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[jeff] it is morning of day...

Twenty four?

Still haven't seen any alligators in like four days.

[exhales] that's a nice haul.

[jeff] yeah.

But hoping in the next couple days, that changes up.

I'm gonna check these lines.

We need to catch catfish.

We need to keep fishing. We need to keep scavenging.

We're gonna do what we have to do

to cross that finish line in 60 days.

[jeff] nothing.

This is nuts, dude.

Oh... *bleep*

nutria.

Hey, jeff. Get a stick or something.

[jeff] okay, he's coming towards you.

Should be over here.

[jeff] I see him.

You can get in front of him.

There he is.

He's going out to the swamp.

[jeff]I lost him in the lilies.

[steven] so I finally see a nutria.

Uh, we try to corral it,

and he ended up swimming away.

Damn. That was close.

Yeah. Put out some snares.

Maybe we'll get lucky.

Haha!

[steven] I am stoked.

Because this is the first rat I've seen.

I thought this was some bayou myth

that somebody keeps talking about, these giant rodents

that look like beavers out here.

It looked delicious, honestly.

Oh yeah. I'm gonna eat him.

There's good cover underneath this

dead tree here.

This is his zone for sure.

All right. Let's do this thing.

[steven] so, what I figured I'm gonna do,

I'm gonna get a pole, about 14-15 feet long.

I'm gonna hang several slipknot snares,

all the way down this pole,

I'm gonna sink it right into the ground,

and man, it would just really make me and jeff's day

to put a big 'ol swamp rat on the grill.

Coming together.

-Slowly but surely, here. -Yeah.

[jeff] eating a nutria would be great.

This is the same animal

that gave me a parasitic infection

on my ballsack.

If there's anything out here I wanna kill, it's this thing.

[steven] no matter what, he has to go

through this gauntlet of terror.

Eleven snares.

Pretty proud of this.

And I'm hoping, if one even just trips up,

and kind of panics himself in the gallows over here,

he's gonna start moving around

and get himself more tangled in the other snares.

Yeah. Nice. I like it.

Animals better beware!

[narrator] six miles to the west,

gary and max are now a team of two.

After complications from a past injury...

[doctor] which toe am I touching?

I don't know.

[narrator] ...Forced their most steady provider

to be medically removed from the challenge.

-Bye, amber! -Bye, amber!

[amber] I love you guys!

Yeah, should we just go try work the treble?

Yeah.

[exhales] already miss amber.

Just her undying enthusiasm

and just the unwavering want to fish.

And now that she's gone,

we're gonna have to step it up double time

to get our hooks in the water,

to get us fed.

You know, I study as hard as I can,

I prepare as hard as I can,

but you always just need a little bit of luck.

Checking the lines in the mornings, and...

Praying an hoping that we can get something on the line today.

That'd be huge for morale.

Huge for us to keep powering through.

Hopefully this one's it, right here.

We deserve this.

[gary] here, is this our first line?

[max] yeah.

[gary] it's still hanging.

*bleep*

all right, you wanna meet me over here? I'm gonna keep pushing.

Sure.

Me and max were checking the alligator lines,

making sure they're at the right level.

I'm gonna bait these catfish hooks.

We just gotta like keep the line untangled,

keep putting bait on, throwing it out,

'cause amber drove home that this works.

[max] I've always thought gary's just a wild card.

Crazy dude. But we have to work together for the greater good

for us to get to the finish line.

All it needs is a nice little tug and she's gonna roll.

Voila!

I absolutely do feel, uh...

A passionate desire to sort of carry the torch a little bit.

Make amber proud.

She kind of actually gave me the bug a little bit, you know.

[max] you got the fishing bug?

-Yeah. -Hell yeah.

[gary] but so far, nothing.

I'm almost pretty sad.

[max] we're in a tough position

to try to get food on the table.

We've had, you know, some catfish here and there,

but we haven't seen a gator in this area for

at least a week.

And now we're at a point where it's almost at a standstill.

Seems that lady luck left with amber.

[gary] we ain't seen gators in the swamp.

[max] yeah. Concerning.

[gary] yeah. It is concerning.

[max] big old vulture flying up there.

[gary] yeah, it's circling, 'cause it's staring at us, dude.

[max] these *bleep* about to die. [laughs]

[gary] yeah, let's just circle over these two guys.

They look pretty promising.

Not today vultures, not today.

[narrator] sixteen miles to the north,

for matt, ryan and rylie.

[matt] oh yeah! Snake-slayer, rylie!

Are you gonna drink some blood?

[narrator] small victories have brought new life.

But they know that won't be enough

to survive 60 days in the swamp.

[sighs] might just get down and bait that gator line down there.

Get some fresh stuff,

and check the traps.

We'll see if... See if they might start moving.

It's finally warm enough today for the first time in the last

ten days we've had a chance.

This is true.

[matt] for the last about ten days,

I haven't seen a single alligator,

and we're getting hungry.

As I hear my team-mates talk about hunger and food,

it drives that inner drive inside of me,

like I need to hunt, I need to fish, I need to get food.

So, like a true warrior today,

gonna push forward.

Let's see what we find.

Hopefully, there's something there.

We could really use a big... A big win.

[matt] so on this one, I've got that catfish head.

Oh, the bait's still there.

Catfish head's still there.

Definitely nothing hit that bait all night.

Damn it.

On to the next one.

[ryan] what is it?

I think we got a...

We got a gator on the line, I believe.

This is unbelievable.

We haven't seen an alligator in a... In...

We don't even know how long.

I'm gonna ease him in, just to...

Just to confirm.

Yup. He's on it. He is on it!

Yes!

[matt] this gator is big.

This is a big boy.

We got a *bleep* alligator.

Oh! This is a big day.

Yes!

Good morning.

[ryan] it's gator time.

-[rylie] shut up! -Gator day.

Oh... *bleep* huge.

It is. We've got about an eight to nine foot alligator on the line.

-Agh! -And we're so *bleep* happy.

Let's mash up some war paint?

[matt] this is our tradition.

You know, it's customary for a warrior before they go into battle to...

Prepare themselves for what's ahead,

and the warrior paint

is embracing that you're going in battle.

Help protect us, help keep us strong,

and win this battle.

-All right. -All right.

-Guys, let's do this. -All right.

Agh! I'm savage.

-[grunting] -let's get it.

We deserve it. We earned it.

We're hungry!

[ryan] well, there he is.

[matt] there he is. Oh, that's a nice gator.

Oh yeah.

Oh man!

[matt] that's a nine-footer right there.

[rylie] this is gonna be a tight fight.

[matt] we have a big gator.

This is easily double the size of the last gators we got.

You can't just dispatch him with a knife.

This gator, it needs a couple arrows,

and a whole team effort to bring him into shore,

dispatch him safely, and game over.

Once we get him in, we're gonna get a second line on him.

'cause what we don't want him to do is rip off anything.

Get this second line on. Then we'll stick him with some arrows.

[ryan] yep.

Now you gotta harvest this thing that can kill you with one bite,

and drag you out into the water and death roll with you.

You got to have a good grasp on it.

Having one hook and one line from one side,

riley's gonna move to the right.

I'm gonna put the noose down over the top of its jaw

and move to the left.

So now you've got two points of contact

holding this alligator, pulling both ways,

so matt could safely approach it from the side

and deliver a couple vital organ shots

with the bow and arrow.

It's solid.

-Oh, it's fighting. -[ryan] he's fighting now.

-[rylie] it's running. -[ryan] he's going there.

[rylie] all right. Let's get in formation. Fold.

[ryan] woo!

Oh, yeah.

-[matt] holy *bleep*! -[ryan] oh, yeah.

[ryan] get him!

[matt] don't wrap the string around your finger at all.

[rylie] be careful.

-[matt] he's got way more fight than the last one. -[rylie] back up.

-[rylie] back it up. -[matt] yeah.

[rylie grunting]

-[ryan] oh, yeah. -[matt] he's probably eight foot.

[all exclaiming]

-oh, it definitely... -Come on.

[ryan] hang it on.

Oh, yeah.

-[rylie] come on! -[matt] come on, big boy.

-[rylie] he's close. -[ryan] careful dude.

-[rylie] watch out. -[ryan] hang on. Watch your knee!

[rylie] watch out!

[all exclaiming]

[ryan] oh, yeah.

[rylie] come on!

[matt] come on, big boy.

-[rylie] he's close. -[ryan] careful dude.

[all exclaiming]

[rylie] oh, watch that tail.

[ryan] oh, what do you think about that buddy.

[matt] oh, my god.

[ryan] take it on!

[matt] ryan, see if you can get that other noose on his head.

-[alligator hissing] -[rylie] oh, hissing.

-[rylie] wow. Oh, watch out. -[ryan] hang on.

-Yup. -[rylie] watch your pole is all.

[rylie grunting] watch out.

[matt] easy, buddy. Easy now.

[ryan] hand.

[matt] easy.

[rylie] watch your hand.

[matt] all right. Pull the rope.

-[matt grunts] all right. -[ryan] got it.

[rylie] all right.

[ryan] right there is good.

Just hold the tension on, guys.

We got it.

[ryan] all right. A little more.

Let him do his thing for a second.

[rylie] okay.

[ryan exhales]

well done, guys.

-Well done. -[rylie grunts]

[rylie] that's a dinosaur. That's a monster.

-Alligator gladiators. -Yes!

Gator bites for days.

Oh, man.

One, two, three.

-[ryan grunting] holy mother! -[matt] yeah, buddy.

-[ryan] good? -[matt] yup.

-[rylie] get ready to gut it. -Good.

[rylie] this is gonna be an all-day process, y'all.

Hope you got your sleep.

[ryan] having a nine foot alligator,

two hundred to 250 pound reptile,

this point in the challenge, day 24,

this is humongous.

This is at least two weeks' worth of food

off of this one alligator.

[matt] what are we gonna name this guy?

[rylie] this one needs a beast of a name.

[ryan] he needs a monster name.

-[matt] maximus. -[rylie] yeah.

-[ryan] maximus, I love it. -[rylie] I love it.

[all laughing]

[rylie] so you're gonna try to get the tail off

then I can work on that.

Yeah. Yup. I'll do the tail first.

At this point, I've got a lot of experience with alligators.

We've gotta get these things smoked, hung

and try to eat certain things at certain times.

Like that tail, that's where they keep all their fat.

We have to cook that.

It's almost a high stress of eating and processing

and a lot more eating.

We got 48 hours on this food

before flies, the moisture in the air,

everything makes it rancid.

And so using what we've learned

from the first gator we caught,

anything that we can't eat

right away tonight or tomorrow,

has to be jerky

and that's the key to our survival.

Ryan is stringing up jerky lines in our shelter

and our shelter serves as our smoker as well.

[matt] meat delivery.

-[rylie] woo! -Can I grab that liver off there?

[matt] yeah. I wanted that.

You can just set that right there on the floor,

just like everything else.

You just cook that with the fat on it.

[ryan] so, you've never eaten alligator liver?

No. No.

Just never desired to eat? Never tried it?

Yeah. Just never part of the main menu of things.

It's a definitely worth a try though.

I've never eaten alligator liver.

However, our plan is actually

to consume all that fresh meat

while we have that jerky stored away

for a rainy day

or after a week or so of us not eating

when we need to start cutting into that supply.

It's cooked all the way, that's all the way through.

-[matt] that's perfect. -[rylie] yeah.

[rylie] I wanna see what your reaction is to that pate.

So a liver on an animal is one of the most

nutrient filled parts of the organs

and it has a lot of iron.

Out here we are craving iron.

We're working hard everyday.

And so this liver, it's worth eating.

Alligator liver.

Bon appetite.

[ryan] that's absolutely delicious.

-Yup. -What? This is super mild.

[ryan laughs] I know. I was not expecting that at all.

-This tastes like something you put on a sandwich. -[ryan] wow.

-[ryan] yeah. -[rylie] more people should eat this.

Well, the fat of the liver there.

Well, that's really incredible.

I'm glad we tried it.

[matt] mm-hm.

[narrator] nine miles south west,

ej enters his 10th day of solo survival.

And the challenges of battling the swamp alone

are starting to mount.

*bleep*

[ej] all right.

Checking my fishing lines.

See if we got anything.

Good morning, day 25.

And I'm throwing everything I got but the kitchen sink

at the food situation.

I've got a gator trap out,

I've got several fishing lines out.

Oh, man.

I think a gator got me.

And I have not gotten anything in my belly.

That's disappointing.

Let me check this one over here.

I could get down on myself, be negative about it.

But I'll be positive.

Not get ambushed by frustration.

Oh, whoa! Bullfrog!

[grunts]

[grunting]

he's gone.

[sighing in exhaustion]

it was huge. Huge.

Big sucker.

And I must've looked like a psych,

this big ogre trying to tackle this little bullfrog.

[sighs in exasperation]

that sucks.

The lone wolf just keeps throwing everything he's got

at this thing just to put some food in my belly.

These frogs all come out at night.

So I think a little night hunt,

little frog gigging,

is in order tonight.

Need to develop a torch.

All right. That's the base.

Wrap that all with vine all the way up.

Put that hole in there.

I got some cypress shavings.

Some smashed moss.

[narrator] bullfrogs avoid daytime predators

by being more active at night.

And since their eyes reflect light,

a torch increases the odds of spotting them.

Awesome.

Next on the agenda,

I'm gonna make a gig spear here.

This is a common used swamp spear.

People use it for fish,

or gigging frogs or lizards, or even small mammals.

And I will split it to make four prongs.

That's my first split.

Perfect.

The spikes for the gig are already starting to form.

Just gonna put points on them now.

It's like having a hand.

So it's like four fingers

and you capture everything.

So you got four points that are gonna hit your target,

and pin it down.

The idea is just to capture them before they get away.

This is all secured with the vines.

Just gotta fire hard the tips

and dry out the spear a little bit

then it'll be ready for action.

Ready for tonight's hunt.

[making hunting sounds]

I'm gonna go check the snares

and just start grabbing piles, dude.

[jeff] sounds good, man.

[steven] I got a few snares set up.

It's literally like 11 snares

on one 14 foot pole.

I put them right where homeslice was coming in and out.

So hopefully, we have a, you know,

swamp rat dinner tonight.

[animal groaning]

*bleep*

I think there's a nutria over there.

[animal groaning]

there's definitely something over there.

There he is.

Right there.

I knew he was gonna be here.

Damn it. That means he wasn't in the snare.

[exhales]

that son of a bitch.

What do I see in the exact same spots?

That same damn nutria.

Man, these things are quick and they swim.

Once they get under all those lily pads,

they're gone, man.

I'm gonna get him.

I'm gonna get him.

For sure.

There you are.

I've always worked as hard as I possibly can every challenge.

[grunts] got it.

And steven, he's the same type of guy.

And as long as we keep that mindset up,

there's nothing we can't do out here.

You're gonna be fish bait.

You're gonna be good fish bait too.

So I'm doing a little bait experiment, if you will,

hunting for little lizards and little skinks.

They're crawling all over near our shelter.

They're fast little buggers.

I think if I can get myself a couple,

I can bait my hook for this evening,

and I'm hoping for a fish dinner, baby.

Yes.

Nice frog. That's gonna be great bait.

We've got legs as bait,

we've got the guts that are gonna be bait.

That is killer.

I wanna be able to turn this into fish.

Providing these catfish a whole menu.

I'm putting a weight on the very end of the line,

and then I'm putting two hooks

on their own little 10-inch line

hanging off of the main line.

The upper hook, I've got frog,

the lower hook, I've got lizard.

This will allow the weight of the rock

to sink to the bottom of the river,

and it will allow both of these hooks

to float independently in the current of the stream.

And, hopefully, that will help these catfish

identify the bait more easily, but also prevent this bait

from getting snagged under water.

[max] I feel like the opportunities are sort of dwindling.

[gary] yeah, we can't hunt *bleep* here.

We need signs of life on this little strip of death.

We're on a tiny strip of land surrounded by mud and water,

so we don't have much options for hunting grounds.

[max] I saw a faint potential game trail.

[gary] let's check it.

The way this place is starting to look,

it's starting to look pretty sparse.

Food is looking pretty scarce.

Not one water moccasin.

[max] I mean, I'm not even seeing crawfish anymore either.

[gary] what kind of cruel joke was this?

It doesn't look like it's a type of place

that's gonna get us to extraction.

So we're definitely considering

migrating or exploring.

[max] I'm willing to stick it out for, you know,

a handful more days

to see if we can get a big kill.

Yeah. 'cause if we're gonna end up not getting a gator,

-dude, we're gonna be starving. -Yeah.

So I'm seeing this faint game trail

that runs right here.

Yo, I think I'm seeing some poop here.

-[max] this looks like nutria crap. -[gary] yeah.

[max] it's earth colored, it's torpedoed,

you know it's a large rodent shape.

-I mean they're just a giant rat... -Yeah.

...But I always say to myself,

you know, two days into the challenge,

-"I'll never eat a rat." -[chuckles]

and then a week into the challenge, like, "where's the closest rat?"

yeah. Right?

So we're at the point where "where's the closest rat?"

got the noose right here, it's kind of like that.

A little surgeon's knot.

[gary] a beehive!

-Where? Where? -[laughs] right there, dude! Check it out!

-[gary] we're gonna have honey. -[max sighs]

look at the size of that tree, though.

Yeah, I mean, I'm just concerned.

I'm fairly allergic to bees, I believe.

And if I get stung in the face,

it'll *bleep* me up.

What we'll do is, if I'm doing' it,

and they start getting hyper, you leave.

I can handle bee stings.

-I've messed with bees a lot. -Okay.

-I'm a beekeeper. -Yeah, dude.

That sounds legendary.

And that looks like a big, old rotten tree,

so I think that whole

inside of that is just *bleep* honeycombs.

This is huge, you know? For my sugar,

for our mental game.

And for just energy, just to have sugar,

that will bump us up so much.

Aw, man, that's gonna be, you know,

it's some work cutting that tree down,

but if we get it down,

it's something to do towards possible something to eat.

Chopping that down tomorrow.

[ej] ready to hunt tonight. Get me some bullfrog.

Okay. All right.

Off we go.

Whether it be day, whether it be night,

I'm coming for you, creatures of the swamp.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Rat.

In this kind of a situation,

this swamp's so dangerous,

one wrong turn, not paying attention,

a water moccasin will take you out.

And they're all over.

That is the most dangerous thing

we have going for us out here in this swamp.

[sighs]

is a nasty, angry water moccasin.

Show yourself you little bugger.

I just wanna see the gleam of your eyes.

Go ahead and ribbit. Ribbit your last croak.

There he is! [grunts]

well there you are. There you are!

He's gone. Son of a bitch.

I just had one jump right past my feet.

Almost had him.

There he is.

[grunts]

[ej] go ahead and ribbit. Ribbit your last croak.

There he is. [grunts]

yes! Got you, you little bugger!

You didn't get away this time.

Your brother might have, but not you!

That's right. I got you.

[laughs triumphantly] yes! Yes.

Damn, look at those legs.

I'm gonna keep eating everything in this swamp

till I've gotten everything off the menu in my belly!

Can't wait to eat it.

Day ending on a high note.

So grateful for him,

but that's something

I'm probably not gonna do every night.

It was really risky,

I could have got a mechanical injury,

I could have got hurt,

could have walked into a moccasin nest and got bit.

You know, too many variables could have went wrong with it.

Mmm.

But I needed to eat.

Definitely well worth it. Well spent.

So red.

Yeah, that's on point.

[rylie] how'd you guys sleep?

I slept pretty solid.

-I mean, definitely feeling-- -[matt] food drunk.

[ryan] food drunk.

-It's insane. -[ryan] yeah.

[rylie] if we're gonna keep hunting,

keep pushing, and not touch the jerky,

theoretically, this could take us all the way to the end.

[matt] oh, yeah.

[ryan] jerky is completely dried out meat,

there's no moisture in it,

and that food itself will last to day 60.

Our plan is actually to save the jerky,

not even touch it if we don't have to

and consume all that fresh meat

while we have that jerky stored away.

-[matt] our job is literally-- -[rylie] yeah, we gotta eat or this will go bad.

[matt] yeah.

Dude, that alligator eyeball is gnarly.

-[ryan chuckles] -[matt] that's not something you eat, though?

-[ryan] oh, we're eating it. -[matt] no.

-[ryan] oh, yeah. -[rylie] no, no, no, no.

[ryan] oh, this is where it's at, right here.

-[rylie] well, you go where it's at. -[matt laughing]

[rylie] not for me.

[ryan] I do know that the eyeballs

of most animals and fish are very good for you.

They are the only natural saline in nature,

giving your body some of those salts

that you really need out here.

[matt] okay. There it is, ryan.

[ryan] we're here for 60 days,

this alligator will not go to waste.

That right there, alligator eyeball.

Maximus' last eye.

It's my first alligator eyeball.

Right.

It was chewy, and salty.

-[matt] but not bad! -Not bad.

Not a delicacy.

Sounds awful.

[ryan and rylie chuckling]

[grunts]

-[steven] nice, bro. -Yeah.

[steven] stackin' it.

-[jeff] I'm about to go check my hooks. -[steven] nice.

[jeff] my new fishing setup has been in the water all day.

I just pray that there's a fish on the line.

And we haven't had a catfish in a few days now.

I've taken all the knowledge I've learnt

from four different continents and five total challenges,

and I've put it into this one fishing unit.

And I'm hoping that this thing

is gonna put dinner on the table tonight.

Come on. Come on, baby.

Oh?

Oh *bleep*! I got a fish on!

Come on, baby. Come on!

Stay on there.

Come on. Come on. Oh, my god.

Oh, my god, I got a double fish hook!

Yeah baby!

This is what I live for! Do you hear me louisiana?

I got a catfish and a gar. I'm loving the swamp more and more everyday.

This is the first time in any of my challenges I've got two fish on the same line,

at the same time. Today is a good freaking day.

The bag is heavy. I feel like santa claus!

It's my partner, it's my buddy, wouldn't ask for any other one.

The catfish ate the frog bait, the gar ate the lizard bait.

[man] alligator gar are prehistoric fish

with long snouts and rows of razor sharp teeth.

That resemble their killer namesakes.

These are truly prehistoric fish out here. They have an armor on their outside

almost similar to an alligator skin. It's very thick, it's very sharp.

But the inside it tastes so good,

and I'm excited to bring dinner to the table once again.

See this double fish master.

-Oh, you got a fatty! -Oh, yeah! Look at the head on that baby.

-It was a monster. -Yeah, hell yeah. We're eating good tonight.

-Flicking delicious. -Cheers bro.

-Gar isn't meaty, catfish is definitely more oily. -Oh, yeah.

[jeff] we're eating dinner, this is huge.

These fish are gonna give us the strength to hopefully get another gator.

And I feel like we're gonna be fueling excellent at the half way mark

which is exactly, uh... Where we want to be.

So, tonight we're gonna go to bed with full bellies and go to bed grateful tonight.

Such a blessing.

We were setting a snare hoping an animal would stumble into it.

-But nothing today. -Nope.

[max] fortunately we have a prospect of getting honey, which is just epic.

-There they are. -Ah, nice.

I'm about to chop this tree down with a bee hive in it.

So, max and I can enjoy the sugar and protein and a lot of energy.

[gary] best case scenario docile bees, lots of honey.

Worst case scenario, highly aggressive bees and we are

in quite a fight out here in the wilderness

-you know why bee suits are white? -Why?

-Because bees, they go after dark things. -Really?

Dark hair, dark skin, because bears, black bears, brown bears.

Jeeze louise.

-Like bro, I'm a dark bear right now. -[laughs] you're a black bear.

-I don't know if I wanna be hanging around here anymore. -[laughing] it's the truth.

-But that's why bee suits are white, for real. -Dude, no way.

-Yeah. So now you know little more information about bees. -Now I know when I get laced,

-it's because of that. -[gary laughing]

-[gary] so, ready to start chopping? -Let's get it.

[max] you go into anaphylactic shock from too many bee stings,

it's when you have too much poison in your system, your body just gets overloaded.

And that's pretty much the worst case scenario that can happen here.

I am allergic to bees. As a kid I got stung in and around the face,

and my face swole up really large. I just hope I don't get stung in the face

and or repeatedly all over the body. That would *bleep* me up.

-Oh, we got our first bee. -Where?

It just flew in front of me.

Those bees are starting to like, maybe, sense a little something.

[wood cracking]

[max] it's cracking.

-[gary] it's cracking? -[max] it's cracking.

It's leaning. There it goes.

Timber!

-Gotta start moving, start moving. -Watch those bees.

[bees buzzing]

[gary shouting]

-oh, yeah. -We did it. We took it down, max.

[gary grunting] *bleep* just got stung on the nose.

Oh, yeah. All right.

I essentially fell back because gary just got stung in the face.

It's a little terrifying because when I get stung in the face,

my whole face swells up. Dude.

*bleep* [gary grunting] *bleep*

-are you getting attacked? -[gary grunting] yep, yep. I'm getting stung. *bleep*

-are you getting attacked? -[gary grunting] yep, yep. I'm getting stung. *bleep*

oh, I'm gonna let him calm down a little bit.

I mean gary, you could just smoke it out,

-and then we can operate. -Yeah.

-We need to get a softer wood log and get it all coaled up. -Yeah.

-So it's just smoldering on its own, bring it over here. -Okay.

I'm in my element here. This is what I do.

But getting the honey with wild bees, butt naked. It's a bit of a puzzle.

When you smoke the bees out, they try to suck up as much honey as they can,

and they take off. It also causes them to be more docile because

when they get fat on honey, they get sluggish.

[max] I would not even step close to this tree.

I mean it's all calculated for gary because he's... He's dealt with bees.

It's just that I don't have, I guess the enzymes or the...

The fortitude to survive against multiple bee stings.

Ouch, ah, between the fingers always hurts so much.

On the webbing upper hand. Oh, gosh.

Damn that one smarts!

[max] how big is it in there? Is there a lot?

[gary] this could be enough to make me and you happy.

[max chuckling] I like happy.

-This is a lot my brother. -This is a lot?

Probably like... Half a gallon.

-Oh. -[gary laughing]

pure. Pure honey. I'm gonna take a bite.

Oh, my god. [both laughing]

gary is a rock star and I respect for him as a survivalist and right now

we're brothers. We're comrades.

Oh, it's so good.

-Wow, dude. We did it! The honey pot, baby. -More to come, bro.

That tasted magnificent. Absolutely magnificent. Legendary. Legend gary.

[kisses] I love you bees.

[max] finding a bees nest here, we got lucky, but...

I think our luck's running out in this location. We've pretty much demolished this area.

-We've thrived here as much as anybody could. -Absolutely.

-But resources are going out the window. -Yeah.

[gary] we haven't been seeing any alligators at all.

-We better start planning on getting the hell out of here. -Yeah.

I'll be down to leave tomorrow while we still have energy.

-We need to explore. -Yeah.

[gary] physically I'm feeling strong. I'm ready for this move.

To build the raft and find a new location besides this swampy hell hole.

We get tired, we each eat a little honey comb and, whoop-whoop-whoop,

feeling like freaking mario when he eats the mushroom.

-Yeah. Yeah. -It's awesome. [both laugh]

let's go check some fishing lines.

As a hunter, I'll admit it, I don't have the luck of fishing,

don't have the patience

and I, all my life, not been a good fisherman.

This stuff is so tricky trying to play with the tides in fishing.

I've had some success but I need to start eating more.

Let me check this one over here, and it kinda looks like it's moving, but we'll see.

Could be hyacinth. So far I've had two enemies show up.

One of 'em petty vocal about, that's the gator.

The other's this hyacinth, it keeps blocking me from getting to the fish,

if I try to swim across it, it tries to drown me. It's just constantly in the way.

Just way out there.

[grunting]

empty. Son of a bitch, hyacinth. It figures.

Good news is they're biting here.

Bad news is the hyacinth has rolled back up in here.

Can't afford to keep losing calories.

Want to build a bit of a pier right here.

Clear the hyacinth out of the way.

I could get water with no issue,

I could fish off the dock,

get to the deeper water where the bigger fish are.

That'll be a lot safer for me, too, if I have this pier

'cause anytime I get near the water's edge,

I don't know when it's gonna, psshh, drop off.

Get on that bright and early tomorrow.

[ej] hasta la vista, hyacinth.

-I'm gonna go check my snares. -Cool.

[steven] jeff caught a couple fish,

but we're gonna do a stock up on our food

because it's super important out here,

we don't know when the cold is actually gonna hit us so,

I built the gauntlet of death, my master snare awesomeness

and I'm gonna go check my nutria traps

and hopefully norman, the nuisance nutria

is wrapped up in my snare.

Not looking like anything in

the gauntlet of death here.

Looks like they've been messed up.

*bleep*

something dragged it.

Son of a bitch.

This one's all *bleep* up.

Something came through here.

*bleep*

ah. I don't know what did this.

Must have dragged it with him. I can't even...

Something came through here

and broke it.

Broke my snare, dude.

Holy *bleep*.

How's that even possible?

Wow.

Didn't undo the knot, literally broke the line.

This is like a 100 pounds.

Busted this log right off, broke this.

Wow, and that's in the ground, dude.

Holy *bleep*.

It's pretty trampled. That's insane.

I don't know what it could have been.

Could have been a gator.

Could have been a nutria that was caught

and then the gator ate it.

It couldn't have been a bear.

That's new for me.

I mean, it ripped...

A log straight out of the earth.

It's intimidating knowing that there's a giant,

you know, swamp beast out there.

That's a little scary.

I'm gonna think twice before getting up

and grabbing a feeder log tonight. That's for damn sure.

I don't know, man.

Norman, you won this battle.

[max] I'm feeling pretty good.

I think I'm in a better position that I was

on day 27 on my 40 day challenge,

physically.

We're moving through just like part of the process...

-Exactly. -...On our way to migrate, explore.

-With honey in tow. -With honey in tow.

While we're moving, we'll see more things.

We might even treble hook a gator from the raft.

-[max] you never know. -Could you imagine if that happened?

[max] that would be epic.

You can't move across the swamp by walking.

[gary] it's such a chore, it's unbelievable.

You end up chest-high in water, risking water moccasins.

Drifting across the top of the water is the best way to go so,

a raft is really the only logical thing to do.

I've built a lot of rafts, dude.

-I'm here to kinda, like... -[max] help me?

-...Support your vision. -[max] amazing. Appreciate it.

Give input when I feel, but...

[max] yeah, we gotta kinda get to it, huh?

[gary] yeah.

[both grunting]

[max] all right, let me get past this *bleep*.

How do you wanna do it, you tell me.

You go out

and then I'll lead with this.

[max] I've built a raft in three of my challenges now,

and I made rafts my entire life as a kid so,

feel really comfortable putting this together.

[grunts]

laying the bricks.

[gary] I found a beehive

and max has been working diligently on making the raft.

That's how it works.

My partner is a great survivalist...

Really opening the place up.

[gary] I'm a great survivalist.

A little cowboy camping.

[gary] and combination as a team, me and max are crushing it.

♪ tryin' to catch us raftin' dirty ♪

[both laugh]

this raft is made up of our shelter,

that we cannibalized

in order to create this raft.

This allowed us to use wood that has been drying

for 20 something days

since we've created this shelter,

using that is going to be more buoyant

than anything else that we can find

that would be a live wood.

All right, that should do it.

[grunts]

I'm happy to leave this place.

It could be nice to find higher ground,

richer hunting grounds.

[max] just kinda putting the finishing touches on it.

Good.

It's time for us to move along.

[rylie] our house looks like home again

with all the hanging meat.

[matt] I know.

[rylie] we have so much fat.

[ryan] we can use that fat for all kinds of things now.

We can render it down and make lye soap,

we can lubricate our bleeds.

[rylie] usually in survival settings,

you don't have a ton of fat.

But this time we've got about

four pounds of pure white clean fat

from this gator.

We're gonna split that in half,

and I'm gonna make soap.

[matt] I like that sound.

[ryan] that does sound good.

Looks good too.

[narrator] the use of animal fat

or tallow to make soap

has been traced as far back as five thousand years ago.

[rylie] see how clean that fat is?

It's like clear. It's gonna be beautiful.

The first step of this

is to render down the fat.

Heating the fat up and making sure that

all of the bits of flesh or meat

or anything that might be in there that isn't just clean pure fat,

is taken out.

The next part is to make lye.

All right, so this is just some water

and this is some white ash from our hardwood fire last night.

[narrator] wood ash contains sodium hydroxide,

a natural alkali that breaks down the acid of the fat.

[rylie] lye is just a caustic chemical

drawn out of the ash from the actual wood content.

It's dangerous to work with.

You should be wearing protective clothing and

it can cause you to go blind if it gets in your eyes,

so goggles as well.

Lye is ready.

The fat still smells really clean.

No stinky rancid, so the fat part of this product is good.

[matt] this soap is not just for thrills.

This soap is actually for survival.

We have a lot of time left on this challenge,

I, myself as well as ryan have been fighting a parasite.

Better we can wash ourselves with the soap,

the better we're gonna stay clean and healthy

till the end of the challenge.

[rylie] it's not gonna be solid like other soap,

'cause it's just too warm here, but we're gonna boil this together,

make sure it's all good

and then we're gonna let it cool a little bit.

Hopefully, it works.

Phew!

All right.

So...

This is the paddle.

I just gotta lighten it up,

make it easier to paddle

and this should do it.

[gary] are you happy with the rafter?

[max] just about, yeah.

I mean, I just need to hit this for like another 20 minutes

and then it should be done.

[gary] oh, oh, oh, oh.

Right now I see a great blue heron,

he's moved his kill which is a fish

onto the shore.

Gonna swim over there and try to steal his kill.

Almost there.

Almost there.

[grunts]

oh...

[screaming]

[gary speaks]

[max speaks]

[gary grunts]

it's an alligator gar.

[max] no way.

-[gary] it's an alligator gar. -[max] what?

-[gary] yeah. -[max] oh, yeah.

[gary] yes!

-Yeah! -[max] hell, yeah!

Gary's admiring the handiwork of this great blue heron.

We see he has this big gar.

We swim all the way to the lilies,

soon as we get to the lilies,

he throws his stick, and he's out.

And he leaves this gar behind, and now we're eating.

Dude!

-We're eating. -Yeah. Baby!

Boom. Nothing big,

but it's these little wins that keep moving us along.

[max] couple of little gar steaks.

[panting]

oh, man, what a day.

That's a prehistoric fish right there.

-Awesome teamwork right there. -Yeah.

Thank you, heron. Thanks for carin'.

[gary laughs]

heron is sharin'. [laughs]

heron is sharin'.

Dude, legan-gary.

[gary laughs]

honey-dipped alligator gar.

Mm.

Mm.

That's so good.

[gary] oh, wow, it's a nice white meat.

[max] that's real freakin' good.

[max] before we got the beehive,

dude, I was terrified of making, like,

using up our energy to make a raft,

and then burn up our energy...

-That, too. -..Paddling the raft, like...

But to be able to really come through clutch

in the ninth inning at our shelter

and get a walk-off homerun with the bee,

and then freakin' a victory lap

with the protein from the fish...

-Yeah. -Dude, that helps a lot.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Well, I hope we find a super hunting grounds

-full of alligators, really. -Yeah.

Of course we want the gator.

If we can score a couple of alligators...

That'd put us through.

It's a golden ticket to sixty.

[max] tomorrow, we migrate out of here.

And I'm hoping that we can be successful.

[ryan] I've never notched anything out with a knife like this.

It's coming together.

[matt] yeah, you're doing a good job.

Takes a little bit of whacking though.

[ryan] matt and I are making some bush craft camp chairs.

[matt] those chairs are just basically built out of two triangles.

It should be all fully supported just based on weight.

Now, we have been eating

a substantial amount of protein

up to this point in the challenge.

Our bodies are just machines,

and that is our fuel to keep going.

Look at this.

Oh, you do feel high and mighty.

Oh, wow.

First time in 14 days I haven't been sitting in the dirt.

[ryan] oh, yeah.

-[matt] I feel civilized a little bit here. -[ryan] right?

Except for my nutria itch nuts

are sitting on some pokey grass.

But besides that... [chuckles] pretty civilized.

[ryan] yeah.

[rylie] how is it? Nice in the sun?

It's good. Oh, yeah.

Sit here and watch the sun set

all majestically over the water.

Every house needs a family sign, team sign,

so that's what I'm working on here.

It's gonna be awesome.

And I think this is gonna come together really nicely.

Tryin' to make the letters pop as much as possible.

I decided to do a little outline with charcoal as well

on the outer edge of this.

You're gonna be able to read this sign very well from a good distance.

[blows] all right.

Pretty bold-lookin' sign.

[rylie] little higher on your side, ryan.

Very good. Perfect.

[matt] to have a sign for our entrance,

you know, even if it's just for us,

it's a morale boost every day

when you walk and you say, "welcome."

and then you get up there, "team savage".

And you're like, "yup. This is where I live.

This is where I thrive."

and you know what, it makes you proud to come home.

-[rylie] good job, ryan. -[ryan sighs]

it's exactly what it needed.

-[ryan] spelled it right, yeah? -[matt] yeah.

-[rylie] yeah. -All right, good.

-Ah, so good. Nice touch on the correct spelling. -[all chuckle]

[matt] oh, I'm excited.

Yeah, smells like... I think it's...

Totally smells like soap.

-100% like an all-natural bar soap. -Swanky.

[matt] that is wild.

[ryan] let's do a little test spot.

-I'll do a little leg. -[ryan] on my hands.

[rylie] yeah.

Put some on my leg.

And we'll do one leg and not the other leg,

and see what happens.

[matt] it feels so nice on the wounds.

[rylie] so I did one leg.

It's basically a lot cleaner than this one.

-That's insane. -[ryan] that's incredible.

Feels like two... Honestly, I'm wearing two different legs.

-[rylie] yeah. -[matt] yeah. [chuckles]

well, hey, another success. Another success for us.

-And my first. -Yeah.

So I have to question, what are we calling it?

Gator gut soap.

Rylie's gator gut soap available now...

-At team savage. -[chuckles] yeah.

[animal growling]

[whispering]

[twigs snapping]

[jeff speaking]

[animal growling]

[steven speaking]

[jeff speaking]

[animal growling]

nice to maybe go take a walk

back in that area, and see if we see any tracks.

Yeah, why not? Definitely. I think that's a good idea.

[jeff] last night,

steven and I heard footsteps outside the shelter.

We're not sure what it is.

Um, it could be a small animal

or it could be a big animal treading lightly.

So we're gonna go look for tracks.

[steven softly] stop.

[leaves rustling]

holy *bleep*.

That's a bear.

-[jeff] that is a bear. -[steven] that's a freaking bear track.

Bear! A big, old black bear track

right in the middle of the trail,

heading straight in the direction of our shelter.

I bet they can smell murder log.

-Oh, they can totally smell murder log. -Guaranteed.

-From here. -Yeah.

I bet that's why we're seeing him

-walk straight towards camp. -[steven] yeah. Yeah.

He smells murder log.

Murder log is a log that we use to process all of our kills.

We gutted a gator...

Oh, it's beautiful.

[jeff] ...We've gutted seven fish,

multiple lizards.

This log smells like murder.

[steven] look at that thing, dude.

That is one of the biggest black bear tracks I've seen.

-[jeff] it's a big bear. -That is a big bear.

[jeff] that's pretty wild.

[steven] he probably broke my snare.

Dude, when you set up your snare's...

-[steven] I gotta be careful. -...You better not snare a bear.

I know. Now I'm terrified.

-[jeff] oh, you should be. -[steven laughs]

[jeff] dude, check this out.

That's bear *bleep*.

Oh, yeah, that's totally bear *bleep*.

[steven] look at that.

-That's not fresh. -That's not fresh.

-That must be a week old. -That's...

Yeah, it might be a week old.

[jeff] which means that bear is...

[steven] this is part of his trail.

-[jeff] this is his territory. -[steven] yeah.

-[jeff] we've got visitors. -[steven] yeah.

Black bear is a formidable predator.

And you know, when we got

a murder log covered in blood over there,

right next to our shelter,

it's concerning.

We gotta keep vigilant

because one wrong turn out here in the swamp,

that's the end.

Not just the end of the challenge, it might be the end of our lives.

-Definitely worth keeping an eye out for. -[jeff] yeah.

[ej] I'm gonna build a pier right next to my camp

to give me ability to just be at my camp,

walk out on the pier, be able to get water freely,

be able to fish from my dock,

keep the hyacinth at bay.

You gotta understand something about this hyacinth.

It's like its own living creature.

It moves around on its own.

It floats. It's like a sheet of green stuff.

Like a blanket.

And it, kind of, moves in. It's unbelievable.

So I have to move it out of the way

and then put up, kind of, a barrier, prevent it from coming back.

Because it will come back.

So, I think I got a pretty good plan for that.

And we will attack today.

Morning wood lumber company going to action.

Collecting all the lumber I need for this project,

and as well as vines.

I think my first, phase one portion of this

is to clear this area out so I can safely walk

up and through this willow.

And clear this portion of the hyacinth behind this willow tree.

And I can put little spikes in there.

And I can keep the hyacinth from approaching into my zone here.

And then, phase two.

I want to get a pier built, just off my beach here.

Back with you.

You good beast.

There's a lot of risk going out there.

If I slip in the mud and trash my knee,

break a-- throw a hip, break a leg,

then I am out of here.

But, you know, I am ready to take some risks to get a reward.

I need to eat.

Get over there.

[yells]

[sighs]

it's exhausting, but...

Phase one will be done today, for sure.

[ryan] let's get creative here with the stew.

[riley] this is one jowl that we smoked over the past three days

that we are gonna cube up and put in the pot for stew.

[crackling]

[ryan whispering] I got it.

[matt groans]

-[matt] oh, this smells good. -[ryan] yeah.

-[ryan] that smells great. -[riley] let me see.

-[ryan] here you go. That's not bad. Nothing-- -[riley] uh-huh.

[matt] to me, everything in survival has nutrients, has something.

And I mean to tell you, I will eat everything.

Because you know what? Not a ounce of it is going to waste.

First part of the gator tail, the biggest part

with the most meat on it and tons of fat.

-[riley] gonna be good. -Going in the stew.

[ryan laughing] oh, boy.

[matt] let's get another section off here.

[ryan] I don't want to eat that but the center's not really cooked right now.

[ryan] you're too good at this.

[ryan] I don't really think of matt as "a" legend.

He is "the" legend.

Absolutely look up to him.

As far as the expanding my palette and eating outside of my comfort zone,

matt gives me this huge confidence boost.

You know, if he's gonna do it, I'm gonna do it.

[ryan] I don't think we can put anything else in there.

[matt] that's gonna be a thick one.

[ryan] all right. Set it and forget it.

[ej groaning]

[ej] oh, yeah. Look at that.

Oh, that's a good push.

Making progress on operation hasta la vista

hyacinth. It's a chore. It's like fighting a prizefighter.

I am up to my thighs in muck.

Fighting the hyacinth, trying to put stakes in there.

Not getting easier because I'm going further out where I can't touch bottom,

and there's alligators out there.

[groans]

[water sloshing]

climbing the tree to get to the other side.

I can see all kinds of big fish down there.

That's the prize.

I need to concentrate.

Because I never have the best of balance.

So-- such a steep angle.

It makes it difficult.

Not fun with muddy feet.

[exhales]

[groans]

[exclaiming in excitement]

my grandfather used to always say,

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

I see you wrestling through the hyacinth, mr. Alligator.

Making progress.

[water splashing]

this is lot more enjoyable...

Than sinking in that mud, I'll tell you that much.

I got a better angle up here.

[water sloshing]

[groans]

I wonder if that'll hold my weight.

[branch creaking]

-[cracking] -[ej screams]

[groans]

I got speared.

[groaning]

[ej] at least I got you in position.

I wonder if that'll hold my weight.

[branch creaking]

-[cracking] -[ej screams]

[ej screams]

[groaning] I got speared.

[groaning continues]

oh, man.

Tried to castrate me.

Son of a bitch swamp!

*bleep* you!

Tried to take my *bleep* balls?

Really?

*bleep* you!

I'll kill you!

You want a war?

Fine.

War it will be.

I'm gonna own this bitch.

[screaming]

[exhales]

-[ej] all right. I got a laceration. -[producer] okay.

-[ej] but it is... -[producer] oh, yeah.

-[ej] ouchy-chewy-chewy. -[producer] okay.

-[ej] balls are intact. -[producer] good.

[ej] little bit of blood.

Just need some stitches.

[man] she's here.

-[medic] hey, ej. -[ej] hey.

So I fell in off the branch, it broke, I hit a stake.

-It just lacerated me. -[medic exclaiming]

[ej] but it's okay.

It's just open wound.

All I need is a couple of stitches.

[ej] three, four stitches.

[ej] so...

[ej] I don't think--

nah.

Ej has sustained a one and half to two inch laceration.

There's two lacerations. One is a little bit smaller.

[anna] there's a decent amount of contamination, as well,

that needs to be very thoroughly cleaned up.

It needs to be stitched up very, very well.

Worst case scenario is an infection.

A loss of genitalia.

And if he becomes septic, it could be fatal.

[producer] you have an option.

-Okay? -[ej] okay.

[producer] you will need stitches according to anna.

You can either go into the hospital

to get those stitches in a sterile environment,

but you'll have to medically tap from the challenge.

Or anna says that you are okay to get the field stitches out here.

But you need to give us a clear call as to what you'd prefer.

I will absolutely have the stitches done out here.

There's no way I am leaving.

[producer] okay.

[ej] yeah, this is not a clean environment.

Most people would be scared to death out here

to get bacteria or something else in there.

I don't worry about those things for couple of reasons.

One, I am ej snyder.

[ej] yeah.

[ej groaning] yes.

Two, because most people are a bunch of sissy candy-ass sacks of *bleep*

that want to just sit on their ass and let life pass 'em by.

Not me.

Give it to me.

Yes.

[inhales deeply]

[exhales]

[anna] it's gonna take quite a few stitches. You're not gonna like it.

-[anna] okay? -[ej] yeah.

All right. Sure.

[exclaiming in pain]

oh, yeah. That one was...

-[ej] that one was great. -[anna] I know.

-[ej] that's my favorite one. -[anna laughs]

-[ej] that's my favorite one. -[anna] yeah, your favorite out of all of them, huh?

-[ej] yeah, that was my favorite. -[anna] nice.

[ej exhales]

[ej] out in this environment, that's a pretty tall order.

But couldn't let something like a little tear in my scrotum

stop me from doing what I'm supposed to do out here.

-[anna speaking] -[ej speaking]

[anna speaking]

[ej] I gotta go get some firewood.

There's really nothing I could have done to prevent that log from breaking

or me realizing it was gonna break.

It looked solid, like a solid tree,

and sheesh.

Yeah, kind of a sucky thing,

'cause now I gotta take it easy.

Whatever it takes to stick around.

[gary] good morning, our friend.

That's the beautiful heron

that we stole a fish from.

Thank you very much for feeding us.

[grunts]

it's moving day.

-[max] I'm gonna bust out the map here. -Yeah.

All right. I think we should navigate these

and see what looks good, really.

I mean, we just gotta keep cruising

till we find the highest land.

And, I mean, as we cruise around,

we can look for, like, the tallest trees.

That usually symbolizes, like, the most,

-you know, potable dirt for us to be on. -Yeah.

-Nothing too soggy. -Okay.

-All right, cool. Let's boogie. -Let's do it.

[gary] we're getting ready to roll out of here,

and, uh, we don't know what we're gonna find, you know.

So, one thing we do expect is higher ground.

Maybe richer hunting grounds.

We're gonna look for gators around the area.

We're gonna be traveling with our honey.

We've got energy.

-We've got our pot. -Right on.

Where we'll land, we don't even really know yet.

But, you know what? It's not gonna be

in this wet, soppy place,

where every step you're ankle deep in mud.

That's one thing for sure.

-Right. -All right, let's get it.

Boom. All right.

All right, we game... We game time.

We're off. See you later.

[max] migration's gonna be tough.

We gotta go through hyacinth.

We gotta go through hidden water moccasins,

keep an eye out for gators.

And our raft, hopefully, doesn't start falling apart on us.

[gary yelling]

[ryan] anybody want to try this?

This has been some of the most tender meat we've had.

Really good.

[ryan] all three of us are wide awake and bushy-eyed.

We created a stew last night,

with all the bones, and the rib cage, the back straps.

Pretty much everything was utilized on this animal.

We still have about a half a pot of soup left,

so we've added some of our water to it, reboiled it,

and this is our breakfast.

[matt] a drink of choice for...

For team savage is a fatty broth... Alligator broth water.

[ryan] it's just oil and fat,

and a little, tiny fat chunk with some big fat chunks.

That's good.

That way, you know you're alive.

[ryan] it's good. I like it.

It's thick enough that you almost feel like you can chew it.

-[ryan] yeah. -[matt] but then it just, like, slurps right down,

-it's like... Oh, that's exciting. -[ryan laughing]

[riley] even though we've been eating consistently,

we do work so hard every day.

And I don't want to be leaving here a little stick figure,

so we are gonna put our level best

into eating every ounce of this,

and getting all of our strength back,

so that we have enough strength and fatty goodness to keep going.

[ryan] that's how you get all your power here in the bayou.

-Right. -[matt chuckles]

[grunts]

I'm just gonna walk around and get some air.

I just feel nauseous.

[riley retching]

*bleep*

[ryan] oh, she just got sick.

She's getting rid of everything.

Oh, man.

[matt] ah *bleep*.

-[ryan] are you all right, riley? -[riley] yeah.

I don't know what happened, I just

started getting, like, stomach pains,

and I was just feeling really nauseous.

[matt] really? It just hit you, like, all of a sudden?

Yeah. I was fine.

[ryan] we've got some fresh water here if you need it.

[riley] thanks.

[coughing]

[matt] unfortunately, right now,

riley is feeling real sick.

On a challenge like this, where we're about halfway through,

and have that happen, where you throw up everything in your stomach,

it's concerning.

That will take you out of a challenge like this faster than anything.

[vomiting]

-[ryan] it sucks. -[matt] this looks bad.

[riley groans]

-[riley] back up, back up, back up. -[ryan] whoo!

-Yes! -Well done, guys.

[narrator] throughout the ultimate legends challenge,

each team's status will be evaluated using the xls,

or xl success metric,

which calculates their likely percentage

of completing the 60 days together as a team.

[steven] still haven't seen any alligators.

[narrator] with resources becoming scarce across the bayou...

We need to keep fishing, we need to keep scavenging.

We're gonna do what we have to do

to cross that finish line in 60 days.

[narrator] ...The need for food sparked innovation.

[jeff] I've taken all the knowledge I've learned

from four different continents,

and I've put it into this one fishing unit.

Oh, my god! I got a double fish hook.

[exclaiming]

[narrator] but now, jeff and steven face a dangerous new threat.

-[jeff] that is a bear. -[steven] that's a freaking bear track.

[narrator] as a result, their xls drops from 51 to 39%.

After the fall of their main provider...

[gary] timber!

[yelling]

[narrator] ...Gary and max work together to tap into

their dwindling food resources.

-[max] is there a lot? -[gary] half a gallon.

[gary] we're gonna be traveling with our honey.

We've got energy.

[narrator] and now, face a risky journey to find higher ground.

[gary] where we'll land, we don't even really know yet,

but, you know what, it's not gonna be in this wet, soppy place.

[narrator] with so many unknowns ahead,

their xls ticks down from 56 to 43%.

After braving the dangers of the swamp at night...

There he is.

[narrator] ...Ej's resilience as a lone wolf paid off.

[exclaims] yes!

[narrator] but now, a debilitating injury...

[screams] oh, I got speared.

[narrator] ...Puts his entire challenge at risk.

[groans]

[narrator] his xls drops even further

from 21 to 10%.

[ryan] oh, yeah!

[narrator] after an epic battle with a monster gator...

-Come on, big boy. -Come on.

[narrator] ...Team savage has their biggest protein score yet.

-[all grunt] -[ryan] holy mother.

[narrator] but now, their bounty could come at a devastating cost.

-[riley vomits] -[ryan] oh, man.

[matt] that will take you out of a challenge like this faster than anything.

[narrator] with riley struggling,

their chance of completing the challenge together

drops from 60 to 41%.

[riley vomiting]

[vomiting]

-[ryan] sucks. -[matt] this looks bad.

[ryan] we do not need to lose a teammate

going into the halfway mark of this challenge,

and I'm hoping that this something just really, really minor.

But out here in the bayou, out here in these challenges,

we know that something very minor

can turn into something, um, challenge ending for anyone.

[matt] do you want your hide to lay on?

No, I'm okay. I'll just rest here.

All right.

[ej] today is day one after the injury,

so I've gotta really just, kind of...

Chill out, whether I like it or not.

And I realized that the swamp

is trying to get me off my game.

It's trying to provoke me into a fight, a battle.

You gotta make sure to make the best use of this.

Nice try, swamp.

I'm wise to you.

And, uh, I'm still coming after you.

Yeah. That'd cover it.

I didn't want to cut into the pelts just yet,

but, it is a major injury,

and I need to make a loin cloth to protect

my little friends so they may heal well.

Cutting this pelt is just like, wow.

It's a resource, this is a big deal.

You know, it provided me comfort, warmth,

and I'm taking a lot of that away.

So, I don't have traditional needle and thread.

But what I do have is a fishing hook and some fishing line.

I think this'll make great stuff to sew with.

I'm gonna try it out.

Never done this before, we'll see how it works.

This loin cloth, that's protection.

To protect it from the flies trying to bite me.

I wanna keep it clean and make sure I've no complications.

I don't think it's enough to go all the way around.

Oh, yeah, it is.

Looks like I've been losing some weight.

I'd love to have a backside with this,

but there's just too much of me...

Too much ogre of me to, uh, be able to do that.

And my boys, they're doing fine.

No swelling, and I'm doing great.

Why? 'cause I'm hard as woodpecker lips.

So I see on 60 days if I'm the lone survivor,

figure I'll have others with me,

but I will be there.

If there's a will, there's always a way.

It looks pretty damn good.

There you have it. One each barbarian loin cloth!

[shouting] yeah!

[gary] three hour paddle.

Freaking exhausted.

Oh, man.

This takes a lot out of you.

-I'm spent right now. -Oh, absolutely.

You gotta do what you gotta do here

-to be where you wanna be, right? -Right.

-See that egret right there? -Yeah.

You know, I didn't see any egrets where we were at, really.

I... I feel like we're living our lives with no egrets.

[both laughing]

dude, did you see that?

[gary] alligator.

That's a real good sign.

-Alligators are delicioso. -Yeah.

Be vigilant.

We're just on this little makeshift raft, he can come and swoop us up in no time.

Okay, watch out. Look for a little...

-Yeah, look for bubbles or something. -Yeah.

[max] that thing was massive!

-*bleep* this's getting, okay, this is getting pretty... -Yeah.

-We're really out here, dude. -Yeah.

I mean, I would just blast him on the head with this,

maybe try stab him with your pulaski, hit him with you pulaski.

-They get like 12-foot out here. -Yeah, man.

That's a people eater.

Just keeps going.

Yeah.

It's getting freaking late.

Ugh, gosh damn. *bleep* so thick.

Looks like some high ground right there.

I think I see something.

[sighs] I think I see smoke.

Yeah, I think I see smoke, too.

Dude, you see that?

What the hell?

[sighs]

oh, I see a shelter.

No freaking way.

Hey!