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Welcome to Alone, Tales from the Island. I'm your host, Kevin Burkhart. This

season, the participants on Alone returned to Vancouver Island, but there

was a twist.

Teams of two were separated and dropped off with one family member having to

hike through some of the most treacherous terrain in the world to find

their partner.

This was a true test of skills, perseverance, and teamwork.

You're alive!

Tonight, we're going to hear from our top three teams, learn more about the

journeys, and find out what it really takes to survive Vancouver Island.

Before we bring out our first pair, let's take a look at what season four

participants had to go through.

Here we go.

This is the roughest forest in the world.

I just messed my ankle up. I don't think that he moves.

Where is my husband?

I'm sure she's worried.

Something going on with Logan. What happened, though? Did I really just

sound... One person goes down, team goes down.

Is Shannon okay?

We have to extract him. We have to extract you now as well.

There's no question a journey like this changes you forever.

Dad!

Holy cow, Sam.

You're killing the old man.

There's a huge storm rolling in. It's like a hurricane.

Brooke has dropped so much weight, she's getting to a dangerous place.

I'm just skin and bones.

It'd be so easy to just press that button and go home.

Tonight, we'll be talking with the three teams that lasted the longest and find

out how their relationships either helped or hurt their experience out

there. There's a lot to discuss and plenty of footage you haven't seen. And

today, we're bringing it all to you. First up, we've got Brooke and Dave, the

Whipples. It's great to see you guys. Thank you so much. And congratulations,

obviously. You did some incredible things out there. You were there for 49

days, and we're going to talk about all of that. But it takes a toll, right? And

we have some picture evidence exactly of what it is, some before and after photos

of you. you guys and the start of your journey and after the journey guys are

looking great and then obviously as things go on you've probably had better

days you don't realize when you're out there you're looking into that camera

viewfinder every day but you're not seeing a truth i guess yeah crazy so

there's some decisions that have to be made right when you start who's going to

hike for instance how did you come up with the decision how did you talk about

who was going to take on that project

Well, you know, I love to hike, so I thought, hey, I'll be the hiker.

And then we learned how involved it was going to be, how much weight that pack

was actually going to be, and I tossed it right to him.

So what was in the pack that made it so heavy?

There was a bag of camera batteries that was probably 30 pounds, and then a big

camera, and then a big slating bag, a tarp, all this safety gear, you know,

like a beacon in case you break your leg and somebody's got to find you. So there

was a lot of stuff.

Brooke, now what's your strategy to kind of set up camp? You had said a couple

times on this show that you wanted Dave to be comfortable.

All I can imagine is you have this incredible journey that is just going to

crush you and kill you, and I needed to feel like, Okay, lay down and take a

break. Like, everything's here.

Just relax.

And so that was really just what I was, that was my goal. So he'd have a place

to come and get to just relax for a few days. Thank you for that.

All right, guys, let's take a look at your amazing journey here.

That's it.

I'm alone.

Dave and I coming in this together as a husband and wife, I think we completely

have an advantage because at the end of this challenge, we still have to live

with each other.

I yelled for Brooke, and she yelled back.

I'm so happy to see you.

This is our hobbit hole.

Oh, man, this is awesome.

Brooke built a good shelter, but we need something better suited for the weather.

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

The energy, the pounds we had to lose building this cabin when it took a toll.

So weak.

Like an old lady.

No offense to old ladies.

Mommy, can I watch a guy untangle the rope?

It's fun to watch.

He's got a rope and he twists it and twists it and he makes three ropes.

Son, I don't want to tell you this, but that show's dumb.

It's not what I hoped for.

I don't know what we're going to do if we can't get more food.

The charm of this place is gone.

What do you do?

Brooke has dropped so much weight, she's getting to a dangerous place.

All the fun's all gone.

Every bit of fun is gone.

This is grade A miserable right now.

You guys were the only married couple out there. How did that help you guys?

We don't fight, so it's... If you were out there with your brother, you might

see where you'd get cross-wired or, you know, you're out there with your dad or

something like that. But, you know, we live together all the time, so we came

into that not having to adjust.

The wildlife is obviously another part of this. What is the reaction when you

see a wolf? You know, I mean, and you had some pretty close.

I was so excited. I'm like, yes!

I get to film this wolf and just take it all in.

It was awesome.

He sees me.

He's coming to me.

Hey. Shoot.

Please keep going.

Yay, I have eagles for neighbors.

Wolves are howling.

They're like, that's not one of ours.

I want to make an announcement to all the mountain lions out here.

I don't like funny business.

I don't like to be stalked.

So you're going to throw me a surprise?

You're going to have to throw out the leopard eyes.

That's right.

Leopard eyes.

Look at the size of that thing.

That big giant spider was crawling on me. You shall not live in my house.

I'm going to go see if I can see its tracks.

Oh, wow.

Holy cow.

He was a big guy.

You were so calm, though. I mean, any wolves come near the shelter. Not that I

know of.

If you saw them that close, would your approach change? Because you seem

totally at peace with it. You know, they just seemed curious. I think they were

just checking out who is on their beach because it was clearly their beach, not

mine. Did you see any on your hike, Dave?

No, I couldn't see from me to you half the time. That's also true. My wildlife

encounters were stuff crashing through the salal that were 20, 30 feet away and

completely, you couldn't see anything.

Well, so far we've learned about Brooke and Dave's strategy and what it takes to

survive as a team in Vancouver Island. But we have so much more to dive into

and some more never-before-seen footage to show you. Also coming up after the

break, we'll have a look at some of Brooke and Dave's creations, including

what may be the most impressive shelter built in a loan's history.

And later, we'll show you how one of the team's regular tap-outs turned into an

emergency extraction.

I want to go home and make an omelet, the world's biggest omelet, and crawl

inside of it.

And I'll just spend my days fishing for green peppers and chunks of ham. Can't

get donuts out of my mind. I'm not like a donut freak or anything, but I am now.

Bring me a box of donuts, and I'll pile drive them right in the sack. They're

going to get it.

You guys didn't think about food at all, did you? No, no.

You know, one day you're like, burger, man, I'd love a burger.

Hamburger would be so good. And then you obsess on hamburgers for like a week,

and then something changes in your body, and you're like...

Well, an omelet all sounds actually really, really good, especially when

you're out there and can't have any of it, that's for sure.

Hey, welcome back to Alone, Tales from the Island. I'm Kevin Burkhardt, here

with Brooke and Dave Whipple of season four of Alone.

And one of the highlights, guys, for you was watching you create this

unbelievable shelter.

I mean, I think maybe the best in Alone history.

So I want to know what went into it, how hard it was, all of that. But first, I

want to look at the process with you.

I don't want to be in a tent.

I want to be in something serious.

The mental benefit of being inside four walls is huge. This upgrade is a calorie

risk. We're just going to have to take our time on it. This is totally what I

have in mind.

You can see that that hoop holds that roof right up.

This keeps the rain from pooling.

And the door does one of these.

To be inside, maybe not have any drafts to worry about.

That sounds pretty darn good.

So it's craft night at the Whipple's. I've been beach combing all these

shells. I'm going to hang this on our mantel.

We have a beautiful little cabin.

Not too shabby.

That is cool, cool beans.

Our cabin.

So Dave, let's start here.

How did you determine that you were going to build something this elaborate?

Well, we've homesteaded three different properties in Alaska, so it's kind of

the thing we do. We buy a piece of land and we start building on it. In our

estimation, you know, we were going to burn X amount of calories either

fighting the wind, sleeping cold under an open shelter, or we're going to

expend those calories to have a shelter that eliminated the weather as an issue.

Any little slices of home that really...

You enjoyed, you know, being in there. Besides, obviously, it helped you

physically. We had just lots of great conversations.

You know, talking and just being together and processing the situation

together was a real gift.

In those conversations you talked about, how many times did tapping out come up?

We didn't discuss tapping at all. No. Until the very, very, like when my tank

was empty.

We had to broach the subject. Right.

So, Brooke, obviously, the last few days, you were kind of running on fumes.

We saw that. Why don't we go back and take a look at what it was like for you

your last few hours on Vancouver Island?

Sure hope we have some luck this morning.

It's been pretty bad lately.

Have you even had a nibble? Nope. You're catching fish. You're doing well. And

then for over a week, nothing.

You're starting to really get shaky. Brooke is very weak.

Biggest thing for me is disappointing him. He's capable of a little bit more

suffering.

There's not a part of me that wants to give up.

How realistic is it to expect another 10 days, another two weeks on

nothing?

Yeah.

It'd be nice to not be hungry.

Can you guys come pick us up? I think we've had enough.

I didn't think I'd ever do that.

Man, it sucks to give up. I hate giving up.

We put it all out there.

We gave it our all mentally, physically, emotionally, and we're done.

It's a good feeling.

Food, heat, chocolate. Family.

Pets.

More food.

As a husband, watching your wife deteriorate is extremely disturbing.

I feel like I'm being shrink-wrapped from the inside.

Like, there's this gravity pull on your organs and your stomach, and it's tough

because there's nothing you can do about it. We came out here from the

standpoint, like, we're just going to set up shop and roll with it, and I

think we did it. I think we did it 100%. This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and

to carry that with you with your spouse is really special. You know, if this

didn't pull us apart, nothing will.

and we still really like each other and have come out the other side the same

people in love as we went in so brooke do you describe the feeling of of your

hunger as being shrink-wrapped from the inside the starvation most people can't

comprehend that explain what it feels like the physicality of it is actually

like your body is consuming itself you know and then there's just the

overwhelming lack of energy and motivation that goes along with that as

your body is just starting to consume itself it was striking to go through

that I went into this whole experience fat so I had another X amount

of days left and just because I was in much worse shape than she was and she

was to the point where

You know, it was getting scary. She wasn't feeling right anymore.

Not just hungry, but she wasn't feeling good or feeling right.

And we just got to the kind of the end of our rope out there.

It's so awesome to be able to share your story a little bit deeper and to hear

everything. You guys did an amazing job. So congrats on the season. Thank you.

Great, great stuff.

We have to take a quick break, but when we return, lots more never-before-seen

footage of our amazing participants' time out on the island. Coming up, we'll

be talking with the father and son team whose regular tap-out took a sudden turn

for the worse.

Later, we'll meet the winners of Alone Season 4.

So stick around.

that knife is not sharp and i think one of the things i'm going to do is on the

wrong side of the camera oh yeah yeah i was on the wrong side of the camera

It took a little while, but you got there. That's all that matters. Just

give me a little bit of time. I'll get there. Oh, my goodness. Welcome back. We

have four of the top finishers of Alone Season 4 with us here. We're talking

about their amazing time out on Vancouver Island.

We'll have some more never-before-seen footage to show you soon. But first, we

say hello to Pete and Sam Brockdorf who are here. And, guys, your journey was

amazing. And when you're out there for as long as you were, it takes a toll. So

why don't we take a look at the before.

and after photos and there is before and now we fast forward to the after wow

74 days you were out there.

Wow. Oh, my God. You lost a combined 115 pounds.

So what do you think about that, Pete? Incredible. I mean, we lost our combined

weight loss was enough to make a whole other person.

You know, you said at the very beginning when we first met you that the most

important thing was getting to spend time with your son. How did that go for

you? That was incredible.

Being able to do this adventure with him was just a dream come true.

Well, you guys had a really incredible journey, and we're just starting to

scratch the surface, so why don't we kind of recap and watch your adventure

here?

Yeah!

Awesome!

Coming out here, the most important goal is to spend time with my son.

It could bring us really close together.

It could drive a wedge between us.

I knew the terrain was going to be rough, but honestly, cameras just, they

can't capture it.

Oh, my God, Sam.

Holy cow. Oh, my God.

Oh, Sam.

Oh, my God.

Oh, baby.

Oh, yeah.

Whoa.

Oh, way.

Oh, no.

No way. No, there goes my first fish.

Every fish we've eaten out here has been my dad. I have not caught a single fish.

Got another one, Sam.

At least we're not going to go hungry.

Holy cow, it's so darn cold out here. Yes, it is.

But we've got to keep fishing. When you're starving, demons come out in your

personality. That's all I was trying to say, damn it. I know, and you're raising

your voice and getting toned. Sam, Sam, Sam.

Whatever.

This whole challenge, it's about a slow descent into starvation.

Both of us have lost an awful lot of weight.

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

soon. It's got to.

So let's start from the beginning.

The strategy. Pete, take us through what you guys talked about before you even

got there.

So initially, our plan was to build a temporary shelter.

We also needed to look around for what sort of foods we might be able to use,

what sort of berries might still be available.

Turns out there were not very many.

We got four. We got four berries. We got four hunk of berries. Oh, four in 74

days. That's totally sustainable.

The hiking was, you know, you said it on camera, the camera doesn't capture.

how hard it is so how hard was it you could fall and not even hit the ground

it will catch you and you have to get through this stuff you know so half the

time you're literally just unweaving the branches trying to get through it were

you worried about him sam's a tough guy i knew he'd make it through i knew he

wouldn't give up i knew he wouldn't give up i mean even if when he finally met up

with me if he was on his hands and knees crawling he'd still be there he signed

up to spend time in the woods with my dad not get you know beat to death

running through the woods. My mind hadn't even really started yet until I

actually caught up with him. From a father's standpoint, I mean, you're

always a provider, right? You're always a nurturer. Did this kind of heighten

that sense even more out in the woods?

I came to the realization that, you know, Sam is his own man now, and

sometimes the roles reverse, the teacher-student.

It reverses. That's really interesting.

So here's the situation.

You are a very experienced fisherman.

Did you catch one?

Because the show, I mean, we see Dad catching them all.

I caught a couple fish.

Not just a couple. I think it was five total.

I think five fish, yeah. There were times we were literally shoulder to

shoulder fishing out of the same hole.

And, you know, he'd be pulling the fish in, and it was just like, come on,

what's going on here?

I rigged my rod exactly like his, you know. But, yes, it does get fun. So,

obviously, things come up, as you're talking, and luck's part of it, right? I

mean, you had to overcome some things, Pete, that were tough. Why don't we go

through all the things you had to overcome to stay out there for so long?

Bleeding quite a bit.

Damn. Damn it.

Just started getting these crazy spasms.

I'm trying just to keep the acid from coming up.

It hurts so bad.

It's like I've been stabbed.

We just stay cold all the time. And I've been noticing, I'm getting these weird

black spots on my toes.

My toes are swollen.

And I'm just wondering if this is frostbite.

You know, Pete, anyone who's had any kind of heartburn issues probably can't

even understand what you're dealing with there. I mean, that had to be brutal.

Tell me what it felt like.

I wound up almost, I think, straining the valve, like, between the esophagus

and the stomach. I knew I needed to drink some water and eat some food.

We didn't have a whole lot of either.

What exactly were those black spots on your feet? It actually turns out it

was...

beginning frostbite, you know, all of my toes are still tingling, but getting

better all the time.

So four seasons of Alone, and you are the oldest survivalist to take part in

the show. Is there a sense of pride for you? I do feel proud to be the oldest

one that's ever done it, although I don't...

Feel old except in that that after picture.

I think you got to agree I look like I must be about a hundred years old there.

That's pretty scary Nobody looks good in the after picture It was pretty awful.

You know the first time I took a shower after leaving there I looked in the

mirror and I looked like a bag of bones it was I mean my wrinkles had wrinkles,

you know, and just It was scary stuff All right, coming up, we have lots more

to talk about with Pete and Sam and their emergency extraction, and more

never-before-seen footage as well. Later, we'll be talking to the winners

of Alone Season 4, and we'll find out just what it takes to be the last one

standing. Stick around.

I didn't realize he snores as much as he does, and it's absolutely

horrendous, you know.

It's not a normal snore. It's very erratic. Sometimes it sounds like he's

choking and dying, and it does a great job of waking you up.

My son yells at me for snoring.

I had to last night. It was like you were deaf last night.

I know.

That's what I do.

I snore.

Oh, well.

Don't we all, right?

Don't we all?

Hey, welcome back to Alone, Tales from the Island. We're talking with the cast

of season four about some of the strategies that helped them stay out

there for so long and how having a partner may have made some things easier

and some things harder at times. You know, Pete, we saw a lot of love in this

relationship, but what were the biggest challenges that came up?

I think probably our biggest challenge was that piece of land that your aunt

has to provide for two people instead of just one.

You only had the one little argument that we saw on camera. Sam was pretty

calm. You were pretty chill about the whole thing. It seemed like you moved

on. Yeah.

It doesn't matter what the situation is. And, you know, the worse the situation,

the more important it is to stay calm. Because getting yourself worked up, it

doesn't help anything.

It just, then you wind up making dumb decisions, too. And it's just not, it's,

always stay calm. So you're out there for a long time.

74 days.

The reason, what drives you, Sam?

What is the motivation to keep going?

You know, a big part is I just, I wanted to see how far we could actually go. You

know, that was a big thing.

Something I thought about a lot, you know, we were allowed to bring a

personal photo out there. Right. And so, you know, you could bring really

anything you want, and rather than bringing something I would really miss.

I actually brought, this is the first speeding ticket, first and only speeding

ticket I've ever gotten in my life.

And it wasn't even from a police officer, it was from a camera.

And that's the kind of thing, you know, I think about that and I wonder if I

actually even want to go home.

You know, it kind of keeps me driven.

I don't have to worry about that out in the woods. There's no cameras watching.

Well, actually, there were cameras. There were cameras everywhere. There

were cameras watching you.

Not too much speeding around, though. Yeah, no speeding. No chance to get a

ticket.

Pete, how about for you? What was the motivator to keep going when it got so

difficult? Part of the way through, I kind of latched on to the idea of if we

win, maybe I'd use some of the money to buy an aluminum boat

with just a small outboard.

to go crabbing. That was a real motivator. The difficulty in not knowing

what the other people are doing. So you know you're out there for an exorbitant

amount of time, and you know it's got to be getting close for them, too.

How hard is that, knowing that, man, they've got to be in the same situation,

but not knowing exactly when they're going to tap? Thinking about the other

people, we looked at it in the sense that, obviously, there's a competition

with other people.

But the actual competition going on is just with yourself.

Nothing you're doing is affecting anything they're doing.

And there were times when we were laying there just, you know, just starving,

just feeling horrible and sick and, like, couldn't even move. And it's like,

what are these other people doing? How is there anybody else here?

You know, how is this still going on? Go home. Are you crazy?

But, you know, obviously it's unavoidable. Of course you're going to

think about it. But it didn't.

in no way would it help our situation.

So we tried, you know, we just really tried to focus on what we were doing,

keep our thing going.

Well, you kept it going for an extremely long amount of time. And finally,

though, conditions got too tough, you did have to tap out. So why don't we

look at the events that led to you guys finally leaving the island?

We're just getting to the point where we just get lightheaded even when we're

sitting down.

And my dad's having heartburn problems.

We've reached the end.

We did as much as we could, and...

It's something to be proud of. Mm-hmm.

Did darn good.

I cannot say how proud I am of my dad.

I mean, I couldn't have made it 74 days out here without him.

My

dad's the strongest

guy that anybody will ever be fortunate enough to meet.

I'd like to keep going.

But we pushed it as hard as we can.

Pete, take us through that moment when the crew got there.

That was a really difficult time, obviously.

We had gone about as far as we should go.

Not as far as we'd like to go.

Well,

I don't know if I'd like to still be out there, but I would have liked to have

gone longer.

I was dehydrated, starving.

I had this stomach issue. I just, you know, that eventually cleared up. It was

painful just to eat. Just swallowing small things hurt.

Taking a drink of water hurt.

Also, the dehydration became a big part of it. Because saying you're dehydrated

on Vancouver Island doesn't really make sense. But it happened.

You know, it was like there was no tissue to actually retain the moisture.

It was bizarre.

You did say in that piece that, you know, which I thought was pretty cool.

You're so proud.

you're so proud of your dad why well because not many people could push it

quite like that you know i mean there's nothing other than you got to be proud

about what we did out there you know and i don't think i could have chosen a

better partner to do it with you know it's a combination of a lot of i mean

most most what i know i learned from them combine that with you know we're

both pretty stubborn and uh you know good and bad it just it worked out

really well you know i'm really Really, really proud of what we did out there.

Is this what you wanted, Pete, out of this? I mean, obviously you want to win,

but this relationship, the time, the bonding?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I gained everything from this experience.

Wow. That is fantastic.

Pete and Sam, great stuff, and what an adventure they had. And after this

break, we'll get more reactions and insight from the cast, plus more never

-before-seen footage coming right up. How about a sit-down with the Baird

brothers, the winners of season four?

Stick around.

Yo, it's Halloween today. Yeah, I know.

Well,

it's

nighttime, everybody.

Night, everybody.

That's what we're in for as we welcome you back to Alone, Tales from the

Island. We're here with the winners of season four, Jim and Ted Bear, the

winners. Yeah!

Well, congrats, guys. I mean, amazing. How does it feel?

It feels awesome.

It's surreal.

I mean, you prepare for it, you build yourself up to it, you hope you can do

it, but to be honest with you, you don't really know if you got it in you until

you're out there and you leave everything on the line. And lucky for

us, you know, we had a little luck on our side and it worked out for us. Do

you believe this? Has it settled in, Jim?

Yeah, but every once in a while I think about it and I'm like, wow, we

actually... went on the show, got on the show, first of all, and then actually

managed to win.

You're out there for 75 days.

You guys lost an incredible amount of weight, so why don't we show the

audience exactly what you're doing with it. Before and after. Let's look at the

before picture first.

You're setting out on your adventure, right? The hair looks good, the

backwards hat, and now the after.

75 days!

So, Jim, you guys had a little different strategy than some of the other teams we

saw. Give me a feel before you even went out there. What was the talk? What was

your plan going into this? We actually didn't want to go in and invest a ton of

time right off the bat in making a really big shelter.

We wanted to get something that would make do, that would keep us dry and as

warm as possible, and then kind of focus on things that were going to basically

put food on the table. There's so much to get to with you guys. I have a lot of

questions here. But first, let's have a little recap.

re-watch your journey on Vancouver Island.

Oh, my Lord.

It's tough walking through this stuff.

I'm guessing Ted is somewhere on the coast below.

The best survival item you have is the other person you're out there with.

Yeah!

You did it!

We're building a boat that is going to give us the freedom to be able to find

more food. It floats!

Yeah!

Jim's Crop Trap is revealing its head.

No!

Nothing. I'd hang the bait bag if you can.

Dude, I'm not hanging it. Ted really made an art form of annoying the out of

me.

Why don't you take it easy, man? 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.

We're really going to have to dig deep here because we both want this so bad.

Oh, my God.

Look at that.

There's a lot there. You got to explain what those gunwale fish were.

I had never seen them, but they were a huge reason why you stayed alive.

The gunwale fish were... Rising eels. Yeah, they were our saving grace. And

they were just under these rocks, and you would turn over these boulders, and

there'd be nothing, and there'd be nothing, and then all of a sudden, you'd

get on some gunwale fish, and you'd just be like, oh, like stomping them. That

was me stomping that shot with a, oh, my God! And you'd be stomping on them,

stabbing all as many as you could, and you'd come back and you'd have a good

meal, you know? What do they taste like?

Like, really sour.

I mean, they're still not bad. It's still fish, right?

But it's not something you're going to find at a fine Italian dining

restaurant, okay? Let me tell you that right now. Like, it's kind of not the

yummiest, right?

So let's start with the boat, right?

I'm just curious, and I know you have great expertise there, but in the

history of this show, that hasn't gone that well. So what made you go that

route? We wanted to get to deeper water, and we thought it would put us on more

food. I mean, you know, in the back of your mind, you're like, let's get out

there and fill the boat. You know, let's say, whoop, whoop, fish, fish, fish.

Ted, we're going to fill the boat, buddy. Here we go. You know, we're going

to make a crab trap, and it would let us set the crab trap in deeper water. And

so that was the strategy behind it.

In hindsight, the boat was a success in the sense that it worked. It did. But we

didn't catch one fish from the boat.

So we get to watch the show and see the scope of everybody's shelter.

I mean, your shelter wasn't exactly...

It was terrible. It wasn't good. No, it was not good.

It was basically a tarp tent for myself and then work on it as time went for

when Jim would get there. Did you see the Whipple shelter by chance?

Yeah, we did and we were immediately very humbled.

Humbled, humbled, felt inferior and jealous.

You know, one of the things I realized is that different plans work for

different people, right? So something that might have worked for them might

not have worked for us. So we made something, we elevated it off the

ground, something to keep the rain out. But sometimes when that wind would come

in at a certain direction and it would just suck the heat right out of our

sleeping bags.

So what we ended up doing to compensate for that is every night we'd heat up

rocks in the fire and we'd stick them all in our sleeping bags and that would

keep our feet from just being... stone cold all night, and that kind of

compensated for our terrible shelter.

It did. It's a pretty good idea.

I think I thought of that, right, Ted? I think maybe you did. I think maybe you

did. Wait, are you giving him credit for that? He also managed to horribly burn

himself with those rocks. It wasn't my finest moment out there. And it turns

out we actually have a clip of that burn, so why don't we take a look?

I sterilized the scissors.

And I'm just cutting the top layer of skin off because once the blister pops,

infection will get under that layer of skin.

There's a little piece of skin.

Maybe we could save it for fishing with tomorrow.

Now I'm just going to take this antiseptic wipe, get all the bacteria

out of there.

I'm going to put this bandage, it's non-adherent, so it's not going to stick

to the wound and cause all kinds of nastiness.

All right, that's nasty.

You didn't use that piece of skin to fish, did you? No, we were actually

really hungry. We just ate that. Just kidding.

Even better. We'll be right back because we do have to take a short break. But

when we come back, we'll hear more from the winners of Alone Season 4.

They'll share with us some of the times they did not get along out on Vancouver

Island. There's branches everywhere, you idiot.

We'll take a closer look at that amazing moment when Jim and Ted found out they

won. Hi!

or so.

Somebody came by the other day and told me the show was over.

And I said, who told you that?

Welcome back to Alone, Tales from the Island. We're sitting here with the

winners of season four, Jim and Ted Bear, the winners.

Yeah.

All right, so we know you guys had some fun, but your brothers, brotherly love,

right, you get into arguments. How bad did it get?

You know, at one point we might have like screen charged each other like a

couple of grizzly bears that backed down at the last second. They're just like,

I'm going to, no.

And then we wimped out. But it was definitely one of the mental challenges

of being out there with a team member and trying to overcome your

disagreements. It's pretty tough. Well, sibling rivalry was fun at times for us

to watch. Why don't we recap and look at some of your finer moments here.

Jim, this sucks.

It's going to be pretty tight with two people, man.

Two, like, little girls would be pretty good.

Now we only have one little girl, so... See over there? There's a branch in

there.

Right here? Yeah. That one? Right there? Dude, there's a branch right in front of

you. There's branches everywhere, you idiot.

Every time I lie this far, you've got to give me some four-hour

micromanagement lesson. If you haven't noticed it, I'm...

Better than you at it. The good thing about TED is that we can fight and then

we can get over it quickly.

Why are you getting so mad?

Because you're an ass.

Yeah.

No. Yeah.

No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah.

You guys never busted each other's chops at all. Like, the whole time.

Yeah, yeah.

Usually I was just always, please, thank you. Can I help you with that, dear

brother? That was a common one.

Right. All right, Jim, so was there ever a moment that it got bad enough that

you're like, you know what, money's not worth it, let's just get out of here and

get away from each other? You know, at times it's just like, it's almost

embarrassing because we're just two grown men and we're just acting like

complete juvenile babies about to beat the living piss out of each other.

There's something about me and Ted when we...

can actually just sort of crap on each other. And it really actually helps in

the long run because we don't really bottle too much up. You know, if we're

pissed, you know, it might end with like a kick or a punch or, you know, a verbal

barrage of insult.

But then after that, it's like, okay, it's over. And we decide that do we want

to be angry and pissed the whole time or should we just try to get over this and

move on? And I think that helps. Yeah, well, I mean, that's the fun. Obviously,

this was the fun part, but you guys did so much.

to win and got through it amazingly for as long as you're on the island so why

don't we look at the great moment when you actually found out that you won

season four of alone

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

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 really push.

We did it.

We did it. Ted, get over here. I love you.

I love you, buddy.

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

Man, that was great. I mean, so just, Jim, turn around. Heather and Tori are

there. And what did you feel?

Totally felt at that time, like...

Ted was just my hero and that we'd done this together and I was just blown away.

It was like the best feeling in the entire world. Wow. Ted? Yeah, it was

surreal. When it all just happened and they're like, you did it, it was just,

it was amazing because it's like you've put so much on yourself, so much mental

and physical strain, and you're just holding on by a freaking twig out there

that, you know, that's just keeping you going. And then it finally happened and

it's just an emotional rush.

So you win, you win half a million bucks.

What are you going to do with the money?

Oh, man, I've got a lot of things I want to do. I want to hopefully get married

in the next year. Shh, don't tell anyone yet.

And I want to do some traveling.

The money, I'm not going to lie, it wasn't all about the money, but it's a

big part of it. It's driving. You know that can change your life.

And actually, I am getting married. Not long after I got off the show, I

proposed to my longtime girlfriend, Tori, who's an amazing and supportive

person. I looked at her picture every single day.

I'm going to get married and we're going to buy a place together.

So I'm interested to know, this was the first year of a loan with the team

feature. What was the biggest advantage to help you win and what kind of advice

would you give to others if they were to do this format?

I would personally say that you've got to practice the skills in the bush, bow

drills, that kind of stuff, lighting fires.

All of that is very important.

But just like an athlete needs to physically train, you need to mentally

train your body. And the only way you can do it is to get real experience in

very tough situations.

Suffering. That's what people... The one survival skill you should practice more

is just being able to suffer.

It's not about being able to flint and nap and all that's really cool, but I

think... I think that's the one thing that gets overlooked so much in the

survival and bushcraft skills world is what you really should be practicing is

just putting yourself through hell a little bit at a time.

Whipples, how about you? What would be your feel of the team in this season of

Alone? I think the team was easier and harder.

Shelter and fire, half as hard. Food, twice as hard. Pete and Sam, you guys

feeling the same types of things? A little suffering is very humanizing.

It's good for the spirit.

Did it change you guys? I mean, you come away with winners. Did it change you

guys at all, your relationship?

I feel it changed our relationship because it makes me... Just, I don't

know, just spending that time with Ted out there just makes you have a stronger

connection for sure and made me realize a lot of things that I've been taking

for granted are a lot more important to me than I'd been telling myself. That's

interesting. Well, as a parting gift, we have a tray full of gunwale fish. It's

on the way out, so be sure to take that.

Seriously, you guys have all been amazing. I mean, it's so inspirational,

so amazing what you're able to do, and it was fun watching and even more fun

hearing your stories today. So congrats to you all. The participants from season

five gearing up to head out soon. In fact, you may even recognize some of

them. So here now, a sneak peek of the newest chapter of Alone happening in a

brand new location.

This is the ultimate challenge.

This is our second chance to do this.

I really feel like I have unfinished business. If I could do it again, I know

I could do better.

We're all going to be on this new foreign land.

It's going to get nasty.

$500,000 can help my family out, make things better for us.

It's getting tougher and tougher as the days go by. Believe me, I'll keep

fighting.