1 00:00:15,291 --> 00:00:17,224 - Black bear cutting across. 2 00:00:17,327 --> 00:00:18,432 We're gonna try and cut him off. 3 00:00:18,535 --> 00:00:19,640 Gotta move quick. 4 00:00:19,743 --> 00:00:21,745 - My net never catches nothing. 5 00:00:21,849 --> 00:00:23,644 We gotta make a move. There it is. 6 00:00:23,747 --> 00:00:25,197 Catch a fish, baby. 7 00:00:25,301 --> 00:00:26,888 - Yeah, baby! 8 00:00:26,992 --> 00:00:28,994 Oh, [bleep]! 9 00:00:29,098 --> 00:00:30,754 Whoo-hoo-hoo! 10 00:00:30,858 --> 00:00:32,101 Every little success out here 11 00:00:32,204 --> 00:00:34,034 definitely puts you in a better mental spot. 12 00:00:34,137 --> 00:00:36,105 Oh, my gosh. 13 00:00:36,208 --> 00:00:38,314 - No! Oof! 14 00:00:38,417 --> 00:00:39,936 Stupid. 15 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,524 I need to think about every single move 16 00:00:41,627 --> 00:00:42,904 and every single step. 17 00:00:43,008 --> 00:00:44,941 I can't afford to make this mistake again. 18 00:00:46,529 --> 00:00:48,462 - A porcupine. 19 00:00:48,565 --> 00:00:50,878 This meat and fat is gonna fuel me 20 00:00:50,981 --> 00:00:53,570 to get through this next week. 21 00:00:57,850 --> 00:00:59,507 male narrator: For the first time, 22 00:00:59,611 --> 00:01:03,028 ten participants will fight to survive the Arctic 23 00:01:03,132 --> 00:01:07,239 for longer than anyone in "Alone" history-- 24 00:01:07,343 --> 00:01:10,829 a grueling 100 days. 25 00:01:10,932 --> 00:01:11,830 - This is the ultimate challenge. 26 00:01:13,349 --> 00:01:16,386 - A hundred days in the Arctic is no joke. 27 00:01:16,490 --> 00:01:18,147 narrator: If they can endure, 28 00:01:18,250 --> 00:01:20,632 they'll win the biggest prize ever: 29 00:01:20,735 --> 00:01:23,807 $1 million. 30 00:01:25,223 --> 00:01:26,431 - Whoa! 31 00:01:26,534 --> 00:01:27,466 - Holy [bleep]! 32 00:01:27,570 --> 00:01:29,158 - You can't tap out 33 00:01:29,261 --> 00:01:31,091 when there's a million bucks on the line. 34 00:01:31,194 --> 00:01:33,265 - Oh, my gosh. 35 00:01:33,369 --> 00:01:36,303 - How hard can you work for $10,000 a day? 36 00:01:36,406 --> 00:01:37,925 - It looks like frostbite. 37 00:01:39,029 --> 00:01:40,962 - Oh, [bleep]. 38 00:01:41,066 --> 00:01:42,895 narrator: This is "Alone: 39 00:01:42,999 --> 00:01:45,277 Million Dollar Challenge. 40 00:01:45,381 --> 00:01:47,245 - They're just surrounding my shelter. 41 00:02:21,555 --> 00:02:23,729 - So, my hair started to get knotted and stuff, 42 00:02:23,833 --> 00:02:29,045 so I decided to make a comb real quick. 43 00:02:29,149 --> 00:02:30,840 This is the worst comb in the world, 44 00:02:30,943 --> 00:02:32,428 but it does the trick. 45 00:02:32,531 --> 00:02:34,292 Um... 46 00:02:34,395 --> 00:02:36,432 And I need to cut my hair. 47 00:02:47,443 --> 00:02:49,065 Man, I'll take it. 48 00:02:50,618 --> 00:02:52,689 I'll take it for, uh, using a knife. 49 00:02:52,793 --> 00:02:54,174 Pfft. 50 00:02:54,277 --> 00:02:55,796 Done. 51 00:02:55,899 --> 00:02:57,384 Who do I have to impress out here? 52 00:02:57,487 --> 00:02:59,696 Absolutely nobody. 53 00:03:02,561 --> 00:03:04,253 Started a fire. 54 00:03:04,356 --> 00:03:06,427 Gonna make some hangers for some of this fish, 55 00:03:06,531 --> 00:03:10,466 'cause it's getting ridiculous on how much there is up there. 56 00:03:14,055 --> 00:03:16,092 I came out here thinking that 57 00:03:16,196 --> 00:03:19,751 it was gonna be hard to find food, 58 00:03:19,854 --> 00:03:21,856 and I was dead wrong. 59 00:03:23,479 --> 00:03:26,033 This is totally a dream come true. 60 00:03:26,136 --> 00:03:28,380 So we come out here, catch all your food, 61 00:03:28,484 --> 00:03:31,072 make everything yourself, survive. 62 00:03:33,454 --> 00:03:36,388 All right. 18 fish. 63 00:03:36,492 --> 00:03:38,390 But I have nowhere to put them as of right now, 64 00:03:38,494 --> 00:03:39,495 so I gotta make a tepee. 65 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,437 My racks are full, 66 00:03:50,540 --> 00:03:52,715 and I don't want to be waiting till the last minute 67 00:03:52,818 --> 00:03:54,199 to set up a smoker. 68 00:03:56,615 --> 00:03:58,168 This is gonna be good. 69 00:03:58,272 --> 00:04:00,032 Put a fire right there in the middle, 70 00:04:00,136 --> 00:04:02,345 nice and small. 71 00:04:02,449 --> 00:04:04,830 Cover the rest of this. 72 00:04:04,934 --> 00:04:08,006 I'll tie an early warning device to it, and-- 73 00:04:08,109 --> 00:04:10,077 any little critters decide to try and come in here 74 00:04:10,180 --> 00:04:12,390 in the night whenever the fire goes out, 75 00:04:12,493 --> 00:04:14,461 well, I'll hear them. 76 00:04:16,670 --> 00:04:18,119 Two days before I came out here, 77 00:04:18,223 --> 00:04:20,087 my son, Max, turned a year old. 78 00:04:20,190 --> 00:04:22,503 It was awesome to be able to be there 79 00:04:22,607 --> 00:04:24,574 for his first birthday. 80 00:04:24,678 --> 00:04:26,921 And I'm very fortunate 81 00:04:27,025 --> 00:04:29,993 that he has a mom that he has because 82 00:04:30,097 --> 00:04:31,788 she's a saint. 83 00:04:31,892 --> 00:04:33,273 Me and her aren't together anymore. 84 00:04:33,376 --> 00:04:35,205 We split and went our separate ways. 85 00:04:35,309 --> 00:04:37,863 But I wouldn't be able to be out here 86 00:04:37,967 --> 00:04:40,210 and have the right mindset 87 00:04:40,314 --> 00:04:42,316 of knowing that I can go 100 days, 88 00:04:42,420 --> 00:04:44,318 and my son being perfectly fine 89 00:04:44,422 --> 00:04:46,389 if he didn't have an awesome mother. 90 00:04:48,149 --> 00:04:52,671 But leaving my son when he's probably just started walking, 91 00:04:52,775 --> 00:04:55,225 starting to talk more, that's for sure-- 92 00:04:55,329 --> 00:04:58,125 that's hard, that's real hard. 93 00:04:59,954 --> 00:05:01,887 I'll never be able to get that time back, 94 00:05:01,991 --> 00:05:05,650 but I'm hoping that me being out here 95 00:05:05,753 --> 00:05:08,066 teaches him something in life. 96 00:05:08,169 --> 00:05:11,345 So I'm gonna treat this like a three-month deployment. 97 00:05:11,449 --> 00:05:13,658 Well, 98 00:05:13,761 --> 00:05:16,143 not bad for a day's work. 99 00:05:17,351 --> 00:05:19,422 Um, half day's work. 100 00:05:35,714 --> 00:05:37,095 - All right. 101 00:05:37,198 --> 00:05:40,374 We're fixing to grind out a primitive tattoo needle. 102 00:05:40,478 --> 00:05:41,410 What? 103 00:05:41,513 --> 00:05:44,205 Yup, that's what we're fixing to do. 104 00:05:44,309 --> 00:05:47,347 We're gonna juice up some crowberries, 105 00:05:47,450 --> 00:05:50,177 lay on some ink here. 106 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:52,075 And we're gonna have the first 107 00:05:52,179 --> 00:05:55,769 "Alone" tattoo go down. 108 00:05:55,872 --> 00:05:57,460 You guys are all like, "He's an idiot. 109 00:05:57,564 --> 00:06:00,394 He's gonna get infected." It won't get infected. 110 00:06:00,498 --> 00:06:02,741 Doing tattoos in an environment like this-- 111 00:06:02,845 --> 00:06:05,088 yeah, there's a risk of an infection for sure. 112 00:06:05,192 --> 00:06:06,642 And, you know, I'm positive 113 00:06:06,745 --> 00:06:09,438 my immune system's down a little bit right now. 114 00:06:09,541 --> 00:06:11,474 But I can die from slipping 115 00:06:11,578 --> 00:06:13,096 and hitting my head on a rock today, 116 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,099 so you just gotta weigh the risk versus reward. 117 00:06:18,343 --> 00:06:21,173 I think that's gonna work. 118 00:06:21,277 --> 00:06:23,797 Check it out. 119 00:06:27,248 --> 00:06:30,079 Yeah, we can lay some ink in with it. 120 00:06:30,182 --> 00:06:34,221 I don't have any modern tattoos. 121 00:06:34,324 --> 00:06:36,810 I have a lot of tattoos from cultures 122 00:06:36,913 --> 00:06:39,019 that existed where I lived before me, 123 00:06:39,122 --> 00:06:41,884 and even before recorded time. 124 00:06:41,987 --> 00:06:45,508 Caribou bone and crowberry tattoo. 125 00:06:45,612 --> 00:06:48,753 I've done this with different natural elements before. 126 00:06:48,856 --> 00:06:51,549 It's not gonna be, like, tattoo parlor-grade ink. 127 00:06:51,652 --> 00:06:55,622 But it's gonna be a piece of naturally-made rough art. 128 00:06:59,142 --> 00:07:01,938 I like that spot right there. 129 00:07:07,599 --> 00:07:10,188 This is the ultimate way to connect to this place-- 130 00:07:10,291 --> 00:07:14,261 using the bone from an animal that passed through here, 131 00:07:14,364 --> 00:07:18,852 using just naturally-occurring materials from this place. 132 00:07:18,955 --> 00:07:23,581 They will be with me until I'm back in the earth again. 133 00:07:23,684 --> 00:07:25,997 Then the whole cycle starts over. 134 00:07:28,137 --> 00:07:29,587 So there it is. 135 00:07:29,690 --> 00:07:33,142 An "A" and a seven, for a long season seven. 136 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:36,766 Pretty nice. 137 00:07:41,909 --> 00:07:44,878 Really hope I get the net finished up. 138 00:07:46,673 --> 00:07:49,848 I'm hoping that that will go a long way 139 00:07:49,952 --> 00:07:53,990 towards regular food procurement. 140 00:07:55,475 --> 00:07:58,098 At home, I just set bank lines, 141 00:07:58,201 --> 00:08:00,031 and I don't have a problem. 142 00:08:00,134 --> 00:08:02,309 But I have caught only one fish so far, 143 00:08:02,412 --> 00:08:06,071 and I wanna catch as many fish as possible before ice up. 144 00:08:06,175 --> 00:08:09,558 Getting this dude deployed out may be the trick. 145 00:08:12,008 --> 00:08:13,665 I'm pretty decent at tying nets. 146 00:08:13,769 --> 00:08:15,218 I don't use the shuttle. 147 00:08:15,322 --> 00:08:17,117 I just use the overhand loop method. 148 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:19,568 My wife actually showed me how to do that. 149 00:08:19,671 --> 00:08:21,121 I think about her every day, 150 00:08:21,224 --> 00:08:23,226 you know, just in little tasks that I do out here-- 151 00:08:23,330 --> 00:08:24,642 you know, the wood splitting, 152 00:08:24,745 --> 00:08:26,782 and just stuff we do around the homestead. 153 00:08:26,885 --> 00:08:28,508 And, you know, I miss her. 154 00:08:28,611 --> 00:08:29,957 But I also know, when it's all over with, 155 00:08:30,061 --> 00:08:31,856 the money will allow my family 156 00:08:31,959 --> 00:08:33,547 the lifestyle we truly wanna live. 157 00:08:33,651 --> 00:08:36,757 I mean, it basically would mean early retirement. 158 00:08:40,278 --> 00:08:41,831 Well, we'll see. 159 00:08:41,935 --> 00:08:43,868 It ain't the prettiest net ever made, 160 00:08:43,971 --> 00:08:45,697 but it's a net. 161 00:08:45,801 --> 00:08:48,010 I'm ready to throw this baby in the dye pot. 162 00:08:51,496 --> 00:08:53,084 This water's so clear, 163 00:08:53,187 --> 00:08:54,603 I think a lot of times, these fish, 164 00:08:54,706 --> 00:08:55,673 they're following that lure in 165 00:08:55,776 --> 00:08:56,984 and they see me standing there, 166 00:08:57,088 --> 00:08:59,090 and they kinda act like a game animal. 167 00:08:59,193 --> 00:09:02,300 So if I can get this white net dyed to more of a water color, 168 00:09:02,403 --> 00:09:04,474 I believe it'll help immensely. 169 00:09:05,717 --> 00:09:08,582 Got my crowberries. Check it out. 170 00:09:12,690 --> 00:09:15,969 Well, let's dump her in. 171 00:09:18,937 --> 00:09:21,768 Hopefully, this takes some of the shine off of it. 172 00:09:21,871 --> 00:09:23,908 Maybe at night, if they're cruising along, 173 00:09:24,011 --> 00:09:25,668 they won't even notice. 174 00:09:27,152 --> 00:09:29,638 All right, so check it out. 175 00:09:29,741 --> 00:09:33,296 It gave it a real nice, almost a water color, so... 176 00:09:35,713 --> 00:09:37,404 That'll work. I like that. 177 00:09:37,507 --> 00:09:39,475 I like that a lot. So let's get it strung. 178 00:09:48,346 --> 00:09:50,313 I'm liking this spot right here. 179 00:09:50,417 --> 00:09:52,281 Looks like about 2 foot of water 180 00:09:52,384 --> 00:09:55,180 to about 8 foot. 181 00:09:55,284 --> 00:09:58,356 I'm sure fish probably cruise that edge. 182 00:09:58,459 --> 00:10:01,359 Put it in the water, see what happens. 183 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,297 Ooh, fishy, fishy, fishy, we're coming for you, buddies. 184 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:09,850 I need you guys. 185 00:10:12,888 --> 00:10:14,165 The key to winning is making the most 186 00:10:14,268 --> 00:10:16,063 out of every opportunity. 187 00:10:16,167 --> 00:10:19,584 And you can bet that I'm gonna give it 135% 188 00:10:19,688 --> 00:10:21,448 to be there to day 100. 189 00:10:26,315 --> 00:10:28,248 Now we wait. 190 00:10:30,215 --> 00:10:32,010 Now we wait. 191 00:11:01,246 --> 00:11:03,421 - I've been having a little bit of a challenge 192 00:11:03,524 --> 00:11:05,975 finding a good shelter spot. 193 00:11:06,079 --> 00:11:08,253 But I feel good about this spot. 194 00:11:08,357 --> 00:11:10,083 It's a little far to water, 195 00:11:10,186 --> 00:11:13,051 but it's worth it to be out of the wind. 196 00:11:14,121 --> 00:11:17,987 So, I've been having so many vivid dreams. 197 00:11:18,091 --> 00:11:22,164 One was this morning, and I was digging moss 198 00:11:22,267 --> 00:11:25,374 for the shelter, and I found two turtles. 199 00:11:25,477 --> 00:11:27,652 They were, like, that big each. 200 00:11:27,756 --> 00:11:31,345 And I woke up thinking, 201 00:11:31,449 --> 00:11:34,245 "You know, that is a message." 202 00:11:34,348 --> 00:11:36,799 'Cause I was bumming out a little bit, like, 203 00:11:36,903 --> 00:11:38,145 "Oh, man. 204 00:11:38,249 --> 00:11:41,114 I've got so much to do. I'm just too slow." 205 00:11:41,217 --> 00:11:43,737 But that was a message, I feel, like, 206 00:11:43,841 --> 00:11:45,808 that it's okay to be slow. 207 00:11:45,912 --> 00:11:49,018 Yes, it's okay to be a turtle-- 208 00:11:49,122 --> 00:11:52,401 just as long as this turtle doesn't freeze come winter 209 00:11:52,504 --> 00:11:55,231 'cause she doesn't have food and a shelter. 210 00:11:57,889 --> 00:12:00,098 That's all. 211 00:12:03,688 --> 00:12:05,897 The porcupine has served me well, 212 00:12:06,001 --> 00:12:09,142 and I'm so appreciative of the porcupine. 213 00:12:09,245 --> 00:12:11,661 But now, I'm just down to broth. 214 00:12:11,765 --> 00:12:15,700 And it is time for me to find my next meal. 215 00:12:15,804 --> 00:12:19,255 I have a new trap on spot, so hopefully, 216 00:12:19,359 --> 00:12:22,949 the new trapping area will be productive. 217 00:12:23,052 --> 00:12:25,054 I'm feeling hungry. 218 00:12:26,159 --> 00:12:28,368 I hope we got something today. 219 00:12:28,471 --> 00:12:30,888 I hope, I hope. 220 00:12:30,991 --> 00:12:32,993 Doing something like this, 221 00:12:33,097 --> 00:12:35,755 you realize what a gift food is. 222 00:12:37,722 --> 00:12:40,967 Coming up on my first snare. It's empty. 223 00:12:42,623 --> 00:12:45,937 Making 100 days is gonna be full of challenges. 224 00:12:46,041 --> 00:12:48,112 There's so many little things 225 00:12:48,215 --> 00:12:50,770 that could just take you out in a moment. 226 00:12:50,873 --> 00:12:52,564 You need so much food, 227 00:12:52,668 --> 00:12:54,774 and everything's just gotta work out. 228 00:12:54,877 --> 00:12:56,948 Second snare. 229 00:13:01,194 --> 00:13:02,505 No way. 230 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:05,888 No way. 231 00:13:05,992 --> 00:13:08,028 No way. 232 00:13:08,132 --> 00:13:09,374 No way! 233 00:13:29,429 --> 00:13:32,708 Oh, my gosh. 234 00:13:32,812 --> 00:13:36,988 There's a rabbit in one of my snares. 235 00:13:37,092 --> 00:13:39,025 Oh, my gosh. 236 00:13:43,892 --> 00:13:45,928 Sweet. 237 00:13:46,032 --> 00:13:49,690 The snare got him perfectly around the neck. 238 00:13:49,794 --> 00:13:51,140 Oh. 239 00:13:51,244 --> 00:13:54,040 This morning, I was a little bit worried. 240 00:13:54,143 --> 00:13:55,765 I ate all that porcupine, 241 00:13:55,869 --> 00:13:58,285 and I was just starting to feel it, 242 00:13:58,389 --> 00:14:02,255 so I am so grateful for this rabbit. 243 00:14:02,358 --> 00:14:03,635 Oh, my gosh. 244 00:14:05,223 --> 00:14:07,536 Oh, all right. 245 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:10,919 Let's get you home, get you processed. 246 00:14:14,681 --> 00:14:18,443 Right down the color line that's on most animals, 247 00:14:18,547 --> 00:14:20,721 it's nice to just make the cut 248 00:14:20,825 --> 00:14:23,207 right down where the color changes. 249 00:14:23,310 --> 00:14:25,036 Like, white to brown right here. 250 00:14:25,140 --> 00:14:26,520 White to brown. 251 00:14:28,729 --> 00:14:30,283 Don't creatures look so much different 252 00:14:30,386 --> 00:14:31,732 without their fur on? 253 00:14:31,836 --> 00:14:33,458 It's pretty crazy, huh? 254 00:14:33,562 --> 00:14:35,253 It's crazy. 255 00:14:35,357 --> 00:14:38,843 That's what we look like too, underneath our skin. 256 00:14:40,707 --> 00:14:44,435 When I was 15, I made this pact to myself 257 00:14:44,538 --> 00:14:46,713 that I wasn't gonna eat any meat 258 00:14:46,816 --> 00:14:48,680 until I learned to hunt on my own. 259 00:14:48,784 --> 00:14:51,683 So that really pushed me into the skills. 260 00:14:51,787 --> 00:14:54,272 I've taken apart hundreds of animals, 261 00:14:54,376 --> 00:14:57,482 and I've been preserving food for myself 262 00:14:57,586 --> 00:14:59,312 for years and years. 263 00:14:59,415 --> 00:15:01,314 I'm gonna have to get crafting 264 00:15:01,417 --> 00:15:03,454 with all this-- these animal parts. 265 00:15:03,557 --> 00:15:05,835 So many fun things to make. 266 00:15:05,939 --> 00:15:07,320 For me, 267 00:15:07,423 --> 00:15:09,115 using all the parts of the animal-- 268 00:15:09,218 --> 00:15:10,702 that's how I am. 269 00:15:10,806 --> 00:15:13,843 I don't want anything to go to waste in any situation. 270 00:15:13,947 --> 00:15:16,156 I want to use everything 271 00:15:16,260 --> 00:15:18,814 to its utmost potential. 272 00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:21,127 You guys wanna see a cool party trick? 273 00:15:21,230 --> 00:15:24,958 These are the-- the rabbit lungs 274 00:15:25,062 --> 00:15:27,064 and the heart right there. 275 00:15:27,167 --> 00:15:28,789 Check it out. 276 00:15:34,899 --> 00:15:37,350 So those are the lungs, inflated. 277 00:15:37,453 --> 00:15:40,732 Pretty wild, huh? 278 00:15:58,302 --> 00:16:01,995 - So I just got two rabbits with my bow. 279 00:16:02,099 --> 00:16:05,378 Had, uh, issues with the GoPro, and couldn't take it. 280 00:16:05,481 --> 00:16:08,381 I cannot carry that camera through the brush. 281 00:16:08,484 --> 00:16:10,176 I'm gonna leave this guy here. 282 00:16:10,279 --> 00:16:12,385 Grab the camera. 283 00:16:12,488 --> 00:16:16,630 Let's go see if we can show you a couple tricks of the trade. 284 00:16:22,188 --> 00:16:25,881 Rabbit hunting 101. Rule number one. 285 00:16:25,985 --> 00:16:29,229 Do not stalk rabbits. 286 00:16:29,333 --> 00:16:32,232 They spend their entire lives aware 287 00:16:32,336 --> 00:16:35,408 that they are the bottom of the food chain. 288 00:16:35,511 --> 00:16:37,030 If you move like a predator, 289 00:16:37,134 --> 00:16:39,136 and they see you moving like a predator, 290 00:16:39,239 --> 00:16:41,517 chances are they will run. 291 00:16:43,278 --> 00:16:47,420 Walk around like you look like a big grass eater that has 292 00:16:47,523 --> 00:16:51,734 absolutely no interest in hunting absolutely anything. 293 00:16:51,838 --> 00:16:55,393 This will give the rabbit a false sense of security. 294 00:17:01,606 --> 00:17:05,817 Do not make eye contact until you're ready for the shot. 295 00:17:05,921 --> 00:17:08,199 And then, with very slow movements, 296 00:17:08,303 --> 00:17:10,857 turn around and make your shot. 297 00:17:13,929 --> 00:17:17,001 Okay. Now, for the rabbit's reaction. 298 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,193 Twitch is normal, don't worry about it. 299 00:17:36,296 --> 00:17:37,918 Okay, we'll go clean these rabbits. 300 00:17:40,783 --> 00:17:41,715 Look at that. 301 00:17:41,819 --> 00:17:43,890 It really is going... 302 00:17:45,961 --> 00:17:48,722 White very quickly. 303 00:17:48,826 --> 00:17:51,104 Definitely gonna make something with that. 304 00:17:52,899 --> 00:17:55,729 That's fat. Don't wanna waste that. 305 00:17:55,833 --> 00:17:59,768 Fat is everything out here. 306 00:18:01,356 --> 00:18:03,944 Back in Africa, I learned from the Hazda 307 00:18:04,048 --> 00:18:05,567 that being an effective hunter 308 00:18:05,670 --> 00:18:07,983 is not how well you shoot the bow. 309 00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:11,987 It's how well you can pattern the movements of animals. 310 00:18:12,091 --> 00:18:14,645 When you know the habits of those animals, 311 00:18:14,748 --> 00:18:18,269 it's just a matter of time before you get an arrow in. 312 00:18:18,373 --> 00:18:20,823 Yeah, I think we're gonna fry this up today. 313 00:18:30,661 --> 00:18:33,733 In the pot, we've got a rabbit thigh, 314 00:18:33,836 --> 00:18:37,875 a rabbit leg, and all of the organ meat. 315 00:18:39,118 --> 00:18:41,016 I'm just so lucky. 316 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,261 I'm eating like a freaking king. 317 00:18:44,364 --> 00:18:46,125 Oh, that's the liver. 318 00:18:49,058 --> 00:18:50,784 Oh, this is really good fried. 319 00:18:51,958 --> 00:18:54,409 And this is why I'm a student of primitive skills-- 320 00:18:54,512 --> 00:18:57,619 it's that I love relying on myself and a few tools 321 00:18:57,722 --> 00:18:59,621 to be able to take care of all my needs. 322 00:18:59,724 --> 00:19:01,036 It's very satisfying. 323 00:19:01,140 --> 00:19:04,212 Very deep satisfaction that comes with that. 324 00:19:05,765 --> 00:19:07,939 I can just feel like I'm getting a lot out of this. 325 00:19:08,043 --> 00:19:09,562 Makes me feel good. 326 00:19:38,142 --> 00:19:40,662 - All right, so here it is. 327 00:19:42,871 --> 00:19:45,529 Reindeer moss for the first time. 328 00:19:47,324 --> 00:19:49,326 Definitely never had this before. 329 00:19:52,398 --> 00:19:54,538 Smells like nothing. 330 00:19:58,300 --> 00:20:01,441 Tastes like absolutely nothing. 331 00:20:01,545 --> 00:20:03,305 You know what it does not taste like? 332 00:20:03,409 --> 00:20:05,100 Fat. 333 00:20:05,204 --> 00:20:08,034 I really doubt there's any fat in this. 334 00:20:08,137 --> 00:20:10,381 I've been having nothing but fish heads for lunch, 335 00:20:10,485 --> 00:20:12,452 which is super fatty and oily. 336 00:20:12,556 --> 00:20:15,041 Messed up my bowel movements like crazy, 337 00:20:15,144 --> 00:20:17,871 so I had to start eating reindeer moss. 338 00:20:20,943 --> 00:20:23,567 It's honestly not too bad. This might be part of my diet. 339 00:20:23,670 --> 00:20:25,741 Let's see how I react to this. 340 00:20:25,845 --> 00:20:29,469 I've got, like, 80 pounds of fish inside. 341 00:20:30,746 --> 00:20:33,749 And I'm eating moss. 342 00:20:33,853 --> 00:20:36,718 Never would've thought that would be the case. 343 00:20:43,345 --> 00:20:46,106 Today I'm gonna take a day to veganism. 344 00:20:46,210 --> 00:20:47,763 I'm still gonna catch and kill things, 345 00:20:47,867 --> 00:20:51,319 but I'm gonna eat only plants. 346 00:20:54,805 --> 00:20:56,393 I'm gonna take some blueberry roots. 347 00:20:57,601 --> 00:20:58,878 And I'm gonna boil them up today, 348 00:20:58,981 --> 00:21:02,157 in the hopes that it makes my bubbly guts go away. 349 00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:03,952 It's just a matter if I can find them. 350 00:21:04,573 --> 00:21:06,057 Nothing. 351 00:21:10,234 --> 00:21:13,030 Then we come to a bear trail. 352 00:21:13,133 --> 00:21:16,136 This, uh, trail, 353 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,693 thick trail, you can tell was mowed down. 354 00:21:20,796 --> 00:21:24,110 We got two piles of scat here that are normal now. 355 00:21:24,213 --> 00:21:26,457 This one, that's bear scat. 356 00:21:29,667 --> 00:21:32,877 And the newer one right here. 357 00:21:32,981 --> 00:21:35,777 And then we got another one. 358 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,573 So that happened last night or this morning. 359 00:21:38,676 --> 00:21:40,540 Close to my shelter. 360 00:21:42,335 --> 00:21:45,476 He likes to defecate right there. 361 00:21:45,580 --> 00:21:48,272 Claiming his territory, apparently. 362 00:21:48,376 --> 00:21:50,723 I can't be having that happening. 363 00:21:50,826 --> 00:21:53,346 The worst thing that could happen is the bear rummaging 364 00:21:53,450 --> 00:21:56,211 through my shelter and stealing all my food. 365 00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:59,559 That would be a bad day. 366 00:21:59,663 --> 00:22:01,250 But not finding him. 367 00:22:01,354 --> 00:22:04,392 Gotta keep a lot of stuff up in the air. 368 00:22:04,495 --> 00:22:06,359 I need to get that bear. 369 00:22:25,551 --> 00:22:26,828 - Holy [bleep]! 370 00:22:28,036 --> 00:22:29,693 Bear. 371 00:22:43,983 --> 00:22:45,985 Ah, it's aggravating. 372 00:22:46,088 --> 00:22:48,332 It seems like every time I leave, 373 00:22:48,436 --> 00:22:50,817 the [bleep] comes to the berry patch. 374 00:22:50,921 --> 00:22:53,993 Every time. Why do I leave? 375 00:22:54,096 --> 00:22:56,236 Don't leave the berry patch, Mark. 376 00:22:56,340 --> 00:23:00,309 The berry patch is where you need to be, clearly. 377 00:23:00,413 --> 00:23:02,104 Let's head back. 378 00:23:10,009 --> 00:23:12,287 I need to be at the berry patch. 379 00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:13,944 If I want that bear, 380 00:23:14,047 --> 00:23:16,947 I've gotta hold out, and I've gotta hunt it. 381 00:23:17,050 --> 00:23:20,329 Having that source of protein throughout the winter, 382 00:23:20,433 --> 00:23:22,470 it'll be a big weight off my shoulders. 383 00:23:22,573 --> 00:23:23,850 It would change up my diet, 384 00:23:23,954 --> 00:23:25,473 which would be really nice to have steak 385 00:23:25,576 --> 00:23:28,165 instead of fish steaks 24/7. 386 00:23:28,268 --> 00:23:30,098 So I need to make this happen. 387 00:23:37,346 --> 00:23:38,865 All right. 388 00:23:38,969 --> 00:23:40,695 Um, this is my main hunting spot, 389 00:23:40,798 --> 00:23:44,699 just because this is the one that the bears visit the most. 390 00:23:44,802 --> 00:23:46,632 I'm hoping. Keep your fingers crossed. 391 00:23:46,735 --> 00:23:50,049 It's today. If not, very, very soon. 392 00:23:51,809 --> 00:23:54,743 Takes a lot of luck and a lot of patience to kill a bear. 393 00:23:56,538 --> 00:23:59,645 The fish, they've been coming to my net every day. 394 00:23:59,748 --> 00:24:02,199 That doesn't mean it's gonna continue to happen. 395 00:24:02,302 --> 00:24:03,683 I gotta get a lot of it. 396 00:24:03,787 --> 00:24:05,685 If I wanna last 100 days, I wanna go out there, 397 00:24:05,789 --> 00:24:08,136 I'm gonna find my next meal. 398 00:24:08,239 --> 00:24:10,276 Hopefully it's a big old black bear. 399 00:24:37,027 --> 00:24:39,926 Well, it's time today to play everybody's favorite game: 400 00:24:40,030 --> 00:24:42,619 Will we have a fish? 401 00:24:42,722 --> 00:24:45,345 So the big question is: 402 00:24:45,449 --> 00:24:49,004 will we have a fish? 403 00:24:49,108 --> 00:24:50,558 I sure hope so. 404 00:25:00,429 --> 00:25:03,605 The food is just-- it's gonna be a problem. 405 00:25:03,709 --> 00:25:06,159 Definitely starting to feel the fatigue side of it. 406 00:25:06,263 --> 00:25:09,991 And today is the first day I've really felt lightheaded. 407 00:25:11,682 --> 00:25:13,581 But I just keep pushing on. 408 00:25:13,684 --> 00:25:16,687 And you gotta burn calories to get calories. 409 00:25:16,791 --> 00:25:18,620 Anything can happen. 410 00:25:20,795 --> 00:25:23,038 Envelope, please. Thank you. 411 00:25:25,731 --> 00:25:29,182 It's a resounding "no." We did not get a fish. 412 00:25:33,221 --> 00:25:35,844 Got to have something. 413 00:25:37,674 --> 00:25:39,365 Eating rock tripe. 414 00:25:40,711 --> 00:25:42,402 Think it's gonna be a new thing. 415 00:25:43,852 --> 00:25:45,267 I don't really like the word "tripe." 416 00:25:45,371 --> 00:25:47,028 Doesn't sound that appetizing. 417 00:25:48,477 --> 00:25:50,687 For me, my grandfather lit the fire, 418 00:25:50,790 --> 00:25:52,447 as far as the outdoors, because I hung around 419 00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:54,138 with him a lot when I was little. 420 00:25:54,242 --> 00:25:56,762 He and my great uncle grew up during the Depression. 421 00:25:56,865 --> 00:25:58,557 They had very hard times. 422 00:25:58,660 --> 00:26:01,145 They were very slick people, as far as trapping, 423 00:26:01,249 --> 00:26:03,389 hunting, fishing, foraging. 424 00:26:03,492 --> 00:26:05,149 I mean, you could drop them anywhere, 425 00:26:05,253 --> 00:26:06,565 and they would figure it out 426 00:26:06,668 --> 00:26:07,842 because they had to figure it out. 427 00:26:07,945 --> 00:26:09,844 So that kinda trickled down to me, 428 00:26:09,947 --> 00:26:11,639 and it's just part of my lifestyle. 429 00:26:11,742 --> 00:26:13,364 It's something I've always done. 430 00:26:21,338 --> 00:26:24,272 All right, this is how you eat black rock tripe. 431 00:26:24,375 --> 00:26:27,793 First, you gotta have an old, rusty can-bucket you found, 432 00:26:27,896 --> 00:26:29,139 you boil it up, 433 00:26:29,242 --> 00:26:30,968 and you just don't even look at it, you just... 434 00:26:33,108 --> 00:26:35,904 Ugh. Swallow it, shake a little bit. 435 00:26:36,008 --> 00:26:37,388 Move on to the next bite. 436 00:26:37,492 --> 00:26:39,977 It's good. Oh, so good. 437 00:26:40,081 --> 00:26:42,462 So good. Tastes just like filet mignon. 438 00:26:42,566 --> 00:26:45,051 Ah, mmm. 439 00:26:45,155 --> 00:26:48,330 Oh, I can't get enough of it. It's delicious. 440 00:26:48,434 --> 00:26:50,988 Here. Here, try a bite. 441 00:26:51,092 --> 00:26:54,198 Come on, try a bite. No, really, try it. 442 00:26:54,302 --> 00:26:55,475 Try it, it's good. 443 00:26:55,579 --> 00:26:57,167 Come on, try a bite! 444 00:26:57,270 --> 00:26:59,203 All right. More for me. 445 00:27:00,066 --> 00:27:01,758 Can't believe you don't want some. 446 00:27:01,861 --> 00:27:03,242 Mmm. 447 00:27:05,278 --> 00:27:06,763 Ah. 448 00:27:06,866 --> 00:27:11,526 Now I feel recharged, refreshed, and full. 449 00:27:12,803 --> 00:27:14,702 All lies. 450 00:27:43,938 --> 00:27:45,629 - Oh, dreaming. 451 00:27:45,733 --> 00:27:47,562 Dreaming is such a luxury out here. 452 00:27:49,357 --> 00:27:53,533 I get to do everything that I-- that I miss out here. 453 00:27:53,637 --> 00:27:57,089 I get to hang out with people. 454 00:27:57,192 --> 00:27:59,885 I get to eat a variety of foods. 455 00:27:59,988 --> 00:28:03,371 It's real entertainment. 456 00:28:03,474 --> 00:28:06,892 At the same time, there is a catch-22. 457 00:28:08,825 --> 00:28:10,240 Like, for instance, last night. 458 00:28:10,343 --> 00:28:13,933 I'm in the dream, noticing and-- 459 00:28:14,037 --> 00:28:18,386 and know my son is on a little stepladder right next to me. 460 00:28:18,489 --> 00:28:20,699 And I realized, "Tyler's right here next to you. 461 00:28:20,802 --> 00:28:23,115 "Before you wake up, make the most of it. 462 00:28:23,218 --> 00:28:24,461 Hug him!" 463 00:28:24,564 --> 00:28:27,222 I went and turned to the right, and then, bam! 464 00:28:27,326 --> 00:28:29,949 Freaking takes me off into a different damn dream. 465 00:28:31,330 --> 00:28:34,126 It is constant battles and fighting out here. 466 00:28:34,229 --> 00:28:35,644 Constant battles. 467 00:28:35,748 --> 00:28:37,336 That magnetic pull-- 468 00:28:37,439 --> 00:28:39,579 I have to fight that battle each and every day. 469 00:28:39,683 --> 00:28:42,651 It's part of the being-alone process. 470 00:28:47,795 --> 00:28:51,833 I gotta get a door on the opening to my shelter. 471 00:28:51,937 --> 00:28:54,284 To be honest, I'm most intimidated about the weather. 472 00:28:55,561 --> 00:28:58,978 Flies are just relentless. 473 00:29:00,635 --> 00:29:02,810 I just can only hope that things like having 474 00:29:02,913 --> 00:29:06,330 a well-made shelter will allow me to get through it. 475 00:29:08,091 --> 00:29:10,196 Okay, now I need a real shorty. 476 00:29:13,268 --> 00:29:15,892 You look like the man for the job. 477 00:29:15,995 --> 00:29:18,549 I'll cut you down. 478 00:29:23,451 --> 00:29:26,557 Damn fly in the ear. Jeez. 479 00:29:34,151 --> 00:29:35,912 Oh, [bleep]. 480 00:29:38,017 --> 00:29:40,399 It's stuck in my ear. 481 00:29:50,443 --> 00:29:52,929 Oh, [bleep]. 482 00:29:56,553 --> 00:29:58,279 If I call for a medic, 483 00:29:58,382 --> 00:29:59,590 and they have to come intervene 484 00:29:59,694 --> 00:30:01,040 and remove it from my ear, 485 00:30:01,144 --> 00:30:03,456 that means they could pull me. 486 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,425 Okay, where did I put my pliers? 487 00:30:06,528 --> 00:30:09,048 [bleep]. I can't see anything. 488 00:30:12,569 --> 00:30:14,571 Great, I can feel it moving in there. 489 00:30:16,987 --> 00:30:18,471 Oh. 490 00:30:42,806 --> 00:30:44,843 Oh, come on. 491 00:30:56,509 --> 00:30:58,373 Where's the first-aid kit? 492 00:30:58,477 --> 00:31:00,928 Let's try a couple things. 493 00:31:01,031 --> 00:31:02,688 Hold this light towards my ear, 494 00:31:02,791 --> 00:31:04,932 and see if that draws the fly out. 495 00:31:13,906 --> 00:31:16,529 Come on, little dude. Go towards the light. 496 00:31:19,291 --> 00:31:22,018 Really don't have a lot of faith in that method. 497 00:31:25,780 --> 00:31:27,782 I don't wanna do further damage, 498 00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:29,542 but I gotta get this fly out. 499 00:31:31,061 --> 00:31:32,304 I don't want something like this to cause me 500 00:31:32,407 --> 00:31:34,858 to have to leave this competition. 501 00:31:36,687 --> 00:31:39,932 I think the next thing is to irrigate. 502 00:31:40,036 --> 00:31:42,417 Gonna put some water in a syringe, 503 00:31:42,521 --> 00:31:45,627 suck out some water, turn my head down, 504 00:31:45,731 --> 00:31:47,940 fill it up with water, and then drain it out, 505 00:31:48,044 --> 00:31:50,632 and just keep doing that till hopefully it comes out. 506 00:32:00,159 --> 00:32:02,713 All right, let's just hope for the best on this one. 507 00:32:32,019 --> 00:32:33,952 It's not moving anymore. 508 00:32:36,851 --> 00:32:37,956 Yeah, well, I don't see it, 509 00:32:38,059 --> 00:32:40,648 but tell you what-- that's immediate relief. 510 00:32:44,479 --> 00:32:47,482 Well... 511 00:32:49,070 --> 00:32:52,039 That was a little bit of an unforeseen... 512 00:32:55,111 --> 00:32:57,044 Yeah, let's continue. 513 00:32:57,147 --> 00:32:59,184 Where were we? 514 00:33:01,220 --> 00:33:03,843 Oh, that feels so much better. 515 00:33:03,947 --> 00:33:06,605 Fly trapped in my ear really makes me realize 516 00:33:06,708 --> 00:33:09,849 that the hard skills out here, being able to survive, 517 00:33:09,953 --> 00:33:12,611 or making a fire, harvesting your food, 518 00:33:12,714 --> 00:33:15,924 are the easiest things to accomplish. 519 00:33:16,028 --> 00:33:18,548 It's all the other small things 520 00:33:18,651 --> 00:33:22,793 that in short-term survival could take you out. 521 00:33:24,692 --> 00:33:26,521 Don't want that to happen again. 522 00:33:42,399 --> 00:33:46,645 - Are you ready to lose the staring contest? 523 00:33:46,748 --> 00:33:49,337 Ready? Okay. 524 00:33:52,892 --> 00:33:54,584 Oh, there's a breeze. I have to blink. 525 00:33:57,897 --> 00:34:00,003 Okay. All right. 526 00:34:00,107 --> 00:34:04,594 Ready, set, go. 527 00:34:07,459 --> 00:34:09,564 Oh, man. 528 00:34:09,668 --> 00:34:11,221 Usually, I'm really good at staring, 529 00:34:11,325 --> 00:34:12,705 but I think my eyes are dry. 530 00:34:14,121 --> 00:34:16,640 All right, here we go. Back to work. 531 00:34:16,744 --> 00:34:19,091 Back to work, y'all. 532 00:34:19,195 --> 00:34:20,713 Back to work, man. 533 00:34:24,890 --> 00:34:27,651 Gotta make clay pots. 534 00:34:27,755 --> 00:34:30,275 Gotta make lots of clay pots. 535 00:34:30,378 --> 00:34:33,071 Here's the clay hole. 536 00:34:33,174 --> 00:34:35,590 I have one cooking pot, which is awesome, 537 00:34:35,694 --> 00:34:38,317 but containers are everything out here. 538 00:34:38,421 --> 00:34:41,424 If I can just make a couple pots with lids 539 00:34:41,527 --> 00:34:44,358 that I can cook in and then store, 540 00:34:44,461 --> 00:34:47,499 that would be amazing. 541 00:34:47,602 --> 00:34:48,914 Oh, that is so nice. 542 00:34:49,017 --> 00:34:51,192 Look how nice and sticky that is. 543 00:34:51,296 --> 00:34:53,919 I'm so happy I found it. 544 00:35:00,443 --> 00:35:04,585 Did you guys see my clay balls? 545 00:35:04,688 --> 00:35:06,828 Look at all my clay balls. 546 00:35:06,932 --> 00:35:08,244 Aren't they nice? 547 00:35:10,038 --> 00:35:13,145 All right, I need containers. 548 00:35:14,526 --> 00:35:17,149 Do a little test coil real quick. 549 00:35:20,394 --> 00:35:24,052 Oh, my gosh, it's acting pretty nice. 550 00:35:24,156 --> 00:35:26,296 So I'm gonna add the temper in. 551 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,747 Can't be too wet or too dry. 552 00:35:28,850 --> 00:35:32,716 Everything's about having just the perfect amount of moisture. 553 00:35:34,511 --> 00:35:38,205 And you kinda roll and pinch, and it's a particular method 554 00:35:38,308 --> 00:35:41,415 that's for cooking potteries specifically. 555 00:35:41,518 --> 00:35:43,348 It has more surface area, 556 00:35:43,451 --> 00:35:46,420 so that it distributes the heat better. 557 00:35:46,523 --> 00:35:48,525 I was hoping for clay, 558 00:35:48,629 --> 00:35:52,529 because being out here doesn't have to be a suffer fest. 559 00:35:52,633 --> 00:35:54,635 It's totally possible to have 560 00:35:54,738 --> 00:35:56,706 all my needs met and be comfortable. 561 00:35:56,809 --> 00:35:59,778 And the more comfortable and at home you are, 562 00:35:59,881 --> 00:36:02,470 the better you're gonna make it through the winter. 563 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:08,304 If I can just get one pot that survives a firing, 564 00:36:08,407 --> 00:36:10,754 I will feel like that was a big success. 565 00:36:12,342 --> 00:36:14,793 Kinda looks like a beehive, huh? 566 00:36:14,896 --> 00:36:16,967 I hope I get to the point where it's, like, 567 00:36:17,071 --> 00:36:18,797 oh, my shelter's done. 568 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,282 And I have a bunch of meat hanging up, 569 00:36:21,386 --> 00:36:23,457 and I can just, like, hang out. 570 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,044 But we'll see. 571 00:36:25,148 --> 00:36:29,532 There's a long way to go before I get to that point. 572 00:36:32,293 --> 00:36:35,296 Clay pots are done for the night. 573 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:36,677 It's dark. 574 00:36:36,780 --> 00:36:38,851 Two pots, ah! 575 00:36:38,955 --> 00:36:40,853 Two pots, so nice. 576 00:36:40,957 --> 00:36:44,271 Time to warm up the hands. 577 00:37:10,642 --> 00:37:12,885 - I'm starting to have mixed emotions. 578 00:37:12,989 --> 00:37:14,991 Let's put it that way. 579 00:37:15,094 --> 00:37:17,407 Uh, there's only so much black crud 580 00:37:17,511 --> 00:37:20,548 you can scrape off a rock in a bowl and call it dinner. 581 00:37:25,726 --> 00:37:27,141 Sometimes, you just gotta figure out 582 00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:29,971 what you want more in life. 583 00:37:30,075 --> 00:37:33,043 You think you know what you want. 584 00:37:33,147 --> 00:37:35,045 And that's not it. 585 00:37:36,564 --> 00:37:39,291 I'm pretty sure I know what I want today. 586 00:38:06,387 --> 00:38:08,665 - I think this is what I really want. 587 00:38:14,982 --> 00:38:16,708 Yes, this is Keith. 588 00:38:18,434 --> 00:38:21,299 I know what I want. 589 00:38:21,402 --> 00:38:24,716 I want a large pizza with everything, extra cheese. 590 00:38:27,615 --> 00:38:30,204 Yeah, this phone doesn't even work for something like that. 591 00:38:30,308 --> 00:38:32,724 I doubt anybody delivers out here anyway. 592 00:38:32,827 --> 00:38:34,967 So that's not happening. 593 00:38:39,006 --> 00:38:41,940 All right, let's get crack-a-lackin'. 594 00:38:42,043 --> 00:38:44,632 We'll go check the trapline. 595 00:38:47,014 --> 00:38:49,775 A lot of snares in this little area here. 596 00:38:52,675 --> 00:38:54,159 I would've thought this one would've paid off. 597 00:38:54,262 --> 00:38:57,335 That was a good set, and I thought... 598 00:38:57,438 --> 00:38:59,509 It's almost like playing the lottery. 599 00:38:59,613 --> 00:39:04,928 You go all in to try and reap huge benefits. 600 00:39:05,032 --> 00:39:07,793 But my immediate area is not much 601 00:39:07,897 --> 00:39:11,694 in the overall plan that I had in my head... 602 00:39:16,906 --> 00:39:20,150 Tough little guys to trap, sure enough. 603 00:39:21,497 --> 00:39:23,395 Winter is right around the corner. 604 00:39:23,499 --> 00:39:26,502 There's no time to mess around. 605 00:39:28,849 --> 00:39:30,713 Oh, my gosh. 606 00:39:30,816 --> 00:39:32,818 A miracle has just happened. 607 00:39:34,786 --> 00:39:37,513 I have finally snared a squirrel. 608 00:39:39,031 --> 00:39:43,622 I was really starting to doubt my trapping abilities. 609 00:39:43,726 --> 00:39:46,038 And I trap a lot. 610 00:39:50,698 --> 00:39:53,943 Wow, he's wound up in there. 611 00:39:54,046 --> 00:39:56,083 Golly, I give you guys credit. 612 00:39:56,186 --> 00:39:59,983 You are tough, tough customers to trap. 613 00:40:08,371 --> 00:40:09,683 Wow. 614 00:40:12,651 --> 00:40:15,689 Thank you, little buddy. 615 00:40:15,792 --> 00:40:18,968 Starting to get some good snow now too. 616 00:40:19,071 --> 00:40:20,279 Huh, well, that's awesome. 617 00:40:20,383 --> 00:40:22,523 At least I have something to eat. 618 00:40:22,627 --> 00:40:25,837 I was getting tired of eating blueberries and rock slime. 619 00:40:27,563 --> 00:40:28,771 Awesome. 620 00:40:31,152 --> 00:40:32,913 That is definitely a morale boost. 621 00:40:34,673 --> 00:40:36,019 These little guys have been driving me nuts 622 00:40:36,123 --> 00:40:38,090 on the trapping side of it. 623 00:40:38,194 --> 00:40:40,299 It was almost like they were digging at me a bit. 624 00:40:40,403 --> 00:40:41,922 But, you know, eat this guy, 625 00:40:42,025 --> 00:40:45,097 it'll give me that boost of energy back up. 626 00:40:45,201 --> 00:40:47,859 A little liver. 627 00:40:47,962 --> 00:40:52,380 I'm not much of a liver fan, but I'm learning. 628 00:40:52,484 --> 00:40:56,764 You gotta constantly be upbeat no matter how bad it gets. 629 00:40:56,868 --> 00:40:59,698 That's just the way you get through hard times. 630 00:41:02,598 --> 00:41:05,463 Holy crap. Mmm. 631 00:41:07,775 --> 00:41:09,743 That right there. 632 00:41:09,846 --> 00:41:11,261 Little squirrel drumstick. 633 00:41:12,987 --> 00:41:14,472 Tastes amazing. 634 00:41:17,854 --> 00:41:21,893 And we'll have squirrel soup all day tomorrow. 635 00:41:21,996 --> 00:41:24,412 You know, 100 days is just one more day, 636 00:41:24,516 --> 00:41:25,759 and one more day, 637 00:41:25,862 --> 00:41:28,624 and eventually, it'll be that 100th day, 638 00:41:28,727 --> 00:41:31,350 and that's $1 million. 639 00:41:31,454 --> 00:41:33,007 Wish I could find a six-legged squirrel 640 00:41:33,111 --> 00:41:34,733 running around here and trap it. 641 00:41:34,837 --> 00:41:36,321 That'd be awesome. 642 00:42:05,143 --> 00:42:07,179 - You hear that? 643 00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:16,637 That's the sound of silence. 644 00:42:17,811 --> 00:42:20,607 Deep silence. 645 00:42:28,925 --> 00:42:31,756 I'm really hoping there's a fish in that net. 646 00:42:31,859 --> 00:42:34,655 Getting that food storage put in is 647 00:42:34,759 --> 00:42:36,554 what it's gonna be all about. 648 00:42:36,657 --> 00:42:39,211 I don't need to be making no little knickknacks 649 00:42:39,315 --> 00:42:41,075 or tools or bull[bleep] like that. 650 00:42:41,179 --> 00:42:44,182 We gotta get some food put up. 651 00:42:44,285 --> 00:42:46,287 And it's right here. 652 00:42:50,671 --> 00:42:52,121 Yeah. 653 00:42:52,224 --> 00:42:53,985 Yes! 654 00:42:54,088 --> 00:42:56,021 We got two fish. 655 00:42:56,125 --> 00:42:59,680 We've been blessed mightily right here, just now. 656 00:43:02,821 --> 00:43:06,100 Big old lake trout and a big old whitefish. 657 00:43:07,999 --> 00:43:10,104 Oh, my Lord, I feel better now. 658 00:43:10,208 --> 00:43:13,832 I was getting worried when we weren't getting no fish. 659 00:43:13,936 --> 00:43:16,248 It's a good fishing hole. 660 00:43:18,285 --> 00:43:20,011 Well, we gotta pick this net now. 661 00:43:22,220 --> 00:43:25,154 I hate to break the silence of this beautiful morning, 662 00:43:25,257 --> 00:43:27,294 but there's a lot to do today. 663 00:43:28,744 --> 00:43:30,918 Oh, look at that. 664 00:43:32,713 --> 00:43:35,509 It's gonna take every little pinch 665 00:43:35,613 --> 00:43:37,718 to pull through 100 days. 666 00:43:37,822 --> 00:43:40,479 This is a bad spot. 667 00:43:40,583 --> 00:43:43,690 I can't imagine doing that when it gets icy. 668 00:43:47,383 --> 00:43:49,005 This is still the baby stages. 669 00:43:49,109 --> 00:43:51,352 Hell, we're still living in our tarp. 670 00:43:51,456 --> 00:43:53,734 That's gonna come to an end here pretty soon, 671 00:43:53,838 --> 00:43:56,392 especially with winter coming. 672 00:43:56,495 --> 00:43:59,844 Fishing and permanent structure and food gathering-- 673 00:43:59,947 --> 00:44:02,501 that's how it's gonna be till the snow flies. 674 00:44:04,538 --> 00:44:07,334 Oh, yeah, that's a biggie. 675 00:44:07,437 --> 00:44:10,544 And that whitefish is a damn good one too. 676 00:44:13,512 --> 00:44:16,377 Now we're talking. 677 00:44:16,481 --> 00:44:19,070 What a blessing. 678 00:44:19,173 --> 00:44:22,211 Give me, like, 20 more like this, 679 00:44:22,314 --> 00:44:24,834 and we're seeing 100 days. 680 00:44:45,234 --> 00:44:47,236 Oh, what a night. What a night. 681 00:44:48,824 --> 00:44:52,897 Had a dream that I was eating a pumpkin pie. 682 00:44:55,278 --> 00:44:56,797 Yeah, last night was the worst night 683 00:44:56,901 --> 00:44:58,592 since I've been here, for sure. 684 00:44:58,696 --> 00:45:02,389 I don't know, just-- stomach's cramping bad. 685 00:45:02,492 --> 00:45:05,426 I'm mentally usually a pretty tough person, 686 00:45:05,530 --> 00:45:09,396 but last night was humbling for sure. 687 00:45:12,606 --> 00:45:14,332 But we'll get up and do my thing, 688 00:45:14,435 --> 00:45:15,989 keep my mind in the right place. 689 00:45:25,136 --> 00:45:26,896 See where this broth is. 690 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:28,277 Uh, needs to be warm, 691 00:45:28,380 --> 00:45:31,901 probably just a little bit more, maybe? 692 00:45:32,005 --> 00:45:34,766 Cool squirrel broth. 693 00:45:34,870 --> 00:45:38,390 It's not where we wanna be with it, at all. 694 00:45:39,702 --> 00:45:42,222 Needs to be hot, hot, hot. 695 00:45:42,325 --> 00:45:45,328 Catching a squirrel is just that relief 696 00:45:45,432 --> 00:45:47,883 knowing you're gonna get to eat something of substance 697 00:45:47,986 --> 00:45:51,990 other than berries and rock slime. 698 00:45:52,094 --> 00:45:54,510 And knowing that, you know, you have broken 699 00:45:54,613 --> 00:45:57,996 that mental barrier that has made it so hard, 700 00:45:58,100 --> 00:45:59,929 because if you keep that mental barrier up, 701 00:46:00,033 --> 00:46:01,482 then you've already failed. 702 00:46:01,586 --> 00:46:05,245 And now, what wasn't possible is right here in my hand 703 00:46:05,348 --> 00:46:07,592 and it's totally possible. 704 00:46:07,695 --> 00:46:09,767 So I think it's gonna be okay. 705 00:46:16,049 --> 00:46:17,602 Stomach's cramping again pretty good. 706 00:46:17,705 --> 00:46:21,019 I'm gonna try to drink some of this. 707 00:47:04,925 --> 00:47:06,754 Ugh, [bleep]. 708 00:47:32,194 --> 00:47:33,989 Oh, my God. 709 00:47:37,889 --> 00:47:39,718 That squirrel is the only thing I had ate-- 710 00:47:39,822 --> 00:47:41,651 eaten in a couple days. 711 00:47:44,068 --> 00:47:46,656 I'm having some terrible, terrible pains. 712 00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:48,693 Stomach's cramping bad. 713 00:47:50,246 --> 00:47:51,627 I'm definitely hurting. 714 00:47:55,010 --> 00:47:57,771 Oh, I gotta get a little bit of water, [bleep]. 715 00:48:09,887 --> 00:48:11,681 I don't have anything to throw up. 716 00:48:11,785 --> 00:48:14,857 Good grief. 717 00:48:22,278 --> 00:48:25,557 Oh, [bleep]. 718 00:48:25,661 --> 00:48:27,732 I don't know what's going on. 719 00:48:34,118 --> 00:48:36,292 But the pain I'm experiencing-- 720 00:48:36,396 --> 00:48:38,777 man, you can't keep any liquid down. 721 00:48:40,607 --> 00:48:43,368 Dehydration is nothing to play with. 722 00:48:43,472 --> 00:48:48,166 And I'm smart enough to know that if I push it, 723 00:48:48,270 --> 00:48:50,928 it could get a lot worse. 724 00:49:09,325 --> 00:49:11,258 Hey, this is Keith. 725 00:49:11,362 --> 00:49:13,881 Uh, man, I'm-- 726 00:49:13,985 --> 00:49:15,538 I got something going on with my stomach. 727 00:49:15,642 --> 00:49:17,506 I'm tapping out. 728 00:49:20,578 --> 00:49:22,925 Ah, [bleep]. [bleep]. 729 00:49:28,586 --> 00:49:32,003 Oh, my God. 730 00:49:32,107 --> 00:49:35,662 I'm never gonna live this down. 731 00:49:35,765 --> 00:49:38,078 Definitely like to win it, but... 732 00:49:38,182 --> 00:49:41,219 the possibility of a long-term recovery 733 00:49:41,323 --> 00:49:43,808 to get back to where I need to be-- 734 00:49:43,911 --> 00:49:45,327 no amount of money is worth that. 735 00:49:54,370 --> 00:49:56,062 Here they are. 736 00:50:05,450 --> 00:50:08,246 This is not how I planned it at all. 737 00:50:10,179 --> 00:50:12,906 Just a lot of abdominal cramping. 738 00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:15,288 I think I've thrown up everything I can throw up. 739 00:50:15,391 --> 00:50:17,324 And that was mostly water. 740 00:50:32,339 --> 00:50:35,584 Yeah, I've reached my limit. I think so. 741 00:50:40,761 --> 00:50:43,419 I never saw myself going out sick. 742 00:50:43,523 --> 00:50:45,594 Matter of fact, this is the worst way 743 00:50:45,697 --> 00:50:47,320 I could possibly go out. 744 00:50:49,218 --> 00:50:50,530 There's no hope for any future here. 745 00:50:50,633 --> 00:50:52,428 And you know, in my head is the shame of it. 746 00:50:53,843 --> 00:50:56,432 The whole dream is over. 747 00:50:56,536 --> 00:50:59,504 Oh, yes, [bleep] great. 748 00:50:59,608 --> 00:51:01,575 I didn't want to let down my wife. 749 00:51:01,679 --> 00:51:03,508 That's the last thing in the world I wanted to do. 750 00:51:03,612 --> 00:51:06,442 But there's definitely no control out here, 751 00:51:06,546 --> 00:51:08,996 'cause you're dealing with Mother Nature. 752 00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:10,619 And if you think you're gonna control 753 00:51:10,722 --> 00:51:12,897 anything that's gonna happen out here, 754 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:14,657 then you have no idea what you're doing, 755 00:51:14,761 --> 00:51:17,419 and you should've stayed wherever you came from. 756 00:51:26,462 --> 00:51:28,499 I'm Colby Donaldson, and here tonight 757 00:51:28,602 --> 00:51:30,846 with Mark, Keith, Callie, 758 00:51:30,949 --> 00:51:32,710 Joel, and Roland. 759 00:51:32,813 --> 00:51:36,196 This episode starts off with something 760 00:51:36,300 --> 00:51:38,336 people have become very familiar with lately, 761 00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,890 and that is cutting your own hair. 762 00:51:40,994 --> 00:51:42,651 Mark, give us some pointers. 763 00:51:42,754 --> 00:51:46,241 What does it take to give yourself a good groom? 764 00:51:46,344 --> 00:51:48,829 - Oh, man, well, first, let me just say that 765 00:51:48,933 --> 00:51:51,280 I didn't plan on going out there, cutting my hair. 766 00:51:51,384 --> 00:51:54,421 I was so busy preparing for this show and everything, 767 00:51:54,525 --> 00:51:57,079 and living off the land that I just forgot to get a haircut 768 00:51:57,183 --> 00:51:58,184 when I got out there. 769 00:51:58,287 --> 00:52:00,186 And I'll tell you right now. 770 00:52:00,289 --> 00:52:01,566 I don't recommend doing it 771 00:52:01,670 --> 00:52:03,361 with a Leatherman, but it works. 772 00:52:03,465 --> 00:52:05,570 - Yeah, it's not a very big pair of scissors 773 00:52:05,674 --> 00:52:07,572 on that multi-tool you have there, is it? 774 00:52:07,676 --> 00:52:08,608 - Oh, no. 775 00:52:08,711 --> 00:52:10,265 - Okay, so this episode 776 00:52:10,368 --> 00:52:12,888 takes us up to day 22. 777 00:52:12,991 --> 00:52:14,683 Callie, checking in with you. 778 00:52:14,786 --> 00:52:18,169 How are you feeling at this point in the adventure? 779 00:52:18,273 --> 00:52:19,343 - I'm feeling pretty great. 780 00:52:19,446 --> 00:52:21,103 I mean, I'm stoked to be out there. 781 00:52:21,207 --> 00:52:22,587 I'm loving the experience, 782 00:52:22,691 --> 00:52:25,763 and I was starting to feel, like, at that point, 783 00:52:25,866 --> 00:52:27,247 I wanted to have a lot done. 784 00:52:27,351 --> 00:52:29,249 I wanted to have my shelter fully finished 785 00:52:29,353 --> 00:52:31,044 and have a bunch of food laid in, 786 00:52:31,148 --> 00:52:33,391 and there's just so much to do to prepare 787 00:52:33,495 --> 00:52:34,944 for an Arctic winter. 788 00:52:35,048 --> 00:52:37,602 I felt like I was kind of behind in the game. 789 00:52:37,706 --> 00:52:39,156 And then that dream of the turtles 790 00:52:39,259 --> 00:52:41,641 just let me know, like, "Nope, it's okay." 791 00:52:41,744 --> 00:52:45,092 So it reassured me that moving slow was the thing to do 792 00:52:45,196 --> 00:52:47,129 and just take it easy. 793 00:52:47,233 --> 00:52:48,475 - As this point, I bet you're pretty happy 794 00:52:48,579 --> 00:52:50,201 you brought the snare wire, huh? 795 00:52:50,305 --> 00:52:53,825 - Oh, yeah, that snare wire was invaluable. 796 00:52:53,929 --> 00:52:54,964 - What's the trick? 797 00:52:55,068 --> 00:52:57,346 Is it the design of your snare? 798 00:52:57,450 --> 00:52:59,521 You know, the loop. Is the placement? 799 00:52:59,624 --> 00:53:01,212 What do you think the key to your success was 800 00:53:01,316 --> 00:53:02,317 while you were out there? 801 00:53:02,420 --> 00:53:04,629 - My trapline was very successful, 802 00:53:04,733 --> 00:53:06,286 and I think it's because 803 00:53:06,390 --> 00:53:08,633 I've spent a lot of time as a tracker. 804 00:53:08,737 --> 00:53:11,774 That's one of my winter jobs, is tracking. 805 00:53:11,878 --> 00:53:13,604 So I can see where the animals are moving 806 00:53:13,707 --> 00:53:14,984 and where the rabbits are moving. 807 00:53:15,088 --> 00:53:18,125 So I can just--I just know where to put the snare. 808 00:53:18,229 --> 00:53:19,299 So it's placement. 809 00:53:19,403 --> 00:53:21,750 It's understanding rabbit behavior, 810 00:53:21,853 --> 00:53:25,616 and how you set up the wire and the snare, of course, too. 811 00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,757 - Roland, we see you finally get some fish 812 00:53:28,860 --> 00:53:30,137 in your gill net. 813 00:53:30,241 --> 00:53:31,587 What'd that feel like when you finally 814 00:53:31,691 --> 00:53:33,520 started to bring some fish in? 815 00:53:33,624 --> 00:53:34,728 - Yeah, I should've been fired up. 816 00:53:34,832 --> 00:53:38,042 Eating berries and moss and a few ants 817 00:53:38,145 --> 00:53:39,837 just ain't getting it, so when the fish 818 00:53:39,940 --> 00:53:41,321 started coming in, 819 00:53:41,425 --> 00:53:43,979 then you got a substantial food source. 820 00:53:44,082 --> 00:53:48,190 But it's hard to keep that net safely in the water. 821 00:53:48,294 --> 00:53:50,399 And I tried shallower places 822 00:53:50,503 --> 00:53:51,745 where if I would've lost my net, 823 00:53:51,849 --> 00:53:54,023 I could've retrieved it, but there was no fish there. 824 00:53:54,127 --> 00:53:56,440 You gotta have that deep drop-off, 825 00:53:56,543 --> 00:53:59,408 and I coined my deep drop-off Danger Rock 826 00:53:59,512 --> 00:54:01,341 because it was pretty dangerous 827 00:54:01,445 --> 00:54:02,515 getting that thing in there. 828 00:54:02,618 --> 00:54:04,068 So when the fish started coming, 829 00:54:04,171 --> 00:54:06,519 I felt strong. 830 00:54:06,622 --> 00:54:09,142 - And, Mark, at this point, you're eating moss 831 00:54:09,246 --> 00:54:11,662 because you're consuming so much fish, 832 00:54:11,765 --> 00:54:13,457 you've gotta offset that fat intake. 833 00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:14,837 Tell us about that. 834 00:54:14,941 --> 00:54:17,288 - I was eating fish after fish after fish, 835 00:54:17,392 --> 00:54:18,841 and the one thing I wanted to make sure 836 00:54:18,945 --> 00:54:20,671 I had out there was fat. 837 00:54:20,774 --> 00:54:22,466 And I was getting enough of it. 838 00:54:22,569 --> 00:54:23,881 That's for sure. 839 00:54:23,984 --> 00:54:26,435 And so it just messed up my digestive tract. 840 00:54:26,539 --> 00:54:29,335 I mean, it's day 13 or 14. 841 00:54:29,438 --> 00:54:30,991 It got ugly in my sleeping bag 842 00:54:31,095 --> 00:54:32,786 at about 1:00 a.m. in the morning. 843 00:54:32,890 --> 00:54:37,481 I have had diarrhea pretty bad. 844 00:54:37,584 --> 00:54:40,794 Then I woke up and my entire sleeping bag 845 00:54:40,898 --> 00:54:42,727 was completely covered. 846 00:54:42,831 --> 00:54:44,729 And it was as a horrible experience. 847 00:54:44,833 --> 00:54:46,628 I decided, "You know what? No more of that. 848 00:54:46,731 --> 00:54:48,664 "That will never happen again. I need to put something else 849 00:54:48,768 --> 00:54:50,148 in my body other than fish." 850 00:54:50,252 --> 00:54:54,256 - Okay, Joel, we gotta talk about the fly in the ear. 851 00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,189 I mean, I think those of us watching at home, 852 00:54:56,293 --> 00:54:57,397 we could feel it. 853 00:54:57,501 --> 00:54:59,296 It would just-- I can't imagine 854 00:54:59,399 --> 00:55:00,987 how annoying that is. 855 00:55:01,090 --> 00:55:03,196 Talk us through that whole experience. 856 00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:04,680 - The moment it went into the ear, 857 00:55:04,784 --> 00:55:06,751 I felt like it was-- like a sensation 858 00:55:06,855 --> 00:55:09,064 that you've felt before, you get something in your ear. 859 00:55:09,167 --> 00:55:10,410 But when I started shaking my head 860 00:55:10,514 --> 00:55:11,549 and trying to push my finger in there 861 00:55:11,653 --> 00:55:12,930 to actually feel, I realized 862 00:55:13,033 --> 00:55:15,312 that it actually penetrated my inner ear, 863 00:55:15,415 --> 00:55:20,282 and that I was not able to take grasp of this fly. 864 00:55:20,386 --> 00:55:23,147 It was literally flying around my inner ear, 865 00:55:23,250 --> 00:55:24,562 driving me nuts. 866 00:55:24,666 --> 00:55:27,531 And I couldn't get it. 867 00:55:27,634 --> 00:55:32,398 And so I had a little moment of concern, 868 00:55:32,501 --> 00:55:33,709 'cause what was going through my mind 869 00:55:33,813 --> 00:55:36,263 was if this thing flies around-- 870 00:55:36,367 --> 00:55:39,025 keeps flying around in my ear, it's gonna drive me crazy. 871 00:55:39,128 --> 00:55:40,820 But eventually, it'll die. 872 00:55:40,923 --> 00:55:42,269 But if it dies, 873 00:55:42,373 --> 00:55:43,857 is that gonna cause an ear infection? 874 00:55:43,961 --> 00:55:46,377 So that's kind of the concern that I had, 875 00:55:46,481 --> 00:55:48,586 was I didn't want that infection to take place. 876 00:55:48,690 --> 00:55:50,381 And I tried a number of things, 877 00:55:50,485 --> 00:55:52,452 as you saw, but the irrigation 878 00:55:52,556 --> 00:55:55,144 was instantaneous relief 879 00:55:55,248 --> 00:55:56,870 because I think what I did was just 880 00:55:56,974 --> 00:55:58,631 basically drowned him straight away, 881 00:55:58,734 --> 00:56:01,081 and he stopped flying and that was the end of it. 882 00:56:01,185 --> 00:56:02,393 - Nice work. 883 00:56:02,497 --> 00:56:05,016 There's lots to still talk about when we come back, 884 00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,674 eith, 885 00:56:07,778 --> 00:56:10,090 Callie, Joel, and Roland. 886 00:56:10,194 --> 00:56:12,886 Callie, we gotta talk about when you found that clay. 887 00:56:12,990 --> 00:56:15,268 - That is awesome. 888 00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:18,513 So excited to have a clay play day. 889 00:56:18,616 --> 00:56:21,101 Containers are everything out there, 890 00:56:21,205 --> 00:56:22,758 so you start bringing in food. 891 00:56:22,862 --> 00:56:26,417 Like, all of us that had food had probably storage issues. 892 00:56:26,521 --> 00:56:28,626 Where to put the food, how to store the food, 893 00:56:28,730 --> 00:56:30,352 and also, just basically, 894 00:56:30,456 --> 00:56:32,216 we only had one 2-quart pot, 895 00:56:32,319 --> 00:56:33,700 and so having another pot 896 00:56:33,804 --> 00:56:35,357 means that one pot could have food in it, 897 00:56:35,461 --> 00:56:37,394 while another could one have water for washing 898 00:56:37,497 --> 00:56:38,705 or for drinking. 899 00:56:38,809 --> 00:56:41,536 And having multiple containers just makes life 900 00:56:41,639 --> 00:56:42,813 so much more easy. 901 00:56:42,916 --> 00:56:45,091 And so I was hoping to find clay. 902 00:56:45,194 --> 00:56:48,094 And on day one when I was exploring 903 00:56:48,197 --> 00:56:50,303 the territory that I was dropped in, 904 00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:51,718 I found that clay source, 905 00:56:51,822 --> 00:56:53,893 and I couldn't be more stoked on it. 906 00:56:53,996 --> 00:56:56,654 - So the safety gear, the camera gear. 907 00:56:56,758 --> 00:57:00,278 You know, everyone's aware that "Alone" is self-shot. 908 00:57:00,382 --> 00:57:03,350 The safety crew is up to an hour away 909 00:57:03,454 --> 00:57:05,111 from you guys and gals. 910 00:57:05,214 --> 00:57:08,010 What they may not be aware of is just how much safety gear 911 00:57:08,114 --> 00:57:10,496 you're required to take with you 912 00:57:10,599 --> 00:57:13,395 when you leave your camp and go out. 913 00:57:13,499 --> 00:57:14,776 So Keith is gonna give us 914 00:57:14,879 --> 00:57:16,536 a little more insight into that. 915 00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:17,710 Take a look. 916 00:57:19,366 --> 00:57:21,817 - All right, so I'm fixing to take off for the day. 917 00:57:21,921 --> 00:57:24,924 I just want to show you what I have to carry. 918 00:57:25,027 --> 00:57:26,753 I've got two cameras, 919 00:57:26,857 --> 00:57:30,757 GoPro and the big camera with a tripod. 920 00:57:30,861 --> 00:57:32,621 Extra memory cards for those. 921 00:57:32,725 --> 00:57:33,829 I've got extra batteries. 922 00:57:33,933 --> 00:57:35,866 Extra batteries for the mics. 923 00:57:35,969 --> 00:57:37,971 Then I've got my little safety bag 924 00:57:38,075 --> 00:57:41,492 with my Yellowbrick transponder 925 00:57:41,596 --> 00:57:44,495 where they can find me if something goes bad wrong. 926 00:57:45,841 --> 00:57:50,294 A sat phone if something goes super bad wrong. 927 00:57:50,397 --> 00:57:52,054 Then I've got this little backpack, 928 00:57:52,158 --> 00:57:54,263 when I go far, I have to carry, 929 00:57:54,367 --> 00:57:56,645 and it doesn't have anything but safety gear in it. 930 00:57:56,749 --> 00:57:58,613 It's got tourniquets, 931 00:57:58,716 --> 00:58:00,097 full first-aid kit, 932 00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,271 bear bangers, bear spray, 933 00:58:02,375 --> 00:58:05,447 and then I have my bow and my arrows with me. 934 00:58:05,551 --> 00:58:08,243 So they're looking out for you on the safety realm, 935 00:58:08,346 --> 00:58:09,624 but they sure are making you pack 936 00:58:09,727 --> 00:58:11,073 a lot of crap through the woods 937 00:58:11,177 --> 00:58:12,385 when you're trying to slip around. 938 00:58:14,214 --> 00:58:15,940 - All right, Keith. 939 00:58:16,044 --> 00:58:17,908 Was the gear and lugging it around-- 940 00:58:18,011 --> 00:58:19,634 was it really that bad? 941 00:58:19,737 --> 00:58:21,049 - Yes. 942 00:58:21,152 --> 00:58:22,464 I'm not the kind of guy 943 00:58:22,568 --> 00:58:24,086 that's used to packing gadgets around. 944 00:58:24,190 --> 00:58:25,087 Let's just say that. 945 00:58:25,191 --> 00:58:28,263 And less is more in my book. 946 00:58:28,366 --> 00:58:31,231 And, man, just--I felt like a pack mule out there. 947 00:58:31,335 --> 00:58:32,888 And the more area you're taking up, 948 00:58:32,992 --> 00:58:34,441 the more things to clang and bang, 949 00:58:34,545 --> 00:58:36,443 the more things to spook game, 950 00:58:36,547 --> 00:58:38,376 and I did not need any help 951 00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:39,861 not getting game out there. 952 00:58:39,964 --> 00:58:41,587 My camera tripod, 953 00:58:41,690 --> 00:58:42,898 I wanted to wrap that thing around a tree 954 00:58:43,002 --> 00:58:43,899 three or four times. 955 00:58:44,003 --> 00:58:44,900 Every time you would open up, 956 00:58:45,004 --> 00:58:47,075 it made this horrible sound. 957 00:58:47,178 --> 00:58:48,628 God, I hate this thing. 958 00:58:48,732 --> 00:58:51,355 Yeah, the camera equipment was that bad. 959 00:58:51,458 --> 00:58:54,323 It really was. - Mark, I'm curious. 960 00:58:54,427 --> 00:58:55,635 Do you feel the same way? 961 00:58:55,739 --> 00:58:58,396 - Oh, man, it adds a whole other aspect 962 00:58:58,500 --> 00:59:00,226 to this whole thing, and it's frustrating. 963 00:59:00,329 --> 00:59:01,952 And, you know, you're used to going out there 964 00:59:02,055 --> 00:59:04,437 and hunting and surviving and living off the land, 965 00:59:04,541 --> 00:59:06,301 doing it the way you normally do it. 966 00:59:06,404 --> 00:59:07,923 And you're not carrying all this stuff. 967 00:59:08,027 --> 00:59:09,925 It just doesn't make sense, but we have to, you know? 968 00:59:10,029 --> 00:59:12,583 I mean, I'm glad we had it. Don't get me wrong. 969 00:59:12,687 --> 00:59:14,792 But it definitely hindered your ability 970 00:59:14,896 --> 00:59:16,483 to do what you wanted to do sometimes. 971 00:59:16,587 --> 00:59:19,348 - Roland, in the end, does it make sense, though, 972 00:59:19,452 --> 00:59:21,730 to carry all that safety equipment 973 00:59:21,834 --> 00:59:23,214 that you're required to lug around? 974 00:59:23,318 --> 00:59:25,078 - You'd just figure it out or die 975 00:59:25,182 --> 00:59:27,080 if you didn't have all that safety stuff. 976 00:59:27,184 --> 00:59:30,221 But then the camera in your hand all the time, 977 00:59:30,325 --> 00:59:32,327 that makes you a one-armed man. 978 00:59:32,430 --> 00:59:35,157 We're doing this one hand behind our back 979 00:59:35,261 --> 00:59:37,090 'cause one hand's full with a camera, always. 980 00:59:37,194 --> 00:59:38,920 - Keith, it's time. 981 00:59:39,023 --> 00:59:40,197 We gotta talk about 982 00:59:40,300 --> 00:59:41,923 that agonizing tap-out of yours. 983 00:59:42,026 --> 00:59:45,443 First of all, do you think there's any irony 984 00:59:45,547 --> 00:59:48,101 in the fact that... 985 00:59:48,205 --> 00:59:50,310 you know, you joked about tapping out 986 00:59:50,414 --> 00:59:52,105 and ordering a pizza? 987 00:59:52,209 --> 00:59:53,106 - Oh, yeah. Looking back, 988 00:59:53,210 --> 00:59:54,280 I have to laugh about it. 989 00:59:54,383 --> 00:59:56,109 And, you know, I also have to wonder 990 00:59:56,213 --> 00:59:57,663 if it wasn't a little foreboding, 991 00:59:57,766 --> 01:00:00,424 because it seems like just a day or two after that, 992 01:00:00,527 --> 01:00:02,391 you know, I started really feeling 993 01:00:02,495 --> 01:00:05,429 like I was hitting a wall as far as physically. 994 01:00:05,532 --> 01:00:08,294 Mentally, I still felt good, 995 01:00:08,397 --> 01:00:11,573 but my body was just-- it wasn't having any of it. 996 01:00:11,677 --> 01:00:13,782 - Shed a little light for the viewers at home. 997 01:00:13,886 --> 01:00:16,129 What happens when they come retrieve you? 998 01:00:16,233 --> 01:00:17,648 Where do you go? 999 01:00:17,752 --> 01:00:20,409 What takes place immediately following your tap-out? 1000 01:00:20,513 --> 01:00:22,170 - Yeah, I mean, everybody thinks 1001 01:00:22,273 --> 01:00:23,861 that you tap out, boom, 1002 01:00:23,965 --> 01:00:25,380 24 hours later, you're home, 1003 01:00:25,483 --> 01:00:27,037 and that is definitely not the case. 1004 01:00:27,140 --> 01:00:29,211 I know for me, gave me some shots 1005 01:00:29,315 --> 01:00:31,110 to stop all the cramping, 1006 01:00:31,213 --> 01:00:34,769 and I was still vomiting when I came into camp. 1007 01:00:34,872 --> 01:00:37,047 And then you're going in a refeeding program 1008 01:00:37,150 --> 01:00:38,980 because your body 1009 01:00:39,083 --> 01:00:40,740 is the one thing you cannot control. 1010 01:00:40,844 --> 01:00:43,018 And you do not know how it's gonna react 1011 01:00:43,122 --> 01:00:45,469 because you have never put it under the kind of stress 1012 01:00:45,572 --> 01:00:47,678 that you have out there. 1013 01:00:47,782 --> 01:00:49,404 So you come back into camp, 1014 01:00:49,507 --> 01:00:51,648 and you are attended to medically, 1015 01:00:51,751 --> 01:00:53,442 or, worst-case scenario, 1016 01:00:53,546 --> 01:00:55,341 you're flown out to the hospital. 1017 01:00:55,444 --> 01:00:56,722 Put it in perspective. 1018 01:00:56,825 --> 01:00:59,794 I gained six pounds back in 24 hours. 1019 01:00:59,897 --> 01:01:01,968 That's how dehydrated I was. 1020 01:01:02,072 --> 01:01:04,833 - Okay, I have one final question for you. 1021 01:01:04,937 --> 01:01:08,147 That self-administered primitive tattoo-- 1022 01:01:08,250 --> 01:01:13,117 you had 25 dots on there representing 25 days. 1023 01:01:13,221 --> 01:01:15,844 But you tapped out at day 22. 1024 01:01:15,948 --> 01:01:19,434 Is that a permanent reminder of that situation? 1025 01:01:19,537 --> 01:01:22,989 - Here's a great thing about primitive ink. 1026 01:01:23,093 --> 01:01:25,785 If you get on it pretty quick, it won't set. 1027 01:01:25,889 --> 01:01:28,063 I was able to scrub a few of them out. 1028 01:01:28,167 --> 01:01:29,582 - That's what I was gonna say. 1029 01:01:29,686 --> 01:01:31,032 Did you erase the whole thing, 1030 01:01:31,135 --> 01:01:32,930 or just take three of the dots off there? 1031 01:01:33,034 --> 01:01:34,173 - You gotta be real careful. 1032 01:01:34,276 --> 01:01:35,553 You can get three of the dots off 1033 01:01:35,657 --> 01:01:37,452 because I did not want to have to look 1034 01:01:37,555 --> 01:01:38,833 at my ankle the rest of my life, 1035 01:01:38,936 --> 01:01:41,559 and be like, "Jeez, you know, 25 days." 1036 01:01:41,663 --> 01:01:43,389 Because that was my goal at that point, 1037 01:01:43,492 --> 01:01:46,012 but, you know, your body ultimately 1038 01:01:46,116 --> 01:01:48,083 is gonna tell you when you're done. 1039 01:01:48,187 --> 01:01:49,498 - Well, then with that, I'd like to thank 1040 01:01:49,602 --> 01:01:53,364 Mark, Keith, Callie, Joel, and Roland. 1041 01:01:53,468 --> 01:01:55,988 Tune in each week after the episodes, 1042 01:01:56,091 --> 01:01:57,437 when we'll be talking with the participants 1043 01:01:57,541 --> 01:01:58,818 about their experience. 1044 01:01:58,922 --> 01:02:01,372 But until then, as promised, 1045 01:02:01,476 --> 01:02:04,444 here is a sneak peek of next week's episode. 1046 01:02:04,548 --> 01:02:05,652 We'll see you then. 1047 01:02:07,793 --> 01:02:09,691 - Where the hell is my ax? 1048 01:02:09,795 --> 01:02:11,728 I don't see it here. 1049 01:02:11,831 --> 01:02:13,799 So stupid. 1050 01:02:13,902 --> 01:02:15,317 [bleep]. 1051 01:02:15,421 --> 01:02:17,078 - Ooh, it's got a bite. 1052 01:02:17,181 --> 01:02:18,182 Don't freak out. 1053 01:02:20,806 --> 01:02:22,773 - I want a moose. I want a bear. 1054 01:02:22,877 --> 01:02:25,638 Lots of indication that they're here. 1055 01:02:28,227 --> 01:02:30,056 - Probably just a rock. 1056 01:02:32,541 --> 01:02:35,579 [bleep] moving. I think that's a bear. 1057 01:02:35,682 --> 01:02:36,580 [bleep].