Previously onTough As Nails...
PHIL KEOGHAN: Get 100 lobster traps on that boat!
-Yo! -KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands came out
with a splashy victory...
-Done! -...in the team competition.
-KEOGHAN: Badge of Honor, going to the crew boss. -All of you guys.
-While Savage Crew... -Aah! No freaking strategy.
...was unable to claw their way back.
As the crew boss, that's on me.
In the individual competition...
KEOGHAN: Gonna get slippery and slimy.
ANGEL: That's a big worm, bro.
...Scott slid past his competition...
-That's it! -..for the win.
-Yes! -While Tara and Swifty...
-got stuck in the slime... -TARA: Get it out! Get it out!
-Forget the knots! -...Swifty pulled himself out of overtime...
-[grunts] -...while Tara was the first
to punch out of the individual competition.
-I can't move my hand! -ANGEL: Tara, what are you doing?
I've got to look out for my hand.
-[cheering and applause] -MIKEY: Hold your head high, Tara!
KEOGHAN: Tonight...
-LIZ: Uh-oh... -SWIFTY: I've never done this.
KEOGHAN: With teams tied at one apiece,
a shocking turn of events...
MERRYL: It's a blow to us.
KEOGHAN: ...means both teams must dig deeper...
Just got loaded, coming around.
KEOGHAN: ...and push even harder...
KEOGHAN: Freight Train rolling in!
-...for a win. -Let's go!
And who will get bulldozed
out of the individual competition?
-[sniffles] -Losing their shot...
-Come on. -[all shouting, clamoring]
...at theTough As Nails title?
-[shouting, clamoring] -Too close to call!
This is Tough As Nails.
♪
♪ I'm tough as nails.
♪
Come on up!
SARAH: This morning we got
to the van and...
we're down one guy?
CELI: It's kind of really weird and just...
feelings are all over the place.
Morning, everyone.
Interesting change of events.
Dirty Hands, as you know,
Tara injured her hand and,
unfortunately, she cannot continue
in the competition.
She has not been medically cleared.
IRAIDA: It sucks to lose Tara.
She motivated us-- she says, "We've got this,
we're gonna do this, we're gonna win," and, um,
you know, as a team, we appreciated that, uh, but
injuries happen and we understand that, too.
And you have to take care of yourself, you know,
because you have to go back
to your real life and your real job.
But, um, we miss her.
Savage Crew,
you're also down a teammate.
Mikey is no longer competing on Tough As Nails.
He had to go home.
SCOTT: We lost a teammate, but
Savage Crew is a force to reckon with.
There's still a lot of things ahead and
we have nothing but confidence moving forward.
You're gonna have to do extra work now that you're
only five against five.
I do have some good news.
The winning team
will still win
$12,000.
[cheering and applause]
That's $2,400
for each member
of the winning team.
Now it does seem symbolic
that as you reset
and start out as teams of five
that you're doing something like this.
Your job today
is to build
a new road.
-Ooh! -Oh!
-You with me, Swifty? -Oh, yeah.
My foot is still injured,
you know, it's something that's gonna take time.
But in this challenge,
I'm gonna lay it all out for my team.
When the whistle blow, I'm lining up and I'm ready.
KEOGHAN: There's four million
miles of roads in America.
Think about that for a second.
You don't have to build that much road.
-Hey, thank you. -[laughter]
-Gonna make it tough... -This is Tough As Nails.
Yeah, yeah.
When the work whistle blows, you're gonna run
down to your workstations
and get to work.
First thing you're gonna do is you're gonna jump into
one of those Ford Super Duty trucks hooked up to a trailer,
then drive over to the aggregate dump
where an operator will fill up your trailer.
Then you're gonna drive over to your team's
designated area and dump your aggregate
out on the road.
Use a skip loader
to start levelling out your road.
Make sure it's at least six inches thick.
You don't want your road to be too thin.
You need to lay down and smooth out
four loads of aggregate.
And then you're gonna use a roller to flatten
your road.
The first team to build a 150 feet
of road will win
-that $12,000. -[cheering, applause]
Hey, hey!
And, of course...
-the Badge of Honor. -[murmured agreement]
So the team score's now one apiece.
Go to your workstations, strategize,
and then we'll get to work.
SCOTT: I remember at age 13, my dad worked
for a geotechnical construction company, and I wanted to learn
how do you run these awesome machines?
I would ask every operator to teach me.
And before I could become a superintendent,
I had to learn all the equipment--
an excavator, a bulldozer, uh, a rock truck,
anything, I'll run it. I'll take Bad Boy.
-CELIA: Yeah. -SCOTT: I want to use the skip loader.
-The skip, the skip, okay. -Yeah.
-Crew boss or crew boss? -Crew boss...
-I'll do the crew boss. -Okay.
SARAH: It's the first time I'm gonna
be crew boss, and I feel excited about it.
Swifty's gonna be handling the F-350,
Celi's gonna be handling the trailer, and Merryl's gonna be
handling the roller.
♪ The roller♪
♪ Roller.♪
Savage Crew!
Liz is gonna be our foreman.
You're gonna be driving the trailer and you're gonna
-be his partner. -Okay.
You roll and I'll hit
the bulldozer or whatever.
I'm gonna take the skip loader and...
I don't have any prior experience with operating
heavy equipment, but...
my son's birthday was last month and I did buy him
a remote control tractor, so... you know,
I do have a little bit of experience, I guess,
in that regard... [laughs]
-Dirty, Dirty... -ALL: Hands!
Dirty Hands chose me as their crew boss.
I didn't volunteer myself.
But today is very hands-off for the crew boss.
I'm going to be telling people what to do.
"You do this, you do this."
Being a cement mason, like, I mean,
if you pour concrete to the wrong grade,
it's getting torn out, you know.
So I do sort of have an eye for that.
-Let's go, let's go! -CELI: Yes!
All right, everybody ready to get to work?
-On the work whistle... -[work whistle blows]
Take it easy.
Go, Swift, I'm right behind you!
SARAH: Swifty, I thought your foot hurt!
Swifty is running like he's Carl Lewis
down the track, just... [whooshes]
He takes off!
I hope he feels okay after that.
-Swifty, Swifty... -Heads up...
Keep in mind that it has to be six inches, all right?
Okay, let's do this.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands first to get going on the job!
LIZ: All right, let's go, you guys.
KEOGHAN: Now Savage Crew rolling out to get their first load
of gravel. First come, first served down there.
IRAIDA: High stakes. Drive, drive.
Okay. Stop.
CELI: Oh, it's only one load at a time?
-Stop where he stopped. -SWIFTY: See how they loaded that?
CELI: Yeah, it has to be on the back end.
All right, you can jump out.
Move up!
Swifty, move up!
Very good. Very good!
I'm gonna get out, then.
I'm gonna be working with Patrick.
And I'm gonna be working the lift.
Keep going, keep going.
KEOGHAN: Iraida, giving direction
to Freight Train, who's driving.
Patrick, go forward.
Forward. Stop, stop, stop, stop!
I'm gonna have
a remote control that's gonna be
making the lift go up or down,
dumping the aggregate.
-A little more. -KEOGHAN: Iraida getting ready
to dump the first load.
The idea is to try to get a nice
even surface of aggregate.
That's a great pour, there,
coming from Freight Train.
All of this has to be levelled out.
Savage Crew
yet to lay out their aggregate.
Nice and slow, Swifty.
I have this control, and I press up.
It was just like pressing a button
and lifting a patient up, so it was the same concept.
Swifty...
-dump exactly in the middle. -Okay.
KEOGHAN: Meanwhile here comes Scott in the skip loader.
SCOTT: As fast as you guys can get me dirt,
I want it in just one pile, I'll worry about the spreading.
Very little, Swift.
All right, Celi.
CELI: There it goes.
SCOTT: Yes!
SCOTT: I wanted it piled up
in one certain spot so that when
you pushed it and spread it out,
I could control the low spot.
Beautiful.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands already
heading back to pick up their second load of gravel,
as Zeus moves forward
to level out their first load on the road.
-Okay, there. -Let me know
-when I'm in front of the pile. -Okay.
We have, like, a hump...
here.
I'm not used to being in a leadership role.
I always say at work, "I never want to be in charge."
Like, I like just being told what to do, put my head down,
do it, but I-I'm trying to step into that role.
Okay, bring it further back than that.
ZEUS: We're off to an early lead and
it's gonna come down to communication, essentially.
The start of the hump is, like, right here.
I'm gonna use my back end, then.
I'm listening to Liz-- she has the most
-experience with grading.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands doing a good job.
Pretty impressive driving from Zeus and this road
is looking pretty smooth so far.
We're on our way back.
Okay, I'm-a get out the way. I'm-a get out the way.
IRAIDA: Liz...
tell me where to stop.
Freight Train rolling in here
-with another load of aggregate. -LIZ: Stop, stop, stop.
KEOGHAN: So far, Savage Crew
still trying to finish levelling out their first load.
-SARAH: There you go. -KEOGHAN: Scott using the back blade
to pull that aggregate forward.
Drop it... pull off, here they come.
Our strategy is to keep everything
moving forward, kind of like an assembly line.
All right, Swifty, come on right through the middle, Swifty.
You know it has to be grade and level,
and at work I'm good at checking pipes, if they're level.
Stop, stop, stop. All right, right there.
Start dropping it here, here, here, here, here.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands still ahead.
LIZ: Okay, Patrick, go.
KEOGHAN: Pouring their second load.
Two to go.
They're going with the spread.
Celi running back with the controls now for Savage Crew.
They've got some catching up to do.
-All right, all right, go with it, Swifty. -Nope, hey, you know what?
All right, when you drop it, move forward with the truck.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew changing their technique.
They started off with one big clump of aggregate,
now they're trying to spread it out as they go.
SCOTT [chuckles]: Our strategy didn't really go that well.
Things kind of changed there in the middle.
Little bit more, pull them up.
I wanted it to be piled up in one certain spot,
but you have to learn on the fly,
you have to make adjustments.
Good, good, good.
ANGEL: Move the truck, move the truck.
KEOGHAN: Angel, going back to the start of the road
-to even things out. -LIZ: Iraida,
Patrick? Go get some more...
Keep going down, keep going down, keep going down.
-IRAIDA: We have a problem. -PATRICK: Talk to me, Iraida.
It's not going down. It's not going down.
ZEUS: Hey, the dump's not going down!
-Let's go. They're right behind us! -ANGEL: Damn.
KEOGHAN: Scott moving forward on his road.
Savage Crew is using the opportunity to catch up,
as they inch ahead of Dirty Hands.
-Go, go, go. -LIZ: Iraida!
ZEUS: Let's go!
Patrick, Patrick!
We have a problem. It's not going down.
Patrick, Patrick!
The cord, the cord.
ZEUS: Behind the wheel, it's stuck.
Iraida starts working the remote,
and the cable's underneath the tire.
-The cord. -Patrick, go-- back up a little.
KEOGHAN: Oh, after taking an early lead,
Dirty Hands now at a standstill.
SARAH: All right, go with it, Swifty.
The load's done, we can probably get ahead of them.
Savage Crew is using the opportunity to catch up.
PATRICK: What's going on there?
-Look. -Good job, good job.
ZEUS: Get it down and get it out of here.
KEOGHAN: That's a mistake that's gonna cost Dirty Hands.
There you go.
Go, go, go. Good job, you guys.
There we go.
KEOGHAN: Ooh, Swifty sneaking in front
of Freight Train for the third load of aggregate.
-PATRICK: No, wrong way. -[horn honks]
KEOGHAN: Remember, first come, first serve down there.
There's only one loader.
ZEUS: We were in front,
and because of that little error,
we're behind now.
KEOGHAN: Scott moving forward,
trying to level out their second load.
MERRYL: I'm on the roller, and I'm chomping at the bit
a little bit, 'cause I'm like,
"Sarah, hey, do you want me to go now?"
SARAH: Merryl, I'm gonna have him go for two more loads,
and then I'm-a have you come in.
Once the gravel pile's in play,
Scott's gonna come right up behind them.
-MERRYL: Back up. -I didn't want to put Merryl
into play until we had a couple long sections in.
All right, we just got loaded, coming around.
SARAH: As long as we can keep that gravel coming,
we're good to go.
KEOGHAN: Smoother surface coming from Savage Crew.
How's my claw? How's my claw?
Little bit more.
LIZ: No, but we need to bring that back, though.
-D-Drop it. Okay... -Angel, Angel.
I saw that they weren't grading it the right way.
But I wasn't running the job, so I was really trying
to, like, collaborate with Liz.
-ZEUS: How's that? -Uh, little bit more?
I don't think we should do that.
LIZ: I'm trying to direct Zeus,
and Angel is kind of in my ear,
like, this little mosquito flying and buzzing around.
Liz, come here. Drop-drop this.
Hold on, we're gonna-- Let's just do the back
and see how it looks? Okay.
He wants to do something, but there's nothing,
there's nothing for him to do yet.
-Angel, please let me do my job. -ANGEL: Okay.
ANGEL: All right, sorry.
LIZ: You need to come up, 'cause we're low back here.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew now coming back with their third load.
SARAH: Keep going a little bit...
-SWIFTY: I got you. -There you go, Swift.
Sarah, she was a great foreman.
And she really did a great job with communication.
SARAH: There you go, Celi. Go up a little bit.
I'm fine with communicating with people,
I'm fine with telling people where to go and stuff.
All right, go up a little bit, Swifty,
then let Scott take over.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew
dumping their third load of aggregate.
Just one to go.
SARAH: Go forward, nice and slow.
KEOGHAN: As Freight Train comes driving in now
with the third load for Dirty Hands.
You' got to talk to us, Liz.
-LIZ: Keep going. -PATRICK: We fell behind.
A little bit of panic may be setting in,
but we just kept on rolling.
Talk to me on the move.
-Slowly, slowly. -LIZ: Okay, yeah.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands dumping their third load,
-trying to catch up. -LIZ: Great. Awesome, you guys.
All right there.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew with a very impressive
piece of road so far.
Scott really taking his time as he levels out the road base.
SCOTT: All that that's gathered in there, Sarah,
will all naturally fall out.
SARAH: All right.
You look over and you see Dirty Hands, they're rushing.
LIZ: Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up now.
-Liz, check my back end. -Up a little.
-We don't want to drag it too low. -Keep in mind
when Angel jumps on this,
he's gonna flatten this thing out and make it look nice,
-all right? -Yeah, gotcha.
SARAH: Swifty, when you get up here,
-just wait for him. -SWIFTY: Copy.
CELI: We're on our way back.
-We'll be there in probably a minute or two. -SARAH: Okay.
SARAH: We've had to fix up a couple edges,
but other than that, our road is looking really nice.
Scott, he can come to my house and build
my driveway if he wants to.
I'm just gonna drag this
and then I'm gonna move out of the way.
SWIFTY: Go ahead, Scott, go ahead.
We're on our way back, Liz.
KEOGHAN: Can Dirty Hands catch up?
They are very close at this point.
We can wait if you want us to wait.
LIZ: No, just drive over it. Go, go, go.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands right on the heels of Savage Crew,
as both teams pour their fourth
and final load of aggregate.
Almost at exactly the same time.
A nice spread coming from Swifty.
That's a good pour also coming from Dirty Hands.
-Start going down. -Once this final load of aggregate
is dumped and spread, it's down to who
can be the first to flatten their road with the roller.
Pretty even at this point.
-Am I clear to... -SARAH: Come on and do a little bit off the front.
Oh, and here comes Merryl.
Feels like an earthquake as Merryl brings out the roller.
MERRYL: As I'm riding the roller,
it's just a little squirrely at first,
but I've been in mechanical devices
like aircraft, so you just have
to be very smooth on the controls.
Look at Merryl go. This is a woman
who knows how to fly a U-2 plane.
MERRYL: I put the roller up to max,
and we're still... [imitates whirring]
We're maybe doing three miles an hour.
[steady beeping]
LIZ: Angel, I think we're almost ready for-- to flatten out
-and see how it looks. -ANGEL: All right.
KEOGHAN: And Angel's gone back to get the roller.
Coordinated effort from Savage Crew.
They want this win.
SARAH: All right, Merryl, Scott's gonna turn around
and smooth all this out.
LIZ: I look over at their road and realize
that I'm being way too much of a perfectionist.
We're just gonna keep doing it, keep working it towards the end.
At that point, we just bring on Angel.
Let's flatten this out, let's do it.
So stop here.
This is a much better effort from Dirty Hands.
Angel has rolled up to this point right here.
Merryl, another 30 feet forward.
SWIFTY: She's good. She's good.
I was impressed with, um, Merryl running that roller.
She did a good job, being her first time, man.
KEOGHAN: Scott running to the beginning of the road.
It all comes down to rolling.
And Merryl is rolling ahead.
This ain't definitely no jet right now.
ANGEL: Let's go, let's go, let's go!
LIZ: Angel, Angel.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands desperately trying to catch up.
-ANGEL: Guys, come on! -Great driving coming from Angel,
-but is it too late? -MERRYL: Let's go!
KEOGHAN: Merryl smoothing out the last feet.
And they are showing Dirty Hands
they want to win this team competition.
-LIZ: Go forward, go forward. -ANGEL: Let's go, let's go.
Merryl's getting to the end of the road now.
It's looking good.
-SWIFTY: We got it, we got it. -SARAH: All right, go all the way.
Savage Crew get their road built.
SCOTT: Go park. Merryl, go park.
Merryl's going to park the roller,
and we all go sprinting towards the van.
You start to celebrate a little bit.
-Let's go! -IRAIDA: Come on, move,
they're picking up their cones.
Angel, go, please don't waste no time.
-LIZ: I'm sorry, guys. -SWIFTY: Yeah!
SCOTT: We get to drive across the road we just built.
-It's a good feeling. -CELI: It's Savage time!
I give it up to the workers out there
who are doing this job.
And when I go over a road from now on,
I'll just always roll down my window and say,
"I love you guys." They'll be like... [laughs]
Pay up, baby.
Savage Crew!
-Getting' the job done! -Chest bump. Boom!
I love you.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands, not their day today.
[applause]
-Good job, you guys. -Yeah, congratulations.
-Good job. -LIZ: Thank you.
LIZ: You guys got that one. Yeah.
ANGEL: I'm kind of, like, pissed off
and a little down about losing,
but, you know, everybody worked really hard
and I'm really proud of my team.
In concrete, grade is really important.
So you were being maybe a little too fussy.
-She's our, uh... -Maybe a little too-- maybe a little...
-s-she's our perfectionist. -...too meticulous. Yeah, yeah.
I take responsibility for our loss,
and I'm disappointed.
But onward and upward.
Savage Crew, we saw what happens when a team
works really well together.
I want to award the $12,000 to the crew boss today.
-[applause] -SWIFTY: Give it up, give it up, give it up, Phil.
Congratulations. Here's your $12,000 and...
-today's Badge of Honor. -Thank you.
-Congratulations. Awesome job. -Thank you.
You know what that means now.
Savage Crew: two.
Dirty Hands: one.
MERRYL: That's $12,000 for five of us.
Do the math, people. That's $2,400 per person.
Feels pretty doggone good.
But it ain't over.
-Nope. -And who knows what's ahead?
SWIFTY: Today was a good day to get a win,
But tomorrow's a different day.
Tomorrow's every man for himself, and, uh,
I can't do O.T. again.
If I got to hop on one leg, I'm hopping on one leg.
Nothing's stopping me. I'm here till the end.
LIZ: Now it's individual.
ZEUS: What do you guys think it could be?
If it's something like operating equipment...
If we are operating, and you are in there,
the main thing is to just stay relaxed,
'cause once you feel that pressure kick,
you're gonna be like, "Oh, whoa, whoa."
-You know what I mean? -LIZ: Yeah. That could be my downfall.
I mean, I love putting my head down and getting in the zone.
But when it comes to...
I can get a little panicked.
Sometimes I have a lack of confidence
when it comes to things I haven't done before.
Like, I don't always believe in myself.
There's a lot of situations where I might step back
and let somebody else come in,
where, in individual competition that-that's not an option.
I have to-- It's me. It's on me.
ZEUS: When I was in high school, I was a good athlete,
just living the life.
As soon as I went to college, there were guys
three times my size that could run just as fast.
-Instead of being a big fish in the pond, you're the... -Yeah.
-The little-- the minnow in the ocean. -Yeah.
ZEUS: In high school, I was an All-Star running back,
and I had that mindset, to where I was always the best.
I got recruited to play at the Naval Academy,
and I was instantly humbled.
I wasn't the best anymore.
I was just a number.
That was the most humbling experience of my life,
and it created that doubt you feel,
but getting over it and finding myself a little more
helped me to become a stronger person.
LIZ: Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one
who has these self-doubts, so it's good to hear this guy
who's just this big muscly... stud, like... [laughs]
say that sometimes, you know, he's-he's been
in those situations, too.
MERRYL: So today, we'll have fun, and we'll just work hard
-and... -Stay focused.
Yeah, I don't want to go into overtime.
And I definitely don't no nother overtime.
-I know you don't. -MERRYL: I know you don't.
MERRYL: Swifty, I'm gonna go there.
I don't mean this in any bad way, but...
I didn't want any brothers or sisters to be the first
-to be eliminated. -[laughter]
-I just didn't. -CELI: As a Black person,
-you think that. -I just didn't, as a Black person.
-SCOTT: Yeah-- okay. -Like, yeah.
-Yeah, I didn't-- see.. -CELI: Sorry, no offense, Scott.
No, I don't take offense, it's, it's good to hear
that point of view, 'cause I wouldn't even have thought that.
-CELI: I was like, "Not my brother." -As a, as a Black person,
-I was like... -Yeah, I immediately noticed that
-I was the one representing... -CELI: I was like, "Not my Swifty.
-...the-the Black male. -My-my Black brother."
I carry that burden, like, oh...
I-I feel pressure
being the only Black man, yeah.
It's nothing new. I feel that pressure every day.
I always have to make sure
that I cross my T's and dot my I's, so...
It's another day for me.
Being, you know, Black and being in that spotlight,
you-you just, you just can't stop, so...
-You can't drop the ball. -That-- you just, you can't.
You're on a big platform.
My gosh, like, that's so-- that's so much--
it's so much pressure on you guys
that I wouldn't even have thought about.
-You know? That's... -Yeah, yeah.
It's a lot of pressure being Black sometimes-- It is.
MERRYL: As a Black female working
in a male-dominant profession,
sometimes it's so doggone exhausting.
There's been times I'm sitting around the table
where no one looks like me.
Every word that I say, if I make a mistake,
I know I'm screwing it up for the next person
who looks like me to sit at the table.
So I put a lot of pressure on myself
to perform the best every time.
SCOTT: I-I didn't even think about it,
but I'm so proud to have, like, three strong, Black teammates
that I love, and I'm-- like, you're family now, to me.
-Like, it makes me so... -Aw...
-Like, I-I got chills, I, like... -[chuckles]
CELI: And I feel comfortable talking about being Black
-in front of you guys, because sometimes... -MERRYL: Yeah.
...it's not comfortable, talking about being Black
-in front of... -SCOTT: Okay.
-MERRYL: No, it... -White people.
Yeah. Because some white people just don't understand.
-You know? -Sure, sure. Well, and we don't.
To be honest, like, being a-a white man from Utah,
I-I don't understand fully your guys' situation.
-Right. I didn't think of... -Like, I don't-- We don't.
But that doesn't mean
I can't love you, and, like, I can't respect you.
-And... -SWIFTY: Yeah, yeah. Or at least
attempt to understand where I'm coming from.
-Or try to see... -That-that's the biggest part of it.
-...where you're coming from. -That's it.
That's the biggest thing.
[creature howling]
Hey, guys.
-Hey, Phil. -Hi, Phil.
KEOGHAN: You see what you might be doing today?
-MERRYL: Oh, yeah. -SCOTT: Yeah.
Scott, I can see your smile from here.
I'm happy.
Yeah, you're happy, all right.
He happy for now.
-Ooh... -KEOGHAN: Happy for now, huh?
Oh, Swifty, that's what I like.
-Yeah. -[laughter]
Take that smile away.
KEOGHAN: Welcome to the second individual
Tough As Nailschallenge.
As you see behind you, there is a course.
A bulldozer course.
Today, you are going to be racing in pairs, on the clock,
to see who is the best bulldozer operator.
They're amazing machines,
very difficult to control and to drive.
You're gonna use your bulldozer to push one of these large tires
around the slalom course as fast as you possibly can.
As always onTough As Nails, you never want to finish last.
It's a pride thing, and also, there's a lot on the line.
$200,000 and an all-new Ford F-150 truck.
Couple of pointers on driving the bulldozers.
There's two control sticks.
Push the left one forward to go forward,
pull it back to go in reverse. Then left to go left,
and right to go right.
Use the right controller to lift your blade up and down,
then you have left and right.
Very simple controls.
The hard part is coordinating everything.
Remember, it's about the time.
So you might go against somebody who is super quick,
but you might end up with the second fastest time, too.
You're going against the clock.
As an added incentive today,
we want to make this competitive.
So, the person with the fastest overall time
will win a big advantage
in the next individual competition.
Anybody driven a bulldozer before?
Nobody's ever driven a bulldozer?
Only you, Scott?
All right, well, that doesn't mean
that you can't catch up to this man.
-Anything is possible. -Everyone can have a bad day.
-Did you say everyone can have a bad day? -That's correct.
-Okay, okay. -All right. I love you.
-I love you, Merryl. -Yeah, I know.
[laughter]
KEOGHAN: All right, I've randomly drawn the pairs.
First up, Merryl is going up against Scott.
-Yes! -Whoa, no!
-CELI: That wouldhappen. -[laughter]
-You had to say something. -MERRYL: I know!
-You had to say something. -This is perfect.
-Should we get it on? -[cheering]
All right.
Remember, not about beating the person you're up against;
it's about making sure you don't have
one of the two slowest times.
SCOTT [laughs]: I'm very competitive. I want to win everything that I do.
And Merryl? I'm gonna teach her a little lesson.
The U-2's a little different from a bulldozer,
so it's in my world now, Merryl.
MERRYL: I love Scott. He's such a trash-talker.
I want to beat Scott on his own playground
with his own equipment, his own toys.
[laughs]
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
[cheering, applause]
And the clock is ticking.
Scott, right out of the gate.
No.
KEOGHAN: Rolling his tire forward.
Merryl's doing very well so far,
getting into the first turn.
SCOTT: I want to put my money where my mouth is.
I don't want to be the one that's like,
"I'm the best at this, I'm so good at running this,"
and then come in last place.
I didn't want to do that.
KEOGHAN: Scott coming down to the far end in under a minute!
SCOTT: I look over and I notice Merryl's not far behind me,
and I'm like, "How is she already this good at this?"
KEOGHAN: Look at the control she's got.
That's all right, let's go, Merryl!
MERRYL: It's just like flying an aircraft.
Everything else, you shut out.
Whatever drama you have in your life,
you just close that off,
and you just focus on the task at hand.
The handle that controls the blade
felt like a trim button on an aircraft.
KEOGHAN: Merryl flying through the course!
Scott sprinting to the finish line.
Good job, Scott!
Just got to get across the line.
SARAH: Nice work, Scott.
And... stop the clock.
Scott gets it done with a blistering pace.
-Now it's all about Merryl. -PATRICK: Let's go, Merryl, come on, now.
Come on, Merryl! Nice work.
-SCOTT: There you go. -[cheering, applause]
KEOGHAN: And...
stop the clock!
That was frickin' fun!
-[laughs] -Dude, next time I'm coming after you, man.
-I know you are. -[laughter]
Good job.
I loved that challenge.
It's a big Tonka toy.
How many people would love to drive
the Tonka toys they played with as a kid?
We get to do this?
KEOGHAN: Zeus and Celi, when you hear the work whistle blow,
it's time to get the job done.
CELI: I'm not the best driver.
A few months ago, I totaled my car
by curb hopping.
But I'm gonna give it my all,
so hopefully I am not in the bottom two.
[work whistle blows]
CELI: The whistle blows, and I forget already
[laughs]: what's what.
MERRYL: Come on, Celi.
Ooh, Celi's blade is high.
-Wait... -Whoa, whoa, whoa!
KEOGHAN: Get that blade down.
CELI: I'm just driving like,
"Okay, what's this one? What's this one?"
...and I'm not really doing good.
[laughs]
KEOGHAN: Meanwhile, Zeus making great progress
as he makes the turn.
Yes, nice move!
ZEUS: I've never driven a bulldozer before,
but I picked it up pretty fast.
There's a lot of buttons, and it's the same thing
as all the video gaming experience I have,
which is quite a lot.
KEOGHAN: Zeus really adapting very, very quickly.
All Zeus has to do now is get across the finish line
to stop the clock.
-MERRYL: Good job, Zeus! -[applause]
-Go, Zeus! -Go, Zeus!
KEOGHAN: Ready to stop the clock, and stop the clock for Zeus!
[cheering]
Come on, Celi!
KEOGHAN: Celi at the other end of the course,
trying to finish up, and she's making a turn.
SWIFTY: Pick the blade up!
SARAH: Zeus got through fairly quick.
Celi kept getting
her blade stuck in the ground.
SCOTT: Get out of the dirt!
Celi, you're digging your blade in.
Straighten up your blade.
And apparently, I was honking the horn.
-[horn honking] -SCOTT: All right, she's honking the horn.
[cheering, applause]
KEOGHAN: Bring it around, bring it around.
-There you go! -[whooping]
CELI: So now we're reaching the end, and of course,
that's when I get the hang of it.
Yes! Yeah, there you go.
-SARAH: You got it! -CELI: I don't know what I'm doing
as it is, driving a regular vehicle,
so how am I gonna know how to drive
a bulldozer in three minutes?
And I think I did pretty good.
-Good job, guys. -Great job, guys.
You see why I don't like to drive?
[laughter]
[work whistle blows]
[cheering, applause]
SARAH: All right, go!
LIZ: The whistle blows, and immediately
I'm kind of fumbling with the controls.
KEOGHAN: Iraida off to a fast start out of the blocks...
-MERRYL: There you go. -...leaving Knuckles behind,
who has yet to leave the starting line.
-SWIFTY: Keep going! -Trying to figure out the controls.
LIZ: It's not super intuitive.
In my mind, it should work a certain way,
and I'm trying to force it...
[chuckles]: the way I want it to move.
SWIFTY: Liz, pick your bucket up!
Pick your blade up, Liz!
KEOGHAN: Liz digging in down there.
That's not what you want to do.
That's gonna slow you down.
I know I'm digging dirt, but I don't know how to do this.
Blade up, Liz!
KEOGHAN: Iraida has herself in a perfect position
as she makes the turn.
IRAIDA: I do look over and I'm seeing her
all the way in the back.
I feel bad. [chuckles]
Because she's my own teammate.
But at the end, this is a competition.
Sorry, but, it's about me today.
I have to do what I have to do for me.
KEOGHAN: Iraida has absolute control at this point.
There you go.
Halfway through,
I started talking to myself, I'm like,
"Come on, Iraida, you've got this."
You can do this.
It just gives me more
of an oomph to just keep going.
KEOGHAN: Iraida just has to get her tire across the finish line
to stop the clock.
-[cheering, applause] -You got everything lined up!
You got this, you got this.
-KEOGHAN: Eight minutes here. -SARAH: All the way through!
KEOGHAN: Pushing it across the line.
Stop the clock for Iraida!
Good job, Iraida!
KEOGHAN: Job well done.
Meanwhile, Knuckles has not gone anywhere
for the last four minutes.
She's stuck in this position, she's digging up the ground.
Okay, just forward.
I'm trying to get it to move a certain way
and I just start getting frustrated.
I do struggle with confidence sometimes.
I mean, there are definitely moments when it was like...
Oh, sorry.
I don't know.
When it comes to learning something new,
I feel like I'm a slow learner, and I just get in that head of,
"I'm not gonna be good at this,
maybe I'm not smart enough to figure this out," like...
[sniffles] When I was growing up,
I wasn't always the best student.
I just got a lot of feedback that maybe
I was lazy, I was not trying hard enough,
and now, as an adult, I know those things aren't true,
but I think those are feelings of inadequacy
that I still battle. [sniffles]
[mechanical whirring]
KEOGHAN: Knuckles has not gone anywhere
for the last four minutes.
She's stuck in this position.
She's digging up the ground.
Oh, she's struggling with this.
Come on, Knuckles, come on!
-You got this! -Come on, Knuckles.
SARAH: Come on now!
CELI: Come on, focus, girl!
Doing something new and being bad at it,
like, I-I tend to avoid things that I'm bad at.
Like, um, "That's not my area, okay."
But nobody is born excellent at everything.
That's my teammate, come on!
KEOGHAN: All right, Liz, come on.
LIZ: The controls are really tricky.
I'm jerking. There's no smooth motion.
But I'm not gonna give up.
-SCOTT: Go, Liz! -SARAH: There you go, hon!
-Come on, Liz! Come on! -There you go!
There was some self-doubt creeping in,
but there's no other option.
I have to get it done.
SARAH: There you go! Keep turning!
[overlapping cheering]
MERRYL: Yeah!
SARAH: Yes! There you go!
KEOGHAN: That's it!
-MERRYL: Yes! Come on! -SWIFTY: Come on!
KEOGHAN: All right, Liz, get it all across the line.
Every second counts.
There you go.
-[overlapping cheering] -KEOGHAN: And...
-stop the clock! -[clapping]
[whoops]
IRAIDA: Good job. [chuckles]
LIZ: I don't think I'm gonna be getting into
heavy equipment operating after this challenge.
I don't think they want me.
KEOGHAN: All right, Freight Train and Swifty,
let's see what you can do.
Freight Train off to a good start.
Swifty's got some time to make up.
-PATRICK: Oh... -SWIFTY: Oh.
SWIFTY: Coming off last individual challenge
left a sour taste in my mouth.
Was a little disappointed in myself.
So, I know going into this one,
I'm gonna lay it all out, just to make sure
that I don't finish last, you know?
KEOGHAN: Some good work here from Swifty,
and he's gone past Freight Train!
They're both making the turn at the same time.
MERRYL: Oh, wow.
Neck and neck, Freight Train and Swifty.
SARAH: Let's go, Swift!
Wow!
PATRICK: I got a background in racing,
so I started out young with go-karts,
and I moved up to four-cylinders.
I spent a lot of time behind a wheel.
There's a lot of pressure on me today,
especially that I race cars
and I drive for a living.
So I'm hoping I don't let everybody down.
SARAH: Come on, Freight Train! Let's go!
KEOGHAN: We've got a tight race on our hands.
MERRYL: Oh, man!
[overlapping cheering]
-MERRYL: Freight Train! Whoa! -SARAH: There you go!
KEOGHAN: Swifty is flying.
But Freight Train, don't count him out yet.
Both made the turn.
Man, they're making this a tight race.
-[cheering] -Let's go, Train!
KEOGHAN: Freight Train catching up.
SCOTT: This is crazy.
Wow.
IRAIDA: Swifty would go, then he would stop,
then Patrick would catch up and pass him.
Then Patrick would stop and then Swifty would go.
And then, it was just like that the whole time.
-SCOTT: Go, go! -MERRYL: Go!
KEOGHAN: It's a neck and neck race!
Swifty and Freight Train!
[overlapping cheering]
It's a race to the finish, too close to call!
[overlapping cheering continues]
KEOGHAN: Freight Train over the line just ahead of Swifty.
-Both with great times. -[overlapping chatter]
KEOGHAN: That was a good one. Wow.
PATRICK: After I crossed the finish line, I thought I was in first place,
so I just started doing some doughnuts with my bulldozer.
It felt good.
SWIFTY: Towards the end,
instead of me focusing on what I was doing,
I looked over and the wheel slid off to the left.
He got through right before me.
KEOGHAN: Last up, we have Sarah and Angel.
SARAH: I've run, like, scissor lifts and stuff like that,
but I've never operated this kind of machinery before.
So I start moving forward
and realize that this thing is nothing like a car.
MERRYL: There you go. There you go, there you go!
Come on, Angel!
-Come on! -[indistinct cheering]
KEOGHAN: Angel, still struggling
getting around the first turn.
PATRICK: Let's go, Angel!
Come on, come on. It's not going fast.
Unfortunately,
I got stuck a little bit.
Ah... damn it.
Angel's definitely getting frustrated right now.
ZEUS: Angel's blade is
in the ground, and he's still trying to go forward.
KEOGHAN: Angel, you've got too much resistance.
-Up! -Get the blade up!
ANGEL: Damn it.
KEOGHAN: Angel, still strugglinggetting around
-the first turn. -SWIFTY: Let's go, Angel.
Ah... damn it.
KEOGHAN: Angel, you've got too much resistance.
-Up! -Get the blade up.
[groans]
ANGEL: I missed out on one of the buttons,
so I was digging into the ground.
-[cheering] -KEOGHAN: There you go.
Now get around the other side.
KEOGHAN: Meanwhile, Sarah at the other end,
about to make the halfway mark turn.
Got to be smooth.
SARAH: Once I turn around, I feel like I've
kind of got the hang of it.
Going out was a little choppy.
Coming back through, I felt a little bit more smoother.
-You got it, Angel! -Angel's still struggling.
CELI: There you go.
-Come on, come on... -KEOGHAN: That's it, Angel.
That's it, that's it, that's it, that's it.
There you go. Move it forward!
Sarah is about to make the last turn.
SWIFTY: There you go, Sarah! Let's go!
-[clapping] -Stay right there.
All Sarah has to do now is get across that finish line.
-SWIFTY: Yeah! MERRYL: Good job, Sarah!
And Sarah gets the job done!
SARAH: I'm not sure what my time is,
and I turn my bulldozer around,
and I'm sitting there, and I realize Angel is still going.
KEOGHAN: Get that blade up, get that blade up.
There you go, there you go.
Come on, Angel!
CELI: Go, Angel!
KEOGHAN: And stop the clock.
Angel has finished the job.
[whoops]
ANGEL: Feel like I messed up a little bit,
but I'm just trying to stay positive.
And I want to stay away from overtime.
That's my number one goal.
KEOGHAN: As you know, 11 of you will punch out
of the individual Tough As Nailscompetition.
There will be only one winner who's gonna win the $200,000
and that all-new Ford F-150 truck,
so you don't want to finish at the back of the pack.
With the fastest time today,
a blistering pace of two minutes and 16 seconds,
that goes to Scott.
[cheering, whooping]
KEOGHAN:Made the turn in under a minute.
Second fastest time today...
Freight Train.
[cheering, whooping]
PATRICK: It feels real good to be second.
I wanted to have that redemption moment
from falling in the water.
I hope this is the moment that has my daughters going,
"Yeah, Dad! Good job."
Third fastest with a time of three minutes and 32 seconds
goes to Swifty.
[cheering]
SWIFTY: Not today. No overtime for me.
I know why I'm here.
I'm competing to show the world how tough
and how important steelworkers are to this country.
Fourth fastest time...
Merryl, you did it again.
[cheering]
Fifth fastest, Zeus.
Sixth fastest...
That'd be Sarah.
Iraida, you're seventh.
-[cheers, laughter] -Ooh! Oh, yeah!
And now we're down to the slowest three.
LIZ: The two bottom spots, it's either gonna be me,
Celi, or Angel.
I don't want to go into overtime against Angel. He's my brother.
He's my teammate, and he's a fierce competitor.
So, I'm just hoping if I am one of the two slowest times,
I'm hoping the other one is Celi.
CELI: No, it's not supposed to go like this.
I just can't be going into overtime.
Tough As Nailschampion has to be a woman, okay?
ANGEL: Winning this competition would mean a lot to me,
'cause I live in Miami, and my son lives in Chicago,
so maybe I can move closer to him.
I just want him to be proud of me, you know what I'm saying?
I want to be in his life.
And I want to give him everything that I never had.
So, I'm hoping I'm not part of the bottom two.
With a time of 12 minutes and 24 seconds...
Celi.
[cheers, laughter]
I feel like I won.
The two slowest today...
-SCOTT: Good job. -...Angel and Knuckles.
-CELI: Sorry, guys. -IRAIDA: Sorry.
Oh, no.
LIZ: I'm pretty crushed. I'm thinking about
the fact that I have to go up in overtime
so early in the game.
I don't want to be the second person to punch out.
KEOGHAN: All right, we've got some sorting out to do.
It takes place over the hill.
Let's get to it.
Thank you.
ANGEL: Knuckles, unfortunately, you're in my way.
And I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to get you out of my way.
And I'm not ready to go home.
[whoops] That was some competition before.
-Yes, it was. -Yes.
And what a finish.
-Yes. -That was great, that was great.
Well, as you know, the two slowest times today...
Knuckles and Angel.
Ordinarily, we would be having an overtime.
But since Mikey is out of the competition...
Wait, what?
What?
KEOGHAN: He's technically punched out.
-So Angel and Knuckles, you're safe. -Wait, what?
[cheering, screaming]
[sobbing softly]
ANGEL: [sighs] That was a huge relief for me.
I was so happy.
I was extremely grateful that
I wasn't going against my own teammate,
and also I wasn't in that position
of having that chance of punching out.
That's a nice way to end the day,
-isn't it, Angel? Huh? -Yes.
-[chuckling] -[quiet chatter]
Never play with my emotions like that again. [laughs]
I'm so relieved that I didn't have to punch out.
I'm feeling like, okay,
I really have to get my head in the game.
Each day is a new day. I try and move forward with a,
you know, an optimistic, positive outlook.
KEOGHAN: And I have another little surprise for all of you.
-You want to see what it is? -ALL: Yes!
Hold it right there.
Some nice cold beers.
[cheering]
And for those of you driving, some soda.
Give that to our winner today.
Scott, you will have a huge advantage
going into the next individual challenge.
Who would like a beer?
-Cheers, everybody. -ALL: Cheers!
Good day. Here's to Tough As Nails.
OTHERS: Tough As Nails!
SARAH: Today it was a new page turned over,
and we're looking forward to it.
All right guys, enjoy yourselves.
LIZ: Thank you.
SARAH: Now we're just focused on our crew
and how we're gonna go to the next challenge and kill it.
To second chances.
ALL: Second chances.
-[indistinct chatter] -[laughter]
PATRICK: I see hay. Hay.
KEOGHAN: Next time onTough As Nails...
-[work whistle blows] -SCOTT: Start up the car
-when you get there. -LIZ: Go! -MERRYL: Let's go.
ZEUS: Easy, easy, easy!
KEOGHAN: Zeus is the crew boss.
LIZ: I'm doubting his strategy.
IRAIDA: Liz! Don't let them out!
SCOTT: This is gonna be "baaad."
KEOGHAN: Four sheep in the pen wins it.
-SCOTT: It's not rocket science. -Get in there!
SARAH: In the end, somebody's gonna be
without sheep.
You look into the eyes of a sheep.
Stay, hey!
KEOGHAN: It's gonna be
-a battle of the wills. -[bleats]