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00:00:10I can't believe Naked and Afraid was crazy enough to ask me to come back.
00:00:15I'm Ernie, and I'm the biggest true fan of Naked and Afraid.
00:00:20Every season, every episode.
00:00:23You know, people use the word super fan over and over again.
00:00:25I'm a true fan.
00:00:26I have bags. I have all kinds of memorabilia that I've collected.
00:00:31Like, I went on the Naked and Afraid cruise to meet a bunch of my heroes.
00:00:35So, yeah, I'm a big, huge fan.
00:00:38I did a 14-day fan challenge in the Yucatan of Mexico.
00:00:42I hate this f***ing place.
00:00:44I was baptized under fire.
00:00:46We did it.
00:00:46Oh, my God.
00:00:47We did it.
00:00:49I'm here to do a 21 in Botswana, Africa.
00:00:54Woo-hoo!
00:00:55Can you believe it?
00:00:59I'm just not sure anybody can survive here for 21 days.
00:01:04Oh, my God.
00:01:06Two strangers.
00:01:08Ah!
00:01:09Go, go, go, go, go!
00:01:11No food.
00:01:12Ah!
00:01:13Ah!
00:01:16Ah!
00:01:16No water.
00:01:18Ah!
00:01:1921 days.
00:01:21Don't tell.
00:01:21Ah!
00:01:23Die first.
00:01:24Naked and Afraid.
00:01:29Damn, this is pretty.
00:01:31You're gonna kick my ass, aren't you, Africa?
00:01:35I've always wanted to be here.
00:01:36You see the tall grass, the wreath.
00:01:39You see all the birds flying around.
00:01:42You hear the wimpo's out.
00:01:44This place is like a heartbeat.
00:01:47There's tons of danger out here.
00:01:50There's a jaguar, the lion, the croc.
00:01:53This is so overwhelming.
00:01:55And the water is forever.
00:01:58It's a sea of green.
00:02:01And instead of it being like an ash or a field, it's water.
00:02:07Located in southern Africa, Botswana's Okavango Delta is a vast inland wetland, where winter flooding from the Okavango River slowly
00:02:17fills the grassland, creating a seasonal habitat for Africa's large populations of migrating animals, including lions, elephants, and hippopotamuses, whose
00:02:29two-ton frame and four-foot gaping mouths kill 500 humans each year.
00:02:34As winter weather brings floodwaters to the region, it also offsets the searing sun with near-freezing nights and sudden
00:02:43wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour.
00:02:48Africa is gonna test me beyond anything I already know.
00:02:52It's gonna push me beyond my limits for sure.
00:02:56Super intimidating, but as much as I'm afraid in Africa, I'm terrified of what my partner might be here.
00:03:05I can definitely feel the nerves, man.
00:03:07Partnership dynamics can be volatile.
00:03:11Are you happy, Ernie?
00:03:12My partner from the Fan Challenge, Mandy, she was a surprising breath of fresh air.
00:03:18I am super appreciative of you making shoes.
00:03:20We complimented each other.
00:03:22We did things for each other.
00:03:23She is a f***ing rock star.
00:03:27Getting closer.
00:03:29Ah, dang!
00:03:31The one thing you can't control is your partner, and I think once I meet my partner that I'll feel
00:03:38so much more relaxed, and hopefully we get along.
00:03:43The moment of truth.
00:03:45I'm super apprehensive.
00:03:47I tell this to people all the time because everyone always asks.
00:03:50You can practice fire.
00:03:52You can practice shelter.
00:03:53You can practice every weakness you have and every strength you can sharpen, but you can never be in control
00:03:59of your partner.
00:04:02Man, if I end up with some lazy, self-loathing, f***ing negative, egotistical beast, I'm just gonna lose my f***ing.
00:04:18F***ing.
00:04:22All right, all right, I feel better now.
00:04:25F***ing kidding me.
00:04:26Oh my God, you gotta be kidding me.
00:04:32Oh, this is so much better.
00:04:34F***ing.
00:04:36We're gonna do this again.
00:04:37Oh my gosh.
00:04:39F***ing.
00:04:44I'm about to do 21 days.
00:04:48In Botswana, this is the scaredest I've ever been probably in my entire life, if I'm being honest.
00:04:57Absolutely more scared than I was last time.
00:05:01My name's Mandy, and I just finished a 14-day challenge.
00:05:05F***ing.
00:05:06Uh-oh.
00:05:07I knew it was gonna be hard, but I couldn't possibly fathom how hard.
00:05:12A lizard.
00:05:13We tried to eat, but unfortunately, we were not successful, so during the whole 14 days,
00:05:22we only ate cactus, so I knew right away I needed to learn how to trap.
00:05:28Set traps, snares, things like that.
00:05:32I had opportunity between the two challenges to really focus on the things I wasn't good at,
00:05:38and now it's my time to prove that I am good at these things.
00:05:49You're f***ing kidding me!
00:05:50Oh my God, you gotta be kidding me!
00:05:55The last person I expected.
00:05:57The last person.
00:05:58The best person.
00:05:59The best.
00:06:00This has never happened.
00:06:01Two fans coming in together for a 21?
00:06:04This has never happened.
00:06:04I don't think they've ever had...
00:06:07Are you kidding me?
00:06:09We're so lucky to be first in Naked and Afraid history to go from a fan to a 21 together.
00:06:15Hey, we're not two fans trying to figure it out this time.
00:06:19I don't have an opportunity to tap.
00:06:22Wow.
00:06:23I've been a part of this community for years.
00:06:25I will catch all kinds of s***, not only from my family, but from other fans.
00:06:30I even made the comment, someone asked me, who'd be your perfect partner?
00:06:33And I was like, okay, well, imagine Mandy, and then branch out from there.
00:06:36Maybe with some more skill set.
00:06:38But hey, Mandy 2.0 is here.
00:06:39All right, awesome.
00:06:40Mandy 2.0 is here.
00:06:41I can't see how we can fail.
00:06:43Let's get to it.
00:06:44Okay.
00:06:45We figured out through some of the hardest times in our lives how to get through 14.
00:06:48We just gotta get through one week.
00:06:49It's that last week that's gonna make the difference.
00:06:51It's the one that's gonna bite.
00:06:53We got a little bit more than our supplies.
00:06:54Uh, Makoro, I believe, is the African canoe name.
00:06:59But that means we're not staying here.
00:07:02You know, normally when they give you extra s***, it's...
00:07:04We gotta use it.
00:07:05Traditionally dug out from the trunk of a large tree, a Makoro is a canoe used for navigating
00:07:10the channels and flooded plains of Botswana's Okavango Delta.
00:07:15Dude, this is pretty bad ass.
00:07:18What you got?
00:07:19What you got?
00:07:19Yeah.
00:07:20I have my machete.
00:07:22I like it.
00:07:24I've got a very cool fishing kit here.
00:07:27So we are eating this time.
00:07:28Yes.
00:07:29We're eating.
00:07:30In addition to their survival items, Mandy and Ernie have been given a fire starter,
00:07:34a pot, and a map of the Delta.
00:07:37Where are we going?
00:07:38Voila.
00:07:39Okay, so we're here.
00:07:40Yeah.
00:07:40And we have...
00:07:42Ah, the tree of life.
00:07:44So we're gonna have to canoe there today.
00:07:47It's gonna be a tough push out.
00:07:48Yeah.
00:07:49We need to get started, like, yesterday.
00:07:50Yeah.
00:07:51Let's get on the move.
00:07:51Let's do it.
00:07:52Let's do it.
00:07:53To reach their island, Mandy and Ernie must navigate their Makoro 2.1 miles north through
00:07:59the flood basin, where Nile crocodiles hide amongst the papyrus reeds.
00:08:04All right, buddy.
00:08:06All right.
00:08:07Off we go.
00:08:08There we go.
00:08:09Go!
00:08:11We're going.
00:08:15I'm gonna try standing, just because I feel like I've got more leverage that way.
00:08:20You might want to be careful, you know?
00:08:22You land in this water, you got crocs, and you got...
00:08:25We got snakes, and we got all kinds of shit we don't know that's floating in here.
00:08:30Ah!
00:08:30There's a spider.
00:08:32Okay.
00:08:32Ah!
00:08:33It's so big.
00:08:34There are spiders everywhere.
00:08:37I did not take that into consideration.
00:08:40On the water?
00:08:41On the water.
00:08:42Orb weaver.
00:08:44These spiders are not great.
00:08:48I don't mind getting filthy.
00:08:50I don't mind trucking through thorns.
00:08:53Ah!
00:08:53Sorry.
00:08:54But when it comes to bugs and spiders...
00:08:56Oh, my God.
00:08:57Hang in there.
00:08:58Something's crawling on me.
00:08:59I scream.
00:09:01Ah!
00:09:02And I can't control it, so it's something that I'm going to try to work on, because they're
00:09:05everywhere.
00:09:06Ah!
00:09:07Oh!
00:09:08Oh, my God!
00:09:09It's okay.
00:09:10It's okay.
00:09:10It's okay.
00:09:11I thought you were going to tip.
00:09:11I got it.
00:09:12I got it.
00:09:13You're brave.
00:09:14That spider web was right in your face.
00:09:23I got it.
00:09:23Man, I'm telling you what.
00:09:24My shoulders are feeling me.
00:09:26It's a workout.
00:09:27No doubt about that.
00:09:28It is.
00:09:28It is.
00:09:29Make a hard...
00:09:31There we go.
00:09:32There we go.
00:09:33See the right?
00:09:35The tree.
00:09:36You think that's it?
00:09:37I think that's the right one.
00:09:38Yeah, that's got to be it.
00:09:39I don't see any of the tree that kind of looks like that, you know?
00:09:42It said that way?
00:09:43Yeah.
00:09:43Yeah, let's do it.
00:09:44Let's do it.
00:09:47That final push for the day.
00:09:49Yeah.
00:09:51Oh, it's definitely getting more shallow.
00:09:53Oh, yeah.
00:09:53I just hit the bottom.
00:09:54You want to go ahead and get out here?
00:09:56Yep.
00:09:57You want me to get out first?
00:09:58Yeah, yeah.
00:10:00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:10:00It's very shallow.
00:10:01We're good.
00:10:02The endorphins are rolling.
00:10:04I'm super excited.
00:10:05But I can't neglect the fact that the hard stuff's coming.
00:10:09Hey, look.
00:10:10Elephant.
00:10:10What?
00:10:11What?
00:10:11Oh, you know what that means.
00:10:13Yeah.
00:10:14It could be close by.
00:10:15Yeah.
00:10:17Did you find a spot to tie it off on?
00:10:19Yeah.
00:10:20We have the most dangerous predators around us, and they're nocturnal.
00:10:24That's a different type of skin.
00:10:26That's not elephant.
00:10:26Oh, no, no.
00:10:27That's a...
00:10:27What is that, you think?
00:10:28That's a...
00:10:29That could be a cat.
00:10:30We are definitely in their territory.
00:10:33It is imperative that we get that boma done as soon as possible.
00:10:40So we need coverage.
00:10:42So we need to be in the trees.
00:10:44There's like that big shady looking tree over there.
00:10:46Yeah, exactly.
00:10:47Let's see what we're working with, at least.
00:10:49Exactly.
00:10:53Let's take a look over here.
00:10:54Yeah.
00:10:55Look at this.
00:10:55This is some nice shelter.
00:10:57Do you think that this would be good?
00:10:59And like, so what we could do is build our...
00:11:02Like, this could be our entryway.
00:11:04We could put the fire here.
00:11:05There's enough clearance overhead.
00:11:06I don't see any ants.
00:11:08I don't see any spiders coming above.
00:11:10All right.
00:11:11All right.
00:11:11Home.
00:11:11Ready?
00:11:1221 days.
00:11:12Got it.
00:11:13Here in Botswana this time of year, we only get about 11 hours of daylight, and we are well
00:11:17surpassed the halfway point.
00:11:19So I think we're going to use our strength.
00:11:21While you're building, I'm starting that fire, and then after that, I'll start clearing out.
00:11:24Okay.
00:11:26Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:11:28There is something on your cheek, buddy.
00:11:30Oh, it's a leash.
00:11:33Okay.
00:11:34I'm just going to pull it.
00:11:35Okay.
00:11:35One.
00:11:36If you rub the head of it.
00:11:38Where's the head?
00:11:39Is that the head?
00:11:39Well, the part that's stuck.
00:11:40They're both stuck.
00:11:42Both?
00:11:42Yes.
00:11:42It's two?
00:11:43Yeah.
00:11:43Rip it off.
00:11:45Oh, my God.
00:11:47Ah!
00:11:47Where'd it go?
00:11:50Oh, man.
00:11:51That was funny.
00:11:53You're welcome.
00:11:54You're welcome.
00:11:54Now I don't know where I threw the damn thing.
00:11:57So slimy.
00:12:03The boma is, it's absolutely necessary.
00:12:08It's for our protection.
00:12:10Africa comes alive at night.
00:12:12And that's why it's important we're on the clock.
00:12:15Ernie and Mandy are surrounding their camp with a six-foot-tall boma built with layers of stacked branches
00:12:21and filled in with thorny palm leaves for protection from nighttime predators.
00:12:26A lot of these have thorns in them.
00:12:29Ah, f***.
00:12:30The palms have, like, these gargantuan thorns on them, too.
00:12:34So, yeah, I'm going to use that to try to cover it.
00:12:40Just getting a little bit more tender.
00:12:43So that way when it's go time, we're good.
00:12:50I got it started within seconds.
00:12:53All right.
00:12:56Okay.
00:12:57All right.
00:12:57I'm going to take a break from this, and I'm going to help you because our daylight is going to
00:13:01go quickly.
00:13:05All right.
00:13:08I wish I was just a little thicker.
00:13:11I feel like there's still a lot to fill up.
00:13:13Not a lot of time.
00:13:17Want to use this for our door?
00:13:20Yeah.
00:13:21Yeah, that's a great idea.
00:13:22I mean, it's bushy enough.
00:13:24Yeah.
00:13:25All right.
00:13:26So we're done for the night?
00:13:28Yes.
00:13:28We'll see what works tonight, and then we'll fill in those gaps tomorrow.
00:13:33Day one.
00:13:34We're on lockdown for the night.
00:13:37Got our fire.
00:13:38We've got our boma.
00:13:40Hanging out with my, used to be my jungle friend.
00:13:44Now he's my Delta dude.
00:13:46I'm a little scared of what's going to come out later.
00:13:49Yeah.
00:13:49Tonight's going to be an experiment.
00:13:52Yeah, it is.
00:13:53We're going to see how that goes.
00:13:55It's about to be a party.
00:13:57Could be.
00:13:58It could be.
00:14:07That was an elephant.
00:14:13It's so early.
00:14:14Yeah.
00:14:16And there's already so much activity.
00:14:21Elephant.
00:14:22That was an elephant.
00:14:25That was an elephant.
00:14:27Like, it almost sounds like it's coming out.
00:14:32Those are steps.
00:14:40There's a lot of movement in that water, man.
00:14:42There is so much movement.
00:14:57That was different.
00:15:01What's that?
00:15:02It's yellow.
00:15:06Do you see anything?
00:15:22It was coming from that direction right over here and it sounds
00:15:38What is it? It would make me more comfortable if it was a crap and not a lion
00:16:05Last night was tough. We could hear all the animals. Yeah, that was a trip activity non-stop
00:16:12We heard elephants hippos, then I heard this like guttural like
00:16:18Getting closer and closer. It was pretty intense
00:16:23Okay team, sorry to interrupt
00:16:26You both know Wundi, our head ranger
00:16:31Wundi needs to give you some very important information
00:16:35So I would like to show you something on the ground over there
00:16:39After scouting the perimeter of Ernie and Mandy's boma
00:16:42One of the local rangers is concerned about their nighttime safety
00:16:46Oh, they're close
00:16:48Is that a paw?
00:16:50Yeah
00:16:50He was a lioness
00:16:52Lioness?
00:16:53Yes
00:16:53That's really scary
00:16:58And then it went around
00:17:01Boma's right there like we are right
00:17:03Yeah, you see
00:17:04There
00:17:05It walked through here
00:17:07Oh my gosh
00:17:08Oh my gosh
00:17:09Look at how close it was
00:17:10So this is the pole here
00:17:13And this part here
00:17:15Is wet
00:17:17She peed here
00:17:18And you can tell that she was facing that direction
00:17:20Oh my god
00:17:22This is insane
00:17:23Look at
00:17:24Find out that the lioness was about 15 feet from our boma
00:17:27It's scary to me
00:17:29She had to use the bathroom right there
00:17:31Is that her way of marking her territory?
00:17:34Trying to come back that way?
00:17:36It very well could be
00:17:37I'm not sure
00:17:39So just put it more into perspective
00:17:41Like just how dangerous all of this really is
00:17:44This is part of their hunting grounds and their territory
00:17:46So make sure that you have to improve the structure of your boma
00:17:49For your safety
00:17:51Yeah, absolutely well
00:17:53Yeah
00:17:53We're in their territory
00:17:54Like this is their spot
00:17:56This is their home
00:17:56Yeah
00:17:57That's a huge wake up call
00:17:59The boma needs to be improved today
00:18:01We'll get that knocked out
00:18:11In order to protect themselves from the female lion in the area
00:18:14Mandy and Ernie will reinforce their boma
00:18:17Building taller and thicker walls to prevent animals from entering
00:18:20If you can put the palms, it'll block the view
00:18:25I'm cutting down the bigger branches
00:18:26We're going anywhere from 7 to 10 feet
00:18:28Mandy's going inside and weaving all the palms in between
00:18:32So they have their thorns
00:18:33So it's like the secondary inner layer of protection
00:18:36So that you know you can't necessarily see
00:18:39We want predators to walk right by us and not even know we're there
00:18:42Stack it up
00:18:44Can't lie
00:18:44I felt like our shelter was ready yesterday
00:18:47And found out today that it's not
00:18:49But the good thing about mistakes is that you learn from them
00:18:51And you become better
00:18:54I want to be able to show during this entire challenge that you can grow
00:18:58You can do hard things
00:18:59And if you want to learn it
00:19:02You can do it
00:19:04That palm looks like a wall
00:19:05You did such a good job
00:19:07So we still have some work to do
00:19:08But compared to what we had last night
00:19:11It's night and day
00:19:13And hopefully we get some good sleep tonight
00:19:15Yay
00:19:15Yeah
00:19:16That would be great
00:19:36There's something walking outside the right side of our phone
00:19:39You can do it
00:19:44It's the very old
00:19:50No
00:19:55I'm not
00:19:56I'm not
00:19:56What the other
00:19:56is this?
00:20:01You'll be away
00:20:17Good morning, Mandy.
00:20:19Good morning.
00:20:20There was a lion right outside our boma.
00:20:22Oh, my God.
00:20:24It's scary.
00:20:25But luckily, the boma blocked it out.
00:20:27Yeah.
00:20:28You slept right through it.
00:20:29Something that is not different from the Yucatan is Ernie will fall asleep within five minutes.
00:20:34That's nothing new, and it's like I don't want to wake him, even if I am scared, because I can
00:20:41function on little sleep.
00:20:43And I know he does not, but just like Ernie has his kryptonite of sleep, my kryptonite is weight loss.
00:20:49I'm going to start getting hungry soon.
00:20:51I'm excited about going fishing.
00:20:54I really am, too.
00:20:54The toughest part of the fan challenge for me was I never could acquire enough food.
00:21:02I failed at capturing some iguanas.
00:21:05I was right next to him.
00:21:07And it was a little defeating.
00:21:09I'm done.
00:21:10He wins.
00:21:11Get some bait.
00:21:12I am totally excited that Vandy brought fishing line, because we got a fighting chance.
00:21:19I think there's two in here.
00:21:20Okay.
00:21:21Let's get to fishing.
00:21:22Really hope we don't fall in, because it is cold.
00:21:25Yeah, the water is really cold.
00:21:26There's scary things in there.
00:21:35You hear that?
00:21:36I did hear that.
00:21:43Do you see anything, any fish, any kind of activity?
00:21:48Not yet.
00:21:49Dang, there.
00:21:51I mean, this place used to be grass, you know, just a month ago.
00:21:55Right.
00:21:56The delta is not a river.
00:21:57It's not a lake.
00:21:58So for fish, it's not actual active habitat.
00:22:01The fish come in after the waters flood in.
00:22:06I've honestly never fished in an area like this, and I honestly don't know what to do.
00:22:12The fish, they're just not here yet.
00:22:14I'm frustrated.
00:22:15My last challenge, I made it 14 days with barely no food, and it was awful.
00:22:20I can't just say, oh, we're going to get food this time, because what if we don't?
00:22:23I need to catch some food this time.
00:22:25I just need to figure it out.
00:22:26Look, there's a couple of lilies.
00:22:29Want to try to grab them since we're here?
00:22:30Yeah.
00:22:33Definitely be careful.
00:22:34Tell me if you see anything, any bubbles or eyeballs.
00:22:51Good job, Ernie.
00:22:52Yeah.
00:22:53Good job.
00:22:54You know, some sort of win.
00:23:08It just kind of looks like a really thick green bean.
00:23:13Just a bunch of mush.
00:23:14It is.
00:23:16So?
00:23:18It doesn't smell very good.
00:23:24What do you think?
00:23:26Mushy, um, not much of a spice.
00:23:28I'm just going to pretend it's overcooked celery.
00:23:31That's what we're doing.
00:23:32Yep.
00:23:34Eh.
00:23:36Not bad.
00:23:38Not good.
00:23:42Lily's aren't off the menu.
00:23:43I don't know how much more I can eat.
00:23:45There's another one in there.
00:23:46I know.
00:23:48Hell no.
00:23:49We ain't eating none of that for breakfast.
00:23:51We are done with Lily's today.
00:23:54I can't enjoy it anymore.
00:23:55I'm over it.
00:23:56Yep.
00:23:56I'm over it.
00:23:57Ah!
00:23:58Ah!
00:23:58What is that?
00:23:59That was a warthog.
00:24:01Where did it come from?
00:24:03That.
00:24:05I want to kill it and I want to eat bacon.
00:24:07Yes.
00:24:07Yes.
00:24:07Yeah.
00:24:08F*** it.
00:24:09Maybe I can get lucky.
00:24:10They live in huge holes.
00:24:13Okay.
00:24:13Boars are very aggressive.
00:24:15So if I just show up at the front and start tapping it, he'll try to attack me.
00:24:19Yep.
00:24:20If I'm lucky, he'd run towards me and I'd just be able to, like, stab him straight out.
00:24:27But ideally, I find him in his hole and I stab him in there.
00:24:32That's my plan.
00:24:35I'm not seeing any tracks.
00:24:40I mean, him finding a hole in there would be really smart.
00:24:44My God.
00:24:47F***.
00:24:47This might be a game trail.
00:24:51He might have run through here.
00:24:56There he is.
00:24:57F***.
00:24:58Come here.
00:25:14It went that way to the left.
00:25:16He took off running, so I probably found his hidey hole.
00:25:21F***.
00:25:21I would like to go out and look for Pumbaa again.
00:25:24There's nothing over here.
00:25:24But to be able to get something with my machete is super tough.
00:25:29I chased his ass down as far and as fast as I could, but I lost him on the edge
00:25:34of the island.
00:25:34We need to be smart hunters.
00:25:36And I did get exhausted chasing him.
00:25:39When looking at food strategy, it calls for a completely different game plan.
00:25:43I want to start scoping out tomorrow, like little holes.
00:25:47Where do some birds hang out and set some snares?
00:25:50Yeah.
00:25:51This is part of Mandy 2.0.
00:25:53Awesome.
00:25:54I want to hunt.
00:25:54I want to set traps.
00:25:56I want to get food for my partner and I.
00:25:58That's super important to me.
00:25:59Mandy 2.0 is learning from all the mistakes that Mandy made in her fan challenge.
00:26:15I'm going to pay attention to these holes that I'm seeing.
00:26:19For a snare, if you're going to sit there and say Mandy 2.0, you have to back it up.
00:26:24I want to say, hey, I went out and got us dinner.
00:26:28That's a big hole.
00:26:30Something could live in there.
00:26:31And with the sticks that are right over it, it's perfect for setting a trap.
00:26:38I'm going to make a snare trap out of cordage.
00:26:43In Yucatan, they had a pedoquin plant.
00:26:47This looks like it, but without the thorns.
00:26:50If you smash it, you can get the fibers out of there and make cordage.
00:26:55When you break them down, there's all these little fibers in there.
00:26:59And you can roll them a certain way and twist them to make cordage.
00:27:05See?
00:27:06Look at that.
00:27:07Boom, boom, boom.
00:27:08And now I just got to keep going.
00:27:10Look at you.
00:27:13Man, Mandy has rocked from where she was at our 14 to what she's doing now.
00:27:19That's grit.
00:27:20I mean, the girl is mission focused.
00:27:25It is.
00:27:26I'll be back.
00:27:27Bye.
00:27:33Technically, I am hunting right now passively.
00:27:36And that's actually what you want to do because we don't have calories coming in yet.
00:27:40It's all calories going out.
00:27:41It's just going to come out and it's just going to get caught up in my snare.
00:27:46I'm going to weigh it down.
00:27:48And I'm going to block it off.
00:27:50So that way it's not tempted to run in a different pass.
00:27:54Perfect.
00:27:56Now we wait.
00:28:04I'm going to go check my snare.
00:28:06I think it's a great idea.
00:28:09Aw, it broke.
00:28:11It broke through it.
00:28:13Which means there's something in there.
00:28:17I'm on to something, but my snares aren't strong enough.
00:28:20Man, it's frustrating.
00:28:22Well, as they're out here, out in the heat, they're going to dry out some, too.
00:28:27I'm frustrated with my snares.
00:28:31And I'm very disappointed in myself.
00:28:33But it wasn't due to lack of trying.
00:28:35So I just got to learn from it and move on.
00:28:43Let's get to fishing before it gets, because the sun's really starting, I'm starting to
00:28:46feel it now on my shoulders.
00:28:47Okay.
00:28:48We want to set lines.
00:28:49You know, last time we did not catch fish.
00:28:52So we are going to be setting lines today.
00:28:57So we're going to have two poles, and we're going to set two lines on each pole.
00:29:04Hopeful that this is going to be a very awesome, passive way of fishing.
00:29:10Mandy and Ernie's deadline system will consist of two baited hooks and lines attached to a
00:29:16pole that is then secured into the basin floor and left for passive fishing.
00:29:21Ernie, work that pole, buddy.
00:29:24I'm working that pole.
00:29:25It's time to get fishy with it.
00:29:27That's right.
00:29:28That's right.
00:29:32Yeah, it feels like the water has definitely risen in the last few days.
00:29:36I don't remember it going up to almost our knees.
00:29:39So fish should be coming in.
00:29:42Okay.
00:29:42Today, we're going to try to push it to a little bit deeper water.
00:29:46That's where the productivity is going to be.
00:29:48I think that's where we're going to see more probabilities and chances.
00:29:53Right here?
00:29:53Right here is it.
00:29:54See how there's kind of like this open, clear spot a little bit?
00:29:57We're going to try setting some lines.
00:30:00It's such a passive way to hunt.
00:30:02Okay, good.
00:30:04Okay, so when you lean that way, I'm going to lean this way a little bit.
00:30:06Going 14 days in the Yucatan with only cactus, it was really awful.
00:30:11Oh, it's not enough.
00:30:12It's going to fall.
00:30:13So one of my biggest fears was like, what if we don't get anything?
00:30:17I don't know if we can make it 21 days without anything.
00:30:20One, two, three.
00:30:22One, two, three.
00:30:23There we go.
00:30:27Great job, Ernie.
00:30:39My energy sucks today.
00:30:42It's pretty obvious that we are expending way more calories than we're getting in.
00:30:46But as much as I realize that, I can't keep dwelling on that.
00:30:50A positive attitude, a positive mindset, it's everything.
00:30:56Wow, there's this much water over here.
00:31:00This pot gets heavy when it's full of water.
00:31:04I'm losing my strength.
00:31:19Almost there.
00:31:21We are using the Makoro exclusively for fishing.
00:31:24Oh, I see it.
00:31:25It's right ahead of us.
00:31:26Checking our lines, all about food.
00:31:29How do we want to approach this so we don't knock it down?
00:31:31We are definitely getting hungry.
00:31:34Every day has to be a strategic calculation of where we burn calories, where we don't.
00:31:38And that's part of our routine now.
00:31:41Go out and check it.
00:31:42Nothing.
00:31:43There's nothing on that one.
00:31:44Nope, nothing on that one.
00:31:45All right.
00:31:46Okay, but I've still got the bait.
00:31:47Yep, still got the hook.
00:31:49Still got the bait.
00:31:50It's pretty important that we get something soon.
00:31:52Not going to lie, this kicked my ass.
00:31:56I can already feel it.
00:31:57My stomach's growling all day.
00:32:00Scatter-brained.
00:32:03Strength isn't 100%, and it really does start wearing on me.
00:32:07I'm freaking wiped out.
00:32:10My heart is freezing.
00:32:15You want to have some water real quick?
00:32:16Yeah, that sounds great.
00:32:18I think it's pretty heavy, so you've got to be careful how you pick it up.
00:32:23You can't just grab the handles.
00:32:27Oh, gosh.
00:32:28It's heavy.
00:32:31Did it get you?
00:32:40Oh, gosh.
00:32:41It's heavy.
00:32:46Hey, did it get you?
00:32:50It did, but not bad.
00:32:52It's on my legs, but it's not on my feet.
00:32:57I'm just going to go sit in the water for a second, cold water.
00:33:04It burns pretty bad right now.
00:33:07I might have a couple blisters already forming, but here's the deal.
00:33:12That could have been my feet.
00:33:14That could have been it.
00:33:15You know, I made a mistake that could have possibly gotten me med tapped, and that was
00:33:20just a very, very eye-opening experience, because this challenge means everything to
00:33:25me, and I can't afford to be making stupid mistakes like that.
00:33:30It burns.
00:33:31I just wanted to just check on you in your headspace right now.
00:33:35I'm good.
00:33:36Okay.
00:33:36Just a little scare.
00:33:37It just shows you how fast your strength can just go.
00:33:42Yep.
00:33:42When you come out to a place like this, it slices away at you, thin slices, but it does
00:33:48get to you, and there's something we're going to have to look after.
00:33:51I'm glad you're okay.
00:33:54Me too.
00:33:55I think that's why I'm not upset right now, because I'm so grateful, because I know that
00:33:59could have been really bad.
00:34:00Yeah.
00:34:12All right, so let's check our lines.
00:34:15Yep.
00:34:15Look out for any crocs, any snakes in here.
00:34:18Oh.
00:34:20Oh, it's getting deeper every day.
00:34:23Even though we're only day seven here, we did 14 in Yucatan.
00:34:27Just heard my stomach growl.
00:34:28And to go 21 days without anything to eat, that can be quite discouraging, and it really
00:34:35starts to mess with your mind if you let it, you know?
00:34:39Getting started is, like, the hardest part.
00:34:41Yeah.
00:34:41There's times where I'm thinking, what am I even doing?
00:34:44Like, I suck at this.
00:34:47There is our first line.
00:34:51So, no activity yet.
00:34:54Okay.
00:34:58One line looks tight.
00:35:00It does.
00:35:01It's tilted a little bit.
00:35:03Yeah, but...
00:35:04It could just be caught, but...
00:35:06Mm-hmm.
00:35:13Okay, okay.
00:35:15Oh, my God.
00:35:16It's a catfish.
00:35:17We did it.
00:35:19Here we go.
00:35:20It's our first cat.
00:35:22It's a really, really big deal.
00:35:25It's a very big deal.
00:35:26This is huge.
00:35:28Yeah, it is.
00:35:31This is what it's about.
00:35:32This is what it looks like to win in Botswana, Africa.
00:35:37There you go, sweetie.
00:35:39Oh, my God.
00:35:40Remember, always grab it by the mouth and the gills, never by the body.
00:35:43Like, I'm so grateful.
00:35:45Like, this is such a big deal.
00:35:47Such a big deal.
00:35:48My last challenge, we just didn't catch anything.
00:35:52There's an iguana.
00:35:53And I felt defeated.
00:35:58You're so fast.
00:36:00I'm trying so hard.
00:36:02It's just not good enough.
00:36:04And today was just that validation to prove that...
00:36:08So grateful.
00:36:10I really am a survivalist.
00:36:12Like, it's a game changer, you know?
00:36:14How long has it been since you've eaten catfish?
00:36:17I've never had catfish.
00:36:18Holy s***.
00:36:19Are you f***ing me?
00:36:21No.
00:36:21Girl, you just don't know.
00:36:22Trust me.
00:36:23This is, like, the best first time to ever have it.
00:36:25Let's go have some breakfast.
00:36:27Okay.
00:36:27Okay.
00:36:30I'd rather clean it here in the shallow.
00:36:33Yep.
00:36:34You just tell me what you need me to do to help you with this, because I have never done
00:36:37this before.
00:36:38I am pretty open to whatever my partner can teach me.
00:36:42I'm hitting the breastplate.
00:36:43Right.
00:36:44So, here we go.
00:36:47All the entrails are all there.
00:36:49And I'm learning, and I want to learn more.
00:36:52I'm slowly starting to feel like I am delivering Mandy 2.0.
00:36:57Okay.
00:36:58So, now we clean it out.
00:36:59I'm going to grab this.
00:37:03There we go.
00:37:05Being for Bar Gasol, this is definitely not my first time with catfish.
00:37:08I love catfish.
00:37:10However, it is my first time having to cook it over a campfire.
00:37:15I'm just, like, over the moon.
00:37:17I've never done anything like this.
00:37:19I'm glad I get to do it with you.
00:37:21It's just freaking awesome.
00:37:24You can hear the oil dripping into the fire, and it spark up.
00:37:27That's a good sound.
00:37:32This is absolutely delicious, wouldn't you say, partner?
00:37:38It's wonderful.
00:37:38Oh, it's so, like, melt in your mouth.
00:37:41Mm-hmm.
00:37:42Gratitude had a flavor right now.
00:37:44This would be it.
00:37:45This would be it.
00:37:47Just so grateful to share this moment.
00:37:49It's something we've been waiting for for so long.
00:37:52Our bodies needed this so badly.
00:37:55We have starved.
00:37:56And now it's our first meal.
00:37:59Like, I have goosebumps.
00:38:00Like, it's just, it's such an amazing day.
00:38:05Like, I will remember day seven forever.
00:38:31Oh.
00:38:34Oh.
00:38:35Oh.
00:38:36I got bit by something.
00:38:37Yeah, no, definitely coming out.
00:38:40That hurt.
00:38:41Yeah, it did.
00:38:42Those things hurt.
00:38:43That hurt.
00:38:44I mean, you sit down right now.
00:38:46We're struggling, whatever these things are
00:38:48that are biting, like stings.
00:38:51It's a sharp sting, like a little needle prick.
00:38:57And it is a prick.
00:38:59And it's a prick.
00:39:00It is a prick.
00:39:01Pun intended.
00:39:02Yeah.
00:39:09You had the buzzing?
00:39:11Well, it landed on me.
00:39:13I've gotten a bit like 10 times if you lay down.
00:39:16It's real bad.
00:39:18Now it's like I can't get them off.
00:39:25I have nothing.
00:39:26I'm going to sleep.
00:39:26I'm not going to sleep.
00:39:35I'm going to sleep.
00:39:35I'm not going to sleep.
00:39:36I'm going to sleep.
00:39:36I'm going to sleep.
00:39:36Because I just keep getting attacked by these bugs.
00:39:41I'm going to sleep.
00:39:44I'm not going to sleep.
00:39:45I'm not going to sleep.
00:39:47I'm not going to sleep.
00:39:48Oh, .
00:39:58You awake?
00:40:00I'm not going to sleep.
00:40:02I'm not going to sleep.
00:40:03Last night was awful.
00:40:04The bugs are the hardest part of this challenge so far.
00:40:07It's crazy.
00:40:08I have double the bites today than I did the whole time.
00:40:14Yeah, absolutely.
00:40:15The bugs feast on me all night long.
00:40:20You have a ton of bites.
00:40:21I know.
00:40:21It feels like it.
00:40:22I'm probably up to 1,000 bug bites at this point.
00:40:24It takes a lot for me to lose my crap.
00:40:28I almost lost my crap last night.
00:40:30In the history of Naked and Afraid,
00:40:33it's not food that knocks most people out.
00:40:36It's the bugs.
00:40:37Those bugs are destroying me.
00:40:39I can hardly walk.
00:40:41God, I'll tell you where you draw the lane.
00:40:43And this is up.
00:40:45I have more than one tick in my butt.
00:40:47Oh, no, no.
00:40:49I cannot sleep at night.
00:40:51Oh, my god.
00:40:52It's torture.
00:40:54Get me out!
00:40:56So the bugs, that's something we have to solve,
00:41:00or everything else gets harder.
00:41:02We need to start working on a shelter.
00:41:05I know that lean-to's super important to both of us,
00:41:09so we can build walls and try to protect us from the bugs.
00:41:14And just in case it rains, we do need something.
00:41:16I love it.
00:41:17Yep.
00:41:17OK.
00:41:17Let's do that.
00:41:18OK.
00:41:19Mandy and Ernie will combat bugs
00:41:21by building an enclosed lean-to structure
00:41:24with thatched walls for protection
00:41:27and move the fire closer for extra heat and smoke.
00:41:32A shelter will provide us a solid surface cover
00:41:36and a reflecting wall.
00:41:39And we'll be able to bring the fire in closer
00:41:42to keep bugs away.
00:41:44This lean-to is pretty important to both of us.
00:41:48But it's also not something we can whip up in a day.
00:41:51So we're starting it tonight.
00:41:53It's not going to finish.
00:41:54But there's a chance it could be finished by tomorrow.
00:41:56But it's pretty important.
00:41:57So I'd like it to be done as soon as possible.
00:42:07Let's get this thing started.
00:42:09So we're going to be constructing the lean-to right here.
00:42:12So this is a possible Y brace, so we're going to keep that here.
00:42:17This is our cross beam.
00:42:19Shelter is the inner perimeter.
00:42:22This is our interior design.
00:42:25Yeah.
00:42:26We've done the exterior, now we've got to do the interior.
00:42:28Right.
00:42:29So this is going to be our Y.
00:42:31Yeah, absolutely.
00:42:32Prior to even going on the challenge,
00:42:33I've heard from a lot of survivalists before on Naked and Afraid,
00:42:36how they don't like to worry about shelter
00:42:38because it's a waste of time and they burn too much energy, blah, blah, blah.
00:42:42All right, let me secure these.
00:42:43I definitely have the polar opposite thought.
00:42:46Hey.
00:42:48After the Yucatan and after these bugs, I will say shelter is imperative.
00:42:54All right, the basic structure is up.
00:42:57We made some adjustments.
00:42:58It's no longer a lean-to.
00:43:00It's just a shelter.
00:43:01However, I feel like there's still a lot to do.
00:43:04We're going to add walls, and then we're just going to tie some leaves on there.
00:43:08So tomorrow, hopefully we can finish the shelter entirely.
00:43:14Are you excited about tonight?
00:43:16No.
00:43:16No.
00:43:17Yeah, I know.
00:43:18I dread it.
00:43:19Stuck in one spot, getting eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner from these bugs.
00:43:25Tonight's going to suck so bad.
00:43:28It's going to suck so bad.
00:43:39It's going to suck so bad.
00:43:41Ouch.
00:43:45I just want to go sleep so bad.
00:43:46Uh-huh.
00:43:47Yeah.
00:43:51Nighttime.
00:43:53Yeah, and this is by far the worst the bugs have been for Ernie and I.
00:43:59They don't stop.
00:44:00They're going everywhere.
00:44:02Straight up just scratching and itching.
00:44:04Your stomach, your legs, your head, your ears.
00:44:08They're everywhere.
00:44:12Huh?
00:44:16Yeah.
00:44:17Right by your right elbow.
00:44:18Stop on my vagina.
00:44:22I swear I got everything in a teen motherhood when I got into it.
00:44:28I literally want to burn the bummer down.
00:44:31And every bug that's in it.
00:44:34Yeah.
00:44:37They just don't stop.
00:44:46Mandy and I are still up.
00:44:48Bug bites all over our skin.
00:44:50And all we are doing is being in pain.
00:44:55Get away from it!
00:44:58Ah!
00:45:00No sleep.
00:45:02Can't sit down.
00:45:03Can't lay down.
00:45:05But we get attacked again.
00:45:06That's also hearts.
00:45:09I've been standing almost for 10 hours straight.
00:45:13It's hard to death.
00:45:14This s*** is torture.
00:45:18Tonight, 10 can eat s***.
00:45:46It's the first morning that I'm not my loud, obnoxious, happy self.
00:45:51Last night was very taxing on both of us.
00:45:57I have never experienced 10 hours of being bit by mosquitoes nonstop.
00:46:04You don't know how physically, emotionally, and mentally taxing that can be.
00:46:11Look at all those bites.
00:46:17Like, all those bites.
00:46:20They're just everywhere.
00:46:23They're everywhere.
00:46:25It broke me.
00:46:29For me, I get it out and I cry and I can move on.
00:46:34Ernie bottles it up and shuts down.
00:46:37And right now, he's kind of in shutdown mode.
00:46:43You know, as windy and as cold as it is right now, I'd rather it be like this than last
00:46:50night.
00:46:52Because if it's like this, there won't be any bugs.
00:47:08I'm going to check the lines by myself.
00:47:11I came into this challenge stating Mandy 2.0.
00:47:16Wanting to be able to bring more to the table.
00:47:18So, I'm going to go do that.
00:47:21Pretty confident that if there's a fish, I can get it off and gut it and bait it and all
00:47:28the things.
00:47:29I know Ernie loves food.
00:47:31So, if there's something to eat, that might lift his spirits a little bit.
00:47:41Oh!
00:47:42Oh!
00:47:43Hold on!
00:47:44The fish is alive.
00:47:46I've never done this without Ernie.
00:47:49That's a total game changer.
00:47:53All right.
00:47:56Oh!
00:47:58There's another one!
00:48:01Holy .
00:48:02Okay, okay, okay.
00:48:04What did Ernie teach me?
00:48:06What did Ernie teach me?
00:48:07Because they're slippery.
00:48:09No, no, don't go nowhere.
00:48:10Don't go nowhere.
00:48:11Okay.
00:48:11Okay, there's the hook.
00:48:13Grab it.
00:48:14Oh, I got this bitch.
00:48:17Okay.
00:48:19So, this is really going to test my strength here.
00:48:24Woo!
00:48:26Where'd it go?
00:48:27Dang it.
00:48:27Oh, Ernie.
00:48:28I'm so sorry.
00:48:29Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:48:31Don't go nowhere.
00:48:32Come here.
00:48:34Oh, God.
00:48:35Yeah.
00:48:37Yeah.
00:48:38Oh.
00:48:39Redemption, baby.
00:48:41That's redemption.
00:48:43So sorry.
00:48:44I got you.
00:48:46Okay.
00:48:47One down.
00:48:49One to go.
00:48:51Oh, this one's fat too.
00:48:53It's like harder to grab.
00:48:55I can hook my thumb in there.
00:48:58Like he taught me.
00:48:59My thumb is hooked.
00:49:01I should have done that with the last one.
00:49:03I was just too f***ing excited.
00:49:05Okay.
00:49:06Reset.
00:49:08Squeeze with the thighs.
00:49:12I did it.
00:49:14I did it.
00:49:16Look at the size of this thing.
00:49:20Woo!
00:49:22Mama's bringing home lunch.
00:49:33Lucy.
00:49:36I'm home.
00:49:38Time to get up.
00:49:39Look at that.
00:49:41Look at this.
00:49:43Not one.
00:49:46But two.
00:49:47Woo!
00:49:48Did you get them?
00:49:49Good job.
00:49:51Let them ride.
00:49:53Great.
00:49:54That's so cool.
00:49:55I'm super proud of her.
00:49:57It'll keep our spirits up.
00:49:59Keep us motivated.
00:50:00The last time we ate was the fish on day seven.
00:50:03That's what you're looking for.
00:50:04That's awesome.
00:50:07Food fixes everything.
00:50:09Try a piece of my barbecue.
00:50:13Mmm.
00:50:15It makes the reward that much sweeter.
00:50:19Really good.
00:50:22Yeah.
00:50:24There's not a lot of times where I will tell myself that I'm proud of myself, but I'm actually proud
00:50:30of myself today.
00:50:32I'm becoming more confident.
00:50:34And when I bring to the table, I don't want to ride the coattails of my partner.
00:50:38And I feel like I have steered away from that.
00:50:41I feel, I feel very empowered.
00:50:50It was good that we had this meal.
00:50:52The only apprehension is hopefully we get a good night's sleep tonight.
00:50:56Or everything else gets harder.
00:51:08It's going to be cold tonight.
00:51:10I know.
00:51:13It'll be okay.
00:51:14Mm-hmm.
00:51:45It looks like I'm going to get冷 sir.
00:51:49I'm going through the window.
00:51:55There's an awful lot of things in the window.
00:51:55There's something to really do.
00:51:59Why, yes.
00:52:00I guess now, this is the rest of the day.
00:52:13Oh, my God.
00:52:15Careful, careful.
00:52:18Oh, my God.
00:52:25I'm going to get a sucker.
00:52:34Oh, get it out.
00:52:36There you go.
00:52:37There you go.
00:52:45Close call.
00:52:47That was nice.
00:52:48We'll make a call.
00:52:51We're not really here for a minute.
00:53:05All I can do is shiver your arm.
00:53:08That hurts.
00:53:09Go on.
00:53:14You should go.
00:53:17You should go.
00:53:22Yes.
00:53:35It's crazy.
00:53:38That was the worst cold night of my life.
00:53:43Absolutely worst.
00:53:45It nearly broke me into tears.
00:53:47It was so, so hard.
00:53:52The pain of the cold and then the pain of the wind.
00:53:56And then you add on the other night with the bugs.
00:54:00Sleeping an hour or two out of 36 hours.
00:54:03Mentally and emotionally, I just feel broken.
00:54:14Oh, I don't want to stay.
00:54:16I don't want to stay.
00:54:17I don't.
00:54:18I have zero desire to be here.
00:54:22I'm done.
00:54:25The only reason I'm here is for you.
00:54:28If you were anybody else, I'd have been on that boat yesterday.
00:54:32But I don't want you to suffer from me.
00:54:36That's how friends do that.
00:54:39Long suffering.
00:54:41You can't want to be here for another person.
00:54:43That's only going to carry you so far.
00:54:46You still have nine days.
00:54:48That's a long time when you're miserable.
00:54:50I want him here.
00:54:53We really do need to create that wind barrier.
00:54:56That's all that matters today.
00:54:58Get the walls up on the shelter.
00:55:00Absolutely.
00:55:02If we don't get these walls.
00:55:05We're going to get them.
00:55:06We're going to get them.
00:55:09I want to be a 21-day survivalist, but I'm starting to hurt.
00:55:15Everything is awful.
00:55:17Like, I'm ready to walk right now.
00:55:25Fortifying the shelter more.
00:55:27We got crossbeam here.
00:55:29Crossbeam here.
00:55:30And then we're just going to cut down a bunch of these.
00:55:33And then shingle them.
00:55:35And then we're also going to add walls for blocking the wind and containing the heat.
00:55:41I'm filling in the roof right now.
00:55:44Yeah.
00:55:45Now we're going to work on the sides.
00:55:48So then it'll...
00:55:49Then we can just fill it in more every day.
00:55:50Absolutely.
00:55:51You have a couple of cords?
00:55:54You're awesome.
00:55:56Food focus has kind of taken priority above our shelter.
00:56:00If we had reinforced our shelter 12 days ago, last night wouldn't have been as bad of a
00:56:07night as it was.
00:56:09Holy s***.
00:56:11Woo!
00:56:12So I feel like if we finish our shelter, it'll help my motivation to stay much more.
00:56:20Looking good, Ernie.
00:56:23Well, we're making great strides forward.
00:56:26Yes.
00:56:38The wind has really picked up.
00:56:41And so far, so good.
00:56:44The shelter is holding up.
00:56:48If we didn't have this, I don't even know.
00:56:51Oh, my God.
00:56:52I don't even want to contemplate the type of pain we would be.
00:56:54If you've lost me all over you.
00:56:56I think we got a good solution.
00:57:04Yesterday, you were just on a whole different level yesterday.
00:57:07But today...
00:57:08Well, I got some sleep and I didn't think so.
00:57:09I'm excited.
00:57:10I feel like I've got Ernie back.
00:57:12Like, you know?
00:57:14It's funny what a little bit of sleep can do for a soul.
00:57:21My hiney's cold.
00:57:22Your hiney?
00:57:23Bend over and grab your toes.
00:57:25No, I don't need to be that warm.
00:57:30What's that?
00:57:32Oh, we have not seen anything like this since we've been out here.
00:57:35What's that?
00:57:36I don't know what it is.
00:57:38It's like a grubby thing.
00:57:41Oh, it's squishy.
00:57:42Grubby things?
00:57:43Oh.
00:57:45We could use this as bait.
00:57:47Yeah.
00:57:48Like, it's...
00:57:49Is it still alive?
00:57:50Oh, yeah.
00:57:51It's alive.
00:57:51It's still alive?
00:57:52I think so.
00:57:52It's moving.
00:57:53Yeah, cold as too.
00:57:55That's awesome.
00:57:56I've been looking for grub since, like, day three, and I could never find it.
00:58:01You know, it's pretty large.
00:58:02It's squishy.
00:58:03It almost reminds me of, like, one of my kids' fidgets.
00:58:06I'm about to go take a walk down to our lines, and I'm going to bait this fella.
00:58:21I'm noticing that these walks are...
00:58:24They seem longer, even though they're not.
00:58:27My body's letting me know.
00:58:29So I'm really hoping that there's maybe even just one fish on there.
00:58:44I feel like this thing's going to juice everywhere.
00:58:50Oh, it did!
00:58:53Oh, that was super gross.
00:58:56Okay, so nothing here.
00:58:59Get this on there.
00:59:02Boom.
00:59:04All right.
00:59:06Moving on.
00:59:26So, Mandy, what day is it?
00:59:28Today is day 14, the end of week two.
00:59:31I thought it was going to be bittersweet.
00:59:32Like, I'm going to be a little sad.
00:59:33Yeah, like a downer.
00:59:34Mm-hmm.
00:59:35Mm-mm.
00:59:35I'm not.
00:59:36I'm actually excited.
00:59:37Last challenge, we were heading out, which was super nice.
00:59:41Now we know we got another week.
00:59:43We need some sort of food source.
00:59:45I have to finish this challenge so I could humbly place myself at the footsteps of other survivalists and feel
00:59:53like I belong with them.
00:59:56My body is hungry.
00:59:57My body is hungry.
00:59:58I barely made that 14-day challenge and this is an additional week.
01:00:02We are so much more active here.
01:00:03We are walking around all the time, way more than I did in my last challenge.
01:00:07It's cold here at night.
01:00:08That sun gets real hot.
01:00:10So, that's also exhausting.
01:00:15No fish.
01:00:17That's what it is.
01:00:42That's what it is.
01:00:44Yeah.
01:01:07You're welcome.
01:01:23Last night, that whole, that growl.
01:01:27Yeah, it was definitely right behind our boma sounds like close.
01:01:34The f***?
01:01:37What are you looking at?
01:01:39Big kitty print.
01:01:41Is that a lion?
01:01:42That's a, I think it's a f***ing lion print.
01:01:45Look at the, look at how deep those claws, they're bigger than my thumb.
01:01:50And that's fresh.
01:01:52Our boma's 100 feet away.
01:01:55The second time a lion has been very close to our boma.
01:01:59And we still have a whole another week.
01:02:01This is not a petting zoo.
01:02:04There is danger all around us.
01:02:07I wouldn't have seen it happen.
01:02:08It's very eye-opening.
01:02:09It just teaches us that we always have to be on alert.
01:02:14Seeing those lion tracks, it's not something I take lightly.
01:02:18It takes about two weeks for predators to get used to who's here and their surroundings.
01:02:24And then that's when they start closing in.
01:02:27Lots of places to hide.
01:02:30It's more important now than ever for both of us to be vigilant.
01:02:35Because if we can't face to face with the lion, I don't even know.
01:02:55This place, it's not ours at all.
01:02:58It's theirs.
01:03:00And they can do whatever they want, whenever they want.
01:03:02That's my concern.
01:03:03So let's think.
01:03:05Number one rule if we do see a lion looking at us.
01:03:09Don't run.
01:03:10Don't run.
01:03:12Now I'm not saying not to worry.
01:03:14I'm just saying if we protect one another, watch each other's back, close up at night, keep the fires going.
01:03:21Yeah.
01:03:30There's lions out there.
01:03:37I just made my fire.
01:03:41They hurt.
01:03:42They scared me.
01:03:44We've managed to beat our fire quite right.
01:03:48I guess it's the kind of crunch I mean.
01:04:01Okay, you ready?
01:04:02Yeah.
01:04:03Do you mind if I set the pace?
01:04:05No, no, go ahead.
01:04:07I'm struggling today.
01:04:08Yeah, I can see it.
01:04:11It was hard for me to sleep at for a while because every little noise that I heard, I kept
01:04:16thinking it was like a lion walking and stuff.
01:04:19I am worried about Mandy because she gets anxiety and she's feeling pretty tired.
01:04:25So hopefully we have fish there and it'll work her up.
01:04:27I really want to fish, Ernie, but I'm trying not to even give up my hopes right now.
01:04:39There's no fish.
01:04:42Middle end, no fish, but it still has both its bait.
01:04:46No fish on any line.
01:04:48It's what it is.
01:04:56Oh, yeah, it's all right.
01:04:59You feeling all right?
01:05:02Why don't you have a seat?
01:05:03Drink some water.
01:05:05Yeah, it's not quite ready, but I am going to have a seat.
01:05:07Yeah.
01:05:09My body is angry at me right now.
01:05:13It's letting me know all the things.
01:05:16Oh, man.
01:05:18Moving a little slower.
01:05:23I noticed the little things get my heart rate going.
01:05:27I'm going to catch my breath.
01:05:30Woo!
01:05:31I have to take more breaks.
01:05:34I only made it like 30 feet.
01:05:37I know I need to rest, but it's hard for me because I'm always busy.
01:05:45Mandy never stops.
01:05:47It's very noticeable how much weight she's lost and how depleted she is.
01:05:52If we don't catch a fish or two before extraction, I am very concerned for her well-being.
01:06:09I want to do better.
01:06:11I want something for my kids to be proud of.
01:06:25I'm not going to lie.
01:06:26I don't think I've ever wanted the fish so badly as I do today.
01:06:29I know Mandy desperately needs calories.
01:06:35Finding fish is imperative.
01:06:40Our sticks don't even look the slightest bit bent.
01:06:48All right.
01:06:50Fortunately, nothing on that line.
01:06:52Yeah, there is.
01:06:53There is.
01:06:54Yep, there is.
01:06:55Look at that.
01:06:56Oh, hallelujah.
01:06:58All right.
01:06:58This is amazing.
01:07:01This is so wonderful.
01:07:02Look at this.
01:07:04Look at that.
01:07:06Look at that.
01:07:07Woo!
01:07:08Grubby, grubby, grubby, grubby.
01:07:09I was praying for fish today.
01:07:12Here's heavy, too.
01:07:13I'm going to check over here and I'll check the other one while you're working on that.
01:07:18You got it.
01:07:20Okay.
01:07:21I got one, too.
01:07:22Oh, my gosh.
01:07:25How exciting!
01:07:27Oh, s***.
01:07:28This is a completely different kind of fish right here.
01:07:31Okay.
01:07:32This is not from Arkansas.
01:07:33The fact that we just got this huge, huge score means everything to us.
01:07:39Two days and a wake up!
01:07:41This is going to do so much for our bodies and our mindset.
01:07:4614-day challenge.
01:07:47We had one cactus.
01:07:48One cactus between the two of us.
01:07:52We're just going to eat.
01:07:54And then we'll just flip them over after a while?
01:07:56Yep.
01:07:56We have two catfish, one bottlenose, and we couldn't be happier.
01:08:01I couldn't be happier.
01:08:02Had we not been successful, I'm not 100% confident Mandy would have made it through the challenge.
01:08:08So this is really good to be able to physically repair, recover, push forward.
01:08:14This is all mine.
01:08:17Look at Ernie's.
01:08:18All in one piece.
01:08:24Mmm.
01:08:25Yeah.
01:08:26Now, I'm going to say it.
01:08:28Oh my god, that crunchy.
01:08:31I can feel it warm.
01:08:34For 16 days.
01:08:35I've been wanting to feel when they say, I can feel it nourishing my body.
01:08:40I can.
01:08:43Oh my gosh.
01:08:44I'm very happy for you.
01:08:46Oh my gosh.
01:08:47Mmm.
01:08:48The flavor kind of reminds you of home.
01:08:51So it's a good place to be in your head.
01:08:53I am actually very, very excited to try this new fish of ours.
01:08:58Mmm.
01:08:59It's good.
01:08:59Now I have to get some tartar sauce, man.
01:09:02Dude, I was just thinking about that.
01:09:05If this is the last time we eat, we're going to be okay.
01:09:10Absolutely.
01:09:11You know?
01:09:11Yeah.
01:09:12Best day.
01:09:14Like the best way to end my day.
01:09:28Oh my god.
01:09:33I'm totally out of breath.
01:09:35I came down to use the bathroom.
01:09:38There's elephants.
01:09:40Oh my god, I'm out of breath.
01:09:42Right out there.
01:09:44Wow.
01:09:59They're crossing our end of the island where we usually hear them, and they're following
01:10:02all the way along the back of this island, all the way to the back of our Boma, which
01:10:08is where our watering hole is, is right there.
01:10:20It's right there.
01:10:24Listen, 20 yards away from me.
01:10:28Don't do anything.
01:10:29That elephant's looking to see if we're following.
01:10:33Hide behind the bushes.
01:10:38Not only are elephants super territorial and dangerous, there's a mama with their baby.
01:10:44And that's a huge no-no.
01:10:48This is their home, and we have invaded it.
01:10:51We are out of here tomorrow, so we have to respect their space and be safe.
01:10:57That way we can leave.
01:10:58If they came running through here, they can just hold us down.
01:11:12Coming to you from the Alcabanga Delta, a little game show from Ernie and I.
01:11:20If the answer is Mandy, we're going to hold up a stick.
01:11:25If the answer is Ernie, we're both going to hold up a bark.
01:11:28You want me to go first?
01:11:29Yeah.
01:11:30Okay, go ahead.
01:11:31Who's first to cry?
01:11:34Who farts the most?
01:11:37Who pooped first?
01:11:41Who has the loudest farts?
01:11:43Oh.
01:11:47Hands down.
01:11:49Who sleeps the most?
01:11:53Who's the first to complain?
01:11:56Hands down.
01:11:57Who's the most sensitive?
01:12:01Who loves Taco Bell?
01:12:03Oh!
01:12:05That was a good one!
01:12:06We do love Taco Bell.
01:12:10See, this is why we work so well.
01:12:12We're like right on the same page here.
01:12:43You know what?
01:12:47It's last night.
01:12:48We woke up tomorrow and leave.
01:13:01It's Extraction Day, and we're so excited.
01:13:06But it's going to suck so bad.
01:13:14Extraction, baby.
01:13:16Christmas, graduation, your birthday, all up in one little gift.
01:13:20I don't care that I didn't sleep last night.
01:13:22I don't care that the bugs bit my ass all night long.
01:13:24Don't care, because why?
01:13:25I'm leaving.
01:13:26And I will be in a bed tonight.
01:13:29Let's go through the map.
01:13:30That's north.
01:13:32Yeah.
01:13:32So that's where we are.
01:13:34Yeah.
01:13:35It was very busy last night.
01:13:37I know.
01:13:37I heard a lion.
01:13:38Yeah.
01:13:39Going around here, we hear a lot of elephants all the time.
01:13:42All the time.
01:13:43So we've got to be on the lookout for that.
01:13:45As long as we're not seeing anything dangerous,
01:13:47then we can skirt the island in a straight-line distance right through there.
01:13:50Yeah.
01:13:51So we're going to the west side of the island.
01:13:53A lot of rowing, my friend.
01:13:54Yeah.
01:13:55We're just going to have to push through.
01:13:58Got it.
01:13:59To get to their extraction point seven miles away,
01:14:03Ernie and Mandy will have to trek a half mile back to their fishing hole,
01:14:06avoiding the lions prowling near their camp.
01:14:09From the water's edge,
01:14:11they will need to navigate their makoro
01:14:13through the Oak of Ango Delta's flooded waterways,
01:14:16fighting the unpredictable currents,
01:14:18steering clear of herds of elephants,
01:14:20and watching for crocs and hippos lurking in the deeper channels.
01:14:25At the end of a deep and narrow waterway,
01:14:28they will be rescued.
01:14:32Finally.
01:14:33This is it.
01:14:34One step at a time.
01:14:36Cross that finish line.
01:14:38Whew.
01:14:41Yeah.
01:14:42Such a beast.
01:14:44Ooh, ooh, ooh.
01:14:45Good morning.
01:14:48Holy ****, that is ****ing cold.
01:14:52Oh, how could my shoulders be burning and my feet are frozen?
01:14:58This is rude.
01:15:03I'm tired.
01:15:05Yep, let's get on.
01:15:07My endurance is crap at this point.
01:15:10So just walking with two sticks takes a lot out of me.
01:15:13Then I got to get in this makoro that I hate,
01:15:15and then I got to row for God knows how many miles.
01:15:18So just telling myself one step at a time.
01:15:20Not thinking of the overall picture,
01:15:22just breaking it down into segments.
01:15:25If you just push across,
01:15:26if you try not to or push off the ground,
01:15:29can you just push, yeah, just push off the ground.
01:15:31Okay.
01:15:33Ernie and I are going to switch positions.
01:15:34I need to save my strength.
01:15:35I need to be in the front this time.
01:15:37I can't do all of those things that I did last time.
01:15:40It's just not going to work.
01:15:41Are you okay?
01:15:42I'm all right.
01:15:43I'm ****ing tired.
01:15:44I know you are.
01:15:45We're so tired.
01:15:47Gotten so little sleep.
01:15:49And now we're about to do the ultimate fitness test
01:15:53across water and land.
01:15:55Power through.
01:15:56I don't want to get lost.
01:15:58I'll fall out of the boat.
01:16:00Risk not seeing a croc or a hippo underwater.
01:16:04I know this one's going to be much harder
01:16:06than it was in the Yucatan.
01:16:07I can.
01:16:13Nice and easy.
01:16:16Yep, Mindy, can you turn?
01:16:17I'm trying to go left.
01:16:19Where are you going?
01:16:20I'm not doing anything.
01:16:21Oh.
01:16:22Current.
01:16:24You know what would help me?
01:16:25Can you try to stay on one side?
01:16:27Let's try it like that for a little bit.
01:16:28All right, I'll stay on the left.
01:16:29Okay.
01:16:30Wow.
01:16:31Yeah, I'm trying to turn.
01:16:37That macoro is so hard to operate.
01:16:40It takes a lot of core strength,
01:16:42especially at this stage of the game.
01:16:44Oh, my gosh.
01:16:49Oh, my gosh.
01:16:51Are you okay?
01:16:52Okay.
01:16:53Okay.
01:16:59My anxiety, 10 out of 10 today.
01:17:02You can't tip into that water.
01:17:03There's crocodiles and hippos all over the place.
01:17:12How many miles do you think we've gone?
01:17:14I don't know, man.
01:17:15We're on water.
01:17:16It takes forever.
01:17:17Sure does.
01:17:20I'm just letting you know,
01:17:21my heart rate's really going.
01:17:25Take a breather, seriously.
01:17:30Oh, gosh.
01:17:31Okay.
01:17:31Tall weeds.
01:17:32I'm looking for spiders.
01:17:34Okay.
01:17:36Okay.
01:17:38Okay.
01:17:39My knees are starting to hurt a little bit.
01:17:42But, okay, just...
01:17:43Oh!
01:17:43Big spider!
01:17:45It's so big.
01:17:46Oh, my God.
01:17:46I better get it out.
01:17:47I better get it out.
01:17:48I better get it out.
01:17:49Oh, my God.
01:17:49Oh!
01:17:50Oh!
01:17:51Oh!
01:17:52Oh, my God.
01:17:53Okay.
01:17:54Okay.
01:17:54Oh!
01:17:55It did!
01:17:55Good job.
01:17:56There it is!
01:17:57Okay.
01:17:58Good job.
01:17:58My heart rate's about to burst out of my chest.
01:18:03These reeds are so hard to pour through.
01:18:06It's shallow enough.
01:18:07I think I can get out and walk some of it.
01:18:10This is for the spiders.
01:18:13Ah, Lee, the water's cold.
01:18:16Yeah.
01:18:20In the Yucatan, it was just ugly, ugly, ugly, trying to make it through trees.
01:18:25Here, it's so much more open, and it just doesn't stop.
01:18:29It just doesn't stop.
01:18:43Oh, my God.
01:18:45Oh, my God.
01:18:45Oh, it's pretty cold.
01:18:47Yeah, and then the sun is just cranking it up.
01:18:52Is it getting harder?
01:18:53Oh, yeah.
01:18:54Do you need me to get out?
01:18:56Yeah.
01:18:57Oh, it's cold.
01:19:00We've got to be around the four-mile mark by now.
01:19:03But not only is there no determination in distance, but I don't know how heavy that Makoro actually
01:19:07is, but that son of a bitch feels like it's 1,000 pounds.
01:19:11You're in and out of Makoro.
01:19:14Rowing, steering, walking.
01:19:17My body, I can feel it.
01:19:19It's just draining every step.
01:19:21Oh, my God.
01:19:22It's so cold.
01:19:24We're going to finish this, hopefully.
01:19:27Oh.
01:19:28Ah.
01:19:31This is really scary.
01:19:34Can we stop for a second?
01:19:36Just for a second.
01:19:39Sorry, Ernie.
01:19:40It's fine.
01:19:41It's fine.
01:19:41My heart's just going really fast.
01:19:43Okay.
01:19:45Oh, .
01:19:47We're not going to make it across this with that.
01:19:55Okay, right after here, it starts getting deeper.
01:19:58Okay.
01:19:59But...
01:20:00It's got to pull a little more.
01:20:02Yeah, pull that thing over the shallow water back into deeper water.
01:20:05Ah.
01:20:07Okay, you ready?
01:20:09Yeah.
01:20:09Ugh.
01:20:09Ugh.
01:20:13Ugh.
01:20:13Ugh.
01:20:14This thing is so heavy.
01:20:16Sorry.
01:20:21Poor Mandy's just bent.
01:20:23She's trying to pull, but I'm really pulling her and the Makoro at the same time.
01:20:28And that rope, it's cutting through me like string cheese.
01:20:33Ugh.
01:20:34Okay.
01:20:35Yeah.
01:20:36Holy s***.
01:20:37Ugh.
01:20:38Okay.
01:20:40Yeah.
01:20:41Just breathe.
01:20:42Breathe.
01:20:44Breathe.
01:20:44Smoked.
01:20:45Breathe.
01:20:46Breathe.
01:20:50We're in the middle of nowhere.
01:20:53Ugh, damn.
01:20:54It's f***ing cold.
01:20:57Oh, no.
01:20:59Oh, that wind.
01:21:02Oh, my God.
01:21:04It'd be so much easier if we were going with the current.
01:21:07How far do you think we've gone?
01:21:09Ernie, I honestly don't know.
01:21:11Oh.
01:21:11It just keeps going on and on.
01:21:18Is that for us?
01:21:20Oh, that can't be for us, can it?
01:21:22Holy s***.
01:21:23Woo-hoo!
01:21:24Holy s***.
01:21:26Are you f***ing kidding me?
01:21:28Oh, rescued by the USS.
01:21:30Let's go.
01:21:34Oh.
01:21:36So cold.
01:21:39I came into this challenge
01:21:42stating Mandy 2.0.
01:21:46I have surpassed what I thought I could do.
01:21:53I love you.
01:21:55You're doing great.
01:21:56Way to push through.
01:21:58At the end of my last challenge,
01:22:00I felt like a little bit of a badass.
01:22:02A little bit.
01:22:03This time, look at this.
01:22:05Woo!
01:22:06I feel like a brave, primitive badass.
01:22:11How exciting!
01:22:13And no one can take that away from me.
01:22:16In 21 days, Mandy lost 33 pounds.
01:22:20Her PSR jumps from a 5.7 to a 7.4.
01:22:27Oh, we did it.
01:22:31I'm done.
01:22:3321 days here.
01:22:35Total of 35.
01:22:36I'll make it into freight.
01:22:38I needed to do a 21 to feel like I completed something
01:22:43and to be a part of the group of people that I admire so much.
01:22:47In 21 days, Ernie lost 22 pounds.
01:22:50His PSR rises from a 6.0 to a 7.2.
01:22:56We are like survivalists now.
01:22:58We are official survivalists.
01:23:02Not 14.
01:23:0421.
01:23:0521.
01:23:08Mandy and I have been all in for each other every step of the way.
01:23:12And that means a lot to me.
01:23:14I'll always be grateful to make history with Mandy.
01:23:18He's happy.
01:23:23And be the first fan challenge that went on a 21 same team together.
01:23:28Ha!
01:23:29We did it.
01:23:30We did do it.
01:23:32Mandy!
01:23:33No!
01:23:34There are any of you, Mandy!
01:23:352.0!
01:23:37We're here!
01:23:4121!
01:23:42We're here!
01:23:45We're here!
01:23:45We're here!
01:23:46We're here!
01:23:47We're here!
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