We'll take our stick, make some grooves. I like to do that cuz it kind of locks the stick in. We'll take our stick. We want to make sure that it fits in our groove. We have a figure four deadfall. Just putting some bait there. Basically just guts from the snake we've already eaten and a couple sea urchins. I'll pack the bait around the trigger. Mouse hits it, bam, smashes his ass flat. Kill that son of a [__] Naked and Afraid. That's just not dry enough. My first night was rough cuz we got rain all night. I am concerned about keeping fire going so that we can have water.

Everything's wet. I don't think I'm going to be able to get this to start. Dude, everything is just saturated. It's so damp that it doesn't look like fire is going to be an option for us anytime soon. The palm fronds are soaked. Everything is soaked. So, the only other option we have is to try a gypsy well. Okay, let's go. I'm highly concerned about getting potable water today because I'm highly dehydrated. So, I decided to get a gypsy well made. The gypsy well. It takes the water table in this water source here underneath and through the sand and silt and it acts as a natural filter.

[snorts] Oops. Damn. I thought that this one was just a giant rock. Riverbed is kind of rocky, so you know, it's not easy to dig. What about the island? Dig at the island? You need water, like bad. Yeah, I'm going to try it. All right, got you. I'll keep digging here? digging here. Yeah. 24 hours with no sleep. I'm expending a ton of energy and you'd face some serious issues with dehydration. I don't want to tap out cuz we don't have water.

Yep, I got it. Already? Yeah. Good for you. I got water and um providing I don't get sick, it means I got water for 21 days here. That's a big relief. Mandy's awesome and extraordinarily skilled at primitive survival and now that because of her, we have water forever. You know, I have zero ego out here. So, major props to her. Today I dug up some sassafras roots and those roots have antiseptic properties. So, my idea is to boil down the roots making a sort of mouth rinse to kill some bacteria in my mouth.

Ready for some mouth refresh? Yeah, whole sassafras mouthwash. Woah, that was dark. But it does feel less like mouth furry. Yeah. You know, are we going to breathe in each other's faces? Yeah, yeah. You first. Very sassy. works. Sass, coming to a store near you. God, they're just everywhere, man. The bugs? Yeah, the giant flies, man. Yeah. My feet got eaten alive last night. It was throbbing all night and then you look at the end of the tent and there's just a million mosquitoes down there.

Fat ones. We got to prioritize working on the shelter. I just want to make sure it's bombproof. Doing these challenges, I know that having a good shelter is everything. Heck yeah. NICE WORK. AMAZON LAUNCH OPEN 24/7. WE'LL DO the roof. Mhm. Yeah, pretty much my whole back of my body is touching the outside of the net and the mosquitoes can bite me right through it. Yeah. So, I would love to be able to have that raised a little bit. It'll make our space bigger and more functional. Let's do it. We will rebuild.

Out with the old and in with the new. We decided to rebuild the house, do a full remodel, reset the mosquito net, get it buttoned up so no bugs can get in. To improve their shelter, Laura, Justin, and Malik will raise the frame of the lean-to creating a wider sleeping space and more room for the mosquito netting to cover all three of them. The biggest hurdle in this, I would say, is the bugs causing restless nights. Ah. Waking up the next morning without any sleep is a drastic difference in mindset and your physical abilities in the challenge that you need to face and overcome the next day. If you don't have that sleep, it starts creeping into your

mind more and more, is this really the place I want to be? So, we thought with the early morning we'd beat the heat and typically the mosquitoes and giant flies that bite you oh, are normally not out, but they are out in full effect. Damn it. Bugs are just the bane of our existence out here. Jesus, come on. They're not only surrounding the outsides, they're inside. God, come on, man. Get out of here. There is no reprieve from it. Big flies are back. God damn it. And it is terrible. Ow. Damn it. Sliced my hand up. You sliced your hand? Yeah. Let me see it.

Oh. We should get on that with the choca? Yep. It's a very medicinal. Yeah. Make sure that our wounds are not getting infected. Even though it's a tiny cut, it's always a concern cuz the littlest of things can turn into big things out here. Long used in indigenous medicine, the bark from the choca tree contains the anti-inflammatory compounds used to treat wounds, burns, and rashes. Oh, look at that. Even just rubbing on it will do something. It is their first challenge ever. It makes me think about what I had on my first challenge, what I was thinking, how I assumed things were going to be the same as day one. I don't know if

they know how much is going to happen here that we cannot predict. You okay? Yeah. Good. You're our rock, Justin. Okay. Should we get this done? Yeah, we'll knock that out. Really, we're just kind of creating a lattice. Yeah, over under. We need to get the shelter completed. So, you see what I'm doing with the weaving? Yep. It's going to add more crossbeams. I'm really excited about how well we're working as a team. We're dividing and conquering. We are designating tasks.

Everyone is pitching in. We're all working together to get this thing done now. We always shingle from the bottom. We just have to get a few more fronds up on our shelter to get it buttoned up and then reset the mosquito net in a place where we don't have to mess with it every day and every night. Pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty covered already. We built this amazing shelter that would fit all three of us together, fit the mosquito net down perfectly, so it keep the bugs away, which absolute game changer. This looks so much better. So much

Malik with the sick fire. It's really the cornerstone to our house. Yeah. Really is. It's where we gather as a family. I'll actually though, shelter does look pretty sick. Shelter's going to be great. Woo. Yay. It's beautiful that we're able to get some coconut water. I see liquid. We're talking good hydration and potassium. Oh. That's it. You feel that? Yeah. Yeah, ready. Good fat from the coconut oil. Take a bite out of it. That's just a lot of sugar. Chef seems to really be a wealth of knowledge.

We needed can't he eat something? Where's my bro? Now, he's from Jamaica, so he's familiar with some of the plant life that's in this region. Name of the game with bamboo now is gentle. Right. Not gentle, it's just going to split up on you. See that? So, we just got our bamboo mugs or cups and I'm going to go down to the water, fill it up. Got our water now. We've got a couple of bunches here, but then there's also How many on that side? There's some small ones. Those coconuts can be a real resource. It's like one of the best hydration food. Lots of potassium, lots of magnesium, lots of

all the essential things that your body actually needs to keep going. There's one There's two right here. Let's try to get these two round. When Cheb finds something that he wants, the lake water, you know, the coconuts, Cheb is going to do it. I'm going to climb it. Wow. That's a pretty big risk climbing these trees. Uh that one false move and you're probably going to survive it, but it's probably also going to take you out of the challenge. Climbing these trees, it's always a risky move. This is hard. I'm going to come back down. Let's play it safe and simple.

I'm thinking if we can get this bamboo. So, we devised basically a bamboo pick. We're going to go up in between the two? Yeah. I want to hook it in there. Close. You want to hook behind Yeah. That pole is incredibly heavy. Our communication is horrible. Twirl it. Shove it up. Okay. And that will kick it off. With the hydration, boiling some cups is far easier than going after those coconuts. You turn it slow. Maybe pull.

What did I say? All right. I want us to keep getting after these coconuts. More coconut, the better it is for both of us. We need that kind of nourishment. I got maybe two big swallows out of this whole thing. I'm not sure that it was worth the all the calories that we burned trying to get it. For me, 100% worth the effort. I don't know that it is. I got I can get more swallows out of a cup of water. Maybe make a little outdoor shower. I'm really confident now that if I'm ever anywhere with bamboo, I can make all sorts of stuff. I can make a raised

platform bed. I can make a big shelter A-frame. I can make you a shower. What you do is take a bamboo vessel, drill a hole on the inside of it, clog the bottom of this. You could heat up the water. I don't know, man. Hanging up in the tree then you got a hot shower. Like how much like Gilligan's Island we can live out here. I'm filling up the shower. When I want to take a shower, just pull the plug. That was a quick shower. And that is how you stay clean in the jungle.

Great ingenuity, my friend. [snorts] Get him up. Last night, seen him either a giant mouse or a rat. I don't know yet, but uh got really excited. Instantly in my mind is like, "Hey, we could trap that sucker with a figure four deadfall." That would be such a great score. Barbecued rat to me just sounds delicious at this point in time. Like never would I ever think that I would say that, but red meat with all its iron and its fats would be just the ticket that we need to kind of boost up morale, I think. Do you have a pesky little creature bothering you in the night? Maybe you're naked and starving and need a way to catch that little irritating bastard that keeps bothering you every night.

Well, today's lesson is figure four deadfall. We need to make sure we've got good sturdy sticks. We take our stick. Make some grooves. I like to do that cuz it kind of locks the stick in. We take our stick. Want to make sure that it fits in our groove. We have a figure four deadfall. Just putting some bait there. Basically just guts from the snake we've already eaten and a couple sea urchins. I'm packing bait around the trigger. Mouse hits it, bam, smashes his ass flat.

Kill that son of a [__] Got something happening. Hear the squeak squeaky. Did you hear him squealing? Yeah. Don't hear him squeaking anymore. There's part of me that's like, "Open it up." But if he's alive still and runs away, that would suck. My opinion is wait until morning. Yeah, we have way better light then, too. Yeah. To see. Just hoping his ass is in there. Yesterday we set a figure four deadfall trap to catch a mouse. Here we are. Moment of truth. The moment

We lost him. Son of a gun. And we heard that little laugh for squeaking away, too. I don't think uh our trap is working because of the sand. The sand is super soft. We need like a flat rock. We get a flat rocks for the bottom of my trap. So, when that mouse comes bam against the rock. I'm just doing being the sole provider, but I'm not doing a good job providing. It's definitely a better service. Right now I got all of the intrusive thoughts coming in, those feelings of self-doubt. Can I do this?

Am I going to make it to the end? He's got to hit that stick and plop. Right on his ass. Hope so. Holy Christ. Well, trap went off, but alas, no mouse. Yeah. Yet again. Ugh. I want that mouse. I want that mouse like you'd want some cake. I call him Mr. Whiskers. And uh Mr. Whiskers is a son of a [__] So, for days now I've been chasing this sucker around. He comes and eats at the same time every night like clockwork. Every time we trap him he gets hit turns around and we'll reset and he'll come and hit the trap again.

We changed it up every day. But I can't get to him. Whatever you do, don't drop it. Yeah. Levels of energy at this point, like it's pretty low right now. I think it's just whatever stage of starvation our bodies are currently in. If I get it to the grassy knoll, that's all I'm going to have in me for now. Okay. [snorts] Mr. Whiskers, I think he's bigger and bigger than I thought originally. I thought he was little. The way he's escaping my trap, I think he's good size. Obviously, we fattened him up like a little pig now.

Gosh damn it, it would be good to get some red meat in this system. I'd eat my right arm at this current time. This mouse now it's like a personal vendetta against it. It is. What's at stake for me if I don't get him is that I'm a failure and that's just not going to happen. It's better kill that mouse. It's all I can say. Mr. Whiskers, it's time to die. This is it. This is our day. We need to eat. This is about getting to the end and our odds really aren't looking great. We didn't catch the mouse overnight.

Well, it's time to check out my rock. I want that mouse. I want to get a little piece of rat love in my system. Oh my god, we got him. That mother is dead. Are you sure? WE GOT THIS MR. WHISKERS. OH, YEAH. HOLY THAT'S A BIG [screaming] LOOK AT THAT SON OF A [__] WE got him. [__] gone. Mr. Whiskers. Seven days on this guy. A lot of energy, but that rock was worth getting. All of it. Jesus, that's a big and a big ass rat.

Look at that son of a [__] He's going to be tasty, tasty, good. How good did it feel to open that rat up and see it pretty good? Oh man, straight vindication. It looks smoked and juicy. Yeah. Do you want to cheers? Yeah. Cheers. Mr. Whiskers. Mhm. Chicken. Yeah. Damn. Oh my god. Mouth-watering. I'll even enjoy picking that out of my teeth for the next 3 days. I don't give I would have never thought that rat would taste this delicious.

I can literally feel it absorbing into my body. Finally, a red meat score. That's right. Mr. Whiskers. Yeah. A big fat rat right there. We needed it bad. I'm very happy that we have finally conquered this rat together. We've been together 24/7. We've been able to support each other along the way, and I think that in itself speaks volumes about both of our character. Nothing but up from here. Yep. That's right.