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There he is.

Holy.

Gator. Right there.

Oh, he's big.

Yeah, that's a fat boy.

This is the day, right here.

We're gonna kill mondo today.

Three feet from our line right now.

- He's coming our way. - Oh, my god.

Bring on the swamp!

In the atchafalaya basin of southern louisiana,

12 naked and afraid all-stars

will take on their biggest challenge yet.

- Oh, watch your knee! - Watch out!

Whoo!

Surviving these festering swamplands...

Big ol' gator!

...For an epic 60 days.

60 days is exponentially more difficult than 40.

Especially in the swamp.

There's danger everywhere.

Oh,.

Back up, back up.

Big ol' water moccasin.

People go missing in the swamps all the time.

Their bodies just get sucked into the swamp.

Soppy, soaking wet, muddy...

if you haven't dealt with mosquitos like this before,

it's gonna be rough.

It's maddening, I tell you. It's maddening!

There's alligators out here that are gonna be 13, 14-foot long

and they bite down with over 3,000 pounds of force per square inch.

Holy.

That'll make you pucker up when you're balls-deep in the swamp.

Beginning in the fall, when tropical storms rage,

the challenge will extend into winter,

as temperatures across the bayou plummet.

It is frigid.

You have never been in the south in the swamp, you don't know cold.

It's a wet cold.

It's a bone-chilling cold.

It's the worst part of it all, by far.

Just one victory, please!

Oh!

Oh,.

Snake!

There's a lot of strong personalities,

a lot of chips on a lot of shoulders.

I'm a hard-headed.

Playing that no more.

It's driving me crazy.

Oh, my god. All right.

This one is gonna be a true test.

The best of the best might not be able to make it out here.

We gotta go big or go hungry.

Look at that!

Jump on him. Jump on him!

Yeah!

Let me see.

Oh, get it, get it, get it, get it!

Whoo!

If you cross that finish line, you are a legend.

Bring it on!

- Bring it on, atchafalaya! - Is that all you got?

Spread across 100 square miles of the atchafalaya swamplands,

the 12 survivalists begin their 60-day challenge in four teams of three.

The first to enter

is a team of battle-tested veterans.

Matt, rylie, and ryan.

We're gonna have every venomous snake,

every dangerous animal...

It happens to be we'll be here for 60 days.

Better embrace the suck.

Yeah.

I've always said that my skillset can survive anywhere on the planet.

And through the years, undoubtably,

my survival strategy has always been the hunter.

Holy. I see dinner.

Oh, my god.

Holy sheep.

Yeah! Whoo!

As part of the warrior spirit, you have to take a bite

out of the heart.

For me, the amazing part of this challenge

is getting that food and sharing it with my teammates,

because that smile on their face as they're no longer hungry?

It's worth every scar I have.

- Cheers, brother. Thank you very much, matt. - Cheers on that.

Here, dig in. I've got impala...

- What? - yeah.

And some of its warthogs...

I mean, I have more than this, so dig in.

I keep trying to essentially one-up myself.

What else am I capable of?

And the atchafalaya swamp is, no joke, one of the wildest places on the planet.

What scares me is these swampy conditions.

I mean, I've gotten a flesh-eating bacteria before.

That would've killed me faster than anything.

The only thing I can't hunt is something I can't see.

And if you look back into the amazon,

I got a flesh-eating bacteria.

The, uh, bacteria, it can't be treated.

To make sure I save my foot, I've gotta go.

That bacteria was hours away from taking my foot

or possibly my life.

I think that's gonna be one of our challenges,

is to keep ourselves from getting any of that fungus in...

- absolutely. - And any of the bacteria that lives in it.

So I will be out there in constant vigilance

on every single step I take,

because this environment looks eerily similar to the amazon.

- It's pretty crazy. - This is a proper challenge.

- Yeah. - This place is gonna be tough.

This is insane. Sleeping out here naked for 60 nights is just insane.

What I'm bringing to the group on this challenges

is 36 years of knowledge, skills and experience.

Alligator boomstick noose.

Whoo!

Look at that.

- Hell yeah,. - Let's go, brother.

Got him. yeah.

I would describe myself as a very highly motivated person,

so probably the most devastating thing to happen to me

would be day 29 on my xl challenge,

ended up getting sick.

Nine out of ten pain,

ten out of ten I'm passing out.

Oh, god.

I've never failed at such a big challenge in my life.

Lions, I can hear lions.

And that really weighed heavy on me for some time to come.

So I absolutely see this 60-day challenge

as a time to redeem myself.

- That's insane. - Oh, man, he's right in front of our boat.

That's good eating size.

I'm gonna boomstick noose that mother...

my 21 days in the everglades,

creating and crafting with all the resources around me.

I think it puts me a few steps ahead

of all the other survivalists that are here with us.

Got my 12-foot boomstick.

I've also got my vine,

natural vine that was completely woven.

I look at it as, like, a giant puzzle,

and I'm just here to put all the pieces together to figure it out.

We're gonna go ahead and take care of this one now.

Ah, this dull-ass machete.

Every time I enter one of these challenges, I always give it my all.

All those experiences I'm taking with me on this 60-day challenge.

Mmm.

Even got my lucky alligator tooth with me right here.

Oh, yeah? You gonna get some more?

Yeah. Definitely gonna get another one of these.

I have all the knowledge, I have all the skills,

and all I gotta do is put everything I know into play.

It's gonna take mental, physical, you know...

Every level, you're gonna have to harness everything that you got

to make it to day 60.

Yeah, it's definitely going to separate the legends, that's no doubt.

I'm gonna give it everything that I got,

and I'm not leaving until I make it to day 60.

You can see how high the water gets.

- Yeah, you can literally see it on the trees. - Yeah.

And it's been fairly... Oh, right there, gator.

- Look at him. - Look at his head.

Look at him. What do you think, that's a... Four-foot?

- Yeah, that's about five, six. - That one's a good one.

That's wild. Everything's alive. Everything is alive.

It's insane.

I don't think of myself as a legend,

you know, I would never say that,

but every single adventure I've ever done, I've completed.

My 21-day, I was in honduras.

It was rough because I was by myself.

It was cold, it was rainy...

I did anything that was necessary to survive.

I finished my 21 days and I survived 40 days in the philippines.

Christina, what's on your back?

Get it!

I got it. It's pinned.

That's the one that bit me last night.

I'm definitely more of an introverted person.

But in a survival situation, I don't limit myself

and I don't limit my role in a group.

Maybe we can get out of here by hiking.

But we can... No. No way through that way.

I will say what I think.

Here's my thing. I'm not gonna do anything

that I think is gonna jeopardize my challenge here.

I think my biggest accomplishment was when I finished my 40-day

and I realized that I had worn many hats throughout that challenge.

I was someone that went and foraged every day.

Fishing, hunting, setting traps...

the bait, which is the dead turtle,

is all the way down at this end.

I did anything that was necessary

to keep our little group going.

So, coming out of those challenges,

I can take with me that I have that versatility.

But this 60-day challenge is different from anything I've done before

and it is going to be intense.

Oh, there's a nice big gator laying up in there.

Oh, my god.

Oh, big old gator laid right up in there, like, fat.

We just gotta stay off the menu.

The amount of accumulative knowledge that we all have,

we know what it takes.

I think as a group,

I think you guys, we're gonna be awesome.

- yeah. - yeah.

This is it. This is the dream team.

This is the dream team. I was just gonna say that.

For this ultimate legends challenge,

teams will be evaluated on a new scale.

The xls, or xl success metric,

weighs each team's collective skills and current survival status

to determine the group's likely percentage of completing 60 days together.

Matt brings exceptional hunting skills and leadership.

Whoo!

Rylie has demonstrated great tenacity and well-rounded skills.

Just gonna go for it.

Wow!

And ryan has yet to complete a 40-day challenge,

but has valuable swamp experience.

Whoo!

But none of them have attempted a challenge this long

in a location this difficult.

As a result, their starting xls,

or chance of successfully completing the challenge as a team,

is set at 62%.

But to survive the swamp for 60 days,

small victories won't suffice.

Getting ready for battle.

We're here to go big or go hungry.

He's on here.

But what we have to do

is get him untangled.

- This is the danger zone. - Right.

A lot of things could go wrong.

Not knowing the size of the alligator...

If one of us fell in the water, game over.

Oh, he's fighting under there. You see that?

- I got it. - Oh, he's fighting.

- Okay. - What the.

Oh, he's right here. He's right here.

Oh, watch your knee!

Watch out!

- Oh, whoa, whoa! - Snake right here. Snake right here.

- Snake? - yup!

Most people would probably think the alligators

are gonna get 'em while they're out here for two months,

naked, sleeping in the swamps.

But my biggest concern are gonna be the water moccasins.

They never deliver a dry bite and they are extremely abundant down here.

- You see this? - Oh, my god.

The water moccasin, or cottonmouth,

is a semi-aquatic pit viper.

Whoa! We got a snake right here, baby.

Whose instinct is to attack rather than flee when it senses danger.

So if you're not on your a game,

you can be in a lot of trouble.

And there is a snake

all curled up, ready to go.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

It's a cottonmouth.

That's the deadliest thing that's out here in these swamps.

Big.

Oh, yeah. He's not happy.

Nasty, nasty little bugger.

Looks like he might've just ate something, too.

- Whoa. There's another snake in there! - Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Careful, careful, careful.

Is it alive in there? Like...

it could be.

So we gotta be really, really super careful.

Holy.

This just signifies how dangerous it is out here

and how we have to watch everywhere we walk

'cause that sucker was sitting right there.

The second trio of elite veterans to take on this 60-day challenge

is the team of lacey, steven and jeff.

If somebody said, "you have one location to be naked for 60 days,"

and you want to make it as difficult as humanly possible...

- found it. - We're in it right now.

Louisiana's it. The swamps.

- The bayou. - Yup. Absolutely. Yup.

Everything I've ever done,

I've succeeded at in terms of survival.

I have never failed at one of these challenges.

Twenty-one days in madagascar, in the heat of the desert...

- oh, my god. - Whoo!

Forty days in colombia, where I got those electric eels...

got 'em.

Slaughtering these electric eels, getting electrocuted...

do I scream a lot when I kill?

Yeah!

When I'm out here surviving and I make a kill,

you'd better believe that's one of the best days in a long time.

Yes!

Yeah, baby!

- - oh, man!

Well, this looks a lot different from my last 60-day location.

I am the only one here that's ever done a 60-day challenge before.

- Yes! - We made it to the ocean!

This is crazy!

I know how hard it's gonna be.

It will filter out the weak.

We have been hit by one of the worst rain storms imaginable.

Only the strong are going to make it to the end.

We talked about it and we thought it was better

if we just stuck as a two-person duo.

Right.

People sometimes view me as the guy that doesn't want to partner up.

But I just choose who to partner with.

Naked and afraid xl is not a welfare program.

And on a 60-day challenge, there is no way you are getting to the finish line

unless you can pull your own weight.

So I stand by my decisions in the past

and I plan to keep the same strategy this time around.

Sixty days in this environment.

You're gonna have some incredibly talented people

- not make it out of here. - Oh, absolutely. Yup.

- And that should put the fear of god in anybody. - Oh, absolutely.

I don't know what tapouts are like.

I've never experienced one and I don't plan to.

We're gonna live out here for two months.

- Two months! - I know.

- This is our home now. - Now that's crazy.

Now we're surrounded by wolf spiders, cottonmouths and alligators.

Wouldn't have it any other way, dude.

I'm steven lee hall jr.

If you've seen naked and afraid, you've definitely seen me.

And you're welcome.

Holy.

That is one of the most venomous snakes in north america.

Get the heart.

Not only have I survived 21 days in alabama,

forty days in pongola, south africa...

- ahh! Go! - Go!

Two weeks in the shark-infested waters of andros island...

We got a little bit of dinner, guys!

And 14 days in the frozen tundras of alaska.

Is that the king of the jungle?

Oh, my god! Laura?

Your crotch is in the snow.

- - oh, my god. Already, right?

My survival mindset...

...Is that I do have a calculated risk-reward process

that I go through in my brain.

Holy.

That's what survival is. If you don't take those risks,

sometimes you don't put food on the table.

Let's go!

And if you don't put food on the table,

you're not gonna make it through the challenge.

Big ol' monitor lizard.

What I'm looking for in a partner out here

is somebody that has the same mental drive and attitude that I do.

Look at that!

I got dinner!

- Right here! - Oh, my god.

Oh, my god!

I want somebody positive.

Debbie downer, negativity,

can kill your whole vibe out here.

I mean, it's the swamps.

We're gonna have rain, it could get cold, there could be floods...

It's gonna get terrible.

Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment,

but it's the next level up for me.

Right here in the southern part of the united states

is the most harshest, dangerous environment on earth.

And I cannot wait to take it on.

- Oh, look, there's another one. - Wow.

We all just have to avoid the catastrophic mistake

or the catastrophic accident.

And you have to be careful. And that's not one of my good...

- - I'm not very good at that.

I have had several taps.

Okay.

I don't wanna be here with these people.

I'm done.

I want to go home, guys.

I've hit my limit.

It is day 18 and I am tapping out of my alone challenge.

But I've had more days in the wild

than some of these people that are coming out.

Just saying.

I know I can get water, I know I can do shelter...

The first layer is just sticks.

Then you pack thorns all the way around the outside.

I know I can get food.

Ah! Got it with my hand.

But I've never been known as a team player.

I was in the military. I know what it takes.

But in ecuador, that did not go down well.

I feel like right now our group is all talk.

And that sounds harsh, but that's what I feel.

That was really harsh, actually.

I don't think you should ever say that again.

If I have to be a villain for telling the truth, so be it.

I'll be the villain.

When there's a team, you take care of the sick. Look at elephants.

When they March, they put the slowest ones in front.

But when someone gets super old,

they kick 'em out and let 'em die.

In africa, I thought I was the only opinion that mattered

and I didn't care about anyone else or what they thought

and I'm like, just suck it. If you don't like it, suck it.

I don't really want to share a boma.

All right, well, good luck.

I learned my main challenge is my mental game.

I have to prove that I am a legendary survivalist.

I really do think this time I am going to kill it.

Finish or die.

That's really my only two options.

I'm always nervous about who my people are going to be.

Lacey and jeff.

Everybody knows lacey.

She'll say what she means in a way that can kind of come across as,

you know, a little kind of snarky.

I have doubts about lacey.

'cause steven and I, we know how to do this challenge.

And on a 60-day challenge, I'm telling you right now,

she must pull her weight.

Jeff brings elite skills...

...But a cutthroat attitude toward his teammates.

- - is that an eel?

I knew it.

Steven has proven his mettle

in a variety of grueling climates.

But I'm gonna smoke out whatever's in here.

And I'm gonna put it on the kitchen table tonight.

Lacey takes an aggressive approach to survival,

but has a history of flaming out early.

Girl, I got you, I got you. I got you.

Part of me just wants to start this entire boma on fire.

As a result, this combustible group receives a starting xls,

or chance of reaching day 60 as a team,

of 34%.

All right, night three.

And, uh, we're actually on dry ground.

Which is super awesome.

Definitely better off than what we were the past few nights.

So, fingers crossed we can just get some good sleep

and start the day off good tomorrow.

But you never know with the bayou.

All right. Jeff is over here

and he is not feeling good at all.

Um, his belly hurts. We're not sure if it's the, um,

snake, the water, just the general conditions out here...

Poor guy can't catch a break.

- - oh.

Come on, louisiana! Is that all you've got?

God, I hate you.

Oh! anthill.

To go out in the wild and survive 60 days in the swamps...

...Is crazy!

Please let there be higher elevation.

It's the things you don't think about that are gonna hurt you.

The diseases. The bacteria. The viruses.

And the mosquitos.

My body is reacting right now. I cannot articulate my ankle.

There's a lot of horrible, horrible things in this environment

that the human eye cannot see.

The water source here has all that green algae.

And if you're not careful, that's what's gonna take you out.

This is an issue.

There is a burning of the scrotum.

You guys, I'm having some issues on my, um, family jewels.

Oh, my...

That looks like you dipped 'em in boiling water.

Dude, it's bad.

Rylie, what do you think?

Yeah, they look pretty awful.

Matt has got, like, a roundworm parasite

feasting on his twig and berries.

It's called nutria itch.

It's from the feces of the nutria that live in the swamps here.

This kind of stuff scares me.

It's become a situation.

The third group to take on the bayou

for this epic two-month challenge

is the team of max, amber and gary.

You know, that's the thing about it.

Even finding a dead fish out here is a resource.

'cause that means we're eating. you know?

In the naked and afraid world,

you ask these people who they don't want as a partner...

I'm on the top of the list, baby!

I'm gonna be honest.

I'm gonna talk.

I'm gonna make fun of you.

That's bottom line.

I'm absolutely viewed as arrogant.

Once you see my vision and once you get to know me,

you'll know I'm not just crazy.

Grandiose.

You do your thing, we'll do our thing.

Is that so? Really?

You're so full of.

What a bunch of ungrateful.

But maybe you need to be a little arrogant and grandiose

in order to take something on like this.

You know how insane that would be,

to expect everybody to be on my level?

That's not even fair to society.

I really do apply the scavenger style.

- Yeah. - The inside of it?

The tender shoots inside.

I see opportunity where other people see disgust.

We're gonna eat good.

Even some survivalists tell me they wouldn't eat what I eat.

In south africa, I scavenged my way through that challenge.

It smells like death.

I eat their brains, eyeballs, tongue, heart, liver,

testicles...

give anything I could to make it through that and survive.

I've been out here working hard and eaten alive by bugs.

- - oh, okay. You got me.

You got me!

Been sent to the hospital.

Because I ate the wrong thing

and I got third-degree burns down my throat.

Had to be rushed out of the wild.

I've paid the price, I have earned my keep.

To be what you call a legend in this world.

And this one, is gonna be a true test. A 60-day challenge.

This is, for sure gonna be the biggest test of me.

In this environment, there are so many things that'll take you down.

I think the greatest fear is not being able to see what's in the water.

And then we're gonna be walking across it.

This swamp can eat us alive.

It's been four years since my last naked and afraid challenge.

I learnt some hard lessons on my two 21-day challenges

that I couldn't complete.

I had to tap out on day 16 in the everglades due to parasites.

And then I went to africa.

On day nine, I was the first girl to break a boob.

It's torn and it hurts bad.

But given the opportunity, third time is the charm.

Forty days in ecuador.

I crushed it.

This is one of the scariest things that I've actually done in my life.

It's right here, tonight. Going out there and attempting to catch a fish.

When there's anacondas and caiman in the water with me as well.

Oh, my god!

This is what we call dinner in the amazon.

One of my skills that I can bring to this challenge,

is I'm a huge fisherwoman.

I can fish anywhere, with spears...

Cast nets. I just go out there and get it done.

Oh, my god!

But in ecuador, the hardest thing I had to deal with

was personalities.

I do not like chancer's raft.

It's incredibly heavy, some of the weight on it, it's not necessary.

It floats and it holds two people.

You don't have to have an attitude right now.

Uh, but I do.

And we're working together.

Talk to me like a human being.

The environment changes who you are.

You either become a beast, or you become weak.

I don't appreciate cockiness.

If you wanna teach, then I tell you what.

Change your attitude and we'll listen to anything you have to say.

This environment is incredibly dangerous.

There are bugs everywhere...

Specially mosquitoes, that'll take you down.

Gosh, you're ate up, chick.

This is what happens when you go, try to be a survivalist...

In the amazon.

It'll eat you alive.

There it is.

And then you've got the alligators.

I love handling alligators.

I wanted to push my boundaries as who I am as a survivalist

and I became addicted to it.

I love ripping 'em out of the water,

mounting them on their back. They're unpredictable.

Especially out in the wild.

But my biggest fear coming out here isn't just the environment.

It's the people.

What do you do in a situation like this

when everybody's a legend.

And everybody wants to do it their way.

It's gonna be difficult,

but I know I'm a strong woman.

And I've survived two combat tours in iraq and I've been injured.

And I can get through it.

Look how big this is.

Yeah.

I've done 96 days worth of naked afraid.

I have the most days for any person of color on this challenge.

And that makes me feel like I'm holding a torch.

I've done the whole gambit.

Every single challenge I've done has been completely different.

A hurricane. Just blowing right through my shelter.

It's freaking cold.

Oh, my, god, look at the freaking rhino right there.

Oh damn, that thing's pretty close.

I got... I gotta get outta here.

- Shark! - It's right there.

- Holy crap, it's... - duck!

Duck!

I think my biggest accomplishment was making it solo in south africa,

and killing an impala.

I just nailed an impala.

Yeah!

Look at all that meat, baby.

Looking like snoop dogg's house on 4/20.

Just straight smoking.

I can do the bow drill, I can build shelters, I can set snares.

I know I got all that stuff down.

So I just consider myself max of all trades.

I look at myself as a hunter-forager hybrid.

So, if I'm a hunter and I'm sitting around and there's nothing to hunt,

then damn well you know I'm gonna be a forager.

You know, you gotta do what you gotta do in order to survive.

I see coconut trees over there.

I see there's a potential to get resource for everybody.

I'm gonna always adapt and change

to what is necessary

and what's available at that location.

But the biggest obstacle in my previous challenge was just dealing with people.

I was kinda stuck with a couple lumps

that weren't really doing much.

Lately, I feel like you've been really frustrated with me.

It just feels like I'm putting a lot more effort in.

- For what? - For everything.

I'm gonna let you know how I feel.

People have to pull their weight.

That's all there is to it.

Sometimes it just feels like you came into this with, like, no skills for this.

- Okay. - You know what I mean?

Maybe me being myself, being outspoken

can kinda rub other people the wrong way.

You know what? I'm sick of your negative attitude, bro.

It's always, "I hope it's something else, hope it's somewhere else".

If I'm a confident, outspoken man,

they might think I'm cocky and arrogant.

But I don't have any regrets.

I go into each challenge, putting in all out on the line.

Gary is always the wild card.

He's done some of the craziest that you've seen on this challenge.

This head smells of life! Smells of life.

But at the same time, they might have questionable judgment.

With max and gary,

I hope this isn't an ego driven competition for them.

But I'm gonna get it done no matter what.

From fan to xl veteran...

Whoo!

Max has completed all four of his challenges.

After early setbacks, amber survived 40 days

to prove her worth in the amazon.

- Gary brings extreme self-confidence. - Wow.

But his scavenger mentality...

Delicious.

...Can lead to risky choices.

As a result, this fiercely headstrong group

joins forces with an initial xls rating of 54%.

- - ow.

Check it out.

Alligator tracks.

I'm literally getting the palms

right from where he likes to chill.

Hey, gary.

There's an alligator in the water...

About 100 yards from where I'm pointing.

There's alligators out here.

But I wanted to be the guy to go forth

it's part of the reason why I'm here.

- Be careful, gary. - No way.

Oh, something's coming.

Oh, time to go.

That's a monster.

Gary!

Oh, my gosh!

. Damn!

Sixty days down here in the swamps.

It's a long time.

Oh, it's rain, dude.

We're gonna hit changing seasons,

and it's gonna get very difficult.

It's soaking wet everywhere.

We are freezing right now.

We better be able to plan ahead and prepare for the long haul.

We have to create a shelter that's bomb-proof.

If we don't do that, mother nature will take us out.

Winter is just beginning.

So we gotta batten down the hatches.

We gotta tighten up our shelter.

It is freezing.

You guys, we've made some amazing progress.

Definitely.

I'm gonna take this tree down. Probably about 60 to 70 foot tree.

- Yes. - Gary, that's huge.

Yeah, we'll get a lot of logs out of that baby.

Oh, my god

that tree is gonna deflect it just a little bit to go this way.

Do you know that? That's right above our shelter.

Well...

Gonna deflect it here. Okay.

Here we go.

Gary is just the el macho, chopping down a huge tree, you know,

and I believe, work smarter not harder.

- Oh, it's coming, gary. - Oh, get back, amber.

The final team to push deep into the dark heart of the atchafalaya

is ej, sarah and suzanne.

- We're in the swamp girls. - Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

In the xl world of naked and afraid, I am one of the legends.

Look at that. That's dinner.

We got fire.

The first time I ever stepped out in tanzania, africa, I was hooked.

Between my foot and the rain,

I mean this is really a tough situation.

Every time you come out here, there's a new way to test yourself.

We made it, we survived for 21 days.

It's what I find out about myself that's deep inside me.

I have changed as a man through these challenges,

I've evolved as a survivalist and I've become better for it.

- Yeah! - Yeah.

I was 49 years old the last time I was on an xl challenge.

- Holy dude! - What bro?

Eel!

But age is not a factor for me.

I'm a guy that's an action man.

I let my actions do my talking.

I live for these challenges, and I'm always ready for another journey.

I've been in swamps like this a lot.

But the one thing this place reminds me of is the amazon

it's thick and it's nasty.

Hey, hey, hey. Look right there. Holy crap!

The biggest thing I bring to table for my partners is

gonna be my survival experience,

and especially, being in swamps.

I, for three years, trained rangers in the us army,

in the swamp environment.

I'm not gonna try to be mr. Know it all.

But I really wanna help my partners understand that

this is a very dangerous environment.

Jeez!

This swamp will chew you up alive and spit you out,

if you're not prepared for it.

People always talk about the everglades.

That's a petting zoo compared to this place.

I put this place on the same danger level as the amazon.

When you're talking legends, you gotta manage a lot of personalities,

and that's gonna be the challenge.

I got no time for drama. You bring drama out to this environment,

it's not gonna work.

This is 60 days. That's a long time.

But how sweet that'll be when you get there.

Finding high ground in the swamps is gonna be one of our first challenges.

- Yeah. - Fortunately, there's a lot of woods

that's looks like it could be great for shelter building.

- Yeah. - Well, and it's 60 days.

- We're building a home. - Yeah, good point.

We can't be a shelter. It's gotta be a home.

I would describe my style of surviving

as pretty much a jack-of-all-trades.

I see protein. There's wasp nests.

I bring a strong skill set.

I can build a shelter. I can source water.

I can tend to wounds.

- I am covered in leeches. - Hold still.

I can go out there and get fish and a terrapin.

Yes, yes.

On this challenge, my partners are gonna really appreciate my energy level.

Got firewood.

Awesome.

Awesome? How about yay? 'cause this one's heavy.

My teammates will maybe just as equally

dislike my level of energy

because I can go and go and go and go.

Just wanna get and go. Come on.

Yeah, I'm working on it. Holy crap. Come on.

I am so glad I have

confident partners that wanna work together

and do stuff as opposed to feeling like I'm out there with a toddler.

When I was in africa...

I realize you're scared, but...

Well, there's a leopard.

One of my greatest accomplishments

was not bumping my partner upside the head

there's a leopard out there, and you're going the wrong direction.

Just stop, okay.

You're panicking, and it's causing you to act irrationally.

I'm just gonna forget you said that.

But this time, I'm out here with other legends,

but I'm not gonna be a pushover.

I have to believe in myself and rock this challenge.

I've never been in a swamp.

I don't know anything about swamps.

I am a water person, though,

but, obviously, it's pretty different from the ocean.

A lot of people look at me and they don't necessarily expect

that I have the inner strength that I do,

but I've proven it so far on my three previous challenges,

and I'm here to prove it again.

On my first challenge in the exuma cays,

I went out and I hunted

and I produced the majority of the meat that we ate that challenge.

But my second challenge was 40 days in south africa

where I froze...

It's hailing.

...And burned...

It's so hot.

...And got stuck with thorns.

. Ouch!

But I learnt my body is a lot stronger

than I'd ever known it to be.

Africa!

My third challenge was in the rainforest of mexico

where my partner trent and I tapped out

after 12 days of relentless rainstorms.

- -what the?

Holy.

Oh, my god.

It's on fire.

But it was really the cold that did me in.

Ooh.

So, I will get cold at night, but I'm a fire master.

Ooh.

The whole bowl is smoking.

Fire!

I fill in the gaps wherever necessary.

It looks like wild spinach.

Holy, sarah.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

But 60 days is a long time.

I remember doing 40 and thinking,

"ooh, jeez, I'm never gong to do this again."

it is freezing ass cold.

It is hypothermic cold.

This will be my home for the next two months.

And I know that anything can happen out here.

I'm prepared for anything.

It is a little creepy, isn't it?

That's like classic creepy.

Yeah.

We have a lot of strong personalities,

and that sets us up for some potential conflict.

We got the ogre

and two little elves out in the swamps.

So that's gonna be the challenge,

figuring out how do we work together,

not step on toes and get to 60 days.

Sarah possesses grit and a team-first approach.

Food for the whole family.

But ej's tough military mentality...

yeah!

...Could clash with suzanne's fierce independence and tireless work ethic.

Their starting team xl success metric is set at 47%

ow.

I wanna get a pier built just off my beach here.

I could get water with no issue,

could fish off the dock, get to the deeper water where the bigger fish are,

climb the tree, get to the other side.

I'm always doing risk assessments on the fly.

This is worth the risk though, because I can see all kinds of big fish down there.

That's the prize.

Such a steep angle.

That makes it difficult.

Ah-ha!

My grandfather used to always say,

"there's a willow, there's a way."

wonder if that'll hold my weight.

Ah!

Oh, I got speared!

- We need a medic! - Medic!

One of the most important things in survival is how fast you can adapt.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Knowing how abundant the alligators are,

I think it's too risky to cross the creek,

so we're gonna work on this 50-foot bridge.

This is a big enough chunk of wood.

We can make this into some kind of a dugout canoe or...

Wow!

Max and I both laid down the coals evenly, all the way down the canoe

where we have a cut out groove.

That's where we're gonna be burning down to

be able to make the place where we're gonna sit.

It's never been done on naked and afraid, I can tell you that much.

These are rylie's infallible fire bombs

that are sure to start any fire,

so this is kindling and tinder that's been drying for weeks

soaked in gator fat and dried again

and then, in the center, is a piece of charcoal.

And then it's wrapped in dried palm and leaves.

So these are gonna go up like a roman candle no matter where we go

and we have that failproof fire bomb to help us on the way.

We have to smoke this gator meat.

This entire tree base is completely hollow.

This is almost like a smoker already.

Let me go grab some hot coals now.

And as you look down in,

I've created this grill that we're gonna be placing the meat on.

I guess on naked and afraid, you get good at a few things.

Come on out here, I just wanna hang out.

We're gonna have a good barbecue real soon.

Y'all hurry up now.

What the hell is this?

Ha!

The diary cam!

Yeah!

So, I'm fattening up for xl legends with jeremy mccaa.

Jeremy is from louisiana. Where am I going, jeremy?

Atchafalaya basin.

I'm gonna make sure I know how to say this right.

- Atchafalaya. - Atchafalaya.

- Atchafalaya. - Okay, I got it. I got it.

- Atchafalaya. - Atchafalaya.

We just found out we're doing 60 days in louisiana.

All right, guys, what'd you find out so far?

You should make clothes for, um, some people so you can make friends,

'cause you really need friends.

I need friends? Okay.

I have something to tell you.

Daddy's gonna go kill some alligators.

Yeah! Daddy's gonna go kill some alligators.

I'm going to the swamps, boy.

Balance in the swamp is very important

and I have not such great balance,

so this really helps.

Oh, this is gonna be tough.

Boom.

Bulls eye, I haven't lost my touch.

This is the best foot training gravel I have ever encountered.

It's all... crunchy, crunchy.

4:30 a.M. I'm out the door. Oh, well, that's goodbye.

I'll see you in 60 days.

Sixty days, it's gonna be the craziest one yet.

Six times later, it's not getting any easier.

- I'll tell you what, it... - better become a pro becoming a naked and afraid widow so...

just landed in louisiana. Gators, beware.

While we're in quarantine before we get let loose,

I'm busting my ass getting the workout in.

Look at me, I'm huge!

I've put on 43 pounds of muscle and fat in the last eight weeks

and I'm ready for this. I'm ready for another 60.

Just studying here, all the fauna and flora that we could potentially be eating.

Just trying to get ready.

Tomorrow morning, I'll be heading into the 60-day challenge.

I'm gonna miss you guys so much!

We're gonna miss you.

Last shower for 60 days.

And I'm gonna go till the hot water runs out.

Sixty days baby! If you can't hack it, get out of here.

Soon, very soon, in mere hours...

You will see the savage emerge.

With no more time to prepare,

naked and afraid's best of the best,

are about to embark on the toughest challenge of their lives.

It's gonna be legendary!

You ready?

I'm excited!

- Oh, yeah? - I don't know if that's the word I would use.

- I mean... - But I'm like, yeah, I'm with you.

We're all on a mission to accomplish something impossible.

A challenge this long is gonna take legends to get through it.

This is gonna be tough.

It's going to be one of the crazy, worst, exciting, awesome times of our lives.

Absolutely, we just gotta make sure nobody gets bit by a snake.

We don't worry about the rest.

Hey, look, look, look, look, we're getting close. It's on now, yeah!

All there is left to do now is get naked.

This could be the most epic adventure yet.

All right, let's get it on!

- Right here, right here. - Oh, georgie, you watching me?

- watch out! -

back up, back up.

Sixty days is a long time.

If you don't have the skills to be out here, the swamp will smell you out.

- Woah, he went under, I can't see him no more. - Go, go, go!

There's a gator on that line.

One, two, three.

Oh, his penis. You're gonna eat that?

'cause I don't give a I'll eat maggoty food in front of you guys.

'cause I'm a hard headed

I don't wanna feel like a sidekick.

It is freezing.

- - ah.

Ah!

Really? you!

Come on, louisiana, is that all you got?

I am not gonna give up. I will cross the finish line.

I will leave the swamp a legend.

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