
There's good cover
underneath this
dead tree here.
This is his zone for sure.
All right.
Let's do this thing.
so, what I figured
I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna get a pole,
about 14-15 feet long.
I'm gonna hang
several slipknot snares,
all the way down this pole,
I'm gonna sink it
right into the ground,
and man, it would just
really make me and jeff's day
to put a big 'ol swamp rat
on the grill.
Coming together.
-Slowly but surely, here.
-Yeah.
eating a nutria
would be great.
This is the same animal
that gave me
a parasitic infection
on my ballsack.
If there's anything out here
I wanna kill, it's this thing.
no matter what,
he has to go
through this
gauntlet of terror.
Eleven snares.
Pretty proud of this.
And I'm hoping,
if one even just trips up,
and kind of panics himself
in the gallows over here,
he's gonna start
moving around
and get himself more tangled
in the other snares.
Yeah. Nice.
I like it.
Animals better beware!
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
six miles
to the west,
gary and max are now
a team of two.
After complications
from a past injury...
which toe
am I touching?
I don't know.
...Forced
their most steady provider
to be medically removed
from the challenge.
-Bye, amber!
-Bye, amber!
I love you guys!
Yeah, should we just go
try work the treble?
Yeah.
already miss amber.
Just her undying enthusiasm
and just the unwavering
want to fish.
And now that she's gone,
we're gonna have to
step it up double time
to get our hooks
in the water,
to get us fed.
You know, I study
as hard as I can,
I prepare as hard as I can,
but you always just need
a little bit of luck.
Checking the lines
in the mornings, and...
Praying an hoping that
we can get something
on the line today.
That'd be huge for morale.
Huge for us to
keep powering through.
Hopefully this one's it,
right here.
We deserve this.
here, is this
our first line?
yeah.
it's still hanging.
*bleep*
all right, you wanna
meet me over here?
I'm gonna keep pushing.
Sure.
Me and max were
checking the alligator lines,
making sure they're
at the right level.
I'm gonna bait
these catfish hooks.
We just gotta like keep
the line untangled,
keep putting bait on,
throwing it out,
'cause amber
drove home that this works.
I've always thought
gary's just a wild card.
Crazy dude. But we
have to work together
for the greater good
for us to get
to the finish line.
All it needs is
a nice little tug
and she's gonna roll.
Voila!
I absolutely do feel, uh...
A passionate desire to
sort of carry the torch
a little bit.
Make amber proud.
She kind of actually
gave me the bug
a little bit, you know.
you got the fishing bug?
-Yeah.
-Hell yeah.
but so far, nothing.
I'm almost pretty sad.
we're in
a tough position
to try to get food
on the table.
We've had, you know,
some catfish here and there,
but we haven't seen
a gator in this area for
at least a week.
And now we're at
a point where it's
almost at a standstill.
Seems that lady luck
left with amber.
we ain't seen gators
in the swamp.
yeah. Concerning.
yeah. It is concerning.
big old vulture
flying up there.
yeah, it's circling,
'cause it's staring
at us, dude.
these *bleep*
about to die.
yeah, let's just
circle over these two guys.
They look pretty promising.
Not today vultures, not today.
sixteen miles
to the north,
for matt, ryan and rylie.
oh yeah!
Snake-slayer, rylie!
Are you gonna
drink some blood?
small victories
have brought new life.
But they know
that won't be enough
to survive 60 days
in the swamp.
might just
get down and bait
that gator line down there.
Get some fresh stuff,
and check the traps.
We'll see if...
See if they might
start moving.
It's finally warm enough today
for the first time in the last
ten days we've had a chance.
This is true.
for the last
about ten days,
I haven't seen
a single alligator,
and we're getting hungry.
As I hear my team-mates
talk about hunger and food,
it drives that
inner drive inside of me,
like I need to hunt,
I need to fish,
I need to get food.
So, like a true warrior today,
gonna push forward.
Let's see what we find.
Hopefully, there's
something there.
We could really use
a big... A big win.
so on this one,
I've got that catfish head.
Oh, the bait's still there.
Catfish head's still there.
Definitely nothing hit
that bait all night.
Damn it.
On to the next one.
what is it?
I think we got a...
We got a gator
on the line, I believe.
This is unbelievable.
We haven't seen
an alligator in a... In...
We don't even know how long.
I'm gonna ease him in,
just to...
Just to confirm.
Yup. He's on it.
He is on it!
Yes!
this gator is big.
This is a big boy.
We got a *bleep* alligator.
Oh! This is a big day.
Yes!
Good morning.
it's gator time.
- shut up!
-Gator day.
Oh... *bleep* huge.
It is. We've got about
an eight to nine foot
alligator on the line.
-Agh!
-And we're so *bleep* happy.
Let's mash up some war paint?
this is our tradition.
You know, it's customary
for a warrior before they
go into battle to...
Prepare themselves
for what's ahead,
and the warrior paint
is embracing that
you're going in battle.
Help protect us,
help keep us strong,
and win this battle.
-All right.
-All right.
-Guys, let's do this.
-All right.
Agh! I'm savage.
-let's get it.
We deserve it.
We earned it.
We're hungry!
well, there he is.
there he is.
Oh, that's a nice gator.
Oh yeah.
Oh man!
that's
a nine-footer right there.
this is
gonna be a tight fight.
we have a big gator.
This is easily double the size
of the last gators we got.
You can't just dispatch
him with a knife.
This gator, it needs
a couple arrows,
and a whole team effort
to bring him into shore,
dispatch him safely,
and game over.
Once we get him in,
we're gonna get
a second line on him.
'cause what we don't
want him to do is
rip off anything.
Get this second line on.
Then we'll stick him
with some arrows.
yep.
Now you gotta harvest
this thing that can
kill you with one bite,
and drag you out
into the water
and death roll with you.
You got to have
a good grasp on it.
Having one hook
and one line
from one side,
riley's gonna
move to the right.
I'm gonna put the noose down
over the top of its jaw
and move to the left.
So now you've got
two points of contact
holding this alligator,
pulling both ways,
so matt could safely
approach it from the side
and deliver a couple
vital organ shots
with the bow and arrow.
It's solid.
-Oh, it's fighting.
- he's fighting now.
- it's running.
- he's going there.
all right. Let's
get in formation. Fold.
woo!
Oh, yeah.
- holy *bleep*!
- oh, yeah.
get him!
don't wrap the string
around your finger at all.
be careful.
- he's got way more
fight than the last one.
- back up.
- back it up.
- yeah.
- oh, yeah.
- he's probably
eight foot.
-oh, it definitely...
-Come on.
hang it on.
Oh, yeah.
- come on!
- come on, big boy.
- he's close.
- careful dude.
- watch out.
- hang on.
Watch your knee!
watch out!
oh, yeah.
come on!
come on, big boy.
- he's close.
- careful dude.
oh, watch that tail.
oh, what do you
think about that buddy.
oh, my god.
take it on!
ryan, see
if you can get that
other noose on his head.
- oh, hissing.
- wow. Oh, watch out.
- hang on.
-Yup.
- watch
your pole is all.
watch out.
easy, buddy. Easy now.
hand.
easy.
watch your hand.
all right.
Pull the rope.
- all right.
- got it.
all right.
right there is good.
Just hold the tension on,
guys.
We got it.
all right.
A little more.
Let him do his thing
for a second.
okay.
well done, guys.
-Well done.
that's a dinosaur.
That's a monster.
-Alligator gladiators.
-Yes!
Gator bites for days.
Oh, man.
One, two, three.
- holy mother!
- yeah, buddy.
- good?
- yup.
- get ready to gut it.
-Good.
this is gonna be
an all-day process, y'all.
Hope you got your sleep.
having
a nine foot alligator,
two hundred
to 250 pound reptile,
this point
in the challenge, day 24,
this is humongous.
This is at least
two weeks' worth of food
off of this one alligator.
what are we gonna
name this guy?
this one needs
a beast of a name.
he needs
a monster name.
- maximus.
- yeah.
- maximus, I love it.
- I love it.
so you're gonna
try to get the tail off
then I can work on that.
Yeah. Yup.
I'll do the tail first.
At this point, I've got a lot
of experience with alligators.
We've gotta get these
things smoked, hung
and try to eat certain
things at certain times.
Like that tail, that's where
they keep all their fat.
We have to cook that.
It's almost a high stress
of eating and processing
and a lot more eating.
We got 48 hours on this food
before flies,
the moisture in the air,
everything makes it rancid.
And so using
what we've learned
from the first gator
we caught,
anything that we can't eat
right away tonight
or tomorrow,
has to be jerky
and that's the key
to our survival.
Ryan is stringing up
jerky lines in our shelter
and our shelter serves
as our smoker as well.
meat delivery.
- woo!
-Can I grab that
liver off there?
yeah. I wanted that.
You can just set that
right there on the floor,
just like everything else.
You just cook that
with the fat on it.
so, you've never
eaten alligator liver?
No. No.
Just never desired to eat?
Never tried it?
Yeah. Just never part
of the main menu of things.
It's a definitely
worth a try though.
I've never eaten
alligator liver.
However, our plan is actually
to consume all that fresh meat
while we have that
jerky stored away
for a rainy day
or after a week
or so of us not eating
when we need to start
cutting into that supply.
It's cooked all the way,
that's all the way through.
- that's perfect.
- yeah.
I wanna see what
your reaction is to that pate.
So a liver on an animal
is one of the most
nutrient filled
parts of the organs
and it has a lot of iron.
Out here we are craving iron.
We're working hard everyday.
And so this liver,
it's worth eating.
Alligator liver.
Bon appetite.
that's
absolutely delicious.
-Yup.
-What? This is super mild.
I know. I was
not expecting that at all.
-This tastes like something
you put on a sandwich.
- wow.
- yeah.
- more people
should eat this.
Well, the fat
of the liver there.
Well, that's
really incredible.
I'm glad we tried it.
mm-hm.
nine miles
south west,
ej enters his 10th day
of solo survival.
And the challenges
of battling the swamp alone
are starting to mount.
*bleep*
all right.
Checking my fishing lines.
See if we got anything.
Good morning, day 25.
And I'm throwing everything
I got but the kitchen sink
at the food situation.
I've got a gator trap out,
I've got several
fishing lines out.
Oh, man.
I think a gator got me.
And I have not gotten
anything in my belly.
That's disappointing.
Let me check
this one over here.
I could get down on myself,
be negative about it.
But I'll be positive.
Not get ambushed
by frustration.
Oh, whoa! Bullfrog!
he's gone.
it was huge. Huge.
Big sucker.
And I must've
looked like a psych,
this big ogre trying to tackle
this little bullfrog.
that sucks.
The lone wolf just keeps
throwing everything he's got
at this thing just to put
some food in my belly.
These frogs
all come out at night.
So I think
a little night hunt,
little frog gigging,
is in order tonight.
Need to develop a torch.
All right. That's the base.
Wrap that all with vine
all the way up.
Put that hole in there.
I got some cypress shavings.
Some smashed moss.
bullfrogs
avoid daytime predators
by being more active at night.
And since their
eyes reflect light,
a torch increases
the odds of spotting them.
Awesome.
Next on the agenda,
I'm gonna make
a gig spear here.
This is a common
used swamp spear.
People use it for fish,
or gigging frogs or lizards,
or even small mammals.
And I will split it
to make four prongs.
That's my first split.
Perfect.
The spikes for the gig
are already starting to form.
Just gonna put
points on them now.
It's like having a hand.
So it's like four fingers
and you capture everything.
So you got four points that
are gonna hit your target,
and pin it down.
The idea is just to capture
them before they get away.
This is all secured
with the vines.
Just gotta fire hard the tips
and dry out
the spear a little bit
then it'll be
ready for action.
Ready for tonight's hunt.
I'm gonna go check the snares
and just start
grabbing piles, dude.
sounds good, man.
I got a few snares set up.
It's literally like 11 snares
on one 14 foot pole.
I put them
right where homeslice
was coming in and out.
So hopefully,
we have a, you know,
swamp rat dinner tonight.
*bleep*
I think there's
a nutria over there.
there's definitely
something over there.
There he is.
Right there.
I knew he was gonna be here.
Damn it. That means
he wasn't in the snare.
that son of a bitch.
What do I see
in the exact same spots?
That same damn nutria.
Man, these things are
quick and they swim.
Once they get under
all those lily pads,
they're gone, man.
I'm gonna get him.
I'm gonna get him.
For sure.
There you are.
I've always worked
as hard as I possibly
can every challenge.
got it.
And steven,
he's the same type of guy.
And as long as we
keep that mindset up,
there's nothing
we can't do out here.
You're gonna be fish bait.
You're gonna be
good fish bait too.
So I'm doing a little
bait experiment, if you will,
hunting for little lizards
and little skinks.
They're crawling all over
near our shelter.
They're fast little buggers.
I think if I can
get myself a couple,
I can bait my hook
for this evening,
and I'm hoping
for a fish dinner, baby.
Yes.
Nice frog.
That's gonna be great bait.
We've got legs as bait,
we've got the guts
that are gonna be bait.
That is killer.
I wanna be able
to turn this into fish.
Providing these catfish
a whole menu.
I'm putting a weight
on the very end of the line,
and then I'm putting two hooks
on their own little
10-inch line
hanging off of the main line.
The upper hook, I've got frog,
the lower hook,
I've got lizard.
This will allow
the weight of the rock
to sink to the bottom
of the river,
and it will allow
both of these hooks
to float independently
in the current of the stream.
And, hopefully,
that will help these catfish
identify the bait more easily,
but also prevent this bait
from getting snagged
under water.
I feel like the
opportunities are
sort of dwindling.
yeah, we can't
hunt *bleep* here.
We need signs of life
on this little strip of death.
We're on a tiny strip of land
surrounded by mud and water,
so we don't have much options
for hunting grounds.
I saw a faint
potential game trail.
let's check it.
The way this place
is starting to look,
it's starting to look
pretty sparse.
Food is looking pretty scarce.
Not one water moccasin.
I mean, I'm not
even seeing crawfish
anymore either.
what kind
of cruel joke was this?
It doesn't look like
it's a type of place
that's gonna get us
to extraction.
So we're definitely
considering
migrating or exploring.
I'm willing to stick
it out for, you know,
a handful more days
to see if we can
get a big kill.
Yeah. 'cause if we're gonna
end up not getting a gator,
-dude, we're gonna
be starving.
-Yeah.
So I'm seeing
this faint game trail
that runs right here.
Yo, I think I'm seeing
some poop here.
- this looks
like nutria crap.
- yeah.
it's earth colored,
it's torpedoed,
you know it's a large
rodent shape.
-I mean they're
just a giant rat...
-Yeah.
...But I always say to myself,
you know, two days
into the challenge,
-"I'll never eat a rat."
and then a week into
the challenge, like,
"where's the closest rat?"
yeah. Right?
So we're at the point where
"where's the closest rat?"
got the noose right here,
it's kind of like that.
A little surgeon's knot.
a beehive!
-Where? Where?
- right there, dude!
Check it out!
- we're gonna
have honey.
look at the size
of that tree, though.
Yeah, I mean,
I'm just concerned.
I'm fairly allergic
to bees, I believe.
And if I get stung
in the face,
it'll *bleep* me up.
What we'll do is,
if I'm doing' it,
and they start getting hyper,
you leave.
I can handle bee stings.
-I've messed with bees a lot.
-Okay.
-I'm a beekeeper.
-Yeah, dude.
That sounds legendary.
And that looks
like a big, old rotten tree,
so I think that whole
inside of that is
just *bleep* honeycombs.
This is huge, you know?
For my sugar,
for our mental game.
And for just energy,
just to have sugar,
that will bump us up so much.
Aw, man, that's
gonna be, you know,
it's some work cutting
that tree down,
but if we get it down,
it's something to do towards
possible something to eat.
Chopping that down tomorrow.
ready to hunt tonight.
Get me some bullfrog.
Okay. All right.
Off we go.
Whether it be day,
whether it be night,
I'm coming for you,
creatures of the swamp.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
Rat.
In this kind of a situation,
this swamp's so dangerous,
one wrong turn,
not paying attention,
a water moccasin
will take you out.
And they're all over.
That is the most
dangerous thing
we have going for us out here
in this swamp.
is a nasty, angry
water moccasin.
Show yourself
you little bugger.
I just wanna see
the gleam of your eyes.
Go ahead and ribbit.
Ribbit your last croak.
There he is!
well there you are.
There you are!
He's gone. Son of a bitch.
I just had one jump
right past my feet.
Almost had him.
There he is.
go ahead and ribbit.
Ribbit your last croak.
There he is.
yes! Got you,
you little bugger!
You didn't get away this time.
Your brother might have,
but not you!
That's right. I got you.
yes! Yes.
Damn, look at those legs.
I'm gonna keep eating
everything in this swamp
till I've gotten everything
off the menu in my belly!
Can't wait to eat it.
Day ending on a high note.
So grateful for him,
but that's something
I'm probably not gonna
do every night.
It was really risky,
I could have got
a mechanical injury,
I could have got hurt,
could have walked into
a moccasin nest and got bit.
You know, too many variables
could have went wrong with it.
Mmm.
But I needed to eat.
Definitely well worth it.
Well spent.
So red.
Yeah, that's on point.
how'd you guys sleep?
I slept pretty solid.
-I mean, definitely feeling--
- food drunk.
food drunk.
-It's insane.
- yeah.
if we're
gonna keep hunting,
keep pushing,
and not touch the jerky,
theoretically, this could take
us all the way to the end.
oh, yeah.
jerky is
completely dried out meat,
there's no moisture in it,
and that food itself
will last to day 60.
Our plan is actually
to save the jerky,
not even touch it
if we don't have to
and consume
all that fresh meat
while we have
that jerky stored away.
- our job is literally--
- yeah, we gotta eat
or this will go bad.
yeah.
Dude, that alligator
eyeball is gnarly.
- that's not
something you eat, though?
- oh, we're eating it.
- no.
- oh, yeah.
- no, no, no, no.
oh, this is
where it's at, right here.
- well,
you go where it's at.
not for me.
I do know
that the eyeballs
of most animals and fish
are very good for you.
They are the only
natural saline in nature,
giving your body
some of those salts
that you really need out here.
okay.
There it is, ryan.
we're here for 60 days,
this alligator
will not go to waste.
That right there,
alligator eyeball.
Maximus' last eye.
It's my first
alligator eyeball.
Right.
It was chewy, and salty.
- but not bad!
-Not bad.
Not a delicacy.
Sounds awful.
- nice, bro.
-Yeah.
stackin' it.
- I'm about to go
check my hooks.
- nice.
my new fishing setup
has been in the water all day.
I just pray that there's
a fish on the line.
And we haven't had a catfish
in a few days now.
I've taken all the knowledge
I've learnt
from four different continents
and five total challenges,
and I've put it into
this one fishing unit.
And I'm hoping that this thing
is gonna put dinner
on the table tonight.
Come on. Come on, baby.
Oh?
Oh *bleep*! I got a fish on!
Come on, baby. Come on!
Stay on there.
Come on. Come on. Oh, my god.
Oh, my god, I got a
double fish hook!
Yeah baby!
This is what I live for!
Do you hear me louisiana?
I got a catfish and a gar.
I'm loving the swamp more
and more everyday.
This is the first time in any
of my challenges I've got
two fish on the same line,
at the same time.
Today is a good freaking day.
The bag is heavy. I feel like
santa claus!
It's my partner, it's my
buddy, wouldn't ask for
any other one.
The catfish ate the frog bait,
the gar ate the lizard bait.
alligator gar
are prehistoric fish
with long snouts and
rows of razor sharp teeth.
That resemble their
killer namesakes.
These are truly prehistoric
fish out here. They have an
armor on their outside
almost similar to an
alligator skin. It's very
thick, it's very sharp.
But the inside it tastes so
good,
and I'm excited to bring
dinner to the table
once again.
See this double fish master.
-Oh, you got a fatty!
-Oh, yeah! Look at the head
on that baby.
-It was a monster.
-Yeah, hell yeah.
We're eating good tonight.
-Flicking delicious.
-Cheers bro.
-Gar isn't meaty, catfish is
definitely more oily.
-Oh, yeah.
we're eating dinner,
this is huge.
These fish are gonna give us
the strength to hopefully
get another gator.
And I feel like we're
gonna be fueling excellent
at the half way mark
which is exactly, uh...
Where we want to be.
So, tonight we're gonna go to
bed with full bellies and
go to bed grateful tonight.
Such a blessing.
We were setting a snare
hoping an animal would
stumble into it.
-But nothing today.
-Nope.
fortunately we have a
prospect of getting honey,
which is just epic.
-There they are.
-Ah, nice.
I'm about to chop this tree
down with a bee hive in it.
So, max and I can enjoy the
sugar and protein and
a lot of energy.
best case scenario
docile bees, lots of honey.
Worst case scenario, highly
aggressive bees and we are
in quite a fight
out here in the wilderness
-you know why bee
suits are white?
-Why?
-Because bees, they go
after dark things.
-Really?
Dark hair, dark skin, because
bears, black bears,
brown bears.
Jeeze louise.
-Like bro, I'm a dark bear
right now.
- you're a black bear.
-I don't know if I wanna be
hanging around here anymore.
- it's the truth.
-But that's why bee suits
are white, for real.
-Dude, no way.
-Yeah. So now you know little
more information about bees.
-Now I know when I get laced,
-it's because of that.
- so, ready to
start chopping?
-Let's get it.
you go into anaphylactic
shock from too many
bee stings,
it's when you have too much
poison in your system, your
body just gets overloaded.
And that's pretty much the
worst case scenario that
can happen here.
I am allergic to bees.
As a kid I got stung in
and around the face,
and my face swole up really
large. I just hope I don't
get stung in the face
and or repeatedly all over
the body. That would
*bleep* me up.
-Oh, we got our first bee.
-Where?
It just flew in front of me.
Those bees are starting to
like, maybe, sense a little
something.
it's cracking.
- it's cracking?
- it's cracking.
It's leaning. There it goes.
Timber!
-Gotta start moving,
start moving.
-Watch those bees.
-oh, yeah.
-We did it.
We took it down, max.
*bleep*
just got stung on the nose.
Oh, yeah. All right.
I essentially fell back
because gary just got
stung in the face.
It's a little terrifying
because when I get stung
in the face,
my whole face swells up. Dude.
*bleep*
*bleep*
-are you getting attacked?
- yep, yep.
I'm getting stung. *bleep*
-are you getting attacked?
- yep, yep.
I'm getting stung. *bleep*
oh, I'm gonna let him calm
down a little bit.
I mean gary,
you could just smoke it out,
-and then we can operate.
-Yeah.
-We need to get a softer wood
log and get it all coaled up.
-Yeah.
-So it's just smoldering on
its own, bring it over here.
-Okay.
I'm in my element here.
This is what I do.
But getting the honey with
wild bees, butt naked.
It's a bit of a puzzle.
When you smoke the bees out,
they try to suck up as much
honey as they can,
and they take off.
It also causes them to
be more docile because
when they get fat on honey,
they get sluggish.
I would not even
step close to this tree.
I mean it's all calculated for
gary because he's...
He's dealt with bees.
It's just that I don't have,
I guess the enzymes
or the...
The fortitude to survive
against multiple bee stings.
Ouch, ah, between the fingers
always hurts so much.
On the webbing upper hand.
Oh, gosh.
Damn that one smarts!
how big is it in there?
Is there a lot?
this could be enough to
make me and you happy.
I like happy.
-This is a lot my brother.
-This is a lot?
Probably like...
Half a gallon.
-Oh.
pure. Pure honey.
I'm gonna take a bite.
Oh, my god.
gary is a rock star and
I respect for him as
a survivalist and right now
we're brothers.
We're comrades.
Oh, it's so good.
-Wow, dude. We did it!
The honey pot, baby.
-More to come, bro.
That tasted magnificent.
Absolutely magnificent.
Legendary. Legend gary.
I love you bees.
finding a bees
nest here, we got lucky,
but...
I think our luck's running out
in this location. We've pretty
much demolished this area.
-We've thrived here as much as
anybody could.
-Absolutely.
-But resources are going
out the window.
-Yeah.
we haven't been
seeing any alligators at all.
-We better start planning on
getting the hell out of here.
-Yeah.
I'll be down to leave tomorrow
while we still have energy.
-We need to explore.
-Yeah.
physically
I'm feeling strong.
I'm ready for this move.
To build the raft and find a
new location besides this
swampy hell hole.
We get tired, we each eat a
little honey comb and,
whoop-whoop-whoop,
feeling like freaking mario
when he eats the mushroom.
-Yeah. Yeah.
-It's awesome.
let's go check some
fishing lines.
As a hunter, I'll admit it,
I don't have
the luck of fishing,
don't have the patience
and I, all my life, not been
a good fisherman.
This stuff is so tricky trying
to play with the tides
in fishing.
I've had some success but
I need to start eating more.
Let me check this one over
here, and it kinda looks like
it's moving, but we'll see.
Could be hyacinth.
So far I've had two enemies
show up.
One of 'em petty vocal about,
that's the gator.
The other's this hyacinth,
it keeps blocking me
from getting to the fish,
if I try to swim across it,
it tries to drown me. It's
just constantly in the way.
Just way out there.
empty. Son of a bitch,
hyacinth. It figures.
Good news is they're
biting here.
Bad news is the hyacinth has
rolled back up in here.
Can't afford to keep
losing calories.
Want to build a bit
of a pier right here.
Clear the hyacinth out
of the way.
I could get water
with no issue,
I could fish off the dock,
get to the deeper water
where the bigger fish are.
That'll be a lot safer for me,
too, if I have this pier
'cause anytime I get
near the water's edge,
I don't know when
it's gonna, psshh,
drop off.
Get on that bright and
early tomorrow.
hasta la vista, hyacinth.
-I'm gonna go check my snares.
-Cool.
jeff caught
a couple fish,
but we're gonna do
a stock up on our food
because it's super important
out here,
we don't know when
the cold is actually
gonna hit us so,
I built the gauntlet of death,
my master snare awesomeness
and I'm gonna go
check my nutria traps
and hopefully
norman, the nuisance nutria
is wrapped up in my snare.
Not looking like anything in
the gauntlet of death here.
Looks like they've
been messed up.
*bleep*
something dragged it.
Son of a bitch.
This one's all *bleep* up.
Something came through here.
*bleep*
ah. I don't know
what did this.
Must have dragged it with him.
I can't even...
Something came through here
and broke it.
Broke my snare, dude.
Holy *bleep*.
How's that even possible?
Wow.
Didn't undo the knot,
literally broke the line.
This is like a 100 pounds.
Busted this log right off,
broke this.
Wow, and that's
in the ground, dude.
Holy *bleep*.
It's pretty trampled.
That's insane.
I don't know what
it could have been.
Could have been a gator.
Could have been a nutria
that was caught
and then the gator ate it.
It couldn't have been a bear.
That's new for me.
I mean, it ripped...
A log straight out
of the earth.
It's intimidating knowing
that there's a giant,
you know,
swamp beast out there.
That's a little scary.
I'm gonna think twice
before getting up
and grabbing a feeder log
tonight. That's for damn sure.
I don't know, man.
Norman, you won this battle.
I'm feeling pretty good.
I think I'm in
a better position that I was
on day 27
on my 40 day challenge,
physically.
We're moving through just like
part of the process...
-Exactly.
-...On our way to migrate,
explore.
-With honey in tow.
-With honey in tow.
While we're moving,
we'll see more things.
We might even treble hook
a gator from the raft.
- you never know.
-Could you imagine if
that happened?
that would be epic.
You can't move across
the swamp by walking.
it's such a chore,
it's unbelievable.
You end up chest-high
in water, risking
water moccasins.
Drifting across
the top of the water
is the best way to go so,
a raft is really
the only logical thing to do.
I've built a lot
of rafts, dude.
-I'm here to kinda, like...
- help me?
-...Support your vision.
- amazing. Appreciate it.
Give input when I feel, but...
yeah, we gotta
kinda get to it, huh?
yeah.
all right, let me
get past this *bleep*.
How do you wanna do it,
you tell me.
You go out
and then I'll lead with this.
I've built a raft
in three of my challenges now,
and I made rafts
my entire life as a kid so,
feel really comfortable
putting this together.
laying the bricks.
I found a beehive
and max has been
working diligently
on making the raft.
That's how it works.
My partner is
a great survivalist...
Really opening the place up.
I'm a great
survivalist.
A little cowboy camping.
and combination
as a team, me and max
are crushing it.
♪ tryin' to catch us
raftin' dirty ♪
this raft is made up
of our shelter,
that we cannibalized
in order to create this raft.
This allowed us to use wood
that has been drying
for 20 something days
since we've created
this shelter,
using that is going
to be more buoyant
than anything else
that we can find
that would be a live wood.
All right, that should do it.
I'm happy to leave this place.
It could be nice
to find higher ground,
richer hunting grounds.
just kinda putting
the finishing touches on it.
Good.
It's time for us
to move along.
our house looks
like home again
with all the hanging meat.
I know.
we have so much fat.
we can use that fat
for all kinds of things now.
We can render it down
and make lye soap,
we can lubricate our bleeds.
usually
in survival settings,
you don't have a ton of fat.
But this time we've got about
four pounds
of pure white clean fat
from this gator.
We're gonna split
that in half,
and I'm gonna make soap.
I like that sound.
that does sound good.
Looks good too.
the use
of animal fat
or tallow to make soap
has been traced as far back
as five thousand years ago.
see how clean
that fat is?
It's like clear.
It's gonna be beautiful.
The first step of this
is to render down the fat.
Heating the fat up
and making sure that
all of the bits
of flesh or meat
or anything that might
be in there that isn't just
clean pure fat,
is taken out.
The next part is to make lye.
All right, so this is
just some water
and this is some white ash
from our hardwood fire
last night.
wood ash contains
sodium hydroxide,
a natural alkali
that breaks down
the acid of the fat.
lye is just
a caustic chemical
drawn out of the ash
from the actual wood content.
It's dangerous to work with.
You should be wearing
protective clothing and
it can cause you to go blind
if it gets in your eyes,
so goggles as well.
Lye is ready.
The fat still smells
really clean.
No stinky rancid,
so the fat part
of this product is good.
this soap is not
just for thrills.
This soap is actually
for survival.
We have a lot of time left
on this challenge,
I, myself as well as ryan
have been fighting a parasite.
Better we can wash ourselves
with the soap,
the better we're gonna
stay clean and healthy
till the end of the challenge.
it's not gonna
be solid like other soap,
'cause it's just too warm
here, but we're gonna boil
this together,
make sure it's all good
and then we're gonna
let it cool a little bit.
Hopefully, it works.
Phew!
All right.
So...
This is the paddle.
I just gotta lighten it up,
make it easier to paddle
and this should do it.
are you happy
with the rafter?
just about, yeah.
I mean, I just need
to hit this for like
another 20 minutes
and then it should be done.
oh, oh, oh, oh.
Right now I see
a great blue heron,
he's moved his kill
which is a fish
onto the shore.
Gonna swim over there
and try to steal his kill.
Almost there.
Almost there.
oh...
it's an alligator gar.
no way.
- it's an alligator gar.
- what?
- yeah.
- oh, yeah.
yes!
-Yeah!
- hell, yeah!
Gary's admiring the handiwork
of this great blue heron.
We see he has this big gar.
We swim all the way
to the lilies,
soon as we get to the lilies,
he throws his stick,
and he's out.
And he leaves this gar behind,
and now we're eating.
Dude!
-We're eating.
-Yeah. Baby!
Boom. Nothing big,
but it's these little wins
that keep moving us along.
couple of little
gar steaks.
oh, man, what a day.
That's a prehistoric fish
right there.
-Awesome teamwork right there.
-Yeah.
Thank you, heron.
Thanks for carin'.
heron is sharin'.
heron is sharin'.
Dude, legan-gary.
honey-dipped alligator gar.
Mm.
Mm.
That's so good.
oh, wow,
it's a nice white meat.
that's
real freakin' good.
before we
got the beehive,
dude, I was terrified
of making, like,
using up our energy
to make a raft,
and then burn up our energy...
-That, too.
-..Paddling the raft, like...
But to be able to really
come through clutch
in the ninth inning
at our shelter
and get a walk-off
homerun with the bee,
and then freakin'
a victory lap
with the protein
from the fish...
-Yeah.
-Dude, that helps a lot.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Well, I hope we find
a super hunting grounds
-full of alligators, really.
-Yeah.
Of course we want the gator.
If we can score
a couple of alligators...
That'd put us through.
It's a golden ticket
to sixty.
tomorrow,
we migrate out of here.
And I'm hoping
that we can be successful.
I've never
notched anything out
with a knife like this.
It's coming together.
yeah,
you're doing a good job.
Takes a little bit
of whacking though.
matt and I
are making some
bush craft camp chairs.
those chairs are just
basically built out
of two triangles.
It should be
all fully supported
just based on weight.
Now, we have been eating
a substantial amount
of protein
up to this point
in the challenge.
Our bodies are just machines,
and that is our fuel
to keep going.
Look at this.
Oh, you do feel
high and mighty.
Oh, wow.
First time in 14 days
I haven't been
sitting in the dirt.
oh, yeah.
- I feel civilized
a little bit here.
- right?
Except for my nutria itch nuts
are sitting on
some pokey grass.
But besides that...
pretty civilized.
yeah.
how is it?
Nice in the sun?
It's good. Oh, yeah.
Sit here and watch the sun set
all majestically
over the water.
Every house needs
a family sign, team sign,
so that's what
I'm working on here.
It's gonna be awesome.
And I think this is gonna
come together really nicely.
Tryin' to make the letters pop
as much as possible.
I decided to do
a little outline
with charcoal as well
on the outer edge of this.
You're gonna be able
to read this sign very well
from a good distance.
all right.
Pretty bold-lookin' sign.
little higher
on your side, ryan.
Very good. Perfect.
to have a sign
for our entrance,
you know, even if it's
just for us,
it's a morale boost every day
when you walk
and you say, "welcome."
and then you get up there,
"team savage".
And you're like,
"yup. This is where I live.
This is where I thrive."
and you know what,
it makes you proud
to come home.
- good job, ryan.
it's exactly what it needed.
- spelled it right,
yeah?
- yeah.
- yeah.
-All right, good.
-Ah, so good. Nice touch
on the correct spelling.
oh, I'm excited.
Yeah, smells like...
I think it's...
Totally smells like soap.
-100% like
an all-natural bar soap.
-Swanky.
that is wild.
let's do
a little test spot.
-I'll do a little leg.
- on my hands.
yeah.
Put some on my leg.
And we'll do one leg
and not the other leg,
and see what happens.
it feels so nice
on the wounds.
so I did one leg.
It's basically a lot cleaner
than this one.
-That's insane.
- that's incredible.
Feels like two...
Honestly, I'm wearing
two different legs.
- yeah.
- yeah.
well, hey, another success.
Another success for us.
-And my first.
-Yeah.
So I have to question,
what are we calling it?
Gator gut soap.
Rylie's gator gut soap
available now...
-At team savage.
- yeah.
nice to maybe go take a walk
back in that area,
and see if we see any tracks.
Yeah, why not? Definitely.
I think that's a good idea.
last night,
steven and I heard footsteps
outside the shelter.
We're not sure what it is.
Um, it could be a small animal
or it could be a big animal
treading lightly.
So we're gonna
go look for tracks.
stop.
holy *bleep*.
That's a bear.
- that is a bear.
- that's a
freaking bear track.
Bear!
A big, old black bear track
right in the middle
of the trail,
heading straight
in the direction
of our shelter.
I bet they can
smell murder log.
-Oh, they can
totally smell murder log.
-Guaranteed.
-From here.
-Yeah.
I bet that's why
we're seeing him
-walk straight towards camp.
- yeah. Yeah.
He smells murder log.
Murder log is a log
that we use to process
all of our kills.
We gutted a gator...
Oh, it's beautiful.
...We've gutted
seven fish,
multiple lizards.
This log smells like murder.
look at
that thing, dude.
That is one of the biggest
black bear tracks I've seen.
- it's a big bear.
-That is a big bear.
that's pretty wild.
he probably
broke my snare.
Dude, when you set up
your snare's...
- I gotta be careful.
-...You better not
snare a bear.
I know. Now I'm terrified.
- oh, you should be.
dude, check this out.
That's bear *bleep*.
Oh, yeah,
that's totally bear *bleep*.
look at that.
-That's not fresh.
-That's not fresh.
-That must be a week old.
-That's...
Yeah, it might be a week old.
which means
that bear is...
this is
part of his trail.
- this is his territory.
- yeah.
- we've got visitors.
- yeah.
Black bear is
a formidable predator.
And you know, when we got
a murder log
covered in blood over there,
right next to our shelter,
it's concerning.
We gotta keep vigilant
because one wrong turn
out here in the swamp,
that's the end.
Not just the end of
the challenge, it might be
the end of our lives.
-Definitely worth
keeping an eye out for.
- yeah.
I'm gonna build a pier
right next to my camp
to give me ability to
just be at my camp,
walk out on the pier,
be able to get water freely,
be able to fish from my dock,
keep the hyacinth at bay.
You gotta understand
something about this hyacinth.
It's like its own
living creature.
It moves around on its own.
It floats. It's like a sheet
of green stuff.
Like a blanket.
And it, kind of, moves in.
It's unbelievable.
So I have to move it
out of the way
and then put up, kind of,
a barrier, prevent it
from coming back.
Because it will come back.
So, I think I got
a pretty good plan for that.
And we will attack today.
Morning wood lumber company
going to action.
Collecting all the lumber
I need for this project,
and as well as vines.
I think my first, phase one
portion of this
is to clear this area out
so I can safely walk
up and through this willow.
And clear this portion
of the hyacinth behind
this willow tree.
And I can put little spikes
in there.
And I can keep the hyacinth
from approaching into
my zone here.
And then, phase two.
I want to get a pier built,
just off my beach here.
Back with you.
You good beast.
There's a lot of risk
going out there.
If I slip in the mud
and trash my knee,
break a-- throw a hip,
break a leg,
then I am out of here.
But, you know, I am ready
to take some risks
to get a reward.
I need to eat.
Get over there.
it's exhausting, but...
Phase one will be done today,
for sure.
let's get creative here
with the stew.
this is one jowl
that we smoked
over the past three days
that we are gonna cube up
and put in the pot for stew.
I got it.
- oh, this smells good.
- yeah.
- that smells great.
- let me see.
- here you go.
That's not bad. Nothing--
- uh-huh.
to me, everything
in survival has nutrients,
has something.
And I mean to tell you,
I will eat everything.
Because you know what?
Not a ounce of it
is going to waste.
First part of the gator tail,
the biggest part
with the most meat on it
and tons of fat.
- gonna be good.
-Going in the stew.
oh, boy.
let's get another
section off here.
I don't want to
eat that but the center's
not really cooked right now.
you're too good
at this.
I don't really
think of matt as "a" legend.
He is "the" legend.
Absolutely look up to him.
As far as the expanding
my palette and eating outside
of my comfort zone,
matt gives me this
huge confidence boost.
You know, if he's gonna do it,
I'm gonna do it.
I don't think we can
put anything else in there.
that's gonna be
a thick one.
all right.
Set it and forget it.
oh, yeah.
Look at that.
Oh, that's a good push.
Making progress on
operation hasta la vista
hyacinth. It's a chore.
It's like fighting
a prizefighter.
I am up to my thighs in muck.
Fighting the hyacinth,
trying to put stakes in there.
Not getting easier because
I'm going further out
where I can't touch bottom,
and there's alligators
out there.
climbing the tree to get
to the other side.
I can see all kinds
of big fish down there.
That's the prize.
I need to concentrate.
Because I never have
the best of balance.
So-- such a steep angle.
It makes it difficult.
Not fun with muddy feet.
my grandfather used to
always say,
"if there's a willow,
there's a way."
I see you wrestling through
the hyacinth, mr. Alligator.
Making progress.
this is lot more enjoyable...
Than sinking in that mud,
I'll tell you that much.
I got a better angle up here.
I wonder if that'll
hold my weight.
I got speared.
at least I got you
in position.
I wonder if that'll
hold my weight.
I got speared.
oh, man.
Tried to castrate me.
Son of a bitch swamp!
*bleep* you!
Tried to take my
*bleep* balls?
Really?
*bleep* you!
I'll kill you!
You want a war?
Fine.
War it will be.
I'm gonna own this bitch.
- all right.
I got a laceration.
- okay.
- but it is...
- oh, yeah.
- ouchy-chewy-chewy.
- okay.
- balls are intact.
- good.
little bit of blood.
Just need some stitches.
she's here.
- hey, ej.
- hey.
So I fell in off
the branch, it broke,
I hit a stake.
-It just lacerated me.
but it's okay.
It's just open wound.
All I need is
a couple of stitches.
three, four stitches.
so...
I don't think--
nah.
Ej has sustained
a one and half
to two inch laceration.
There's two lacerations.
One is a little bit smaller.
there's a decent amount
of contamination, as well,
that needs to be
very thoroughly cleaned up.
It needs to be stitched up
very, very well.
Worst case scenario
is an infection.
A loss of genitalia.
And if he becomes septic,
it could be fatal.
you have an option.
-Okay?
- okay.
you will need
stitches according to anna.
You can either go
into the hospital
to get those stitches
in a sterile environment,
but you'll have to
medically tap from
the challenge.
Or anna says that you are
okay to get the field stitches
out here.
But you need to give us
a clear call as to
what you'd prefer.
I will absolutely have
the stitches done out here.
There's no way I am leaving.
okay.
yeah, this is not
a clean environment.
Most people would be
scared to death out here
to get bacteria
or something else in there.
I don't worry about
those things for
couple of reasons.
One, I am ej snyder.
yeah.
yes.
Two, because most people
are a bunch of sissy candy-ass
sacks of *bleep*
that want to just sit
on their ass and let life
pass 'em by.
Not me.
Give it to me.
Yes.
it's gonna take
quite a few stitches.
You're not gonna like it.
- okay?
- yeah.
All right. Sure.
oh, yeah. That one was...
- that one was great.
- I know.
- that's my favorite one.
- that's my favorite one.
- yeah, your favorite
out of all of them, huh?
- yeah, that was
my favorite.
- nice.
out in this environment,
that's a pretty tall order.
But couldn't let
something like a little
tear in my scrotum
stop me from doing
what I'm supposed to do
out here.
I gotta go get
some firewood.
There's really nothing
I could have done to prevent
that log from breaking
or me realizing
it was gonna break.
It looked solid,
like a solid tree,
and sheesh.
Yeah, kind of
a sucky thing,
'cause now I gotta
take it easy.
Whatever it takes
to stick around.
good morning,
our friend.
That's the
beautiful heron
that we stole
a fish from.
Thank you very much
for feeding us.
it's moving day.
- I'm gonna
bust out the map here.
-Yeah.
All right. I think
we should navigate these
and see what looks good,
really.
I mean, we just
gotta keep cruising
till we find
the highest land.
And, I mean,
as we cruise around,
we can look
for, like, the tallest trees.
That usually symbolizes,
like, the most,
-you know, potable dirt
for us to be on.
-Yeah.
-Nothing too soggy.
-Okay.
-All right, cool.
Let's boogie.
-Let's do it.
we're getting ready
to roll out of here,
and, uh, we don't know
what we're gonna find,
you know.
So, one thing
we do expect
is higher ground.
Maybe richer
hunting grounds.
We're gonna look
for gators around the area.
We're gonna be traveling
with our honey.
We've got energy.
-We've got our pot.
-Right on.
Where we'll land,
we don't even really
know yet.
But, you know what?
It's not gonna be
in this wet,
soppy place,
where every step you're
ankle deep in mud.
That's one thing for sure.
-Right.
-All right, let's get it.
Boom. All right.
All right, we game...
We game time.
We're off.
See you later.
migration's
gonna be tough.
We gotta go through hyacinth.
We gotta go through
hidden water moccasins,
keep an eye out
for gators.
And our raft, hopefully,
doesn't start falling apart
on us.
anybody
want to try this?
This has been
some of the most
tender meat we've had.
Really good.
all three of us
are wide awake and bushy-eyed.
We created
a stew last night,
with all the bones,
and the rib cage,
the back straps.
Pretty much everything
was utilized on this animal.
We still have
about a half a pot
of soup left,
so we've added
some of our water to it,
reboiled it,
and this is
our breakfast.
a drink
of choice for...
For team savage
is a fatty broth...
Alligator broth water.
it's just
oil and fat,
and a little, tiny fat chunk
with some big fat chunks.
That's good.
That way,
you know you're alive.
it's good.
I like it.
It's thick enough
that you almost feel like
you can chew it.
- yeah.
- but then it just,
like, slurps right down,
-it's like... Oh,
that's exciting.
even though we've been
eating consistently,
we do work
so hard every day.
And I don't want
to be leaving here
a little stick figure,
so we are gonna put
our level best
into eating
every ounce of this,
and getting
all of our strength back,
so that we have enough
strength and fatty goodness
to keep going.
that's how
you get all your power
here in the bayou.
-Right.
I'm just gonna walk around
and get some air.
I just feel nauseous.
*bleep*
oh, she just got sick.
She's getting rid
of everything.
Oh, man.
ah *bleep*.
- are you
all right, riley?
- yeah.
I don't know what happened,
I just
started getting,
like, stomach pains,
and I was just
feeling really nauseous.
really?
It just hit you, like,
all of a sudden?
Yeah. I was fine.
we've got
some fresh water here
if you need it.
thanks.
unfortunately,
right now,
riley is feeling
real sick.
On a challenge like this,
where we're about
halfway through,
and have that happen,
where you throw up everything
in your stomach,
it's concerning.
That will take you out
of a challenge like this
faster than anything.
- it sucks.
- this looks bad.
- back up,
back up, back up.
- whoo!
-Yes!
-Well done, guys.
throughout the
ultimate legends challenge,
each team's status
will be evaluated
using the xls,
or xl success metric,
which calculates
their likely percentage
of completing
the 60 days together
as a team.
still haven't seen
any alligators.
with resources
becoming scarce across
the bayou...
We need to keep fishing,
we need to keep scavenging.
We're gonna do
what we have to do
to cross that finish line
in 60 days.
...The need for
food sparked innovation.
I've taken
all the knowledge
I've learned
from four
different continents,
and I've put it into
this one fishing unit.
Oh, my god!
I got a double fish hook.
but now,
jeff and steven face
a dangerous new threat.
- that is a bear.
- that's a freaking
bear track.
as a result,
their xls drops from 51
to 39%.
After the fall
of their main provider...
timber!
...Gary and max
work together to tap into
their dwindling
food resources.
- is there a lot?
- half a gallon.
we're gonna be
traveling with our honey.
We've got energy.
and now,
face a risky journey
to find higher ground.
where we'll land,
we don't even really know yet,
but, you know what,
it's not gonna be in this
wet, soppy place.
with so many
unknowns ahead,
their xls ticks down
from 56 to 43%.
After braving the dangers
of the swamp at night...
There he is.
...Ej's resilience
as a lone wolf paid off.
yes!
but now,
a debilitating injury...
oh, I got speared.
...Puts his
entire challenge at risk.
his xls
drops even further
from 21 to 10%.
oh, yeah!
after an epic battle
with a monster gator...
-Come on, big boy.
-Come on.
...Team savage has their
biggest protein score yet.
- holy mother.
but now,
their bounty could come
at a devastating cost.
- oh, man.
that will take you out
of a challenge like this
faster than anything.
with riley struggling,
their chance of completing
the challenge together
drops from 60 to 41%.
- sucks.
- this looks bad.
we do not need
to lose a teammate
going into
the halfway mark
of this challenge,
and I'm hoping
that this something
just really, really minor.
But out here in the bayou,
out here in these challenges,
we know that
something very minor
can turn into something,
um, challenge ending
for anyone.
do you want
your hide to lay on?
No, I'm okay.
I'll just rest here.
All right.
today is day one
after the injury,
so I've gotta
really just, kind of...
Chill out,
whether I like it or not.
And I realized that the swamp
is trying to
get me off my game.
It's trying to provoke me
into a fight, a battle.
You gotta make sure
to make the best use of this.
Nice try, swamp.
I'm wise to you.
And, uh, I'm still
coming after you.
Yeah. That'd cover it.
I didn't want to cut into
the pelts just yet,
but, it is a major injury,
and I need to make
a loin cloth to protect
my little friends
so they may heal well.
Cutting this pelt
is just like, wow.
It's a resource,
this is a big deal.
You know, it provided me
comfort, warmth,
and I'm taking
a lot of that away.
So, I don't have
traditional needle and thread.
But what I do have
is a fishing hook
and some fishing line.
I think this'll make
great stuff to sew with.
I'm gonna try it out.
Never done this before,
we'll see how it works.
This loin cloth,
that's protection.
To protect it from
the flies trying to bite me.
I wanna keep it clean
and make sure
I've no complications.
I don't think it's enough
to go all the way around.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Looks like I've been losing
some weight.
I'd love to have
a backside with this,
but there's just
too much of me...
Too much ogre of me
to, uh, be able to do that.
And my boys,
they're doing fine.
No swelling,
and I'm doing great.
Why? 'cause
I'm hard as woodpecker lips.
So I see on 60 days
if I'm the lone survivor,
figure I'll have
others with me,
but I will be there.
If there's a will,
there's always a way.
It looks pretty damn good.
There you have it.
One each barbarian loin cloth!
yeah!
three hour paddle.
Freaking exhausted.
Oh, man.
This takes a lot out of you.
-I'm spent right now.
-Oh, absolutely.
You gotta do
what you gotta do here
-to be where
you wanna be, right?
-Right.
-See that egret right there?
-Yeah.
You know, I didn't
see any egrets
where we were at, really.
I... I feel like we're living
our lives with no egrets.
dude, did you see that?
alligator.
That's a real good sign.
-Alligators are delicioso.
-Yeah.
Be vigilant.
We're just on this little
makeshift raft, he can come
and swoop us up in no time.
Okay, watch out.
Look for a little...
-Yeah, look for bubbles
or something.
-Yeah.
that thing was massive!
-*bleep* this's getting, okay,
this is getting pretty...
-Yeah.
-We're really out here, dude.
-Yeah.
I mean, I would just blast him
on the head with this,
maybe try stab him
with your pulaski,
hit him with you pulaski.
-They get like
12-foot out here.
-Yeah, man.
That's a people eater.
Just keeps going.
Yeah.
It's getting freaking late.
Ugh, gosh damn.
*bleep* so thick.
Looks like some
high ground right there.
I think I see something.
I think I see smoke.
Yeah, I think
I see smoke, too.
Dude, you see that?
What the hell?
oh, I see a shelter.
No freaking way.
Hey!
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
of day...
Twenty four?
Still haven't seen
any alligators
in like four days.
that's a nice haul.
yeah.
But hoping in
the next couple days,
that changes up.
I'm gonna
check these lines.
We need to catch catfish.
We need to keep fishing.
We need to keep scavenging.
We're gonna do
what we have to do
to cross that finish line
in 60 days.
nothing.
This is nuts, dude.
Oh... *bleep*
nutria.
Hey, jeff.
Get a stick or something.
okay, he's coming
towards you.
Should be over here.
I see him.
You can get in front of him.
There he is.
He's going out to the swamp.
I lost him
in the lilies.
so I finally
see a nutria.
Uh, we try to corral it,
and he ended up
swimming away.
Damn. That was close.
Yeah. Put out some snares.
Maybe we'll get lucky.
Haha!
I am stoked.
Because this is
the first rat I've seen.
I thought this was
some bayou myth
that somebody
keeps talking about,
these giant rodents
that look like
beavers out here.
It looked delicious,
honestly.
Oh yeah.
I'm gonna eat him.
There's good cover
underneath this
dead tree here.
This is his zone for sure.
All right.
Let's do this thing.
so, what I figured
I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna get a pole,
about 14-15 feet long.
I'm gonna hang
several slipknot snares,
all the way down this pole,
I'm gonna sink it
right into the ground,
and man, it would just
really make me and jeff's day
to put a big 'ol swamp rat
on the grill.
Coming together.
-Slowly but surely, here.
-Yeah.
eating a nutria
would be great.
This is the same animal
that gave me
a parasitic infection
on my ballsack.
If there's anything out here
I wanna kill, it's this thing.
no matter what,
he has to go
through this
gauntlet of terror.
Eleven snares.
Pretty proud of this.
And I'm hoping,
if one even just trips up,
and kind of panics himself
in the gallows over here,
he's gonna start
moving around
and get himself more tangled
in the other snares.
Yeah. Nice.
I like it.
Animals better beware!
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
six miles
to the west,
gary and max are now
a team of two.
After complications
from a past injury...
which toe
am I touching?
I don't know.
...Forced
their most steady provider
to be medically removed
from the challenge.
-Bye, amber!
-Bye, amber!
I love you guys!
Yeah, should we just go
try work the treble?
Yeah.
already miss amber.
Just her undying enthusiasm
and just the unwavering
want to fish.
And now that she's gone,
we're gonna have to
step it up double time
to get our hooks
in the water,
to get us fed.
You know, I study
as hard as I can,
I prepare as hard as I can,
but you always just need
a little bit of luck.
Checking the lines
in the mornings, and...
Praying an hoping that
we can get something
on the line today.
That'd be huge for morale.
Huge for us to
keep powering through.
Hopefully this one's it,
right here.
We deserve this.
here, is this
our first line?
yeah.
it's still hanging.
*bleep*
all right, you wanna
meet me over here?
I'm gonna keep pushing.
Sure.
Me and max were
checking the alligator lines,
making sure they're
at the right level.
I'm gonna bait
these catfish hooks.
We just gotta like keep
the line untangled,
keep putting bait on,
throwing it out,
'cause amber
drove home that this works.
I've always thought
gary's just a wild card.
Crazy dude. But we
have to work together
for the greater good
for us to get
to the finish line.
All it needs is
a nice little tug
and she's gonna roll.
Voila!
I absolutely do feel, uh...
A passionate desire to
sort of carry the torch
a little bit.
Make amber proud.
She kind of actually
gave me the bug
a little bit, you know.
you got the fishing bug?
-Yeah.
-Hell yeah.
but so far, nothing.
I'm almost pretty sad.
we're in
a tough position
to try to get food
on the table.
We've had, you know,
some catfish here and there,
but we haven't seen
a gator in this area for
at least a week.
And now we're at
a point where it's
almost at a standstill.
Seems that lady luck
left with amber.
we ain't seen gators
in the swamp.
yeah. Concerning.
yeah. It is concerning.
big old vulture
flying up there.
yeah, it's circling,
'cause it's staring
at us, dude.
these *bleep*
about to die.
yeah, let's just
circle over these two guys.
They look pretty promising.
Not today vultures, not today.
sixteen miles
to the north,
for matt, ryan and rylie.
oh yeah!
Snake-slayer, rylie!
Are you gonna
drink some blood?
small victories
have brought new life.
But they know
that won't be enough
to survive 60 days
in the swamp.
might just
get down and bait
that gator line down there.
Get some fresh stuff,
and check the traps.
We'll see if...
See if they might
start moving.
It's finally warm enough today
for the first time in the last
ten days we've had a chance.
This is true.
for the last
about ten days,
I haven't seen
a single alligator,
and we're getting hungry.
As I hear my team-mates
talk about hunger and food,
it drives that
inner drive inside of me,
like I need to hunt,
I need to fish,
I need to get food.
So, like a true warrior today,
gonna push forward.
Let's see what we find.
Hopefully, there's
something there.
We could really use
a big... A big win.
so on this one,
I've got that catfish head.
Oh, the bait's still there.
Catfish head's still there.
Definitely nothing hit
that bait all night.
Damn it.
On to the next one.
what is it?
I think we got a...
We got a gator
on the line, I believe.
This is unbelievable.
We haven't seen
an alligator in a... In...
We don't even know how long.
I'm gonna ease him in,
just to...
Just to confirm.
Yup. He's on it.
He is on it!
Yes!
this gator is big.
This is a big boy.
We got a *bleep* alligator.
Oh! This is a big day.
Yes!
Good morning.
it's gator time.
- shut up!
-Gator day.
Oh... *bleep* huge.
It is. We've got about
an eight to nine foot
alligator on the line.
-Agh!
-And we're so *bleep* happy.
Let's mash up some war paint?
this is our tradition.
You know, it's customary
for a warrior before they
go into battle to...
Prepare themselves
for what's ahead,
and the warrior paint
is embracing that
you're going in battle.
Help protect us,
help keep us strong,
and win this battle.
-All right.
-All right.
-Guys, let's do this.
-All right.
Agh! I'm savage.
-let's get it.
We deserve it.
We earned it.
We're hungry!
well, there he is.
there he is.
Oh, that's a nice gator.
Oh yeah.
Oh man!
that's
a nine-footer right there.
this is
gonna be a tight fight.
we have a big gator.
This is easily double the size
of the last gators we got.
You can't just dispatch
him with a knife.
This gator, it needs
a couple arrows,
and a whole team effort
to bring him into shore,
dispatch him safely,
and game over.
Once we get him in,
we're gonna get
a second line on him.
'cause what we don't
want him to do is
rip off anything.
Get this second line on.
Then we'll stick him
with some arrows.
yep.
Now you gotta harvest
this thing that can
kill you with one bite,
and drag you out
into the water
and death roll with you.
You got to have
a good grasp on it.
Having one hook
and one line
from one side,
riley's gonna
move to the right.
I'm gonna put the noose down
over the top of its jaw
and move to the left.
So now you've got
two points of contact
holding this alligator,
pulling both ways,
so matt could safely
approach it from the side
and deliver a couple
vital organ shots
with the bow and arrow.
It's solid.
-Oh, it's fighting.
- he's fighting now.
- it's running.
- he's going there.
all right. Let's
get in formation. Fold.
woo!
Oh, yeah.
- holy *bleep*!
- oh, yeah.
get him!
don't wrap the string
around your finger at all.
be careful.
- he's got way more
fight than the last one.
- back up.
- back it up.
- yeah.
- oh, yeah.
- he's probably
eight foot.
-oh, it definitely...
-Come on.
hang it on.
Oh, yeah.
- come on!
- come on, big boy.
- he's close.
- careful dude.
- watch out.
- hang on.
Watch your knee!
watch out!
oh, yeah.
come on!
come on, big boy.
- he's close.
- careful dude.
oh, watch that tail.
oh, what do you
think about that buddy.
oh, my god.
take it on!
ryan, see
if you can get that
other noose on his head.
- oh, hissing.
- wow. Oh, watch out.
- hang on.
-Yup.
- watch
your pole is all.
watch out.
easy, buddy. Easy now.
hand.
easy.
watch your hand.
all right.
Pull the rope.
- all right.
- got it.
all right.
right there is good.
Just hold the tension on,
guys.
We got it.
all right.
A little more.
Let him do his thing
for a second.
okay.
well done, guys.
-Well done.
that's a dinosaur.
That's a monster.
-Alligator gladiators.
-Yes!
Gator bites for days.
Oh, man.
One, two, three.
- holy mother!
- yeah, buddy.
- good?
- yup.
- get ready to gut it.
-Good.
this is gonna be
an all-day process, y'all.
Hope you got your sleep.
having
a nine foot alligator,
two hundred
to 250 pound reptile,
this point
in the challenge, day 24,
this is humongous.
This is at least
two weeks' worth of food
off of this one alligator.
what are we gonna
name this guy?
this one needs
a beast of a name.
he needs
a monster name.
- maximus.
- yeah.
- maximus, I love it.
- I love it.
so you're gonna
try to get the tail off
then I can work on that.
Yeah. Yup.
I'll do the tail first.
At this point, I've got a lot
of experience with alligators.
We've gotta get these
things smoked, hung
and try to eat certain
things at certain times.
Like that tail, that's where
they keep all their fat.
We have to cook that.
It's almost a high stress
of eating and processing
and a lot more eating.
We got 48 hours on this food
before flies,
the moisture in the air,
everything makes it rancid.
And so using
what we've learned
from the first gator
we caught,
anything that we can't eat
right away tonight
or tomorrow,
has to be jerky
and that's the key
to our survival.
Ryan is stringing up
jerky lines in our shelter
and our shelter serves
as our smoker as well.
meat delivery.
- woo!
-Can I grab that
liver off there?
yeah. I wanted that.
You can just set that
right there on the floor,
just like everything else.
You just cook that
with the fat on it.
so, you've never
eaten alligator liver?
No. No.
Just never desired to eat?
Never tried it?
Yeah. Just never part
of the main menu of things.
It's a definitely
worth a try though.
I've never eaten
alligator liver.
However, our plan is actually
to consume all that fresh meat
while we have that
jerky stored away
for a rainy day
or after a week
or so of us not eating
when we need to start
cutting into that supply.
It's cooked all the way,
that's all the way through.
- that's perfect.
- yeah.
I wanna see what
your reaction is to that pate.
So a liver on an animal
is one of the most
nutrient filled
parts of the organs
and it has a lot of iron.
Out here we are craving iron.
We're working hard everyday.
And so this liver,
it's worth eating.
Alligator liver.
Bon appetite.
that's
absolutely delicious.
-Yup.
-What? This is super mild.
I know. I was
not expecting that at all.
-This tastes like something
you put on a sandwich.
- wow.
- yeah.
- more people
should eat this.
Well, the fat
of the liver there.
Well, that's
really incredible.
I'm glad we tried it.
mm-hm.
nine miles
south west,
ej enters his 10th day
of solo survival.
And the challenges
of battling the swamp alone
are starting to mount.
*bleep*
all right.
Checking my fishing lines.
See if we got anything.
Good morning, day 25.
And I'm throwing everything
I got but the kitchen sink
at the food situation.
I've got a gator trap out,
I've got several
fishing lines out.
Oh, man.
I think a gator got me.
And I have not gotten
anything in my belly.
That's disappointing.
Let me check
this one over here.
I could get down on myself,
be negative about it.
But I'll be positive.
Not get ambushed
by frustration.
Oh, whoa! Bullfrog!
he's gone.
it was huge. Huge.
Big sucker.
And I must've
looked like a psych,
this big ogre trying to tackle
this little bullfrog.
that sucks.
The lone wolf just keeps
throwing everything he's got
at this thing just to put
some food in my belly.
These frogs
all come out at night.
So I think
a little night hunt,
little frog gigging,
is in order tonight.
Need to develop a torch.
All right. That's the base.
Wrap that all with vine
all the way up.
Put that hole in there.
I got some cypress shavings.
Some smashed moss.
bullfrogs
avoid daytime predators
by being more active at night.
And since their
eyes reflect light,
a torch increases
the odds of spotting them.
Awesome.
Next on the agenda,
I'm gonna make
a gig spear here.
This is a common
used swamp spear.
People use it for fish,
or gigging frogs or lizards,
or even small mammals.
And I will split it
to make four prongs.
That's my first split.
Perfect.
The spikes for the gig
are already starting to form.
Just gonna put
points on them now.
It's like having a hand.
So it's like four fingers
and you capture everything.
So you got four points that
are gonna hit your target,
and pin it down.
The idea is just to capture
them before they get away.
This is all secured
with the vines.
Just gotta fire hard the tips
and dry out
the spear a little bit
then it'll be
ready for action.
Ready for tonight's hunt.
I'm gonna go check the snares
and just start
grabbing piles, dude.
sounds good, man.
I got a few snares set up.
It's literally like 11 snares
on one 14 foot pole.
I put them
right where homeslice
was coming in and out.
So hopefully,
we have a, you know,
swamp rat dinner tonight.
*bleep*
I think there's
a nutria over there.
there's definitely
something over there.
There he is.
Right there.
I knew he was gonna be here.
Damn it. That means
he wasn't in the snare.
that son of a bitch.
What do I see
in the exact same spots?
That same damn nutria.
Man, these things are
quick and they swim.
Once they get under
all those lily pads,
they're gone, man.
I'm gonna get him.
I'm gonna get him.
For sure.
There you are.
I've always worked
as hard as I possibly
can every challenge.
got it.
And steven,
he's the same type of guy.
And as long as we
keep that mindset up,
there's nothing
we can't do out here.
You're gonna be fish bait.
You're gonna be
good fish bait too.
So I'm doing a little
bait experiment, if you will,
hunting for little lizards
and little skinks.
They're crawling all over
near our shelter.
They're fast little buggers.
I think if I can
get myself a couple,
I can bait my hook
for this evening,
and I'm hoping
for a fish dinner, baby.
Yes.
Nice frog.
That's gonna be great bait.
We've got legs as bait,
we've got the guts
that are gonna be bait.
That is killer.
I wanna be able
to turn this into fish.
Providing these catfish
a whole menu.
I'm putting a weight
on the very end of the line,
and then I'm putting two hooks
on their own little
10-inch line
hanging off of the main line.
The upper hook, I've got frog,
the lower hook,
I've got lizard.
This will allow
the weight of the rock
to sink to the bottom
of the river,
and it will allow
both of these hooks
to float independently
in the current of the stream.
And, hopefully,
that will help these catfish
identify the bait more easily,
but also prevent this bait
from getting snagged
under water.
I feel like the
opportunities are
sort of dwindling.
yeah, we can't
hunt *bleep* here.
We need signs of life
on this little strip of death.
We're on a tiny strip of land
surrounded by mud and water,
so we don't have much options
for hunting grounds.
I saw a faint
potential game trail.
let's check it.
The way this place
is starting to look,
it's starting to look
pretty sparse.
Food is looking pretty scarce.
Not one water moccasin.
I mean, I'm not
even seeing crawfish
anymore either.
what kind
of cruel joke was this?
It doesn't look like
it's a type of place
that's gonna get us
to extraction.
So we're definitely
considering
migrating or exploring.
I'm willing to stick
it out for, you know,
a handful more days
to see if we can
get a big kill.
Yeah. 'cause if we're gonna
end up not getting a gator,
-dude, we're gonna
be starving.
-Yeah.
So I'm seeing
this faint game trail
that runs right here.
Yo, I think I'm seeing
some poop here.
- this looks
like nutria crap.
- yeah.
it's earth colored,
it's torpedoed,
you know it's a large
rodent shape.
-I mean they're
just a giant rat...
-Yeah.
...But I always say to myself,
you know, two days
into the challenge,
-"I'll never eat a rat."
and then a week into
the challenge, like,
"where's the closest rat?"
yeah. Right?
So we're at the point where
"where's the closest rat?"
got the noose right here,
it's kind of like that.
A little surgeon's knot.
a beehive!
-Where? Where?
- right there, dude!
Check it out!
- we're gonna
have honey.
look at the size
of that tree, though.
Yeah, I mean,
I'm just concerned.
I'm fairly allergic
to bees, I believe.
And if I get stung
in the face,
it'll *bleep* me up.
What we'll do is,
if I'm doing' it,
and they start getting hyper,
you leave.
I can handle bee stings.
-I've messed with bees a lot.
-Okay.
-I'm a beekeeper.
-Yeah, dude.
That sounds legendary.
And that looks
like a big, old rotten tree,
so I think that whole
inside of that is
just *bleep* honeycombs.
This is huge, you know?
For my sugar,
for our mental game.
And for just energy,
just to have sugar,
that will bump us up so much.
Aw, man, that's
gonna be, you know,
it's some work cutting
that tree down,
but if we get it down,
it's something to do towards
possible something to eat.
Chopping that down tomorrow.
ready to hunt tonight.
Get me some bullfrog.
Okay. All right.
Off we go.
Whether it be day,
whether it be night,
I'm coming for you,
creatures of the swamp.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
Rat.
In this kind of a situation,
this swamp's so dangerous,
one wrong turn,
not paying attention,
a water moccasin
will take you out.
And they're all over.
That is the most
dangerous thing
we have going for us out here
in this swamp.
is a nasty, angry
water moccasin.
Show yourself
you little bugger.
I just wanna see
the gleam of your eyes.
Go ahead and ribbit.
Ribbit your last croak.
There he is!
well there you are.
There you are!
He's gone. Son of a bitch.
I just had one jump
right past my feet.
Almost had him.
There he is.
go ahead and ribbit.
Ribbit your last croak.
There he is.
yes! Got you,
you little bugger!
You didn't get away this time.
Your brother might have,
but not you!
That's right. I got you.
yes! Yes.
Damn, look at those legs.
I'm gonna keep eating
everything in this swamp
till I've gotten everything
off the menu in my belly!
Can't wait to eat it.
Day ending on a high note.
So grateful for him,
but that's something
I'm probably not gonna
do every night.
It was really risky,
I could have got
a mechanical injury,
I could have got hurt,
could have walked into
a moccasin nest and got bit.
You know, too many variables
could have went wrong with it.
Mmm.
But I needed to eat.
Definitely well worth it.
Well spent.
So red.
Yeah, that's on point.
how'd you guys sleep?
I slept pretty solid.
-I mean, definitely feeling--
- food drunk.
food drunk.
-It's insane.
- yeah.
if we're
gonna keep hunting,
keep pushing,
and not touch the jerky,
theoretically, this could take
us all the way to the end.
oh, yeah.
jerky is
completely dried out meat,
there's no moisture in it,
and that food itself
will last to day 60.
Our plan is actually
to save the jerky,
not even touch it
if we don't have to
and consume
all that fresh meat
while we have
that jerky stored away.
- our job is literally--
- yeah, we gotta eat
or this will go bad.
yeah.
Dude, that alligator
eyeball is gnarly.
- that's not
something you eat, though?
- oh, we're eating it.
- no.
- oh, yeah.
- no, no, no, no.
oh, this is
where it's at, right here.
- well,
you go where it's at.
not for me.
I do know
that the eyeballs
of most animals and fish
are very good for you.
They are the only
natural saline in nature,
giving your body
some of those salts
that you really need out here.
okay.
There it is, ryan.
we're here for 60 days,
this alligator
will not go to waste.
That right there,
alligator eyeball.
Maximus' last eye.
It's my first
alligator eyeball.
Right.
It was chewy, and salty.
- but not bad!
-Not bad.
Not a delicacy.
Sounds awful.
- nice, bro.
-Yeah.
stackin' it.
- I'm about to go
check my hooks.
- nice.
my new fishing setup
has been in the water all day.
I just pray that there's
a fish on the line.
And we haven't had a catfish
in a few days now.
I've taken all the knowledge
I've learnt
from four different continents
and five total challenges,
and I've put it into
this one fishing unit.
And I'm hoping that this thing
is gonna put dinner
on the table tonight.
Come on. Come on, baby.
Oh?
Oh *bleep*! I got a fish on!
Come on, baby. Come on!
Stay on there.
Come on. Come on. Oh, my god.
Oh, my god, I got a
double fish hook!
Yeah baby!
This is what I live for!
Do you hear me louisiana?
I got a catfish and a gar.
I'm loving the swamp more
and more everyday.
This is the first time in any
of my challenges I've got
two fish on the same line,
at the same time.
Today is a good freaking day.
The bag is heavy. I feel like
santa claus!
It's my partner, it's my
buddy, wouldn't ask for
any other one.
The catfish ate the frog bait,
the gar ate the lizard bait.
alligator gar
are prehistoric fish
with long snouts and
rows of razor sharp teeth.
That resemble their
killer namesakes.
These are truly prehistoric
fish out here. They have an
armor on their outside
almost similar to an
alligator skin. It's very
thick, it's very sharp.
But the inside it tastes so
good,
and I'm excited to bring
dinner to the table
once again.
See this double fish master.
-Oh, you got a fatty!
-Oh, yeah! Look at the head
on that baby.
-It was a monster.
-Yeah, hell yeah.
We're eating good tonight.
-Flicking delicious.
-Cheers bro.
-Gar isn't meaty, catfish is
definitely more oily.
-Oh, yeah.
we're eating dinner,
this is huge.
These fish are gonna give us
the strength to hopefully
get another gator.
And I feel like we're
gonna be fueling excellent
at the half way mark
which is exactly, uh...
Where we want to be.
So, tonight we're gonna go to
bed with full bellies and
go to bed grateful tonight.
Such a blessing.
We were setting a snare
hoping an animal would
stumble into it.
-But nothing today.
-Nope.
fortunately we have a
prospect of getting honey,
which is just epic.
-There they are.
-Ah, nice.
I'm about to chop this tree
down with a bee hive in it.
So, max and I can enjoy the
sugar and protein and
a lot of energy.
best case scenario
docile bees, lots of honey.
Worst case scenario, highly
aggressive bees and we are
in quite a fight
out here in the wilderness
-you know why bee
suits are white?
-Why?
-Because bees, they go
after dark things.
-Really?
Dark hair, dark skin, because
bears, black bears,
brown bears.
Jeeze louise.
-Like bro, I'm a dark bear
right now.
- you're a black bear.
-I don't know if I wanna be
hanging around here anymore.
- it's the truth.
-But that's why bee suits
are white, for real.
-Dude, no way.
-Yeah. So now you know little
more information about bees.
-Now I know when I get laced,
-it's because of that.
- so, ready to
start chopping?
-Let's get it.
you go into anaphylactic
shock from too many
bee stings,
it's when you have too much
poison in your system, your
body just gets overloaded.
And that's pretty much the
worst case scenario that
can happen here.
I am allergic to bees.
As a kid I got stung in
and around the face,
and my face swole up really
large. I just hope I don't
get stung in the face
and or repeatedly all over
the body. That would
*bleep* me up.
-Oh, we got our first bee.
-Where?
It just flew in front of me.
Those bees are starting to
like, maybe, sense a little
something.
it's cracking.
- it's cracking?
- it's cracking.
It's leaning. There it goes.
Timber!
-Gotta start moving,
start moving.
-Watch those bees.
-oh, yeah.
-We did it.
We took it down, max.
*bleep*
just got stung on the nose.
Oh, yeah. All right.
I essentially fell back
because gary just got
stung in the face.
It's a little terrifying
because when I get stung
in the face,
my whole face swells up. Dude.
*bleep*
*bleep*
-are you getting attacked?
- yep, yep.
I'm getting stung. *bleep*
-are you getting attacked?
- yep, yep.
I'm getting stung. *bleep*
oh, I'm gonna let him calm
down a little bit.
I mean gary,
you could just smoke it out,
-and then we can operate.
-Yeah.
-We need to get a softer wood
log and get it all coaled up.
-Yeah.
-So it's just smoldering on
its own, bring it over here.
-Okay.
I'm in my element here.
This is what I do.
But getting the honey with
wild bees, butt naked.
It's a bit of a puzzle.
When you smoke the bees out,
they try to suck up as much
honey as they can,
and they take off.
It also causes them to
be more docile because
when they get fat on honey,
they get sluggish.
I would not even
step close to this tree.
I mean it's all calculated for
gary because he's...
He's dealt with bees.
It's just that I don't have,
I guess the enzymes
or the...
The fortitude to survive
against multiple bee stings.
Ouch, ah, between the fingers
always hurts so much.
On the webbing upper hand.
Oh, gosh.
Damn that one smarts!
how big is it in there?
Is there a lot?
this could be enough to
make me and you happy.
I like happy.
-This is a lot my brother.
-This is a lot?
Probably like...
Half a gallon.
-Oh.
pure. Pure honey.
I'm gonna take a bite.
Oh, my god.
gary is a rock star and
I respect for him as
a survivalist and right now
we're brothers.
We're comrades.
Oh, it's so good.
-Wow, dude. We did it!
The honey pot, baby.
-More to come, bro.
That tasted magnificent.
Absolutely magnificent.
Legendary. Legend gary.
I love you bees.
finding a bees
nest here, we got lucky,
but...
I think our luck's running out
in this location. We've pretty
much demolished this area.
-We've thrived here as much as
anybody could.
-Absolutely.
-But resources are going
out the window.
-Yeah.
we haven't been
seeing any alligators at all.
-We better start planning on
getting the hell out of here.
-Yeah.
I'll be down to leave tomorrow
while we still have energy.
-We need to explore.
-Yeah.
physically
I'm feeling strong.
I'm ready for this move.
To build the raft and find a
new location besides this
swampy hell hole.
We get tired, we each eat a
little honey comb and,
whoop-whoop-whoop,
feeling like freaking mario
when he eats the mushroom.
-Yeah. Yeah.
-It's awesome.
let's go check some
fishing lines.
As a hunter, I'll admit it,
I don't have
the luck of fishing,
don't have the patience
and I, all my life, not been
a good fisherman.
This stuff is so tricky trying
to play with the tides
in fishing.
I've had some success but
I need to start eating more.
Let me check this one over
here, and it kinda looks like
it's moving, but we'll see.
Could be hyacinth.
So far I've had two enemies
show up.
One of 'em petty vocal about,
that's the gator.
The other's this hyacinth,
it keeps blocking me
from getting to the fish,
if I try to swim across it,
it tries to drown me. It's
just constantly in the way.
Just way out there.
empty. Son of a bitch,
hyacinth. It figures.
Good news is they're
biting here.
Bad news is the hyacinth has
rolled back up in here.
Can't afford to keep
losing calories.
Want to build a bit
of a pier right here.
Clear the hyacinth out
of the way.
I could get water
with no issue,
I could fish off the dock,
get to the deeper water
where the bigger fish are.
That'll be a lot safer for me,
too, if I have this pier
'cause anytime I get
near the water's edge,
I don't know when
it's gonna, psshh,
drop off.
Get on that bright and
early tomorrow.
hasta la vista, hyacinth.
-I'm gonna go check my snares.
-Cool.
jeff caught
a couple fish,
but we're gonna do
a stock up on our food
because it's super important
out here,
we don't know when
the cold is actually
gonna hit us so,
I built the gauntlet of death,
my master snare awesomeness
and I'm gonna go
check my nutria traps
and hopefully
norman, the nuisance nutria
is wrapped up in my snare.
Not looking like anything in
the gauntlet of death here.
Looks like they've
been messed up.
*bleep*
something dragged it.
Son of a bitch.
This one's all *bleep* up.
Something came through here.
*bleep*
ah. I don't know
what did this.
Must have dragged it with him.
I can't even...
Something came through here
and broke it.
Broke my snare, dude.
Holy *bleep*.
How's that even possible?
Wow.
Didn't undo the knot,
literally broke the line.
This is like a 100 pounds.
Busted this log right off,
broke this.
Wow, and that's
in the ground, dude.
Holy *bleep*.
It's pretty trampled.
That's insane.
I don't know what
it could have been.
Could have been a gator.
Could have been a nutria
that was caught
and then the gator ate it.
It couldn't have been a bear.
That's new for me.
I mean, it ripped...
A log straight out
of the earth.
It's intimidating knowing
that there's a giant,
you know,
swamp beast out there.
That's a little scary.
I'm gonna think twice
before getting up
and grabbing a feeder log
tonight. That's for damn sure.
I don't know, man.
Norman, you won this battle.
I'm feeling pretty good.
I think I'm in
a better position that I was
on day 27
on my 40 day challenge,
physically.
We're moving through just like
part of the process...
-Exactly.
-...On our way to migrate,
explore.
-With honey in tow.
-With honey in tow.
While we're moving,
we'll see more things.
We might even treble hook
a gator from the raft.
- you never know.
-Could you imagine if
that happened?
that would be epic.
You can't move across
the swamp by walking.
it's such a chore,
it's unbelievable.
You end up chest-high
in water, risking
water moccasins.
Drifting across
the top of the water
is the best way to go so,
a raft is really
the only logical thing to do.
I've built a lot
of rafts, dude.
-I'm here to kinda, like...
- help me?
-...Support your vision.
- amazing. Appreciate it.
Give input when I feel, but...
yeah, we gotta
kinda get to it, huh?
yeah.
all right, let me
get past this *bleep*.
How do you wanna do it,
you tell me.
You go out
and then I'll lead with this.
I've built a raft
in three of my challenges now,
and I made rafts
my entire life as a kid so,
feel really comfortable
putting this together.
laying the bricks.
I found a beehive
and max has been
working diligently
on making the raft.
That's how it works.
My partner is
a great survivalist...
Really opening the place up.
I'm a great
survivalist.
A little cowboy camping.
and combination
as a team, me and max
are crushing it.
♪ tryin' to catch us
raftin' dirty ♪
this raft is made up
of our shelter,
that we cannibalized
in order to create this raft.
This allowed us to use wood
that has been drying
for 20 something days
since we've created
this shelter,
using that is going
to be more buoyant
than anything else
that we can find
that would be a live wood.
All right, that should do it.
I'm happy to leave this place.
It could be nice
to find higher ground,
richer hunting grounds.
just kinda putting
the finishing touches on it.
Good.
It's time for us
to move along.
our house looks
like home again
with all the hanging meat.
I know.
we have so much fat.
we can use that fat
for all kinds of things now.
We can render it down
and make lye soap,
we can lubricate our bleeds.
usually
in survival settings,
you don't have a ton of fat.
But this time we've got about
four pounds
of pure white clean fat
from this gator.
We're gonna split
that in half,
and I'm gonna make soap.
I like that sound.
that does sound good.
Looks good too.
the use
of animal fat
or tallow to make soap
has been traced as far back
as five thousand years ago.
see how clean
that fat is?
It's like clear.
It's gonna be beautiful.
The first step of this
is to render down the fat.
Heating the fat up
and making sure that
all of the bits
of flesh or meat
or anything that might
be in there that isn't just
clean pure fat,
is taken out.
The next part is to make lye.
All right, so this is
just some water
and this is some white ash
from our hardwood fire
last night.
wood ash contains
sodium hydroxide,
a natural alkali
that breaks down
the acid of the fat.
lye is just
a caustic chemical
drawn out of the ash
from the actual wood content.
It's dangerous to work with.
You should be wearing
protective clothing and
it can cause you to go blind
if it gets in your eyes,
so goggles as well.
Lye is ready.
The fat still smells
really clean.
No stinky rancid,
so the fat part
of this product is good.
this soap is not
just for thrills.
This soap is actually
for survival.
We have a lot of time left
on this challenge,
I, myself as well as ryan
have been fighting a parasite.
Better we can wash ourselves
with the soap,
the better we're gonna
stay clean and healthy
till the end of the challenge.
it's not gonna
be solid like other soap,
'cause it's just too warm
here, but we're gonna boil
this together,
make sure it's all good
and then we're gonna
let it cool a little bit.
Hopefully, it works.
Phew!
All right.
So...
This is the paddle.
I just gotta lighten it up,
make it easier to paddle
and this should do it.
are you happy
with the rafter?
just about, yeah.
I mean, I just need
to hit this for like
another 20 minutes
and then it should be done.
oh, oh, oh, oh.
Right now I see
a great blue heron,
he's moved his kill
which is a fish
onto the shore.
Gonna swim over there
and try to steal his kill.
Almost there.
Almost there.
oh...
it's an alligator gar.
no way.
- it's an alligator gar.
- what?
- yeah.
- oh, yeah.
yes!
-Yeah!
- hell, yeah!
Gary's admiring the handiwork
of this great blue heron.
We see he has this big gar.
We swim all the way
to the lilies,
soon as we get to the lilies,
he throws his stick,
and he's out.
And he leaves this gar behind,
and now we're eating.
Dude!
-We're eating.
-Yeah. Baby!
Boom. Nothing big,
but it's these little wins
that keep moving us along.
couple of little
gar steaks.
oh, man, what a day.
That's a prehistoric fish
right there.
-Awesome teamwork right there.
-Yeah.
Thank you, heron.
Thanks for carin'.
heron is sharin'.
heron is sharin'.
Dude, legan-gary.
honey-dipped alligator gar.
Mm.
Mm.
That's so good.
oh, wow,
it's a nice white meat.
that's
real freakin' good.
before we
got the beehive,
dude, I was terrified
of making, like,
using up our energy
to make a raft,
and then burn up our energy...
-That, too.
-..Paddling the raft, like...
But to be able to really
come through clutch
in the ninth inning
at our shelter
and get a walk-off
homerun with the bee,
and then freakin'
a victory lap
with the protein
from the fish...
-Yeah.
-Dude, that helps a lot.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Well, I hope we find
a super hunting grounds
-full of alligators, really.
-Yeah.
Of course we want the gator.
If we can score
a couple of alligators...
That'd put us through.
It's a golden ticket
to sixty.
tomorrow,
we migrate out of here.
And I'm hoping
that we can be successful.
I've never
notched anything out
with a knife like this.
It's coming together.
yeah,
you're doing a good job.
Takes a little bit
of whacking though.
matt and I
are making some
bush craft camp chairs.
those chairs are just
basically built out
of two triangles.
It should be
all fully supported
just based on weight.
Now, we have been eating
a substantial amount
of protein
up to this point
in the challenge.
Our bodies are just machines,
and that is our fuel
to keep going.
Look at this.
Oh, you do feel
high and mighty.
Oh, wow.
First time in 14 days
I haven't been
sitting in the dirt.
oh, yeah.
- I feel civilized
a little bit here.
- right?
Except for my nutria itch nuts
are sitting on
some pokey grass.
But besides that...
pretty civilized.
yeah.
how is it?
Nice in the sun?
It's good. Oh, yeah.
Sit here and watch the sun set
all majestically
over the water.
Every house needs
a family sign, team sign,
so that's what
I'm working on here.
It's gonna be awesome.
And I think this is gonna
come together really nicely.
Tryin' to make the letters pop
as much as possible.
I decided to do
a little outline
with charcoal as well
on the outer edge of this.
You're gonna be able
to read this sign very well
from a good distance.
all right.
Pretty bold-lookin' sign.
little higher
on your side, ryan.
Very good. Perfect.
to have a sign
for our entrance,
you know, even if it's
just for us,
it's a morale boost every day
when you walk
and you say, "welcome."
and then you get up there,
"team savage".
And you're like,
"yup. This is where I live.
This is where I thrive."
and you know what,
it makes you proud
to come home.
- good job, ryan.
it's exactly what it needed.
- spelled it right,
yeah?
- yeah.
- yeah.
-All right, good.
-Ah, so good. Nice touch
on the correct spelling.
oh, I'm excited.
Yeah, smells like...
I think it's...
Totally smells like soap.
-100% like
an all-natural bar soap.
-Swanky.
that is wild.
let's do
a little test spot.
-I'll do a little leg.
- on my hands.
yeah.
Put some on my leg.
And we'll do one leg
and not the other leg,
and see what happens.
it feels so nice
on the wounds.
so I did one leg.
It's basically a lot cleaner
than this one.
-That's insane.
- that's incredible.
Feels like two...
Honestly, I'm wearing
two different legs.
- yeah.
- yeah.
well, hey, another success.
Another success for us.
-And my first.
-Yeah.
So I have to question,
what are we calling it?
Gator gut soap.
Rylie's gator gut soap
available now...
-At team savage.
- yeah.
nice to maybe go take a walk
back in that area,
and see if we see any tracks.
Yeah, why not? Definitely.
I think that's a good idea.
last night,
steven and I heard footsteps
outside the shelter.
We're not sure what it is.
Um, it could be a small animal
or it could be a big animal
treading lightly.
So we're gonna
go look for tracks.
stop.
holy *bleep*.
That's a bear.
- that is a bear.
- that's a
freaking bear track.
Bear!
A big, old black bear track
right in the middle
of the trail,
heading straight
in the direction
of our shelter.
I bet they can
smell murder log.
-Oh, they can
totally smell murder log.
-Guaranteed.
-From here.
-Yeah.
I bet that's why
we're seeing him
-walk straight towards camp.
- yeah. Yeah.
He smells murder log.
Murder log is a log
that we use to process
all of our kills.
We gutted a gator...
Oh, it's beautiful.
...We've gutted
seven fish,
multiple lizards.
This log smells like murder.
look at
that thing, dude.
That is one of the biggest
black bear tracks I've seen.
- it's a big bear.
-That is a big bear.
that's pretty wild.
he probably
broke my snare.
Dude, when you set up
your snare's...
- I gotta be careful.
-...You better not
snare a bear.
I know. Now I'm terrified.
- oh, you should be.
dude, check this out.
That's bear *bleep*.
Oh, yeah,
that's totally bear *bleep*.
look at that.
-That's not fresh.
-That's not fresh.
-That must be a week old.
-That's...
Yeah, it might be a week old.
which means
that bear is...
this is
part of his trail.
- this is his territory.
- yeah.
- we've got visitors.
- yeah.
Black bear is
a formidable predator.
And you know, when we got
a murder log
covered in blood over there,
right next to our shelter,
it's concerning.
We gotta keep vigilant
because one wrong turn
out here in the swamp,
that's the end.
Not just the end of
the challenge, it might be
the end of our lives.
-Definitely worth
keeping an eye out for.
- yeah.
I'm gonna build a pier
right next to my camp
to give me ability to
just be at my camp,
walk out on the pier,
be able to get water freely,
be able to fish from my dock,
keep the hyacinth at bay.
You gotta understand
something about this hyacinth.
It's like its own
living creature.
It moves around on its own.
It floats. It's like a sheet
of green stuff.
Like a blanket.
And it, kind of, moves in.
It's unbelievable.
So I have to move it
out of the way
and then put up, kind of,
a barrier, prevent it
from coming back.
Because it will come back.
So, I think I got
a pretty good plan for that.
And we will attack today.
Morning wood lumber company
going to action.
Collecting all the lumber
I need for this project,
and as well as vines.
I think my first, phase one
portion of this
is to clear this area out
so I can safely walk
up and through this willow.
And clear this portion
of the hyacinth behind
this willow tree.
And I can put little spikes
in there.
And I can keep the hyacinth
from approaching into
my zone here.
And then, phase two.
I want to get a pier built,
just off my beach here.
Back with you.
You good beast.
There's a lot of risk
going out there.
If I slip in the mud
and trash my knee,
break a-- throw a hip,
break a leg,
then I am out of here.
But, you know, I am ready
to take some risks
to get a reward.
I need to eat.
Get over there.
it's exhausting, but...
Phase one will be done today,
for sure.
let's get creative here
with the stew.
this is one jowl
that we smoked
over the past three days
that we are gonna cube up
and put in the pot for stew.
I got it.
- oh, this smells good.
- yeah.
- that smells great.
- let me see.
- here you go.
That's not bad. Nothing--
- uh-huh.
to me, everything
in survival has nutrients,
has something.
And I mean to tell you,
I will eat everything.
Because you know what?
Not a ounce of it
is going to waste.
First part of the gator tail,
the biggest part
with the most meat on it
and tons of fat.
- gonna be good.
-Going in the stew.
oh, boy.
let's get another
section off here.
I don't want to
eat that but the center's
not really cooked right now.
you're too good
at this.
I don't really
think of matt as "a" legend.
He is "the" legend.
Absolutely look up to him.
As far as the expanding
my palette and eating outside
of my comfort zone,
matt gives me this
huge confidence boost.
You know, if he's gonna do it,
I'm gonna do it.
I don't think we can
put anything else in there.
that's gonna be
a thick one.
all right.
Set it and forget it.
oh, yeah.
Look at that.
Oh, that's a good push.
Making progress on
operation hasta la vista
hyacinth. It's a chore.
It's like fighting
a prizefighter.
I am up to my thighs in muck.
Fighting the hyacinth,
trying to put stakes in there.
Not getting easier because
I'm going further out
where I can't touch bottom,
and there's alligators
out there.
climbing the tree to get
to the other side.
I can see all kinds
of big fish down there.
That's the prize.
I need to concentrate.
Because I never have
the best of balance.
So-- such a steep angle.
It makes it difficult.
Not fun with muddy feet.
my grandfather used to
always say,
"if there's a willow,
there's a way."
I see you wrestling through
the hyacinth, mr. Alligator.
Making progress.
this is lot more enjoyable...
Than sinking in that mud,
I'll tell you that much.
I got a better angle up here.
I wonder if that'll
hold my weight.
I got speared.
at least I got you
in position.
I wonder if that'll
hold my weight.
I got speared.
oh, man.
Tried to castrate me.
Son of a bitch swamp!
*bleep* you!
Tried to take my
*bleep* balls?
Really?
*bleep* you!
I'll kill you!
You want a war?
Fine.
War it will be.
I'm gonna own this bitch.
- all right.
I got a laceration.
- okay.
- but it is...
- oh, yeah.
- ouchy-chewy-chewy.
- okay.
- balls are intact.
- good.
little bit of blood.
Just need some stitches.
she's here.
- hey, ej.
- hey.
So I fell in off
the branch, it broke,
I hit a stake.
-It just lacerated me.
but it's okay.
It's just open wound.
All I need is
a couple of stitches.
three, four stitches.
so...
I don't think--
nah.
Ej has sustained
a one and half
to two inch laceration.
There's two lacerations.
One is a little bit smaller.
there's a decent amount
of contamination, as well,
that needs to be
very thoroughly cleaned up.
It needs to be stitched up
very, very well.
Worst case scenario
is an infection.
A loss of genitalia.
And if he becomes septic,
it could be fatal.
you have an option.
-Okay?
- okay.
you will need
stitches according to anna.
You can either go
into the hospital
to get those stitches
in a sterile environment,
but you'll have to
medically tap from
the challenge.
Or anna says that you are
okay to get the field stitches
out here.
But you need to give us
a clear call as to
what you'd prefer.
I will absolutely have
the stitches done out here.
There's no way I am leaving.
okay.
yeah, this is not
a clean environment.
Most people would be
scared to death out here
to get bacteria
or something else in there.
I don't worry about
those things for
couple of reasons.
One, I am ej snyder.
yeah.
yes.
Two, because most people
are a bunch of sissy candy-ass
sacks of *bleep*
that want to just sit
on their ass and let life
pass 'em by.
Not me.
Give it to me.
Yes.
it's gonna take
quite a few stitches.
You're not gonna like it.
- okay?
- yeah.
All right. Sure.
oh, yeah. That one was...
- that one was great.
- I know.
- that's my favorite one.
- that's my favorite one.
- yeah, your favorite
out of all of them, huh?
- yeah, that was
my favorite.
- nice.
out in this environment,
that's a pretty tall order.
But couldn't let
something like a little
tear in my scrotum
stop me from doing
what I'm supposed to do
out here.
I gotta go get
some firewood.
There's really nothing
I could have done to prevent
that log from breaking
or me realizing
it was gonna break.
It looked solid,
like a solid tree,
and sheesh.
Yeah, kind of
a sucky thing,
'cause now I gotta
take it easy.
Whatever it takes
to stick around.
good morning,
our friend.
That's the
beautiful heron
that we stole
a fish from.
Thank you very much
for feeding us.
it's moving day.
- I'm gonna
bust out the map here.
-Yeah.
All right. I think
we should navigate these
and see what looks good,
really.
I mean, we just
gotta keep cruising
till we find
the highest land.
And, I mean,
as we cruise around,
we can look
for, like, the tallest trees.
That usually symbolizes,
like, the most,
-you know, potable dirt
for us to be on.
-Yeah.
-Nothing too soggy.
-Okay.
-All right, cool.
Let's boogie.
-Let's do it.
we're getting ready
to roll out of here,
and, uh, we don't know
what we're gonna find,
you know.
So, one thing
we do expect
is higher ground.
Maybe richer
hunting grounds.
We're gonna look
for gators around the area.
We're gonna be traveling
with our honey.
We've got energy.
-We've got our pot.
-Right on.
Where we'll land,
we don't even really
know yet.
But, you know what?
It's not gonna be
in this wet,
soppy place,
where every step you're
ankle deep in mud.
That's one thing for sure.
-Right.
-All right, let's get it.
Boom. All right.
All right, we game...
We game time.
We're off.
See you later.
migration's
gonna be tough.
We gotta go through hyacinth.
We gotta go through
hidden water moccasins,
keep an eye out
for gators.
And our raft, hopefully,
doesn't start falling apart
on us.
anybody
want to try this?
This has been
some of the most
tender meat we've had.
Really good.
all three of us
are wide awake and bushy-eyed.
We created
a stew last night,
with all the bones,
and the rib cage,
the back straps.
Pretty much everything
was utilized on this animal.
We still have
about a half a pot
of soup left,
so we've added
some of our water to it,
reboiled it,
and this is
our breakfast.
a drink
of choice for...
For team savage
is a fatty broth...
Alligator broth water.
it's just
oil and fat,
and a little, tiny fat chunk
with some big fat chunks.
That's good.
That way,
you know you're alive.
it's good.
I like it.
It's thick enough
that you almost feel like
you can chew it.
- yeah.
- but then it just,
like, slurps right down,
-it's like... Oh,
that's exciting.
even though we've been
eating consistently,
we do work
so hard every day.
And I don't want
to be leaving here
a little stick figure,
so we are gonna put
our level best
into eating
every ounce of this,
and getting
all of our strength back,
so that we have enough
strength and fatty goodness
to keep going.
that's how
you get all your power
here in the bayou.
-Right.
I'm just gonna walk around
and get some air.
I just feel nauseous.
*bleep*
oh, she just got sick.
She's getting rid
of everything.
Oh, man.
ah *bleep*.
- are you
all right, riley?
- yeah.
I don't know what happened,
I just
started getting,
like, stomach pains,
and I was just
feeling really nauseous.
really?
It just hit you, like,
all of a sudden?
Yeah. I was fine.
we've got
some fresh water here
if you need it.
thanks.
unfortunately,
right now,
riley is feeling
real sick.
On a challenge like this,
where we're about
halfway through,
and have that happen,
where you throw up everything
in your stomach,
it's concerning.
That will take you out
of a challenge like this
faster than anything.
- it sucks.
- this looks bad.
- back up,
back up, back up.
- whoo!
-Yes!
-Well done, guys.
throughout the
ultimate legends challenge,
each team's status
will be evaluated
using the xls,
or xl success metric,
which calculates
their likely percentage
of completing
the 60 days together
as a team.
still haven't seen
any alligators.
with resources
becoming scarce across
the bayou...
We need to keep fishing,
we need to keep scavenging.
We're gonna do
what we have to do
to cross that finish line
in 60 days.
...The need for
food sparked innovation.
I've taken
all the knowledge
I've learned
from four
different continents,
and I've put it into
this one fishing unit.
Oh, my god!
I got a double fish hook.
but now,
jeff and steven face
a dangerous new threat.
- that is a bear.
- that's a freaking
bear track.
as a result,
their xls drops from 51
to 39%.
After the fall
of their main provider...
timber!
...Gary and max
work together to tap into
their dwindling
food resources.
- is there a lot?
- half a gallon.
we're gonna be
traveling with our honey.
We've got energy.
and now,
face a risky journey
to find higher ground.
where we'll land,
we don't even really know yet,
but, you know what,
it's not gonna be in this
wet, soppy place.
with so many
unknowns ahead,
their xls ticks down
from 56 to 43%.
After braving the dangers
of the swamp at night...
There he is.
...Ej's resilience
as a lone wolf paid off.
yes!
but now,
a debilitating injury...
oh, I got speared.
...Puts his
entire challenge at risk.
his xls
drops even further
from 21 to 10%.
oh, yeah!
after an epic battle
with a monster gator...
-Come on, big boy.
-Come on.
...Team savage has their
biggest protein score yet.
- holy mother.
but now,
their bounty could come
at a devastating cost.
- oh, man.
that will take you out
of a challenge like this
faster than anything.
with riley struggling,
their chance of completing
the challenge together
drops from 60 to 41%.
- sucks.
- this looks bad.
we do not need
to lose a teammate
going into
the halfway mark
of this challenge,
and I'm hoping
that this something
just really, really minor.
But out here in the bayou,
out here in these challenges,
we know that
something very minor
can turn into something,
um, challenge ending
for anyone.
do you want
your hide to lay on?
No, I'm okay.
I'll just rest here.
All right.
today is day one
after the injury,
so I've gotta
really just, kind of...
Chill out,
whether I like it or not.
And I realized that the swamp
is trying to
get me off my game.
It's trying to provoke me
into a fight, a battle.
You gotta make sure
to make the best use of this.
Nice try, swamp.
I'm wise to you.
And, uh, I'm still
coming after you.
Yeah. That'd cover it.
I didn't want to cut into
the pelts just yet,
but, it is a major injury,
and I need to make
a loin cloth to protect
my little friends
so they may heal well.
Cutting this pelt
is just like, wow.
It's a resource,
this is a big deal.
You know, it provided me
comfort, warmth,
and I'm taking
a lot of that away.
So, I don't have
traditional needle and thread.
But what I do have
is a fishing hook
and some fishing line.
I think this'll make
great stuff to sew with.
I'm gonna try it out.
Never done this before,
we'll see how it works.
This loin cloth,
that's protection.
To protect it from
the flies trying to bite me.
I wanna keep it clean
and make sure
I've no complications.
I don't think it's enough
to go all the way around.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Looks like I've been losing
some weight.
I'd love to have
a backside with this,
but there's just
too much of me...
Too much ogre of me
to, uh, be able to do that.
And my boys,
they're doing fine.
No swelling,
and I'm doing great.
Why? 'cause
I'm hard as woodpecker lips.
So I see on 60 days
if I'm the lone survivor,
figure I'll have
others with me,
but I will be there.
If there's a will,
there's always a way.
It looks pretty damn good.
There you have it.
One each barbarian loin cloth!
yeah!
three hour paddle.
Freaking exhausted.
Oh, man.
This takes a lot out of you.
-I'm spent right now.
-Oh, absolutely.
You gotta do
what you gotta do here
-to be where
you wanna be, right?
-Right.
-See that egret right there?
-Yeah.
You know, I didn't
see any egrets
where we were at, really.
I... I feel like we're living
our lives with no egrets.
dude, did you see that?
alligator.
That's a real good sign.
-Alligators are delicioso.
-Yeah.
Be vigilant.
We're just on this little
makeshift raft, he can come
and swoop us up in no time.
Okay, watch out.
Look for a little...
-Yeah, look for bubbles
or something.
-Yeah.
that thing was massive!
-*bleep* this's getting, okay,
this is getting pretty...
-Yeah.
-We're really out here, dude.
-Yeah.
I mean, I would just blast him
on the head with this,
maybe try stab him
with your pulaski,
hit him with you pulaski.
-They get like
12-foot out here.
-Yeah, man.
That's a people eater.
Just keeps going.
Yeah.
It's getting freaking late.
Ugh, gosh damn.
*bleep* so thick.
Looks like some
high ground right there.
I think I see something.
I think I see smoke.
Yeah, I think
I see smoke, too.
Dude, you see that?
What the hell?
oh, I see a shelter.
No freaking way.
Hey!
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