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I got nothing left. I just can't go on. I know it's for real. She's had it.

That's all I was trying to say, damn it. There's nobody more stubborn in the

world than my dad, and he took it to a whole other level. It's getting to the

point where we should really start thinking about what the future holds.

I have really intense abdominal pain.

If I can't do anything, I can't stay out here anymore.

Spent a good amount of time in the shelter today.

It's been a rough few days, that's for sure.

Still pretty jelly-legged and jelly-armed and that kind of stuff, but

I'm getting better, I think.

Jim is still carrying a lot of the weight.

How much longer he can keep up.

carrying the extra weight, I don't know.

But we're doing it, and if I start improving a bit and can start

contributing more, then that's going to help a lot.

Okay.

Now it's time to forage.

I would do anything to protect Jim, and I know he would for me.

We really feed off each other and help each other through.

tough times and give each other the confidence and strength when need be.

I'm incredibly proud of him and his ability to help me continue going.

You know, it's inspirational.

It's just changed our relationship into just a brick house, rock solid one.

Oh, my God!

Oh, there's so many.

Wow.

Oh, my God.

Yeah!

Hey, Ted!

And I just top-danced the out of, like, 24 gunwale fish from two rocks.

I almost have a full bag.

Wow, that's good.

I'll tell you what.

When, uh...

I just started loading in on gunwale fish.

It's pretty freaking exciting.

That makes me think we can do it.

We can go longer.

But I want to get delusions of grandeur.

Because I am starving right now.

So hungry.

In some ways, we're just passing the days.

Our energy levels are so low that some of the projects that we feel like could

help us get more food on the table, we just can't do.

You keep on pushing yourself and you keep on going.

It's like a marathon without a finish line.

Whoever else is out there is in just as bad shape as us.

All we can do is hope we can outlast them.

One thing I can be sure of at this point is that it's going to end here real

soon.

It's got to.

Who would have ever thought we'd be out here until Christmas Eve?

I can't believe I'm out here in the first place, honestly.

I sure do miss my wife and my daughter.

I can't wait to see them again.

One of these days, we'll all be back together.

It's so cold.

Our hands are going to go numb, but we've got to keep fishing.

Each fish that we get extends our stay out here a day.

Here we go.

I got one!

I cannot believe that we have spent Halloween

thanksgiving and christmas out here i'm an old retired guy and i should be at

home under my comforter drinking a cup of hot chocolate i yeah i can't believe

we're going to spend christmas without mom it's so sad just miss home so much

i know they're all going to be talking about us at dinner tomorrow should most

likely go to aunt cindy's i would say oh yeah i'm sure it'll be in cindy's all

the family will be there

Yeah. Oh, I just hope that they have a great day.

That would be nice.

I wish there was some way we could share it for the briefest of moments.

Yeah. And Cindy, she'll have her cheesecake and probably how many pies?

Oh, and you remember that baked green Nicky made?

Oh, that would be so good right now. I could go for anything.

Right now, after all those kelp greenlings, I could probably eat the ass

end out of a hobby horse right now.

Yay! Merry Christmas, everybody.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say Merry Christmas to my family,

particularly Heather. I love you so, so much.

I'm so sorry I'm not there to spend this day with you.

I just want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas.

My family, my mom and dad, Aunt Peggy and Uncle Steve, Tori, especially you. I

love you so much.

I'm missing you guys a lot.

I know you're all invested in this with me.

Thank you for that.

You know, part of me feels like Heather and Tory are, you know, part of this,

too, you know?

Like, if we win, I feel like saying to Tory that, like, we did it, not just me,

you know?

I agree.

They're going through this, too.

It's not just us that's invested in this.

Yeah. Missing Christmas is definitely a pretty big blow.

Absolutely terrible.

I just feel like letting everyone else down, not being there.

Horrible, man.

so beaten down and i just want to get home and see heather so much and get

back to my wonderful life you know just sucks and is emotionally crushing that

we have to miss christmas how about christmas

day ted

I don't know.

But... I'm really hurtin'.

It's had my toque on so long, I don't know what my hair looks like anymore.

Ah, that's what it looks like.

Ready to go to the Oscars.

That log seemed to really give you a hard time.

Oh, my God.

This is never ending.

25% of me is gone.

I've lost 25% of my body.

We were eating two and then sometimes three pots of food.

But now it seems like we're kind of wasting away. We're losing weight and

losing weight and weaker.

Man down.

I think about food a lot.

I think about, you know, the comforts of just a chair sitting around by the fire

every night. It's just not comfortable.

Our bed's not comfortable.

Sometimes it just feels like, man, I just want to go home and, you know,

order a freaking pizza.

I think the only thing that's kept me going out here is just, like, imagining

the things I'm going to have in my life when we win, you know?

Oh, my God.

Imagine just my house and my business.

Today, part of me is just like, you know, what are we doing out here, you

know? Like, we've been starving.

It's just freezing.

Like, I'm just so bored of it.

Can't take being so hungry.

Just day after day, eating this is not making me feel any better. So part of me

is just like, we should just quit, go back.

Eat something.

What about you, Ted? How are you feeling?

I don't know. When you talk like that, you really bring me down, though.

Jim is starting to lose grip a little bit.

It's a little scary because he's a strong, big dude, you know? And he can

mentally push through almost anything.

Whatever happened to no one's going to beat us, Jim?

Oh, it still might be the case, Ted.

No one can suffer like we can.

Are you giving up hope, Jim?

It's terrible.

I'm just trying to... Oh, the acid just...

You should try to drink some water.

Oh, my stomach hurts so much.

I'm getting acid reflux.

It's coming up in my esophagus and burning.

I can only lie on my back. I can't lie on my right side.

I know that you can get a situation where it happens over time.

I mean, it can cause, like, a precancerous condition in your

esophagus.

It's scary.

My dad's heartburn is really getting rough.

He can't even really rest anymore.

You know, it keeps him up all night.

So anyway, he's just taking it easy right now.

That's really our plan at this point.

There's no way around it. We still need water.

And I think that's really the only, you know, that's kind of the only thing that

we have that can at least give them a little bit of relief.

Just to dilute some of the stomach acid.

You know, we've both been going through this slow decline, but it seems like

just a couple days ago, it just started increasing so significantly. It's almost

exponential at this point.

Got the water on, Dad. It'll be ready pretty soon.

It's been an incredible journey out here.

And it just, it is so beautiful. But at the same time, I'm starting to

hate it.

It's just starting to hate the things that we have to do every day.

I have boiling water.

Which Sam is doing right now.

Just hanging on by her toenails.

I want so bad to win this thing.

I want Sam to win this thing. I want him to have a little jump start in life.

Be able to invest a little money.

Just get himself in a good spot.

He'll help him the rest of his life.

But I think neither one of us wants to kill ourselves trying to do that.

We got some things to talk about, Sam.

Yep.

I want to go as long as I possibly can, but I'm going to get to that point where

I just can't do it anymore.

Oh, my stomach's hurting.

Man, it kills.

Man, crawl into bed, call it a day.

My stomach cramp, upper abdominal pain has come back, and it's really hurting,

and it's getting worse.

And that just is absolutely immobilizing out here.

Ted is just in a really bad place.

He's broken. I've never seen him that broken before in my life.

I mean, 71 days doing this.

Oh, man.

Just got real, I'll tell you that. And now I got to find my brother.

Whoo! Look at this place.

We're going into this with the mindset that we can figure out what is in our

area and what to do with it. As long as that works until we can find something

else. God, it's tough walking through this stuff. All these salal bushes.

The terrain out here on Vancouver Island is hands down some of the hardest

terrain to walk through in the entire world. I'm feeling nervous, you know,

that I'm just not going to be able to make it, that I don't have enough food.

You know that times are tough when you're like, yeah, I get to eat a slug.

It's disgusting.

Things are really starting to get hard.

Still no gym yet today.

I see a grouse up ahead. I'm going to try to kill it.

So close.

By the time Jim gets here, I'd like to have a little more done than just a

piece of shelter and a gill net set up with no food for him. We're going to

have to get other food sources.

So I'm starting to make a boat.

What do you think of that?

Man, I'm getting exhausted just doing this with no food. I can just feel every

last ounce of energy being sucked out of me.

I really hope when there's two people here, we can work at things together and

start producing some results.

Hey! Yeah!

Yeah!

Jim's here!

Whoa!

Unbelievable.

Yeah!

You did it!

Together, we both feel like we can stay out here as long as we want if we can

find enough food. While Ted works on the boat, I'm starting to build a crab trap.

There's the front of it, and this here is the entrance where the crabs will

walk in and get trapped.

Jim's crab trap is revealing its head.

No!

Out here, it's very unpredictable and...

That's really challenging to deal with mentally and physically.

That's devastating, Jim.

I just puked. I can't stomach that seaweed.

Best survival item you have is the other person you're out there with. I'm going

to try to carry the ball here.

Yeah!

You got a fish?

Yeah!

We're ready for the maiden voyage of hope, the boat we've built.

We're really hoping this boat floats.

Yeah!

Starting to get worried about this boat not providing us with more fish.

We're not getting enough food out here. I feel like I'm being tortured, you

know? It's a slow starve is what's happening to us. I'm going to set a trot

line. One, two, three.

Oh!

Oh, dude.

The hook's embedded in my finger.

Dude, I tried to tell you. It's okay, man. Shut up.

Just being together with the same person day in and day out can really be wearing

on any relationship.

Such a depressed case, bud. Like, cheer up. Take your rod out of the boat

already. Got a four-inch. I don't want to.

Kill myself doing that, man.

I'm doing the heavy lifting right now and Jim isn't contributing.

The limpets are out like crazy.

We have like at least four pots of food here.

We're basically starving to death and one of the risks is that we get in an

argument that we can't come back from.

I forage way more than you.

And you always are complaining and don't want to do it. You're the big hero.

I'm not the hero. I'm just saying, dude.

You want to win $500,000?

You can't sit on your ass and not get food.

Man, that's it for me.

I had some really intense abdominal pain.

I've kind of been out of commission.

Jim's definitely been carrying a little extra weight the last couple days.

Ted and I get in a lot of fights out here.

But we understand you have to just forget about it and focus on the job at

hand, which is being the last guy to stay out there.

Really hoping this subsides.

It's the kind of thing that just will push you over the edge, to be quite

honest with you.

We're telling ourselves we want to keep pushing. We want to make 80 and then 90

days. But, you know, Ted's also saying that, listen, man, I might have to tap

out soon.

i told him today if you really need to tap out we can do it

Oh, boy, oh, boy.

One of these days, one of these days, this will be over.

It could happen any day.

And every day is one day closer. Every day is one day closer.

Ten weeks out here on the island.

That's insane.

My stomach hurts so much.

We're hungry, we're worn out, we're physically weak.

And I've been noticing, I'm getting these weird black spots on my toes, like

all purple.

That's disgusting.

And I'm just wondering if this is frostbite.

It could be.

But, you know, we just can't give up at this point.

Yeah, over two months of our life have gone into this.

Here we go.

This is it.

Yeah!

Awesome! So happy to be here, but very nervous, too.

This rainbow is incredible.

I think that's good luck.

My dad's off in that direction. I got to go find him. It's just me and the island

now. Coming out here, I had a two-fold goal.

to spend time with my son and put my skills and knowledge to the ultimate

test holy i caught a fish i knew the train was going to be rough but honestly

cameras just they can't capture it you're climbing over trees constantly

you're going over you're going under this forest just tears you up it is

unforgiving oh my god there are bears all over the

place here there's some poop do that just full of berries i saw something

moving down there i don't know how far i have to go i don't know how many days

it's expected to take i'm just out here getting beat to death every day day in

day out just trying to cover ground just trying to meet up with my dad i've had

virtually nothing to eat today i'm getting so weak i can barely do anything

man cannot live on limpets alone man i wish i knew when sam was going to get

here

Oh, I can't wait to drop this pack and be done with it.

Hello, staff!

Dad!

No way.

Oh, my God, Sam.

Holy cow.

Oh, Sam.

Oh, my God.

Holy cow.

Sam made it. Now that Sam and I are together, I think we're going to be out

there a long time.

Being successful fishing out here is going to be the difference between

staying and going home. Whoa!

Sam! No way!

Yes!

This is how we're going to win. Hey!

What we're doing right here, this is how we're going to win. This is going to

carry us right through to the end.

Yes! This is an incredibly unique opportunity, spending a lot of time with

my son.

Here you can see the tide, and that's the back wall of our shelter right

there. There'll come a day when he'll get married, have children, maybe settle

down in a different part of the country.

And then who knows how often we'd be able to see him.

So we're headed off on our hike to the new potentially good fishing spot all

the way around the cove. I think both of us are just really getting tired, really

worn out. We didn't have any fish yesterday.

We had none the day before.

And it's really catching up with us.

Away! Oh, no!

I have not caught a single fish. It's so frustrating.

There is nothing easy about this. There's nothing staged about it. It's

amazing how low our energy levels are right now. At least mine. You're doing a

lot better than I am.

Huh? You're a lot older than I am.

Yeah. What the heck?

Maybe we caught them all.

I can see it in my dad's face.

He's really starting to feel it. He's a lot older than I am, and I'm really,

really worried about him.

Take five minutes.

You haven't even sat down five minutes, right?

You were talking about the 20-gauge wire.

I'm talking about the wire for the rock and 20 pounds on the end of that so

it'll break away.

That's all I was trying to say, damn it.

That's all I was trying to say.

When you're starving, when you haven't eaten, who knows what sort of...

demons come out in your personality at this point in the game you gotta i mean

you gotta do the bare minimum just to get by it's it's you know we're pooped

we're running out of energy you know we lose weight every day i'm frozen i'm

tired i'm wobbly my legs are weak being 61 and a half years old really

makes being out here a tougher challenge i don't know how much longer i can stay

here

How much can our bodies actually take?

I'm just skin and bones.

I don't have any more fat to lose.

And the way we're feeling right now and the way we're struggling, I just...

I just can't believe there's someone else that's still out here.

We're both just so exhausted, and I hope the sacrifice has been worth it. I'm

really starting to think that it wasn't. It's miserable with the constant daily

hunger pangs, and I'm just really wanting to get home. That draw of food

is just so powerful and strong.

No victory is worth permanent damage.

No. It'd be nice to win this, but there are other things more important.

We still have the rest of our lives

to go.

I don't want to win this, but regret it for the rest of my life. Right.

That's really what it comes down to.

Ted really wants to get home, and I don't blame him, considering the stomach

cramps and whatnot that he's had and the torture of being out here that really

just wants to make you tap out.

It's so incredibly hard out here right now, just the burning pain.

I just don't know if it's worth it. I don't know if winning is worth it

anymore. I just don't really know.

It's been a hell of an adventure.

Once-in-a-lifetime thing.

But, you know, like all good things, it's got to come to an end, right?

Basically, we just don't have any buffer left on our bodies, you know?

You know, we drink water, it goes right through us.

It's just a constant battle, dehydration.

Yeah, we're at our physical limit.

Can't go on.

To not win is definitely a disappointment.

You know, I would have loved to have won.

But you learn a lot from an experience like this. It teaches you about

yourself. It teaches you about what you're capable of.

We're leaving here better people than when we came here.

I've certainly bonded much more with my dad than I ever have.

And I can tell you that we're closer than we've ever been.

He's honestly the strongest man anybody could ever be fortunate enough to meet.

We gave it everything.

That's not something that many people can actually say.

Before we even came out here, you know, we made an agreement with each other

that no victory ever would be worth causing harm to ourselves that

could last the rest of our life.

Oh, now I'm a little sick.

Still feeling it?

Straight stomach acid.

No,

no, sit down.

Oh, I thought I was going to throw up.

Man, I'm pretty darn proud of you.

61 years old, 74 days.

Kicking butt.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I wouldn't have made it this long without you.

At this point, I can honestly say I don't think I could go another day.

We're leaving here with no regrets.

Yeah.

We did the best we could, right?

Yep.

We pushed ourselves to our physical limit.

We could not go any farther.

I don't feel defeated.

I'm so proud of what we've done.

I never dreamed I would be out here for 74 days.

I'd like to address those people who are getting up there in years and have

worked all their lives and now feel like it's just the next step in life to

just... Sit around and take it easy.

You know, if I could say, just get out there and challenge yourself.

Try something new.

Go to a national park and experience nature and see what is so beautiful in

the world around you.

From this whole experience, there are many things to be grateful for.

It's been a wonderful adventure.

I mean, it's been a test of my abilities and skills.

But...

The most important thing I've gained out of this is being able to spend that time

with Sam. I mean, that was the biggest prize of all.

This is the morning of day 75.

Oh, that was a bad idea.

The crew is coming to do med checks and some gear swaps.

And other than that, we're going to do the usual stuff.

We're going to forage and fish and eat.

And that's probably all we're going to do today.

That's all you can do anymore out here.

Being out here is just kind of like an horrific feeling of torture and just

getting through the day, you know, walking around.

You feel like you just finished a marathon and then you're so starving.

Even after you eat, you still feel weak, but at least that makes you feel better.

But you got to chop wood. You got to light a fire. It's like just taking off

your sweater. This is like, oh, like exhausting.

To just put your boots on is exhausting.

I'm actually amazed with how far I can...

Being

out here

It's just kind of like an horrific feeling of torture.

It's like just taking off your sweater. It's like, oh, like exhausting.

To just put your boots on is exhausting.

I'm actually amazed with how far I can really push.

I don't believe we actually did it.

Oh, my God.

You did it.

We did it.

Is this really happening?

Oh, my God. You too, Ted.

Ted,

get over here. I love you.

So, so lucky to have you as my brother, Ted.

You're my hero, Chad.

You're my hero, man.

Yes!

You want to see what won us this show?

Oh, Chad.

These. Oh, my. Those are disgusting. But if it wasn't for these, there's just no

way.

This here is all the days that we've been out here.

There's only 74, so maybe you guys want to put a 75 saw cut in the tree for us.

Together. Yes.

75, guys.

It was close.

Whoever the last group was, you're a couple of tough bastards.

To win the money feels freaking amazing.

I can't believe it actually happened.

It's given me peace of mind, a clear future, way less stress.

It's such an awesome feeling.

I'm incredibly grateful for my brother, Ted.

Here's a guy that goes out in the hammering rain every single day, exerts

himself so intensely to bring food back home. It's just unbelievable.

What we went through, how we helped each other, how when one was down, the other

picked up, how we got through the rough times.

That's what makes this experience so amazing.

I can thank Jim for us being here and for me getting to this point.

If it wasn't for Jim, we wouldn't have won.

I guess what I've learned most about myself out here is that I just have more

than I thought I had to give.

It's the things that are the hardest, that are the most challenging to

achieve, that are the most satisfying and rewarding.

It's not the things that are easy to do because anybody can do those things.

If I can push myself to this extreme, what else is going to be this hard?

What is impossible?

It just gives me the level of confidence that whatever I put my mind to, I can

do.

If we can, as people, learn to respect nature as much or more than we respect

ourselves, then we can finally come to some sort of a balance that is going to

keep us alive long term.

If you look up at the stars at night, you realize that we're just floating out

here on a big rock, and everything that's here is actually in this together

as one.