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Two couples assume the lives of early settlers to the West. Using only the resources and tools of the period, they will attempt to build homes, raise livestock, hunt and grow crops.
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00:30Wow. Well, let's get going, eh? All right.
00:49It was the chance of a lifetime. I mean, I'll never regret it, never...
00:54I mean, I think we're just so lucky that we had the chance to do it.
00:56I can't make 90-degree turns.
01:00Yeah, we'll never be able to, you know, recreate it, or there's no holiday you can go on that
01:09will give you this experience or anything like that, so there's no place you can go to do
01:15it again, so it's amazing to be able to have done it.
01:18We are successful.
01:24The wood, shingles, nails, they're just things, but the people who...
01:29who we connect it all with, that's the key.
01:33Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you!
01:39I have come to admire Pioneers, and they're my heroes.
01:45Never thought about them much before, but they are my heroes today.
01:49The Pioneers are gone. Their cabin's empty.
02:09It's been three months, but already a thousand fans have made the trek to the Pioneer Quest
02:19homestead in Argyle, Manitoba.
02:21For $5, Charlie Amy, the farmer who owns this land, takes visitors on a 90-minute tour.
02:27Frank and Alana were here a whole week by themselves, and they were having problems with the animals, so...
02:37Frank Luggie was chosen from hundreds to become a Pioneer for a year.
02:41He's a millwright by trade, his wife, Alana, a nurse.
02:45They left their home in Fergus, Ontario, to spend the second year of their marriage living off the land,
02:51or at least on it.
02:57We're getting good at catching chickens. We've got out so many times, so...
03:01It's one thing after another.
03:04He's a contractor, she's a dental assistant.
03:07Tim and Deanna Treadway left three sons and a successful business in Kenora, Ontario,
03:13to build a home on the prairies, 1870s style.
03:16For surviving the year, the television producers would reward each couple with $100,000 Canadian.
03:26It would be hard-earned.
03:28So, off everybody out there drinking your Tim Hortons and...
03:31If you think it's easy out here...
03:33Don Cherry and Romance! Romance!
03:37Yeah.
03:38That is romantic. Do I look...
03:41I'll tell you how romantic it is!
03:43Look at us!
03:45You guys had no clue whatsoever. Good thing you didn't get picked.
03:48This is one of their many smudges that they had going up here.
03:52Um, this was their only defense against mosquitoes.
03:56They tried all kinds of homemade remedies. Nothing seemed to work.
04:00If it wasn't for the mosquitoes, man, they just enjoy these prairies, eh?
04:04I wonder if it's always like this.
04:07We used to have people guess what it was.
04:09So I'd have to sit here and I'd have to grunt and groan and funny,
04:13people would catch on what it was.
04:15Well, anyway, this was the first toilet, um...
04:18This is the, uh, poop paper I'm cleaning the lens with.
04:21This is a first for us, isn't it, boys?
04:23Yeah, that's a...
04:24Andy Blick, the director, would be there to film it for a television show.
04:27But for the pioneers, it was never acting.
04:30It was real life. The good moments. And the bad.
04:35How do you think we're doing? How are you getting along?
04:40As a foursome? Honest.
04:46Well, you notice there is some hesitation.
04:48They were strangers who had to set aside their differences
04:52to survive together in a harsh land.
04:54I guess someplace under here is our lettuce.
04:58Crops failed.
05:07The barn burned.
05:12Animals died.
05:15Easy, boys. Easy, boys.
05:18Through runaways, blizzards and boredom,
05:21they kept their sense of humor.
05:23Battling the elements with the same courage
05:25as the original homesteaders,
05:27they stuck it out through the coldest December in 120 years.
05:33Then, 340 days later,
05:35they exchanged their horses for a limo.
05:38The pioneers were free to go.
05:44We, like, we can do what we want now.
05:46So, yeah, kind of a sense of freedom after being in...
05:49like we say sometimes, the little bubble in here,
05:51like the four-mile radius,
05:52and that would be nice to kind of do our own thing again
05:55and have some privacy back.
06:09I see you did that too before.
06:12I get the floss.
06:14My second cup coffee card.
06:15Is this like Christmas or a honeymoon and opening the presents?
06:20It's better than Christmas, I think.
06:22Better than our honeymoon.
06:24I'm afraid.
06:26No, I'm joking.
06:27Honeymoon was very special.
06:30I used more water in one bath.
06:33Oh, that would be great.
06:34I'm sure.
06:35I know.
06:36I used more water in one bath than they did all year.
06:38Okay. Well, you do whatever.
06:39Easily.
06:40Whatever.
06:41What a wonderful waste.
06:46It's very beautiful.
06:48But do we fit in here anymore, you know?
06:51I don't know.
06:52It's going to be very strange.
06:54And going home back to my home, too, in particular, you know?
06:58Back to cooking and cooking on what I have now back home
07:02compared to the way we did it out on the homestead.
07:04Yeah.
07:05It's going to take adjusting.
07:06Yeah.
07:10Meow.
07:11Willow, the homestead cat, will be going back to southern Ontario
07:14with Alana and Frank.
07:17We're jobless, homeless, and...
07:20And I think our mind's still a little bit different.
07:22Like...
07:23Yeah.
07:24I guess, I mean, nobody could tell that we don't fit in,
07:25but inside you don't feel like you do.
07:27I think by just going home, we realize that everything's over now.
07:30We're just back to having to live our normal lives again.
07:34So, back to the boring grind, so...
07:38You'll never forget it, though, right?
07:40Oh, no way.
07:42And we'll remember that forever, that's for sure.
07:45No amount of counseling will ever be able to...
07:48get it out of our minds.
07:52It almost seems like it didn't happen.
07:54It seems...
07:55It's...
07:56We seem so far away from that now.
07:58Sometimes it...
07:59Although it seems like we were just sitting on this too,
08:01it seems like a dream.
08:02Like, it just...
08:03It's hard to imagine it happened,
08:04because it was so different from normal life.
08:06We're sitting here and think that's just something
08:08we kind of had a weird dream about one night.
08:13The Treadways head home in style
08:15to a small resort town in northern Ontario.
08:18Local TV stars who have no idea how popular they've become.
08:24And I...
08:26My emotions are just...
08:27About a half a dozen signs saying,
08:29Welcome home, Pioneers.
08:32I've always been proud of Kenora.
08:34And...
08:36Everything that it had to offer.
08:37The lakes, the beauty.
08:39And now...
08:41They're proud of me.
08:42And they're proud of Deanna and I.
08:44It's just such a...
08:45A really wonderful feeling.
08:47Toronto!
08:48Yeah!
08:49Toronto!
08:50Yeah!
08:52Even their dog is famous.
08:54But it's Deanna who is returning in triumph,
08:57as the reluctant settler who stuck it out.
09:00She is greeted by doilies,
09:02just like the ones she took with her,
09:04that convinced Frank she wouldn't last a month.
09:07Yay!
09:08Woo!
09:09Yay!
09:10Yay!
09:11Yay!
09:12Welcome home, guys!
09:13Deanna, look.
09:14Deanna's got her doilies and she's worried about her kitchen being perfect,
09:18everything perfect.
09:19And if we...
09:20If we live like that out here,
09:21we'll never get a thing done.
09:24Oh, I'm home!
09:25home oh these are our friends we love it this is great this is just absolutely fantastic that was
09:38really cool a cuz I mean it wasn't just a crowd of people that they lined up for lined up along
09:43the driveway you know and so as I looked at each one of them you know that was really neat a neat
09:48way to do it yeah yeah and did you see the doilies hey Frank I'll send you a few their show may be over
10:01but Frank and Alana are still stars for a large loyal audience they're not just another couple
10:07in the mall they're that young pioneer couple who shared well everything on TV so we finally yelled
10:16at Deanna one day because she kept making comments about us sleeping in and we kept saying we never
10:19sleep in and she really thinks we sleep in so finally we said Deanna we just have sex every
10:22time we go out there milk the cow we're off Alana you got something memory of Daisy
10:28definitely not the pie in your look I don't want to thank her I don't make comparisons I just want to
10:41say I love your show you guys are like you rule I'm like it's a really great experience to live
10:46through it while watching you guys so congratulations I hope it was a good experience for you oh it was
10:51amazing yeah well we enjoyed watching it so can't wait to see the other episodes so congratulations it
10:57was great good job from the isolation of pioneer life to instant celebrity just days after a warm welcome
11:05from family and friends in Fergus Ontario they find themselves in Toronto back on TV where we go
11:13culture shock now being back was funny how hard it is who said oh we'll never get a cell phone or
11:22anything again and even driving here today really this would be so much easier for the cell phone to call
11:26ahead and find out where we are where we're going you know you just you fight it all yeah
11:30it's a whole year of not using shampoo yeah treatment I could probably do that I'd like to do that
11:40go and do high near failure it's nice and healthy that's for sure I would love to do it
11:47ladies and gentlemen our next guest survives a year of roughing it in the Manitoba back return them
11:54uh poison ivy sore muscles mosquito bites scars back problems you name it and one hundred thousand dollars
11:59please welcome from Pioneer Quest Frank and Alana Logie
12:03why uh my question to you is why why did you do um I think love for the outdoors wanting to do
12:14something a little crazy a little more simple yeah we call that camping yeah you go for a weekend you
12:19come home that's it it's over and Frank I also understand that you got private uh poison ivy on your
12:24johnson there yes today on questionnaire could you survive as a pioneer for a year turned out to
12:34timidia the treadways are also in the spotlight using media appearances to promote the pioneer
12:39experience and the book they hope to write cbc studio we were we you we were literally you became we
12:46became pioneers you know it's been encouraging to have people call us and say ah we're watching
12:54the movie and then we realize they're Christians wow everyone wants to know more about their
13:01extraordinary year and there will be some tough questions each couple wants to keep things positive
13:07and respect the others privacy but that might get harder to do Alana forgot to mention the book Frank
13:21and Alana have been offered a large sum of money to let a well-known writer tell their story he's
13:26already recorded 24 hours of audio tape just talking with them about the first week the treadways haven't
13:33been approached and that might explain a reunion of little more than polite handshakes and small talk
13:39for now they are celebrated as Canadian television heroes everyone is telling them to cash in before a
13:58fickle public forgets the pressure is on the treadways are at home in their 4,000 square foot log cabin on the lake
14:25they've brought back as much as they could from the homestead even the chickens
14:31good morning I guess it's perhaps one remnant of the homesteads that we've hung on to and it's just that clucking
14:41just brings back some memories dearly beloved we're gathered here in the presence of these witnesses to witness the
14:47the execution of this is a pioneer laundry did you do it by hand no I used my machine just washing out our woolen socks and they still smell like the wood stove back in the cabin amazing I guess we must have stunk pretty much when we came out of that cabin like
14:54wood
15:04and there's just so many things we have
15:23this homestead was so simple that we just never needed all this stuff
15:28so you're still doing the porridge thing yep every day I just find it the best thing for I enjoy it
15:37Father we thank you for this food in Jesus name Amen
15:41it's just interesting just the you're in a whirl just a whirlwind and trying to
15:48trying to catch up to the real world sort of and yet not wanting to
15:56one of the first things we did we came home we went through our whole house
16:01and realized we had far too much stuff gave away
16:06everything that we didn't need and had been hanging on to for years
16:11you still kept me though
16:13we still want to
16:19maintain that lifestyle a little bit but it's hard
16:22very hard we're not so naive that we can just
16:27live like a settler in the 21st century
16:34hello sonny
16:37where would you like the trailer?
16:39get you to just put it right here for now and I'll hook on it with my truck
16:43uh-huh
16:44while Tim was away his sons took over treadway construction
16:48and they're still at it
16:49when he can he'll give Daniel a hand
16:52but for now he's got a new job as pioneer Tim
16:55Kenora's hometown hero
16:58wow
16:59Tyler studied pioneers in grade 2
17:02so that's why he was so enthralled
17:04uh-huh
17:05what was Tim's famous line?
17:07Mama ain't happy nobody's happy
17:11you keep the women happy you got the men happy
17:15haven't you heard that saying?
17:19if mama ain't happy nobody's happy
17:22so that's our new motto in our house
17:24oh and is your husband ready to kill me?
17:29no
17:30I don't want to make any major major decision
17:33I keep telling myself that for at least a year after an experience like this
17:39just to kind of let the volatile emotions and experience that we've gone through
17:46battling with the 21st century to see where we end up in our quest for reality
17:55for Tim and Deanna, Pioneer Quest was just one in a series of adventures
18:00a month before they signed up for the TV series
18:03they were riding around Thailand on a motorcycle
18:06a few years before that working as missionaries in Brazil
18:10they plan to go to New Zealand next
18:12but for now they'll ride the pioneer wave
18:15and see where it takes them
18:20Frank and Alanna are having a harder time getting their bearings
18:248 weeks after leaving the homestead
18:26they are halfway across Ontario on their way back to
18:30wait for it
18:31Manitoba
18:32you're supposed to put in a few extra hours
18:35it means extra cash
18:36is that my uh...
18:37yeah for tomorrow
18:38gas is getting very expensive
18:40if I could only just shove hay in the trunk or something
18:42around the hood that would be better
18:44yeah
18:45we're thinking of just going to B.C. or something
18:48or Alaska
18:49we're so tempted because we've always wanted to go and live northern B.C.
18:53or do a road trip in Alaska
18:55so this is really tempting
18:56our car is packed
18:58and Frank even packed his tent and all his camping stuff
19:01it's our clothes and our camping stuff in the car
19:05we realize the most important thing for now is Frank going back to school
19:09which is hard because that's not where we want to be right now
19:12we want to just head up north right now
19:15we regret looking back on the last two months in some ways
19:18in that we did so many interviews
19:20they were just newspaper interviews
19:21and going to Toronto to do talks for people
19:23and then the last couple of weeks lining up our move out here
19:26so we haven't even gone out in our canoe for a couple of days
19:29we've done anything like that
19:30so it's been busy and
19:32I think we're kind of done now
19:33it's not like we had a life to go back to
19:35because we gave everything up
19:36so we had to start all over again
19:38which is hard
19:40you know a lot of decisions to make
19:41it's hard starting from nothing again
19:43and um
19:44so it feels really good to have direction now
19:46and have some idea where we're going
19:48so why Manitoba?
19:51this is cheap
19:53it's cheap and it's friendly
19:55and it's got big mosquitoes and lots of rain
19:57and horrible winters
19:59but yeah a lot of people the reaction was
20:01why Winnipeg?
20:02why Manitoba?
20:03like are you nuts?
20:04and then the next thing they'd always say is
20:06do you have any idea what the winters are like there?
20:08now we're asking if we know what a Manitoba winter is like
20:12you always freeze your little pinkies when you milk
20:16yeah because you're kind of milking like this
20:18they're the only fingers that don't ever touch
20:20and so your pinky fingers just end up freezing
20:24Frank and Alana are camped out at the home of the series director Andy Blick
20:28as they settle into life in Winnipeg
20:30this morning Alana starts her new nursing job in the psych ward of a local hospital
20:39she won't have a day off for nine days
20:42as you know we're not having porridge this morning
20:45I guess Frank is my wife this morning
20:47so we're off to work
20:52are you ready?
20:53mm-hmm
20:55yeah I'd rather be traveling somewhere
20:57but I'm trying to get back to normal life
21:00okay so I'll wait till quarter to four
21:03yeah I should be there though unless I've
21:04but if you're not I'll walk
21:06I'm gonna walk along the path
21:07it's way nicer and it's shorter
21:11like before when we worked
21:13I worked days and she worked
21:16nights evenings and weekends
21:18so we never ever saw each other
21:20on the homestead they were always together
21:23and that's what they liked best
21:25now they will spend long days apart
21:28I'd like to get an arrangement with sort of
21:30they'll find ways to make up for it
21:32sort of kind of the natural looking ones
21:34get this lamb too
21:36she collects lambs
21:39I'm sorry
21:40I'm sorry
21:41I'm sorry
21:42I'm sorry
21:43I'm sorry
21:44Frank has signed up for an accelerated program
21:47at the University of Manitoba
21:49his aim is a career that will help him find work
21:52in remote northern communities
21:54work he can share with Alana
21:56the nursing
21:58was it orientation
22:00okay
22:01do you know student number?
22:02yeah
22:03a nursing degree will take three long years
22:08including summers
22:10but for Frank
22:12it's the path back to a cabin in the woods
22:15the camera crew is back
22:18but they're not here for the Logies
22:20Frank and Alana have been invited to meet a new group of adventurers
22:24at the launch of another TV series
22:27Quest for the Bay
22:28the press release describes eight new heroes
22:31who will eat nothing but Pemmican and Bannock
22:34for the eight weeks
22:35it will take to row twelve hundred kilometres
22:37in a York boat
22:38to Hudson Bay
22:40yeah I'm jealous
22:42I'm sitting here going
22:43oh they get to go on an adventure
22:44we're going back to normal life
22:46although I think we had it easier than they'll have it
22:49come on are you?
22:55okay give me the rope
22:56I'll last do it
22:58I think so
22:59they're only going for like eight weeks
23:00I know but I think their eight weeks will be harder
23:02although you know what they do get to sit in a boat in the water
23:04yeah and swim
23:06making it clean
23:08that's true
23:10Jeff's great grandfather wrote a book about his experience on the York boat
23:22any tips on leaving the 21st century?
23:25just totally
23:27totally
23:28get right into it
23:30and just totally throw yourself into it
23:32and just accept everything
23:33rained all last night
23:35it was quite a storm
23:36you see the bottom of our blanket?
23:39that's what we stuck our feet in all night
23:41with our blanket
23:42you'll forget about the camera in no time
23:44Dawn's going to be with you right?
23:45the director at a lot of taping
23:46you see him with his camera
23:48and you don't even see the camera anymore
23:49you just see your friend
23:50which is nice but it's bad in a way
23:51that's where you say all these comments
23:52that you go oh
23:53because you forget
23:54these are
23:55these look like disco pants or something
23:58you're no longer a heartthrow honey
24:01turn around
24:03I do have to fly before you go to town
24:05and you see your butt and I'm
24:07what butt?
24:12and it's hard
24:13once in a while you go wow
24:14thousands of people are going to see this
24:15that's kind of weird
24:16there were some very amusing
24:18spontaneous moments on my deer chest
24:20well I was just walking back from
24:22deer tracking with Frank and Deanna
24:25and I noticed my husband's been thinking about me
24:28it's pretty sad
24:30there should be a lot on your guys too I'm sure
24:32nothing will prepare these rowers for their dose of history
24:37Frank and Alana may be on the sidelines
24:40but like these new adventurers
24:43they too are heading off into the unknown
24:45back in Kenora
24:54the Treadways are keeping Pioneer Quest alive
24:57by selling off parts of the homestead to their fans
25:00they offer willow furniture workshops
25:02and pioneer cooking
25:04the knickknacks Tim made to fight winter's boredom on the homestead
25:09have become another way of capitalizing on the experience
25:12which one would you like?
25:13this one okay?
25:14that's fine
25:15do you want it used a little bit?
25:16sure that's free
25:19that's free
25:21thank you
25:30the Treadways bring a missionary zeal to their newfound career
25:33as professional pioneers
25:35the tune Tim penned out on the homestead
25:38has become his anthem
25:40the costumes, tools and crafts
25:44are now props to teach school children about pioneer life
25:48their year on the prairie
25:52is something they love to share
25:55your optimism is taken over by fear
26:03Frank and Alana have bought a home in Winnipeg
26:06they'll make it as cozy as that very first house
26:09the one they made together
26:11out on the homestead
26:13I don't even bother taking all the paint off when I go to work at night
26:15I just hope nobody sees me
26:17I'm gonna get more paint on Megan
26:18you know what?
26:19it's hilarious at work
26:20because people are just catching on now
26:21there were a couple people that knew
26:23and I never said anything
26:24and I just kept saying
26:26well I moved here a couple weeks ago
26:27so they thought
26:28okay I'm imagining it
26:29so it's funny
26:30everyone just thinks they know me
26:31but can't figure out from where
26:33so did you use the money from Pioneer Quest
26:36to buy the house?
26:37yeah we did
26:38yeah we got to have a really neat year
26:40plus it did help us financially too
26:43so it's good
26:45Tim and Deanna are doing their
26:48you know going around doing speaking tours
26:50yeah
26:51and they're making some money on that
26:52yeah
26:53have you considered doing any of that?
26:54I don't think so
26:56we've both talked about it
26:58and speaking tours isn't really something that
27:00I don't think it's something we'd be so interested in
27:03I think it's something that
27:05I don't know
27:06I think it's more of a personal thing
27:08some people enjoy stuff like that
27:10and
27:11I don't know
27:12we're talked out I think
27:15guys can come in if you want
27:18leave you out in the rain
27:20Miqua not you though
27:22hey
27:23buddy
27:24Miqua come here
27:25let me invite you in
27:26sit
27:27this is our kitchen
27:29it's a little bigger than our last one
27:31we actually have cupboards and everything now
27:33this is our wood stove
27:35it's a little more efficient though
27:36these new modern wood stoves
27:37they don't even have chimneys
27:38digital
27:40this is our fridge as you can see
27:43instead of having it in the floor now
27:45we've mounted it on the wall
27:46so it's a whole different look
27:48how long have you been in the house now?
27:50just over a week I guess
27:52week and a half
27:53week and a half
27:54or something
27:55it's probably the best feeling in a long time
27:56just being settled and having our own place
27:58it's pretty nice
27:59privacy
28:01yeah
28:02except for this
28:03they open the runway back up
28:06first you had three months of quietness here
28:09so this is going to be
28:10and this is back to normal
28:11oh wonderful
28:13city life
28:16they'll make do for now
28:18Frank has a new dog
28:20and Alana has her cat
28:22but they don't plan to have children
28:24until Frank finishes school
28:26with all these commitments
28:28the couple have decided not to go through with the book
28:32yeah we've kind of had a change of heart about it so
28:35we don't really want to do anything
28:36we're just back to our normal life
28:37and that's all we want to do
28:39we just want to
28:40now it's just it was a good year but it's done
28:42and I don't know I don't want to keep dwelling on it I guess
28:46it's a year moving on
28:48yeah
28:49yeah
28:50sort of you know that was last year
28:52and now we're in this year type thing you know so
28:54I don't know I just think it's normal to move on
28:57but we're not still there things have changed and
29:00it would be weird to be sitting here now and thinking too much
29:04I think about the year
29:06because things have changed
29:08you brought her in
29:10yes hello Daisy
29:12the Treadways are happy to revisit their pioneer days any chance they get
29:17this time Daisy Duke and Diamond have been booked along with Tim and Deanna
29:22to open pioneer days in Steinbeck Manitoba
29:25it's also a good photo opportunity for their book
29:29it's not too
29:30okay then just step out of the way
29:31oh not you Deanna you stay still
29:33I'm sorry I thought you said you step out of the way
29:36he was talking to me
29:38oh
29:39it's uh you know it's such a slower pace of life that I long for that again obviously
29:48won't be able to ever recapture that again but it's just very touching to sit here and watch him hook him up because it was our life for a year and there's something very very special about living like that
30:05I think we could do it with our eyes closed on this horse
30:12every day
30:13every day for a year or so
30:16do you miss it?
30:17oh do I miss it?
30:19yes
30:20think of it every day
30:21think of it every day
30:22and life is so fast out here
30:25and everybody is so busy
30:27and that was one thing we were busy working hard
30:30but we had time for each other
30:32and we had time for
30:34for some of the important things in life
30:36and I miss that
30:38I miss that
30:39I think the word would be aliens
30:42we don't feel like we belong in the real world
30:45and we wish we were back in our old world
30:48it's been very positive
30:50and like people say they come up to us and they say wow we went through it with you
30:54we went through it with you this last year
30:56and that's really
30:58I mean it's just amazing how people say they woke up in the night and they heard the rain
31:01and they thought about us
31:03and I mean it just humbles you to think that you know those people really cared about us during that year
31:07we didn't have any idea other than our friends that rode us
31:10and so it's been very humbling and overwhelming at times
31:15we just got to know them over the course of the filming and we just thought they are our people
31:30they survived, they survived
31:33they put up with the worst mosquitoes, the worst snow, the worst everything, it was incredible
31:37I didn't want to go back and do it too
31:39well yeah that's amazing
31:40we actually followed them online as well
31:42which was really really neat
31:44Diane got up in the morning
31:48to do her chores
31:50and was greeted by
31:53their fans can't get enough
31:55so Pioneer Tims bought himself a new computer
31:58with a nifty voice recognition program
32:00to help transform his handwritten diaries into a book
32:06because every time Daisy would vomit
32:12Tim would do the same
32:14Tim, like he says, he can write down the narration
32:17he can write down what happened
32:19but he wants me to write what really happened
32:22and perhaps in my heart
32:25through that experience there on the homestead
32:28we want to give the people the story
32:31of how the homestead was built
32:33and the hard, frust-, the, the
32:36the gutsy pioneer spirit that it took to build a homestead
32:41because that's what the pioneers built it on
32:43there are going to be people that have the expectations
32:45they want to hear the dirt
32:46yeah they won't hear it
32:47not from us
32:48not from us
32:49they won't get it
32:51that's not the kind of book
32:52if they want that book, buy Survivor
32:54soon the pioneer cabins will be moved to the Argyle Museum
33:01I can believe it
33:02Tim and Deanna will share one last tour of their homestead
33:05with Frank and Alanna
33:07it's also old home week for the millions of mosquitoes
33:11who've missed them
33:13there he is
33:15you shaved your beard
33:17yeah I shaved it off
33:18and then I let it grow back
33:19hi guys
33:20hi
33:23hi
33:24how are you?
33:25one experience
33:26two very different couples
33:28they may not have become family
33:30but they'll always be more
33:33than just neighbours
33:34to shave
33:35how do you like the mosquitoes?
33:37they must like you
33:38you have a little blood on them
33:39they're horrible even
33:40they're worse this year
33:42I think than last year
33:43it's far
33:44hey
33:45have you got mosquito repellitus?
33:46the only reason is that they're
33:47yeah they're still all over
33:48the only reason they're worse
33:49but they're not biting
33:50they haven't had anybody to suck on
33:53terrible bugs eh Frank
33:55oh yeah
33:56they're really bad
33:57when you stop moving
33:58they're just all over you
34:00the best thing to do
34:01is just move around as much as you can
34:03I've never seen such a tiger here
34:06wow
34:07has it ever grown in?
34:08yeah it has
34:09look at
34:10oh look at the deer
34:13right there
34:19I tell you that's the last deer I ever drag in
34:22that one they killed
34:23I hated that
34:29looks so lonely back there
34:33it's weird it seems like about five years ago
34:42it just looks so abandoned
34:44I can't imagine that we spent a year in here
34:47like just looking at it now
34:48it just looks so un-homey
34:49it's amazing though how this was big enough
34:51I never ever felt like it was too small
34:53cause our bedroom is this big
34:55our bedroom is bigger than this
34:56our bedroom is bigger than this
34:59but I think a cabin just a little bit bigger than this
35:02and just as rough
35:03and not much more with us
35:05just modern books I think
35:06and that would be our dream
35:07we still say we want to do that
35:08like we still want to go and do that again
35:10and experience it on our own I guess
35:13and on a lake
35:15yeah
35:24isn't it a beautiful spot
35:25it really is
35:26I mean it's not much of a farm
35:28but it's a beautiful spot for a cabin
35:30almost exactly a year ago we moved into the cabin
35:33yeah
35:34yeah
35:35scary over the threshold
35:39feels very strange
35:41very strange
35:42hey somebody wash the floor I think
35:44wow
35:46hmm
35:56boy there's some good memories here
35:58some good times
36:00hmm
36:02hmm
36:03hmm
36:04I wanna move back
36:05hmm
36:06I'd love to move back
36:15yeah let's see if they still fit
36:18in there
36:21oh boy
36:26certainly this was our home
36:27and we built it
36:28nobody else will know
36:30they
36:31all the little
36:33corners
36:34and
36:35why certain things are put there
36:37what it's for
36:39and
36:41and we built a homestead
36:43it wasn't like spending a year out in the bush
36:45camping
36:46or
36:47doing an adventure that
36:48was non-related
36:49this
36:50we had to develop
36:52total personality
36:53and
36:54mindset of a pioneer
36:55every day we'd
36:56every day we'd
36:57eat here and sing in here
36:58and
36:59sweep this floor
37:00and
37:01it was home
37:02and
37:03and
37:04it was wonderful
37:05isn't it cold
37:06feels good
37:08feels good
37:11Andy Blick
37:12the series director
37:13was the fifth pioneer
37:15what's that in your hand Andy?
37:17I have the essential piece of equipment
37:19and I wouldn't let her have any
37:21he spent almost as much time on the land as they did
37:25people ask me whether we ever use this
37:27onsite we did but those guys never did
37:29a lot of people don't believe that
37:31but they never did
37:32but you know what
37:33what we used to do
37:34was when they got here
37:35they always thought we loved them
37:36because we used to hug them
37:37but it was just to try and get some of it on us
37:39so
37:40Andy wondered why we were always like this on them
37:41man do they smell good
37:43I don't know how we worked in it
37:48we'd leave the site
37:53alright
37:54sometimes I'd leave alone
37:55and I'd wonder
37:56you know
37:57how are these guys gonna survive this
37:59I mean look at
38:01look
38:02just stand here for a sec
38:03take a look
38:04now we had bug spray on the crew
38:06they were trying to shoot
38:08it was
38:09it was bad enough for us
38:10but we
38:11there were lots of times I just wondered
38:13you know
38:15what were we doing with these guys out here
38:17you know
38:18what were we doing
38:19when you guys moved in you were so excited about getting in the house
38:31we were so excited to be alone in here
38:33that was the best thing
38:34that was really funny
38:35we're not gonna go there
38:37we've done that once
38:38we won't go there again
38:39how did it feel to ask them about sex?
38:42um
38:43it took me a while
38:45it took me a while
38:46it was the most excitement I've had in a while
38:47oh my god
38:49my wife's gonna be watching this
38:50let me see
38:51what did I
38:52what did I think
38:53I was embarrassed
38:54I didn't know what to do
38:55I knew that I wanted to ask that question
38:56so there is sex
38:57out on the homestead then?
38:58oh yeah
38:59of course
39:00you know
39:01you don't find it in the tent
39:02in the wagon
39:03or
39:04in the trees
39:05or
39:06someplace
39:07we already christen this house
39:08a long time ago
39:10we did
39:11the roof wasn't even on it yet
39:14I had a lot of tea
39:15and laughter in this cabin
39:17a lot of funny things happened here
39:18and I loved it
39:19for all the
39:20for all the stress
39:22and
39:23you know
39:24the sadness
39:25and stuff that happened here
39:27it was
39:28he's too caring
39:30you know
39:31we'd be having a crisis or something
39:32and you'd stop
39:33because
39:34you know
39:35we didn't need the camera in our face
39:36to be dealing with something
39:37so
39:38yeah
39:39and he was always really respectful of that
39:40um
39:41yeah
39:42or I guess he could have got a couple more
39:43better TV moments
39:44I mean there were times I felt really stressed
39:46but it was more
39:47you know
39:48it was like working with friends
39:49it was an odd
39:50it was just a really unique
39:51kind of arrangement
39:52emotional arrangement
39:53I feel
39:54I still feel
39:55although we haven't had that much contact
39:56I still feel really close to them
39:58and Tim and Deanna
39:59we do
40:00we miss this guy
40:01we really do
40:02he became
40:03first of all
40:04he was our link to the outside world
40:06in some sense
40:07and that he came
40:08from the outside world to us
40:09for me
40:10that's how I felt about it
40:11I didn't think about a movie
40:13as much as I was just talking to you
40:14we were
40:15would you do it again?
40:16you know
40:17even though
40:18you know
40:19like your strengths and weaknesses
40:20were on TV
40:21yeah
40:22we showed our weaknesses
40:23yeah
40:24of course we don't like people to see
40:25the weak side of you
40:26and
40:27and
40:28and you didn't think about that
40:29when we were obviously applying for this stupid job
40:31um
40:32you know
40:33you didn't think about that
40:34you just thought you were gonna do the work
40:35and they would document it
40:36I didn't think you'd
40:37you know
40:38you you would
40:39I didn't think about our
40:40our characteristics
40:41that you would
40:42that you would capture
40:43and you could either do with it
40:44what you wanted to
40:45we did give a lot to you
40:47and
40:48now in retrospect
40:49I think I'd be much more afraid now
40:50and what would you tell someone
40:51who was going to do it?
40:53be on guard
40:54see
40:55yeah
40:56yes I would
40:57it's true
40:58and it made us
40:59be
41:00it made us be vulnerable
41:01it's been five months since Frank and Alana left the 1870s in the past
41:09tell me about your future
41:11what about our future?
41:13do we know about our future?
41:15well I decided not to go to school
41:18I ended up stopped going to school
41:19because we found we were never seeing each other
41:21so
41:22we
41:23between going to school and working and doing homework
41:27and then Alana working
41:28we were never together
41:29so
41:30I stopped going
41:31and I was working part time at Home Depot
41:33and I got
41:34gonna start there full time
41:35and then
41:36we're able to spend lots of time together
41:38and it's a lot more relaxing
41:39and
41:40there's no stress or anything else
41:42so
41:43it's a lot better for us
41:44it was kind of defeating our purpose of
41:46coming out of there
41:47and realizing the most important thing
41:48was seeing each other all the time
41:50and
41:51we weren't seeing each other
41:52maybe one evening a week
41:53and then Frank would feel guilty
41:54because he had homework to do
41:55so
41:56tell me a little bit about your job
41:57what's fun about it?
41:58it's fun
41:59I sell tools all day
42:00I get to play with all those tools
42:02I wish I had last year
42:03so
42:04it's good
42:05I thought it was neat
42:06because even
42:07we went
42:08last night
42:09to
42:10a guy that Frank's work with
42:11to his house for dinner
42:12and his wife said
42:13it was so cute
42:14Frank came over last week
42:15and he said he was quitting school
42:16because he couldn't stand not seeing you
42:17and
42:18and she thought it was so nice
42:19she said he just seemed so desperate about it
42:21so I thought
42:22oh that's cute
42:23desperate that's the word
42:24yeah
42:25yeah that is the most important thing
42:26and I think just to live
42:27you know
42:28let's not be workaholics
42:29and
42:30you gotta do what you enjoy
42:31and I think not caring what other people think too
42:33like not doing what's normal
42:35or what
42:36what looks like the good thing to do
42:38you know
42:39I mean that was pretty scary
42:41giving everything up and going there
42:42not knowing if it was going to work out
42:44and now knowing
42:45we can make kind of odd decisions again
42:47and
42:48it's
42:49we know it's going to work out
42:50we know it's the right thing
43:12Tim and Deanna have asked their agent
43:15to give them a few days off
43:16from their busy schedule
43:18they plan to scale back to nine speaking engagements a week
43:22instead of dozens
43:23but even out here
43:25their pioneer life is not far behind
43:28it's Thanksgiving
43:32and they provide the family moose hunt with their son Daniel
43:35it's important to just keep that calmness in our life
43:42but coming out here is certainly doing it isn't it
43:45yeah
43:46oh man this is wonderful
43:47and we haven't had a chance to come out here very often
43:49and this is wonderful
43:52things are getting back to normal
43:56but they're not quite ready to give up being pioneer Tim
44:00and pioneer Deanna
44:02our mindset went back 125 years
44:05for a whole year
44:07and now all of a sudden to come back into the 21st century
44:11it's taking time
44:13we have been overseas many many times
44:15come back and had culture shock
44:17it took a month or two to get over that
44:20but now we've been out five months
44:22and I still feel like perhaps an alien
44:25I don't belong to this 21st century like I used to
44:28and what we had back there was something unreal
44:31we're just a couple of Kenora Hicks that got chosen
44:34yeah
44:35and you know we really feel privileged to have gotten chosen
44:38I didn't think I'd say that
44:40but I feel very privileged as in retrospect you know
44:46wow we did get chosen
44:48and we were lucky
44:50I think the very best part though was the way that
44:54that it drew us closest really really close together
44:59and it gave us the opportunity of really seeing
45:01how a close relationship with your spouse can feel
45:05and you don't want it to leave
45:09that it gave us a little bit of luck
45:11that it did not end up yet
45:13and it did not end up yet
45:15thank you
45:17thank you
45:19I'll see you next time.
45:49And on camera.
45:55Being rescued by the Settlers yet again.
46:03Look at us. November the...
46:06November the 6th. This sucks.
46:09This is the last day of the wettest summer I can remember.
46:14How do you feel, Andy? How do I feel?
46:16How do you feel right now?
46:17Are you bitter?
46:19I feel like a Settler.
46:21I just hope I don't get eaten for dinner tonight.
46:23That's all.
46:25How many dollars did it take for you to do this?
46:27More than a million.
46:29I'm nervous.
46:31I don't know, I'm nervous.
46:39I know.
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