"♪ ♪" "I want to prove that I can come out here and exist in the wilderness as long as I want to." "This is gonna be a bitch." "Nobody knows what it's like here except for the ten guys out here doing it." "Well, there they go." "Just got real." "So this is gonna be home." "We have to film it, and we're totally alone." "Time to get shelter." "There's nobody here but me." "I think I'm too far gone, and I'm losing it." "I'm scared to death right now." "♪ ♪" "I feel like I'm starving." "Pretty sure I just saw a cougar." "Oh,." "The last man standing wins $500,000." "I don't want to go home." "I want to win." "This is the chance in a lifetime, but it's not worth dying over." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "The goal is to outlast and to stay out on the land as long as possible." "♪ ♪" "We're driving in the opposite direction of what you normally would do in a survival situation." "We're elongating the process instead of trying to get out of it." "See you." "Good luck." "And I don't know how long we might go." "♪ ♪" "So this is home." "We are here." "This is crazy." "I'm a complete lunatic." "♪ ♪" "We know the type of area we're going to, but we don't know the exact location of where we're going." "♪ ♪" "There goes civilization, paddling out in a little dinghy." "♪ ♪" "We are allowed a kit of ten items, excluding our clothing." "So you have ten tools, for lack of a better word, to try to survive." "just got real." "♪ ♪" "I'm not very scared." "I've been preparing myself mentally for this since I was, like, 14 years old." "♪ ♪" "Yeah!" "I feel like a mosquito in a nudist colony." "So much work to do." "♪ ♪" "The toll that the isolation is gonna play on all of us is not just being away from family but not having a single human soul that you can lean on, that you can rely on." "We're all social creatures." "It's really gonna hurt people." "It's gonna...you know, there's gonna be a lot of crying nights." "Well, this is a really good idea." "♪ ♪" "The only two things that I'm worried about at all will be being able to find enough food and predators... cougar, wolves, and black bear, basically." "♪ ♪" "Sometimes the land just rejects you, but sometimes, almost no matter what the land throws at you, a person prevails anyways." "♪ ♪" "I don't want to be the first guy to tap." "I don't want to go home." "I want to do it." "I want to win." "♪ ♪" "Last man standing wins." "That's the bottom line." "♪ ♪" "Day one, the drop-off." "Seeing my boat leave..." "I don't even know how to describe it." "It is..." "There's a sick feeling to my stomach right now." "♪ ♪" "This is a whole new level of survival, and we're trying to film it." "It's the type of thing that you see on the news, where a guy gets lost in the woods, and we're purposely doing it." "I think it's gonna be nearly impossible to keep everything dry." "There's 100% humidity here on top of the rain." "My strategy on day one is, don't go into shock." "My overall strategy, though, is, first things first... get my shelter going;" "find water." "Food can wait two or three days if it needs to." "Definitely, the shelter's gonna be one of the biggest things." "As far as the competition goes," "I honestly think I have a shot at winning." "I'm in my zone." "Yeah." "♪ ♪" "To give you an idea of what's going on with me right now," "I built a little temporary shelter." "That thing'll last two or three days." "Just protect me from the rain." "What I have here is a nice piece of fatwood." "This whole thing is just endrenched with, like, pine terpene." "You see all these little crystalline..." "It's like, all pine sap." "It goes...runs down through that." "There's been damage to this, and to be honest with you, it looked like it was scraped by a bear at one point, but I'm gonna take it and try to process this thing down and see if I can get some fire roaring." "Come on, get in there." "Here we go." "Come on." "Catch." "Can't get this freaking thing to light." "The solitude, you know, it's just gonna be completely overwhelming." "I have an area of focus right now, but already, I'm not thinking straight." "The only thing I'm thinking about is my kids and my wife." "My daughter and my two-year-old boy, waking up every morning, the first thing he does is come in, and he's like, "Dad," you know." "Puts his arms around me." "Likes to hop in bed and watch Scooby-Doo." "That's our morning." "And my wife is pregnant." "She's four months." "So I'm leaving a lot behind." "It's really tore me up." "Can you tell Daddy... say, "Kick butt."" "Kick butt, Daddy." "Do you think I'm gonna get a big deer?" "Do you think Daddy will see anything else out there in the woods?" " Mm-hmm." " What?" "A elephant." "An elephant?" "Pretty awesome." "One of the initial reasons I even wanted to come is to show my son someday that if he wants something, he needs to try for it." "I just don't want to be here and give up." "God sakes." "♪ ♪" "The type of stress we're gonna be under, exhaustion is gonna play a key factor, especially with the rain and the cold." "I excel at just getting my basic needs:" "make a shelter, make your fire, find your water, get your food." "I'm worried about fire more than anything." "I don't know if you can tell how wet it is, but it is horrible." "And of course, I'm paranoid, so I keep thinking I hear big animals." "Well..." "Scary stuff around here." "There are predators out here." "I don't have big predators." "Where I come from, it's coyotes." "So the bears, the wolves, and the... especially the cougars are my biggest fear here." "But I do believe that my job does prepare me for this type of scenario." "I'm a law enforcement officer." "It's tough going out there." "I deal with people that act like wild animals." "But as far as instincts, I'm a fight type person." "See, this is what scares me." "Probably about 30 yards away from my camp here..." "I just stepped in fresh bear crap." "♪ ♪" "Just found a bear den." "It's full of fish heads and everything else." "♪ ♪" "find bears." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "Well, no question about it," "I am definitely crazy." "So here we are." "Wow." "I did not expect this place to be so thick." "You can't see three feet into the bush here, and it's all wet." "It's all wet." "So my first order of business is to kind of halfway scout this place out and see where might be a suitable shelter location." "And... fire, if we can get a fire going in this on the first night, that would be nice." "♪ ♪" "Smells like dead stuff around here." "Oh, man." "Biggest challenge in this environment is rain." "You got to stay dry." "I have to make a shelter." "I have to get over the elements because I don't want to be soaking wet on the first day, get my sleeping bag wet, stuff like that." "I got to go for water, food." "This is a hypothermic situation ready to happen." "Well..." "Kept my feet dry, but my shirt's soaked." "I'm just wearing this light PrimaLoft jacket, and it's soaking wet, and it'll rip real easy, and I got to go through an impenetrable jungle, it seems." "♪ ♪" "Oh, this backpack weighs me down." "I think the most important part of survival is just keeping a cool head, acting slow and methodical." "Come on." "The way I can clear my mind is just by thinking of my daughter." "I'm gonna get you." "I'm leaving behind a wife and a kid." "It's gonna be hard, but thinking of my daughter is gonna make me push hard and be strong." "When I come back, she might be a year older, but this is gonna make me appreciate everything more, and that's a good thing." "I'm literally crawling." "I got to make it somewhere where it's not so thick." "This is crazy." "♪ ♪" "Overall, how do I feel about my situation?" "I feel pretty good about my situation." "The woods are thick, the night's closing in real fast, but overall, I feel really good." "It's gnarly in here but beautiful, super beautiful." "If this is a spring, I'm gonna flip." "What?" "I got a waterfall in my backyard?" "And a beach?" "Look at this." "I'm over the moon." "Water right there..." "So I got a checklist, right?" "Four basic things that I'm trying to acquire or maintain here in the wilderness." "First is shelter." "Second is warmth." "That can be clothing or fire." "Third is water, which..." "Check that one off the list." "And the last one is food." "It's just nice to stop every now and then and take a look and see... what other things might be moving." "It's starting to get dark, and this is the time that cougars are out, and they're definitely an issue on this island." "Big safety concern." "♪ ♪" "There's tracks here." "So far, day one, bull crap." "I can't even eat or boil any water." "To be honest with you," "I haven't went out and scouted anything yet." "I'm afraid to just simply because of the animals." "I am so afraid of bears and cougars that I don't even know what to think." "So tonight's gonna be absolutely terrifying for me." "Day one's coming to an end." "I would have no idea where else to make a camp." "I didn't come here to compete with bears and cougars over territory." "Hey, bear." "Hey, bear." "♪ ♪" "Okay." "I'm here, and... how do I feel right now?" "It's jumbled up." "Really is." "The bears and stuff like that there," "I, you know..." "They're a concern." "They really are." "But this is a gorgeous place, and..." "Yeah." "♪ ♪" "Okay, after an hour scrambling through stuff like that," "I have come upon a game trail and flat ground." "Thank , because that was getting a little bit much." "Okay." "So I definitely don't want to camp on a game trail, but this little bit of opening is way, way better than what I had." "This is nuts." "♪ ♪" "We have ten items we got to choose from... not much, and we got to improvise with what we have around." "I got a 10x10 nylon tarp and... anchor paracord, so that's gonna be my shelter for tonight." "My plan is to tie my paracord to this tree and a tree 13 feet away and string my tarp up and just get it going from there." "Man, I'm sorry." "This is hard." "This is hard." "This is harder than I thought it was gonna be." "After being out here and seeing the kind of rain they get out here, my plan for a shelter has definitely changed." "I'm no longer going with just and angled roof." "It's gonna be a peak." "There's no way that any kind of tarp or fir twigs or cedar boughs are gonna keep out rain." "It has to be a steep angle, so I'm going two tarps overlapped and gonna build up the walls and then build up almost like a log cabin over top of it to try and get even more protection from the rain." "It's gonna be a big chore staying dry, staying warm." "Not bad." "Not bad at all." "That should be all right for tonight." "I hope so, anyway." "♪ ♪" "Hello, Mr. Game Camera." "How are you doing today?" "Look at this." "It looks so funny when I do this." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wow!" "Hello, Mr. Game Camera." "You doing okay?" "Oh, yes." "I'll back away from you now." "Back away." "♪ ♪" "This was quite possibly the shoddiest shelter I've ever put up." "Got put out right before dark, probably two hours before dark, hour and a half, and I scrambled to find a place that was high and dry enough that I could... that I could spread out in" "and spread this tarp up to keep the rain off of me in case it rains tonight." "Uh..." "It's gonna be a long night." "♪ ♪" "I mean, this here is not the ideal spot, that's for sure." "I'm not sure if I'm beside a game trail or not, but there's trails everywhere, so how would you know?" "You just got to hope that a bear does not wander through here." "I'll keep you posted." "♪ ♪" "Well, today's been a real eye-opener." "I didn't get much done." "I'm hungry, and I'm thirsty, and I'm wet, and I'm cold." "Any other time, I can get a fire going." "I'm telling you, like, I can make a fire." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "Hey, bear." "Okay, here's the deal." "I woke up 45 minutes ago." "I heard something behind this..." "my little shelter here, and it was something pretty big." "So I kind of made some noise, and then I kind of heard it pad off." "And to be honest with you, I'm scared to death right now." "I knew there were gonna be animals here, but I didn't think I was gonna be stalked." "And to hear it actually breathing at the back side of this freaking shelter..." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "Hey, bear." "Hey, bear." "Okay, here's the deal." "I knew there were gonna be animals here, but I didn't think I was gonna be stalked." "♪ ♪" "I'm not gonna stick out here and do this." "This is something that I was doing just for fun, and... now that I'm prey, I'm not..." "I'm not doing it." "It's not worth it." "I don't care what anybody says." "I'd rather be at home with my family anyway, and then this crap's happening." "♪ ♪" "It's just not worth it to me." "It...this is not worth it to me." "I'm not..." "I'm not gonna be stalked." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "I..." "I'm..." "I just..." "I can't take a chance." "I feel like last night was a warning, and I'm heeding that warning, so that's why I'm choosing to tap out." "Oh, yeah." "Very." "I..." "That's what I said." "I..." "I don't know what else to do." "You know, I'm..." "I don't know." "♪ ♪" "I definitely did not believe that I was gonna be the first guy gone, but I mean, last night was the scariest night" "I've ever had in my entire life." "I mean, I'm a police officer, I've done a lot of stuff, but there's nothing, nothing at all to describe what I felt last night." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "Well, it's morning." "It's a little chilly out." "Sleeping was a little interesting." "Off and on, you know." "Stayed dry, and my sleeping bag is incredibly comfortable, so that wasn't a problem." "Today's number one priority:" "getting some proper firewood, heat some water, have a drink, 'cause this is the second day, and I really haven't had anything to drink yet, so dehydration is becoming a serious concern at this point." "♪ ♪" "If you can achieve fire and maintain it, you can definitely live here." "There's a lot of resources." "That's gonna be the difference between making it and not making it here." "Ah." "Yeah, that hurt." "90 days is my personal goal." "If I can make 90 days," "I may just say, "I'm done," and come out because I don't have anything left to prove to anybody." "'Cause if you can make it 90 days in this situation here, then you can make it 180 days." "Finally." ", man." "And I might stay longer." "Hell, if I'm warm and dry and fat and happy... fatter and happy, I'm gonna stay." "I found a nice piece of driftwood down here that's dry." "I'm gonna cut it up for firewood 'cause there ain't nothing dry out there." "I'm from the swamps of Florida, so this might as well be the dark side of the moon to me." "Everybody's behind me." "My family's behind me." "And everybody just says, "Do your best, and you're not gonna let us down."" "Come on, Hammerhead." "Of actual fears, my biggest fears are of the big predators." "You know, 'cause I'm pretty much defenseless." "He licked it." "In my house, I'm never more than an arm's reach from a firearm, ever." "If I go outside, depending on where I'm going dictates what I carry, and I always carry a weapon." "Are you ready for your birthday?" "Yeah." "What do you want?" "I want birthday money." " You want birthday money?" " Birthday money?" "Birthday money." "Don't you want a gun?" "Yeah." "When it comes to wildlife, if confrontation can't be avoided, everything at my disposal's a weapon:" "rocks, sticks, knives, bows, arrows, guns." "I'm gonna use it." " Get two." " Oh, you want both?" " I want both." " Okay." "You want both?" "More, huh?" "There we go." "This is the longest I've ever had to go being unarmed." "When I was a kid, I was attacked by a German shepherd, so that put an uncomfortableness between me and dogs for most of my life, and knowing that there's dogs here that'll not just kill you but'll eat you," "man, that's..." "pretty damn scary." "And they might get me, but big boy's not going down easy." "♪ ♪" "Oh, crap." "I didn't know it wasn't running." "Was it running?" "I hope it was running.." "Man, you cannot get a fire here to save your ass." "Amazing." "I actually had it." "I mean, there's heat there and everything, but it will not burn." "Fire just may be one of those things you don't get here." "I don't know what to do." "♪ ♪" "The quest for fire continues." "♪ ♪" "Would you mind giving me fire?" "Hmm?" "I don't want to be cold tonight." "♪ ♪" "I don't know what I'm gonna do." "I'm really disappointed." "I've had fire." "I just can't get it to...to go." "I've had fire a couple times." "I just had one a minute ago." "I tried throwing some of the trash from my Band-Aid on it just to help it keep going, and... not even that would help." "So I don't..." "I don't know." "All the stuff I broke down feels dry." "I touch it on my face." "It just won't light." "♪ ♪" "So I got this bundle of tinder, old-man's-beard, and what I'm gonna try to do is," "I'm gonna try to get some sap, some pine pitch from one of these fir trees, and see if it'll help it ignite, 'cause this far, I mean, everything in this forest is soaking wet." "There's no getting dry wood here." "So if I don't get something small started and dry out some of these small twigs," "I'm not having a fire tonight, which means I'm not having water tonight, which means I'm not eating tonight." "So let's hope this works." "Failure, failure, failure." "It will not ignite." "♪ ♪" "Sun's gonna go down soon." "I did a little exploring, and..." "I found some mussels while I was walking by." "There's a ton over there." "A lot them are already broken open." "That one is." "I also found..." "I believe these are periwinkles." "I'm not from this area, so I don't know the names of everything, but at least I'll have something to eat tonight." "♪ ♪" "That was awesome." "That was so cool." "What the hell was that?" "Oh, man." "♪ ♪" "So I hear wolves howling as dark is starting to fall." "It's not dark yet." "Sunset right now." "And I'm on an island during low tide as high tide is coming back, collecting firewood." "I don't even have a weapon on me, except for my knife." "I don't have an ax." "I don't have my bow." "Nothing." "Oh, there's a beautiful crane right there." "Wow." "He's huge." "He's already gone." "Let's hope the wolves don't head this way before I get back to my camp and get my fire going." "♪ ♪" "All right, trying to get a fire going, night two, and it just started raining." "Just making some quick feathersticks." "This stuff doesn't feather very well 'cause it's so wet." "And by "this stuff," I mean everything." "Everywhere else I've ever lit fire before, normally, I do one, maybe two strikes per fire." "That's, like, six strikes per fire." "It's crazy." "I commend anyone who can survive in this area." "The Northeast, where I live, is a lot easier than here." "What?" "Yep." "That's the plan." " The sticks?" " You want to help?" " Go ahead." " Sure." "It's gonna be very hard for me to be away from my family." " Ooh, I'll take this one." " That's a big one." "It's my whole life." "My whole world revolves around waking up and spending a day with them." "All right." " Marshmallow time." " Marshmallow time." "But I know why I'm going." "I know how they feel about it." "I know the opportunity presented to me." "I'm excited." "Lookit." "Wow." "I think that nature taught us everything that we know, in a way." "So I find it incredibly engaging to imagine that I could be connecting with that." "♪ ♪" "Oh, yes." "I just made a fire on the rain coast." "It's a good feeling." "This was very important to get done today." "Okay, so I roasted those periwinkles and mussels." "There's the shell." "It's not bad." "I like periwinkles." "Usually." "I eat them back home too." "I just heard a wolf howl." "Sounded like it was kind of..." "Like it was kind of close." "Two wolves going." "Three wolves going." "♪ ♪" "They're up there." "That was just so loud." "It was so loud up there." "Right up there." "This has been so much tougher than I thought it would be." "This environment's nuts." "Whoo!" "It's already worse than I imagined." "Pretty sure I just saw a cougar about ten feet from my front door." "I hear something out there." "You see things here that you wouldn't see anywhere else." "I didn't come here to get killed." "This is so hard doing this alone." "You reach a point where you just don't care anymore." "I will not spend another night in there." "I'm not enjoying myself, that's for sure." "What am I doing out here?"