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[dramatic music]

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- Jim's here. Yeah.

You [bleep] did it.

- Whoa. Yes.

- Wow. Look at that six-pound whopper.

- Oh, I'm so happy we're gonna be eating tonight.

- Whoa. - Fish on?

- Yeah. Oh, yeah. Whoo-hoo.

We have what it takes to win this.

- Cheers, baby.

- Jim's crab trap is revealing its head.

- No! - Nothing?

That's devastating, Jim.

*

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- This is gonna be an incredible challenge.

- We're gonna be dropped off in separate locations

and one of us has to find the other.

- Where did they go? - I gotta wait on my brother.

- Oh! - Hopefully he'll be here soon.

- Please come tomorrow.

- I don't know where I'm going,

how long I'm gonna be out here.

All I have is a compass bearing.

- It's a needle in a haystack.

Can I even make it to base camp?

- Dad! - Son!

- No way.

- Everything around you is

telling you you need to go home.

[air horn blows] - Please leave me alone!

- If you don't work as a team it's game over.

- I can't hold the whole-- - Just hold it still.

- $500,000 would be live-changing.

- I know.

- I feel like the life was sucked out of me.

- He's coming. He sees me.

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- Oh, my God.

I just felt, like, just water come through.

Oh, my God, dude.

- Somehow the ground tarp we're sleeping on

was getting some water back on it

and it pooled back in towards Jim

and has soaked through his sleeping bag

and soaked his pants.

- This whole area completely soaked through.

Dude, look. From here to here.

- How did you let that happen, dude?

- I didn't.

I just woke up and it was soaked through, dude.

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- This is a rain forest and it's just dumping rain.

It doesn't matter how many more layers you put on top.

You just start getting absolutely freezing

and you're so miserable.

I mean, this is no joke.

The weather around here will kick your ass.

- Soon as your sleeping bag gets wet,

it really doesn't hold the heat

and you start to freeze at night.

You know, that means that there could be a chance

of some really serious problems.

So, I'm gonna have to dry my sleeping bag

and my pants out now.

*

The slightest breeze blows through our shelter

and just rips the heat right out of our sleeping bags

and chills us to the bone.

If this rain picks up,

it's gonna wash us right out of here.

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- How can one place get so much rain?

This is just amazing.

*

Just wondering how many inches of rain

we've gotten since we've been here.

We're situated on an inlet surrounded by mountains.

So there's some rain and then these mountains funnel

these incredible gusts of wind

that come through like some mythological beast,

and it's scary.

It is scary.

[wind howling]

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Even in the most miserable weather,

you have to get out, and you have to, uh--

you gotta keep your body moving, otherwise things

just start getting sore and stiff and--

- When you're old. - Yeah.

Especially when you're old. [laughter]

Yeah, thanks, buddy. I appreciate that.

Really, I have no business being out here.

I'm too damn old to be doing this [bleep],

but my son dragged me out here with him, so...

*

Well, I don't know.

Maybe it is starting to lighten up.

And we may get a little break here in the afternoon.

*

It's not like you want to do this,

but we can only fish on the low tides,

and it's so important that

when we can fish we give it a try.

*

Sam has told me he doesn't think

that he could have done this with someone else.

*

I can't even tell you how great that makes me feel.

Okay, baby, come on. Let's catch a fish.

*

Coming out here and doing this with this old man,

I think it's impressed him.

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Hey!

- Oh, nice catch, Dad.

- Yes!

- Oh, I'm so excited. I'm so happy we got something.

- I think every dad wants their son

to look up to him and be proud of him.

- There it is. What do you got there?

- This is a black rock bass.

I like to think he's proud of me.

- This is incredible. Oh, this is such good news.

- Better get another line in the water.

*

Here comes the rain again. - Yep.

- Here comes the wind.

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[Bleep] damn. - Holy cow.

*

There's a huge storm rolling in.

The wind's whipping.

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- This is insane.

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It's like a hurricane.

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- Holy cow.

- It sure is.

*

- Phew-wee.

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- Oh, [bleep]. - What do you think?

- I think we should probably head back.

I think it's the smart thing to do.

Let's get out of here. - Yeah.

It's hitting me in the face right now.

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- [grunts]

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Wind is killing me.

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- Oh, my God, dude.

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We are in standing water now.

- Wow. God.

- To see this river of water

running through here blows my mind.

If you need some water, let me know.

I'm the guy with the source here.

- Oh! - Man.

I decided I wanted to move my bivvy down,

so when I got up and I look and there's a damn river of water.

I can't believe I caught it when I did, you know?

Look at the amount of water coming through there.

- Wow. That's not good.

- So, we're gonna have to go get another tarp here

that we're using for water catching

and set us up a good tarp floor of the shelter.

Just have to empty it out, which totally breaks my heart,

but you got to do what you got to do.

*

When this place is raining heavily

and muddy, it's a miserable place.

That's when the mind is gonna turn to those

other things like my family.

All I can think about is my wife and kids.

I did not expect that I would have

such deep longings to be with my family.

It's really caught me off guard.

*

My mind is saying, "I don't want to be here.

I'd rather be at home."

*

I really wonder if Brody feels the same way.

*

Today is a great example of the kind of weather that,

if you get wet, it could get you hypothermic.

This is the water underneath my tarp right now.

We are officially on the verge of being flooded.

If we can't stay in a dry environment,

long-term survival here,

I just don't really see it possible.

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- All right, so, today is just an absolute downpour,

and it also happens to be high tide.

*

Here you can see the tide.

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And that's the back wall of our shelter right there.

It's rising incredibly quick.

*

You know, normally the water's way out there.

Holy [bleep].

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- Right now, it's frightening.

*

It really only has to rise a few more inches

before it actually gets into our shelter.

*

Never dreamed the tide would ever rise this high,

but we're having the lunar tides right now.

*

Very worst thing that could happen right now

is to have an onshore breeze

that would be blowing even more water up in here.

*

Hoping that this rain will let up

and hoping that the biblical tides will recede.

*

I just don't like the thought of the water infiltration.

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It's pretty scary.

- Yeah. - And really, it's--

it's pretty much too late to... move our shelter.

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Can you tell from over there what the water's doing?

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- I can't tell if it's going up or down.

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- Yeah, it's definitely still rising.

*

You just can't afford to get wet out here.

You just can't afford it.

You get wet, that's it.

Your clothes are gonna stay wet.

*

I hope we don't get to that point.

*

Be so easy to just press that button and go home.

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[dramatic music]

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- Well, it's early morning.

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Yesterday was a torrentially rainy day.

Today so far it's not pouring rain,

which is a great bonus.

Trying to get out here at low tide.

Get some gumboots.

Grab some limpets.

But, you know, always looking for something better.

Be nice to have a couple

roasted over the fire this morning.

Where are you, gumboots?

There's one.

Cool.

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In the pot.

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Okay. Dave's first gumboot.

These are really good roasted.

They got these plates on the back of them

and you peel off the plates like little shells.

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That's all good to eat right there, babe.

- Really? - Yeah.

*

- It's funny when they say, "Oh, that tastes like chicken."

This does. It tastes just like chicken.

- Yeah. - That's a good woman

who gets you up in the morning with some wild seafood.

- There's actually substantial meat there.

- It's good stuff. - Mm-hmm.

- Man, it's nice to know you got food.

- A little something-something.

- A little something-something.

*

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- It is not raining on me right now, which is awesome.

Yesterday...

was an unbelievable storm.

Brody and I both ended up sleeping on running water.

Probably the worst night of sleep

we both have had maybe ever.

*

- I was really hoping on building a shelter

that allowed me to dry things out.

But as a result of all the flooding,

we need to find a whole new location.

The only time of the day that we ever felt warm was

whenever we'd be in our shelter,

and now you can't stay dry.

*

- Well, I think this whole basin is a drainage

from the mountains.

There is no flat ground.

*

- Coming to Vancouver Island, I knew this place

was gonna be wet, and it is.

*

You don't try to live in places like this.

You don't try to hike in places like this.

[Bleep].

And in addition to going through

this tall underbrush to get anywhere,

you've got to climb over all these tall trees.

*

- So, this is this other spot that we're looking at.

*

- I would say this is an incredible calorie expenditure

to do everything we're talking about doing here.

I'm not sure that we'd get all this done.

*

The shelter locations are just absolute [bleep] around here.

There's no good location here that I have found.

There's just worst, worse, bad.

Now, let's get back to the shelter now.

*

Most of the time people get wet, they are eventually able

to get out of it and in a dry environment,

but to be out in this stuff like we've been,

it's easy to see how this place could kick a man's ass.

*

And so, I really wonder,

do I really want to stay here longer

when I could be home with my family?

*

All right, so, here-- here's the scoop.

I've been thinking hard.

I need to explain some things about my situation.

Presley's birthday.

- Oh...yeah.

- What a miserable day that was for me.

I thought about her all day long.

I realize just going through this deal

with my daughter's birthday that the only reason

to stay out here long-term is for the money, you know?

*

If I hit that button and go home,

then my kids will know that I chose them...

- Mm-hmm. - Over money.

*

You and I have the greatest treasures at home.

- Right.

- When's your daughter's birthday?

- November 20th. - Okay.

- So, it's coming up.

- I don't think you should miss your daughter's birthday.

I'm telling you.

*

Maybe we should just have a shorter run here

instead of trying to stay long-term.

- Mm-hmm.

*

- I don't want you to leave here with regrets,

you know, just going along with me.

*

We've never been a family that chose money over family.

I mean, that's never been who we were,

and that's why all this is so painful,

and I want to get back there

and be so much more loving

than I've ever been before to my wife and kids.

*

And, you know, the best advice I can give as a brother

is we need to get you home

for your daughter's birthday. It's her first birthday.

She won't remember it, but you will.

- Mm-hmm. I appreciate that.

*

You know, I have to start doing some thinking about it.

*

I realize what my brother is going through.

I'm sympathetic to his feelings,

but there's no doubt that I could go longer.

*

I feel like I have unfinished business on the table.

*

I don't want to look back

and think that this was incomplete.

*

That would be just saying that this is a story

that really has no ending.

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[dramatic music]

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- It's not a bad sitting spot, is it?

*

- Now, when the sun's shining, it's great.

*

Ever since I got dropped off on that helicopter

I've been busting my butt

and tracking through the mountains,

but my brother,

he was pretty much checked out

by the time I got here.

There comes a certain point where we're here together

so you need to come to an agreement.

- [grunts]

- I did want to try to push him to stay here, you know,

but if it's really weighing on him that heavily,

I don't feel right dragging him through that.

*

[short tone beeps]

[long sustained tone beeps]

*

- Hey, this is Chris.

*

[man speaks indistinctly over radio]

- We're officially tapping out.

[man speaks indistinctly over radio]

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[boat engine revving]

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- All right.

*

- Hi, boys. - Hey, guys.

*

- What's going on? - Today's our day.

The idea of being gone for an extended period of time

from my family was very difficult for them to accept

and I carried that out here with me.

- You know, you have mixed feelings about it,

but right now I'm thinking about getting back home,

you know, for my daughter's birthday.

You know, it's a big deal for me.

You know, I'm looking forward to that.

*

The decision to leave is extremely difficult.

*

Usually I'm a fight personality.

I'm not a flight personality. I'm going to stand my ground.

*

I'd love to stay longer, but at the same time,

it's more important for me to keep a good relationship

with my brother.

*

- I think Brody wanted to stay,

and it just pains me to even think about that.

I feel like the only reason he's tapping is

because he doesn't want to let me down.

When I came out here, I was really ready

for the physical part of this,

but as far as the emotional journey,

missing my daughter's birthday totally changed my experience.

*

That's really been the biggest surprise

for me on this journey.

Being out here created this sense

of deep longing for my family.

I understand now better than I ever have before

that we're meant to be with people

that we love and people we're attached to.

*

Even though some people won't understand

the decision to leave...

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I know my wife and kids will understand.

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- [vomits and spits]

Ugh!

Oh, I just puked.

*

Oh, [bleep].

[gags and spits]

Ugh!

Just puking my guts out here.

- Maybe I should get a fire going

so you can come chill by the fire for a bit.

- I can't stomach that [bleep] seaweed.

[groans]

*

This diet is catching up with me here.

Just a whole ton of seaweed.

*

And if I'm not able to stomach that seaweed,

I mean, that's a staple for us, so...

*

If we don't start catching fish,

I don't know how long my body can keep doing this.

*

Need to go sit around and wallow in self-pity.

*

Ted was horribly sick this morning.

Just not a fun time.

So, I just said,

"Why don't you try to take it easy, man, and rest?

I'll try to get some food."

*

I think one of the most meaningful things

that I can do right now is to nurture Ted back

to health as best I can.

*

I believe you are your brother's keeper.

*

We're given X amount of survival items.

The best survival item you have

is the other person you're out there with.

Someone to kind of carry you through rough times.

*

I'm gonna try to carry the ball here.

[sighs]

It's just disappointing and strange

that there's just never any fish here.

*

If I don't catch a fish, I might just,

I don't know, stab myself in the face.

*

I got a fish, baby.

First cast. Yes!

[laughs]

Oh, a little herring or something.

*

Oh, no! [Bleep]!

[dramatic music]

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- Oh, a little herring or something.

*

Oh, no! [Bleep]!

Ohh! No!

*

There's a whole school. They're all tiny.

I wish I had a smaller hook.

*

Oh, man. This tide's coming in quick.

*

Probably makes sense

to try some active fishing off another point here.

*

We just need a fish real bad.

*

We both feel like we can stay out here as long as we want

if we can find enough food.

*

Perfect.

*

Oh, man.

Sure would be pretty sweet if this cashed in here.

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Oh, my God. I got a [bleep] fish.

Yeah, baby.

Yes.

Yeah!

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Got a fish!

- You got a fish? - Yeah!

- Yeah!

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He got a fish!

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Oh, thank God. Keep giving her.

- I will.

[seagulls squawking]

You hear those seagulls going.

It's telling me there's a good chance

there's a second round of herring coming.

And so I'm gonna try to check by the net.

*

Dude, there's a massive school here.

There we go.

Caught one. Yeah, baby.

*

Here's another one.

Don't mind if I get one more of those.

*

And that's eight.

[Bleep] yeah, baby. We're getting somewhere here.

*

Another one.

Yep, there's one again.

Yes. There's the 16th sablefish.

I got a huge greenling.

What a day.

Whoo! Beauty day.

*

Emotional roller coaster around here.

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- Wow.

Good thing my face was out of the way

for that sucker.

- The weather has been a son of a gun.

It's just pouring.

Brooke built a good shelter,

but we came out here with the mindset

that we're gonna win this,

and that means that we need something

better-suited for the weather.

The idea is we're gonna put up a little cabin.

Somewhere in here is kind of what we're thinking.

- This does look like the flattest piece of real estate

I see, pretty much.

- Yeah. I think so, too.

*

Everybody's got to do what they think is right out here.

I don't want to be in a tent.

I want to be in something serious.

I don't want to worry about, do I got to roll to this side

when the wind's coming that way?

Timber!

No, I want to live in something.

*

The mental benefit of being inside four walls is huge,

and this is a mental game

as much as it's a physical game.

What I was kind of thinking about doing

is digging a trench all the way around

and then standing the logs up stockade

and all you'd have to do is you'd have to lash the top

to four poles to keep the top true.

*

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- A cabin represents progress and longevity

and promise of a better future out here surviving.

*

Dave and I naturally are inclined

to divide and conquer.

If it's a cabin we're gonna build, well,

he'll start digging a trench and I'll start cutting trees.

Whoever is best equipped to do the thing

that needs to get done, you have to do it.

- Once the trench is dug, all you're doing at that point

is cutting seven-foot logs, stick it in the hole,

pack it in there, lash it off

so the whole place is gonna get tied up together.

*

I've been building stuff since I was 16 years old.

I've built several little cabins.

I have a pretty good idea

about how much it's gonna take to do this.

- This upgrade is a-- it's a calorie risk.

We're just gonna have to take our time on it.

But it'll be a big pay-off.

We just got to watch ourselves.

Got to watch it.

*

- How you doing?

- I've never felt so weak before.

It's like somebody unplugged me

and forgot to recharge me.

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Help old granny up.

Granny.

Oh, honey.

*

- Brooke is resilient.

She has no quit.

But right now she's completely out of gas.

*

I've never, ever seen that from her.

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Kind of scary.

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[dramatic music]

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- That little bird is right up here at the shoreline.

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Look at him scooting all around.

No idea what it is.

Silly little thing, though.

Not even scared of us.

*

The other day, we basically

just stayed in our tent all day.

Unfortunately, the tides are kind of super-high lately.

It's been really scary that it's just gonna flood our shelter.

It hasn't yet. We're super-happy about that.

*

- Very damp. Very wet here.

Not the easiest place in the world to start a fire.

*

So today we've got to visit a couple of spruce trees

and see if we can start getting some resin flowing.

We use the sap as an accelerant.

That resin is quite flammable.

Use whatever you can out here.

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- Gonna walk down our shoreline just a little ways

and we're going to scar some of our spruce trees.

We really don't know how quickly they'll start secreting

any of the sap, but really it does it

as a defensive mechanism to heal its own wounds.

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- So here's a big spruce tree right here.

- That's a big old trunk.

- Sure is. Big tree.

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- We're just gonna give him a little cut.

Obviously not enough to kill it.

So, by cutting the tree at a bit of an angle,

the sap will all collect down on one side.

- Any white in there yet? - Getting there, yeah.

- It'll be interesting to see if that works.

- I have no doubt it'll work.

It's just a matter of how long will it take.

- How long it takes.

- All right, next tree.

*

Oh, this one's got a good, resiny spot on it.

- Holy cow. Look at all that stuff.

- Yeah.

- It's been dripping on the ground.

- Look at that. That's just pure resin.

- All of that is great for starting fires.

- Very nice.

That's some good stuff right there.

*

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- I'ma let you make resin cakes tonight.

How's that? - All right.

- [chuckles]

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- Now we got a bowl of resin ready to start cooking.

- Nice.

- We are good to go.

*

Oh, yeah. That stuff's melting down nice.

Oh, man. Look at this resin.

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- Wow. Look at that. Phew-whee.

You got the cedar shavings close by?

- They're right over there.

Basically all I'm doing is, I lay down a layer of cedar...

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Then once the resin is good and cooked,

I dump it onto that layer of cedar,

try to spread it out as thin as possible...

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Then I put a fresh layer of cedar on top.

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And then it's just a matter of letting it cool down.

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So, here we've got our little resin cakes.

Here you've got three of the finished cakes

and they work really well.

- Yeah, incredibly well.

- And that's really been the key to our fires lately.

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- Thank God for the resin.

*

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- So this is a big moment, Ted.

- I can't believe we finally caught these fish.

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- We're just scratching the surface here, you know?

So I feel like maybe the good times are about to roll, dude.

- This amount of toughing it out at the beginning

is what makes most people leave

in three weeks or a month, you know?

- Mm-hmm. - Maybe it's gonna get easier,

you know, long-term.

Maybe it'll turn out that

we're actually good at this, Jim.

Maybe we're amazing at this. - Mm-hmm.

- Trained survival experts, Jim.

- Exactly.

I don't think that we suck.

*

Maybe we should have some trotlines out there, eh, Ted?

*

- I don't know, man.

I don't like the idea.

Like, I do, but if we can catch fish like this,

I'd much prefer it like this.

- I know.

- The thing about all this seaweed we're--

yo, look!

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Wait, wait, wait. - [grunts]

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- Yo, look!

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Wait, wait, wait. - [grunts]

What the [bleep] just happened?

Dude, it's a teal.

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Oh, my God. - Yeah!

Yeah! Yes! - Yes!

Did that really just happen? What the [bleep]?

This is a green-winged teal.

These are really good eating ducks.

It just walked right into my campfire

and I grabbed my freaking Tilley hat

and just smacked it and killed it with my hat.

It was unbelievable.

This is a sign, Ted.

Some sort of turning point, you know, like,

finally our luck has changed, dude.

- Thank the duck for its life. Thank the fish for its life.

And just thank you for this gift.

- Yeah!

Yeah! - Dude, Can you believe

this just happened? - Yes!

Yes! Oh, my God!

- I can't, like-- can you believe this, dude?

I still--I just can't get over it.

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- A pot of fish. Let's try it out.

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People are gonna be like, "Yeah, right.

The production team came and whipped that duck there,"

or something, you know?

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- Oh, my God. - What?

- It's so good. - I bet.

It's ocean fish, dude.

- Mmm!

And when you haven't eaten, like, it just sends this,

like, shockwave or rush through your body of excitement.

*

- Just to think, we're gonna eat a roast duck for breakfast.

- Yeah.

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Jim, if we can eat like this,

we can stay out here forever, man.

- Mm-hmm.

- Simple as that.

What an epic day, eh?

A duck just runs up right here.

Are you kidding, man?

- [laughs]

- I'm going to set a trotline.

Oh, [bleep]! - Dude!

- The hook's embedded in my finger.

- I'm worried about Brooke.

She is pushing herself farther than she should.

Let me carry the big one. - Why don't you

just keep doing your thing?

I'm just gonna keep going. - Just take it easy.

- We're ready for the maiden voyage of "Hope."

- The risk of wetting our gear,

it could give us hypothermia, all kinds of problems.

- Wait. Hold on, hold on!

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