
Dad Down! But Who?
Season 1 Episode 4 | 54m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
The Jones figure out water filtration; the Williams dive into freezing waters.
Colin O’Brady hosts the Jones from Orange County, California and the Williams from Phoenix, Arizona on a formidable, three-day, 16-mile expedition. Floyd Jones wants to learn a better way to communicate with his young sons. The Williams want their daughters to strengthen their strained relationship.
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Dad Down! But Who?
Season 1 Episode 4 | 54m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
Colin O’Brady hosts the Jones from Orange County, California and the Williams from Phoenix, Arizona on a formidable, three-day, 16-mile expedition. Floyd Jones wants to learn a better way to communicate with his young sons. The Williams want their daughters to strengthen their strained relationship.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ Colin: Welcome to Survivalists: the first ever extreme family adventure competition show.
I'm your host, Colin O'Brady.
And I'm an explorer who loves to prove the impossible... Summit!
is possible.
From becoming the first person to cross Antarctica solo, unsupported, and fully human-powered to climbing Mount Everest.
Top of the world!
I've set ten world records and I'm a New York Times Best Selling author.
I have learned that if you push yourself, you'll be amazed at what you can achieve.
Now, my wife and I work to inspire kids in their communities to achieve their biggest dreams.
Woohoo!
I know firsthand the value of pushing yourself in the wild.
And now each week, I'll be challenging two families, each here for deeply personal reasons, to push themselves further than they've ever been pushed before.
They will head out on a three-day adventure of a lifetime that will test them physically, mentally, and emotionally.
- We've always done everything together.
- I know, but you have to do this.
Colin: They will learn to see loved ones in a new light, rebuild relationships, and find strength as a family.
- For anybody who's ever doubted me, you don't need to doubt me anymore.
Colin: But in the end, only one family can come out on top and take home the $10,000 cash prize.
♪♪ - Hey, I'm hyped now, I'm ready to go.
Colin: This week, the Jones family from Orange County, California... - As long as we are together, it won't be a problem.
Colin: ...will compete against the Williams from Phoenix, Arizona.
- I'm pushin' through for the girls.
- Oh my gosh.
Colin: Who'll be the first to raise their flag... - Ah, ah, found it, found it!
Woo!
- Dad, you got this!
- Woohoo!
Colin: ...and be this week's Survivalists?
♪♪ - We're the Jones' and we're from Orange County, California.
- Love is going to be our strong point.
We love each other a lot, the basis of everything that we do is love.
As long as we are together, it won't be a problem.
- I think we got this in the bag.
[laughing] - All right.
- We're the Williams family from Mesa, Arizona.
- We really don't know what's gonna happen, but I know that our family is super competitive.
- All these different strengths working together and not a lot of weaknesses, that's gonna make us a force to be reckoned with.
♪♪ Colin: Welcome to Survivalists!
- Yes!
- Woo!
- Jones family, how are you guys feeling?
- Doing great, Colin.
How're you doing?
Colin: This is a little bit different than, uh, Southern California.
What are you most looking forward to for being out here this week?
- Seeing the great outdoors, another state that we haven't seen, and you know, bonding with the family.
Courtney: Yeah, to build closeness with this four, and this unit together.
Big Floyd: We're a good, solid family unit.
Wherever I fail, she picks up.
Wherever she fails, he picks up.
That's what makes us unique because everybody plays their role.
We can't survive without each other.
I'll put it like that.
We all need each other.
- Do you feel like you're a pretty tight-knit family back home?
- Yes.
- We do everything together.
This is my best friend right here.
- Yeah.
- And this one's my little bestie, that's my other little bestie.
- Yeah, we're pretty close.
Floyd: We came out here to experience tackling the challenges of life together.
- Yeah.
- Tell me a little bit about your family flag.
- Our flag symbolizes all four of us.
We always go by this saying, like, "Four hearts one soul" because we're so tight.
On the flag is our spirit animals formed in a yin and yang symbol.
Mine's is a fox, Dad's a wolf, Kourtney's is a koala bear, and Floyd's is a sloth.
- Floyd, a sloth.
- I can sometimes really be lazy.
Big Floyd: Yeah, but he's efficient though.
Laziness with an asterisk.
You know what I mean?
[laughter] - Williams, here you are.
How are you feelin'?
Grace: I'm ready for this, like, I wanna see how my family takes it.
- When you say that, I feel like you kind of looked over at your dad and singled him out.
- We are all, like, ready for this and we're like physically in shape, but I'm a bit worried about my dad here.
- This is not my first choice of a trip, uh, definitely not.
- He's a little less athletic.
- Oh, gosh.
- If I can keep myself from passing out or something, we're going to be really successful.
If I had to pick a spirit animal, it would be, like, an ox.
I'm big and burly, but I'm not very fast.
- Elsie, how are you feelin'?
- I'm feelin' hyped up, like I'm ready to do this and win!
- I can tell you guys got a competitive spirit, but overall, what's your, kind of, biggest objective for being out here?
- Well, Grace is 16, and she's getting to the stage of life where she doesn't want to hang out with us as much.
So just another opportunity to get us together and create some really good memories for the future.
Elsie: Me and Grace are not very close anymore.
We were like best friends, but now that we're both more independent, we don't really get along as much.
- Sarah, why don't you tell me about your family's crest here.
- Our flag is awesome.
It's a W to represent Williams, of course.
Uh, the water in it is because we're out on the lakes and rivers a lot.
We love swimming, we love water sport.
- All right, we've got a couple of very competitive families here, I can see.
I will say, anything can happen out there.
You'll be going on a formidable three-day, 16-mile expedition through one of the most remote parts of the country.
Day one, you'll travel over six miles on both foot and horseback to your first camp for the night.
Day two, you'll gain 2,000 feet in elevation before reaching an alpine lake.
Day three will take you to over 10,500 feet over the mountain pass before racing down to the finish line where the first family to raise their flag will be declared the winner.
- Do you guys wanna know we're actually competing for?
- Yes!
- I'm dying hear.
Colin: Okay, check these out.
It's a couple of custom backpacks.
Why don't you open them up?
[gasping] - Oh, my gosh!
- Oooo!
Colin: That's ten thousand dollars hard cash right there!
- That's way better than just a backpack.
[laughing] - I am ready to get out there and just do whatever I need to do.
- As you know, you are going to go on a multi-day expedition.
Before sending you out there, I'm going to give you the opportunity to visit the General Store, where you can grab all the essential items to survive our three-day extreme expedition.
You'll have just 90 seconds inside to find everything you need.
Big Floyd: Man.
- Oh... Colin: But to help you gain more time, I've set up some survival challenges.
For each challenge you win, you'll add 30 seconds to your clock.
The very first challenge... building a shelter.
♪♪ The first family that sets up their tent wins that 30 seconds in the General Store.
The competitors from each team, why don't you stand on up.
Big Floyd: Let's go, guys.
You guys got this.
- I am the best person to put up the tents.
I can put them up in the dark, I'm so good.
- Three, two, one, go!
Big Floyd: Let's go Jones', let's go, let's go baby.
Colin: All right!
[rustling] Courtney: Where's the door?
Colin: Little Kourtney's putting the, uh, poles together first!
Trying to figure out which way is the door.
You need to use every piece of this tent to get it set up.
Little Floyd: You guys got this!
- Go, you guys got it.
- You got it, Mom.
- Keep going, keep going.
Great, great, great.
- Elsie's coming up with a slightly different tactic here.
They're clipping it up from the ground up, whereas the Jones' are going from the base down.
It looks like they've got both the tent poles in.
Courtney is looking like a pro like she has set up a lot of tents in her life.
It's gotta be fully secure!
Little Floyd: You got it, Mom, let's go.
Big Floyd: You guys, keep going.
Colin: The rain fly is a crucial component.
Is it upside down, is it right-side up?
Courtney was looking very confident.
Now, she's looking a little more confused with the rain fly.
- Her confidence just vanished.
[exasperated gasp] - My confidence vanished?
No, it didn't.
[laughing] Colin: Now she's gotta get it on the right side, get it oriented.
It is close!
The Williams family think that they've got it.
Big Floyd: Keep going, keep going.
Colin: Looks like everything's secure.
Let me test everything, make sure all the clips are in.
Would this hold up in a storm?
The Williams family are the winners!
[cheering] [laughing] - We feel so good!
- We feel awesome, that was so great.
- Jones family, well done!
It was very close.
- This has nothing to do with our skills on the trek, okay?
So I am not worried.
- Well congratulations, Williams family.
You have won your family 30 seconds extra in the General Store to get crucial supplies.
But now it's time to get ready for the second challenge: the food challenge.
[collective groan] - I totally can eat!
♪♪ - The way the food challenge works is you're gonna select one member of the family.
You're gonna come up and grab one plate of food.
Some of the foods up here are edible, others are poisonous.
If it is edible, you will have to then eat that food.
If you pick a poisonous food, your team will lose the challenge.
So choose wisely.
All right, Jones family, who's your pick?
- Dad.
- Williams?
- Mom.
Colin: All right!
Three, two, one, go.
Elsie: Come on Mom, you got this!
Colin: What are they gonna pick first?
Uh, Sarah looks pretty confident with her selection.
Floyd looks pretty adventurous with his first selection there!
- Hehe, gross!
- Sarah, what do you think we have here?
- Um, I'm thinking they're cranberries.
I'm hoping they're not chokecherries.
- Okay.
Well, take a bite.
- Is it?
I can have it?
- Yeah, they are cranberries.
Very good.
- Sour!
- Floyd, what do we got here, round one?
- Mealworms, baby.
- Mealworms?
- Yeah.
- Good source of protein?
- Yes.
- Edible, you're pretty confident?
- I'm confident.
- They are, indeed.
Take a bite!
♪♪ [laughing] Guy's eating worms!
- Well, it's protein day, so I had to do proteins.
- Go!
Courtney: You got this, babe.
- What are you gonna pick?
- Oh, no!
Colin: Looks like two very adventurous choices!
Eric: What!
Elsie: Ew.
Courtney: Ah ah, you guys.
Colin: What do you think you got here?
- Grasshoppers or crickets.
♪♪ - That is a... grasshopper.
And it's edible.
- Oh.
[Courtney gagging] [Colin laughing] [gagging noises] - That is so gross!
- Sarah, this is a very adventurous pick.
- I'm from Arizona!
- Let's see if Arizona can represent!
- Yes, do it!
- That is a scorpion.
And it's edible, but you gotta eat it to make it to the next round.
- Ahh!
'Kay.
[collective groans] Sarah: Oh, my gosh, it was so gross.
It was so hard to get down, I think I still have scorpion in my teeth.
But I'm safe, so that's good.
- Go!
What's Sarah gonna pick?
All right!
Floyd, what do you think you got there?
- Blueberries.
- Blueberries?
- Yeah.
- You're sure about that?
- Yeah.
- Eat up, my friend.
- Yay-uh.
Om-nom-nom.
- Sarah, what do you think you have here?
- I think it's a Marigold.
I see 'em on salads every once in a while, so I think it's okay.
- Go ahead and pick it up.
Stop.
- What?
- Marigolds are poisonous.
- No!
- That will cause rash, itching, shortness of breath, swelling.
And just like that, the game is tied.
Floyd: I've never heard of a Marigold salad, so I knew when she picked that bright orange flower, the game was ours.
- The next challenge up is the knot challenge.
[cheering] ♪♪ Now, we've only got one family member left for each family.
Grace, I think that's you?
- Yeah.
I'm a little bit nervous, but I think I got it.
- You've been practicing?
- Yeah.
- Little Floyd?
You a good knot-tier?
- Yeah.
- Best in the family.
- Well, the way this challenge works.
On each one of these placards, it has a specific knot.
You'll need to tie those knots through each of the items and then you need to pull it over to the post and hitch it.
You will have seven minutes to tie as many of those knots as you possibly can.
Three, two, one, go!
- Let's go, Grace!
- Come on, Grace!
Colin: Looks like she's picking the bowline knot first.
That's a classic sailing knot.
Eric: Good.
When she got up there, I was so nervous for her.
- No, that's not a bowline knot.
- We could tell she was struggling.
Sarah: It's okay, think-- slow down.
Think about what you know.
She had been practicing her knots so much, but she got a little nervous.
- Still struggling with the first knot.
- Hey Grace, try the other ones.
- All right, we've got two minutes left!
- We had been practicing for weeks and weeks, but in a very different setup.
Colin: She's given up on the Bowline and she's trying the clove hitch now.
Not tight enough there.
- Remember, around and then back through the first one.
- Just ten seconds to go!
♪♪ Yep, you got it.
[cheering] All right Grace, you got one knot.
Floyd, how are you feeling, my man?
- I feel ready.
At home, whenever we would start tying knots, I would usually get them by the first try.
- Go!
Courtney: Come on Floyd.
Big Floyd: You got this, son, you got this.
Colin: Looks like he's starting with the clove hitch.
Courtney: Good job, son.
- You're doin' it, you're doin' it.
- It just took me a little longer than expected.
Colin: He's gonna move on!
He's going to the bowline.
Still hasn't gotten a single knot tied yet!
More than half the time has expired!
- I got confused on the clove hitch, same with the bowline.
- He's going to the taut-line knot.
Floyd: Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!
- Bring it around, make that forward.
- You got 15 seconds!
- There you go!
[click] - Yes, that is!
- That’s what I'm talkin' about, boy!
- You got one knot!
- I'm proud of what he did.
- Absolutely.
- He knows his knots.
- Well that was an interesting battle.
You both got one knot.
So, that means we're going into a bonus round.
Here's what's going to happen.
Each one of you are going to have another chance to tie one of the knots that you haven't already tied.
But it's gonna be head to head this time.
- Grace is like, "I got this guys, I got this."
- Three, two, one, go!
[cheering] All right, Grace is going an interesting tactic.
She's hitching the post first!
Sarah: Come on, Grace!
Come on!
Elsie: Just focus!
- Come on!
Eric: Yeah, Grace!
- Pull, pull, pull!
Courtney: Tighten it Floyd, tighten, tighten!
Colin: Grace is the champion!
[cheering] Good job!
Congratulations to both teams, but the Williams family are the champion of this challenge.
Courtney: Little Floyd was pretty disappointed about those knots.
He did a great job.
He made me very, very proud.
- Very proud, very proud.
- Very proud.
- The survival competitions are behind us now, and it is now time to go to the General Store to shop for your crucial supplies.
- Yeah, here we go!
Here we go, let's go!
- All right!
Let's go, let's do this!
♪♪ Welcome to the General Store!
You guys ready to shop and get the gear you're going to need?
[collective agreeing] Well first off Williams, I'm noticing there's only three of you here.
- Grace is not feeling so hot.
She was getting-- having a little bit of a sore throat, so we want her to rest tonight.
We figure we can handle the store.
And hopefully she's feeling good enough to go on the expedition.
- I'm certainly wishing her well.
I know you guys as well.
- Jones family wishes her the best.
Colin: All right.
Each family gets 90 seconds to start with to get the gear that you need.
But based on how you've done in the previous survival challenges, so Jones family, total you guys will have two minutes.
Williams' will have two and a half minutes.
- 'Kay.
- I have the list of essential items that you absolutely have to take with you.
That includes a flint, water bottles, water filtration, a knife, first aid kit, and a GPS.
If you miss any of these items, you will get a 30-minute time penalty for each item that you miss.
You will notice that I did not include on here tent, sleeping bag... those are up to you.
But everything that you take with you out of the store has to go with you the entire time.
So, choose wisely.
Now, if it does not end up in these circles, it is not coming with you.
Williams family, you ready?
- Yep.
- Three, two, one, go.
- Whoo!
♪♪ - Already getting the essential items, there.
♪♪ Three, two, one, go.
All right!
Both families are in there now!
Girl: Sorry, sorry, sorry!
Colin: Kourtney's getting the essential items by the looks of it.
We got a couple water bottles.
Sarah: I got [indistinct] and handwarmers!
- Gettin' some food, okay, sleeping bags.
Thirty seconds left!
Elsie: Did you get everything on the list?
Eric: You got the knife, Els?
- Yeah.
Did I get flint?
Did I get flint?
- Five seconds!
Five seconds for both families.
They're running, they're bumping into each other.
Two, one, nope!
It's not in there.
Nope, nope, nope, that did not make it.
- We did so good!
- We did awesome!
- We got everything.
- We got almost everything we need, I think.
- Yeah.
- Okay, we're gonna go through the essential items list.
So, we've got the firestarter, the flint, water bottles, water filtration, knife, medical kit, and the GPS, all right!
Floyd: Good job, guys.
- Williams family, you got all the essential items.
There will be no time penalty for you tomorrow.
All right let's start with the essential items.
We've got the first aid kit and the GPS.
I see the flint.
We've got the knife.
We got four water bottles, excellent job.
And last but not least, water filtration.
Well done.
Jones family, you have gotten all the essential items.
It is going to be a head-to-head battle at the trailhead tomorrow.
And we're hopin' Grace will be back in the game feeling better tomorrow as you guys set off.
- Thank you.
- All right.
Pack your stuff up now, get a very good night's sleep, 'cause I'm going to meet you on the trailhead at sunrise tomorrow to begin this expedition.
- Sunrise?
It's okay, it's okay, we got this.
- See you then, see you at sunrise!
Floyd: You guys ready?
♪♪ [pleasant music] [water flowing] Colin: Everyone comes out here for different reasons.
Whether it's the Jones family looking to strengthen their bond through shared challenges or the Williams, whose daughters need to rebuild their connection.
The path is here, and their journey awaits.
♪♪ All right!
Welcome, families!
- Woo!
- We are really out here, huh?
- Yeah!
Colin: This is day one.
Today, the Jones and Williams will trek over six of their sixteen-mile journey.
They'll ride horses, navigating through the rugged terrain, before finishing their long trek to camp on foot.
Grace, you're looking really healthy, I'm so happy to see you back out here.
- Me too.
I'm feeling a lot better.
- Were you worried that your family wasn't gonna be able to hold it down in the General Store without you?
- I had faith in them and I think they did pretty good.
- Okay, good!
Well, Jones family, you're sizing up the Williams.
How're you feeling?
- Feeling good, you know.
We've been good competition all week, so this is gonna be fun.
Can't wait to get out there.
Colin: All right, all right.
Well, in my hand here, I have these cannisters.
And inside, there's coordinates that you'll put into your GPS.
As you get to the next checkpoint, there'll be another cannister onwards from there.
[birds chirping] All right.
It's time to get going.
Three, two, one, go.
♪♪ Elsie: Welcome to Survivalists.
It's going to be a wild ride.
'Kay, read me the coordinates.
- All right, we're good to go.
'Kay?
♪♪ Colin: The families will need to cross a deep ravine and traverse half a mile on their way to get to the first checkpoint.
[rustling] Elsie: Should we try going that way?
Eric: Where's it at?
- It's straight in front of us.
Like directly across here.
Elsie: Yeah, I think we can make it across the creek.
Sarah: 'Kay, it's muddy, be careful.
Come over here, guys.
Grace: Elsie, it's water, obviously, it's wet.
Elsie: My shoes!
Well, that felt good!
Floyd: Stay on me.
Stay on me, guys.
- I'm on following Dad.
He's the wolf, our spirit animal.
He's the leader of the pack.
That's my superman, so I'm ready to follow him wherever he leads me.
Floyd: Stay with me.
Courtney: Okay.
[water flowing] Big Floyd: Here, follow me.
Courtney: Socks are all wet.
Big Floyd: Watch the branches.
[birds chirping] - Looking good, straight in front of us!
We've got this!
What do I see?
Beautiful mountains!
I think we're almost to the checkpoint!
Courtney: You got it?
Little Kourtney: Yeah.
Courtney: All right, yeah, we can do this.
I've never been in any type of mountains and everything, like this.
Floyd: Come on, we gotta hurry up.
Courtney: I didn't know what to expect, so this is-- it's all new to me.
[birds chirping] [heavy breathing] Sarah: Eric, take the trail.
We wanna make sure this is the right way.
Elsie: We take the trail.
[heavy breathing] - It's higher.
[breathing] Sarah: We can find the right spot, have Eric catch up, and still be ahead hopefully.
- I'll be the one that keeps an eye out for my dad, so he doesn't get hurt.
You good, Dad?
- I'm good, sweetie.
I'm just a little slow.
Floyd: We'll go straight up.
Courtney: Huh?
- We're gonna go straight up.
- All right, yeah.
Courtney: I'm pretty much worried about the kids.
My youngest, they're not really used to this type of extrenuous push on their bodies.
Floyd: So what is wrong?
Little Floyd: Nothing.
Courtney: Yes, there is, what's wrong?
- Nothing.
Floyd: You gotta communicate.
- But you're about to cry.
- Communicate, man.
You want something to drink?
Little Floyd: I'm good.
Courtney: So he was kinda getting a little emotional 'cause I know he didn't want to let anybody down and I know he didn't want to disappoint anybody.
Here, walk with me.
Son, I know this-- I know it's hard, okay?
If we need to drop some tears, go ahead, it's gonna be hard.
Colin: My experience has shown me that the issues you're going to face in the wild will quickly surface.
And that certainly appears to be the case here.
For the Jones', I worry that Little Floyd is keeping his struggles bottled up.
And learning to follow his family's mantra of "Four hearts, one soul" is going to be key over this tough, 16-mile course.
Sarah: Looking good, straight in front of us!
My GPS is taking us right there!
Elsie: Dad, come on, keep it up!
Colin: For the Williams, Eric's fitness is certainly gonna be an issue.
And the girls not working together is not gonna make things any easier.
- Elsie, Grace, it should be right around here!
[neighing] Elsie: Mom, I think it's the horses!
The clue was a wild ride!
I saw the horses and I was like, "Wait, are we going to get to ride the horses?"
- Okay it's here, here.
Sarah: Okay, what is it?
Grace: "Saddle up, your adventure continues around the bend."
[nickers] Sarah: I think Eric was having a hard time on that first hill and going up and down traversing.
Good job, Eric.
But then to add in horses after that, such a breath of relief.
♪♪ Grace: Elsie, do you not know how to ride a horse?
Elsie: Well the last time I rode a horse is when I was like eight!
- Horse with no names!
- No, I named mine Charlie.
- I named my horse Maple.
Colin: The families will face the next two and a half miles on horseback, navigating the animal through undulating hills toward the next checkpoint.
♪♪ - Whoo!
Floyd: Gettin' close, gettin' close.
I said I see horses in the background.
- Whoo!
I wanna ride a horse.
Floyd: Good job, son.
Good job, baby!
Gimme some.
Courtney: Okay come on, let's read it.
- "Saddle up, your adventure continues around the bend."
[laughing] Do I ride horses?
Um, I've ridden a horse maybe-- I've rode a horse maybe, uh, maybe twice.
♪♪ Little Floyd: All right here, come on Happy.
Gotta go, bro.
Floyd: I found us a little trail here.
Hopefully we can cut off some time.
Sarah: All right.
Hold up, horsey!
Elsie: Hold up.
Grace: Okay, you're good?
Sarah: Let's get over the hill before the Jones' come, so they don't know where we're at.
Colin: Leaving the horses behind, the families will now have to travel by foot the next three and a half miles on rocky trails to camp.
[birds calling] [hawk calling] Elsie: I wish I was still on that horse.
They're so cute and fun to ride.
Grace: Yeah.
- Eric, you prefer horses or foot?
- Horses.
Or a motorcycle.
I'm just getting old and fat, out of shape.
Colin: You never know when fatigue is going to set in during an expedition.
And Eric is feeling the strain early on.
But he's not the only one.
Little Floyd is facing his own struggles down the path.
Floyd: What's wrong?
Little Floyd: Nothing.
Floyd: Your chest still hurt?
Little Floyd: A little bit.
Floyd: All right, your lungs are not used to this.
The burning is them getting used to elevation.
And you breathing and over-exerting at the same time, all right?
I didn't have my dad around a lot when I was growing up.
I had to learn a lot of things on my own.
I want to instill in him what I wasn't able to learn at an early age.
I love you.
- I love you, too.
- Hey babe.
- It's all good, let it out!
It's okay to cry.
- Babe.
- Huh?
- Question.
- Yeah?
- So look.
You see that little low valley?
I'm kind of worried about the kids going up and getting tired.
- Let's go around, path of least resistance.
- I'm just say-- - Path of least resistance, let's go.
- Let's do it.
Colin: As things are getting difficult for the Jones family, it's great to see their mantra of "Four hearts, one soul" ring true.
By leaning on each other, they're gaining the strength to face this mountain together.
Further ahead, Grace and Elsie appear to be working together by guiding their family.
Elsie: It's nice that me and Grace are getting along 'cause like, we are finding, like, a common ground together.
And she's also staying in the front with me, so she's like my leader buddy.
Sarah: Girls, look for our flag when you get up there, and that'll be our camp for the night.
- Okay!
- Coming down this last stretch, I was almost done with it.
I was like, "Man, I'm gonna-- I'm not gonna make it."
- Hurry up, guys!
I can see shade!
- And the girls pumped me up.
- I think I see it.
Sarah: Oh yay, finally!
Elsie: Whoo!
Eric: They say, "Grow up, you big baby, and tough your way through it."
And I did.
Sarah: That is a welcome sign.
Eric: This is gonna be a good sign if there's a flight here.
We got there, and I'm super excited and I'm so proud of everyone, and proud of myself.
- "Congratulations, you made it to your campground.
"If you're the first to arrive, you get to choose your campsite."
[cheering] Sarah: First choice!
♪♪ Colin: With the Williams at camp, the longer the Jones' take to get there, the bigger lead the Williams' will get in the morning.
Floyd: Let's go, Little Floyd, let's go!
Whoo-hoo.
Say it again.
Little Floyd: Let's go, Little Floyd, let's go!
Both: Whoo-hoo.
- You're doing good, son.
Keep going.
- And here comes my safe guy trailing slowly behind me, son.
- Still probably got less than half a mile, guys.
Courtney: I'm like, honestly, just stop.
Just stop with your estimations and your guestimations.
Little Floyd: You've said a mile like thirty times.
- Guestimation.
[laughing] Courtney: Here, Kourt, lead us the last little bit.
♪♪ Close?
- Yeah.
Floyd: Hey.
I see our flag, baby.
Little Kourtney: I see it!
Courtney: My gosh, it's right there!
Whoo!
You know, I'd say for everything that we had, we did pretty good.
We're not that far behind.
You know, I think we're still in this thing.
This makes me love you that much more.
- Aww.
"Congratulations, you survived day one."
Good job, guys!
Whoo, whoo!
- I'm so proud of all you guys.
Especially you!
- Aw.
All right let's go find that campsite.
Whoo!
Colin: Both families had a long day, travelling six of their sixteen miles.
They both did an amazing job helping their struggling family members make it to camp.
But the Williams' finished the day with an 11-minute lead over the Jones family.
[scraping] ♪♪ Grace: With Elsie, I feel like it's going a lot better 'cause we're not talking to each other, so it doesn't really have room for there to be fighting.
But it's one of the goals I'm trying to build is get close to my sister, so tomorrow, I'm really hoping to have some, like, nice talks with her.
Elsie: Dad, you did really good today!
- I imagine tomorrow we're going much higher.
Sarah: Eric, what's your plan for tomorrow?
- Not to die.
- Did you think you did too much today?
Or were you okay?
- Uh, right now, I'm kinda in this no man’s land; I'm not really sure.
But I'm better than I was... Sarah: ...an hour ago?
- ...an hour ago.
- Okay, that's good.
I read Colin's book a couple weeks ago, and he made it across Antarctica.
- Since we were ahead most of the day today, we-- we need to give you guys some tips.
Sarah: Okay, what do you got for us, Grace?
- Just push through.
Mind over matter.
- Mind over matter.
Elsie: He may not be in shape, but he pushes, like, forward, and he's not a quitter.
- You know what I liked is that you guys weren't even fighting, like you were, like... Sarah: ...ditching Dad together.
- Yeah, you were really in unison leaving me in the dust.
- Yeah, we just started talking to each other.
- Oh.
- Um, dinner is ready.
So come on over, let's eat.
[fire crackling] [water flowing] Courtney: Look at you looking like a mountain man getting that fire together!
I'm kinda nervous for tomorrow.
Floyd: You're fine.
- No, it was just hard seeing Floyd so-- you know, he was trying to hold it together, and I just wanted to embrace him and let him cry, but I've never seen my children like that, so I'm going to try everything in my power to keep their spirits lifted tomorrow and keep 'em up.
- Oh yeah, see, there's Kourtney.
- 'Ay!
Courtney: We know any time that we have with our family is special.
Floyd: I mean, yeah, I just wanna do what I can for my family, and um-- - And you're doing over that, so please don't feel like it's not enough, 'cause-- - That's because I want to be a staple in their life and I don't want to be like my dad.
I want to be different, so his downfalls have helped me become the man that I am.
♪♪ Courtney: My husband down there with his sons teaching them how to filter water.
This is what makes it all worth it.
What'cha doing, Kourt?
- Filtering water with Dad.
- Yeah?
What'chu doing, Floyd?
Oh, washing off the silverware.
- Yeah.
- What's cleaning the water?
- Uh, this.
- Good job!
Courtney: Good job!
♪♪ - Man.
Courtney: Fresh spring water.
- Idaho spring water, bro.
[crickets chirping] ♪♪ Courtney: Sleeping last night, man.
Big Floyd: You were snoring.
Courtney: I was flippin' back and forth.
Let's hope the little sleep we did get, get us ready for the day.
New day, new adventure, but we're still tryin' to survive.
This is the second day, which means this is probably gonna be the hardest day.
Big Floyd: But the objective of the game is still the same.
Courtney: Yep.
Big Floyd: Uh, create this family bond, and, you know.
- Yeah, and recognize those... - And the asterisk is the $10,000, so.
- ...new objectives that come.
Colin: As both families prepare for the day ahead, the Williams have the early lead, and get to leave camp 11 minutes before the Jones family.
Eric: It's a little after six.
Uh, we have a lead on the Jones right now, that's super important.
The girls are super strong.
I got some mind over matter goin' on here, so uh, we're super pumped, and I think we're gonna kill it today.
Off again, girls.
Sarah: We were really ambitious yesterday, and I think we went out a little too hard on some of the checkpoints, and um, I think that's what hurt Eric, so if we can just keep a nice steady pace and not, like, wear him out too much, I think he'll be able to keep up the whole day.
Colin: This is day two.
The families will face 2,000 feet of elevation gain over the next six miles.
Their trip will take them to a frigid alpine lake, where they will need to take a polar plunge before doubling back to find their camp.
Elsie: "Where the rivers collide "and the trail divides you, you will find your next guide."
Sarah: Let's go!
This-a-way!
Colin: To reach the first checkpoint of the day, the families will travel over three miles, navigating through thick forest and gaining 1,500 feet in elevation.
Big Floyd: I'm still banking on, you know, the other family and their dad, they're down talking to their dad and the stamina, you know, by far, he's an older male like myself, well, I'm not too old, so let me not say that.
[Courtney laughs] - "Where the rivers collide and the trail divides, you will find your next guide."
Courtney: I don't need you to be Superman today, don't exhaust yourself too much!
- We only got three days, baby, it's the second day, so I might as well get it all out.
Just follow me.
- I will.
Always.
Sarah: Take a little weight off your legs.
Eric, you made it up that steep incline!
- Yeah... those are the things that really kill me, those inclines.
I've been heavy breathing basically 100 feet out from camp.
I just, I'm not in great shape, I breathe heavy.
But, I said a prayer yesterday, last night, I said, "If you give me a steep incline, give me some flat ground so I can rest after that."
It's kickin' my butt, but... we're getting there.
Elsie: This is so cool.
Grace: It's so pretty.
Big Floyd: We're at about 9,500 feet right now, guys.
You guys are doing great, Kourtney, you're doin' a good job, how you feelin'?
Little Kourtney: Fine.
Courtney: Amen.
Big Floyd: Lord, bless us on the trail.
Courtney: Yes.
Big Floyd: If it's gonna be like this all day, we got a good chance of catchin' up.
- And you know what underdogs do, we take over.
- Hey, I'm hype now, I'm ready to go, I'm tryin' to run on the trail now.
But let's keep it, let's keep, let's keep racing our race, right?
- Yeah.
Sarah: Twenty-two feet from this area.
[beep] See?
Oh!
I found 'em!
Duh.
You do the honors of reading.
Elsie: "Drop the weight, and on this round trip, ponder your fate."
- All right.
'Kay, GPS?
Straight ahead.
Colin: The families now have the luxury of temporarily dropping their packs.
But to reach the next checkpoint won't be easy.
They'll make a steep, mile-long climb to the remote lake cradled in the mountains at 10,000 feet.
Eric: Hike up another mountain.
Grace: It's kinda steep, dad.
Sarah: Sorry about all this climbin', Eric.
Eric: There's times where I can't even really think straight, other than move my feet in front of another, and I just keep lookin' ahead and keep pluggin' away.
Elsie: Oh, my gosh, the elevation is getting high.
Grace: The altitude's really getting to me.
Big Floyd: When I say "Jones", you say "Crew".
Jones?
All: Crew!
Big Floyd: Jones?
All: Crew!
Big Floyd: Ah, ah!
Found it, found it!
Whoo!
C'mon, Floyd, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon!
"Drop the weight, and on this trip, ponder your fate."
Got it.
Ahh.
[sighs] Colin: I know firsthand that climbing to higher elevations than you're used to can put a strain on your body.
Right now, the Jones have been feeling that strain, and they're struggling to keep up the pace.
Courtney: We started this thing, and we're gonna finish it.
I don't care where we are in this race, I wouldn't care if we were six hours behind.
We're gonna finish it.
Yep, it's straight up.
Colin: Floyd's positive attitude has kept them going so far, but now that things are getting more difficult, will that be enough for this young family?
Big Floyd: This is mental, physical, emotional, and I don't think I was too prepared for them to go through all this.
Courtney: We're gonna finish this thing.
Once you start somethin', you're gonna finish it, and that's part of bein' a man, that's part of bein' a person.
♪♪ - Mom, it's a lake.
- Oh my gosh.
Oh, it looks so pretty.
- That's so pretty.
♪♪ Sarah: What?!
There's a lake up here?
Eric: We're up here, we're standing right in front of this lake with these gigantic peaks and snow cap on the hills.
Grace: Oh my gosh, that's so cool.
Elsie: It's like glass, kinda.
Eric: You don't see that stuff except for... Sarah: National Geographic.
Eric: Pictures, you know?
Ansel Adams.
We're like, living it.
Elsie: Wow.
So pretty!
♪♪ Grace: We've had to carry dad.
All right, you ready?
- Girls, you're doing good at leading, go ahead.
Elsie: Look around, Grace.
Grace: I am.
Colin: They've reached the lake, but they still need to get the clue.
Sarah: I think it's in the water, Elsie!
[Elsie gasps] Okay, so, it's out there in that purple container, girls.
Colin: Which means someone will have to make the fifteen-foot-high jump to get it.
Eric: So who's gonna do it?
- I'll do it with Elsie.
- You wanna do it?
- So me and Grace?
- Sure.
- I'm fine with Grace joining me in jumping off the cliff.
The part that makes me nervous is just how cold the water is.
- You know where this water's come from?
- The melting snow.
Eric: What temperature you think that is?
Both: Freezing?
- Polar bears.
Grace: I will genuinely do a front flip.
- Ah... On the count of three, we're gonna jump, 'kay?
- Okay.
- And we're gonna swim as fast as we can back.
Sarah: They're not scared at all, and I think a lot of kids, this would be a really nerve wracking experience, so both of us kinda like, elbowed each other like, "They're pretty tough.
This is awesome."
- Yeah.
Grace: Oh, it's gonna be so cold.
- It's shady, hold on.
- Elsie, no.
- Okay.
- One, two, three.
Woohoo!
[splash] Oh my gosh, it's so cold!
Over here, to the left.
Eric: Watching the girls jump off the boulder into the ice cold water together, it looked like they were having fun together, that was awesome.
- It's so cold.
Oh, that's cold!
- No arguing!
That was the best.
I can't believe that they actually both wanted to do something together.
Finally, that's what we were going for.
Eric: Good job, ladies!
- Something about a mountain goat.
Eric: "Now you swam in the ice moat, get to camp like a mountain goat."
Colin: As the Williams hike back down to where they left their packs, then make their way to camp, the sisters should be proud they conquered the polar plunge together.
- Look at that water.
It's gorgeous.
Big Floyd: Oh, snap.
We're here.
- Where is it?
Big Floyd: In the middle of the lake.
Are you serious?
Courtney: No.
Big Floyd: Are you kidding me, right now?
♪♪ - Mom, you got this!
Just dive in!
Do it for the team!
Courtney: It's all good.
- I got up here, and I'm kinda nervous, I don't think I can do it.
- Babe, it's all good, I gotchu.
You were Superman yesterday, I'll be Superwoman today.
I got this, boo.
Don't trip.
I got this.
- Sorry.
- Woo!
[splash] [breathing heavily] That water was freezing!
It was freezing.
I got water in my nose and in my lungs.
But I've always wanted to do it.
Big Floyd: I chickened out on the dive, man, I couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it.
But, man, I love my wife.
She took the reins and handled business, so, I'm so proud of her.
Courtney: I can't believe I did that.
Big Floyd: It's a game of teamwork, and you know, when one falls, another steps up, you know that my baby shinin' today.
Shine bright like a diamond.
- "Now you've swam in the ice moat, get to camp like a mountain goat."
I'm telling you guys right now, I'm not puttin' up a tent, you saw how I did it yesterday.
You guys are doin' it.
[sighs] Let's go.
Colin: One of the great joys of an expedition is sharing an exhilarating experience.
Both Grace and Elise are sure to always remember making that icy jump with their sister.
Eric: I think that polar plunge, that water rejuvenated my girls, and man, they were flying down the mountain, having fun.
- Bonding!
You did so well, Elsie, you literally just jumped in and grabbed it while I was like-- - I know.
- Behind you, you did it all.
- Yeah, it was pretty awesome.
Sarah: I think we're done for the day!
Grace: Oh, it's heavy.
Sarah: This is time without any friends, and they still did okay.
And um, they'll always have each other to rely on, and that's what family's for, to rely on each other.
Our flag!
Grace: I see the flag, Elsie, come on!
Oh, I cannot run with this.
- Yay!
"Congratulations, you have survived day two."
All: Three, two, one, Williams!
Sarah: Are winners.
♪♪ Big Floyd: Floyd, day's almost over, bro.
Courtney: It is.
- Gettin' close.
- It's all good, baby.
Kourtney: I am super proud of my mom.
She is a beast.
Courtney: Havin' to, you know, see my man in need and be the woman to come and save the day is totally awesome, 'cause he's always, always savin' the day for me.
Ah!
- Ah!
[sighs] Courtney: Havin' to hold it down for my family, it really just brings you closer to one another.
See you guys back at camp.
Help me up.
One of my children.
Ugh, ugh.
♪♪ Let's go.
The flags are right there!
Floyd: I'm coming!
Courtney: I'm ready to go!
Floyd: C'mon, buddy.
Camp, camp, camp!
Here we go, please.
Courtney: Yes.
We made it.
Big Floyd: Good job, guys, keep pushing.
- Woohoo!
- Keep pushing.
Open up the clue, Floyd.
- "Congratulations, you have survived day two."
- All right.
- We got this, B.
- Good job, let's get this re... get some food, and rejuvenate.
Colin: The families learned something about each other today.
Floyd proved to his boys that you can find strength in your support system when you yourself are struggling personally.
Grace and Elise's jump into the cold waters has finally helped the Williams girls start to warm up to each other, and seeing their relationship healing is clearly motivating the entire family, as they have now gained a 23-minute lead.
Eric: Overall, this day for me has been challenging, um, hard, painful, but um, pretty amazing too.
How do you think the day was, girls?
Elsie: It was great.
- That sounded really sarcastic, Elsie.
- It was, it was like, exhausting.
Grace: Yeah, it was exhausting.
- It was exhausting, but it was super fun.
Eric: Yeah, they have teenager attitudes.
Like, their attitude's still there, it didn't disappear 'cause we're in the outdoors.
But we're not gonna see stuff like this as a family, sitting in the house.
- You guys did super good, though, being way in front the whole time.
- You too, mom.
Sarah: Thanks.
- We're having an adventure that I wanted, and I think we're bonding, and so, it's been a lot of fun.
Courtney: So how do you guys think today went?
Kourtney: Yeah, I get how you were scared.
- Daddy was scared.
- When one of y'all fails, one of us picks up.
- That's what I wanted to let-- - And that's why we're what?
Four hearts.
Both: One soul.
- Because no matter what, we all gon' get through this, as one group.
- Yep.
- Right?
- Yep.
I love you.
- I love you too.
[laughter] ♪♪ - Mmm.
Hubby isn't doin' so well.
He got this really huge bite on his arm, it's swelling up really bad.
His arm really hurts.
We'll see how it is in the morning.
[crickets] ♪♪ Courtney: Well, just had the medic check out hubby.
His arm is on fire, it's swollen.
It seems like he had a really bad allergic reaction, and I just want my baby to be safe.
We uh, are tired, we pushed ourselves to the limit, and our kids are worn, so we're not sure if we, if we... if we're gonna go on.
Colin: It's been a tough road for the Joneses, made even more difficult by Floyd's medical condition, but despite that, they're only 23 minutes behind this morning.
And with the biggest climb of the journey yet to come, it seems it's not only Floyd that's feeling the effects of this trek.
Eric: I woke up with my body being sore.
- I think you should be really honest here, how you were like, actually dying, and you're taking every strength to keep you going.
- Yeah, I'm pretty sore, my foot hurts, I rolled my ankle a time or two, been struggling with that a little bit, but we've got one more day to go.
- It's almost a vacation, Eric.
[laughs] Oh, good.
I'm ready for this day to start.
The last day.
- "Start anew and gather power, be ready to climb to the top of the tower."
[gasps] Ugh.
Colin: This is day three.
Today, the families will travel the final four miles, climbing a demanding forty-degree slope up the 10,500 foot mountain pass, and then they'll make the rocky descent over slate-lined trails to the finish line.
Grace: Goodness.
Elsie: Wow, I'm tired.
I think we're going straight up through those peaks, and I think it's gonna be like, really up.
- All right, just keep going straight line?
Elsie: Yeah.
- 'Kay.
Colin: As the Williams make their way higher, back at camp, Floyd is fighting through the pain, and the Jones are ready to begin day three.
- Let's go.
- My dad has been pushing through all that pain, but I feel like he can pull through it.
My dad is a pretty strong guy.
Sarah: So it looks like we're going right between those mountains.
We got about, a little over a mile to get there.
- Ugh!
Sarah: And terrain like this is gonna be rough on Eric's foot.
Colin: While Eric struggles with his ankle, a mile behind them, the Jones are facing a struggle of their own.
Big Floyd: Okay.
[indistinct] I'm done.
I'm not walkin' no more.
Courtney: So what now?
- I don't know, but I'm done.
- Oh, my husband had to stop.
His arm, it was huge.
He got bit by something.
Medic: Floyd, how you doing, bud?
- Uh, not too good, arm is in a lot of pain.
When I came up from camp and I had a little, just a little small little thing there, but it went to this, the pain just shot through the roof, and this swelling on my hand and my shoulder.
- That swelling just doesn't seem to be going down, so, I mean, I think we're gonna have to make a safety call on this one, and uh, I'm gonna escort you back down home.
Hang in there, I know you're in a lot of pain.
- Yeah.
- Um, I know that's not the decision that you wanted to hear.
- Not at all.
Courtney: Okay, so, I just want you to get better, okay?
- I'm sorry, I can't do it.
- Babe, it's all good, baby, stop, it's all good.
[sobbing] - Babe, it's all good.
Babe, shh, it's all good.
- I'm sorry, baby.
- Babe, babe, babe, babe, stop.
Stop.
Babe, stop.
Your arm hurts, we're gon' finish, okay?
All right?
- Yeah.
- All right.
It's all right.
You stay with daddy, you take care of him, okay?
You make sure that arm stays okay, okay?
Kourtney: Okay.
- And I'll see you guys at the finish line, all right?
All right.
It's all good.
Mommy got this, all right?
Like our flag is, four hearts, one soul, and if one half is down, the other half is gonna pick up.
- Thank you, son.
Did I let you down?
- No.
Colin: Floyd, who has supported Little Kourtney the entire race, is unable to continue.
- Mom and brother got it, right?
- Yeah.
- All right.
Love you.
- Love you too.
Colin: Unwilling to face the mountains without his father, Little Kourtney has decided to stay by his side, while Courtney and Little Floyd continue.
Little Floyd: We're gonna go up over that, that tall pass over there.
Me and my mom are gonna finish this for the family.
♪♪ Colin: But the Jones aren't the only ones struggling on the mountain.
Grace: I'm walking up the mountain, and the elevation's really getting to me, I'm starting to like, it's getting harder to breathe, my body hurts when I move.
Eric: Let's get up to that rock mom's at.
- Okay, I'm just trying not to pass out.
- She's back with me, and that's not been the case for the last two days.
You can take a little pit stop in between, sweetie.
- Okay.
- Pretty good, pretty good hustle up this mountain right here.
Sarah: This is really steep.
That's amazing!
♪♪ Grace: Dude.
Sarah: Wow!
Elsie: Wow.
Eric: Feeling super accomplished, I mean, uh, I wouldn't have thought I would do something like this, or could do something like this, and I did, and we're at the top.
How about that?
Elsie: Wow.
Eric: I love these girls, and I'm so proud of them, they're so strong, and uh, they're a lot of motivation to me, and they help me keep going forward.
I'm not gonna let 'em down.
Colin: The Williams have shown that their greatest strength is the family bond.
And as they begin their descent, Courtney and Little Floyd are still making their way to the top.
[breathing heavily] - Okay.
Go ahead, son, if you feel you can go, do it.
Mommy's right behind you.
Little Floyd: I feel like I am growing up, and stepping up, and helping my mom with things.
Courtney: Okay.
This is obviously very hard, very high, very steep.
I can't believe that he even wanted to join me on this, I thought it was gonna be by myself.
Oh snap, we're at the top?
He really, really... he really, really made me proud.
I cannot believe... Little Floyd: It's up there.
- We made it.
To me, today was harder than yesterday.
I can't believe me and me son just did this by ourselves.
- It was really hard.
- This is crazy!
- I went from all the way to the bottom, all the way to the top.
Which way?
- Up and over.
- All right.
♪♪ Colin: Big Floyd may not be with them, but by following his example, Little Floyd and Courtney are leaning on each other, and together have become strong enough to accomplish this seemingly impossible summit.
Five hundred feet below, the Williams are making their way to the next checkpoint.
♪♪ Grace: "As your journey draws to an end, one final push could reap rich rewards."
I'm so excited, you guys.
We're almost to the end, we're about to do this, dad, you have one more push.
Sarah: I'm worried about dad.
Like, this is so rough on his foot.
- Pushin' through, I'm pushin' through for the girls.
To the end.
Let's go, girls.
- All right.
- Okay.
Colin: With Big Floyd's absence, Little Floyd has big shoes to fill.
But he's proving he's up to the task.
- Yeah, this way.
- You sure?
- Yeah.
I'm pretty confident that I can lead the way with the GPS, like how my dad used to.
It says we're arriving.
Courtney: I see it, I see it!
This is my first one I've found.
"As your journey draws to an end, one final push could reap rich rewards."
We don't spend this much time together, but having this time with him, you know, I just really understand my son, and when he's in a situation, he has to go at his own pace, so, I'm definitely gonna be telling dad the pointers that I kind of picked up on him while goin' through this.
Let's get up, uh-uh, cut that yawnin' out, bro.
[chuckles] - Cut it out, let's do it.
- Hundred and fifty feet!
- Hey!
- Oh, there's Colin!
Eric: We're comin' around this rock edge, and I see Colin up on the hill.
- You're almost here, come on, come on!
Eric: And I'm like, "Oh, thank goodness."
Sarah: Woo, we did it!
Colin: Hey!
Congratulations, you guys!
You have made it to the finish line area.
But there's still one last task to complete.
What you need to do, you need to build your flagpole and raise your flag.
Elsie: Grace, let's put the poles together.
- We got to share something really special this trip, and we've bonded by like, being ahead of the pack, and jumping in the water.
- Here, I'll hold it.
Grace: And it's just like, brought us closer.
Colin: Congratulations, Williams, you are the winners of Survivalists!
[all cheering] - Good job, dad!
- Good job, ladies!
- Good job.
- We did it!
Colin: Congratulations, look at that!
Well, as I promised you, at the finish line, $10,000.
- Seriously?!
- Oh my gosh.
Eric: Moolah!!
Grace: We won!
- We won $10,000!
- I'm so excited.
- It's so cool.
- I'm exhausted, though, I'm so exhausted.
- What does this mean to you?
- They were so impressive, pretty much the entire trip they were ahead of us, trying to keep us going.
- I feel like this was a good opportunity to like, get our last minute bonding with our family, like, knowing I can get through hard things if we just keep pushing, and I always have support, even if they're not right there with me.
- That's a beautiful thing.
- Oh, you're sort of crying.
- Dad's emotional.
- The experience that we got as a family, it's worth more than any money that you can give.
- You guys did it, you made it to the finish line, you won.
Congratulations, Williams family!
Sarah: Thank you!
Colin: Very well done.
Courtney: This road is turning into dirt, so yes.
Oh, look at that.
It's beautiful.
- We're here.
- Come on in!
- I've never been so happy to see you.
[Colin laughs] Courtney: I never knew I had so much strength to persevere through all of it, and I get emotional, because I didn't think I can do it.
And now I feel like I can do anything.
This was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but I did it.
- You absolutely did it.
Little Floyd, how you feeling, man?
- Great.
Colin: Yeah?
- I can't believe you're not cryin', like.
- At the beginning of this competition, you told me your spirit animal was a sloth.
But here you are at the finish line, do you think you maybe need a new spirit animal after this?
Courtney: I think so!
Little Floyd: Possibly.
Courtney: I think so.
- But there is one last challenge.
- Ugh!
- Do you remember that flag?
You gotta raise that Jones flag proud.
I think I might've found a couple other people that might be able to help you.
- Where?
Where?
Oh, my baby!
[crying] - Take it mom, I see you.
Good to see you.
Man, I'm super stoked, I'm super stoked.
I can't be more proud of my wife, and my son.
- Let's go finish this thing and raise this flag.
- When I couldn't continue, he stepped up, my man right here, so.
I love him, I love him.
Courtney: And as a family, we raised that flag together, and we finished this race.
Colin: Congratulations!
You guys finished Survivalists!
- Give me a hug.
Courtney: We pushed ourselves to the limit, we all depended on each other.
- What does this mean to be here all together at this finish line?
Both: Four hearts, one soul.
- The Jones family still won.
- You can't put a price tag on our bond now, like, you can't put a price on that.
- I can tell you one thing.
I'm never gonna quit anything in life.
I'm gonna barrel through it, just like I did this race.
We got more off this mountain than I even expected.
- Four hearts, one soul.
- Absolutely.
Colin: Congratulations, well done.
- Thank you so much.
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