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You're catching fish, you're doing well, and then nothing. Bruce dropped so much

weight. We've got to put more food on the table. Otherwise, I don't know

what's going to happen. My biggest concern out here is just some accident

happening that ends it for us just like that.

It looks like the float is not floating.

Oh, no, Jim! The float sunk! No!

Today was a really bad day. We've lost our Crab Trop.

I'm getting all the...

Food, foraging, and you're always not.

I think you're just mad that you haven't even caught one fish. I'm not. I'm just

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Yes.

Now that was a successful rock.

On one rock I stomped six gunnels. Wow.

We're eating shore crabs, limpets, slugs, and seaweed.

The gunnel fish are a rare find now.

There's just something about these writhing eels that you rip out from

under boulders that just isn't appetizing.

There's a minnow-sized gunwale fish in there.

But, you know, it is also a good amount of protein, you know?

Having fish under rocks, that is something that I

want to take advantage of.

I just dropped a huge boulder on my leg.

Oh, no.

It's pinning me. Dude, come help me.

Yeah.

Your leg's pinned?

Yeah.

All right, what are we doing here? Lift it up this way.

Ready?

Yeah. One, two, three.

I managed to get a gunnel out of it, though.

Good.

Thanks. Yeah, no problem.

Ted and I get in a lot of fights out here.

You know, he has his way of doing things and I have my way of doing things.

Look at that.

Oh, look at that big one, eh?

Sometimes we're scared the other guy's going to blow it. It just gets really

frustrating.

And then we get mad and we start to say mean stuff about each other.

But we understand you have to just forget about it and focus on the job at

hand, which is feeding yourself and ultimately being the last guy to stay

out there.

Yo, Jim, see this? I pinch it like this. Yeah. And then just a long stroke.

We had some big kind of blow-up fights, and we sort of wrote it off as just

being hungry.

Both of us know that, you know, we're not always going to agree on everything

now, and we're kind of getting in each other's hair a little less.

This is two meals at Donald's, would you say?

Yeah. Could probably be pushed to three.

Out of any of my ten items, I'd pick Ted over a saw or an axe, you know what I

mean?

We've got a lot of life left in us still, despite the hard times, and we're

just going to keep pushing.

Well, it's low tide right now, and we're going to be fishing here shortly.

Sure hope we have some luck this morning.

It's been pretty bad lately.

Have you even had a nibble?

Nope.

It's cold out here today.

I know.

Hands are frozen already.

Fish on.

Yes.

It's not what I hoped for.

That is unbelievable.

I don't think we have much time out here.

Fishing has completely fallen off.

What we're catching right now is not enough.

Brooke has lost a ton of weight.

You can't lose that kind of weight and keep this up.

So to put it right to the point,

We're starving Fishing stunk

again, so I'm gonna cut firewood So

we can at least be warm

Oh, my power is so nothing anymore.

That's all I got.

Doesn't add up to much.

It's getting to the point where it's just a simple matter of calories and

Brooke is so far behind.

I think we just need to try something new.

So for a long time,

I've been thinking about building the crab pot.

And what I'm thinking is just a round hoop and a round hoop and tie it all

together. A couple doors for the crabs to call in and don't come out.

I don't want to quit.

I don't.

There's not a part of me that wants to give up.

Yesterday.

Brooke was out beachcombing, and she found the best rope you've ever seen.

Let's see what we can do with it.

Oh, no way.

This is amazing.

All of this red stuff on here, it's like quarter-inch netting. Just roll it up

and tie it on there.

This is going to be crab trap perfect.

This could be about it for us.

If we don't get another source of food, what are we going to do?

My crab pot is done.

It's slippery.

I'm going to get killed out here is what I'm going to do.

Go in, can't get out.

It's simple.

I don't know if it'll work or not.

I don't understand.

This was our hot spot.

Yeah, I know.

Tie the bottle in my last two fish heads, stuff it in here, and I'll throw

it in the water and do one of these.

Well, it ain't gonna get any readier than that.

Wish us luck.

The terrible thing about this is it's just kind of like a Hail Mary here.

If this doesn't pan out, I don't know what we're going to do.

It's another one of these beautiful sunny days, but with the sun comes just

absolutely frigid temperatures.

Last night, my feet never warmed up. They were cold all night.

I mean, it'd be nice if we had a thermometer. I'm really curious what the

temperature actually is. All I can tell you is it is cold. It is really, really

cold out here.

Everything's freezing up.

Makes it hard to get up every day.

But there are certain things we have to do.

Sam collected a whole bunch of hemlock branches, and we're going to use that to

insulate our shelter some more.

There are a few key areas I really want to insulate initially, and then I'm just

going to go around the whole shelter and just pack in all the holes.

The first thing we're going to do is we're going to break them down just a

little bit so they're more manageable.

Is that good enough for you right there?

Yeah, that's fine.

Basically when we close the green flap here, at this point the hemlocks are

padded down so wind can come in right underneath it.

So I'm just gonna make a new pile of hemlock.

It's so crazy how the weather's changed on us. Unreal.

Just unreal.

Our shelter's gonna smell so nice tonight.

Oh yeah.

Why don't you take a break?

No, I'm alright.

You sure?

Yep.

I can just see it in my dad's face.

He's really starting to feel it.

Take another, take five minutes.

You haven't even sat down five minutes, right?

I just hope it doesn't get to the point with me where you feel like you have to

do everything.

I mean, I don't know why you'd think that's such a bad thing anyway.

I know we're a team, and up until this point, you've been working way too hard.

Every time we saw a log, you never take a break. Yeah.

You know what I mean? You try to overexert yourself.

You know, it's something that my dad drilled into me, and I prefer to think

it's just work ethic.

I know, but that's the problem. This isn't work.

I know. You know, you have to view this as a survival situation.

This is a marathon, not a nine to five, get as much work done as possible in the

day and go to bed.

This is stay out here as long as possible and work smart and efficient.

Yeah.

Starting to get kind of worrying.

I'm 26, he's 61.

I know how much I'm feeling it. I can only imagine what he's going through at

this point.

Even just sitting still, he can start getting lightheaded.

If he's just gonna pass out sitting down, I may have to make a very

difficult decision.

It's been below freezing all day, which makes the rocks slippery.

I've got my gloves on today, and my fingertips are already frozen.

This seaweed on the beach here, it's just frozen,

totally frozen.

The coldest it's been yet.

Feels like a day you might tap out, you know? Yeah.

Somebody could get hypothermatic today.

Uh-huh.

Even though it's pretty hard, we're going to still try to get fish and eat

the slough we've been eating as well.

Man, a fish would be nice. Real fish.

Not that gunwale fish aren't real fish, but you know?

I know, man.

Tide's on its way out, and we can check our net.

I got it!

Got a fish.

Nice!

Smells pretty rotten.

Maybe it's okay, I don't know.

It's kind of a bit of a risk.

I don't want to eat anything rotten.

But we need protein, and the fats in it is just something that is an absolute

must.

I don't know. It doesn't smell that bad.

So the fish that Ted had to pull the net over to get at, I roasted it on a stick,

and then I kind of baked it beside the fire on a cedar plank, really cooked it

right through, even burnt the skin on the outside just to kill any parasites

that might have been in it.

Take this piece off.

Here, try eating that piece.

See how it tastes.

It's risky, right?

It is.

This actually isn't bad, man. I don't notice it tasting rotten at all.

Definitely has a bit of a rotten taste, man.

Tastes good.

Maybe the fish wasn't safe to eat.

But if we don't get enough food, how are we going to stay out here to win this

thing?

Just crawled out of bed.

I had a really, really rough night last night.

I had some really intense abdominal pain, upper abdominal pain. I don't know

if it was related to my GERD or acid reflux or having an ulcer or something.

I'm not even sure that I do have an ulcer, but I suspect that I do.

I have a really bad GERD, gastrointestinal acid reflux disease.

Last night we ate that rotten fish.

You know, normally I take these pills.

I haven't been taking them out here. I haven't needed them, but maybe that's

been a mistake.

As I was sleeping, it just kept me up for hours and hours with just intense

pain. It's still lingering and it's still there.

Jim got up and tried to fish while letting me try to rest and get over it,

which was good.

How are you feeling now?

The second I start chewing this, my stomach starts hurting.

Really?

Yeah.

I don't know if it's, like... I wonder if you have, like, a stomach food

poisoning, dude, you know? No.

I'd be puking.

Not necessarily.

As soon as I'm chewing, like, I feel pain.

Like, it doesn't want me to eat it.

Stomach.

You can just sleep, and I can forage a bag of food tonight.

I've come out here to the intertidal area.

I'm going to go ahead and start getting limpets here.

There seem to be a lot of big ones out here.

Ted was pulling a lot of weight, so I'm going to try to just bust my ass to...

fill in for where Ted can't and to get food on the table.

At this point, I'm really concerned.

Ted is experiencing extreme pain and discomfort.

He might not have much time left.

That's 100.

Doing pretty good so far.

And I think he's also beating himself up about it.

I think he feels bad that he's not contributing. I'm like, listen, man,

it's not your fault.

500 limpets today, guys.

It's the easiest picking for limpets yet.

I'm just going to keep going for it.

Ted's not the kind of guy that likes to sit around. He's a hard worker.

Plus, when you're just sitting around, you start to not feel good.

And I'm trying to keep him positive.

And if you want to use the term your brother's keeper, just nurse Ted back to

health as best I can.

I just picked 1,000 limpets.

Oh God, I'm gonna fall over.

Hopefully the two of us can sustain off of that for a while.

Sometimes all I think about is food.

Eating all kinds of stuff when I get home.

I want to make a big pot of chili when I get home.

I want to put a pork shoulder in the smoker, maybe two pork shoulders.

Oh, gosh, there's so many different kinds of food I've been thinking about.

Man, we sure do need a fish. Yeah.

Or a pizza.

We haven't actually had a fish in a little while now, just between the

weather and the really slow fishing.

We're actually going to try a new technique today, and hopefully it's

really successful.

I think 20 pound or 50 on the hook. The 20 does give it a little better action,

doesn't it? I'm thinking 20.

It seems like they moved into a little deeper water, so we just retied our

fishing rods with longer line on them. You can't use a fishing rod. You've got

to stick your rod in the ground and just throw the line out there.

How far do you think we're going to be able to toss it out there? I don't know.

The fish can see you, and they'll shy away from you.

So we need to be able to drop our line down into deep water.

It's out there a ways.

Don't know how deep it is, but it came off this beautifully.

That looks great.

We'll see if something hits it.

Yeah.

I lost my little spool of the 20-pound, so let's cut some off.

You know, get a big, long section. I like to have it in my pocket.

All right.

Oh, it's so scary baiting up a hook when you can't even feel your fingers.

Yep. Can't feel that point come through. Yeah.

Oh, we need 20-gauge.

You didn't bring any?

Where's that roll that I cut off?

You mean up there? That one on the rock?

No. Remember you wanted me to cut a coil off.

You said you wanted some for your pocket, and I stuck it over here

somewhere. Yeah, it was a fishing line.

No, Sam, I pulled off probably 20 yards of 20-pound fishing line.

I have that in my pocket. You were saying 20-gauge wire.

I have a 20-pound fishing line in my pocket. Okay, that's exactly what I'm

talking about.

God, Dad, okay. Sam, just the 20-pound line.

And I just said I have that in my pocket. Okay, I didn't hear you say it

was just a second you said that.

You were talking about the 20-gauge wire.

You know, I wasn't... I'm talking about the wire for... Look, listen.

I'm talking about the wire for the rock and 20 pounds on the end of that so

it'll break away.

That's all I was trying to say, damn it.

That's all I was trying to say.

You were talking about the 20-gauge wire.

Talking about the wire for the rock and 20-pound on the end of that so it'll

break away.

That's all I was trying to say, damn it.

That's all I was trying to say. Hey, you know what? That 20-pound is still right

there.

Which? Right here.

All right, don't get worked up at me about that. It's right here. All right,

look, you know, we're just having a misunderstanding here. I know, and

you're raising your voice and getting toned. Sam, Sam, Sam, we're just having

a misunderstanding.

Let's calm down, okay?

Forget about it. We just had a misunderstanding.

Yeah, that's all it was.

For two people who love being in the woods, one of the hardest things there

is is trying to compromise.

You're out there for your freedom and your independence, and all of a sudden

you have to agree with somebody all the time.

That's pretty challenging.

You know, there's nobody more stubborn in the world than my dad, and he took it

to a whole other level.

It's starting to get kind of worrying, and it's probably getting pretty darn

close to when we should really start thinking about what the future holds.

When you're starving, when you haven't eaten, who knows really how they're

going to handle it?

What sort of walls do you hit? What sort of demons come out in your personality?

So we butt heads about some things.

He got hung up on the stinking piece of wire.

Let's go ahead and pull it back in.

Damn it.

Son of a gun.

At my age, a real concern is the state that I'm in now.

Sometimes I'm irritable.

I've never felt so weak before in my life.

I'm wobbly.

This is what starving to death is all about.

I know Sam's worried.

He's worried about his dad's health and safety.

I'm wondering if maybe this is what's going to actually drive us out of this

place.

Damn it.

Okay.

Ready, babe?

I'm waiting on Brooke.

She's been feeling pretty draggy today.

I'm going to go check the crab pot.

We're just going to cross our fingers and pull the pot and see what's going

on. Then if there's nothing in the pot, I think we're going Olympic collecting.

But that's a losing game. That's going to run right out.

Need food.

If there's any crab down there to be had, I should at least have a couple in

there.

It's chilly out there.

I'd rather be sitting by a fire, doing nothing.

But we got to eat.

We can't be out here if we can't get a bit more to eat.

There's nothing in the forest.

There's no foraging.

Fishing is just a joke anymore.

is pinned on the crab pot.

It's our last chance for food.

Here goes nothing.

Feels heavy.

It's full of huge snails.

Huh.

Ain't one crab in it.

It's a snail trap.

Let's try to eat giant snails, I guess.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Guess not.

Boy, I never saw that coming.

15 pounds of snails.

I don't even know what to think.

There's a lot of meat there.

There is.

Want to throw the pot back in?

We just threw one on the fire.

We're going to see how it does.

Comes with its own pot, boiling right in its own shell.

We'll see if they're edible, I guess.

Holy cow.

I think that's guts.

That's the part we're not going to want to eat.

The rest of that is meat.

Did you get a bite off it?

Or is it like super hot?

It's just got a really odd flavor.

I've never tasted before.

Is it any good?

It's a giant snail.

It's kind of rubbery. Well, it's really rubbery.

Giant hairy snails.

It's not enough to sustain us.

I don't know what's going to happen.

want to win.

And what we're going to do if we can't get more food.

There is going to come a time when we're not going to be able to stay here.

We've got to eat and it's just not enough.

chills. I just can't get warm.

So I'm resting in my bag.

Haven't felt that good.

Just laying low.

The charm of this place is gone.

Trust me.

I want to go badly.

I want to go see my kids and my family and my friends and I want to eat.

I want to eat something.

anything.

We talk about food constantly.

I've never had to starve like this before.

Make sure you want to tap that button.

I don't know how long I can make it here.

I don't want to give up.

That's the dilemma, right?

You don't want to lose.

I don't want to lose.

Dave doesn't want to lose.

He's like, what do you do?

My crab pot yesterday caught a bunch of snails.

That's it.

I'm going to go check it right now.

See if it's decided to catch anything.

What if it was just an arts and crafts project?

Food kind of quit on us. No fish, no crab.

I mean, you could eat seaweed and you could eat snails, but you can't sustain

that. It's getting kind of dire.

Let's see what we got.

I got a couple snails.

Stupid.

Stupid snails.

It's a total bust.

It's starting to not be about how much you can take, but about how much you're

willing to put someone else through.

I could be out here for another 10 days, maybe.

Brooke has dropped so much weight, she's getting to a dangerous place.

It's just a waiting game now. How long do I want to put her through that? How

long does she want to go through that?

It could very well get to be a point where it's detrimental to her health to

go any farther.

There's still a little snow on that hill over there.

I feel like there's snow just in my soul.

I've just not been warm for so long.

How realistic is it to expect another 10 days?

Another two weeks on nothing.

Yeah.

It'd be nice to not be hungry.

Ted is still experiencing an intense stomach ache that we're both fearing

could be something serious.

You know, there's a chance that he might have a ruptured gallbladder or

appendicitis or something like that.

Like, mentally, he's still pretty strong. It's just, you know, all he can

do is curl up into a ball and he can't get food or anything.

I'm feeling really lethargic and beaten down.

I've kind of been owed a commission.

That's hurting us.

Jim went out and picked some limpets last night.

He's been out there fishing or whatever, but he's definitely been carrying a

little extra weight the last couple days.

We need to get wood today.

That's something I could do.

I can barely just stand here.

I'm afraid I'm starting to hit my wall.

I feel like I can't do anything here.

And normally I can do a lot.

Tad's been just doing such a good job out here, but he's really been pushing

himself.

I'm getting concerned about him, actually.

I don't know if he's going to make it.

I don't mind the idea of tapping and leaving at all, especially if you're

about to starve to death, man. I don't want to try to force you to stay out

here at all.

Jim, of course, wants to stay. I still want to stay. I don't want to let him

down.

But if I can't chop wood...

and I can't get food, and I can't freaking step over a log, the reality

is that I can't stay out here anymore.

What's going on?

I got nothing left.

I just can't go on.

It feels like when you've had the flu and you just get your butt kicked and

you just feel like, oh, you just got hit by a truck.

It kind of feels like that.

When she's saying, I've had it, I don't feel like getting out of bed. I know

it's for real. She's had it.

You're just fighting starvation and fighting starvation. Honestly, you're

just waiting for the next team to give up.

It's a tough choice.

We came here to win, to not leave until somebody pulled us off this site.

But the reality is, we got to go.

I'm very proud of the fact that as a husband and wife, we can go and... not

kill each other for 49 days.

We've always operated outside the box, chasing down whatever excites us at the

moment, whether it made us money or not. It was more about the experience and

just living.

Biggest thing for me is disappointing him.

He's capable of a little bit more suffering.

He's a little bigger than me. He could go a little longer.

Neither of us want to leave.

As a husband, watching your wife deteriorate is extremely disturbing.

I think we've done something different here.

This was kind of our angle on what we would do in this situation.

There is no room to regret anything with that. There's nothing left.

In a situation like this, you just gut the thing and leave it all out there.

And make sure you leave nothing to regret.

And whoever's still out there, they're tough son of a guns.

The way we're struggling right now, I just can't believe there's someone else

that's still out here. I'm starving.

I've lost 25% of my body. Oh, my God!

How much can our bodies actually take?

No victory is worth permanent damage.

My stomach pain is getting worse.

I don't know if winning is worth it anymore.

One thing I can be sure of at this point is that it's going to end here real

soon. It's got to.