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I'm nervous... for the thorns that are out here.
In my manhood.
I'm feeling super, super anxious,
just super excited to take this challenge on.
I've made a lot of questionable choices
in my life, for sure.
This is not one of them.
It may seem so to my family and friends,
but I'm gonna prove out here
what a badass survivalist I am.
My name is Sarah and I am an alcoholic.
I've been sober almost five years.
And digging myself out of that place
has prepared me to succeed in this challenge.
I'm in the cradle of life.
This is where... This...
You know, this is where life began
and this is where my story's gonna begin.
Well, I've had some considerable struggles
in my life, in my teenage years.
I got into drugs and alcohol,
and this challenge is probably the biggest opportunity
I've ever had to prove to myself
that none of that stuff that's from my past
determines who I'm gonna be in my future.
And I'm ready to make my family proud of me.
Africa, I'm gonna rule you.
Twenty-one days, here I go!
Woo!
I'm just not sure
anybody can survive here for 21 days.
Oh, my God.
Yeah!
Two strangers.
Ha! Run, go, go, go, go.
Oh, God.
No food.
Whoa!
No water.
Twenty-one days.
Don't tap.
Die first.
Naked and Afraid.
All right. This looks like the end of my road.
I'm totally fine with being around
another naked human, male or female.
However, talking to my partner about this,
that he's not fond of me
cuddling with another partner, uh, naked,
and we compromised that if
we were going to cuddle for body warmth,
I would be the big spoon.
Here I go.
All right. Here I am.
Naked and Afraidin Africa.
I was born this way
and hopefully, I don't die this way.
I guess this is my stop.
I am a bit of an exhibitionist.
I enjoy being in my natural state outdoors.
Africa, here I come.
I had been preparing for this for so long,
the moment is here.
I love bushcraft, I'm a huge crafter.
I have obtained my skills, my outdoor skills,
by taking myself out into the woods,
so I can go out into the bush
and create just about anything that I need to survive.
Shelter's complete.
Crawling the hole down there.
My son is my absolute world.
He means everything to me.
I've had some considerable struggles in my life
and I have not been very impressive as a father.
I've had a very hard time holding down a job,
keeping a place to live.
Being a good father means the world to me.
My dad was not a great one,
and I would say, it scarred me.
Completing this challenge
is my chance to prove to my son
that his dad can accomplish great things,
and that I'm not the disappointment
that I've shown him that I can be.
Overcoming hardships in his life
has prepared Sam for this challenge.
But his history of letting himself and others down
could impact his relationship with a partner.
Sam begins with a Primitive Survival Rating,
or PSR, of 5.9.
As a recovering alcoholic,
I got into camping, fishing, being outdoors,
learning survival skills outside.
Being sober was the hardest anguishing thing
that I've been through.
But here I am today, like, a grateful, sober mom.
I have a beautiful incredible, almost 4-year-old.
She's the coolest little creature
that I've ever seen in my life.
Okay. Winner, winner, turkey dinner.
Winner, winner, turkey dinner.
Woo!
Right in the heart.
Didn't think I was gonna get out of my addiction alive.
And I did.
I went to hell and I made it out.
And this is just another version of that.
It's another challenge.
And I'm gonna get through it.
Sarah is determined to succeed.
But her independent nature may work at odds
as she pairs up with a strident partner.
Sarah's initial PSR is set at 6.2.
I think I see, uh, a naked person walking at me.
Hey, partner.
There's my partner.
Nice to finally meet you.
-Nice to meet you, too. Sarah. -Sam.
-Can I give you a hug? -Yeah, let's do it.
Thank you.
-For this. -You ready for this?
I ready. You're crazy too, huh?
Crazy. Let's do it. I'm pumped.
All right. No quitting.
No quitting.
So where are our bags at?
I think it's all over there. You wanna go look?
Yeah. Go get 'em.
All right.
Oh, nice.
Let's see.
That probably yours. There's an item in there.
Oh, right, cool.
- Oh, yeah. - Nice.
- This is, uh... - Oh, wow.
a hand-forged knife that was made for this experience.
Yeah?
Yeah. What'd you bring?
This is from my, uh,
lovely 4-year-old daughter, Izzy Moon.
- Oh, awesome. - -She wrote "Izzy and mommy here."
Got a little rainbow.
In addition to their personal items,
Sarah and Sam have also been provided with a pot
and a fire starter.
So there's our light stuff right here.
- Nice. - Cool.
All right.
- We got a map. - Oh, we got a map.
I'm guessing that yellow arrow is us
because that's the big old tree right here.
Looks like we're gonna go that way,
past the ironwood tree right here.
And our water source is gonna be on our right.
So we're gonna head west out there to the water
and it looks like that's where we should probably
try to set up our camp.
-What do you think? -Southwest.
-Let's do it. -Let's go.
-Thank you, sir. -You're welcome.
All right. Let's do it.
Let's go.
For their challenge,
Sarah and Sam are entering the Chikomo Matombo region,
a searingly hot and humid wild land in South Africa.
They'll need to adapt quickly to a dense thorny woodland
that is one of the most dangerous on the continent.
Fighting to co-exist are packs of deadly lions
that work together to take down their prey.
Powerful leopards, whose excellent night vision,
turns them into nocturnal killers.
And aggressive Nile crocodiles who use a death roll
to hold victims underwater until they drown.
As Sarah and Sam make their way through the scrub land,
they'll also need to be on the lookout
for lethal puff adder snakes
that use large hinged fangs for deep venom penetration.
Now where are you from, Sam?
I am from Northern California. How about you?
Me, too.
- No way. - Shut up. Where?
Uh, Rohnert Park.
Oh, my God. We're neighbors.
Are you kidding me?
I'm in Santa... I'm from Santa Rosa.
- What? - Yeah, dude.
Oh, that's so rad.
So you said you have, uh, a 4-year-old?
I do.
I have a 13-year-old son.
He just turned 13 last month.
- Wow, congratulations. - Yeah.
And, uh, I am... I am in this challenge for him.
- Yeah? - That's what I'm doing for.
I feel like we have a lot of, uh,
common things going on here.
I also, um, am a recovering alcoholic,
almost five years, super proud of that.
I feel like we are just kindred spirits in that way,
I haven't had a drop of alcohol in 10 years.
Yeah.
- yeah, dude. - Team sober.
- Ten years. That's incredible. - Yeah.
I'm super stoked to meet Sam.
Sam also is a recovering alcoholic and I love that.
I love us.
We're crazy-ass people,
trying to do crazy-ass things sober,
and experience every moment of it.
And, you know, coming from that kind of background,
I know he's got a lust for life,
so, um, I think we have a really good chance
of making it out here.
We're both Northern California alcoholics.
- That is just blowing my mind. - Incredible.
Getting muggy.
Yeah, it is.
Whoa!
Look at these... elephant tramps.
Oh, my God.
Are those freaking huge?
That's huge.
That's gotta be.
Holy.
There's a lot of poop, dude. They're here.
There's a lot of poop right here.
That's kind of why I don't wanna get--
Like, there's a lot of fresh-looking poop.
Yeah.
It's kind of terrifying how fresh it is.
Oh.
We're not in, uh, yuppie wino Sonoma County anymore.
No, we are not in Sonoma County anymore.
Golly.
I'm sweating my ass off right now.
I already feel sunburned.
-Yeah, I hope we're getting... -This is, uh...
closer to water.
Oh, my goodness. Look to the right.
- Water! - Oh.
Oh, my God. Look at that.
That's a lot of water.
So, yeah, clearly
there's a lot of animal tracks through here,
and this, you know, isn't the place to stop at,
but I bet if we come up around,
just circle around the water edge over there,
maybe somewhere back up away from it,
we can find a space spot to build our boma.
Yeah.
- We can look tomorrow. - Yeah.
- Where the water goes to. - Yup.
I wanna see the whole thing.
Watch out for snakes.
Sarah, you find anything good over there?
Dude, honestly?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
It's right up on the water, though.
But it's covered in brush
and I don't see animal trails going down to the water.
Here I come.
It's a boma already.
Oh, dude.
We got plenty of tree coverage.
Should keep us out of the sun on the hot days.
I'm not seeing animal tracks, slides from crocs going in,
I don't... I don't see anything in this spot
that indicates that animals travel this pathway.
So let's make this happen.
- Yeah? Let's just do it? - I think so. I think so.
Yeah, that's good.
I am securing the waterfront along the pond
because crocodiles easily
could just crawl right up and get us,
so we're gonna make a fence,
and then, we're gonna secure it
with a bunch of thorny bushes in front and behind it.
That's a good wall.
Making a thorn wall here to keep any of the predators
or other large animals out of the way.
We made a good boma.
Yeah.
- this. - We can't get in.
No one wants to come in here.
I'm feeling really excited about our boma.
The next stop is gonna be water,
and it's gonna be a lifesaver right now
because we are thirsty.
It's not catching.
Why does this ass won't catch?
It is just moist.
The grass is deceptively moist.
It feels like it's dry on the outside,
but once it even takes the smallest amount of flame,
you can start feeling the moisture in it.
- Sam. - Yes?
We need some dried elephant.
Yeah.
-Oh, yes. -Tender turd bomb.
Tender turd bomb.
You put that in there?
That's right. Put that, like, on top of it, with the...stones, yeah.
Fluff it with all the other stuff.
Maybe we can make a little teepee on it.
All right.
- All right. - There we go, there we go.
There we go, there we go, there we go.
Here's some little this.
elephant poop.
- Yeah? - Yeah, that was the secret.
Elephant poop just took. I didn't even...
- Nice work, man. - Yeah. Thank you.
Teamwork.
My partner, Sarah, is rad.
I'm gonna go get you more firewood, you got it.
I think she's incredible.
I like her personality. She's got great energy.
You know, trying to figure out the fire,
we got to problem solved together.
I think that's super huge.
All right. We got our first sip of water here.
Drink water.
How's it taste?
- So good. -How'd you do it? Why'd you do it?
All right.
That is nourishing.
Tastes great.
It tastes like...
It tastes like survival.
First night in Africa naked,
our boma feels very secure.
Protected.
And you're gonna put the water on that, too.
Just heard a snake moving around
underneath our boma wall.
-A deadly puff adder. -Oh, my God, yeah.
- Did you see it? - Yeah.
Be careful
Okay. Wait. I hear him. Shh.
Oh he's right here. He's right here.
Oh, my God.
Where the did he go?
I can't see.
A puff adder is wandering around our shelter
and we are now pinned into our shelter
because we have to stay in here
for safety reasons at night,
you know, for all the other dangerous creatures
that are in Africa.
Oh, my God. He's coming.
-Hey. -Where is he? Did I get him?
No.
Dude, I had to have hurt him.
There he is.
Just here, you bastard.
You hear him?
It had to have dropped down.
You mean he's in the water, you mean?
Yeah, he's gone.
That was pretty terrifying.
Welcome to Africa.
So it's night one.
Sarah and I are still here.
Both of us alive and kicking.
The puff adder was spooky as heck,
but we did it, we ran it out.
Thank God.
I still think it's fair to stay alert
of any sort of animals that can come through our camp.
For sure.
I was thinking a lot tonight
about how much I miss Izzy bear, my little girl.
Give her a little message.
Hi.
Hi, Izzy Moon.
Mama's here.
What's up, Izzy?
We see the moon right there.
It's our first night at camp.
Almost gonna howl at the moon with my new friend, Sam, here.
Looks like you're getting some good materials
- together for your fish trap. - Yes.
If you need help with that,
I'm more than happy to help you.
But otherwise, I think I'm gonna take the bow
and go walk around and see what there is
while it's still cool.
Okay.
And hopefully find some food today.
I would love that.
Somebody better feed me before I get hangry.
Or the world will pay.
Hot.
It's only day two, but we could use some food.
I'm hoping to find some sort of game animal,
some mammal with some decent protein source,
kudu or something like that.
Warthog, anything really.
I'm planning to stay out of the water entirely
because there might be an adult crocodile
coming through here or already here.
And, uh, I don't want to deal with those,
if I don't have to.
I just came across these prints right here.
Fresh leopard tracks.
Looks like the danger's not just in the water,
it's on the land as well around our camp.
So, head on a swivel.
Today, my priority is definitely a fish trap.
When I got sober, I had to find things
to keep my mind and my hands busy,
and I had to stay away from other things.
So, it was the perfect opportunity to go out
and be alone in the woods.
Go sit by a river bank and making basket traps.
To make my fish basket,
I'm using cut down branches as sticks
for the structure of the basket as spokes.
And I'm also making cordage from the Mopane tree.
This will be good tying material to tie off.
And then, I was wrapping leaves
in and out of the spokes of the basket
to make a cone-like structure.
For bait, check this out.
It's a big ass larvae right here in the spider nest.
It looks like caterpillar.
See that guy?
It's a caterpillar gusher
and the fish won't be able to resist it.
All right.
Here's what it looks like.
Hopefully, they swim in the hole
and they can't get out.
Well, there's terrapins, I'm hoping,
that will crawl in here.
Think there are little crabs
that would maybe love to go in here,
and I hope there's catfish out there.
Yeah, it looks like muddy water that they would love.
Hopefully, it works.
I've been out here for hours.
I've seen no animals. Zero.
I'm thinking why I'm unsuccessful
in this area right here
is because I'm directly downwind from my fire,
and I can smell the smoke
blowing right through this area.
And if I were an animal, that would be a sign for me
to stay the away from here.
I'm really hungry.
Super hungry.
Super hungry.
We want a catfish in there, huh?
I want anything in there.
I want meat. I want meat in the fish trap.
Nothing.
I'm a big guy.
Usually into, you know, 4,000 to 6,000 calories a day.
So going in for three days without eating anything,
that's harder than I thought it was gonna be.
Eighteen more days.
You just have to keep trying.
I wanna keep working on fire.
All right.
Keeps going out.
Holy.
What?
Croc right in front of our house.
Where?
Did you see that dark spot right there?
Yes. Oh, my God.
Ah, look how close he is.
He's just chilling right outside of our boma.
- What a big croc. - Can you believe that?
We were in the water just earlier today.
-That's freaky. That's freaky. -Terrifying.
Got to keep an eye out.
These guys can show up anytime.
We just need to make sure
the perimeter's reinforced, like, on the water side.
I'm not gonna sleep tonight with that out there.
I can't sleep.
I'm like wide awake.
Yeah, I'm hearing some rustling behind me.
There's something out there.
Holy!
what the hell?
Oh, my God.
All right, so it's like 2:00 in the morning,
and Sarah and I just heard what sounds like a leopard.
100%.
Grunting in the same spot
I saw the fresh leopard tracks.
I wish I could show you something out there.
It is a little alarming
because leopards are... They're freaky.
They could sneak their way into our boma if they could.
It's not much more likely than a lion.
It did. The danger is real.
It's naked and it's afraid.
Holy crap.
What the hell?
Something large jumped into the water.
Oh, my God.
Freaking terrifying.
We went through a lot of wood last night.
Yeah, we went through everything.
Coming in hot with a giant piece of firewood.
Ooh, good one.
Last night was rough.
An apex predator right next to your boma,
it's terrifying.
I freaked out, and then,
I started to like get the panicky thoughts,
and I'm like, "Oh, my God. Is this worth it?"
Like, "What am I doing? What if I got bit?"
And I'm like thinking about like...
being a bad mom.
It's like, you might... You know?
It feels like a risk
that's, uh, maybe not worth it when that happens.
But I already decided I was gonna take the risk.
That sucker right there will...
That's enough for tonight.
I think that when Sarah made that comment
of Africa just got real, real last night,
I started to get worried
because of the fact that I'm a parent as well,
and that I'm here doing this whole experience for my son
to give him something to be proud of.
But if we hurt ourselves for this, is it worth it?
No. It would never be.
Off to greener pastures?
Just wanna go see what's... - out there. - Yeah.
You know, we're all gonna hit those walls.
I mean it's already day four.
We've had no food at all, but without any food,
we're not gonna make it 21 days.
There's no way.
So this morning, we decided to venture out
and kind of go a little bit further away
from our camp than we have
to see what else is out here.
- Super fresh. - Oh, yeah.
Yeah. The freshest scat we've seen.
The wettest.
I'm really hoping that there's huntable stuff out here.
If there's a chance that we might actually get
some real meat,
something really to eat, and that would...
that would just help carry us so many...
You know, so much further, so many more days.
Just keep our eyes out.
- That'd be great. - Let's go.
Put this on so we're ready.
Ssh.
That was exciting.
I'd love to get a goose.
They're all right there.
There's three ducks or geese
or whatever the hell they are.
Waterfowl in the water.
This is ridiculously good fortune.
-Get 'em, get 'em. -Ssh, ssh. It's not.
Here.
It's okay.
Sarah and I, we're in a starvation situation
and, you know, it's disappointing.
Going home. Defeated.
Thank you.
I want to be able to provide food
at a rate that would keep us sustained,
but I'm not getting it done.
All right, let's head back.
It's getting hot. I need water.
I'm out here to prove to the people in my life
that I'm more dependable than I have been in my past.
I'm really tired of letting people down.
We'll check the fish trap on the way.
All right.
Hold this one quick, I'm gonna put this in my bag.
Be really careful.
Oh.
What do you see?
The crocodile.
Sarah, get out of there right now.
Jesus. This freaking crocodile.
We hear them all night and all day
getting all my food.
Eating all the fish,
that we can't even check the fish trap.
So frustrating, dude.
How are you feeling right now, Sarah?
Uh, I'm feeling terrible.
Yeah? What's wrong? What's going on?
Sweaty.
Super tired and I'm frustrated.
Being out here in a situation like this,
do you ever wish that you could,
you know, drink functionally without it being a problem?
No.
Sometimes I wish that I could do that.
I dig that.
Yeah.
Last night sucked.
We were sitting there sulking, struggling.
It was brutal.
Part of getting sober is learning perseverance.
Every freaking day, waking up with a plan.
How am I gonna survive today?
But it's getting harder to get through the suck.
We got to check the fish trap.
We need sustenance, but scared of the crocodile.
Oh, my God.
Are they gonna like eat my legs
when I'm checking this?
Is this even worth it?
I have no experience with crocodiles,
but I know that they eat humans,
and they're quiet, and they go underwater,
and you can't see in this water.
It's terrifying even to wait out there.
Ooh, that's a hole.
God, please.
I really want to get something.
It's terrifying.
You can't see in this water.
I haven't checked the fish trap
because of the crocodile.
There's a fish in here.
Holy!
There's a catfish.
Woo!
It worked.
Hell, yeah!
We got a catfish.
All right. Now, we get out of here
so the crocodile doesn't eat me.
Thank you, catfish.
I kiss every fish I catch.
Honey, I'm home.
Is that you, partner?
Oh, my God, Sam.
What's happening?
Sam, we have a frickin' catfish.
Look at the size of it.
Oh,.
Yeah. It's a lot.
That's a lot.
We have a lot of meat.
Oh, my God.
- Now, we got dinner. - Now, we got dinner.
Day-five meal. Super huge win.
Super huge.
And I'm so frickin' happy and grateful
because I put a lot of effort into that fish trap.
Oh, whee!
Holy.
That look good.
That looks stupid good.
And it really just warms my heart to be the provider.
Just look at all that meat.
Yeah. There we go, homie.
Cheers.
Oh, my God.
It's gone.
Oh, my God.
Mmm.
Looks like it's all flaky and delicious.
Yay!
Mmm. Solid meat.
We need that.
Bad.
Huge win.
I'm very grateful for protein.
It's such a confidence booster,
because this is gonna make things a lot easier.
It's like fatty. I love the skin.
Um, instantly, I feel like it went to my brain,
like the omegas and stuff.
Delicious.
Let me tell you, like starvation is the best flavor.
Sarah and I have worked out our dynamic inside the pride.
In Africa, the male lion provides safety and security.
My lioness right here,
she feeds us, and I love her for it.
She's great.
Yup. Best catfish I've ever had.
I'm glad you caught a fish
'cause I was getting worried I was on the menu next.
I was worried.
Look at all the meat on this leg.
Look at that meaty leg.
Not yet, Sam.
Not yet.
Nah, we're good.
We're fam now.
You couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
Fam, fam.
Goddamn, I'm cold.
I'm freezing.
The wind just picked up and it's cold tonight.
We piled all the wood on,
so we're pretty much out now, unfortunately.
Oh, my God.
During the day, it's hot.
During the night, it is freezing.
Then on top of that,
I'm just on the ground waiting for the croc to come up
and me into the water,
because, you know, all day long,
I've been thinking about how deadly the Nile crocodile is
and... Yeah.
It's scary. It's cold.
It sucks.
Last night just wrecked me mentally.
It's the wind. Made it out of control.
I agree.
That woodpile went fast.
And just 10 minutes, 20 minutes at a time
sleeping at night is kind of rough.
I'm worried about my partner.
This challenge is definitely hard and difficult,
but not getting sleep really has Sam down a little.
I hope he keeps it together.
This is gonna be the post.
Yeah, after a week out here,
our bodies are like going through that switch...
of like going into starvation.
Eating that fish just like wasn't enough
to get us through.
And I'm having a lot of hunger pains.
We need to figure out a substantial protein source
to carry us through.
We're gonna make a figure-four trap.
It's called a figure-four
'cause it's in the shape of a figure four.
So I'm gonna carve a post stick,
do some notches so it'll hook there,
and then a cross one like that.
So that's what it'll look like when it's set.
And this is where the heavy object will rest.
The big rock, preferably.
And this is the trigger, the bait stick.
So when it gets knocked out of this notch,
the whole thing collapses and the rock falls.
Maybe we'll catch a shrub hare
or perhaps like a small...
Like a ground rodent, mice, something like that.
Yeah. Anything really.
A bird even would be dope.
I'm physically depleted right now.
I feel like my body has started to go into catabolism
and that's where I start using muscle tissue for fuel.
It's a new one.
It's, like I said, uncharted territory for me
and I'm learning how to deal with that minute by minute.
Being able to catch a bird of some kind
or whatever we might be able to catch with this,
it'd be huge for us.
Damn. My stomach hurts.
I really hope that gets some food.
Some game would be frickin' awesome.
Every.
What?
croc.
He's back?
Yeah.
Sitting right there.
We live next to a Nile crocodile.
I sleep naked on the ground with a crocodile neighbor.
It's terrifying.
Larry is what we've, you know, coined him as.
Could come after me at any time,
and there's nothing in my current skillset
to prepare me for that.
This is what makes Africa a different beast.
Where on Earth else do you find a predator
that could hunt you down and kill you?
Damn. He looks deadly.
Holy crap.
Oh, my God. Two more.
. Oh.
Okay.
This is crazy dangerous.
I am freaking out.
Let's keep a eye on him.
Yeah.
Yeah. He makes me nervous.
All right. It's wicked early in the morning,
and Sarah just woke me up
because there's some lightning and thunder.
She's concerned.
Now, I'm concerned that some rain is coming our way.
And we are, last minute,
trying to make some renovations on our shelter
to make sure that we don't get soaked out
and we don't lose all of our fire.
Trying to make the fire bigger
so that we have big embers
and, hopefully, it doesn't go out.
Yeah. We're chugging our water,
in case we have to use our pot to hold a coal
to make sure that our fire doesn't...
Get completely doused out on us.
'Cause we can't like deconstruct the boma
to make a shelter underneath the boma,
so... And we can't leave the boma
to go get more material.
Christ.
Holy!
That thunder just cracked right overhead
and I just about myself.
The loudest thunder ever.
Yeah, this is where we're gonna sacrifice our bedding
and, I believe, our ground right?
Yeah.
Yeah. That's the deal.
I'll turn the camera off, try to keep dry. Bye.
We got a badass piece of this hardwood.
Yeah.
Last night was horrible.
We had a surprise thunderstorm.
It lasted hours.
When the thunder clap,
you could feel it in your chest.
Absolutely miserable.
This challenge is harder than I thought it was gonna be.
Much harder.
But that fire that I had for doing this for my son,
it's still there and it's burning strong and bright.
Damn.
We both woke up like just spirits destroyed
from that torrential downpour all night.
But I am not gonna let it break me down or get me down.
I learned through my recovery, just keep pushing.
One day at a time.
It's literally one day at a time.
All I know to do is keep trying to get some food.
Man, leaving the house is...
Chill out in here for a minute and take a nap.
I've never been this drained before.
All right.
Let's go Hey, just be really careful.
Okay.
Kind of concerned about
the animal behavior around here.
There's always things that know you're here
and are watching you way before you know.
They're bothered by human presence, I guess.
We're loud and stinky, and everybody knows.
Look at that guy.
Pretty bird right there.
Dang.
I knew this was gonna be hard,
and I signed up for it and I wanna... I wanna do it.
I'm just feeling defeated.
My partner is not doing good.
I'm worried about him.
I'm worried about us.
Everything in Africa is on the menu,
so everything is like extra keen
at not getting eaten, right?
So they're hyper-alert, hyper-aware.
So the trap, it's not catching anything.
The fish basket isn't catching anything.
Everything's well-adapted here to survive.
And I'm just coming in with no experience,
trying to catch it all.
And they're probably all laughing at me.
And I will leave this for when we get back.
Yup. Got a pot of water to drink.
Let's move our wood out
so it doesn't just burn for nothing.
We both woke up like just worn out
and frickin' starving.
We're not even on the struggle bus.
We're being dragged behind the struggle bus.
So we decided we need to venture out further
and check out any other resources
we could possibly find out there.
Let's find some new food.
Plan is to be heading up towards north,
keeping the sun on our right side.
Yeah. That's the only way we know it's north.
Here we go.
Suck it up, buttercup.
Damn it.
It's hot.
Let's not spend too much time in the direct sunlight.
Yeah.
Don't forget to look in the trees.
- There are like-- - Bird nests.
-Yeah. In the holes... -Yup.
where there might be beehives or snakes
and scorpions and everything.
I would love to just see a frickin' snake slither by.
We're walking for hours
and I see no sign of anything out here.
You see nothing?
I see nothing.
Where the are all the animals?
We can't see anything.
It all looks the same.
Just a giant tree/shrubbery landscape.
The sun's getting up high.
We need some water.
I think it's best to head back.
All right.
All right.
Whoa!
- Hell, yeah. - Wow.
We have to carry that back.
That's the kill we were looking for.
Sam, I'm worried you keep walking to the left.
This is my first time through this area.
I just know I'm trying to keep the sun
on my left side and, you know,
180 from where I came in, so--
- All right. - Wanna come through this way?
'Cause, eventually, we gotta go to the right.
Yeah.
Every damn thing here looks the same, so it's like...
Your head starts spinning and the heat gets to you.
You're thinking about water.
You can get lost out here easy.
I'm pooping out.
I'm feeling hot and tired.
I'm feeling really dehydrated right now.
My mouth is dry. We gotta get back.
We gotta get back.
What, this way?
I don't know.
- I think we're lost. - I think we are lost.
It's okay. It's the heat.
The heat. The heat.
We're gonna figure it out.
Well, are you worried about getting back home?
Yeah.
Holy.
What was that?
I just wanna get the heck outta here.
What was that?
That sounds like a lion, but he's really far away.
I don't care.
I just wanna get the heck outta here.
Ooh. That was like adrenaline rush.
Now, I feel like I'm gonna puke.
I just about myself.
I see nothing. We were walking for hours.
I've had dry mouth the whole entire time.
Walking trails usually lead to water.
And the worst thing you can do
when you're lost is panic.
What about this way?
It's like there's a small game trail here.
There's hoof prints underneath, so--
Yeah. I see animal tracks.
- Let's follow this. - Okay.
All right. Here's a little trail.
Hoof print.
We found it.
Hey.
Oh, my God. Yes.
There we go.
We went the right way.
Woo!
My brain, I try not to listen
to it but it gets filled with doubt.
Here's our pond.
Right now, I am so exhausted and hungry.
That was one hell of a hike.
I'm hot. I'm exhausted.
Right now, I'm happy to be back here,
and lay down and have a sip of that water.
I didn't know how far I was gonna have to hike,
to waste effort and energy foraging.
We found nothing. Not a single plant.
There's not a dandelion. There's nothing.
I'll let you take first crack of the water.
I'm overwhelmed and I'm exhausted
and depleted, and I'm still starving.
Just trying to get food has been so taxing.
You just wanna pass out.
This is not good.
I agree.
You know the daily drill.
Firewood, firewood, firewood.
Yeah.
In a lot of nights, we burn
an exceptional amount of firewood.
We've gathered all the firewood
that's close to our boma,
so now we're having to venture out further
with less energy to gather the firewood
that's gonna keep us warm
and safe throughout the night.
It's a lot. It's a lot to... It's a lot to deal with
when you're starving.
You're telling yourself the whole time,
"This is worth every bit of energy I'm spending."
Trying to figure out how we're gonna get food.
I'm gonna need some rest.
My energy levels are completely exhausted.
I can't physically put out any more energy.
I'm... At this point, my game plan
is do not exert myself so I can make it to day 21.
My big thing about coming out here
was to give my son something to be proud of,
because I've been... Hard to hold a job.
He prayed that, you know, I would find something
that I could do that I wouldn't quit.
I will be willing to do
the brunt of the work for the firewood.
I mean, obviously, we have to have fire.
Water's really the only essential that I need.
Just water and sleep until I get out of here.
And I know that I will tap early if I push myself.
He is really concerned about overexerting himself
and having to tap out.
Anyone can sit here without food,
but that is not the way I want to do it.
I don't stop
just 'cause I get tired or it sucks.
I'm gonna keep pushing until I can't.
And I don't know what that breaking point is.
I have to check the fish trap.
I'll be right back.
All right. Good luck.
Thanks.
Life isn't easy.
It doesn't get easier just because you're sober.
And I source a lot of strength from that.
And I'm trying to translate that now
into this physical realm of survival
to get through the hard times.
I'm a grateful alcoholic.
My partner, she's pushing herself.
She's very tenacious as always, ambitious.
She's constantly trying to get food.
She's pretty hardcore.
She's got a different strategy than me,
and I don't... I don't knock her for it.
It's a different strategy.
I can feel this challenge taking its toll.
It is to be expected.
I'm not surprised.
I can feel it.
I can notice every little bit of it.
Check the fish trap.
I hope there's no crocodiles in here.
Let's check it.
Are we lucky?
No lucky today.
You hope every day and it's like, ugh,
every day I get crushed by that goddamn fish trap.
Ow. leech on my foot.
Look at him.
I felt him.
Oh, God. Okay.
Another one.
It's a big one.
Oh, God. There's two...
Three on me.
This one I can't get out.
Jesus Christ.
I guess we're gonna eat leeches later.
They are just like a slug,
essentially, which is protein.
Like people eat snails all over the world, right?
Escargo.
Ooh, there's a big one.
Got him.
Disgusting.
I never thought I would be trying
to catch leeches to eat.
This is a new one.
Little blood bags.
It's like eating fleas.
Okey-dokey.
Blackened leech.
There is like dried blood coming out of it.
That's gross.
Oh, it's not dried. It's wet.
That's gross.
This is like a blutwurst sausage.
-Do we have those? -Yeah.
In Germany?
Gross.
It's full of blood in the middle.
My blood, I guess, so it's not as bad.
I got two more in here if you wanna try one.
Nope. I'mma pass on the... pass on the eating leeches.
I am not surprised about Sam being finicky about food.
I mean, I don't prefer 'em.
I'm not going out to look for 'em.
I'm not gonna go home and eat 'em.
I'm just like full-on survival "feed me" mode.
Something about eating a little nasty parasite,
some bloodsucker. Not cool.
Until you're starving in Africa.
I'm really hungry.
I was thinking about food all day.
So, today, I'm gonna make
some fishing line from some cordage
because we don't have any string.
So if we're gonna go fishing, we need a fishing line.
How extremely incredible.
Look at the fibers in 'em.
And they all pull so evenly off.
The fibers of this African succulent
are known for their strength and were often used
for making bowstrings and rope.
Sarah will twist the fibers together
and use a thorn from the buffalo plant as a hook.
I'm gonna make fishing hook out of buffalo thorn
and tied it on this bone we found.
I got a little handline.
I'm over here on the other side of our boma
where we watch the crocodiles on the shore all day.
So I'm conflicted.
I really wanna go to the bank and fish
so my line goes down as deep as possible,
but I also don't wanna be trapped on the bank
if the crocodile comes up.
I'm gonna look at the next bank
and see if it's even shorter.
I'll come back.
Oh, God!
Oh, God!
Look at this!
Oh, my God.
Look at that. That's deadly.
There's Larry right there 100 yards away.
It is risky, obviously, to be over here
and try and fish
and try and stifle the enormous fear I have
over frickin' crocodile coming
and pulling me under the water.
Super scary.
And even now, I'm staring out of the water
and watching some crocodiles,
they're taking every little bit of food they can
out of this water source.
I do feel like that's one of the reasons
why we haven't been able
to collect any food in our pond.
Damn.
This looks like a good fishing spot.
But the water is so murky,
you can't see like an inch below it.
If there was a crocodile or something,
I wouldn't see it either.
The risk factor is outweighing my hunger.
I don't know what to do, Africa.
I just wanna eat. Somebody help me.
I wanna go try and sit in the blind for a little bit.
As long as I've got water, I'm good.
Okay.
This is the line in the sand for me.
I've been given an opportunity
to have my child's respect
and I'm tired of not getting to the finish line.
I'm really tired of letting people down.
I have a good relationship with my son,
but I feel like those things tether around my success.
I don't want him to look at me as a quitter.
All right. Well, I'm gonna go.
I'm making smart choices, saving energy in the tank.
I'm gonna make it to day 21, come hell or high water.
Frickin' starving.
A bird would be incredible.
Sam's strategy is to drink water
and just, you know, wait it out.
For me, that is not an option.
It's a last resort.
I don't wanna be vindictive.
I don't wanna be resentful.
But, of course, there's a little part of me
that's like, "You gotta get a bird.
Like you gotta get a bird and hold it up in Sam's face
and be like, 'suck it.
Like I got bird.'"
You know, the idea of hunting
is sitting in the blind for two hours
just doing nothing.
It's not even an activity.
While I'm back here actually collecting firewood,
dragging hundred-pound logs back to the boma.
And to think that that's what she's been doing everyday
while I've been back here doing harder work
is upsetting to me.
disappointing one.
But it was worth the shot.
You know, again, this is helping my partner.
This is the sacrifice I'm willing to make.
I'm gonna use the firewood that we have
to just boil water, and that's part of my strategy.
Yeah. It's the trade-off.
I got my arrows, got my bow.
All right. Well, I'm gonna go.
- Yeah. - Bye.
- Bye. - See you later.
He always has some water ready, the fire.
He's good at that.
I might as well hunt for a little bit.
It keeps me trying and being optimistic,
'cause I have to counteract this negativity.
And there's nothing I can do about it,
so I'm just in a phase
of accepting the situation.
Her fish trap paid off, at least, once.
But the bow,
bow hunting that she's trying to do every morning,
it's not... It's not working out.
I'll have firewood and I will have water every day.
And we already have a shelter every day.
So that seems like... That checks all the boxes
of everything that is a necessity to survive,
'cause if I'm not here trying to be a survivalist,
I think I'm making the wisest decisions to survive.
One of those pigeon bird things is really close.
Damn it.
So exciting and then it's so disappointing.
I had a really good shot,
probably the best shot I've been offered
this whole time and I blew it.
Damn it. Damn it. Damn it.
Gotta go check the fish trap.
Right now, I'm about to check that fish trap.
I can't just not check it.
What if there's a fish in it?
terrifying.
All right. Here's the trap.
Hmm, are we lucky?
Damn.
I'm frustrated.
I can't catch a fish again.
Frustrated I can't shoot a bird.
I'm super-emotional, I'm super-tired, super-hungry,
but I have pulled out myself out of the fire before,
and I sat through some really uncomfortable,
terrible, painful so.
I'm gonna make it,
I'm just scared how I'm gonna take it.
It's horrible.
It's horrible.
My forte at home was foraging.
This is what I do at home.
I'm gonna meander, you know,
peruse as I go, I'm not rushin'.
Whoa!
What?
Oh, no way.
No way.
It can't be.
This is the potato plant.
This is the real deal, I think.
What the hell?
Oh, my God.
So it's time to dig.
Hell, yeah.
This is exciting!
What a score today.
Oh, my God, it's huge.
So this, a potato, is a freakin' starch,
the giant carbohydrate.
This is like a substantial energy provider.
It's wiggling.
Oh!
I got one.
The potatoes are making me crazy.
Yeah.
Check this bad boy out.
Hell, yeah.
Like I'm doing the thing, like, it's working, you know?
It's really cool.
It's hard.
It's hard to survive.
And...
it just gives me hope.
I got three giant potatoes.
Exciting.
You know, let's take a look. I know there's...
I know that there was two different kinds of potatoes
that are out there, one you can eat, one you can't.
-Oh, no, really? -Yeah.
One kind is definitely not edible.
Well, let's hope it's not that one,
because this was heavy and exhausting to dig up.
Look at these.
What is that?
This... Is this the potato?
This does not look like a potato
now that it's come apart of my bag.
- No. This is... - Like it...
This is the thing that's not edible,
so you can't eat this.
This plant is mother-in-law's tongue,
a root vegetable that resembles a potato,
but contains a chemical called saponin
which can cause vomiting, organ failure,
and even death.
Dude, I thought this was our win.
I'm so mad.
I'm so sorry, Sarah.
I'm so sorry.
It's okay.
I just wanted some food.
I'm sorry tired of being hungry.
Well, I think it's gonna rain.
Mmm-hmm.
The biggest issue is the rain.
It multiplies the amount of firewood
that we use to sustain a fire and warmth
and be able to boil our water,
which are, you know, necessary things out here.
I don't wanna get wet and cold.
I do not like this rain.
I don't wanna shiver.
I don't wanna not have a fire.
I don't wanna be went and cold.
It's pretty stressful.
And not have food,
I've never gone this long without food.
I can't believe my body is still functioning.
If it rains all day,
we're just gonna be stuck in the shelter, I guess.
It sucks.
Here it comes.
Here we go.
And it's picking up again.
The fire, just keep it going.
I'm also being extremely resourceful
and adapting to the situation,
putting this concave log over our coals.
So the top is all wet, but underneath isn't,
so we were able to restart it easily.
It's still wet but...
Could be worse.
It's nice to be by the fire, you know what I mean?
Here's the boma weather station,
we can expect scattered showers throughout the day.
No chance of foraging.
Yeah.
Forecast for tomorrow?
Completely unknown.
Just trying to picking up this.
It rained for hours and hours and then it stopped.
I'm gonna build a debris hut rain shelter
between the two trees at our camp.
And hopefully we won't even have to eat it.
Are you not helping do this
because you don't think it's worth it?
Yes.
You don't think it's worth it
-to make a rain shelter? -No.
Why?
Because I don't think it's gonna work.
And for as far as the fire goes,
already proven that if we can have fire,
we can keep wood dry and burning.
I don't know.
What... I don't understand, dude.
So if the fire goes out,
you don't think having a rain shelter is a good idea?
I don't think the fire will go out
and no, I do not think it's a good idea.
I'm so frustrated and bitter right now.
I hate this feeling.
I'm not trying to be condescending,
but shelter is like bushcraft 101, don't you think?
Yeah. Yes.
Then I don't know how you don't see
the importance of it.
- me. - I didn't...
I'm not trying to upset you with my answer,
just answering your question.
I'm feeling very defeated, pessimistic,
not in a positive mental state.
It's the fight-or-flight, the panic,
the traumatic stress, whatever you wanted to say
that you're dealing with at the time,
I think the first thing you should do is try to relax.
Sam's strategy is very frustrating.
I truly do not understand his logic.
Everything is a waste of time
if it doesn't produce an immediate, like, result.
He said he's trying in working towards that,
and then you get to succeed
but, I need to just remember to be compassionate.
Oh, my God. The rain's coming.
More African rain.
I am at an all-time low.
I've never been this hungry, I've never been this tired,
I've never been this, uh, you know, aggravated.
There's nothing we can do to stay dry.
Sarah built this rain shelter.
It doesn't keep you dry
and it's too far away from the fire to stay warm
and your body temperature drops drastically.
Tonight, sleep will be not possible in this position.
It's the loudest thunder I've ever heard in my life.
The sun's out right now, I hope it stays.
Grumpy, worn,
drained, took a lot of energy last night.
Well, just food-procuring time.
Try to get food first actually,
that's all I'm gonna do, and then hydrate.
Do stuff keep trying.
All we have to do is make it one more day
and support each other and get outta here.
Twenty-one days is not even a blink of an eye
-in your lifetime, right? -Yeah.
Don't be a pussy...
You can do it.
That's it right there, that sums it up.
Yeah.
Top three most difficult things in my life ever,
having a baby,
getting sober,
and 21 days naked surviving in the African bush.
Yeah. I second that.
We are so close.
Yeah, we really are in the hours of countdown
to the finish line.
Let's do 21 days.
Through my recovery, I've learned that
just practicing over the years,
like, you can't just sit in that space, man,
you gotta do somethin'.
All right, I'm out.
See you later.
The rainstorm, I don't know, put a...
Just put a shock to what I was going through.
It is a culmination of the starvation and fatigue,
and I hit a wall.
That's typical me, is to get to a spot
that's difficult or uncomfortable,
when I don't feel like it, I don't do it anymore.
You can even see that in a lot of the ways
that my strategy has gone,
it's only now that I'm realizing that.
I have people I don't wanna disappoint.
Uh, you know, I owe my son a no-quit situation.
I wanna get out there and fuel myself and my partner.
This is the last push to make things happen
and really go hard,
and to go down paths I haven't gone,
I'm gonna explore places I haven't been.
I'm ready to, you know, really, really give it all.
Ooh, a lion out here.
I'm really terrified we didn't hear the lion,
but obviously, they were here
because you see giant tracks everywhere,
it kind of alarms me a lot that we don't...
we don't hear these giant creatures
that are literally a stone's throw away from our boma.
That is a big paw.
Kind of a Mopani worm,
a couple of 'em, a couple big juicy ones.
The Mopani worms out here that...
In this area, they might be a delicacy
and not for everyone.
But you can't be choosy
and I'm not gonna be picky right now.
Just on the worm tree.
Give this ugly little bastard
something to eat while in my bag,
so they're less inclined to escape.
You know, this hungry,
you don't leave food on the table.
Hope you're all playing nice in there.
I'm really excited for my partner to get back
and I could just surprise her with some Mopani worms,
which is an excellent fuel source for both of us.
Eat Mopani worms.
Mmm.
Hi.
What's happened then?
Food it is not easy to find.
Yeah?
I'm so tired to be hungry.
And I'm worried about our hike.
I've wasted so much energy.
Have some water.
I will. I'm starting to gather myself.
Shut up!
You did not find all these. Look.
Well, it's not a total loss today.
Cheer up... Where did you find so many,
-from their nest? -I found a tree...
I found a tree that there was this
they were... All on those were on one tree.
Oh, my God, they're so big.
I am gonna leave Africa with a belly
full of Mopani worms, and I'm so proud and thankful.
I never thought I would come to Africa
and that's what would save me here, but it feels like
this is what's gonna save me in the end
and get me outta here.
Mopani worms.
Delicious.
Mmm.
They're really good.
I was blessed with a great partner.
I have been unreliable, you can even see that
in a lot of the way that my strategy has gone,
it's... And, you know, about myself
and I understand that, and I owed her an apology.
You tried hard every day,
and like you said, you know,
you keep trying to teach me,
you can't win if you don't try.
And you were trying every day and I'm so grateful for you.
Thank you.
We're gonna be all right.
The night of the 20th day in Africa.
Almost extraction day.
This will be my last diary cam.
Done.
The lion, it keeps getting closer and closer but...
Sam?
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
That suck, but it's over.
Thank God.
We're outta here tomorrow.
Let's make a toothbrush break.
Look, this is the gauri thing,
where you can make a toothbrush?
You wanna see it?
From the gauri stem, you just cut it and mash it.
And then the ash and water will be our toothpaste.
My mouth is, like, beyond dragon breath,
it's rhino breath.
Feeling funky?
Like a rhino pooped in it.
Oh, nice.
I'm gonna scoop a little of this ash.
It feels good.
All that tuck it back.
How does it look?
Looks clean.
Nice.
It actually has a toothpaste texture too.
Day 21, we've got lions circling our boma.
So weird.
The lion over there, and it was super-close.
It was moving from that side of the pond,
that corner over there,
just back and forth, pacing and grunting.
That sucks, that freakin' sucks.
I feel nauseous.
I don't know if it's from nerves
- or what but-- - Probably.
I feel a little nervous as well.
Just excitement, just... - Queasy. - the unexpected.
Getting past a certain perimeter of our area
in the freaking bush in Africa,
you know, it's terrifying.
It makes me a little uncomfortable.
Okay. Let's take a look at the map.
This looks like that we're right here
at the center of this little pond
and then directly north is where we're headed.
Right there.
- Straight off that way. - Yeah.
Right.
I'm concerned about the lions.
It's terrifying,
it's like they always know that you're there
before you know they're there.
-They're super-scary. -Yeah.
The extraction hike is daunting
because killer lions constantly hunting food.
The odds are not in our favor at the moment.
- Let's roll. - Let's rock and roll.
To make it to their extraction point,
Sam and Sarah must trek 4 miles
through thick thorn-covered terrain.
They will have to be alert and ready to react quickly
to any lion activity, which will be hard to spot
in the natural camouflage of the African bush.
Listen out for lions, homie.
Yeah, you bet.
We're in lion territory.
Freakin' terrifying.
Oh, man. I'm feelin' it.
My legs kinda feel like deadweights.
They're getting heavier and heavier.
Hold on a sec.
- Hear that? - Yeah.
All right.
I know we've been at this for two and a half hours,
an hour at least.
My legs are tired, my arms are tired.
My stomach hurts.
My mouth is so dry, so dry like the desert.
Tired.
Freakin' tired.
In the last 21 days,
Sam and Sarah have shared only 1,400 calories
but they will burn 2,500
during this 4-mile extraction hike.
My knees feel like they wanna buckle
every time I have to climb up a little rock.
Or go down one.
Put extra focus on every step.
Do not fall over.
I see nothing. We were walking for hours,
no sign of anything out here
that even remotely resembles our destination.
That's a little disheartening because I am skunked.
Tired, legs are sore.
Looking forward to collapsing
whenever we get to where the hell we're goin'.
But not a moment sooner.
over this riverbed.
Me too.
The most difficult thing I overcame in this challenge
was being able to battle against my own mindset,
the things that's creeping in my mind that tell me
I can't and tell me that it's okay to quit
or, you know, the excuses...
The child in me, I think, is the best way to put it.
I got to let the child die and let the man emerge.
I'm ready to move forward from all that,
you know, try to be a better role model to my son,
to give back, you know, to be supportive and not quit.
One boulder at a time.
I keep almost losing my balance.
Keep leaning forward so you don't fall backwards.
Yeah.
This is steep.
Yeah, this is a climb...
I see some sort of big rock formation in front of us.
- Yeah. - I don't know
if that's what we're looking at,
but it's the first one I've seen
that's even remotely close to what is on the map.
Oh, wow.
That might be it.
It's a big-ass rock formation.
Yeah.
dude, what do you think?
I think
we're gonna keep pushing up around this corner.
I feel smoked.
I feel a little dizzy from pushing up that hill.
Tanks got just a little bit...
I mean, the empty light just came on.
We'll crawl up here if it takes us.
If I break my legs, I will army crawl to the top.
I see a higher rock right there.
Yeah. Let's get across and... It's the highest one.
I will take your hand now.
Mmm-hmm.
I gotta rest, Sam.
Let's sit up here for a second, figure it out.
All right.
- Do you hear that? - Oh.
Here comes the bird.
Oh, my God.
We made it.
- Oh, my God. - There it is!
You think that's our ride?
Woo!
We made it!
Hell yeah!
We're done.
Yeah, buddy!
That's gotta be the most beautiful helicopter
I ever saw.
Son, I did it! We did it.
Sarah and I did it!
I cannot believe this right now.
This was intense.
A challenge in every single day to make it through.
I can't tell you how many times
I wanted to give up and I'm so glad I didn't.
I kept my promises and now I get to go home.
I cannot believe that I did it and I didn't quit,
I made it all the way to day 21.
I need to go home and look at my son's prayer journal
and
know that between God and I, we answered his prayer.
What more could I ask for as a father?
Become the man that I should be by now.
You know, better late than never
but I'm really excited to start that journey.
I'm coming home.
You're awesome, partner.
Yeah, man. You too.
I know we were gonna do it.
I told you, day one, no quittin'.
No quit, no quit.
My MO in life is progress, not perfection.
I did my best and it was good enough.
It feels freakin' awesome.
Oh, my God, it's over.
I don't regret the path I've taken.
It was hard and it was rocky
and there were a lot of mistakes.
But without every choice that I've made up until now,
I wouldn't be here.
My formative years were hard for a reason
and they made me strong enough
to finish this challenge.
I just feel like I'm in the right place
in the universe, doing the right thing,
and I'm gonna continue to try my hardest
to do the right thing.
Don't need that anymore.
Twenty-one unforgettable, unbelievable days,
naked and terrified in Africa, and we did it.
I'm so stoked.
Over the course of 21 days, Sarah lost 32 pounds.
Her primitive survival rating rises
from a 6.2 to a 7.3.
It's a hell lot of writing on this experience.
And doing it successfully,
these are the most incredible tears of joy
I've ever shed in my life
besides the day that my son was born,
and just being able
to give something else to him, you know?
Sam lost 35 pounds.
His PSR rises from a 5.9 to a 7.1.
This has been an incredible experience.
Africa, thank you for everything.
Thank you for every hard lesson.
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